All of a sudden

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Hermione began trembling violently as she saw her professor stunned on the floor. Shit. She was definitely going to get expelled. But that would not stop Snape from taking his revenge. He would kill her for sure. She looked around desperately. She would have to leave the professor lying on the floor if she wanted to save herself from him. He would be mad if she reversed the spell now. He would definitely cast the Avada Kedavra curse on her. Well. He wouldn’t. He might strangle her to death after fucking her. She shuddered and felt a sudden flip in her stomach.

Turning towards the door, she began to un-ward it. She had to leave anyway. The ward was very difficult to break. He had probably used some black magic or some death eater spell to ward the door. Finally after about ten minutes she was able to break the ward. Turning back, she looked at the fallen professor. She couldn’t leave him there until somebody found him. It would only make him madder and it would raise more questions. Damn. What the hell was she supposed to do?

She thought about obliviating him. But that was too dangerous. Snape could end up like Professor Lockart. She didn’t want something that bad happening even to Snape. And if she did succeed in obliviating him properly, Snape would definitely experience ‘missing time’ and he would figure it out later and she would be sent to Azkaban. Obliviates had there cures too. She wouldn’t take the risk. Suddenly a thought entered her mind.

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“Dobby!” she softly called out. She didn’t know if the house elf would come to her call. She hadn’t tried calling him before but he had always come when Harry called him. He was a free elf so she didn’t know if he would do what she told him. After a moment that felt like eternity to Hermione, there was a small pop and Dobby stood in front of her and bowed to her with his head that rose to several feet with the hats she had sewn for the house elves during her fourth year.

“Harry Potter’s friend calls Dobby Miss?” he said and jumped up and down on his feet looking gleefully at Hermione.

“Dobby, will you do me a favor please?” she said and looked at Snape. Dobby turned towards the direction where she was looking and shuddered. Clearly Dobby didn’t like Snape either.

“Dobby will do anything for Harry Potter’s friend Miss.” He said and looked at her with his large eyes. Hermione smiled at the house elf.

“I am going to leave the professor here Dobby. I want you to reverse the stunning spell on him after I have gone. Can you do it Dobby? Please?” Hermione asked, her eyes pleading. If Dobby didn’t do it, then she would have no choice but to leave him on the floor. If that happened, she was as good as dead.

“Yes Miss. Dobby will surely do it for Harry Potter’s friend.” He said and danced around Hermione and then went towards the Professor. Hermione sighed with relief.

“Thank you so much Dobby.” She said and smiled at Dobby. Her problem was solved at the moment. She only had to avoid the professor after that and she would be safe. At least she hoped she would be safe if she avoided him. “And Dobby, please don’t tell anything about this to anyone. Ok?” She asked Dobby hopefully.

“Yes.” Dobby squeaked. “Harry Potter’s friend can keep secrets with Dobby. Harry Potter set Dobby free. Dobby will not tell about Miss to anyone.” He said and looked at Snape and grinned. Dobby not only didn’t like the professor, he was actually enjoying seeing the stunned professor.

Hermione quickly exited the classroom and headed off to the Head Girl’s room. She wondered if Snape would come searching for her that night. She had to get back to her room quickly and ward it with the most powerful spell ever. If Ron could break in her ward that morning, Snape could do it even more easily. She paused.

No. It wouldn’t do to be alone in her room tonight. She decided to stay somewhere safer for the night. Some place where Snape wouldn’t come looking for her and some place where there wouldn’t be any questions to answer. Harry and Ron would definitely exhaust her by asking questions as to why she didn’t want to stay in her room. She wanted to be left in peace tonight. She definitely had so much to think about.

She changed her direction suddenly and headed of towards Neville’s room. Neville was the head boy and therefore he had his own room. That would work for her advantage tonight. Snape would never think about searching for her in there.

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Neville was getting ready to go to bed. He had a whole lot of potions homework to do. He had asked Hermione to help him with it but she had told him to do it on his own first and then she would correct it. He wouldn’t be able to do any homework right now. He had just finished his transfiguration homework and he was dead tired. He definitely had to ask Hermione to help him tomorrow. Sighing, he made to climb on the bed when he heard a knock on his door.

“Hi Neville,” Hermione said when Nevilled opened the door.

“Hey Hermione, what’s wrong?” He asked.

