Never to far away
I wont let time erase
One bit of yesterday and I have learned that
Nobody can take your place
Though we can never be
I'll think of you and me
Always remember
Love
You're never to far.........
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When a Man Loves a Woman:
Chapter XIII : "Al Fin con Amore"
Severus slept more comfortably than he had in years, dreaming of his beautiful wife that he loved more than anything. He turned to his side so he could gather her to him, but found himself alone in his bed. He woke with a start, looking at clock that stood on the night-stand, he realised that it was in the middle of the night. Where was Hermione?
He looked around, then he heard some noises from the bathroom. Someone was crying. He stood up, took his robe and opened the door to the bathroom. He closed his eyes before he could adjust them to the light. Hermione sat there crying with her head on her arms that she leaned against the toilette.
Severus sank down next to her, pulling her up and gathering her in his arms. He looked down at her tear-stained face. Hermione held onto him as if her life depended on it.
"Darling, what is it?" he asked.
"Severus", she sobbed and looked up at him, "Are you going to leave me tonight?" Severus sighed. She was still thinking about it. Would he and his wife ever find peace? If not in this world, then maybe with God. When he didn't respond, Hermione cried out and buried her face in his chest.
"There, there, love. I don't know what will happen, but I shall fight against it."
She looked up at him, Severus took her left hand in his left.
"Look, love, we vowed today that we will love each other for as long as we shall live" He kissed the ring on her finger.
"Please" she said, her voice shaking. It was barely a whisper, but loud enough for Severus to hear. "Please, Severus, tell me that you will come back tomorrow and live with me till we grow old and die."
"As much as I would love to say that, a part of me cannot". This made her cry even harder. "But, Hermione, can you promise me one thing?"
"Anything" she said with her voice cracked.
"If I die, please live on and be happy, and say you'll love me for the rest of my life. With that knowledge I can die in peace."
Hermione trembled like a dry leaf in the wind.
"Severus, I will not love you for the rest of your life" his eyes bulged out till she added, "I will love you for the rest of mine."
Those words brought more tears in Severus's than anything ever had, he looked down at her, the love of his life, before he met her mouth in a bruising yet passionate kiss.
When they parted, she tried to hide a yawn but failed.
"It's in the middle of the night" he said and helped her up from the floor "Darling, will you come back to bed? It's cold without you." She nodded and followed him back to the bedroom.
They both lied down and Severus gathered her to him, kissing the top of her head. He brought the coverlet over them. She lay with her head pillowed on his chest and heard his heart beating in regular beats. She realised how much she was going to miss him.
She started to kiss his chest and was rewarded with a gentle groan from her husband. She kissed him up to his throat, hearing him whisper her name she brought her mouth up to his where they blended together perfectly.
Severus gently rolled her over so he was lying on top of her. His hands stroked her all over, finding new sensitive areas that made her whisper his name in delight.
Hermione stroked his strong back as he worshipped her with his hands and his body. She shivered as his silky voice murmured words of love and desire into her ear.......
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Severus woke up late that morning and was this time greeted with his wife's relaxed face. Raising himself on his elbow, he smiled softly. She was warm from sleeping. He pulled a stray of hair away from her face and placed it behind her ear. She looked exquisite when she was lying there in her naked beauty. He gently kissed her cheek.
"Good morning, my love" he whispered gently. She stirred a little and opened her eyes later. She smiled to him and brought her arm around his neck, pulling him down to her again, he buried his face in her neck.
"It's cold without you too" she said and kissed his temple. He chuckled, trying to be as happy as possible. He kissed her softly on her lips. As he rose later from the bed, she moaned in protest.
"I'll be right back" he said, Hermione leaned back and closed her eyes, trying to be as calm as possible. If this day was going to be the only honeymoon she would get, then she would enjoy it. Her eyes flew open as she felt herself being brought from the bed by a pair of strong arms and carried to the bathroom.
Severus climbed down in the large tub that was filled with bubbles and kept Hermione in his lap. Turning her so her back was against his stomach he started to massage her shoulders. Hermione leaned back and sighed in enjoyment.
When she felt his hands leave her shoulders, she turned to look at him and came up in his lap again, this time she straddled Severus so that her legs were bound around his waist. His arms came up around her shoulders and as a baby being baptised he leaned her head down into the water so that only her hair got wet. He brought her up and started to wash her hair with shampoo and rinsed it with the shower. He poured some of the conditioner into her hair and combed his long fingers through it. She returned the favour later with washing his own hair.
