LLL- Hi hi. I'm so happy about where my story is going. Thanks for reading,

Jack A- *Ringing, Ringing*

LLL- *Answers Phone* Hello?

Jack A- *whispering* Do you have that amazing coffee everyone's talking about. The jasmine coffee. I've heard a lot about it.

LLL- Actually I don't...

Jack A- Deliver. I know. But I can't come up there, so if you could just make arrangements for me get it that'd be great.

Crow- *in the background* Jack! What are you doing?

Jack A- Looking for a job

Crow- Give me that phone *snatches phone* Who is this? We don't want any.

LLL- Actually, this is the disclaimer for a story.

Crow- I guess he was looking for a job but I'll do it. What...

LLL- Harry Potter

Crow – She doesn't own harry potter

Jack A- *tackles and snatches phone* Or Yu-GI-Oh 5d's

*Hermione's POV*

I lay in the bed of the hospital wing. Snape sits in the chair asleep next to my bed. The hour is late and Dumbledore finally got all the students to go back to their house common rooms. It took a while to convince Harry and Ron I was OK, but they finally went back to their own business. There was no convincing Snape and he stayed with me the entire way. I look around the room at the other students who got injured. Many of them are a strange bluish black color and another has bite marks from the werewolf deatheater.

My heart beats slowly and I look down at the bandages on my arm. I painfully remember what happened in the Great Hall. That deatheater pinned me down, but their eyes weren't normal. I stand up and walk over to one of the other student's beds. It's a hufflepuff that I don't recognize. I look at the girl. Her eyes are closed and her skin is blue. She looks dead. Why would they keep a dead student? If she didn't go here, you'd think she was an old woman. She is shriveled up. Her eyes open slowly and I jump back, nearly falling to the floor. Her eyes are black and lifeless. They close again and after a about 30 seconds, they open again. She must be blinking. So she isn't dead, but what is wrong with her.

I ball up my fear and put my fingers on her neck. She has a pulse but there is about 6 seconds between each beat. It's like her entire body is in a dormant state, but she is still alive. I look around and see four other students just like her. My heart sinks as I remember once more what happened to me. That deatheater looked at me and I was gone. I know I was dead, but something brought me back. I heard his voice, but I wasn't supposed to. I was dead. I'm not supposed to be here. I look back at the bandages on my arm.

Then, I walk over to the boy that was bitten by the Werewolf deatheater. His chest is bandaged and he is visually breathing. I think Werewolf bites turned people into wolves as well. I wonder how this kid will cope. His eyes open and they are neon orange. When he catches sight of me, his mouth opens, revealing shark like teeth. I fall onto the ground and he stands on his bed in a defensive crouch. The Were bears his deadly fangs and growls. Just as he is about to pounce, Snape jumps in front of me and whips his wand.

Chains fly from under the bed and strap the creature down. Snape bends down and helps me to my bed. I scoot over and pat a space next to me. With slight hesitation, he climbs beside me and looks me in my eyes, gently rubbing the side of my face.

"You aren't supposed to be out of bed," he mumbles.

"I know. I just wanted to see the other students. What happened to them?"

"They got their souls taken from them by the Sirians. Now they are just an emotionless corpse." I know I'm shaking and Snape feels it too. He wraps his arm around me and pulls me closer to him.

"That's what Draco was trying to do to me isn't it?"

"Yes."

"But why me?"

"That's complicated to explain."

"I want you to tell me."

"I will. But not now. You need to rest. The time for you to know will come." I sigh brashly and look out the window at the moon. He taps my cheek and I look at him. "Something else is on your mind. Talk to me."

I sigh again. "I was gone."

"What do you mean?"

"In the great hall. Before you told me you loved me. I was dead. I know I was." A strange sensation hits the pit of my stomach and the scratch on my arm burns. I see Snape's eyes leave my contact. Thoughts start going through my head. Death. Love. Loss. Soul.

I shake my head to clear the thoughts but it doesn't help. They just come from nowhere. "You know I was dead, don't you."

"No, I don't. Do you know how that is?"

I shake my head.

"Because you're right next to me, in my arms. Not dead or soulless." My arm burns a little where the scratch is and the same thoughts flow through my head. Death. Love. Loss. Soul. Her. Leaving. "I have to tell you that I might be leaving the school."

"Why? I don't want you to leave me."

"I said might, but I have a lot of errands to run around the ministry after what's taken place. I'm begging them to let me stay with you. You need more protection than anything."

"No I don't. This is still about Harry too, you know."

"No, nothing is more important to me than you are." He sits up and I sit up next to him. He kisses me and I deepen the kiss. His hands slide to my waist and I wrap my arms around his neck.

"Eh hem," someone clears their throat. We break apart and look at the door. Standing there is Dumbledore, Harry and Ron. Awkward.

"I'm sorry to disturb anything, but these two won't let me sleep until they see her. Do you mind giving them a moment?"

"Of course not," Snape says. Before standing and walking away, he brushes a kiss onto my forehead and leaves. As he walks past the Were's bed, he jerks up again, growling, trying to break free of the chains. Dumbledore and Snape leave as Ron and Harry enter.

"So you and Snape huh?"

"Yep," I answer. They shake their heads and It is silent. Harry stands. Nods at Ron and leaves the room. I raise an eyebrow in curiosity and Ron speaks.

"You know in those movies when there is a guy who likes a girl, but he always waits too long to let her know, and she always ends up with someone else. This is one of those moments."

"What are you trying to say Ronald?"

"I wanted to be with you. Not Snape."

"Oh!"

"Yes and I waited. I shouldn't have, but I did and look where it got me."

"Calm down. We are still and will always be friends."

"I didn't want just friends. I wanted this..." He bends down and kisses me. I try to talk and push him away but I stop when I taste something. It's like a light air. It's ice cold and It fills my mouth with a relaxing sensation. The longer the two of us are connected, the more I feel it. It's amazingly powerful and satisfying. He pulls away and has a dazed look for a second. Then he looks down at me. "Where am I?"

"What are you talking about? You're in the hospital wing."

"Me and Harry were supposed to come up here to see you earlier, but how did I get here so fast?"

"Ron what are you talking about? You've been sitting here for the past 3 minutes." Harry walks back in. "Harry, Ron's acting weird. Maybe you should take him to sleep." Harry says Ok and pulls Ron along. Just as they leave, I feel a faint thought. Spiders. Dementors.

I rub my head. All of these random thoughts are irritating and then I think back to when Ron kissed me. He had the best breath mint ever because that was the best thing I've ever tasted, but that sudden loss of memory was strange. Familiar. But strange. I look out of the window again and fall asleep.

LLL- Hope you like. The disclaimer was YuGiOh 5d's. I'm too sleepy to write anything else right now or to explain anything so please review.