Hermione moaned and covered her face with her hands in total mortification. Not only had she been caught playing with her self, he'd probably seen what was going on in her head too.
She heard a slight rustle as her lover, Professor Severus Snape, sat down beside the bath.
"Well.. at least I know you've missed me, while I've been away!" he purred softly, placing his fingertips on her shoulder, thensliding them down her arm as he added, "but I must say I'm shocked Miss Granger! I really should punish you severely for having such filthy thoughts about your teacher.."
"Ex-teacher!" Hermione reminded him sulkily, looking up andshaking off his hand, whichby now had reached her wrist. But as soon as her eyes had met his, he gave her a predatory smirk and her belly fluttered with nerves in response. Even now she was still a little afraid of him, but determined not give him the satisfaction of showing it, shequickly turned her face away again.
"Aren't you happy to see me then?" He asked, sounding amused.
"Yes of course, but you could've knocked – I feel so humiliated - and you frightened me half to death!" she exclaimed indignantly, looking at him again briefly
"But knocking would've spoilt the surprise and I wouldn't have missed what I just witnessed for the world; there are not many more intriguing and arousing sights to watch than a woman doing what you were just doing, that I know of!"
"Why - do you often spy on women in the privacy of their own bathrooms?" Hermione asked sharply, feeling more confident. He'd called her a woman - a huge compliment to a rather insecure 18-year-old and especially from him, as he didn't often give them out. He didn't answer her question, so she raised her eyebrows at him, then prompted him with
"Well?"
But still he didn't answer; he just flashed her that particular grin of his that said he had other more important things on his mind.
He rose up and slowly undid his cloak, swirling it off to the floor. Next off came his black jacket, but underneath this, instead of his usual crisp white shirt, was a silky looking black one.
This didn't go unnoticed by Hermione but she was too worried by his obvious intentions to comment on it
"Wait a minute, what are you doing?" She hissed "We can't do anything in here! What if somebody comes?"
"That is my intention, I assure you!" he answered back dryly
"That's not what I meant!" Hermione scolded back, but she couldn't help but show a hint of a smile at this little joke.
"Look.. it's too risky here! I mean, won't the others be wondering where you are? Do they even know you're up here? And if they do, won't they wonder what you're doing all this time?" she hissed, sounding slightly panicked
"I came here on Order business and everyone downstairs thinks I have now left. No one will find me here, I promise, and even if they did, who among them would believe that you and I were together? We have nothing to worry about, but I do think it would be prudent of me to leave before everyone comes up to bed, so let us waste no more time talking.." he replied, unbuttoning his shirt and sliding it off, revealing his slim, toned torso.
"But.. how did you know I was in here anyway? I only told Ginny that I was going to have a bath!"
"I overheard Molly say that someone must be running a bath, as the pipes were making a banging noise. I knew it must have been you as everyone else wasaccounted forand Ginerva had just come in to the kitchen, where I was at the time"
Severus sat down on a chair to take off his shoes and socks then stood up and undid his trousers, letting them drop to the floor.
"I ..I don't know about this Severus..I mean now I'm out of school couldn't we just.." And at this point she turned around to face her lover properly and became distracted by the large bulge forming in his underwear, "go..go..to your place?" She stuttered; she was by nowstarting to feel aroused herself
"No" he replied simply, stepping out of his trousers andquickly tearing off his last now rather inconvienient stitch of clothing.
Hermione watched silently as Severus's fully naked form walked over to the side of the bath and stood over her.She couldn't help but feel excited even through her jangling nerves and blood rushedto her erogenous zones in expectation of the pleasures to come. She still couldn't help her eyes flicking anxiously to the door though.
"Don't worry, I've put an extra strong locking spell on it, no-one short of Dumbledore could get through and even then it would take him a while." Severus assured her as he stepped into the bath.
Luckily this bath was slightly larger than normal and could easily accommodate two people, or it would have been a bit of a squash.
He knelt down and lifted her legs, placing themgentlyon his shoulders then smiled at herand she smiled nervously back. He curled his long slim fingers around her ankles and closed his eyes, thenwith anaching slowness and lightness of touch, slid hisway down herlegs.He stopped at her hips, giving out a sigh of deep satisfaction thenopened his eyes again.Hermione felt somethinglike electricity tingling in her belly in response, making her sigh withsatisfaction her self.
She wanted to forget how angry she had been with him for frightening her and now just wanted him to make love to her. He took his hand off her hips and used them to crawl forward, then leant down over heruntil his warm chest pressed against her breasts. He movedhis lefthand up to holdone side of herhead looked at her for a few seconds, stroking her cheek with his thumb. Hermione was just about to ask him what he was thinking, when he suddenly lunged down, pressing his lips against hers, with uncharacteristic eagerness. Hermione returned his kiss with equal enthusiasm and his hands thenmovedon to caress her breasts, making appreciative noises in his throat as he cupped and squeezed them firmly.Hermione noticed that he was being a little rougher than usual, butfound sheactually enjoyed this change – this passion he was showing was quite exciting, as he'd previously always been so controlled. He pushed himself up slightly and again leaningon one hand,slid the other slowly down between her legs. He resumed their kiss, while using his fingers to stimulate her,as skillfully as she could do her self.
