Chapter 20: July Part 2

It has been a couple of days since Hermione's break down. Severus was there for her as much as he could, when he was he would just hold her on the couch, rubbing her back gently as she laid her head on his chest listening to him breath.

"How are you feeling Mia?" Severus asked her. Hermione sighed a little before answering.

"Okay I guess. Better than three days ago. I wouldn't be here today if it weren't for you." Hermione answered back to him. Severus kissed the top of her forehead.

"I'm glad I was able to persuade you not to jump. My life would be empty without you. You fulfill me. I swear to you, I will do everything in my power to make you happy for the rest of your life. I love you." Severus said. Hermione smiled at this, she turned her head to look at him and planted a sweet kiss upon his lips.

"I love you too sweetheart, with you just being here with me, you make me happy." Hermione said to him. She loved seeing him smile, his smile makes him look so much younger. For a few minutes of silence, they stayed in each other arms before she broke the silence.

"Do you know if I can meet up with Harry and Ron?" Hermione asked Severus.

"I've asked Minerva if there was a chance. We might be able to have you meet up with Mr. Weasley, but it is still too dangerous for the two of you to meet up with Mr. Potter. As you are well aware, Mr. Potter's Occlumancy (sp?) is horrendous, if you-know-who gets inside his head and sees you, you are as good as dead." Severus said.

"Can I at least Owl Harry?" Hermione asked.

"Of course, but you cannot give him any ideas of where you and Mr. Weasley are located. You must be very discreet about it okay?" Severus said.

"Oh, okay. When can me and Ron meet?" Hermione asked.

"In a couple of days, I've been told by Minerva that Mr. Weasley is….going insane by being cooped up in a house all day and all night." Severus said. Hermione chuckled at this.

"I imagine he would. If I was him I would be too, he probably feels like he's in a mental institution or something." Hermione laughed. Severus did chuckle at this too.

"Please…don't compare yourself with Mr. Weasley you are surely not incompetent, and…I would never marry a Weasley." Severus said kissing her forehead.

"Not even Ginny?" She asked laughing. When she looked at him he gave her a scowl that, if looks could kill, she would be dead in an instant.

"Never, I would NEVER marry her, she may be decent at potions, but she doesn't hold a shine to you." Severus said. As he said this, Hermione busted out laughing.

"I'm glad you find this topic amusing." Severus said to her.

"I hate to tell you this, but I do find it very funny." Hermione laughed. Severus held her closer to his body.

"I'd rather hear you laugh then hearing you cry." Severus said.

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A couple of days later, Hermione was a little anxious because she would be seeing Ron today, she sure that Ron is excited as well, when Severus walked in the door after a long hard day of teaching dunderheads. He found Hermione once more in the library. She was sitting in her normal lounge chair reading a book when she saw him; she placed to book down on the table and ran into his arms.

"How was your day dear?" She asked him kissing him sweetly.

"Long, thank Merlin it's Friday, Mr. Weasley will be here in a hour, so I'll leave you so you can get ready." Severus said as he still had his arms wrapped around her tiny waist.

"You are more than welcome to join me in the shower." She said with a smirk. Severus didn't mind the idea at all.

"You go on ahead. I'll be there shortly." Severus said kissing her one more time and letting her go. Hermione had walked up the stairs and gotten the shower ready for the both of them.

When he finally went upstairs, he saw her cloths scattered around the room. He did the same thing as he headed to the bathroom he stripped down, finally, after taking off his boxers, he reached the bathtub, and the curtains covered her as he saw her shadow from behind the curtains. After he was face to face with the curtain he pulled it aside and climbed in with her. As he stepped in, he wrapped his arms once more around his fiancés waist. She turned around in his arms an placed butterfly kisses upon his chest.

As they took a shower each of them washed the other. After about thirty minutes of showering, they reluctantly and started to get ready for their guess. When they were done dressing they decided to go down stairs and sat on the couch while waiting for Ron.

About another thirty minutes went on by when they finally heard a knock on the door.

"He's here!" Hermione shouted with enthusiasm and ran up to the door to answer it. When she did, she found Ron on the other side with Professor McGonagall. When she opened the door Ron ran up to her and almost knocked each other down trying to embrace her.

"Mione! I missed you!" Ron said with pure happiness. Minerva smiled at the two Gryffindor's and the two of them walked into Severus's house.

"How are you Minerva?" Severus asked greeting her with a hand shake. Minerva took it graciously.

"I am good, although Mr. Weasley can be a real pain in the arse." Minerva said, Ron turned his head to her.

"HEY! I wasn't that bad. I've been cooped up in a house all day and night. I needed to see my friend." Ron said with an arm still wrapped around Hermione's waist. Severus saw this and felt a little pang in his chest.

"Well, let's not just stand in the doorway. Come on in, I'll bring some drinks in, I got tea, coke, and water, go in the living room, I'll be back in a second." Severus said with a little annoyance in his voice. Hermione noticed his change in behavior; she would have to ask him what the matter was. She led Professor McGonagall and Ron to the living room.

Minerva took a seat on the sofa by the fire place, and Ron and Hermione took their seats on the love seat. Minerva couldn't help but smile at the two. She thought that they would make a wonderful couple.

"How have you been Ms. Granger, been occupying yourself in Severus' library?" Minerva asked. Hermione smiled at her question.

"Of course Professor, Se-Professor Snape's library is amazing!" Hermione said. Ron chuckled.

