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So this chapter has what I term as "heavy petting" in it (I know there is another term I've seen for it but don't remember what it is at the moment….. If you do not want to read it I have it marked off by a row of XXXXXXXXXX … I also (in my demented brain) think that it's ironic that the first chapter where they venture to anything of a more sexual nature is chapter 69… See warped I tell ya, ask my boyfriend he'll agree:D

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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).

She closed the book setting it on her lap before closing her eyes saying,

"Yes."

Severus ran his fingertips up and down her arms as he spoke softly to her.

"And who were you thinking about?"

Hermione sighed, the small amount of wine along with the very erotic passage she had been reading combined with the feeling of his fingers tracing up and down her arms and his soft silky voice in her ear made her forget everything. She leaned her head back on his shoulder before saying,

"You."

Severus closed his eyes, her admission caused his body to respond in ways it never had to anyone.

"Would you show me?" he asked her slowly.

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She turned looking at him then leaned up to kiss him, he met her lips then entered her mouth with his tongue when she opened for him. When the kiss broke he looked down to see that she had undid the buttons on her top and had them pushed aside along with her bra. He looked over her shoulder as she lightly rubbed her nipples then pinched them , rolling them between her thumb and finger. He kissed her neck again, running his tongue to a spot behind her ear that drew a gasp from her.

She turned her head kissing him again, he kept his fingers tracing lightly up and down her arms.

When Hermione had answered his question she had only thought about she wanted him to know that it wasn't wrong, the way his father had told him. All those thoughts fled when she thought of him watching her, it was erotic to know that he was looking her hands on her own breast making her nipples hard.

She finally took his hands leading them to her breast. She slipped her hands down to undo the button and zip on her jeans, lifting her hips she pulled them down along with her panties. She lightly ran her fingers over herself, she hissed turning to kiss his neck. How many times had she done this very thing this very same way imagining him behind her? Hermione hesitated, this was a very intimate thing she was about to do in front of him.

"Don't think, just feel. Show me how you bring yourself pleasure."

She moaned as she laid her head back on his shoulder again.

He kissed along her neck as he watched her move her hand lower again. He moaned when she slipped a finger inside herself. He worked her nipples lightly as she pulled her finger up to her clit where she ran slow circles she moaned as she touched herself, her head laying back on his shoulder, she whispered to him.

"I use to dream it was your hands doing this to me, making me feel so good."

He had the hardest erection that he ever recalled, even when he was a teenager it was never like this. He watched her, learning what she liked how she liked to be touched.

He moved his hand lower across her stomach. She whimpered as he rubbed along her lower abdomen barley touching of her pelvic area. Finally he took her hand away laying it on his thigh, slowly he moved his hand to where hers had been lightly brushing the curls there. She arched into his hand trying to get him to touch where she needed. When he slipped a finger in her then another he sucked in a breath at how wet she was, she arched up into his hand, he pulled them out of her moving to her clit. She let out a little cry when he touched her. She arched up to him, he slowly circled her clit drawing moans from her.

Severus had never thought something he had always thought of as minimal and very wrong would turn out to be so erotic and so much more. Just this simple act making her moan and whimper had him so hard that he wondered if any stimulation would even be needed to make him release.

Hermione wondered if he knew how much his hands on her, his delectable fingers on her made her feel. He moved just right, when he slipped his fingers inside her she would clamp around them making him moan into her neck then he would slowly bring them back to where she wanted them most.

He didn't think he was capable of the restraint he showed, watching her turned him on so much that he was sure he would come without aid. She was gripping his thighs so tight it was bordering on painful, but then she would moan or clamp onto his fingers and he'd forget everything but her withering against him.

He could feel her tense, somehow he knew she was trying to reach for the release she wanted.

"Relax, tell me how." He whispered to her.

"Up." She panted to him. "Faster."

He went a little higher she cried out he whispered to her,

"Yes, come for me. Scream my name Hermione."

He had her held so tight she couldn't move, his legs were draped over hers and his arm was around her holding her tightly to him. She tightened her hold on his thighs as she panted and cried out. Once she broke she screamed his name, as waves of pleasure crashed over her.

He knew that he was so close himself that it wouldn't take much to make him come, and it didn't her screaming his name moving against him what little she could sent him with her. He grunted biting into her shoulder as he came.

He pulled the blanket on the back of the sofa over them as they tried to regain a normal breathing rate.

Once their breath was normal again he kissed her gently on the shoulder making her shutter as he tightened his arms around her.

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They laid there for some time before he moved his hand running his fingers through her hair, just to give his hand something to do before he finally asked,

"Hermione?"

"Humm?"

"Could it have been like that?"

She turned to look at him, she wondered what he was asking about. The question must have shown because he said,

"If I hadn't been so angry about the bonding, making the sex part as…. cold as I could. Would it have been like this?"

She moved her hand out from under the cover laying her palm across his cheek running her fingers into his hair before saying quietly.

"I don't know, maybe. I know this was better than anything I have ever done for myself."

He leaned over kissing her before saying,

"I need a shower."

She went to set up when he pulled her back to him kissing her again. He knew the question he wanted to ask was going to make him sound so insecure but he had to know. In her ear she finally heard,

"Was it really?"

It was the first time she ever remembered hearing this man being unsure about anything. She turned onto her knees so she could face him taking his face in her hands making him look at her.

"Yes, very much so. I…." He watched as she blushed before saying, "I…." she couldn't tell him she just couldn't make the words come out so she kissed him before moving so he could get up, she waited while he showered. Then she took another one also before climbing into bed, she was almost asleep when she heard him say.

"Next week we have a date, at the new restaurant in Hogsmead."

"That's nice." She mumbled as she drifted off to sleep.

He wondered if she knew that next week was Valentine's day.

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.