Hi All,

I just want to thank all of you who left reviews on the last chapter; they each really made my day, to the point where I was laughing my head off with the sheer happiness of it all: D. so here it is folk's chapter two! Anyway I hope you enjoy as the story really begins.

Nisha A. Halim

P.S

I still don't own any part of Harry Potter. And I think this story takes place in book four not two.

N.H

Only a Distraction?

Grading papers had to be the most boring thing teachers ever had to do Severus thought with a yawn to himself. He heard the door of his class room open what on earth was Draco doing here? There was no way he could already be done with his home work, so Snape had to suppose that he needed help with the assignment.

"Professor Snape."

"Miss Granger." He looked up to confirm that it indeed was Hermione Granger walking towards his desk. 'What on earth was she doing here?' He started working on his papers again.

As she walked towards his desk she started asking a question.

"I had a few questions about last Friday's class, sir."

Some questions about last class. A likely story, for a girl who ran around with Potter and that Wesley for companions

"I believe Miss Granger that," he looked up from the essay he was working on, "You'll find all the answers you need in your study book." He looked back down, there was no way he'd aid any of them in mischief. Why did he not hear her footsteps leaving? He looked up and there she was she hadn't moved an inch.

"Why are you still here?" he snapped at her.

"I was wondering if you'd help me learn a new potion."

She was clearly trying to buy time, because he highly doubted that was what she was really wondering.

"I highly doubt it. What sort of potion is it, Miss Granger?"

"A love potion, sir"

Why on earth would a student like Miss Granger want such a thing, the thought of her wanting such a thing was almost laughable, if not just plain crazy. He was sure that his face said as much to her.

"And who are you planning on using this potion on?"

"On you, sir"

Snape was quite sure that his face had to be showing just how surprised he was by the way this outright lie left her lips, regaining his composure he said, "If you had really wanted to make a love potion to use on me, I highly doubt that a smart young lady like your self would have told me. There is no way that it will work now that I know about it anyway."

The young lady then had the audacity to pull herself up onto his desk!

"I wonder," she mused aloud, "If this would work then?" she scooted closer to him, then without waiting for a response from him she leaned in even closer and took his head between her hands, she softly set her lips on his in a hesitant kiss.

The shock running through his veins was enough to make him as stiff as a fire poker, why on earth was this girl kissing him the most unlikable Professor at Hogwarts. Then it was as if he was under the Imperius Curse it's self, and had no choice but to kiss her back, to bring her as close as he could to himself! At that moment it was as if time it's self had stopped or perhaps just disappeared. With him becoming a willing servant to what he was directed to do. However this couldn't be! It just couldn't, so he started to fight it. At last reality came back to him and he broke away from kissing her and picked his wand off the desk, how had she come to be sitting on his lap? Oh well it didn't really matter at this moment what matter was finding out if she knew what was going on, so he lowered his wand to point at her.

"Miss Granger what do you really want? No lies" he added bring his wand closer to her face. How he wished veeritaserum or even legilimency could be used on students.

"I wish I knew, sir" she dropped her head in shame.

"You wish you really knew? So it wasn't about a few questions concerning class or about making a love potion to us, on me?" So she didn't know what had just happened then. Did she really think he went around kissing Hogwarts students?

"I think sir; my subconscious is trying to get your attention to the fact that I have a crush on you"

Yep she really didn't have a clue about what was happening, was what she said true though? Yet again the feeling came over him.

"Is that so?" he heard himself ask as he tried to fight against whatever it was. He put his wand back down on his desk the little good it would do him he thought bitterly.

"Well your subconscious has my attention as do your lips, Miss Hermione Granger." Why in Merlin's name had he just said that? He then gently took her head in his hands and brought it near his face again.

This had to be the most erroneous thing he had ever done in his life! Yet here he was sitting at his desk with a student sitting in his lap. A girl who had to at least be twenty years younger than him, to top it all off both of her parents were muggles and he was the Slytherin Head of House.

"I represent all your deepest of dark desires don't I?" If there was only a way to find out where that comment had come from.

She gave a quick nod, and yet again felt himself drawn into kissing her, Dumbledore could keep his bloody rules Snape's job was at stake here, wordlessly he use legilimency on her. He had always loved the feeling he received when he went into another's mind. It was almost as if he was swimming through a set of dreams not finding anything important he dived deeper, he saw her with Potter and Wesley in a bathroom making a potion that was already a known fact to him that they were up to something like that.

Then the dinner bell rang and he couldn't help but let a sigh of frustration escape his lips as he looked to face her again, it was as if he had broken the rules for nothing.

Scooting his chair away from his desk he said, "I'll give you a five minutes head start Hermione." Then before he let go of her he planted a firm kiss on her lips.

As she walked off, he wondered about his actions; why had he called her by her first name and given her a small good-bye kiss as if there was something between them? There could be nothing between them he was one of her Professors! And yet his heart was beating at a strangely fast rate. She had only come as a distraction for her friends, however if that was truly the case why had she affected him like this?

He pondered all of this as a walked briskly up to the great hall. At last he made it and took his seat at the staff table, feeling a pair of eyes on him he looked around for the source at last his glaring glance fell upon Miss Granger, seeing that it was only her he gave her a wink. It was then he knew that he in over his head in something he didn't at all understand.

P.P.S

It appears that no one in my story really knows what is going on. Would any of you care to take a guess?

N.H