The lessons in love
Chapter 1 - Seducing Women.
She was 99.9% sure that the explosion that came from her cauldron wasn't supposed to happen. The room filled with black smoke and her classmates ran for the door, covering their faces with their hands. Hermione just stood there, shocked to her very core, until a voice spoke through the uproar.
"Detention Miss Granger," drawled the velvety voice of Professor Snape "Tomorrow evening, my office."
Turning to peer through the thick cloud of smoke, Hermione saw a glint in his black eyes that worried her about what would happen in their detention the next day.
"What happened 'Mione?" her two best friends exclaimed, worried as she rushed out of the potions classroom 5 minutes later in a daze.
"I…don't know," murmured Hermione, chewing her bottom lip, confused. Never once in her whole school career had she ever messed up a potion: that was Neville's job!
That night Hermione tossed and turned in her bed, the sheets tangling round her sweaty limbs whilst her mind was racing. She was running away from something she so badly wanted, but was still yet her biggest fear. Suddenly, someone was standing behind her in the darkness, caressing her shoulder and upper arm as he whispered sweet words into her ear. Hermione couldn't place the voice of her mysterious companion, yet he sounded familiar, as if she'd known him for a long time. The man's other hand roamed her waist, massaging the skin it came in contact with through her flimsy nightdress. Hermione felt at peace in his arms and it surprised her; she was never comfortable around people she didn't know, which was when she realised that it was a dream. The fact that this was a hallucination and not reality was that in this dream, she wore a skimpy, silk nightdress. Something that was definitely not Hermione's taste in nightwear, she'd be too uncomfortable wearing such a thing!
The following evening found Hermione running late for her detention with her professor, skidding to a halt outside the potions classroom only a minute and a half late for her detention. Panting and trying to reassemble herself she knocked on the door, the noise echoing off the dungeon walls. A terse voice replied, "Enter."
Pushing open the heavy oak door, Hermione glanced up at the teacher's desk, where Severus Snape was busy scrawling on a piece of parchment.
"You're late," he snapped, not bothering to look up at her.
"I'm sorry, sir," she stammered, blushing slightly. Minutes ticked by in silence, until finally, he looked up and studied her carefully.
"I trust you know why you are here, Miss Granger?" Glancing up from her shoes, which had captured her interest moments before, she looked up, confused.
"Yes sir. I ruined my potion, so you gave me a detention," Hermione muttered, chewing on her bottom lip.
Snape sneered cruelly, "Yes, you did. However; this is not why I made you to come here tonight."
Hermione looked at him, surprised. If not to punish her for her accident the previous day in Potions, then why was she being forced to spend the evening with him?
"Miss Granger, I would like your assistance with something," Severus spoke slowly, not retaining eye contact with his very perplexed student. A confused expression flittered across Hermione's face, and just as she was about to reply, but he cut her off by raising one long, pale finger into the air. His eyes were closed and he was frowning to himself as if there was a silent battle going on inside his head.
"I need you to," he paused for a second as if trying to think of a way to put it, and Hermione could have sworn she saw a faint blush creep up his cheeks, "to teach me how to seduce a woman."
A/N: Just a quicky! Chapter one, (this current one you've just read!) has finally been beta'd. Hope it's much better and many thanks to Chi Yagami who has kindly agreed to sort out this so called story of mine! (: