Authors Note: Sorry you guys the wait has been so long! Tons of School.

Hermione awoke the next day with a million thoughts flying through her mind.

"Was Ginny back from last night?" "What happed between them?" Hermione stumbled out of bed and ran to the other room to see Ginny fast asleep.

"Ginny, Psssshhh wake up!" Hermione whispered, giving Ginny a slight nudge.

"Whhhaaaat!" Ginny said frustrated grabbing her pillow and pulling it over her head.

"What happened last night?" Hermione whispered.

There was silence for a bit. Hermione thought Ginny fell back asleep. Just before she went to grab the pillow off her best friends head Ginny mumbled something.

"What?" Hermione asked not understanding a word that came out of Ginny's mouth.

She groaned out loud and then sat straight up to look at Hermione.

"He backed out of it."

"What…Why?" Hermione was shocked but she was quietly thinking to herself "Good now I can have the man to myself knowing my best friend didn't shag him first."

"He said something about it being wrong, he didn't feel right doing it to a student, especially to a student he would never have feelings for." She said.

"Ginny, I am sorry, really I am."

"You know Hermione, I really don't care; I just wanted a good shagging." She admitted to her friend. "By the way, why did you leave?"

"Even though last night was very interesting, it's just not for me." Hermione stated honestly.

"Hermione, you still want him don't you?" Ginny said with a smile.

"Ginny, I don't want to just throw away my virginity like that, I want it to be special you know, I really want it to be with him to, but I highly doubt that he would want to." Hermione said sadly.

"How do you know that?" Ginny asked questionably. "You'll never know unless you try. I could tell Snape thought you were beautiful last night, I should have been the one to leave."

"NO, NO its fine, I wanted you to have your fun, but your right. I should give it a try?"

"Yes you should!" Ginny practically yelled. "I have a brilliant idea-"But Hermione cut her off before she could finish.

"Gin, why don't you leave the ideas to me?"

"If you say so! You know where I am if you need any help!" Ginny replied proudly.

Hermione just rolled her eyes and set off to get ready for the day. It was Sunday and they had the rest of the week off as well, just for a break.

Hermione already planned out the day, she would grab a good book and go find a nice tree to sit under.

Once she was all cleaned up and after 30 minutes trying to calm her hair, she grabbed her jacket and book and headed off to her favorite reading spot.

Snape was walking around outside when he spotted Hermione sitting against the tree. He looked around to see if there were any people outside and there wasn't everybody was at Hogsmade. He decided to walk over and talk to her.

"Studying like usual I can see." Snape said calmly.

Hermione jumped. She hadn't expected anybody to come talk to her because they were all at Hogsmade. She was especially not expecting Snape to stroll right up and start a conversation.

"Oh my Professor you startled me." She said trying to find her spot she lossed.

"My apologies Herm…Miss Granger."

"Umm…" Hermione looked around racking her brain, trying to think of something to say to the man. "Would you care to join me Sir?" She asked quit unsure of what he would say.

She was quit surprised when he sat down next to her and grabbed the book from her hand.

"Shakespeare?" He asked

Hermione laughed. "Oh come on professor it's not that shocking." She said laughing.

For some reason he felt comfortable around the girl. He didn't want to be his cruel self and scare her away, he wanted to try and maybe keep this one around for a change. He wanted to show her that he could be human and that he did have a softer side to him. Why he was doing this, not even he could answer that question.

He gave her a small smile. "I guess your right."

'Professor…about last night…" Hermione looked away from him trying to hide the blush.

"No need to explain Ms. Granger it's…"

"Let me explain…" Hermione said looking at him. " I don't want you to think that I am normally like that, Ginny had this crazy idea in mind to try and seduce you, I am not blaming it all on her, I agreed to it and agreed to take some chances, but you need to know I am not one who sleeps around, I am still a virgin…"

Once Snape heard the word "Virgin" his mind went into utterly shock. Last night he stopped things with Ginny because he first of all he wasn't even attracted to the girl, Hermione was more his type, secondly it was kind of spur of the moment things were happening to fast for him to really stop to control himself, third Hermione had left, fourth the girl he really wanted in his bed with him was Hermione and so on and so forth. Everything was Hermione, Hermione, and HERMIONE!"

"…and I just am really sorry for everything and I understand if…" She kept going on…

"Ms. Granger…" Snape tried to get her attention.

"Honestly professor I promise it will never happen again…"

Snape rolled his eyes and leaned forward quite quickly and pressed his lips against Hermione's. She was in complete shock but melted into the kiss. He pulled away and she looked up at him. Shock still covering her face.

"You're babbling." He whispered

"Oh." She said embarrassedly.

Kids started heading back to the castle.

He had to get going and she knew he had to.

"20 Points from Gryffindor. 10 for being and insufferable know-it-all, and another 10 for wasting my time." He gave her a wink and strode off to the castle.

"Wow girl, your falling in love with the greasy old' git." She smiled widely.

She got up from her spot at the tree and walked the long way back up to the castle. She had a little pep to her step. She knew she made a fool out of herself in front of the man, but it didn't bother her. He actually came and sat with her, and well, kissed her. Severus Snape was human after all.

After Dinner she made her way back up to her room. She was extremely tired but once she started thinking about her professor, she was filled back up with tons of energy.

She walked over to her bed and fell backwards with a big FLOP!

Something was tapping against her window and she saw a beautiful black owl.

Hermione walked over to the window and let the bird fly in. He landed on her bed and looked at her wanting a treat. She had some treats by her bed just incase her parents or Krum decided to owl her out of the blue.

"Here you go little fella." She said smiling why he took the treats from her hand. Once he finished he held out his leg. There was a white piece of parchment with a shinny green ribbon tied to his leg.

Once she removed hit he gave her a small "hoot" and flew out the window. She opened the piece of paper and almost fainted when she saw who it was from.

I am Farley new to this so don't laugh at me, but I was hoping you would join me for a cup of tea tonight around Midnight. I not only want to get to know you better, but I want you to get to know me better. The other side of me. The real me.

S.S.

May I dare ask what you think? I know Snape is off character but we all know Snape has a soft side to him. I want to bring it out in this story! Well just around Hermione. He will be his cruel self with students. TBC…of course. Review please!