Disclaimer: I own none of the characters in this fic except for Essence,
Loki, and a couple of very minor Ravenclaw people.
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OK. There were two classes Loki officially hated: Potions and Defense against the Dark Arts. She couldn't stand Divination either, but that was only cuz of Trelawney. And she was a seer anyways. (an: to my readers: THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT!). She always aced Divination. But Potions and DADA were two very different stories. She had always hated Potions. Hers always turned out wrong. And Snape knew it. So her shrinking solution actually enlarged instead of shrunk. Who cared? Like she was going to pay attention with Draco sitting in the same room as her. And she always felt like she was going to throw up when Snape kept checking Essie out. Seriously. Ever since she mouthed off at him he was all cow-eyed at her. It didn't help that Essie's wardrobe usually consisted of microscopic skirts with a tank top or a one strap. And when Harry rubbed Essie's arms when she started getting cold, Snape practically shot sparks with the glare he sent Harry. And gave poor Harry detention for breathing. Everyone complained majorly about Snape's detentions, but Ess had privately told Loki all he did was talk with her like a shrink about her "Lack of respect." BOTH times. EW. Who wanted a full-nosed old guy lusting after them? She pitied Ess. The DADA teacher annoyed her greatly. His name? Mad-eye Moody. Some jumpy ex-auror whose imposter had turned Draco into a FERRET a couple of years ago. His magical eye could see through anything. The perv was always looking at girls. EW. She'd noticed that he turned his magical eye especially toward one of the professors, Professor Sinestra, the witch who taught astronomy. Loki felt for Sinestra, too.
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Oh well. At least both of them had made the Ravenclaw quidditch team. Technically, they weren't in a house, but Cho had pulled a couple of strings, being head girl and the old Ravenclaw seeker. Cho had opted not to play this year cuz of her workload, so Essie was seeker and Loki had won one of the beater spots. Everyone loved Loki's Nebula 360 and Essie's Spectrum 5000. no one had ever seen them before. They loved the black walnut of the Spectrum and the silver birch of the Neb. No one had a broom of this quality, except for maybe Harry Potter, with his Firebolt.
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OK! Essie was SOO not nervous. So she had her first quidditch match at Hogwarts. So? So she had to compete wit the youngest, fastest, most talented seeker at Hogwarts for a century. No biggie. Aw.who was she fooling? Certainly not herself.
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OK. Loki was ready to put the bad in badass. Gryffindor was SOO goin' down. They had not ment the Lokiblaster, new secret weapon of the Ravenclaw team. She was so going to kick some Gryffindor butt. With Draco watching.
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"OK team, we are so going to win this game. Ravenclaw has never had this strong of a team in ages." the team captain, Caitlin Drearborn, was giving the pre-game pep talk. Neither Loki nor Essence were paying that much attention. Essie kept shooting Loki terrified looks, and Loki kept shooting back reassuring, 'we're gonna kick some butt' looks. Which helped Essie's nerves a little. ".So go out there and win, team!" finished Drearborn, finally. The whole team gave a whoop and headed out to the quidditch pitch.
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"OK, I know I will get a nice, clean game of quidditch from both teams," yelled madam Hooch, "so confirm my thoughts. On my whistle, begin the game. Three.Two.ONE! PHWEET!" "Ravenclaw chase, Padma Patil seizes the quaffle immediately and zooms down the pitch, flanked by fellow chasers Angelica Cheknova and Caitlin Drearborn.Patil passes to Cheknova who passes to Drearborn who takes a shot and.SCORES!! 10 points to Ravenclaw!" Essie looked up. Oh lord. Of all people to be commentating, it had to be her stalker.Snape.She squinted. No sing of any snitch anywhere. Harry kept tailing her. ARGH! She HATED it when people did that. Suddenly, a bludger flew right past her. "And a passable beater tactic by Lokara Thompson, keeping Gryffindor seeker, Harry Potter, from further annoying Ravenclaw seeker Essence Lei."
Essie shook her head. Snape's dislike for Loki and Harry showed, eve out here. She mouthed thanks to Loki before going into a VERY steep dive. She heard Harry next to her. This was to show him not to follow her. Ever. Essence pulled out of her Wronski Feint right before she would have gone face first into the dirt. Actually, she started a really, REALLY steep climb. She chanced a look back. DAMN. He was STILL following her. She flew purposefully in front of a bludger and then dropped. Harry was tailing her so close he got a serious bludger in the face. "And Essence Lei uses a magnificent seeker aversion tactic to be rid of the annoying Potter."
Essence rolled her eyes. Snape really annoyed her sometimes. She was dimly aware that Ravenclaw was up 60 points. The Gryffs had 20. she stopped scanning just in time to see Loki aim a bludger at a Gryffindor beater the exact same time the beater was aiming for Loki. WHOA! The two bludger exploded on each other. Whoever had hit the other bludger could hit pretty damn hard. "Ginny Weasley and Lokara Thompson succeed in being the first beaters ever to explode both bludgers at once.not surprising. Thompson can explode anything." "HEY!" yelled Loki, "that wasn't very nice!" Essie saw Harry wipe his face. Whoa! MAJOR bloody nose. Oh shit. The snitch was right in the middle of the miniature cloud of bludger-bits that was STILL pursuing players. Nobody saw it but her and Harry. Harry couldn't steer well. The blood was all over his face. So Essie did something both very brave and very stupid. She flew straight into the bludger cloud and (getting torn to bits in the process) caught the snitch. OW! Those bits could cut! "And Ravenclaw wins, 230 points to 20, thanks to that amazingly stupid but brilliant catch by Miss Lei. Now would someone get the damn-("Severus" cried McGonagall) cloud to get off Lei? She's starting to look severely cut up.
