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A/N- thanks to everyone who reviewed. I promise to mention all the names in the next chappie.

CHAPTER 4

'A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.'

- Ingrid Bergman

August 20th

I feel like I have never kissed anyone before Severus. But how can that be? He kisses like he's holding on to me, like I'm his only salvation. At times, he kisses deeply and with desperation, then his lips become slow and sensual and his tongue……. merlin, his tongue makes me moan so loudly. His kisses are like butterbeer, they make me feel warm till the tips of my toes.

His mouth tastes of tobacco and pepper and the bitterest chocolate. But he smells so sweet, like the inside of honeydukes. And his hair is so soft just as I'd thought. I can't help running my hands over and over it.

I can't believe I'm writing this about Severus Snape of all people. He, who mocked me about my larger than normal teeth and who called me a 'Know it all.' But kissing him is so natural, it's like nature molded me for his lips.

I felt so stupid in front of him, stuttering like my fifteen year old self I thought I left behind. It's a good thing he took control of the situation before I said too much or I might've made even more of a fool out of myself.

What would Tonks say? Probably tell me to pack up my bags and go back home. Well I will go home, once I get him completely out of my system. It's just an older man phase I'm going through…..right?

I hope so…..

Coming back to business. The directors want to know the quantity of the ingredients I will require for the 'attero werewolf' potion. I really have no idea. Seems Severus's friend Jay is my only hope. But maybe Tonks will be back….

I am going with Severus tomorrow to meet his friend. I can't wait ….to discuss the deal and maybe spend more time with Severus ,him kissing and touching.. ….I really have to stop thinking like that.

Severus Snape, the hero of Miss Granger's naughty daydreams and perhaps real dreams as well ,was drunk. He had raided the kitchen stores for something strong after Granger had left( they had been rudely interrupted by a useless waiter whom Severus had been tempted to fire on the spot) Granger had muttered about having to leave and return to her rooms.

It was hilarious actually. The woman who could move like that and snog him like there was no tomorrow had been one of the best friends of his bane of existence for 8 years and also his least favourite student.

But the same qualities that he had found repulsive in her as a teacher, attracted him to her as a man. Perseverance, determination, a certain innocence and a thirst for knowledge made her remarkable as a woman. For a moment he wondered if he had ever been attracted to her at Hogwarts. Then shuddered, definitely not.

He had found an old bottle of 'daru', an alcohol made of rice . He had been so intent on getting pissed that he almost forgot to scold the staff for hiding illegal liquor in the kitchen. 'Well almost' he thought with a smirk. Severus Snape never passed up an opportunity to bully his staff. It was so much fun. Then he groaned, how did he even know the word 'fun'.

'Good god man, control yourself,' he thought to himself.

Then that inner voice said,' Kissing her was so much fun.'

' I don't do fun.' Severus growled.

'I'm not surprised, you've not done anyone for a long time now have you?'

'Get away, shut up.' Severus groaned. ' What are you here for anyway?.'

'I'm here because you are acting so prissy about the whole thing.'

' I don't act prissy.'

'Of course you don't. You just like to convince yourself, don't you?'

'Go away.'

'No, listen to me first.'

'FINE.' Severus yelled.

'You kissed her and she liked it, she kissed you back and you liked it. So be a man and do it again.'

'She didn't like it.'

'Whatever. How long were you in your office? Two hours. During which if, she had not liked you kissing her would have either hit you or hexed you which leads us to believe that she is either crazy or desperate.'

His inner voice, Severus thought bitterly ,was sometimes quite like Dumbledore.

However, Severus could not bring himself to believe that Granger was that desperate. He'd been surprised to see she wasn't wearing a ring on her finger. Good sign. At least Weasley wasn't in the picture or was he? Didn't he have the balls to propose till now? Why would he want to wait? Granger was, Severus thought ,quite beautiful. She had a wonderfully curvy body which he'd had the opportunity to feel again and again when she had pressed herself to him in his office. He'd been wanting to take her right there, but something held him back. Her lips had swelled up after he'd kissed her and he hadn't been able to stop himself until she'd melted into his arms. He wondered what had made him kiss her, maybe her beauty, her absolute brilliance or the fact that she had 'missed' him.

He'd not felt like this since he'd been a hormone driven teenager. He had certainly never spent time agonizing over how and why, teenager or not.

What had Granger done to him?

He ran fingers through his hair and kept adding the 'daru' to his glass, till he slumped forward on his desk and fell into a restless sleep filled with strange dreams of a bushy haired witch.

When his staff came in the morning , they found him asleep on his desk smiling and murmuring 'Hermione' again and again.

A/N- 'attero' is destroy in Latin while 'daru' is a Hindi word for liquor.