Hi Dessie,

I'm back... Hope you are feeling better, my life is quite shit now, lots of stress, not much sleep, I go through my days feeling stupefied and completing things on autopilot :( need a holiday, a change, a fuck...

Chapter 7.

'Even now, through the many layers, it strains—hard and hopeful. As though it has a chance. As though it hadn’t been abandoned long ago, along with the rest of her womanhood, in favour of a tenuous sanity.' -looks like my life in recent past... when you become a stone carved vessle in which you hibernate, hoping for better days, pure survival...

'But perhaps this was her doing—a normal human exchange, unnaturally warped and amplified by her need to be cared for, to receive the tenderness she has craved. Perhaps she is simply cramming her wilting hope into yet another vessel, expecting a positive outcome no matter how unlikely, crafting another misguided attachment.' -hmmm know the feeling, although I usually hide my hurt and most desperate needs so much, no one ever knows. Sick of being strong.

I like the description of his cock -rise from the dead, nice.

'It’s as though his cardiovascular system has not accounted for this eventuality. As though it is no longer capable of providing sufficient blood to supply both his cock and brain at once. Snorting, he realises he is just admitting that he’s a man.' -OK this brings a smile to my face :)

Plumbing? Hahaha

Ok so I feel this is going to be interesting, to say the least... calcium...? Whichever form...?

Fox xx

And it sounds like you deserve something special after all your hard work.  - Thank you, I'm glad that you are also planning to go, I'll be sure to tell you my impressions when I return ;)

That’s exactly what I was hoping to convey but not nearly so eloquently. - You conveyed it, obviously, or I wouldn't caught on tit. It is one to write it in the story and other to summarise it. I would love to have your mastery with words :)

thanks for that! - you are very welcome, glad to be of some help :)

there’s nowhere to hide in this caper - FUNALLY!!! <3

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 rigid angle of his elbow which allows her to cling on - great description

over-sized bell clapper - hahahahaha fantastic :D

“Dessert?” - most delicious invitation to sex you can get, more so in their case, Sev you sly dog you :D

The moment she started to undress him, my hun was watching something on YT and from speakers I heard Adagio part of Moonlight sonata, I can't describe to you how that perfectly fitted in your story! The emotional response is...beyond words. 

Your sex scenes are always fantastic and hot, but in this story they are somewhat smothered by the emotional or maybe situational burden, not just her but his as well. You end up hoping that pashion can surface, it is there, you can see it...but unavailable for them.  So you end up bit short of breath and frustrated at the same time.

“Take it . . .” - I love this entire scene it's so emotional. I just love how you forgo the words in favour of actions.

 she grasps the hand resting on his thigh and guides it - it's adorable how thoughtful she is in this scene, I also like how delicate the balance and shift of power is between them.

on a lamp post - lol, very compelling description :)

forehead on his shoulder, fingers curled into his neck. - master of the words, you did it again - with only few words you managed to paint such vivid and beautiful picture for us

I do hope that in the next chapter we will see more of his POV. And I do hope that I'll have good enough net to read it (I'm flying on next Saturday and arriving on Sunday evening in Tokyo).

Love&hugs&kisses from(still!) work swamped and travel excided loon xx

Oh gods! Sad sex scenes--the epitome of cognitive dissonance :) This was so sweet . . . and hot . . . and touching . . . and perfect.

The bit where he tells her to take what she needs was brilliant. Love the parallels. And her being the wet wipe for his wanking was lovely :) She was smart to use his magic spooge to heal her pussy while injecting herself with semen serum.

Fav lines:

"in the static rip of Apparition"--great description.

"traversing the starched parapet of his shirt collar, and spilling over to the warm flush of his throat"--Oh gods. The words! So good :P

"the knotty knolls and tors of his scar."--Again. High calibre word porn.

"the open field of potholes and trenches that relate the torrid story of his existence"--Fuck, this is fabulous.

I'm excited to see how things change between them now that he's been inside her (and what health perks she'll derive from the internal application).

