Chapter 37: Beyond Daybreak
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{"What if I broke our monogamous agreement...What if I told you I lied but didn't mean it...What if my one mistake...Had the potential to break Up our happy home...Would you want to know...What if I confessed it and though she didn't mean nothing since it happened...You're thinking about leaving...What if I suppressed it...And made a vow to never mess with another...Is it cool for me to smother the facts...Is it cool for me to cover my tracks...If you'd never know...Or would me not being honest hurt you more...Hypothetically of course...Are there some things better left unsaid...Or would you want to know instead...Hypothetically of course...Are there some wars not worth fighting...Some tears not worth crying...Hypothetically of course...What if this happened to you...What would you want me to do..."} Hypathetically, Lyfe Jennings
Snape's Bedroom, Spinner's End, Cokeworth, England, Muggle World...
Companionable silence filled the childhood bedroom of Severus Snape, within the confines of the old textile village where the Potions Professor had been born to unseemly parents. The dour wizard, known as ,"the man in black" to the newest generation of impoverished youths, opened his notoriously obsidian eyes find that he had not been dreaming the previous events.
He had been quite content as he lied there in the semi-darkness as the slumbering witch's naked body pressed rather firmly against his own equally nude form.
Try as he might to gain some form of control over his emotions, he had been as giddy as a school boy following the events that lead to their reunion in full. The scent of Jasmine that lingered from the sleeping young witch's hair had already been etched into the deepest banks of his untouched memory, harbored there for safe keeping given the previous efforts of Dumbledore to separate them and the hardships of the on going war.
Not content to merely lie there and slumber, it seemed Hermione had been of the same mind as he to awaken at the break of dawn if only for the sake of keeping up appearances at Hogwarts.
"Severus?" said Hermione opening her eyes to look him over.
"Yes, Mrs. Snape?" he asked with a rather self satisfied smirk filed across his sallow pale face.
Hermione seemed to enjoy being addressed by her marital name. She stroked the Professor's cheek contented in her own right at finally having their relationship restored.
"As much as I love the idea of lying in your arms forever, we have to get back to Hogwarts before someone suspects something." she said with a sigh.
"Does that someone suspecting our connection happen to be of the last name Potter?" asked Snape with a bit of contempt behind his tone.
Hermione shook her head.
"Severus, Lily and James were our friends...why are so disgusted by his name and his son's likeness?" she asked. "Better yet...knowing how much Lily meant to him...why did you sleep with her?"
Snape sighed this time wishing for any other topic for her curious mind to tackle aside from this one.
"I...I don't recall that...I don't even..." admitted Snape not even fully grasping his reasons for a lot of things back then...of course it had been difficult to recall exactly why due to his memories being tampered with. "I...I suppose it's complicated..."
"Severus..." said Hermione narrowing her eyes and making it clear that she wasn't in the least about to drop the conversion.
"I don't know what I was thinking then...I had just lost you and she was there love..."he attempted to explain. "I was drunk or...something I must have been seeking the wrong kind of comfort...any way Potter found out about the incident despite Lily denying it outright...in the end our association didn't survive the ordeal...nor Potter's continued support of that idiot Black after what he did to you and our boy."
Hermione sighed believing she understood what had taken place but said nothing to Severus as she kissed him on the lips before climbing out of bed. Snape got up off the bed as well. He made his way over toward the window noting the onset of daybreak with something of a smile spread across his sallow pale face.
"We'll have to make some time to see each other in private...as you suggested." said Hermione spelling her body clean and her clothes back on.
Snape nodded in agreement.
"Somethings never change it seems." he said doing the same.
Once both of them had been fully dressed, Hermione made her way over toward him kissing him one last time before making her way back to Hogwarts. Snape held her close relishing the warmth and affection he had been long denied in the wake of her absence from his life.
"Until next time." she told him smiling rather sweetly.
"Until next time, love." replied Snape returning her smile once more.
Hermione gathered herself before apparating to Hogwarts Castle not in the least pleased to have to possibly deal with an inquisition from Harry and his idiotic map.
Snape took his time, masking his good mood via dark reflections, especially with the memory of his most recent beating at the hands of the despot Voldemort. He knew upon his arrival that he needed to make his full report to Dumbledore and given the level of mistrust he had for the older wizard following the revelations of his apparent treachery concerning himself and his young wife and child, he wanted to endure his company in as little a time frame as possible.
Ensuring that all trace of his encounter with Hermione Granger had been taken care of, Severus Snape himself apparated to Hogwarts Castle avoiding an inquiry into his activities on the part of the elder Headmaster.
It had not been long before the familiar looking corridors came into view and he had been making his way toward the Headmaster's office. The familiar billowing of black robes followed by the tense manner in which Snape carried himself told the Headmaster all he needed to know once he opened the door for him.
Snape's memories of his morning spent with a certain bushy haired witch had been quietly tucked away where no prying eyes aside from his own could view them.