Story: Mine Characters: JK An attempt at starting over.
Somehow they managed to avoid each other all week. He had hoped she'd come to the potions room as usual but knew that she wasn't going to without a word from him. By the end of the week he realized that he missed her. He spent his nights at his desk, grading papers, hoping she would come to him. His pride was too great to go to her, at least directly so he was counting on some of that Gryffindor courage that she was supposed to possess. After their third missed session of brewing he couldn't take it anymore. He sat down and with a deep breath wrote her a letter of apology.
Professor Granger,
I want to profess my deepest and most sincere apologies for the things that were said and done by me. I've no reason to think that you'll forgive me but hope that you can find it in your heart to do so. The truth is I have missed our nights of brewing together. I propose that we start over. Let me introduce myself. My name is Professor Severus Snape, Potions Master at Hogwarts. If you are still interested I would enjoy being your advisor while you go for your own Masters in the subject. Please send your reply as soon as possible in which ever form you prefer. If I don't hear from you I will assume that you have no desire to continue in our communications.
Sincerely,
Severus Snape, P.M. Hogwarts
Reading it over he prepared himself for the possibility that she might not want anything to do with him ever again. Once again he called an elf to him and had it deliver the letter to Hermione. He allowed himself to hope that she would write to him immediately and hopefully with a positive response.
Hermione didn't know what to make of the letter the tiny house elf handed her. She wondered if it was some sort of trick on his part but decided that he was too proud to lower himself to tricking a woman into bed. She was half tempted to just ignore his letter and let him stew over it. However, the longer she thought about it the angrier she got. After what he'd said and done how could he just expect her to forget it and go back to the way things had been? No one had ever kissed her like that or been so hurtful. Before she had time to give it more thought she was nearly running down the hall toward the dungeons.
