Absolution

Later on that night Vixen was in her rooms lying on her sofa, dozing off when she heard a bang on the door, at first she contemplated leaving who ever it was standing there, they'd get bored and go away eventually but they persisted in knocking so she sluggishly removed herself from the couch and went to answer the door, she stood there staring at Severus, of all the people she thought might have been there she wasn't expecting him.

"Stop gaping woman, it really is me, amazing isn't it? I do actually venture past the dungeons"

"Right, nice of you to prove that to me, cya later" Vixen said sarcastically and went to shut the door in his face but he blocked it by putting his foot in the way, she scowled at him.

"Don't be so-"

"So what? All I've had off you is grief" Vixen snapped

"Indeed, well I'm here to stick my substantial nose into your life and see if you would like my company"

"Don't stick it where it will get trapped Snape" Vixen spoke with plenty venom in her tone, Severus glared at her and withdrew his wand, Vixen retreated before whipping out her own wand "Trust me you wouldn't want to be doing that" Severus kept his wand out and pointed it in her direction, Vixen shook her head and muttered something about Severus regretting this and that she knew stuff about him he would wish she never. Before Severus could respond to her comment she had cast a quick spell and his trousers were around his ankles.

"My my Severus, I would have thought you'd have learnt to keep your trousers since you left school - guess not, now get away from my rooms or your boxers will be joining your trousers" She barked at him, Severus quickly pulled up his trousers and stormed off, Viwalkwalked back into her room and burst out into fits of laughter, eventually she did start to get a pang of guilt but got over that quickly, she soon forgot about the incident

Vixen may have forgotten quickly but Severus hadn't, he had stormed off back down to his Dungeons and had sought comfort in his friend, fire whiskey, he was going to make her pay for her little trick, the more he thought about her the more he drank, the more he drank the more convinced he was that he should get revenge upon her.

When his bottle of Whiskey had been finished he stood up and stumbled into his bathroom, he took one long lingering look in the mirror and sighed, he's spent ages learning not to react to peoples insults and jibes, now he was reacting to a woman who related to Sirius, she was practically repeating his performances whilst back at school. Eventually after he had sobered up he decided on going for a late night walk to clear his head. Once he was outside he saw a lonely figure standing by the lake, he soon realised it was Vixen and thought about going back inside.

Vixen heard something or someone behind her, as the object grew closer she spun round to see Severus staring at her.

“Ah if it isn’t my favourite Potions Master” Vixen said dryly

"Miss Grandeur, how remarkable it is that a Defence Professor should be caught off her guard, wouldn't you agree?" Hissed Severus with a dangerous tone

"Only remarkable thing I see is that you have your pants on, that’s a point actually Snape" Severus raised his eyebrow and stared at her like she was stark raving mad or something "When I charmed the pants off you I was wondering did someone use that shrinking charm 'Reducio' on you in the downstairs department?" Vixen mused, Severus however was unimpressed and reached for his wand, Vixen being on the same wavelength also had her wand out, both Professors were glaring at each other.

Both Vixen and Severus were so fired up they started hexing each other, soon enough many a hex and curses could be seen bombarding each other, they'd been at his hard for the best part of an hour and most likely would have continued if they hadn't have had an interruption. As a result of the Sonorus charm placed on Vixen, her voice magnified and Albus had overheard a few hexes being shouted out. Albus made his way to where the loud voice was coming from. He hadn't anticipated seeing two of his professors in battle

"Silence! The Pair of You!" Albus spoke with a major hint of anger in his voice, Severus and Vixen both lowered their wands and turned round to see a fuming Albus at their side "When you have cleaned up the mess, I want you BOTH in my office!" and with that Albus swept away. Vixen turned to Severus who was cleaning up the floor. Without thinking she walked over to him and he stood up to look at her, Vixen put her fingers under Severus' chin lifting his face up. Severus had a deep gash across his right cheek so Vixen used her wand to heal it; neither of them had spoken since Albus had intruded on their hostilities. In the end it was Vixen who broke the silence.

"Umm..Professor, I'm sorry for everything, I've been a real bitch and I had no right to be, so umm yeah sorry" Towards the end of her apology she started to get quieter and then turned around to walk away.

"You're not entirely to blame" Severus muttered, Vixen turned around and smiled at him.

"Maybe so but I'm still sorry" Severus nodded.

"Just as well you're sorry, I don’t fancy having my trousers round my ankles again" When he said this Vixen snorted. After the remaining mess was cleaned up they both made their way to Albus's office.