Feast of the Saint
Severus Snape and Hermione Granger are thrown together when she's turned into a vampire now as the only man capable of brewing the potion she needs to abate her hunger the two must work together ,and work through their differences. (AU Dumbledore alive)
Saint's lost purity
"Hermione! Hermione C'mon this isn't funny any more!" Ronald Weasley shouted into the dark as he and Harry meandered along the edge of the forbidden forest beginning to feel truly worried about the sudden disappearance of their best and only female friend. It had been an hour ago when they'd separated to search of her cat Who had once again decided to run off with out any clue to it whereabouts... while the cat (according to the bushy haired Gryffindor) normally left some semblance of a clue such a an herb or twig there had been nothing this time and he had already been gone three days. So she'd beseeched her friends to help her look for the wayward feline.
Night had fallen and Harry's clock, while still as useful as ever, could no longer completely cover all three of them. So the two wanted desperately to get back to the castle lest they be caught and given yet another detention... seventh year it seemed, was not boding well for anyone. Ron was about to call out when a ear splitting shriek filled the air. In an instant the two teens were moving crashing into the trees towards the screams... or the direction they'd come from, as they had rather abruptly stopped.
Harry found her first in a heap on the ground unmoving he dropped to her side "Hermione! Hermione!" when she didn't respond her shifted her pushing her to lay on her back Ron emerged right then crying out at the sight, Hermione's face and neck were ragged and bloody soft weak groans of pain escaped her as she lay there.
"Oh my god! We have to get her back to the castle!" Harry said looking at Ron who'd lost all color and looked about to have a nervous break down as he gazed at his bloody mess of a friend.
"RON! Snap out of it and go tell Hagrid! Tell him then run to the headmaster I'll try to move her! GO!" he ordered sharply Ron nodded dashing off as Harry levitated the girls body carefully maneuvering her through the trees. In his panic he barley noticed the dull throbbing of his scar and the rustle of something slithering away.
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Hermione shifted groaning softly she was in so much pain... so much pain, she wondered vaguely if these were the moments before death... no shouldn't she feel at peace. Panic coiled in her belly as flashes of memory hit her, hissing, voices, fang.
"No... n-no NO!" the girl shrieked thrashing on the bed as frantic voices shouted orders and several hand held her down as she screamed for mercy. Where was she, oh god what was happening who was holding her why wouldn't they let her go?
"NO OH GOD HELP!" she shrieked begging and pleading for mercy rough cold hands held the side of her head as disgusting fingers pried her mouth open and forced a fowl tasting liquid down her throat, instant clam washed over her as her body relaxed she began to feel her panic fade before spiking, her body was calming but her mind couldn't.
"To Much stress she's desperately traumatized!" someone said a woman's voices she vaguely noticed as she mumbled and jerked still fighting for freedom.
"Give it a moment, she stressed but it's working... Headmaster... these lacerations... bite marks as well..." another woman, she knew these voices... why did she know these voices?
"Yes, Poppy she needs to be under constant supervision these first twenty four hours... keep her warded from any other student. I fear Miss Granger is in for a very difficult time." That voice, it sounded grave but she knew it well, knew it speak comfortingly and calmly. She relaxed a bit and the hands released her head
"Sleep Miss granger, you need time to heal." The voice was magic... she felt all consciousness slip away before she was lost all together she had one last vague thought
Where's my cat...
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Hermione's eyes opened searing bright light filled her vision pain shooting through her God what was happening... her body hurt she felt so hot and achy with her eyes squeezed tightly closed she lay there panting, why was it so hot? Her face stung and her throat oh god her throat!
She moved hand clawing of the blanket kicking it off trying to cool herself she mumbled incoherently as she shifted arching her back writhing on the bed working her way out of the restricting black robed and the grey woolen vest embellished with the school emblem and Gryffindor colors.
"Hot... so hot..." she groaned fumbling with the button on her blouse she let out a guttural growl before just ripping the fabric buttons popping and clattering across the floor, there was movement and her eyes opened wide turning on her side... that smell, what was it? Something smelled odd... gross cleaner why did it smell so strong!
"Miss Granger are you awake?" That voice, the matron.
"Hot... it's hot to hot please... ice, something it's to hot." She whimpered surprised by the rasping of her voice, she'd not herd how bad it was from her earlier mutterings.
"It's alright Miss granger the heat will pass, undress if you must but I can not cast any cooling spells, on you, they wouldn't work anyway." The woman said her voice sounded heavy why did she sound sad? her thoughts stopped and she clawed her way out of her clothing sweating and panting.
"Water please... Water..." she begged looking to the bed side table, there was a glass but it was empty and the water jugs that normally sat on the tables filled with cool water, her jug was gone
"I'm sorry Miss Granger but you can't have water right now, I promise you can have as much as you want once this passes, try to sleep." The matron advised. Sleep? SLEEP? When she was this hot in this much pain? Why couldn't she have water why did her eyes hurt what happened to her!
A wailing sob echoed in the room and it took her a moment to realize the wails were coming from her.
"Why, why is this happening." Se moaned but the matron had fallen silent, the scent had vanished a bit, and while Hermione could still see her silhouette on the screen she suddenly felt very alone. So, unbearably hot and achy, the nude teenager curled up and wept until she wore herself out and passed out.
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The absence of the head girl was not lost on the students of Hogwarts that morning the grave look on the face of professor McGonagall made many wonder what had occurred, Severus Snape while appearing to obviously not care was silently pondering what had happened, not only did her two friends seems very stricken by the absence of the granger girl, but Dumbledore himself seemed slightly uneasy, of course silly students wouldn't notice but as a man who'd served the old fool faithfully for twenty odd years it wasn't to difficult for him to see the twinkle in his eyes and dulled, and something weighed heavily on his mind.
