Disclaimer: I do not own any of the people or places that belong to the wonderful world of Harry Potter, as they belong to J.K. Rowling. The OC (Katherine) is entirely my own.
As the following Monday rolled around, Katherine found herself slowly getting back into the thick of things. Severus had escorted her to the Potions classroom early that morning before leaving for his own.
At first, everything seemed to be in order, that is, until she reached the student and private storerooms.
"Bloody Hell!" Everything was out of order. Total chaos. Katherine's eyes widened at the sight before her. The students' cabinet was completely disorganized. Powdered Bicorn horn vials mixed in with Boomslang skin; Lacewinged flies vials were scattered between ashwinder eggs and bat spleens.
In the back of her mind, Katherine knew it would take most of the day to resort the students' storage, but it had to be done in order to prevent something disastrous.
'If this is what the students' cupboard looks like, what does the private one look like?' Katherine thought to herself as she turned to face the wooden door that lead to the private storeroom. Slowly limping to the small hidden room, Katherine to a deep breath to steady herself for what she may find beyond the door.
Carefully, Katherine opened the door and immediately felt her blood pressure hit the roof. Every vial. Every jar. Every fucking ingredient was out of place. Her and Severus' system completely destroyed. It had taken the two of them three days to do inventory and organize that room at the beginning of the first term, and now it was ruined.
Katherine gingerly made her way into the small room. She could feel her right eye twitching and a massive headache coming on. Then, she saw it. A vial was sitting on the small table in the middle of the room. Gently, she picked it up in her hand and turned it, so the label faced her.
Her eye began to twitch more as she read the tiny label. She gritted her teeth, and her eyes narrowed on the constricted handwriting on the vial.
Venomous Tentacula Leaves
Count - 100
And it was empty.
'SEVERUS!'
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'SEVERUS!' Severus started, nearly spilling the bottle of black ink that was sitting in front of him on the desk. He looked up towards the office door, excepting to see Katherine standing there, but she wasn't. Her voice had sounded as though she had been standing within ten feet of his desk. It was then he realized that she had called, rather yelled, out to him from their connection.
'Maybe she fell? Maybe her knee failed her?' He thought frantically as he rose from his chair and stalked towards the door. Without even answering her, he quickly made his way to the dungeons in order to find out the problem.
Upon entering the potions classroom, Severus noticed that Katherine wasn't in sight.
"Katherine?" he said, looking around curiously.
"I'm in the private storeroom," Katherine's voice snarled from inside the small room on the right. "If you're coming in here, you've better brace yourself."
"What in Merlin's name are you..." Severus stopped in mid-sentence upon entering the room. His eyes widened at the scene in front of him. "SHIT."
His eyes wandered over every mistreated vial and jar, before coming to a rest on Katherine. She stood rigid in the center of the room; her knuckles, on her right hand, were turning white as she gripped her cane. Then Severus noticed a small vial in her left hand.
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The Potion Mistress & the Half-Blood Prince
General FictionSeverus finally gets the position he has always wanted, but it means dealing with a new Potions professor and a woman from his past. Takes place during the HBP, DH and beyond. AU. Rated M for later chapters.
