Too Long In The Rain
Chapter 5
Hermione slowly opened her eyes the next morning and sat up looking around her room and was met with two brown eyes. (I think his eyes are brown…). She gasped and jumped backwards falling off the bed and onto the floor. She heard laughing and stood up looking over her bed at Oliver who was trying to suppress his laughter. She glared at him then remembered what she was wearing and grabbed her robe from his hands and tossed it on before turning back to him.
Oliver smiled at her then with his thick Scottish accent he asked," Sleep well?"
She looked up at him suddenly and the look in her eyes was strange before she coughed out," Great."
Oliver cocked his head to the side a bit knowing that she was lying a bit and noticed she looked flushed then he asked," Right, well how would you like to join me in Hogsmeade today?"
As Hermione looked at him her eyebrows knitted together and she asked," Don't you have class?"
He tried not to laugh again when he explained," It's Saturday."
She blushed and looked down again then nodded," Right, but I really can't I have to grade papers and…wait a minute…how did you get in here?"
He smiled then nodded towards her portrait," Fidelis let me in."
Hermione looked passed Oliver and at Fidelis who took that moment to swing shut then she looked back and Oliver and said," Well as I said, I cannot join you at Hogsmeade, I have a lot of work to do," She moved forward to Oliver pushing him to the exit and opened the door pushing him out gently then said," Goodbye Professor Wood." And shut the door.
Oliver sighed before saying to nobody in particular," Oliver, call me Oliver." He turned and looked down the hallway before continuing down it.
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In the next week and a half to come Hermione had taken extra measures to ensure that she was left alone, she came to dinner almost every night and ate something, whether it be a plate full or just a little bit, she ate it. The first night that Hermione came and there wasn't an announcement Dumbledore raised his eyebrows at Oliver who just smiled, but the smile faded when he saw that Hermione once more sat at the end of the table and started writing. Dumbledore was not the only person to notice some changes in Hermione, actually all the teachers noticed but didn't say anything in fear of her retreating back to her room. Well, most teachers, it seemed though that three teachers were continually pointing out this fact to Hermione. (I'll give you 10 guesses as to which they were, and the first 9 don't count). At least once every other day one of the three (Pansy, Malfoy, Snape) came up to Hermione and didn't directly point out her changes, but they subtly said something. And, as we all know, Hermione is a very clever girl, but to their dissatisfaction she did not retreat but held her head up high and said something witty and hurtful (also subtly) to whoever it was that made the first comment to her. Finally, on Friday Oliver got the time to intercept her making her way down to dinner after her last class.
"Hey, Hermione." He said walking up next to her.
"Hello Professor." She replied looking straight ahead.
Oliver rolled his eyes at her formality and then looked around and realized that there was no one watching. He smirked a bit before coming to an empty classroom and for the first time in her life a boy carried Hermione into a classroom. He grabbed her behind around the waist and lifted her, kicking and clawing I might add, into the classroom and set her down casting colloportus on the door locking it.
She rounded on him with such intensity he thought she was going to hit him before she spoke, well kind of yelled," What do you think you're doing!"
He took a step backwards and held his hands up in defense," What? Nobody's ever pulled you into a classroom?"
"Oh come on! What are you going to do snog me!" She yelled and she swore he got a bit red.
"Of course not, I just want to talk to you." He said trying to remain calm.
"We have talked, we were talking in the hall before you dragged me in here."
"We weren't talking, you were making polite conversation because that's who you are, polite Miss Granger."
"Is that a bad thing!"
"No, I just…"
"Just what?"
He threw up his hands," I just want to talk to you without having to be polite! Like when you talk to Malfoy."
"I don't talk to Malfoy, I curse him!"
"Then curse me!"
She hesitated for a split second then said," No!"
"Why not!"
"Because I'm just not going to!"
"Hermione-"
"Why did you come back to teach?" She asked suddenly.
This caught Oliver off guard and he opened his mouth to say why truthfully then stopped and shut his mouth. Hermione nodded to herself then said," When you can tell me why, we'll talk, until then…goodbye Professor Wood." She unlocked the door (alohamora) and walked out leaving Oliver alone again.