Chapter 7 - embarrassing moments

3 Weeks later…….

Sirius and Severus had become friends, or at least allies during the last three weeks. They had teamed up to deal with an enraged King Rupert II. As the guardians of the twins the King believed that the Professors should keep tabs on them 24 hours a day 7 days a week. However that was implausible for the professors to do and it would annoy the twins to no end. But in his distressed state there was no reasoning with the King. After Three weeks of constant work and pressure the two men were ready to burst and it just so happened that their victims had woken up nearly two hours ago.

" You can not go in there they are not strong enough to deal with you two. I will not allow it." Poppy could be a real spoil sport sometimes but Sirius had learnt to deal with her and she had always had a soft spot for Severus. So they both decided that pouting was the best choice. "Alright as it is you two but if you get too loud or the girls look tired you HAVE to leave."

They snuck around the hospital wing until they were close to the twins then started with the yelling.

"Do you know what we have been through for the past THREE weeks!!!!!!!! Your father won't leave us alone, he's threatened us, cursed us, he constantly repeats our duties as guardians. He hasn't let us out of his site. He thinks it is our fault that you were attacked." Sirius couldn't hold his exasperation in, so he took it all out on the girls.

"The day he found out he came here. I was the first one he bloody well saw and he attacked me PHYSICALLY. Do you even understand how angry he was. He nearly put me in the blasted hospital wing. Why were you even in the common room!!!! YOU HAVE PRIVATE ROOMS FOR GODS SAKE!!!!!!!!" Severus' voice was so loud that Sirius had to fend Poppy off before they got chucked out on their rear ends. However the girls did not look ashamed and Severus was not happy. That yell could have sent a seventh year into a fit of tears and all the annoying know it all little chits could do was open their mouths until they looked like fish.

"Wow" Hermione and Emily couldn't hold the comment in any longer, their guardians were really …….ummm….. HOT.

"Holy flying crap of Merlin, when in the depths of hell did you get so young." Emily gasped and turned as red as a Weasley when she realized what she had said to Sirius.

"Well it was a reaction to going through the veil, we still haven't figured out exactly how. But who actually cares how it happened, I look eighteen. That's good enough for me!!!!!!!" Hehehe, I wonder how he gets his big head to fit through the doors to the great hall. Hmmmmmm my guardian is so serious, well actually he is nothing like Sirius but anyway, Emily will deal with Sirius and deflate that ego a little. (AN: remember that italics are Hermiones thoughts.) God Severus is sexy in those clothes. Wait did I just think he was hot, AGAIN, oh that is not good. When exactly did I start calling him Severus. He is Professor Snape damn it.

Hermione couldn't keep her eyes off of her guardian , he just looked so different. She had never seen him in anything other than teaching robes and now he was dressed in loose, black, silk pants and a white shirt with the cuffs rolled up and the top 3 buttons undone.

Oh god I'm staring at him. I have to look some were else, anywere. Why won't my eye cooperate? Uh oh he saw me looking. OH BUGGER he saw me looking at him. EYES I COMMAND YOU, LOOK AWAY.

"Is their something wrong Miss Granger, my apologies, Miss Giordani. Perhaps you are staring at the bruises left by your father when he was CHOKING me. Is that what you are staring at Miss Giordani?" Severus was infuriated, on a normal day he would be a little freaked out but flattered none the less, however he had spent the

last god knows how long dealing with an over protective king who wanted to kill him. He was not in the mood for a seventeen year old girl to be making eyes at him. (Sirius on the other hand was enjoying the attention that he was receiving from Emily. It made him feel as young as he looked to have her such a pretty woman flirting with him.) Severus was still waiting for an answer from Hermione.

"No sir, I wasn't looking at the bruises." Bloody hell what am I going to tell him. I can't just tell him that I was checking him out. "I was…. Ummmm."

Severus had had enough of guessing. He cast legilemens (sp?) on Hermione and what he saw shocked him. Hermione looked up and knew what he had done and what he had seen but could not form any words. Not knowing what else to do, Severus put on his teaching mask of indifference and walked out, closely followed by a worried Sirius.

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