Bloody buggering hell...can we trust no one? Didn't even have an embryo of an idea that that would happen. I'm weekending on the shore of Coniston Water just now amd looking both at the lake and the Grizedale Forest where in my imagination is where Remus Lupin was both brought up and bitten. Just thought I''d share my opinion. Anyway Joan Wilder....how are you going to write us out of this one I wonder. BTW....have now properly looked at the chapter titles and they are genius...normally I just lunge straight into reading. So good to see how Sev has come to some good sense and is man enough to confront his true feelings. Best wishes, Love Ali xxxx

"if it’s full of beasts like that, I could put up with it" - just sign me in too :D 
"Although, I don’t guarantee a resolution . . . yet. ;)" - I didn't expecting it that fast ;)

What a lovely chapter, so heartbreaking painful! <3 He really did changed, and he is still the same in a way.
"He wasn't prone to jealousy" .... no he's not, he is possessive tho, possessive like hell ^_^

Self-loathing, so like him to go to the extreme. "She might well be dead already. What would be the point in seeing it for himself—in witnessing what his selfishness had perpetrated?"  This almost made me cry! I know that he see Lily only in movie but still, I had a flash from the movie and it was ... not pleasant.

"He would simply walk in there and offer himself in her place." - he doesn't think rationally, obviously. That would have boomerang effect on her IF she accept to leave without him. Even if they took her out, she would just return. I don't think that she would even call for reinforcements, not at that point. Maybe I'm wrong but she is Gryffindor and she has that "foolish bravado" streak, not too often but she does.

"‘Sky Eye’" - I LOVE it!!! Magical spy drone! In all that angst you made me laugh.

Well it is "foolish bravado" goes all around in this chapter :). please, tell me they won't running around in circles, chasing each other. Smart as they are, they are not to bright when it comes to the matters of heart, they both tend to react instinctively more than with a sound plan.

And now I wait again and I'm back to clawing my walls and chewing my fingers off :D Don't let us wait too long! <3  

Arrrrgh! You did it again! Dastardly diva of drama and debauchery!

I am intrigued and titillated. Well done.

"Mr Parsons, what a pleasant surprise.”--*Gasp* Holy fuck! I did not see that coming. No wonder that dickhead was so obtuse back at the office. OMG! You're killing me. You'd better get the next chapter out fast or I'm going to explode. (And that's a mess you do NOT want to deal with. Ain't nobody got time for that.)

I was too caught up in the story to save my favs, but I did note pugnacious partners. The whole thing was excellently written, and obviously I bow to your powers of cliffhanging. Severus's inner thought process was fabulous.

(The tightness in his chest as her absences sank in,--take out the comma.)

(He wasn’t prone to jealousy, there was always plenty of pussy to go around, but the thought of anyone else lying beneath her naked body, feeling her gentle hands caressing them, having her tucked possessively beneath their chin, made him grind his teeth.--Use em dashes to separate there was always plenty of pussy to go around from what precedes and follows it.)

Oh, and yes, sexual tacos are always beloved. More more more. (And sybartful was a stroke of genius. Must use sybarite in everyday conversations more often.)

FUCKKKKKKKK!

Best wishes, Love.........no sorry. i've just about composed myself you naughty jammie dodger.

i've been missing this. Really good,grown up,mature Severus/Hermione rumpy pumpy. I mean who could resist that? I mean I really was "having a moment" as I used to explain to my daughters.The best one I had was in 2010 when my husband took me to Dublin to see Le Rickman (and Petunia!) in the flesh on stage in John Gabriel Borkman. Second one was a couple of years ago holding myself and said grown up daughters back from jumping Richard Armitage when we saw The Crucible at the Okd Vic in London. All of these "moments" don't compare with hubby and kids of course but help to sweeten life further as we go along. Anyway back to your saucy romp........ and then you go and throw an almighty spanner in the works. Not sure my BP can take this but I'll do my best! Great stuff.

Ali xxxxxx

PS...too true. Some guys just know how to kiss perfectly.

