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"Oh, Gods." Severus said, pulling his face away from her's. Her lips were swollen from their kiss and her cheeks had a stunning pink tint to them. "Fuck." he swore.
"Professor?" Hermione said, tentatively
"Gods and Merlin, call me by my goddamned name so that I don't feel like a pedofile." he said harshly.
"Fine. What is wrong?"
"I kissed you."
"I bloody well kissed back." she cried, putting her little fist on the wall they were standing by.
"That's what makes it so terrible. Now, not only will I be kicked out and fired you will be expelled."
"If anyone finds out." she retorted, "And I certainly will not be telling anyone."
"Good. I don't think anyone would like it very much."
"Except for me." she muttered, turning her head so that he didn't see the tears that were streaking her cheeks.
"You are my fucking student."
"No need for language, Professor." she snorted, wiping her eyes, feeling rejected and worse than she had felt at breakfast.
"Severus!" he almost screamed as it started to drizzle on them.
"I know that's your name! Then talk to me like I am a woman and not just your student. Then I will talk to you like you are a man and not my professor!"
"I can't do that." He said, breathing heavily. The rain was coming down harder now, leaving wet marks on Severus' shirt and soaking Hermione's hair.
"Why the hell not?!" she screamed, letting her tears mingle with the rain.
"Because if I do that, I will never be able to look at you without wanting you."
"I don't want you to want my body, goddamnit!"
"I don't want your body, Hermione, I want your soul and I want your mind." He yelled back.
"Well then fuck everything else! When is the last time you have wanted something?"
"Oh!" He yelled as he sunk to his knees, the rain running rivulets down his face as it was contorted with pain.
"Severus? What is it?" Hermione rushed over to him and sank to her knees beside him.
"The Dar. Dark Lord. Get back. Get back to Hog. Hogwarts. Fast." he said, clutching his arm where the Dark mark burned violently.
"Severus!" she cried as he vanished from the very spot she was at. "Severus!" she screamed into thin air.
Getting up, she looked around wildly. She was soaked now, from her hair to her dress.
"Dumbledore. Have to see Dumbledore." she muttered as she dashed out of the alley. She sprinted along the sidewalk, the rain blurring her vision. "Fuck." She ran faster, not knowing where she was going.
"Do you need help, missy?" a man looked at her from a stoop. He was, miraculously, not wet at all.
"Who are you?" she asked, brushing the rain from her eyes.
"Deladeus Diggle."
"Are you a wizard?" she asked the man with the strangely familiar english accent.
"That I am. You must be Hermione Granger."
"How do you know who I am? I have to go!"
"Dumbledore's at the fire for you. He told me to be on the watch for a young girl running. I think that's you."
"Thank you!" she said as she rushed into the little row house.
"Hermione?" came the voice from the fire place.
"He's gone to You-Know-Who!" she cried, kneeling in front of the green fire.
"I know he has. There's a dark revel going on tonight in New York. You must get out as soon as you can." Dumbledore said, his sweet face somber.
"How?"
"Floo. But hurry. They are about to start monitoring the system. You only have a moment."
"Mr. Diggle!" Hermione screamed. He rushed into the room. "Where's the floo powder?"
"Right here." he said, pulling an urn off the mantle. She grabbed a handful and rushed into the fire.
"Hogwarts!" she yelled. And with a blinding flash of green she was gone. In an instant she was on the floor in Dumbledore's study.
"Hermione?" Dumbledore said, gently.
"Oh, Headmaster." she said, crying all over again.
"Have a towel." he said, suppling a fluffy pink one for her.
"Thank you." she muttered.
"I suppose you have many questions for me." he said, sitting on the floor beside her.
"I do. Most of all why you put us in a bed together." she almost smiled at the thought.
"I always have some thoughts of my own in every plan. I simply wanted to see how you would react. And I see, by your face and the fact you had your leg wrapped around his, it went well."
"You saw that?" she gasped.
"I was watching you. For protection, not spying's sake."
"Oh. I feel like such a dunce."
"Do not worry. I have long since thought that Severus had more feelings for you than the average professor might."
"I am sorry." she hung her curly head.
"I am sorry that you both have not realized this earlier." he said, the twinkle back in his eyes.
