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CHAPTER 18

IN TIME THINGS WILL GET BETTER

Stirring in bed, Katrina woke thinking she had tangled herself in the sheets. Moving herself around, she felt something solid wrapped around her. Not knowing who it was, or what had gone on last night, she looked up into a set of sleeping eyes.

Severus lay sleeping peacefully, as he had his arms around his wife. A slight smile on his lips as he held her in his arms. But, Katrina tried to pull away, though he pulled her closer to him. She pushed on his chest again, trying to pull away from him. She did not want to be with him in bed, let alone be in the same room with him after she found out he had cheated on her during the past few months, if not longer.

His eyes opened, looking at his wife. "Why do you insist on pushing yourself away from me?"

Frozen in her spot, she stared at her husband. Tears seeped from her eyes, and Severus pushed her on her back. Slowly he climbed between her legs. "Stop. Please." she finally whispered through her sobs.

"You do not remember our conversation only hours ago?" She shook her head, tears still falling from her eyes. "I told you that I never touched that woman. That she wanted me to give her what I had, and will only give to you."

"And what is that?" She whispered as he leaned in to kiss her lips.

"My heart, and my seed." Pushing the head of his very deprived cock through her folds, slightly into her entrance. She pulled away from him, not wanting him to touch her. "My vows to you remain intact, Katrina. I have the entire weekend with my wife. To make up for lost time, if you would allow me too."

Looking into his eyes, she noticed his love and faithfulness to her. She had not seen it last night, and she was so sure that he had cheated on her more than just what she had seen him with, once. Gently, he pulled her down, placing himself between her legs once again, pushing himself inside her slowly, gently. Leaning over her, he wiped the tears coming from her eyes. "I love you, and only you, Katrina. You, and you alone are the only woman who can make me want you every second of the day."

Katrina gasped as he slowly pulled out of her, then gently thrust in her again as he rubbed across her sensitive spot. "Why?" She whispered looking into his eyes.

Stopping inside her, he kissed her lips. "Why, what, my love?" His eyes bore into hers.

"Why did you not want to be with me? Two years, and you wanted no part of me until tonight." She choked out, closing her eyes.

Feeling tears drip on her, she opened her eyes back up, looking at her husband. "I had always wanted you. Business at the school always forbade me to come home to you. The summers were just as hectic. Every night in bed, I would take care of myself- numerous times, never being able to fully satiate my want for you. Not once could I get off thinking of being inside you, since I could not get my hand tight enough around my cock to think and feel like I were making love to you." His head now in the crook of you neck, he whispered. "There were nights I wanted to come here and literally fuck you to death. Then there were other nights-those times where we had heated arguments and- I wanted to hurt you. Katrina…" He pulled himself to look into her eyes. "…I wanted to take you- over and over again. Even if you fought against me."

As they stared at one another, Katrina wiped the tears from Severus eyes. "I couldn't have fought against you. You are too strong, Severus. And, I probably would have let you."

A smile spread across Severus face. "Tell me the words I want to hear, my love."Pulling him down to her, Katrina whispered, "I have missed lusting over you body?" She snickered, kissing him.

Growling into her lips, "I should just move of you, then. Or, maybe I should…" He pulled out slowly.

Katrina felt him pulling himself out of her. She clenched her muscle around his hard shaft as he pulled out and he groaned. "I think not, my husband." He thrust in her quickly as she gasped. "I love you, Severus."

"And I have always loved you, my wife." Severus whispered as he made love to his wife for the first time in a very long time.

Later, Katrina sat up in bed. "The boys will be up soon. I need to start their breakfast."

Severus grabbed her around her waist, pulling her back in bed. "I think the boys can manage nicely by themselves." he purred, kissing her back as he sat up in bed. He moved her hair to one side, kissing her shoulder blade and up to her neck. Reaching her ear, he whispered heatedly, "Lay back down, my love. I wish to give you more of what we have both missed out on."

"Severus…." Katrina whimpered as Severus held her down on the bed. "They cannot cook. They would burn water if given the chance!"

Snickering, Severus started kissing her. "They are not here. Do you know how sexy and beautiful you are when you are frustrated?"

Between kisses, she said one word, "Castle."

"Mhmm." Had been his answer, as he rubbed her body gently with his hand. "I would like to take my wife out to breakfast. Then bring her to the Castle to spend some quality time with her."

