This is the Revised first chapter! Thanx Patchye!!!
Chapter 1: It doesn't concern you, or does it?
"What!!!!" came the scream of one Hermione Granger. It could be heard almost halfway to the Great Hall.
"You are all bloody mental. I will never agree to it," came the scream again
"Hermione, dear, calm down. You have to. It is your only option," replied Dumbledore quietly, trying to get her to consider what he was asking.
"I will not calm down, and it is NOT my only option! That is the last thing I will do! Over my dead body will I ever marry HIM!"
"Miss Granger, you are being unreasonable. If the Headmaster says it is the only option, then it is the only option. I wasn't too fond of the idea myself, but you don't see me acting like a child about it," the bat said in an annoyed tone.
"You just stay out of it. I have had about enough of your bullshit lately. This does not concern you so why are you here?" she said before she realized she was wrong. It did concern him. He was the one that Dumbledore was telling her she had to marry. HE was the reason she was about to go insane.
"Miss Granger, stop acting like a child, and as a matter of fact it DOES concern me, or are you too dumbheaded to realize that? You can't be in that much shock. You aren't the little know-it-all that you claim to be now, are you?"
"Kiss my arse, Snape. Go back where you came from, you overgrown bat!" Hermione was by this time really pissed off. She never claimed to be a know-it-all. People just called her that because she was smart.
Sarcastically Snape replied, "It would be inappropriate to 'kiss your arse' in front of the Headmaster, and I don't believe I would fit back inside my mother. Especially if I am 'overgrown'. As for the bat part, I don't have wings, and I am awake during the day. I would think that you of all people would be intelligent enough to realize those facts. Neville Longbottom would be able to see them, and I thought you were a million times smarter than him, but I guess not."
The look on Hermione's face was surprisingly frightening to Snape. He never been scared around any woman other than his mother before in his entire life, but the look on Hermione's face was way too much for him to handle. For the first time in years, Professor Severus Snape said, "Oh God, Hermione, I—I'm—I am sorry..."
At this Dumbledore laughed. He couldn't take it anymore. The two people standing in front of him looked like a married couple, and Severus had actually apologized. When had he ever apologized….?
"Severus...If you don't mind...will you please wait outside?" Dumbledore asked, looking at Severus with the 'you aren't helping, so go away' look.
"Yes...I do mind...this concerns us both, therefore we should both be involved. It isn't all just about her, I have feelings too, she's not the only one that is mortified of this. I have been happy living alone for years and I don't want to suddenly get married, especially not to HER! A student none the less, and a girl 20 years my junior! It will disrupt my life completely!"
Hermione stared in shock. 'She learned more about Snape in the past 2 minutes than she had in 7 years—Severus, his name was Severus, if he was going to be her husband, she would call him Seve... Wait, she thought, did I just agree to myself to marry Sev...Snape!!? I think I am going nuts. God help me. Someone take me to a psychiatric ward, like Neville's parents were taken…please, I am begging you! I have gone bonkers!'
"Hermione...are you okay...?" Dumbledore asked, noticing that she was staring off into space with this look on her face.
"Uh… What???" she managed to choke out. "I'm fine."
"Do you agree to marry Severus? It is your only option to keep you out of the hands of the Malfoys. I'm sorry, but I think you guys could get along quite well, if you were both willing to work on it. You both love potions and books, and you both have to deal with unintelligent
people every day, and you both are stubborn. In my eyes, you are perfect for each other. If you were married to him, you would never get bored during a conversation, and you wouldn't have to wait for him to look up words that you say while having an intelligent conversation."
For some reason, Dumbledore was making sense to her. She hated it when people asked her what words meant when they were having conversations.
Maybe he's going bonkers too. Maybe he should go to the psychiatric ward with her—he would make a good cellmate, Hermione thought as she was listening to Dumbledore ramble on and try to convince her it wasn't all that bad.
Then Dumbledore asked, "So what do you say."
Hermione thought to herself, What do I say, I say no. You two both need to go to the mental hospital without me. I will never in my life marry Snape, nor would I even consider it.
Quietly she mumbled……..
A/N: Sorry for the cliff hanger, but I thought it would add a little suspense, I already have half of the 2nd chapter written, so just please be patient.
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Special Thanks to Patchye for being my beta. She helped the story sound a lot better. Thank you Patchye!!!!!!
