Jealousy

Days, weeks, a moth passed, it was going all right ever since Snape came to be her 'protection', Jeff came somewhat regularly, and thankfully Severus gave them more privacy, that's what he hated, whenever Jeff came over to stay he felt like he had to do something about it. He just didn't like the fact of knowing that the people in the next room were having sex, and worse of all, they were happy, this night he did whenever the guy came over he thought about her.

Who cares! She's just a silly girl, and since when do you care about her, or him. A voice called out from inside his head, but another one in the back of his mind answered you do care about her, a great deal in fact you just can't keep telling yourself you do not like her. It said defensively. Of course you don't like the damn woman, you know why you care, because you don't trust the stupid guy, who may I add is shagging her right this moment, and it's not like she'd ever even look at you, you're in your thirties, she's in her early twenties. But still, I mean look at her! She's absolutely gorgeous! And smart, oh gosh she's smart, if I didn't know it any better, I'd say you lov…

Snape interrupted his thought by shaking his head violently, no way, he did not love her, and he was perfectly honest with himself, he was old and not very charming, but there was a tiny little hope that still leaved in the very far back of his mind, what if she did like him? He felt hungry, he hadn't eaten, because the two lovers were watching a movie, he was totally sure they'd be in the bedroom by now. Picking himself up he walked out of his room, he was glad they had put a silencing spell on her room, he definitely did not want or need to hear ANY sounds.

He went over to the leaving room and didn't believe his eyes when he saw Hermione sitting on the couch by herself, crying silently, she had her eyes close and did not notice him coming close to her. She opened her eyes and saw the tall man with broad shoulders coming closer to her, wiping her tears rapidly she stood up, he gave her a questioning look, than it came to him…Jeff….he was going to kill that punk.

"What happened, what did he do?" he asked in an ordering way, like there was no space for lies. She shook her head, passing by him he made to grab her hand, unfortunately he did and she stopped dead, his hand felt hot at the exact moment he touched her. She didn't turn but said in this small, self-conscious, and weak voice.

"Don't worry about me."

"What happened?" he asked in a dark voice, hate flowing through him as he thought about the damn guy.

"Let me go." She wasn't screaming, she wasn't mad, but sad very sad. It hurt to hear her like that, he'd rather have her screaming her ass off at him, but this…just wasn't his specialty.

"Look at me."

"You can't control what happens."

"Then something did happen." She still didn't look at him.

"Please…don't" he touched her on the arm, she turned around, she covered his big hand with her small one, she took his hands off her, and she walked away and closed the door. He stood there for a while, what the fuck just happened, he thought about Jeff again, walking towards the kitchen he made himself a cup of coffee, Severus sat there zoomed out for a while, he did care about her, she made shivers go down his spine whenever Hermione touched him. Grudgingly going back to his bedroom he stopped at her room, he listened intensively, he could hear her sob, making a mental note he decided to make her tell him tomorrow what really happened.

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Morning came and Severus went to the bathroom to take a shower, opening the door he heard a scream, there on the bathtub sat Hermione in the middle of scented bubbles, he couldn't see her entire body but her long lean legs were showing and her shoulders too, she had a surprised face. They blushed intensely at the situation, he kept looking at her, there was like a spell between them, he couldn't stop looking at her. Turning away, he said nervously.

"Oh..umm…I'm really sorry, I…I.." he trailed off, he walked away, closing the door behind him he let out a deep breath. Severus kept picturing her taking that bath, groaning deeply he walked away, he'd take a shower later, and how the hell was he supposes to look at her now? Going to the kitchen he made himself a nice cup of coffee, if there was something he knew how to do was make real good coffee, silly, but who doesn't like it?

Zooming off he thoughts gathered all around him, he'd never be able to not picture her in that bath, his thoughts stopped when she entered the kitchen and sat in front of him. She looked somewhat embarrassed.

"Ummm…I'm sorry about walking in on you.." she cut him off.

"No, it was completely my fault, I mean, I should have told you the lock was broken and I was just too lazy to go get my wan." He nodded, thank Merlin, she was not going to make a big deal about it. After a silent minute he gathered all of his courage and spoke low but clearly.

