After revealing everything that happened during my detention with Snape, she decided to go down to the common room and speak to Harry and Ron, she mumbled something about them not doing their homework. I decided to stay in our room. I was confused. Very confused. I was anxious as to what Snape wanted to say to me tomorrow and I'm not entirely sure I want to hear what he has to say. I knew I wasn't in love with him, but I did feel things for him. Strong feelings that I didn't want to be extinguished. With a low sigh falling from my lips I decided that there was no point contemplating everything that Snape could say to me tomorrow, as it was out of my hands.
Snape's P.O.V.
I walked away from her leaving her outside the entrance of her common room. Walking further into the dungeons, I avoided thinking about what had happened, at least until I was in the sanctuary that was my private rooms. Noises came from around the corner.
Drawing my wand from my robes quickly, holding it close to my person, I approached the corner from which the noises were being emitted. I rounded the corner quickly, noticing that it was just a couple of Slytherin students trying to get each other out of their clothes as quickly as possible. 'Why would they do this out in the dungeons where anyone could pass?' he questioned himself.
"What do you think you are doing?" I questioned. My voice was stern and shocked them out of their positions and they stared up at me, ebarassment covering their faces.
"We, were...erm, nothing Sir" the girl said not looking into my face whilst speaking.
"It didn't seem like nothing. It seemed as though you two were trying to dispose of one anothers clothes as quickly as possible" I said whilst lowering my wand to their robes ont he floor and a smirk appearing on my face.
"Sorry Sir" was the feeble reply of the male who had finally found his voice.
"Detention for both of you with Filtch, tomorrow evening. I will be telling him what I witnessed as to make sure that you two actually focus on your punishment rather than each other" I said walking away leaving two humiliated students in my wake.
I arrived at my study quite quickly and poured myslef a hearty glass of firewhisky and sat inthe armchair beside the fire. Though I stood up just as soon as I sat to remove my outer robe. Something clicked on the floor. I bent down to retrive the foreign object. It was a silver braclet with a broken clasp. Miss Ravens. 'This must have fell in the pocket of my robe when she remove..' The voice in my head was no longer speaking to e and I was bombarded with the visual reminders of what had hapened tonight. The way she sounded when I touched her, the way she felt, the way I felt.
I took out the parcel from my robe and looked at the very few but quite vital ingerdients that we collected this evening. The weed we collected first. Although it looked like any ordinary weed its properties are much more than that of the average weed. The the deep, red as blood berries that she collected from climbing the tree. 'That could have killed her' a voice reminded me in my head. I could remember her falling. I remembered screaming her name, not the surname but her first name, something I had never done towards a student...other than Draco but that is a different situation. When she fell and I was unable to catch her in time. Seeing her on the floor, unconcious almost lifeless, other than her shallow breathing. It was horrible. 'Because you feeling something for her Severus' the annoying voice in my head said.
'She is my student I wanted to ensure that she was safe, as I do with my other students', I hissed back starting an internal arguement with myself.
'Yes you may wish to protect all of your students, but what you do not do with all of your students is give upo your own time to help them with your Defense classes and you do not try to kiss them after admitting they tempt you' the voice piped uop sounding quite smug. Annoying me to no end.
'She was going to fail if I didn't help her. In regards to the trying to kiss her I had a concusion after hitting my head, thus why i admitted to her tempting me' I spat back.
'Then whats your excuse for your actions tonight. No concusion and even after telling her all the reasons for not doing what you did. You still didn't stop' it said and I agreed. I did say all of that how she was my student, the age difference and how is was breaking Hogwarts rules.
'Is it really?' that voice said once again pissing me off.
'Is what?' I asked really wishing I could hex it thought not possible.
'Is what you two were doing really braking the rules. If I remember rightly there is nothing Hogwarts rules that object to a teacher and student engaging in a relationship if they are both of age...which you both are' the voice sang sounding smug once again.
The voice was once again right and although not the rational side of my mid...obviously. It did make sens eand tell the truth. This got me to thinking what am I supposed to say to her tomorrow. We do have much to discuss...but what?
'Tell her you want to do it again. I mean how long has it been since you had sex before tonight?' the voice in my head asking itself.
"Would you shut up!" I voiced aloud.
'What? It has been a while' the voice continued.
Ignoring what was just said in my mind I came back down and realised that during my internal conversation... or arguement, I had finished the bottle of firewhisky. I slumped into the chair in a most ungraceful manner to which I couldn't care less at the moment. There was something inside of me telling this was wrong and driven on lust. Though I do not believe that to be true. This is something other than lust. But to have a relationship with a student whom is young enough to be my daughter.
