Chapter 28: The Measurement Of A Lifetime
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{"I was reborn when I was broken...I wouldn't believe, I wouldn't believe, no...Been through a storm, no use in hoping...That you would come rescue me...Somehow your love set me free...And I, I can let my life pass me by...Or I can get down and try...Work it all out this lifetime...Work it on out this time...I can let it all pass me by...Or I can get down and try...Work it all out this lifetime, lifetime..."} Lifetime, Maxwell
The Sinclair Residence, Unknown Location, Unknown World...
Staring down into his rather familiar drinking mug, Severus Snape continued to contemplate his current situation. He had made up his mind to tell his "wife" about his terminal illness and wondered just how she would receive the news. It weighted rather heavily on him ever since Lupin made it clear to him that he was no longer able to ignore what would be blatantly obvious once the symptoms progressed further.
Sidney Sinclair had chosen the far easier path when faced with the truth of his terminal illness and thus avoided confiding in his wife. Severus Snape had not been such a coward, he knew he had to tell her, there was no other option.
As Snape continued to stare into the mug he had grown rather fond of drinking out of since coming to this strange world, the front door opened and he found him self watching as Hermione came stepping inside, not at all accompanied by the children as he had expected but accompanied by the red head lad Ron Weasley.
Both he and Hermione seemed to be quite chummy as of late and the sight of it had given Snape much cause for alarm. He noticed that while his wife had been merely enjoying the company of her childhood friend, Weasley had been doing his utmost to make himself appear as loving and supportive as he could in a bid to get her to take notice of him.
Finishing off his drink, Snape got to his feet and entered the sitting room snidely hiding his rage as he greeted his wife as she giggled like an amused school girl.
"Having fun?" he asked with an arched brow and his arms folded across his chest.
"Sidney." said Hermione happily greeting him as she always had.
Weasley did his best to straighten up in the wake of his attempts to cover for his attempt at getting Hermione to see him in a more sympathetic light. Snape had been no fool of course and made it clear via his rather possessive stance that he knew what the boy was up to.
The former Potions Master kissed his wife in full view of the unnerved red head lad and turned his attention to her at last.
"I've missed you today." she said returning his kiss and stroking his cheek, forgetting for a moment that she had company.
"Did you really?" asked Snape with an arched brow. "I don't believe you..."
Hermione giggled some and playfully smacked him across the chest.
"You know that I missed you git." she said pulling him into another kiss before letting her hand travel down the front of his trousers.."And I've definitely missed him..."
"Well, it seems as if you have everything well in hand." said Ron cutting in. "I suppose I'll get going now."
Snape and Hermione ignored him as they continued to kiss in the wake of her admission of wanting him. It was clear that his rather impulsive efforts from earlier that morning had lingered on her mind all day.
"Where are the children?" he asked reluctant it seemed to interrupt their heated series of kisses.
Hermione appeared to be breathless as she attempted to focus on gathering her senses enough to give a valid reply. It had been so long since she and her husband had an intimate moment that didn't go wrong that she was getting to be quite nervous about the chances of it happening all over again.
"They are staying the night with my parents." she replied kissing him once more.
"On a school night?" asked Snape with an arched brow.
"Just for tonight." replied Hermione determined to enjoy the intimacy she had sought for so long with the man she loved. "I just want to be with my husband in peace."
Snape sighed. He knew what she wanted, he had found himself wanting the same thing for quite some time but there was the news of his impending doom that needed to be shared first and foremost with her.
"Hermione..." he began only to be cut off by his young wife's lips once more crushing themselves into his own. "I...I need to speak with you...it is a matter of utmost importance."
Hermione sighed meeting his seemingly worried gaze.
"Sidney...please, I just want this night and whatever you have to tell me it'll keep until morning." she pleaded kissing him as if their conversation never happened.
Snape knew he should tell Hermione about his illness but the allure of finally having her in his arms was something he couldn't very well ignore.
The former Potions Professor had been unable to fathom just how much the young woman before him had blossomed from a scrambling bucktooth know it all girl into a beautiful woman with unseemly passions well beyond the classroom.
Snape scooped his young wife into his arms matching her in every aspect of passion she had shown for him.
He couldn't understand why it all seemed so familiar.
Unbeknownst to him, the eyes of the enchantress had been on him taking in the recent changing of events as a result of the former Potions Professor's actions. He had apparently taken a liking to being wed to his former student Hermione Granger-Sinclair and then some. A small smile filed across her face as she continued to monitor the status of the dour wizard from afar.
"Very well Severus Snape, it seems you've made your choice." she said seemingly amused as the dour wizard and Hermione Granger-Sinclair vanished from view of the now empty sitting room.
