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Sansa: glad you liked the library. Believe me, the images in my mind as I was writing it were even better.

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Assimilation

Chapter 16 Yucky things and a confession
Nina wasn�t too sure whether or not she wanted to hear what The Potions Master had to tell her. She knew it couldn�t be good whatever it was. Had she done or said something to someone? Had she hurt somebody? Was it something to do with the state Kali was in? The more she thought about it the more worried and nervous she became.

Severus was wondering what he should tell her. Everything? Only part of it? Anything? How would she react to whatever he revealed about yesterday? The more he thought about it the more worried he became.

Nina didn�t feel like eating. The food felt like it was getting stuck in her throat and her stomach was in knots.

Severus was not hungry any more. His appetite had gone.

They both sat and picked at their food until Severus noticed that Albus had finished eating and was looking at them both curiously.

Severus flicked his eyes to the staff entrance. Albus got the message and got up from his seat.

Severus rose to meet him. �Miss Manohel.�

She lifted her head to him.

�I shall meet you in my office in fifteen minutes.�

�Okay.�

Nina was the only person that he allowed to speak to him the way that she did though he did not have the slightest idea why. Well, maybe he did.

He exited through the staff door to meet with the Headmaster.

In Severus� office the Potions Master was once again pacing.

�Whatever is wrong Severus?�

�She wants to know what happened yesterday.�

�I see.�

�So what do I tell her?�

�What do you think you should tell her?�

�I don�t Know. That�s why I am asking you.�

�I take it that you are worried about how she will react?�

�Well of course I�m bloody worried. Your not? You will have to stay here Albus. I cannot do this on my own.�

�If you insist then of course I shall stay.�

�Yes I insist.� Severus hissed. �What if she cracks up like she did yesterday? What if she remembers that she hates me to the core? What is she�.�

There was a knock on the door.

�She�s here Albus. Don�t you dare leave me on my own with her.� He whispered.

�Perhaps if you were to let her in Severus.� The Headmaster smiled at him.

He scowled back and went to the door.

�Miss Manohel. Come in.�

�Thanks. Can you call me Nina now, please?�

�Nina. How nice to see you.� Came the voice from the armchair near the fire.

�Oh! Hello Headmaster. I�m sorry. I didn�t realise you were here.�

She turned to Severus. �Do you want me to go? I can come back when you�re not busy.�

�Please sit down Nina. I have asked the Headmaster to join us.�

�It�s that bad then?�

�Bad Nina?�

She looked up as Albus spoke.

�Whatever I did? It must be bad. I�.I can�t remember.�

She was just about to sit on the sofa when she noticed a shelf over to her left. She stared at it for a moment.

It was crowded with jars of �something�s�. Grotesque something�s.

�Urrgh! What are those? Are they dead?�

�I most certainly hope so.� Albus chuckled.

She looked at Severus.

�What have you got those for. There horrible. They don�t do anything do they?�

Nina had seen enough strange things in the castle lately to be unsure of anything. Pictures that moved and spoke, ghosts that float about the castle and through the walls.

�Yuck!� With her finger she poked a large jar that seemed to have a greenish blob inside of it and the green blob opened one large eye at her.

�Yeesh!� She jumped back, startled. �You said they were dead.�

�I said I hope so Nina.�

Albus laughed.

�It is dead.� Severus told her. �That is probably just an electrical impulse reaction. It cannot hurt you.�

�Why do you keep them? There gross.�

Severus was quite happy to put off the reason why Nina was really there so he went on to explain how he had acquired his specimens. Where they had come from. How some of them were left here by previous professors. Occasionally a colleague would send him something for analysis.

Albus let them spend a while discussing what Nina had now dubbed �The Yucky Things� before he interrupted.

Much to Severus� displeasure.

He desperately wanted to put this moment off.

�Nina. I understand that you have some worries about the previous day,�

�Nina�s face dropped at the Headmasters words and Severus looked uncomfortable.

�Yeah. But maybe I�m just being silly. I don�t know.�

�Then perhaps if you were both to sit we can discover that you are not, in fact, silly.�

Severus and Nina automatically seated themselves together on the sofa. It was an unconscious movement and neither of them thought anything of it.

�It was Kali. She was really hurt. She said that she had punished herself because of me. Why did she do that? And she said that she had left me and that I was crazy screaming. I don�t remember doing that and its like time�s missing somewhere. I told you I was crazy.�

She looked at the Headmaster but was leaning more against Severus. As if she found comfort by being in contact with him.

Severus looked down to her. �Once again Nina, you are perfectly sane. Elf�s are peculiar creatures. If they feel that they have done a disservice of some kind, even if they have brought tea instead of coffee, they will punish themselves unless ordered not to do so.�

�But that�s wrong. Doesn�t anyone tell them not to?�

Nina was incredulous.

