Author's Note :

SPECIAL UPDATE !

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Once again, I dedicate this chapter and the following chapter as well to ArcticAngelzTx.

These chapters are short. I write them between two books of philosophy I have to study.

Angelic Layer

Chapter 41

Hermione woke up next morning with the beginning of a headache. But she didn't care. The discoveries she did yesterday still overhelmed her.

She rolled on her bed, with Crookshands in her arms, laughing of glee and joy.

"- I made it! I made it by my own! This opens so many new possibilities! I couldn't – can't…. Oh Crooks! Imagine all the things I can do now!"

Hermione rolled off her bed and stripped away from the white chemistry blouse she had put on the night before.

She admired herself naked in the mirror. Well, she observed more her wings then anything else. After almost eighteen years, one's face becomes so plain and dull you can't even tell if you're pretty or not.

So she watched her wings. They were still covered in the very hard feathers and spikes. They hadn't grown, put Hermione knew she would work on that.

Hermione liked her wings now. Except that she couldn't really move them much. She couldn't fly.

She didn't like flying on a broom or an animal, because they were unreliable. But wings, your very own wings, could only be safe.

If only they were covered with muscles, nerves, and skin.

Hermione had calculated. If her wings would be fifty centimetres taller, they could be powerful enough to make her fly.

And Hermione hoped to arrange that problem soon….

She walked to the table where she had left the potion with the eye bits in it. It looked like old porridge.

Her hand slowly touched the surface of the mix. Hermione wondered if it would be safe. If this worked on her wings, would it world on other parts of her as well?

Should she just hope it and test it or use something else to test first?

Testing would be the best option.

And she knew exactly who could help her…

Whilst she was dressing herself for school, Severus walked into her rooms, unharmed. Hermione had instructed to her Strangling Violet not to attack a suspicious Severus.

Hermione turned around vividly as she saw her lover and creator. She let immediately her tie fall on the ground and ran to him her arms and blouse open.

"- What is it Severus? What is it? Are you hurt?"

Severus was tired, angry and stressed. He felt stupid and helpless. Both of his hands were tied. He couldn't do anything.

He could only think now. Two heads were better to think. Dumbledore wasn't of any help.

Severus felt that Hermione had the right to know everything concerning her.

"- Hermione, Hermione … I have things to tell you."

Hermione's eyes lit up immediately. She helped Severus to her bed and forced him to lie down as she went in search for a wet towel.

Severus felt grateful top be pampered. His worries flied away a moment when his Hermione, she really was his, passed the wet towel over his face.

"- Hermione… When you were made, I called you Kismet. Kismet means destiny. You were my goal in life. First when I made you, I felt like I was doing a puppet. … But then… then when your eyes and eyelids were done…. Then you became real. Real in my eyes. I knew then I wouldn't let you become anything didn't want to become. I wasn't going to leave you to the Lestranges. Bellatrix could have never possibly loved you. But I did. I loved you. I always did, as I do now."

Hermione hand caressed his face.

"- I know Severus, I know…. Severus… You are… are my food, my oxygen, my water, my blood, my… my everything. You are my creator, my blood, well partly, blood relation, my teacher, my lover, my tutor, my master. I'll do whatever you want me to do."

Severus managed to smile.

° Every thing? Oooh! The possibilities°

"- I could ask you to… Take of my cloths as well as your and let me touch you everywhere?"

"- No, not that far. My classes start soon… But afterwards…."

"- Oh, no… I'll might not be in the mood then…. I guess you could try to save the world. But there is no need in asking that, I'm sure you'll find a way to make that too."

Suddenly Hermione's eyes turned very dark.

"- Severus, I promise to save us all. You included. I promise."