No more contemplating. Sleep.
Stephanie's P.O.V
Morning came around all to quickly. I woke from my disturbed sleep and walked over to the bathroom to get myself ready for another day of classes before going to see Snape.
By the time I have finished in the bathroom and had gotten dressed Hermione was awake and we were alone. 'Where the hell is everyone? No one is ever in this room other than the two of us' I thought.
"Morning Steph" she said cheerily.
"Morning" I replied.
With that said we went to meet the boys in the Great Hall for breakfast. I sat next to Harry and Hermione next to Ron who was already scoffing down his eggs much to Hermione's disgust. We had a short conversation and then we seperated for our classes. I had Herboligy with Neville first. I loved Neville he always helped me and was so sweet when I missed something or messed something up. he was a good friend.
After Herboligy I had Defense...with Snape. Something I wasnt entirely looking forward to. I walked into the classroom realising that I was the only one there. 'Well it doesn't start for like 10 minutes' I thought to myself as I sat in my usual place. The door opened slowly, revealing the one person at Hogwarts I wanted to see less that Snape...Malfoy. He waalked in with that blasted smirk he always wore on his face. Instead of going over to his seat like I was hoping he would, he walked over to me.
"Once again it is just the two of us" he spoke as he glided infront of my desk and sat on it so that he was facing me and I was sitting in my chair.
"Why do you always feel the need to try and get something from me that you know you are not going to get from someone else?" i questione glaring at him.
"Because you are a challenge and a difficult one at that and I never back down from a challenge. The fact that you are gorgeous has something to do with it too" he smirked leanig down, to which I stood.
"Please resist the urge to get closer to me" I hissed walking away, towards Professor Snape's desk. He followed. Unfortunatly. Smirking as he did.
"But why? I want to get closer to you" he said still smirking. Gods I want to hit him. By the time he had reached the desk I had rounded it and was sat in Professor Snape's chair. He continued to approach me and was soon standing over me with his hands on the arms of the chair eitherside me.
"Well I don't want to be any closer to you" I said as Malfoy drew his head closer to me ear.
"Why not? It'll be fun" he whispered and I went to hit him. He grasped my hands and places them on the arms of the chair. He was still leaning in close to me coming ever closer by the second. He placed a rough kiss on my neck and bit.
"Malfoy get the hell AWAY FROM ME" I yelled.
Snape's P.O.V
I was walking towards my classroom a little earlier than usual and as there was 10 minutes until the beggining of the class I wasn't expecting anyone to be there which is why I was suprised to see Draco Malfoy approaching Stephanie and she was backing away from him. 'What was this boy doing?'
I knew that it was almost an invasion of privacy to watch them although it was my classroom so I continued to watch, intrigued. They were conversing but they were being so quite, whispering, that I could not understand what they were saying. Though Stephanie wasn't enjoying it, that I was sure of. By this point she was sitting in my chair and he was leaning over her whispering something in her ear.
An uncharacteristic, animal like sound left my throat before I could stop it. 'Why did I just do that?' I questioned myself.
'You did it because you are jealous that he is as close to her as he is' the voice in his head from last night popped up.
'That is not true' I said watching Draco whisper in her ear again. 'Very true' the voice said. As much as I wanted to disagree I had to admit that the voice had a point/ I was going to continue argueing with myself when I heard her yell 'AWAY FROM ME', which is when I realised she didn't like this. Another growl left me though not one of jealousy one of anger that he would make her this uncomfortable.
Stephanie's P.O.V
I heard the door slam against the wall behind it due to the force in which it was pushed.
"I believe she told you to get away from her " Snape said with a stern voice walking through the door, glaring daggers at Malfoy. He finally stepped away from me and I felt like I could breathe again.
"Sir, I was jus-" he tried but was interupted when Snape grabbed his arm and pulled him towards him. He looked more angry than I have ever seen him.
"What do you think you are doing ? This is not the way you act towards other people. You do not make them feel uncomfortable. You will stop harrassing Miss Ravens and if I find out that you have been persuing her again I will make it my mission to punish you. Severely. Do you understand Mr. Malfoy?" Snape sneered.
"Yes, Sir. I understand" Malfoy replied looking visibly scared.
"Steph, what's going on?" I heard Hermione question from the door where she stood with Harry and Ron, still a few minutes until the class started.