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"OOH!" Essie was sore. Who would have thought little bludger bits cut so much? Ugh. She probably looked like shit. She opened her eyes. Was she in the hospital wing? She sat up quickly. By her bed was what looked like a flower stand mixed with a sweet factory. Whoa. Guess people didn't know about her allergy problem. "ACHOO!" she sniffed. "I see you're awake, Miss Lei." Essie groaned and twisted her body so that she faced the other side of her bed. Her bedside just had to be all occupied by Mr. Full Nosed. Argh. He had probably hexed Harry away. "Yeah. I am. Why do you care?" Essie snapped. She was getting a little tired of her very big snozzed stalker. The guy was practically all beak. "I care, Miss Lei, because you were knocked unconscious by a sizable bludger chunk. I had to carry you up here." "Yeah. Right." Huffed Essence, "I'm sure you couldn't just magic up a stretcher and zoom me up here. And then only you could have magicked me. Or if a person just HAD to carry me, it had to be you, cuz only you are strong enough. PUL-EEZ. People think I'm anorexic, I'm so skinny. And right. I know. Harry would have damaged me further. Right." Ess rolled her eyes. Snape sucked at lying. If a person lied, they sould at least lie good. "And lemme guess. You scared poor Harry off."
Snape looked very uncomfortable. So he sucked at lying. So? So he sent Potter away cuz he was jealous. So? He told Potter that Essie need her rest. And had given him detention for talking. Snape had sworn off women years ago, but, MERLIN, this girl was different. When you first looked at her, you wouldn't think she could hurt a fly. But from what he'd seen (and heard) of her, she could be smart-mouthed with the best of them, plus fly like hell. Call him what you will, but poor Snape was smitten. Pretty, smart-assed witches who could fly turned him on. Essie didn't like the way he was looking at her. Like he was checking her out. GOD. Wasn't during class enough? And EEP! She was in a cami and pajama shorts. Not good. She pulled all her blankets around her. Where was Harry? She really needed Harry now. REALLY. OOH Harry. Snape noticed her pull all her blankets around her. He sighed. And he though HE was the pervert here. He hadn't even noticed what she was wearing. Well, not REALLY. Not that she was wearing that much. He also didn't like the way she was looking at him. Like a bunny looks at a fox. "Look Lei," he growled bulling her by the neck of her camisole, "I am her because I was worried about you. And you act like I'm gonna rape you or something. OK? Cut the shit. OK? You can let go of all the blankets, because I'm leaving. Bloody fucking bye." Snape threw Essence back in the bed and stalked away. But right before he left, Essence quit doing a goldfish face and called "Wait!" "What?" growled Snape. "Th-thanks." Snape froze and turned around. He walked back to her and leaned in so that their noses almost touched. "What did you say Lei?"
"I-I said th-thanks Mr. Know-it-all-but-not-when-it-comes-to-girls!" Snape couldn't stand it anymore. He leaned furter in and kissed Essence. On the lips.
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OH MI GOD. Essence couldn't believe it. Sure, the guy was not the friendliest, or the youngest, but DAMN. He could kiss. She was dimly aware that his hands were moving. One was on the back of her neck, holding her there, and the other was on the small of her back, on bare skin. This was mind-boggling. She was so confused that she was dizzy. She grabbed his shoulders for support.
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Severus Snape was siliently cursing himself for his lack of judgment and his weakness. He shouldn't be doing this. He should stop. But Merlin, he couldn't. This girl was so intoxicating. He hadn't felt this way in years. It was so good. He pulled away for a second and whispered "You're welcome" before going back for more. Suddenly, there was a big *THUMP* near the doorway. Snape jumped. Essie jumped. The bumped. Snape fell backwards onto Essie's bed and Essie hit her head on the head board of the bed, just in time to see Loki with a seriously gold-fish look on her face and a huge box of chocolate spilled at her feet.
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Snape left really quickly, almost running. Form the look on his face, Essence guessed he was going off somewhere private to hit himself. Hell, Essie felt like doing the same thing. "Oh my god. And you call me boy crazy? At least I don't go around snogging professors," said Loki smugly, "You can't talk now" Essence felt like slapping Loki. So she did. On the arm. "Ow! What was that for?" "Look, being snogged by Snape is traumatizing enough, but with my best friend teasing me about it, that makes it worse. GOD. You don't have to make fun."
"But, but, but, it was Mr. Know-it-all-but-not-really!" "So? God STOP! It's not my fault!" Essie was really crying now. Tears were making spots on her cami. "GOD. Okay. I'll stop. But you have no idea how funny it looked." Essie couldn't help it. She dove under the covers of the hospital bed and started wailing. Loki really couldn't make out anything but a couple of 'fuck yous' and a few 'dammits' but that was all. "Ess! Stop! Pomfrey will hear!" "GOD. I can'd believe you are deasink me abound somedink lige dis. Do you dow how frsdrading dis is? I'm so confused." "Why?" Loki was genuinely curious now. "Cuz Snape can SNOG!"
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It was after dark, but Essence and Loki were dressed to kill. Essie had on a magenta halter top, ANOTHER micro-mini skirt (black jean this time) with a slit in it. She was wearing stiletto long boots. Loki was wearing hip- hugger black jeans with a black cami and a black lace shirt with bells sleeves over it. Both were wearing black over-robes. They were going to see Harry and Draco. Harry invited Essie over to celebrate her getting over all the bludger wounds. Draco was just inviting Loki (an: yes, he calls her Loki) over for the heck of it. They slipped out of their portrait hole. (an: the portrait is a painting of a lady knight on a white horse vanquishing a fiery chimera, aka a big monster thingie with a lions head, a goats body and a snake tail. That breathes fire.)
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Loki walked over to the meeting place Draco had said. Where was he? Oh shit. Footsteps. She was getting ready to hid when- "You look pretty when you're scared." "AH! Don't DO that!" "Do what?" said Draco, stepping extremely close to Loki "Don't scare me like that. I thought you were Snape." "Funny. I look nothing like him" "No. But you sounded like him" "Oh really. I would have thought that my nose made less noise than his elephantine one." "It does. But he's patrolling halls tonight." "So?"
"So he hates me." "Doesn't matter, so long as I'm here. Did I neglect to tell you my father is one of the most influential wizards in England?" "Oh." Loki felt stupid "But I didn't set up this meeting to talk about Snape." "No?" "No. I met you to give you this." Draco pulled Loki into his arms so close that there was no space in between the two of them, and place his mouth onto hers.
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Essie met Harry near the Gryffindor common room. At least, she thought it was Harry. He was kinda invisible. And had pulled her under his invisibility cloak. "Harry!" "SH!" He walked up to a portrait of an obese lady in a pink dress and whispered "tempus fugit!" the portrait hole swung open instantly. Harry threw the cloak off and led Essie to a chair, covering her eyes with is hands. "I wanted this to be a surprise." Harry lifted his hands and Essie saw the cutest little kitten she had ever seen. He was all black, save for one ear, half his tail, and some of his paws, which were all white. It looked like he had been through wet paint and his eyes were green, like Harry's. "Aww! He's adorable!" Harry grinned sheepishly. Ron was right. Girls did go gaga over animals. He was about to roll his eyes when Essie grabbed his face and soundly kissed him on his lips. Essie blushed. "Sorry. I guess I got carried away." She was cut off by Harry's mouth. She felt like the floor was tilting again and grabbed Harry's shoulders. Then, she finally realized that Harry was tilting her back as he held her close; one arm around her upper torso, the other around her waist. GOD, he could kiss. He was so passionate right now. She bet it looked like he was trying to eat her face, no, shoulder, no her -oh never mind. Who cared? Not her, and all she had to do was be at her meeting place with Loki at 9:30.
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Ok. Draco not only LOOKED like a great snog, he WAS a great snog. Yes, Loki and Draco were still at it, 15 minutes later. And still going. Draco had started to nip Loki's pulse point when she realized she needed to meet Ess. She pulled away as he was working his way up to her mouth again. "Draco, darling, I'm sorry, but I've gotta leave." "Why?" "I gotta meet Essie at our rendezvous point, so we can go back to our dorm together." "Oh. OK luv." Draco gave Loki a slow, leisurely good-bye kiss. (Loki felt a melt coming on) and whispered bye before he disappeared. Loki started walking towards the meeting point.
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Essie reluctantly pulled away from Harry's lips. She had to go now. "Harry, I gotta meet Loki now." "Do you really?" "Yes, really" "Good-bye then" said Harry as he gave her one last snoggalicious kiss. "I'll bring your kitten to you tomorrow. You don't want to walk down the halls with him. He might meow." "Good point. Love ya Harry." "Love you, Essence" They kissed each other one last time before Essie left to meet Loki.
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After they met each other, Loki and Essie tiptoed quietly back to their dorm and were about to go in when they heard a: "Just what were you two doing?" Both Loki and Essence winced. Caught. "Answer me girls. What were you do-OOF!" The 'oof' was caused by Loki throwing Essie at Snape. Loki scrambled, quick as hell through the portrait hole. To prevent herself from falling over, Essie grabbed Snape's shoulders and neck. Snape had instinctively put his arms around her waist. Things did NOT look good. "Bloody hell. What was that about?" asked Snape "I have no earthly idea" said Essence (against Snape's chest) Snape tilted her head so that Essie was forced to look him in the eye. "So, what were you doing?" "Uhhh, going to see you?" Snape sighed. "Lei, we have gone over this before. I keep veritserum. I will force feed my veritserum to you. You tell truth. So just tell." "But if I told, you would find out about my obsession with Harry!" she clapped her hands over her mouth. She was definitely going blonder everyday. "Obsession with Harry? Huh? Well, we'll just have to cure that won't we" said Snape, right before he tightened his grip on Essie and put his mouth on hers.
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Whoa. Snape could snog. His mouth was almost a work of art. He wasn't on her mouth anymore. He eyes widened as she felt him on her pulse point. EEP. Professors weren't supposed to be able to kiss like this. Sinfully. But it felt so GOOD. His mouth was on top of hers again. This time, though, his tongue was inside her mouth, too. As one of his hands, inched up to find the bow of her halter-top and started to untie it, she stepped back and pulled away. NONONONONO. Sex with a teacher was VERY bad. She fumbled with the bow. "Here, let me tie it for you" offered Snape "Will you swear you won't UNTIE it?" Snape rolled his eyes. "I swear I won't untie your bloody little halter-top." Essie walked towards him and turned around. Snape tied her bow neatly, then suddenly, put both arms around her waist and pulled her in. She gasped. His mouth was on her pulse point again. After he kissed it he said, "I said I wouldn't untie it, not that I wouldn't kiss you" Essie felt like the world was upside-down. She leaned in, so she wouldn't fall. Mmm. it felt good. But it was so VERY wrong. She raised her arms so that her hands encircled Snape's neck and tried to get him off. Unfortunately, his lips had a death grip on her cheek. Snape was about to tighten his grip around her waist when they heard a *BOOM*. Snape cursed. Peeves. Why did people interrupt when he snogged? "PEEVES!" Yelled Snape. He turned to Essie. "You best get to bed, luv. No detention. In fact, if you were in a house, I'd give you points for a snog well done." Essie blushed. Snape kissed her lightly on the forehead and sprinted off to stop Peeves from destroying anything. Ess headed off to her dorm. No doubt that Loki was there, waiting to hear about snogging Snape.
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Essie slipped quietly into her dorm and into her room. She had just slipped into her cami and her pajama shorts and was about to get a robe when Harry suddenly appeared on her bed with her kitten. Essence jumped nearly a foot in the air. "Harry! I'm in a cami and pj shorts! You should SO not be here!" "Yeah, well, YOU shouldn't be snogging Snape, so I wouldn't be talking if I was you." Essie blushed. So Harry had seen. Well its not like she ran up to Snape and mooshed her lips onto his like a kissing leech. "Look Harry. It only went as far as it wnet cuz Loki threw me at him then Snape was all 'I'll cure your obsession with Harry' and I didn't wanna be cured and then he almost completely undid my halter top and then tied it but attached himself by his lips onto my neck and I was so confused I was dizzy and had to lean on him and grab him to regain balance. And of all people, Peeves saved me." Ess was hysterical. She was crying but laughing. She felt so mixed up. And Harry looked as confused as she was. "Wait," said Harry, holding up his hand, "you have an obsession with ME?" Essie growled in frustration. Was that all he got of her huge long rant? Geez. "Is that all you heard?" "Err, yeah. My brain kinda shut down after you said 'my obsession with Harry'. Don't look so mad please. I get that its not your fault, OK? So I'll just let you finish dressing and go to bed." Essie turned red at that sentence. "NOT with you! Geez! I mean sleeping, not sex!"
