AN:- Whoo - Havn't posted a chapter in foorreeever, sorry :(...

Chapter 10

Samantha stared at the stone wall that had closed in her face not but two seconds earlier. He had led her straight to the Slytherin Dungeons, arguing the entire way down, saying rude and, not that she would admit it, on the verge of hurtful things. As she retorted, yelled and tried to reason with him he had whispered the password to the wall and quickly slipped inside. She was still talking when the wall reappeared in front of her.

Samantha sighed and headed back up the cold stone cellar corridors towards the stairs. It was pointless trying to get anything from him. It was pointless trying to make him change his mind about her. And honestly she didn't understand why she wanted to do so in the first place. Maybe she did have some sort of Hufflepuff qualities in herself, but was that such a bad thing? If anything, she was doing this to help him, she had friends. What was strange was that she realized that the ruder and more aggressive he got to her advances the stronger the feeling inside her got to do something to change his mind about her. Of course she could never see them being close friends ever, but she wanted to know…well maybe not know him but know something…maybe she did want to know him. Even if she did there was nothing wrong with that. It was like coming across a wild animal – you know its stupid and you shouldn't but you want to get a closer look.

A crash ahead brought her back to the dark cold corridor. She was almost at the stairs that would lead her back to the second floor. She heard a high-pitched male giggle and knew at once that it was Peeves up ahead. She groaned as she slowed her pace, but smiled mischievously as she rounded the corner to where the poltergeist sat atop the statue of a famous past wizard, drawing breasts and a mustache on its stone body.

As he became aware of her presence a miscivious smile spread across his slightly transparent face and he started singing, "Samz and Ziriuz, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G, first comes love then comes a slap, Ta-ha-ha-ha."

"Peeves." she groaned, and her anger at Snape suddenly multiplied. "Oh, funny running into you after what I just heard." She took a few steps towards him.

Students at the school usually only yelled at him or ignored him so he looked up suspiciously at her calm tone, "What is it that the victim has heard?" he asked, drawing his head closer to her as if to hear her better.

"Oh its nothing, I know it's not true." She said as she passed him, "I thought that everyone thought that you were the best prankster in Hogwarts. There's not one person you haven't brought chaos to, is there?"

"Nopes. I have had fun with every ickle student in diz school." He said as he picked up another ink bottle, "No onez iz safe!"

Before he threw it at her she quickly said, "Except for Severus Snape though right?"

He stopped mid-swing, "What's that?" he snapped curiously.

"Except for Severus Snape, he has said that you have never done anything to him before." She said in great doubt.

"Oh really?" Peeves rubbed his head with his hand, "Has he forgotten the spoilt pumpkin juice his first year? Or has he forgotten the slugs that same year for Christmas? Or…" he slid off of the statue and hovered past her.

Samantha watched him leave, he was heading in the direction she had come, still mumbling things he had done to Snape then saying something about the Bloody Baron could shove it. Samantha laughed, feeling as though she had accomplished something and skipped up the stairs two at a time.

Samantha was sitting on her four-poster bed reading one of her mother's old romance books as Lily, Annabel and Alexis entered the Gryffindor girl's dormitory.

"I can't believe him!" Lily yelled.

Putting her book down she looked up at her three friends, Lily looked livid, Annabel and Alexis just shrugged when she looked at them for an explanation, but of course it would have had to have been something to do with James Potter.

Lily flopped down on Samantha's bed, "Why didn't you come to Hogsmeade today, Sam?"

"I just didn't feel like it, besides I had to finish that Herbology essay." She stroked Lily's red hair out on the bed spread and falsely groaned, "What did he do now?"

Lily gave her a look as if wondering why Samantha couldn't read it on her face, "He tried to kiss me today. In front of everybody!" she sat up and rubbed a hand through her hair leaving it frizzy and disheveled. "I thought that he was genuinely starting to be nice and courteous, he actually asked me interesting questions and actually listened to what I had to say. Then as I was answering his question on what I truly thought of the current Minister of Magic he forced himself on me!"

As Lily had been telling Samantha this, Alexis and Annabel were hiding giggles and crazy looks behind her back. Samantha tried to hide her own smile.

"Anyway forget about him." Lily said coolly and as she turned around the two girls straightened their backs and faces, their eyes going innocently wide. She scowled at them, "I know your laughing behind my back you traitors." They were about to respond but Lilly continued, "You know, Justin McGraw is interested in you, Sam."

"Drop it." Samantha mumbled, but no one heard her.

"Do you know a Justin McGraw, Sam?" she asked.

Samantha thought for a second, "The one in Ravenclaw?"

"Yes, we have Herbology and Care of Magical Creatures with him." Alexis and Annabel said over each other. They were all three now staring at her.

