He smiled to himself as she wept on his shoulder. She didn't have to know he enjoyed this; she was too busy crying to notice anyway. "I never thought, he was always such a gentleman…" she whispered into his shirt.
"I know. It's easy to be taken in by one so charismatic," he soothed. "You are not the first." Here he touched his arm in a gesture she would interpret as unintentional, unconscious. She placed her small hand on his.
"You have paid for that, Severus," she told him. He nodded, pretending to be absent. Yes, he had paid, and she was his reward. But she didn't have to know that.
Her face was blurred with tears. It was not the first time she had cried in his shoulder. He had been seducing her carefully these past few months. She had been falling for him, he knew. She was his.
She seemed to have remembered Black, for her face crumpled again. "Don't," he whispered softly. Tenderness was so easy to fake.
"I'm such an idiot. I thought he really cared about me, the way he was so slow, so generous. And then, when I thought maybe it would be safe to let him in, he tried to rape me!" A fresh wave of tears came over her. He wrapped his arms around her again. He knew her ordeal had been traumatic. He knew right now she needed a friend. He knew he could lend a shoulder to cry on. And he knew she would be grateful. She would want to show him how much she appreciated him. She was a virgin, he knew. This was good. He could mould her to his desires with more ease if she had never been in control of an encounter. He would start out gently, just barely in control, showing her what to do. And the more he made demands of her, the more she would want to serve him. He could probably trick her into begging him to dominate her, believing the desires were all hers, at least to begin with. It would be fun to make her his, completely and totally. He had already started, of course. But now he was getting closer to his goal.
He would wed her at some point. He had plenty of money. He did not mean to make her unhappy. She would have a job, she would have money, she would have a couple of children, and she would have a… loving husband. And master when they were in bed.
Yes, Hermione Snape would be very happy with her lot in life. And so would Severus.
LOVE TO SEE YOU CRY (Enrique Iglesias)
(Come on. Let me tell you)
Maybe I just wanna touch you
Feel you warm inside again
Maybe I just wanna hurt you
The sweetest pleasure is pain
I don't know why why
But I love to see you cry
I don't know why why
It just makes me feel alive
Are you coming
To the moment
When you know
Your heart can break?
I'm inside you
I'm around you.
I just wanna hear you cry again
I don't know why why
But I love to see you cry
I don't know why why
It just makes me feel alive
I don't know why why
But I love to see you cry
I don't know why why
But it makes me feel alive
You don't know
How much it hurts
To watch you fall asleep
When you're in my arms
And if this dies before
The morning comes
I wanna runaway
I wanna runaway
I don't know why
I don't know why
I don't know why
I don't know why
(I don't know why why but I love to see you cry
I don't know why why it just makes me feel alive)
I don't know why why
But I love to see you cry
I don't know why why
But it makes me feel alive
A/N: Darker than what I usually write, but when I read the lyrics to the song, this popped into my head. And there's the fact that Dom!Snape is just SO hot!