A/N: Sorry this chapter took so long. My brain has kind of been drained of everything because I had a HUGE exam that I was preparing for. But now it's done and I'm on Spring Break so I have time to write now. Ok carry on

Chapter 3: The Library

"See how it wouldn't work?"

"Well…" Lily thought for a moment. "Ok I got nothing. Oh but what if you stayed here and never went back to the future?"

"I don't know, and he's not exactly the nicest man in the world. But I mean he can't always be git like that can he?"

"I wouldn't know. Maybe not once you get to know him."

"And you don't think I'm a freak?"

"No you're not a freak."

"Good because if anyone from the future heard this conversation I would probably be hexed to eternity. Either that or they would laugh their asses off and disown me. Especially Harry and Ron." Uh-oh she brought up Harry. What was she supposed to say now?

"Are they your friends? Harry and Ron? Harry…I like that name."

"Uh yeah they were my best friends. Along with Ron's sister Ginny."

"I bet you miss them."

"Yeah I do but I know that I might never see them again, so it's best not to dwell on the past…or in my case the future." They both laughed.

"Hey we should be getting to class." Hermione looked up at the clock and nodded. They stood up and grabbed their things. Hermione saw the book fall when she grabbed her bag.

"Hey what's this?" Lily asked picking up the book.

"Oh that's Severus's. He left it outside and I was going to give it back to him."

"Uh huh!" Lily smiled.

"What? I am going to give it back. And no I didn't steal it if that's what you're thinking."

"Whatever you say Hermione." Lily handed her the book and walked out grinning.

"I didn't," Hermione said following Lily. Hermione looked around for him in the hallway but didn't see him. She was just about to enter her class when she saw him heading the other way.

"Severus!" She ran off to stop him and he turned around.

"What do you want? Come to torture me alone this time?" He scowled at her. Hermione was hurt by his words.

"No, I wanted to give this back to you. You left it outside." She shoved the book in his arms, angry that he was treating her like this.

"I thought you might want it back. Pardon me for doing you a favor." His scowl slightly faded.

"Uh thanks. I just thought that since you hang out with James and Sirius that you were like them." He sounded almost as if he were trying to apologize.

"Well you thought wrong." She turned and stormed off to her class leaving him looking stunned. She made it to her class just seconds before the bell.

"Cutting it a little close aren't you?" Lily whispered to her.

"I had something to take care of," Hermione whispered back. She pulled out her notebook and quill and began to take notes. Later that night Lily was throwing clothes all around the room trying to find something to wear. Hermione was sitting on her bed looking out the window.

"Hermione what do you think of this?" Lily held up a pink tank top that had sequins along the collar and a pair of jeans.

"Well I like the shirt but I'm not so sure about the pants." Hermione stood up and walked over to what was left in Lily's closet. She pulled out a black mini skirt and handed it to Lily.

"Here, this is perfect. James won't know what hit him. Oh here wear these too." Hermione turned back around and emerged with a pair of heels. Lily's eyes grew wide.

"Ok but if I fall and break my neck it's your fault."

"I can deal with that. Now hurry up of James will think you stood him up." Lily smiled and left the room. Hermione followed shortly and caught Lily and James leaving the common room hand in hand. Hermione took a seat next to the fire.

"Well this is boring," she said after a few minutes of staring at the fire. She got up, grabbed a book and headed to the library. She took a seat at her usual table. After about ten minutes she saw someone enter the library. It was Severus. He took a seat at a table about three away from hers.

She watched him pull out his book and read. He actually reminded her of herself. She watched how he let his hair fall into his face as he read. He didn't seem to notice anything around him while he was reading. His face wasn't covered with his usual frown and occasionally Hermione could have sworn she saw him smile. He looked so relaxed and at home in the library. In fact he looked as she always felt when she herself was reading in the library. She wanted to go over and run her fingers through his hair, which didn't seem so greasy any more. It was weird enough seeing her professor as a seventeen year old, but now she even found him attractive.

