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A/N: OK This one is goin out faster than the other one did. Sorry again for the delay of the other one!! I really hope that I won't take as long for the other chapters...
I absolutely love/adore everyone who reviewed so far!! You are the best!!!!
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Hermione began explaining what happened on the tower. She told them all about what Malfoy did and how Snape had caught him just in time. She paused a couple of times during the story to hold down some tears. Even though it was a great relief to get this all out in the open, it really hurt her to talk about it. She had put it in the back of her mind and was hoping that was where it would stay.
While telling the story she tried her hardest to look her two best friends in the eyes. Finding that was impossible she looked at the ground while telling it. When she was finally done with the story, ending it with "And now I feel so...so...helpless," she looked at their faces for their reactions.
Harry was staring at her with his mouth wide open and his fists clenched. The thing that scared Hermione was his eyes. They were bloodshot and looked furious.
Ron's head looked like it was about to explode. He was red from ear to ear and his eyes looked like they were about to pop out. "THAT LITTLE PIECE OF SH*T! WAIT UNTIL I SEE HIM!" he screamed. Every head in the library was now in their direction. Ron didn't notice this and went on further "UGH THAT SON OF A BI*CH!" and slammed his fists on the table. At this Madam Pince strode over and told Ron off for inappropriate language in the library.
After they calmed down a little (which took a VERY long time) they looked at Hermione. Suddenly they felt uncomfortable. They had never dealt with this type of situation before. Harry told her that everything was going to be alright. He told her that she'd feel better soon and not to think about it. Ron stood up and sat next to Hermione. He put his arms around her. As soon as he touched her though Hermione jumped up. She shook Ron off and started shaking.
"What's wrong? I'm not going to hurt you." Ron said. He looked at Harry who had a puzzled look on his face. He tried putting his hand on Hermione's but she flinched and pulled back her arm. She looked at her friends with tears in her eyes and started to run towards the door.
"Hermione wait!" Harry shouted. Hermione took one last glance at them and left.
"I wasn't going to hurt her." Ron said
"I know, I don't think it was personal. I don't think she's going to let anyone touch her for a while. But, I mean, can you blame her?"
"Guess not...But I wish there was something we could do..."
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Hermione ran to her room. She fell onto her bed and started to cry. She took a glance at her watch and saw that it was 10 minutes until her next lesson; Potions. She didn't know how she could face Malfoy or Snape or anyone for that matter. She just wanted to be invisible. She knew, however, that she could not afford to miss any of her lessons because the N.E.W.T.S. were only a year away. (A/N: ONLY a year away, lol.) She slowly got up and got a tissue. How could she face them? She knew she would have to eventually though. "I can do this." She said aloud. "I can't hide from the inevitable." She picked up her books and walked out of her room.
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In the hall Harry and Ron spotted Snape.
"I think we should thank him" Harry said. 'Did I just say that?'
"Yeah. If it wasn't for him Hermione would have been, er, well you know." Ron replied.
"I know. Raped." They both shivered involuntarily.
"Professor Snape!" Ron called.
He turned around and looked at them with one of his famous faces of disgust. "What Mr. Weasley?"
"Uh, well, me and Harry just wanted to thank you for helping Hermione last night."
"Yea, that was really decent of you Professor." Harry said.
"Are you going to be starting the Professor Snape fan-club now? Honestly, I was only doing my job. Its not like I went out that night in search of young girls who were being taken advantage of. Now if you'll excuse me" He said. He gave them one last scowl and strode to his classroom.
"You're welcome boys. Anything I can do to help." Harry said sarcastically as he watched Snape walk away. "Geez it's like we told him that he's an ugly git or something. We were only thanking him."
"Well, it's Snape. What did you expect?"
"Nothing. I just thought since he was on our side in this whole Voldemort thing that he might make an effort to not be such a complete ass."