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At 7:00 am Loki bounded into Essie's bed chamber with an expectant look on her face. Essie SOOO owed her a gossip fest. Loki wanted to know everything. "Sleeping Snape Snogger, wake up!" Essie groaned. She knew what Loki wanted. "Loki, three reasons: 1., that really didn't sound right. 2, if it weren't for you, I would not have snogged Snape and 3, shut up and go to bed." Loki shook her head. "Uh-uh. You are SO going to tell me what happened." "No I'm not" "Yes you are" "No I'm not" "Yes you are" "Am not" "Are too" "Am not" "Are too-oo!" "OK! FINE! Snape snogged me and my neck! Are you happy? GOD! You know, none of this would have happened if it weren't for you!" "I know. I'm such a genius when it comes to matchmaking." "OH! YOU!" Essie grabbed one of her pillows and threw it at Loki. "What the-?" yelled Loki indignantly. Essie had her wand pointed at Loki. "Lokara Thompson, if you don't shut up right now, I am so gonna use a severing charm to hex your mouth off" Loki shut up and scuttled out. Maybe Ess had PMS or something. No need to get hexed just cuz of Ess being all no snogging and telling. God. Some people could be so temperamental sometimes.
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Since it was Saturday, Essie had no classes. Good. That meant no sizable-snozzed stalker. She needed badly some alcohol. Where was he secret stash of Odgen's Firewhiskey?
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30 minutes later, Loki walked into Essie's room, to borrow a sweater. The minute she walked into the room, she knew something was wrong. There was a very alcoholic smell in the air, and several tissues on the floor, along with an almost empty bottle of whiskey. Essie was lying on her bed, nursing a shot of whiskey. Loki noticed she had a balled up tissue in her hand, and looked like she had been crying. Loki rushed over. "OH MI GOD. Essie? Are you OK? Hell, that was stupid to ask. Oh my god, you never drink. You finished that whole bottle of whiskey? Shit girl. I'm sorry, but no matter how depressed you are over something, you shouldn't get drunk!" Essie looked up at Loki. "Loki, I shouldn'd 'ave snogged Snabe, righd?" Loki shook her head. "Ess? Hello? That is the sorriest reason to get drunk I've ever heard. Granted I've heard quite a few, too."
Essie smiled sadly. "Yeah, I dow. Nodding I ever do ish righd, righd? Hell, I feel eved more debreshed dan I wash BEFORE. I got all alcohol-y. Sho I can'd even get drunk righd." Essie smiled faintly before she passed out on the bed, still holding her shot glass of whiskey. Loki, shook her head. She needed to get help. She gently took the whiskey glass away and tossed it out the window, along with the bottle. She threw away all the tissues and set out to get Harry.
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She found him near the Gryff's dorm "Harry! Harry! O god, need your help. Actually, Ess does-" "WHAT? What happened? Is she OK?" Harry grabbed Loki and shook her. "OW! God, I dunno, she kinda got herself drunk an' she's all depressed about Snape snogging her." "WHAT?"
"Yeah. So, like, I need help. Bring along someone smart you can trust. I need someone who can do the detoxifying charm. And she'll want to see you, when she regains consciousness." "WHAT?"
"Yeah. She passed out from all the whiskey." Harry thought. "Hermione Granger. She's one of my best friends." "Really? She's perfect!" "OK, I'll get her and come over as soon as possible" "HURRY! The password is HGIH fit!" Harry smiled weakly and sprinted off to find Hermione.
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10 minutes later, Harry and Hermione stepped into Loki and Essie's dorm. Loki greeted them. "Hey guys. Essie's room is this way." Harry and Hermione followed Loki. Hermione was all nervous. Getting drunk was against school rules. They stepped inside Essie's room.Harry gulped audibly. Essie looked like she wasn't Essie. Hermione stepped up next to her. "How much did she drink?" she asked Loki. "Almost a whole bottle." Hermione's eyes widened. This would be messier than she thought. "I need a BIG glass then" Loki nodded. He went and got one of the coffee mugs she had in her room for decoration. Hermione grabbed the mug and pointed her wand at Essie. "Detoxidus alcoholian!" ha huge stream of liquid flowed out of a vein in one of Essie's wrists. Hermione deftly caught it with the mug. When it started to overflow, Loki got another one. It filled 3c mugs in all. "Whoa" murmured Harry. No wonder Essie was unconscious. "Do you want to talk to her?" asked Hermione. Harry nodded. "Enervate," murmured Hermione. Essie blinked and sat up. She saw Harry, Loki and Hermione and flung her arms around Harry and started sobbing. Loki and Hermione quietly left the room.
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"OH GOD Harry, I didn't mean to snog Snape he just forced me to snog him both times but I liked it which is so AWFUL and I love you Harry. Not him. He's so weird but I don't want to snog him EVER again even if it gets me out of trouble." "Sh, sh," whispered Harry, comfortingly. "I don't care about that. I care about you. You didn't have to get all drunk. You could have just told me. And about Snape? Honestly I think he's weird too. But you can just TALK to me if you're confused, I love you enough so that I'll listen and help, not listen and critique." "Really?" whispered Essie "Really. I thought you knew that by now." "Oh Harry!" Essie threw her arms around him again. Harry was so comforting. "Harry?" "Yes?" "Just hold me for right now. That's all I want for the moment."
