Paige walks back to Hogsmeade in a daze. A wonderful, foggy, euphoric daze. She manages to make it back to her room in her day dream state. She goes to unlock her door, but is stopped by someone grabbing her shoulder. She spins around and notices it's Ripley behind her.

"Oh Jesus Rip, you scared the crap out of me." Paige says holding her chest.

"Sorry Captain, I tried calling out to you, but you were sort of out of it." He replies with a friendly smile.

"Oh sorry, must have been lost in my thoughts." She says to him, a grin still on her face.

He gives her a confused look, no doubt never seeing her with a big, dumb grin on her face.

"I was about to go take a hike, you wouldn't happen to want to come this time, would you?" He asks her.

Paige thought about just going inside her room and curling on her beds with her memories, but in the end decides not to ditch Ripley again.

"Yeah, let me just freshen up a little bit and I'll be right out." She says, still smiling at him.

"Really? Awesome, I'll wait for you downstairs." He says as he walks down the hallway.

The sun finally emerges from over the mountain peak as they hit the trail. Making small talk and pleasant conversation along the way. It was a beautiful day for a hike as the leaves on the trees were their spectacular fall colors.

"I'm glad you decided to come with me for a hike today. You seem to be keeping to yourself more this mission." Ripley says as they reach the peak of the trail, overlooking a large valley of trees.

"Yeah sorry, I've been occupied recently." Paige says, trying to catch her breath.

"Anything I can help with?" He asks her as he takes his water bottle out of his bag he had with him and hands it to her.

"No." Paige replies before taking a drink of water.

"Man Paige, even after ten years you're going to do me dirty like that?" He asks with a chuckle.

"If it was anything related to our work you know I would tell you." Paige replies to him, handing his water bottle back to him.

"I've never seen you do personal. Like ever." He says smirking. "Please, enlighten me."

"What do you mean I never do personal?" Paige asks him, slightly insulted.

"Anytime I've tried to talk to you about ANYTHING outside of work you shut that shit down straight away and change the subject." Ripley says to her as he leans against a railing leaning over the valley.

"You've noticed that did you." Paige replies with a smirk.

"So, no hiding now is there?" He says turning to her. "So spill the beans."

"I can't." Paige says, looking down at her feet.

"We're friends, right Paige? I think after all these years we need to get a little personal." Ripley tells her, turning his attention back to the valley.

"Fine, tell me something personal about yourself Rip." Paige says smirking as she leans next to him on the railing.

"Only if your serious about getting more personal with each other." He replies in amusement.

"If you think it's important." Paige responds.

"And you're making me go first?" He asks her teasingly.

"It's your idea."

Ripley takes a deep breath in.

"We're talking as friends right now and not as co-workers, right?" He asks her.

"Yeah of course. Off the clock." She assures him.

"Okay. Well taking the plunge first then." He says as he closes his eyes.

Paige waits as he gathers his wits enough to tell her something personal about him.

"I've been sleeping with Hernandez for the last three months." He blurts out.

Paige's jaw drops.

"Look I know it's against the rules, but it just kind of happened." Ripley continues, desperately trying to explain his reasoning to her.

"Rip. I…" Paige starts to say, but is cut off by Ripley.

"Please don't be mad at me Paige. I tried to tell you so many times, but it never seemed like the right time." Ripley pleads with her.

"Listen Ripley, I'm happy for you two." Paige says to him with a smirk.

"That's it? No, disappointment speech? No 'you're being reckless and dumb. What are you thinking. I'm going to fire you if you don't stop seeing him?'" he asks her in confusion.

"Nope. There was a period at the end of my sentence. Not if's and's or but's to add." Paige replies to him.

"I thought you would have been pissed at me for sleeping with a co-worker." He explains. "You just seemed to be in such a good mood after your meeting with Dumbledore, I figured it was now or never to tell you."

"I trust your judgement on when it's crossing the line from personal and work." Paige replies, looking out over the valley again.

"You're scaring me Paige. Are you feeling alright?" he asks her, putting his hand on her shoulder.

"What are you talking about Jack?" Paige asks him, turning to glare at him.

"Paige, you've been by the book since I met you in Auror school together. You can't blame me for being suspicious for your lax approach to me fucking Juan." Ripley responds, raising his eyebrow.

Paige shrugs her shoulders, playing dumb to his comment.

"What happened at the meeting with Dumbledore?" Ripley asks her, his eyes narrowing.

"What? Nothing happened." Paige lies.

Ripley stands there and thinks for a moment before a smirk appears on his face.

"Did he show you something cool or something?" He asks, nudging her with his elbow.

