Title: The Last Stand

Rating: R

Warnings: Rated accordingly for scenes of graphic violence, language, scene of sexual nature, and scary plot-bunnies. OooOooo.

Characters: Severus Snape, Remus Lupin, Voldemort, Original Character Nicole Harris, Trio, Weasleys

Pairings: SS/OC, RL/NT, HP/GW, RW/HG

Summary: In an effort to grow stronger the Order takes in old friend Nicole Harris and once enemy Severus Snape to defeat Voldemort's forces and lead Harry to a successful end of evil. In the struggle for good against evil challenges arise that may bring harm to the cause. (HPB spoilers)

Author Note: Hehe…well, I've got a great scene for you people looking for Mature SSOC fiction… LOL! I know you because I am you. This chapter contains sexual content and some innuendo (as always it happens in the kitchen.) Enjoy and please review my work. I would be most happy.

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The morning was calm and Servintine manor was quiet. The sun had barely risen and Nicole stirred in her empty bed. Leaving Severus the night before was so hard. The comfort he brought to her was missed for so long. She was an adult but acted like a teenager again as she felt Severus all over her. She wished she could have stood there all night in his arms but he had forced her to get sleep. He had convinced her, even though he too wished she wouldn't have slept.

Nicole's eyes crept open and she could see beams of light shooting across the room from the boarded window. She smirked. She didn't know what the windows stayed this way, and she so desperately wanted to just pull the old boards from the window but Remus insisted the house not look occupied from the outside…which made sense. But she missed the sunlight. The last year had been so dark. The sun was always hidden by ominous clouds.

Nicole dressed quickly in a knee length skirt and a pale blue blouse and pulled her blonde hair into a messy bun. Slipping on her shoes and wool coat she left the room quietly and crept downstairs trying not to disturb the other sleeping occupants of the hallway.

She entered the already occupied kitchen. Remus and Tonks sat at the very end of the kitchen table speaking in hushed tones. When Nicole entered Remus looked up and smiled, Tonks followed a similar smile on her face.

"Good morning Nicky…slept good I hope?" He said as she sat near and conjured a cup of coffee and a pastry from the nearby brown bag. She smirked knowing that very mood- strangely over-happy…

"Yes." Of course she slept well, after having Severus for a few moments with no chaos…no harsh thoughts. Just him, her, a kiss, a touch…the very thought brought a blush to her cheeks.

"Nicky?" Remus said, a slight smile on his lips. "What's on your mind?"

"Nothing Remus," she said amused at the attitudes of the couple. "I slept well enough to get started on the new Order members." She stood taking large gulps of her coffee and wrapping a half eaten pastry in her napkin. "Is it alright if I run some food down to Severus?" She asked, covering her mouth as she spoke still chewing her pastry.

"Of course. Actually, I was thinking…do you think you can bring him up here. We need to speak about his place here in the Order." Remus said, the smile disappearing as he took a few papers from a briefcase near by. Tonks moved a little away so that he could bring the briefcase closer to the table.

Nicole froze and looked astonished. "His place?"

"Yes, he has helped us a great deal. The Carrows ended up breaking after countless hours of, well, interrogating and we have foiled a plan of theirs to kill hundreds of Muggles in Essex." Remus looked to Tonks and smiled. "It's a good thing we trusted Nicky." Tonks smiled and looked at Nicole.

"You made a good call Nicole." Tonks said with a smile of sincerity.

"Nicky, please. Nicole is much too formal." Though Severus…always called her Nicole. It was his default. "But of course, when Remus here feels formalities are best Nicole is the name." She laughed.

Tonks smiled and nodded. "And always call me Tonks. Bloody hate my first name." Remus smiled faintly and looked at Nicole.

"You ladies and your names."

"What would you rather us call you Remus? Remy?" Tonks laughed and Nicole snickered.

"I'll go get Severus. Be back in a few." Nicole left the room still hearing Tonks poke fun at nicknames that could be given to Remus.

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Severus stirred from his sleep and stood alert when the cellar door opened. Nicole appeared, a smile gently playing on her face. Her eyes were bright and she almost glided to Severus and wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him.

"Brought you breakfast." She said handing him a pastry and getting hers from her napkin. "One and a half actually." She laughed as he looked at it and smiled. "I also brought good news Severus. You are getting out of this hell hole. Be good though." She let her hand rub his arm and slide up and around his shoulder.

Severus took the pastry and put it in his robe. She took her arm and looped it into his and began to walk towards the door. Severus stopped and pulled her into his arms. He began to kiss her again and she didn't mind at all.

