Potions, Potions, and More Potions

That day, Silveus went outside and found Severus in the forest, "What are you doing?"

"I'm looking for potion ingredients, you really shouldn't be in this forest. It's dangerous."

Silveus shrugged, "I don't care." she started to walk with Severus, "I've been reading about potions. It seems really fun."

"It may seem fun but it's very hard and needs to be precise." he said plainly.

"Well, may I try it?"
Severus looked up, "You want to try." he led her to his study, "Do you want assistance or try it by yourself first?"

"I want to try it by myself."

"Well, okay all you need is here I'll get you a book." he walked into a room then came out with a book, "Try this one." he points to a simple first year potion.

She got down to work with it and in a couple of hours she finished it, "I'm done."

He walked over and checked to see if it was correct, "It's perfect! You were raised by muggles correct?"

"Well, yeah, but they said I was adopted. Maybe I did have a wizard family."
At that time, Severus had to look away from her for fear he would ask a stupid question.

"Well, you probably were because I haven't seen this good a potion from a not even first year in a long time." he exclaimed excited.

She smiled but quickly stopped.

"What's wrong?" he asked seeing the sudden change in mood.

She sighs "I have a secret."

"What would that be?"

She started to shake "I-I-I…" she couldn't seem to finish her sentence.

"Silveus, calm down." he hugged her and she just stood petrified "If you can't tell don't tell."

"I'm a vampire." she whispered softly.

He kneels down in front of her, "Why is that bad enough to make you shake."

"Ca-cause I wasn't born with it." a tear fell from her cheek.

He quickly wiped the tear away, "Silveus, you shouldn't be scared or ashamed."

"I'm not scared but I've tried to hide it, but I have scared people when I go out at night."

"Well, since you're in the wizarding world now, we don't have a cure for it, but we have something to help you control it at night."

She looked at him wide eyed, "Really?" she squeaked.

He laughed a little, "Of course what can't you do here."

Out of the blue she asked, "Can you bring back the dead?"

He stood up and looked down at her confused and a little concerned, "Why?"

She looked away, tears starting to form in her eyes

He gently pulled her to face him, "Please, tell me."

Tears started to run down her cheeks, "When I was 6, I witnessed my father being murdered and I want him back."

He hugged her "I'm afraid not, Silveus."

After a while she falls asleep and he carried her to the couch, wrapping her in a blanket and sitting in the chair across from her just watching her.

After about an hour or so of her sleeping, she woke up, and by then it was night, "Severus?"

He walked in from his room "Yes?"

"Oh, I just didn't know where you were. What happened?"

He sat next to her on the couch, "Nothing you need to worry about."

She sat up "Where am I again and what were we doing?"

"You're in my study and we were doing potions when you fell asleep."

She blushed, "Sorry…"

He smirks, "It's okay. It's probably been stressing for you."

She looked confused, "How?"

"Coming here and not knowing magic and dealing with…" he trails off from his sentence as she clearly does not remember what happened. He didn't want to make her sad again, "Anyway, you're welcome to sleep in the bed or you can go to your own room."

"I'll just go to my own room, I've probably bothered you enough."

"It's no bother, I never have someone to talk to. It was kind of fun." She laughed a bit at the comment.

As she tried to get up her legs buckled beneath her and she fell, but Severus caught her at the last second.

"You're going in this bed." he picked her up and carried her to his room, "Just rest. I'll see you in the morning." he walked out and sat in a chair.

She quickly fell asleep, but kept dreaming about her father's murder and started to cry and mumble things in her sleep.

Severus came in and gently shook her, "Silveus, wake up, wake up."

She woke up suddenly, "Yes-yes-sorry what?" she asked really confused.

"You were crying and mumbling things in your sleep. Are you okay?"

"Yes, yes, I'm fine, I'm known for doing that."

"What would make you cry in your sleep?"

She just sat there stiff then said in a soft whisper, "I was dreaming about my father's murder."

He hugged her and sat next to her, "Would you like to talk about it?"

She nodded and sighed, "One afternoon I was walking with him, home from school, and this guy came out of the shadows, pulled me to him and put a gun to my head…" she started to cry and looked straight ahead "…then he tried to take me but my dad, he wouldn't let that happen, he started to fight with the guy, in a dark alley, at night and he pushed me to the side so I wouldn't get hurt, I closed my eyes and then…I heard the gun shot, I looked up and there he was laying on the ground bleeding to death…" she closed her eyes "…I called out for help but no one came and I knelt beside him. He told me he loved me, I held his hand till…till he died." she started to cry and Severus pulled her into a tight hug.

"Let it out, just remember it wasn't your fault."

She nodded and continued to cry.

Severus whispered, "Would you like something to eat?"

She looked up, "Oh, I can get it." she said as if nothing happened and climbed out of bed.