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A/N: Chapter Warnings – Mentions of sexual assault, bad language, sexual scenes
Chapter 29: Sleepover, Naughtiness and Secret Tunnels
Severus nearly spat out his drink at the sound of Hermione's voice from behind him.
"What the devil are you trying to do to me?" He exclaimed, trying to calm his terrified heart.
Severus could not believe that he had let his guard down and not even noticed that he wasn't alone in his rooms.
"It's past midnight! What are you doing in my rooms?" He asked, not that he was unhappy or ungrateful that she was here with him.
"I let myself in, I hope you don't mind. I wondered if I could stay with you tonight. Potion's is first class tomorrow, so as long as I'm sat in that seat before anyone else arrives, it will be ok. Please can I stay Severus?" She asked him.
Severus regarded her and knew it was risky but, there was something off in her eyes, she looked tired and he didn't know why but there was an automatic feeling of concern for her.
"Of course, is everything alright?" He asked her.
"You're asking me if I'm alright? I'm not the one sat there with bruised knuckles. Now what happened to your hand? Can I help?" She asked him worriedly.
Severus felt the tightening of his hand muscles and could feel the pain more clearly now. He was going to need some pain relief potion and bruise salve.
Before he could say anything, Hermione was already running off and finding him what he needed. She returned with the potion and salve and whilst Severus swallowed the potion, she kneeled down beside him and began to gently apply the salve to his damaged hand.
"What happened?" She murmured not expecting to get a response from him.
"I got into a fight" he said.
"With who?" She asked him.
"Black" he told her, watching her carefully for her reaction.
She froze in her actions and stared up at him from her position on the floor.
"I went to speak to Lupin, Black interrupted, and I lost my temper and gave Black a right hook to the face" Severus explained.
Hermione's breath hitched and she didn't say anything in response. She didn't really know what to say in response. She carried on healing Severus' hand as a million thoughts were circling around her head.
Severus was watching her carefully; he was expecting another breakdown to be honest. But Hermione was stronger now and she said nothing about it, knowing that Severus would divulge more details later if he wanted to. She had already intruded into Severus' private affairs too much and felt awful about pressing him on private matters.
"May I still stay?" She asked quietly, once she had finished healing his hand.
She hadn't looked back up at him since her initial reaction and she was staring fixated by the floor.
Severus placed his hand under her chin and raised her head to meet his eyes.
"Yes, you may" he acknowledged her question.
She smiled at him and yawned, she was tired and it was well past midnight now and she had classes in the morning.
"You may have my bed and I will take the sofa" he told her.
She began to protest but he held his hand up having none of it. He was a gentleman and he would sacrifice his bed for the lady.
"I won't let you Severus, I'm smaller than you are and I find the sofa really comfortable, I'll be fine please take your bed" she asked him.
"No, you shall take my bed. You need rest, I won't sleep much anyway" he told her stubbornly, arms crossed and with a raised eyebrow.
"Well I won't take it, I will sleep out here" she replied just as stubborn. She moved to where the sofa was and sat down with her arms crossed and just stared at him.
Severus just stared at her and tried not to chuckle at her stubbornness, two could play this game.
"Don't worry, I will just wait until you fall asleep, and then move you to the bed. It's no problem, like you said, you're tired so you will fall asleep before I will" Severus replied, smirking at her.
"I will not, I can stay awake just as long as you can" she told him.
"Ok, I'll wait" he told as he grabbed a book from the table and settled back to read.
Hermione just stared at him, thinking about how stubborn Severus was and how beautiful he looked when he was concentrating on his reading. After a while of just watching him read, Hermione felt her eyelids drooping, and she could feel herself falling asleep.
Severus looked up and noticed that his Hermione had closed her eyes and seemed to have fallen asleep; he chuckled lightly and put his book down. The whole process of waiting for her to fall asleep had taken less than half an hour and he made his way over to her.
He picked her up in his arms and carried her towards his bedroom. He removed the covers and placed her down on his bed. He removed her cloak that she was wearing and took of her ballet flats that she liked to wander around in, and moved to cover her body with the duvet.
As he looked back at her face, he noticed that her eyes had half opened and that she was aware of her surroundings. She had a couple of tears rolling down her cheeks and Severus froze in place.
He knew she hadn't been alright when he first noticed she was in his rooms. He should've pressed her, something was clearly upsetting her.
"Hermione, what's wrong?" He whispered gently as he took her hand in his now healed one.
She shook her head, she was still half asleep.
"Please stay" she whispered to him, her beautiful brown eyes pleading him.
Severus breathed out, this was wrong. She was half asleep and upset, she didn't really mean it and would freak out in the morning if she found them sharing the fucking bed and then she would lose trust in him and would never forgive him.
"Please" she begged again.
Severus relented and removed his own shoes and cloak. He quickly changed into his pyjama bottoms and turned back towards the bed and noticed that she was still staring at him sleepily.
