A/N: I hope you enjoy this fic and I do hope I have succeeded in making it different than some of the other Snape/mione fics out there. I am trying to stay true to the timeline of the Deathly hallows.
The picture describe was inspired by a interesting piece of art I came across on deviantart,and it stuck in my head. I'll try and find it again and post a link on my profile.
I also Own Harry Potter and all things related….I also eat rainbows and crap butterlfys….
Standing beside the fire that still managed to crackle merrily inside his dismal home in Spinner's end was one Severus Snape, Head of Slytherin house, Potions Master, and Murderer of Albus Dumbledore. Taking another sip from his glass of currently ever present firewhiskey his dark eyes trained on the only photo that graced his mantel.
A young dark haired woman stood holding an equally dark haired baby boy. She would fly the baby above her head his chubby legs kicking in the air with glee, and then she would pull him down into her arms and cuddle him close nuzzling her face into his soft black hair. His mother, as she had been when he was but four months old.
Before his father became a drunk, before his mother became a shell of the brilliant witch that she had been. He had often wondered through the years if he could go back and fix it all, save his mother and thus himself from the life the fates and woven for them.
Before he had time to dwell to on this his arm seared with pain and he found himself being called to his master.
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"How nice of you to join us Severus" the Dark Lord hissed elegantly motioning to the seat at his right. Snape took his proffered seat sneering slightly at Bellatrix who was eyeing the spot covetously from farther down the table. "I have some wonderful news for you." He steepled his hand and eyed Severus' reaction over his long fingers. "Now that your true allegiances have come to light I can finally allow you to have a bit of 'fun'…so I have the perfect opportunity for you."
Severus nodded his head, smirking ever so slightly. "It would seem that one of Potter's entourage is going to be alone and unguarded two days from now. I want you to find her and kill her."
"Forgive my impertinence My Lord but can we be certain she will be alone?" he said folding his hand on the table in front of him. He-who-must-not-be-named merely smirked.
"We had more than just one spy in the ranks of the Order, Severus." he chuckled dryly. "They have reported that Granger will be alone in her family home. Her parents have been unaccounted for as of yet, but if they happen to show up kill them as well." He then waved Snape away, indicating he was done with him.
As the Potions Master made his way towards the doors he heard His master call, "Oh and Severus?" he stopped and turned back. "Do try to enjoy the little Mudblood, won't you." Snape crossed his marked arm over his chest and bowed deeply.
"Yes my Lord." He turned sharply and walked purposely from the room, and out onto the grounds of the opulent Malfoy manner where he apperated back to the spot he had only vacated a half hour before. He reclaimed his glass of firewhiskey and downed it before reaching directly for the bottle.
"Bloody-fucking-hell…"he mumbled running a hand through his hair. "How am I to get out of this one Albus?" he asked the thin air around him, before taking another draught from the bottle in his hands and allowing his thoughts to toy with the thought of going back in time, of saving his mother, saving Albus, saving himself…and soon there was delightful nothingness.
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July 25 just after dawn Severus found himself on an empty street filled with neat brick houses, and manicured lawns. He strode down the street towards his formers students home still formulating a plan in his head.
He took note of a man standing across the street from the stately house he was preparing to enter, a Death Eater sent to make sure he went through with it.
Obviously the Dark Lord feels year of sitting on the sidelines has caused me to go soft…well it has. He scoffed to himself. That's why I need to make this look as convincing as possibly.
He blasted open the door and paused just inside the threshold. Taking note of the stairs to his right he reasoned with it being so early she was probably in her room still asleep. So he ventured up the stair wand out prepared to stun her should she prove to have taken Mad-eye's advice to heart.
He found her room easily enough, being as she was an only child; however to his surprise it was empty. She had left her wand on her bed unattended. He noted the clothing piled upon bed and the knapsack that sat half packed on the dresser.
Quickly he shrunk the clothes on her bed and shoved them as well as the now shrunken contents of her wardrobe into the knapsack, noting as she did that the bottom already seemed to be filled with shrunken books. Leave it to Miss Granger to pack books before necessities, He scoffed. He grabbed whatever looked like it could be of use to a teenage girl and stuffed it in the Knapsack before topping it with her wand and shrinking the bag and shoving it into his pocket.
He heard her coming down the hall and hid behind the door. The moment her curly head made an appearance he grabbed her and clamped a hand over her mouth. She had screamed initially but then began to struggle as soon as she felt his hand over her mouth.
