Hey me lovelies! So here's a new idea that came to my head. Rose Bower (Her Royal Goddess) beta-ed it. Go check her fics! She has many HG/SS fics :)
And now to the story:
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Warning: this story contains threesome. It's a HG/HP/SS story, so if you don't like, don't read and don't review! See yourselves as warned.
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His Sanity, His Insanity
Chapter 1
They both were in his life. One of them was his sanity and the other his insanity. They were driving him crazy, making him restless, tantalizing him without their knowledge. Yet they made the scattered pieces that was his life fall into place. Everything seemed more organized and correct, and around them he felt peace. He would dream about them at night and stare at them for hours in the day. They were everything to him, yet he was almost nothing to them.
And it was killing him.
Currently both of them were standing in front of him, waiting for the last of the students to leave the class.
"Professor Snape, may we speak with you please?" Harry Potter inquired politely, too politely, which meant he wanted something. His girlfriend, Hermione Granger, was standing by his side, holding his arm and nibbling on her lower lip. He ignored it the best he could and nodded for Potter to continue.
"We." Hermione started instead "Harry and I..." She waved her hand between them "Want to be your apprentices."
Severus was shocked. It wasn't the idea itself that shocked him, but the fact that they asked him to be their mentor and master. He knew that during the final year of the war Harry had discovered a fascination for potions, a fascination that started ever since he found his potion book in his sixth year. Hermione, who had always loved potions helped him gain knowledge and experience.
"Why do you want me?" He asked them, curious to hear their answer.
"Because you're the best there is and we know you've never taken on an apprentice before so we want to be your firsts." Harry shrugged.
Severus guessed that was a good enough reason. The only problem was, as Harry had said, he'd never mentored anyone before now and he didn't think he'd ever feel inclined to do so. Quite frankly he didn't want to have an apprentice and especially not those two.
"That is absolutely not possible." He said, refusing to think about it any further. He knew that if they wanted they would be able to persuade him, and he hoped that if he spoke harshly enough to them then they would leave him alone.
"But why? Please Sev, we don't want to have to go to another Potion Master. We like you and want to be your apprentices!" Harry tried again, pouting slightly.
"Merlin! Stop it, Harry, would you?" He snapped at him, taking his frustration on the poor unsuspecting boy. Did he have to push his lips out that way? The damn tease!
"Professor, please!" It was Hermione's turn to look at him pleadingly. "If we find another master we'll have to wait until we finish our last year here at Hogwarts, and we will waste a whole year. With you as our master we'd be able to start now and continue learning here at the same time." She tried to reason with him, but it had nothing to do with reason.
In fact, everything Severus was feeling was far from reasonable. The embarrassing truth was that Severus Snape was deeply and uncontrollably in love with Hermione Granger. The unreasonable part was that he was just as deeply and uncontrollably in love with Harry Potter. And they both were in love with each other. Wasn't it funny? Yes, Severus didn't find it very funny either.
He wasn't sure when it started. He'd known about his feelings for Hermione for a long time. Her intelligence and starvation for knowledge always intrigued him, but the fact she was his student didn't leave him much room for operation, so he did nothing about it. His feelings for her were understandable, it was sane, and she was his sanity.
Yet he had to watch how she slowly fell into the arms of the person who was supposed to be his arch nemesis, the son of his worst enemy, James Potter.
But then the feelings for Harry started, and with him he could put a finger on the exact moment this boy crept into his heart. It was at the final fight, when Harry was exhausted drained. Severus saw the dark lord slowly approaching to Harry's limp body, and raising his wand to send the killing curse. At that moment Harry lifted his eyes over Voldemort's shoulder and looked at him with so much desperation. He tried to get up to defend himself but his legs were shaky and he stood unsteadily.
Without thinking, Severus ran straight to the dark lord, and knocked him down to the floor, surprising the man who never expected a non-magical attack. That was the opening that Harry needed, and while Voldemort pushed Severus away from him and tried to regain his position, Harry mustered all the power he could find within himself and shouted 'Avada Kedavra'. Voldemort collapsed near Severus, dead.
Severus quickly stood up, just to be bombarded by a sobbing Harry Potter. He nuzzled Severus' neck and threw his arms around him while crying and trembling and mumbling "Thank you" over and over again.
It was at a this very moment in time, when Harry was in his arms and nuzzling his neck, that Severus fell for Harry Potter, and the strangest thing was he never fell out of love with Hermione. That was crazy and insane, which made Harry his insanity.
