It was a long day for you as it was the last day of class before exams were to start, so naturally everyone was stressed and focused on their studies. You just happened to have enough of one of the boys in your potions class who just wouldn't shut up. Soon you found yourself, and others in the class, groaning now and then making you stand up and yell at the idiot. He scoffed, but so did your Professor. You knew that you would be in for it as you disturbed his class, but the constant whispering behind you was pissing you off too much to care. You brought your eyes up to your professor who seemed too bothered to yell at you and just said with a sigh,

" L/N, please stay after class." You sat back down as the class continued with everyone focused on their work. As everyone was leaving you let out a sigh and kept your stuff out praying that Snape just wanted you to study a bit more as your detention. You noticed him go around the back of the classroom and wait for him to tell you what to do. You never thought that detention with Snape was bad as you had actually spent a lot of time with him and well you see the man as a friend, but obviously, if he felt that way towards you he would never say it. You let out a long sigh and heard him take a few steps back to his desk before you brought your eyes up to him as he sat down. He did not seem pleased with the work he had stacked on his desk and he started working without saying anything to you.

Finding this strange as he would never forget someone's detention you walked up to his desk with a slight frown seeing as he was stressed before he sighed out loud. You stood in front of his desk waiting for him to say something or look up.

"Please take this time to study, instead of watching me." He kept his eyes down as he spoke to you not in the mood to deal with a detention.

"Contrary to what you may think, I feel pretty good about potions this year." You said with a soft and confident tone. Snape's eyes snapped up to you as you had nearly failed last year's exams. He scoffed lightly before bringing his eyes back to his work and saying to you,

"Please, do you not remember how you did last year? And didn't you have a tutor as well?" If you hadn't spent so much time around him before you would've taken his comment as an insult, but by being around him for so long you had learned about the slight tone of his voice you get when trying to insult someone. He was just trying to make a joke while making you realize that you probably needed to keep studying.

"Ok ouch, but you have to admit that I've gotten better at potions." He let out a light chuckle. You had only heard it a few times, so it was clear to you that he trusted and liked you enough to spend any time with you. After a few more words you finally convinced him that you didn't need to study, and you asked to help him with his work. He brought his head up to look at you with a raised eyebrow before you went and told him that it couldn't be that hard.

You had pulled a chair up to the other side of his desk before getting to work on marking a few test exams. You had the answers right beside you, and you did happen to make a few mental notes about the answers before you started to feel eyes on you. You glanced up at your professor who seemed to have just looked away from you probably thinking that this was your way of trying to cheat on the exam. You soon found yourself lost in thought while marking the tests and didn't even notice Snape put down his quill and lean back in his chair with his arms folded. He was watching you mark the tests and frowned when you saw that you had answered a question wrong. He lightly chuckled which brought your attention to him. Being around him a lot means you have seen lots of different sides to him, but this relaxed and softer side of him was new. Trying not to show your confusion to this new side of him you frowned and asked him,

"What?"

"Should I have you mark your test? Because you are finding out you answered some questions wrong." You gently set down the quill in your hand you decided to have some fun with him. You leaned back in your chair and crossed your arms like he had. He didn't realize it right away, but when he did he scoffed playfully and leaned forward only for you to follow his moves. You both weren't speaking and just watched each other seeing which one would break first. Snape laid his arms down on the desk and you followed suit. Every little head movement he did you mimicked. It was then that something sparked in his eyes and he leaned forward. Thinking nothing of it you leaned forward as well with still about a foot between you. His eyes seemed to sparkle as he put his hand out and cupped your chin with the palm of his hand before pulling you closer to him.

You both sat there staring at each other not sure of what to do next until you glanced away from his eyes and brought your attention to his now open lips. Finding yourself glancing again and again Snape smirked and leaned into you closing the gap. The room went still as you had your eyes open in disbelief and with him keeping his eyes open; gently watching you as you felt the smooth and light feeling of him kissing you before you closed your eyes. He soon followed as you both gently gave each other soft kisses for a good 3 minutes. Once you both pulled away you were afraid of what might come next as it was obvious to you since the beginning that Snape seemed to push most people away. His gaze landed on you once more before he smiled and softly said to you,

"I doubt you'll get much higher on this exam."