"Let's head back and grab some breakfast. I'm starving." Paige says, trying to get out of this conversation.

"Paige, you're doing the personal deflect thing again." Ripley says crossing his arms.

"So hungry… unsure if I have the strength… to tell you." Paige mocks, still trying to avoid the conversation.

"Come on Paige, I thought we were bonding here." Ripley says in a whiney voice.

Paige stood silently, looking deep into the valley of trees.

"Look, it can't be worse then sleeping with a co-worker. So just tell me!" Ripley insists.

Paige's eyes widen as she glances over at him.

"Oh sweet Merlin's cookies. It's worse then sleeping with a co-worker." He mutters.

His eyes suddenly go wide, then a look of disgust comes across his face.

"Gross, are you sleeping with Dumbledore?" He asks her.

"No." Paige replies sternly.

"Because I mean, he's great and everything. I was just hoping you'd see someone around your own age." He continues.

"I'm not sleeping with Dumbledore." Paige snaps, trying to get him away from that path in the conversation.

"Oh, thank god. I was going to put you into therapy if you were." Ripley says holding his chest.

Ripley suddenly gets a devilish grin on his face.

"Is it that dark and broken looking teacher we met at the train station?" He asks shaking Paige's shoulders in excitement.

"He's not a dark and broken looking teacher." Paige says with a sigh and rolling her eyes.

"It is him! Oh man Paige, I didn't think you had it in you." Ripley says excitedly.

"What's the supposed to mean?" Paige asks him with a glare.

"I honestly lost hope in your dating life years ago." He replies chuckling.

"Thanks" She says sarcastically "And we aren't dating. There is no relationship."

"Didn't peg you for a 'hit it and quit it' type." Ripley says mockingly.

"What do you mean?" She asks.

"Well, what's the plan for after we leave? Are you going to pass up that big, fat promotion back home? Is he going to give up his job, his life, everything to move?" Ripley asks her seriously.

Paige didn't really put much thought into it before diving headfirst into her situation.

"Maybe a long-distance thing? We haven't really discussed the label on it. Who knows, it might just turn out to be nothing anyways." Paige replies, putting more thought into it.

"I just don't want to see you get hurt Paige." Ripley says as he puts his hand on her shoulder.

"Thanks for the concern." Paige smiles back at him.

"Okay, I think now we can go for breakfast." Ripley says wrapping his arm around her shoulder and leading her back down the trail they came from.

Paige couldn't stop thinking of Severus during the rest of her day off. She was anxious to get back to her watch so she could see him again. She couldn't stop thinking of his hands on her, his lips on hers, she wanted every part of him, and it was driving her mind and body insane.

She could hardly contain her desire for him when she see the familiar lantern come close to the forest at 3am the next night.
The light extinguishes from the lantern as Paige jumps down from her tree. A figure standing about 10 feet away is just watching her. She knew it was him without an explanation. She runs towards the figure, it still not moving, and she jumps into him, wrapping her legs around his waist and pressing her lips against his. He pushes her against a near by tree trunk and quickly unbuttons her pants, then moves his hand inside the front of her pants, rubbing her thought her underwear.

"We have to be quick, the Ministry Aurors are hanging around this area tonight." Severus whispers to her as she buries her head in his shoulder, trying to suppress her moans.

He slides his hand underneath her underwear. Paige grips his robes tightly as pleasure ripples though her. She lets out a small moan when he inserts one of his fingers inside her. He covers her mouth with his free hand to muffle her sound.
Paige looks into his eyes; he seems amused that he must cover her mouth to try and keep her silent.
She continues to moan into his hand as he both rubs her clit and pumps his finger inside her. The pleasure climbing with every passing second.

"I'm going… to…" Paige starts to say though his hand.

He suddenly stops as Paige was just about to climax. He uncovers her mouth.

"What's wrong?" Paige asks, looking around to see if he saw somebody.

"Nothing's wrong. Sometimes the build up is worth the wait." He replies as he removes his hand from her pants.

"I'm sorry, what did you just say?" Paige asks in disbelief as he helps her back to her feet.

"See you tomorrow night, Captain Asher." He replies with the evilest grin she's ever seen come across his face.

"You're not serious, are you?" She calls out after him as he walks away from her.

All she could do was just watch him walk away. Standing in her own sexual frustration.

The next night, at the same time as always, the same familiar lantern approaches Paige in the forest. Her body feeling so sensitive that she swears if he touches her, she might just shatter. She stands with her arms crossed when he gets to the usual tree.

"What the hell was that last night?" Paige asks, her frustration showing.

