It was the next day, and Jackie was saying good-bye to her friends that were going on the train back home for the holidays.
"Merry Christmas!" she yelled at them as they waved to her from the train windows.
"BEHAVE!" her friend Rocio said, Jackie laughed.
"Same to you! Bye guys!" she yelled.
"Merry Christmas Jackie!" they all yelled back at her as the train left the station.
She smiled and walked into Hogsmead store. She looked around for things to buy for her family and spotted Freddie and Jesse, talking to Snape! She quickly walked over, making sure they couldn't see her. Jesse said something and all three of them started laughing, but Jackie still couldn't hear them. She walked over behind Freddie when they stopped laughing and placed her hands over his eyes.
"Who is it?" he asked. Jackie shook his head.
"It's someone really ugly," Jesse said, Jackie kicked him, still holding her hands over Freddie's eyes.
"Oh, then it HAS to be Kristie," Jackie shook his head again. "Okay, Jackie, she comes in second,"
"THAT'S MEAN!" Jackie said, she laughed and hugged Freddie, then Jesse. She turned to look at Professor Snape, as if she JUST saw him.
"Oh hello Professor Snape," she said, smiling at him.
"Hello Jackie, well boys, I'll see you later, and I hope you're right," he said with a smile. He walked off. Jackie turned to look at Jesse and Freddie.
"Okay you guys, what's going on?" she asked, they just grinned.
"We're not telling," Jesse said. Jackie glared at them.
"Fine, be like that," she told them, then she hugged them both and paid for her things. She walked out of the store and walked around for a while, but then she felt someone right behind her, she turned around quickly and smiled. It was Snape.
"Nice to see you again Professor Snape," she said to him. He smiled.
He looks a lot more human and nicer like that.
"Well I did not get all the information as to why you went into the forest, and I was hoping, if you have the time, that I could buy a butterbeer," he said.
Jackie looked at him carefully. For being 25 he was very attractive looking when he smiled. He normally had a very cold and mean face, probably due to the fact that he was a double agent, spying on Voldemort for the Ministry, and being afraid that someone might get him, even though the Dark Lord has gone, thanks to Harry Potter. The Dark Lord's followers were still around.
"Why not? I have some time," Jackie said. Snape's grin broadened, he took her bag for her. They walked over to the Three Broomsticks. They quickly found a table in a little corner where they could talk, and no one could hear them. Snape went to go and get their drinks while Jackie said and looked around the place. It was awfully quite, she didn't know anyone in there, and there were only two witches who were sitting at the bar, talking to the bartender.
Soon enough, Snape was back with the drinks. He passed her a butterbeer and then slid in the seat next to her.
"So, WHY did you go into the forest?" Snape asked her after a while.
"Well, it was late, I was bored and I couldn't fall asleep, so I got up to look out of my window, and I saw you, and well curiosity go the better of me."
"Curiosity killed the cat," Snape said.
"Satisfaction brought it back," Jackie told him with a grin, he smiled. But then his expression darkened. "Jackie, did anything else happen to you? Did you see anyone, you know before you saw me?"
Jackie thought for a while, and nodded. Snape noticed that she went a little pale.
"Well, at first I thought it was you, but afterwards, I knew it wasn't. See when I went to go look for you outside, someone grabbed me from behind, they put a hand over my mouth and started to drag me somewhere, well, thanks to Freddie and his karate teaching, I bit the hand, kicked whoever it was, and then took off running, and later on I ran into you," she said, she took a big swing of the butterbeer.
Snape nodded and leaned back in his chair. "Okay, something's up. What's going on Professor, what's wrong?" Jackie asked him, leaning towards him. He leaned towards her too.
"There were some Death Eaters in the forest who are, umm, just a TAD upset that I betrayed the Dark Lord, and the night that you were there, I think that someone was trying to get me, but they found you." Snape told her, he noticed that Jackie looked very worried now. She put a hand on his arm.
"No one's going to hurt you right?" he asked him in a whisper. Snape looked at her surprised. She was worried about him, more than that she CARED about him, and nobody in his life ever really did. He took her hands in his.
"I'm going to be fine, just as long as you're with me," he told her, looking into her eyes. Slowly but surely, he kissed her. She sighed as his lips, which were surprisingly warm, met hers. She wasn't sure how long she'd wanted him to kiss her, but now that he had, she was happy. When she thought Snape was finished, he quickly deepened the kiss.
They were walking back to Hogwarts together, Snape dropped her off at the staircase that he had left last time and went along to his office. Jackie sighed as she watched him leave. Then she ran up to her room and threw her stuff on her bed, she went to get some paper, she was ready to write owls to all her friends and tell them what was going on, but she stopped.
I can't do that, what if someone grabs my owl and read the letter, and then they get Severus? Severus, I never really thought about his first name, before. Jackie giggled.
"Hey Jackie! Where have you been all morning? Lunch is about to be served," Kristie asked her. Becca took a good look at her, she was turning red, she had a twinkle in her eye, AND she was giggling.
"OH MY GOD! SHE KISSED A GUY!" Becca said.
"No I didn't!" Jackie said. Kristie laughed, she noticed it too.
"You did to! So who was it?" they both asked, Jackie smiled at them. She got up and walked to the door.
"I'll tell you guys later, I'm hungry, butterbeer can'" Jackie said, she took off running down the common room and towards The Great Hall, with Becca and Kristie chasing her.
"OH NO YOU DON'T!" Kristie and Becca yelled.