Irish Melody

\"Why don\'t you ever let me touch you down there?\" Severus was pushing past the books around them. As Isibeal with her face slightly crooked followed him closely, whispering in his ear.

\"Isibeal, keep it down.\"

\"I will not, every night you sneak into my room, sleep, then wake up at dawn and sneak right back out. Whenever i try to touch you, or kiss you, you pull away! What am i doing wrong?\" Isibeal pushed him lightly.

\"Isibeal, this is not appropriate for this- Hello Madame Encyclopedious.\"

\"Professor Snape, I believe Miss McOugh has work to finish.\" the stern white haired woman tapped her foot.

\"Sorry ma\'am.\" Isibeal turned and walked back towards her large stack of unsorted books.

\"Isibeal.\" She ignored him \"Isibeal! Do not act like a child!\"

\"Excuse me? Who is being childish?\" She turned.

\"I\'ll see you tonight..\"

\"If the door isn\'t locked.\" She turned and went back to work. Severus huffed and walked out of the library.

\"Goodnight Miss McOugh.\" The elder woman turned off her desk lamp.

\"Goodnight Madame Encyclopedious.\" Isibeal, sat down and began listing the books again. Then she rested her head against the books. She was almost at the edge of sleep, when she heard it. A howl unlike that she\'s heard before, she looked out the window, and she saw a large wolf-like beast running through the woods, it stopped at the edge of the lake, and then ran back into the woods. The creature interested her, she but the books down. Then grabbed her cloak and ran outside. She searched around the lake for what created that made the earie noise. She reached the edge of the woods, the full moon shone so bright that the woods almost had it\'s own lights on inside it. She thought to herself if she dared to find what made that noise. Yet as she turned her back to the woods to return to the castle, there the howl sounded again. This time she heard it so well, it rung throughout her body. She turned in to face the woods, she took her first step inside, then she heard a loud whimper. She followed the continueous cried of a hurt animal. As she came to the large shadowed body, it was huge almost 8 feet as it looked. The body of a wolf set apon two large hind legs, yet somehow so strangely human. It continued to whine, then she thought it could be hungry. She looked around herself. a bird was asleep perched on a branch. Swiftly Isibeal grasped it tight, and took a small rock to it\'s cranium. She knew it was an awful thing to do, but what if this rare animal needed it more. Maybe she was doing something very good. Then as she stepped closer a twig snapped under her foot, the creature looked at her. It\'s teeth gnarled, she still came closer, presenting the bird.

\"Hello, it\'s a birdy for you..\" She whispered her tone was soft and cooing. The creature took it from her hand, then cowered behind a tree still whimpering. Isibeal went towards it again. She saw the huge tree branch through its side, his blood scattered around himself. Isibeal placed her hand on the wood, and noticed it\'s size, she knew how to help him. As she pulled the wood out of the animal, she gave a regeneris chant, and slowly the wound healed, yet she knew that the animal would still be in terrible pain for a few days. She stroked it\'s soft fur on it\'s head, as he paid down and curled itselfs into a tight ball, to relax the pain. She crouched down next to it and continued petting the soft fur, until the beast was asleep. Isibeal knew that it would be unsafe for her to stay, yet she was glad that she could help this animal. She cooed into it\'s ear to help it sleep, then as she kissed it\'s forehead she sang her irish meoldy to him. Before she was sure he was asleep, then she walked back to the castle.

\"Shit!\" She said at the castle door. \"Severus!\" she ran through the hallways and then down and up flights of stairs, before reaching her room, the door already slightly askew, she swung it open. Severus was pacing around nervously. She walked in and smiled.

\"Severus, have you been waiting long?\" Trying to sound coy, a game she never played well.

\"where have you been? I was worried sick! What... why is there leaves in your hair?\" Severus picked the forestry out of your hair, as she smiled in search for words.

\"Well, why didn\'t you use the gift i gave you?\"

\"What gift.. the necklace? Oh..Merlin! Isibeal.. i can\'t wear some sort of trinket as that to a death eaters meeting. I\'ll be thrown out and killed for sure! Now where have you been?\"

\"I went outside for a walk...I needed to breath.\" She sat down infront of the fire that Severus had built in the large brick fireplace.

\"Not to burst your bubble Miss McOugh, but if you demand to know where i am at every second of the day, then i feel i have the same exact right to know the same!\"

\"I do not care where you go, or where you\'ve been. As long as at the end of the day you return to me...\" She crawled on the floor over to him, and then up on her knees she wrapped her hands in his, and pulled him down the floor.

\"What you do when not with me is your personal business, and as i\'ve said before i will never need to know somethings. all i need to know is that you\'ll come home to me. no matter what..\" She laid him down placing his head in her lap. She caressed his face, and neck. He rolled his head and kissed her thigh.

\"Alright. I hope it was a lovely walk.\"

\"It was thank you.\" Thanks to their new fight that evening, Isibeal forgot to bring up the topic she was so adement about in the library. Again the same ruitine that evening Severus slept, next to Isibeal, barely touching her at all. Then at day break he awoke and left her, then Isibeal followed her ruitine. Pretend to sleep when he awakes watch him leave the room, then roll over into his sleeping spot, which is still warm and smells of him. She lays her face into the pillow and breathes him thinking, this is alright if she were to die having him be the last thing in her senses.

Isibeal passed Remus on her way to the library, she smiled at him and he nodded his head, smiling widely.

\"Good morning Isibeal.\"

\"Good morning Remus. Hope you had a lovely evening.\"

\"Thank you, same to you dear.\" He smiled and held his side slightly as he turned around. To walk to his classroom, Isibeal smiled and tilted her head at him as he began to whistle Danny Boy.

\"No\" she thought \"It couldn\'t be.\"