They entered the kitchen laughing. Fred helped Hermione though the portraithole and put his hand innocently against her waist while he helped her. She tried her best to act normal, and not as if his hand against her waist were burning a hole in her shirt. The moment they were inside, all the elfs in the room turned their head to see what all the noise were about. Suddenly they were surrounded with the small creatures smiling from ear to ear.

"Mister wheezy, you've come back to visit!" one little elf shouted while grabbing the end of Fred's robe. "What will missis and missus want? We have many treats!" another one asked Hemione "we have tea and biscuits! Or will you rather want cake?"

Hermione tried to hide behind Fred as they were surrounded, trying to appear invincible. Over the years she had come to know and accept the way house-elfs were wired, but she didn't like it. They may like to serve, but for wizards owning other beings like an animal… She would not accept it. Just because something is a part of a culture, didn't meen it was good.

"Hello everyone!" Fred proclaimed with a big smile, "If we could have some butterbeers and some snacks we would be grateful! Do you have those crackers with strawberry filling? I love them!" He spoke to the elf who was holding his robe, whom seemed to be near fainting with excitement by being spoken directly to. "Yes, we will find you that! Mister Wheezy and pretty misses will not be disappointed!"

The moment after Fred had finished to speak, all the elves disappeared back to what they had been doing before. Fred turned to Hermione and raised his eyebrows.

"helpful little creatures" declared with a content smile on his face as he watched them hurry around the kitchen. Hermione bit her teeth together from refraining to say something, she wasn't in a mood to discuss her elf-rights. Fred seemed to catch her line of thoughts as his face reddened a bit and he tried to change the theme.

"makes it much less impressing when you brag about all the nicking from the kitchen at the parties in the common room, when the food is practically shoved at you" Hermione replied instead. Fred kluckled before he dropped to his knees before her.

"please don't rat us out, fair Hermione" He grabbed her hand pleading "my reputation in depending on you!" Hermione swatted his hand away, but could not help a little smile slipping through. "fine, your secret is safe with me"

Fred stood up and gave her a mock-bow before kissing her hand "thank you my Lady".

Thankfully, the elf was done with their food, and appeared next to Fred with a shockingly big amount of food. "Is this enough misters Fred?" the elf asked with a worried frown. "Yes, thank you, its just the right amount" Fred answered with a big smile.

Hermione hoped that he didn't notice her blush.

It turned out that sneaking out of the kitchen was much harder than sneaking into it. Firstly, they did not have the advantage of being able to see the hallway outside the portrait, secondly, they had their hands full of food. Hermine had stuffed as much as she could inside the pockets on her cloak and into her school bag, but there was still a lot left. Therefore, their hands were full. Fred carefully pulled his head out through the door to see if the coast was ready. When he saw that the corridor was empty he quickly pulled Hemione through the door with himself.

they stood in the hallway, giggling by the adrenalins of sneaking around, in the middle of the bright day no less. "Come," Fred said after a little while, and preceded to walk toward the great hall. Hermione had no choice but to follow. Fred stopped when they were halfway. The hallway was darkened by the dim lighting and the lack of windows, where he led them into an unused classroom. Inside the classroom it was brighter, the sun shone through the dusty squares. "What are we doing here?" she asked. "We have to fix ourselves a bit, we cannot meet teachers like this," Fred said and nodded towards his hands, which was full of butterbeer. He put everything he had in his hands of the closest desk.

Hermine regarded him silently and tried to ignore her inner voice, telling her she behaved childishly. This was something she would never do. Before. She felt that this might just be a rebellion after a near-death experience, but she liked the excitement too, and doing things she had always considered to be petty or childish was suddenly attractive to her.

Hermione noted that Fred was observing her from his peripheral vision. "What ?!" she exclaimed at the end when the silence became too small. "nothing," said Fred quietly, almost too low for her to hear.

He began to reorganize the foods and put a good deal on his inner pocket before turning to Hermione, beginning to empty her pockets for her. She froze quite quietly as his hands roamed her pockets, almost touching her ties... He put everything on the desk, before he transfigured everything to a big clock. "Now we are ready," he said with a happy smile. "The house-elfs would have a fit if they saw us transfiguration food that way! I would never get any food from them again".

They shared a little laugh. She noticed that he was standing very close. She hadn't really noticed how much he was invading her personal space, but she discovered that she didn't really mind. His face was very close to hers, and Hermione let her eyes drop to his lips. When she lifted her eyes to meet his once again the joyful expression had disappeared from his face, and left was a serious, almost hungry expression. Hermione felt her breath hitch at the difference, he was handsome no matter what, but he transformed from a teenager to a grown man in matter of seconds. His head dipped towards hers and she stretched her neck to meet him halfway. His lips met hers in a gentle kiss, before the door slammed open.

"well, well, well" the familiar drawl erupted their little moment, and made them jump away from each other in shock.

"not the Weasley I'd expect you to sully yourself with miss Granger" Snape continued, he sounded amused with an evil glint in his eyes.

"Detention tomorrow for both of you after dinner, for indecent behaviour in public…" If Hermione hadn't known better, she'd said he was finding the whole thing funny.

"now scram" he finally said with disdain and stepped aside to let them through the door.

Haha, i could not help my self, what more mortifying than getting caught by Snape?

Soo, I'm back after a long break, and I feel like I'm on a roll! Hopefully my next chaper will be up before the new year! Stay tuned, and please R&R!