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Once the children were sound asleep, the adults could finally relax. Severus had just returned from his little conference with the Headmaster concerning Russie's zoo snatch.

Severus was in a bad mood to begin with but found his mood to be in an even worse state of array after the Headmaster thought the whole fiasco was the most hilarious thing he'd ever heard in his life. Determined not to take his crappy mood out on his new beau, Severus decided he needed some TLC. Some tender loving copulating.

The couple sat cuddled on the couch watching Elf. Hermione had commandeered Severus into watching it with her usual argument of "It's never too early for Christmas stuff!" plus December was a mere few weeks away and he knew that Christmas would be arriving soon so he didn't mind near as much. Any excuse to get close to Hermione was a good excuse in his opinion.

"Cheer up love. What can I do to make you feel better?" Hermione asked as she kissed his lips. She was playing with his hair and looking into his eyes with such love and devotion that Severus nearly choked. He felt slightly guilty for his plan to get Hermione naked again.

"Um...perhaps let me make love to you? I think that'd help my mood." He gave her a crooked smile.

She squinted her eyes at him in suspicion, "You know Severus, you don't have to make excuses up to get my in bed. I'm your girlfriend...as weird as that sounds...if you want to make love to me, just initiate it. We don't need your Slytherin tactics to get me into bed anymore. I am your woman, you are my man. We've had sex more than once now, there is no need to feel like you have to trick me into bed. I am yours, body and soul. " She kissed him passionately on the mouth.

As they separated, Severus began playing with a ringlet of her hair and smiled at her warmly, a sight that made Hermione's knees go weak every time, he really was extra handsome when he smiled like that.

"I'm sorry love, it's just so strange that you are finally mine. It's hard to believe you want me, you love me as much as you do. Hermione 'Know-it-All, Gryffindor Princess' Granger and Severus 'The Greasy Bat Head Snake' Snape...who would have thought, eh? Two old enemies, fell in love. How cliche!

Hermione smiled, "Yes, life has turned out strange. I mean, if anyone had ever told me that I'd fall in love with the professor who hated me at school and that he'd be in love with me too, ten years ago...I'd have told them to fuck off." She laughed.

"I never hated you Hermione..." Severus explained, "I had a reputation to uphold. Being a muggle born hating Death Eater who favoured you would not have sat well with Old Tommy Boy!"

She rubbed his cheek with her soft, little hand and smiled.

"I know that now darling. But I always thought you were amazing, intelligent and mysterious despite your treatment of me as a school girl. I suppose I was doomed to love you from the start, it just took a little while for me to grow up and realise." She snuggled into his neck with a contented sigh.

"For what it's worth, I apologise for my behaviour to you then love. I was a difficult man in a difficult place, sometimes you students were subjected to my mood swings and childish behaviour. I thank the gods that you saw through that and loved me anyway. I really did think you were a brilliant intellect, my brightest student ever. I suppose I could only fall so hard for someone as intelligent, wonderful and beautiful as you. I suppose I was doomed to love you from the off too...well once you'd hit puberty anyway." He chuckled.

Her laugh rang around the room like a sweet melody, Severus loved when she laughed.

"Ah Severus. Puberty...now that was a fun time. I wonder if that's why Russie named the penguin Pubert? I mean....Pubert?...what a bloody name!" She snorted and laughed hysterically into his neck.

The vibrations against his skin made his nether regions react in full force, Hermione's incandescent giggles however, soon calmed him down as the humour of Russie's antics got the better of him.

He gave a hearty, rich laugh.

"I honestly do not know where he got that name from. Gods I never remember being so mischievous or humorous when I was his age."

"Your childhood was never pleasant love. Within this environment, you're actually getting to be a kid and I think, as much as the two of them are a pain in the arse, that this experience may help you to feel content with your life once they return back inside us." She looked at him thoughtfully.

"I am content with my life now Hermione. I have the woman I love, I am dark lord free and I am doing a job I love. What's not to feel content about? I'd say I was extremely satisfied with my life as it is right now, contented just doesn't cut the mustard. I mean, look at us right now. I had planned on ravishing your delectable body again tonight when I came back from my meeting with Albus but I'm actually enjoying just having this conversation with you.I still plan on ravishing you but I like how we can talk about intelligent subjects or penguins names Pubert! " He was rewarded with a resounding belly chuckle from Hermione's lips.

"Oh Merlin Severus...you make me laugh. I love you so much." She gave him a small peck on the lips. Severus's heart skipped a beat every time she told him she loved him, it was still such a shock to his system.

"And I love you my beautiful Hermione." He lifted her chin and gazed into her chestnut brown eyes. "I love you with all that I am." He kissed her with unbridled passion, pouring all his love and emotion into the kiss.

Hermione could feel her heart beating out of her chest, still feeling that the idea of Severus Snape being in love with her was a very surreal occurrence. She tried her best to ignore the heat she was feeling in between her legs but as she had found the past few days with Severus...the horny hormones won out.

She slipped her hands from their current position within his hair and trailed her fingers down to her lover's bulging crotch. "Take me to bed Severus...show me how much you love me."

And Severus did show her...four times to be exact. Hermione was walking like a cowboy who had lost his horse the next morning, much to her lover's delight and pride!


a/n: aww love. A wee thank you to my old school mate who gave me the idea for Russie stealing a penguin. My friend stole a baby penguin from the penguin parade at Edinburgh zoo when he was 6. His parents were shocked to find a baby penguin in his backpack that night lol

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