Sixth year was the hardest Hermione had to endure. As she walked down the halls of Hogwarts she remembers looking back to how it all started between her and a special Potions Professor.
1 year ago:
After the Battle of Hogwarts Hermione ran back to Severus in hopes that he could be saved. She dragged his body from the Shrieking Shack, across the grounds and to the hospital wing.
"Help! He's still breathing!", was all she said, Poppy lifted him to the bed and worked tirelessly to fix him. All Hermione could think of was what Harry told her, about Severus loving his mother even now. Tears poured down her face she cried knowing that his heart was closed off to the world and his eyes forever shut to the thoughts of new love. She cried because for once she finally admitted to herself that she loved the cold-hearted man.
6 months ago:
Hermione was helping Severus brew a newer version of the Truth Serum. She was so tired from all the homework she had to do that she dropped a turtledove wing into the potion and it exploded all over her.
After grabbing his tea he walked back to his lab to find her on the floor. "Hermione please wake up! Don't you dare die on me before I can say how much these months have meant to me."
Today:
She smiled thinking about that night, she had woken up in his arms. He was rocking her with tears in his eyes. It was that moment she realized that he was the only one for her.
4 months ago:
They had been going steady ever since that night of the potion accident. Hermione never dreamed that things could ever be better than they were right that moment. But when Severus got down on one knee right there in the Great Hall she decided she needed to rethink her statement.
"Hermione Granger, you are the only one I've ever let see the real me. The darkness that is hidden in me is one I have always hid. Yet you have decided that the things I've done before mean nothing now to you. Now I ask that even though we've walked different paths, those paths brought us together and I wouldn't have it any other way. Will you be my bride?"
1 month ago:
"Severus! That is it! I have had it with you putting me down for being who I am. You've called me "know-it-all" for the last time!" Hermione walked out the potion's lab and straight to her Headgirl dorm for the first time in months. She opened her door to see Harry standing there waiting. She explained what happened and he sighed, "Mimi, do you love him?"
"Of course I do Harry but it feels like we're too opposite for this to work. We're like oil and water. We don't mix well without burning." Harry smiled and simply said, "But is it a chance you want to take?"
Today:
Walking out to the grounds of Hogwarts in her wedding gown she sees Severus standing there. He smiles and lets his tears show for all to see.
She thinks softly to herself, " We're just like glass, no matter if we shine one day or shatter the next. We will always pick up the pieces from here on after, our relationship is fragile but we're human and it all depend on the light we let come through us. We may break fast but we fix faster, just like glass."