Hermione sat at the Gryffindor table picking at her food. She sensed somebody was staring at her and looked up to meet the dark eyes of Severus Snape. Except these dark eyes were filled with worry. Do I look nervous? She thought to herself as she gave a warm reassuring smile to the boy. He smiled slightly, his eyes still having a hint of suspicion in them as he turned back to his meal.
The truth was, however that Hermione did feel nervous. She recalled the events of yesterday when Snape and she had kissed. They had stayed in the R.O.R for another 10 minutes before they finally made it down to dinner.
Hermione smiled as the memory of what happened flashed back in her head. She remembered peeking out the doors to make sure no one was coming, as Severus and herself slipped out of the doors, holding hands and laughing.
Yes, being with Severus really did make her happy. But that was the problem, she was just with him. Ever since she kissed him, she wanted to know she had a claim on him. Wanted to make their relationship status official. Because right now they were like… friends with benefits, and Hermione wanted him to be her… boyfriend?
Hermione frowned. Severus snape, my boyfriend, didn't really sound so good. She much preferred the idea of Severus Snape - my lover. It had a deeper claim she felt. Hermione lost herself in the thoughts of her holding severus's hand, until she felt another intense stare, smiling she looked up expecting Severus warm dark eyes, but instead were greeted with cool dark grey eyes.
Lucius watched as the young Gryffindor, blushed and looked down at her plate, continuing to eat.
He had been severely displeased when he had earlier saw Snape and Hermione running down a hallways holding hands. Lucius knew he had to come up with a plan… and soon. Good thing he already had one. He smiled to himself, and picked up his fork to continue eating.
Lucius walked quickly after dinner finished, searching for the redheaded girl that got him involved in all this. He walked away from his slytherin friends and went to the head girl and boy rooms.
Lucius blended into the wall, as he cast a Disilluisment charm as himself. He peeked his head around the corner and saw Lily walking down the hall by herself. Excellent. He watched as she said the password to the painting and it swung open for her, he made quick work and slipped in behind her before the door shut. Taking the spell off of him, he said "Hello there Lily.'
The scream that came out of her mouth was ear splitting and made Lucius somewhat regret his decision to surprise her. But still, her reaction was priceless.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING IN MY ROOM? HOW DID YOU GET IN? OH MY GOD! YOU SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME!" She screamed, coming up to him and repeatedly punching him in the arm- forgetting that she was a witch.
"Ow- hey… HEY STOP IT! THAT HURTS!" Lucius cried, grabbing her hands and restraining her from further punching. "Calm down!" He said.
She took a deep breath, and brought her eyes up to glare into his. "You are lucky Lupin wasn't in. He would have hexed you arse off." She spit at him, as he released her arms. She sat down on one of the couches in the common area. Lucius sat down next to her. "I'm in you're room cause I need to talk to you, I slipped in behind you when you came in. I had a disilusment charm on. And you're reaction was priceless sooo…" He trailed off, smiling as he recalled her screaming.
"I hate you." She said.
"Love you too sweetie. I'm going to make this quick cause I don't want Lupin to come in on us. But I have plan." Lucius said, grinning evilly.
Lily was a bit frightened by his grin, but then a feeling of excitement came over her. She knew, deep down, that she should be excited and it was because she had been hanging out with a Syltherin so much. She was almost becoming one.
"Okay. So what's the plan?" She said, smiling and leaning closer to him.
Snape waited by the doors to the great hall watching for a certain bushy hair girl. He was happy, happier than he has ever been before. And she was the reason for it. He saw her head among the mass number of people exiting the great hall, and pushed his way through to get to her.
"Hermione!"
Hermione was lost in her thoughts- like she always is- when she heard her name being shouted. She stopped walking and turned around looking for who called her. She smiled as she watched Severus push his way through the crowd to get to her.
"Hi there." She laughed, smiling at how cute he was.
"Hi." He replied with a small smile. Which, for him, was probably a great feat- since the only thing one usually sees from snape is glares and snares. "Want to walk with me?" She asked, forgetting all the worries she had before, and held out her hand to him.
"Yeah." Severus replied, taking her hand in his. Hermione lead him away from the common rooms and out to the grounds.
"Hermione won't we get in trouble? I mean it's past curfew…" Severus trailed off.