He kissed her hard and let his tongue penetrate her sweet lips and he felt his stomach lift and his heart skip a beat. He felt the cellar wall on his back. Her hands went to the edge of his pants and she looped her fingers in the belt loops and pulled him into her. He let his hands flutter over the small of her back and land on her hips. She moaned slightly under his touch and let her hands wander over his chest. He sighed as footsteps echoed in the outside hallway. She pulled away slightly and smiled.

"Never any time alone. Come on." They walked out of the cellar, barely touching. Her hand grabbed his and they crept down the hallway and turned towards an upwards stairs and down another long large hallway to a kitchen. "Here."

Remus looked up from the table and nodded. "Thought we lost you for a while." Nicole hid her smile and let a small blush fall on her cheeks again.

"Well, this place is so large, besides he got hungry and decided to eat breakfast first." She said. Severus felt the pastry in his pocket and damned that he didn't eat it. He was really hungry and didn't want to pull it from his pocket revealing Nicole's lie.

"Severus if you are hungry still, plenty more." Remus said pointing to the counter where several large paper parcels of pastries sat.

"Quite fine." Severus said flatly and sat in a nearby chair. Nicole sat opposite of him and poured a cup of tea. "Two," he said as Nicole noted the sugar jar.

"Severus I wanted to thank you for the Carrows information. We were able to get them before a large massacre in Essex. Thank you for your honesty." Severus nodded his head, though he wanted to strangle the man for his 'superiority' in this conversation. A new leader of the Order…the replacement for the man he killed…

Severus closed his eyes and brought his long fingers to his temple and gently massaged them. Nicole slid his tea cup in front of Severus and smiled. "See Remus, no light for so long and he is getting a blinding headache."

Remus took a vile from the shelf behind him and passed it to Nicole. "This should help Severus." Severus, knowing he would never take anything from Remus, smiled as Nicole poured some into his tea. She knew it tasted awful but the tea would drown it out…because all those years ago on that night he first met her he had given her the same. He had done the same for her.

"Thank you Remus." Nicole said and looked to Remus for further conversation. "So, his place in the Order." She was anxious for this decision. She wanted him to be free from that cellar and peacefully next to her in her bed.

"Yes, Nicky, of course." Severus felt a sneer rise in his cheeks but stopped. He shouldn't, but what nerve does Remus Lupin have to refer to Nicole as 'Nicky'? "I think it is best we let Severus start organizing his information and giving us clear direction into this fight."

"I'm sitting right here." Severus acknowledged. Remus smiled inwardly

"Of course, I'm sorry for the offense. It's been a long time since I've sat in the same room with you like so. Please excuse me." He cleared his throat and started again. "We think you should help out with our incoming information. Clarify if things sound right. Put things together for us." Severus nodded.

"We have made room for you in an upstairs room, your new sleeping quarters. If you would like you can go rest a bit. I know that cellar wasn't at all decent." Severus felt his eyes roll and he agreed, inwardly cursing Remus for even speaking of the cellar.

"I will take this opportunity." Severus stood. An hour or two of sleep and he should be ready to get all of his things together to start working.

"Nicole, third room on the second floor." Nicole cocked her head at Remus and he smiled. "Show him please." Nicole felt her face go scarlet and Tonks winked.

"Goodness," she mumbled under her breath and walked out of the kitchen with Severus at her heels.

"Remus, you start trouble." Tonks joked.

"I know…but the troubling thing is dear, it's Severus Snape and Nicole Harris. Merlin, what have I done?" He joked and Tonks planted a kiss on his lips and smiled.

"You know, the morning is still early. We have a few hours till things get started around here." She hinted him with her hips in his face and laughed as she left the kitchen. Slowly Remus packed his briefcase then nearly ran out of the kitchen after her.

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Nicole opened Severus' room and Severus closed it quickly. Turning, Severus grabbed Nicole and pulled her into his arms. Picking her up and carried her to the bed, falling back with Nicole on top of him. Severus kissed her neck and placed a silencing charm on the room and let her hands fold into his. He smiled as she kicked off her shoes and pull her coat off.

"I don't think this is rational of us, but…" She kissed him deeply and let her fingers glide to the buttons of his shirt. He closed his eyes as he remembered this exact scene 17 years ago. The two of them, close and comfortable.

Severus was younger, less tired looking and a lot more capable of removing a woman's clothes in less than a second…which would be so apparent as he was not a ladies man and desperate for the touch of a woman.

Her flesh was smooth, young and warm whereas his was dirty from his running after her in the woods. She had run from not him but the very manor they were in, afraid and smothered by the enormity of Servintine. He had chased after her, worried and a bit frustrated by the young girl. He had found her near the small clearing where a rather large pond sat. The sky was open and full of stars.

"Miss…Harris. What is the matter with you? This isn't a place to go gallivanting in." Severus scorned as he approached an already crying Nicole.

