Chapter Two: Miss You
Dedicated to: Stealers of Chairs with the cunning use of flags
AN: Funnel web is a type of venomous spider you find in Australia. Yes it is set in Australia, Hermione got on the train in Sydney and took the two hour journey train ride up to Leura in the Blue Mountains. Yes this is a Hermione/Severus fic but the others will feature heavily in it.
- Octavia x -
We used to fight a lot but
What a time we had
And when I think about those days
They're not so bad
'Cause now I miss you
Yes I miss you
I'll always miss you
Now your gone~ Miss You by Merril Bainbridge
"Boo." His voice, the voice she had dreaded ever hearing again, it pulled at her like the moon did to the tide and she wished he would take those beautiful hands from her waist. It was too much, shock. Too scary. Too unnerving. She needed to run but her rebellious legs wouldn't move. The hand moved from her mouth. She licked her lips slowly, considering what to do, he would catch her if she ran and where would she run to, her scarce neighbours were either away or only had the home for the summer. She slowly found her voice considering her reply.
"Boo back." She said quietly, he turned her to face him and tutted running those hands through her hair across the cheekbones she had created for herself along with Catherine. He shook his head and took his wand out. She looked at it warily. Removing the charms she had put on her, brown eyes returning, cheekbones filling out, her height seeming to grow the clothes fitting her better. She was curvy, rounder in the face, she looked more softer, more real and less ethereal. Her hair stayed the same trendy crop that seemed almost slanted with a fringe that swept across the face instead of laying flat on the forehead, the colour was different though now a mousy brown with some sections blonder where the sun had caught it lightening it.
"Hermione or is it Cathy?" He asked, the word 'Cathy' seemed so venomous when he said it. But she ignored the question, the name. The name she had forgotten. She concentrated on him, tall, dark, handsome, that nose, still greasy slightly, hair longer, less grey then she had imagined, only a few single strands. He was still beautiful. He was still the same unchanging Severus, she the ever-changing chit of a girl. He had called her that, the night he had left her. She realised soon that he was giving her one of his impatient looks, she wondered if Neville had passed potions without her. Not impossible but a warm idea. She had never liked to think of the others, her closer friends, family. Not after the burning's, she had been up there, only just saved by Severus and his position as spy was revealed and he had said it was dangerous and gone on and on about it. So he had ended it and she left.
"Hermione's dead, she was burnt to death." She could still feel the flames getting stronger, hotter, she had marks on her feet, it had taken a while to heal but she had done it in some nice sterile hospital in Egypt when on the run. Bill Weasley being the last person she knew to see her 'alive'. Then she disappeared without a trace, getting lost in the muggle world. She could feel his frown, his touches, he was trying to get her to look into his eyes, anything but that.
He tilted her head up towards him, his eyes so haunting and black, eyes were the window to the soul and his was black to the core but not in a bad way in a troubled way. But she had always loved them, always loved him. He was pleading with her, he seemed so lonely, so quiet, so unlike the bitter acrid Severus she had fallen in love with and then found the gentler side to him. Hermione didn't know how or why it was happening but her lips were getting nearer to his, his hand on her lower back bringing her closer.
"No," Hermione said trying to pull back from him but he held her firmly, she pushed him away. "No I don't want this. You ended it Severus Snape. I was injured, I needed you and you left me-"
"If I could explain Hermione, why I did-" He had begun cutting her off but as soon as he had begun she returned the favour. He looked so, disappointed, upset, something that stirred in her a fragile state she hated how he did this to her.
"NO! This isn't fair Severus, I have my own life now. I could have a boyfriend for all you know, this is my life, you can't just storm back and expect me after eight years to fall back into your arms and back into your bed!" Hermione said incensed by him, Hermione paced the floor behind the worn sofa. "Gods Severus I forgot how arrogant you are."
The silence was stifling, she wanted to break down and cry, her life wasn't perfect, she went out every night looking for them all in a way. She wished she was with him but now he was here she didn't want it, didn't want these feelings. Hermione rubbed her temples reminiscent of him when angered. Severus frowned creases appearing in his brow, he had worry lines, she should find him repulsive but she found them endearing. Severus walked over to her putting a hand on her shoulder. She couldn't shrug it off, Hermione turned and was enveloped by the warmth of his robes. She began to cry, she hadn't cried when he dumped her she just ran.
"It'll be alright Hermione, I'm not going to leave you ever again. I've come to take you home."
