So this plot came into my mind for a couple days. This isn't all of it, but I just feel like making it a little longer. Not anything like FML, but not quite a one-shot.

I'll work on FML and get the next installment out to you all soon :)

None of this belongs to me! I only wish I could be that talented :D


"It would be in your best interest if you would separate your lips long enough and return to your common rooms," Severus Snape stood waiting at the entrance to the classroom. The two students were a deep red shade as they scurried past their potions professor and split off towards their separate common rooms. "That'll be 10 points from both Slytherin and Ravenclaw," he called after them as he pinched the bridge of his nose.

At one point in his miserable life, he enjoyed his late night strolls through the halls of Hogwarts and catching the bothersome students who dared be out after curfew. But in the past few years, he found it less pleasurable. He knew it had something to do with being a father now, but he refused to think he was going soft.

Shaking his head from such thoughts, he closed the classroom door and checked the time. His rounds had been over for hours, but he was biding his time before he had to head back to his room. But now, after seeing the heated session in the empty classroom gave him some thoughts about his wife. Severus changed directions and headed back to his family's rooms.

He hadn't married for love, but by the orders of the ministry. Severus scowled at the thought of it. Who would have believed it when the Ministry of Magic began arranging marriages for witches and wizards? The magical world always boasted about being better than the muggle world, but yet here they were pairing up people like they were breeding stock. Severus couldn't complain about his about his arrangement, though. True his chosen wife could be annoying sometimes, but at least he was paired off by someone with a small smidgen of intelligence.

By the time he made it to his rooms his thoughts came to an end. He went to remove the wards but found them already undone.

Severus' first emotion was anger, thinking his wife had forgotten to put the wards up, but then he remembered she never forgot. That's when fear struck. He could count the people who knew the wards on one hand, and none of them would be in his rooms at such a late hour.

He decided to stop thinking and check his family, but as soon as he opened the door a sound made him stop in his tracks: laughter. Not his child's laughter either. His wife's laughter mixed with a low male's laughter came floating to him from his wife's bedroom.

Severus stumbled against the wall behind him as he felt a deep pain in his heart he'd never felt before.

And for the first time, his heart and brain were telling him the same thing, Hermione's cheating on me...


Hope all is well:)