Author's Note: First let me thank everyone who had reviewed, alerted, or put this story on their favorites it means a lot to me. Well I had not intended to post two chapters a day but the writing has been going well and I'm anxious to get them out there for you all.

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Disclaimer: Do I really need to say that I don't own them? I'm just playing with someone else's toys and do return them in the same shape I have found them (well that may not always be the case).

"Excuse me?"

"You said something about filing this together, what do I need to do?"

"Your going to agree to going back into the wizarding world for this?" he was surprised by this.

"No, I agree to file a joint complainant with you as what he did effected both of us."

Severus didn't really know what to say, he didn't expect her to agree so quickly.

"I can have the complaint done by the end of next week….."

"Why don't we work on it now?" the sooner she got him away from her and these feelings that were rearing their head the better she would be.

"Can I tell you something Hermione." He asked.

"You can tell me anything you want to, you always did whether I wanted to hear it or not. No matter how much it cut me."

He sighed, she had a point, what he didn't want was her throwing him out when he was this close to her.

"We could work on it this weekend, then I could take it on Monday to the ministry."

"Very well, now what did you want to tell me?"

"I've missed you." He stated plainly

She let out a laugh, a cold sound that should never come from her before saying in a very cutting tone,

"What, your whores costing you too much? Need the free one?"

"No Hermione."

"Then prey tell what is it do you miss, my abysmal cooking skills? My breathing too loud? My not walking softly enough? Oh I know you miss laughing at me when I lost your child."

By the time she was finished she was breathing hard, all of these feelings that he brought forward in her were crushing her.

Severus looked at her, he wouldn't hide from what he did to her. He would let her tell him what ever she could to erase what he had done to her. Finally he said,

"Hermione I didn't know how to…. It doesn't matter, I told you I would not justify what I did there is none for my actions. Go on it's your turn."

"This is not a game Severus."

"I know it's not, but I did agree that you could tell me one thing. Voice whatever you think I did wrong."

"Think you did wrong? So even I give voice to it you're going to think that it's just me over reacting and that you did nothing wrong?"

"I…" what could he say? He did word that in such a way that she would have took it that way. "I meant….. I don't think I was innocent in whatever it is. I should have worded it differently."

"Yes you should have. Do you want to work on this complaint tonight?" she asked changing the subject.

"What about….."

"I've changed my mind, the sooner we get this finished the sooner you can go back to whatever happiness you've found."

The 'and leave me alone.' Was left unspoken but he understood.

"Hermione, you've put too much in the fact that my happiness was contingent on your ability to bear children."

"It doesn't matter anymore."

"Yes it does."

"No it doesn't."

"Damn it Hermione, it…. I hurt you. Of course it matters." He wanted to get it all out, he had told her one thing but if she wanted to list everything he would let her he had to somehow find a way to repair the chasm between them. He took a deep breath letting it out slowly before saying,

"I was led to believe that you filed those damn papers, without my knowledge or consent. I was very angry not thinking straight, I'll admit I did and said a lot of things to show you that you were not going to be my master. I didn't realize until it was too late that you never wanted to lord over me."

"No I didn't, I wanted you to go free. I just didn't think you'd throw ever vow out the window, no I didn't expect you to love me. But somewhere I thought you'd honor me at least, but that never came either."

Severus knew she was right, he purposely didn't adhere to any of the vows he took. She did though.

"Your right you did hurt me, a lot. When you ask me to tell you one thing I can't pick one there are so many of them. Do you know because of you I took cooking classes, and even though the instructor wondered what I was doing in her class I still took them but yet I'm still scared of cooking for anyone because what if your right."

"I only said that to hurt you." What else could he say?

"I know you did, and you succeeded too."

Now was the time for him to step up, admit to everything.

"Hermione, I want to talk about how I acted toward you. It was uncalled for, I should have known better. I should have never said all those hurtful things to you. I wasn't about to allow you to rule my life, so I did those things to have the upper hand to show you that I was in control of my own life."

He took a deep breath before continuing.

"Hind sight is really perfect, I saw every way I treated you while we were married. You deserved none of it, even if you had filed the papers without my consent. I should not have tried to tear you apart for it, it was and is a mistake on my part that I deeply regret. If I had given it a chance the whole five years could have been like the last six months was."

"What did make the last six months so different?" she asked, the question out before she could censor it.

Severus knew what had changed his mind, four words that when he heard her say them made him start to questions his actions of the five years before that. Telling her this at this moment was probably not the best idea.

"Ask me later." He finally landed on, "after I say everything I have to say to you."

"Severus, this is my home. My rules, if you do not want to respect that I'm sure you know where the door is. I am through with unanswered questions, I'm not biting my tongue any longer because that is what you do in a marriage to avoid a fight. Unlike your home, there will be understanding in mine. You will not make me feel any array of emotions that you have in the past within these walls. If you are unwilling or unable to accept this then the best I can say is you need to leave, we can arrive at someplace to work on this but it will not be here where I should be safe from all of the evil in the rest of the world."

He looked across the table at her, he knew by her expression she was not going to give an inch on this. She was right, he set so many rules for her in his home that he should have expected this. He was pretty sure that she wouldn't like the answer but what else could he do, he wanted her back and to reach that goal he had to be honest with her now or he would never get the chance to even try to get her back.

"I overheard something by accident, no I never spied on you or what you did or talked about with your friends. This I honestly overheard at the time."

"Okay, I'll take that under advisement now tell me."

Severus sighed before saying,

"I overheard you tell Potter that you loved me."

Author's Note: Comments really do make me smile and brighten my day.

Also I wanted to let you know that I have a couple of Severus/Hermione videos on youtube, the link is in my profile.