[ Sorry for the delay. I had work and here in Spain it's kind of holidays and they have open where I work so I haven't had the time to do more chapters. I promise to update as often as before. And I'm really happy about the two reviews I've received :) ]
Hermione was scared, for the first time she was really scared. She didn't know what to think. She couldn't find any real meaning behind that note. She had no other choice than to go before class and see what Remus wanted. She looked up to the teacher's table and saw that he was missing. Ron followed her gaze and knew what it was all about.
"So, the note was from your lovely teacher, right?" he mocked her with a huge grin plastered on his face.
"Well, erm, I have to go, got to pick up a book before class, bye guys" she stuttered and left like lightning.
He just sat in his classroom, staring at the wall in front of him. Not knowing what to really think about he like her? Did he? Really? He wasn't sure he liked her, he had a hunch it was something so much more. Perhaps greater than infatuation.
"Crap" he thought out loud. He hadn't expected at all to fall in love. At least not with one of his own students.
He just sat there, extremely pale and eye widened as realization struck him harder than lightning. He, Remus John Lupin, had fallen in love with someone younger than him, worst of all, he was supposed to maintain a certain distance between himself and the students. How had it happened? He was drawn away from his thoughts by a presence outside.
Hermione wandered the quite desert hallways as it was lunch break. There she was, standing in front of the door to her Defense class, not really wanting to enter but run for her life in the opposite direction.
"Hermione you can come in. No need to stand by the door all day" Remus voice came from the other side of the door as a few seconds after he opened it with a small smile. "Not remembering I'm a werewolf, do we?" he said chuckling.
Hermione stepped inside and Remus closed the door. She cursed herself for not thinking about his senses being affected by his affliction. She motioned to sit down but decided to turn around and face her professor.
"What do you wanted to talk about professor? She asked almost too innocently.
"Please don't call me professor now Hermione, and I'm pretty sure you have a hint about what's going on thanks to Sirius" he said looking into her brown eyes. She thought she melted right there and hoped it wouldn't show.
"I, erm, I feel something quite important towards you and I erm, just wanted you to know" he said blushing like a thirteen year old boy who tried to ask out his crush on a date.
Hermione smiled. "I don't think you really know what I feel for you Remus" she said with a soft voice "but if we do end up feeling the same for each other I will be really happy" she said smiling.
"Oh yes! I do know that what you feel for me is love. What you guys didn't know is that those tracing charms on the list also detected what kind of feeling the voter had towards the person they chose" he said with a warm smile towards his student standing quite surprised. "But what you don't know is that I do believe that I love you too, I say believe as I am your professor and I haven't really allowed myself to fully explore this feeling. But I'm sure that if this was during the summer I would certainly love you with every bone in my body" he said to her.
Hermione just blushed and nodded no knowing what to quite do after that kind of declaration. It had been a declaration, only that he wasn't sure about it himself and she understood he didn't want to lose his job.
"I won't make things difficult for you. If you want me to leave and never approach you in this way again tell me and I'll do so" she said knowing what was at stake for both of them if someone found out their feelings. Well someone apart from her friends and Dumbledore and Sirius. She just heard a chuckle in response.
"You stubborn little girl, I just told you that I loved you, in my own words, but indeed I just told you that, and you keep thinking about my protection from the wizarding world" he chuckled and hugged her. Hermione just melted, she stood there wrapped in the arms of the one she loved and thought that if she died now she would die happy. Remus lifted her chin and looked her in the eyes.
"Don't tell anyone yet, I will make things clear on all fronts and then if we still feel something or are something then we can tell people" he said sweetly to her.
Hermione realized what he had said and blushed but then thought it was better to smile. Remus unwrapped himself from her and went to sit down at the professor's table. She just stared at him as he moved across the room and watched as he seated himself. He just winked at her and at that Hermione decided it was her turn to show how she felt so she run through the classroom to his desk and gave him a peck before sitting down at her usual spot.
After a few minutes the students started entering the class and Hermione was lost in her own thoughts as she heard her Remus talking.