Baaaaah! Brilliant cliffie, but now I have to hunt you down and force the next chapter out of you. (Don't worry I'll bring you lots of chocolate licorice to keep you going in your new writing dungeon.)

I loved not only the lemony goodness of this chapter but also the way they both used sex to get their points across. And way to stab us all in the heart with the whole " . . . if you were in it" bedroom line.

Now Severus is going to have to save Hermione. Good. That means he can't go out in blaze of glory (hopefully). Well, he could. But now the goal has changed--so different outcome.

Fav lines and fixes

"It was just like Little Red Riding Hood being captured by the Big Bad Wolf, thought Hermione. Except that this Little Red Riding Hood had a major wetty for the Big Bad Wolf and would be more than happy for him to eat her . . . out."--Bahahahahahaha! This whole thing was hilarious. Classic.

(languid and deeply erotic movements that soon had he core throbbing,--her core)

(Jawline is one word.)

(an indication that he was getting close to breaking point--word missing before breaking point. Possibly "a" or "the" . . . or "his.")

"clenched and seething above her"--Unnnnnh!

"a masterful chaperone to his equally adept tongue"--Love this.

"Hermione felt like a taco—with its contents about to spill out"--This was hilarious and masterful. Excellent comparison.

I loved that and used it in this chapter, see if you can pick it. 

Ooh boy, I pick up on it, and I loved it!!! :D 

I have to say, I'm glad she didn't use Ginny's gift (I really hope she didn't). He don't deserve that. But ... "bad boy" persona is a very potent aphrodisiac on its own, isn't it?
More importantly, he has that real, almost traditional bad boy personality. He's not that "angry youth wanna be James Dean", and I'm smitten with it, in your story he is genuine jewel. We all know that those guys are more fragile than fine china under that armour they build around themselves. She found the crack in that armour, I really hope that she will know how to respect that, or proceed for that matter.

She fell into her own trap! I love it!!! She is really stuck with that old "be careful what you wish for". *evil grin* Btw, you managed to make hell sounds so...appealing ^_^
 

Now to the end, first of all...cliffhanger! Really? I hope there is a new chapter soon before I claw my walls out :D And she is in trouble! Of course she is! If he hadn't planned to go on suicide mission she would provide one for him all the same. I just hope that she really doesn't get him killed, before she manage to "save" him.
 

Now, I'm chewing on my fingers and waiting for the new chapter! ^_^ 

You're a little bit evil, aren't you? Friggin' cliffhangers, man.

Hello my dear...the M'lady returneth. With a husband who has got norovirus. Thank god he waited till we got home but I digress. OMG...what a lot has happened and I have to congratulate you on quite a few things. Firstly thank you for filling in on Sev's background and acknowledging that he was a true Lancashire Manchester lad. Jo sold us out by trying to make out he was from the "North Midlands". Christ he'd sound like Arthur or Wormtail if he did! You have his background absolutely spot on but this native Scots lass was adopted by them when she "emigrated" from Scotland to England in 1976. I lived in a village near Failsworth (Cokeworth IMO) which was midway between Oldham and Manchester with mills and a canal etc etc. The fact that he cultured his accent is true and totally credible. Apart from the voice of God himself (AR) think of the Lancashire "Ians", ladies. McKellen from Burnley. I know he is gay and getting on but he's Gandalf/Magneto for gawd's sake. Next, McShane from Blackburn...nuff said. Voice of a horny angel! And last but not least MY Ian. Born in Oldham lived in Manchester and able to charm the...get the message? Secondly...you have made me like Luna. Personally the lass in the films made me feel she was the Wesley Crusher or Jar-Jar Binks of the whole saga...pointless, unnecessary and irritating. I know I'm harsh but your Luna is OK. So that's very clever of you.Thirdly...a suicide mission...not on my watch sunshine and not on Hermione's either. Their tender kissing scene was lovely and a bit alcohol fuelled and I'm not sure she will need her lust potion. Loved the comparison between Hermione and the Queen..."and then one will fuck". Looking forward immensely to the upcoming chapters and hope I don't catch hubby's lurgy. Best wishes, Love Ali xxxx  

Damn, I love Hermione as voyeur. I'll have to see how much I mind Severus breaking the opportunity.

