A/N: I am glad that you all like this story and thanks to my reviewers. Here's the next chapter.
Chapter 2: What's With All the Blushing?
The next morning Hermione woke up and almost couldn't remember where she was. She sat up and looked around the room.
"Did you sleep well?" Lily asked.
"Yeah." Hermione suddenly remembered something.
"Hey Lily…"
"Yeah?"
"What do you think of James?" Lily blushed and tried to hide a smile.
"Oh he's all right." Hermione smirked.
"I think he likes you." Lily got even redder.
"What makes you say that? You've only known him one day."
"And you know what else I think?"
"What?"
"I think you like him too." Lily turned almost as red as her hair. "You do don't you?"
"Maybe."
"I knew it, so why don't you just ask him out?"
"I don't know. What if he doesn't like me?"
"You'll never know unless you try."
"Oh all right. I can't believe I've only known you one day and you're already influencing me." Hermione smiled.
"That's what I do." Hermione got up and jumped into the shower. When she got out she wrapped her towel around her and headed to her wardrobe. She realized that she didn't have any clothes so she conjured up some. She slipped on a pair of tight fitting jeans that hugged her curves. She put on a stretchy plain black t-shirt. Then she headed down to the Gryffindor common room with Lily.
"There he is, go ask him." Lily nodded and headed over to James. Hermione smiled, walked out the portrait hole and headed to breakfast. She walked over to the Gryffindor table and sat down. She looked up and saw a pair of black eyes staring at her from across the hall. As soon as she looked up at him he turned away. She looked back down at her plate and continued to eat. All of a sudden Lily was sitting next to her in a very excited mood.
"He said yes." Lily looked ecstatic.
"Really?" Hermione looked up at James who was taking a seat next to Sirius. James looked at Lily and winked.
"Yeah. Thanks Hermione. I never could have done that if it weren't for you."
"It was all you're doing. All I did was tell you he liked you."
"Well thanks anyways." Hermione looked back over at the Slytherin table. He was talking to Malfoy. She didn't know why but she felt a connection to him. She just sighed and started talking to Lily again. Professor McGonagall brought Hermione her schedule which was coincidently the same as Lily's.
Her first class of the day was Potions. She took a seat next to Lily and helped her gather the ingredients for the potion. Severus who was sitting across the room looked as if he was the only one in the room. He was so into his potion that he didn't even notice when the class had ended. When the professor told him that the class had ended Hermione sure that she had seen disappointment on his face. She got up and headed outside for her free period. She found a nice spot by the lake that was shady but not too cold. She sat down and pulled out her notes from the future. She looked them over just to be sure she hadn't forgotten anything because of her accident.
All of a sudden she heard yelling and laughing and looked up to see Sirius laughing hysterically. Severus however was the one who was yelling. It looked as though Sirius had done a spell on Severus's books because they were flying all over.
"Sirius!"
"Oh hey Hermione."
"What do you think you are doing?"
"Just teaching Snivellus here a lesson." He turned to Severus, "You should learn to act normal Sevy-poo."
"Sirius Black, give him his books back this instant."
"Ok. Ok. Whatever you say mother." Almost instantly Severus's books fell to the ground but his papers scattered everywhere. Sirius just laughed and walked away. Hermione kneeled to the ground to help pick up the papers. She reached out to grab a paper that was right in front of her but he also reached for it at the same time. His hand landed on hers and she could feel the heat from his body. She blushed and he pulled his hand away. She handed him his paper and looked into his eyes which looked sad. She felt bad for him. She had known that he was picked on in school but this was just wrong. No wonder he was the miserable teacher he was.
"Is anything ruined?"
"Why do you care?"
"Because I do and Sirius had no right to do that."
"No nothing is ruined. Now you can go have a good laugh with your friends. Just leave me alone." He picked up the last paper and walked away.
"I'm not going to laugh…" He had gone, "at you," she finished even though he couldn't hear her. She stood up and noticed that he had left a book over by where he had been studying. She picked it up and read the cover. Advanced Potions and Their Uses. She smiled. She tucked it under her arm and went to get her own books.
She headed back to her room and sat on her bed. Why had she blushed when their hands had touched? And why had she stuck up for him? Because Sirius was being a jerk that's why, said a little voice in her head. Is that all? asked another voice in her head.
She took out the book that he had left and ran her hand down the cover. She opened up to a page and saw that he had taken many notes in the margins. He was obviously very fond of it. It even looked as though he was making up his own potions. She smiled and put the book back down. She decided she would give it back to him in lunch. Suddenly Lily came into the room.
"Hey Lil, it is ok if I call you Lil right?"
"Hey, yeah it's fine. What are you doing cooped up in here?"
"Oh I was just reading. I do that a lot."
"Oh ok. So I heard you got mad at Sirius today."
"Oh that. Well he was being a jerk. Severus hadn't done anything to him."
"It's ok Hermione, believe me if I had been there I would have done the same thing. Sirius can be like that sometimes. I'm just glad James has gotten over it, but Sirius just likes to think he's better than Severus."
"Speaking of James…how are things going with him?" Lily blushed.
"Oh they're great. We're actually going have our date tonight."
"Lily that's wicked."
"Yeah all thanks to you again. Speaking of dates, have you seen anyone you like yet?" Now it was Hermione's turn to blush, though she didn't know why. When Lily said that, only one name came to mind. I can't like him. He will be my Professor.
"Maybe. I mean there's this guy I might like but I know things would never work out considering where I am from. I mean it just wouldn't work."
"Oh who is it?"
"I'd rather not say."
"Oh come. I promise I won't laugh."
"Promise you won't think I'm weird or a freak?"
"I promise, who is it?" Hermione looked away and mumbled something.
"What?"
"Well I think I might like Severus," Hermione said quietly.
"You think you like him or you do like him?"
"I don't know."
"Well why don't you ask him out?"
"That sounds familiar," Hermione said with a laugh. "But I don't know. It's just complicated. I mean what if I started a relationship with him and then I had to leave. I don't want to do that."
"Why would you have to leave?" Lily asked confused. Oh yeah, she doesn't know where I'm from.
"Ok I have something else to tell you. But you must promise that you won't tell anyone. Not even James." Lily could tell Hermione was serious.
"I promise Hermione, what is it?"
"Well I'm not really from where you think I'm from."
"What do you mean?"
"Well I'm really from here. I've never gone to another school other than Hogwarts."
"How is that possible? I've never seen you before."
"That's because…I'm from the future."
"Really? What's it like?" Hermione wanted to tell Lily everything. She wanted to warn her about Voldemort, but she knew she couldn't. Lily would panic and Hermione just couldn't do that. Should she mention Harry?
"Well let's just say it's different. I can't really tell you much more. But I can tell you that you are going to be a great woman when you grow up. You're going to do great things." Hermione had to fight back a tear knowing that in just four short years Lily would be murdered trying to save Harry. Lily smiled.
"So what does this have to do with Severus?"
"Well it wouldn't work because in about fourteen years he will be my teacher, here at Hogwarts."
"Oh." Lily sounded surprised.
A/N: Poor Lily :( doesn't know what's going to happen to her and Hermione does. :(