They stayed in the dungeons for the rest of the day, till the evening came.
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Severus stood dressed and ready to leave at the entrance of the school.
The professors of the school, some of the students and his wife stood before him and said good bye.
"Take care of yourself" Albus said and hugged him, Minerva did the same gesture with tears in her eyes.
As he came to his wife he could see how she really tried not to cry.
She crushed him in her arms and whispered over and over 'I love you' in his ears and he responded to her with all the love he had.
As he let go of her he could feel how his own tears started to fill his eyes, but just as his hands reached the door he heard his wife screaming "NO!" and came running toward him, grasping his shoulder. She held onto him.
He kissed away her tears and brought his lips down to hers.
Hagrid came forward and pulled Hermione back from him so he could go. Hermione tried to fight against him, but she was to weak.
Severus brought his hand up to his mouth and blew her a kiss before he left.
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He stood alone in a big dark room.
"Ah, Severus, how nice of you to come". He knew that voice so very well.
"Lucious, what is that you want?" he asked with no fear in his voice.
"Oh, but my dear Severus, I think you know that perfectly well". Suddenly a big fire burned in the end of the room. Severus knew where he was, this was the Dark Lord's duelling room where death eater after death eater had died. Severus turned around and saw Lucious and Draco standing a few yards from him.
"Severus Snape, you are a disgrace to the Dark Lord, stealing the love of a teenage boy, I never thought you could sink lower."
"What I do is none of your business, and just for the record, that little brat of yours is not capable of loving anything."
"And I suppose you think you know how to love?" he asked with a selfish grin on his face.
"Dad, can't you just kill him or something so I can have my chick back okay?"
"Since when was that chick yours, really?" Severus asked with one eyebrow raised "And you Lucious, you're allowing your son to fall in love with a muggleborn?"
Severus could see how much Lucious really fought to come up with an answer to that.
Just as Lucious was about to draw his wand, a voice interrupted him.
"Let me do that, Lucious", a voice that sounded like a hiss of a snake said.
The three men's attention turned to the direction of the voice and right out of nowhere, Voldermort appeared, his big yellow eyes burning with rage.
"Severus, I have been informed that you have been stealing Lucious son's future wife"
"I can assure you master, that is not correct."
"Then what do you call this then?" Lucious said and grabbed Severus left hand, showing off the wedding ring.
Voldermort screamed and blew a curse in Severus direction, Severus flew from the floor and right up in the air, hitting the ceiling with his back he later landed on the floor....lifeless.
Lucious and Draco smiled as satisfied as they could.
"Finally, no more boring potions lessons for me" Draco laughed.
"Thank you, master" Lucious said and shook Voldermort's hand.
"DAD!" Draco screamed and both Lucious and Voldermort turned and saw how Severus struggled to sit up.
Severus was surprised that he felt no pain, except something burning like hell on his chest. Whining in pain he ripped his robes open and right there on his chest right above his heart was the same scar that Harry Potter had on his fore head.
"WHAT!!!!!" Voldermort screamed "First Potter, now you!!!!!!"
Severus started to whimper and scream in pain as the scar suddenly started to glow a very bright red light that shot right at Voldermort.
Voldermort screamed and cried out as the light hit him, destroying him with everything that it had. He burned up, it tore him apart, and then he was dead.
Severus unbuttoned his left sleeve and saw that the tattoo had disappeared.
"What was that, father?" Draco asked nervously.
For the first time in his very life, Lucious Malfoy was speechless.
Looking up at the two blonde men, Severus drew his wand.
"Severus, no!!!" Lucious screamed but was to late, Severus threw a spell at them, knocking them out and later apparated them to Azkaban.
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Hermione stood on the balcony to the Gryffindor-tower. She had spent the evening with Harry and Ron. Both of them had gone to sleep, but Hermione couldn't sleep even if she wanted, she longed for Severus so much she couldn't do anything.
She stood in her night-gown that fluttered as the wind played with it's white silk, her hair was loose and her eyes were sad.
She held a rose in her hands. It was on of the black roses with silver stem that Severus had given her. But now only the stem was left, she had picked of all the petals and sent them flying with the wind. Hoping they could somehow help her husband.
She twisted the stem in her hands and dropped it later to the ground. Looking up again she saw a shadow moving on the ground. She tried to look closer but the person was impossible to identify, it was so dark.
Severus went limping to the castle with his hand clutched over his heart, damn the scar burned.
