Chapter Nineteen

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Hermione Granger blinked. She couldn't do anything. She simply stared at the small black velvet box.

"Hermione?"

She looked up as if she hadn't been aware that was there.

Severus Snape's eyebrows drooped. "I'm sorry," he said, "I shouldn't have asked. I mean, really, you're-"

"Yes." Hermione suddenly blurted.

"Yes?" Severus looked up again. "Did you say, 'Yes'?"

"If that's what you heard."

"Don't mess with me, girl."

Hermione grinned. It was the knowledge that if he talked to any one else like that, they would cringe (well, maybe not his family), but Hermione? No, it made Hermione laugh.

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"This is *wrong, * Hermione." Ron said. "It WRONG, and you know it!" "Oh, please, Ronald!" Hermione exclaimed exasperatedly. "How is this in any way wrong?" Hermione knew that this relationship would not be accepted in the least, she knew that there were many ways in which it was wrong; but she did not care.

"Oh, gee, let me think." Ron said. "He's your professor, he's twenty, I repeat, twenty years older than-"

"Maybe, Ron," Harry interrupted, "just maybe, they really love each other."

Hermione beamed. Thank God for Harry Potter. "Thank you, Harry."

Ron glared at his friend and stormed out of the room.

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"Oh, honestly, Severus!" Hermione Granger exclaimed frustrated. She was standing indignant in the spare bedroom at Snape Manor. "You don't know what you're saying!"

Severus Snape looked over at his new fiancée; He raised one eyebrow.

"I thought you said you loved me!"

At this, Severus Snape's heart sank. "I do love you, Hermione." He placed a chaste kiss on her cheek and walked to his bedroom.

"Where do you think you are going?"

He ignored here. GAH!!!! Hermione hated when he got into his stupid moods. A/N: guess what! I am so stupid.I just typed 'getted' instead of 'got' and I was wondering why it looked so funny.

Severus grabbed a a small leather pouch containing some coins and a few things that were important to him: the wizards pocket watch that Hermione had given him, the key to his vault at Gringotts, and a small stone that his father had given him when he was just a boy.

Hermione eyed him warily. "Sev," She said slowly. "What are you doing?"

"I'm sorry, my love." He said. He kissed her hard and long on the lips, when they broke apart, he tore from the room.

"Severus?" Hermione said. At first it was barely a whisper. Then, "SEVERUS!" Hermione grabbed her cloak from a side closet and pulled it on hurriedly.

She ran outside towards a tall cloaked figure. "Severus!"

He paused for a moment, but swiftly continued walking on.

"Severus! Where ever you're going, I'm going after you!"

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OOOh! Where is severus off too? Even I don't know. Leave a note.