Snape's eyes slowly opened later that night to see a pale, haggard looking Hermione with her legs curled up next to her eyes closed but not sleeping, her head resting against the back of her chair looking towards the ceiling.

"Her…Hermione" he mumbled weakly her eyes snapped open

"Severus" she smiled weakly "You came back"

"I can't let you have an empty world now can I?" he chuckled and instantly regretted it hand shooting to his ribs. "Get Poppy please" he choked out, Hermione sent her a patronus not leaving his side.

"Miss Granger when was the last time you ate and or slept?" he said raising a hand to cup her cheek but pulled it back as he flinched in pain

"Ate my breakfast with you, and slept I wouldn't call it sleeping I would call it barely reaching a state of unconsciousness still aware of everything around me" she stated as Poppy came in tying her dressing gown up "Severus! Your wake!"

"Yes, well done for stating the obvious"

Hermione's hand flinched towards his shoulder

"I mean…"

"It's quite alright dear you're bound to be grouchy, Anyway what's the problem?"

"Pain" he said glancing at Hermione apologetically and squeezing her hand gently.

"Where about?"

"My head and ribs is the most, then my throat and everywhere else" his voice rough

"I need to have a look" stated Madam Pomfrey "Miss Granger you may want to leave"

"I'm perfectly alright here thanks" her vooice sharper then she meant it to be

"Okay dear" she smiled nervously and began peeling back the gauze on his head to reveal a nasty cut, mumbling a few spells there appeared to be no change "How does that feel?"

"Better, my head doesn't feel like it's going to explode now"

"Good, now the ribs" she said and he sat up slowly wincing in pain

Hermione noticed for the first time he was still topless but his ribs were heavily bandaged. Poppy slowly began to unwrap them and Hermione had to look away at the sight, they were black and blue, and his ribs were falling unevenly were some where broken and others were not a huge gash running slightly diagonal across the left side as soon as she took the pressure of it began bleeding again.

"Are you sure you don't want to leave Miss Granger?" asked Madam Pomfrey

"I'm fine" she said between gritted teeth forcing herself to look at him again and squeeze his hand reassuringly. Madam Pomfrey managed to stop the bleeding and fix most of his ribs, a few still had cracks in though but she couldn't do anything about the bruises, which the worst of would take at least a month or two to go down.

"Okay Severus, this is the deal, I'll let you go as long as you don't over exert yourself, or your be straight back in here and not leaving until your perfectly well, deal?"

"Yes Poppy, you have yourself a deal" he sighed slowly swinging his legs over the side of his bed and pushing himself up

"Oh and a word of warning you will not be able to wear your usual tight clothes as it will be rather uncomfortable and painful, so I brought you some shirts, black of course" she chuckled handing him a bag

"Um… thank you, um, hang on a minute" he nodded and stepped closer to Hermione bringing his hands up to her cheeks and pulling her in for a kiss soft and gentle, slowly growing more passionate until Madam Pomfrey cleared her throat

"Sorry Madam" blushed Hermione

"It's quite alright dear" she chuckled as she watched her help Severus put on his shirt, he winced in pain.

"Sorry" apologized Hermione

"It's okay, it wasn't your fault" his voice filled with pain

"Are you sure there is nothing you can do about the pain?" pleaded Hermione

"I'm sure there is nothing strong enough and plus this way he won't work to hard because if he does that means it hurts" as she said this Snape frowned his hands struggling to do his top up. Hermione gently brushed them away and did it up for him, leaving his top two buttons un done, he shot her a weak smile before turning to Madam Pomfrey "So you are using my own pain against me?"

"Yes"

"Humph" he scoffed "I really don't have to energy to argue with you, goodbye"

"Goodbye Severus, Make sure Miss Granger here eats something and sleeps before she's the one in the Hospital bed"

"Why didn't you make her eat when she was here?" he growled

"She refused to" and at the Snape rounded on Hermione

"Why would you do that?"

"We are not talking about this now"

"We are talking about it"

"I'm not getting into an argument, I didn't eat because I couldn't end of"

"For now" he growled under his breath causing Hermione to sigh

"Whatever Sev… Professor"

I'M NOT TO SURE ABOUT THIS CHAPTER IT WAS MORE TO JUST GET SEVERUS ON HIS FEET AGAIN AND I COULD THINK OF NO OTHER WAY TO DO IT SORRY. PLEASE R&R SORRY FOR THE DISAPPOINTING CHAPTER HOPEFULLY THE NEXT ONES WILL BE BETTER