Every girl wants a hero.

Every girl wants a hero.


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Taking a deep breath she looked up and found herself staring into a pair of dark eyes the rest of his face obscured by his Batman mask “Pull yourself together Hermione, breathe” she told herself silently.

“Why were you following me?” the mysterious Batman asked.

“I..I...I wanted to find out why you were staring at me” she finally managed to say.

He stroked the side of her face with gloved finger “Such a curious kitty, didn't you know curiosity killed the cat?” his low sensual voice was familiar to her but she couldn't quite place it was almost like Severus's.

A light bulb went off in her head, her mystery companion was Severus and her heart jumped for joy but as she opened her mouth to speak, he lowered his head and captured her lips in a almost possessive manner making her knees melt and her brain turn to mush simultaneously.

How long she stood there in his embrace, she couldn't say the only thought going through her head was how good this man was at kissing. Something vibrated against her stomach causing them to break apart, she looked down and saw him retrieving a sleek black object from his utility belt.

He flipped it open and placed it against his ear.

“A Bat phone? You have got to be kidding me” feeling a gloved finger against her lips she grabbed his hand, placed the offending digit in her mouth and began to suck, making sure to run her tongue along the underneath of his finger before flicking the end.

“I'll be with you momentarily” he said into the phone before closing it and putting it back into his utility belt. Looking down at the witch who had his finger in her mouth and was giving him a sexy come hither look, he smiled and decided to move onto stage two of his plan.

“Such a bad Kitty, it's a shame I have to leave you for a short while”

“But who are y-” she was stopped before she could finish her sentence by his brief but intense kiss, not giving her time to catch her breath back he strode away, his black leather cape billowing behind him.

She lent back against the alcove wall with her her fingers pressed against her lips which were still tingling from the encounter, “Bloody hell who knew Severus could kiss like that” she thought to herself as she got her breathing back under control.

She started to head back to the ballroom when something at the end of the hallway caught her attention, she couldn't believe her eyes it was Severus in his everyday clothes talking to Draco's dad Lucius. Her mind was ablaze with numerous questions, the main one being if Severus was there then just who was her masked man.

Deciding to go find her girls she bumped into Draco, “Hey you, have you seen Gin or Luna?”

“Remind me again who they're dressed as sweetie?” he asked.

“Luna is Poison Ivy and Ginny is Jean Grey”

“Luna's easy, she's the one with her tongue down the throat of of the Riddler, I think they're behind those folks dressed as The Beast and Gambit” he said pointing towards the bar.

“Thanks hun” she said and headed towards the bar.

“Hey Cherie do you fancy playing a game with ole Gambit here?” the man dressed as Gambit said giving her a a long deliberate look up and down her body.

She grinned at Sirius and she had to admit to herself that he looked pretty hot, it was just a shame that there was just one wizard that did it for her. “You couldn't keep up old man” she said teasingly.

“You wound me, ma petit I am most assuredly not old” he said looking slightly affronted.

She winked at Remus who'd dressed up as the Beast before nicking his beer bottle “Well you know what they say Sirius you can't teach an old dog new tricks.”

Remus summoned another beer for himself “Look at it this way Pads, cats and dogs are mortal enemies and I think this cat in particular has a thing for bats” he said laughing as Sirius choked on his beer.

Hermione patted Sirius on the face “Never mind at least you've still got this gorgeous blue stud muffin to warm your bed at night” she gave Remus a hug and a kiss on his cheek, before going off in search of Luna.

Finally spotting Luna who was now snogging the Joker Hermione just shook her head at Luna's antics and tapped Joker on the shoulder “I'm borrowing Luna for a bit, you and your twin can have her back later, come on Luna we need to find Ginny as I'm having bit of a crisis.”

Luna waved goodbye to the Joker and the Riddler who had comeback with a tray of drinks.

“Did you know that they're not completely the same? Fred has a thicker tongue than George but George's is slightly longer” Luna said randomly

“Do I even want to know how you know that?” she asked Luna who had a dreamy look on her face.

Luna gave her a wicked grin “Probably not, but you know what they say, one is good but two is twice as nice.”

Hermione looked at her friend incredulously “Really Luna and who do we know who says that?”

“Me” Luna said straight faced as Hermione cracked up.

“Merlin Luna, how you keep your sweet reputation is beyond me, there's Gin, just who is that she's snogging rather thoroughly?”

That would be Neville, I told him that that it would be a good idea for him come dressed as Cyclops especially if he wanted the witch of his dreams to notice him” Luna smiled mischievously “It's fun to play cupid, now I know how Draco feels.” she said to herself.

Hermione tapped Gins shoulder “Put Neville down, I need an emergency girl talk now.”

“Nice timing Hermione, not.” Ginny said sarcastically. She gave Neville a lingering kiss before breaking away “Sorry Nev I've got to go, I'll meet you by the bar shortly”.

Neville who was still slightly speechless just nodded and watched Ginny walk off admiring her long legs in her little dress.

“Close your mouth Neville or you'll catch Nargles “ Luna told him before following her friends.

They went into the downstairs ladies guest bathroom which had been magically enlarged to cope with the large number of guests that were there this evening.

“Okay Hermione this had better be good, and I don't even know where to start concerning you and the twins Luna” said Ginny still a little miffed at the loss of her snogging partner.

Hermione proceeded to tell her friends every thing that happened only being interrupted a couple of times “How good a kisser?” and “Seriously a Bat phone?.”

“So I leave the alcove and as I'm looking for you two I notice Severus talking to Lucius but he was just in his normal clothes and there was no sign of my Batman anywhere, what do I do? I was so sure that Batman was Severus”

“Draco's mum is a lucky woman” said Luna randomly

“What on earth do you mean?” asked Ginny.

“Come on Draco's dad is HOT for an older man, and under that ice cool reserve you just know he's an animal in bed”

“That's Draco's dad you're talking about” replied Ginny.

Luna gave her a look as if to say duh! “I know that Gin, that's why I said his mum is a lucky woman.”

“What are you like Lu-” Hermione began to say when the sound of flushing came from one of the stalls and all three girls held their breath as they watched Narcissa Malfoy who was dressed as Emma Frost from the X-Men gracefully leave the stall and wash her hands.

“Thank you Luna, I am a very lucky woman in more ways than one” she gave the girls a discrete wink “Hermione a word of advice woman to woman, Severus is a complicated private man and a Slytherin to boot, and will no doubt make sure that the recipient of his heart and his love, truly wants him before he puts himself on the line.” Luna opened her mouth to speak but Narcissa continued “That's not to say he's not had lovers, because he's reputed to be quite magnificent in bed according to friends of mine.”

Narcissa reapplied her pale pink lipstick and smoothed down her white off the shoulder catsuit “Just remember think with your heart and not your head, I'm sure for such a bright girl you'll realize two and two equal four” giving the stunned girls a bright smile. Narcissa left the room and immediately went in search of her husband and his partner in crime.

A/N:I know it's taking time to get to the good stuff, but it will be worth it in the end I promise. So no throwing pillows, I won't name names, you know who you are.

I have two full pages of people and their costumes (blooming research) as I'm probably not going to fit everyone into the story let me know if you want me to post it at the end of the next chapter.

Please review and feed my poor starving plot bunnies, because full plot bunnies make the next chapter arrive quicker. :D

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