The Dark Depths of Desire

A/N: I want to apologize for taking so long to get this chapter out. Unfortunately, I got sick and then hit a busy season at work. I simply did not have the time to write. I want to thank you all for being so patient and such great reviewers. I especially want to thank a couple of reviewers that helped me form the future of this tale with their great suggestions.

I hope you all enjoy this chapter. It contains some coarse language and a rather rough lemon. Enjoy!

Chapter 5: Sleeping with the Enemy

A week after the awkward confrontation with Severus and Remus, Hermione sat in the living quarters of the dungeons reading a book. Remus had left town two days before to go undercover for Albus. He was heavily involved in some subterfuge concerning Striker and his gang of werewolves.

Hermione was worried about him while he was away. She was in fear of what Striker might choose to do to him in retribution for her. As her worry consumed her she had the tendency of biting her nails and chewing on her bottom lip as a nervous habit that unconsciously showed her state of mind.

Severus watched her each night with an utter distaste for her concern. It irritated him that she would take it upon herself to worry for someone that he considered his. He was never one to share his things…and Remus meant so much more to him than his favorite cauldron. All of his talk about being able to accept each other and allowing each other to see Remus's interactions with the other person was a façade. Severus hated the idea of Remus being with anyone other than himself.

He knew his every action around the girl had an ulterior motive behind it. The night she caught the two of them on the couch was a fortuitous situation for Severus. He wanted her to see what he did to Remus, to understand the power he had over him. He wanted her to know that he could do things for Remus that she would never be able to replace.

Severus watched Hermione worry her bottom lip for the tenth time in the last half hour as she read a book on the couch facing him. It was this last time that infuriated him to finally take action.

"Would you please stop that!" Severus spat out the command to her over his own periodical as he glared at her bottom lip tucked beneath her teeth.

Hermione looked up from her book with confusion written on her face. "What are you talking about?"

Severus huffed loudly as he slammed the periodical he was reading on the table sitting next to him and stood up to pace. "I am sick and tired of watching you fawn and worry over Remus like some lost puppy." Severus turned in the middle of tirade to look directly at her. "He is not yours to worry about. If anything I am the one that should have the right to be upset about his absence. But you have taken up that torch enough for the both of us." Severus glared at her with complete disdain.

Hermione put her book down and stood up to gain a better position in the impending argument. "Did you mean any of what you told Remus? Or are you simply putting on a show to appease him?"

"Do not presume to dictate to me any of my motivations!" Severus furiously moved across the room to stand a few inches from Hermione. "If you believe that I would ever share what is mine with you, then you are an even bigger fool than I ever thought."

Hermione pulled herself up to her full height and glared bake at him with just as much venom as he was showing her. "How dare you! He has marked me just like you. He equally belongs to the both us! And quite frankly I am tired of you claiming him like you are the only one that has any right to him."

"The only reason he marked you is because of the child you carry." Severus growled in annoyance as he eyed the small bulge hiding beneath her robes. "I allowed Remus to mark me because we had a connection that you will never understand. He and I have been together many years…and I'll be damned if I allow some annoying little chit to come in and ruin it for me."

"Well, apparently I have something that you can never offer him." Hermione smirked at him with superiority. "It seems he had to go find what he really needed. I'm sure he already told you that he desired me before any of this ever happened." Hermione became cocky as she continued in her defense. "I guess you weren't completely…satisfactory. He obviously needed more."

"You little Bitch!" Severus roared with anger as he slowly paced towards her in a fury. Hermione stepped back with each slow approach he made to her until her back hit the hard wooden shelves that lined his living room. "He will always want me, Hermione. You could never be enough for him. You could not even fathom the sheer brutality that he is capable of."

Severus pressed his body against hers to trap her against the bookshelf and leaned in to coarsely whisper into her ear. "No matter how hard you try he will always come back to me. I am in his blood, Hermione. He will never be able to rid himself of his desire to be completely dominated by me."

What happened next shocked both of them as Severus stuck out his tongue just enough to lightly lick up the outer edge of her earlobe.

Hermione shivered at the unexpected turn of events. It confused her as her body responded to the intimate touch in a way that betrayed her anger for him.

