A/n I DON'T OWN ANYONE! But Kimberly. She is a figment of my imagination! I have a lot of those.. Title is actaully owned by Howie Day. as it is a song by him. )

I'll Take You On

Severus Snape paced beside the fireplace. He kept looking at the clock on the wall and realized that it was still ten minutes before midnight. Time was going by ever so slowly for Snape. He wished he knew what he agreed to help with. But what he did know is he did not want her to have Lucius to help her. Severus glanced at the clock..5 minutes to go. He once again began to pace.

"You're going to wear a hole into the carpet there Sev." Came a voice from behind him. Severus turned to see Kimberly standing there, her hair pulled into a ponytail and dark green PJ's on with "Everyone Wants A Bad Girl" written in silver on the front, and "Slytherin" on the back.

Severus ignored her comment. "What is it you wanted help with Kimberly?" he asked her.

"Oh yeah. Well...um." Kimberly stuttered.

Why does she look so nervous Snape wondered to himself. He had never seen her this way before.

"I feel like an idiot for asking you, but I, was wondering if you could possible. Um. Tutor me in Potions" she said slightly blushing. "See I am failing the class, and since you are the best at it, I thought maybe you could help me bring my grade up before Mummy and Daddy find out and ground me." Kimberly put on her best smile.

"If that is all you needed to ask me Ara, then why didn't you just ask me earlier in the library?" Snape demanded. She opened her mouth to say something, but Severus stopped her by holding up his hand. "But let me guess before you go on, you do not want anyone to know you are failing and that I am helping you out, and that is why you requested to meet at night." Kimberly lightly bit her bottom lip and nodded. "And what is in it for me?" Snape started to smirk as she turned a deep shade of red.

"Well. If, and only IF you help me bring my grade up and I pass the class. I will... go... out... on... ONE, and only ONE date with you Severus."

Snape about said yes as soon as she mentioned it, this is what he had wanted all along, a chance to be with her on a date. Granted he had wanted more then one, but he was willing to settle for one. Snape appeared to mull over what she had said. "Hmmm I don't know." he said, putting his hand under his chin, and tapping his index finger on his cheek.

"Oh come on Severus," she said crossing her arms, getting agitated "Everyone knows you like me any ways. This is your chance to shine." Severus walked around her, sizing her up and down, causing her an involuntary shudder. Snape smirked at this.

"I think I have a much better exchange for us." Snape said smiling, stopping in front of her. It was such an eerie smile, Kimberly almost did not want to ask what his idea was. She just looked at him and made a motion with her hand to continue. "I will help you study on one condition. Until the end of the school term, or unless you can keep your grades up yourself, you have to date me... be my girlfriend in public, with everyone knowing." Kimberly turned to look at Severus her mouth dropping in horror.

" Oh please I am not that desperate to pass the class." She said trying to hide her shock. She turned to walk back upstairs to the girls dorm.

"Yes and I am sure Malfoy would love to tutor you, and know all abou how you are failing then think of your wonderful reputation. Everyone will know you aren't as smart as you make yourself out to be." Snape smirked, as she stopped dead in her tracks. Slowly she turned to him, her eyes glaring.

"Fine, you get your condition. But you better believe you embarrass me once, I swear to you, I will make your last school year a living hell for you Severus Snape." Kimberly snapped before turned to stomp off to her room when Snape stopped her.

"Oh Kim dear, I think we need to...how do you say... seal our deal." He said smirking. Turning she walked back to Snape and held her hand out. "That's not what I had in mind."

"Excu-" She was cut off as Severus pulled her close kissing her deeply. Kimberly pulled away from Snapes kiss, glaring heatedly at him. Her body still held in place by his arms.

"I think that will work for now." Snape said whispering into her ear as he held his arms around her. Kimberly glared at him as she pushed him away from her and turned on her heel and hurried away. "Better get use to it love." Severus called to her, "End of term is still a long way away."

He stared at the spot where she had stood for a good five minutes before he dared moved. He headed to his room with a little more bounce in his step then normal. For tomorrow morning, it would be known he was dating the most popular girl at Hogwarts.

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Professor Snape paced his private chambers that evening. He had known they were getting a new teacher to take over Potions, but he did not know it would have been Kimberly Ara. Snape set the moving picture down on the table. Pinching the bridge of his nose, he wondered how much she had changed since their earlier days together. If anyone ever realized how much they had done together, that would be shocked at the fact that Snape seemed almost human at one point of time.

After leaving the Great Hall he had gone back to his chambers and dug out an old dusty box that had been sitting in his closet. Snape had pulled out the old black and white photograph. It showed a somewhat smirking, but happy looking Severus Snape, and a younger girl with dark hair and a glare on her face. The girl in the picture kept looking over at the younger Snape and glaring at him. It had been taken a few days right after their midnight encounter in the common room by the fire. Snape picked up the picture and looked at it some more. It had been a good ten years since he had last seen her. This was the only picture he had of her, she took all the rest with her when she left him.

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Kim had been living in a small Muggle town in America, when Dumbledore had appeared out of nowhere and asked her to teach potions. Her teaching potions. She was half tempted to tell him no, considering she almost failed it during her younger years of school. Well she would have had it not been for Severus Snape. Since then she had almost became as good as Snape himself.

