Ch. 9
Severus Snape woke up that morning; watching his new wife sleeping next to him, he had no idea on how she would react when she woke up. From what he could tell from the night before, she was happy with the things that he had done to her. As he watched her sleeping form, he heard a strange knocking come from the hallway door. He crawled out of bed and wrapped a robe around himself before opening the door. He nearly jumped when he saw his Lord's snake nearly standing before him, with a letter in her mouth.
Severus carefully took the letter from her mouth; he was hoping that the snake would leave, but saw that she would not leave. He opened the letter and read:
Dear Severus,
I am taking my wife out to do some clothes shopping; I want her to look her best, before heading off to school in a few days. I was wondering if you and your new wife would like to come too. Don't worry; I will pay for anything that she would like to have. Unless you want to pay for a couple of things, then I have no problem in that.
I look forward on your reply.
LV
P.S. We leave at eleven o'clock.
Severus nearly growled; he wanted to spend time with Hermione before school started, but he also wanted her to dress better than her muggle middle class clothing. He wanted her to start dressing sharper than normal. Since Hermione's cousin is married to his Lord, he hoped to see new changes. He knew he was only wishing and hoping. He moved away from the door and grabbed a piece a paper and quill and wrote a quick note back to the Dark Lord and gave it to the snake, which slithered away from his door at a fast speed.
Once he closed the door with a thump; he turned and saw Hermione watching him, she was wearing one of his long sleeve dress shirts. Which came down to her thigh, he had not seen anything sexier than that.
Hermione asked, "What was all that about?"
Severus smirked, "It looks like my Lord is taking us and Lyra out on a shopping spree, on him."
Hermione grew pale, "Really?"
He walked over to her and snaked his arms around her waist, to where she was chest to chest with him. He then glanced into her eyes and saw that she was worried. "Don't worry Hermione; he won't do anything while we are all out and about, but he seems to be in a humorous mood for some reason though. Maybe it has something to do with the fact he is now married, or something."
His new wife glared at him, "Doesn't he normally go out shopping or something? No; wait a minute, he usually sends his men to do that kind of thing. So why now?"
"Like I said wife, it's because of Mrs. Riddle that he wants to do this for and he is asking if we would go with. I have written back saying that we would. I cannot dare to say no to him Hermione or he could very well send us to our graves at any moment. I don't know about you, but since I am now married, I have to make sure that you aren't on his hit list anymore."
"Alright," answered Hermione. She knew that Severus knew what was the right thing, when dealing with Lord Voldemort, since he has been doing so for over twenty or so years and been doing so without any kind of help at all. She glanced at her husband with such gratitude that he nearly stepped away from seeing it upon her face.
"Don't; don't look at me as if I am a saint. I am fare from that Hermione."
"Why do you say that?"
Severus sighed and closed his eyes. "I was the one who overheard Dumbledore and that crack of a seer; I heard the prophecy and I went back to the Dark Lord and told him about it. Ever since than I have become a spy and became a dark soul because I sent a woman who I once loved to her grave. All because I hated the man that she married and I didn't know that the Dark Lord would go after the Potters that night. I had told Dumbledore to send them into hiding and he did, but trusted the wrong people in doing so."
This was a shocking development for Hermione with her professor. She had heard stories of him being a spy, but not why he was so. At that moment she really hated Dumbledore and Voldemort for using such a man that they have been doing so. Before she married him, she saw nothing but a shell of a man, who became his own shadow of a man that he could have been. Then when he married her, he showed her a side that she had no idea that he had, he was more human and carrying that he had ever had been known to have. She almost believed that she was falling in love for her own husband, but she would have to see how things go.
She looked on how he looked. She saw that his robe was opened at the top to where she saw most of his chest. At the middle it was tide off with a belt. Then below that she saw part of his leg bare for her to see. This made her even redder than an apple if it was possible. Hermione hoped that she was still breathing; she really did not want to faint in front of her Potions Professor, even though he is know her husband.
During this whole time that she was glancing upon Severus, he was reading her mind and he enjoyed seeing what she enjoyed from him. He saw that she had never acting this way with anyone else, so he was happy to find this out.
"Come wife, let us shower and dress before we start our day." With that being said, he led her to the bathroom.
