Entry for the "Unusual Ships Challenge" - Rolanda Hooch/Severus Snape
Entry for the "Halloween Collection Competition" - prompt: 16. (creature) Vampire
Rolanda Hooch had always found that her mind started to wander and form the most abstract thoughts when she started to become bored.
Right now, she was sitting in a staff meeting and was feeling like she could fall asleep to the boring discussion her colleagues had about a student that obviously had immense scholastic problems. Things like that did not concern her much as she only teached the First Years how to stay on a broom while it was hovering in the air. Severus Snape used to mock her about her job, how it was not very demanding at all and that a troll could do it just as well. Also he found that she could not really call herself a teacher.
Even though she should have laughed about these nasty remarks that hinted that she did not have much in her head, she could not help but feel intimidated by those words. After all, she was a Ravenclaw.
On the other hand, she always payed him back for comments like that. It had not took her long to find out that he hated to be bothered with someone who babbled nonsense and therefore it had something positive that she used to be bored in staff meetings – he was sitting next to her and she could simply lean over and whisper into his ear while he was not able to flee.
And now, it was this time of the meeting again.
A mischievous smile on her lips, she shuffled in her seat and she leaned over.
"Hey, Severus."
He tried to act as if he was not hearing her, but she knew the hidden signs all too well – he already knew what was going to follow. His fists clenched slightly on the arms of his chair and here and there, a muscle twitched, as if he was about to jump and flee.
"You know, I have been thinking. I somehow feel like Halloween is your favourite holiday, Severus. You are always dressed up as a vampire. Not very original to have the same costume all the time, though... and one should think you would finally add some necessary accessories to it. I don't feel like it is such a good costume if you don't have the teeth and at least some blood trickling from the side of your mouth... Just giving you some advise, don't feel offended, sweetheart..."
She inwardly relished in the way he pressed his jaw together and gritted his teeth, not being able to give a sharp answer without turning too much attention to them... How she loved to push this man to the edge.
"One question, do you always wear the same set of robes or do you have a closet full of the same ones? Just thinking about your hygiene, it is a serious matter..."
Oh, this meeting would go on for hours and he would have to sit through it, forced to listen to her talking out her odd thoughts... How Rolanda loved staff meetings...