Hey! This is my first attempt at a fanfic . and of course it HAS to be Hermione/Snape . my favorite couple. Just a slight warning . if you can't handle severe lemons (explicit sex), rape, attempted suicides and language . don't read this. I plan on making this story as dark as humanly possible . even more hopefully ^ ^. So please, read, review and enjoy.

Chapter one: Night Wish

Hermione Granger studied her figure in the mirror affectionately. No longer was she the plain know-it-all, but a beautiful young woman, with a vast expanse of knowledge. She had grown in more than one way through the years, and now her true colors were shining through, revealing what she was, and what she could be.

Standing at 5'6, rather short compared to Harry and Ron, she had a supple figure, curvy in all the right places, a flat stomach, and full soft breasts. Her hair, no longer the bushy unkempt mass, was long and silky, hanging in chestnut ringlets flowing down her back. Pale skin marked with the occasional freckle, coated her. She glowed.

- This year shall be different. - She promised herself. - I will not let Snape harass me. And maybe this year . maybe this year I'll be able to tell him how I feel . -

She sat down on her bed and thought. - I shouldn't be feeling this way, but I can't help it anymore. I've fought it, but it keeps coming back stronger . It wont allow me to be alone anymore . -

She loved him. She was in love with Severus Snape, and it was tearing her to pieces. He would never return her feelings, which she was sure of; he would laugh and send her on her way. Mock her outright and plunge the knife deeper than it had already been plunged. How much more of this could she take?

Her eyes were solid. It looked as though her pupils had vanished completely. Tears ran down her cheeks freely. He got up from her bed, and appeared to gaze up at the moon. - Full moon - she thought. - I must release my pain. At least some of it . -.

She walked to her dresser, and pulled from a pouch what looked like a small dagger. The hilt was black-silver, with silver snakes entwining it, and green emeralds marking their eyes. She bought it in Knockturn alley a year ago, for one sole purpose.

She marched to her bathroom, in a kind of trance coma, and gazed into the mirror hanging above her sink, yet again reveling in her reflection.

It is useless if he does not want it -

She turned away and gazed at her bare arm. She raised the dagger and brought it swiftly across a patch of skin. A second later, a line of blood appeared on her forearm, and then began to drip ominously into the sink below. She gazed at her newly opened wound, and watched as it slowly, but gradually healed itself, back once again to the flawless skin it was. It was charmed, so that every cut you sustain, heals immediately, as long at the wound was self inflicted. She gazed at her arm for a bit, and then seemed to come back to herself.

She dropped the dagger and clutched her arm to her chest in agony; the mark may be gone, but the pain was still there.

Meanwhile, at Hogwarts...

Severus sat in his rooms, brooding and mulling over trains of thought, as usual. The only unusual thing was the way the train was headed.

Hermione Granger. The girl had finally gotten to him. The day she walked into his classroom six years ago, he knew she would be his downfall; although he didn't expect this.

He loved her. As impossible and wrong sounding as that was, he was truly and utterly in love. He didn't know how it happened. At first he just admired her intellect, the way she took charge. Then he admired the way she had grown from the child she was into the beautiful . woman? Yes, she was a woman now. Perhaps Goddess would be a proper word best fitted? He didn't know anymore.

But the chances of her loving him back, that was ridiculous. How could she love and old, callous man with a past that came back to bite him in the ass every day. He didn't deserve her, and he knew he could never have her. - She'll probably end up with Weasley. Throw away a bright future to settle down and create a new generation of dunderheads. Gods forbid it comes to that . -

He picked up his glass, and took a swig of his drink. - Scotch does the mind good... or rather sends you into a stupor once you drink enough and then you can forget what has been troubling you momentarily. - He thought.

Before he could set down his glass, he doubled over in pain, dropping it. With eyes glazed over in pain he watched it smash as in slow motion. He then looked at his arm, online to side blood welling up in a perfectly straight cut across his forearm, just below the dark mark. His eyes grew wide. - What caused this? What the hell . - The blood was dripping steadily on to the floor, creating a small pool of red before his eyes. He couldn't tear his gaze away.

He gasped in horror. In the midst of the blood was a picture. A girl, in her undergarments, sitting in a corner of what looked like a muggle bathroom, sobbing, clutching her right arm in the exact spot he now clutched his left.

She raised her head for a fraction of a second, and looked as though she was staring at him

-Dear lord- he thought.
It was Hermione. He needed to get to the headmaster, and fast.

Hi! So what did you think of the first chapter? Please R/R and give me your input. I'll have chapter 2 posted ASAP. Thanks guys! DarkRose88