an: well, the characters felt like it needed an ending. i don't yet know if this is it, but it probably is. maybe some day sev and herm will tell me what happened in Italy. if they do, you guys will be the first to know.

disc: don't buy drugs. become a pop star and they give you them for free!

--Graduation Day, Great Hall--

The Great Hall was set up like an auditorium, with chairs facing the High Table, where all the teachers sat, along with Seventh Year prefects and the Head Boy and Girl. Lit candles floated twelve feet above the floor. Professors Dumbledore, McGonagall and Snape were up handing out diplomas. Everything was going smoothly from a bystanders perspective. Until head Girl Hermione Granger came up to receive her diploma.

She was shining brightly with the glow of achievement. she shook Professor Dubledore's hand, the McGonagall's but when she came up to Professor Snape, he grabbed her by the shoulders and spun her into a soul searing, very not PG kiss.

The entire school was shocked and gasped so hard, the intake of air rushed past the High Table. And to even shock the school and teachers and friends and family more, Professor Severus Snape, crankiest man at Hogwarts, and possibly alive, got down on bended knee before the now former Head Girl, and said, "Miss Hermione Granger, would you do me the honour of being my wife?"

The entire student body was stunned. They were even more shocked at the words that came out of her mouth, "Yes, of course I will!"

Several of the students passed out. Then from the Gryffindor and Slytherin sections a cheer came. If asked later, no one could be specific about who the first two came from, but it was thought they came from Hermione's best friend Harry Potter and Severus Snape's godson Draco Malfoy.

Those two cheers grew into a deafening roar. Everyone probably thought if Snape was getting some regularly, he probably wouldn't be such a cranky bastard. Most people thought that it was good for them both and that they would live happily ever after, but the world may never know, seeing as how the pair disappeared to Italy during the honeymoon, with only the intermittent postcard.

an: please go r&r my poem Of Destiny. it feels lonely.

just realised, i forgot to thank people...
thanks to...
Severus's Little Girl
sappjody (both times)
Kyra Invictus Black
Natsuyori
nerwen