Chapter 26: The Irresistible Aspect Of Bonding

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The Sinclair Residence, Unknown Location, Unknown World...

The sound of hurried little feet moving along the hardwood floor had been the first thing that caught Snape's attention as he pressed himself further into his chosen hiding place. Never in a thousand years would he have believed he'd be slinking about the halls of a domesticated establishment not for profit nor information, but for the sake of amusing a small child as her relative happiness had been all the profit he needed.

He knew all too well that she'd been confused from the way she circled the area desperate in her search for him it seemed.

"Where are you Daddy?" she said aloud hoping to draw him out with her conveyed need to seek him out.

Snape smirked noting the rather clever tricks of the trade his apparent "daughter" had up her sleeve knowing all too well that she'd make for a very decent Slytherin if she'd been given the opportunity to join Hogwarts as he had.

Alas, she was a muggle in a world vastly distant from the one he inhabited not long ago. He'd been living among the muggles so long it was rather easy to forget his life before...almost blissfully so.

"I found you Daddy!" she shouted as she revealed that she'd easily deduced where he'd been hiding.

It wasn't as if he'd put very much effort into his hiding spot to begin with, but he smiled and scooped the giggling girl into his arms as she celebrated her great triumph.

"DADDY!" giggled Eileen as he held her.

Snape took a moment to look into the small obsidian orbs that were very much like his own. He couldn't understand how a man as fortunate as Sidney Sinclair could ever have left such a sweet little girl like Eileen behind...she absolutely adored the man and he'd been her greatest hero, it was difficult to find devotion like that...especially for someone like Severus Snape and here this man had it in spades and threw it all away due to cowardice.

"I love you Eille." said Snape holding her close for the first time since he'd been brought to this strange new world that seemed to be growing on him.

"I love you too Daddy." she said pleasantly. "Can we go find everybody now?"

Snape smirked nodding in reply as he put her back on her feet as she went zipping through the household.

She was truly a wonder for her age and so much like her mother at times it was almost uncanny. She had not been aware of it yet, but she had even the most hard hearted of former professors wrapped around her little finger.

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The Bedroom, The Sinclair Residence, Unknown Location, Unknown World...

Hermione did her best to remain as silent and as still as possible as the sound of footsteps got closer and closer to the bed she'd been hiding under for nearly half an hour. She'd been tempted a time or two to get out from beneath it when suddenly she spotted the shadow of someone's feet at the other end of the bed.

It took her only a few moments to note that they had belonged to her husband as he dropped down onto the floor and crawled beneath the bed they shared night after night since the moment they elected to call the house they shared home.

"Sidney you bloody git...are you trying to lure Ellie up here?" whispered Hermione not at all pleased by her husband's poor sportsmanship.

Snape smirked realizing his new position of power beneath the bed.

"Perhaps I could be persuaded to look the other way...but you'd have to make it worth my while." he taunted her as they lied side by side beneath the bed.

"Git." grumbled Hermione knowing all too well he'd stoop quite low given his new found power over her. "You're just being a poor sport because she caught you first."

"And how do you know I didn't let her catch me?" he asked with an arched brow despite the lack of ability to note it easily due to the darkness beneath the bed.

"Shhh...keep your voice down." whispered Hermione.

"As I've said...make it worth my while." replied Snape almost daring her to placate him.

Hermione smirked rolling to face him directly before pressing her soft pink lips into his not so harsh pale ones. The gesture caught Snape off guard as Eileen passed the bedroom without a second glance and Hermione attempted to pull back only to be held in place via Snape's out stretched arms.

The two of them seemed to slowly become lost in the intimacy that began to take place following her bold gesture as Snape began to try and pull her closer. Hermione had barely been able to catch her breath be for she realized that he'd pulled her out from under the bed where Eileen had been standing with her arms crossed.

"Found you, Mummy." she said with a big bright smile happily celebrating her second victory. "We got her, Daddy."

Snape smirked looking at his partner in crime before turning his heated expression back to his wife.

"Why don't you do find the boys Ellie...your mother and I have a discussion to finish." he said rather quickly.

The girl didn't seem to think anything of it as Snape shut and locked the door behind her as Hermione attempted to catch her breath.

"If you think you are going to touch me after setting me up..." she began only to find herself thrown rather unceremoniously onto the bed.

Snape joined her shortly there after kissing and working his mischievous hands along her body. Try as she might, Hermione had not been as angered about his betrayal in terms of the game as she wanted to believe as Snape continued to kiss her belly after slowly working her out of her attire.

"It's been so long since we..." began a rather breathless Hermione as Snape continued to kiss her along the neck and maneuver his way between her thighs.

It had been much more difficult to undress her due to the lack of magic but he managed it and discarded his own attire as their children ran a muck downstairs.

"We really should get back to the children." said Hermione once more as Snape continued to kiss her.

She wanted so badly to enjoy the slow intimacy she had been lacking when it came to spending time with her husband and the way he looked at her, as if she were something to devour had been vastly comforting given how distant they were not too long ago.

"Hermione." whispered Snape not taking his eyes off the amber eyed young woman.

Hermione closed her eyes trying her best to enjoy being with him but she knew she couldn't fully give in with the children running about downstairs.

"I'm sorry Sidney." she said wiggling out from beneath him as she rushed to put on her clothes and see to the children. "But..now is not a good time for...at least let the children be put to bed first."

Snape sighed unsure of what had come over him as Hermione made her way out the bedroom door closing it behind her.

"Shit." he said looking up at the ceiling.