Okay so hi once more, this is just a connective chapter but one i hope you'll like nonetheless :)

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Chapter 20

Severus stood in Sam's room in their small home in Spinner's End and took a deep breath. He raised his wand, picturing every detail of the bedroom he had been examining for the past 20 minutes in his mind as he had done for every room in the house since he left Grimmauld place; Sam's was the last. It was fairly small, but it in no way lacked character. There was a small, single bed in the centre of the room, with a worn, patchwork blanket resting on the end, it was frayed at the edges and was grey and dull in parts, but truly, it just showed that it had been loved. A large mirror rested on the polished wooden desk that sat in front of the window. Severus smirked when he looked down at the uneven wooden floor, he remembered Sam complaining about how her desk kept rocking from side to side because not all four legs could rest on the floor at the same time for a while some years ago, it had bugged him to no end so one day he had eventually snapped, telling her to, and he regretted to remember the words and the tone he had used, 'do something about it.'. Needless to say, she had narrowed her eyes at him and the next thing he knew, his favourite books were propping her desk up…they were still there to this day…three years later. On the mirror were stuck some pictures, there was a picture of Minerva with a toddler Samantha, Severus laughed openly in the empty room; for this was a moving picture of Sam with her small fist clenched around the tail of Mrs Norris whose mouth was open in an outraged yowl as she tried to pull away making Sam frown and pull harder, in the background, Filch was yelling and jumping around, his face red and livid, at McGonagall who was laughing uproariously bent over double at the scene before her. Another had quite the opposite effect on Severus, this was a still picture of Sam with her parents, she was possibly only a newborn baby in the picture, in her mothers arms; her mother was tall, slim and had dark hair tied harshly back from her face, but despite her strict demeanour, her dark eyes were bright as she held her baby daughter; the man that stood behind her was well built, with a full head of blonde hair and a bushy beard that would have been amusing were it not for the hard set of his lips and the serious yet gentle tinge to his blue eyes. Severus saw so much of them in Samantha that it was almost shocking, but she was light hearted and free and rarely had any seriousness tainting her, despite her solemn moments the bright sparkle of joy in her eyes never left. Tucked behind that picture was one of her and Albus, Severus felt a smile creep onto his face when he looked at it, it was one of Sam and Albus pulling silly faces at the camera and then cracking up afterwards, clinging to each other as they fought for breath, Severus shook his head at how silly the Headmaster could be but placed it back from where he had picked it up from. The final picture was his favourite, it was of the two of them on one Christmas when he had come home from Hogwarts, Minerva had recently confiscated a camera from a student for maltreatment and she had been sneakily using it for her own use, Severus would have been surprised at this act, but honestly? It was Minerva…she was a lot sillier than she let on, that was one of the reasons her and Sam got along so well. Nevertheless, this picture was one she had captured using said camera, it was when she had joined Sam and Severus for the holiday, as she had wanted to see the young girl, when they had apparated in front of the small house Sam had been running down the front path before they could blink an eyelid and had flung her arms around his neck and he had hugged her tight, four months had never felt so long to them both until that year, and Minerva had captured the moment when they reunited. He walked forwards, a smile still tugging at the corners of his lips, and prodded a floorboard, chuckling as it creaked, loud and low; when Sam had first come here, she had tried to sneak out to do something or other, but as she had been making her way to the window—due to the fact that Severus had heavily barred the house from anyone being able to apparate in or out of it, even Sam, which was a testament to Severus' talent that it worked against her—Severus, who had been sitting in the lounge below, had heard the telltale creak of that old floorboard and, subsequently, had heard the curses and hurried footsteps as she leapt back into bed which squeaked and groaned in complaint as the springs were crushed under her weight, back then he had only rolled his eyes and huffed angrily, flicking his newspaper back up towards him and continuing to read. Her wardrobe door hung open, clothes spilling out onto the floor in front of it, left there since the time she had dubbed 'The Clothes disaster of First Guy to be interested in me EVER', which had made Severus laugh hysterically as she half-buried herself in clothes and Sam glower from her position on the floor in front of her dresser, leading to her throwing a shoe at him with a scarily precise aim. He remembered every little thing as he sucked in a long breath.

"Repercutio." Suddenly, a rush of air buffeted his hair around his face and a high whistling noise pierced his ear drums. He slowly opened his eyes when the noise subsided and he nodded his head approvingly, before walking into the hall, and closing her door behind himself. He was ready to go back to Hogwarts, with Samantha at his side…finally. He didn't even see the picture that had fluttered behind the desk, showing the smiling face of a young man as he spun his little sister in a circle above his head.

Yay, so i hope you liked :) Please let me know, i was absolutely exhausted when i wrote this, but i felt so guilty for not writing anything for absolutely ages so i had to do it :)

Lots of love and cheers for reading,

From,

Alicia

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