"Nah, I think we'll be fine. Besides I just want to look at the moon. It's a full moon tonight. Come on, let's go sit under that tree or something." She said, care free as possible. She skipped over to the tree she had pointed out and turned back to look at him. He was standing on the stairs, staring at her. His hands were in his pocket, and a scowl was perfectly placed on his face. He watched her, half weary but also another half of him beginning to go.
"Well, are you coming she asked." And he watched as she held up one hand, the moonlight making it look angelic.
"Of course." He mumbled to himself, climbing the rest of the stairs down and walking over to where she stood. He took her hand and sat down with her.
Hermione leaned her head onto his shoulder, taking in a deep breath so she could smell his wonderful sent. Severus leaned his head slightly so it was resting atop of Hermione's head. He had been thinking earlier that he should ask her on a real date. Maybe at the next hogsemead weekend, they could go to the three broomsticks and get some dinner together. Severus was about to open his mouth when his mouth went dry. What if she denied him? But she must like him, since she had kissed him. "Erm…" He started.
"Severus?" Hermione asked.
"Yes?"
"Do you want to go to the three broom sticks with me next hogesmead weekend, well next Saturday, and well… go on a date together." She breathed, talking fast. She had wanted to ask him since they got outside, and she thought this would be the best time as any.
Severus sat in shock for about 5 seconds before a genuine laugh escaped his lips.
Hermione blushed a deep scarlet and lifted her head off of his shoulders. "Well, you don't have to laugh at me. You can say no if you want." A deep scowl on her face as she avoided his eyes.
Severus leaned in and without thinking laid a small kiss on her cheek. "I was only laughing cause I was about to ask you the same thing." He whispered in her ear, his breath tickling her skin.
"So is that a yes?" Hermione breathed, turning her face to meet his.
"O-" Severus's reply was cut off by a loud wolf howl. Hermione looked towards the forbidden forest. She knew there were werewolves in it, but usually they didn't come this close to the schools campus. She glanced around nervously, and then something in her mind click.
She jumped up. "SEVERUS, WE NEED TO LEAVE NOW!" she screamed, grabbing his hand and pulling him to his feet hastily.
Severus was shocked by her change in mood, and turned into defense mode. He pulled out his wand and held it at the ready. "HERMIONE! What the hell is going on?" He growled.
"We need to get back to the castle, come on!" She yelled starting to run when she turned around the corner and was met face to face with lupin. Well, not lupin exactly. She was face to face with a werewolf looming over her.
Before Hermione could react she heard "STUPETFY!" behind her. The spell hit lupin in the middle of the chest and knocked him down to the ground. "NO SEVERUS! DON'T HURT HIM!" she yelled, immediately scared for lupin's safety.
"Let's go!" Severus yelled, grabbing her hand and tugging her to the school.
Hermione turned around once more and let out a small scream of terror when she saw the werewolf standing up. "RUN!" she screamed, letting go of Severus's hand and sprinting to the castle.
She noted, as Severus easily ran ahead of her, that he was a fast runner. She was closer, only 60 more feet to go before she would be on the school steps.
Hermione didn't know what was happening next but she felt herself fly forward and land on the ground. Te impact going through her whole body, making her bones hurt and the wind get knocked out of her. "HERMIONE!" she faintly heard over the ringing in her ears. 'Get up Hermione, go run.' She thought to herself as she gathered all of her energy up and began to push herself off the ground, when she suddenly saw the shadow go over her.
Her adrenaline kicked in and she easily turned around to see a werewolf looming over her body as she lay on the ground. She felt her eyes prickle with tears. What if she were to die here? What would happen? To Harry and Ron? Her parents? Lupin would feel terrible; he wouldn't be able to live with himself. The werewolf started to lean in over her and she squeezed her eyes shut waiting for the impact. However it never came instead she heard a loud thump and opened her eyes to see a dog on top of lupin, and a deer soon following the dog and distract the werewolf. A small rat was sitting on the back of the deer's shoulders.
She sat up and watched as the dog made the werewolf leave and follow him towards the shrieking shack. The deer turned to Hermione once it was sure that the werewolf wouldn't be coming back.
She stared at the deer as it stared at her, and she slowly got up and attentively walked towards it. She reached her hand up and started to pat its head. "Thank you James." She whispered.
"Hermione!" She turned to see Severus running to her. When Hermione looked back at the deer it was no longer there, instead it was off in the distance heading towards the shrieking shack. She smiled as she turned back towards Severus.
What happened next was totally unexpected. "Petrificus totalus!" Severus yelled as it hit her in the chest, she felt her whole body freeze up and felt herself start to fall. However, she never hit the ground, instead snape casted another spell on her. "wingardium leviosa."