And it was pure torture, seeing them together, kissing and waving to everyone in the crowded celebrations that followed Voldemort's death. They invited him every time to thank him for saving Harry's life.
The tabloids went crazy when they discovered Harry and Hermione were a couple. The paparazzi never stopped ambushing them, trying to get pictures of them kissing, hugging, walking hand in hand or just being together. Severus tried to ignore those tabloids, but being the pathetic lovesick puppy that he was, he ripped out every page that had even the smallest picture of them and saved it in a special box he bought, locked under the heaviest spell he knew.
He hated himself so much; hated the influence they had on him, the feelings they stirred in his stomach, how Harry became a close permanent part of his life, with Hermione there as well.
Now she was standing in front of him, asking him to make them even more attached to him, and he couldn't allow it. He would never be able to control his actions around them. It was already hard enough as it was, having them come round every now and then for a friendly dinner...At least that's what it meant for them; for him it meant several cold showers and a night full of dreams about them doing what they did with each other but including him too, consequently leaving him to 'enjoy' some more cold showers.
"It's impossible and that's final!" He roared, closing his eyes, aiming to scare them away.
"Sev." Harry said, pouting again. Harry preferred to call him Sev because he said it's shorter and easier to say.
To Severus distress, Harry came closer to him, and threw his arms around Severus nuzzling the side of his neck just like he did the day he saved his life. He had that annoying habit of doing it at the most unexpected times. Or when he wanted something from him, which apparently was the case now. That was how he'd convinced Severus to accept the stupid title of order of Merlin, first class. He felt ashamed Harry discovered this weakness he had for that gesture, but was powerless to resist it.
"Harry, please don't." He whispered stiffening and pinching the bridge of his nose.
"Mmm." Was Harry's only reply as he buried his nose deeper in Severus' neck, Severus sighed in defeat. That was a lost war and he knew it. There was no use in fighting it, especially when Hermione was giving him her cutest puppy face over Harry's shoulders.
"Fine." He choked out, knowing he was later going to kick himself for his inability to say no to those two. Immediately Harry hugged him tighter and Hermione gave a squeak of delight and came to fling her arms on Harry and him. They stood like that for a moment in a group hug, and Severus couldn't shake the thought this is exactly what he wants; to be able to be with both of them, just like that. Forever.
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Harry and Hermione became an essential part of his life during the next month. They spent every free moment they had at his private chambers brainstorming, planning and sometimes just drinking tea with him. And it was driving him insane. Wherever he went in his chambers there was their special smell. It was supposed to be his private chambers, but they already knew the password to it and they used it freely and with no regard to his privacy.
One day they even caught him with only a towel covering his lower section as he stepped out of his en-suit to his bedroom. Yes, they didn't think it was wrong to look for him in his bedroom when they didn't find him in the living room or the private lab he had. They just stood there just gawking at his body, wrecking their eyes over it shamelessly.
"Damn Harry, why don't you have a body like this?" Hermione asked Harry, mesmerized.
"That would be 'cause I don't exercise obsessively like he does." Harry answered, going rigid. He had a strange look at his face, one Severus didn't recognize.
"I'm just kidding, Harry, jeez, relax!" She rolled her eyes. She said the word 'relax' so emphasized, that to Severus it sounded as if it had some kind of double meaning. To Severus confusion Harry looked at her thankfully, as if she just saved him from a very embarrassing moment.
That day it was very difficult for all of them to concentrate on their potion making, and after dinner they decided to call it a day. Severus wasn't stupid, he could clearly see Hermione sending hungry looks to his clothed body, and he also saw Harry's discreet attempts to kick her under the table every time he thought she stared too much, but the day after they both acted as if nothing happen. The only change in their behavior was the secretive looks they shared and the fact that whenever Harry mentioned the words "Last night." or "Bed." Hermione blushed terribly and quickly changed the subject.
To Severus, it was very apparent that Harry showed her last night that no matter how his body looked, he compensated for it in bed. It was hard for him to think about them having sex for two reasons. The first and most obvious was the fact it aroused him and made him want to jump both of them. Preferably together. The second reason was that it made him extremely jealous. He envied each of them for being able to act on their feelings for each other while he was confiscated of this privilege.
