The time it takes
(In the Great Hall, lunch.)
"Albus, have you seen Miss Granger?" Minerva asked.
"No my dear, but I haven't seen Severus either," Albus responded, his eyes twinkling merrily. "Oh look, there's Solana!"
"Albus, Minerva," Solana greeted cheerfully, and sat down beside Minerva.
"Miss Snape," Minerva began to ask, "Have you seen Hermione or Severus?"
"Oh yes, they're in Sev's bedroom." Solana answered, and then added as an afterthought, "The doors locked."
Solana had taken just one bite of her sandwich when she heard McGonagall shout, "WHAT?"
Sighing deeply, Solana elaborated, "I heard noises in there, I wonder what they're doing?"
"SEVERUS SNAPE!"
Minerva McGonagall dashed out of the Great Hall, Albus following timidly behind.
"I wonder where they went?" Solana asked herself, before she felt all the teachers' eyes on her. "What?" At their raised eyebrows Solana huffed and declared, "Fine," and ran out the Great Hall after Albus and Minerva.
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"Well...so we're stuck...I can think of worse thing...and I'm sure Professor McGonagall won't hurt you," But at his disbelieving snort she mended her statement. "Well...Not much"
"Hermione? Why...what I am trying to say is...I don't understand?" Severus said.
"What don't you understand, Severus?" Hermione inquired.
"Why me, why do you want me?"
"I don't know, all I know is I couldn't live without you"
He hissed as her answer. "You stupid girl! How can you say that? Don't put that pressure on me! I didn't ask you to fall for me; I thought you would be smart enough not to want ME."
Hermione was scared, sad, and annoyed, so she hit back."Don't complain to me! You kissed me, no one made you; you took me on to help with the Potion! You asked for this, so don't try to say you didn't at least want me to some degree!"
"What do you want me to say Hermione? That I love you? Maybe I do, I don't know. What does that kind of love feel like? I know fatherly love. Albus, and I love Solana, she's my family-my sister, but love, the love you want from me...I don't know what it is, I've never had anyone who wanted me to love them!"
"You make love sound like a curse, Severus. It isn't, it's wonderful, it's that feeling that you can't live without that one person, and you seem to have waited for this one person your whole life, your soul mate. You're my soul mate Severus I know it, I want it"
Tears were pouring down Hermione face now, and Severus' hands went and cupped her face. She flinched, yet didn't pull away, and he looked into her eye, and leaned into her, his lips tracing hers.
While bushing his lips across hers, he began to recite "Angel Teardrops" by Kathleen Sheppard.
"My guardian angel, once careless and free, Flew into the clouds and lost touch with me. Her tears were cold and wet, falling on my face. Her smile had left us without a trace. Her angelic lips quivered, frozen and scared, I felt rain clouds visiting, and had to prepare. I knew that angels, often content, Were very special presents that God had sent.
To see one so sad, So afraid, So alone, Had made me weep while the cold winds had blown.
Her wings lost feathers, Comforting and soft, Falling from the stars, Floating aloft.
Her pain was felt throughout the land, To feel true misery is impossible to stand. I prayed so that when her hurting stops, I'll be able to taste the angel's teardrops."
He then pulled his mouth away and Hermione whimpered, so close to a kiss.
"Severus, I am not an angel!"
"Really?" Then without warning to Hermione and without meaning to himself, he captured her lips, and pulled her body into his. Hermione, though lost in the kiss, somehow managed to swing her arms around Severus neck, her hands grabbing his hair in fistfuls, pulling his head closer to hers and deepening the kiss. Their tongues battled, their faces bright from desire, want, and need.
After a while, Severus pulled back from lack of air, and breathed deeply. They looked at each other, faces hidden mostly by hair.
They wanted each other, they were desperate for each other, and they were going to have each other.
They came together again, noses bumping, tongues colliding. She was so caught up, Hermione didn't even gasp when she felt his hardness pressing into her stomach. She rubbed up against him as their hands searched each other's bodies.
Wildly they walked towards the bed.......
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"Why won't the bloody door open?!" Minerva McGonagall screeched in frustration.
"Um," a sheepish looking Solana, who had just caught up to them a few minutes ago, meekly replied. "Well I...actually, just let me try."
Solana turned the door handle and the door easily opened and they went in.
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They fell in a tangle of legs and arms on the bed, licking, sucking, and kissing......
"SEVERUS SNAPE! A STUDENT!"
They stopped suddenly and jumped apart, looking similar to a deer caught in the headlights.
"Minerva, darling....."
