Hermione was livid. Being tossed into a pocket like a common child's toy was just enough to set her over the edge. The first part of the journey to her professors quarters ended up with her getting a few more slaps to the pocket, but jamming her wand into his leg repeatedly was well worth it.

She could tell Severus was starting to get more and more irritated with each poke as his slaps were getting harder and harder, so she eventually gave up and tried to crawl out of his pocket. His pockets were deep, too deep for her to climb out so she resigned to poking him again.

"Will you stop that?" he yelled in a whisper.

Hermione ignored him and poked him harder, enjoying to pressure she was causing that would occasionally make him jump.

She noticed he had picked up his pace again, "Ha, I must have really pissed him off." she laughed to herself, poking his leg faster with an almost evil laugh.

The temperature suddenly dropped, telling her that they had reached his rooms so she stopped with the poking and put on a straight face. She saw the large hand coming towards her and she opened her mouth, prepared to bite him again.

"I wouldn't bite if you know what is good for you." he said calmly. His hand reached her and despite his warning she bite down and didn't let go. He pulled his hand out slowly, her bite didn't hurt much but it was irritating. Hermione was hanging from the side of his hand like a dog refusing to let go of a rope toy and he smirked.

"I'll have you know that when I used the loo before coming to get you I forgot to wash my hands."

Hermione gave a small eek and let go, not caring if she hit the ground 6 feet below her. Fortunately for her, Severus anticipated her reaction and was dangling his hand over the couch when he made mention of it.

Hermione hit the couch and stood up instantly, wiping her lips and tongue in the front of her shirt to get the ' Snape germs ' out of her mouth. Severus, who found the entire display amusing, couldn't help but chuckle at the girls reaction.

"I may never wash my hands if it will prevent you from biting me." he said smugly before sitting down on the couch next to her.

Hermione crossed her arms and sat down, ignoring the hand washing comment, "Have you figured out a spell to change me back yet?" she asked

"I have not had time to work on anything yet as I have been trying to figure out a way for Princess to use the restroom."

"Well?"

"Well what?"

Hermione rolled her eyes, "Have you figured it out?"

Severus gave a nod, scooped her up and proceeded to show her the new facilities.

A week later, Severus was growing more and more irritated. While he had managed to ignore Hermione for the most part, he had not even come close to righting the situation, leaving him to believe she would remain mouse sized for much longer then he originally planned and hoped.

It was Friday night and Severus decided after his week from hell, he would rather go out and tie one on instead of hanging around his quarters with a girl who never spoke two words to him unless she needed something. He showered, changed and left without so much as a word to her.

Hermione watched from her window and almost whooped for joy when her professor left. She had been surrounded by him and had very little contact with anyone else and it was driving her crazy. She had been wanting to explore his quarters a bit but couldn't as long as he was around, Merlin knows he'd have a fit if she touched anything.

She shimmied down the table leg that her house sat on and started her exploration. The first place she went to was his labs, unfortunately, he had wards preventing anyone that wasn't him from entering. Moving on, she went into the living room next. She had spotted a few book shelves that she wanted to explore a bit and decided that this was the perfect time. It took her about half an hour but she finally managed to climb up to the forth shelf where the more interesting books rested. She walked along the edge of the shelf and frowned, she had already red a good majority of these books and the ones she hadn't read didn't pull her interest. She finally reached the end of the shelf and found a black book with no title on the spine. Curiosity got the better of her so she braced the book with two hands and pulled as hard as she could without falling to the ground behind her. She managed to get the book half way out but it suddenly sucked back, pulling her with it.

She landed on her butt and took a frantic look around, there was no telling where that damned book would have taken her. She scuttled herself to a wall to keep out of sight until she could figure out where she was.

The first thing she noticed were voices, one in particular made her close her eyes and shake her head in disbelief. She readied herself once again and finally reopened her eyes and took in her surrounding once more, confirming to herself that she had in fact landed in the Slytherin common room.

The slytherins were all there, every last one of them sitting in the common room playing poker, chess, talking or making out. She wanted to cry, she wanted to scream, she wanted the hell out of there. She took a deep breath and moved along the wall silently. The door to the common room was clear on the other side but she figured if she moved slowly and silently, she could make it with none being the wiser. Once she was there she would wait for the door to open and run out.

