Disclaimer: I still hate this, I don't own Harry Potter. Lucky J.K. Rowling, she's RICH and I'm NOT!!!!!!

Jessica was so excited that some one wanted to talk to her that wasn't going to heckle her. She some how convinced Alyssa to go with her, just in case something went wrong. Jessica didn't care much for what she looked like, so all she wore was her uniform, minus the vest. Her collar was undone and her tie was loosened, but Alyssa felt that if she wasn't going to bed, then she should still look really proper.

They set out after dinner towards the Astronomy Tower, apologizing to Lily for not being able to walk back to the common room with her, but for some reason, Jessica thought that she would be fine. When they got to the tower, Jessica advised Alyssa to stay at the bottom of the stone steps, which she did.

Jessica felt butterflies not floating, but thrashing around in her stomach. She started to ascend the long, spiral staircase, and when she reached the top, she saw someone she never really expected, holding flowers.

"Severus?" she said, slightly surprised, but mostly in smiles. She walked over to him and he seemed to be nervous. She had already forgiven him for what he had said to her this morning in class, which was very unlike her. His face was lit from the moon, which was almost full, so she was able to tell that there was something wrong with him. "What's wrong?"

"I wanted to tell you that I'm sorry." He looked her in the face, which is one thing she was never really used to. That was probably why she started caring for him so much. "I'm sorry for what I've done to you in the past, what I might do in the future, and for what I've just done to you now." He looked down, as if embarrassed for something. She looked up at him in utter confusion.

Suddenly, she heard more than one set of feet coming up the stone steps. She had only a few seconds to see who it was before the people grabbed her. It was suddenly a blur to her as she let out a small squeal like scream. When she was finally able to mentally function again, she saw who was behind what was going on.

Lucius Malfoy stood in front of her, as smug as ever. She noticed that two of his biggest friends were hanging on to her arms to hold her back, which was good, because with what he was about to tell her, she would have murdered him.

"Where's Alyssa?" she questioned.

"Oh, her? Just a simple flick of the wrist and a great little charm and she went down. Not that she was much of a threat anyway, spacing out and all." He smirked at her. "Now you, you're a threat to me. You keep getting in my way, and annoying me. I told you to watch your back, I told you not to mess with me, but did you listen? Obviously not." He was closing in on her. She tried to back away but was unable to move because of the Neanderthals who wouldn't let her go, all they did was tightened their grip on her arms, making her wince.

Once Lucius got up to her, his smirk faded. He was looking her up and down, then finally broke the silence.

"I always thought of you as a tough kind of girl. I also always wanted to know what kind of a kisser you were." With that said, he started to lean into her. Her eyes widened, obviously not wanting to be touched by the person she considered to be a ghoul. In the background she could see Severus looking away, ashamed of how he betrayed her trust once again, in the same day.

Lucuis shoved his lips onto hers, and she started to thrash harder then those now nonexsistent butterflies from her stomach. Her only defense was to bite as hard as she could onto his lip, and she did. The next thing she knew was her two front teeth were hitting her own bottom teeth, she had bit clean threw his lip! In a moment's desperation she let him go, he backed up and stared her down, his lip pouring blood. He pointed his wand at his lip and all that was left was a small, faint scar, he soon returned to his typical smirking.

As a nervous habit, Jessica curled part of her lower lip into her mouth. While she bit her lip, Lucius spoke to her,

"I knew you were a fighter, but you're going to have to learn what battles you can win and which ones you should just stop and take your punishment for!" after the last word, he back handed her so hard that she ended up chomping down on her own lip, feeling the same thing that she did not even a minute ago. She let out a gasp, blood pouring onto her crisp, white uniform shirt. She was more upset that she was staining her shirt than possibly needing to go to the Hospital Wing. Severus looked towards them when he heard the unforgettable skin-slapping-skin sound. He looked as if he wanted to protest, but still did nothing.

Lucius' cronnies laughed and tightened their grip on her arms, so she wouldn't hit the ground like her body wanted her to. He walked back over to her, her eyes swelling with tears.

"What? You're gonna cry aren't you? Typical, every girl who seems tough is only acting. But let me guess, you're upset because of you're little shirt." He was pushing all the wrong buttons, she was going to snap and soon, and it would be MORE than deadly. "You're upset because you had to pay for that shirt yourself and barely had enough money, so you only have that one." Her hands turned into tight fists and she was getting ready to strike. "What's wrong? You gonna hit me? Well, you obviously can't, you're too weak! Why not go cry to James or Sirius? You're such a baby!"

