A House Homecoming for All

\"And I would hold Time\'s wrangling face
So stalk and still to heaven\'s gaze.
Lost in all satiety
The deity afforded me. - August 9, 2003,\" was scribbled in Snape\'s unmistakable hand.

\"No one can capture time, Professor,\" Jessica murmured simultaneously to knocking, sending Snape\'s fragile sensibilities into rankling clusters of attrition. Snape desperately wanted to scream at the little bitch to get out but quickly remembered that he had given her a detention... in his private quarters; an unwise thing to do.

Jessica plonked down in the chair she\'d condendeerd her last visit and stared expectantly at the man blithering with rage before her; expecting him to transfigure himself into some menacing bat or likewise avoided creature, Jess jumped up, snatched her copy of C & P out of her enchanted satchel who growled in protest, and put it up protectively about her face. If Snape did have supernatural powers, he could\'ve sent that withering glare through the binding straight through to Jess\' brain releasing some GnRH and some estrogen and... well, she would\'ve soaked her knickers.

\"You will explain your aptitude at reading documents through doors, Miss Slytherin.\"
Thankfully, Snape wasn\'t a violent man per se - merely a vendictive, passive agressive, petty, scrupulous man who spent hours fussing and obsessing over many a potion in the pretense that was love. Jessica grinned up and over her clothed shield and gave a cheeky wink before sitting back down again and shuffling in her bag for a quill and some parchment.

\"Do not expose your fatuity in my private chambers, Miss Slytherin - you will tell me what has happened as of late, beneath the Gryffindor common room. It is that or-\"

\"So, Professor, do you write a lot of poetry because that was rather pretty?\" Jessica beamed and curled herself crosslegged, far more intimately into the chair with the prayers to fortify some sort of seat or curvature as itseemed to be the only chair in Hogwarts that hadn\'t been occupied for quite some time.

Snape blinked and gave a hasty sneer before sitting opposite his dominion of antithesis.
\"If I did I wouldn\'t be so premature to deliver any to you, Miss Slytherin,\" Snape stated slowly and assuredly, scathing Jessica\'s tattered fancy into frowning.

\"Oh, alright then...\" Jessica\'s face hid nothing and it was obvious Snape could see the damage he\'d wrought upon such an innocent and playful young woman - ha!

Jessica suddenly got up and stood directly in front of her professor, realising all too late that the entropy between their two bodies was intoxicating and slightly altered the intensity of her confrontation.
\"It is lamentable that you weren\'t there, Professor,\" she emphasized sardonically, raising an eyebrow from Snape and another thing if she\'d been in the mind to take notice.

\"Because of the situation your fellow professor was in, it seemed as though he needed a bit of help-\"

\"Quit these trite semantics and get to the point, child,\" Snape growled and this time he was the one to corner Jessica to the stone walls of his inpenetrable lair of salacious shadows.

\"It is not my place to divulge nor my choice at this point in time, Professor,\" Jessica drawled, effectively pushing Snape back whilst reaching up to press there. Snape smacked her hands away as if they were some sort of parasitic vice of his indecision and turned away to face the coffee table with a scowl.

\"Twenty points from Slytherin for withholding information by being an accesory to some diabolicle act, I presume,\" and with that, Snape swept off and back to his little kitchenette with a very flustered and all around insulted little Slytherin lying in wake.

\"But the schoolyear hasn\'t even begun, Professor!\"

\"Then you shall be the first to christen us the losing house yet again, Miss Slytherin!\"

The familiar clattering distracted her for a brief while and Jessica calmed herself down enough to portend how their litle bookclub would carry itself out. The best thing to do would be to initiate a common thread between them to build upon, and if he already drew and wrote, then those were two pinnacles worthy enough to branch off from.

Returning with a deeper scowl, Snape placed the tray none too gently upon his carefully crafted table and remained standing long enough to expel whatever imperious presence he felt he had to whilst Jessica inwardly sighed; if there were so many defensive mechanisms available for inspection on the exterior of the frowsty black equinox personified, what on earth would she be privy to once she delved a bit deeper - which of course, she inevitably would.

