A/N sorry this has taken so long, but life is chaotic at best. this chapter took a lot to write! But Oh did I have the time! I have had three 12 hour shifts and two overnight shifts here at the hotel because the entire town is on lock down due to the TWO inches of snow...all the schools are closed...(except for the Arkansas school for the blind, I suppose when they looked out the window they didn't see snow so they didn't close...that was awful, I would apologize but it's not as though they'll see this....ok ok sorry! Lol {I state I have nothing against blind people it was just a joke. I am legally blind and I know how sucky it can be to not be able to see, but hey funny is funny!}) so I am staying in a room at the hotel with my hubs and baby and we are taking turns working twelve hour shifts... please send thoughts of caffine my way
As always I own nothing, not Harry potter not Watership down, not the Rockyhorrow picture show, nothing...and now Iz gotz the sadz!
How long have we been kissing? Snape wondered dimly. Not that he cared, it could go on forever and he would be happy so long her honeyed lips continued making puree of his synapses as she kissed him and ran her fingers thru his coal black hair. Her hands had begun to roam across his torso, and he followed suit sliding his hands across her back and across the exposed skin of her midsection. He had just begun to slowly move his hands upward and had once more come in contact with the satin edge of her bra when his wards went off alerting him someone was currently at his door.
"Shit!" he said gently pushing her off of him, "my wards."He said as an explanation when he saw her hurt expression. "Stay here, alter your appearance, I assume you know how. Hopefully it won't be needed." he kissed her once more and raced to his door.
Severus pulled the door open to find Lucius Malfoy standing on his doorstep. "Lucius, to what do I owe this honor?"
"Just dropping in to see my favorite potions master, although judging by your ravaged appearance I would assume I am interrupting something." Malfoy said smirking as he looked Severus up and down. Snape stepped aside and motioned for Lucius to step inside which he did surveying the sitting room with a haughty expression. "I don't know why you continue to live in this muggle hovel Severus."
"I expect all the fond memories keep bringing me back." He answered dryly. He had caught sight of himself in the mirror over the mantel and cursed mentally. His hair was thoroughly mussed and his lips swollen, he had indeed looked as Lucius had described. May as well run with it. Severus thought to himself, it wasn't as if he could pretend he didn't look completely snogged. "Lucius, If there is something you need to discuss I suggest you come out with it, as you had so kindly pointed out before I am otherwise occupied."
"My my, Severus bedding a woman, I do believe hell has frozen over." Lucius said wandering down the hall obviously headed towards Severus' bedroom. "This is something I must see for myself. Tell me Severus, how much are you paying her, If she's any good I'd like a go around." he said pushing the door of the bedroom open.
Severus raced down the hall and peered over Malfoy's shoulder, relieved to see a young woman with straight blonde hair and blue eyes. Silently Severus thanked god she had the sense to transfigure her linen pajama pants into a pair of denim cut-off shorts and her slippers into very tall red heels. She saw the men and spoke with a cockney accent replacing her proper English one.
"Hey, I only agreed to one, if your friend is watchin' it's gunna cost you extra." she said standing with one hip pushed to the side twirling a piece of her hair.
"A muggle Severus?" he said walking around her taking in her appearance. "Surely you could have done better than a muggle whore." as if one cue Hermione said "I ain't no whore, I'm an escort and whats a muggle anyhow? And why are you dressed so funny mate? Going to a costume party?"
Ignoring her, Lucius looked pointedly at Snape, who replied, "Perhaps it's escaped your notice that most the women in our world are repelled by the murderous potions master." He crossed his arms and leaned against the door frame. "After my little mission to take care of the Granger girl I remembered how fun muggles could be, I plan on finishing my 'fun' with this one when you leave."
Hermione spoke up again looking properly wary, "Look I don't do this Role play shit. You blokes are gunna have to find yourself another girl." without saying a word to her Severus had her bound and gagged on the bed with a flick of his wand.