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Thanks to Risquer for actually reading this fic. So if you are not Risquer or if you are her please review. Thankee much!
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OK. There were two classes Loki officially hated: Potions and Defense against the Dark Arts. She couldn't stand Divination either, but that was only cuz of Trelawney. And she was a seer anyways. (an: to my readers: THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT!). She always aced Divination. But Potions and DADA were two very different stories. She had always hated Potions. Hers always turned out wrong. And Snape knew it. So her shrinking solution actually enlarged instead of shrunk. Who cared? Like she was going to pay attention with Draco sitting in the same room as her. And she always felt like she was going to throw up when Snape kept checking Essie out. Seriously. Ever since she mouthed off at him he was all cow-eyed at her. It didn't help that Essie's wardrobe usually consisted of microscopic skirts with a tank top or a one strap. And when Harry rubbed Essie's arms when she started getting cold, Snape practically shot sparks with the glare he sent Harry. And gave poor Harry detention for breathing. Everyone complained majorly about Snape's detentions, but Ess had privately told Loki all he did was talk with her like a shrink about her "Lack of respect." BOTH times. EW. Who wanted a full-nosed old guy lusting after them? She pitied Ess. The DADA teacher annoyed her greatly. His name? Mad-eye Moody. Some jumpy ex-auror whose imposter had turned Draco into a FERRET a couple of years ago. His magical eye could see through anything. The perv was always looking at girls. EW. She'd noticed that he turned his magical eye especially toward one of the professors, Professor Sinestra, the witch who taught astronomy. Loki felt for Sinestra, too.
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Oh well. At least both of them had made the Ravenclaw quidditch team. Technically, they weren't in a house, but Cho had pulled a couple of strings, being head girl and the old Ravenclaw seeker. Cho had opted not to play this year cuz of her workload, so Essie was seeker and Loki had won one of the beater spots. Everyone loved Loki's Nebula 360 and Essie's Spectrum 5000. no one had ever seen them before. They loved the black walnut of the Spectrum and the silver birch of the Neb. No one had a broom of this quality, except for maybe Harry Potter, with his Firebolt.
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OK! Essie was SOO not nervous. So she had her first quidditch match at Hogwarts. So? So she had to compete wit the youngest, fastest, most talented seeker at Hogwarts for a century. No biggie. Aw.who was she fooling? Certainly not herself.
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OK. Loki was ready to put the bad in badass. Gryffindor was SOO goin' down. They had not ment the Lokiblaster, new secret weapon of the Ravenclaw team. She was so going to kick some Gryffindor butt. With Draco watching.
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"OK team, we are so going to win this game. Ravenclaw has never had this strong of a team in ages." the team captain, Caitlin Drearborn, was giving the pre-game pep talk. Neither Loki nor Essence were paying that much attention. Essie kept shooting Loki terrified looks, and Loki kept shooting back reassuring, 'we're gonna kick some butt' looks. Which helped Essie's nerves a little. ".So go out there and win, team!" finished Drearborn, finally. The whole team gave a whoop and headed out to the quidditch pitch.
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"OK, I know I will get a nice, clean game of quidditch from both teams," yelled madam Hooch, "so confirm my thoughts. On my whistle, begin the game. Three.Two.ONE! PHWEET!" "Ravenclaw chase, Padma Patil seizes the quaffle immediately and zooms down the pitch, flanked by fellow chasers Angelica Cheknova and Caitlin Drearborn.Patil passes to Cheknova who passes to Drearborn who takes a shot and.SCORES!! 10 points to Ravenclaw!" Essie looked up. Oh lord. Of all people to be commentating, it had to be her stalker.Snape.She squinted. No sing of any snitch anywhere. Harry kept tailing her. ARGH! She HATED it when people did that. Suddenly, a bludger flew right past her. "And a passable beater tactic by Lokara Thompson, keeping Gryffindor seeker, Harry Potter, from further annoying Ravenclaw seeker Essence Lei."
Essie shook her head. Snape's dislike for Loki and Harry showed, eve out here. She mouthed thanks to Loki before going into a VERY steep dive. She heard Harry next to her. This was to show him not to follow her. Ever. Essence pulled out of her Wronski Feint right before she would have gone face first into the dirt. Actually, she started a really, REALLY steep climb. She chanced a look back. DAMN. He was STILL following her. She flew purposefully in front of a bludger and then dropped. Harry was tailing her so close he got a serious bludger in the face. "And Essence Lei uses a magnificent seeker aversion tactic to be rid of the annoying Potter."
Essence rolled her eyes. Snape really annoyed her sometimes. She was dimly aware that Ravenclaw was up 60 points. The Gryffs had 20. she stopped scanning just in time to see Loki aim a bludger at a Gryffindor beater the exact same time the beater was aiming for Loki. WHOA! The two bludger exploded on each other. Whoever had hit the other bludger could hit pretty damn hard. "Ginny Weasley and Lokara Thompson succeed in being the first beaters ever to explode both bludgers at once.not surprising. Thompson can explode anything." "HEY!" yelled Loki, "that wasn't very nice!" Essie saw Harry wipe his face. Whoa! MAJOR bloody nose. Oh shit. The snitch was right in the middle of the miniature cloud of bludger-bits that was STILL pursuing players. Nobody saw it but her and Harry. Harry couldn't steer well. The blood was all over his face. So Essie did something both very brave and very stupid. She flew straight into the bludger cloud and (getting torn to bits in the process) caught the snitch. OW! Those bits could cut! "And Ravenclaw wins, 230 points to 20, thanks to that amazingly stupid but brilliant catch by Miss Lei. Now would someone get the damn-("Severus" cried McGonagall) cloud to get off Lei? She's starting to look severely cut up.
