I own nothing you recognize from the HP books and movies. I own the plot and Sphinx. Author notes at the end!

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It was seven thirty and Hermione was sitting in one of her armchairs in her room. Sphinx was asleep on the other armchair and was looking rather comfy, which made Hermione jealous. Hermione couldn't think of something better to do than to get comfy too. Unfortunately Hermione couldn't because she had a detention with Snape in thirty minutes and she needed to start heading to the dungeons in another fifteen minutes.

Hermione sat there dazed. She was staring blankly into the fire and was thinking about life. I'm an 18 year old, I should be 17 but due to a time turner I gained a year. I'm pregnant with my best friend's baby, said best friend cheated on me with my other best friend's little sister. Said little sister cheated on my best friend. And to top it off, I'm dating my one best friend's older brother, who just so happens to be my Astronomy Professor.

As Hermione thought all this through her head there was only one conclusion she could make.

My life belongs on muggle television!

She looked at the clock and noticed that it was a quarter to eight and it was time for her leave. She got up from her chair, grabbed her school robes and quickly scratched Sphinx behind the ears, and left for the dungeons.

She slowly made her way to his dungeons and it was 7:59 when she made it to the door.

She stood outside the door and was just staring at the door; she was scared to walk into the room. Considering that last time she turned into Tinkerbell. Hermione was about to knock when the door opened.

"Well, Granger, I see you're scared to come in. I assure you, there are no charms," Snape said, sneering at her.

Hermione only glared at him and pushed her way through the door way. She was already angry. She went to see Dumbledore about her detentions but there was nothing he could do. The bet was over, so therefore Snape could give her as many detentions as he wanted and could take away as many points as he wanted to. So, in the nicest term possible, Hermione was pissed.

"Granger," Snape snarled, "I need you to go and re-arrange my potion ingredients and then I need you to re-stock the ingredients. The equipment is on the table and the ingredients are there too. I'll be grading papers at my desk so don't screw up!" he snapped the last part at her and stalked away.

Now Hermione was angrier. She didn't know what else to do, so she gave him a hand gesture behind his back and started to think about what to do first. She decided to re-arrange the ingredients first and when that was done she would re-stock the ingredients. The re-arranging was done in 45 minutes and she was just starting to grind up frog's tongues when she felt Snape's eyes on her.

Hermione looked up and her eyes met Snape's. She was unsettled to find a look of hunger and loneliness in his eyes. She could understand the loneliness, she couldn't remember the last time she ever saw him with a girl, but she couldn't understand the hunger. What did he want? What was he hungry for?

Snape noticed Hermione studying him and quickly made his gaze icy. Hermione sighed when she realized he was closing up again. She didn't know how to help the man. He wouldn't let anybody in to help him. She decided that she would go out on a limb here and try and get him to talk to her.

"Professor?" Hermione questioned him.

"Granger, get back to work!" Snape snarled, secretly wishing that his brain would just allow him to be nice to the girl.

Hermione nodded and continued to go back to grinding frog's tongues. When she was done she started dumping them into bottles and went to put them away on the shelf. When she came back she started to work on cutting some flower petals that they used in some healing potions. As she was putting those into bottles she felt Snape's gaze on her again. She ignored it this time and made her way into his storage area to put the bottles away. When she came out Snape was sitting at the desk she was working at.

"Professor?" Hermione asked cautiously.

"Miss Granger, I- never mind," Snape started but finished his statement. He couldn't bring himself to say it.

"Sir?"

"Miss Granger, I would be honored if you would become my potions apprentice," Snape said, secretly afraid she would say no.

"Do you mean that, sir?" Hermione asked, inside she was ecstatic.

"Granger, I wouldn't ask if I didn't mean it," Snape growled at her.

"Of course, sorry. May I ask why?"

"I believe you just asked, Miss Granger, but yes I will answer you. You are an excellent potion brewer, you're 18 and you created your own birth control potion, which lasts a great amount longer than other potions, and you work carefully around ingredients and potions. You deserve to become a Potions Mistress and I would be honored if you would become my apprentice," Snape said.

"I would be honored to be your apprentice, Professor Snape, but will you be able to deal with a baby next January?" Hermione asked.

"Granger, I plan to have you done with this apprentice by November, two months before that baby will even be born. You have the mind to finish this within five months, but you must be willing to work during the summer holidays, are you?"

"Of course, sir, I would work during the summer holidays. What else would I do? Will I be living in the castle?" Hermione asked.

"Of course, Miss Granger-"

"Call me Hermione," Hermione said.

"Hermione, yes you will be living in the castle. And I certainly hope you will not find something better to do during the summer holidays since you will be spend most of July and August here. You will get the last week of July and the first week of August off to do what you like. Can you work with that?" Snape told her.

"Sure I can work with two weeks. Sir, where do you go those two weeks?"

