Chapter 4

For Hermione, sleep clung to her senses in the mornings from the lack of sleep due to her constant studying. However, when she was suddenly awoken in the back corner of the library by her Potions Professor of all people, her tiredness left her immediately, to be replaced by complete surprise. A squeak even left her lips at the sight of the dark Slytherin head of house staring down at her, surprised at her presence.

"S-sssorry Professor…" Hermione began, hurriedly trying to pick up her books. "I-II was just studying the effects of d-dragons scales in particular potions…" Her nervousness was obvious in her voice and movements as she attempted to get everything together. She quickly looked up at the Slytherin and had to blink twice to make sure that what she saw was not the shadow of a smile on his stone features. Discovering that she was imagining things, probably from the sudden awakening, she grabbed her books and practically ran from his presence, fearing that if she waited for him to speak; she would be up for a detention or loss of house points.

The portrait opened and Hermione stepped into the Gryffindor common room, empty at this late hour except for the presence of her best friend Ronald. He was murmuring to himself in front of the fire. Hermione yawned before walking over and sitting next to him.

"You alright Ronald?" She asked. He looked up at her and saw the books in her arms, evidence that she had been doing some late-night study.

"Yeah." Ron Replied. "Snape caught Pansy and I in the halls. Gryffindor lost fifty points, while Slytherin only lost five." Hermione looked shocked but quickly nodded in understanding.

"He's a Slytherin. He doesn't have the right to be bias towards his own house, even though he so blatantly does. Though I guess all of the head of houses do…"

"I think he thinks that I'm taking advantage of Pansy… because I'm jealous of Harry or something." Ron turned to look Hermione in the eyes. The corners of Hermione's lips turned up and she tried to hide the unwanted but inevitable giggles building inside of her. Ron saw her attempts to hide her laughter and couldn't help but join her. Soon they were both laughing at the thought of Ron being jealous of Harry.

In an attempt to bring the noise down so that those sleeping in their dorms would remain so, Hermione let out a 'shhhhh' and the two settled down. They smiled at each other and Hermione shook her head at the thought.

"You've been seeing Pansy since sixth year. How would it be a result of your jealousy of Harry?" Hermione asked.

"Exactly!" Ron agreed. The two of them laughed for a little longer before agreeing that the tiredness of the day was taking over and heading off to their separate dorms.

A/N: Sooo sorry for the long wait for ch3 people! Had the HSC and yea life got busy… but yes, here's ch4. I'm running all of the chapters of this story through my bestie septasonicxx before uploading them, and she didn't really like the lack of action in this chapter, so she wrote her own paragraph for the beginning, and here it is;

Severus approached her slowly, not wanting to startle her but suddenly unable to hold it in any longer. He simply couldn't wait for the author to do as she wished and had to take matters into his own hands.

"Hermione," he said softly, watching in delight as she spun around to face him, her hair swirling around her face lightly. "I'm in love with you."

The surprise that appeared on her face was expected and he quickly swooped in, capturing her lips with his own and pulling her closely against him. He felt her relax and then begin to return the kiss, the books she had been holding falling to the floor. It was perfect.

Loll so there you go. I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I'm getting things all planned out for the next few chapters so yes :) it shall be good! Please stick around for the ride!

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