Snape let go of Malfoy and he just stood there as if awaiting instruction. I just continued to sit in Professor Snape's chair, frozen after what had just happened.
"Detention, tonight with Filtch. I will give you the information from this lesson. I do not want you in this classroom. Now leave." Snape said staring directly at him.
"Snape just gave Malfoy a detention. Why is Steph sitting behind Snape's desk?" Harry questioned to a gobsmacked Hermione and Ron.
"Yes Sir. Steph I-" he tried.
"Do not even try to talk to her. Get out" Snape yelled, grasping the back of Malfoy's robe and puching him towards his desk where his bag was. Malfoy scrambled to gather his belonging and left the classroom pushing past Hermione, Harry and Ron, who were still standing there trying to understand the situation.
Snape turned towards me, placed his hands on the desk and lent over to me. The look on his face was full of concern.
"Are you okay?" He asked looking genuinely concered for me. It was heartening.
"Erm... yeah I am fine. I just need a minute. Can I go to the bathroom I promise not to be too long and come back in quietly." I replied just as the rest of the students piled in looking at the scene in front of them. It must be quite stange to be in their positions after seeing Malfoy run out of the classroom looking terified and seeing me sitting in Snape's chair with him lingering over me.
"Of course. Take as much time as you need. All I saw was leaning over you whispering in your ear. So I must ask. Did he do anything else? Did he...touch you?" He whispered looking me in the eye.
"No Sir, he didnt. Well he did sort of" I said seeing Professor Snape's facing turn into one of seething anger.
"What did he do?" he whispered, slowly.
"When he was whispering in my ear just before I yelled for him to get away from me and you walked in. He kissed my neck and then... erm bit me. Is it bleeding?" I questioned, leaning my neck to one side showing him my neck.
"Yes" he said his anger growing.
"Please don't tell anyone. I will tell my friends later" I pleaded getting up and walking around the desk. "I won't. If you are not back in 10 minutes I will come looking for you and if he is with you I won't be so lenient with him" he whispered as I walked past him.
"Thank you, Professor Snape" I said so others could hear finally stopping the whispering.
"Steph whats going on?" Hermione questioned.
"Professor, is it okay if Hermione comes with me. We won't be long" I asked him, looking at him directly.
"Yes, that is fine. Though remember what I said, I will come looking for you if you are not back in 10 minutes" he said pointing at me, then he turned and said "everyone take your seats, take out your textbooks and turn to page 297."
Hermione and I were silent during the short walk to the bathroom. I didn't want to say anything until we had some privacy and she as my friend didn't say anything to me until I wanted to speak to her.
Though that ended when we reached the bathroom, I wet some tissue paper and pulled the collar of my shirt down revaling a bite mark with a little dried blood that was turning a horrid shade of purple.
"Okay, I was going to wait until you wanted to talk to me, but what the hell is that. Does it have something to do with the way Snape was acting towards Malfoy?" she asked.
"Yeah" I said dabbing the smark, wincing slightly before continuing "I got to the classroom early and then Malfoy showed up and started flirting with me as per usual. He backed me towards Snape's desk and I went round it and sat in the chair. He kept whispering some crap in my ear and then he kissed my neck and bit me" I said drying the spot on my neck.
"Then Snape walked in and went all crazy, threatened Malfoy telling him not to come anywhere near me. To which he gave malfoy a detention, he ran out, Snape leant over the desk asking me if I was okay. I told him about the mark on my neck, he look absolutly furious and said that he would come looking if I wasn't back in 10 minutes he would come looking for me" I said breathing in a gasp of air.
"Why would he want to come looking?" Hermione questioned as we walked out the bathroom heading back to the classroom.
"He said he would come and look for me in case Malfoy came back." I replied.
"It kind of sounds like he actually cares" she said. "Yeah it does doesn't it" I said.
"Oh by the way could you not tell anyone about this, not even Harry and Ron" I begged her.
"I promise I won't tell them but they are going to want to know what happend I mean Snape gave Malfoy a detention something he never does and Snaoe was leaning over you and whispering" Hermione replied.
"I will tell them something later. For now just tell them that I am okay and that I will speak to them" I spoke just as we reached the closed classroom door.
"Will do" Hermione said to me with a smile and I hugged her. She really was a great friend I mean she had kept the fact that I was having extra lessons with Snape a secret and that we had sex and now this, I couldn't ask for a better friend.
