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Chapter Seven

Snape closed the closet door and set a Colloportus spell on it to keep Abigail inside. Furious he whipped around on his heel and stalked back up his stairs. As soon as he was on the top stair his intruder was on the last step on the attic staircase. Snape sneered at the Death Eater, who had thought that he could just waltz into his home and disturb his holiday.

The man was about to raise his wand hand to throw a curse at Snape, when Snape did three things at once. He narrowed his eyes at the man, trying to identify who he was, but couldn't. Then he silently threw a Reducto curse at his assailant, causing the man to be blasted back against the wall, which he crashed through and fell to the ground outside. But before he had even thought the curse he had calmly said, Silencio to quiet the entire event so that Abigail would have no idea of what was happening.

Annoyed, he walked over to the huge hole in his wall and peered down at his yard. The intruder was groaning and trying to get up onto all fours, wand still in hand. Snape raised a brow, as the younger man looked up at him and aimed.

"Crucio!" the man yelled, sending a curse that would cause Snape unbearable pain if it had come into contact with him.

Snape aimed and countered boredly with, "Salvio Hexia." With the intruder's curse eliminated, Snape threw a Conjunctivitus curse at him, causing the man to drop his wand and rub at his eyes which were surely causing him excruciating pain. Snape hexed himself to float down to the ground next to the screaming man.

He pointed his wand at the man's wand which was by his thigh and said, "Evanesco." Immediately the wand disappeared.

Snape stared down at the man, "I find it rather insulting for who ever you follow to send you here to try to defeat me." He spat.

"You are a traitor, you deserve to die! The Dark Lord wasn't supposed to be defeated. It was you that allowed that to happen!" The man suddenly lunged at Snape. "The Dark Lord will live again!"

Expecting it a minute to late Snape stumbled out of the crazed man's grip and waved his wand again, "Reducto." The man was blasted back.

Straightening his robes Snape walked over to the man crouched in a ball holding his stomach which had taken most of the hit. He aimed his wand at the Death Eater's skull, "Who sent you?"

"You're a fool to think that they hadn't put a tongue-tying curse on me." He man sneered and looked up into Snape's face. "We will get you eventually, Snape. We'll kill everything you hold dear."

"Lucky for you, I have no such thing." The intruder couldn't have been older that thirty, his long blond hair had been pulled back into a tong at the nape of his neck but because of being tossed around so roughly it was now all over the place. His eyes were now red and bruised, and they leaked other fluids besides tears. He looked upon Snape with such hatred. Snape had seen this look in the eyes of many when they looked upon him. He had gotten it from both sides.

People on the good side thought he was a horrible man, which he was but the other horrible people who did much worse than he, even looked at him the same way they did.

"You will die." The man said with vindication through clenched teeth. His eyes twitched and he scratched at them with both hands.

"I have no doubt that your right. I welcome the challenge." Snape said as he raised his wand another time to Supify the man and hexed the stiff body to Disapparate to wherever Dumbledore was at the time.

Let the old fool deal with this, he sneered. Right now he had more pressing matters to attend, he thought as he levitated back up to his second floor, cursed the wall to repair it self and turned for the stairs to walk back down to yell at the stupid woman hiding in his closet.

Abby sat on the ground of what had to be the smallest room she had ever been stuffed in, even for a closet. She hadn't heard a sound for what felt like an hour. She wondered what the hell was going on. Was Snape in trouble? Did the intruder injure him, did he injure the intruder? Should she go out and try to find out what was happening.

Then she remembered the look in Snape's eyes as he had told her to stay here until he came back.

But when will that be?

Sighing she leaned her head back until it came in contact with the wall. She closed her eyes and again thought about why she had thought that he was going to kiss her earlier when he had first dragged her into this hole in the wall. Most importantly she was wondering why she had wanted him to kiss her.

Suddenly the door in front of her was ripped open and towering over her was Snape. Relived, Abby jumped to her feet but at the intense look on his face she cringed. He looked so angry, at her.

