She was nearly bouncing up and joy with excitement then she found out that Severus shared not only Herbology this semester but Defense, Charms and study period. If she had blinked she would have missed the wink that the Headmaster sent her way when the schedules were dropped off. They now had more than half the day together and she was ecstatic. Now being in her 6th year with their prerequisites out of the way they were in blended house classes based on their career paths. That meant that some, if not all the Marauders were also in their classes as well. Severus made damn sure that she was at his side and on his arm at all times.
"You'd think they would give us Herbology at the end of the day, so we don't have to smell like shite the whole day." Lucius griped as they all walked out for their first class.
"I had something smartass to say, but I really can't argue with you," Avery said as he held the door open for everyone else to pass through.
The only two classes that Severus didn't share with her was Astronomy and Ancient Runes, he had double advanced potions during that time block. At the end of the first week was the annual back to school party was being held in the dungeons this time. Since Lily had ratted out their secret location last year they had to improvise, she was blacklisted of course and had thrown a fit in the middle of lunch about it when her friends were invited and refused to tell her the location. Severus made sure that Juliet was his date, unlike last time when he watched her come in with Lockhart.
"You're going to the party with me." He said the morning of, his arm on the back of her chair in Defense class.
'Are you asking me or telling me?' She smirked and put her cheek on her palm and leaned on the desk.
"It's cute that you think you have a choice." He leaned forward and growled in her ear. He knew what it did to her.
"I'll take you to the party, Princess. Give you a chance to be seen with a gentleman." Lucius joked and dusted off nonexistent dust from his shoulders.
Before Severus' temper could flare, her wand shot out her comeback. 'Oh is your father going?'
"HAH!" Severus laughed and pointed at him.
Class started, and they began to settle down. The lecture started, and they began to take notes, her sitting on his right so she could keep her left hand on his thigh while she wrote. Halfway through class when the teacher played a slideshow of 'Vampires; Where are they now?' he leaned over and brushed his lips against her ear.
"You are mine. No other will have you, touch you or taste you."
She leaned into him and whispered back. "I know that. Do they know that?" she was referencing to other males that had given her lustful looks since she returned to school.
He moved his arm that was on the back of her chair, his hand slid from her shoulder to the back of her neck. He gripped the choker from behind and firmly, yet slowly pulled it tight in his fist and looked at her with fire in his eyes. "You were mine long before I gave you this. But this… this shows them I've claimed you. You belong to me. Do you understand?" He hissed the words not in anger but possessiveness. He wasn't sure if they were two different things right now.
The look in her eyes, the matched fire his and she licked her lips. She was pushing him; he saw that now. Testing his limits. "Yes." She licked her lips slowly, teasing him.
It wasn't good enough. "Yes, what?" He expected her to say his name or call him a demon, not this.
"Yes… Sir."
He was at a loss for words, for the first time in his life. He if hadn't been angled slightly towards her and sat up straight he was sure that his erection would have been heard hitting the underside of the desk. He held her gaze for a few more moments before letting the choker go and returning his arm to the back of her chair.
Nott and Avery were sitting behind them, though they couldn't hear what was being whispered they had seen it all. "I thought my parent's had a fucked up relationship…" Avery muttered to Nott who nodded slowly.
The night of the party he met her outside of Ravenclaw tower. She fussed that he didn't have to leave the party being held in his own common room for her. He countered that letting his girlfriend wander the castle after hours alone was never going to happen. If she were caught sneaking around at night it better be with him. It was just after curfew and the Marauders actually helped with creating a diversion for people to make it to the party without getting caught, their only stipulation being that they too be invited this year.
He pulled her into the common room, proudly showing her off as he spun her around for all to see. She wore a small pair or jean shorts that ended just below her bottom. In his opinion they were very short. She wore a tight fitted t-shirt that had a faded AC/DC logo with a lightning bolt in the middle. Her black converse we old and worn out but she would never throw them out, they have been with her through many soccer games back home. Her cross necklace was tucked under her shirt, making his choker the only jewelry visible to everyone else. Severus wore a slim fitted V-neck grey shirt under his leather jacket, a pair of blue jeans and his dragon hide boots.
