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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16TH, 2007

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Song used for this chapter is called:

"The Story of Us"- by My Last Mistake

An Angel's Voice

Chapter 14: "That Was Fun" & The Story of Us

Recap:

"Beautiful voice she has. Doesn't she," a warm voice asked behind Severus.

"You're right headmaster," Severus said not even opening his eyes knowing who it was.

Dumbledore chuckled richly and left Severus to his thoughts. Before he left though he gave Severus a small talk, "I wouldn't loose her if I were you, Severus. You don't come across these kinds of gems anywhere, my boy. Don't throw her away like you did the last time. Let her get to know you more…" Dumbledore sighed before finishing up his speech, "the good…and the bad."

Severus opened one eye and saw his headmaster's shadow leave the corner. He sighed as he ran a hand through his hair. 'That part might be tricky,' and with that thought, Severus stood up and headed to bed. Man, was tonight a memory to never forget.

Now:

Hermione walked down the halls just looked around through the windows. Last night was a memorable night and she'll never forget it! A smile crept on her face, if she had paid attention to what was in front of her, she would have seen a figure's shadow stalking behind the wall.

WAM!

Hermione fell back with a loud thud and groaned. She looked up to see her professor standing as if the hit never touched their firm body. The figure reached out its hands helping Hermione up. Hermione gratefully took the hand and got up so quickly that she almost fell forward. Good thing that the professor held her still. Hermione blushed at her lack of gracefulness. "Sorry Professor," she said as her professor let her go after making a reassurance that she was able to stand fully on her on.

"Quite all right, Miss Granger," Severus drawled out as he looked down at Hermione.

Hermione looked at him and smiled, "well…I'll be on my way then, Professor." As Hermione walked pass him, a hand quickly stopped her on her arm. Hermione looked at the ground, still. She slowly looked at her professor and looked at him with confusion and a little bit of shakiness. "Yes, Professor."

Severus, still having his hand on Hermione's arm, said barely in a whisper, "just wanted to congratulate you first on going into the next round in the Talent Show."

"Thank you professor," Hermione said after Severus let his hand fall to his sides.

Quickly going back to his serious tone, Severus talked again, "before I leave you in your happiness…" Severus' voice became instantly firm and serious that you could tell that there was no humor at all, "you have detention with me tonight," he smirked after he saw Hermione's face.

"What," she said in disbelief, "since when?!"

"I thought you were smart enough to know, Miss Granger," he smirked again when he saw fire in her eyes. That smirk only made Hermione more peeved.

"Well excuse me, Professor, if you don't remember I didn't see you coming around the corner. And if I had, I wouldn't have slammed into you," she said.

"Oh well my bad," Severus said close to making it seem like he was in New York and he had that attitude that everyone had…well mostly everyone. (A/n: I mean no offense to the New Yorkers…I love NY…it's the big Apple! By the way…if someone can tell me why they call it "the big apple" than that would be great to let me know that. Now back to the story.) "I didn't realize that, but a detention is a detention and there is no way going out of it."

Hermione had her hands on her hip and looked at him straight in the eye with her mouth sealed shut to not say something completely offensive. Severus had his hands crossed over his chest and smirking. If someone who didn't know who these people were that were just passing by, they would probably think it's a weird couple that was having its spat. Also, they would find this amusing. Two different houses fighting over some detention one who was beginning to have a ghetto accent with their English mixed in and the other one who is just not believing what their hearing.

"Detention right after dinner, Miss Granger," Snape said as he made a sharp turn letting his robes bellow as always and walked away from the pissed off Hermione.

"You're not being fair, Professor," Hermione shouted to her professor.

"10 points for yelling to a teacher," he shouted with amusement. He could see Hermione shaking in fury. He then turned to her and looked at her with one arched up eyebrow, "and what are you going to do about it, Miss Granger," he asked in a taunting voice. Oh was Sevy having a fun morning! Hermione, knowing she couldn't say anything without getting hexed, points takin' off, or getting killed, she turned away and muttered about how completely barbaric this was.

Once Hermione turned the corner, Severus went back to whatever he was doing and said, "that was fun," he finished off with a snort.

Hermione was seething now as she walked down to the Great Hall where supper was starting. She took her seat next to Harry where Harry had his left arm draped around Ginny's shoulder that, by the way, loved every second of it. Ginny closed her eyes and sighed happily as she leaned closer to Harry's body. Ginny jumped when she heard a male voice clear and open her eyes and looked behind her. There stood Ron who was had a very disapproving look to her and his friend. Harry saw Ginny's movement and saw Ron too.

"Well…look this," Ron said shaking his head, "and when did I approve you, Ginerva Weasley, to date my friend," he said through his teeth.

"What," Ginny said as she stood up her, "since when did you control my life, Ronald Weasley?"