His bed was huge and he knew that if he slept right towards the edge then he wouldn't be touching her in anyway. As he hesitantly made his way into the bed, he lay down on his back and stared up at the ceiling. He heard Hermione's breathing even out and knew she was falling back to sleep.
He jumped when he felt her small hand placed in his, and looked immediately over to her peaceful face.
Severus wasn't sure how long he lay there just staring at her but soon he began to feel his eyes grow heavy and knew he was falling asleep. There was only one thought on his mind as sleep overtook him.
'My God! She is beautiful'
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Morning came a few hours later and Hermione opened her eyes. She looked around for a moment in bewilderment as she forgot for a second where she was. But then her mind woke up and she remembered the night before.
She remembered everything from walking into her common room, and then the shouting and screaming, and how she had fled the Gryffindor Tower and ran for the safety of Severus' rooms.
Then she remembered Severus and she could feel him as his and her body had become intertwined during the night.
She took in their position and noticed that her hand had made its way up his sleep shirt and was resting on his chest. He looked so beautiful when he was sleeping, so peaceful, so at ease. There were no worries or cares just the world of dreams and he always looked at least ten years younger when he slept. He was amazing.
Severus had his arm thrown over her waist and their bodies were pressed close together. Hermione could feel every inch of his body against hers, including his delicious morning erection.
Hermione was becoming more and more confident with things like this. But only when it was Severus, she still felt uncomfortable when other males touched her and she always felt tense and like she couldn't relax around other males. But Severus, she never had to think twice, it was instantaneous.
With her Severus so close to her, and being able to feel his stiff manhood, she felt naughty and decided she should wake him up in a way that she had read that men liked to woken up.
She slung her leg so that it was over his hip and so their lower bodies were so close, and she gently and teasingly began rocking her hips against him, just catching his erection a little bit with each rocking motion.
Severus moved slightly in his sleep, his body was aware that something was going on but he was in such a deep sleep that the movements hadn't woken him yet.
After a few minutes of teasing him, by grinding against him, Hermione could now feel that he was solid beneath his pyjama bottoms, she could feel the heat that was emanating from his cock, and she could also feel a small bit of moisture on her thigh from where he was clearly leaking pre-cum through his trousers.
She wanted to move onto the next stage, she moved her hand and placed it hesitantly near the outline of his dick, and slowly trailed her thumb down the length just to test it out. This was the first time she had done this, and she was nervous but there was something thrilling her at the same time.
Severus' hips were now moving as she continued to lightly stroke the shaft through his trousers; he was clearly trying to get more friction.
Then Hermione used her whole hand to grasp his length through his bottoms and she slowly began adding pressure and moving her hand up and down the length, just like she'd read in that book.
It was after this that Severus' eyes opened and it took him a moment to remember everything but all those thoughts quickly flew out the window as he began to feel his cock tingling.
He looked down and his eyes widened as he saw his Hermione, staring at his crotch and focusing on what her hand was doing.
He couldn't help it, he groaned loudly.
Hermione froze in her actions and looked up into Severus' now open eyes, and she assessed him for a moment for his reaction to their situation and she bit her lip in contemplation.
Severus just stared at her and said nothing, he couldn't think of what to say. He knew he should be stopping her but at the same time he didn't want too.
Hermione tested to waters, whilst staring Severus dead in the eye, she moved her hand up and back down his shaft again and gauged Severus' response.
Severus growled carnally and she grinned at him. She knew she was doing it right at least. She had never done this before, and was unsure how to do it so she experimented with alternating the pressure she applied and how quickly she moved her hand and wrist.
Severus seemed to be more responsive when she moved her hand quickly and alternated her grip between an average and a tight grasp. He also seemed to like it when she used her thumb to circle the head of his cock.
Severus was blissfully enjoy her attentions although somewhere in the back of his lust driven mind was trying, and failing dramatically, to tell him to think logically about the situation that he was currently in. While she was his friend and the two clearly had mutual attraction to each other, she was still his student.
However Severus wasn't able to think much on that in that moment because he could feel himself reaching the brink of climax and, without further rational thinking, he focused solely on the ministrations that were taking place on his person.
"Mmmmmmm...Hermione, Merlin!" Severus was uttering almost unintelligibly and was making the manliest sounds.
"Fuck! Ughhh...I think I'm going to-" Severus' rambling was cut of by Hermione, who was now using a second hand to assist with the first, as she had one hand stroking Severus' cock quickly and firmly whilst massaging the head and her second hand had lightly begun to fondle his balls.
Severus wasn't prepared for the sensory overload, and he felt the delicious snap inside him.
"I'm cum-" Severus tried to warn her, as he exploded in his pyjama bottoms.
Hermione had her hand still wrapped around him and continued to pump him through his climax. She felt his bottoms get warm and damp as his body produced ribbons after ribbons of cum.
