Hermione Granger has had enough. What with the war over and Voldemort gone she finds the confining walls of Hogwarts overbearingly trying. And with just a month left to graduation she needs to find a way to make her snarky Potions professor accept her dinner invitation - even though she doesn't want him to. AU.

At 25-year-old, Hermione Granger is a successful Potions Mistress. When she travels to Paris to attend a conference, she runs into someone she used to know: Severus Snape. Things quickly heat up between them, but can they share more than a one-night stand or will their affair only remain a pleasurable memory? HG/SS. Short story.

the war is over and Snape is left with nothing in his life, wanting to fill the gap he goes in search for a surrogate mother and who else would he choose other than Hermione Granger? Follow the emotional rollercoaster as our two stars find love and themse