"What if I cook my husband breakfast?" She was becoming weakened by his massaging her body. She had missed him so much, but knew he had been faithful to her, as he had given her his seed many times over in the course of their early morning tryst together.

Pulling away, quickly he lay beside her propped on his arm. Get dressed. I wish to spoil my wife- bring her either back her, or to our old chambers at the Castle and make up for lost time." She gave him a look. "Anniversaries, birthdays-and-most important of all-detentions."

As the day progressed, Severus and Katrina sat in Severus office, spending time with their children.

"I cannot believe it." Katrina grinned as she pulled Amelia to her. "One is a Gryffindor, and the other…" She leaned over, staring at her eldest son. "…is a Slytherin!" She spoke as if it were a dirty word, though she smiled lovingly at her son.

"Thanks, mum." Little Severus grumbled.

Severus shook his head. "I do not understand how our daughter had gotten sorted into Gryffindor." Looking at Katrina, he wondered. "Could you have been placed there if the sorting hat were to have been placed on your head, dear?"

Katrina shrugged her shoulders, knowing it was true. She had never told Severus, but, smiled connivingly at her husband. "Possibly." She purred, walking over to her husband. Turning to her children, she told Amelia and Severus, "Why don't the two of you take your little brothers to your respective houses, and show them around?"

"Mum." Amelia started. "The Slytherin's have quite a dislike for me, even if I am a Snape."

Katrina sighed, but it had been Severus who answered. "Hex them. And then, tell them it is detention-with-your-father." he ended with his menacing voice.

Amelia smiled, stood, and walked to her father, giving him a hug. "Thanks, daddy. You're the best."

Severus kissed his daughters cheek. "You are my favorite daughter." He smirked.

"Katrina and Amelia laughed. "I am your only daughter, daddy."

"And that is why you are my favorite. Now off with the lot of you. I would like to spend some quiet time with your mother."

Amelia and Severus Junior hurried Abraxis and Jeremiah out the door for their parents to be alone. "Now that they are gone, how do you plan on spending quiet time with your wife?"

Severus stood, grabbing his wife around her waist with one arm, and gently touching her cheek with his other hand. "I wish to ask you something." He leaned in, kissing her. "I want more than anything to have you and the boys stay here for the rest of term. I am wanting to be the husband you have not had for two years. I do not want to sleep in bed alone any longer."

Katrina sighed, looking into Severus eyes. "And what would I be doing while you are teaching the children?" She smiled gently at him as he held her tight in his arms.

"While I teach, you will take care of our children." He whispered as he walked with her to their chambers. "Then at night, you will take care of your husband as only you can, my wife."

"Why can I not do that at our home?" She whispered as he worked at her top. "Why can I not stay in a place that I made a home. Not alone I might add."

Stopping as he started to push her top off her shoulders, he whispered. "I want you here-with me." he ended a bit bitterly. "Why is it you wish to stay at the Cottage, when everything you will ever need is here."

Sighing, Katrina leaned her forehead against his chest. "You know, as well as I do, that this is not my home." Pulling away from him, she walked to the window. "It was at one time, though I cannot call it home, when there is nothing here for me-with the exception of my husband."

Walking up behind her, he wrapped his arms around her. "I want you here with me-safe in my arms. I have worried about you every night since the escape of one, Sirius Black." He spat his name out like venom.

"If I can keep Dementors off of our premises, then I am most certain I can keep an escaped convict out as well." She turned her head to the side, "Even if he decided to enter the house, I do not think he would last long. You had even said it yourself- I have enchantments stronger than what the Ministry has even come out with to hold the Dementors off."

"That is most true, my lovely, Katrina." He whispered next to her ear, in a very seductive voice. "Let me make things up to you. I truly want to keep you here for as long as I can, before you decide to leave me."

Turning around in his arms, her hands touched his chest. "I want you to come home with me, my husband. Make love to me in our bed. Touch me inappropriately when ever you wish, in any part of our home you wish. Take me-make love to me in every possible place in our home that you want. I will not complain, just as long as you are there with me, making love to me as many times as you wish to."

Picking her up, wrapping her legs around him, he led her to the bed that they had shared while she had been in school. "Right now, I do not wish to talk about that. I wish to share a bed in which our eldest children were conceived. I want to take my woman the way I used too. Remember what it was like to be passionate with her, and not want to fuck the living daylights out of her. I want the passion we used to share together." He laid her on the bed, pulled out his wand and stripped both her and him of their clothing. "I want no masochistic, role playing games. I want pure love-that what we had when I took you for the first time."

