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Chapter 5- Who's the boss?

Harry and Snape watched the retreating form of Hermione with mixed emotions. Of course Snape would not show any on his face due to his mask, but Harry clearly had an expression on his face stating that he was worried. Harry was also feeling a bit overwhelmed as well because of the main fact that he was now trapped in this cramped and damp little house with two Snape's.

"Don't even think about going after her Potter. She needs to cool off for a little while before you start tackling her with your usual banter. I know she will have quite a few questions to ask, so with such luck she might be more civil by dinner."Snape said clearly saying to leave the girl to her own devices.

Snape just mostly didn't feel up to yelling with the girl anymore than he had to. He also didn't want to see her break down. Snape did NOT do well when children were blubbering and did not want to be anywhere near the drivel. Snape was done with tears along time ago when his first love, Lily Evans got murdered by the 'Dark Lord'. He was even more sure that once he was finally alone and had some Fire Whiskey in hand that he would drown his sorrows until he was completely numb because of his deceased lover Kathy, who most certainly had his heart.

"Just because I now have to stay here with you, does not give you a free ticket to start barking orders at me. We are not in school so I can now do what I want."Harry yelled remembering that he was still completely pissed with Snape.

"Yes you do and will obey my orders. You are in my home under my roof so you will obey my rules. I may not be able to take away house points or keep you after class, but I can still give you detention by making you write lines or stand in a corner. Don't forget that you still have to do summer homework as well. Don't even think about trying to copy off my daughter's work because I will know and rip you work up, then I will make you do it until you happen to get the work done to my satisfaction. I will also not have you getting yourself into constant trouble like you always seem to be in. There will also be no more out of bed detours after hours. You are extraordinarily like your pathetic excuse of a father and mutt of a Godfather. By the end of this holiday I will make sure that their bad qualities have been stripped away from your miniscule mind."Snape said leering down at the boy like he was a piece of rubbish that happened to land on his nice unsoiled rug.

All Harry could see was red. Snape had no right to say those things about his father and Godfather. As such he was going to let Snape know the extent of his anger. Harry was absolutely fuming.

"You are a greasy git bastered who is absolutely vile and cruel. My father and Godfather were great men which is more than I could ever say about you."Harry stated red with rage as he stood in front of Snape seething and clenching his fists at his sides.

Harry was just inches away from throwing a punch at Snape's head.

"Mr. Potter you will honestly have to do better than that if you want to get under my skin."Snape said raising his right eyebrow and giving Harry his signature smirk.

Even through his blinding rage he could make common sense about what Snape said. He also knew that Snape now had the right to hand out punishments that he so kindly stated earlier. As Harry was used to getting into trouble, Harry was not about to back down and was going to meet up to Snape's challenge.

"Alright 'Professor' I'll do better. How about your the bat of the dungeons, the grease ball Professor and a complete coward."

Snape wasn't expecting Potter to retort back. Snape was just expecting Potter to stay quiet and stare at the floor to take his sadistic remarks like the times in his classroom. One thing Snape did not tolerate was being called a coward. Snape was a lot of things. Snape was a loser, the guy who always managed to be picked on, and even a bastered, but one thing Snape wasn't was a coward.

"Levicorpus"Snape growled pointing his wand at Potter.

Right now Snape did not see Harry Potter, he saw James Potter. All He could think about was the time that James and his friends, Black, Lupin and Pettigrew were laughing at him as James dangled him upside down in front of a whole bunch of students. But worst of all, he had been upside down in front of Lily. Snape could see no mercy as he heard Potter yelling at him.

"You bastered!Let me down!You ugly piece of -"Harry yelled before Snape couldn't take anymore of Potter's slander and placed the silencing charm upon him.

Harry was furious.

"Potter, you will learn your place even if I have to drill it into that pea sized head of yours. You will not talk back to me and will now be locked in your room until dinner."Snape said while still dangling Harry upside down and smirking with mirth.

Snape just watched as Harry crossed his arms over his chest trying to glare at him.

Harry was not pleased.

Snape started walking to the stairs with Harry levitating in front of him. All the way to Harry' room, Harry was lost in thought about the levitation not actually being so bad, while Snape was thinking about how he was going to approach Hermione when dinner was done. He also was not looking forward to Harry's outburst when he took the silencing charm off of the child. Snape was really stressed out.

"Potter, we are here."Snape said opening the door that said 'Harry's room' which happened to be just across form the room that said 'Hermione's room'.

As Harry was snapping out of his amusing thoughts, Snape closed then locked his bedroom door before unceremoniously dropping him onto a bed.