Severus she though to herself. Oh Merlin. What was she to do. He was still at Hogwarts. She would go from hardly thinking of him, to seeing him everyday.

Kim sighed and went to the bedside table in her spare bedroom, and pulled out an old box. Inside where old photos, some magical and some just ordinary Muggle photos. She had wondered if she should take any of them with her. She sighed and got up and started to leave the room, before turning back and grabbing the box and murmured a quick spell to shrink it down to fit inside her bags. Looking at the clock she realized she had better get a move on it. She already missed the first two days of term and had to hurry to make it to Hogwarts before the end of the week. She told Dumbledore she would have to quit her current job, and clean her current apartment she owned.

She would Apparate to Hogsmeade and then walk up to the castle from there. Kimberly still had a few hours before she had to get to the school. Maybe she would just head to Hogsmeade now, and enjoy a chat with Madam Rosmerta. Yes that is just what she would do, better then sitting around twiddling her thumbs. Kimberly looked around and made sure she had everything she needed before sending them ahead to the school. She took one last look around her now bare apartment and sighed. She walked out the door for the last time.

Three hours later, and a few firewhiskeys also, she felt relaxed. She walked up the steps and was ready to enter Hogwarts again for the first time in years. Before pushing open the door, she smirked to herself. I'm so sure Severus will be so thrilled to see me again. This will make for quite an interesting year.

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Snape knew it was going to be trouble right from the start. After all these years, he knew it was going to be the same. They loved to hate each other, but could not live without one another either. Yet they had for 10 years. He headed to the Great Hall grudgingly. When he opened the door and made his way up to the teachers table, he noticed none of the students had come to dinner yet. He realized it was still a little early. Severus was deep in thought, when he looked up at the table, he stopped dead in his tracks. There she sat, next to Professor Flitwick, listening intently to what he was saying. She looked the same in every aspect. Her hair was still brown with red highlights, instead of being down passed her waist, it was cut in a shoulder length style with many different layers. She had the same look about her eyes, those beautiful blue-green eyes. You could always tell what she was feeling by her eyes. Slowly Snape made his way to his chair, which happened to be next to hers. He placed his normal sneer on his face and sat down.

Kimberly was listening to Flitwick talk about some past story which she was sure she had heard years ago. Nodding her head at the appropriate times, she appeared to be interested. It was funny how you could pretend to be interested in something so boring. She did not need to look up when the Great Hall doors opened and closed, she had a feeling of whom it was. She quickly looked at him out of the corner of her eyes, he was slowly walking to the tables, appearing lost in thought. Quickly turning her full attention back to Flitwick as he finished his story, she felt his icy daggers on her, and knew he had spotted her. She did not have to look up to know he was staring at her.

Snape took his seat next to Professor Ara, he noticed she was absentmindedly running her fingers through her hair, then stopping to twirl a piece around her finger. It was her trade mark of when she was lost in thought. She used to constantly do that when of her friends were talking, and she was trying to be polite and appear to be listening to them.

"How is it," Snape said leaning over and whispering in her ear... his breath hot on her neck. "Dumbledore gave you a class to teach, that you nearly failed yourself in school Ara?" .

"Well I would have to admit, even though I hate to, I did have a pretty decent tutor, granted, if you just actually do the assignments and homework, it was not to bad. And I happened to study it after I left Hogwarts Severus." She said as if she was bored of this conversation already.

Professor Flitwick grinned and chuckled, "Well Severus, she is almost just as good as you were. If not better! I saw your article in Modern Potions. Brilliant!"

Kimberly smirked as Snape gave a small snort, before turning his attention to the students that were filing into the Great Hall. Through the rest of the dinner, Snape and Ara hardly said anything to one another, and would cast small glares at each other.

None of the students were paying attention to them but one sitting at the Gryffindor table. A curtain bushy-haired know-it-all.

"Ron, Harry, look at that." Hermione said nodding her head towards the new teacher. "It does not appear that Snape and Professor Ara like each other, they have been glaring at each other all night."

"Hermione!" Ron whined, "Why must we bring up Snape again, you're going to ruin my dinner. Can't we just accept the fact that he isn't spending all his time glaring at us, and enjoy those times while it last?"

"I agree with Ron, but what I do want to know is, how can anyone ever glare at Professor Ara." Harry said, staring goo-goo eyed at the new Potions teacher.

"Yeah she is gorgeous." Said Ron shoveling another spoonful of food into his mouth.

Hermione scoffed, and continued her out loud train of thought, "Do you think they might know one another from years before?"

"Mione, everyone knows Snape, and what a big git he is. No wonder she is glaring at him, she is obviously is to good for him." said Ron.

"Ron, she is too old for you, so stop your staring and your drooling." Said Hermione, causing Ron to turn bright red.

Ron grumbled and thought to himself Does she always have to ruin such good days?

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A/n: Not to much changes in this chapter i guess. once again.. sorry for any mistakes i missed.. i had actaully gone through and after deleting the story the first time.. d/l a program with spell and grammer check on it.. and went over it three or four different times with it. believe it or not.. i trying.. i really am!