Deliver me 6- Isn't Life Grand

Snape stood in his office, he looked at the few pictures he had sitting amongst the many, many books. There was himself and the marauders before James and Lilly started dating, that was when everything went wrong. There was Himself and Dumbledore when he was hired. There was Draco, Lucious and he when Draco got his letter. There was Draco, Hermione, Harry, Himself and Dumbledore when they defeated Voldemort, and there was Draco and Hermione on their makeshift wedding day. He didn't have many pictures, and he would never admit to having one of Harry Potter, but there they were in all their glory, only, one of them looked like such a lie now. Divorces and separations were so rare in the wizarding world, witches and wizards didn't leave each other when they got married, and especially not without a good reason. Draco hadn't offered Hermione any explanation other than he hadn't gotten to live life, he didn't offer any better explanation to Snape.

"Does she make you stay home and take care of the children?"

"No."

"Does she want you to stay with her all the time and never give you any free time?"

"No."

"Is she holding out on you? I always knew she'd be the prude type?"

" No, Actually, she the exact opposite, she loves sex."

"Do you have too much responsibility?"

"How do you mean?"

"Well do you have to pay the bills, discipline the children, service the brooms? Any of that?"

"No, Hermione has always taken care of everything."

"So you are leaving your wife because she allows you plenty of free time, lets you do whatever you want to do, gives you no responsibility and wants to have sex with you, yeah, I can see why you are leaving." Snape looked at the man who was still a boy sitting in the chair of his office. "You're stupid if you leave her boy. You will never find anyone else who will love you and take care of you the way she did. I feel sorry for you, I really do." That had been the last time that Snape had seen him. He had left the school and disappeared. Now Hermione Granger who should've been Hermione Malfoy was at Hogwarts, working. He had to see her everyday and know how miserable she must be. Sure she had put on a little weight, but there was no denying the beauty of her face. Her eyes still held that same shine, the look that let you know there was a lot more there, and those lips were still the same beautiful lips that Draco had kissed ten years ago. Her hair was still long, her legs were still shapely and she had, Snape stopped himself before he had a full blown-out fantasy going on with his ex-protege's ex-wife. 'I guess they are not ex's yet, but if she took him back she would be as stupid as he is.' Snape grabbed a bottle of Scotch that was sitting on the shelf ans poured himself a glass. He looked back at the pictures and took a swallow of the liquid. "It's a shame what he has put her through."

"You know, it would be good for her to hear that from someone like you."

"Merlin! Albus do you not knock anymore?"

"I did you were just so caught up in thought you didn't hear me."

"I can't go to her, she probably thinks I'm the enemy, I'm sure somewhere in that brain she has concluded that I did this somehow. She always thought I was some kind of monster."

"Now Severus, You do not know how the girl feels about you, she has never been anything but cordial to you. I just thought it would be nice for her to hear from one of Draco's people that he did something wrong."

"See there even you think of me as one of Draco's people."

"Well you are his mentor aren't you?"

"Were."

"All the more reason, go along man, make the girl feel better."