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'They thanked me.' Snape was telling himself as he started preparing for his class. 'Great, I help out their little friend and now I'm Potter's little hero.' Wait a second. Maybe this wasn't so bad. He would be the hero's hero. That wouldn't be too horrible...Wait, yes it would. He didn't want to be *anything* to Potter or any of his freinds. Well, maybe he wanted to be something to one of them. For some reason, after he had seen her so vulnerable, Snape had started to think of Hermione differently. Not sexually or anything, just different. He had always seen her as being so calm and collected. She was a typical know-it-all (A/N: VERY cliche, but that is genuinly what Snape thinks of her) and always knew, or tried to make it look like she knew, the answer to everything. Somehow seeing her so, *messy*, made him think of her differently. He actually thought that he was starting to have some feelings for her, which scared him more than anything. 'I can't have feelings for a student. It's not right.' So he put any feelings or thoughts about Hermione in the back of his head and finished preparing for class.
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When Hemione entered the potions class she looked around. She was VERY early and was the only person there so far. 'Good. That gives me some time before I have to see Malfoy again' she thought. Snape was there, of course, but he paid no attention to her. He just kept moving papers around his desk and looking at his watch. It was like he was purposely avoiding her gaze. 'He can't even look at me. I'm just so, dirty.' (A/N: My friend was raped and she kept saying that she felt violated and very dirty. I'm not just makin up random feelings or somethin.)
She walked to the back of the classroom and sat down in the darkest possible spot, hoping not to be seen by anyone. Thankfully, her plan worked. About 15 minutes later students started to enter, and none of them even took a glance in her direction. When Harry and Ron entered, they didn't see her either. They were looking around the room though. She couldn't decide whether they were looking around for her or Malfoy, and she couldn't decide which one she would prefer. When Malfoy entered, her question was answered.
The both grabbed Malfoy's robes and slammed him against a wall.
"You are disgusting Malfoy." Harry growled at him. "I don't even know what to say to you. Its just so pathetic that the only way you can get girls is to try and rape them. You knew you could never score with a high-class girl like Hermione so you tried to get her in your own way. And that didn't work either. You are just so disgusting."
Instead of talking, Ron just walked right up to him and punched him in the nose. It was bleeding freely and Malfoy placed his hand on it in order to slow down the flow. Crabbe and Goyle stood up next to Malfoy and gave death stares in Ron's direction. Malfoy just looked around for Professor Snape, but he was no-where to be found.
"That was just the beginning Malfoy. We'll find you without your little body guards and we'll make you pay properly for what you have done to Hermione. You will pay." And with that, both Ron and Harry looked around the room and made there way into the seats next to Hermione. She didn't even say something like "You shouldn't have punched him, Ron, you're going to get in trouble." She just gave them a weak but gratifying smile.
When Snape walked in Malfoy practically ran up to him.
"Professor Snape, Weasly punched me in the nose. I only went up to him to say hello and he just attacked me." Malfoy said. He looked over at Ron who pounded his fist on the desk. He quickly returned his gaze to the Professor.
"I don't see any sign of a bruise. Take your seat Mr. Malfoy." Snape said silkily.
"But Professor--!"
"I *said*, take your seat!"
Malfoy strode over to his seat and burried his nose in his robes, trying to use them as a sort of tissue to clean the blood.
"Miss Granger" Snape said.
"Uh, yes Professor?" Hermione said quietly. Many heads whipped in her direction having not noticed she had been there at all.
"Please stay after class. I need to discuss your potions paper with you."
"What potions pap--Oh. Ok. Yes, Professor."
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After class Hermione walked over to Snape's desk, Harry and Ron on either side of her.
"I don't recall I asked either one of you to stay here. GO!" He yelled.
They reluctantly obeyed and told Hermione to meet them outside.
"Take a seat, Miss Granger."
Hermione strode over to the seat next to his desk and timidly sat down.
"Uh, how are you?" He asked her. He looked very uncomfortable, Hermione noticed, so she decided to try to make this quick.
"I'm fine, Professor. There's no need for you to worry about me."
"I was not worrying in the slightest bit Miss Granger, it was a simple question."
"Oh. Well then. I'm fine." she said cooly. If she had any thoughts that Snape's attitude might have changed towards her, they were quickly removed from her mind. "I should go Professor. Uh, thank you for your concern."
"Once again, it was not concer--"
"Whatever" she cut in. "Bye"
As he watched her leave he put his head in his hands. After a minute or so he stood up and shook his head. 'Why should I care about this?' he thought. In the back of his mind, he knew why he cared. He had obviously fallen for the girl. He would just have to hide his feelings forever. He would never act upon them. He couldn't. Not ever.
