Disclaimer: The usual. None of the characters are mine, their all JK Rowling's, but I'm not using them for profit, so it's all ok. I've been getting some strange reactions about my pairing, but oh well. I find it easy to write about these two.

"You're joking."

"Snape didn't punish you?"

"No." Cho was beginning to regret telling Padma and Marietta that she had left the Ravenclaw tower the previous night.

"Why? What did you do? Suck him off?"

"Ewww!" The others burst into laughter.

"Don't, guys. Shut up."

"Shh. here he comes." Snape was indeed walking past the Ravenclaw table.

"His eyes are red."

"Are they? Didn't notice."

"You must have been a bad root, Cho." And with that, the other girls burst into laughter which didn't cease until Transfiguration.

*****

As cruel as it may seem, Severus half hoped that Cho would have nightmares again tonight. After waiting by the stone door for two hours, however, he realised that she was not going to arrive, and so asked the door to open. He slowly approached the puddle and peered into it, his face twisted with anxiety and hope. His reflection stared back at him, the surrounding water empty. Angrily, he left the room.

What was he expecting? To see her face staring back at him? He had never realised how foolish he could be sometimes. Still, he did have double potions with the Ravenclaws the next day. Perhaps he could speak to her then when there was nobody else around.