A/N: I was hit by a plot bunnie after getting an e-mail from a watcher to update this story. Clings: Shankyuuu! Hope ya like this chappy.
/Edit, July 3/ The lines were being fruity and not showing up, so now they're there. (somewhat...o.o now they're circles...) Hopefully this makes it a bit easier to read. /End Edit/
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Hermione stared into Snape's eyes challengly, gripping her school bag. She had just been in the library, and on her way back, she saw snape limping into the common rooms. Walking quickly, she caught up with him before he was able to climb the staircase. His robes where wrinkled, and seemed a little grayer than they had been when she had last seen him.
"You going to tell me what happened?"
"There's nothing to tell." He wasn't looking her in the eyes when he said that, head lowered.
"Bull. Severus, What happened?"
At this, he glared up at her defensively. "I told you it was nothing!" He turned, walking towards the steps again. As he walked away, something clicked in her head.
"It was your...'lord', Wasn't it?" Hermione prayed she wasn't wrong, that she hadn't gotten the wrong time era here. From what she had been told by the small bits of conversation she heard in Grimmauld place, Snape was already working with Voldemort.
She felt a burst of success when he spun around, eyes wide.
"What the hell do you think you're on, Granger!"
"What is it with Slytherins and using my last name when they're angry?" She walked over to him calmly, dropping her bag on the sofa on her way over to him. He tensed as she got close, taking a small, hesitant step back.
"I'm serious! Why the bloody hell did you say that!" She was right in front of him now, and before he could react, she reached out and pushed back his sleeve. She could see the muscles bunching as he pulled in a quick breath and started to pull away from her. She kept her grip, looking straight at the mark on his arm. The skin around it was raw, looking almost swollen. Carefully, she traced the outline of the mark with her fingertips, the skin around the mark hot as coals under her fingers.
"It must hurt..."
He gulped, just staring at her, not understanding her reaction.
"Severus...No matter what...People will always appreciate this sacrifice that you have made for them."
"Sacrifice?"
"Yes. You're not truly working for Voldemort..." She felt him jump as she whispered the dark lord's name. She looked up at him, seeing the surprise in his eyes.
"How do you...Know?"
She went back to looking at his arm, tentively putting a finger over the snake's mouth.
"I told you I wasn't crazy when i found you...Severus, I am not from this time." She shouldn't have been telling him this. She shouldn't let anyone but Dumbledor know that she was indeed from the future.
"So...What you said in Madame Pomfrey's office..."
"All true." She pulled his sleeve back down, letting go of his arm. "Use a kimargi potion. It'll ease the effects of what he's done to you."
"Thats what you always used when you came back from the meetings in Grimmauld Place..."
She turned around then, gathering her things and walking to her own dormitory.
"Hermione..." She stopped with one foot up the stairs, looking across the room at Snape.
"You know all this...We'll still be figthing in twenty years...won't we? I'll still be...doing this..."
A small, sad smile crossed her lips, and she felt small prickles of tears gather in her eyes.
"I'm sorry, Severus. I'm not supposed to say anything of the future."
He nodded, and turned without emotion to limp up the rest of the stairs. Watching him in such pain was painfull to herself as well, and she had to run up the rest of the stairs so he wouldn't see how much it affected her.
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"C'mon, snivelus! You can do better than that!" James sneered as he watched severus try to peel himself from the spot of the hallway he was currently...stuck...on. It was a spell smiliar to a fly trap. The bricks on the ground had turned yellow, and anyone who stepped on it would be trapped like a fly. Snape would have originally just pulled his feet out of his shoes and stalked away, but the bottom of his robes had also attached themselves to the ground, leaving him grounded. His hand tightened around his wand as Peter's kneasly laugh met his ear. He was almost shaking in anger as Sirius started talking to a girl that was nearby, everyone in the hallway joining in the mirth of his 'capture'. And that infuriating Remus leaning aganist the wall, a book propped open on his hand and ignoring everything around him.
"You incredible bastards!" Snape lifted his head at that, and met the eyes of Hermione Granger. He tried to tell her with his look to get out of there. Having her defend him would only make it worse, he knew from experience. His mind drifted to the small first year that had gotten joked and sneered out of the hall last time she tired to help. Never talked to him again after that.
James turned around. "I do hope your talking to Snivelus, there." He had a cocky smile on his face, and it infuriated Hermione. Harry had told her of the view he had seen in snape's pensieve, but seeing it in person was so much worse.
"Of course I'm not! If you don't let him go right now-!"
"Just ignore her, James. She can't do anything." Sirius let his gaze drift to her and started a little bit. It was the girl that they had seen the other night.
"Oh really? Can't I?" Hermione had never felt so angry. She stalked forward, her hand discreetly pulling her wand from her robes. She saw Snape shake his head slightly, and pointedly ignored him. With a flick of her wrist, the yellow that was under Snape's feet dissapeared, and she turned to the four responsible.
"Now shall I do the same to you, or do you think you deserve a bit harsher a punishment?" She gritted through her teeth, glaring at all of them.
James' eyes went wide. "The bloody hell...The counter spell for that is way too advanced for you to do it! Thats something that only the teachers should be able to do! Not even we can do that!"
That made her anger soar. "Oh? So you were planning on making Severus stand here all day until a teacher managed to stroll by and let him go!"
The hallway was silent, watching the pair. Hermione's wand raised to point at them. "In that case." Before they had to chance to react and pull out their wands, they had the sticky substance under them as well.
Snape couldn't hide the snicker from everyone, and he had to turn away from the sight to keep a straight face. Not only were they stuck..But their robes seemed to have...dissapeared.
"Rubber ducks, Potter? Didn't know you were so...childish." Hermione smirked, and spun around on her heel.
"Lets go, Severus. We'll be late for potions."
He followed her silently, looking up as he past sirius, smirking slightly. He felt a small amount of pride as he was able to walk away and leave them the ones in trouble for once.
"You shouldn't have done that..."
"Would you rather me have left you there?"
Snape shifted the bag in his arms to his other shoulder. "Not particularly, but now they're going to mess with you, too."
She rolled her eyes. "Those idiots can't do anything to me."
"Thats what I thought, at first."
"Well, they don't deserve to act that way! Its idiotic and stupid, and rude, and I won't deal with it! Dear Merlin, they act as if they rule everything." She went silent for a moment, and then it hit her just what she did. She stopped, staring ahead of her. Snape stopped as well, turning to her.
"Hermione?"
"I just...Did the same thing that they did..."
"...You just now realized this?"
"Well..." She blinked. "I never would have done that before..."
"You ARE in Slytherin, you know."
She glared at him for a moment. "I am NOT from Slytherin!"
Snape looked at her oddly, and she sighed. "I'm origianally from Gryffindor... But there was no space in any of the other houses, so Dumbledore put me into Slytherin for while I'm here..."
"You're a Gryffindor?"
"Don't look at me like that, Severus. It doesn't change who I am."
"I know that...But Gryffindor?"
She rolled her eyes again, walking forward. "Yes, Severus, Gryffindor."
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"My memories are changing. I figure it has something to do with Ms Granger."
Dumbledore looked thoughtfully at the man in front of him. "You look like you havn't slept in days, Severus."
"My past is changing every minute! I'm remembering feelings I never had, and things that never happened!"
"Actually, They did happen. They're happening right now."
Snape slammed his hands down on the headmaster's desk, irritated at his calmness.
"We need to get her back, professor! We know what time era she's in, why are we doing nothing?"
"Calm down, Severus. In anger, we can do nothing."
"Damn your sayings, old man! I want her out of my past NOW!"
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