"As my luck may have it, this will be your room while you are staying here."Snape said disdainfully.

Harry glared into Snape's obsidian eyes before he got bored of their glare contest, then his curiosity got the best of him as he started to look around 'His room'.

The room was actually quite tastefully decorated. The bed he was dumped on a few moments ago happened to be a nice deep blue colour. The pillows on his bed were black. The carpet on the floor was the same deep blue as the covers on his bed along with the curtains on his windows. The walls were even a shade of a lighter blue. He even saw that he had a dresser, desk and night stand that were a dark mahogany colour. On his dresser was a black stereo system and there was a black laptop on his desk. There was even a television on a light brown table in a far corner of the room. He had a lamp on the night table and a shelf next to his dresser full of CD's.

Harry just stared opened mouthed at his room. He was shocked. His cousin Dudley always managed to get the nicest muggle things imaginable, but Dudley's computer could not even rival the nice laptop sitting on his desk. Harry could not help but wonder if Hermione's room looked as nice as his. If Harry was going to be trapped here with Snape for the summer things might not be as bad as he thought.

'I can't believe I get a nice room like this. This so beats Dudley's second bedroom at Number 4 Privet Drive. It still doesn't mean that I won't be escaping with Hermione.'Harry thought suddenly overwhelmed with drowsiness.

Snape was watching Harry intently as he looked around his room. He knew he had won points from Potter as the brat was practically bursting with excitement. It was almost like Potter had never had such a decent room as this one before. It was absolutely puzzling to Snape. He knew that Potter was a spoiled brat who got anything he desired because he was the boy- who- lived.

'Potter has probably had many nice rooms that are ten times bigger than this one.'Snape thought coming over with renewed anger.

To Snape, Harry was famous for no apparent reason. Sure he vanquished the Dark Lord when he was a baby, but honestly it was because of Lily and Snape would not ever forget that. This boy had his fame and fortune only because of her.

"Potter, you are to unpack your things and get settled in while I start cooking dinner. I will come and get you and Miss Granger when dinner is ready."

Harry just gave Snape a final glare before Snape left his room, doing a complicated piece of dark magic to lock him in until dinner was served. He would have none of Potter's delinquency while the child was his charge. To make it known Snape would make sure to snatch Potter's invisibility cloak the next time he comes up. Snape still would never truly know why Professor Dumbledore saw it fit to hand such an item to an eleven year old as irresponsible as Potter.

Harry just stared at the closed door contemplating if he should unpack his things or try to escape. Harry decided that getting as far away from Snape as humanly possible was the right choice to make. He was going to escape even if it killed him.

'The door is probably locked. I wouldn't put it past Snape to come through on his threats. What about the window?'Harry thought running over to it.

Harry lifted up the window screen to open it. Immediately he felt a cool breeze of air come through. Knowing that he could at the very least open the window gave him a rush of excitement at knowing that he was one step closer to his inevitable escape. He would not be defeated or discouraged. Looking out the window, he calculated how high up he was from the ground. It didn't look like he was very high up just a couple feet maybe.

'This doesn't look to hard. I will be out of here in no time. After I get out I'll get help to spring Hermione free.'Harry thought thinking that his best friend needed to get out of here more than he did.

Being Harry, Harry did the very first thing that came to his mind. He did not think that anything was wrong with this escape route but was solely disappointed when he tricked some sort of alarm trying to climb up and out of the window.

'Shit!Snape is smarter than that. I should have known. It's on!'Harry evilly thought just before his bedroom door burst open revealing a livid Snape.

"I knew you couldn't be trusted Potter. I set up alarms around my home after Professor Dumbledore put up the wards. Like I said, there is no escape."

Harry looked into Snape's eyes and had to look away. He seriously had never seen the man so angry before. He was in trouble.

"Potter, I'm fed up with your idiotic antics and am going to give you a punishment before you go to bed. As for now, I am going to lift the silencing charm and I expect you to be civil. I want you and my daughter to come downstairs to the kitchen to eat your meal."Snape said taking out his wand and silently casting the counter to the silencing spell.

Snape had to hold in his anger. He was absolutely on his last straw with Potter, but had to be civil even if it was only for the fact that they would both soon be in the presence of his angry and confused child.

"I'm not hungry. You have no right to keep me here against my will. I'm getting Hermione than were leaving this place."Harry stated defiantly trying to piss Snape off some more.

There was nothing worse that Snape could do to Harry than to keep him there with the git of a Potions Master. He was dead set on escaping and nothing would change his mind.