Each exhalation of breath, became an audiblesigh of ardent and ecstatic pleasure and when she felt his erection brush against her thigh, she quickly raised her pelvis up to meet it. He wasted no time in accepting this invitation and as her lover thrust his swollen member inside her, Hermione began to breathe faster and even more audibly. She was in complete ecstasy now, almostlike she was in some wonderful dream, but it certainly felt real enough! The current wetness of both their bodies now only added to the pleasure, giving her the previously uninitiated sensation of wet skin sensually sliding against wet skin.
She pulled his head into her neck, feeling his warm panting breaths against it and slid her fingers into his long dark hair, immersing them in its softness.
While they were making love, the world seemed to disappear, but when her lover suddenly stopped thrusting, opened his mouth and let out an involuntary groan, she immediately 'popped' back into reality again.
She began to worry about the time and urged Severus to go, all the while looking nervously at the door. But he was having none of it
"I haven't finished with you yet.." he smirked, leaning back. He again lifted her legs to his shoulders, this time pulling her pelvis towards his mouth.
"No! No, not now! You have to go.. we haven't got time to do that!" Hermione exclaimed, trying to wriggle out of her lover's strong grip.
But he took no notice and getting himself comfortable, began by kissing her inner thighs.
"Severus you really have to go! Please!" she pleaded, still struggling uselessly. Even with all her protestations, he still determinedly worked his way slowly towards his target. Once his tongue had reached it and started working on it,she immediately stopped struggling and began to relax and enjoy what he was doing
"Well I..I suppose if..if we're..quick.." she stuttered breathlessly.
At his skilful touch, her body soon quivered into orgasm and she let out a moan of deep satisfaction at the rush of wonderful sensations thatresulted from it. Severus moved back, allowing her body to sink back down in to the water again.
She lay there with her eyes closed for a few minutes, enjoying the afterglow buzzing around her thighs and belly, but Severus climbed out near enough straight away. When she did at last open her eyes, she expected to see him drying himself, but he was already fully dressed.
"Hey! That was quick!" she said in wonder
"Yes.. it is timeI should begone now, but I will be back - don't worry,hopefully for a little longer next time" He answered, his tone more serious than before
Hermione sighed despondently
"I wish you could stay for longer.." Then she sighed again before adding, "I wish we could go somewhere where no one knew us and we could spend the whole night together. That would be so lovely, being able to get up when we wanted and not having to worry about anyone walking in on us!"
Severus hurrumphed sceptically
"Maybe one day we will be able to do that, but for now, we must be satisfied with what we can get, as it is imperative that we are discreet. No one else must know about us Hermione; too many people already do. It is always at great personal risk that I even come here, let alone to see you!"
"I know, I know, I'm sorry...it's, it's just that I wish we could be like a 'normal' couple, it's so hard sneaking around all the time"
"We are not a normal couple Hermione and we never will be. Even in the wizarding world we would be looked upon with disapproving eyes and that coupled with the fact of who I used to be..huh..no.. I doubt that people would never accept us."
"I don't care what other people think, I just want to be with you" Hermione stated resolutely, looking at him with her forehead creased in consternation, feeling tears welling up in her eyes.
"It's easy to say that when you have little to lose" Severus shot back rather coldly. Then his head flicked round as if he had heard something outside the room.
"I must go, I shall be back in a few days" he said quickly and with that grabbed her chin, kissed her softly and rushed to the door. After unlocking it, he stood there listening for a few seconds, then after turning andgiving her a barely perceptable smile,disappeared noiselessly through it.
Hermione stayed where she was for a while, thinking and fantasising. She got quite lost in her contemplation, staring at the white enamel of the bath until it went blurry, allowing a few stray tears to run heedlessly down her cheeks and completely ignoring the fact that the water had now gone cold and she'd begun to shiver.
"Hermione!" Came the sudden, but familiar voice of Molly Weasley, with a few light knocks, making the poor girl jump out of her reverie once more
"Hermione! Have you finished in there yet? Other people want to use the bathroom too you know! You have been in there for nearly two hours!" she added
Two hours! She hadn't realised it had been that long! How long had it been since Severus had left? She couldn't quite remember. Had she dreamt him? It was possible - she could have been asleep all this time and not realised it.
She decided she had better get out.
"Erm, I'm coming! I must have fallen asleep!" Hermione called back quickly, as shestood up and stepped out of the bath.
She grabbed her towel, wrappingit around herself tightly beforerushing to the door. When she opened it, she was met by Molly dressed in purple, towelling robe and matching toilet bag. Hermione gave her a quick smile and apology and made for the stairs up to the room she shared with Ginny.
She was just about to reach the landing that the staircase leading to her room was on, when she heard a footfall on the one off to the side of it leading to downstairs. Someone else was coming up! Damn!
She rushed forwards, trying to get across the gap, before whoever it was got to the top, but instead crashed headlong into them. She stepped back, to see the face of Fred Weasley grinning back at her.