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Chapter 10: A Time Skip and A Question

That night Hermione grudgingly made her way back to the Gryffindor tower, she'd have to go back and face everyone eventually. However she didn't leave without giving Severus a decent kiss goodbye, he always knew how to comfort her after a fight. She walked up to the Fat Lady and gave her the password before climbing into the common room. It was bare except for a few stragglers slowly making their way to bed or finishing homework that they had procrastinated on. Luckily no one paid her any mind as she made her way up to her dormitory in silence.

She went to sleep undisturbed that night and she dreamt of Severus, as she always did, she dreamt of what they could have together in the future. She had a smile on her face that night.

In the dungeons Severus was thinking about Hermione as he fell into a deep sleep, he smiled that night, for the first time in so long, Severus smiled.

As morning came to Hermione she got up and quickly made herself ready for her classes that day, it was the last week before Christmas break so there was likely to be less work for her to do, but she also realized as she headed to the Great Hall for breakfast that she probably had nowhere to go for the holidays now that she was fighting with Harry and Ronald. She sighed in resignation and pushed the food around her plate lazily as she ignored those around her.

Her classes flew by quickly that day and she was glad when she got to rest in the library for a while, due to the fact that all of her classes were with the two people who resented her most right now, she was tired of having to look out for a flyaway curse or jinx headed her way just so that they could show her how they felt about her decision. She knew she was ready to crack but she couldn't go to Severus right now, it was the middle of the week. She just hoped that it would all get better with time.

The rest of the week passed by with little to no harm done to her and she told Severus of her plans to visit her parents in Australia for the break but he was more than welcome to join them at all should he feel the need, or simply missed her.

Days turned to weeks and weeks turned to months, and as the time passed Severus and Hermione grew closer, the boys had given up on trying to exact revenge on the couple. They realized that the two wouldn't give into them that they were too happy together. The mistletoe was removed mid January and nobody had to avoid the bits of white foliage on the way to and from classes anymore. There was one sprig that remained however, Severus never allowed Minerva to remove the one near to the desk in his classroom, and it was a wonderful reminder to him. It remained cursed and Hermione and himself found themselves trapped under it one many more than one occasion and they savored it every time.

As Valentine's Day rolled around on February 14th, they two met again at Hogsmeade. Severus had something to discuss with Hermione but he wouldn't give even a hint as to what it was, he left her guessing as she wandered into the Three Broomsticks to their usual booth in the back corner of the restaurant. Severus came in as usual promptly at noon to meet her there as she waited people watching.

"Hello Severus, dear, I already ordered for you, I hope you don't mind," Hermione said smiling up at him as he sat across from her taking her hands in his.

"No Hermione I'm sure that I don't mind at all. You always know what I want." Severus replied smiling warmly at the woman who was his.

They stayed there like that until their orders came; they ate in a wonderful companionable silence until roughly a quarter till the hour. Snape then turned to the woman across from him and prayed that she didn't notice as he fiddled with something in the pocket of his usual black slacks. "Hermione I'm not sure how to ask you this, but I will," he got down on one knee in front of her and bowed his head momentarily before looking her dead in the eyes. Hermione's eyes simply flew open at this gesture and a hand flew to her mouth. "I would like to ask of you Hermione Jean Granger, to please do me the honor of being my wife?"

Tears began to form in the young woman's eyes as she stared at the beautiful diamond and emerald ring that the professor was holding out to her, she didn't know what to say, for once in her life she was struck completely silent by a simple question.

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