Weeks had pasted since the day Emily was found on the grounds of Hogwarts. The Slytherin house had taking a liking to her, mostly all the boys. Two days after she had came Draco figured out who she was. He knew some signs from his childhood with her, but nothing big. Emily had grown since he last saw her. The Emily he knew back then had short black hair and it was always in pigtails. She was paler and was missing her two front teeth back then. But now she had lost the pigtails and all her teeth had grown in. To Draco, Emily could only be like a sister to him and nothing more.
In the library, Emily sat with Draco helping him with his potions essay. Emily was smarter then she looked, much smarter than even Hermione Granger, who had her parents send her a book on signing. Emily thought it was odd that she didn't even just ask her to teach her.
"Thanks, Emily, you help a lot." Draco said looking right at her. Emily nodded and smiled. She had missed hanging out with him. Draco was like a brother to her, a little brother.
"' What else do you need help with?'" she asked.
'Nothing, finished.' Draco signed making Emily smile. She always smiled when he signed to her, it reminding her of the old days. 'Do do what?' he asked her.
"' I don't know. The Holiday break is in two days.'" She said.
"What are you doing for break?" He stopped signing not knowing much.
"'I think, I am staying here with father, and going to your family s' for Christmas. Your mother asked me to go, she find a guy I might like.'" Emily said.
'Oh I see,' Draco signed. "I don't know who she has in mind. I don't know any of my mother's friend's kids."
'Oh,' Emily signed, "' Draco, why is my father so mean to the Gryffindor House?'" She had seen him in class and the halls. It was a side that she had never seen before and it scared her a bit.
"I don't know, he doesn't like Potter, and he is in that house. That may be it."
"' Potter?'", she asked, not knowing names yet. She knew faces and the signs she had given them.
"'H-a-r-r-y P-o-t-t-e-r.'" He finger spelled, than touched his forehead where the scare was.
"'Oh him,'" she said before she could ask why. Severus came in with a box in his hand. It wasn't a large box, it was quite small. Draco tapped Emily's shoulder and pointed to her father. She turned to him smiling. She knowing what was in the box. She got up and ran over to him with a big smile on her face. Draco walked over to them.
"What's that Professor?" Draco asked pointing to the box.
"'It's Emily's new hearing aids,'" he said signing with one hand, and handing the box to Emily with the other. Emily smiled bigger and took the box taking it to the table and opening it. Inside sat two dark green hearing aids. Emily's favorite color -anything that was dark was her favorite. She took them out and, one by one, she put them in. Turning them on, and blinking a bit to get used to the sound, she could hear Draco talking to her father about the lesson. She heard sounds of books being put back in their place. She looked around and smiled. She looked at Draco and her father who looked at her. She made her way over to them. Then heard talking, more like fighting. She looked around and spotted Ron, Harry and Hermione to the right side of her.
"I don't like her. She going to be just like Snape." Ron said leaning back into his seat.
"You don't know that, Ron," Hermione said getting angry at his hurt full words about Emily. "She could be nothing like her father. You just won't give her a chance."
"You were wrong about her not being deaf and acting like it." Harry added.
"So you'll see I'll be right, she be just like her father." Ron said his anger was getting the best of him. Emily made her way over to them. She did a swishing motion with her arms and pulled one hand up. Her face was mad. She hated how people talked about her without knowing her. She then returned to Draco and her father. Severus was giving her a look. He knew what that sign was and what it meant.
'Emily Elizabeth Snape.' He signed, 'Never use that sign here again understand?'
'Ron makes me angry,' she signed. Draco picked up pieces of what they were saying. He glared at Ron knowing that Emily was made at him.
'Still do not use that sign,' he signed.
'Ok' Emily signed looking down. Severus rubbed her head.
"'Go on, try out your new hearing aids, I'll be in grandfather's office for a meeting,'" Severus said. Emily nodded to his words and want off with Draco.