Oh, she was going to punch him in the face once he let her out of this. Nobody did this to miss Hermione Jean Granger without her permission.
She watched the night sky as she floated towards, what she assumed he would be leading her to, the school. She watched as the night sky turned into the ceiling of the school. She heard him breath out a relieved breath, but he still didn't let her out of the body bind, instead he kept levitating her until the hallway ceiling turned into the ceiling of the infirmary.
NONONO! I DON'T WANT TO! I'M FINE! She screamed inside. She felt her body be placed on top of a stretcher.
"I'll be right back." He whispered in her ear. Hermione inwardly grumbled to herself. "Madam pomfrey, Hermione took a spill on the ground and I knew she wouldn't want to come to the infirmary so I put her in a body bin curse and levitated her up here." He said casually as if it were not a big deal.
"Oh! Well let me take a look at her."
Hermione felt herself 'unfreeze' and immediately sat up. "HOW DARE YOU SEVERUS! I WAS PERFECTLY CAPABLE OF WALKING AND I AM NOT HURT!" She yelled at him.
"Hermione!" Madam Pomfrey scolded.
"Sorry ma'am." Hermione muttered and glared at Severus.
"Now sit still, I can already see a few nasty bruises." She said, as she started inspecting Hermione.
Severus watched with amused eyes, as Hermione sneered at him. One could obviously tell where she had picked the sneer up from.
"Okay Miss Granger, you can return to your room now. You have a couple of nasty bruises on your hipbone, from were you probably fell. I want you to rub this salve on it twice a day. And you take this potion for a week, once a day in the morning. I detected a little bruising on your hipbone. I also healed the scrapes you had on your knees, arms and hands." Madam Pomfrey said as she handed her the potion and salve.
"Thank you." Hermione said, and stood up.
Hermione walked to the door without checking to see if Snape was following behind her, but she assumed he was. She turned to go to her room when she felt his hand grab onto her wrist.
"Wait Hermione." He said.
"Yes?" she asked
He shifted around on his feet uncomfortably before saying, "I'm sorry." She smiled, knowing how hard it must be for him to say that. "I shouldn't have did that to you without asking, but I was really concerned that you were hurt or… well…"
"Bitten?" She asked smiling softly, feeling happy at how concerned he was.
"Well yes." He mumbled.
"Aw, severus that's so sweet you were concerned for me!" Hermione gushed as she wrapped her arms around him.
She could feel his body stiffen and then he slowly put his hands around her. "I don't do sweet." She heard him mutter and laughed, quickly kissing her cheek and turning to head back to her rooms.
"Oh and Hermione!"
"Yes?" She asked, walking backwards and smiling at him.
"If you still want to, I would love to go to the three broom sticks with you. I'll meet you there at 1." He said, grinning devilishly before turning and stalking, well to her it was beautiful, to his rooms.
Hermione continued to her room, feeling like a giddy schoolgirl. She couldn't help the warm feeling that was going throughout her body or the giant grin that was plastered on her face, even as she went to bed that night.
Hogwarts 1997 _
Severus Snape felt like he was forgetting something. And he really hated that feeling. Spending so many years as a spy trained him to never forget anything. So for him to not remember something was truly out of character.
He sat in his favorite armchair in front of the fire, with a glass of firewhiskey, pondering what it was he could have possible forgotten.
This feeling started happening when the old fool, Dumbledore, told him that Miss Granger would be away from school for a while. Severus couldn't be happier that he wouldn't have to deal with the know it all.
Dumbledore hadn't told him where Miss Granger was going and Severus's curiosity was getting the best of him. The old fool was going to tell him, but stupid Weasley and Potter walked in and interrupted their conversation.
Still, he wanted to know what he forgot. Suddenly an image – or perhaps memory- entered his mind. He saw himself as a teenager with miss granger, lying on a bed. Hermione was wrapped in his arms protectively. She opened her eyes and said 'morning' and she leaned in and kissed his teenage self.
Severus shook his head. Surely that had not been a memory. He would have recalled that happening in his life. But it was not a vision, he was certain. But why was he a teenager? It would have to be a memory then. Severus leaned back his in armchair, and poured the fire whiskey down, and poured another one. He was set on spending his night in front of the fireplace thinking.
A/NHey everybody. Sorry this took so long for me to update. I got a job :D I'm not writing for a online newspaper called patch. I have my own column! YAYY :D
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