�Hogwarts elf�s are all under direct orders not to self punish Nina.� Albus told her. �But Kali is no longer a Hogwarts elf.�

�Why not?�

�Because she has bound herself to you. For life. She informed us several days ago of what she had done.� Albus was smiling when he told her this.

�She�s what? What does that mean? I don�t know if I want her to be bound to me for life. She�s not an object. She�s a huma�. an elf.�

�Perhaps Miss Granger would be the best one with which to discuss that particular issue?�

She looked back to Severus again when he said this.

�Hermione. Right. Well what about me being crazy and screaming and not remembering? Should I ask Hermione about that too?�

Nina was getting a bit angry now though she wasn�t really sure why.

�Do not get upset Nina. Severus meant no disrespect. Tell us, what do you remember of yesterday?�

She calmed down and relaxed now as she thought back.

�Well, I remember getting up and having breakfast. Then everyone left to go to classes and I was left on my own. I daren�t go outside in case I got into bother so I sat down on the stairs.� She blushed. �I suppose I was feeling sorry for myself.

Anyway, Draco came. He said he had some free time and offered to show me round the castle. So I said yes. He was nice to me. We ran about and we laughed a lot. I like him. He didn�t ask me anything personal, just seemed to accept me, for me. Anyway, later he said that he had to go to class and�. well that�s it. I don�t know what happened after that. I woke up in my bed and Hermione was with me.�

She looked at Severus with a mischievous smile.

�You know the rest.�

It was Severus� turn to go pink. He frowned and got up to walk towards his desk. He did not want to think about this mornings mishap. It reminded him of what the eventual outcome had been.

Once he felt able to speak again he looked to her.

�Miss Manohel.�

She turned kneel on the sofa and was watching him over the back of it.

�It�s N.I.N.A, Neeennaaa.�

Severus raised an eyebrow. �Nina. Do you remember kissing Mister Malfoy?�

�What. No. Why would I kiss him? He�s nice but�.urgh!�

�Quite. When I came upon you both you appeared to be kissing him. I sent Mister Malfoy to his classes and then I chastised you for behaving in an unseemly manner in the corridor.�

�Ahem.� Albus coughed discretely at Severus.

�Yes Albus?�

Albus gave him a look as if to say, �chastised is not the word I would use�.

Nina glanced between the two men for a moment and then back to Severus.

�So you told me off. Then what?�

�Well I may have said some thing that upset you.�

�What sort of something? I don�t follow you?�

Severus rubbed a hand over his face. �Gods she is not going to make this easy for me. But why should she?�

�Nina I�.I said something to you that I should not have done. Something totally inappropriate.�

�You did? What was it?�

�I was angry you see. It was a shock when I saw you kiss Malfoy. After what you had said to me in the Forest, and I had said to you.

Nina was getting agitated. �So what did you say to me? It can�t have been that bad surely.�

�Albus I cannot do this.� Severus hung his head. He was too ashamed of what he had said to bring himself to repeat it.

�You can Severus. You must. It is too late to back down now.�

Nina was totally confused. She got up from her place and walked over to the Potions Master.

�Look, whatever it was, just say it and get it over with. This is driving me nuts. I�ve had enough scolding�s not to be too upset by another. Why was this one so bad?�

�Because I. Because I.�

Nina�s gaze was locked to his.

�Because I called you a slut. That�s why.�

Severus could not tear his eyes away from her. He watched as her face began to crumple , her eyes soon becoming wet with tears that she was trying not to shed. He could see her every emotion swimming in her beautiful, sad, ebony eyes. Eyes that were even darker than his.

He put his hand on top of her head. He needed to feel her emotion.

She flinched, but he did not remove it.

Things were coming back to her.

She could see him, Severus, walking away from her as she puzzled as to why he had called her that. She remembered as he came back. The fear she felt as she was suddenly Jane again. The man in front of her was no longer her vampire. He was Uncle Pete. But they were the same person. He, they was going to hurt her. Take her back to the farm and�. It was too much.

Severus wanted her to scream at him. Hit out and strike him. Call him every name under the sun. Hex and curse him. But not this. Not this.

She was standing in front of him still. Stunned. Hurt. In pain. Pain that he had caused.

Her legs were shaking and she didn�t think that she would be able to stay on her feet. She sank to the floor.

Severus followed her down, keeping his hand on her head so that he could see and hear what she saw and heard.