Standing just a few feet from the door he saw something shining in the grass. Picking it up he immediately recognised the stem. He looked up, and there at the balcony was the most beautiful sight he could ever imagine, his wife.
The second Hermione saw that it was Severus she felt the happiness come back in her heart and she rushed down the stairs to the main entrance, to her husband.
Severus opened the big doors to the castle and tried to walk as fast as he could in his wife's direction.
Hermione ran to him with tears pouring down her cheeks. Severus opened his arms to her and she ran into them, her feet losing contact with the ground. He ignored the pain he felt in his chest, he just wanted to hold her, to be close to her. Hermione showered his face with kisses.
"You're alive" she cried and realised that his robes were torn apart.
"What has happened to you?" she asked and gasped when she saw the scar.
"It is thanks to your love for me that I live." He said and kissed her. He carried her down to their rooms later and made love to her with more emotions than ever.
Since the scar had been placed above his heart, Severus's and Hermione's love had shone out and killed Voldermort with the power that only love can hold.
Hermione and Severus lived happily and in love for the rest of their lives.
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When a man loves a woman
Can't keep his mind on nothing else
He'd trade the world
For a good thing he's found
If she is bad, he can't see it
She can do no wrong
Turn his back on his best friend
If he puts her down
When a man loves a woman
Spend his very last dime
Trying to hold on to what he needs
He'd give up all his comforts
And sleep out in the rain
If she said that's the way
It ought to be
Well, this man loves you, woman
I give you everything I've got
Trying to hold on
To your precious love
Baby please don't treat me bad
When a man loves a woman
Deep down in his soul
She can bring him such misery
If she is playing him for a fool
He's the last one to know
Loving eyes can never see
Yes when a man loves a woman
I now exactly how he feels
'Cause baby, baby, baby
I am a man
When a man loves a woman
Michael Bolton –"When a Man Loves a Woman"
Authors note: I can't believe that it's all over, I have poured everything I know about love into this fic' and I hope you all love it as much as I. The song in the beginning is Mariah Carey's "Never to far" from the not so very successful movie "Glitter". I have to thank my sister for correcting grammatical error in all thirteen chapters, and also a big thank you to all my reviewers who has followed this fic' chapter after chapter.....I love you all.
Hugs and kisses,
Snowstar.
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When a Man Loves a Woman:
Chapter XIII : "Al Fin con Amore"
Severus slept more comfortably than he had in years, dreaming of his beautiful wife that he loved more than anything. He turned to his side so he could gather her to him, but found himself alone in his bed. He woke with a start, looking at clock that stood on the night-stand, he realised that it was in the middle of the night. Where was Hermione?
He looked around, then he heard some noises from the bathroom. Someone was crying. He stood up, took his robe and opened the door to the bathroom. He closed his eyes before he could adjust them to the light. Hermione sat there crying with her head on her arms that she leaned against the toilette.
Severus sank down next to her, pulling her up and gathering her in his arms. He looked down at her tear-stained face. Hermione held onto him as if her life depended on it.
"Darling, what is it?" he asked.
"Severus", she sobbed and looked up at him, "Are you going to leave me tonight?" Severus sighed. She was still thinking about it. Would he and his wife ever find peace? If not in this world, then maybe with God. When he didn't respond, Hermione cried out and buried her face in his chest.
"There, there, love. I don't know what will happen, but I shall fight against it."
She looked up at him, Severus took her left hand in his left.
"Look, love, we vowed today that we will love each other for as long as we shall live" He kissed the ring on her finger.
"Please" she said, her voice shaking. It was barely a whisper, but loud enough for Severus to hear. "Please, Severus, tell me that you will come back tomorrow and live with me till we grow old and die."
"As much as I would love to say that, a part of me cannot". This made her cry even harder. "But, Hermione, can you promise me one thing?"
"Anything" she said with her voice cracked.
"If I die, please live on and be happy, and say you'll love me for the rest of my life. With that knowledge I can die in peace."
Hermione trembled like a dry leaf in the wind.
"Severus, I will not love you for the rest of your life" his eyes bulged out till she added, "I will love you for the rest of mine."
Those words brought more tears in Severus's than anything ever had, he looked down at her, the love of his life, before he met her mouth in a bruising yet passionate kiss.
When they parted, she tried to hide a yawn but failed.
"It's in the middle of the night" he said and helped her up from the floor "Darling, will you come back to bed? It's cold without you." She nodded and followed him back to the bedroom.
