Chapter 4: My Love Will Go On And On

Hermione Granger looked over across the room at the man who had just stepped out of the bathroom. He had a towel around his waist and nothing else. She felt a little tickle of longing in her lower belly. She sat on the bed Indian-style the blankets thrown down at the foot of the bed and twisted her hands nervously as he crossed the room toward her.

It had been a long time since she'd been with a man and even then it had just been Severus and one time with Ron a few years after Severus. Severus was a much better lover than Ron. But he'd tired and Hermione had derived some pleasure from the very awkward intercourse.

But the closer Severus got the more nervous she became. What if she wasn't good enough? What if he didn't like how her body looked now? Did he still like to have her run her fingers through his hair as she came or would he want her to be a little more submissive? The worries faded slowly as he climbed into the bed with her and sat behind her. Wrapping his arms around her he pulled her back against him and buried his face in her still bushy hair. He breathed in her scent before releasing her and smiling at her.

"Don't worry about anything I still love you." She felt her heart flutter as she looked into his black eyes. He was always good about reading her mind, it had only been physical that one time but he had always known what she'd wanted and what would please her.

"I'm just wondering how best to seduce you." She said turning around to face him on her knees. She placed her hands on his shoulders and looked deep into his eyes. He smiled and placed his hands over hers rubbing his fingers over her knuckles gently. She smiled leaning in to press a kiss to his lips. He opened his mouth in invitation for her to deepen the kiss and she did.

"I've missed you so much." She whispered pulling back to catch her breath and lying her forehead against his. He ran his hands over her back inching her shirt up and burying his hands under it to touch the bare skin of her back. She sucked in a breath when he found the clasp of her bra and undid it. Her breast swung free and he jerked the shirt and bra over her head throwing them on the floor. She smiled as he looked down at her breasts. They weren't big but they weren't small either, they were perfect.

"You've definitely grown into your skin I see." He said looking up at her as she ran her hands down his chest and tugged at the knot in his towel. She raised an eyebrow.

"Oh, I wasn't aware my skin was too big for me." She bent forward and whispered in his ear. "I didn't hear you complaining when you saw me naked the last time." He brought his hands up and caressed her breasts.

"I'm not complaining and you never will hear me so much as peep a complaint about your body. I love you just the way you are. I loved you the way you were to." He said pressing a kiss to her neck, feeling her pulse jump under his lips. She brought her hands up and cupped his face pulling it up to hers for another kiss. She moved forward till she was straddling his hips, her hands moved down his front to the erection that was standing at half-mast. She took it in her hand and stroked it carefully. She knew it had been a while for him; it had been four years for her. She pulled back when he was fully erect and slid herself over him. He groaned and reached down for her hips slowing her down slowly before bringing her to a complete stop. She stared at him and he smiled at her.

"I want to take my time with you Hermione. I want to savor ever moment of this. It's only the second time we've been together and the first time was a little hurried so let's slow it down and try to take it last." She nodded her understanding. She wanted to savor the feeling to but they had all night and the rest of their lives to take it slow. But this was for him; she'd have given her soul to the devil to make his wishes come true.

"If that's what you want," she said rolling onto her back and holding her arms out, "then take all the time you want." She watched as he rolled over to her and lay down on top of her. She felt the steady weight of him, it was incredibly delicious. He started at her mouth, kissing her thoroughly before working his way down to her neck and even farther toward the twin mountains of her breasts. She sighed as he circled her with his tongue and almost climaxed when he took her nipple in his warm mouth.

He worked her until she was squirming beneath him. She raised her hips trying desperately to tell him without words what she wanted but he wasn't finished with her yet. Moving from her breasts he worked his way down her body toward the thatch of dark hair between her legs. Stopping at her belly button he circled it with his tongue before continuing on. The scent of aroused female rose up to greet him and he breathed in the scent hungrily.

Pressing an open mouth kiss on her pelvis bone she brought her hips up and opened her legs wider in invitation. He accepted greedily. He ravished her with his mouth, his fingers digging into the skin of her thighs. She came apart quickly, panting and moaning his name.

"Severus, please, now, I need you so bad. Please, take me now." He climbed back up her body stopping to press teasing kisses on her skin. He stopped when he was level with her face and kissed her deeply.

"I love you Hermione." He said sweetly as he looked down into his lovers face. She smiled up at him and touched his cheek, running her hand over the smooth skin.

"I love you to Severus." She whispered bringing his head back down and pressing a kiss to his lips. The tenderness of it made his breath catch and his heart tighten in love.

He moved himself between her legs and found her opening as easily as if they had made love a hundred times before instead of just once four years ago. She moaned at the feeling of being filled with him. He filled her perfectly, to max and then just a little more but the pressure of his length was welcome. It was a feeling she'd wanted for four years to feel again.

