AN: I have been coming up with a lot of ideas lately, and I honestly can not decide if I am going to keep a couple of my stories one shots or add on more chapters. I know for a fact that one shot's will not have extra chapters added on to them, UNTIL S.F is finished. Hopefully that will be soon. So here is another One Shot. Thanks for being so wonderful and reading my stories. I just hope you guys like reading them as much as I like writing them.

"Avada Kedavra!" Harry Potter shouted. Voldemort fell to the ground. He was dead.

Everything was in slow motion as Hermione was fighting off spells from death eaters all around. When she heard those two words it seemed like everything came to a stop. The Dark Lord was finally dead. All of his followers that hadn't yet been killed disaperated with a pop. The war was finally over.

Hermione didn't stay around though. She ran as fast as she could to the Shrieking Shack. She remembered Harry running up to her saying Snape was dead. Voldemort had killed him. However, Hermione didn't want to believe it. She needed to see for herself. As she finally ran into the ramshackle shack she dropped to her knees.

Severus Snape was laying there in his own puddle of blood, staring up towards the ceiling with empty eyes.

"Oh no, no, no no!" Hermione breathed trying to feel for a pulse on her former Professors neck.

There was none.

"Professor…" Hermione chocked out. "…please wake up! Please! If I told you we won would that bring you back? Please!" She screamed. "You're free Professor, from that evil evil man! It is over! Please just wake up!" Hermione shook him.

It was no use. Severus Snape was dead.

"We lost so many people Professor. Fred, Dobby, Mad-Eye, Tonks…." Her voice cracked when she said the last three people. "…Remus, and my parents. I can't lose you Professor! I just...can't." She cried desperately.

She laced her fingers in his big cold hand. "You make me feel safe Professor…." She laid her head on his chest. She couldn't accept the fact that he was dead. If it wasn't for him, they would have lost everything. She knew in the back of her brain he wasn't coming back, but she was so lost and desperate, she felt that if she talked to him, he would come back.

She closed her eyes as she laid her head right where his heart would be. "Professor, I want you to know something…" She needed to be brave. She believed that's what he would have wanted. "…Many people say you are a cold heartless man, but I do not believe it one bit. I know you have a heart professor. I know how good of a man you are. If it wasn't for you being so brave and courageous, Harry would have died along time ago, including me and tons of other people. You saved the wizarding world Professor! You also need to know you will always be loved, and you always were loved to the very end. By me. I guess I fell in love with you somewhere along the way. My bet is third year when you protected us from Remus. I thought it was just a silly school girl crush, but the loved only grew stronger. I just wish I could have told you before..." She looked up at his fang marks on his neck and gently placed her hand on them. She didn't care about the blood that oozed through her fingers. She just started to cry hard.

"…I wouldn't have cared if you rejected my love, as long as you would have known that I did love you, as long as you would have heard it…" She cursed herself for being such a coward.

She lifted herself up off him, never letting go of his hand. She wiped away the tears on her own bloody sleeve.

"I will come back for you Professor. I promise. I just need to get someone to help me carry your body back." She started to get up, but then stopped.

"I will ALWAYS love you Severus! Till the day that I die, I will always love you!" She squeezed his hand and gently leaned down and kissed his cold blue lips.

It took all the strength and power she had to get up and leave. She went to go get someone to help her move his body. She had decided righ then and there when she saw his dead body that she was going to use up all her money to give him the funeral he deserved. She loved him that much.

Hermione Granger went to look for Harry and Ron to help carry him and lay him with the other bodies.

If she would have stayed just for a couple more minutes she would have saw Severus legs twitch, and then his arms, and then he let in a big breath as if he hadn't breathed in years. The Draught of the Living Death potion finally wore off. He reached into his pockets quickly and drank down several vials of Bloody Replenishing potion. He also drank a couple other ones to help him get to his feet and flee.

He stopped as he limped out the door, his hand on his neck. He looked back towards Hogwarts. He felt a pang of guilt enter him. He had heard everything Hermione had said. He didn't want to imagen what it was going to do to her when she returned for his body, and he wasn't there.

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Hermione walked back with Harry and Ron. They were going to retrieve Snape's body. As they walked in, Hermione went pale.

"Where is he?" She asked frantically.

Harry and Ron didn't know what to say or do.

"Where is he?" Hermione yelled, running around the Shack looking everywhere.

"Hermione…" Harry said softly. "Hermione, Severus is gone. You have to let him go."

Hermione looked as if she was going to pass out. "NO! I WILL NOT LEAVE HIM HERE HARRY!"

"Hermione he is not here! Take a look for yourself!" Ron said calmly. However Harry shot him a look.

"Come on Hermione, we need to get you looked at. You are bleeding really badly from the cut on your stomach." Harry grabbed her arm gently but she yanked him off her.

"DON'T TOUCH ME! I NEED TO FIND HIM!"

"Hermione, come on." Harry said gently. He motioned Ron with his head to grab Hermione's other arm. "…You have done everything you can, its time to go. We can't have you risking your health to find a dead body."

They gently started to drag her out. She was in hysterics.

"NOOOOO! SEVERUS PLEASE COME BACK!" She yelled and kicked. "NOOOO PLEASE NO!" She screamed as she tried to thrash out of Harry and Ron's arms and back to the shack. About a minute later she passed out. The stress being all too hard on her.

Severus had watched the whole thing from behind a tree. He watched the two men carry her away. As he watched, for the first time in twenty five years; a tear rolled down Severus' cheek.

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