Looking into her eyes, he had brought her back to that day many years ago. The love they had when they looked into each others eyes as he pressed himself into her, taking her virginity. Then, he had shown her what it felt like to be inside her from his stand point. Pulling out of her slowly as he felt her shutter underneath him as he made love to her. What he felt when she clamped her muscle around his shaft that was deep inside her, and doing so again as he pulled out. Her clamping around the head of his cock, making him groan, not only back during their first encounter, but now as well as he had shown her. Showing her how it felt for him to want to explode inside her the instant he took her, but had shown her how much he loved her, even back then. And when he felt it was time to explode, he had shown her how they had both reacted to his orgasm.

He did not really know what was going through her head as he had shown her this memory he held so dear to him. He was laying on top of her, waiting for some sort of reaction from her. "Do you remember?"

"Yes." She choked out in a whisper. His mouth connected with hers, laced with passion and want. "I want to go back to that time when everything was-was not so…"

"Filled with insanity?" He felt her hand glide down his back, around to the front of his thigh, as he was on his knees, hovering over her body, and felt the hand grasp at his swollen organ, stroking it gently. "I wish for us to go back to the time-the time where we were one with each other. Not the time where we were at each others throats, either you wanting to hex me, or me wanting to run into our room and practically rape you."

"I have never stopped loving you, Severus." Her breath hitched as he removed her hand from his swollen appendage, and positioned himself at her entry.

He knew she was ready for him, as he thrust himself deep inside her. "I have never stopped loving you, Katrina." He pulled out slowly, as he did, she squeezed him at the head of his manhood as he pulled himself out. Before she could release him, he pushed himself deep into her loins, making her arch her back and moan at the pleasure he had given her. "I am yours for eternity. I will never be unfaithful to you, Katrina. I promise you this."

As they looked into each others eyes, they had both seen the want, and lust in each other. Katrina wanted nothing more than to keep him in her for the remainder of their lives. Severus wanting nothing more than to keep himself locked inside her as they made endless love to one another. They were themselves for once, no role playing, no chains or whips to keep their love life alive. It was just both of them, a witch and a wizard, who loved each other endlessly, making love to one another.

His pace never quickened or slowed. He had been making love to her endlessly while they were alone. For Severus, every time he pushed himself into her depth, he felt like his shaft grew harder. Katrina, on the other hand, had orgasmed many times over, and even though her muscles clenched around his aching cock, he still pummeled her sweetness as if this were the last time they would ever make love to one another again.

They had no thought of time, as they did not even hear the door to Severus' office open, until they heard their children running, and screaming like wild animals that had escaped from a zoo. Neither Severus, nor Katrina thought of warding the doors-any of them, as they spent time in bed touching each other inappropriately.

"Mummy, Daddy! Look…" Little Jeremiah screeched, but halted when he had seen a huge tent in the bed. Thank the gods that they had been covered when they came in.

Amelia had been the one to the doorway first, before her other two brothers could see what was going on. She grabbed the handle to the door, saying, "Let them be, Jay. Mum and Daddy have a lot to talk about."

Both Amelia and Jeremiah had heard their mother moan as if she were in pain. "Is Daddy hurting Mommy?" His innocents had been lost, seeing the blankets moving and his precious mother had been continuously assaulted by his father.

"Come, Jay. Mum and dad will be out sooner or later." Amelia said pushing her brother out of the room, but not before all of the children heard their mother scream their fathers name.

Neither Severus or Katrina had heard the commotion going on, though they did hear the door shutting. Severus, still keeping up his love making to Katrina, grabbed his wand, placing a silencing spell on the room and warding the door, so the children would not walk in on them.

Severus' need to explode became greater and greater with every thrust. "My Katrina. I cannot hold out much longer. Though I have pummeled you and came in you a number of times, I cannot last much longer before I collapse. I want to be within you much longer. I want you in her tonight, staying up all night, giving you a night filled with hot, wild, heated love making." Before he could say anymore, he forced himself deeper and harder inside her, fucking her until they both orgasmed themselves into unconsciousness.

Laying there panting, Katrina sighed. "I hope we didn't mess our little boys life as he seen us making love."

Severus let out a light laugh. "He did not see anything, my love. Jeremiah did hear you moaning, thinking I had been abusing you."

Turning to him, she giggled. Placing her hand on his cheek, she pulled herself to his lips, kissing him gently, lingering. "I enjoy being abused like that by the father of my children, and never anyone else." Pulling away from him slightly, she whispered. "I wish to be abused like that again, throughout the evening-after the children have gone to bed."