I greatly enjoyed the sensuality of this chapter. Delicious.

I love how she'd inviting him into her world and bringing him back to life even more (in non-sexual ways).

"The student relaxes, clearly uncomfortable with catching him day-dreaming and relieved to be back on the receiving end of his, more familiar, contempt."--I'm not sure why I like this, but I think it's because it captures his personality so well . . . through the actions of another.

"None completely resonates with the roiling tension that vacillates between his chest and his groin."--Love this description.

"He felt alive. And perhaps that should be enough."--It's good, Snape, but not enough. You know it's more!

I loved the whole description of the restaurant and Snape's reaction to it.

"That would require me to assume that you have slept with practically everyone in the English speaking world,"--Bahahahaha!

Snape's sly compliments were all great too. So elusively sweet.

Oh, and his treatment of the waiter. Mean but great :)

"I’m just concerned that that waiter will be wondering what I’m . . . doing to you." And "lubricated by the slick reverb of his baritone—it strikes her right where she imagines her uterus to be. "--Unnnnh!

"As he increases the suction, his tongue rolls gently and the raw eroticism of the sensation, as though her finger has penetrated her own pussy, rather than his mouth, injects her core with molten arousal.  "--Oh gods, yes! (And I saw that pitched despite my distraction.)

(turns out to be more comforting that she could have imagined--than she could have)

(It is difficult to tell but doesn’t appear uncomfortable--Is there a word missing here? I can't find the sentence in my re-read. He doesn't appear?)

I hope they go back to her room and have nice after dinner jizz-fest. Mmmmmmm . . . healing :)

wow now I want to know what you do! - I am social (and occasionally market) researcher, majority of my work is sitting behind the PC and writing but one part demands that  I do the field part of the research, which explains insane working hours (I don't have precise work day just deadlines).

you already have an unhealthy book fetish as we both know :)  - hush, not so publicly :D

I hope you get a break from your travels. - I will and I won't :D. I'm in the middle of project now, but at the end of the March I'll have 10 days of vacation. It is something I've been planning for almost 2 years now, literally, so I could fit it in my schedule, and it is travel - big one at that - I'm going to visit my friend in Japan. So yes, I'll take a break from work but not from travelling :) 

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Daydreaming Snape, mmmm, yes, I can live with that, in fact...This whole scene with him made me giggle. And no, my long-suffering hun is at work atm, so he is spared of my reactions ;)

But more of what?  - I just love how you made transition from objectification of their relationship to acceptance of developing emotions and glimmers of hope.Transition from degradation over hopeless forced cooperation to something elated and pure. 

None completely resonates with the roiling tension that vacillates between his chest and his groin./He leans back in his seat, relaxing his legs apart.  - I just love these descriptions

He felt alive. And perhaps that should be enough. - And here we go...his need to be a human after all and his need to take a bat and beat himself with it in to the ground, one next to the other...drinking tea, perhaps (he is Englishman so tea sounds like good bet).

And then the scene with little version of Hermione, it is sweet and funny, and revealing.

I love how you described the inn they are visiting, sounds magical. 

“I’m glad to be of service.” - allow me to quote Oracle "*snort*"

The entire conversation about Jacob is just hilarious! Especially "the compliment" part. 

A small smile tugs her lips. Could he . . . like her?/Then reality sets in . . . no doubt he’s just trying to make up for his earlier offense. - yup, that is our Snape. He makes you not only doubt his actions but doubt yourself and your own observations. 

“I’m afraid I find it rather . . . insipid.” Snape’s lip curls in mild disgust. “Perhaps you can provide something with a little more . . . body.” - was this fight over the territory? What is he? A dog? "Shoo, this is mine now"

“I’m just concerned that that waiter will be wondering what I’m . . . doing to you.” - bloody hell!

The whole scene with licking is...hot, hot, hot! Even more so because it is so...mundane, something plucked out from real life.