"Snape we're going somewhere to talk!" Minerva declared and grabbed Severus by his arm and pulled him out the door.
"Well that went well," Solana commented.
Dumbledore and Hermione looked at her
"Why does everyone keep looking at me like that?!" she cried then stormed out the room, leaving Hermione sinking on to the bed face in her hands, and Albus Dumbledore with that twinkle in his eyes.
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"Severus, what are your intentions regarding Miss Granger?"
"Well I was thinking about shagging her, and then leaving her."
"Severus Snape!"
"Merlin, Minerva my intentions are nothing but honorable," Severus replied, beginning to become irritated with his friend. Silently, he began massaging his temples due to the onset of an upcoming migraine.
"So what are they?" She dully questioned, clearly looking out for best interests of her prized pupil.
"Tell you when I know," Severus muttered in response.
"Severus, don't lead her on. If she means nothing to you, she wont be able to cope."
"I can't deal with a relationship, Minerva."
"Do you love her Severus?"
"Maybe?" Severus replied back, as if he was unsure of the answer himself.
"Well find out," Minerva stated in a cold tone of voice. With that said and done she walked out of his sitting room, leaving him standing there, confused. But even more than that, he was lost.
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"So Professor what do you think?" Hermione questioned the headmaster, whom was still standing in the same spot as he had been for the past few minutes.
"Me Miss Granger? I think you two are made for each other."
"Me too," replied Hermione, in a slightly dreamy, quiet voice.
Headmaster and student shared a smile.
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"Sev, can I come in?"
"Of course, you will anyway."
"I'm not sorry for locking you in there. You love her, and I know what it's like to love someone and not do anything, only to then lose them, just because you're scared."
"Neron was...you can't blame yourself."
"Severus, I know that it isn't my fault he is dead, but it is my fault that I didn't have a chance to tell him I loved him. Neron, to me was perfect. I loved him, pero, después de las muertes de madre y padre, I couldn't deal with it if someone else I loved died, so I deny it. But then when I heard he was dead, I realized that I would rather have loved and lost, then never have loved at all. So don't deny your feelings, it isn't worth it," Solana wisely stated to her brother and with that, she left the room.
Severus thought for a couple of minutes before going off to find Hermione.
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Thanks to dama-de-tinieblas for beta reading.
Jordanz
(In the Great Hall, lunch.)
"Albus, have you seen Miss Granger?" Minerva asked.
"No my dear, but I haven't seen Severus either," Albus responded, his eyes twinkling merrily. "Oh look, there's Solana!"
"Albus, Minerva," Solana greeted cheerfully, and sat down beside Minerva.
"Miss Snape," Minerva began to ask, "Have you seen Hermione or Severus?"
"Oh yes, they're in Sev's bedroom." Solana answered, and then added as an afterthought, "The doors locked."
Solana had taken just one bite of her sandwich when she heard McGonagall shout, "WHAT?"
Sighing deeply, Solana elaborated, "I heard noises in there, I wonder what they're doing?"
"SEVERUS SNAPE!"
Minerva McGonagall dashed out of the Great Hall, Albus following timidly behind.
"I wonder where they went?" Solana asked herself, before she felt all the teachers' eyes on her. "What?" At their raised eyebrows Solana huffed and declared, "Fine," and ran out the Great Hall after Albus and Minerva.
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"Well...so we're stuck...I can think of worse thing...and I'm sure Professor McGonagall won't hurt you," But at his disbelieving snort she mended her statement. "Well...Not much"
"Hermione? Why...what I am trying to say is...I don't understand?" Severus said.
"What don't you understand, Severus?" Hermione inquired.
"Why me, why do you want me?"
"I don't know, all I know is I couldn't live without you"
He hissed as her answer. "You stupid girl! How can you say that? Don't put that pressure on me! I didn't ask you to fall for me; I thought you would be smart enough not to want ME."
Hermione was scared, sad, and annoyed, so she hit back."Don't complain to me! You kissed me, no one made you; you took me on to help with the Potion! You asked for this, so don't try to say you didn't at least want me to some degree!"
"What do you want me to say Hermione? That I love you? Maybe I do, I don't know. What does that kind of love feel like? I know fatherly love. Albus, and I love Solana, she's my family-my sister, but love, the love you want from me...I don't know what it is, I've never had anyone who wanted me to love them!"
"You make love sound like a curse, Severus. It isn't, it's wonderful, it's that feeling that you can't live without that one person, and you seem to have waited for this one person your whole life, your soul mate. You're my soul mate Severus I know it, I want it"
Tears were pouring down Hermione face now, and Severus' hands went and cupped her face. She flinched, yet didn't pull away, and he looked into her eye, and leaned into her, his lips tracing hers.
