A/N: I'd like to call this "Sudden Inspiration due to Unavoidable Insomnia at 3 in the Morning" but that's too many syllables. Though it does pretty much sum up my current state while writing this. This is..well...interesting. Well it's not what you expect. Honestly.
The room, which had moments before been filled with passion-filled cries, had gone completely silent.
Severus resisted the urge to groan. Not again. He saw the light pouring from the open door spilling into the room, and the look in his current partner's eyes had told him all he needed to know. Oh, how he wished he didn't have to turn around.
Not that he had a choice about it. He quickly extracted...er...'himself' from the young woman and rolled over to face the intruder.
That intruder was, the one and only, Hermione Granger.
And by the looks of it, she was going to murder someone.
A certain someone who had pushed her too far for the last time.
"Severus." she said softly. He flinched at the dangerous undertones in her voice.
"Ginny." she acknowledged the young red-head with a glare. The youngest Weasley shrunk back into the sweat-drenched pillows behind her.
"Hermione I-" Severus started. He had to admit it. He was scared. He'd never seen Hermione like this before.
"Don't." Hermione said harshly. She paused for a moment, letting the dramatic tension build, and then spat "Get out."
Immediately Severus and Ginny scrambled to get out of the bed. Neither of them wanted to be on the recieving end of her wand. Hermione let her poisonous gaze rest on Severus and said "Not you. I'm not done with you."
He ground his teeth nervously as Ginny practically ran from the room, grabbing her clothes on the way.
He forced himself to meet Hermione's eyes as she took a few steps forward.
"Hermione...I'm sorry." he tried.
Wrong answer. "You're sorry?" she said incredulously.
"No. You're not sorry." she said, her calm demeanor quickly fading.
"You not sorry about Ginny."
"Or Parvati."
"Or Narcissa"
"Or bloody Tonks either!"
Each sentence was like another blow to him. He felt sick inside, as if his guts had turned to liquid.
"But Hermione, dear, you must understand, I'm a wizard and I have certain needs-" Severus said, trying to make his words sound sincere.
He got cut off by the sudden placement of a very large wand at his throat.
"Don't bloody tell me that. Don't you dare. You don't believe that and you shouldn't bloody well expect me to." Hermione hissed.
"I'm sick of it Severus! I'm sick of giving and giving and not getting anything in return!"
She pushed the wand into his neck, obviously causing him discomfort.
"Tell me why I shouldn't. Give me one good reason."
"Hermione" he rasped, as his windpipe was currently being crushed. "I love you."
"Bastard. You bloody bastard." she ripped the wand from under his chin and took a step back in disgust.
"I'm sick of your fucking lies! All of it..that's all that this has been."
"Has this been a fucking game for you Severus? Messing with me all this time?"
"3 bloody years I've spent with you. How many times have you cheated Severus? How many of my friends have you fucked? How many times have you humiliated me?"
"You think you're untouchable, that you can do no wrong."
"Oh, the wars over, and look, I'm a sex god. I'm going to fuck every female possible. Who cares that I have a fiancee. It's not like she's worth anything."" Hermione mimicked.
Severus flinched. Her words were tearing him apart. Yeah, he had done some bad things. Alot. But he thought she had understood it and that she didn't mind.
"Bloody hell. I don't know who I was trying to fool here. All I wanted was...was..." Hermione's voice cracked.
She shook her head. "It doesn't matter. Nothing does, anymore."
Tears were flowing freely from her eyes, and Severus looked at her with almost a glazed expression, trying his damnest to process all of this.
Hermione looked him over. "You have no idea what you've done, do you? Not a bloody clue."
He looked over to her, the sadness and pain evident in his eyes and said "Hermione, what can I do to make this right?"
Hermione shook her head as she blinked tears out of her eyes. "That's just it. You can't."she croaked.
"I've given you so many chances. And not once did you even try to reconcile with me. You just assumed I was okay."
"Well I'm not bloody okay. Does this look okay to you?!" Hermione gestured to herself.
Severus took in her appearance, noticing many things that he had looked over before. Her hair hung in limp tresses, hanging in a dismal fashion around her sickeningly pale face. Her face was rather fightening actually. It was ghastly white and the dark brown freckles that sprinkled it seemed to jump off of her features.
Hermione had always been small, but this was just unhealthy. Her clothes sagged off of her bony figure and she just didn't look at all like the woman he'd grown to love.
"I never-" Severus said softly, but once again, Hermione refused to let him finish.
She held up her hand, clearly conveying that she didn't want to hear it.
"You're killing me Severus." she ran her arm subconciously over her left forearm while she said this. Several red, perfectly straight lines were there, along with many scars, obviously intentionally made.
She shook her head. "I'm done... I'm done with you, I'm done with this life."
"I'm done with it all."
Severus opened his mouth but found he didn't know what to say to the woman who had become a complete stranger to him.
"I hope to never see you again. Goodbye Severus." she said, rather calmly. She looked at him, almost longingly, as if she almost wished things could have been different.
But she didn't stay. She turned around and left, leaving a stunned Severus Snape in her wake.
Two days later, Harry Potter, Hermione's last confidant since she had stopped talking to Ginny and Ron, found Hermione half-dead in her London flat. Her wrists were slit.
A/N: Alright, decided to continue with this idea, but I chose to take it along a different path. I went back on the whole killing Hermione off bit. I want Sevvie-dearest to really suffer in this one. Methinks that he's been thinking in his pants too much lately and he's going to get a reality shock.
As per the reviews, yeah, Snape does seem OCC at this point. But I plan to change that in upcoming chapters. I was going to make this a one shot...but...nope not possible. Damn writer's conscience.
I'll update soon. Got to get the HiO chapter that I promised out first though.