A/N: Here's a SS/HG multi-chapter fic that I've been working on - in between the MM/HG fics. This fic was inspired by Lady Gaga's "Brown Eyes," but this is not a song fic.

Enjoy!

- Draughts

P.S. I still don't have a beta reader, so all mistakes are my own.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of this. I wish i did.

He awoke on his couch, startled by a persistent banging noise. It took Severus a moment to realize that the noise was not imagined. There was an actual dunderhead - with the audacity to wake him from his drunken slumber - at his door.

Severus mentally ran through a list of people that would be brave enough to bother him at such an hour. This gave him pause: what time was it? He sat up and glanced at his clock. Both hands mockingly pointed at the two.

With a scowl, he slowly got up from his couch and ambled toward the door, trying to forget the reason why he had decided to drink himself into oblivion - well, trying to drink himself into oblivion. Severus took a look through the peephole only to find that Harry Bloody Potter - who, nowadays, took it upon himself to pester Severus about making amends and other rubbish - was standing on his porch.

"Snape!" Potter yelled, "Open up! It's Harry."

As if that would persuade Severus to open the door.

"Please! It's bloody freezing out here!"

All the more reason for Severus to not open the door. Why would he care if the Boy-Who-Lived-to-be-a-Pain-in-His-Ass turned into a human popsicle?

"It's about Hermione!"

"Damn it," Severus thought as he grudgingly unlocked the door.

Severus squinted at his visitor and said with a grimace, "Potter, why are you on my porch so early in the day? Destroying my door, nonetheless, with your pounding. Did Weasley finally find evidence that I drugged Hermione with Amortentia to get her to marry me? Well, spit it out, I don't have all-"

"Snape," Harry, looking at his feet, responded with a growl, "I may not like you, and you obviously don't fancy me either, but can I get on with this? You're going to want to hear what I have to say."

"Fine."

Harry contemplated how to word his news before looking Severus squarely in the eye and saying, "We've found Hermione.

A/N: My dear readers, I am so sorry for the long hiatus. Senior year (and senioritis) really kicked my butt. I promise to finish this story and start a new MM/HG multi-chaptered fic this month. I am truly sorry for taking so long to update. I am ashamed of myself and will now sequester myself so that I may write some more.