Deliver Me 15- what?!
Hermione stood staring at the giant easter bunny, her mouth open and eyes wide. Harry, Ginny, Ron and Neville walked over to her with the kids in tow, they had taken them to honeydukes to fill them full of candy before Hermione took them home. They all stared at her scratching their heads, finally Kessy walked over and pulled on her robes. Hermione looked down at her daughter. She leaned over and picked her up and walked over to the gang. She talked in almost a whisper.
"I just got hit on by the easter bunny." They all stared at her then at the easter bunny unbelieving, finally Neville broke the silence.
"Alright Mione! Way to go!" They were all laughing except for Hermione who looked at them with a mask of terror on her face. "What?"
"I think the easter bunny was Professor Snape."
The kids were running around the grounds of Hogwarts chasing each other and screaming, the now reunited dream team sat at the edge of the lake throwing pieces of bread to the giant squid.
"Now what exactly happened?" Ron was shuddering at the thought of Snape with a sex drive.
"He patted me on the butt, when I confronted him he grabbed me and did it again, then when I asked who he was he said I think you know Ms. Granger, or something close to that. It was Snape." Hermione looked down at her hands and realized that she really liked it. 'What is with me, why do I attract Slytherins?' She looked at Harry and Ron and realized that she really wasn't attracted to them. Even with the history between her and Harry she just couldn't see herself with him. She definitely couldn't see herself with Ron, but for some reason the thought of Snape wasn't bad. Plus it had the added bonus of pissing off Draco to no end if he ever found out. But the truth was she found herself attracted to Snape as well. She sighed heavily and Ginny didn't miss it.
"Boys will you excuse Hermione and I, we need to have a little girl talk. Go play with the kids." The boys got up and went over to the kids happily playing like the were small children themselves. "Now Hermione, why don't you tell me how you feel about all of this. I get the impression that there is more to this than you are telling us."
"Well he has never shown any interest or anything, I had no idea. You know we are probably making to much out of this. He was probably just messing with me."
"Why would Snape be 'messing' with you, I didn't think he had any reason to talk to you."
"Well circumstances had occurred where he has had to take care of the children. We have developed a sort of teasing hatred relationship. I pick on him for things that he does, and I assumed he hated me."
"So he has been taking care of the kids at times, that's kind of a big deal Hermione. Your mom doesn't even want to take care of all three of them at the same time."
"You know, he was going to be the kids godfather. If Draco had ever gone through with the ceremony. I don't know if he ever knew that or not."
"So you have been flirting..."
"No not flirting!"
"... with your children's possible godfather, who has been babysitting them and are surprised that he has hit on you. Sounds pretty naive Hermione."
"I wasn't flirting!"
"No? It seemed like it to me, I know that if I ask the boys they will say that they see it as flirting, should I ask them?" Ginny turned to signal the guys to come back.
"NO! Listen if I was flirting, it was unintentional."
"Well the question here is did you like his advances?" Ginny looked at Hermione who had hung her head and was picking at the grass.
"What's wrong with me? Why is it I keep liking Slytherins? You'd think I would have learned my lesson the last time."
"Contrary to popular belief, Slytherin doesn't mean bad. I mean look at Blaise, he has done more for the light than Ron, and Ron is best friends with Harry. Maybe this is what you need. Maybe you need an older man who is more secure, or something like that."
"That's what mom said, and older man. Shit, do you think he's actually interested or just wanting a fling."
"Does it matter?"
"I don't want to have an affair with a co-worker and then have things get weird. I also don't want to bring someone into the kids lives and then have them leave again."
"If you live your entire life worried about these things, you will never find anyone. I know it hasn't been very long but you need to get over Draco, he was terrible for you. Move on, maybe you need to have a fling, I don't know. My love life has always revolved around Harry, there are times when I wish I had been with someone else." Ginny said the last part in a whisper. She and Hermione sat in silence staring at the lake contemplating men and life.
Hermione was at her desk at home later that night thinking about Draco. Her stomach still dropped whenever she thought about him, more precisely it dropped when she thought about what he did and was probably doing. She thought about Severus and felt different. She couldn't recognize the feeling, it bothered her. She didn't know how to handle the Snape situation, she didn't know how to handle any of the situations that were appearing in her life. She never had to deal with any of this when she was with Draco. He kept her locked away and at the time she was perfectly fine with that. She needed to go shopping, shopping for herself. She had never done that, not in ten years of marriage. Everyone else was more important than her and she didn't have a job so she didn't need work clothes, back then. Now she did and she was going to take all the money she had saved and go spend it on herself. The kids had all new clothes, and there was plenty of food at the house, the bills were paid, everything was taken care of except the classes se had to take over the summer and she had money saved for that as well. It was high time that she did something for herself. She went to the fireplace and called for Ginny.