Not ever?
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SORRY IF THIS WAS SHORT!! I write them and don't really realized their lengths.
To my reviewers:
I LOVE YOU!!!! OMG you are the absolute reason that I write anything!!! If no one reviewed I would definitely NOT have continued with this story. I'm just soo nervous I'm gonna let you guys down!!
MagicalMe: I only review stories which I absolutely LOVED! I remember your story and thinking it was amazing. You are a great writer and you deserved my review!! Thanx for reviewin mine!!! xoxoxo
gorgegirl: No problem for thanking you!! and thanx again hun
babigirlxoxo: Thanx!! LoL I didn't like snape at first either :-)
Marie: thanx a bunch!! you'll hafta wait but not much longer!! And take care 2 u too!! =)
Kylee: Thank you so much, that means a LOT to me !!
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EmoErick: Thank you!! That was soo nice thanx a lot babe!
THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH TO: Lady Viviane, DarkAngelChick (i read some of your stories and LOVED them!! Thanx!!), DarkFire, Nicolette, Wondergirl, AJ(thanx! yep, continuing...), Melon (sorry about the scottland thing), and Jaheira!!!! (if i forgot anyone omg im sorry and def. tell me!!!)
OK...Listen you guys...lemme "rephrase" something. I love all of the reviewers who review NICELY...not even nicely...at least with some constructive critisism that I can work with. I read one of my reviews last night and almost started to cry. I know its REALLY stupid to cry about a review on a fanfiction story but i was truly hurt. I know I'm not the best writer in the world, but i did try to make an OK story...I'm 13 and i'll admit it, i'm not the greatest with vocabulary and such. But LISTEN, OVERDUE, YOU ARE SOO FU**IN RUDE!! if you didn't like my story, fine, no biggee, i honestly could care less (well i care if people dont like it but i dont care what losers like you think about my stories). You didn't have to write such a horrible review about it. That was just messed up. You're so pathetic. ugh get a life
sorry guys....i was just really upset :-( PLEASE review my story!! I love you all!!! (except "overdue")
MWA!! xoxoxoxoxo ily
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A/N: OK This one is goin out faster than the other one did. Sorry again for the delay of the other one!! I really hope that I won't take as long for the other chapters...
I absolutely love/adore everyone who reviewed so far!! You are the best!!!!
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Hermione began explaining what happened on the tower. She told them all about what Malfoy did and how Snape had caught him just in time. She paused a couple of times during the story to hold down some tears. Even though it was a great relief to get this all out in the open, it really hurt her to talk about it. She had put it in the back of her mind and was hoping that was where it would stay.
While telling the story she tried her hardest to look her two best friends in the eyes. Finding that was impossible she looked at the ground while telling it. When she was finally done with the story, ending it with "And now I feel so...so...helpless," she looked at their faces for their reactions.
Harry was staring at her with his mouth wide open and his fists clenched. The thing that scared Hermione was his eyes. They were bloodshot and looked furious.
Ron's head looked like it was about to explode. He was red from ear to ear and his eyes looked like they were about to pop out. "THAT LITTLE PIECE OF SH*T! WAIT UNTIL I SEE HIM!" he screamed. Every head in the library was now in their direction. Ron didn't notice this and went on further "UGH THAT SON OF A BI*CH!" and slammed his fists on the table. At this Madam Pince strode over and told Ron off for inappropriate language in the library.
After they calmed down a little (which took a VERY long time) they looked at Hermione. Suddenly they felt uncomfortable. They had never dealt with this type of situation before. Harry told her that everything was going to be alright. He told her that she'd feel better soon and not to think about it. Ron stood up and sat next to Hermione. He put his arms around her. As soon as he touched her though Hermione jumped up. She shook Ron off and started shaking.
"What's wrong? I'm not going to hurt you." Ron said. He looked at Harry who had a puzzled look on his face. He tried putting his hand on Hermione's but she flinched and pulled back her arm. She looked at her friends with tears in her eyes and started to run towards the door.
"Hermione wait!" Harry shouted. Hermione took one last glance at them and left.
"I wasn't going to hurt her." Ron said
"I know, I don't think it was personal. I don't think she's going to let anyone touch her for a while. But, I mean, can you blame her?"