"Since mother's not here," he retorted, "also, he's twice your age!"

"Nu-uh, he's only one year older than me. Besides I think I can look after myself, thank you very much."

No sooner later was the young Weasley daughter and the brother of her was getting the attention of everyone around those two. Hermione, knowing very well that Ginny might be close to punching her own brother, stepped in between the two.

"Okay," Hermione said with a smile as she breathed in, "I think everyone needs to calm down and take a deep breath." Ginny took Hermione's advice and breathed in, Ron didn't, "ahem," Ron averted his anger eyes over to Hermione and breathed in a small amount of air. Hermione frowned at Ron's participation, "good enough. Now, Ron, Ginny's right, it's her choice to choose who she dates, not you."

Ron was about to object, but was stopped by a hand that was hugging one of Ron's arms. Ron looked around and saw Lavender who shook her head, "Ron just leave it alone," she said helping out Hermione with a smile. Hermione was slightly surprised by the help with Lavender and took a mental note to thank her later on.

Ron took a long deep breath and turned to Harry who made a small jump when he saw a glare that was towards him, "if you hurt her, Harry Potter, mark my words, you will feel sorry," he said in a low malice voice that sounded close to like a demon. Harry gulped and nodded vigorously. Instantly Ron's face turned to a bright smile that made Harry lean back. In a sweet voice Ron only said, "good," and then he sat back down with Lavender like the disagreement never happened.

Harry looked a little bit shaken and Ginny sat next to him and hugged him. Seeing that scarred look on Harry's face made Ginny a little worried, "you all right, Harry," she softly.

Harry nodded and then commented; "yeah, just remind me to never get your brother mad at me again," Ginny chuckled and placed a kiss on Harry's cheek making Harry blush madly. Hermione chuckled at Harry's face as she had some pumpkin juice.

Hermione rolled her eyes after she saw Ron's face scrunch up at Ginny's action towards Harry. She made a laugh in her throat and with that she finished her breakfast saying, "That was fun."

It was in the afternoon when Hermione finally got time to talk to Lavender without the others overhearing her. Lavender was walking down the grass field when she heard a voice and turned around.

"Lavender," Hermione called out to her, "there you are. I've been meaning to talk with you about this morning." Lavender looked at Hermione with a strait face, "it's not that I am not happy that you helped me out, it's just, what changed your mind?"

Lavender sighed and began to speak, "my boyfriend talked to me a yesterday about it…I—," she took another breath, "I'm sorry. As you can probably tell I rarely say 'I'm sorry.'"

Hermione smiled and just accepted the apology. She could defiantly tell that Lavender rarely did this so her just saying two words of an apology worked with her.

Lavender smiled back at Hermione. The two stood there looking at different places and sometimes at each other, it felt…awkward. 'Now what,'Lavender asked to herself. "So is this the only thing you wanted to talk about?"

"No, actually. I was hoping that after the apology or the small chat that we could…talk."

"Oh…well what do you want to talk about?"

"I'm not sure," Hermione said with a slight smile of feeling like an idiot right now.

The two looked at each other not saying anything. They both laughed at the awkwardness that was radiating off each other.

"Are you busy tonight, maybe we could go hangout or something," Lavender suggested.

"Actually I can't," Hermione said. She saw Lavender's disappointment and quickly added, "it's not because I don't want to hang out with you I just have…"

"Have," she asked goading her.

"Detention…again," Hermione said. She laughed once she saw Lavender's mouth open in shock.

"What did you get in this time?"

"A long story…and I serve it with Professor Snape."

Lavender gasped, "Oh that sucks! Oh well, maybe next time then?"

Hermione nodded and headed back in the school with Lavender following behind."

"Oh I've been meaning to ask," Lavender said as they walked closer to the main entrance of Hogwarts.

Hermione looked at Lavender, "about what?"

"Did you see who is on the list that made it to the next round," she said with a smile like she was hiding something.

"No," Hermione shook her head as she looked at Lavender look at her wondering if she was going to continue with what she was going to say.

"Oh," she said in a high voice, she walked ahead of Hermione and turns her head to her left shoulder and told Hermione, "I would go see it then, Hermione."

Hermione walked over to the list where the people that were made it to the next round.

Congratulations for making to the next round:

Next round will be in a week. Be prepared and have fun!

Harry Potter & Ron Weasley

Ginny Weasley

Draco Malfoy

Hermione Granger…

There were six other people, but Hermione didn't pay attention. The four names were all she needed to see, even if one of the names were Draco. Hermione left to get to her last class for the day and headed down to Charms.

After Charms was finished, Hermione walked into the Great Hall and sat next to Ron and Lavender.

"Hey Lavender," Hermione said cheerfully.

Lavender looked up at Hermione and smiled, "Hey 'Mione!"

