A/N: I am really not sure what I did here. I went way off; I don't yet know whether it was brilliant or crazy. This is kind of a tease chapter, and a test of my smut writing skills, even though it's not really smutty. I still do not know if I like what I did or not, I may even completely redo it. So I would really, really, really, really, like some input here. Whether I leave it or not this story is going back to the plot, it's not going to go all smutty just yet, just thought I would throw something out there just to reel you all back in. Please review... I still think I lost my mind... Oh and sorry about the delay, my life's gone a little crazy this last week, and may be moving soon and don't yet know whether I will have the net there, so updates may be more sporadic, just to let you all know... Well I'm done rambling for know.

Much love to my returning readers and reviewers...Until next time...

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Chapter 7: A Daring Night

After Professor McGonagall and Ginny arrived to Snape's office, he refused to let Ginny in. The fewer people around the girl the better. After telling Ginny to wait in the potions classroom, McGonagall entered the office and took a look at Ellexia.

"Do you have any idea what is wrong with her, Severus?" she queried.

"I will not know for sure until I can talk with her, but it is as if her mind had tried to kill her. She is filled with pain and fear, she is most disturbed. I don't think it was a good idea to bring her here." he answered her.

"Ah, but I think it was. She would have almost certainly been dead by now if not." McGonagall returned.

"She almost died right here!" he shot back, out of frustration. "You sound more and more like Albus every day, and I not saying it as a good thing."

A slight smile crept upon McGonagall's lips. "She will be alright, after some time, I must add. I did not think it would be quite this bad, but she will recover and in turn feel better than ever."

Snape looked at her questionably, "What is going to happen to her now, and why do you have that Weasly involved?" he wondered.

"Well, had things gone better, she was going to stay with Ginny in her private rooms until she could adapt to the other girls in her house. But now it seems she will need more care than expected." she explained.

"The hospital wing?" Snape interrupted.

"Oh, no, much too open, the only place I see fit is down here under your close watch." Snape's face twitched slightly with concern, but before he could interject, she went on. "Seeing as there are opposite sexes involved there will be some issues to work out, but I believe it is necessary for the time being that she does stay down here with you." she added with a grave expression. "With some rearranging we will provide her with her own private quarters, I trust you to act appropriately."

Snape took offense to this comment. "Of course, she is a student. How dare you even..."

McGonagall interrupted, "I was in no way accusing," she explained, and then quickly moved on, "you look incredibly exhausted, I urge you to get some rest while you can. Send for me if you need anything, I will inform Miss Weasly of the delay with her roommate. You tend to Miss Baine tonight; I will stop by first thing tomorrow to check for progress. Goodnight, Severus." She quickly turned to exit the room, exhausted, herself, from the day's events.

"Night, Minerva..." Snape drawled, grouchily. What does she expect from him? She leaves him in charge of rehabilitating a highly disturbed young woman, and then almost blatantly suggests he cannot control himself. In all his years of teaching he had given no reason to doubt his self control in that area. He had never once even thought for a second about one of his pupils in that way. Still fuming he turned to go back to his chair facing the girl lying dead asleep upon his couch. He breathed a deep sigh and gave up his fuming in an attempt to get some much needed rest. He sat back in his chair, looking at the girl sleeping so calmly. This is the most calm he had witnessed her yet. He wanted so badly to know what all there was locked inside her mind. If only it were possible to use legilimency on a sleeping subject. He breathed one last sigh before resting his head back against the chair and closing his eyes, within seconds reaching a state of slumber.

