Desperately

DISCLAIMER: See Chapters 1-5.


A/N: Stalker revealed and a minor warning for improper use of a bananna, other than that I don't have anything to tell you but enjoy!


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Chapter 6- Obsession


Being able to turn into such a small and fast creature always had it's advantages. The black snake slithered along in the shadows of Hermione's sitting room, quickly passing under some chairs and her desk as it made its way to her open bedroom door. Sliding by under the door frame, he moved to the bed and made his way up one of the posts of her bed frame, hiding above her bed on the wooden frame. A couple of minutes passed before the door opened and Hermione walked in, she took off her shirt and pants, throwing them into a hamper. She quickly unclasped her bra, then opened her dresser drawer with the other, pulling out a white tank top and pair of red pajama bottoms. As she pulled on her night-clothes, her night-time visitor watched, his beady red eyes watching her everymove. He hissed in appreciation, as he caught sight of her breasts, just before she pulled the tank top completely over head.


Hermione pulled her night-clothes on and pulled the covers back, getting into bed. She sighed and touched her lips with her fingers, thinking about Severus' kiss earlier. She moaned when she remembered his erection pressing into her. Had Dumbledore come any later she would have been naked and happy, with Severus buried deep inside her.A smile graced her lips as she fell into another dream, this time however, she hoped she would not be disturbed.


Even breathing told him it was safe to come out of hiding, so the small black snake slithered back down the bedpost and to the floor. He went a little farther away from the bed and transformed back into his human form. He walked over to the sleeping girl and a twisted smile graced his lips. She was by far the smartest and most powerful witch of her time. Out of all the witches Hogwarts has ever let pass through their doors she was the only one that was strong enough to challenge him and he liked that. It had taken him over twenty years to find her, now that he had her he wasn't going to let anything stand in his way. Especially those damn friends of hers, they would be first to go, he would not fail, not like Voldemort had. He could not...no...HE WOULD NOT FAIL! His eyes sparked in anger for a moment and anyone who would have seen him would not have hesitated to get out of his sight, less they would want to die a horrible death. He quickly cleared his head and walked towards the end of her bed. His hand trailed along her blanket, skimming the fabric, as he made his way towards the head of her bed. A smile played about her lips as slept, unaware that he was in the room with her. Bending down, so he was at face level, he reached out and his index finger traced the curve of her cheek. Gradually his hand trailed lower, under her chin, then the base of her neck, and finally in-between her breasts. The small mounds of flesh that had tempted him so many times over the last couple of years were waiting for his touch, for only his touch. His hand moved over to her right breast and he caressed it, a low moan escaped her lips and he smiled. He sank to his knees and brought his other hand up, cupping her left breast. He gently squeezed both breasts and rubbed his thumbs across her nipples, bringing them to peaks. He groaned when she arched her back, causing her breasts to press more into his hands, she moaned again and mumbled something. Her nipples were now hard and pressing against his hands, he was growing harder at the sounds of her moans and whimpers. He needed more, he could take her now and obliviate her memory later. He shook his head chasing the thought away, not now, he could wait, he had to wait until everything was in order. Controlling his urge, he pulled his hands away and moved over to a deep-blue winged chair that was in the corner, sitting, he crossed a leg over the other and rested his hands on his knee. Watching over what would soon be his and only his.


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Monday...


Hermione awoke to the sunlight shining through her window, the light dancing across her face. She looked towards her clock, there was an hour until breakfast, she ran to the bathroom to take a bath. After turning on the hot water tap, she added some vanilla bubble bath to the tub which quickly overflowed with bubbles. She undressed then and left the bathroom to toss her clothes in the hamper by her dresser, then returned to sink into the bath. She sighed as the hot water moved over her skin, helping loosen some of the knots in her back and shoulders. She grabbed a light blue wash-cloth that was on the edge of the tub and began to wash her arms and legs. After she was clean she leaned her head back against the tub and relaxed for awhile, thinking about last night's dream. She thanked the Gods she hadn't been disturbed, that dream had been rather hot, Severus had taken her up on a broom and...well, let's just say that in her dream he was an excellent flyer. She smiled and sank a little lower in the tub, as a blush rose to her face.


Beady red eyes watched her all the while, as she cleaned herself then watched as she got up out of the tub dripping wet and naked. He slithered behind her when she went into her bedroom to get dressed for the day, watching as she slipped into some panties and bra, then go about her morning ritual. He hissed and lifted his head slightly, in curiosity, as she took a couple of notes out of her bag and placed them in the bottom drawer of her nightstand, saying a quick spell to lock the drawer, as she headed to the door. He quickly followed her and slithered out behind her, staying in the shadows and crevices of the the hallway. Suddenly he was airborne, he flipped his head and bared fangs, ready to strike the unknown. He recoiled at the sight of the silver eyes and flicked his tongue out.


