Chapter Two: An Interesting Encounter
A.N: Hello Everyone, here is another chapter to Mistress Mione. I would once again like to thank snapeisajerk for the plot.
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not own any of the Harry Potter characters, otherwise I would be
deliriously happy.
Hermione kept on running. Her legs hurt, her head was sore, but most of all her heart ached, but she pushed forward. She just want to curl up in her warm bed and fall asleep, and forget all of the happenings of the day; although she knew that that would be impossible. As she approached the lake she did not notice a figure looming in the distance. She tripped and fell, but instead of picking herself up and going on, she fell in a heap, and put her arm under her head to fall into a sleep. She knew that she had a while until it got dark. But she did not see the figure in the distance approach her after she had fallen asleep. The figure watched her for a while and then continued on it's way as if nothing had happened.
Severus Snape saw her running down the hill that approached the lake. He could tell that she was distraught for her face was read and puffy. He saw her fall, and he made to go and help her, but he stopped himself when he saw her fall into a little ball.
He waited a few minutes and then he approached her, slowly. He wanted to be sure that she was okay, but he didn't want to anger her as well. As he moved towards her he wondered what had upset her so much. He saw her leaved for Hodsmade earlier that morning, and he saw Weasley and Potter in the castle after she had left, so it couldn't have been them that she was upset over. So who had she met in Hogsmade. Who ever it was had to have been very powerful to make her lose her composer like that, for all the years that Severus had known her she had never let a tear fall in front of anyone.
As he was leaning over her, and noticing that she was asleep he asked himself why he cared how she felt. Why did he care who had hurt her? After all, the past years she had just been an annoying little know it all. With that as his last though, Severus Snape made his way back up to the castle for his nighttime duty.