Around noon on Saturday, students were filing out of the castle for their last Hogsmeade trip before break. Christmas was coming soon and everyone was eager to buy gifts for their friends and family. There was one shop specifically on everyone's minds; "Weasley's Wizard Wheezes."
Harry was waiting for Ginny in the common room, hoping to say goodbye before he left the castle on his journey to Hogsmeade. She was preparing herself for another long, boring detention with the vicious Professor Snape. Snape was infamous for his detentions being one of the worst possible experiences possible at Hogwarts. It was right up there with losing all your bones from your arm and having them regrown over night.
Eventually Ginny strolled down the stairs leading to the dormitories from the Gryffindor common room. Ginny grabbed Harry's hands pulling him close to her and kissed his soft lips lightly. "Goodbye my love." she whispered in his ear so that only he could hear.
"I love you, Ginny. I hope Snape doesn't give you too much trouble in detention today. If you want, I can bring you something back from Hogsmeade." Harry suggested. And truthfully, the idea of Chocolate Frogs, Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans, and Butter Beers sounded delightful.
"No thanks, Harry." Ginny declined his suggestion. A sacrifice she knew she had to make. After all, she consciously recognized what she would be missing for a just a few hours with Severus. These next few hours will be more of a taste of heaven than any amount of candy can bring… Ginny knew these thoughts were going to be true. She could just feel it deep within her that today, something amazing would happen.
"Well, bye then. I'll see you in a few hours."
"Feels like it'll be a lifetime." Ginny lied. She knew that her time with Snape would feel as if she'd just walked through the door and was being told to leave right away. Ginny couldn't spend enough time with him, he was like her drug addiction. Sure he wasn't necessarily good for her, but she craved him.
Ginny wandered down the halls to the frigid dungeon. Along the way she overheard a few second years complaining about Hogsmeade and how it was unfair that they weren't allowed to go. Please, she thought, even I didn't complain about that when I wasn't allowed to go. Sure, I had talked people into bringing things back for me and sure, I'd often sneak along with Harry, Ron, and Hermione. But I still didn't complain about it. Why complain when you could do something to change the situation?
Ginny knocked lightly on the door to Severus Snape's office. "Professor, I'm here for my detention." There was a long, silent pause. Maybe he forgot about me? She wondered to herself. Nonsense… like he could forget me of all people. After all I'm his…his…well I'm not just an ordinary person to him.
The door eventually opened with a semi-decent looking Snape standing in the doorway. He looked as if he had tried to wash his hair (with shampoo included) and dress nicely for Ginny. "Good afternoon, Miss Weasley." Severus nodded his head politely acknowledging her presence.
"Severus, how many times do I have to tell you to call me Ginny? It's not a crime, you know. I mean when we're alone, you could call me your wild sex muffin if you wished."
"My wild sex muffin? But we haven't… we never … sex muffin?"
"Yes, and you can be my… uh… Kinky Sex Cupcake… or something."
"I refuse to be a cupcake…"
"Fine, no cupcakes. But no more 'Miss Weasley' when we're alone. Ok?"
Snape nodded his head. "Feeling a bit demanding today, are we? You aren't going to like…start demanding that I give you all of my attention today or anything? I mean, you said last night that I could finish grading the potions papers today, which I need to do."
"But Severus! I want to do something fun! We never get to do anything fun… we never have enough time to…"
"So dancing with me last night wasn't exciting or worthwhile?" Snape looked offended. "Was I that boring when I took the time to stop grading my precious student's papers to dance with you, my…my…" He couldn't find the words to describe what she was to him.
"Oh yes, Severus. What am I to you? Do you even know? Am I just some slutty student who threw herself at you? Did you drug my pumpkin juice the day I realized I love…like you?" Ginny was starting to become defensive.
"Why are you picking a fight with me? What in the bloody hell did I say?"
"It was what you didn't say that made me mad. You don't even know what I am to you…how can you know what I mean to you?"
"Ginny, as soon as I'm sure of what I feel, I'll let you know….please, come pull up a chair and sit by me while I finish grading these papers."
"Do you promise? Do you promise to tell me as soon as you are positive? And do you promise that no matter what you end up being sure of, you wont lie about how you really feel or sugarcoat it in anyway?"
"Are you afraid I'm using you, like I don't even care about you or something?"
"Yes…"
"Ginny…" He reached for her hand and held it gently. "you mean so much to me. I'm sorry I can't formulate it into words exactly how you make me feel, or exactly what you mean to me. But know this… I do care about you. I care about you so much it scares me to think that I could lose you."
"Why do you think that you're going to lose me?" She pulled him closer. The space between them was barely even visible.
"Potter…"
"Him? You think you're going to lose me to him? Severus… Kinky Sex Cupcake… if anything, he lost me to you." Her lips brushed Snape's cheek lightly.
"So I'm stuck with sloppy seconds?"
"Now you're calling me sloppy. Thanks…"
"That's not what I meant. You're not sloppy—you're perfect."
