ahhh!!!! I did it again. Sorry for the long post but, it does do some interesting character exploration. I never knew all that stuff was going on in her head

Kristi had fallen back asleep, her neck bent at an odd angle in the small wooden chair she had procured in order to wait for the Hospital WIng doors to open. She hadn't heard the soft rustling of Dumbledore's robes as he walked past her but, she did stir as he lifted the spell cast upon the door and opened it. Kristi stood and was about to follow the Headmaster inside when he shut the door, practically in her face.

She wanted to scream. Though she had grown up being hidden away and locked in her room, Kristi still found it difficult to stay away from her father when he was injured. And though they never had a loving father-daughter relationship and barely saw, let alone, spoke with one another she constantly feared for his life. Of course, she had never told anyone this, least of all Snape. What would he say if he knew how much he meant to her? He'd probably be shocked. After all, he never really wanted her in the first place and to think that she wanted him to be a real father to her...

Kristi shook her head. Whether they knew it or not, Marcella had changed everything. Kristi had only just realized this, herself. After a year of wondering why Snape's relationship with Marcella bothered her so much, she had finally found the answer. Kristi, despite convincing herself otherwise, wanted Snape to be her father, not only out of blood and duty, but out of want and love. She wanted to be able to think of him as Dad, not Snape. But, being with Marcella, a girl her own age, kept Snape that much farther away. How could someone who slept with a person her age ever be a Dad to her? Kristi's secret, supressed, hopes for having a relatively 'normal' father, were torn from her heart, ripped to shreds, and then burned, that day Nicholas Lestrange had told her about Marcella and Snape.

Shaking her head again, trying to rid herself of these self-indulgent, useless, unproductive, thoughts and feelings, Kristi tried to focus on the matter at hand. What had happened in the Hospital Wing the other day, what were they doing now, and would Snape and Marcella come out of it alive and relatively unhurt?