CHAPTER FOUR: Nobody needs to know…
What was that? What on earth gave Snape the right to go near her, let alone kiss her? She could feel the anger stirring in the pit of her stomach. As she stormed down the corridor she had no idea where she was going, all that she knew was that there were a thousand thoughts running through her head, and none of them made any sense. She stopped on her spot as one thought plagued her mind. She turned around and strode back towards the dungeon. She couldn't walk away from the situation like that.
The door slammed open and then slammed shut again, Severus looked up and saw Ginny standing in the room. What was she doing there?
"Miss Weasley…" He said, she glared at him and walked over to his desk.
"I think Professor, that we need to talk." She said, she should be talking to Dumbledore not Snape.
"What do you wish to talk about Miss Weasley?" He asked.
"You know what I want to talk about Snape." She growled Snape glared at her lack of respect.
"Do not address me so informally-" He begun.
"Do not take advantage of students!" Ginny yelled, Snape looked shocked "I don't know if your realised Snape, but you just broke a law. So you better come up with a bloody good explanation why before I go and find professor Dumbledore." Snape opened his mouth and closed it a number of time before he managed to find his voice.
"I think this can be resolved without the headmaster knowing." He said quietly Ginny raised her eyebrows. "It does not need to become a big issue, it really needn't of happen and it would be better if we both forgot about it."
"The thing is professor that it did happen, and there is no undoing what happened. What I would like to know however is why it happened in the first place."
"It was just coincidence miss Weasley, nothing more." Snape said in a voice that made Ginny shudder. "That is why it is better to forget about it. It wasn't meant to happen."
"You have been breathing down my neck for weeks now and I think that I have the right to know why." Ginny replied glaring at him.
"Because- you are a good student who is capable of better things and I don't think that you should waste your talent like your brothers have." Snape said, it seemed as though it was a lie.
"Why do you have to bring my family into this?" She half yelled.
"Your family, Miss Weasley are capable of much more than they give themselves credit for and I do not want to see you fall behind like they do."
"Since when did you care about the poor Weasley's? When did you start caring about me? When did you start caring about anyone else? You hate everyone."
"It is getting late, and I think it is time that you went back to your dormitory." Snape suggested shuffling the papers on his desk.
"I am not leaving" Ginny said folding her arms over her chest.
"Thirty points off-" Snape begun, but Ginny cut him off.
"You are in no position to take points of Gryffindor Professor. I will ask you one last time before I track Professor Dumbledore down." She threatened, "Why did you kiss me?" Snape turned to face the blackboard, his back towards Ginny.
"I-"
"And don't even begin to tell me a lie. I want the real reason. You are more cautious than that. It is not normal for you to do anything so carelessly. There is a reason for everything you do, I don't know you very well but I know you well enough to know that." Ginny warned, Snape heaved in a heavy sigh.
"I think that it would be better if you just left" He said.
"I said that I wouldn't leave here until you give me a reason and I wont." Ginny stepped towards him and he coughed loudly. He turned around quickly to face her.
"Just get back to your dormitory! It shouldn't have happened! It meant nothing!" Snape said, forcing himself to keep calm.
"Why shouldn't it have happened?" Ginny asked, Snape looked shocked.
"It is illegal, and wrong." Snape said and walked over to open the dungeon door "You said so yourself!"
"Why is it wrong?" She asked he looked confused.
"It is against the law Miss Weasley."
"Well, maybe the law is stupid." Ginny found these words coming out of her mouth as though they were alien to her mind. Why she said that was beyond her, was it because she wanted to explain why, for a split second she enjoyed the warmth of her teacher's lips on hers.
"The laws are there for a reason." Snape said, letting go of the doorhandle.
"To protect poor innocent school girls like me?" Ginny asked Snape stood emotionless.
"Look Miss Weasley, it is late and you are clearly becoming delusional, it is time for you to leave. It would be best if we both put this behind us." Ginny walked over to the door and took the handle in her hand.
"Nobody has to know." She said and shut the door. She stepped towards him and he stepped back.
"Miss Weasley, it is time for you to go" he said in an awkward tone, it was the first time Ginny had ever noticed him talk in that tone.
"Nobody needs to know, Severus." She said and pushed herself up against him.
"Miss Weasley, move away from me right now!" Snape said trying to step back, but his foot hit his desk, there was nowhere to go.
"I think I know why you kissed me professor…" she said, he shook his head.
"As I said, it was an accident, a coincidence, a mistake." Ginny leant up and kissed him, she felt strange doing it, as though something had forced her to. She realised that Snape wasn't as bad as she had always said. When she pulled away from him he looked shocked.
