Author's Note: All Harry Potter characters belong to J. K. Rowling. But I own all original characters.

Chapter Ten

Smiles

Two years had passed, it was near the end of July and Emily was riding Celeste with full confidence and was having fun racing Severus and Emperor back to the stables. The laughter was clear and evident and full of true joy.

They reached the stables and were soon getting off the stopped horses. Emily led Celeste over to the water trough and the horse gratefully began to drink from the cool water.

Emily took off her helmet; her strawberry blonde hair glittered in the sun, it was wavy and it was in a half-in half-out. She just loved playing with it at night and wearing hairclips and so forth. She looked over at Severus, who caught up with her, Emperor was glad to get a good guzzle of water into his mouth.

"Best to go in for lunch, shall we?" he suggested.

"Don't the horses need to be put into the stall?" Emily asked.

"No, they can walk about in the smaller paddock," said Severus.

"Okay," said Emily.

So when the horses stopped drinking, they were put in two different fenced paddocks. Severus then let out his left hand, the yellow gold ring on his ring finger flashed a little bit in the light, as Emily took it. They walked to the farmhouse and inside, where Kathleen was.

Kathleen smiled when they entered and Severus pecked her on the cheek and gently placed his hand upon the small bump Kathleen had.

"Oh, Emily," said Kathleen, pulling open the top draw and pulling out an envelope, "this came for you."

Emily took it and opened it. She read it and her smile turned into a grin and her hazel eyes twinkled.

"I'm going to Hogwarts!" she cried, with excitement. "I'm going to Hogwarts."

The excitement was bounce up and down on the flats of her feet and the heels going up and down, touching the floor each time they went down.

Severus and Kathleen smiled and they soon were sitting down to lunch.

There was nothing in this world that could spoil this moment they were sharing together…

The End

Note: There is going to be no second story to this. It was a strong plan from the start that it was only to be a single story. I hope you have enjoyed what you have read and take care. Sign Calypphire.