A/N- I think this chapter is going to be weird and not as good as I want it to be but its an update so enjoy.
This is only what I'd call a rough chapter seeing as the original got deleted, so I may come back and edit 's Unbeta-ed by the way, so lets play a game of spot the mistakes ok :)
Chapter 9
"lalalala" speech
'lalalala' thoughts
%lalalala% parseltongue
Last time
"POTTER!"Draco shouted out loud causing Potter to start and jump around to face him wide eyed.
"Mal...Malfoy wha...what are you doing here?"Potter stuttered out
"What am I doing here!? What are you doing here!?"Malfoy shouted out in shock.
"Um...I...I"Potter stammered, looking around in panic
"What is going on here? a voice said from behind Draco, causing him to whirl around on his heels to see his angry looking father and a pissed off Dark lord looking back at him.
"I...I...I got hungry so I..."stuttered trying to explain to his father why he had disobeyed him.
"Harry go back to your room"the Dark Lord said looking at Potter, causing Draco's eyes to widen at the use of potter's first name by the Dark Lord
Potter stumbled out of the kitchen as the Dark Lord turned back to face Draco,causing him to flinch under the heavy stare of the Dark Lord.
"It appears that I have no choice but to explain what's happening to you young Draco"nodding to Draco to follow Him and lead him to his office where he began to explain.
"You see Draco, Potter has decided to..."Draco breaks off as shouting interrupted his storytelling, causing them all to look over to the bar and see Harry punch a guy before walking out of the Inn. The Slytherins all got up and followed him, not caring for the chaos the inn was in.
"So Harry"Draco said after a while of them walking "What was all that about?"
"Oh. That guy was just giving me grief about hanging with snakes. Just had a Gryffindor moment that's all. I'm fine now"Harry said meekly with a sheepish smile.
"Whatever, lets go back to school"Draco laughed clapping Harry on the back as the other Slytherins laughed as being nice to Pott...Harry wasn't so bad after all.
Chapter 9
It was early Monday morning after a weekend with his overly excited children and Severus Snape did not think he could hate Mondays any more than he did this day,especially with the migraine he had.
Having to stay up late and trying to sober up his two sugar high children all by himself did him no good, but his wife was pregnant and tired so he'd told her to just go to bed, that he'd handle the kids;It had taken him about 6 hours to get them into bed and asleep, so now at seven in the morning he was lying in bed, his body so exhausted that he was tempted to just go back to sleep instead and let someone else deal the disrespectful brats he had to teach.
Just as he decided to just get another ten minutes of sleep, Athanasia groaned,jumped out of bed and ran towards the rolled out of bed with a loud sigh and followed her. The door was ajar, so as he approached the dull sounds of retching could be heard. With a sigh he grabbed a damp cloth and knelt down beside her as she knelt on the floor in front of the porcelain toilet dry heaving.
"How are you feeling"He asked when she finally stopped
"I so didn't miss this"She answers taking deep breaths
"I thought it would have started by now anyway. you can't be less than two months since the last time we had sex was the last day of August and its mid November now"He said as he dabbed her sweat soaked forehead with the cool cloth.
"Yeah, It started a month ago, its one of the reasons why I suspected that I may have been pregnant in the first place, but I was kinda hoping that if I was, then I'd gotten pregnant earlier on in the summer so I wouldn't have to suffer for I haven't had any morning sickness since I arrived here five days ago so I thought it stopped. I was clearly mistaken"Athanasia replied with a sigh as she leans into his chest.
After a while of just sitting on the floor Athanasia pushes herself to stand with the help of Severus, stumbling as she takes a step towards the sink; still weak, Severus'hold tightens around her waist as he helps her over to the sink.
"Maybe you shouldn't start teaching today"Severus tells her sounding worried
"I have to start today, it seems the Defence professor Mrs Prentiss was eager for Dumbledore to find a sub,She applied for personal time off as soon as she heard I was she has some family issues"Athanasia says to him as she gets strips out of her nightgown to take a shower.
"Hmm...She probably had a didn't know how to handle them"Severus stated distractedly as he ran his eyes over her body.