As it was He wasn't to surprised when Weasley and potter came into their fourth hour double potions class (shared with the Slytherins of course) very subdued. The first slight came from none other then Draco Malfoy. While Snape clearly herd every word the boy said attacking the missing head girl he said nothing waiting though for the Gryffindor boys to retaliate as was his duty... they said nothing much to the surprise of both house the two merely examined the instructions on the bored and set to work, Severus found himself surprised by the small worry that formed in the back of his mind. Never in his life would he admit that the granger girl was a good student... at least not out loud, but her intelligence and love of learning put to mind his school days... though undoubtedly she had a fair few more friends then he, and by his seventh year he'd managed to destroy that friendship with the cruelest slight one could say to a muggle born.
The class passed without significant incident, the routine destruction of Neville's was cleaned up and handled with little fuss, and the two placed their flasks on his desk and set about their book work with out a word to each other.
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it was well into the evening when her eyes snapped open again voices clear as bells rang in her ears.
"It's as we feared Albus, She suffered every symptom... she woke several times delirious she went through the burning with little problem but I fear her mind won't be able to handle what she's become... how could it have gotten her here?" The matron asked
"I'm not sure, the woods are deep and thick it could have been there for many years though I doubt it, we would have known, Hagrid would have noticed... I suppose the unusual disappearance of cats and Hagrid's chickens could be explained by this..." the headmaster said sounding grave. She hadn't even realized she stood till she watched her own hand reach out and draw back the curtain something drawing her towards the voices something... a deep primal need that ached in her body screaming out for the two who spoke.
The woman gasped looking over first before turning away, the headmaster merely looked away. She couldn't understand why were they looking away? Moonlight spilled into the infirmary as she stepped forward the stone cool on her feet... the hot was gone. Reaching out her fingers slipped into something cool she watched at the air around her rippled like a gel before pulling her hand back, more fascinating then the gel like ward around her was her skin, it was glowing, the moonlight spilling across her skin... her pale skin!
"What's happened to me?" she asked her voice! It sounded beautiful resonant to her own ears and so mature... she reached up her fingers running across her face, it felt... different... she felt different...
"Miss Grange... do you remember what happened?" Dumbledore asked calmly. Her hands fell from her face and she shook her head... her hair... it moved differently, it didn't feel bushy at all.. it felt like a silk curtain brushing her back.
"No I don't" she said softly "I... I remember..." she frowned as flashes ran through her mind "Hissing... like a snake and another hissing but it was voice... laughing... cold... I felt so cold... and pain and animal... a whit animal attacked me..." she said slowly trying to piece together the flashes running through her mind.
"Miss granger the animal that attacked you... was a vampire." Dumbledore said sounding less calm then normal Hermione wondered if she could have gotten any cooler...
"A vampire...?" she said weakly
"Mirror! I WANT A MIRROR!" she demanded panic claiming her, the matron turned and with a wave of a wand the curtain beside the girl transfigured into a mirror and anguished cry pulled from the teen her body slender and pale, breasts had formed plump and firm on her chest she had curves she hadn't had the day before her bushy hair was a sleek golden brown curtain that fall down her back and around her face with a hint of red in it, her coffee eyes were the same but the pupils seemed to reflect and odd red glow like red eyes caused by a camera.
Unwilling to believe she opened her mouth pulling back her upper lip her teeth were perfect pearly white... her canines how ever had sharpened considerably and now she though about it her head ache was stemming from the powerful throbbing of her newly acquired fangs. She sank to the ground with a weak sob hugging herself and shaking this couldn't be possible why her why this.
"Miss Granger..." the voice was comforting the matron stood on on side of the gel she mumbled a sleep and passed through it, instantly a wash of a scent hit her, the same scent as before her eyes went wide and she looked up at the woman huger beating through her.
"N-no... Get out... y-you... that scent..." she gasped out desperation claiming her with a blast of air she found herself bound and unable to move.
"Miss ganger the urges will be very controlling for the first few days you'll be staying in this warded area until you can control yourself." Dumbledore said gravely as she was levitated to the bed his back still to them as the woman charmed Hermione into a hospital gown.
"Now Miss Granger please chew these tablet and then I'll give you some water you must be incredibly thirsty then we'll put you to sleep." The woman said Hermione breathed angrily through her nose surprised by her own rage and blood lust but nodded closing her eyes and opening her mouth she felt two tablets drop into her mouth the sudden taste of copper spread through and she thrashed against the taste of blood that washed her mouth.
"Albus!" The woman cried alarmed as the girls arms stretched the magical bindings alarmingly before they were snapped to her sides and she was forced to swallow the vile tablets
"WATER!" she screamed desperately wanting the taste out of her mouth./ the woman helped her sit up before holding a glad to her lips Hermione gulped down the cool water downing four glasses before she gasped panting and sobbing why did this have to happen to her? She though for the hundredth time.
"Alright Miss granger Poppy will give you the dreamless sleep potion now, later tomorrow if your feeling up to it Messers Potter and Weasley can come see you they've been very anxious to know how you are." Dumbledore said Hermione shook her head "N-no please, they can't see me like this please, they'll hate me..." she said tears slipping down her face.
"My dear everything will be fine now take the potion and rest." He advised before striding from the room. Hermione submitted to the potion weeping quietly until she lost consciousness wishing only that the vampire had killed her instead of leaving her alive.