"Guess not...But I wish there was something we could do..."
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Hermione ran to her room. She fell onto her bed and started to cry. She took a glance at her watch and saw that it was 10 minutes until her next lesson; Potions. She didn't know how she could face Malfoy or Snape or anyone for that matter. She just wanted to be invisible. She knew, however, that she could not afford to miss any of her lessons because the N.E.W.T.S. were only a year away. (A/N: ONLY a year away, lol.) She slowly got up and got a tissue. How could she face them? She knew she would have to eventually though. "I can do this." She said aloud. "I can't hide from the inevitable." She picked up her books and walked out of her room.
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In the hall Harry and Ron spotted Snape.
"I think we should thank him" Harry said. 'Did I just say that?'
"Yeah. If it wasn't for him Hermione would have been, er, well you know." Ron replied.
"I know. Raped." They both shivered involuntarily.
"Professor Snape!" Ron called.
He turned around and looked at them with one of his famous faces of disgust. "What Mr. Weasley?"
"Uh, well, me and Harry just wanted to thank you for helping Hermione last night."
"Yea, that was really decent of you Professor." Harry said.
"Are you going to be starting the Professor Snape fan-club now? Honestly, I was only doing my job. Its not like I went out that night in search of young girls who were being taken advantage of. Now if you'll excuse me" He said. He gave them one last scowl and strode to his classroom.
"You're welcome boys. Anything I can do to help." Harry said sarcastically as he watched Snape walk away. "Geez it's like we told him that he's an ugly git or something. We were only thanking him."
"Well, it's Snape. What did you expect?"
"Nothing. I just thought since he was on our side in this whole Voldemort thing that he might make an effort to not be such a complete ass."
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'They thanked me.' Snape was telling himself as he started preparing for his class. 'Great, I help out their little friend and now I'm Potter's little hero.' Wait a second. Maybe this wasn't so bad. He would be the hero's hero. That wouldn't be too horrible...Wait, yes it would. He didn't want to be *anything* to Potter or any of his freinds. Well, maybe he wanted to be something to one of them. For some reason, after he had seen her so vulnerable, Snape had started to think of Hermione differently. Not sexually or anything, just different. He had always seen her as being so calm and collected. She was a typical know-it-all (A/N: VERY cliche, but that is genuinly what Snape thinks of her) and always knew, or tried to make it look like she knew, the answer to everything. Somehow seeing her so, *messy*, made him think of her differently. He actually thought that he was starting to have some feelings for her, which scared him more than anything. 'I can't have feelings for a student. It's not right.' So he put any feelings or thoughts about Hermione in the back of his head and finished preparing for class.
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When Hemione entered the potions class she looked around. She was VERY early and was the only person there so far. 'Good. That gives me some time before I have to see Malfoy again' she thought. Snape was there, of course, but he paid no attention to her. He just kept moving papers around his desk and looking at his watch. It was like he was purposely avoiding her gaze. 'He can't even look at me. I'm just so, dirty.' (A/N: My friend was raped and she kept saying that she felt violated and very dirty. I'm not just makin up random feelings or somethin.)
She walked to the back of the classroom and sat down in the darkest possible spot, hoping not to be seen by anyone. Thankfully, her plan worked. About 15 minutes later students started to enter, and none of them even took a glance in her direction. When Harry and Ron entered, they didn't see her either. They were looking around the room though. She couldn't decide whether they were looking around for her or Malfoy, and she couldn't decide which one she would prefer. When Malfoy entered, her question was answered.
The both grabbed Malfoy's robes and slammed him against a wall.
"You are disgusting Malfoy." Harry growled at him. "I don't even know what to say to you. Its just so pathetic that the only way you can get girls is to try and rape them. You knew you could never score with a high-class girl like Hermione so you tried to get her in your own way. And that didn't work either. You are just so disgusting."
Instead of talking, Ron just walked right up to him and punched him in the nose. It was bleeding freely and Malfoy placed his hand on it in order to slow down the flow. Crabbe and Goyle stood up next to Malfoy and gave death stares in Ron's direction. Malfoy just looked around for Professor Snape, but he was no-where to be found.
