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 and keeps me writing.

The chapters I posted yesterday and this one just seem blah to me but it will pick up shortly.

Enjoy!

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).

Severus accompanied Hermione the next afternoon to her doctor appointment, then they stopped by to talk to her boss who was a little surprised but also upset that someone was stalking Hermione and readily agreed to Severus hanging around while Hermione was there. Once they had a schedule worked out they left with Hermione saying,

"I would like to go by and check on the house while we are here."

"Let's go then."

He took the key from her keeping her behind him as he opened the door with his wand at the ready as he walked into the house. The wards had been reset, by Severus, Harry, and Draco so she wasn't too worried that someone got into the house this time.

Everything seemed in order as they walked through, she went to check the study as he went upstairs to check the bedrooms.

Severus checked the guest room and the small room she had toys and a small bed in for when friends with children visited her, nothing seemed amiss with them then he opened the door to her room.

On the wall above the bed written in what looked to be lipstick was wrote, 'You forget you're my whore slut.' On the bed laid a video tape. He looked around the room but that seemed to be the only thing. Sighing he walked back downstairs with the tape to tell Hermione what was up there when he heard her yell. He stepped in to see that the room had been trashed, she was standing by the desk as she looked up at him before saying,

"Redding did this, didn't he?"

Severus held up the tape that was in his hand saying,

"I would think so, the wall above your bed has a message for you."

Hermione sighed before asking,

"Do I want to see it?"

"Probably not, just more of the same that he said at the hearing. But he did leave this."

"Great." Hermione said as she sat down at the desk laying her head in her hands, she bumped the mouse making the monitor power up as Severus was looking around the other side of the room. When the screen finally came on she gaped at the images, it was the video that she had inadvertently got of Severus that night that she knew that he felt remorse for what he done and she chose to give him a chance. She hit the button on the keyboard to get rid of it but nothing would take care of it until another window popped up saying,

Does he know that you did this? Does he know he finally got my discarded whore? Did you let him read your journal on here, I would think he would find it enlightening as I did.

Hermione gasped drawing Severus' attention, he came over where she was looking at the screen as if it would attack her. He read what was there, he assumed that the 'he' was himself, but the rest was just to get to her, Severus had played that game with her he knew it well.

"What don't I know Hermione?" he asked quietly.

She turned to him then back to the computer, she sighed.

"That day after you came here drunk, I had been playing with a web cam the night before I had it set up on the mantel in the living room with what happen I forgot about it until after I asked you to stay here until I came back. I didn't realize until that night after you left that I had it on still."

"So what are you telling me?"

"That it recorded while you were here alone."

Severus remember that day, what he went though after she left. How he let his emotions through as he sat there in her living room alone keeping his promise.

"You watched it I take it."

"Yes, but I can't bring myself to be sorry for it. What I saw gave me….. Severus you're not the most open man, it showed what never comes across with you when you talk, it's what made me chose to try. It showed me that you had remorse for your actions, between that and the night before… I can't be sorry for that."

Severus watched her as she spoke, his first reaction was to be angry that she did that without his knowledge, though she was right he was not that open when it came to showing feelings that would portray him as weak, really did it really matter until a few days ago he never knew that she heard his nightmares she didn't tell anyone, even him about them with the exception of Dumbledore's portrait. She had kept his secrets as far as he knew, so he was certain that she would keep this one.

Severus leaned against the desk before saying,

"I understand what you're saying, and frankly I don't mind that you saw that as it led you to take a chance again. What I don't like is that now Redding has seen it also, though I don't see the end that he would use it for doesn't mean that he doesn't have one."

"I'm more worried about my journal I kept on here."

"What was it about."

At her look of shock he said,

"No, I don't want to know 'what' you wrote. Just what you wrote."

"I started It when I came back here, I was hurt, angry, and upset. There was a lot those feelings in there about you, then Ron and him to some extent."

"I see."

"Your angry with me." She stated flatly.

"For what?"

"That I kept all of this stuff on here instead of getting rid of it."

Severus reached over laying his hand on hers on the desk before saying,

"I'm not angry, not with you anyway. I understand your need to keep a journal about that time, why would I be angry about that?"

"I meant the video more."

"I don't care, remember I don't give a damn what other people think of me." He didn't say 'just you' but he saw in her eyes that she understood.

"I'm going to have to have the aurors here, so they can see what he did."

"Yes, I'm afraid you are."

"Well then let's go call them and get this over with."

She hated that everyone in the world she wanted to go back to would know about this, see this.

"You could just call Potter, I'm sure he would come over and take care of it for you then no one else would know unless it was needed later." Somehow Severus know that it wouldn't be, he had been around enough to know that Redding had done many other things that would hang him, so to speak that this might not be needed at all. Well unless she needed it to have closure for herself.

"Let's do that, I just can't….. I don't want a lot of them knowing this. Is that wrong? I know it makes it look like I have done something wrong…. Maybe I did."

"No, you did nothing wrong where he was concerned. He just, he reminds me of a lot of the death eaters…. An opportunist who just preyed on someone who was an easy target at the time."

"Is that what you did?" she asked before she could stop herself.

"I did what I was ordered to do, by both sides."

"I didn't….. I don't know what made me ask that." She said looking at the desk.

Severus looked down at the top of her head before reaching over to lift her chin to look at him.

"Don't, you can ask me anything you want to know. I can't say I'll always answer but I will try."

"I know."

"Let's go call your friend to sort this."

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.