You can kiss the sweetness away

After dinner, Dumbledore told them to stay in an extra room, beside the Gryffindor Common room. They approached a painting of an old man.

Dumbledore coughed, waking the painting.

"Hello headmaster, how may I be of use to you?" Said the painting wiping its eyes.

"The password for you to be open is..." He looked at Vicky.

"Um...Mangos." Vicky said.

Erica held back a laugh. Vicky noticed and said "What, they're my trademark..."

Dumbledore smiled and led them into the room, it was room filled with couches, a bathroom, a bed, and lots of windows.

"I CALL THE BED!" Vicky screamed as she ran to it.

Erica shrugged and walked over to the couch and pushed two together. Vicky laughed when she saw what Erica was doing with the couches.

"I used to do that with my Barbie's."

Erica stopped. Turned around and stared at her friend for about 30 seconds, making her feel uncomfortable, and turned back around shaking her head.

Dumbledore spoke "Well I'll leave you two to it. But do you want to go to classes or spend time researching in the Library?"

"Library" Erica and Vicky both said.

Dumbledore smiled and said "The password to the Gryffindor common room is Moonsryc" and he left.

Vicky did a spell on the bed to clean the sheets before she got in; when she finally got settled Erica was already asleep.

They woke up and showered. Well, Vicky ran to the shower as Erica opened the door, and Vicky slammed the door in her face. Erica rubbed her nose and sat on the couch going through all the things that had happened in the past couple of hours.

After Vicky got out, Erica went in and put a drying charm on her hair.

"I'm not hungry are you..."

Vicky just stared at her.

"I don't know how your so skinny, you eat like a junkie"

Vicky still stared at her.

"Great hall or library?"

"Great hall"

They made their way up to the Hall. It was deserted. So they walked to the kitchen and the house elves handed them some sandwiches.

"Come on, I really don't like this, I seriously think we should try to get back A.S.A.P."

"Erica, your just pissed because you don't have your hoodie."

"So..."

Vicky walked ahead of Erica to the Library.

Erica went to the potions section, while Vicky went to the muggle poetry section pulling out Edgar Allen Poe. Vicky plopped down at the table and began reading 'the Raven'

She heard someone cough, she looked up and saw Lupin,

"Lupin, hey..." she said gesturing for the seat beside her.

He sat down. "You CAN call me Remus you know..."

She blushed. "Sorry, you're a Professor in 2001 and 2004, and we refer to them by their last names when their not around."

"IM a professor...that is wicked." He said looking at his fingers, and then he looked at her.

"You know there is this ball coming up and I was wondering if"

She interrupted him. "Remus. I REALLY REALLY like you, like, you have no idea, but think about it, older Lupin is remembering everything as we speak, and how's he going to react to himself going to the ball with on of his students..."

He smiled "Well. I think he'd realize that he was 17 at the moment and so was she, and he'd understand."

She smiled and rolled her eyes "Fine..."
"Stay here, don't move, I'll be right back"

"I cant, I have class, Dumbledore told me you were in here so I thought I'd fly by and then head off..."

She smiled at him, He moved towards her, and hugged her, she put her arms around his neck and stood on her toes. He kissed her on the head and said bye and left.

Erica heard chattering, then footsteps and then heard a door close, and then she heard Vicky Squeal. She sighed. Then she was tackled to the floor by Vicky.

"ERICA HE ASKED ME TO THE DANCE!"

"Vicky get off me."

"Oh you're just mad because Snape hasn't asked you..."

"Actually..." she said getting up. "I didn't know about a dance until you tackled me and yelled it in my ear. I'm not mad...well I am, but not about him not asking me. He's Snape, he wont ask me, he doesn't like me."

"Mmmhmmm" Vicky got up and walked back to the spot she left, but Erica grabbed her hand and took the book she was holding.

"Vicky how is muggle literature going to help us get back to 2004?"

"Um...he has nice...big 2004 words...?"

"Just go, do what you want, I'll be back here."

"K, I'll go get us some food..."

"alright, thanks."

Vicky walked out the door.

Erica went back to her book and she couldn't find a potion that contained the same ingredients as the ones she put into the cauldron.

"You're looking in the wrong book" Came a silky voice. She turned around and Snape handed her a book. "This one contains almost all potions. The one you're looking in only contains mostly healing and herb potions." She took the book and started flipping through it.

"Thanks..."

"No problem, don't bend it or scratch it or spill anything on it or"

"Alright, I get the point. If you don't trust me why'd you lend it to me?"

"I didn't exactly have a choice, Dumbledore told me to, and you think I want some American Gryffindor borrowing my things?"

She turned around and glared at him. She stood and grabbed some books she recently had and left the one he lended her, and walked out the library.

Severus smacked himself in the head. Vicky walked in.

"OH GOD, DID YOU EAT HER!"

Severus looked at her.

"What?" He said unsure what she meant.

"Sorry, thinking about 2004 Snape, uh what happened, where'd she go?"

"Uh, she left; I don't know where she went."

Vicky frowned.

"I'm not dragging this food all the way back. Your helping me"

She threw bags of sandwiches at him, he caught them, looked at them, then up to her.

He stood and followed her to a painting he'd never seen.

She blurted out "Mangos"

She looked behind her and saw Snape with a raised his eyebrow.

"Whoops...pretend you didn't hear that."

The portrait opened and he followed her in, and saw Erica on the couch skimming through a book. She looked up and saw Vicky and smiled, she saw Snape and frowned.

Vicky handed her a canteen and sat down beside her. Snape set the food on the table and sat down across from them.

"I...uh...I'm Sorry about saying that." He stuttered.

"Whatever"

Vicky looked at Erica.

"Erica, Realize that Severus Snape, the person who never talks to people in a polite manner, is apologizing to you and you say 'whatever'."

Erica looked at Snape who was looking at his shoes. She looked at Vicky.

"He's different; I should treat him no different than you."

"Erica what did he say to make you so pissed?"

"Ask him"

Vicky looked at Snape who was now looking at Erica.

"I said something stupid, uh; I don't want to talk about it."

"American Gryffindor" Erica said helping him.

"That's it?" said Vicky

"He talked to me like I was the spawn of Satan just because I was from another country and sorted into Gryffindor...I'll give him the same treatment I gave Malfoy"

"No...2004 Snape would kill you."

"What about Lucius?" Asked Snape.

"Oh he has a son in 2004 and Erica kicked his ass."

"You always say things so nonchalantly."

"It's a gift"

"Your retarded."

"ERICA!"

"What."

"LUPIN ASKED ME-"

"you told me, and if you tell me one more time, ill shove my wand up…"

"Lupin asked you what?" asked Snape.

Erica Grunted.

"To the ball" Vicky Squeaked.

Erica rolled her eyes, Snape noticed.

"Severus, you know... Erica doesn't" Vicky was stopped by a hand clasping around her mouth and being pulled over the couch and strangled.

Erica stood up and as she was walking back around the couch, Vicky tripped her and she went flying forward.

"oh hell" and she was pounced on by Vicky. Erica grabbed Vicky's shoulders and Erica landed on top of Vicky and was about to punch her when Snape grabbed Erica and pulled her back and they fell back on the couch on top of each other. She went to get up at Vicky when he pulled her back down and he got up and looked at her like she was mad.

Vicky stuck out her tongue out at her.

"Can you please stop acting like your Seven." Said a breathless Snape.

"Like I was saying, Snape you should ask Erica to the"

Erica's shoulders connected with Vicky's pelvis and Vicky went flying into the wall.

"ERICA IM DOING YOU A FAVOUR!"

"No YOU'RE EMBARRSING ME!"