"So…?" Samantha prompted, not liking where this was going.

"Well, today in the three Broomsticks one of his friends, Robby Turner, the one who transferred form the Wizardry school in America, came to sit with us and asked us if you were dating anyone." Alexis started.

"We said that you weren't so he asked what you thought of Justin. We said that honestly he had never come up in conversations, and then he asked if we could find out and tell him what you said so that he could refer back to Justin." Annabel added.

"Who apparently really likes you but is to shy to make a move right away but really wants to get to know you but also wanted to know first if he even had a chance with you." said Lily.

"He's really quite handsome isn't he, with his wavy black hair and blue-blue eyes? He's quite tall as well and extremely smart since he's in Ravenclaw." Annabel added dreamily.

Samantha stared at them. There hadn't been a single pause in the entire tale. She did know, Justin McGraw, he was shy and he was rather handsome but… she didn't really want to date anyone right now.

"It's soon time for dinner," she said and got up off her bed but groaned at their expressions. "What?"

They all shared worried glances before Alexis said, "Samantha, this is like the hundredth boy you have turned down."

Samantha gapped at her, "It is not."

"Well actually it might be." Annabel added, giving her the look her mother gave her when Toby, her Golden Retriever had died when she was eight.

"Merlin, you're all crazy." She said as she looked at each in turn. "Look, lets drop it and go down for supper." They gave her looks that told her it wasn't the end of the conversation but she turned and left without them.

At dinner that night Sirius had sat across from Samantha and after a few moments of avoiding eye contact she asked him to pass the gravy and as he did he asked her how her day was. It was strange how after that little exchange everything went back to normal. It was as if they had all let out deep breaths that they had been holding and it was as if nothing had happened, which was great because they were all best fiends and had been for almost all of their Hogwarts lives. Of course they don't all see eye to eye on everything but then there wouldn't be much interesting about each and every one of them.

"Thank Merlin that our first Quidditch game in next week." James, who was the Gryffindor Quidditch team Captain and Chaser, said as he shoveled mashed potatoes down his throat.

"Yeah it is completely unfair that we are the last house to actually play a game." Sirius added and sounded pained. He to was on the Quidditch team and played Keeper.

Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherin had already had a chance to play against each other, Slytherin had played both teams and that was what probably made James and Sirius so angry about it. For both games Slytherin had come out the victor, which could also have been a reason to their resentment at not having played an official game yet.

"I remember when you were on the team, Sam." Sirius said giving her one of his winning smiles.

Samantha laughed, "I was horrid." She had played for one season in her Third year as a chaser and had never gotten in a score the whole time. The team captain at the time had been nice about it but she knew that the team would have been better off without her on it.

"I doubt that." Remus said who was sitting to the right of Sirius.

Samantha smiled at him and he looked quickly away.

Just then the doors of the Great Hall opened and the familiar high pitched laughter came through the doors. But it wasn't Peeves that stormed in, eyes glowing, fists balled and covered in ink and other substances.

The room filled with laughter as Severus Snape walked quickly over to his table where his comrades frowned and shook their heads.

Sirius, James and Peter laughed as well. Remus kept on eating as James choked on his mashed potatoes and Pumpkin Juice came out of Sirius' nose.

Samantha watched as Snape sat at the end of the Slytherin table. People moved away from him scrunching their noses or waving their hands across their faces, which meant that Peeves must have dumped something very vulgar on him. Only when their eyes met did she smile sweetly. He was looking at her as if he would hex her, and though he was completely capable of doing such a thing she couldn't help but laugh and give him a little wave.

The room came to an abrupt silence as the Bloody Baron, the ghost of Slytherin, rose up into the air from where he had been talking to Sir Nicolas. He drifted across the room over the heads of the terrified first years and Peeves' laughter stopped instantly. The Great Hall's doors slammed just as the Bloody Baron glided through them and everyone turned back to their dinner as they all knew and didn't care that the Bloody Baron, besides Headmaster Dumbledore, was the only being Peeves feared.

Severus didn't eat anything that he had gathered on his plate, he had lost his appetite. He ignored the rude comments and the desperate pleas of doing something about the smell from the people sitting around him. They could move if it bothered them. He also didn't pay attention to the snickering and pointing from the other house tables as he glared at her.

She sat there, at the Gryffindor table talking comfortably and laughing occasionally with the rest of the lowlife Gryffindors. He had known that she had something to do with Peeves ambushing him outside of the Slytherin Common room. She had been so angry with him by the time he left her out in the dungeon corridor. Perhaps she thought that this way she could get even with him…but for exactly what he didn't know. For not doing anything with her today? That would be absurd. She probably just thought that it would be funny to humiliate him and show him that she wasn't scared of him.