She cringed again when he wrapped a tight fist around her upper arm and tugged at her to follow him through his house to the front door. She stumbled the entire way but he didn't slow down and neither of them had said a word until he had shoved her unto a coach in her living room.

He glared down at her, "What the hell were you thinking, muggle?" he asked through clenched teeth.

"Ugh," she didn't really know what to say his reaction confused her. Why was he so angry with her and what had he just called her?

"Are you insane?" he prompted and she realized he actually wanted an answer.

"I-" she cleared her throat and continued, "I saw someone sneaking around your house and well, the police would have taken an hour to get here and you didn't leave me any numbers to reach you at so I thought-"

"You thought that you would just skip over to my house and save my life? What would you have done if he had been the one to sneak up behind you and not me, freeze him in his tracks with that smile of yours?"

Anger rose in Abby's chest and the force of it surprised her long enough to wonder if he had just complimented her smile, but then the rest of his reprimand had sunk in and she clenched her fists at her sides.

"You don't even know me." She argued, "I am so sorry for wanting to do the right thing and help you instead of allowing that man to kill you and you didn't even see it coming. Sorry I didn't turn a blind eye to bake some cookies, because the intruder might be hungry after slicing you to pieces!"

"I knew what was happening."

"But I didn't!" she watched as he turned on her again with a puzzled look. "I didn't know that you knew. How could I? For all I knew you could have been sleeping and had no way of knowing. I couldn't just sit here."

Snape was quiet for a moment. He looked at her face. She was looking at him with exasperation.

"You are a fool."

She didn't look exasperated any longer, anger reddened her cheeks and she straightened her back as if preparing to hit him. He wished she would.

"I can't believe that I wanted to help someone like you. You're insufferable, rude, dull and an absolute prick." She jabbed a finger in to his chest. "You think that you're so mighty, well guess what mister! You're just… just a conceited asshole!"

Snape watched her through narrowed eyes, he was about to say something rude and hurtful, something to push her away, when he felt his hand close around her wrist. He put more pressure on it and pulled her closer to him to tower over her, wanting to intimidate her. The fire in her eyes startled him but before he thought about it he opens his mouth to…to kiss her?

Abby was completely outraged as his lips closed frantically over hers. She was about to push him away when he let go of her hand to wrap around her back to pull her nearer to his body. She grabbed a fist full of his hair to pull him away but changed her mind when his lips softened against hers.

She tasted so good. It was everything that she was that he found in that kiss. Her spark, her outrageousness, her need to please and help. And he hadn't even tasted the interior of her mouth yet. Slowly he moved his lips, urging her to do the same. To his surprise she responded right away with a sigh. With the little movement she had offered him he slipped his tongue between her lips and stroked her tongue. She tasted sweet yet spicy. He rotated his head and kissed her form a different angle; he couldn't get enough of her. He nibbled on her lips when she sighed and tried to catch her breath. He didn't bother catching his own he just had to keep tasting her. What if she came to her senses and this never happened again.

Abby sighed; his tongue was working wonders, his gentle nips she felt down to her toes. She loosened her hands which were pulling at his hair, one hand trailed down to his neck and over his shoulder to rest there, the other stayed at the back of his head. She couldn't think as her body sparked into fire, she just wanted to feel this mysterious, rude, crazy man in front of her. She put everything she was into this kiss because she knew that he would soon push her away and it would probably never happen again.

Snape tried to walk Abigail to the wall to press her back against it but they ended up on the floor. Her feet had fallen over a chair and he landed on top of her.

"Are you alright?"

She stared up at him as he scrambled off of her. She pressed her fingers to her lips, they were still tingling, and she nodded.

"What was that?" she whispered, her body still humming, anticipating his touch.

His face however was devoid of any emotion, but she saw things moving in his eyes frantically. "I should leave." And before she could say or do anything to stop him he was out the door. Seconds later she heard her front door slam and she scurried to her window and watched him stalk back to his own house, his hands ripping at his hair.

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