Dawn of the doe
CHAPTER 6
Hermione turned over on the hard, cold stone floor. She lay there for a couple moments before she fully realized what had happened. Looking deeper into the cave, Snape's figure met her sight and clarified that everything she suspected from the night before was true.
The young witch jumped up quickly and ran over to the potions master's sleeping form. She was about to reach him but paused just before her hands reached his shoulders. This WAS Snape, head of slytherin, and waking up the most sour-tempered professor might not be the best idea, even if she was bursting at the seams to ask him where they were. Hermione sighed. Gryffindor impulsiveness could be hard to manage sometimes.
Deciding that she could do something productive without Snape, she grabbed her cloak that had been lying on the ground and draped it over her arm. With that she exited the cave.
Sunlight burst out of holes from the canopy of trees. At first the light burned, but once the painful sensation and light faded she saw that she was in a rainforest filled with fruit, and hopefully animals as well. They could be fun to research with all the free time she would have. Along with the burning sensation of light in the brunet's eyes, another, far more unpleasant sensation hit her. Nausea. Hermione hacked and gaged and was reminded of it. Her babies.
Oppose to being her "little bundles of joy" the girls were currently little bundles of rapidly dividing cells. The later was harder to love than the first, but Hermione loved them even still.
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Hermione went back to the cave after about half an hour of eating fruit. Snape was up now and pouring water into his mouth using his finger (a/n: sorry about that time when Snape used his wand in chapter 2 or 3, I didn't know how to make it wand less because its advanced magic :P).
The Gryffindor continued into the stone room until she was right in front of the slytherin. She shoved a banana at him moodily, then went to the edge of the cave and looked down over the forest. Tears brimmed her eyes as she thought of her friends at Hogwarts. The salty potion filled with sorrow and longing dribbled down her face, leaving a trail like a snail track.
Snape watched her cry and felt something he would never feel for any Gryffindor, this one in particular. Ever since Lily had died, he never would have wanted to comfort Hermione, for Lily's death had left his heart and soul turn hard and cold, just like the cave of which he now inhabited. Could Hermione be the one to defrost him? His longing to help her was still there, as he was the main source and cause for her sorrow.
He walked with out thinking, as if he was a video game character under some larger player's control, towards the sobbing Hermione. He let the gamer tell him what to do. He put his arm around her and let her fall onto him. He leant down and tilted her head up by her chin. He leant down and looked her in the eye. Then he did something he never thought he would ever do.
"I'm sorry"
A/N: haha! I bet you all thought they would kiss, right? I think it's a bit early for that tough. Sorry I didn't update sooner, but reviews help so much! Please keep reviewing! Also, may I add that this story (or any for that matter) is so much more fun to write with BOTDF in the background. Ima monster started playing and this whole story turned even more messed up. Chapter 7 is on its way!