He moved his hips slowly setting a pace that she quickly picked up and followed. He picked up the pace a little when he felt her start to squeeze him tighter and her breathing became heavier.

"Oh gods Severus. This feels like heaven." She moaned as she dug her fingernails into his sweat slick back. He welcomed the pain, it was a delicious feeling. She was delicious; every part of her fascinated him as he stared down at her body.

It didn't take long for her to cum and he followed suit soon after. They lay together after words, snuggled in the comfort of each other arms. Snape stroked her back as Hermione laid in the circle of his arms simply breathing in his scent.

"I missed you so much." He whispered to her, she looked up at him and smiled. "I thought about you every night I was in that dreadful place. I wanted nothing more than to get a passing glance of you again. I remembered you birthday and thought about writing to you but I knew that you might be mad about Dumbledore so I didn't. I can't tell you how many times I would look the Daily Prophet over for your picture or something about you. I found a picture of you one day and an article about you're becoming an Auror. You don't know how proud I was of you sweetheart." She felt tears sting her eyes and blinked rapidly to keep them from falling.

"I thought about you to. I was mad at you for Dumbledore but I found out later why you did it and I wasn't okay with it but I understood. You couldn't break your vow. No matter how much you wanted to, that's why they call it an Unbreakable Vow."

"I never thought you'd happen to me Hermione." He brought up one long finger and stroked her cheek softly. She smiled and reached up taking a hold of his hand and pressed her lips to his palm. There was a long thin scare across the surface from his fight with the Auror's that'd caught him. She'd seen it, relived it several times before in her mind.

"I wanted so bad to make them stop when they came after you. I wanted to tell them that I loved you but I knew that it wouldn't make a difference so I just kept my mouth shut and my head down. Like a coward. I've read books, muggle and magical about woman sticking up for their men and I just let them have you, without fighting for you." She felt anger she hadn't known existed rise up and catch her around the throat.

"Hermione, you would have done something if you could but there was nothing you could do. I made my bed and I had to lay in it. I was more than deserving of what I got, I'm not the perfect man you seem to have made me out to be in your mind." She sat up straight and pulled the sheet up to cover her. Staring down at him she looked hurt and confused.

"I don't think you're perfect. I also know that you've done things that I don't want to know about but I love you and I should have done something more for you." She got up and began to search for her clothes. He swung his legs over the side of the bed and draped the sheet over his lap as she pulled her panties on and looked around for her pants and shirt.

"What are you doing?" He asked as she rounded up her shirt and bra. She slipped them over her head. She stopped and looked at him.

"I'm getting dressed, I'm going to meet with Harry and Ron and the other Order members. They have to know that you're out and I think I need to explain myself to them." She said turning looking for her pants which didn't appear to be anywhere in the room.

"You don't have to explain yourself to anyone Hermione." He said reaching down and picking up her pants holding them out to her. She looked at them before she grabbed them and shimmed into them. "And further more, I'd say that the Order probably already knows that I'm out and are on their way here to kill me in person." No sooner were the words out of his mouth than there was a knock on the door.

Hermione froze in fear and shock. If that was any of the members from the Order she was dead meat. If it was Harry or Ron then she was definitely going to have to spend the night in a hotel room somewhere.

"We know you're in there Snape." It was Harry.

"My day just keeps getting so much better by the minute." Hermione started toward the door. What was the use in hiding it? She'd been about to go charging into number twelve Grimmuald place and confess all her sins, this just saved her a trip. She turned the door knob and came face to face with almost every member of the Order she could think of and some people she didn't know.

"Well, if twos company and threes a crowd what do you call an angry mob who just found one of their members with the enemy." Snape asked from the bed where he sat, still naked looking over his shoulder at the people.

"Hermione." Harry said looking at her she had to look away. There was so much hurt and anger in his eyes that she couldn't stand to look at him.

"What the hell is going on here?" Ron demanded stepping forward and looking over at Snape. "WHAT IN THE BLOODY HELL WERE YOU THINKING HERMIONE?" He screamed looking as if he might jinx her. Her head snapped up and the guilt she'd felt flooded away.

"What was I thinking? What the fuck are you talking about? It's none of your business anyway and I don't see what my being with Severus has to do with anything. We all know why had killed Professor Dumbledore, we all know why he couldn't go back on the vow." She flung her arms up in the air and started to pace back and forth. "What does it matter? I LOVE HIM." The last part was meet with silence and she stared at Ron who looked as if he might fall over while Harry dropped his wand and had to lean on Ginny for support.

She stared back at Snape who was now standing up with the sheet from the bed wrapped around him.

"Well, I don't know about you lot but I could use a drink." He looked at Hermione and winked but she simply stood there looking at him and thinking to herself.

Oh Gods Hermione, what have you done now.

TBC???