Only a couple of hours after Snape fell asleep, Ellexia stirred. She rolled over from her side, onto her back, and slowly opened her eyes, blinking the blurriness out of her vision. Awakening in a place unbeknownst to her, she shot up onto her elbows, looking around the room in a panicked haze. Her eyes then landed upon a dark figured sleeping in a chair next to where she laid. She recognized him as the man who had brought her here, to Hogwarts, her potions professor. He seemed very much different now than he had when he was awake. His face was relaxed and almost peaceful, even from what little she knew of him, he did not seem like a person who could ever be peaceful. She rolled back to her side, facing him, and rested her head on the arm of the sofa. Looking the man over, the lengthy black hair framing his chiseled-featured face, his head tilted to one side. Even while asleep he held a strait posture in his back, his hands cupped, fingers intertwined, in his lap. She watched closely as his robe covered chest, ever so gently rose and fell with every breath he took. His long, thin legs were slightly spread, one leg leaning against the very couch she inhabited. She wanted to touch him, touch the man who shed light onto her dark life. A man who somehow seemed to understand her, to see her in ways she had never been seen before. She couldn't, it was forbidden, to make it all the more enticing. She should not risk the only second chance she would receive to continue her magical training. But, she was not all there, her mind was clouded with depression, everyone knew she bordered on insanity. She couldn't even remember what had happened to her during her panic attack but she knew death had been, right there, waiting for the darkness to finally swallow her soul. But it hadn't, something kept her there, one tiny glimmer of light in her world of darkness. Something so small she had almost missed it. One last thought jumped into her over stimulated mind. How is life worth living, if you never have a little fun? With that, and a very devious grin upon her lips, Ellexia sat up and repositioned herself onto her hands and knees. With a cat-like stealthiness she slowly brushed his knee with her palm. Gliding her hand up his thigh, then lifting it to the arm of his chair, to steady raised her body over his, taking her free hand to his cheek, ever gently brushing the hair back. He shifted just slightly at this touch, causing Ellexia to freeze, before taking a breath and continuing on her very dangerous adventure. Now gripping both arms of the chair tightly with her hands, and her knees upon the edge of her previous resting place, she hovered over her prey. Slowly lowering her body closer to his, feeling the body heat reflecting off of each other. She twisted her head around his, and keeping her lips barely away from his skin, she released a hot breath onto the curve of his neck. At this sudden warmth, Snape shifted his hips in his seat, subconsciously getting aroused from the exchange in body heat. This is it, the absolute last chance to stop before the point of no return, did she have the guts? The absolute gull to try and seduce her unconscious teacher? Oh, hell yes! Then, without one ounce of doubt, she leaned into her dark haired victim, and with a vampire-like seductiveness she sank her teeth into the muscle of his neck, messaging it deeply with her tongue and luscious lips. All this time moving her knees to straddle his waist.

The Professor's dreams became suddenly erotic, so real his body actually felt as if he were really in the company of a woman. A pain seared in the side of his neck, causing him to awaken from his hot, sexy dream. Only, his dream didn't end, when his eyes opened, they saw a beautiful dark-haired vixen, mounted upon his body. The vixen removed her mouth from his neck and moved her face mere inches in front of his, piercing him with her vividly emerald eyes. Her soft, supple lips met his, followed closely by her hot, wet tongue. He started to return the kiss, and then much like a wave of ice cold water washing over him, realization smacked him in the face. This wasn't a dream. She wasn't a vixen. She was a student, his student. He stiffened as if hit square on with a "petrificus totalus" spell. He raised his hands to the girl's shoulders and pushed her away. "What in Merlin's beard do you think you're doing?" he half shouted in confusion.

Ellexia straitened up with a look somewhere between accomplishment and discomfort. She had to think about her next words carefully. Should she throw all caution to the wind and tell him the truth of her trying to seduce him or try to brush it off as a moment of insanity. Not that the latter was completely untrue. "I...uhhhh...I was just making sure you were breathing?" she stated as if it was a question, with a big cheesy grin upon her face, trying not to completely lose it and crack up laughing.

This answer seemed to have some positive effect for her though because her victim was so confused he was at a loss for words. At this, she crawled completely off of her professor and seated herself upon the couch she had earlier slept on. Snape was still dumbfounded, he knew her answer was a joke but how could she joke at a moment like this? What had just happened? Did this beautiful young woman in front of him really just try to seduce him? The greasy git of a potions teacher? It couldn't be? Could it? All he could get out through all of these thoughts was, "What just happened? What did you do to me?" He really wanted to know, since first meeting this girl, she made his mind think in ways he never had before. He felt feelings he thought he could never feel. He began to wonder if she was part Veela.

Ah, screw it. I have to be insane after what I just pulled. No point in giving up now. "I just tried to have sex with you, it was going pretty good until you woke up." She chuckled, knowing full well she had lost her mind. "You were just too damned sexy lying there, for me to resist." I am so getting locked away in a padded room for this. She looked at him with the straightest face she could muster, he still held a look of utter disbelief. "Honest," she answered, because it was true, in her mind anyway.

He had no idea how to return this statement, this girl had to have really gone nutters. "What on earth made you think it was okay to seduce a professor, okay to seduce me?"

"I didn't think it was okay, but I wanted to, and life is too short, so I did it." Ellexia explained.

"Do you find toying with a teachers mind amusing?" Snape spat in return.

"I wasn't toying, I was lusting. Lusting for your mind, body, and whatever else I could get my hands on." She couldn't even believe to words flowing from her mouth. Something had changed in her, something drastic. "I'm awfully exhausted, I'm going back to sleep. If you have more questions, we can talk in the morning," and with that Ellexia lay back down on the couch and rolled over, leaving him to stare at her back.

A/N:That's it. What do you think, nuts or brilliant? Review!!!

All done revising now onto writing, will try to update soon, but we'll see....