"Sev!"Athanasia shouted after seeing the looks he was giving her "If we're both teaching what about the kids?"
"We're in a school we can just leave them practically anywhere, they're mature enough to stay out of trouble"He said receiving a glare "I was joking!. I can't have them anyway, I'm supposed to be teaching fourth year hufflepuffs and gryffindors and both houses are incredibly incompetent so its gonna be too dangerous"
"Fine I'll take them. I have seventh year Gryffindors and Slytherins, so they should be able to control themselves"Severus snorted still running his eyes over her body "plus it might just be theory work anyway"Athanasia told him before spotting the lewd looks he was sending her again "Go get the kids up"she ordered, rolling her eyes.
"Sure, Sure"He replied with a laugh,raising his hands in surrender before heading out of the bathroom.
(Defence Room)
When Athanasia, Dominic and Calamity arrived to the DADA classroom, all the students had already arrived and were just sitting and talking to their housemates.
With a raised eyebrow Athanasia stood by the door and just watched everyone; Slytherins all sat together on one side of the big room with Gryffindors on the other. She noticed Harry, who was sitting with the Slytherins, laughing and ignoring the glares and stares his housemates and ex best friends were sending at him. 'I really don't like this'she thought with a sigh as she walks to the front of the room with her kids following behind, gaining the attention of everyone as she did.
"Hello"she said when she was sure she had everyone's attention "My name is Athanasia Snape and I will be teaching you Defence for a while-"
"What the hell happened to Professor Prentiss"a Gryffindor interrupted rudely causing Athanasia's face to harden as she raised a brow in disapproval.
"Would you mind asking that again, but how about this time you use the manners I'm pretty sure your parents taught you"she replied coldly causing the boy to shrink back into his seat as he blushed in embarrassment."Would you mind telling me your name?"
"Sea..Seamus Finnigan pro...professor"he stuttered out before another voice interrupted
"Professor we simply wanted to know what happened to Professor Prentiss"Granger answered snootily.
"Well, I was just about to provide an answer, before I was interrupted by bad-mannered seventeen year olds, who obviously don't know to leave resentments at the door. I can tell that you've all already passed judgement about me before you've even spoken to me. Simply because you know who my father and my husband is. Isn't that right miss...Granger?"Athanasia sneered derisively,choosing to ignore the mumbles of Ron Weasley;about being taught defence from dark arts loving Death Eaters.
"I..I didn't mea-"Granger stuttered out turning red
"Of course you did."Athanasia told her simply before addressing the entire class "I am a nice and fair person, so don't expect me to play favourites to anyone."as she said this she turned to look at the Slytherins "I am all for having fun,but if you show me disrespect and you don't try your best in this class, I will act like the bitch I know you all think I am"with a glance at the Gryffindors at the last part, she pauses before continuing "I may even take a few pages from my husband's book and apply some of his teaching techniques and let me tell you, you do not want that. Am I understood?"She told them all; voice hard and cold as ice that caused everyone to shudder as they nodded their understanding.
"Good. These are my kids Dominic and Calamity-Rae, they'll be sitting in on are nothing as their ages may suggest,they are smart and trained enough that you can ask the for help with anything"she said nodding towards the kids who had moved to sit at a spare desk.
"I think we should probably start learning something now so I don't get lumped with all the other rubbish DADA professors"Athanasia said laughing; lightening the mood in the quiet classroom."Today we're going to ignore professor Prentiss'lesson plans and instead work on Instinctual Defence Against the Dark Arts. Does anybody want to have a guess on what that is?"she asked as she looked around the room.
No-one put their hands up and just sat there looking confused and curious;even Granger was looking confused and annoyed 'looks like the little know-it-all doesn't know everything after all'she thought as she mentally laughed sadistically.
"Not even a guess?"she asked as Draco raised his hand "Mr Malfoy?"