"Mione loves her books." He added, Hermione blushed when he said this. Severus finally came in with some drinks. Severus knew Minerva wanted tea with two sugars, Hermione coke, and he grabbed Ron a coke as well as him.

"Here you go Ms. Granger, Mr. Weasley." Severus said handing them their drinks.

"Thank you sir." Hermione said taking her coke. After she tried Coca-cola for the first time when she first got here, she was addicted to it.

"You're welcome Ms. Granger." Severus said taking a seat next to Minerva.

After about ten minutes of catching up, Minerva wanted to give Hermione and Ron some time alone.

"Severus, can you show me your rose garden? I haven't seen it yet, and you know how much I love flowers." Minerva asked him. Severus grunted a little.

"Fine, Ms. Granger, I'm sure you can keep Mr. Weasley occupied while I am away." Severus said getting up from his seat and started to head out. He didn't even wait for a reply as Minerva followed after him.

"Hermione, how have you been truly? Living with Snape must be hard." Ron said as he noticed Snape was out of ear shot.

"Professor Snape isn't bad at all Ron. You should give him a chance. He's a nice guy." Hermione said.

"Nice guy my bloody arse! Have you not noticed how he treated us back at Hogwarts?" Ron asked.

"Yeah, but he has to do it." Hermione answered.

"Why?" Ron replied.

"I can't tell you that now, but once the war is over you'll understand." Hermione said trying to defend her fiancé. After talking for about thirty minutes or so, Ron finally had a question he's wanted to ask for a very long time.

"Anyways, I have a question; I hope you can answer honestly." Ron said wrapping an arm around her shoulders. Hermione felt a little uncomfortable now.

"Um, okay, shoot." Hermione said, she thinks she might know what the question is.

"Hermione, you know that I love you right? I mean, more than a friend should. I was wondering…if you would be my girlfriend?" Ron asked. He didn't know it and neither did Hermione, but Severus and Minerva was just walking in but stopped as they heard the question. Minerva couldn't be happier, but Severus was angrier beyond belief.

Before Hermione replied, Severus couldn't stay to hear her answer; he went upstairs before his anger grew out of control.

"Um, I'm sorry Ron; I love you too, but only as a brother of sorts. I do need to say that my heart belongs to someone else." Hermione said, trying to let him down easy, but it wasn't really working.

"Who is it Mione? Who's the guy?" Ron asked, with his face turning red.

"I can't tell you who yet, but I'm in good hands and I love him dearly." Hermione said. Ron looked like he was about to cry, Minerva watched in horror, as she was sure that they would end up together.

"Fine, be that as it may, let you fuck whoever you want. I think we're done here, have you whore yourself out to whomever." Ron said with anger, Hermione began to tear up, she had never heard Ron say that to her before, and it hurt pretty bad, it hurt worse than when Malfoy called her Mudblood. Minerva was shocked, this was the time to step in.

"MR. WEASLEY! HOW DARE YOU SPEAK T YOUR FRIEND LIKE THAT! FIFTY POINTS FROM GRYFINDORE!-I am so sorry Ms. Granger, This was a pleasant visit up to this point, but I think it is time for us to take our leave." Minerva said. She grabbed Ron by the ear and hurried out the door and went back to the mansion.

Hermione had tears rolling down her eyes; she couldn't believe her best friend would call her a whore. She ran up the stairs and into the bedroom and plopped herself on the bed and began to cry into her pillow. Where was Severus? She needed him right now.

Severus was in the bathroom staring at him in the mirror. He was angry; after all he did for her, and what he said to her she threw him out like a rag into the garbage. He felt he has been used. He thought she loved him. But clearly, she loves another. After splashing some water to his face to get cleaned off, he went to the bathroom door to go into the bedroom; he heard a muffled cry and knew it was Hermione. He opened it and saw her lying in their bed crying into the pillow.

He walked up to her slowly, placing a hand on her shoulder.

"Ms. Granger, what is the matter?" Severus said, he couldn't call her by her first name anymore.

"Ron…Ron asked me to be his girlfriend, I turned him down because I was in love with you, he got mad and called me a whore and went home with Professor McGonagall…wait…why did you call me Ms. Granger? We're alone." Hermione said between tears as she stared into his black eyes.

Severus knew he was wrong, he needs to stop jumping into conclusions, when he heard that Mr. Weasley called Hermione a whore, he was furious. He took her in his arms and held her close.

"I'm sorry Mia, I walked in and heard Mr. Weasley asking you to be his girlfriend, I got mad and went upstairs, I didn't hear the rest. I'm sorry for jumping in conclusions. I thought you wouldn't love me anymore." Severus said kissing her temple.

"Please, don't ever think that Severus, I'm yours and always will be. I will love you forever and always baby." Hermione said kissing his lips tenderly.

"I love you too. The next time I see Mr. Weasley, he'll have hell to pay for calling my fiancé a….you know." Severus didn't even want to say it out loud.

"Thanks, it's been a long day, would you care in sleeping with me?" Hermione asked with a little smile. Severus smirked.

"Of course my love." Severus said as he stripped down to his boxers and climbed into bed. He scooted closer to Hermione, pulling her closer to his body and soon, both of them fell into a peaceful sleep.

A/N Sorry for the wait, I hope this satisfy you. Please review and tell me what you think! I would very much appreciate it.