"Why wait until I leave?" Lucius said casting a greedy gaze over Hermione's writhing and whimpering form. "You know how much I enjoy muggles, we could invite Knott, Crabbe, and Goyle and make an evening of it."
"Lucius, you of all people should know I don't share my toys." he clapped a hand on the other man's shoulder and steered him from the room saying, "Let us quickly attend to our business as I have rather a long evening planned."
It took around thirty minutes to finish up his business with Lucius twenty of those minutes were spent denying Lucius access to his 'toy'. The meeting was, in Severus' opinion, a complete waste of time. The blonde wizard merely relaying information about an upcoming meeting and that the Dark lord's name had been tabooed a detail that meant little to Severus as he himself never spoke the Dark Wizard's name. Once he snapped the door shut on Lucius he bolted back to his room where Hermione was still bound and gagged on his bed.
"I'm terribly sorry Hermione." Severus said quickly untying the ropes that bound her. "You were brilliant." he added pulling the gag gently out of her mouth.
"Does the elder Malfoy pop in like that a lot?" she asked sitting up and rubbing her arms where the ropes had reddened her skin.
"No, he doesn't like to get this close to the muggle world." Severus said, he was staring at the floor feeling very awkward after what had happened between them. He chanced a glance up and saw she was cross legged on his bed with a look of pure concentration tapping her wand on her head. Her rich caramel colour returned but it stayed straight. She then tapped her forehead right between her eyes effectively changing her colour back to normal.
She looked up at him and smiled shyly, she too unsure of what to say after snogging him senseless. "You forgot to undo the straightening charm on your hair." he said smiling at her.
"No I didn't, I just think it looks better like this." she said running a hand through it.
"I don't like it." Snape said touching it gently. He lifted a few strands and let them fall again. "There's no life in it." he reached forward and tapped his wand on her head again ending the charm holding it straight. It immediately curled tightly back up looking just was wild as ever. "You look beautiful with your hair like that. Wild and untamed like the lioness you are." he sad smirking as the deepest blush overtook her face and neck.
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Hermione excused herself to get a shower moments later and Snape went down to the basement again to find the telly and box of tapes. He was struggling with setting it up when Hermione padded back into the sitting room wearing a pair of jeans and a Gryffindor t-shirt. Severus wrinkled his nose when he saw her shirt causing her to laugh.
"Having trouble Severus?" she said kneeling down beside him.
"No. I am a professor. I know perfectly well how to set up a telly!" he growled holding up a cable and staring at the screen. He narrowed his eyes at her as she chuckled and took the cable out of his hands. She turned the old telly around and twisted it onto a small prong in the back. Severus dragged his hand down his face and groaned. "I swear if you say one word I'll-" Hermione interrupted by saying "punish me? How Professor? Lines, scrubbing cauldrons or a good old fashioned spanking?"
Severus could only stare at her in shock. "You cheeky little minx!" he said in astonishment. "What would people say if they heard perfect Hermione Granger saying those naughty things?"
She looked thought full for a moment before saying, "My guess is they would say 'oh my god a talking zombie!'" She giggled as Severus shook his head at her antics. "Besides I'm sure whatever I say to you will stay between us even when we win this war."
"What makes you so sure of that?" he asked leaning back against the sofa and stretching his long legs out before him. "Whats to stop me from marching right up to Potter and telling him how you accosted me in my bedroom." he said smirking rather triumphantly.
Hermione smiled slyly and said simply, "I still have your picture." The smirk slid off of Severus' face faster than grease on Teflon. "So," she continued nonchalantly, "How exactly did you find heels in your size and why?" she asked raising an eyebrow at him.
"If I answer your questions will you promise to show anyone?" He said with a slightly pleading tone to his voice. Hermione looked like she was thinking about it and then replied, "Yes, I don't want all the witches in the wizarding world to see how great your legs are, they might get jealous." she said grinning at him.