"Well, Instinct means doing something on impulse, So I'm guessing its about Impulsively defending yourself from dark magic without thinking about it?"he answered uncertainly
"That's a good interpretation Mr Malfoy, 10 points to Slytherin"she replied with a small smile
"Instinctual Defence is all about your body,mind and magic reacting naturally,Impulsively, and not only to the dark arts. I want to teach you all how to harvest and use these talents against dark magic in instinctual power a person has doesn't have to be offensive like being able to rebound a spell directed at you, but also defensive; it can be automatic shields or a long term power that's always activated like Hypersensitivity and for somewhat powerful wizards it could be that they're natural Occlumens"
"As wizards, you are all programmed with a specific power that reacts only to danger; mostly its dark spells,dark creatures anything dark with the mere intent or thought of causing you harm will cause this branch of your magic to react"As she lectured them, she was happy to see that everyone was listening intently and taking down notes of everything she was telling them;even Weasley.
"You are born with these powers, there are a lot of cases where a child is in incredible danger and their instinctive power react. One of my Instinctive defensive reactions runs 24/7, even if there's no danger. Without even needing to look at a person and we just happen to be in the same room together, My magic will instantly...analyse a person; predicting their next action before they make it or being able to tell what instinctive power a person has, what unique abilities just be being in the same room as them"Everyone was looking at her with wide eyes. "I can tell without looking at you, who you all are, what all of your powers are, how strong you are, what you're going to do next"Granger raised her hands with a not so much skeptical but incredulous expression on her face.
"Miss Granger?"she asked back facing the class as she wrote common instinctual powers on the board.
"You mean you're psychic?"Granger asked with a frown
"No, not psychic just...swiftly intuitive.I'm hypersensitive to everything; for e.g. If I was in a room full of people, I would be hyper aware of where and who they all were, based on their magic or in a muggles case where they have no magic, then I'd sense them based on their non-magical aura or in just my case,their souls. If one wizard in a room of hundreds of people were to suddenly decide to attack me,my magic would inform me of who the wizard was what he looked like and how he was going to attack practically before this wizard even decides to attack"
"Is it only when you are about to get attacked professor?Or can you sense when one person is about to attack someone else? and if its defensive can it work the same time as an offensive power? "Neville Longbottom suddenly asked shyly
"Those are excellent questions!"she exclaimed as she turns to Neville and freezes, eyes glazing "wow"She says voice raspy. Her abrupt stop and inattentiveness causes everyone to watch her in confusion as they look from her to Neville; who was frowning and back again.
"I...Is everything alright P..professor?"Neville stuttered breaking her out of her thoughts.
"I...I'm completely fine, those were a brilliant questions Neville 20 points to may seem like obvious questions to ask,but it's the questions that no-one ever thinks to ask"Athanasia replied walks up to Neville with a soft smile as she runs her hand through his hair affectionately."You are quite intuitive aren't you Neville"This caused Neville to blush and look to the floor.
"To answer your question Mr Longbottom, I can sense the dangers of other people around magic or souls of the involved will change somewhat and it will 'feel'differently"she told him getting a nod as everyone wrote what she said down "For your next question;If you're in enough danger you could be able to use both, your magic basically senses the danger and chooses which would be better protection, offensive or can sometimes choose both and if you train hard enough to be able to control your powers then you'll be able to use both at the same time of your own free will."
"Wait does that mean we have one of each power?"
"Yeah like something defensive and something offensive?"
Surprisingly it was Crabbe and Goyle who asked, causing everyone, both Gryffindors and Slytherins alike to stare in shock at the usually quiet and assumed stupid boys.
"That's a surprisingly smart question"Draco told them looking distrustful 'I thought they were idiots'he only received twin shrugs from both boys as they looked back at Athanasia expectantly.
" points each for a productive question"Athanasia awarded before continueing "Yes boys we have both, but averagely only one can ever fully be controlled,so all of you may need to decide, do you want a kick ass offensive power or do you want something defensive that you can use to protect your friends"
"So I'm guessing our defensive powers can be used on other people to keep them safe then?"Dean Thomas stated with a look as if asking for confirmation
"Yes. At least the shields can, it may be possible for other defensive powers as well but unproven.I can help anyone with a different defensive power who wants to try"she answered
"So do you really know what our powers are?"Blaise asked
"Yes I do"she said with a smirk "And I'm quite excited that I get to work with a telepath again, I've only ever met one before"
"A telepath!? Thats brilliant! so am I the telepath then?"Blaise asked, getting a nod he started laughing and doing a little victory dance.