Draco looked down at the black snake wrapped around his wrist and glared, instead of heading off to breakfast he headed towards the entrance of Hogwarts, catching looks of curiosity as he went. He went out the double doors and down the steps, before putting the snake down he raised him to his face and stared into the red eyes.


"Why her?"


The snake squeezed around Draco's wrist, making him grimace in pain, however he asked again.


"You could have anyone and you know it, so why her?"


A terrible hiss was heard before the snake bared his fangs and bit down on the soft flesh of Draco's upper arm. Draco dropped the snake to the ground and before he could even grasp his wound he was pulled behind the steps and thrown up against the stone wall. He growled in pain when a sharp rock pierced his shoulder, he could feel the blood start to seep into his clothes.


"Do.Not.Question.Me!"


Draco opened his eyes and stared back into the cold, silver eyes of his father.


"Do your job and never question me, do you understand boy?"


"Yes Father."


Lucius let go of his son and straightened his clothes.


"Good. I want you to set up a meeting with the others, we will meet in the Shrieking Shack at around eight this saturday evening."


Draco nodded and turned to leave.


"Did I tell you you were dismissed boy?"


Draco turned back around and was backhanded by his father.


"You are just as bad as your mother was, it didn't take me as long to break her however."


Draco glared daggers at the ground, that remark about his mother, Narcissa, made him furious but he didn't feel like enraging his father more. A bell rang, signalling that breakfast was now over and classes were going to start soon. Lucius looked up at the school, then back towards his son and smirked as a red mark started to form on the boy's pale cheek.


"You may leave now Draco."


Draco turned to leave but was caught on his injured shoulder by Lucius' firm grip before he made his exit.


"Power."


"What?" Draco asked not turning around.


"Power is the reason-- I will explain my reasons in a more fitting setting but right now all you need to do is watch her, make sure no-one gets too close and see to it that she stays in one piece until everything is ready. We still need more supporters before we can make our move, find more students, I am still searching for the last of the Death-Eaters, they will no doubt join me."


Draco nodded his head and made to leave only to be stopped once again by his fathers cold voice.


"Beware...if anything happens to Granger than you will suffer."


"Yes sir," Draco walked back up the steps and headed towards the dungeons, while Lucius transformed back into his animagus form and slithered away to the Forbidden Forest.


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Hermione was torn between watching her potion and glancing at the Potions Master as he stalked around the room. He was two tables in front of her and was leaning over to see into another Gryffindor's potion. Hermione stopped writing some notes and closed her eyes, so she wouldn't be tempted to jump over the tables and jump him. Damn that dream. It had her hormones in overdrive, she slapped her hand, Bad Hermione, Bad! She could wait till this weekend, oh who was she kidding, she could wait till Wednesday. Maybe after they had looked over some notes, or, maybe before they looked over his notes, she could jump him and shag him senseless. She sighed and leaned on the table cradling her head in her hands. The door to the classroom opened, Hermione turned to see Draco walk in sporting a rather nasty mark on his cheek. His clothes were also ruffled and his hair was somewhat askew, she'd never seen Draco look like that before, he had always been picture perfect.


"Five points from Slytherin Mr. Malfoy," Snape said without turning around.


Draco glared at his back and sat down at an empty table in the back. Maybe this had to do with his new fan club or maybe he was in some kind of trouble and needed help. His mother had died just before the battle and his father was still out on the loose somewhere, so he really had no-one to turn too. Going against her better judgement she grabbed a piece of parchment and wrote down a quick note asking him what was wrong? It wasn't like he was going to answer her back but she would feel better if she at least tried to help him. She folded up the paper into a mini airplane and charmed it to fly to Draco. Instead of letting it go above the tables she released it under the table and watched as it weaved between students legs, then land right on the desk in front of Draco. He looked around and caught her eyes, then unfolded the parchment. His eyes went wide for a moment, she was surprised however, when he grabbed a nearby quill and wrote her back. A couple minutes later the airplane was back on her desk, she unfolded it and wasn't shocked in the least when she read 'Mind your own business Mudblood' in his writing. Well at least she had tried, she took the note and stuffed it in her bag, then looked into her potion. She was on her own today because Neville and the rest of the gang were excused from morning classes to practice in the Quidditch pitch, tomorrow they were playing against Hufflepuff. So Harry, Ron, and Neville weren't in Potions giving her free reign to look all she wanted at Severus without getting weird looks from her friends. The potion had just turned into a deep red color, she looked at her notes and smiled, now she needed to add the pieces of Ox hooves she had cut up earlier. She took a couple of pieces and carefully put them in one by one, waiting until the one before had almost dissolved before adding another. She glanced at her notes and then grabbed her stirring rod, she needed to stir the potion ten times clockwise then three counter-clockwise. She had just finished the sixth stir when a pale hand wrapped around hers, she turned and saw Severus leaning over her.