"Silence!" He hissed into her ear. She stilled and he felt hot tears hit his hand. "Listen to me carefully, Your house is being watched by a Deatheater who is to make sure I kill you. So do exactly as I say and we may both make it out of this situation alive." She nodded quickly and He could feel her heart beating fast as he help her pinned against his chest.
"Now I'm going to remove my hand from your mouth and release your arms but you must remain calm." He gripped his wand tighter should she see who he was and panic. "Do I have your word you will not panic?" She nodded again and quickly he released her and stepped back out of arms reach.
As she stood shaking afraid to move for a moment he realized she had been only wearing a thick red towel and had obviously just emerged from the shower. The next moment she dove forward to where her wand had lain, and when she didn't find it she spun around and backed into a wall.
"YOU!" She began grasping around for anything to protect herself and thus hand armed herself with the lamp from her nightstand. "Don't you come any closer!" Suppressing the urge to laugh he raised his wand and pointed it at her. She countered this move by shrieking and throwing the lamp at him.
The lamp happened to still be plugged in and it flew for about four feet before reaching the end of the length of cord and plummeting to the ground three feet from its intended target. This time he was unable to suppress a laugh and it started out as a mere chuckle but became as he noted the horrified look on her face he was unable to control the booming laugh that overtook him. In that back of his mind he wondered if perhaps he shouldn't have had so much liquid courage for breakfast.
She saw this as an opportunity to sneak away and began inching along the wall looking for any means of getting around the imposing man that stood between herself and the door. She was nearly directly in front of the window when he regained his senses and he crossed the room quickly and pushed her bodily against the glass. Bringing his lips close to her neck he whispered into her hair.
"Now look what you've done! I had warned you we were being watched!" He forcibly turned her and keeping one hand tangled tightly into her hair he pushed her face forward so she could see the man in black that stood with his eyes trained on the commotion in the upstairs window. "Do you see him?" She nodded shakily. "Do you have any clue as to what I will have to do to make this look convincing now!" she shook her head. More tears streaming from her eyes.
He pulled back tightly on the hair grasped in his hand. "Claw at the window!" he hissed and when she didn't comply he tugged her hair again hard. Bringing his mouth down to her neck he made a show of biting her neck. She screamed again having been taken by surprise by his actions and clawed helplessly at the window. Then he threw her back into the room aiming her for her bed. She hit the bed and scrambled to keep herself covered.
"I want you to run down stair and break anything in your path their listening for that, then go to the big wind in the front fall down. I'll be right behind you." she blinked at him, her chest rising and falling rapidly. "Good Lord girl! You're supposed to be intelligent; I'm not going to hurt you I'm here to save your life!" He pointed his wand at the bed beside her and blasted it hissing "Now move!" she jumped up and ran from the room.
Grabbing the flower vase from the hall table the chucked it towards the stairs watching it shatter against the wall. As she ran toward the window she saw jets of light fly past her hitting the wall and curtains. She grabbed a nearby lamp and turned to throw it behind her when Snape said, "Make sure it's unplugged." a sneer tugging at his lips. She dropped the lamp and started to run again when her feet tangled in the cord, (that was still in the wall) and she fell to the ground right in front of the window.
Severus through himself on top of her pinning her arms down to the ground, and once again he whispered into her ear. "You can imagine what he assumes is going on. " He sat up straddling her and brought one hand down quickly as if to slap her but merely swept across the air in front of her face. She did however shriek as she assumed he was going to actually strike her. He dropped back down and pushed something into her hand; it was a shard of the vase she had thrown. "This is a portkey it will take you someplace safe while I finish up here." She nodded and he activated it in her hand. It glowed bright blue and he quickly rolled off of her a moment before she disappeared.
Quickly taking a few vials of blood from his cloak he laid the on the ground where she had been and disheveled his clothes before standing up. He then pointed his wand at the vials and exploded them causing blood to splatter everywhere. He pointed his wand into the room and noticed her hideous feline hiding under a side table. Rolling his eyes he picked up the cat receiving a nasty scratch in the process. He then put an unnoticeable engorgement charm on the inside of his pocket and wrestled the beast inside.
Turning back he pointed his wand into the room and huge beasts and serpents of fire erupted form it's tip. Sweating slightly he controlled the fiendfyre as he back towards the door. He only ended the spell when he was outside on the landing and the house began to collapse upon itself destroying the evidence that there was no body to be found.