She had probably thought that he wouldn't have come up to dinner in such a mess but he wasn't going to let her get her way. He didn't care that everyone was laughing at him, they had never stopped since he arrived at this school, either that or just ignore him. Which was fine with him, he didn't need anyone in this school to like him or accept him, for he would do neither for them.

The Marauders kept looking over their shoulders at him, laughing and shaking their heads. Probably pitied that it had not been them that had caused him this. And to think that she had said once that she disagreed with their actions towards him. She was a hypocrite and no different from the four imbeciles.

She kept looking over at him, and after a while seemed uncomfortable to find him still staring at her. She shifted in her seat a couple of times and towards the end of dinner started to completely ignore his stare. He was glad that he could make he uncomfortable and could make her squirm.

He had to get even he thought as the room thinned out; he won't let her walk all over him. if she wanted to act childish he could as well.

Samantha lay on her back in her bed that night and wondered if she had gone too far. He had looked so mad. Then she thought about what James, Sirius and Peter had always bragged about doing to him. It wasn't the same was it? She hadn't done it because she hated him or wanted to cause him humility. She had done it because… great she was one of the bad guys.

She turned over and tried to think really hard about what she was trying to do. Severus Snape is a boy that hates her guts. She isn't so keen on him either but wants to change that. The why of it being….ugh… that she was a good person…but that's a selfish reason isn't it? - To just want to do it to prove that she was truly a nice person. She turned back onto her back, maybe she was acting like a Hufflepuff.

Okay, Severus Snape is a boy that hates her – if for no other reason – for being a Gryffindor. He is a Slytherin, therefore she should hate him – if for no other reason – because of that. They have nothing in common, they argue and fight at every chance they get, as a Gryffindor and Slytherin traditionally would do…but today she had genuinely been serious about them doing something together.

Maybe it had nothing to do with being a Gryffindor or Slytherin, or even acting like a Hufflepuff. Maybe she just wanted to get to know him. That's not such a bad thing.

Monday morning came and Samantha was the first in Potions class. She was sitting rereading her Herbology essay when Snape sat down next to her. She didn't say anything to him as the room filled up with chattering and gossiping, but she could feel him staring at her hard.

"Today we will be writing essays on the uses of Unicorn blood in medical potions and what would happen to the medical industry if Unicorns where to become extinct." Professor Slughorn announced.

People groaned and Samantha put her Herbology essay back into her bag. She looked over at Snape and found him already starting his essay with a neural look on his face, which she hadn't expected. She pulled out a spare slip of parchment.

'I just want to say that I wasn't thinking clearly when I bumped into Peeves last Saturday. You must really hate me now but I'm truly sorry…'

She pushed the parchment over to him and let out a sigh of relief when he picked it up, read it and started to write on it. She began her essay.

The parchment fluttered back down in front of her, written on it in his spidery scrawl was, 'I will always feel the same way about you Gryffindor. Hate indeed sums up these feelings towards you, however perhaps what you had done on Saturday was justified by my reaction and words to your proposal of friendship.'

Samantha stared at the words written on the parchment 'perhaps…justified…proposal of friendship' she read it to see if she had interpreted it wrongly. No, she hadn't. He was excusing her behavior. She looked up and across at him but he wasn't looking at her. Even though all she saw was the side of his face she could see that his expression was neutral, however on the side of pleasant.

Had he changed his mind?

She scribbled on the parchment, 'So you're not mad?'

Severus looked down at the parchment and could have laughed, 'No.'

As Samantha left Potions class for Care of Magical Creatures her mind was buzzing. Snape wasn't mad at her which was not only strange and unexpected but was a relief. She had felt guilty all weekend about what she had done. She had acted so callously and childishly that she was ashamed.

When she reached the first floor she was met by a big group of people huddled in the center of the Entrance Hall. As she entered and people turned to see her, a wave of silence fell across the room.

"That's not her diary; she doesn't even keep a diary." Samantha heard Annabel's voice rise up from somewhere in the middle of the crowd.

As she got closer a group of girls to her right made kissing noises at her. Confused, she made her way through the snickering crowd to find Annabel and Alexis trying to pry a pink booklet out of a boy's hand. When they realized that she was there the boy dropped the booklet and her two friends fell back and landed on the floor.

Not thinking straight Samantha picked up the booklet and looked at the cover. Written across it in her loopy hand-righting was 'Princess Samantha Cromwell's Diary' and underneath it 'Keep out!'

"This isn't mine." She said, mortified opened to the first page which contained a poem titled 'Why I love Remus Lupin' on it. She turned to the next page and its title was 'Why I can't pick between Lupin and Black?'

