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The door quietly swung open as the girl tiptoed into the room to wake her friend.
"Hermione." Ginny said quietly trying to wake the girl but not her sleeping companion. The girl didn't even move a muscle to give any indication that she had heard Ginny.
"Hermione." She said again giving the girl a poke on the nose like Crookshanks used to do to get her out of bed. Hermione opened her eyes and looked up at Ginny.
"What is it? What's wrong?" Hermione whispered trying not to wake her still slumbering counterpart, it was amazing he wasn't awake already.
"It's early, you need to come back to my room before Mum discovers you here." Hermione looked to debate it for a moment.
"You know what I don't think I will. Let your Mum discover us for all I care, I'm tired of hiding and sneaking around in the middle of the night. And I'm sure your tired of helping. I'll just stay here Gin, but thank you for these last few months." Ginny cocked one eyebrow at the brunette, "If your sure..." Hermione nodded.
"Then I'm going back to bed. Goodnight and good luck." And with that Ginny tiptoed back out of the room, quietly shutting the door behind her.
"I thought you weren't ready to let people know, love." Hermione didn't even flinch at the sudden voice behind her. All those years spent spying had made him a very light sleeper. She slowly rolled over and buried herself further into his warmth.
"I'm tired of sneaking around Severus. I hate not being able to kiss or touch you anytime I want to, it's just ridiculous. I hope you don't mind that I told Ginny that I was ready to come out about it."
"Love, we have discussed this multiple times and you know how I feel about it," his arms tightened around her waist. "You are my wife and just because we didn't tell anybody that we were getting married doesn't mean that I don't want people to know." He gently reached over her to the night side table and picked up his wand relaxing back into bed he took her left hand in his and gently tapped her ring finger, making her wedding ring visible again.
"Do you have any idea how weird it is to wear this, but to not be able to take it off or see it?" Severus chuckled as Hermione reached for her wand. With their left hands still clasped she tapped his ring finger to reveal his wedding ring.
"Probably about as bad as it was for me. But I like that you can't take your ring off it will show everybody that you chose me."
"Yes I did, and now I think we should get back to sleep because lord knows we won't be able to once Molly finds us."
"Very true." He whispered pulling her as tightly to him as possible before falling back asleep.
Molly turned the handle to Severus room surprised that it turned open, pushing the door in Molly was surprised to see a mass on the bed, apparently Severus was still here! Just as she was about to close the door the single mass became two as half of it rolled over and it had a bush of brown hair. Molly couldn't believe what she was seeing! She stormed back into the room and saw that it was in fact Hermione in bed with Severus. Why would they do this? They knew the house rules nobody slept in a room with a member of the opposite sex unless they were married! That's why Ginny and Harry were not allowed in the same sleeping quarters, everybody knew this.
"HERMIONE GRANGER YOU WILL GET YOUR BUTT BACK TO YOUR OWN ROOM THIS INSTANT!" Molly shouted which roused Severus and Hermione.
"Molly would you mind keeping it down, we're trying to sleep here," Severus glared.
"NO YOU KNOW THE RULES OF THIS HOUSE NO UNMARRIED COUPLE ALLOWED IN THE SAME ROOM!"
"We haven't broken your blood rule Molly so get out!" Severus deadly whispered. Hermione curled up into Severus' arms and buried her face in his neck to avoid Molly's ear piercing screams that were sure to come. Severus constricted his arms around Hermione, with that one move it proved to her that she was going no where no matter what Molly had to say about it.
"What do you mean? You are unwed and sharing a room how is that not breaking the rule?" Molly glared.
"Who on earth said we were unwed?" Severus asked, making Molly blush.
"There's no way you can be, I haven't even seen the two of you touch. EVER!" Molly said completely baffled.
"I told you we were good at hiding it!" Hermione said pulling back to look at Severus. "And yes Molly we are married and have been for months. Now if you don't mind my husband and I were trying to sleep, and you shrieking is not helping! Now we will gladly explain things later but right now please leave." Hermione said pointing with her left hand towards the door. Molly finally saw her ring, all disbelief quickly left and Molly removed herself from the room so they wouldn't see her embarrassed blush.
"Finally I can go back to sleep." Severus said as Hermione curled back up into him.
"You were amazing you know that right?"
"I love you too now sleep, before someone else decides to come in here." Hermione leaned back and grabbed her wand warding the door to prevent anyone else from entering.
"Why didn't we do that earlier?" Severus asked.
"Because I forgot to after Ginny left." She said laying her wand down and curling back up with her husband preparing to go back to sleep.
"I love you," Severus whispered in her ear.
"I love you too," Hermione whispered back. They drifted back into dreamland for several more hours.
A/N: Just something I thought up the other day and decided to publish! Love it? Hate it? Review!
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