Yes I know I don't own Harry Potter! And I also know Snape belongs with Lilly Evens, if he belongs with anyone. However, this idea came to my mind before I read book five; so give me a break about this pairing. This is a Hermione Granger/Severus Snape story you have been warned!

Nisha A. Halim

Just Ten Minutes

By

Nisha A. Halim

Hermione sighed in frustration as she stirred a fuming potion in Moaning Myrtle bathroom.

"What's the matter with it now?" Ron complained.

"I need one more thing however it's so rare Professor Snape's stores might not even have it."

"So what you're saying is, this is something that we might not even be able to get a hold of, then?" Harry sounded disappointed.

"What I'm saying is, I can't finish this potion unless we try and see if Snape has any of it. We don't need much to do the job."

"Great, let's steal from the most feared Professor at Hogwarts; that sounds like fun" Ron chipped in, in a very false cheery voice.

"Let me distract him then" Harry said volunteering.

"No Harry, let me distract him. I have some questions about our last potions class."

"It is a good idea Hermione; I only hope you can keep him busy for at least ten minutes."

"Alright, let's go then."

Soon the three of them were outside his class room.

"Remember now, you've got to give us at least ten minutes" Ron reminded her needlessly yet again.

There was no way Snape would guess she was only distracting him would he? The mere thought that he would shot a tingle of fear through her. Swallowing it, she opened the class room door.

"Professor Snape" her voice sounded so small.

"Miss Granger" he glanced up at her then back down at the papers he was working on.

Taking her courage in hand she walked towards his desk, "I had a few questions about last Fridays class, sir" at last reaching his desk, she chanced a look at her watch She had about nine minutes left of the ten.

"I believe Miss Granger that, "He looked up from his papers, "You'll find all the answers you need in your study book". He looked back down, his body langue clearly stating that this meeting of theirs was over.

She stole another glance at her watch; not nearly enough time had passed.

"Why are you still here?" his words snapped her out of her growing panic.

"I was wondering if you'd helped me learn a new potion."

"I highly doubt it. What sort of potion is it, Miss Granger?"

"A love potion, sir"

The look on Snape's face matched how she was feeling, where had that come from?

"And who are you planning on using this potion on?"

The very answer to that question was the one she had started frantically trying to rack from her confused mind; drawing a blank, she yet again blurted out the first thing that came to her befuddled mind.

"On you, sir."

To say the potions teacher looked surprised would have been the understatement of the century. It took a bit of time for him to regain control over his face.

"If you had really wanted to make a love potion to use on me, I highly doubt that a smart young lady like your self would have told me. There is no way that it will work now that I know about it anyway."

Hermione pulled herself up onto his desk taking a peek at her watch while she did so; she had to give them at least seven more minutes.

"I wonder," she mused aloud, "If this would work then?" she scooted closer to him, then without waiting for a response from him she leaned in even closer and took his head between her hands, she softly set her lips on his in a hesitant kiss. For a moment he was as stiff as a fire poker before he melted into it and began to kiss her back and goodness he knew how to kiss!

He pulled her closer to him drawing her into his lap. Hermione felt her stomach twisting into knots as he deepened the kiss to the next level. It was as if time had either stopped or had perhaps even disappeared altogether.

Reality seemed to dawn on Snape and he quickly pulled back and picked his wand off the desk.

A sharp bolt of fear shot down her spine, what on earth did she think she was doing?

He slowly brought his wand to point at her. "Miss Granger what do you really want? No lies" he added bringing his wand closer to her face.

'To buy my friends time' she thought to herself, "I wish I really knew, sir" she let her head drop in a pretence of shame to check her watch. She had to hold in a gasp of surprise; the length of that kiss had been around six minutes! She had never shared a kiss that long with anyone.

"You wish you really knew? So it wasn't about a few questions concerning class or about making a love potion to us, on me?"

"I think sir, my subconscious is trying to get your attention to the fact that I have a crush on you" where in Merlin's name had that come from?

"Is that so?" This was a flat question almost as if he didn't care about such things however, so saying, he lowered his wand back to the desk. "Well your subconscious has my attention as do your lips, Miss Hermione Granger."

He then gently took her head in his hands and brought it near his face again.

This had to be the most erroneous thing she had ever done in her life! Yet here she was admitting that she had a crush on the potions teacher professor Severus Snape. Snape the Slytherin Head of House, a man that was twenty years her senior, she who had muggles for parents.

"I represent all your deepest of dark desires don't I?"

Hermione felt her head give a quick nod. As if it was consent of some kind, he tilted her head up towards his and kissed her again, this time it was filled with a new kind of energy.

Then the dinner bell rang and she heard a sigh of frustration escape his lips as he brought his head back up so that he could face her.

"I'll give you a five minutes head start Hermione" he offered as he scooted his chair away from his desk and helping her to her feet before he released her from his arms however, he planted on her lips one beautifully firm kiss.

As Hermione walked off she found her heart beating strangely fast. What on earth had happened

back there? She had only been distracting him right? However if that was really the case, why was it feeling like so much more?

"Where have you been?" Ron hissed at her after she took her seat in the great hall.

"Professor Snape didn't give you detention did he?" was Harry worried question.

"Honestly Harry, why would professor Snape give me detention; I was just asking him a few questions?"

Suddenly it felt as though a charge of electricity had hit the air. Hermione looked around for the cause of it and saw Professor Severus Snape taking his seat at the staff table.

Seeing her eyes on him, he gave her a wink. It was then she knew her life would never be the same.

Thank you for reading I hope you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed writing it, please feel free to leave a review.

Thanks a lot,

Nisha A. Halim