She remembered hiding, cowering in her room like a frightened animal. Too scared of someone finding her. �Him. Uncle Pete. Nina had gone. Jane was back. Hermione was there. Why was Hermione there? Then Uncle Pete had come and he had grabbed her and held her down and she couldn�t get away. And Hermione was making her drink something. Why was she doing that?�

She tilted her head up to Severus.

�He was here? You brought him here? Why?�

Nina could not believe that he had done that.

�No Nina. He was not here.�

�I saw him. He came for me. He found me, in my room. Jane�s rooms, or my rooms. I don�t know. I�m confused. Hermione. I thought she was my friend. But she helped him.�
Albus decided that it was time to intervene. He could see that his Potions master was now at a loss as to how to continue.

He went over to them and sat himself on the floor beside them, after transfiguring the rug they were on into a more comfortable and thicker one.

�Nina.�

She turned to the Headmaster with large sorrowful eyes.

�Nina, your uncle did not come here. He never shall. It would be impossible for him.�

�Then who? How?�

Nina, unfortunately, when Severus called you a�.slut, and believe me he truly regrets it. He regretted it from the moment the word left his mouth. When he spoke those words to you, it seemed to open a gateway in your mind. You became very confused and when Severus returned to apologise to you, in your head you had convinced yourself that he was your uncle.�

�But Hermione. She helped him. She made me take something. And today she�.�

Severus removed his hand from her head and took her hands in his.

�Nina, Hermione was trying to help you. She was worried about you. And even though she herself was frightened, she came to get me and bought me to you. She even made me stay outside of your rooms so that she could try and calm you. Make you feel safe before I entered. She did much, much more than any friend would do.�

Nina was still confused. She frowned at Severus.

�She made me drink something. She forced it down my throat while he was holding me down. I know she did.�

�I was the one holding you Nina. Me. The potion that Miss Granger gave you was a calming draught and believe me, she was nearly hysterical herself when she was administering it to you. She did not leave your side that night. Do you really believe that she could pretend to be your friend if she had meant you any harm.�

Nina couldn�t answer him. She was exhausted now as well as confused. She pulled her hands away from his and wrapped her arms around herself protectively. She stayed like that. Quiet and making little rocking motions as her eyes slowly began to close even as tears fell down her face and into her lap.

The two men silently watched as her rocking motions slowed to a stop and she started to topple.

Severus gently put his arms around her to prevent her from falling, lifted her and stood.

He had stiffened from sitting on the floor for so long, even with the thick rug that Albus had conjured, but he managed to get to his feet and lay her on the sofa. After removing her trainers he pulled the throw of the back of the sofa and lay it over her before sitting in the armchair opposite the Headmaster.

�I think that went rather well. Don�t you Severus?�

�I am glad that you think so.�

�I take it that you do not?�

�Truthfully Albus. I have no idea how it should have gone. It should never have happened in the first place.�

�But it did happen and now we must rectify our mistakes.�

�It was my mistake Albus. Mine alone. One of the two worst mistakes of my life.�

�You were but a young man when you joined Voldemort Severus. Angry at the world. It is time you forgave yourself. You have more then made up for your past mistake.�

�And now? I am no longer a young boy Albus. I am in love with a girl�.young woman twenty years my junior and I have let my heart rule my head, and with one cruel word I have destroyed her.�

�No Severus. Although it was unintentional, you have brought all of her horrors to the fore, and now she can begin to heal. I believe this is a good thing even though both of you may not realise it at the moment. I bid you goodnight.�

When Albus had gone, Severus stayed in his chair, watching her sleep. Her lashes were thick and black like his own. Her hair too was the same raven black. But where as his was fine, shiny and lank so that it always appeared to be greasy, even though it wasn�t, hers was thick and glossy. Severus liked to stroke it. It was like silk flowing through his fingers. He reached over and ran his fingers carefully through her locks.

�If only� he thought. �Would she ever be mine now?� He doubted it, but he was unwilling to let go yet.

He went into his bedroom and turned back the covers. He undressed and found himself a pair of black silk pyjama�s. Normally he would sleep naked, but as he was keeping Nina here tonight he decided that he should wear something.

Heading back into the study he stared once more at the wonderful, beautiful creature sleeping before him. Picking her up most carefully in his arms, he carried her to his bed and placed her gently in it, making sure that she was covered up. He lay on his side beside her for a while, thinking of how it would be if he could always lay with her. Have her in his bed, in his life, for good.

He got up from the bed and went back to the study and settled himself as comfortably as he could on the sofa, pulling the throw over him. He could smell her on it. He held it to his nose, breathing deeply as he fell asleep to the scent of his Nina.

TBC

Please review. Hope your all still enjoying this. I had the end chapter written for this a while ago. But it was a bit too happy ever after for my liking. Anyway, something really different has now entered my mean little brain and I�m changing it. :
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