"I go to my family home in Greece those two weeks. I'm usually there for the whole month of August and return the day before the school term starts but I will go those two weeks instead of the month of August."

"Greece? I've always wanted to go there. You know, sir, you don't have to stay at Hogwarts if you don't want to," Hermione said.

"What are you suggesting, Hermione?" Snape asked. He could see her brain working already.

"Well, as I'm sure you were in love with potions when you were a child, and you loved potions when you went to school, I'm sure you have a fully working potions room?" Hermione asked slyly.

"Yes, Hermione, you are correct to assume so."

"Well, why don't we just go there? I get to go to the one country I've always wanted to go to, and you get to go home," Hermione answered in a know-it-all tone of voice.

"Granger," he growled and he smirked when he saw Hermione wince, "you can not enter my family home. Or, I should say, you can enter my home but you can not spend the night. You would not live to see the next sun rise."

"Why's that, sir?" Hermione asked, looking surprised.

"My house is warded against mudbloods', such as yourself," he winced this time when he saw rejection go through her eyes at the word mudblood, "Hermione, don't take that wrong. If it was up to me, I would allow you in my family home, but the wards are set up by my grandparents and they will not tell my parents how to take it down. I will try to contact my grandparents, will that work for you?"

"Wow! I've always wanted to go to Greece. Sir, I could just find a home near by to rent, you know?" Hermione said.

"Granger, you will not be renting a house while you are in Greece. If we go to Greece you will be living in my family home," and in my bed, if I have anything to do with it, he silently added. The hunger flashed in his eyes again, but disappeared as quickly as it came.

Hermione nodded and started on the ingredients again, only this time it was the help of Professor Snape. With both of them working they quickly got done in about an hour and fifteen minutes. When Snape checked the clock he noticed that it was thirty minutes after curfew.

"Hermione, I will walk you to Draco's room, I assume you can make it to your room from there?" Snape asked as she was finishing cleaning up the tools.

Hermione nodded and finished putting away the equipment and when she was done she followed Snape out of the dungeon and fell into sync with his step. In less than five minutes they were standing outside Draco's entrance to his room and they were staring at each other.

"Miss Granger, if I may ask one more question. Why Mr. Weasley?" Snape asked, nervously, staring at an invisible spot on the wall above her head.

"Because he's older, more intelligent than most of the boys here and he's more experienced with relationships," Hermione answered, trying to read something, anything, in his face.

Snape nodded and swiftly turned around and started stalking down the hallway towards his personal chambers. Hermione stood there watching him stalk down the hallway. When he was out of sight she sighed and walked into Draco's room to see a site she never wanted to see again.

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Hermione looked at the site in front of her in horror. Lucius was holding Draco under Crucio and a very bloody Blaise Zabini was lying on the ground next to Draco's bed.

"Where is she, Draco? Where is the mudblood bitch?" Lucius sneered at Draco, who was lying on the floor withering in pain.

"Father, you do not need to know where she is! It is none of your concern!" Draco snapped back.

Draco paled when he saw Hermione walk in and Lucius just turned to see what he was looking at. The first smile Hermione had even seen on the blonde man's face blossomed and that scared Hermione all on its own. Blaise paled also, realizing Hermione had just put herself in danger, without even knowing it.

"Well, well, well, what do I have here? It looks like I have the mudblood after all. Don't I Draco?" Lucius asked as he lifted the spell off of Draco. Lucius started stalking towards Hermione.

Hermione started walking backwards and Lucius waved his hand and the door slammed shut. Hermione looked over to Blaise who defenseless and couldn't do anything, he was too injured. Draco was on the brink of unconsciousness and wouldn't be of any help either. So she did the last thing she could think of.

She screamed.

"You fucking bitch!" Lucius screamed and he charged forward and covered her mouth with his hand. He then pulled her into his body and stroked a line down her body with his free hand.

Hermione tensed and tried to pull back which only caused Lucius to put a silencing charm off and take his hand away from her mouth and wrap it around her waist, pulling her to his body. Great, Granger, get out of this one! She told herself.

Lucius continued to look at her viciously and Hermione continued to try and shrink back from him. Draco was still trying to struggle to stay in the realm of the conscious but soon lost out and he slumped to the ground in defeat. Blaise was trying to get his hand-eye coordination working correctly but it was getting too late. Lucius was already dragging Hermione towards the fireplace and Blaise watched helplessly as Hermione and Lucius were lost in the flames.

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When Draco regained consciousness he realized he was in the hospital wing and Pomfrey was rushing about. He noticed Harry sitting by his bed and Blaise was sitting in another chair on the other side of his bed. Bill was standing next to Severus and Albus at the bottom of his bed, all waiting for Pomfrey to get done. Draco assumed he was about to be assaulted by questions.