"Do you honestly think that you could ever be enough?"

Hermione's breathe bitched sharply as she felt the distinct evidence of Severus's arousal pressed against her. She closed her eyes tightly to try and push away the desire that pushed forward to take over her body. "I can be more than he will ever need."

"You wouldn't last one transformation." Severus leaned down to find the mark that branded her shoulder. It was the one thing that caused all of their problems and continued to push all of them into these dark depths of desire. He bit down on her shoulder in the same place and reveled in the sound of her screaming in pain.

"I can take anything you can dish out." Hermione panted in defiance as tears streamed down her face from the sheer pain that surged through her shoulder.

"Care to put that to the test, Ms. Granger?" Severus looked her in the eyes with an intensity that spoke volumes of his challenge. Hermione knew she couldn't back down now without relinquishing her claim over Remus as a part of hers. She felt his hot breath mingle with hers as his own body reacted to the dangerous ground they danced over.

Hermione grasped his shoulders with all the strength she possessed and pressed her lips to his in a fierce and frantic kiss. Severus accepted her answer to his inquiry with a feral growl that emanated deep from his chest.

He grasped her wrists behind his head and forcefully pressed them against the bookshelf behind her. Hermione winced in pain as the pressure he used sharply dug the edge of the wood shelves into her arms. Severus's kiss was brutal as his teeth clashed against hers. He violently continued to assault her mouth with his own as he tried to force her into submission.

Hermione's head swam with the uncertainty and strangeness of it all. She couldn't grasp how she managed to get herself into this position…and why she was begging for more. She moved one of her legs up and around his hip to press her body closer to hers as she ground her hips into his erection. It gave her satisfaction to hear the grunt of surprise come from Severus as she tried to fight for some control.

Severus recognized the familiar taste of metal in his mouth as he realized that one or both of them were bleeding from the severe actions they were inflicting on each other. He pulled his mouth away from her long enough to see a small drop of blood linger on the edge of her lips. He stood there panting as he found himself mesmerized by the sight of her lips gasping for breathe as her chest swelled with the strain of her lust. She licked her lips quickly as her eyes caught his briefly.

She missed the blood that still decorated her lips and taunted him. In an uncontrollable instinct he drew his tongue along the side of her mouth to taste her blood.

Hermione watched in fascination at his display of dominance over her and lunged forward to taste his lips again. Severus released her hands as he moved them to explore her body. He felt her hands wrap around his head and try to dictate to him their movements.

She was grunting in frustration as her body called to her to find more and to own him. She had never felt so primal before as instincts to fight for possession kept tugging at her insides.

Severus knew that he wouldn't last much longer if they kept fighting for dominance like this…it was so similar to the times that Remus would come to him in a blind fury and desire to mate with him. He was painfully erect and wanted to sink himself into her hot core.

He moved his hands down her body to find the edge of her skirt and pulled it up to her waist. He then grasped the white cotton knickers that impeded his objective and ripped them from her body.

Hermione gasped at the sudden jerk that caught her off guard. Knowing that she was already in over her head she moved one of her hands down to his trousers to try and fumble through releasing him from his confining clothing.

Severus batted her hand away and freed his erection from his trousers. He grabbed her hips and pulled her other leg up over his hips to wrap her legs around his waist. He then lined himself up with her core and violently thrust into her without any preparation.

Hermione screamed out in pain as he quickly found his footing and began to thrust into her wildly. She clenched her jaw as she focused on accepting his brutality. One of her hands dug into his shoulder blade as the other held onto the book shelf behind her to give herself some leverage over him.

She met his thrusts with an equally hard and severe return as she fought to control his actions. Severus heard his own grunts as he tried to hurt her…he didn't understand his need to dominate her, but he wanted her to feel the pain she caused him by making his one real love betray him.

Hermione opened her mouth to gasp for air with each thrust that pressed her into the bookshelf with a greater force. She used her position to try and clench her body around him to control his movements and make him move the way she wanted.

Severus growled loudly as he felt her trying to manipulate his actions. "Oh no you don't!" He quickly pulled out of her and yanked her by her wrist away from the book shelf. In a few quick movements he pushed her over to the back of the couch and pressed her face down over the back with her arse in the air. "I'm going to fuck you like the wanton slut that you are."