Samantha couldn't breath as color swept up her cheeks and people around her chuckled. This had to be one of the top ten most embarrassing things that have ever happened to her. She flipped through the rest of the diary to find random stupidness written in her scrawl.

"I know it's not yours Samantha. But who would do something like that to you?" Remus said as he took the book out of her hands and performed some hexes on it.

"Oh I can guess someone that would." She said as someone yelled out, 'Ooo, Sam, you don't want to make Sirius jealous.' And someone else said, 'I would go for Sirius, Sam!'

So this was why he was acting so civil towards her?!

And so began their little war.

The next day people hadn't forgotten about the diary and everyone in the entire school had seemed to her memorized at least one part written in it and proceeded to rehearse it when ever they saw her in the corridors. Severus had thought that it was a stupid childish tactic but somehow knew that she would be embarrassed about something along the lines of this.

"Ignore them." Lily said coolly under her breath.

"I'm trying." Samantha ground out. It was stupid that people actually believed that she would be so self-centered, pathetic and prissy enough to write all those things in that diary. The majority of the perpetrators were girls, which Lily, Alexis and Annabel had told her were all of going out with boys that had one time or another asked her out. However, she found she could deal with it when the rest of the school laughed when ever she passed them but what had really set her off was when she had passed Snape and his three goons on the way to lunch.

Grinding her teeth and clenching her fists she ignored his friends as the yelled disgusting and outrageous statements at her.

"That was pretty pathetic if you ask me, Snape." She said to him as she passed him in the corridors on the way from Transfiguration.

After last period some people had forgotten about her momentarily as they laughed as Severus Snape started dancing around the corridors singing on the top of lungs about his love of Potions. He looked so ridiculous, his robes billowing around him as he grabbed the girls nearest to him to dance with them as he went through a long list of potions he loved. The girls would screen and run away but only to call more people to watch the escapade. Samantha had grinned from the corner where she stood; she had had to ask Annabel's Gregory, the Ravenclaw for help on forming the perfect charm. The frequencies his voice could reach were amazingly humorous.

Rodolphus had to tackle Severus to the ground as Bellatrix put a silencing spell on him, when they found him dancing along the frozen lake water's edge. Once they had removed the charm he was fuming. He had been trying to fight the charm the entire time but she must have had help with casting it.

"What's going on, Severus?" Rodolphus demanded.

"Nothing I can't handle." Severus growled. He couldn't believe that he had allowed that to happen he had seen her try to hide a smile as he passed her in the corridor but hadn't been thinking straight.

On Wednesday in Herbology Samantha had been asked to stay behind after class. Her Professor had told her that she had some nerve handing in such an insulting essay and was lucky to only come out with one detention and twenty points deducted from Gryffindor. When she had left, embarrassed and fuming she looked over her essay and found that all it contained was the 'I hate plants and roots, this class is pointless.' over and over.

"That was a low blow, Snape." She snapped under her breath the next day in potions as they worked on the individually assigned potion of the week.

"I know. Great though wasn't it?" he growled. He knew that she wasn't finished messing with him. She had been fuming all day giving him evil looks in the other classes they shared. Since this was their last class for the day he knew that she might try something with him in here. He took precautions, putting all the spell-repellants he could think of on his cauldron.

However he must have missed on something he realized when he had taken his finished potion to the front of the class to be graded and Professor Slughorn gave him an astonished look and asked him why he had added cat claw chippings instead of rat claw chippings.

Mortified and temper boiling he walked back slowly to his seat next to Cromwell and fought not to strangle her. He had never gotten a potion wrong, ever. He didn't look at her because if he had seen the smug look on her face he might not have been able to have controlled himself. He was going to kill her.

"Do you know," He ground out, "That if this in anyway lowers my grade…I swear I will ruin your life."

"I love you to." She ground out.

The rest of the day went by without an incident, both mad and both hurt. But they held it all in for fear of what might happen if they truly did what they wanted.

Perhaps it was because they had held it all in, why they had finally exploded in Friday's Defense Against the Dark Arts Class the next day. The Professor, their friends, the rest of the students stared in horror and confusion as they yelled and pointed their wands at each other.

That evening they both found themselves sitting in the Headmaster's office.

AN:- lol so, that was pretty petty...i would love to just get to the part were i marry them off and she saves him from L.V. and they have tens of chldren buuut, it doesn't work like that, if it did there wouldn't be much to write about, besides Severus Snape would never go for that!!!....next chapter should be up soon :)

i know this might seem a bit rushed but i didn't want to write chapters and chapters about it therefore wahlah, and besides i want to get a move on, necessary but don't need to drag on!!

Hope you still like the story