Hello, so new day, new chapter. Please enjoy as per the normal.

Chapter 14

"Anastasia?" Severus said with a disbelieving tone.

"Yeah, you never heard of it?" Jenny said still holding the DVD case whilst she knelt on the floor. Since Severus had agreed to stay and watch another film and since 'Labyrinth' was his choice, he proposed that Jenny chose their next film. Her choice thought, had him doubting this was a good idea.

"Wasn't she a Russian princess or something?" His mind told him. Jenny rolled her eyes.

"She was the daughter of Nicholas the second of Russia, she died when her family was killed by the Bolshevik secret police in 1918."
"You know your history." He commented. She blushed.

"Well, when you don't know your own, you read as much about other's history as you can. That and the fact I love the film." She smiled. Severus laughed.

"I know it's a bit girly and a child's film, but I like it. We can watch something else if you don't want to." She compromised. Severus shook his head.

"No it's ok, if you like it we'll watch it." Jenny smiled at him, her mind was telling her to hug him, but she decided that might not be a good idea.

"Shame we haven't got any more popcorn." She lamented looking at the bowls the children had eagerly eaten.

"Who says we haven't?" Severus said, and with a raise of his wand, the biggest of the bowls re-filled itself, to a cheer from Jenny.

"I love magic." She cheered picking up the bowl after placing the DVD in her DVD player, and taking her seat again on the sofa. Severus began to walk back towards the chair he and Ava had been curled up in, when Jenny asked,

"Where do you think you're going? Come sit with me, there's more than enough room, then I don't have to keep throwing popcorn at you." She patted the seat next to her, and looked at Severus's befuzzled expression.

"I promise I won't try anything!" She smiled at him. Severus chuckled, and decided to himself 'why not' and took the seat next to Jenny.

It took Severus only about a quarter of the film for him to realise why Jenny liked it so much. The leading character Anya, suffered from memory loss. He kept glancing at the woman sitting next to him throughout the film, he noticed her mouthing along to the songs and often quoting part of the speech to herself, and when the ending rolled in, he swore he saw tears in her eyes.

"You ok?" He asked as the credits rolled on screen.

"Yeah, I'm ok." She wiped away the tears. "It always gets to me, the ending I mean, her finding her grandmother."

"Why do you watch it then, if it upsets you?"
"It doesn't upset me, well not as much as it used to. In a way I guess it fills me with hope." Jenny lamented. Neither had noticed that throughout the film, the pair had gotten closer and closer until there were was barely any space between them. Jenny continued.

"Just after the Matthews found me, April, my sister and I, we were sitting in the living room and she suggested we watch a film. We picked 'Anastasia'. It wasn't until we got into the film, we realised what it actually was about, but we continued to watch it, and by the end I was sure one day I'd find my family. I know it seems silly, to think that just because a fictional film can get a happy ending, doesn't mean I will, but it gave me hope." Jenny smiled up at Severus. His eyes meeting hers, and she felt at once safe and happy, like she'd found someone who understood her.

"I get that." He said. "Have you ever come close to finding them?" He asked. Jenny nodded.

"Once. This older couple they thought I was their granddaughter. Their only son had a child with an old girlfriend, but they didn't find out about her until both the son and the girlfriend had died. So when they met me, they put dates together and realised that I could be their granddaughter, but a DNA test ruled it out."

Jenny had tears in her eyes again. Severus pulled her close and hugged her before he could realise what he was doing. Suddenly he felt like he had Rachel back in his arms, Jenny's body seemed to fit perfectly within his own, and her smell and feel in his arms, through him back to the night of the leavers ball, the last time he had seen Rachel. He felt her tears dropping onto his shirt, and her sniffling was muffled by his close hold of her.

"It's ok." He said trying to sooth her. Eventually his words and soft rubbing on her back had the desired effect, and her crying subsided.

"Sorry." She mumbled. Removing her head from Severus's chest. Her eyes were red, and her nose was running. Severus smiled gently and pulled out a handkerchief from his pocket and passed it to her. She smiled a grateful thank you, and blew her nose.

"Tell me about her." She asked a little while later. She was still being hugged in Severus's strong hold, neither willing to admit that it was making them feel better. He looked at her.

"Rachel." She clarified. "Tell me about her. I know how Lily and the others feel, but I want to know what she was to you. I know you loved her, and you still do, but I want an honest opinion of her, and feel like you're the best person to ask." Severus felt his memories come to the fore front of his mind, and wondered to himself what the best answer to give the young woman was. Finally he came to a conclusion.

"Rachel wanted nothing more than to help people. She was funny, smart, loving and caring, without being stuck up and mean at the same time. She was powerful, extremely powerful, in both her magic and who she was. She would always spend time with people who needed her help, even if they didn't realise it. I never thought she would feel for me the way I felt for her, but when she agreed to go out with me, it felt like all my birthdays and Christmases had come at once. " He spoke so passionately about the woman he loved, that Jenny could see the passion in his eyes.

"She sounds like a wonderful girl." She spoke. Severus smiled and chuckled.

"Yeah she was." Jenny noticed without realising it, Severus had said 'was' in his way of talking about Rachel. She decided not to correct him, for he was always the one insisting that Rachel was still alive.

A little while later Dobby appeared in Jenny's quarters to collect the bowls and to clean up the mess the children had left. The quarters were silent and empty. Once Dobby entered the living room however he spotted Jenny and Severus both curled up with each other on the sofa, fast asleep. The pair looked like a couple curled up together. Deciding to leave the cleaning to the next day, he disappeared from the room, leaving the two to their sleep.

Ok so a shorter chapter this time, I haven't been working on this story as much as I would like to be. Christmas in retail is the worst time to work in retail, as far as I am concerned. I don't think I have stopped lately. Hopefully things will begin to slow down as we get closer to the big day. (I hope *crosses fingers*)

As always please read and review, and I'll hopefully post again soon.

Beth xx