Once Severus was finished, Hermione let go of him and for the first time she met his eyes.
Severus was trying to gain control of his breathing and his mind cleared.
Shit! What the bloody hell had just happened?
'She's just given you the best hand-job, and the best climax, of your existence, that's what happened!
Severus groaned, he knew he had enjoyed it but he shouldn't have let it happen. He was her teacher, there could be so much trouble over this. Severus knew that he would have to be delicate about it but he knew he needed to talk to her about what just happened.
He looked at his Hermione, who was staring at him waiting for him to say something first.
"That was exquisite darling" Severus began, as he placed a light kiss to her forehead.
"But..." Hermione trailed off sensing that there was an afterthought that he wanted to add.
Severus sighed as he wrapped his arms around her and pulled her close, but did not hold her tightly so she would feel claustrophobic.
"But my dear, we must talk about this before anything else happens. Whilst I enjoyed your wakeup call we need to consider that you are still a student, my student. It's clear that there is more for the both of us want with each other however, it shouldn't really happen whilst we are on school grounds" he told her.
She sighed but she agreed, they were playing with fire.
"This castle is alive, the walls have eyes and ears. You are far too important to be expelled and I am in charge of keeping an eye on the Slytherin's so I am needed here, for the both of us to be sent away from the castle would be most unpractical also, I don't want you to feel as if you have to do these things, I don't want you to rush into things" he told her.
Hermione nodded, showing that she agreed with what he was saying.
"I did it because I wanted to" she whispered.
Severus looked at her and understood.
"But I didn't ask you, I should've made sure that it was alright for me to do it. My God! What have I done? I'm sorry Severus, I am so, so sorry" she exclaimed verging on hysteria.
She had just realised that she had accosted Severus' person whilst he was sleeping which meant that he had no choice in the matter because she had taken liberties with his unconscious state.
Severus knew what she was talking about and knew she probably felt dreadful but he wasn't complaining, he'd enjoyed this morning's activities.
Severus did something he didn't normally do. He put his arms around the shaking witch and pulled her close to him. He shushed her and stroked his hand lightly through her hair.
"Hey, it's alright. Yes, you didn't ask but you didn't need to, that was probably the most enjoyable wakeup call I've ever and I'm not upset that you did it" he said to her gently whilst still holding her.
"Also, now that you're healing it's only natural that you want to...explore, understand what it is really all about, and I'm not going to stop that progress and also, I really don't mind...I promise. If you have any questions or there is anything that you would like to try, within reason, just say so" he told her, placing a light kiss to her forehead.
"Thank you Severus" she smiled at him and hugged him back.
They stayed there in that position, just cuddling for about half an hour.
"Come on, up you get. Breakfast starts in about 45 minutes" Severus informed her.
Hermione groaned, she didn't want to leave the safety of Severus' rooms, she didn't want to go out there, she didn't want to go and face the world today, she wanted to hide away and be with Severus for the day but she knew she would have to get up and go to class. To not do so would be asking for trouble.
She sighed and grabbed her clothes before heading for Severus' bathroom to get ready for the day. When she came back out, Severus was dressed and ready for the day.
Severus noticed the look on her face and was immediately concerned again. She had worn that exact expression last night, and he had not questioned her further but something was definitely bothering her.
"Are you sure you're alright?" He asked her.
She gave him a not so convincing smile in return.
"I'm fine" she told him.
He knew she was lying, he would find out later but he wasn't about to upset her when she had a day of classes to get through. He knew when a woman said that she was 'fine' it was often the opposite.
"Alright, let's get you out of here. I'm about to show you a secret passage that leads from my rooms and leads to the shrieking shack" he divulged the information to her.
Hermione looked astonished.
"Another passage way? How come we didn't know about it? Surely it would show up on-" Hermione caught herself before she gave away her friends' secrets.
"The passageway connects to a load of tunnels that lead to different places in and around the school. I will show you a passage that will lead you to the portrait opposite the room of requirement. Make sure you check that you are alone before you exit the portrait, we don't want anyone else discovering it now do we?" He said to her.
"Show me" she exclaimed, practically bouncing off the walls in excitement.
He chuckled and he showed her the way.
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When she finally reached the great hall for breakfast, Severus was already sat at the teachers table and was munching his way through his breakfast.
She went to sit down at her usual spot next to Harry and opposite Ron but something was different this time.
"I will see you in class" Ron muttered to Harry as he got up and practically ran from the room without even saying a word to Hermione and he headed off early towards potions.
"What the hell was that about?" Harry asked Hermione.
Hermione however hadn't heard him, she had gone pale and felt dread settle in the pit of her stomach.
Severus had also noted the exchange and thought it odd, so he quickly finished breakfast and headed towards his potions classroom to head off the red head before he destroyed Severus' classroom.
"What happened Mione?" Harry questioned her again.
"I told Ron what happened over the summer and he's not taking it too well" Hermione said with a sigh.
