She just could not help herself. He did obviously enjoy her random burst of desire. He said so himself, basically. Both of them knew the pain that each suffered. And knowing that with the kiss that they would not hurt as badly for only for a few seconds.

The kiss was exquisite, the feeling of Professors Snape's lips covering hers made Hermione weak in the knees. Thankfully Snape was able to keep some of his strength to hold Hermione as she leaned into him and the kiss. Their lips seemed to fit perfectly. Every move that either one made was like a perfectly choreographed dance, each making the right move at exactly the right time. Only when oxygen was completely necessary did they break the kiss.

Puffs of warm air surrounded them as they looked at each other knowing exactly what had happened, but still trying to figure out what to do about it. Snape looked deeply into Hermione's warm chocolate brown eyes finding the same emotion that was mirrored in his.

They were still tangled together when Snape finally broke the unsettling silence that had fallen between the two of them.

"I believe that if we wish to remain at Hogwarts for a bit longer," Snape said still trying to catch his breath, "that it would be best if we continued this elsewhere." Snape said as he looked around at the wide open space the two of them were standing in, where anyone could see them if they let their eyes wonder in their direction.

"Meet me in my office after breakfast, where we can discuss this in private." He said with a blissful look on his face as Hermione nodded her head still slightly dazed from the kiss.

Starting to turn away from him, analyzing everything that had just happened between her and her potions professor, Hermione felt a hand grab onto hers. With a gentile pull, she found herself back in Snape's arms for another kiss, but by the time Hermione had the chance to react, Snape was already walking back to the castle.

Hermione lingered by the lake a little longer, trying to give Snape more time to get into the castle without it looking like she was outside with him. When she finally did make it to the great hall for breakfast, most of the school was there. She had not realized that she had been outside for so long. She took a seat at the end of the table away from the rest of her classmates and ate in silence. It was not long when she felt someone sit down on the bench beside her. Hermione looked up from her plate of eggs and toast to see Harry sitting beside her. When she saw that it was him she quickly lost her appetite and start to get up to leave, but was quickly stopped by him.

"Hermione I am so sorry. I was a complete jerk, please, please forgive me." Harry said looking up at her from his seated position and her in her half standing, the look of complete unhappiness in his eyes.

Hermione did not know what to say but quickly thought of something, "What made you decide to try to talk to me?" Hermione asked.

"I realized about after a week of only having Ron to talk to that I really could use someone with more brains to talk to, and I could use a little help on my transfiguration's homework, which I know you are the best at." Harry said with a look of complete helplessness.

"I was never completely mad at you Harry; I was hurt that you would side with Ron when he was the one who treated me unfairly but never completely mad with you. Although, I think I might be able to find some time to help you with your Transfiguration homework. Hermione said with a smile on her face, and sat back down in her seat to finish her meal.

Hermione and Harry ended up staying in the Great Hall until it was practically empty just talking about what had been going on, while Hermione was off on her own.

When they finally did leave, Harry had his hand wrapped around her waist like a brother figure that she saw him as.

"Are you going to the common room?" Harry asked having a good idea what the answer was.

"No, I think I might head to the library to do some extra reading for Ancient Runes class, but I will help you later tonight with the Transfiguration homework." Harry gave her a peck on the cheek and started up the marble staircase to the common room with Hermione watching from the bottom step. Then, she slyly made her way down to the dungeons.

The dungeons were dark as always but they did not seem as uninviting as they usually did when she had class. When Hermione came to the door that separated her and Professor Snape, she did a quick once over making sure that everything was in its place, and lightly knocked on the door. The door opened to reveal Snape, no longer wearing his out robes, but just his white button up shirt with the sleeves rolled up his arms, and his black pants. Most people would have never thought of Snape as having any sort of muscle strength anywhere in his body; however his arms were well defined in a lean way, which made Hermione blush a bit at the sight of them.

"I was starting to think that you were not coming." Snape said as Hermione slowly made her way into his office.

Hermione blushed again "I became slightly side tracked, but I am here now." She said with a smirk.

"Come, this is a place to discuss school matters, let us go someplace more informal." with that he took a hold of Hermione's hand and led her to his private chambers.

When they entered the room Hermione dropped Snape's hand, amazed at how many books he had lining the walls of his common room. He had books ranging from topics of Transfiguration to Herbology to a few muggle books that some would not notice if they were not well versed on the titles. She walked up to one of the book shelves and adoringly caressed the spines of the books

"I thought that you might be more comfortable in here." Snape said from behind her.

Hermione turned and smiled, "Yes, I think I am much more comfortable here." And started walking towards Snape. "Now what is it that we are going to talk about?" she said as she wrapped her arms around his waist.

"Yes about that, this is not supposed to be happening" he said pulling her closer into him

"And what are we planning on doing about this?" she said standing on her tip toes.

"We could end it, or we could keep it a secret." He said and kissed her.

It took over an hour for the two of them to decide how they were going to keep their little secret, they were always finding interruptions from their talking. Finally they decided that it would be best to act like they always did; nothing could change in the way they acted. Hermione would have to act like a know it all, and he would take away points. They could only see each other at night when patrolling and then make plans, or if he held her after class for some reason, like a bad paper or potion gone wrong. And that only when they were sure that they were in absolute private that they could use each other's given names. Did Hermione Reluctantly leave the warmth of Snape's arms to go find Harry in the common room.

Hermione found Harry sitting in the common room with Ginny his girlfriend for over a year sitting in front of the warm fire reading a quidditch magazine.

"Oi, 'Mione, come over here and join us" harry called when he saw that she was heading back upstairs.

The three sat in front of the fire for several hours, discussing different topics ranging from the latest news in the Profit, to the upcoming holidays. And all the time Hermione had a secret smile on her lips.

(A/n I hope you like it. I know it has been forever but my muse left me, and she finally came back to let me finish the chapter. Don't worry I still have more planned! Please review!! Thanks!!)