While bushing his lips across hers, he began to recite "Angel Teardrops" by Kathleen Sheppard.
"My guardian angel, once careless and free, Flew into the clouds and lost touch with me. Her tears were cold and wet, falling on my face. Her smile had left us without a trace. Her angelic lips quivered, frozen and scared, I felt rain clouds visiting, and had to prepare. I knew that angels, often content, Were very special presents that God had sent.
To see one so sad, So afraid, So alone, Had made me weep while the cold winds had blown.
Her wings lost feathers, Comforting and soft, Falling from the stars, Floating aloft.
Her pain was felt throughout the land, To feel true misery is impossible to stand. I prayed so that when her hurting stops, I'll be able to taste the angel's teardrops."
He then pulled his mouth away and Hermione whimpered, so close to a kiss.
"Severus, I am not an angel!"
"Really?" Then without warning to Hermione and without meaning to himself, he captured her lips, and pulled her body into his. Hermione, though lost in the kiss, somehow managed to swing her arms around Severus neck, her hands grabbing his hair in fistfuls, pulling his head closer to hers and deepening the kiss. Their tongues battled, their faces bright from desire, want, and need.
After a while, Severus pulled back from lack of air, and breathed deeply. They looked at each other, faces hidden mostly by hair.
They wanted each other, they were desperate for each other, and they were going to have each other.
They came together again, noses bumping, tongues colliding. She was so caught up, Hermione didn't even gasp when she felt his hardness pressing into her stomach. She rubbed up against him as their hands searched each other's bodies.
Wildly they walked towards the bed.......
..............................
"Why won't the bloody door open?!" Minerva McGonagall screeched in frustration.
"Um," a sheepish looking Solana, who had just caught up to them a few minutes ago, meekly replied. "Well I...actually, just let me try."
Solana turned the door handle and the door easily opened and they went in.
..............................
They fell in a tangle of legs and arms on the bed, licking, sucking, and kissing......
"SEVERUS SNAPE! A STUDENT!"
They stopped suddenly and jumped apart, looking similar to a deer caught in the headlights.
"Minerva, darling....."
"Snape we're going somewhere to talk!" Minerva declared and grabbed Severus by his arm and pulled him out the door.
"Well that went well," Solana commented.
Dumbledore and Hermione looked at her
"Why does everyone keep looking at me like that?!" she cried then stormed out the room, leaving Hermione sinking on to the bed face in her hands, and Albus Dumbledore with that twinkle in his eyes.
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"Severus, what are your intentions regarding Miss Granger?"
"Well I was thinking about shagging her, and then leaving her."
"Severus Snape!"
"Merlin, Minerva my intentions are nothing but honorable," Severus replied, beginning to become irritated with his friend. Silently, he began massaging his temples due to the onset of an upcoming migraine.
"So what are they?" She dully questioned, clearly looking out for best interests of her prized pupil.
"Tell you when I know," Severus muttered in response.
"Severus, don't lead her on. If she means nothing to you, she wont be able to cope."
"I can't deal with a relationship, Minerva."
"Do you love her Severus?"
"Maybe?" Severus replied back, as if he was unsure of the answer himself.
"Well find out," Minerva stated in a cold tone of voice. With that said and done she walked out of his sitting room, leaving him standing there, confused. But even more than that, he was lost.
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"So Professor what do you think?" Hermione questioned the headmaster, whom was still standing in the same spot as he had been for the past few minutes.
"Me Miss Granger? I think you two are made for each other."
"Me too," replied Hermione, in a slightly dreamy, quiet voice.
Headmaster and student shared a smile.
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"Sev, can I come in?"
"Of course, you will anyway."
"I'm not sorry for locking you in there. You love her, and I know what it's like to love someone and not do anything, only to then lose them, just because you're scared."
"Neron was...you can't blame yourself."
"Severus, I know that it isn't my fault he is dead, but it is my fault that I didn't have a chance to tell him I loved him. Neron, to me was perfect. I loved him, pero, después de las muertes de madre y padre, I couldn't deal with it if someone else I loved died, so I deny it. But then when I heard he was dead, I realized that I would rather have loved and lost, then never have loved at all. So don't deny your feelings, it isn't worth it," Solana wisely stated to her brother and with that, she left the room.
Severus thought for a couple of minutes before going off to find Hermione.
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Thanks to dama-de-tinieblas for beta reading.
Jordanz