Lurking Out Of Sight
Chapter 5
"Who is it?" Hermione heard Ron yell. "Show yourself!"
"Child, you have no reason to fear me, sit down."
"Wha-"
The figure moved slowly into the light and Ron gasped. Hermione was frustrated beyond all reason and scared to death. She could not see this man. Her body screamed out and she tried so hard to move her neck.
Just an inch! Not even an inch! Why can't I move!
"Mr. Weasley, I can take her now."
"But S-Professor...why are you here?"
He continued to walk slowly towards the two of them and finally came into Hermione's view. It was professor Snape. Hermione felt incredibly stupid. She had panicked but didn't listen very well. Whatever… No reason to beat herself up about it.
But what is he doing here?
"Mr. Weasley, I'll take her."
"O-ok professor. Here she is." Professor Snape bent over and picked up Hermione. With her body away from his Ron felt suddenly cold. It was unnerving.
"Oh, this isn't good at all...Mr. Weasley, I want you to wake up young miss Weasley and Miss Lovegood and meet me in the main lobby. Your sister's ankle looks broken so you might have to carry her."
With that professor Snape smirked and strode out of the dark room, robes billowing mysteriously behind him and Hermione clamped her "eyes" shut.
Ron sat for a couple of minutes thinking of what had happened the previous night. Sirius...he knew he was gone. Something told him. Or maybe it was last night but he could have sworn he heard Harry yell his name. Somehow Hermione knew too. Ron really didn't understand.
Her stood up and tried to stretch but felt a jolt of pain on his arms and his neck. After further inspection he saw circular bruises on top of horrible red welts.
The brains...
Ron shuddered and after a few seconds under a brief fuzzy spell which cause him to nearly fall over, he regained his composure and woke Ginny and Luna. Both grumbled with headaches and Ginny nearly fainted when she tried to stand up on her ankle. But somehow Ron managed to wake them and start moving towards humanity. Anything to be away from such a dark and cold place, a place to drenched with the feeling of death and sorrow, time and sleep, joy and pain.
Hermione peeked, just to see where she was and saw out of the corner of her eyes her professor's feet gracefully gliding step by step across the stone floor. The feeling of his cold hands around her body way something so incredibly awkward and Hermione wasn't all too sure that she liked it at all.
He was a cold person and with each step her professor took, a feeling of dread in her heart increased. Suddenly Professor Snape stopped and nearly dropped Hermione in the process. Her mental mind was in hysterics. She had tried to grab at him to not fall...thankfully he caught her but she was still mentally screeching and bright green spots danced yet again before her hazel eyes.
"Sorry Miss Granger." Hermione would have been babbling incoherently in a very non-Hermione way if she had been able to. The potions master chuckled almost warmly which caused Hermione's mind to overload and all she could do was to stare.
"I know you can hear me, and I can slightly hear you myself. I can hear your panic. Almost annoying and for a witch of many talents Miss Granger..." He paused, "You seem to lack many skills involving common sense. But that can be overlooked-"
Hermione sent a very angry mental jab towards her professor that was something like a slap to the "face" of his mental self. Hermione's "eyes" bulged knowing that she had just attacked a professor and as soon as her mind calmed down she developed a very nasty headache. One of the worst ones she had ever had.
Once again to Hermione's surprise and annoyance her professor chuckled again in blatant amusement.
"Nice Miss Granger...or, Hermione...that was something unexpected. Your control is stronger then I thought...interesting. Interesting indeed."
He just called me by my first name...odd