It made him somewhat smug when Hermione made Harry join him to his morning jogging and routine exercise, . though it created some difficult situations for Severus, like having to see Harry all sweaty and sexy, or watching his shirt ride up when he would do some push-ups. It made it much harder to cope with when Hermione joined them from time to time for 'moral support'.
He had to admit they both were very smart and understood everything he said, which made him a little proud of them, because he loved them, if that made any sense. Hermione was of course the brightest, but Harry came really close. Severus discovered that when Harry wasn't mocked, scared or shouted at he could do very well. And he complimented Hermione on the good job she did with him over the last year.
Severus hated his life more and more in those four weeks that passed, and he struggled each day to avoid his rising need for them, a very difficult thing to do when they shoved their love for each other in his face. Whenever Harry said something smart, or grasped a difficult theory Severus taught them, Hermione would jump on him and shower his face with kisses while saying how sexy it was her boyfriend was so smart. And Harry would just look at her adoringly most of the time, when her face was scrunched in her 'learning expression' as Severus came to call it. From time to time he would pull her to a sensual kiss, murmuring something like: "Sorry, I couldn't resist, Mione."
They both toned it down though, when Severus snapped at them one day calling them "Inconsiderate." After all, he couldn't resist them either, but he did anyway, so he thought the considerate thing to do would be for them to at least not kill him like that. He didn't explain this to them, of course, leaving them to think he merely had a problem with their exaggerated PDA.
His suffering came to a new peak, when a little over a three month after they started their apprenticeship they decided to sleep with him in his bed. It was his fault, really, for giving them his password.
To his embarrassment the password was Pygmy Puff. Yes, he was well aware of the stupidity of it, but they talked him into it. It was when the time in the year for him to change his password came, which was approximately a month after the beginning of their apprenticeship. He was thinking about a new password. The twits, of course, started to throw silly ideas like "Hermione and Harry are the best" or "Harry is really good in bed but Hermione is even better."
Soon, their ideas took a dangerous direction as they decided to suggest their sex voices, which basically meant what they shouted to each other when they were doing it. At that point Severus had a difficulty to keep his cock deflated. He frantically thought about killing kittens, or McGonagall in bathing suit just to cool himself down as they moaned, imitating each other in the throes of passion.
"Quiet!" He shouted finally. He had to shut them down. After a month, they felt too comfortable in his presence. Too much, which made him just as much uncomfortable. "The probability I will use one of your suggestions equals to the chances my password would be Pygmy Puff!"
They looked at each other with wide eye, as the same idea came to both of them. Oh shit, why did he say that? Couldn't he shut his big-
"Sev, I think we found your new password." Harry informed him slowly, glee feeling his face.
"No you didn't." Severus tried to say calmly.
"I believe we did Professor." It was Hermione. She always called him Professor, even when he called her Hermione. "After all, we use this password as much as you do, so we have a say in it. It's two against one here, so I think we win." Ever the calculative, his Hermione. Wait, she wasn't his, she was Harry's! And there is no way he would fall for their idea.
"Besides" Harry tried "That's the best password. Everyone knows you're using potions' ingredients as your password. Someone could try saying a bunch of them, and he would eventually hit the correct one. I know I did it a few times." He admitted, not even flinching. "So think about it. No one would even dream you'd use such an un-Snape-ish thing. That's perfect and brilliant!"
"No Harry and these are my rooms, Hermione. It's absurd enough I give you my password, you have no say in it at all."
Then he saw Harry approaching him and all he could think have was 'oh fuck' and in an instant Harry was nuzzling him while hugging him fiercely,. of course he surrendered at this very moment, and so the password was now Pygmy Puff, and he was the one who had to report it to McGonagall, since as the headmistress she had to know all the passwords. He was the one who had to see her eyebrow arch in amusement as the bloody sparkles in her eyes, that Severus was sure Dumbledore somehow found a way to transfer to her, almost blinded him.
And because of this sorry event, they could never forget his password, so no wonder they could enter his chambers even when he didn't know or didn't want them to. Which is exactly what happened that day they decided to take over his bed almost two months later.
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Hey guys!
I originally thought of it as a one shot, but somehow it turned out to be 44 pages in Word! Isn't it crazy? I know! And that's the reason this chapter might seem a little…strange. I had to edit the story so it would have chapters. This chapter is more of an explanation to the setting. So please bear with me and this fic. I really liked the idea of this one, if I do say so myself :)
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