\"I don\'t know why I avvered to this effrontery, Miss Slytherin, to be quite honest; you probably have no idea what you\'re reading-\"

\"Oi! Talk about pigeonholing someone before you get to know them! For your information, I could tell you a veritable cornucopia of profound themes in this book you haven\'t even considered-\"

\"How dare you imply-\"

\"How dare I stand up to you? I\'m good at doing that, Professor; I get more accomplished when the other party actually respects me as an individual!\" Jessica hissed and glared, demuring any belitting comment Snape could fling at her. Snape glowered back with copious intensity until he reached for his tea, stealthily attempting to disguise the evident erection through his robes.

Jessica gloated inwardly, opened her little cloth cover and found her place whilst Snape surrepticiously leered appreciatively at both the girl and the book. Jessica giggled when she caught him looking and assumed it was only out of admiration for her edition.

\"You can borrow it if you like; I was just finding the place in Part I where Rodya witnesses the public blugeoning of that poor horse in the streets...\" Jessica\'s eyes flickered back and forth nervously as their fingers brushed again, \"do you think it contributed to the loss of his humility?\"

Snape read the passage stoically and ga nea nearly imperciptible nod before closing it sudddenly, carefully unfolding the perfectly symmetrical dogear that was there a moment before. Jessica sniggered again and gave a shrug accompanied by a playful sigh before Snape nearly had an annuerism from all of this intelligent conversation.

\"Sorry about that; I do have a tendency to dogear my pages mercilessly - well, it\'s a library book actually... you must promise me you won\'t smooth every one out...\" Jessica petered off as she observed her professor\'s chest begin to heave unsteadily.

\"I don\'t usually abide such carelessness, not to mention disregard for school property, Miss Slytherin-\"

\"Oh, it\'s not Hogwarts\' but from my muggle school, Professor...\" gesturing haughtily after her question was ignored, Jessica asked again, \"so, what do you think?\"

\"I do agree that the insensitivity of his surroundings may have commenced some inner turmoil for the boy, yes-\"

\"And then as the man develops, he tries to ignore such hideous displays of his young life, but only succeeds in repressing them so that they eventually explode into delusions of grandeur with the untenable prophesy to kill.\"

\"Quite.\"

\"When I read this part for the first time, I wept.\"

\"Hmmm....\"

\"Did you cry?\"

\"Heavens, no.\"

\"You must think me silly then.\"

\"Not necessarily, Miss Slytherin; don\'t assume you can dash into my mind and sift through all the aperception that goes on in there.\"

\"I like you-\" Jessica cut herself off similarly to when Snape revealed the truth about his empathy to Lockhart and clasped her hand up to her mouth.

\"Did you put veritiserum in my water?!\" she shouted incredulously; Snape smirked wryly as if some great ploy had just been fructified.

\"Perhaps I merely wanted to eviscerate whether or not you had a truly cognitive grasp of Crime and Punishment, although I was hoping it would\'ve kicked in when I\'d asked you about the hidden cabal earlier today.\"

Jessica glared lovingly at Snape for a few seconds before realising what he\'d just said.

\"Well I\'m certainly not going to tell you anything now! I don\'t care if it\'s a little bit uncomfortable; unless you want to reduce me to tears in this untainted, stiff as a board, god forsaken chair, then you\'ll back off!\" Snape burst forth something reminiscent of a bark and leant back in his nice plush reclinder, basking in his newfound power over someone he so much would never relish subjugating in a far more dangerous play of espianage soon to come... unbeknownst to all of them.

\"Are you laughing at me?\" Jessica asked plottingy, \"Because if you are, I know something that will wipe the grin off of your face-\"
And with that, Jessica stood up more gracefully than usand and made her way over to a very uneasy Snape, sat down in his lap and placed a peck right upon his delitable facial protrusion.

\"Wouldn\'t want to be caught fraternizing with a student, would we?\" Jessica whispered, tickling the tiny, cilia like hairs collected on the outer shell of Snape\'s ear. He gasped as soon as she found the very prominent bulge in the front of his trousers and sat down there, slowly pressing a good deal of her weight against the sensitive flesh through fabric.