"Well, that wasn't a mistake." She said, "Now, tell me why you kissed me."
"You said that you know why, so I don't think there is any reason for me to tell you!" Snape said, he was still shocked.
"I want to hear it from you!" She replied.
"I have nothing to say to you." Snape said opening the door and ushering her out.
Ginny walked back to the common room thinking about her evening. Snape had kissed her and she kissed him back, was it really that wrong? The laws were only there because some stupid teachers might favour the person they are dating over the other students, but teachers have favourites regardless of any rule. Maybe she was feeling tired, maybe she was confused. Either way she thought that sleeping on it would be a good idea. She didn't know why she kissed Snape.
When the next morning came things didn't clear up at all, Ginny wondered what was going to happen. The last lesson of the day was double potions so she had all day to stew on the possibilities of what was going to happen. By the sounds of Snape last night he was in no mood to continue the detentions. Breakfast in the Great Hall was turning out to be a disaster, Harry, Hermione and Ron were sitting with her and Hazel that day.
"Ginny got back late from detention last night!" Hazel stated, Harry looked at Ginny.
"It wasn't that late Hazel, besides you were asleep when I came in so you wouldn't know."
"Yes I would, I went to sleep and eleven. You came after that obviously."
"That was pretty late Ginny, he isn't allowed to keep you back that long you know, you should tell Dumbledore." Hermione said between bites of her toast.
"I know it was late, but that was my fault. I – er- didn't clean the vials properly…" She said looking into her porridge as she mushed it underneath her spoon.
"That is stupid, what does he expect? He should get the house elves to do it!" Ron said, Hermione glared at him.
"Well, it doesn't matter I don't think I will have any more detentions" Ginny shrugged.
"Why not, it is not like Snape to cut a sentence short!" Harry said suspiciously.
"Yeah, I know…" Ginny replied, not looking up.
"I bet Snape and Ginny got kinky last night!" Hazel laughed Ginny shot an evil look at her and Harry looked thoroughly disgusted.
"Hazel, that is just wrong." Harry said standing up "Ron, Hermione- we are going to be late for Transfiguration, lets go." Ginny watched as Harry, Ron and Hermione left the room Hazel nudged her.
"So, did you get kinky with Snape?" She asked, smirking.
"No!" Ginny replied defensively and shoved a slice of toast into her mouth.
When it was time for potions Hazel asked Ginny yet again about why she was so late to bad the night before, Ginny was getting annoyed, as it was about the fifth time she had been asked.
"Well Hazel, if you must know what happened a pack of ravenous werewolves found there way down to the dungeons and devoured both myself and professor Snape, we were then forced to wait for assistance from Madame Pomfrey who came down and confined the werewolves to smalls cells, we were then passed though their system eight hours later and Madame Pomfrey used a potion Snape had concocted only moments before the attack to regenerate us from the waste of the werewolves, then she killed them and made their guts into the porridge we ate this morning." Ginny said in a sarcastic tone typical of her attitude.
"You know Ginny, that is actually one o the more believable stories you have told me" She laughed and opened the door to the dungeon, allowing Ginny to enter before her.
When Ginny walked into the dungeon for potions, Snape observed her every step. When she sat down she looked up at him and he looked away, addressing the class. Ginny could not concentrate on what he was saying she was thinking about the night before, she knew it would happen, she was a sucker for kissing, Snape was talking to the class about some type of potion, but the only thing she could hear was the words he was saying the night before to her. He did like her didn't he? He had kissed her. And the way that his eyes travelled over when he was talking made her feel good. It was similar to the way that her past boyfriends had looked at her, something she missed when she was single. Part of the reason she didn't have a boyfriend at the moment was because she had decided that all of the boys interested in her were too immature, except Harry, but things would not work out with him, it would be impossible. Harry's best friend was her brother, and she doubted that they would ever have any secrets between them. Harry was very mature for his age, and she knew that but after all of her years of fawning over him she realised that it would be too hard to form a relationship with him. It would be even harder to have a relationship with Snape, she was kidding herself about him. He was a teacher and she was a student, she should not have kissed him, she should not have tried to make things work between them – they just wouldn't. She planned to tell him so after their lesson. She would tell him she was stupid, she would tell him it was wrong and she would tell him that she was-
"Miss Weasley, tell me the uses of this particular potion." Snape said, interrupting her thoughts.
"What?" She asked, dazed by the sound of his voice.
"What is this potion useful for?" He repeated calmly, she looked at him vacantly. "Have you not heard a word I have said?" He asked.
"I have so!" she snapped.
"Then what did I say?" he asked.
"You said that you- that the potion was-"
"You do not know what I said. Pay attention." He snapped, and then continued on with his lesson. Hazel leant over to her.