He gave a stiff nod to the man across the street as he pointed his wand into the air with a cry of "morsmordre!" as he turned to apperate the Deatheater did the same, presumably to report back to the Dark Lord that Severus had completed his task. With a pop he found himself in his bookshelf covered sitting room and Hermione who had been standing by the shelves running her fingers across a section of books gave a start and turned and she gasped when she saw him and pressed her back into the wall.
"Please don't act like a frightened rabbit, it doesn't suit your Gryffindor sensibilities." He said sitting down tiredly in his arm chair and dropping his head into his hands.
"How can I not be frightened!" she cried out angrily. "You broke into my home, and basically kidnapped me!" She began pacing and continued ranting. "You dragged me here in a TOWEL! AND YOU BIT ME!" she said stopping in front of him and pointing at the mark on her neck.
He stood up and found himself towering over her, and she shrunk back slightly. "Let's not forget that I also burned you house to the ground in the process of SAVING YOUR LIFE!" he growled the last words. Causing her to gasp and begin to cry. "Oh for heaven's sake," He sighed and sat back down."What is the matter with you?"
"You burnt my home…"she said through the sobs."Crookshanks was in there!" she cried out collapsing on the small sofa that sat opposite his chair.
"Oh yes the Half-kneazel, Bloody thing gave me a bit of trouble." he said dryly causing her to burst into fresh tears. He cleared his throat three times before she finally looked up and saw him holding the scruffy orange cat by the nap of the neck at arm's length.
She leapt up and pulled the cat into her arms and burst into fresh tears. "Oh Bloody hell don't tell me you had another pet I didn't know about!" he said rolling his eyes at her display of emotion.
"No sir," she said sitting back down and wiping her eyes with her free hand." It's just that you saved him and you saved me and I don't know why."
"I'm going to let you in on a secret, Miss Granger, "Snape said sitting back and crossing his arms. "I did in fact kill Albus Dumbledore," She gasped to hear the admission from his own lips. "But only under his orders. He was dying from an ancient curse. He left me important information regarding Potter's Mission, and it's important I maintained my role as the spy if I am to assist him now. "
She nodded slowly and thought for a moment; couldn't we just go to him and tell Harry what Dumbledore told you?"
"As much time as that would save me, Miss Granger." He said inclining his head. "I'm sure that Potter would very much like to see me dead right now and is probably not in the mind to listen to any explanations I might have as to why I murdered his mentor!"He said harshly. She understood this to be the end of that particular conversation and instead asked.
"Umm…Sir?" he looked up at her and saw she was blushing slightly. "What am I to wear?" she motioned to her towel.
He jumped up and dug into his pocket to retrieve her knapsack which he then enlarged and handed it to her. As she was taking it from him she noticed the deep scratches on his hand and took his hand in hers with a cry of "Oh my! Did Crooks do this?" her forehead wrinkled in concern.
He stared at her for a moment before the blushed and dropped his hand, he then he simply pointed his wand at it and muttered a quick healing charm. He sat back down saying you'll find a guest room down the hall that should be adequate." then he picked up and disappeared behind it emerging a moment later when he heard the young Gryffindor clear her throat and said "Could you perhaps cast that charm on my neck? Only I'm not so good at healing charms, I mean I understand the theory behind them and…" she trailed of when she saw him smirk.
He looked over neck and saw his bite mark showing angry read against her pale skin. "No, I think it rather suits you." he disappeared behind his book again but not before he noticed her blush going deeper. She sputtered for a moment before scurrying out of the room. It wasn't until he heard her door snap shut that he chuckled quietly. He had found a new way to torment the Gryffindor.
Well there's chapter one down. I've never written this much Snape before so I don't know how I did here.
A few little notes, this will follow the timeline of the deathly Hallows, I got the timeline wikipeida so It should stay pretty true.
And Snape is not attracted to Hermione here, he's just messing with her Bc it amuses him. since he can't take points or tear her essays apart he has to find some other way to entertain himself, you know?
I know Hermione was pretty quiet there but I think even she knows when to not ask questions.
Ok so review and tell me what you think! (note-I have never written a Snape/Mione Fic so I'm not expecting reviews of sunshine and butterflies, but I'd love to know where I could improve!)
First person with a review longer than two sentences gets the next chapter dedicate to them!