They both lied down and Severus gathered her to him, kissing the top of her head. He brought the coverlet over them. She lay with her head pillowed on his chest and heard his heart beating in regular beats. She realised how much she was going to miss him.
She started to kiss his chest and was rewarded with a gentle groan from her husband. She kissed him up to his throat, hearing him whisper her name she brought her mouth up to his where they blended together perfectly.
Severus gently rolled her over so he was lying on top of her. His hands stroked her all over, finding new sensitive areas that made her whisper his name in delight.
Hermione stroked his strong back as he worshipped her with his hands and his body. She shivered as his silky voice murmured words of love and desire into her ear.......
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Severus woke up late that morning and was this time greeted with his wife's relaxed face. Raising himself on his elbow, he smiled softly. She was warm from sleeping. He pulled a stray of hair away from her face and placed it behind her ear. She looked exquisite when she was lying there in her naked beauty. He gently kissed her cheek.
"Good morning, my love" he whispered gently. She stirred a little and opened her eyes later. She smiled to him and brought her arm around his neck, pulling him down to her again, he buried his face in her neck.
"It's cold without you too" she said and kissed his temple. He chuckled, trying to be as happy as possible. He kissed her softly on her lips. As he rose later from the bed, she moaned in protest.
"I'll be right back" he said, Hermione leaned back and closed her eyes, trying to be as calm as possible. If this day was going to be the only honeymoon she would get, then she would enjoy it. Her eyes flew open as she felt herself being brought from the bed by a pair of strong arms and carried to the bathroom.
Severus climbed down in the large tub that was filled with bubbles and kept Hermione in his lap. Turning her so her back was against his stomach he started to massage her shoulders. Hermione leaned back and sighed in enjoyment.
When she felt his hands leave her shoulders, she turned to look at him and came up in his lap again, this time she straddled Severus so that her legs were bound around his waist. His arms came up around her shoulders and as a baby being baptised he leaned her head down into the water so that only her hair got wet. He brought her up and started to wash her hair with shampoo and rinsed it with the shower. He poured some of the conditioner into her hair and combed his long fingers through it. She returned the favour later with washing his own hair.
They stayed in the dungeons for the rest of the day, till the evening came.
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Severus stood dressed and ready to leave at the entrance of the school.
The professors of the school, some of the students and his wife stood before him and said good bye.
"Take care of yourself" Albus said and hugged him, Minerva did the same gesture with tears in her eyes.
As he came to his wife he could see how she really tried not to cry.
She crushed him in her arms and whispered over and over 'I love you' in his ears and he responded to her with all the love he had.
As he let go of her he could feel how his own tears started to fill his eyes, but just as his hands reached the door he heard his wife screaming "NO!" and came running toward him, grasping his shoulder. She held onto him.
He kissed away her tears and brought his lips down to hers.
Hagrid came forward and pulled Hermione back from him so he could go. Hermione tried to fight against him, but she was to weak.
Severus brought his hand up to his mouth and blew her a kiss before he left.
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He stood alone in a big dark room.
"Ah, Severus, how nice of you to come". He knew that voice so very well.
"Lucious, what is that you want?" he asked with no fear in his voice.
"Oh, but my dear Severus, I think you know that perfectly well". Suddenly a big fire burned in the end of the room. Severus knew where he was, this was the Dark Lord's duelling room where death eater after death eater had died. Severus turned around and saw Lucious and Draco standing a few yards from him.
"Severus Snape, you are a disgrace to the Dark Lord, stealing the love of a teenage boy, I never thought you could sink lower."
"What I do is none of your business, and just for the record, that little brat of yours is not capable of loving anything."
"And I suppose you think you know how to love?" he asked with a selfish grin on his face.
"Dad, can't you just kill him or something so I can have my chick back okay?"
"Since when was that chick yours, really?" Severus asked with one eyebrow raised "And you Lucious, you're allowing your son to fall in love with a muggleborn?"
Severus could see how much Lucious really fought to come up with an answer to that.
Just as Lucious was about to draw his wand, a voice interrupted him.
"Let me do that, Lucious", a voice that sounded like a hiss of a snake said.
The three men's attention turned to the direction of the voice and right out of nowhere, Voldermort appeared, his big yellow eyes burning with rage.
"Severus, I have been informed that you have been stealing Lucious son's future wife"
"I can assure you master, that is not correct."
