A little birthday fic...

[snapealina]

It's my good friend valkyriekat's birthday today, and I couldn't let this pass without celebrating :)

You didn't think I would let this day pass without doing anything, did you?
This one's for you birthday girl :D

Written for valkyriekat for her birthday

It was almost five in the morning and Kat had almost fallen asleep. It was the night before her birthday and some crazy girl from Norway had kept her up real late. When Kat had finally managed to go to bed, her cats thought it would be funny to have a party on top of her covers. She chased them off her bed twenty-seven times before they seemed to have got the message.

She had almost fallen asleep when she felt something on the side of her bed again. “Those damned cats” Kat thought. She loved her cats, but this was starting to get really annoying. Half-asleep, half-conscious she launched out to get the cat off her bed, but her arm hit something that was much larger than a cat. And the sound that came from it sounded nothing like a meow.

“Ouch, what was the point in that?” she heard a man’s voice yell.

Kat went from a half-conscious state to completely awake. She sat up in her bed and saw a dark figure sitting by her side. Kat was getting a bit scared. How did this man get into her apartment and why was he sitting on her bed?

It was still dark so Kat couldn’t see the person properly.

“Who are you? How did you get in here? Why are you here? What do you want? Don’t hurt me!” Kat was panicking.

The man didn’t move, and answered in a calm, silky voice. “I Apparated of course. You’re not exactly connected to the Floo network… You ask me who I am? That surprises me. I would have thought that you of all people were clever enough to have worked this out by now.”

There was something about that voice that made Kat relax a bit. She hadn’t heard it before, but still she felt like she knew it. And Apparated? What?

Kat managed to get her act together and turn on the light, she turned around to face the person and found herself staring into a pair of black eyes.

“Severus?” she asked, and was now extremely happy that her Hufflemum used earplugs at night.

“Indeed,” Severus answered. “It took you long enough.”

“Well, I’m not exactly used to having Potions Masters Apparating onto my bed…” Kat rolled her eyes.

“Hey, that’s my job!” Severus stared at her.

“Well, sorry…” Kat said sarcastically and rolled her eyes again.

“And I prefer the Half-Blood Prince.” Severus said dryly.

“Oh you do, do you?” Kat sniggered. “Well, Mr. Half-Blood Prince. What are you doing here?”

“Do you really need to ask?” Severus looked at her bewildered.

“Er… yes…” Kat answered.

“I came to wish you a happy birthday and to say thank you.” Severus said.

“Thank you for what?” Kat was extremely confused by all this.

“For writing all those stories about me and not turning me into a gay, cross-dressing, pregnant, fluffy, babbling parody of a man.” Severus explained.

“No problem.” she answered without thinking.

“And I wanted to ask you how you knew about Prince.” Severus looked at her as if he was trying to use Legilimency.

“Prince?” Kat avoided his glance for a minute when she realized what he was trying to do.

“Yes, Prince. My cat!” Severus answered.

“You had a cat named Prince?” Kat couldn’t believe this.

“Indeed I did.” Severus stated.

“Well… I …. “ Kat didn’t know what to say. She was caught totally by surprise.

“Well, I just thought I’d let you know that you’ll be getting one too.” Severus continued.

“Getting what?” This was just getting weirder with every second, Kat thought.

“A Prince of your own.” Severus told her.

“A Half-Blood Prince?” Kat couldn’t help herself.

“I haven’t checked.” Severus answered.

“Checked what?” Kat didn’t understand a thing of this conversation.

“If he’s a Half-Blood,” he continued.

“I have no idea what you’re talking about, Severus.” Kat finally admitted.

“You’re not meant to,” Severus smiled and stood up.

“Happy birthday. Go back to sleep.” he said softly and kissed her lightly.

Kat couldn’t help but obey and lay back down in her bed, closed her eyes and fell asleep immediately. Hopefully this would make more sense when she woke up.