The Gryffindor Duo and Ginny looked at each other with furrowed eyebrows. Since when did they become such good friends all of a sudden?

Lavender looked at her boyfriend and could see they were wondering. "We made up after lunch you guys."

"Oh," the three said in a union causing Hermione and Lavender to chuckle as they shook their heads.

Hermione ate quickly and was about to head to the dungeons when her friends asked where she was going, "I have detention with Professor Snape." The gang, except Lavender, looked at her with their mouths slightly parted, "and he said I have to come down as soon as I finish dinner."

Ginny gave her a sympathy look as Ron and Harry were thinking of how they would love to hex their potions teacher. "Cheer up you guys," Lavender said to the gang, cutting themselves our of their reverie, "we'll make it alive." The gang gave a lame smile to Lavender. Lavender rolled her eyes and then looked to Hermione, "I'm making mental note to myself that they are hopeless without you."

Hermione smiled before she left to the dungeons. She knocked on the door and heard Snape's voice yell, "Enter!"

Hermione jumped a little bit. She wasn't expecting a malice voice from him. He knew she had to serve detention, but what happened to the niceness in his voice this morning. Hermione bit her lip and entered in the room. She was completely ignored by her professor and Hermione was beginning to wonder why.

Without looking up, Snape spoke, "you'll be cleaning those cauldrons," he pointed over to a dark corner, still not looking up, "and once you're done you leave."

Hermione felt hurt by his sharpness at her, but did as she was told.

Two hours passed and still neither Snape nor Hermione spoke. Hermione was beginning to feel her eyes begin to water. Did she do something wrong?

'Of course! Merlin, Hermione! The only reason he was even being, for once in his life, nice to a Gryffindor was because he had no choice. He knew you were fragile then, but now that you can finally walk…he could give a crap about you.' Hermione heard in her head.

'That's not true,' Hermione told herself in a weak voice.

'Yes,' it hissed in her ear, 'it is true. You really think that he ever cared for you,' the voice asked tauntingly, after a few second it gasped, 'oh you did, didn't you?' it laughed at her,'how pathetic. But hey, you always knew it was never going to stay all lovey-dovey. Didn't you? Ha! Again you think there's a brighter side to this. Keep on looking over that horizon, Hermione, but it'll never show. I'm surprised he's been kind for this long. I suspected him to be ignoring you by now. Who would ever want to touch, hear, or even look at a filthy mudblood, huh? I know I wouldn't. But since I'm here, I might as well make your life a living hell.'

Hermione worked faster and she was soon finished. She hurried out the door, not wanting to let her disgusting figure kill her professor. She felt hot tears run down her cheek as she ran all the way to her floor where the Gryffindor's dorm were.

Hermione instantly collapsed and decided that she didn't want to face her friends. 'It would make them feel disgusted for even talking to her,' she thought. Hermione headed towards the Room of Requirements and pleaded in her head a stormy beach where the sand was black and everything was all doom and gloom. Soon enough the passage appeared and Hermione ran in it. Shut the door and walked slowly to the sand where the ocean was touching. Hermione walked into the ocean floor and sat there, not caring at all that she was beginning to get soaked from the waves.

Hermione pleaded again for her guitar and it was next to her side in an instant. She opened her guitar case and saw a picture of her Potions professor hanging on top of her guitar. She smiled sadly as her tears began to conjure in her eyes.

'Oh look at this, little Granger is crushed,' the voice came back again and taunted at Hermione's state.

"Leave me alone," Hermione whispered to it.

'Ah,' it thought, 'no,' it said simply.

"LEAVE ME ALONE!"Hermione screamed to it. After a few seconds of silence, Hermione put her guitar on her lap and she strummed her guitar as tears welled up in her eyes.

"The evening sun begins to fade,

And everyone just drifts away.

There's only you, and only me,

Silent here with nothing left to say.

Hermione let at least one tear fall out.

A single tear runs down my face,

And I am lost in what to do,

I cannot speak, I cannot move,

Just only look back at you.

Then you turn and walk away,

And I just watch you leave,

This is the story of us,

The story of you, the story of me.

How could you leave me,

After all we've been through,

I guess you just meant more to me,

Than I ever did to you.

Then you turned and walked away,

And I just watched you leave.

This is the story of us,

The story of you, the story of me"

Hermione laid her guitar down and cried herself to sleep that night. Letting the ocean's waves cover her cries.

(A/n: You guys probably hate me for doing that, but there is a reason I needed this to work. I hope you guys understand. Okay thanks you guys for reviewing so much! I love it how I got 10 reviews on the last chapter! You guys make me so happy! Ooo! I can't wait for more, can you?

Marry Christmas or, if you aren't Christian, Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!

Chapter updated: Monday, December 24, 2007