I'm really glad you liked it. And there will be a sequel - although I don't know if you will like that one as well. I try to finish it asap, as several readers have asked for it.Maybe - maybe! - I will write an epilogue. Whichever, I will do it soon. In the next two months, I'd say.And thanks for reviewing!

Hi!Thanks for your review - I added the bit about Herminone hiding out of impulse right before posting. So I'm really glad you liked it!

Mushy... urgh, sounds nasty. Just looked it up at Leo. so the ending is too soft for your tast? Too nice? Too fluffy? Not angsty enough? You would have liked them to part again for good? Well, I have a thing for happy endings, but I can promise you, my next story will be really bad and not fluffy at all.Thanks for reviewing!

The reconcilliation was a bit too easy IMO. I don't believe that damaged hearts heal that quickly, but I'm not the author, this is your party, I'm just the misery hanging round the punch bowl depressing everyone else. ;)

No, not depressing at all :-)I considered a longer come-together-part and decided against it as it would have been just delaying the obvious - they coming together again (no double entendre here!) And as they both were hurt, but both really, really wanted each other I thought "Give them what they want".And the healing... well, they have a livetime for that. BTW - an epilogue is on the way.Have a nice evening!

Hi! Good to see you - and thanks so much for reviewing! Couldn't resist a happy ending ;-)Hugs from Germany,chivalric

My pleasure to write it and to read all the reviews. Thanks!

I was a bit tired of all the black. And I like jeans and shirt on a lean man ;-)Thanks for reviewing, it means a lot to me!

Precisely my intention - the potion to be horrible if overdosed. And how could he have soothed her? He knows he had done terribly wrong. There is no way to soothe a rape-victim... although things are a bit different here.Hope you like how it continues - and ends. Promise, she will find a way to pay him back.

Thanks for reviewing!

Thanks for liking and reviewing!

I must admit, I am fond of that rose ;-)Thanks for reviewing!

Thank you for reading and reviewing!

Details, please! You really thought he would not throw her out? You believed Dumbledore would fire him? You wanted them to kiss or kill each other???

Hi, Beth,and thank you so much for your review! I have so much fun writing in this universe, but I must admit, the reviews are the icing for the cake (if this is the right expression - I'm not a native speaker.)Two more chapters, and you'll know the ending. Let me know if your fears turned out to be correct!

Actually, I didn't think of that. But she is not stupid - she wouldn't sleep with anyone without contraception of some sort. And yes, it causes her a lot of pain. But she will deal with it ;-)

Not that epic, as there are only two chapters to go :-) Still, I hope you will like what I come up with!

Thanks so much for reading and reviewing!

Hi, Beth,well, I'm immensely glad that I've managed to hook you *beams*Promise, the next chapter will go into the queue on Friday, the last one in about a week. So you won't have to suffer too long for finding out what will happen and if I am evil enough to probide a nasty ending...

Well .... you are certainly evil enough to have hinted that you might be "evil enough to provide a nasty ending....." Break my heart, why don't cha! Truely, I can't wait to find out what happens. You're a great story teller.Beth

Your review gave me goose bumps all over!*shivers and grins excitetly*Thank you for your lovely words, hope you will enjoy the rest of the story!

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:-) Thanks for reading and reviewing!

I hereby confess that I added the sentence "a taste of their own medicine" after I'd read your review :-) Thanks for that!And Hermione is a nice person. Plus, they are her friends - and I suppose it would hurt a lot without lubrication...Thanks for your review - I am looking forward to your opinion on the next chaper!

Oh wow! I have never had that happen before! - Eeek! :-) Thankyou so much!Hmmm re. the extra charm... Yes she is nice. In real-life I most likely would be nice...but it's amazing the persona you can develop when writing! (Mwwahaha!) By the way your reply has jogged the memory of the little devil on my shoulder who is reminding me of AR's dialog in Robin Hood:Prince of Thieves (Oh the cross-over!)-Guy of Gisborne: Why a spoon, cousin? Why not an axe? Sheriff of Nottingham: Because it's DULL, you twit. It'll hurt more. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102798/quotesOK. Better go. :-) This is getting silly!Cheers,Rita.

Tell me about it! I have written a real dark and bitter One-shot about Snape, will post it after Unkissed is completed. I was most surprised that I could come up with something like that!And I tend to take my reader's opinions seriously. So if you comment again, your words might even trigger a plot bunny ;-)Hugs from Germany, chivalric

Foolish, insecure, and her teacher. I really think he didn't have another choice.Thanks for reviewing!

Thank you!!

:-) Thank you so much. Next chapter will be in queue around Friday.And I really had great fun writing the wake-up scene!

Wasn't sure if the revenge wasn't too obvious, but it seems most readers liked it. Too harmless, maybe, but then - no Quidditch for days *smirk*Will add an "and" asap! Thanks for pointing that out to me.And are you sure she isn't under a compulsion of some sort? Really, really sure? *looks innocently towards the ceiling*Now, Dumbledore's reaction - how is it confusing you? Let me know, sometimes it's the reader who point out things to me I have overseen.

I'll have to go back and reread, but briefly, Dumbledore obviously knows what went on here. Snape seems to be reading him as disapproving/ playing don't ask don't tell, but there's this interesting thing he says when he notices Hermione's note and tea and sandwiches-- she cares for him. He accedes to Snape's demand to send her to Beauxbatons, but he also says he isn't sure that's the right decision. So many fics have Dumbledore as matchmaker and Mr. Obvious, but it's a lot more subtle here, and for once if he's in their corner, neither partner seems to get that yet. They think he's willing to cover up an indiscretion that reflects badly on them and the school. Dumbledore is not wholeheartedly approving of how this relationship came about, and both partners have enough guilt about that on their own that it's blocking out any other signals Dumbledore might be sending, at least just now. I guess I was trying to say some mixed signals are there, just more subtle than in a lot of fics, and well done for that. I didn't mean confusing so much as subtle. Blame it on post camping trip fatigue.And Hermione's compulsion is easily explained by basic human psychology-- she's had her first through 50th? sexual experience in a small space of time with a guy she was already fond of and attracted to, and she's had her modesty and her personal boundaries torn down in the process, at least with him. Shared trauma also bonds people. If there's a magical mystical component to it, I haven't seen the evidence yet, but I kind of hope there's not, because it's already going to be a mess trying to build anything from the mess that's here now. Having skipped all the steps that lead people from attraction to friendship to lovers to partners in a lasting sense, how are they going to go back and pick up the missing elements and give themselves to each other freely? Some separation, painful as it is, might be the only thing that will save them.And blame freebasing of cold medicines for the excessively long response.

Wow, what a detailed review - I love it!And as I tend to give hints in my responses - no one should read this who isn't up to some minor spoilers :-)1. Dumbledore doesn't know anything, but he's suspicious. He knows Hermione, he knows Snape very well - and he has no chance to confirm his supspicions without forcing either of them into a confession. Thus the mixed signals. He doesn't want to do that, and he won't play matchmaker either - I think a headmster couldn't do that under the circumstances, no matter what he thinks about it personally. Teacher-student-relationship is an absolute No for anyone with morals. Still, he cares for Snape (in my world, at least, we won't talk about the official version where he gives a damn). And he sees some hard times coming up for Snape, knowing that he sends the girl away.2. Hermione's compulsion... now you have a basic idea there, but I won't say you are completely right. It certainly is psychologically (although there could be a magical component *grin*)Your second to last sentence is intersting... I could tell you the title of the next chapter, of course, but I won't do it. You will have to wait until next week, sorry.Hope your cold is better :-)Hugs,chivalric