"That was just the beginning Malfoy. We'll find you without your little body guards and we'll make you pay properly for what you have done to Hermione. You will pay." And with that, both Ron and Harry looked around the room and made there way into the seats next to Hermione. She didn't even say something like "You shouldn't have punched him, Ron, you're going to get in trouble." She just gave them a weak but gratifying smile.
When Snape walked in Malfoy practically ran up to him.
"Professor Snape, Weasly punched me in the nose. I only went up to him to say hello and he just attacked me." Malfoy said. He looked over at Ron who pounded his fist on the desk. He quickly returned his gaze to the Professor.
"I don't see any sign of a bruise. Take your seat Mr. Malfoy." Snape said silkily.
"But Professor--!"
"I *said*, take your seat!"
Malfoy strode over to his seat and burried his nose in his robes, trying to use them as a sort of tissue to clean the blood.
"Miss Granger" Snape said.
"Uh, yes Professor?" Hermione said quietly. Many heads whipped in her direction having not noticed she had been there at all.
"Please stay after class. I need to discuss your potions paper with you."
"What potions pap--Oh. Ok. Yes, Professor."
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After class Hermione walked over to Snape's desk, Harry and Ron on either side of her.
"I don't recall I asked either one of you to stay here. GO!" He yelled.
They reluctantly obeyed and told Hermione to meet them outside.
"Take a seat, Miss Granger."
Hermione strode over to the seat next to his desk and timidly sat down.
"Uh, how are you?" He asked her. He looked very uncomfortable, Hermione noticed, so she decided to try to make this quick.
"I'm fine, Professor. There's no need for you to worry about me."
"I was not worrying in the slightest bit Miss Granger, it was a simple question."
"Oh. Well then. I'm fine." she said cooly. If she had any thoughts that Snape's attitude might have changed towards her, they were quickly removed from her mind. "I should go Professor. Uh, thank you for your concern."
"Once again, it was not concer--"
"Whatever" she cut in. "Bye"
As he watched her leave he put his head in his hands. After a minute or so he stood up and shook his head. 'Why should I care about this?' he thought. In the back of his mind, he knew why he cared. He had obviously fallen for the girl. He would just have to hide his feelings forever. He would never act upon them. He couldn't. Not ever.
Not ever?
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SORRY IF THIS WAS SHORT!! I write them and don't really realized their lengths.
To my reviewers:
I LOVE YOU!!!! OMG you are the absolute reason that I write anything!!! If no one reviewed I would definitely NOT have continued with this story. I'm just soo nervous I'm gonna let you guys down!!
MagicalMe: I only review stories which I absolutely LOVED! I remember your story and thinking it was amazing. You are a great writer and you deserved my review!! Thanx for reviewin mine!!! xoxoxo
gorgegirl: No problem for thanking you!! and thanx again hun
babigirlxoxo: Thanx!! LoL I didn't like snape at first either :-)
Marie: thanx a bunch!! you'll hafta wait but not much longer!! And take care 2 u too!! =)
Kylee: Thank you so much, that means a LOT to me !!
Tracy: THANK YOU
EmoErick: Thank you!! That was soo nice thanx a lot babe!
THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH TO: Lady Viviane, DarkAngelChick (i read some of your stories and LOVED them!! Thanx!!), DarkFire, Nicolette, Wondergirl, AJ(thanx! yep, continuing...), Melon (sorry about the scottland thing), and Jaheira!!!! (if i forgot anyone omg im sorry and def. tell me!!!)
OK...Listen you guys...lemme "rephrase" something. I love all of the reviewers who review NICELY...not even nicely...at least with some constructive critisism that I can work with. I read one of my reviews last night and almost started to cry. I know its REALLY stupid to cry about a review on a fanfiction story but i was truly hurt. I know I'm not the best writer in the world, but i did try to make an OK story...I'm 13 and i'll admit it, i'm not the greatest with vocabulary and such. But LISTEN, OVERDUE, YOU ARE SOO FU**IN RUDE!! if you didn't like my story, fine, no biggee, i honestly could care less (well i care if people dont like it but i dont care what losers like you think about my stories). You didn't have to write such a horrible review about it. That was just messed up. You're so pathetic. ugh get a life
sorry guys....i was just really upset :-( PLEASE review my story!! I love you all!!! (except "overdue")
MWA!! xoxoxoxoxo ily
------@ faith