"Slytherin composure Blaise"Draco said to his enthusiastic friend "At Least save the dance for when or If you learn to use it" he continued causing Blaise to stop his dancing and look at him sheepishly.
"Who was the other telepath you've met Professor?"Granger asked curiously
"My son Dominic"she told them as she pointed to her son
"That little boys a telepath? wow he so young and he's already got his powers under control"Parvati Patil gushed
"Yeah we all saw what both your kids did in the great hall when..."Dean started to say before trailing off and looking at Harry as silence descended on the room before it was broken as a squeal was heard.
"Anyway,are you going to tell us what our powers are professor?"Lavender Brown asked excited at finding out
"I would love to tell all of you what your powers are,but I need you all to find it yourselves"Athanasia said in reply causing everyone's eager chatter to stop as they looked at each other with disappointed looks.
"WHAT!"Ron shouted "You can tell that snake -he said pointing at Blaise- but you won't tell the rest of us?"
"Mr. Weasley, you are crossing the yourself!"she said in an icily commanding tone causing Ron to surprisingly look down at his feet as he mumbled an apology.
"What Weasley never backs the hell just happened?"Pansy asked dumbfounded.
"The Dark Lord's daughter is what just happened"Draco said with a chuckle "She can scare the shit out of everyone and anyone when she uses that tone;even the Dark Lord himself.I've seen it happen"
"What? she wasn't nearly as scary at the start of lesson as she was just now"
"She was using the Snape scariness before"Harry told them as Draco nodded his agreement.
"Are you telling us she has more than one level of scariness"Theo asked them wide-eyed as he glanced at the Teacher who was still looking at Ron in distaste.
"Yep"was the only reply he got before Athanasia turned back to the entire class to see that they all had frightened expressions on their faces.
"You all feeling okay?"she asked them confused, getting simultaneous nods before turning back to Ron."I would and should kick you out of this class for your continued disrespect Mr Weasley,however for someone with your powers, proper guidance will be essential for everyone's means that you will need to be completely dependable on me and those I see fit in assisting you gain control. Do you understand what I'm trying to tell you Mr Weasley?"
"Yes Professor Snape ma'am"Ron replied compliantly
"Ok then, What I want you all to be able to do, is gain control over these powers. I want you all to know what your powers are first that you all know that this kind of thing exists you'll be more aware of it and it will be easier to notice and all most likely use this instinct for a different reason, like in quidditch, if a seeker is a great player it's most likely because they have a power like mine and is hyper aware of what's happening around them so they can easily locate the snitch"As she tells them the last part They all turned to look at Harry who just shrugged and ignored them.
"So when are we gonna start learning to find this instinct then professor?"Dean Thomas asked
There were shouts of 'Yeah'from everyone so she decided that since it was a double lesson, everyone could try practising.
"I don't see why you can't start trying to find your powers now, It looks like everyone has enough notes for now anyway. Though I'd love for you all to research this some more for homework"as she replied she waved her hand and the desks (with all the students still sitting in them) shifted to the far side of the large classroom to leave space for the practical. "Neville your Instinctual defences are somewhat linked to Dominic's so how about you work with Dom and Calamity"Neville nodded and turned to head over to the two kids but was stopped as Athanasia added "Also stay behind after class"he looked at her wide eyed before nodding again and going over to the kids."Everyone else page 317 should in this book should have instructions directing you through the stages of finding your powers, find a space you can relax"she called out as she levitates a book to each student as they spread out around the room.'This isn't so bad'
...
After class everyone cleared out while talking excitedly about what they think their powers might be and how great professor Snape's wife was. Even though no one full on discovered what their powers were without Athanasia telling them they were still pretty satisfied having learnt something,even if they would still need to work on it next lesson.
After everyone left and it was only Neville, the kids and Athanasia left in the room,Athanasia asked Neville if he had had any luck finding out his powers.
