A.N
Sorry about all the grammar mistakes doing this on my iPod and it doesn't come up. Disclaimer to the fact that I only own Rose and her owl (that will hopefully appear soon again) and to all the quotes I take from the book and use. sorry about it being short but wanted to finish book one :D enjoy
Everyone started to come back two days after our swim in the Lake. It made it harder to see Cedric because of the end of year tests coming up and Quidditch practice. Draco was more of an ass coming back to Hogwarts. The first morning back was painful. I was sitting at my normal seat on the Slytherin table for breakfast. You could hear him from miles away with Pansy and her flock following him. He sits in his usual spot across from me.
"Why do you sit with HER Draco?" Pansy's all over him and he looks so uncomfortable.
I don't take my eyes off him as I speak "He likes to piss me off, that's why."
"I didn't ask you, Grey." She's a little too mad over me just speaking.
"Sit with us Pansy." Draco's patting the seat next to him. She reluctantly sits, her friends doing the same next to her. I go back to reading my potions book.
"Now Rose, a little birdie has told me that you have a relationship with Diggory. Is this true?" I look up from my book to see him clasping his hands in front of himself. His knuckles are white as he clenches them. His eyes are cold, and I can't figure out what he's trying to get at. I slam my book shut.
"Maybe I do Draco, why do you care?" I can't believe two guys have had a go at me about it within a few days. I notice Pansy is listening in as she talks to her friends.
"I was told to keep you in check, fraternising with the enemy is not the way to go." He's holding his wand now flicking it through his fingers. I hold my eyes on it because I know the pain it brings.
"I don't need you as a guardian Draco!" I get up off the bench and storm from the Hall. Cedric sees me and chases after me.
"Are you ok?" He asks a worried tone on his voice. This sends me off the edge.
"Why does no one in this God forsaken place think I can look after myself!" Everyone is looking at us. This is also our first fight, well my first shouting at him. He has a hurt look in his eyes.
Walking off he shouts back "Ok take some time." I run off to a quiet corner of Hogwarts. As we were in our last few months of our first year, we were kept very busy. The thought of our first set of tests coming up made me feel sick. We were kept loaded with homework that made out heads explode with stress. Snape helped me have fun by doing potions in our spare time.
"Ok now add one bat spleen to the cauldron." Snape says as we make a swelling solution. I know it doesn't sound exciting but its year 2 work so it's hard for me at the moment till I get the hang of it. I do the next parts of the potion and then it's complete.
Snape looks in the cauldron "Excellent work Rose."
"As always, aye?" I say smirking.
He laughs. "Yea as always." I get up to leave and head for the door.
"Oh and Rose because I have taken your time don't bother with this week's homework. You have shown your ability quiet well with this potion."
"But I love doing the homework. I'll add a twist onto it for you this week then." I'm just leaving when I hear him say "be careful." I know he worries for me, he's like a father. I'm at the library a lot for the next few days because none of the older boys in Slytherin house go there. I was hoping to see Hermione but she seems to be very busy with Harry and Ron gallivanting around the place. I'm sitting there one day and Cedric sits at my table across from me. I smile at him.
"Hey. I'm sorry about the other day." He doesn't look at me or say anything so I go back to my work.
"Are you free after lunch? I could help you with your Quidditch practice if you want?" He asks this so casually as if nothing had ever happened. I grin up at his face and he smiles back.
"I've practiced so I hope I don't waste you." He just laughs and we go back to studying.
After lunch we practiced for a few hours before I grow tired and ask for a break. We hold hands as he walks me back to Slytherin house. I feel like it's slightly awkward now between us. We kiss before I go inside. Two days later the unthinkable happens. We were a few days before the end of the year. Snape was acting weird and I hadn't seen Hermione for a while. I was walking to Potions when I was pulled into a classroom by the older boys again.
"Well we meet again." Says Flint as I'm cornered in a room. He has two other boys with him. He takes out his wand and with an evil glint in his eye says "Incarcerous". Rope is then ties around my hands tying them to the feet of the desks holding me in place at the centre of the room. His friend hands him something that I don't see.
"My father heard that Slytherin got a half-breed and was so disgusted he gave me this for Christmas." It's a black leather whip. One of his friends comes round and takes off my Hogwarts robe leaving me with just my thin white shirt. Flint walks round behind me. He then puts a cork from a wine bottle in my mouth.