Before Hermione knew what was going on she felt him enter her from behind with a new vigor. She had to grab a hold of the couch to steady herself as his thrusts became harder than anything she could ever imagine. He was incensed and she knew she had to ride it out.

She moved one of her hands to her own folds and found her clit to play with and stimulate herself with each thrust that rocked her body. Severus's hands dug into her hips as his body smacked against her. The only thing that could be heard in the room was the sound of the two of them gasping for air and the sound of their flesh slapping together in unbridled rage and lust.

Hermione closed her eyes as she began to feel the familiar jolts of pleasure start to shoot through her body. She began to powerfully push back against Severus to help find her own release.

Severus felt her walls start to spasm over his erection as he pounded into her towards his own release. "Bloody Hell!" Severus screamed as he felt his body start to lose control.

Hermione screamed out as her own release found her. She heard the ragged breathing of Severus behind her become erratic as he came into her from behind.

Severus collapsed on top of her as the two of them tried to catch their breath leaning over the couch.

Once Severus was able to move again he removed himself from her body and performed a wandless cleaning charm before tucking himself back in his trousers. Hermione stood up and adjusted her skirt before turning to meet his gaze. She didn't know what to say. They had both just used each other to try and fight for the ownership of another man. It didn't make sense. And yet…it was the hottest thing she had ever experienced in her life. As much as she loved being with Remus, she never knew it could be so…harsh, and yet so good. Her body tingled with satisfaction.

Her mind warred with her desire as she stopped herself from attacking Severus again to try and take from him the same erotic sensations that he brought out of her. She felt tuned to his body now. She watched his every movement as he went to the bookshelf they had used and straightened the books that had become victims of their frantic coupling. Every action she eyed seemed to remind her of the sexual prowess that he possessed. It amazed her how much her body already started to become wet from merely watching him.

Severus turned to see her watching his every move. He eyed her with curiosity. "Go clean yourself up. You'll want to be checked over by Poppy before the end of the day. I was very rough with you. You should make sure that I didn't cause any harm to the child."

Hermione just stared at him with a passive look on her face. She knew that she should be angry with him, she should slap him for his cruel dismissal of her after what they just did; but for some reason she was unable to muster up any real hateful thoughts or actions towards him. Against her better judgment, she wanted more from him.

Confused, Hermione turned away from him and quietly went to her room to go take a bath and clean herself up. Slowly tears began to run down her face as she thought that maybe she was a 'wanton slut' like Severus claimed. She felt out of control and unable to stop herself from taking the pleasure that she knew came from both of these men. She should hate them for making her like this, for taking her innocence, for changing everything. But at the same time her heart hurt to think of ever leaving and never getting to feel the intense emotions and turmoil that they brought to her life.

Hermione went to her bathroom and removed her clothes in a daze and filled the tub with warm water. She sank down into her tub and laid her head back on the side to relax. "I hope Remus gets home soon."

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Later that day Hermione literally ran into Remus as he popped into the living room of the dungeons through the floo.

"Remus!! Oh, thank Merlin that you are safe!" Hermione grabbed him snuggly and hugged him to make sure that he was really standing in front of her.

"Hello, my love. You are a sight for sore eyes." Remus inhaled her scent as she leaned into him seeking for comfort. He wrapped his arms around her and rubbed her rubbed as he hands wandered up towards her head. He thread his fingers through the base of her hair and directed her to his lips to kiss her as a sweet 'hello.'

Hermione moaned into his kiss and teased him slightly with little nips at his bottom lip. "Are you okay? Did Striker do anything to you?" Hermione looked down at his body to spy any obvious wounds in a worrying manner.

Remus grabbed her hands to still her panic. "I'm fine, Hermione. Striker was very angry with me. But he backed down when I challenged him. I revealed that you were carrying my cub…which makes you clearly off limits to any others in the pack." Remus smiled at her to reassure her before he continued. "He holds a grudge for a long time. So I would still be vigilant about your protection. I wouldn't put it past him to try and hurt you once our little bundle is born."

Remus looked down at her growing belly. His forehead crinkled in confusion as he observed her for a few seconds with a question on his face.