"What happened?" she kept silent looking at her hands as if they held the secret of life.

"Hermione, don't do this…was it..." she looked sharply at him.

"If you're going to say Jeff… than just do me a favor and shut up, why do you not like him? He's been nothing but good to me, he made me actually forget my fucking past at Hogwarts." Thinking for a moment he asked trying to change the subject.

"Why did you run away?" she closed her eyes tiredly, she had not slept at all last night.

"I wasn't happy."

"That's not a reason."

"Ok, then how bout I hated all the fucking students, and all the fucking teachers, and why the stupid people all around me always told me to be a damn teacher and stay at Hogwarts…blah…blah…blah." he was shocked, he had no idea she wasn't happy with her life, she had friends, and brain, everyone would have guessed that their lives she was happy.

"I...didn't know."

"Of course you didn't, no one did, bastards didn't give a shit about me."

"You mean Harry and Ron?"

"Yeah, we had a hell lot of fun at that last party."

"What party?

"Never mind."

"What did they do?" he felt angry, if any of those two jack asses had laid one finger on her...she stood up walking over to the fridge she looked searching for food, he knew their conversation was over. Snape stood up as well to get an apple on top of the fridge. Coming behind her he cleared his throat.

"Excuse me." She swirled around loosing her balance she stumble forward, just as she lost her balance and was about to fall on the hard cold floor two strong hands held her in place by her waist, just as it had happened a while ago. She looked up at him, suddenly time kind of stopped they looked at each other, his eyes were the darkest shade of black she had ever seen, hers were glittering amber, they were close, temptingly close, Hermione's breath was shallow and quick, he felt his hands touching her tingling. Leaning closer to each other they never broke eye contact. Hermione's breath was heavier and heavier, was she really going to kiss her ex teacher, he thought the opposite, she'll so not kiss you back you fool.

Suddenly the doorbell rang, it was like they were under a spell, and the bell had broken the spell, sanding up and stepping away from each other, as far as possible she quickly said in a small voice.

"I better...umm…get that."

"Yeah…umm… you better." She quickly left him with his perturbed thoughts. Hermione shook away all of her inappropriate thoughts, opening the door she saw with a fear stricken face Lucius Malfoy standing in front of her, he looked grotesque, his hair was untidy and his face pale as a ghost, dark round circles clearly appeared under his eyes, he smiled showing yellow broken teeth, she gasped as he took a step forward, she mentally killed herself for not having her wand Hermione stepped back he kept advancing, she knew she should be by now screaming for her life but it seemed like her tongue was glued to the top of her mouth. She noticed as he pulled out his wand, she screamed.

Severus was sitting thinking deeply when he heard her scream, running towards the living room he saw Lucius pointing his wand at her, he was crazy, you could tell, instinctively getting his wand out he pointed at Malfoy. He noticed Severus and let out a squeaky voice.

"Ah, Severus, I see you fancy the filthy muddblood." He tightened his grip on the wand.

"Lucius, what a pleasure seeing you again." He smiled revealing his yellow teeth, she felt sick.

"And may I ask you what are you doing here, wasting your precious time with..this thing?' he said, just as Severus had asked about Jeff, he felt guilty.

"What no answer, wow, she must be good then huh?"

"Shut your mouth."

"Am I offending the little slut you're shagging?" he closed his eyes in fury.

"Don't ever speak to her like that again." Hermione was impressed by what he just said. Lucius was just about to answer when Severus said 'Stupefy'. Lucius fell backwards unconscious. He turned to her and stepped closer.

"You ok?" She looked at him in disbelief, he stepped closer to her in worry, and they were now almost touching. She kept staring at the man who just saved her. He reached towards her and touched her arms, holding her he asked with a deep caring voice, she could swear she saw caring beyond belief in those deep black pools.

"Say something."

"I…I'm fine." He turned his attention to the unconscious he murmured something under his body and Lucius disappeared. Hermione finally came to her senses.

"Wow…that was unexpected." She went over to the couch and sat down. He came over to her side and sat beside her.

"You had to be more careful."

"I know. I'm sorry."

"It's ok." They sat like that for a while, taking in all that happened, how stupid was Lucius to come to her place? The day finally came to a better mood and night fell.