Between Crown and Heart - Book 1

45 - Detention

I entered the potions room and narrowed my brows. 

A table and a chair were set right opposite of Snape's desk. On the table were a bottle, a knife and something like a pad. 

"Take a seat, quickly!" I nodded and walked towards the desk and sat down.  

I gulped when I saw that there were living, wiggling worms in the bottle. 

"You will cut worms into two halves today, in your detention." I looked wide eyed at him. 

"Cut them... a-alive?!" I said and thought of being sliced alive.  

"Yes. Any problem with that?"  

I nodded.  

"I can't do this." 

"Well, the question is not if you can do it, it is when you will start doing it!" 

I gulped again.  

"Fine, I will do this only if they don't feel anything."  

Snape rose from his seat with an annoyed look and walked towards me. He looked down at me and... took the bottle with the worms to open it. He pointed his wand at the open bottle and twitched it, making the worms stop moving. Then he took the bottle and spilled all the content right in front of me. I grimaced in disgust. He stared one more moment at me and turned around.  

It was very fast and a gust hit my face. It smelled like a dusty, slightly musty and woody scent mixed with a fresh fragrance. I believed this fresh smell came from his aftershave.  

He smelled very masculine and attractive. A desire rose in my chest, I wanted to burry my nose into his neck. I blushed. 

Suddenly, Snape stopped and slowly turned around. 

"Did I say this aloud?" I wondered anxiously. 

"What have you there, in your lap?" He asked very silkily. 

I looked down.  

"The books my guardian gave me!" My eyes went wide. 

"I wanted to bring them in an other shape, back in the common room but I forgot to ask Harry about that spell after his and Ron's argument! Shit!" I thought. 

"Errr, Astronomy books..." I lied badly.  

"Well, is it?" I nodded. 

He moved closer and bent down over the desk, over the worms. I jumped up before he could grab them away from me. But that made him more suspicious.  

"I assume that aren't Astronomy books; you are quite protective about them." I gulped. 

"It's just... I like Astronomy very much and I don't like someone touching my Astronomy books." I tried to defend my stupid behavior.  

Snape came running towards me and stopped abruptly, his arms leaned against the wall beside my head for support. 

Our noses were inches away and I could feel his small, warm breaths between my nose and upper lip. My belly twitched lightly.  

"You dare to steal from the library and lie to me?" He asked dangerously. I gulped.  

"He will kill me!" I thought and I closed my eyes, my hands tightened around my waist and the books. There I winced in pain. My wrist hurt again. 

I felt that Snape backed a little but he was still in front of me. Then I felt his hands around my wrists which caused a weak whimper out of my mouth. The books fell to the ground and my arms were twisted to the outside by Snape. I opened my eyes unsure.