"Wow, he didn't take any points off you this time!" Hazel said.
It was true, when the end of the double lesson came Snape had not taken any points of Gryffindor, a feat never before achieved. He only yelled at the Gryffindor students.
"Miss Weasley, I wish to see you after class." He said walking past her table, the smell of spices that clung to his robe lingered in her nose.
"Yes sir." She said looking up at him. A few seconds later the bell rung and people started filing out of the room.
"Ginny, I'll wait for you outside." Hazel said with a sly wink as she stood up and followed the rest of the class out of the room. Snape walked over and stood at the front of the desk.
"I expect you to attend detention this evening Ginny, I want you to bring your potions textbook, you have some catching up to do." He said formally, she stood up.
"I don't think that that is a good idea sir. I have thought about things and I have decided that it would be best for both of us not to-" Ginny begun, but stopped as her eyes made contact with his, her stomach churned and she longed to kiss him again. Snape's eyes had a slight look of disappointment in them, something she had only ever seen when Slytherin lost a quidditch match. "I think that it would be best for us if we did not see each other out of…" She said, but stopped. "Who am I trying to kid? I'll be there." She said and walked towards the door, before she walked out she looked back at him and smiled.
That evening when Ginny to detention she came to a conclusion about all of the things that she had been thinking about that day about Snape. Her conclusion as that she was confused. She realised that no matter how much she tried to think things through she could not think of anything even a little logical. Her musings had led her to the conclusion that she reached but she was still not satisfied. When she walked into the dungeon Snape was not in there, so she took her usual seat in the back row, middle seat. After five minutes of silence, the door creaked open and he walked in.
"Your late sir, five points of Slytherin." Ginny said. He had not noticed her in the shadows at the back of the room and her voice gave him a small startle.
"You do not have the authority to take points away from any house." He said walking towards her. "Tonight I thought we could go over today's lesson, I don't think you actually payed attention." He said, opening her textbook to page ninety-seven.
"It was hard to concentrate, but I heard enough. My potion worked didn't it?" She asked pushing the book away from her.
"Well yes of course it did Miss Weasley, but it was meant to be a colouring potion,
"The same reason you kissed me Miss Weasley." He said. not a potion that would explode and melt your cauldron and leave your friend Hazel in a state of sootiness." Ginny laughed and Snape watched her intently.
"Why sir?"
"Why what Miss Weasley?" He asked.
"Why did you do it?"
"Do what?"
"Kiss me." She said, he thought for a second before answering.
"Oh". Ginny turned her gaze away from his and focused on an ink stain at the end of the desk. It seemed interesting. Snape coughed and she turned her attention back to him. When their eyes met he slammed the textbook shut. "Maybe, Professor…" She begun standing up "we should both test our reasons for kissing each other again… just to see if they are still the same as they were last night." She walked around the desk and stood in front of him. She suddenly realised how tall he was, he as almost a head and a half taller than her. She looked up into his eyes and put her hands on either side of his face and pulled it down towards her.
"Miss Weasley, do not kiss me again." He said sternly. She smiled sweetly.
"Why sir, have your reasons changed?" She asked seductively he looked at her for a second and then kissed her. Ginny was taken surprise at his quick change of heart. She slowly slipped her tongue into his mouth and he moaned sliding his hands down her back feeling her waist beneath his hands. She pulled away from him.
"You confuse me Miss Weasley." He said she raised her eyebrows "One minute you try to tell me that you don't want to see me, the next you are kissing me."
"Surely you expected that, I am only a hormonal teenager after all." She whispered and kissed him on the lips for a second.
"Why aren't you repulsed by me?" He asked.
"I don't know, I was asking myself hat all day. It seems that you have grown on me though." She said he looked away from her. She pushed her body up against him "in many ways" she murmured in his ear before kissing him deeply. As she kissed him she could feel the heat radiating from his face.
When Ginny pulled away from Severus he cleared his throat and looked at her. He was well aware of how much trouble he could get into for doing what he was doing.
"How many detentions do I have left sir?" Ginny asked while trying to catch her breath.
"You have three days left I think." He replied looking at her face, he was swept away by her.
"Well, I will have to get in trouble again soon, wont I professor?" she asked and walked towards the door. She looked back at him before stepping out.
By the time Ginny got back to her dormitory, her friends were asleep in bed, their curtains drawn, so she pulled some clean pyjamas out of her trunk and went in to have a shower before she went to bed. When she walked out of the bathroom she went over to her bed and pulled the curtain, trying to be as quietly as possible. She sat down on the end of her bed, and felt something sticking into her, she looked towards her bed and screamed, her blood chilled…
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