Chapter twenty - Getting serious

After Potions class on Wednesday, Severus asked her to stay behind, saying he needed a word about her homework. Gina felt the rest of her class must think she had trouble with spelling or something, because the Potions professor kept having words with her about her essays.

When everyone had left Severus came up to her. Gina looked at him, her head tilted. Without saying a word, he lifted her up so she came to sit on her desk.

'How much time until your next lesson?' he asked in a low voice. He put his hands on her knees and pushed her legs apart.

She glanced at her watch, feeling extremely aroused.

'Five-ish... minutes. More like four.'

'That will do,' he said hoarsely.

Gina groaned very softly when he slid inside her a moment later, pushing her panties aside. Sitting on the desk, pinned to it by his cock which penetrated her deeply, Gina grabbed the front of his robes.

It took them three minutes to finish, both not needing much to get over the edge. He buttoned up his trousers and walked over to his desk.

'Don't be late if you can help it, he said, sitting down. 'Professor Babbling already complained about you.'

She stared at him. 'Are you serious? I have Ancient Runes now.'

He smirked. 'I know. Hence my warning.' He looked up from his work. 'Your skirt is backwards, by the way.'

'Great...' She mumbled, stuffing her books in her bag and straightening her skirt. 'Great. Señor Gonzalez is going to kill me...'

'We can reschedule for Friday. If you get detention again, I mean.' He sounded very amused.

Gina shot him a filthy look and left, hurrying to the sixth floor for Study of Ancient Runes.

Gina didn't get detention but professor Babbling was not pleased when she burst in six minutes late and on top of that had forgotten Spellman's Syllabary. She worked quietly on translating the 1600s piece on International Wizarding Trades professor Babbling had sat them to, sitting close to Tarjei and trying to read his textbook over his shoulder, not daring to ask as Babbling was shooting her stern looks already. When the bell rang, Gina went to dinner. She saw Jonne, Gabriela and José in the entrance hall.

'Hi hon.' Jonne kissed her on the cheek. 'Señor Gonzalez wants to see you.'

Gina stared at him. 'Are you kìdding me? How does he already-' She stopped abruptly, not wanting to discuss her being late again after Potions.

Jonne grinned. 'Not kidding.' He laughed when he saw her face. 'Bad conscious do you? Its just a progress interview. We all have to see him tomorrow. What's to know if we study enough, probably.'

'Right. Gina sat down at the long Ravenclaw table and pulled a bowl of delicious smelling lentil stew towards her.

'What did you do?' whispered Jonne teasingly in her ear, bending towards her.

'Nothing.'

'You are such a liar sometimes,' he breathed in her ear, putting a quick hand on her waist and stroking her left breast in the process.

'Oh go fuck an English girl,' Gina said quietly. She started to eat.

'They don't know the same tricks as you,' Jonne said casually, taking a huge piece of Shepherd's pie.

'Be quiet,' Gina hissed. She didn't want people to overhear and start talking about Jonne and her sleeping together. She knew there had been rumours around Hogwarts about it already, but since both of them had denied it, it had extinguished fairly quickly. She didn't want Severus to overhear in the corridors they had discussed sex during dinner.

That evening, Gina wasn't entirely surprised when Jonne entered her room a little after ten. She had been reading in bed, something she liked to do a lot lately, leaving the library earlier than usual. Being surrounded by fellow students all day and getting a lot more attention since her performance in the second task she enjoyed her moments of solitude very much.

'I have to tell you something,' Gina said.

Jonne sat down in front if her, looking at her with raised eyebrows. Than he grinned. 'You know I came to you, right?' He leaned in.

'Still,' Gina said smiling. She took his hand when he made to stroke her waist. Jonne looked at his hand in hers. When she let go of his hand he looked questioningly at her, sitting back down again.

'What's up?'

Gina put her book aside and hesitated. She suddenly felt a little nervous. She and Jonne had been sleeping together since she broke up with Alejandro and even though she knew he wasn't in love with her, she still didn't want to hurt his feelings.

Jonne looked usually seriously at her hesitating and put a comporting hand on her ankle. 'Gina, you know the reason our friendship works so well is because we are open and honest with each other. I respect you, and you have always treated me with equal respect. You can tell me anything.'

Gina shifted on her spot.

'Don't you want to do this anymore?' he persisted. 'Because that is fine, you know it is. It had always been based on the fact that we both have to want to. I'll never make you do anything you don't-'

'I'm still sleeping with Severus. The Potions master, I mean.'

He stared at her.

'You whàt?'

'You heard me.'

Jonne looked angry now, sitting upright. 'Are you out of your mind? That guy is trouble, Gina! I've heard rumours about him, he's infatuated with the Dark Arts! On top of that he is a jerk.

What's the matter with you?'

'You are the one who told me to fuck him!' Gina said disbelievingly. 'You encouraged me for Merlins sake!'