"You need to stir a little slower Miss Granger, like this."


He guided her hand slowly as it made it's turns around the cauldron, her breathing quickened at his touch, on the tenth turn he reversed direction and stirred the three remaining times.Caressing the top of her hand with his fingers, his hand fall away from hers slowly. She blushed as he moved on and went to address some Slytherins who were having a problem with there potion. Hermione quickly glanced around the room, then continued on with her potion, which now had to come to a boil, then simmer for fifteen minutes before she added the eye of newt. She smiled to herself, it hadn't even been a whole day and he had broken his own rule of keeping one's hands to themselves, she kept the smile on her face until the end of class.


At lunch Hermione sat at the Gryffindor table and waited for the others to come in from practice. She glanced up at the Head Table and saw Severus scowling at Hagrid, who had brought a baby skrewt with him. She let out a giggle and grabbed a BLT sandwhich from the tray for lunch. A little ways down the table was a bowl of fruit, she got a wicked idea when she spotted a rather large bananna in the bowl. She politely asked Seamus to pass it to her and set it aside for later, some loud talking alerted her that her friends had finally arrived and she greeted them as they sat.


"Do you guys think that next time you might be able to leave the field outside?" she smiled as they looked at her funny, then laughed when they realized how dirty they were.


Hermione smiled and tried to listen as they told her how practice had gone, glad when they had started eating and stopped talking about Quidditch. She took out her Astronomy book and started to read a chapter about star formations, when she glanced up at Severus and saw that he was looking out into the sea of students. She smiled and grabbed the bananna, peeling it slowly.


Severus glanced out at the dunderheads before him, looking around for troublemakers, that skrewt the giant had brought in was getting on his last nerve. He tried not to look her way as his eyes passed to the Gryffindor table, he should hex himself for the way he had reacted in this mornings class, but he couldn't help it he had to touch her. Just like now, he had to look at her, just a small glance. Succumbing once again to his urges he found the unruly chestnut hair that belonged to Hermione. What was she...oh he was in deep...she was currently finishing peeling a rather large yellow-green bananna. She slowly put the tip of the bananna to her lips and held it there, he turned his head away from the sight and stared ahead. Don't look, don't look, don't look, he chanted to himself, only to lose the battles as his eyes made there way back to her. She didn't even seem to notice him staring as she read the book in front of her, she tapped the tip of the bananna against her lips, then slowly put the end in her mouth. He moaned as her lips sucked a little on the lucky piece of fruit. Suddenly she smiled and turned a little his way, sending him a quick wink, she pushed more into her mouth and took a giant bite. Severus growled, damn, she was playing with him, possibly getting him back for the Potions incident earlier. Well it was working, he was growing harder by the second, he had to get out of there and fast, before he lost it. He looked up to see if anyone was glancing his way, damn his luck, Dumbleodre was staring at him, Severus quickly glanced away before the old man used Legilimency to see his thoughts and if that happened he would be getting a very long lecture from the geezer. He glanced back over to Hermione and saw that she was fighting off laughter, oh she would pay on Wednesday. Screw what he had told her earlier, on Wednesday he was going to make her pay. He smirked and started to count down the hours until Wednesday.


Hermione walked from the Great Hall and headed to Muggle Studies with her boys, holding back the laughter at the look on Severus' face when she had bit into the bananna. It served him right for teasing her in Potions, she walked inside the classroom and set her stuff down at a back table. She didn't really need to be taking Muggle
Studies so she used this time as a free period to study. Harry, Ron, and Neville took seats at the table in front of her, they glanced back her way once before completely ignoring Professor Fey to engage in conversation.


"She's been acting weird latelty," Harry whispered.


"It might have to do with the person who owns that raven that came to her room the other night," Neville answered.


"Hey Harry do you still have the Marauder's Map?" asked Ron.


"Yeah but I don't want to find out that way, do you know how pissed she would be if she found out we had used it on her? I don't want to be on the end of her fist believe me."


"Yeah your right," Ron said as he remembered the right hook she had landed on Draco in their third year.


"She'll tell us when she's ready," Harry said as he turned back and tried to pay attention to what the Professor was saying. Like Hermione he really didn't need the class so he used it to catch up on anything he was missing and right now what he needed was some shut-eye after the practice they had today. He rested his head on his hand and closed his eyes, telling Ron to wake him when it was time time go.


