Tonight I Wanna Cry

A/N: Usual disclaimer. I own the OC\'s only.

Thanks go out to Red for thinking up Jagger\'s name, I think it suits him. Please read and review. Congrats goes to Keith Urban for the CMA Best Male Vocalist of the Year. Before any of you ask, Jagger is based on Keith Urban. -sigh- I do not own Keith either.

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Chapter 3: Live To Love Another Day

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Bridget sat in Three Broomsticks with Jagger, happily talking with fans and signing photos. Her eyes darted across the room, taking in all the sights and smells. Girls swooned over Jagger as Bridget giggled at their lost cause. Bridget made a mental note that even some of the older witches were staring at him too. She had to admit that he was attractive but she knew his personality. She would never date him, he drove her insane. Most musicians that she worked with did. The vocalists usually got egos once they hit it big and that is what drove her nuts. The ones that didn\'t have egos were usually too good to be true and she gave up after they started spouting Sonnets.

Jagger absorbed everything in around him. His dreams were being realized. Bridget sighed while massaging her hand and glancing over at Jagger. Bridget compared him to boy who got his first racing broom for Christmas. She could tell by the look in his eyes that he was ready for the one night stands, the loss of privacy, and the loss of stability. Bridget thought that was what she wanted at one point in her life. She learned from her mistakes and knew that all she wanted was to stop traveling and make music that she wanted to make, without any pressure to make money. Merlin knows she already had made enough to live out the rest of her days, very fat and happy.

After Bridget nudged Jagger several times he got the hint that they needed to walk around for a while. Jagger and Bridget took a break and started to explore the town. Bridget was showing him some of the more interesting places when she walked into Honeydukes and spent 40 Galleons on sweets, explaining that \"Nothin beats Honeydukes chocolate.\" She smiled to Jagger, while holding her bag like it was sacred. They walked outside and before she realized it, she ran smack into a mass of black robes. She looked up, \"Oh, I am so sorry......ummm....Severus?\"

Snape couldn\'t believe it, she had literally walked right into him, he glanced down at the bag in her hands. \'Chocolate, I should have known,\' Snape thought to himself. \"Bridget,\" he nodded to her and tried to leave.

Before Bridget could think about what she was doing, she grabbed his arm. \"Severus, join me at Three Broomsticks, please?\" Bridget hoped that they could talk and it would be a good reason to let Jagger fend for himself in the sea of estrogen. Bridget looked into his dark eyes, in hopes of tempting him with the puppy dog face, that claimed to never work on him.

\"Sure, not for long, I have to keep my eyes on students while I am here.\" Severus commented dryly, hopping that she would get the hint that he did not want to talk to her.

\"Understandable, but most seem to be in Three Broomsticks any way.\" Bridget gave him a sweet smile before flipping her blonde hair out of her eyes. They walked side by side, Jagger kept his distance from the tall, sallow skinned man. Severus opened the door and held it open for her. All of the heads turned and started cheering once both Bridget and Jagger were inside. Bridget smiled to Severus, who just glared at some of his students. Bridget elbowed him and pointed at a table in the far corner, away from everybody else. \"Jagg, I am sure that you can fend for yourself. I don’t need to hold your hand now do I?\" Bridget commented sarcastically to Jagger before heading off to the secluded table.

\"So, how have you been?\" Bridget tried to start off with a simple question, without making the conversation turn towards her career.

\"Fine, still teaching at Hogwarts. You?\" Severus frowned while making the comment about still teaching

\"Busy, producing artists out of my studio in Nashville. Traveling a bit, mainly London, New York, and LA for album things.\"

\"So I have noticed, you wouldn\'t believe the amount of magazines I confiscated over the years.\"

\"I am sure, but I am surprised that you don’t burn that crap. Please don’t tell me you didn\'t read the recent stuff from the Quibbler?\"

\"Uh, no. The Quibbler I do burn but Witch Weekly tends to have interesting cover articles from time to time.\"

\"Ah, yes, I take it you saw that. Blondie boy over there, couldn\'t keep his hands out of his hair and wouldn\'t stop talking about the magazines that he did in the Muggle World. Apparently he made some success over there and they put him in some rather raunchy magazine called, Playgirl.\"

\"Actually I only bothered to skim through the article. Anything interesting mentioned in the middle?\"

\"Not really, only the usual question of if I am dating him. Which I am not, nor ever will. I happen to like telling people my stories about the one that got away, and if I will ever get him back.\"

Severus nearly choked, she couldn\'t possibly mean him, could she? \"And who would that be?\"

Bridget blushed before lowering her head and glancing into his dark eyes, that were full of pain and yet hope. \"You.\" Was all she managed to get out before she put her hands over her face, in a desperate attempt to hide herself from him.

Severus couldn\'t believe that she actually said it. He noticed her usual way of showing her embarrassment. He pulled her hands off her face, to see her face full of tears. He gazed into her eyes, which were filled with regret, sorrow, and love. She tried to smile at him. Severus could feel his heart ache for her, he knew that at that moment that she had been hurting just as much as he had over the past years. \"I think we need to talk, there have been some things that I have been meaning to tell you ever since you left. I cannot talk about it here, too many people, that know both of us. Come back to Hogwarts with me after you are done?\"

Bridget looked up at him and nodded. \"Sure, I will be done soon, do you just want to hang around a bit, see how things are done?\"

\"Sure\" Bridget walked over to Jagger, who was sitting at the table that he and Bridget were sitting at earlier. She sat down and motioned for Severus to join them as she conjured another chair. Bridget and Jagger were soon signing autographs and making idle chit chat with fans yet again.

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A/N: Thanks for the reviews. I will try and update more but life has been busy with college and dog shows.