I must be going insane, she thought. That's Professor Snape. No matter what age he is now he will still be my professor if I ever get back. Almost as if he heard her thoughts, he looked up at her. His deep black eyes looked into her hazel ones, and she felt herself blushing. She turned back to her book and tried to focus. She saw out of the corner of her eye as he stood up and walked over to her table.

"What are you doing here?" he asked smirking.

"I'm reading, unless that's a problem for you of course," she said sarcastically. If he wanted to be rude to her, she could be just as rude back.

"Well I've just never seen anyone else in here just reading."

"Well you might as well get used to it. I do this a lot."

"Fine but just so you know, you're sitting at my table." Hermione smirked.

"Be my guest," she said gesturing to a chair in front of him.

"What? Sit here with you?"

"Why not? I don't bite." She turned back to her book. He would never give up so he reluctantly took a seat.

"Fine," he said through gritted teeth. She smiled and continued to read. Every so often she would look up at him. Finally she decided she should get back to her room and put her book on the table. She stretched her arms and legs out, but pulled them back as she accidentally touched his leg with her own. She grabbed her book and stood up but he grabbed her wrist while still reading. Then he slowly looked up into her eyes full of shock. He stood up next to her and lowered his face to her ear. Hermione sighed.

"You shouldn't punish yourself for things you can't control," he whispered. "Stop denying your heart what it wants." He lightly kissed her neck and walked away.

"Damn he's good," Hermione said aloud breathing heavily. "What am I saying? It's Snape, for crying out loud." She picked up her things and went back to her room. Lily and James still weren't back even thought it was past curfew. If James was anything like Harry, he didn't care about the curfew. In fact, if Hermione remembered correctly, James should have the same invisibility cloak that Harry had.

Who knows what they're doing with that. Hermione sat on her bed and looked out the window. She realized she had been doing that a lot lately.

Stop denying your heart what it wants. His last words kept replaying in her head. Did he know how she had been feeling about him? She was so confused. Then she remembered what she had told herself on her first night here. She was going to make the most of this life. She knew what she had to do.

The next morning Hermione woke up and noticed that Lily's bed was still empty. She stood up and got dressed. She headed down to the common room which was almost empty. She saw Sirius, Remus and Peter sitting by the fire.

"Hey guys where's L…" she looked up to find Lily coming down the stairs from the boys dorm. Hermione grinned as Lily stopped dead in her tracks.

"Uh hello Hermione. Beautiful morning isn't it?"

"Yes I suppose it is. So shall I bring it up or are you just going to tell me why you were in James's dorm all night?" Hermione said grinning. Lily blushed.

"All right I'll tell you but not here," she said motioning to Sirius and Remus who were trying to listen to their conversation without being noticed. Lily pulled Hermione up to their dorm.

"Ok spill."

"Ok, ok, well last night after our date we just went up there to talk. He kissed me and then we…you know."

"Lily that's great. But please tell me that you guys were alone."

"Yes, Sirius, Remus, and Peter stayed downstairs."

"That's good. So was he…nice?"

"Yes, yes, he was very nice."

"I'm so happy for you."

"Thanks. So how was your night?" Hermione thought about her night in the library and smiled.

"Oh it was ok. I went to the library. Severus showed up and we got into a little argument. Then… I left. That's all that happened."

"I'm sorry that you guys fought. Maybe you can work it out."

"Yeah I think so to. Don't worry I'll be fine," Hermione said trying to hide a smile. She didn't know why she hadn't told Lily but she just wasn't sure what she should say about it. After all it's not like she had asked Severus to do that. But she hadn't stopped him. Hermione waited for Lily to freshen up and they headed to breakfast. Hermione grabbed some toast and Pumpkin Juice.

She looked over to the Slytherin table just as Severus had looked at her. He winked at her and returned to his food. Hermione suddenly felt giddy. All he had done was looked at her. She definitely wasn't herself. Then again she didn't have to be herself. No one here knew her. She could be whatever or whoever she wanted to be.

A/N: Well what did you think? What do you think she will do?