'Yes, to fuck him out of your system,' said Jonne as talking to a very slow person. 'Not to start a relationship with the guy! Kirottu Gina!'

'We're not ìn a relationship Jon.'

'How many times have you slept with him?'

She shot him a filthy look but swallowed the words that that was non of his business. He was her best friend. 'I stopped counting,' she then said. 'Twenty times maybe?'

Jonne closed his eyes. 'That's a relationship Gina.'

'It is not.'

'More than three consecutive nights or over five times in one week. Basically everything that lasts longer than ten days. It's not done Gina.'

'We did way more than that and you know-'

'We laid out grounded rules!' Jonne interrupted her. 'We have been very clear about what we were doing! Have you two?'

'We just have sex,' said Gina stubbornly.

'You're in a relationship with a man we know nothing about, accept from the fact that he is bad news,' Jonne said heatedly. 'You are going to get hurt. Cut it off.'

When Gina was laying in bed hours later, she couldn't sleep. What she had told Jonne was true, she thought. It was just sex. And suddenly it bothered her. She wanted more. She wanted romantic gestures, and Severus asking how she was, and some commitment at the very least. She wanted to know that he wasn't sleeping with anyone else. She had a stomach ache. What if he said no? What if she pushed him away by asking for more? And she wondered if Jonne was right, and that she was gonna get hurt.

Next Potions lesson, Gina didn't look at Severus when she entered the cold dungeon. She was chatting animatedly to Andre Fawcett, who was telling her about the time he had seen Mooncalves in the wild when he was a kid.

'I thought they were Nundu's. I was scared out of my wits. Nobody every told me they are only found in East Africa.'

Gina laughed and started unpacking her things.

'Infierno,' she mumbled. 'Can I share your book today Andre? I forgot mine.'

Andre eagerly pushed his book between them on the table, and Gina shoved her chair closer to him, leaning towards him. She thought she could hear Severus clear his throat irritatedly in front of the class.

During his short lecture on Rejuicers and Regermination Potions Severus seemed in a very bad mood, scoffing at everyone who dared ask a question, which only Jonathan and Lorene had dared. And they had been rather stupid questions, Gina thought. She hesitated before her next move, having second thoughts. Either her plan was working very well, or this was a wrong day to even try. She decided to carry on.

She bent towards Andre. 'Did you know Mooncalves dance for each other as a mating ritual?' she whispered in his ear.

Andre smiled. There was an unmistakeable look of admiration on his face when he looked at her, his face only inches from hers. Gina felt a little guilty.

'I didn't,' Andre whispered back.

It was only by the end of the lesson that Gina looked up to look at Severus. He was looking very angry indeed. When the bell rang, he was at her table, bending over her, ignoring the rest of the students who looked frightened.

'A word,' he said in his lowest, most venomous voice. The rest of the class hurried out, glad that it wasn't them Snape was taking his temper out on.

Gina didn't dare move.

When the last student had left, Snape whipped his wand and the door slammed shut. He put his hands on her desk, bringing his face close to hers.

'Do not play games with me.' He sounded furious.

Gina looked puzzled and made to put her notes in her bag. 'I'm not.'

Severus slammed his hand on her notes. 'Than what the hell was that with Fawcett?'

Gina looked up and looked in his eyes, which were ice cold.

'What are you talking about?' She let go of the notes, stood up and picked up her bag from the ground, putting it on the desk. 'It was nothing.'

Before she could do anything else he had pushed her against the stone wall, pinning her with his knee.

Gina gasped of fright.

'You are with me, aren't you?'

'Y-Yes, she said quickly. She lowered her eyes, not daring to look at his intense cold eyes.

'I do not appreciate you flirting with other people,' he hissed. I do not share. Do you understand that?'

'I-'

'Dò yòu understand that?'

'Yes.' She gasped.

He shoved her skirt up. He unbuckled his belt and pushed her panties roughly aside, not relinquishing his grip on her. Her heart was beating in her chest and she quickly lifted her left leg. He hooked his elbow behind it.

'Say it,' he growled.

'I'm yours.'

He rammed in her. She gasped and tilted her pelvis to receive him deeper. He wound her hair around his hand and pulled on it, making her look up into his cold, black eyes. She groaned.

'I'm yours,' she repeated in a thick voice when he started to move. 'All yours.'

Severus felt so worked up he had taken a walk on the grounds after class. A walk. He never did that. He also never felt so angry in his life. He wanted to punch Fawcett in his stupid freckled face. How dare that kìd. If he so much as added one wrong ingredient in the next few weeks he would give him detention for the whole semester. Or two. Gina was his.

Severus had walked for half an hour by the time he was able to think a little straight again. He stopped in front of the great double doors and closed his eyes. Gina had said she was his. All his. He felt a warm feeling spread through his body and let let out a deep sigh.