With a growl, Snape placed his hands unexpectedly on either side of Jess\' hips and squeezed alternately, recieving a very alluring moan from the hopped up little vizen astride him.
\"How do you know I wouldn\'t enjoy watching their shocked, twitching face just before I obliviate them?\"

Jessica\'s senses were on fire and longed to rip all those annoyingly tiny, too close together buttons asunder, going down his shirt but tapered her affections as she heard someone\'s footsteps down the hall. Lifting her head from beneath Snape\'s lovely clavicle with identifiable reticence smeared across her face, Jess trundled to the door just before the vibrations of a deafening kock rattled through her brain.

\"It\'s Draco-\"

\"What, why?\"

\"He\'s come to fetch me; I\'m due at Lucius\'.\"

*Grumble grumble*

\"What\'s that?\"

\"Absolutely nothing you\'d be interested in as is perfectly evident now, Miss Slytherin-\"

\"Oh, don\'t be like that - I really liked your poem.\"

\"Did you now?\"

\"Yes, I\'d be very interested in hearing some of your other works as well... if you\'d be so kind as to DELIVER them to me,\" Jessica expeled gripingly at the slightly deshevelled sexpot in front of her.

\"Why should I? You\'re bound to fall prey to Lucius\' affectations soon enough, Miss Slytherin,\" Snape sneered, pressing her aginst the doorframe so as she could feel the more urgent rap just between her shoulder blades, \"unless you prefer a much less... statuesque example of masculinity.\"

\"Eh?\" Jessica could ken the meaning, but couldn\'t believe that an aristocratic nancy could appeal more to her than this hunk of emotionally polluted love - a real project!

\"Come on!\" Draco beld, hd, his irascible nature tripping through the valiance of platitude presented to Snape in class.

\"Go on to your new keeper, Miss Slytherin,\" Snape hissed against her mouth, Jessica urging herself to press upward just a bit before the opportunity fled which it did, in a matter of billowing black robes.

\"I\'ll be right there, Draco!\" Jessica threw her voice to make it sound as though she were in the lab with Snape, \"We\'re just cleaning up!\"

\"An accomplished liar, I see - tell me, what else can you press yourself to do out of false affection -\"

\"Just shut it!\" Jessica whispered with all the fury a whisper can withstand and wrapped her arms around Snape in a chaste parody of childish affection.

\"Ryie Hrme Frmmm Uoru Hfour bsfi da kaie sfhifh ahfkf,\" Snape cocked his head like a doggie which would\'ve been hilarious had Jessica\'s head been free of lucious Snape-cloth.

\"What?\"

Jessica looked up with fearful flecks of moisture around her hazel eyes, translucent in the dim prenumbras the torches provided.
\"Lucius told me to ask you for your remaining dark texts to borrow.\"

Snape stood aghast for a moment before it hit him that he really didn\'t have very much to try and conceal after this girl had obviously read a very concise and dignified dissertation of his life in the Rowling books.
\"Alright,\" Snape whispered wearily and if Jessica wasn\'t such a keen observer as she was, she would have
missed the faint glistering of rejection clouding over those onyx depths before two tombs were dropped disparagingly into her spewing bookbag.

\"At least he\'ll have some token of my passing,\" Jessica mused forlornly, \"the aroma in here\'s quite strong.\"
Smiling shyly, Jessica made her way out of Snape\'s chambers to a very peeved blonde pretty boy, looking back only once to some shade of black lingering through the peephole.

\"Father doesn\'t like to be kept waiting, you know,\" Draco griped, a flounce to his step which was an obvious betrayal to his sexual orientation.
Jessica\'s usual salacious smirk grew into something more menacing as she regarded Draco for the fifth time in this manner.

\"Draco, have you met Andrew?\"

\"No, nor do I want to come across anything less than the progeny of our house, thank you,\" Draco drawled airily, reajusting Jessica\'s plans of matchmaking as she\'d done Snape\'s robes for the moment.

As they arrived at the gates of Hogwarts, Draco took Jessica\'s hand and apparated them both to the manor and within seconds, they were both faced with the incubus regarding them from a Frued lounger in the parlour.



A/N: Right then - please review - Dobby\'s parturient escapades are approaching!