Hermione had never come to his room before. It was he who kept going to her room to get help with his homework. Hermione quickly slid into the room. She didn’t want to be seen by anybody outside Neville’s door. News traveled really fast at Hogwarts.

“Nothing Neville, I have forgotten my potions text book in the library and it’s too late for me to go and fetch it. Is it possible if I could use your book to do my homework tonight?” Hermione asked.

She had already done the homework the previous day and her book was safely tucked inside her school bag. She knew that Neville always waited for her to come and help him with potions. She could take that too for her advantage. Her stomach twisted into knots. Gods! What was she becoming into! She had just hexed her professor and now she was lying to her friend. Merlin knew what else she would do to save her own ass.

“Yes sure Hermione! Hold on a sec.” Neville said brightly and went towards his table and fetched the book. “Hermione is it possible if you could give me your parchment tomorrow so that I can read what you have written” he asked hesitatingly as he handed her the book.

Hermione took the book from him and headed back to his table. “That wouldn’t be necessary Neville; we can do it together tonight.” She said and gleamed back at him. Neville was staring at her surprised. Hermione raised an eyebrow him. “You don’t mind. Do you Neville?” She asked.

Neville quickly came out of his trance. He couldn’t afford to drift off into any trance when Hermione was so willingly offering to help him with his homework. “Err… no Hermione, not at all.” He said and walked towards the table grinning. Luck had definitely favored Neville that night.

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Dobby was looking at the Potions Master. It was almost twenty minutes since Hermione left the class room. It was high time Dobby released Snape from the spell. Dobby shuddered. He knew the Professor’s ill temper. Looking back at the door and the professor, Dobby finally flicked his hand and Snape was released from the spell.

Snape leapt up from the floor and glared at Dobby. The Professor was looking murderous. “What are you doing here?” He roared at the elf.

“I is releasing you from the spell master,” Dobby squeaked, his ears flattened against his head.

“Where is she? Where is Miss Granger?” He asked looking at Dobby with such anger that Dobby flinched.

“I is not supposed to say master, I is only here to release you from the spell.” Dobby said and disappeared with a pop.

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Snape stared at the spot where Dobby had stood and began pacing across the classroom looking totally murderous. Even Voldemort would flinch if he saw the look on the professor’s face.

She had the guts to hex him did she? He hadn’t actually thought she would hex him when she had pointed her wand at him. But she had not only hexed him with a bloody stupefy spell, but had also called Dobby the idiot house elf to her rescue. He would teach her a one or two about trying to hex him.

Walking towards the floo, he took a handful of floo powder and tossed it into the fireplace and shouted “Miss Granger’s room!” and stepped in to the green flames. He landed in her fireplace and looked around and saw that she was not there. He paced around her room waiting for her and after sometime of pacing, he sat on her bed and stared at the door.

He smirked as he imagined what Hermione would look like if she saw him waiting for her in her own bed. He was going to make her pay for everything she had done to him. He would fuck her so hard that she wouldn’t be able to walk for days. She had no idea what he was capable of and he was planning on showing her who he really was. Hex him would she? She was going to get the scare of her life tonight.

Snape got impatient as minutes ticked by into hours. She should have come to the room by now. It was past midnight already. Where the hell was she? Suddenly realization dawned on him. She was probably hiding off with that idiot Potter or Weasley. That girl was really smart. Shit.

Totally outraged at already being outsmarted twice by the Gryffindor know-it-all bitch, he stepped back into his room through the floo and went to get his scrying mirror. He muttered a dark incantation and concentrated on Hermione and an image formed in the mirror.

Snape’s expression grew dark. He turned off the mirror and headed towards his cabinet to fetch a bottle of fire whisky. The mirror had shown him the image of Hermione sleeping on the couch in Neville’s room. She definitely didn't want to tell anyone about what had happened tonight. If not, she would have been with Harry and Ron in their dorm. Good. He knew what exactly to do with her.

He smirked. If only Hermione could have seen his face now.

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A/N: Hermione is really smart. Hiding with Neville. eh? lol. And severus knows where she is and he is definitely not happy about it. Please review!!!

septentrion: Im soooo sorry i had to keep you guys waiting. There were a few guests and my mom was not home and i could hardly get close to my computer 'cos of of that. Aargh!!! *sigh* sorry again. Hope you like the chapter. :)