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Prompt: In which, being the Potion Masters apprentice has a double meaning.

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Chapter Two – Double Meaning

Cauldrons. He had her scrubbing...cauldrons.

Now, she didn't particularly mind doing it the old-fashioned way but...did he really have to sit at his desk and watch her scrub it? He may have been preoccupied with grading a bunch of O.W.L.s for a couple of fifth years ( probably failing at least half the stack ), but Kagome could practically feel his dark gaze crawling all over her clothed back.

If he's trying to be conspicuous, he's doing a very bad job at it. I mean,why do I have scrub these things anyway? Seriously.

She huffed out indignantly, blowing a stray strand of hair out of her eyes before returning to her task of scrubbing the black charred pieces that seemed to be horridly stuck to her last cauldron. Honestly, if Seamus didn't feel the need to blow up every potion he made, she really wouldn't be in this situation in the first place.

Don't know why I'm in this situation anyway since I'm his apprentice, not a crummy first year!

Her fists balled in frustration as she let the cauldron run under the faucet for the fifth or sixth time and she watched with narrowed eyes as the cauldron still stayed the same way it had first been when she first scrubbed it. Teeth clenched together irritably, Kagome attacked it with vigor, not noticing Snape's empty chair as he made a slow gait towards the sinks.

"Stupid old bat, it's no wonder people call him a greasy – !" A pair of elegant fingers suddenly ran against her forearm, trailing a cool blaze of goosebumps up her arm and down her spine. She stiffened immediately upon contact and her blue irises widen uncharacteristically.

Kagome would be stupid to say that his sudden touch didn't affect her more womanly areas. Especially when he stepped even closer to her that she could practically feel his breath against the bare of her neck.

His voice thrummed a spot in her lower belly as he spoke in such a low, but sensual tone – if that was even possible, considering this was her Potions Professor. "Run it under water and start at the bottom." Her cheeks burned as his cool hands threaded through hers and when he suddenly leaned over to place the cauldron under the hot water, Kagome could feel something achingly hard brush against her bum.

I-Is t-that?!...

"Do it correctly Miss Higurashi and then your free to go."

As soon as she felt it, he was gone. His presence disappeared and his cool touch seemed to have left her skin ablaze. She whipped her head around and hoped beyond hope that her face didn't look so flushed, like she knew it was. "U-uh, y-yes, Professor..." Ducking her head again, Kagome went back to her task and finished it swiftly, wanting to disappear to her dorms immediately.

Kami, maybe Lavender was right – being the Potion Masters apprentice really did have a double meaning.

Thank Amataresu-sama that he doesn't know about my slight crush I had on him last year.

But then again, Harry did mention something about him being a very skillful Legilimens.

Oh bloody hell.