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"OOH!" Essie was sore. Who would have thought little bludger bits cut so much? Ugh. She probably looked like shit. She opened her eyes. Was she in the hospital wing? She sat up quickly. By her bed was what looked like a flower stand mixed with a sweet factory. Whoa. Guess people didn't know about her allergy problem. "ACHOO!" she sniffed. "I see you're awake, Miss Lei." Essie groaned and twisted her body so that she faced the other side of her bed. Her bedside just had to be all occupied by Mr. Full Nosed. Argh. He had probably hexed Harry away. "Yeah. I am. Why do you care?" Essie snapped. She was getting a little tired of her very big snozzed stalker. The guy was practically all beak. "I care, Miss Lei, because you were knocked unconscious by a sizable bludger chunk. I had to carry you up here." "Yeah. Right." Huffed Essence, "I'm sure you couldn't just magic up a stretcher and zoom me up here. And then only you could have magicked me. Or if a person just HAD to carry me, it had to be you, cuz only you are strong enough. PUL-EEZ. People think I'm anorexic, I'm so skinny. And right. I know. Harry would have damaged me further. Right." Ess rolled her eyes. Snape sucked at lying. If a person lied, they sould at least lie good. "And lemme guess. You scared poor Harry off."
Snape looked very uncomfortable. So he sucked at lying. So? So he sent Potter away cuz he was jealous. So? He told Potter that Essie need her rest. And had given him detention for talking. Snape had sworn off women years ago, but, MERLIN, this girl was different. When you first looked at her, you wouldn't think she could hurt a fly. But from what he'd seen (and heard) of her, she could be smart-mouthed with the best of them, plus fly like hell. Call him what you will, but poor Snape was smitten. Pretty, smart-assed witches who could fly turned him on. Essie didn't like the way he was looking at her. Like he was checking her out. GOD. Wasn't during class enough? And EEP! She was in a cami and pajama shorts. Not good. She pulled all her blankets around her. Where was Harry? She really needed Harry now. REALLY. OOH Harry. Snape noticed her pull all her blankets around her. He sighed. And he though HE was the pervert here. He hadn't even noticed what she was wearing. Well, not REALLY. Not that she was wearing that much. He also didn't like the way she was looking at him. Like a bunny looks at a fox. "Look Lei," he growled bulling her by the neck of her camisole, "I am her because I was worried about you. And you act like I'm gonna rape you or something. OK? Cut the shit. OK? You can let go of all the blankets, because I'm leaving. Bloody fucking bye." Snape threw Essence back in the bed and stalked away. But right before he left, Essence quit doing a goldfish face and called "Wait!" "What?" growled Snape. "Th-thanks." Snape froze and turned around. He walked back to her and leaned in so that their noses almost touched. "What did you say Lei?"
"I-I said th-thanks Mr. Know-it-all-but-not-when-it-comes-to-girls!" Snape couldn't stand it anymore. He leaned furter in and kissed Essence. On the lips.
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OH MI GOD. Essence couldn't believe it. Sure, the guy was not the friendliest, or the youngest, but DAMN. He could kiss. She was dimly aware that his hands were moving. One was on the back of her neck, holding her there, and the other was on the small of her back, on bare skin. This was mind-boggling. She was so confused that she was dizzy. She grabbed his shoulders for support.
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Severus Snape was siliently cursing himself for his lack of judgment and his weakness. He shouldn't be doing this. He should stop. But Merlin, he couldn't. This girl was so intoxicating. He hadn't felt this way in years. It was so good. He pulled away for a second and whispered "You're welcome" before going back for more. Suddenly, there was a big *THUMP* near the doorway. Snape jumped. Essie jumped. The bumped. Snape fell backwards onto Essie's bed and Essie hit her head on the head board of the bed, just in time to see Loki with a seriously gold-fish look on her face and a huge box of chocolate spilled at her feet.
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Snape left really quickly, almost running. Form the look on his face, Essence guessed he was going off somewhere private to hit himself. Hell, Essie felt like doing the same thing. "Oh my god. And you call me boy crazy? At least I don't go around snogging professors," said Loki smugly, "You can't talk now" Essence felt like slapping Loki. So she did. On the arm. "Ow! What was that for?" "Look, being snogged by Snape is traumatizing enough, but with my best friend teasing me about it, that makes it worse. GOD. You don't have to make fun."
"But, but, but, it was Mr. Know-it-all-but-not-really!" "So? God STOP! It's not my fault!" Essie was really crying now. Tears were making spots on her cami. "GOD. Okay. I'll stop. But you have no idea how funny it looked." Essie couldn't help it. She dove under the covers of the hospital bed and started wailing. Loki really couldn't make out anything but a couple of 'fuck yous' and a few 'dammits' but that was all. "Ess! Stop! Pomfrey will hear!" "GOD. I can'd believe you are deasink me abound somedink lige dis. Do you dow how frsdrading dis is? I'm so confused." "Why?" Loki was genuinely curious now. "Cuz Snape can SNOG!"
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It was after dark, but Essence and Loki were dressed to kill. Essie had on a magenta halter top, ANOTHER micro-mini skirt (black jean this time) with a slit in it. She was wearing stiletto long boots. Loki was wearing hip- hugger black jeans with a black cami and a black lace shirt with bells sleeves over it. Both were wearing black over-robes. They were going to see Harry and Draco. Harry invited Essie over to celebrate her getting over all the bludger wounds. Draco was just inviting Loki (an: yes, he calls her Loki) over for the heck of it. They slipped out of their portrait hole. (an: the portrait is a painting of a lady knight on a white horse vanquishing a fiery chimera, aka a big monster thingie with a lions head, a goats body and a snake tail. That breathes fire.)
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Loki walked over to the meeting place Draco had said. Where was he? Oh shit. Footsteps. She was getting ready to hid when- "You look pretty when you're scared." "AH! Don't DO that!" "Do what?" said Draco, stepping extremely close to Loki "Don't scare me like that. I thought you were Snape." "Funny. I look nothing like him" "No. But you sounded like him" "Oh really. I would have thought that my nose made less noise than his elephantine one." "It does. But he's patrolling halls tonight." "So?"
"So he hates me." "Doesn't matter, so long as I'm here. Did I neglect to tell you my father is one of the most influential wizards in England?" "Oh." Loki felt stupid "But I didn't set up this meeting to talk about Snape." "No?" "No. I met you to give you this." Draco pulled Loki into his arms so close that there was no space in between the two of them, and place his mouth onto hers.