"Please…Nicole." Tears ran silently down her face and she looked to the stars. "Shooting stars. Mum would have loved this." She felt a lump in her throat grow larger and she closed her eyes.

"I…" Severus didn't know what to do or say, just to comfort the poor girl. She had become so much weaker as the day had gone on. She didn't want to be in the large house any longer. She hated it there and her brother didn't get any better since the night before. "I'm sorry."

Without thinking of the repercussions, he wrapped his arms around Nicole and let her cry for what felt like hours. Her crying brought comfort to his heart. She cried for the both of them without knowing it. With every tear shed, Severus felt his heart creep to life for her.

Nicole opened her eyes, sticky with tears, and looked at Severus whose eyes were closed. He was holding her gently but strong enough that if she had fallen she'd never had hit the ground. She didn't feel so safe until now, in his arms…

"You alright Severus?" She asked, his shirt open down the front revealing his ribbed chest and scars. She kissed the bare shoulder that was marred with a deep scare from so very long ago. He felt his flesh electrify under her kiss and smiled.

"With you, of course." He watched as she unbuttoned her shirt and shrug it off revealing her identical figure from all those years ago. He eyed her bra, modest in color, a pale gray, yet nearly gaudy for a public locker room. Her breasts, fair in size, made his eyes sizzle and he felt himself rise within. He felt alive.

Nicole pulled her zipper to her skirt down and pulled the skirt off down her legs. She was fair-skinned and Severus felt a divine feeling in his nether region. She smiled and unbuttoned and pulled the zipper down of his pants. He helped kick them off. Seeing his underpants form a tent-shape, Nicole felt her knees go weak and Severus flipped her over on her back and began to kiss her bare skin starting at her ear and working down her body to the edge of her underwear. She laughed a little as his hair tickled her stomach.

"Kiss me," Nicole said, letting her hand cup his face. His eyes opened in shock and he didn't reply. "Please." She drew herself closer to him and leaned her head upwards. Severus didn't move. "Please," she said in a mere whisper.

"I…shouldn't." He said, but he knew he wanted to and that it should happen…

"Or I will." She grew closer to his lips, and before her lips could touch his he leaned his head forward and let his lips connect with hers. In a second or two of kissing, his hands grabbed her face and pulled it closer to him. Kissing her harder he felt her melt into his mouth and she the same. It was as if their kiss fused into one being.

Pulling away, Severus closed his eyes and leaned his forehead against hers. "My wish…came true." Nicole said.

"What is that?"

"I wanted you…I hardly know you and I can already say I need you forever." Severus felt the same and they slowly lowered to the grassy bed beneath their feet.

Touching his head as Severus let his tongue dip into her naval, Nicole laughed. Severus loved her laugh. It was light and happy, and youthful. He missed her whole being.

"Please Severus…" She moaned as Severus circled her inner thigh with his finger. Slowly he hooked her underwear and pulled it down slightly revealing the light skin that was just above her heated and eager organ. "Please."

Severus pulled her underwear down and around her ankles revealing herself. Spreading her legs she pleaded silently for Severus to take her, she was his. Severus smiled pulling his underwear off and slowly gliding up her body to meet her eyes and kiss her. "I've loved you for as long as I've missed you. Everyday I wished you'd enter my life." He said, she smiled and laughed a little.

"I'm here now." They kissed and slowly Severus entered her letting there bodies unite and mold into the same sync. From slow movements they began to rapidly move against each other. Her breath became shallow as she felt an overwhelming pleasure spread throughout her body. Her mouth formed a small 'O' as Severus let his free hand, while the other supported his body on hers, glide over her breast.

Severus felt his insides turn into fire and his frustration with loneliness crept away as he was filled with passion for Nicole. The sun shined into the room brightly and as they both came to a climax a slow moan escaped Severus lips and Nicole sucked in her air and let her lips trace his collarbone. "I love you." She was able to confide into his ear as he lowered her to the pillows beneath their bodies. Slowly his body grew tired and he nearly collapsed on Nicole, and sighing he rolled to her side pulling himself close to her he let their bodies fold into each other.

"This is what I want to feel always." Nicole let her hand roam Severus' face and shoulders.

"What do you want to always feel?" He said kissing her shoulder over and over.

"Safe." She let her hands curl around his neck and her naked body mold into his. "With you I'm safe."


And he felt that same.

"Safe…" He sighed into her shoulder as they fell asleep in each others arms. "With you."

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AUTHORS NOTE: yes this is exactly the chapter I had to make. All that sexual tension made me irritated and I'm not even getting anything on the side. LOL! Well, please leave a review. If this chapter bothered you, well, read the top Author Notes as it gives fair warning. In that case, learn to read. ;) LOL! Much love though.