Under My Skin

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Chapter 4

"In my office, now, Severus Snape," McGonagall commanded with a pink tint to her face.

"Yes, ma'am."

They both entered McGonagall's office. "Explain yourself. You are older than her and have been at Hogwarts a lot longer. So why in the hell do you see fit to traumatize the poor woman?"

"Me! I don't traumatize her, she traumatizes me." Severus sat roughly in a chair next to McGonagall's office's fireplace. "Why did you and Albus hire such an awful woman?"

"Because she was damn - well qualified!" McGonagall walked over to her desk and grabbed a file that was sitting on it labelled Vasquez, Grace and handed it to him. "I suggest you read over it, Severus. Now, what it is that you wanted with me?"

Severus really didn't have anything specific that he wanted to discuss with Minerva; he was just bored. Perhaps he had wanted to talk about Vasquez, but that was entirely out of the question now. Minerva might think he had a crush on that wretched woman. "There's no status change with Miss Granger, is there?" he asked out of the blue, but it had been bothering him for a while.

McGonagall's face saddened by the mere mention of her name. "No, Severus, there hasn't been. God, I just do not understand why she would leave us. She was so bright and could do anything she pleased...We have sources at the magic school in America that claim they spotted her in New Orleans, Louisiana, but when we went to investigate, it was a fluke." Severus could see McGonagall's eyes go misty and she closed them before they were set to her clear brown.

"I guess the damn girl didn't realize how...hurt everyone would be at her departure," he said more to himself than McGonagall.

"Severus, I suggest you go apologize to Vasquez," McGonagall startled him out of his musings.

"Why should I go apologize to her?" he asked with his face set in disgust. He moved about uncomfortably in the chair.

"You are older, sometimes wiser, and deserve whatever she dishes out at you," she replied with a smirk. She pointed her bony finger to the doorway. Severus gruffly got up from his chair, leaving Vasquez's file, and sulked out of the door. His feet absent mindly worked their way to Vasquez's rooms near the Arithmacy classroom. He hadn't really planned on going apologize to her, but he figured he better, for Minerva might question her later.

He knocked on her door, half hoping she wasn't there. Half.

Unfortunately for him, she opened the door and rage filled her eyes as soon as she saw him. She tried to slam the door in his face, but his hand caught the door in time for his hand to make contact with the doorframe. "SHIT!" he yelled loudly.

"Oh my gosh, Professor, I'm so sorry," She quickly led him inside while he cradled his hand. She set him on her couch and quickly called for a house-elf by the name of Bella. The house-elf, who was wearing a musty old pillowcase similar to Dobby's, heard Grace's plea for something to help Severus.

"But, ma'am," Bella said frightfully. "You is witch and you have wand."

"I-oh! Thank-you, Bella, I completely forgot. You can return to the kitchens now," Grace replied in a slight rush.

She grabbed her wand from the coffee table and bit her lip, in concentration trying to think of the right spell. She slowly pointed her wand at Severus' hand and for a second, he looked frightened, but he was in too much pain. Although he tried his best not to show it, his hand really hurt. That woman obviously was quite strong. His frightened/pained look scared the shit out of Grace. His hand was, after all, swelling up and turning purple.

"Uh..umm...Integro!" she said loudly and a white flame emitted from her wand. But instead of casting it at his hand, she cast it at his...

"WHAT DID YOU DO?" Severus yelled as he stood up quickly and tried to cover up the fastly growing erection with his black billowing robes. His face became set with rage and he stared at her.

"I...oh, dear," she replied, and she was trying very hard not to giggle. "I accidentally pointed my wand at your-um-yeah instead of your hand when I said the healing charm. Severus, I truly am sorry."

"You wench!" he yelled as he tried to run from her quarters, but his erection was throbbing with pain by now. He needed some kind of release and fast.

"Want me to take care of that for you?" she yelled back at him with a hysterical laugh.

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Okay, Severus. You are roaming Hogwarts with a throbbing erection and you need help and fast. Do it yourself? No, that's a sign of weakness. Get a woman to- no, that won't work. You'd have to go get a prostitute and by that time you might be dead. Cold shower and cold thoughts seem to be your only option. And your hand still bloody hurts. Damn it.

