Chapter 13: You might be grumpy and always sour...
A/N: I am really really tired, sorry you have waited for ages again. Please review when you have read the chapter.
Hermione rushed out of the Headmaster's office straight to the hospital wing. "Severus... I need to find him." she thought desperately.
"Miss Granger where are you heading at?" Madam Pomfrey asked her with slight confusion.
"Excuse me, Mrs. Pomfrey could you tell me where Sev... Maser Snape is?" Hermione asked nervously staring on the ground.
"Ah, follow me, dear," Pomfrey said and began to walk towards closed curtains. "Severus is there, I put the curtains around his bed because I thought that it would be better that way."
Hermione didn't trust her voice to say anything and just nodded her response while staring at her potions master. He was looking so peaceful in Hermione's eyes that she didn't notice the look that Madam Pomfrey gave her. She came back to reality when Pomfrey spoke to her.
"You like him, Hermione, don't you?" the mediwitch asked her with a smile playing on her face. Hermione looked at her dumbfounded, was it that obvious what she felt for him? "I saw the way you watched him I am not blind Hermione."
"Oh..." Hermione gasped flushing furiously. "Is it that obvious?"
"Please headmaster let me stay here," Hermione pleaded and looked at the headmaster.
"Are you sure you wanted to stay?" Albus asked calmly. "You should rest Hermione, it isn't good for you to over exhaust yourself."
"Please, headmaster, I promise that I will rest..." Hermione began.
"...after he has woken up," a soft voice spoke from the doors. Hermione turned around to see that Remus was there looking at them.
"How did you know what I was about to say?" Hermione asked amazed.
"I just guessed it, I actually know when someone has her or his eyes on someone and that they would do anything for them," Remus said smiling sadly. "I hope Severus gets better soon because I don't want to see you unhappy."
And before Remus could have said anything else Hermione had run and thrown her arms around him. "Thank you, Remus, I knew I could trust on you," Hermione said and gave him a kiss on the cheek which made Remus blush fiercely.
"Uhm, you are welcome," Remus mumbled out watching how the younger witch sat on the bench she had made next to Severus' bedside.
"Remus, cheer up, you will find someone," Minerva said standing next to Remus who was now looking at her.
"You believe so?" Remus asked curiously, "Who would like to date a werewolf?"
"Just wait for it my boy, wait," Minerva said while observing Hermione holding Severus' hand. "They are going to be a cute couple. Hermione and Severus I mean. I think Hermione is able to soften him a bit even make him speak or something," she finally stated out and turned to look at Remus.
"Yes, I think so too. I like Hermione though and I don't want her to get hurt," Remus said smiling and cheering up a little. "Thanks, Min, that helped me to sort out some of my thoughts."
"You are welcome, I guess you got a letter from someone, maybe you should go and read it, it might be important," Minerva said before going to stand next to Albus.
"Minerva, you are almost as meddling as me," Albus said with a wicked smile his eyes twinkling like diamonds.
"Me, no, you must have confused me to someone else," Minerva replied with a grin.
"Severus I have stayed next to you for a few nights now and I have to go to sleep. I hope you understand," Hermione said three nights later and gave him a kiss on the forehead. "Oh, Remus, you have woken up already," she said yawning out of tiredness.
"I thought you would like to go to sleep, I will watch out for Severus for you," Remus announced and looked at her, "I will come and wake you if he, Severus, wakes up. I promise."
"Thanks, Remus, you're being really nice," Hermione replied and stood up from her seat.
"Anything for you, Hermione," Remus said smiling.
"Thank you," Hermione said making her way to the doors. "I know the right woman for him," Hermione thought with a grin. She knew pretty well that after Tonks Remus had had a really bad crush on her, but there was someone else who had liked Remus for ages. Not that Hermione, didn't like him but she didn't like him on the way he had liked her.
"Minerva, what do you like about my idea?" Hermione asked grinning slightly and looking at her former head of the house.
"It is just brilliant! I couldn't expect less from you," Minerva replied smiling happily. "I have waited for someone to have a hit on Remus. Poor man being lonely."
"I want him to be happy, I love Severus, I really do, I just..." Hermione began and was interrupted by McGonagall.
"You couldn't be happy with anyone else," Minerva said and smirked when saw Hermione blushing. "You don't need to hide it, Hermione, I know of your feelings already."
"Do you think that he will ever love me?" Hermione asked and smiled sadly, "Am I just wasting my time? I don't want to wait for eternity."
"Severus is a very private man and I guess he won't understand his feelings until you show him yours," Minerva explained and smiled courageously to her former student.
"I have already told him about my feelings, but..." Hermione began but was immediately interrupted by Minerva.
"He rejected you? Oh dear, he made a grave mistake," Minerva said more to herself than Hermione. "Damn that stubborn man." McGonagall thought angrily and glared at the table before her. "Ah, Hermione you are able to go now, and please call me Minerva now on."
"Yes, pro-Minerva, of course," Hermione replied and left McGonagall's office.
"Severus I guess you won't hear me, but I am really sorry what I did for you, it wasn't right. I know you would have already guessed that I am Remus and probably had scowled at me. But please do me a favor and wake up, Hermione needs you just like we others need you here at Hogwarts. You might be grumpy and always sour but you brighten our day with your sarcasm. I don't know why Hermione fell for you but you deserve it more than anyone else," Remus spoke looking at his co-worker.
"I didn't know that you were that emotional speaker," someone said aloud and Remus turned around faster than ever as he got started.
"Hermione, please, don't do that again... I almost got a heart attack," Remus pleaded as he scowled slightly at her.
"And I thought you were a Gryffindor," Hermione said giggling and sat right next to him. "Always brave and everything."
"Oh, you shut up," Remus said playfully and smiled at her. "I really hope Severus to wake up. And if... if he doesn't remember Hermione that I will be always there for you."
"Thank you, Remus. You are a really good friend," Hermione replied and leaned her head at Remus' shoulder, "I hope that he wakes up, I..."
"Love him?" Remus finished her sentence when Hermione had lost the words she was about to say.
"Yes, I love him," Hermione said and a single tear fell down her cheek.
A/N: I hate school, I am always tired. And my winter vacation will be a week of work, I am going to Confirmation camp and work there as a junior group leader (Isonen) so I don't have the holiday I needed.
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