"I don't really know I keep sensing all these different things but I don't know if I'm imagining it. I mean I can't have that much power right?"Neville said as he looked down at his feet and fidgeted with his hands.
"What makes you think you aren't powerful?"Athanasia asked him in a soft voice as she moves from behind her desk to stand in front of him.
"Well, everyones always thought I was a squib and I've never been good at anything except Herbology"He mumbled.
"Well,why don't you tell me some of the powers you've been sensing, I may be of help"Athanasia said gently as she once again ran her hand through his hair
"I...I...there's a shield,something to do with plants too"he stuttered blushing embarrassed
"Your powers are powers that come to you naturally,its bound to affect your a person's power was water they'd like swimming but dislike anything fire based. It's why you like Herbology, you'll most likely be able to control plants and create poisons mainly found in certain plants,It all else?"
"Something to do with my mind I guess. I just don't know what"was Neville's replied as he began pacing trying to process what he'd just been told.
"Mother the truth is always best"Dominic and Calamity said at the exact same time as they watched the conversation. Athanasia looked over at them and nodded.
"Well Neville," she said, waving him over to a chair. "I have a theory about that. Have a seat while I explain."
Once they were comfortable, she started, "I noticed something about you when you asked me that question earlier in class. Seeing that I was distracted Dominic telepathically asked me what was wrong and I asked to try to get into your mind"she told him before gesturing to Dominic to speak.
"Usually I would have no problem breaking into someones mind,especially without them it took me about 30 minutes until I got into yours and it was painful for me. I noticed a rare trait in your mind that I couldn't understand"
Neville frowned at the boy with a worried look but said nothing.
"Neville,you have the ability to block certain parts of your thoughts and memories that you don't want to share or that could be used against you, your mind is built to withstand mental torture, no matter your physical state. I believe it's one of your instinctive powers. I said earlier in class that powerful wizards tend to be natural occlumens right?"Athanasia broke in
Neville frowned as he thought about what Athanasia said. "But I'm not a powerful wizard though,my gran told me so"
"You are a powerful wizard otherwise I wouldn't have been drawn to you as a possible successor of my powers" Here she looked a bit uncomfortable; she didn't really know how to explain to a person that she knew his entire future and that it revolved around something she was going to do.
Neville looked utterly shocked at her as he asked cautiously; he didn't like where this was going, this was the dark lord's daughter maybe she was after something "What do you mean?"
"I'm of the netherlife, the underworld and I was drawn to you as my heir, my successor. you are the only one worthy of taking over when the time comes"
Neville was now staring wide-eyed at her as he seemed to freeze at what she was saying."Your he..heir?"
"You will be the second human to ever be Lord Death. It wasn't intentional but I just change your entire future"As she said this Athanasia's eyes began to tear up "God being pregnant sucks with all this crying"she told him as he started to panic at having made his professor cry.
"Am I really?"he asked in a breathy voice looking like he was about to start hyperventilating
"Yes definitely"Athanasia said confidently; still sniffling "I want to explain some more things to you Neville but it will take time but right now I'm hungry so we need to go have lunch before its over and take this up another time okay"
Neville nodded and looked over at the two children who were watching him intently.
"We should probably go now professor. Do...do you want to walk together so you don't get lost"He asked
"Sure Neville, I'd appreciate getting to eat something soon"she said in reply
As they walked Athanasia noticed how pale Neville was looking so she casted a wandless calming charm on him.
"Breathe Neville, deep long breaths"
"Okay. So I'm your heir, future ruler of everything dead. I can handle that"he said with another deep breath.
"And some things alive too"she added looking at him again;brows furrowed "You're taking this better that I thought you would, I'm proud of you Neville"She told him with a huge smile on her face
"Mother I think it just hasn't sunk in yet"Calamity giggled out
"Yeah give him a week"Dominic added"I can't wait to start working with both him and that Slytherin telepath"he said bouncing in excitement
"I'm Death's apprentice"Neville whispered to himself as they reached the Great Hall 15 minutes before end of lunch.
A/N- This is late because my brother is an Idiot who didn't update like I told him to while I was touring europe for the summer.