"Potter, I have just decided that you will be levitated again."

"Let me go. Put me down!"

"Harry what are you yelling about?"Hermione asked walking out of her room and being persented with Snape levitating him with wandless magic.

'Snape is such a show off. We know he can use wandless magic and that he is powerful. Been there done that.'Hermione thought walking over to Snape and stopping in front of him.

To show that she would no longer fuss about Snape being her father, Hermione sunk down to her knees and bowed her head. She was trying to tell him that she was going to except her fate of being his child. This action surprised Harry and Snape so much that Snape actually forgot he was levitating Potter that the boy crashed to floor with a loud thud catching Snape's and Hermione's attention.

"Ouch!What was that about?Harry stated angrily, mostly because he was positively exhausted and could not take much more surprises. He really hated Snape to the core.

Harry was not sure anymore if this was the real world and if there was to be an Apocalypse. He just saw Hermione bowing to Snape. He was sure his eyes were playing tricks on him and now his arm was hurting now to.

"It looks to me like someone is deciding to be a good girl and finally realized who the boss was. I am thoroughly impressed and suspicious. Why the sudden change, Miss Granger?"Snape asked giving Hermione his smirk as he completely ignored Potter.

I mean seriously Snape could not take much more of Potter and was now resorting to ignoring the boy.

"I know the way I acted earlier was unacceptable and above all immature. I am now ready to except that you are my father and want to make it up to you by showing you that I can be the best daughter I can be."Hermione said smiling up at Snape.

Snape was now incredibly suspicious about Hermione and slightly worried. She had been in quite the rage after their talk when she woke up from her coma. Now she was showered and dressed in a silky pair of purple pyjamas ready to except his authority. Snape would surely look into it later but for now diner was awaiting their presence.

"Dinner awaits us. You both need to eat then you can do what you like before bed."Snape said forcing to say it in a calm voice.

"I said I'm not hungr-"

"What Harry means to say is that we will be more than happy to join you downstairs to eat the delicious smelling meal."Hermione said cutting Harry off and hitting her elbow into his ribs to shut him up.

"Ouch Hermione."Harry said clutching his arm to his chest because it still really hurt.

"Well, lets go downstairs before we fully break Potter's body."Snape said in amusement while again smirking at the teens.

'Fine. I can play this game to my sly daughter.'Snape thought to himself as he walked to the kitchen with the children following behind him.

'I really need to escape this place. These Snape's are going to kill me.'Harry thought trying to ease the pain of his arm.

'Step one of my plan is complete. I will play the rule of perfect servant daughter while trying to search for escape routes. Me and Harry are not staying here. The second step to my plan is to put up Occlumency shields when I'm around Snape. Its a good thing I had read up on Occlumency earlier in the year.'Hermione thought taking a seat at the kitchen table.

Seeing all the delicious food set out on the table made Hermione's mouth water.

What the teens didn't know was that Snape had laced the children s drinks with potions that would enhance their appetites because they were way to skinny. It was apparent that the children weren't eating all to well. He also mixed in a dreamless sleep potion with the drinks to because he had a feeling that the children would crash anyway after they ate so at least he could try and make sure no nightmares came upon them.

By the end of the meal Hermione and Harry could barely keep their eyes open.

"No!You drugged us."Hermione yelled before she let out a yawn.

Hermione was not ready to go to sleep yet. She was the boss and she needed to get the control she needed. Sleeping was not going to help her. She had to stay awake.

"I thought you would be okay with me helping the two of you out because you both are exhausted. I would think you had no qualms about this."Snape said to Hermione while smirking in amusement.

Harry just rubbed his eyes in exhaustion. He didn't like that Snape had drugged him but was to tired to fight with him anymore.

"No not at all."Hermione claimed as she got up from her seat and started to head for her room.

"You and Mr. Potter will find out soon that I am the boss and that you answer to me."

'I big to differ. I will make sure I have the last laugh no matter what.'Hermione thought watching Harry climb up the stairs with her to their rooms.

Snape just stood at the bottom of the stairs watching the children. He was going to enjoy breaking Potter but most of all his daughter would learn what a Snape was and is. He would break her in time.

'Snape does not rule my life. I will do what I want when I want. I, Hermione Jean GRANGER am the boss.'Hermione thought to herself, determined to prove Snape wrong, but for now her bed awaited.

Snape knew this was no longer a battle about pride or dignity, it was about wits and knowledge. He had Hermione beat and Potter was not even in the running at all. Snape was a coiled up cobra waiting for his moment to strike and he would when the time availed itself. He could hardly contain his excitement.

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