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Essie met Harry near the Gryffindor common room. At least, she thought it was Harry. He was kinda invisible. And had pulled her under his invisibility cloak. "Harry!" "SH!" He walked up to a portrait of an obese lady in a pink dress and whispered "tempus fugit!" the portrait hole swung open instantly. Harry threw the cloak off and led Essie to a chair, covering her eyes with is hands. "I wanted this to be a surprise." Harry lifted his hands and Essie saw the cutest little kitten she had ever seen. He was all black, save for one ear, half his tail, and some of his paws, which were all white. It looked like he had been through wet paint and his eyes were green, like Harry's. "Aww! He's adorable!" Harry grinned sheepishly. Ron was right. Girls did go gaga over animals. He was about to roll his eyes when Essie grabbed his face and soundly kissed him on his lips. Essie blushed. "Sorry. I guess I got carried away." She was cut off by Harry's mouth. She felt like the floor was tilting again and grabbed Harry's shoulders. Then, she finally realized that Harry was tilting her back as he held her close; one arm around her upper torso, the other around her waist. GOD, he could kiss. He was so passionate right now. She bet it looked like he was trying to eat her face, no, shoulder, no her -oh never mind. Who cared? Not her, and all she had to do was be at her meeting place with Loki at 9:30.
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Ok. Draco not only LOOKED like a great snog, he WAS a great snog. Yes, Loki and Draco were still at it, 15 minutes later. And still going. Draco had started to nip Loki's pulse point when she realized she needed to meet Ess. She pulled away as he was working his way up to her mouth again. "Draco, darling, I'm sorry, but I've gotta leave." "Why?" "I gotta meet Essie at our rendezvous point, so we can go back to our dorm together." "Oh. OK luv." Draco gave Loki a slow, leisurely good-bye kiss. (Loki felt a melt coming on) and whispered bye before he disappeared. Loki started walking towards the meeting point.
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Essie reluctantly pulled away from Harry's lips. She had to go now. "Harry, I gotta meet Loki now." "Do you really?" "Yes, really" "Good-bye then" said Harry as he gave her one last snoggalicious kiss. "I'll bring your kitten to you tomorrow. You don't want to walk down the halls with him. He might meow." "Good point. Love ya Harry." "Love you, Essence" They kissed each other one last time before Essie left to meet Loki.
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After they met each other, Loki and Essie tiptoed quietly back to their dorm and were about to go in when they heard a: "Just what were you two doing?" Both Loki and Essence winced. Caught. "Answer me girls. What were you do-OOF!" The 'oof' was caused by Loki throwing Essie at Snape. Loki scrambled, quick as hell through the portrait hole. To prevent herself from falling over, Essie grabbed Snape's shoulders and neck. Snape had instinctively put his arms around her waist. Things did NOT look good. "Bloody hell. What was that about?" asked Snape "I have no earthly idea" said Essence (against Snape's chest) Snape tilted her head so that Essie was forced to look him in the eye. "So, what were you doing?" "Uhhh, going to see you?" Snape sighed. "Lei, we have gone over this before. I keep veritserum. I will force feed my veritserum to you. You tell truth. So just tell." "But if I told, you would find out about my obsession with Harry!" she clapped her hands over her mouth. She was definitely going blonder everyday. "Obsession with Harry? Huh? Well, we'll just have to cure that won't we" said Snape, right before he tightened his grip on Essie and put his mouth on hers.
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Whoa. Snape could snog. His mouth was almost a work of art. He wasn't on her mouth anymore. He eyes widened as she felt him on her pulse point. EEP. Professors weren't supposed to be able to kiss like this. Sinfully. But it felt so GOOD. His mouth was on top of hers again. This time, though, his tongue was inside her mouth, too. As one of his hands, inched up to find the bow of her halter-top and started to untie it, she stepped back and pulled away. NONONONONO. Sex with a teacher was VERY bad. She fumbled with the bow. "Here, let me tie it for you" offered Snape "Will you swear you won't UNTIE it?" Snape rolled his eyes. "I swear I won't untie your bloody little halter-top." Essie walked towards him and turned around. Snape tied her bow neatly, then suddenly, put both arms around her waist and pulled her in. She gasped. His mouth was on her pulse point again. After he kissed it he said, "I said I wouldn't untie it, not that I wouldn't kiss you" Essie felt like the world was upside-down. She leaned in, so she wouldn't fall. Mmm. it felt good. But it was so VERY wrong. She raised her arms so that her hands encircled Snape's neck and tried to get him off. Unfortunately, his lips had a death grip on her cheek. Snape was about to tighten his grip around her waist when they heard a *BOOM*. Snape cursed. Peeves. Why did people interrupt when he snogged? "PEEVES!" Yelled Snape. He turned to Essie. "You best get to bed, luv. No detention. In fact, if you were in a house, I'd give you points for a snog well done." Essie blushed. Snape kissed her lightly on the forehead and sprinted off to stop Peeves from destroying anything. Ess headed off to her dorm. No doubt that Loki was there, waiting to hear about snogging Snape.
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Essie slipped quietly into her dorm and into her room. She had just slipped into her cami and her pajama shorts and was about to get a robe when Harry suddenly appeared on her bed with her kitten. Essence jumped nearly a foot in the air. "Harry! I'm in a cami and pj shorts! You should SO not be here!" "Yeah, well, YOU shouldn't be snogging Snape, so I wouldn't be talking if I was you." Essie blushed. So Harry had seen. Well its not like she ran up to Snape and mooshed her lips onto his like a kissing leech. "Look Harry. It only went as far as it wnet cuz Loki threw me at him then Snape was all 'I'll cure your obsession with Harry' and I didn't wanna be cured and then he almost completely undid my halter top and then tied it but attached himself by his lips onto my neck and I was so confused I was dizzy and had to lean on him and grab him to regain balance. And of all people, Peeves saved me." Ess was hysterical. She was crying but laughing. She felt so mixed up. And Harry looked as confused as she was. "Wait," said Harry, holding up his hand, "you have an obsession with ME?" Essie growled in frustration. Was that all he got of her huge long rant? Geez. "Is that all you heard?" "Err, yeah. My brain kinda shut down after you said 'my obsession with Harry'. Don't look so mad please. I get that its not your fault, OK? So I'll just let you finish dressing and go to bed." Essie turned red at that sentence. "NOT with you! Geez! I mean sleeping, not sex!"