It took almost an hour for her to reach the half way point and she was silently rejoicing. Some of the slytherins had already gone to bed leaving mostly 6th and 7th years behind. She reasoned it would be easier to get out if there were less people around to spot her, unfortunately it also meant things were slowing down and people may be paying closer attention to their surroundings. She continued on her path, the door coming closer and closer with each step. She had never been so happy to see the door of the slytherin common room in her life, but her happiness was short lived as she was suddenly snatched up and lifted into the air.

"Well, well, well." a voice said. She knew that voice and cringed, it was Malfoy.

"Put me down Malfoy." she said in an angry tone.

"I don't think I will." he laughed, "Hey everyone, look what I found walking through the common room."

Severus had come back to his quarters an hour later and decided to check on his student before taking another shower and heading to bed. He hadn't drank very much knowing a student was in his rooms so he was still very much sober. He went to the doll house and tapped on the door.

"Ms. Granger"

-silence-

"Ms. Granger, I need to check on you." he said a bit louder

-silence-

Rolling his eyes he peeked into the house and noticed instantly that it was empty. The stood to full height and walked towards the bathroom but realized the door was open and the lights were off, he knew she wasn't in there.

He looked through his rooms while calling her name but found nothing and started to panic. Dumbledore would have his head if anything happened to her. He decided he had no choice and started towards the gryffindor common room to see if she was there.

He said the password to the fat lady and entered to find all of the gryffindors looking at him in curiosity.

"Potter, I wish to speak with you."

Harry looked around and stood, walking towards his professor.

"I'm only going to ask you once and I want no funny business, do you understand?"

Harry nodded with a raised eyebrow

"Is Ms. Granger up here or not?"

Harry frowned, "You lost her? How in the hell did you lose her?"

"That is not important so just answer the damned question."

"No she is not here." Harry looked over his shoulder and realized the gryffindors were still watching them even though they were speaking to low for anyone to hear.

"Go to the hall and I'll join you in a second." Harry said before turning to head up to his room. Severus frowned but went outside to wait.

Harry came out a few minutes later with his map.

"I know how to find her but I want your word that you will not take this from me if I help you."

Snape gave him a look but agreed so Harry activated the map. It didn't take long for Harry to spot her and gasp. Hermione's dot was in the slytherin common room and almost on top of the dot that said Draco Malfoy.

Harry, not caring Snape was right next to him yelled fuck and started running. Severus gave him a glare but followed knowing Harry was worried by what he saw. The pair ran down the halls, Harry a bit faster then his professor, until they reached the Slytherin common room.

Harry started to bang on the door, "Open the fucking door Malfoy, I know you have her."

Severus walked forward and pushed Harry to the side, saying the password to enter the common room. Severus looked around to find Draco along with the other students sitting innocently playing cards. Harry rolled his eyes, he wasn't fooled by this one bit. He walked over to Draco and pulled the blond up by the front of his shirt, wand pointed to the slytherins neck.

"Where the fuck is Hermione and don't you lie." Harry growled.

"I don't know what your talking about Potter, I haven't seen the mudblood."

"Is that so Malfoy." Harry growled and stepped back. He pulled the map and took another look. Hermione's dot was now in the boys dorm.

Harry glanced at his professor and walked to the boys dorm without waiting for permission. Harry followed the map and found Hermione, tied up with a shoelace, naked, with red marks over her entire body that looked like burns. She was almost unconscious but managed to let out a little cry as Harry lifted her.

"Who did this?" Harry whispered.

Hermione let out a small sob, "Malfoy, he was burning me with a cigarette."

Harry was fuming. He put Hermione up to his chest, cradling her against him and left the boys dorm. When he reached the common room once more, he placed his wand in his pocket, pulled his fist back and swung as hard as he could, knocking Malfoy out cold before turning to his professor.

"You were supposed to be watching her, Taking care of her and making sure she wasn't hurt." Harry seethed. He spun around and walked out of the slytherin commons, heading for the perfects bathroom to clean her up a bit and place cold water on her burns to stop the pain.

Severus looked down to Draco who was slowly opening his eyes, "I'll deal with you later." he hissed and left to find Harry and Hermione.