Everyone in the common room rose when they entered and bowed cordially as they were expected to. Only after both of them returned the bow did they resume whatever it was they were doing. His friends saved him a seat in one of the arm chairs by the table they normally occupied after dinner. He took a seat first, then pulled Juliet to sit across his lap. He wrapped one hand possessively around her and the other used to take the cold beers from Avery who passed them.
"Mind your eyes, Rowle." He warned at his friend who was looking right at Juliet's chest.
"I'm trying to figure out that the hell is on her shirt." He said and held his hands up innocently, his beer still in his left hand.
She sat up, puffed her chest out and straightened it. Showing them the name of the band.
"Does that stand for something? From back home?" Sophie asked from her spot on Avery's lap.
She nodded and pulled her wand out. 'It's an Australian rock band.'
"Are they muggle?" Lucius asked immediately.
She tilted her head and remembered the lyrics from Thunderstruck being about the lead singer's first encounter with muggle weapons. 'No.'
"Show us then? The radio is over there." Lucius pointed to the corner where the old record player was playing some chamber music.
Severus rolled his eyes and scoffed. "We just got here, Lucius. Let us have a few beers first before we go traipsing across the castle again."
Juliet jumped up and pulled out something from one of her pockets. She enlarged it with her wand and took it out of the protective sleeve; it was a vinyl.
"I get the magic behind shrinking things, but those pockets are tiny." Severus pointed out as he looked at her backside retreating.
Rowle let out a chuckle. "It's like she was waiting for the right moment." When she set the record, she returned and waited for the first song to start up.
"Is chamber music not to your liking?" Lucius smirked as he raised his brow and his beer.
'God no. It's so dusty and old… like a funeral.' The little ribbon wrote. That caused Lucius to snort his beer out of his nose nearly.
Once the guitar riff started everyone stopped and turned to listen. Juliet was the only one getting into it at first as she thrust her fist in the air with the beat of the song.
"Yeah! That's more like it! Way to go Princess!" an already drunk Sirius called out from his spot across the room.
Regs started moving his head to the beat as well. "I can dig it. AC/DC you said?" she nodded and mouthed along to the lyrics.
"How do you even dance to something like this?" Dani asked.
Juliet jumped up and signed 'I'll show you! Come on Severus!'
He put his hands up and shook his head. "Oh no, I don't dance."
Regs jumped up and bowed, holding a hand out to her. "I'll dance with you!" He looked over to Severus to ask permission instead of her; he knew how his brother was with her.
Severus looked at Regs for a moment and gave him a curt nod. It wasn't a slow song so there shouldn't be any touching, Regs had more than made up for his previous error of touching her. Juliet ran to the middle of the room with Regs got on her heels. She showed him some side to side foot work and moving of the arms and hips. Slowly others joined in the new style of dancing and the volume of the music increased. He watched her jumping up and down, smiling and laughing with his friend. The song sang about Rock and Roll and how it wasn't detrimental to the environment or something.
Some of his friends joined in and took their dates or found a partner on the makeshift dancefloor. He was content in watching her until the next song came on that had something to go with doing things for money. He saw Regs put a hand on her hip and was there faster than Rowle had time to blink.
He tapped Regs on the shoulder and grabbed her by the waist, bringing her to him. If you asked Regs, he was forcefully removed from her persons. She smiled at him and took the two beers that Regs brought back for them and danced circles around them until he found another partner. it didn't take long, a Hufflepuff came around. She clinked his bottle with her own and tilted it back to chug it when the song told them to have a drink on her.
"That's what it took to get you to dance with me?" she whispered into his ear while laughing. He was surprised he could hear her over the music and people.
"Quiet witch."
His smirk and eyes widened at the lyrics being sung on the record player to the next song, more so at her mouthing them to him in a lustful manner. Her hands grabbed a fistful of his jacket and one of her legs between his as they moved back and forth to the fast-paced song. The song was about pouring sugar on someone and licking it off. She told him briefly that it was about a leopard that was hard of hearing, she laughed at his confused face.
"Is this how they dance where you come from?" he growled in her ear as her leg brushed against his crotch.
She thought about it for a second, in her time- yes. She nodded at him and licked her lips, his hands gripped her bottom, palming the tight fitting jeans covering them. This was the best party he had ever been to so far and she was the reason. This song was most definitely not about sugar or alcohol!