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The next morning, Severus woke up before Miranda. 'Ah, finally a chance to return the favor,' he thought with a smirk. He leaned in next to her and kissed her. It was a passionate, searing kiss. He ran his tongue along her bottom lip and caressed her tongue with his. She woke up and moaned into his mouth.
"Good morning," he purred in his deep baritone.
"Now, see, I think your wake up calls are even better than mine," she said.
After looking at the clock, he said, "It's 7:15," and started getting up.
"No," she groaned and pulled the covers over her head. "I don't want to get up yet."
"Don't make me drag you out of bed," he threatened.
"You wouldn't!" said Miranda, peeking out from under the sheets.
"Oh yes I would." Severus grabbed her within the mountain of blankets and carried her to the kitchen. He made toast, and placed her in a chair. "Now, stay here, eat, then get ready to teach."
"You trust me to teach?"
"No, but it's up to you to keep the dunderheads quiet." 'Oh yes,' she thought. She remembered threatening to make out with Sev. 'Well, hopefully I won't have to threaten anything more…extreme.' She wondered what Ron Weasley would do if she threatened to do that with Sev in front of the class.
The possibilities were endless and almost caused her to fall out of her chair with laughter.
"I may regret asking this, but what are you laughing at now?" Severus inquired walking into the room, just as he finished buttoning his teaching robes.
"Ron" gasp of air, "Weasley."
"Ah, yes, one of the biggest dunderheads."
Miranda dressed in jade green robes for the day, which sparked comment from Severus. "Well, darling," he said, "it does appear that I am Slytherizing you. Though I must say, I'm not complaining."
"Darling?"
"You have your nicknames, I have mine."
The day went uneventfully until it was time for fifth year potions. It was directly after lunch. Severus and Miranda stormed into the room in what the students thought was supposed to be one last attempt at remaining terrifying. In reality, they had gotten a little sidetracked and had to rush to actually make it to class on time.
"Put you books away," Severus said. The class gave a questioning look, but did as he said. "Now, you are all going to prepare an oral report and when you're done you will present it to the class." At the mention of oral, Miranda snorted and blushed.
She covered with a sneeze. "Allergies," was her excuse. No one noticed Severus' cheeks tinge pink.
"Right, well, anyway, as I was saying, you will all prepare a report on a different potion. No one will be able to do the same potion so that there is no copying," he said giving a pointed look at Weasley and Potter. "You may begin."
Halfway through class, Ron Weasley was whispering to Hermione. "Psst, what are the properties of the mandrake root?"
"Honestly, Ron!" she whispered back. "We learned that in second year. Figure it out for yourself!"
"Come on 'Mione, just one little answer?"
Seeing Ron was not going to give up, Miranda casually walked over, pulled up a chair, and sat down like she was talking to a girlfriend. "Oh my gosh, Ronald!" she whispered excitedly. "I have the best news!"
"What are you doing?" he asked, alarmed. Everyone else watched with amusement.
"Talking, silly!" she said in a voice about an octave above her normal one. "Ok, so ohmygosh! You will never believe what happened last night. So, like first, Umbridge came over." She was chewing her gum loudly and twirling her hair around her finger. "So, yeah, and like, I have my cat in my room and Umbridge wanted to pet her and she like totally pissed the cat off and it bit her and ohmygosh it was so funny. You should have been there," she said patting his arm. "And then when she left, like me and Sev were talking and one thing led to another, and wow, just wow. We started, oh what's your word for it, snogging, then we ended up in the bedroom and it's amazing those clothes came off so quickly what with all those buttons! And he has the biggest-"
"Okay, okay," shouted Ron. "I don't wanna know what happened next!"
"But I was telling you about my day and since you want to talk so much, I just thought you'd want to talk to me and we could have fun talking about our relationships?" she asked, acting upset.
"No! I won't talk anymore I promise. Just please, please let me do my homework." Never before had Ron Weasley asked to be allowed to do his homework.
"Sure, just remember that if you try to cheat again, in any class, I'll just have to have another girl talk with you." As she was about to turn away, Hermione mouthed 'thank you'. She simply nodded in response. She could tell from Ron's attitude that he believed Hermione existed solely for the purpose of doing his assignments for him.
It wasn't right. Miranda knew what it was like to have people think she was only there to do other's homework. It was the only way she could make friends when she was a kid. Her parents always told her to never talk about her home life, so she couldn't really make any real friends. And Severus was the first person to enjoy spending time with her just because of the person she was. It wasn't because of her status, or power, or money. She just couldn't lose him, not when he meant this much to her.
That's why she agreed to become a spy for the Order of the Phoenix. If something happened to Sev, she might be able to save him somehow.
So what did you think? It's fun teasing Ron in Potions class! J So you learned a little bit more about Miranda's childhood and why she doesn't really like Ron, he reminds her of her 'friends' she had as a kid.