I let out a shuddering breath and we walked into the classroom. Snape was sitting at his desk and the rest of the students were in their seats working on some kind of essay. We were greeted with stares from everyone in the classroom before Snape said "get back to you work", to which everyone did.
Hermione and I were about to sit down until Snape spoke up and said "Miss Ravens would you care to join me outside."
He stood up and walked past me towards the door. This time everyone was staring and didn't stop until I left the classroom. I closed the door behind me and saw Snape leaning against the wall opposite the door with on leg bent and his foot pressed against the wall. I took a small side step to the left, away from the door in case anyone opened it and walked into me. I lent against the wall too.
Snape pushed off of the wall and slowly stalked towards me. He didn't say a thing. He stopped just a breathe away from me and placed the palm of his right had against the wall behind me. He raised his left hand and coaxed my head to the side and I lent on the arm that was placed on the wall. I knew what he was doing. He wanted to see the mark malfoy had left on me. He loosened my house tie and slid the collar of my uniform shirt down slightly so he could see the mark. He just stared at it intently. A flash of concern came across his face and was replaced with anger quickly, then his face became passive. He raised his left hand once again and it hovered near the mark.
"May I?" He questioned.
I just nodded. He moved his hand slowly towards the bite mark on my neck which I was guessing was quite purple by now. His hand swept over it softly and quickly all the while looking at my face, seeing if it pained me. It did, but only a little. He placed his hand over the mark again and his arm dropped.
"I cannot believe he would do this to you" he exclaimed, though still whispering at looking at my face. I didn't say anything.
"He has left a mark on you. It wouldn't be too bad if you wanted him to do this to you" he said still looking at me though in a different way, as if wanting me to say something to him.
"This is the last thing I want him to do to me." I said looking at Snape then dropping my gaze to the floor beneath my feet.
"Good" he said looking kind of relieved. "Are you feeling okay?" He asked as he leaned in a little closer.
"I'm okay. It doesn't really hurt and I'm over the shock. Thank you Sir, for doing what you did and intervening when you did" I said sincerly.
"You are quite welcome." He whispered in my ear. He leant back and stepped away from me. I looked up at him and smiled a little. "We should get back into class before its over." he said walking towards the door.
We walked back into the classroom and once again eyes were on us. Snape seemed angry. "I told you to keep your eyes on your work. Make me say it one more time and detentions will be given out" he practically yelled, whilst walking over to his deska nd sittin gin his chair staring at the students and they lowered their gaze to their work. I sat in my seat in between harry and Hermione. Harry looked at me as if he had a million questions he wanted to ask me, which he probably did.
Hermione whispered "everything okay?" I replied "I will tell you later" and we started our work.
I looked down at my blank piece of parchment that I was suppoed to fill with 2000 words on the unforgiveables and words appeared on their own accord.
They read, I would still like to see you tonight. Thought at a different time. Instead of after classes I wish for you to be at my office at 9.
I looked up at Snape and he wad still staring at me a nd he continued to do so all through the lesson. Though it didn't unnerve me like it would others, it made me feel kind of safe.
The class ended quite quickly though it was half over by the time Snape and I returned to the classroom. Harry and Ron had to go to their lesson and Hermione and I had a free lesson together.
"Steph what happened between you, Malfoy and Snape. I mean what did Malfoy do that was so bad that Snape gave him a detention. Snape never gives thos ein the Slytherin house a detention...ever" Ron exclaimed in a very dramatic voice.
"I will tell you later I just want to go and lie down" I said. Ron obviously wanted to know now but harry understood and just said his goodbyes and left dragging Ron with him.
Hermione and I walked in silence to the common room, though it wasn't awkward it was just nice. We went straight up to the dorm and I told Hermione about Snape changing the time of our meeting and what happened outside when we went out of the classroom.
"Why would he change the time and why so late?" Hermione questioned though it was more to herself than me.
"I have no idea" I said. "How do you feel about him anyway Steph?"
"I don't really know. All I know is that what happened today with Malfoy and what happened out in the corridor it made me feel good. I do have feelings for him and after what happened last night I just don't want that to all end" I said to her trying to explain though failing.
"So is this just about sex?" Hermione asked shocking me. Usually she tip-toed around this subject and her she was being so candid and open about it. I'm rubbing off on her I thought with a mental laugh.
"No, not at all. Yeah that was great, fantastic even but there is something deeper." I replied.
"Well thats how you feel so you can tell him that and then just listen to what he has to say. Though it still is really strange as to why he changed the timeof your meeting" she said again speaking to herself.
