Light and Dark (a Harry Potter/Dramione fanfiction) (written with @the_girl_who_lived_)

Chapter Three: The Solution

The Time-Turner.

Of course! How simple could it be? I'll know just what steps to take in order to reach my Draco.

I need him so badly, it's a desire that has been holding on to my heart for ages.

I need him, and I hope he needs me.

I blush, hoping Snape will decipher the blood rushing to my face as shame instead of desire.

Then he says, "Why, Hermione!" and the silence he has suddenly broken is nothing but a memory. I jump at the unexpected sound.

"I never saw you as the type of Gryffindor girl to seek my House instead of trying to flee it," he continues. "That scumbag Harry does not have as much of an effect on you as I thought."

Why should he care?

"Now Hermione," he hisses, his faux conversational tone disappearing, "why were you trying to sneak into the Slytherine compound after hours?"

I know he doesn't expect an answer. I don't say a word.

"Hermione," he growls, taking a step towards me. Nervously, I rub my painful wrist. "If you don't grace me with an answer, I will have to force one out of you."

He holds up a vial.

Truth serum.

Oh, no. Oh, gargantuan wizards, please no.

I know for a fact I can't resist a truth serum.

I glimpse the future for a second, and that future includes me delirious under truth serum, confessing my love for Draco to Snape, as he grins malevolently.

I close my eyes, ready to meet my fate.

"Now, Severus, there is no need to go to such an extreme extent to get the truth," I hear a familiar voice say.