"Is something wrong, Remus?"

"There's something different about you…and I can't place it."

"Well, the baby has started to become really become obvious lately, and she kicks all the time. She's quite active."

Remus looked at her with a scrutinizing eye before he shrugged and hugged her one last time. "Well, I hate being away from you as you get further along. I have already told Albus that I will not be involved in any extensive away missions until after you give birth." Remus turned and went into the kitchen to get a cold glass of water. "Where is Severus? He's usually around this time of day."

"I think he's in his private lab. He hasn't been around much this afternoon."

"I think I'll go down and find him. I know he has probably been worrying about me in his own way." Remus emerged from the kitchen without his robes on anymore as he walked over to the door to Severus's quarters. "He doesn't like to show his emotions to anyone, but I know he pines for me when I'm in danger." Remus smiled as he reminisced about Severus's moods during his missions.

"Well I was just about to start making some dinner. Would you like me to make enough for everyone?" Hermione walked up to Remus's side and wrapped one arm around him in a show of affection.

Remus looked down at her and bussed her lips with a quick kiss. "That sounds perfect."

Hermione let go of Remus and made her way into the kitchen as Remus walked out of the quarters to make his way to Severus's private lab.

Remus entered the lab to find Severus standing over a steaming cauldron with his back to Remus.

"I see you have finally decided to come back to me." Severus grumbled over his shoulder and never made any move to acknowledge Remus's presence.

"You know I will always come back to you." Remus came into the lab and stalked up behind Severus to give him a proper hello. But he stopped cold in his tracks when he caught the scent of something that put him on guard.

"Severus, what have you done?" Remus walked around his lover slowly as he eyed the dark man standing over his work.

Severus looked up to meet his lover's gaze without flinching away from Remus's question. "I haven't the faintest idea what you could be talking about."

"Don't play with me, Severus! I can smell her all over you! You could have at least tried to wash her scent from your body." Remus became enraged at Severus's cold stare back at him. He flung his arms over the lab table and wiped the table clean of Severus's work by knocking it all to the floor.

Severus never wavered his gaze towards Remus as he stood in the same place.

"Did you hurt her, Severus?" Remus began to growl under his breath as he stood directly in front of her.

"I never did anything to her that she didn't want." Severus stood his ground with assurance of his place in Remus's heart.

"You fucked her?!" Remus was astonished at his own train of thoughts as he found himself torn between his love for Severus and his need to protect Hermione from harm.

"I thought it would please you, Remus. Isn't that what you want? One big, dysfunctional family?" Severus finally broke eye contact with Remus and walked around in a circle around the irate werewolf. "You can't tell me you haven't fantasized about pounding into her while I took you from behind?" Severus came up behind Remus and grasped tightly to the man's hips as he leaned over to deeply rumble out his words in his ear. "Tell me do dream about her taking the both of us at the same time? Do you get hard when you're with her while you're thinking of me? Do you ever long to have my cock deep within your throat while your own cock is balls deep within her pussy?"

Severus snaked one of his hands towards the front of Remus's hips and splayed his palm out to feel the growing erection within his reach.

"I'll take this as a yes." Severus took a strong whiff of his lover's neck as he buried his nose into the other man's neck. "Tell me is this for me, or for the scent of her that still lingers on me?"

"Severus you are an evil bastard." Remus gasped loudly as he felt Severus press his own erection into his backside. "Why are you trying to make everything so difficult? You constantly confuse me."

Severus smirked to himself as he moved his free hand up Remus's chest to find the buttons that kept him from his lover's body. "Welcome home, Remus."

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Hermione stood in the kitchen slicing carrots for the dinner she was making for all of them. She was nervous as she waited for Severus and Remus to come up from Severus's private lab. She had a feeling that what she did with Severus would come out sooner or later…and she didn't know how to respond to it all.

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A/N: This chapter is shorter than any of my previous chapters...but I needed to take a break to gather my thoughts before I tackled the future of this little threesome. Severus is being a real bastard right now. I think it will take a lot for him to finally soften up towards Hermione. But things will change as their dynamic becomes strained. Hermione has a lust that she can't explain and Remus will never be enough for her after this…it should be a rocky future for all of them. Please review.