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AN: Cruel, cruel reviewers….all both of them….poor Severus and Alexis.

Chapter 19 I Can't Get No Satisfaction

I can't get no satisfaction,
I can't get no girl with action.
'Cause I try and I try and I try and I try.
I can't get no, I can't get no.

When I'm ridin' round the world
and I'm doin' this and I'm signing that
and I'm tryin' to make some girl
who tells me baby better come back later next week
'cause you see I'm on losing streak.
I can't get no, oh no no no.
Hey hey hey, that's what I say.

I can't get no, I can't get no,
I can't get no satisfaction,
no satisfaction, no satisfaction, no satisfaction.

Rolling Stones "I Can't Get No Satisfaction

Reaching the bedroom, Alexis placed the dish on a convenient table and turned to Snape. "You look warm, maybe we should take off some of these clothes?" She reached up and began to unbutton his shirt. Pulling his shirt free from his pants, she pushed it off of his shoulders and tossed it on a chair that was in the corner of the room. Pushing him back, until he was seated on the bed she knelt at his feet, giving him an appreciated view of her cleavage, and took off his shoes and socks. Standing, she pulled him back to his feet and reached for the waist of his trousers. Unbuckling his belt she made a production of unzipping his pants, allowing the knuckles of her fingers to rub against the hardness she found there.

Finally she pushed his pants down and they dropped to his ankles, Alexis ran a hand down the green silk boxers she had just revealed. "Nice," she commented, Snape was glad that at least in this, Flitwick had been correct.

As Alexis reached to push his boxers down, Snape grabbed her hands to stop her.

Alexis gave him a puzzled look, Snape explained, "One of us is wearing to many clothes."

With that he spun her around and began to slowly slide the zipper at the back of her dress down. Using the dress he pulled her back up against his chest, pushing her hair to the side, he ran hungry kisses up her neck and slipped his hands around into the bodice of her dress and cupped her breasts. Alexis gasped and leaned back into his embrace, leaning her head to the side to give him better access to her neck.

Snape kneaded her breasts and pulled at her nipples causing them to harden and swell.

Alexis bent her head back, "Kiss me," she commanded.

Snape was happy to oblige, he gave her a hot, wet open mouth kiss, using his tongue to great effect. He shuddered as she sucked on his tongue. Using his hands he pushed the dress off her arms and down to the floor. Stepping out of the dress, Alexis turned to give Snape a full view of her scanty attire.

"You're beautiful," he managed to get out.

Alexis smiled up at him, and then surprised him by jumping up on him and wrapping her legs around his waist, pressing herself against his straining erection. Snape just did manage to catch her.

She had her breasts crushed to his chest, and she was rubbing against his hardness while giving his neck open mouthed kisses.

Abruptly Alexis stopped, dropped her feet to the floor, turned her head away from Snape and gave a huge sneeze, "AAACHHOOO!! "

And then a series of sneezes, "achoo, achoo, achoo."

Holding a hand to her face she headed toward the bathroom still sneezing.

Snape just stood there in his green silk boxers looking at the bathroom door.

"OH SHIT!!!" came from the bathroom followed by more sneezing.

Snape hurried to see what was wrong.

Alexis was standing in front of the mirror just staring at her face and sneezing.

"SHIT! What happened to your face??!" Snape realized that he perhaps could have phrased that better when Alexis burst into tears.

The tears were leaking out from eyes that were almost swollen shut. Her cheeks looked as if she were holding a pound of walnuts in her mouth.

Snape watched as hives began breaking out all over Alexis's arms, chest, and legs. Alexis started scratching in between sneezing and crying.

Snape went back into the bedroom and pulled back on his trousers and shirts and fastened his robes. He grabbed a pair of his socks from the dresser and walked back into the bathroom.

Alexis was sitting on the edge of the tub, face swollen, eyes almost completely closed, red hives all over her body, still sneezing and scratching. She had scratched so hard in some places that Snape could see little drops of blood.