Severus says nothing to her as he moves closer towards her. He presses his lips against her. Paige was still upset about last night but was too weak to resist him. He turns her around so she's facing the tree and presses his body against hers, his hand reaching for her pants again. He slides his other hand up her shirt and cups her breast as he un-does the button on her pants. After getting them un-done he quickly slips his hand down both her pants and underwear. He feels how wet she is already for him.

"This is what I want." He whispers in her ear as her whole-body trembles.

He slowly starts to rub her clit, as she digs her fingernails into the tree. He suddenly pulls his hand out of her pants and out from underneath her shirt. Paige's legs give out on her, and she falls to her knees in front of the tree. She looks over her shoulder and curses as Severus is already walking back towards the castle.

The next night Paige decides to switch up her game plan. She stands there confidently as Severus approaches her at their usual time.

"No games tonight. Just tell me if you have a report or not and you can be on your way." Paige says sternly to him.

He says nothing as he walks up closer to her. Without touching her, he stands inches away from her face.

"Are you sure?" He whispers to her.

She already can't fight him anymore. She craves him and would anything he asked her just to get a hit of him. She feels like she's losing control of anything about this situation, and it excites her.
She shakes her head no in response, unable to speak. Severus pins her against the tree, lifting one of her legs around his waist. She reaches for the front of his pants, trying to unbutton them to get at his dick. He grabs both of her hands with his and holds them above her head against the tree.

"Keep your hands there." He orders her.

She does what she's told as he moves his hands away from hers. He unbuttons her pants and slides his hand down her pants, like the last two nights before. After nights of sexual frustration building up, she feels like she could climax at any second. His touch feeling so incredible unlike anything she's felt before in her life. As soon as her body tenses, he stops.

"Not yet." He whispers to her as he removes his hand.
"I don't know how much more I can take." Paige says to him, lowering her arms and using the tree to steady herself as she buttons up her pants again.

"It will be worth it, I promise." He replies before he kisses her.

Paige pulls away from him.

"I don't know what's stopping me from just finishing the job myself." Paige says with a smirk.

"Do it then." He dares her.

Paige glares at him.

"See you tomorrow night Captain Asher." He says with a smug smile on his face.

"Professor Snape." Paige replies, still glaring at him.

On the fourth night, Paige was already waiting for him at the bottom of the tree when he arrives at 3am. He approaches her, an amused grin on his face.

"Not tonight, Captain Asher." He says smugly as Paige walks closer to him.

"Not tonight?" Paige asks in disbelief.

"You might not be able to 'handle' it." He mocks.

"Hm, I wonder if the roles were reversed if you would still have that smug look on your face." She says as she crosses her arms.

"I guess if that happens, we will have to see." He smirks. "Goodnight, Captain Asher."

He turns to leave her.

"Please." She whispers to him.

"What did you say?" He asks, turning back around to her.

"Please." Paige repeats louder, her desire for him a full-on raging inferno of a forest fire.

Without another word he presses his lips into hers. He quickly manages to unbutton her pants and starts pulling them off her hips while still having his lips on hers. She steps out of her pants and underwear as he un-buttons his pants and pulls out his already hard dick. She wraps her legs around his waist, not wanting to wait a second longer to have him inside her. He covers her mouth as he slowly slides his dick in her, as a loud moan escapes her mouth. She feels all the pent-up sexual energy she's been holding onto for days build up higher and higher as she was already close to climaxing. She grips the back of his cloak and moans again as he thrusts into her again, her fingertips and toes going numb from the pleasure. He moves his hand as Paige hides her face in his shoulder to muffle her moans as he thrusts into her again.

"Please don't stop." She begs, so close to climaxing.

He only stops for a second to move her head from his shoulder and press his lips against hers. He continues thrusting into her. Every inch of her body tenses then releases into an intense pleasure. She leans up against the tree, trying to catch her breath as little fireworks feel like they're going off in her head. He moves away from her and turns her around. He bends her over, leaning her into the tree. She feels pleasure again as he puts his dick back in her. She digs her nails into the tree as he thrusts into her harder and faster. There was nothing she could do to suppress her moans at this point. Her body tightens again as she reaches another climax. She could feel him tense up behind her, then feels a warm liquid hit her exposed butt-cheeks. He turns her around again and presses his lips against hers, her mind still foggy and her body still trembling. He slowly pulls away from her leaving her barely standing against the tree. He grabs her clothes and hands it back to her.

"I'll see you tomorrow." He says as he buttons up his pants.

Paige couldn't speak. All she could do was nod her head, indicating she understood. He smirks and leaves her to dress.

That night Paige learned his secret to giving her what she wants. All she had to do was ask nicely for it.