A/N: I don't own Harry Potter or any related characters. I also don't own Flash... which some of this is sort of based off of.

This is for the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

Sci fi September - An unintelligible message is sent out into the void because someone's pet cat walked across their keyboard. Message is interpreted as a marriage proposal.

Word count: 737

Severus shoved the creature away from the keyboard. He hated cats, hated how they shed over everything. He turned his attention to the screen. He'd been working on composing the perfect message to what he had coined Earth 2.

Much to his shock, the cat had not only managed to type something completely unintelligible, but managed to send it the message off as well. He sighed, hoping that who ever received it would just dismiss it as the garbage it was and then forget the whole thing.

It was two days later when the portal sprung to life. Severus nearly dropped his fork. He'd been trying to eat lunch. Trying because his cat, Minerva, was currently once again on his desk mooching for food. He'd pushed her off twice already.

The portal whirled loudly and the iris turned a watery shade of blue. The whole chamber filled with light. Severus flew to the control room and locked the doors to keep anything, or anyone, who came through from getting to the rest of the lab. He'd barely managed to get to the main door when a voice called,

"Um, hello? Is anyone here? I got your message?"

Severus felt the blood rush from his face. His message, or rather the gibberish Minerva had typed on his behalf had brought someone here.

He peered at the screen connected the to security feed for the portal room. Standing in the middle of the room was a young woman. Her brown hair was pulled back in a lose ponytail. She was wearing a pair of black pants, a white shirt, and a black jacket over that. In one hand was a large cat carrier. In the other was a suitcase.

She was peering around the room, looking quite puzzled. Severus sighed as he watched Minerva dart from his lap and towards the portal room. He rose, knowing he'd have to follow her to keep her out of trouble. Why the bloody hell he'd ever gotten a cat was honestly beyond him.

He reached the door and put his hand against the biometric feeder. The door slid open and he stepped into the room. The woman turned and smiled at him.

"Hello! I'm Hermione, I'm here about the proposal."

"Pardon?" Severus asked, wondering just how one could have interpreted his cat's nonsense as anything resembling words, much less any kind of proposal.

"The marriage proposal you sent to my world. We call it Prime, but I'm sure you use that term for your own world."

"Marriage proposal," Severus sputtered, looking at her. She wasn't bad looking. She seemed intelligent enough. He, however, had no interest in marriage. "I'm sorry, but I'm not interested. There's been a mistake," he started to say when Minerva darted into the room and started rubbing herself against the woman's ankles. She smiled and put the cat carrier on the floor, popping it open.

"Hello, you must be Minerva! Crooks here has been very much looking forward to meeting you," the woman said.

A long furred orange cat slunk out of the carrier. He was wearing a large red bow around his neck. "Yes, Crooks, there she is, your bride," the woman continued. Severus blinked, realizing that this woman wasn't here to marry him. Her cat was here to marry the insane fur ball that made his life impossible.

Minerva meowed loudly, rubbing against Crooks. She purred as she started cleaning his ears. Severus turned this attention back to the witch.

"I see we got off on the wrong foot, Miss?"

"Granger, Hermione Granger. I'm going to guess by your utter confusion that Minerva didn't have your permission to send that message?"

"She did not, however, you have brought, Crooks was it?"

"Yes, his full name is Crookshanks, but I call him Crooks. It fits him and his habit of stealing anything that isn't nailed down quite well."

"Minerva does have the same habit. Why don't we leave them to get to know one another as we do the same? I'm Severus Snape, by the way."

"That sounds wonderful, Severus. Does this earth have coffee? All of ours was wiped out in a blight."

"It most certainly does, this way Miss Granger," Severus stated, leading Hermione to the main part of the lab, secretly grateful that Minerva had a mind of her own and that the cat she was going to marry had such an attractive owner.