"Then what do you call this then?" Lucious said and grabbed Severus left hand, showing off the wedding ring.
Voldermort screamed and blew a curse in Severus direction, Severus flew from the floor and right up in the air, hitting the ceiling with his back he later landed on the floor....lifeless.
Lucious and Draco smiled as satisfied as they could.
"Finally, no more boring potions lessons for me" Draco laughed.
"Thank you, master" Lucious said and shook Voldermort's hand.
"DAD!" Draco screamed and both Lucious and Voldermort turned and saw how Severus struggled to sit up.
Severus was surprised that he felt no pain, except something burning like hell on his chest. Whining in pain he ripped his robes open and right there on his chest right above his heart was the same scar that Harry Potter had on his fore head.
"WHAT!!!!!" Voldermort screamed "First Potter, now you!!!!!!"
Severus started to whimper and scream in pain as the scar suddenly started to glow a very bright red light that shot right at Voldermort.
Voldermort screamed and cried out as the light hit him, destroying him with everything that it had. He burned up, it tore him apart, and then he was dead.
Severus unbuttoned his left sleeve and saw that the tattoo had disappeared.
"What was that, father?" Draco asked nervously.
For the first time in his very life, Lucious Malfoy was speechless.
Looking up at the two blonde men, Severus drew his wand.
"Severus, no!!!" Lucious screamed but was to late, Severus threw a spell at them, knocking them out and later apparated them to Azkaban.
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Hermione stood on the balcony to the Gryffindor-tower. She had spent the evening with Harry and Ron. Both of them had gone to sleep, but Hermione couldn't sleep even if she wanted, she longed for Severus so much she couldn't do anything.
She stood in her night-gown that fluttered as the wind played with it's white silk, her hair was loose and her eyes were sad.
She held a rose in her hands. It was on of the black roses with silver stem that Severus had given her. But now only the stem was left, she had picked of all the petals and sent them flying with the wind. Hoping they could somehow help her husband.
She twisted the stem in her hands and dropped it later to the ground. Looking up again she saw a shadow moving on the ground. She tried to look closer but the person was impossible to identify, it was so dark.
Severus went limping to the castle with his hand clutched over his heart, damn the scar burned.
Standing just a few feet from the door he saw something shining in the grass. Picking it up he immediately recognised the stem. He looked up, and there at the balcony was the most beautiful sight he could ever imagine, his wife.
The second Hermione saw that it was Severus she felt the happiness come back in her heart and she rushed down the stairs to the main entrance, to her husband.
Severus opened the big doors to the castle and tried to walk as fast as he could in his wife's direction.
Hermione ran to him with tears pouring down her cheeks. Severus opened his arms to her and she ran into them, her feet losing contact with the ground. He ignored the pain he felt in his chest, he just wanted to hold her, to be close to her. Hermione showered his face with kisses.
"You're alive" she cried and realised that his robes were torn apart.
"What has happened to you?" she asked and gasped when she saw the scar.
"It is thanks to your love for me that I live." He said and kissed her. He carried her down to their rooms later and made love to her with more emotions than ever.
Since the scar had been placed above his heart, Severus's and Hermione's love had shone out and killed Voldermort with the power that only love can hold.
Hermione and Severus lived happily and in love for the rest of their lives.
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When a man loves a woman
Can't keep his mind on nothing else
He'd trade the world
For a good thing he's found
If she is bad, he can't see it
She can do no wrong
Turn his back on his best friend
If he puts her down
When a man loves a woman
Spend his very last dime
Trying to hold on to what he needs
He'd give up all his comforts
And sleep out in the rain
If she said that's the way
It ought to be
Well, this man loves you, woman
I give you everything I've got
Trying to hold on
To your precious love
Baby please don't treat me bad
When a man loves a woman
Deep down in his soul
She can bring him such misery
If she is playing him for a fool
He's the last one to know
Loving eyes can never see
Yes when a man loves a woman
I now exactly how he feels
'Cause baby, baby, baby
I am a man
When a man loves a woman
Michael Bolton –"When a Man Loves a Woman"
Authors note: I can't believe that it's all over, I have poured everything I know about love into this fic' and I hope you all love it as much as I. The song in the beginning is Mariah Carey's "Never to far" from the not so very successful movie "Glitter". I have to thank my sister for correcting grammatical error in all thirteen chapters, and also a big thank you to all my reviewers who has followed this fic' chapter after chapter.....I love you all.
Hugs and kisses,
Snowstar.