Bill was waiting patiently, or as patiently as he could get, for Pomfrey to finish up with Draco. Bill wanted to know what happened to Hermione. After all, it was his pregnant girlfriend that was missing. Harry was brewing inside and all he wanted to do was rip someone's head off, anyone would do.

Once Pomfrey was done Albus put up a silence charm and turned to look at Draco.

"What happened, Draco?" Albus asked.

"Well it all happened pretty quickly, really. I was sitting in my room getting ready for bed and Blaise came in talking to talk to me about Sphinx, Hermione's dog, running around in the corridors. As we were talking I heard a noise coming from the Slytherin common room and before I could find out what happened my father walked in," Draco started and winced as he tried to sit up.

After Blaise helped Draco sit up, Draco continued, "Blaise tried to go after him after he kept asking up where Hermione was. I don't know what he needed her for, but I did not want my father getting his hands on her. When my father knocked Blaise in the face with his fist and then kicked him, Blaise was out. He then kept on performing Crucio and then Hermione walked in.

"She tried to back away but my father grabbed a hold of her. I tried to help but everything turned black. Is Hermione OK?" Draco finished.

Everyone looked at each other and then looked back at Draco.

"What? What happened to her?" Draco demanded.

"Drake," Blaise said, "he took her. He took Hermione."

Draco jumped up from the bed and tried to get out but Harry and Blaise held him back. "Guys, let me go!"

"Mr. Malfoy," Severus started, "Draco, you can't go. You are not in well condition and Lucius will be expecting you to come for her. Mr. Potter and I will be going and I can assure you that we will not return back to this castle unless Miss Granger is with us. Understand?"

"Yes, sir, thank you," Draco said as he lay back down.

Harry and Severus made their way out of the hospital wing and headed straight for the apperation point outside of Hogwarts grounds.

Harry was furious. The war is over, Voldemort is gone this is not supposed to happen! No one is supposed to get hurt anymore! Why Hermione? Why did it have to be her? Harry sighed and turned to Snape as they put together their plan.

Snape, like Harry, was also furious but he was also scared. He finally had to admit it to himself. You love Granger, Snape, admit it. I love her, and now she could possibly be dead. How did this happen? She's my student! Severus shook himself out of his thoughts and turned to Harry to focus on their plan.

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Hermione woke up to the feeling of being watched. She noticed that she had to be below ground because the temperature had to be around 40 degrees and she was shivering. She could feel a draft and looked down to realize she was only in her knickers and bra. She then heard a noise in a corner and she turned to see Lucius leaning against the wall.

"You know, Miss Granger," Lucius started as he stalked towards her, "it really is not looked too great upon a pregnant 7th year, and I believe I am going to have to fix this. Don't you think so?" He sneered as he twirled his wand around in his hand.

"No!" Hermione said as she started to back away, "you can't kill him!"

"My, my, bit defensive? Well, no need to worry. I can fix that too. You know, my dear, you really shouldn't have been so un-cooperative. I can give you money, fame and power. Anything you could ever want. All's I need is you, as my wife," Lucius said as he came closer to her.

My gods, Severus or someone, help me! Hermione started to quiver; she was getting more and more scared. She jumped when she felt herself hit the wall. Lucius took that opportunity to pin her against the wall.

Hermione didn't know how long she stood there as he fondled her body before she heard two pops in the room. Her eyes shot open and her eyes filled with relief, she saw Severus and Harry standing behind them with their wands raised. Harry was looking pissed and Severus was livid. Severus took Lucius by surprise and quickly stunned him.

"Well, that was too easy," Harry said and he started to approach Hermione.

"Too easy," Severus said, "let's go. Are you OK, Hermione?"

Hermione shook her heard and started to cry. Severus slipped his robes off his shoulders and draped it around hers so she was covered. He then gently picked her up in his arms and he let him smile softly as she snuggled up in his arms.

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Hermione woke and realized she was back in her Head Girl rooms and the only people in the room were Draco and Bill. I guess I should talk to Bill now. I can't keep acting like we are going to make something out of our relationship when I don't feel anything but lust.

Hermione's movement shook the two men out of their dream world and they both smiled at Hermione. Hermione quickly gave Draco a hug and with a quick kiss on her cheek, Draco left the room. He could sense she needed to talk to Bill.

Here goes nothing. "Bill, we need to talk."

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A/N: ok so I know I took forever with my updating, and I'm sorry. I've had quite a few complications lately and my top priority was my papers for school, I can't graduate without doing my senior English paper. So I apologize and I hope you forgive me! I'm also sorry for leaving the chapter off at her and Bill. I can tell you that SS/HG will start n next chp or the one after that.

As you may notice I have mentioned the sex of the baby.

Thank you to anyone who kindly told me that my last chapter was good and that they liked it. I truly thought it sucked.

Thank you,

Sam-e

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