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Tuesday---- Gryffindor vs. Hufflepuff....


Hermione walked to the Quidditch Pitch with some other Gryffindors and settled into the stands waiting for the game to start. Madame Hooch walked onto the field and Seamus Finnegan, who had taken over for Lee Jordan in game announcements, introduced the teams from the teachers stand. Hermione cheered and waved her flag as the boys and Ginny's names were announced, along with Allison Fitz-- Beater, Kyle Goodwin-- Beater, and Abigail Tenney-- Chaser. The Hufflepuff team was announced and Madam Hooch blew her whistle, both teams pushed off from the ground heading to their positions. Madam Hooch blew her whistle again and threw the quaffle into the field as the bludgers and snitch were released.


Ginny, Ron, and Abigail shot off after a HufflePuff chaser who had grabbed the quaffle and was now heading for Neville and the goal posts. Morris, the Hufflepuff chaser got to the goalposts and threw the quaffle, Neville twisted around on his broom and stretched out grabbing the ball. He threw to Abigail and she shot out towards the otherside of the field, barely dodging a bludger, in the process. The first goal was made by Ginny about an hour into the game when the Hufflepuff keeper, Toby Williams, had to duck out or be smacked by a bludger. The Gryffindors cheered and stomped their feet in the stands, drowning out the moans from the Hufflepuffs. It was another twenty minutes before Harry shot off after the snitch, which was fluttering by the teachers stand. The Hufflepuff seeker, Drew Limpton, raced after Harry until they were neck and neck, arms outstretched for the snitch. The Gryffindors and Hufflepuffs screamed as the seekers drew in on the snitch, April Franklin-- Hufflepuff beater, moved and shot an oncoming bludger out of the way from both boys. The bludger flew across the field and headed straight for the Gryffindor stands, straight for Hermione. She stood shocked for a moment before drawing her wand, before she could say anything, the bludger stopped inches from her nose. Madam Hooch blew her whistle and quickly flew over retrieving the bludger, Harry and Drew came to a stop loosing sight of the snitch. Hermione looked around the stadium while Madam Hooch inspected the bludger for any tampering, she caught Draco putting his wand back up his sleeve, his eyes caught hers as he looked back to the field and he sneered at her.
Madam Hooch blew her whistle and game-play resumed. Harry and Drew went back over the pitch and scanned the field for the snitch. Hufflepuff scored two goals and Gryffindor scored four more giving them the lead 50- 20. The game continued on until night fall, Hufflepuff scored once more before Harry shot off with Drew on hot on his heels. He reached out and could feel the wings of the snitch, it was almost in his grasp when Drew pushed ahead and wrapped his hand around the small gold ball. Drew flew straight up into the air and did a couple sommersaults as the whistle was blown and the Hufflepuffs raced onto the field. Professor Sprout jumped from her seat and ran as fast as her legs could carry her on to the field screaming and shouting in victory. A collective moan was heard from the Gryffindors as the team flew down onto the field to congratulate the Hufflepuffs.


Hermione made her way down the stands and walked around towards where the Slytherins were coming down. She hid under the tower and peered through the hole, looking for Draco. When she caught a glimpse of his white-blonde hair she reached out and grabbed him by his shirt, pulling him under the stands. He turned around, wand drawn, when he saw who it was he put his wand away and turned to leave. Hermione grabbed his shoulder and he winced, she quickly let go of his shoulder.


"What's wrong with your shoulder?"


"Nothing. What do you want Granger?"


"Why did you stop that bludger and don't deny it I saw you stop it?"


"Does it matter!?" he half yelled.


"YES!"


He glared at her and turned around getting ready to leave.


"I have my reasons just mind your own business and try to stay out of trouble."


He stalked off and joined a small group of Slytherins, with the scowl still on his face. Hermione huffed and walked away off towards the castle. What a prat! Draco helping her and the pins all had to be connected somehow. On the way back to her room she stopped cold, causing a Ravenclaw second year to run into her, Hermione apologized and ran to her room. She immediately went to her desk drawer and pulled out some of the notes the stalker had sent, then the note she had written to Draco earlier that morning, she sighed in relief when the writing was different. She was a bit disappointed however because she now had two mysteries on her hands. The stalker and Draco's semi-changed attitude towards her. She went into her room and fell onto her bed, trying to wrap her mind around the whole situation. She fell asleep still fully dressed with the two notes laying next to her on the bed.


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A/N: Song is 'Obsession' by Animotion. Warning for next chapter, Hermione and Severus get some alone time together. Don't forget to review, I love to hear your input. ;-)