Severus walked over to Ron and the others, glaring at the three of them.
"Mr. Weasley, I think we need to go have a talk with the headmaster," Severus said in his cold voice. Ron looked down and got to his feet. They made their way to the head master offices. Harry and Hermione looked to each other.
"What did she say?" Harry asked Hermione, once Severus and Ron were gone. Hermione was already in the book looking. She gasped and looked to Harry, "What?"
"She called him a silly ass," Hermione said, looking up from her book, making sure she was right. Harry couldn't help but laugh.
Emily walked the grounds with Draco listening to the new sounds around her. Draco helped by telling her about the surroundings. A big smile was on her face. She loved hearing what was around her. She wasn't paying attention to where she was going and ran into someone. Emily looked at the person. It was a man. He had short spiky brown hair and bright blue eyes. He looked down at her seeing he was much taller then she.
"' I'm sorry I wasn't looking where I was going,'" Emily said, looking up. What happened next shocked Emily and Draco.
'Fine' he sign, 'deaf?' he asked Emily.
'Yes I am. My name Emily Snape. Who are you?', she asked back.
'My name is Leon, nice to meet you, Emily.' He signed smiling at her. Emily nodded and smiled back, 'looking for headmaster, and for someone who can talk for me, my speech is not that good.' he signed.
"'My father can help, his in the headmaster offices now. I can take you there.'" She looked to Draco. "' Oh this is my friend Draco.'" Draco nodded to Leon who nodded back. "' He can sign so-so.'"
'Oh I see,' Leon nodded and took Emily's arm in his, 'Shall we go.' Emily's cheek grew bright red, she nodded weakly, and took him there, Draco not far behind them.
Emily blushed all the way to the headmaster offices. When they got to the door Draco nodded and Emily slowly moved away from Leon.
"Come in," Dumbledore said. Draco waved to them to go in, "'Oh, Emily, just the girl I want to see. Mr. Weasley has something he wishes to tell you,'" He said as they walked in. Emily looked to Ron whose mother was next to him.
"Say it Ron." She said pushing him closer to her.
"I'm sorry for making you mad," Ron said.
"And so we don't have to do this again, Ron is taking Signing classes with you," Dumbledore said. Emily looked at her father who nodded to her.
"'Ok, sir," she said, "'Oh this is Leon, he's here to talk to you about something. He is also deaf and needs father's help.'"
"' he's not deaf, Emily, it's an act. Isn't that right Leon?'" Dumbledore said.
"You're smarter than I thought Albus," Leon said giving him a look. Emily was shocked and backed away, moving closer to her father.
"' You lied to me,'" Emily said moving to him. Draco grabbed her remembering her anger.
"How else would I get close to the lovely Emily, the unhearing Snape," Leon said, in a cold voice. He touched her face with the back of his hand. Emily looked away moving from him.
"Draco, take Emily out of here, Molly and Ron may leave," Dumbledore said. Draco took Emily out of the room. Molly and Ron were right behind them. Outside Emily looked down. She thought she found someone just like her. She held back tears, Draco wrap his arms around her.
"' He used me,'" Emily said, wrapping her arms around him and cried into his shoulder. Ron saw this and felt sorry for her, no longer feeling his hate for her. His mother went over to Emily looking over her carefully. She reminded her of some one, but whom? Severus came out a few minutes later and saw every one. He went to his daughter side, taking her into his own arms.
"You may go Draco she'll be ok," Severus said, holding close to his daughter. Draco nodded and left, going off to the great hall. Severus then turned to the Weasleys who just watched at them, "You may go back to your friends Mr. Weasley." Ron ran off leaving Molly and the Snapes alone in the hallway.
"Severus, who's is Emily's mother?", Molly asked.
"You don't know her, she died right after Emily was born," Severus said. Before Molly could ask something else they walked away. Emily looked back to her one last time. Then it hit her, Emily had green eye. Just like Harry.