“Not this time,” he mutters bluntly. “Bill please.” - oh yes, she is his...humping (?)...pillow now :D

I just love how you made that every moment they are together is about him more than her. In fact, it looks like she is there some sort of a mirror that shows the glimpse in to to the other's soul, like she is there to emphasize him.

And I'm so glad that we are getting more and more of your old self in each chapter. I'd send you some nice weather but it is rainy and gloomy here, so I'm sending you hugs and kisses XX

I've been reading in silence since Chapter 7 of DIFTO. I never considered myself a Snape/Hermione fan until your stories. First thing I do after work is grab my iPad to see if there has been an update. I will drift back into reading mode now, or rereading mode. Chapter ten was wowsers!

Madness of my work prevented me to write review for chapter 9 and before I could stop traveling (and passing out at evening tired to the bone) you issued another chapter. So it is double review tonight.

can you imagine Sev going for a run in his frock coat and boots, jogging around the lake? - well, now that you put that idea in my head... XD

Chapter 9

She’d never seen him more uncomfortable. And of course she understood why. - of course she does.

grab a lifeline like that with both hands?  - this is sounding soooo wrong or right depending on the point of view :)

In fact, he’d looked very much like he was about to run the entire time.  - this made me laugh :'D

tunnels a hand into his hair, grasping the roots tightly in agitation. - I love how you describe his insecurities, but also give us a glimpse in his condition

Chapter 10

This chapter made me laugh, so much. It is hot and funny, great mixture! Minerva put them in such awkward position, I laughed my heart out :)

“So you decided to see it that no one else could either?” he snaps. - this is so Snape, but given the time...he is quite tame and even...polite.

“To . . . give it to me . . . from the . . . source.” - hahahahahaha, you are brilliant!

or read or . . .”/“Read?” He stares at her incredulously. - if I develop some sort of unhealthy book fetish, you are to blame - just so you know :*

But to be trying to extract someone’s semen . . . for medicinal purposes . . . that did happen to be a first. - as if the...process...is different XD

Entire hj scene is fantastic, hot and insightful, more about him than her actually.

And just as he releases a final cresting groan, she descends, opening her mouth over him and feeling the first shots of come enter her. - fck, this was...uhhhhhhhhhh

he lunges forward, capturing his lips in her own and sucking them with a moan so visceral that it prickles his scalp. - another fantastic scene, it should be so innocent, but...there's so much unsaid behind this scene, volumes that scream at the reader. Fantastic! 

“I’ll be back.” - now, this is promising. 

I hope I'll see next chapter soon (as it is possible for you, don't overwork yourself). I'm going to bed now, I had 10h of field work today (3 cities) and I'm dead. Thank you for making it possible to end this dreadful day with the smile :)

Love & kisses & lots of smiles <3 :*

"Has our esteemed potions master managed to brew you up something already?”--Bahahahaha!  He's got another batch brewing in his balls as we speak.

"fused in intense disapproval."--Lovely description.

"from the . . . source.”--Oh god, I just snort-injured myself.

"sucking the confidence from her like a Dementor"--Excellent simile.

"his countenance so prohibitive, his accoutrements so bloody impenetrable—as for some reason he’d seen fit to fully dress before allowing her inside"-- Mmmmmmm, prohibitive and impenetrable :) And I love that he put on his clothes first. So Snape.

'She already feels his essence pulsing beneath the gossamer surface, the microscopic chambers flooding as she encroaches."--I love the ethereal mixed with the scientific in this description.

"And the weight of his expression, the desire in his sinking lids, the dip of his covetous brow, and those lips, swollen and beckoning and—"--Mmmmmmm, word hotness.

"throat working fiercely with each vocalisation."--*Shudders* Yeeeeees!

Bah! What the hell is she going to do? Go outside in the sun? And leave senor semen all alone on the couch? Noooooooo.

Dang it! I forgot to post this, and now you've added another chapter before I remembered.

I loved this chapter's shifting energy. Hermione finding a ray of hope; Snape losing his mojo. And through it all we get to see what's going through their minds. (I'm still dying to know what went on in the past between them.)