"Your wish, is my command, my deprived wife." He pulled her to him again, a bit aggressively, letting her know that she was his. "I will not deprive you, nor myself of a very healthy sexual endeavor, hopefully ever again."

She smirked into his lips. "I hope the children go to be early tonight." Severus caught her lips with his, as they both moaned softly. "Then again, I wouldn't mind them wanting to spend the night with their brother or sister, so we could continue without any interruptions."

When Severus and Katrina opened the door to Severus office, he had been greeted by a sneer from his youngest son. Both of them held back their laughter, knowing that Jeremiah had been angry that his father had been hurting his mother.

Running to Katrina, Jeremiah had wrapped his arms around her as she knelt down to him. "I'm sorry Mummy. I kept telling them to let me in there to help you."

Katrina kissed her youngest on the forehead. "Mummy is quite alright, sweetheart. I do not think that Daddy would hurt me intentionally."

"But it sounded like he was hurting you, Mummy!" He was about in tears now, not wanting his mother to be harmed by anyone. "I want to go home now." He looked up at Severus and scowled at him.

Katrina had to let her laughter escape her. Jeremiah looked so much more like his father when he was angry, that it was some what scary. "Jeremiah…" Severus said consolingly to his son. "I would never hurt your Mummy. I love her, and I only wanted to make her feel safe. Mummy was crying in my arms since we had not seen each other in a very long time."

Jeremiah, as young as he was, was not buying what his father was saying for a second, and Severus knew. "I don't like it much when my Mummy is hurt!" His little chest heaved with his anger now escaping him. "My Mummy cried every night!" Tears started forming in his eyes. "My Mummy cried for you, Daddy! She hurt! And YOU hurt MY MUMMY!" Jeremiah walked over to his father, balled up his little fist, and punched his father in the stomach. He then stormed off to his fathers desk, sitting in the forbidden chair, daring his father to order him out of it.

Katrina rushed to Severus, who had been holding onto his lower stomach, breathing heavily. "Severus…are you alright?" She placed her hand on his face, searching for any sign of pain. She kissed his lips as he leaned in to place his head on her shoulder. "At least he didn't punch you a little lower. Are you sure you're going to be alright?"

"A little lower." He groaned.

Katrina moved her hand a little lower, placing her hand slightly in his trousers. "Right here?" She questioned rubbing him. He shook his head and she went down lower. "There?" Again, he shook his head. She reached down further, almost to his groin. "There?"

"Almost." He groaned again. Reaching down further still, she grabbed on to his now limp cock.

"Here?" She purred as she caressed his cock that was now pulsating beneath her grasp.

"Oh, yes, my love." He groaned out with his head still on her shoulder. "That is it. Just keep rubbing it." Katrina obliged, rubbing him into a full erection again. "I think your mother and I need to go to my chambers for her to take care of me. We will return after a bit."

Closing the door, he used his wand to remove their clothing again. Picking Katrina up in his arms yet again, he threw her on the bed, having his way with her quickly, as he fucked her with great enthusiasm. Screaming each others names, they came together in much needed release again.

Quickly dressing with their wands, Katrina had to speak. "What a way for you to have your way with me yet again, Professor Snape." she scowled at him, making him chuckle.

"Detentions with you are by far the best detentions I had the privilege of giving." Moving to the door, he let the wards down, opened the door, and they both exited. "Lets get something to eat in the Great Hall, children. Your father is famished."

During the time they had exited Severus office, Jeremiah had not let his mother too close to his father. He had still been furious with him and would not let her get away from him too easily. That was until it was time for them to be seated. Abraxis and Jeremiah had been given a choice on where they would be seated. Jeremiah sat with Amelia at the Gryffindor table, where as Abraxis sat with his older brother, Severus.

Katrina had been given the opportunity to sit with the staff, catching up on what had gone on over the past few years. Never once did she mention that Sirius had come to see her the night before. She had been introduced to Remus Lupin, who she had thought looked most terrible. He smiled and greeted her as a gentleman would, but he kept his distance with Severus around. Katrina would get to know this man soon, she knew it, since she knew that she had not seen the last of Sirius Black within her house.

I would love to see more reviews. What do you think of this story so far? Do you think maybe Katrina might have an affair with either Black or Lupin? Hmmmmm your guess is as good as mine! (insert evil laugh here)...