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Yay! Another chapter for you all.

And I understand that there is some character OOC, however people don't act the same when love and lust are added to the mix.

Kagome meets Professor McGonagall outside one of the Great Hall's back entrances and they silently walk to the classroom together. Walking in Kagome is told to sit at the front and write a three page essay on the History of the Great Hall. Looking up at the Professor Kagome realized that it wasn't a joke and started her paper. An hour of silence went by before the door to the classroom opens.

Walking in, standing tall and proud, Professor Snape walks directly in front of Professor McGonagall, "The Head Master wishes to see you momentarily."

Looking to Kagome then back to Snape, "I understand." stopping briefly to give Kagome the look that told her she was not to leave; she nodded and walked out the door, pausing only a second to wonder why Severus didn't follow her out.

Back inside the classroom Kagome just sat silently writing her paper as Snape turned his eyes on her. "You can't be acting like this."

"Acting like what Professor?" she asked still not looking up at him.

"Acting like a child."

Looking up she glares at him, "How am I acting like a child? Or better yet how am I supposed to be acting?"

"You're not eating, not sleeping, not paying attention in class. You're making yourself sick."

"I don't care if I get sick."

"Yes well I do care and I won't let it continue."

"I'm afraid that's not your problem anymore, Professor."

"As one of your professors I'm afraid it still is my problem."

"Yes and as my professor I'm afraid there isn't really anything you can do about it."

"Kagome that's enough. Stop this incessant self-battery you and I both knew it wasn't going to last. It shouldn't have even gone this far *Sigh* I shouldn't have gone to see you over break, I should have stopped it then before it got this far. I didn't want for it to end like this."

"And how did you want it to end? During the coming war, when you fought for one side and I fought for the other. Is that how you wanted it to end by us fighting and you using an unforgivable curse on me, with you killing me?" tears started to slowly roll down her face, "If you meant to kill me then 'job well done' I'm now dead inside."

Leaning down to her level he tried to wipe her tears but she just pushed his hand away. "I never meant to hurt you, I would hurt myself before I could bring you any harm." looking into her eyes he continued, "After losing Lily I put a guard around myself, I couldn't ever go through that again, and for a long time it worked but the first day you transferred here I knew that something was going to change. Before you I was the one dead inside, you brought me back to life; but doing that was just as dangerous you know my job, my duty, it's safer for you that it's over. You will be hunted if this ever gets out, I can't go through losing someone I care about again."

The tears had stopped and determination shown in her eyes, "I don't care how hard or dangerous it gets; I just care about being with you. I have fought and won in wars before, I have also lost the people I love. That's why I can't let you go. I don't care what's safer let me fight beside you and all will be fine. Let me be with you, please."

Before he could answer they heard the door opening and jumped apart, pretending that their whole conversation didn't just happen.

Professor McGonagall and Professor Dumbledore both walk in still engaged in a conversation when Dumbledore looks up. "Aww, Miss Higurashi, just the student I wanted to see." looking towards Snape he smiles, "Thank you Severus for keeping watch over her as she finished her detention."

Professor Snape says nothing as he leaves the room, both the professors and the student watch as he leaves. The professors then both turn back to her.

"I have heard something's have been bothering you Miss Higurashi, would you like to discuss them with me?" seeing the look in her eyes he smiles, "you don't have to tell everything, only the things you are comfortable sharing with us."

Seeing no other way out of this discussion, "What part would you like to discuss first, Professor?"

"Let's discuss you previous relationship first, that seems to be the center of it all. How long had you been in this relationship?"

"It started almost a year ago, but it didn't get serious until about four or five months ago."

"Serious?"

"Serious Professor." she repeats with a blush spreading across her cheeks.

"Aww. And before Harry found out have you told anyone about this relationship?"

"No Professor."

"Why is that?"

"People wouldn't understand, they wouldn't agree with what I see in him."

"How does everyone else see him?"

"Everyone else sees him as cold and demanding, prideful and difficult, he drives people insane."

"And how do you see him?"

She gets a soft smile and her eyes turn away, as if remembering a good dream, "I see the strong, caring, and dependable man underneath all his walls." this makes the professors smile as well.

"If Harry had not caused you to separate, do you think you still would have?"

"No. Defiantly and positively not."

At the last answer Dumbledore gives a long sideways look to McGonagall before looking back at Kagome, "Do you love each other?"

"Albus! They are too young to know about such things."

"Yes. We haven't told each other yet, but I do love him, and I can tell that he loves me as well"

"It has to be some form of phase the children go through."

"I assure you Professor he was not a phase and I am not a child to be thinking this. You both forget that I am a grown woman, even without the wizarding law, and I have already fought and won my own battles to prove it." Kagome gets up rather angrily, "Now if I may please be excused, I have completed my paper and it is almost curfew."

Seeing the nod of approval from Professor Dumbledore, Kagome packs up her items and quickly walks out the door of the classroom. She doesn't stop until she is all the way up in the tower dressed for bed. Lying down she thinks back to her conversation with Snape and how she told Dumbledore she loved him as she slowly falls asleep.

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