I hope Snape realizes that the healing goes both ways soon. Maybe she can sit on his face and bring back his sense of smell.

"she’d felt as though she was progressively grafting herself back onto this foreign body that she had come to occupy"--I love this for personal reasons, but I also creamed at the word grafting.

"a certain etiquette around requesting semen "--*Snort* *Giant doe eye* Please, sir, can I have some more?

"swathe of stars, scattered like a precious vein of diamonds above her head."--Oh gods! So good! 

"but the distinct petulance with which it regards him, as though he has deliberately removed it’s only source of interest and still expected him to play, concerns and bewilders him"-- *Snickering* Damn petulant prick!

"Yes. Absolutely fucking spiffing."--Hahahahaha!

"Translation: I hope you made that come I asked for . . . and perhaps managed a bit of sleep too."--Still laughing.

I'd say I want more, but you've already got up the next chapter. I'll be back momentarily.

I created an account solely to tell you how much I enjoy this story. I love your characterization. The pacing is fantastic and the sexuality is mouth-watering. I look forward to more.

Re: Chapter 7 ending

Oh, that was evil.^_^

Oh.....My......God........

Oh my fucking God, yes! I love this so much. Semen salve--in a store near you :)

And I love the whole yin yang of their connection. Her presence brings him back to life, and his essence brings her relief. They complete each other. He's lost some of his senses, but she's got enough to spare. I'm dying to know what precipitated this state and what happened in their past.

And obviously Hermione can smell the semen, so she knows what she just did. Gah! She should just ask him to come all over her. If he comes inside her, will that make the jizz more magical? What if she takes her medicine orally? So many possibilities.

although I did go there in ‘The Quickening’ so obviously I think they can be under certain circumstances - Yeah I remember :)

You are insane and brilliant! Did I ever told you how much I adore your brain? I laughed so loudly my hun was scared XD

I love how they both react to each other.

And she happens to be giving him a hell of a lot more than he’s giving her. - yeah, his sense of fair is starting to kick in.

I love how you described his sex life in past, like something present but so...ummm.....well, something like a stress reliever more than a sex life.  I mean, he could run instead of having sex with same efect.

Stepping up to the desk ... as the pressure builds. - I love this entire part, sounds like he is waking up from a long coma, grasping the concept of enjoyment in life once again, anew :)

“Professor, sorry to interrupt you again but I . . .” - after this and until the end I just couldn't stop laughing XD

When she begins happily rubbing it on her cheeks, his mouth drops open. Nothing more than raspy air wheezes out. - bloody brilliant!!!!

“Could you possibly . . . make me some more?” - well it's true what they say, if it helps, don't ask what it is, just ask for more. And she already knows what it is XD

I'd say you are at least bit better, this chapter has more of "your usual self", and I'm glad to see it :)  I'm patiently waiting for the new chapter.
Hugs&Kisses xx

Only a vague idea! Okay, I can live with that. As long as you figure it out before we get there.

Mmmmmmm! This chapter was sooooo good. A little sexual tension, a little angst, a little jizz on the desktop. And you ended it with a mystery. Excellent. All the conflicting emotions and moods brought out all the opposing parts so beautifully. You might be the master of blending dark humor and depressing moods, feeding them off each other so the reader is left as insane as your characters. Bravo. :)

hard and hopeful. As though it has a chance--love this. The bleakness of her situation packed into one little nipple. But there was something sadly hilarious about it too.

"that she was destined to rot here in this cupboard, collapsing upon herself until she imploded into nothingness."--Holy fuck. This is my life. 

His head pitches forward---I spy :)

I am moaning rapturously over the entire wanking scene. I won't cut and paste it since you know what you wrote, but the whole thing deserves to be highlighted. The writing was gorgeous, and the meat beating was hot as hell. I loved the whole rediscovering his manhood mentality (and it mirrors Hermione's sexual hibernation too). 

And I love that Hermione could smell it on him. :P

"No. My plumbing has been fixed.”--Hahahahaha!

And then you end with calcium. I love it when you go all Bill Nye on us. :D