He quickly made his way to his rooms and straight through to his bathroom. He stripped his clothes and turned on the cold water for his shower. He hurriedly stepped inside and began to think of McGonagall in a bathing suit. That definitely calmed his little problem. But it still needed some encouragement. Okay, Minerva and Dumbledore getting it on...hmm, that's what Vasquez said...

At the mental mention of Grace, his penis shot directly up again. He groaned and began to think of Harry Potter, anything to get his mind off of her. Harry Potter, Ron Weasley...Hermione Granger. Once again, his damn imagination got the better of him and he was still in the predicament. DUMBLEDORE IN A FUCKING SPEEDO! That, and the cold water, deflated his member and it was now safe to step out of the shower after that excruciating ordeal.

As soon as he got out, he self-consciously grabbed a towel and wrapped it around his middle. He checked his appearance in the mirror. Shoulder-legnth, black, greasy hair, crooked yellow teeth, sallow skin, and a long disfigured nose. He had somehow over the years became used to his appearance but every now and then, it was shoved in his face at how hideous he was. Life went on.

He then remembered his hand. He had left his wand in the bathroom after magically painting the walls when he went to see McGonagall, which was now, as he saw, a very bad mistake. So with a quick wave of his arm, the pain was gone.

"Severus," he heard Vasquez call from his sitting room.

"Wait," he yelled back in a harsh tone. He stepped out of his bathroom and to his bedroom. He dressed in what he normally did and set out for where Vasquez was to give her a good hex or two. As he entered, he was stopped. She actually looked quite pretty, looking all innocent, yet giggly.

"I truly am sorry about all that. I-hope you took care...of...it..." Fits of laughter overcame her heartfelt apology and the need to hex her came back to Severus. He took two long strides to her body and pushed her, gently, against a wall.

"Why the hell are you so immature?" he asked icily.

"Because pricks like you keep getting what you deserve," she replied with a grin. "Now, if you will excuse me, Professor...let go of me."

"Oh, why should I?"

"Let the fuck go."

"Hmm..." Maybe it had been how close they were, or maybe it had just been they had it coming, but in an instant, their lips met in a fierce and passionate kiss. Hands were now roaming all over each other's bodies and it took everything they had to stop. Both were gasping for breath when they did and the just stared at each other blankly.

"I..." Whatever Grace was about to say was cut off when she ran from the dungeons.

"Damn it," Severus swore. He didn't even bother going after her. He hadn't meant to kiss her, it just happened. If she didn't want anything to do with him after this, he was all for it. 'Maybe I should've kissed her a long time ago,' he thought to himself with a smirk. At least she'd be out of my hands. But, oh, how lovely she felt in his hands. He sighed and returned to his room...he needed a very long dreamless nap.

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"Minerva, I don't see how you can stand even being in the same castle with that man!" cried Grace ten minutes later after she made her way to McGonagall's quarters. She was breathing heavy and her words were cut short with breath as she paced McGonagall's sitting room.

McGonagall smirked and replied, "Seems like you two are really kicking it off."

"He kissed me for God's sake. I don't...it's...what am I going to do."

"What do you mean?"

"I love Julian, but I- just don't want children...Ron has become quite a nuisance asking me to go out with him...and Severus is being a prick! What the hell is wrong with men around me? I think I should become a lesbian."

McGonagall moved slightly away from her at this bold statement, but when she realized Grace was just speaking rashly, she sat on the couch next to her. "My dear girl, it wasn't meant to be with Julian, Ron is immature and doesn't deserve you, and Severus, well," the smirk was not well-hidden on her face"will come around."

A/N: Sorry this took longer than usual, but I was in DISNEY WORLD for the past 7 days. I didn't want to go, but the fam was making me. Hey, I volunteered to stay home and save money, but noooo...So yeah, I had to take loads of pics for one of my teachers, too, 'cause she's in love with Pooh-bear...I was just like what the hell...thought I'd share that with yall -P