Dedicated to: Stealers of Chairs with the cunning use of flags
AN: Funnel web is a type of venomous spider you find in Australia. Yes it is set in Australia, Hermione got on the train in Sydney and took the two hour journey train ride up to Leura in the Blue Mountains. Yes this is a Hermione/Severus fic but the others will feature heavily in it.
- Octavia x -
We used to fight a lot but
What a time we had
And when I think about those days
They're not so bad
'Cause now I miss you
Yes I miss you
I'll always miss you
Now your gone~ Miss You by Merril Bainbridge
"Boo." His voice, the voice she had dreaded ever hearing again, it pulled at her like the moon did to the tide and she wished he would take those beautiful hands from her waist. It was too much, shock. Too scary. Too unnerving. She needed to run but her rebellious legs wouldn't move. The hand moved from her mouth. She licked her lips slowly, considering what to do, he would catch her if she ran and where would she run to, her scarce neighbours were either away or only had the home for the summer. She slowly found her voice considering her reply.
"Boo back." She said quietly, he turned her to face him and tutted running those hands through her hair across the cheekbones she had created for herself along with Catherine. He shook his head and took his wand out. She looked at it warily. Removing the charms she had put on her, brown eyes returning, cheekbones filling out, her height seeming to grow the clothes fitting her better. She was curvy, rounder in the face, she looked more softer, more real and less ethereal. Her hair stayed the same trendy crop that seemed almost slanted with a fringe that swept across the face instead of laying flat on the forehead, the colour was different though now a mousy brown with some sections blonder where the sun had caught it lightening it.
"Hermione or is it Cathy?" He asked, the word 'Cathy' seemed so venomous when he said it. But she ignored the question, the name. The name she had forgotten. She concentrated on him, tall, dark, handsome, that nose, still greasy slightly, hair longer, less grey then she had imagined, only a few single strands. He was still beautiful. He was still the same unchanging Severus, she the ever-changing chit of a girl. He had called her that, the night he had left her. She realised soon that he was giving her one of his impatient looks, she wondered if Neville had passed potions without her. Not impossible but a warm idea. She had never liked to think of the others, her closer friends, family. Not after the burning's, she had been up there, only just saved by Severus and his position as spy was revealed and he had said it was dangerous and gone on and on about it. So he had ended it and she left.
"Hermione's dead, she was burnt to death." She could still feel the flames getting stronger, hotter, she had marks on her feet, it had taken a while to heal but she had done it in some nice sterile hospital in Egypt when on the run. Bill Weasley being the last person she knew to see her 'alive'. Then she disappeared without a trace, getting lost in the muggle world. She could feel his frown, his touches, he was trying to get her to look into his eyes, anything but that.
He tilted her head up towards him, his eyes so haunting and black, eyes were the window to the soul and his was black to the core but not in a bad way in a troubled way. But she had always loved them, always loved him. He was pleading with her, he seemed so lonely, so quiet, so unlike the bitter acrid Severus she had fallen in love with and then found the gentler side to him. Hermione didn't know how or why it was happening but her lips were getting nearer to his, his hand on her lower back bringing her closer.
"No," Hermione said trying to pull back from him but he held her firmly, she pushed him away. "No I don't want this. You ended it Severus Snape. I was injured, I needed you and you left me-"
"If I could explain Hermione, why I did-" He had begun cutting her off but as soon as he had begun she returned the favour. He looked so, disappointed, upset, something that stirred in her a fragile state she hated how he did this to her.
"NO! This isn't fair Severus, I have my own life now. I could have a boyfriend for all you know, this is my life, you can't just storm back and expect me after eight years to fall back into your arms and back into your bed!" Hermione said incensed by him, Hermione paced the floor behind the worn sofa. "Gods Severus I forgot how arrogant you are."
The silence was stifling, she wanted to break down and cry, her life wasn't perfect, she went out every night looking for them all in a way. She wished she was with him but now he was here she didn't want it, didn't want these feelings. Hermione rubbed her temples reminiscent of him when angered. Severus frowned creases appearing in his brow, he had worry lines, she should find him repulsive but she found them endearing. Severus walked over to her putting a hand on her shoulder. She couldn't shrug it off, Hermione turned and was enveloped by the warmth of his robes. She began to cry, she hadn't cried when he dumped her she just ran.
"It'll be alright Hermione, I'm not going to leave you ever again. I've come to take you home."