"OK, it was 1976, I was sixteen and home on summer holiday, my friend, the girl in the photo, and I were big fans of a stage show that had been running the last three years at the Royal Court theater I'm sure you know it, the one in Sloan square. It was made into a Feature film and a theater in New York had become known for showing it at midnight and the people who came to it dressed like characters from the show. Well I planned a surprise for her and got us a portkey, Illegal of course, and took her to the show as a late birthday slash 'have a good term' present."
"I was dressed like my favorite character, an alien transvestite who does some Frankenstein like work, and Li-She is dressed like the character Janet, who gets stuck in his home with her fiancee. You've really never heard of what I'm talking about have you?" Severus laughed.
Hermione shook her head. "My Mum and Dad were pretty strict about what I watched when I was younger and then when I got older I had been so busy revising during the holidays I never really noticed anything outside my books."
Severus ran his hands through his hair saying, "I keep forgetting how young you are." she smiled a bit and then asked, "Who is the girl? A muggle?"
"You don't recognize her? No I suppose you wouldn't you can't see her eyes in this picture." Hermione looked slightly bewildered but Severus continued. "She was a muggleborn she grew up down the street from her. We had know each other since nursery school and we got our Hogwarts letters within weeks of each other."
"She was sorted into Gryffindor but we remained best friends until I the term after that photo was taken. I made a stupid mistake, let my pride get the best of me and she refused to speak to me after that."
"What happened to her, Severus?" Hermione said wrinkling her forehead. Severus looked away from her and sighed, once again running his hand through his hair.
"She got married to someone I hated, had a son and died at the hand of the Dark Lord himself while she protected her son." Hermione gasped as she realized who the young girl in the photo had been.
"Your best friend at Hogwarts was Lily Potter?" "Evans. " he corrected. "And that's why you protect Harry, because she was your friend?" she asked noticing a fleeting glimmer in his eyes, heart break perhaps.
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After seeing the fleeting look of pain in Snape's eyes Hermione thought it best to turn the Attention back to the movie they had been planning to watch since breakfast. Hermione found herself clutching her sides in laughter as Severus pulled cassette after cassette out of the card board carton. Apparently Albus had chosen films he thought might 'help the dark wizard's disposition'.
So after sorting out everything that was a romantic comedy (Severus would never be drunk enough for 'The Bridges of Madison County') and swearing to burn everything with the word 'Disney' Hermione had finally convinced Severus to watch 'Water-ship Down'.
They settled into the sofa, Hermione sat against the arm of the sofa with her legs draped over Severus, more to keep hm from leaving the room once he saw the cartoon rabbits than for comfort. After a few initial complaints Severus finally gave up and followed Hermione's hissed orders to "shut up and enjoy the film!"
After an hour and a half the credits were rolling on the screen and Hermione was standing up to stretch. Severus simply sat there looking thoughtful for a moment. "I'd quite like to die like that..."he said after a moment. "Like Hazel, to know the world is safe and that I can close my eyes and rest."
"Severus, that's quite melancholy." Hermione said coming to sit beside him on the sofa.
"Not Melancholy Hermione," he said with a slight smile. "merely wishful thinking." He leaned back and said. "It's familiar isn't it? 'All the world will be your enemy, whenever they catch you they will kill you.' to paraphrase the film." Severus closed his eyes as he spoke.
Silence followed his statement until Hermione stood up and declare it was time for a bit of lunch.
So funny story about watership down, I watched it once but when the movie ended I was wrestling with my brother and I fell and hit my head (on a rabbit cage no less) and I don't remember the movie at all.(thank god for wikipedia!)
I really hoped you enjoyed the chapter, I need to move forward but I just love conversations between Sev and Mione. The bit about watership down was a last minute addition. But it works. We will be seeing more of Voldywho and the boys soon.
So let me know what you think! Leave me a review!
(oh and I appoligise to anyone reading 'learning to live again' I have a mental block on that fic...I didn't think my plot through and I am unhappy with the writing, so it may be getting revised. )