"SHUT UP!!!" She shouted at the top of her lungs. "YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE ME!!! YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO MOCK ME!!" Lucius was taken back a bit. She struggled against their hands but to no avail. Lucius regained his composure and once again taunted her.

"Fiesty, aren't we? Why not let me relieve some of that hostility." He reached on hand down towards her skirt, and another on her jaw. Her jaw quivered in pain and she noticed that Severus was unable to stomach what was happening to her. Tears came unintentionally to her, and stained her cheeks quickly. He had grabbed her skirt and started to take it off of her when Severus noticed that she was crying.

Suddenly, Severus pushed Lucius away from her.

"Leave her alone!" he said defiently. Lucius' bodyguards let her down and rushed over to Lucius' defense. Severus grabbed her hand and ran as fast as possible. They made it down the Astronomy Towers stairs and saw that Alyssa was just waking up. She gazed up at her best friend and saw the large blood stains on her shirt and also that Severus was pulling on her.

"WHAT HAPPENED?" She asked but Jessica just pulled her to her feet and said,

"No time to explain, RUN!" And they saw the shadows of the three boys running down the stairs. The trio ran as fast as possible but when they made it to the stairs that would seperate the girls from going up and Severus from going down they didn't want to part. Jessica wouldn't let go of Severus hand and she noticed that his cheeks were bright red, and not from running.

They stood there in the minor silence and gazed into eachothers eyes. Alyssa was trying to pull them apart when she saw that Lucius was closing in on them. She smiled at him and said, "Thank you." She then gave him a small kiss on the cheek, and ran off with Alyssa. When they were almost to the common room, Jessica gazed down and saw Lucius yelling at Severus. She almost ran back down when she saw Lucius shove Severus down the stairs. Her eyes widened and she saw his body lay at the way bottom of the staircase, not moving. Lucius then had the adacity to step on his unconcious body to get over him. Alyssa ran inside the common room already and she had just returned with Sirius and not James. He hugged onto her, freaking out about the blood. She just kept staring down the stairs and before she knew it, she had pushed Sirius away and was halfway back down the stairs.

"Always having to run up and down the damn stairs!" She heard her friend say behind her. She got down to the bottom of all the staircases and saw Lucius attempting to get into the portrait hole to the Slytherin common room. She took out her wand in a moment of blinding anger and pointed it at his back.

"SERPENSORTIA!!!!" Suddenly a large serpent had shot out of her wand. Lucius turned around and shook his head, Sirius and Alyssa where trying to help up Severus. Lucius took out his wand and was now only 5 or 6 feet away.

"You wanna fight? You got one now!" He pointed his wand at her and shouted, "RICTUSEMPRA" She suddenly collapsed in hysterical laughter. He was walking away but she soon pointed her wand at his back as the laughing subsided and shouted,

"SCOURGIFY!" Lucius stopped dead in his tracks, dropped his wand and clasped his hands around his throat. Bubbles started flooding out of his mouth, and Jessica got back on her feet. She looked around and she noticed that they had drawn a large crowd. Teachers came rushing over and grabbed Jessica's wand away from her and suddenly, in a big blur, rushed her and Lucius to the Headmasters office. They were sitting there and Albus Dumbledore turned around. There was no anger or disappointment in his eyes, only curiosity.

He ended up questioning them one on one and when they were threw, it was almost 4 in the morning. Madam Pomfrey had fixed her busted lip and put a bandage on her cut from Lucius' ring. In the end, Lucius had gotten an owl sent home about his antics, his father came to the school to yell at him and he had detention for 3 weeks, weekdays and nights. The entire school had found out what happened that night in the Astronomy Tower and that didn't help her popularity one bit. Many girls started acting more mean towards her when they realized that Jessica was the kind of girl Lucius was looking for. All she cared about was Severus. A few days after the incident, he was out of the Hospital Wing and back in classes, now every time Alyssa offers her a seat next to her in Potions, Jessica sits next to Severus.

But something was still on her mind...

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That's IT!! Damn, I just keep pumping out these chapters like BAMF!!!!! (yes that 'f' is needed) Please review.

-Jessi . 33