Chapter 2

Sansa entered the great hall eagerly, her stomach growling loudly. She had only eaten a small pumpkin pasty on the train. Her stomach had been too unsettled to handle anything else and her mind too muddled. The hall was filled with students all dressed in their new robes, chatting and catching up on the summer. She made her way down the far left side of the hall and spotted Margaery and Shae. Smiling, she headed for them. Gracefully weaving in-between fellow students she reached them and sat down with a huff.

"Hello Darling" Margaery greeted Sansa, grinning. Shae beamed up at her, her dark eyes alight, like she knew something she shouldn't, then again Sansa thought, she probably did.

"Oh gods. It's so good to see you" Sansa relieved a sigh.
"Tell me about it. So, how have you been? Shae's just been telling me of some naughty little escapades she went on in London with a muggle friend. What was his name again Shae?" Margaery inquired innocently, Shae smirked cheekily "That would be telling. I don't kiss and tell"

Sansa raised an incredulous eyebrow. "Uhuh. I'm sure"
Shae gasped "Sansa! Do you doubt my integrity?" Her words were light and teasing, delicately lilted by her accent.
Sansa snorted, "Just following the advice that flowed from your own pretty lips". Shae shrugged, conceding.

Sansa scanned the Gryffindor table, she caught sight of Robb and Jeyne talking quietly with each other. Jon and Ygritte a few seats down from them, heads bowed together on the Ravenclaw table. Sensing her stare, Robb glanced up at her and they shared a small smile.

"Hey, Sansa. Do you know who he is?" Margaery gestured to the head table. Sansa turned confused, eyes raking over the table. "Who?"
"Uh, grey hair, shifty position. He's sitting by Lady Olenna." Sansa's eyes followed her directions and were met with a pair of eyes staring back at her.

His were wide and his expression was open and clearly flustered. She frowned, he looked shocked, hurt even, like he knew her. However as soon as she convinced herself she could see recognition in his eyes he had looked away.

Sansa took in his appearance curiously. He was youthful, his greying hair not aging him; he had a strong, fine nose and high cheek bones. His mouth was framed with neatly trimmed hair. While she could make out the colour of his eyes she could tell they were sharp and intelligent. He was lean and wore a set of charcoal grey robes over a pale blue undershirt which peeked out by his cuffs. At his throat a small silver pin was fastened. His small knowing smile as he conversed with Lady Olenna gave the impression of utter confidence and superiority.

"No. No, I've never seen him before," She muttered "Who is he?"
"From the looks of it, he must be our new Divination teacher. I can't see Professor Illyrio anywhere. He must be his replacement" Margaery supplied. Sansa perked up, Divination was her best subject. As much as she loved reading people, She also loved reading the stars and the smoke patterns. But Most of all she loved it because she was good at it. She was talented, she could predict things other's couldn't, she could make out images in the smoke balls where other's saw murky shapes. Margaery and Shae didn't see the point in the subject, they thought it to be whimsical and fabricated, so Sansa never talked about it with them. It was her subject. Her strength. Her secret.

The doors of the great hall swung wide open with little elegance, startling Sansa from her thoughts, and draped a hush over the student. Cautiously a straggling group of first years wandered through, their wonder was adorable as they took in the thousands of students and candles. Their gaze was then drawn to the menacing head table, filled with the teachers. Head master Aemon rose to greet them. Sansa noted that Arya was near the back talking quietly with a tall boy with raven hair and dark blue eyes.

The sorting ceremony passed quickly, the names all blurring into one as time rode on. The boy her sister had been with, Gendry, was placed in Ravenclaw. Arya was the 4rd last name on the list, Sansa held her breath her hands clenched tightly beneath the table. "RAVENCLAW!" The hat shouted out. Arya's face crumpled into a huge grin she ran over to Jon, smiling and laughing. Sansa's lips parted, Ravenclaw? She had always been sure that Arya would be in Gryffindor. She certainly wasn't lacking in courage and had been picking fights and defending her family since she was three.

Then again everybody else had thought the same of Jon. Ayra and Jon were exceptionally alike. Perhaps it wasn't so unexpected after all. Sansa looked up to Robb, he looked a little surprised, yet he let out a little laugh of amusement at Arya's exuberant wave to him. He waved back and stuck out his tongue. From his reaction Sansa guessed Arya had made a face back at him.

She watched the exchange quietly, a small bubble of jealousy surfacing, she wished she was closer to her sister, she wasn't, not really. In truth they had very little in common at all. Sansa glanced over to Arya again, meeting her gaze she beamed and winked. Arya just giggled.

An unfamiliar prickling sensation danced along her spine and she looked around trying to identify its source. Her eyes were drawn to the mysterious man again. Their gaze locked. His expression was collected, yet there was something underneath his seemingly neutral expression. Empathy? Sansa squinted, she couldn't pinpoint it. They stared at each other for a good few minutes as Master Aemon rambled through the announcements in his welcoming speech. Sansa trying to figure what he was trying to convey, soon however the intensity of their eye contact brought a warm flush to her cheeks. Yet she refused to look away.

"Now, I'd like you all to greet our new member of staff, Professor Petyr Baelish. He will be taking over Divination from Professor Illyrio and is now standing the new head of Slytherin." A wave of applause washed through the hall and Professor Baelish peeled his gaze away from Sansa to smile courteously at Aemon and in greeting to the students. Margaery had guessed right. He was the new Divination professor. She glanced at Margaery who was observing Sansa, an eyebrow cocked and a smirk creeping up on her face.

Ducking her head Sansa turned back to the head table only to find Professor Baelish watching her again. "Now! We've had quite enough announcements for the time being. On with the feast!"
Sansa looked down at her plate, forgetting about the dark eyes observing her and grinned. It was full of Lemmon cakes. Shae looked at her distastefully. "You are going to have more than that aren't you? You can't just have lemon cakes."

Sansa grinned; she daintily picked up a cake and took a small bite.
"Watch me." She said round a mouthful of food. Margaery rolled her eyes. The rest of the meal passed quickly, the Ghosts eliciting small screams from the first years and a rouge owl flapping, disorientated into the hall after dessert were the only mild interruptions.

Conversation flowed freely and Sansa allowed herself to forget about her family for a while and to concentrate on the tales Margery and Shae spun to her. She gasped and awed and laughed. But most of all she forgot and she was grateful for it. All throughout the night however, she flashed small fleeting glances up to the top table, and nigh on every time she found those dark, intelligent eyes observing her.

When the time came to return to the dorm they were all sated, full and content. They all lined up and marched out of the hall walking down to the dungeons, through the dark winding passages underneath the castle in small gaggles.

AN-
Hello again, Thank you to those who reviewed my last chapter, It gave me a reason to write this I guess. I should probably mention, (pretty sure you've guessed) this will contain Sansa/Petyr and a lot of people have... strong opinions on this particular ship. So if it isn't your thing, don't read anymore.
I don't have a solid plot planned out as of yet, so If there's anything you'd like to see, let me know. Also quite a bit of this will be centred in Hogwarts and any action concerning the rebellion will kick in quite a bit later.
Thank you so much for reading and again any tips would be amazing.