Chapter 5 Sack Lunch

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A/N: Thanks to my beta evenstar.

Hermione came up with a strange prank. She had gotten the idea from something, she heard about in the muggle world.

Hermione one day presented Severus with a sack lunch in a kiddie lunch pail. Snape stared at her as if she were crazy. He just walked away from her. She continued doing this for several days until Snape snapped.

"Hermione what are you trying to prove with this prank. All it is doing is annoying me. So no more lunches."

"Are you sure Severus? It is nutritious lunch, and very delicious too. "She said with an innocent look."

"Hermione just drop the act please."

Snape walked away to go to his potion's classroom to teach his dunderheads.

Snape decided to forget about the prank. He just wanted a quiet life with Hermione. But that was not to be. In the next few days at mealtimes, some other pranks would be done by some of the students in Gryffindor directed by Hermione.

At dinner, Snape was starting to eat his meal. One student jumped of their seat, and dashed up to the teachers table and insisted on tasting the food before he had a bite. 'Just in case.' Another student during the duration of this meal kept going up to the table and asking him if he wants anything on that, waving condiments madly.

Some of the teachers and students laughed at what was happening. They all thought it was funny. Snape got so fed up that he left the table and went back to his quarters. For the next few meals this continued. Snape had enough, so at dinnertime a few days later. Snape did something about it.

He turned to his wife and said, "Stop these pranks or you will be sorry Hermione."

The tone of his voice he used scared Hermione. So she told him that, "I will stop these particular pranks Severus."

Snape felt hurt and embarrassed at what she did to him. The other pranks did not make him hurt or embarrassed. She had taken this too far. He went back to their quarters to think about what had happened.

After Snape had left the Great Hall Hermione stood up and told the Gryffindors that these pranks were over. She also told them that they were successful. She did not tell them that the pranks may have gone over board and hurt her husband.

When she got back to their quarters Snape was sitting in a chair facing the fireplace. There was a grim look on his face. Hermione did not feel so happy now. She went and faced him.

"I am sorry that the latest pranks embarrassed and hurt you Severus. There were not meant to embarrass you. They are supposed to be funny. Will you forgive me."

"Hermione you went too far this time. It will take sometime for me to forgive you. So I want to be left alone right now."

So Hermione walked away feeling very sad, for she really hurt him this time. These pranks were not supposed to hurt him, they were supposed to be funny. She has to find a way to make up for it. That would take sometime to do it. She also decided that she was going to take a break from pulling pranks on her husband, because of what happened.

A/N: Idea for pranks came from Kiskax.

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