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At 7:00 am Loki bounded into Essie's bed chamber with an expectant look on her face. Essie SOOO owed her a gossip fest. Loki wanted to know everything. "Sleeping Snape Snogger, wake up!" Essie groaned. She knew what Loki wanted. "Loki, three reasons: 1., that really didn't sound right. 2, if it weren't for you, I would not have snogged Snape and 3, shut up and go to bed." Loki shook her head. "Uh-uh. You are SO going to tell me what happened." "No I'm not" "Yes you are" "No I'm not" "Yes you are" "Am not" "Are too" "Am not" "Are too-oo!" "OK! FINE! Snape snogged me and my neck! Are you happy? GOD! You know, none of this would have happened if it weren't for you!" "I know. I'm such a genius when it comes to matchmaking." "OH! YOU!" Essie grabbed one of her pillows and threw it at Loki. "What the-?" yelled Loki indignantly. Essie had her wand pointed at Loki. "Lokara Thompson, if you don't shut up right now, I am so gonna use a severing charm to hex your mouth off" Loki shut up and scuttled out. Maybe Ess had PMS or something. No need to get hexed just cuz of Ess being all no snogging and telling. God. Some people could be so temperamental sometimes.
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Since it was Saturday, Essie had no classes. Good. That meant no sizable-snozzed stalker. She needed badly some alcohol. Where was he secret stash of Odgen's Firewhiskey?
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30 minutes later, Loki walked into Essie's room, to borrow a sweater. The minute she walked into the room, she knew something was wrong. There was a very alcoholic smell in the air, and several tissues on the floor, along with an almost empty bottle of whiskey. Essie was lying on her bed, nursing a shot of whiskey. Loki noticed she had a balled up tissue in her hand, and looked like she had been crying. Loki rushed over. "OH MI GOD. Essie? Are you OK? Hell, that was stupid to ask. Oh my god, you never drink. You finished that whole bottle of whiskey? Shit girl. I'm sorry, but no matter how depressed you are over something, you shouldn't get drunk!" Essie looked up at Loki. "Loki, I shouldn'd 'ave snogged Snabe, righd?" Loki shook her head. "Ess? Hello? That is the sorriest reason to get drunk I've ever heard. Granted I've heard quite a few, too."
Essie smiled sadly. "Yeah, I dow. Nodding I ever do ish righd, righd? Hell, I feel eved more debreshed dan I wash BEFORE. I got all alcohol-y. Sho I can'd even get drunk righd." Essie smiled faintly before she passed out on the bed, still holding her shot glass of whiskey. Loki, shook her head. She needed to get help. She gently took the whiskey glass away and tossed it out the window, along with the bottle. She threw away all the tissues and set out to get Harry.
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She found him near the Gryff's dorm "Harry! Harry! O god, need your help. Actually, Ess does-" "WHAT? What happened? Is she OK?" Harry grabbed Loki and shook her. "OW! God, I dunno, she kinda got herself drunk an' she's all depressed about Snape snogging her." "WHAT?"
"Yeah. So, like, I need help. Bring along someone smart you can trust. I need someone who can do the detoxifying charm. And she'll want to see you, when she regains consciousness." "WHAT?"
"Yeah. She passed out from all the whiskey." Harry thought. "Hermione Granger. She's one of my best friends." "Really? She's perfect!" "OK, I'll get her and come over as soon as possible" "HURRY! The password is HGIH fit!" Harry smiled weakly and sprinted off to find Hermione.
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10 minutes later, Harry and Hermione stepped into Loki and Essie's dorm. Loki greeted them. "Hey guys. Essie's room is this way." Harry and Hermione followed Loki. Hermione was all nervous. Getting drunk was against school rules. They stepped inside Essie's room.Harry gulped audibly. Essie looked like she wasn't Essie. Hermione stepped up next to her. "How much did she drink?" she asked Loki. "Almost a whole bottle." Hermione's eyes widened. This would be messier than she thought. "I need a BIG glass then" Loki nodded. He went and got one of the coffee mugs she had in her room for decoration. Hermione grabbed the mug and pointed her wand at Essie. "Detoxidus alcoholian!" ha huge stream of liquid flowed out of a vein in one of Essie's wrists. Hermione deftly caught it with the mug. When it started to overflow, Loki got another one. It filled 3c mugs in all. "Whoa" murmured Harry. No wonder Essie was unconscious. "Do you want to talk to her?" asked Hermione. Harry nodded. "Enervate," murmured Hermione. Essie blinked and sat up. She saw Harry, Loki and Hermione and flung her arms around Harry and started sobbing. Loki and Hermione quietly left the room.
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"OH GOD Harry, I didn't mean to snog Snape he just forced me to snog him both times but I liked it which is so AWFUL and I love you Harry. Not him. He's so weird but I don't want to snog him EVER again even if it gets me out of trouble." "Sh, sh," whispered Harry, comfortingly. "I don't care about that. I care about you. You didn't have to get all drunk. You could have just told me. And about Snape? Honestly I think he's weird too. But you can just TALK to me if you're confused, I love you enough so that I'll listen and help, not listen and critique." "Really?" whispered Essie "Really. I thought you knew that by now." "Oh Harry!" Essie threw her arms around him again. Harry was so comforting. "Harry?" "Yes?" "Just hold me for right now. That's all I want for the moment."
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Thanks to Risquer for actually reading this fic. So if you are not Risquer or if you are her please review. Thankee much!