a/n: I thought it was about time I finished this. I have nothing to do so I'm finishing this. I hope it's all it's cracked up to be.

Disclaimer: "Sir, sir! I isolated the reverse power flux coupling!"

--undisclosed room--

Hermione woke up in strange surroundings. That wall wasn't her wall. And that sheet wasn't her sheet. And that leg... wasn't her leg. "AAAAAAHHHHHHH!"

Then a hand shot out and covered her mouth. "Miss Granger, if you do not cease that noise I will have to make you stop." Hermione heard that voice and quit struggling. She rolled over onto her side and looked at the man who accompanied her.

"I don't know... you might have to give me some... incentive... to keep my mouth shut." Hermione said in a sultry voice.

"Oh, I believe I can give you more than that." He said as they dove under the bed sheets.

--several hours later--

"I wonder where Hermione is..." Harry wondered to Ron.

"I don't know, mate. She has been rather... secretive lately. D'ya think... she...?" Ron asked, waggling his eyebrows.

"Nah." Harry said. "She'd tell us if she was shagging some bloke."

--outside slytherin common room--

"What are you doing here Granger?"

"Not that it's any of your business, but I had some, business, with Professor Snape." Hermione said with a barely perceptible smirk.

Draco looked at Crabbe. Then Goyle. Then Hermione. Then said confusedly, "What?"

Hermione just laughed and left the boys to think it over.

--gryffindor(k) common room--

"So, Herm, mind telling us where you were last night?" Harry asked with a slight lecherous gleam in his eyes

"Yeah, Harry has this funny idea that you were out shagging some bloke. Please, PLEASE tell me he's wrong."

"Ron, I will neither deny," at this Harry's eyes lit up, "nor admit," at this Ron perked up, "Harry's claim that I was as you put it, 'shagging some bloke.' And as we know that Harry is a gigantic perv, and you are a natty telltale, I am not going to say anything, do as the Americans say and 'plead the fifth.'"

"So you admit that there was something that we might not approve of happening last night?"

"Nope. Not saying anything." And with that, Hermione went out the portrait hole and down the hall.

"Yep," Harry said, his eyes following Hermione, "she's definitely shagging someone."

"HARRY!"

--same undisclosed room--

"So," Hermione said, "I thought you said we should wait until after graduation to... you know..."

"Yes, I did..."

"And last night, we still..."

"Yes, we did..."

"Sooo... What happened?

"I think you know what happened Hermione. Or do I have to show you..." he said while tickling up the back of her legs"

"Not that, you know what I mean! Or do I have to start calling you Sevvie-kun again?"

"No anything but that! Please I'll do anything!" He cried in mock horror.

"Then tell me!" She said while furiously tickling him.

"Okay, Okay! I think someone spiked our drinks!"

"Really... and I think I know who that someone might be... I should thank him really..." Hermione said while straddling his prone body.

"Oh, really? And why might that be?"

"Because I don't intend to wait until graduation anymore..."

September 28, 2004

a/n: thanks to everyone who reviewed. All three of you. Emmie, lama and Belle Mortis