Yes, I know, this is incredibly late. I'm sorry! I'm lazy, what can I say?
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bChapter 8/b
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"This is going to be fun," Hermione muttered under her breath as she levitated Severus's things into her rooms. "Shall we proceed with your-" she stopped after seeing he was asleep again. An evil grin lit up her face.
Five minutes later, Hermione was just levitating a sleeping Severus over to the bathtub off his bedroom. She stripped off his pants and found out the answer to a question she had never bothered to think about: boxers or briefs? Hermione had to stifle her giggles; satin boxers with silver and green snakes did that to you. After divesting Severus of his boxers, Hermione quickly lowered him into the tub that was already filled with hot water and bubbles. 'I really hope I can pull this off. If he wakes up, I'm in deep trouble.' Hermione went into the other room and searched in his things for bathroom stuff. Finding none, Hermione summoned her most plain, non-female bath supplies from her bathroom. She then kneeled by the bathtub and helped herself to some shampoo. Tentatively touching, Hermione began to lather his sticky, greasy hair. Severus immediately stiffened- his dislike for being touched shown even in his sleep. Just as Hermione turned around to find a cup to rinse the shampoo out of his hair-
"W-where am I?" he asked. Hermione nervously turned around. "You!"
"What?" Hermione asked, pretending to play dumb. She could only hope he believed her. "Come on, let me rinse your hair," she said, kneeling down by the tub and filling the cup she had grabbed with water. He shifted nervously, Hermione noted with satisfaction. 'He'd better be nervous around me,' she thought, and dumped the cup of water over his head.
"M-miss Granger!" he sputtered, blinking rapidly to get the water out of his eyes. "If you think you can do this to me-"
"I can," Hermione said quietly. "Professor Dumbledore said I was to take care of you until you got better, remember?"
"I am not an invalid! Professor Dumbledore cannot say what you are to do with me!" he yelled.
"You attempted to kill yourself. You can't even move the slightest bit without feeling pain. Not only are you physically unstable, but emotionally too." Hermione said, while refilling the cup with water. She planned on getting his hair clean- not as if he could stop her. Severus's face showed an unidentifiable emotion before it went blank. He met her answer with stony silence.
When she was done giving him a bath, Hermione drained the water from the tub and levitated Severus from the tub to his new bed. After quickly muttering a drying charm, and covering him with a blanket, she walked into her living room and brought his things into his room. She set down his stuff, and began rummaging through it.
"What would you like to wear?" she asked, looking up from one of the boxes she was looking through. Severus stayed silent. Finally, after looking though half of his things, Hermione found a pair of boxers and a T-shirt. Without warning, Hermione pointed her wand at Severus and muttered, "Stupefy." A numbing spell could have been used just as well, but knocking Snape unconscious had the added benefit of putting the binding spell back on Severus and the bed without embarrassing him.
Now that Hermione could dress Severus without causing him pain, Hermione had no clue how to go about dressing him.
'Well, I've dressed infants before, it can't be that much different' she thought. Hermione slipped the t-shirt over his head, noting that she still needed to comb out his hair. She managed somehow to put his arms though the sleeves and pull the shirt down. Next she pulled the blanket down, carefully keeping her mind blank. She slipped the pair of boxers onto his legs and hurriedly pulled them up. Next Hermione pulled the blankets up over Severus. After that, Hermione placed the binding spell back on Severus and the bed, rendering it impossible for Severus to get off the bed.
"Ennervate," Hermione muttered.