Grabbing her he slipped a sock on each of her hands. He helped her to her feet and led her into the sitting room where he grabbed her robe from the chair where she had left it earlier. He gently helped her into it and fastened it for her. Tears were still leaking from her puffy eyes and it was obvious she could barely see.

Taking out his linen handkerchief, Snape barely patted the tears away being careful not to aggravate her condition. "Come on, we have to get you to Madame Pomfrey."

"I'm so sorry Severus," Alexis said between sneezes, "I don't know what is wrong with me."

"It looks like you may be having an allergic reaction to something."

Snape put an arm around her and went over to the fireplace. Throwing a handful of Floo powder into the grate he shouted, "Hospital," and stepped with Alexis into the green flames.

Madame Pomfrey took one look at Alexis and pushed Snape out of the way.

"Alexis whatever have you done to yourself?"

"I don't know Poppy. We were having a nice dinner and the next thing I know I'm sneezing, swelling up like a balloon, and breaking out in these itchy hives."

Poppy led her over to a bed and unfastened her robes. With barely a pause at the sexy lingerie revealed, "Oh you poor dear. Severus what did you do to this child?"

"I didn't do anything. We ate dinner and then talked and next thing I know this.." with a wave of his hand at the wretched witch sitting on the bed.

"What did you eat?" Madame Pomfrey was waving her wand over Alexis, muttering healing spells.

"We had oysters on the half shell…"

"What??? You gave her oysters?? Alexis what were you thinking eating oysters?"

"But I like oysters."

"Severus come hold her hands. She cannot scratch anymore or she will get an infection," Pomfrey hurried off to her medicine closet muttering under her breath, "Oysters. I can't believe it! What were they thinking? Based on that outfit she is wearing or rather not wearing I have a good idea of what they were thinking. I wonder where she got it and if it comes in my size…"

The last comment had Snape looking after the departing medi-witch in shocked disbelief. That was NOT something he wanted to picture. Alexis whispered to him, "I'll burn them later."

Snape fervently nodded in agreement. He was seated on the bed next to Alexis. He had wrapped an arm around her and was holding a wrist in each hand. She was twitching with the effort not to scratch.

"I'm so sorry Severus."

Snape rested his chin on Alexis head, "I don't believe you did this deliberately. So you don't have anything for which to be sorry."

"But I ruined your lovely evening," Alexis has stopped sneezing but her eyes were streaming water. Snape lifted his chin off her head when he realized she was using to scratch with.

Snape thought back over the lovely evening, "You stuck a thorn in your thumb trying to take a rose from me. Then you bruised your shin when I led you into a table. Then I played all those wildly inappropriate 'love' songs. I think you having an allergic reaction to the 'romantic' dinner is about what I should have expected."

Alexis chuckled, "Those songs were something else and I didn't tell you earlier but you remember the romantic scene I told you about where the two main characters shared the plate of spaghetti?"

"Yes."

"The two main characters are cartoon dogs," Alexis started laughing. She leaned her head back into Snape's shoulder and cackled.

Snape looked down at the red, swollen, runny eyed woman in his arms laughing hysterically and that's when it hit him. He was in love with her. It only took a moment for the shock to wear off. Then he started laughing too. Great big belly laughs started pouring out of him. He didn't think he had ever laughed so hard before in his life.

Madame Pomfrey came out of the medicine closet with several large bottles in her hands and stopped to stare at the couple laughing like a pair of mad hyenas, "Well I never!"

Snape barely got out, "I'm so sorry to hear that Poppy, but maybe some new lingerie will fix that."

Snape looked surprised at what had come out of his mouth. He and Alexis stopped laughing and were staring at the healer.

Madame Pomfrey's face was frozen in a look of prim disapproval, "Well Severus I can see it has done a world of good for you," with a pointed look at the green silk bra and garter set that were clearly visible, "Alexis where did you get them and do they carry my size?"