"You will need this." He whispers. The first crack comes. Searing pain is going down my back. The fourth comes and tears are streaming down my face. The seventh and I now can't notice the blood pouring down my back. The twelfth is almost painless but I know can't hold the cork in my mouth and it drops to the ground. He gets to twenty and I'm close to passing out. I hear the cracking stop and the ropes disappearing. I collapse on the floor in a pool of my blood, struggling to breathe. He kneels in front of me. Grabbing my face to bring me closer to his.
"This will teach you to behave like a Slytherin. You step out of line again, you will pay." He gets up and I hear them faintly leave. I manage to take out my wand and produce a little blue bird.
"Severus Snape." I tell it. It flies off to find him. He will know what it means because this was the first thing he taught me to do in case of an emergency. The bird will then guide him back to me.
It's not too long before I hear the sound of running footsteps along the floor. The door swings open loudly.
"Rose!" He shouts as he runs to me grabbing my hand. I clench his hand to let him know I'm alive. I close my eyes, I'm getting so tired. I hear Snape start a spell.
"Vulnera Sanentur" over and over. It feels good. He stops and I feel him pick me up and then it feels like we're flying. Then I think I pass out because I wake up in a hospital bed with Snape next to me. I look at him and half-smile.
"You gave me a heart attack." He looks pretty angry. I don't say anything. Madam Pomfrey comes over and says that I can leave because I'm pretty much all better. Snape helps me out and we leave but we don't go to the common room we head in another direction. I don't ask where we are going. We stop in front of a gargoyle. Snape says "Cockroach Clusters" to it so I give him a weird look but he's not looking at me. A staircase is formed. He puts his hand on my back and leads me up to an office with no other than Dumbledore.
"Please sit." He says in his calm voice he always seems to have. I sit and Snape stands to the side.
"You have had quite an adventure Miss Grey." This comment from him floods my memories causing me to cry silently. I stare at my lap, the tears fall on my clasped hands as I try to keep myself together.
"We have had a letter from your orphanage." I look at Dumbledore shocked. "Your House Warden said that they had a lot of kids arrive and they have run out of room." He pauses for a moment. "As you are the oldest, they have requested that you stay here over the Summer Break till you finish your schooling. We can't do that because we would need people to look after you so we have the problem of finding you a home." I let out a sob. I'm homeless, with no friends or family.
Then the old man continues. "That's where Professor Snape comes in. He has talked to your House Warden and is going to legally adopt you so you can stay at his house over the summer break." I look at Snape but he's looking out the window.
"Snape is going to take you tonight because of the recent events for your mental wellbeing and any possible future physical wellbeing." I nod in agreement to his terms. Dumbledore indicates for me to stand and then he leaves the room. I turn to Snape who is looking at me.
"Your things are already there." He looks awkward for a minute before walking over and placing a hand on my shoulder and leading me to the fireplace.
"Ready?" I nod in reply which is all we need because we leave in a POOF in shades of green.
We had stepped directly into a tiny sitting room; it had the feeling of a dark padded cell. The walls were completely covered in books, most of them bound in old black or brown leather; a threadbare sofa, an old armchair and a rickety table stood grouped together in a pool of dim light cast by a candle-filled lamp hung from the ceiling. The place had an air of neglect, as though it was not usually inhabited.
"Follow me." He has gone back to the same tone as if we had just met. He leads me to a hidden door that was in the bookcase. We walk up a narrow stair case to a very short hallway. It has three doors down it and I guess one is mine. He walks to the closest one and opens it to reveal a small room with a single bed with a dark blue duvet cover on the far corner of the room. My truck was placed neatly at the end of the bed. It had a window on the far wall by the bed with a fan on the windowsill with Snow in her cage. Next the bed was a dressing table with four draws ready for me to place my jeans and T-shirts in.
"This is your room while you are here." I look up at him, he seems so distant.
"I have to go back to Hogwarts till school finishes." A tear slides down my cheek. He turns me to face him and he kneels down.
"Please don't leave." I get out. I don't know why all of a sudden I don't want to be alone. It seems the idea of being alone here would be too much.
"I promise to come home every day after lessons. I have a house elf that will look after you." He snaps his fingers.
With a CRACK a small dirty looking thing appears.
"This is Lucia" indicating to the house elf. I wave to it and Snape waves his hand away in disgust to it. Lucia disappears with another CRACK. He turns back to me and embraces me in a hug.
"I have to go now but I will be back ok?" I nod meekly to him. He gets up and snaps his fingers leaving me alone in my dank, dark room.
A.N please Review. Two reviews for next chapter and please give suggestions or advice. Sorry if I don't do all the advice but I will try.