New chapter! It really brightened my day :) 

And lighting a cigarette with a finger...what a show off. All tho I would probably place a zippo in his hands (don't get me wrong I love the way you described the scene, this is my personal quirk). I imagine he has lovely thin hands with long fingers, in those hands zippo could be...hmmm.
 

Poor Hermione - she really doesn't know in what she is getting in? She does have that need to rescue everyone, even from themselves, especially if they don't want to be rescued, just so she can place them ih her little perfect world. But at the end you perfectly captured her, she will sleep with him to save him - yeah right! What a sacrifice! (sorry for the sarcasm that side of her was always been bit annerving)

I am not surprised that he is on a suicide mission. He is on self destructive part since chapter 1. So that much was obvious to me. But I do hope to see what is going to happen next, and how "miss little perfect" is going to meddle in :D
 

Oh, I love how you introduce his life story, one of the appeal of Snape's character is that you have to peace his story through the cannon books. Glad to see I'm not the only one who gave a great deal of thought to his background. 
 

Can't wait for the next chapter! ^_^

Such a great chapter. Holy fuck, I did not see the self-sacrificing Snape angle coming at all. How totally fucked up (while satisfying your reader's need for a heroic Snape). Sneaky sneaky girl. I forgot to say in the other chapters how I liked your integration of Snape's smoking as it's a great AR real life crossover. (Although he quit later and hated having to smoke for parts.) But now you've discussed it more in this chapter and enhanced it so well with the background story that I finally remembered to mention it.

I'm freaked out now about the dark beasts and what they're walking into (not just because of the suicide mission he's decided on). No wonder he's so worried about her.

And that bit about her fitting inside the sheep made me laugh.  It was the first thing I thought of when they found it. I think I was having a Star Wars Tauntaun belly flashback.

My favorite parts were the foot nudges. What can I say? I'm a sucker for heart-skipping moments of intimacy. In the 6th grade I used to play footsie with the guy across from me (hey, he started it), and it made my stomach flip every time.

I also loved the build up to the kissing. So fucking sweet. (But you suckered me in the the fingers on the lips.)

She's awfully sure she's going to need that potion. I, however, am not so sure. Everybody has a past; she's always known what his was, and she still wanted him. Snape on the other hand might get all noble on her in the harsh light of sobriety. You never know with him.

(Corrections: These three sentences are all the same--you need to separate the question from the statement with a comma.

"You are a glutton for punishment aren’t you?”

“It’s true though isn’t it?”

You just can’t help but interfere can you?

And the following one is a comma splice. I'd change it into two separate sentences (or change it to a semicolon or an em dash).

He couldn’t help smirking, it sounded like a proclamation by the Queen.

And when you have ellipses right before a quotation mark, don't put a space between the last dot and the quotation mark (that will also fix the directionality problem that makes it look like the quotation marks are aiming the wrong way).

to suggest that I could look better than . . . you . . . “)

Oh, and forgot to say "saccades"--Word Notebook! Yeeeeeees. I've never heard this before. Excellent new word porn. Mmmmmm.

You can squeeze out one more chapter before you go, can't you? :D I'm going to be all Debaucery deficient over the weekend. 8,P <---Debaucery face w/ withdrawal tear.

This is a complete tease chapter!!! I am really enjoying this story and please keep up the great descriptidescriptons of the naughty scenes.    

       💘- Becca

Just found this story, and ohhhhh my goooood! You keep writing like that and I'll have to whip your butt for more! Or maybe you'd like that? It sounds like Hermione needs it, for sure! I shouldn't, talk, I'm so way overdue on my fics it isn't even funny. But hey, us authors have to stick together, eh? Hermione sure seems to have a load of issues she's never dealt with and needs to face. Snape has his demons, but Hermione seems more out of touch with hers than he does. At least he knows what he's hiding from. What's her excuse?

I just LOVE it, simply love it, hanging on every new chapter like a drowning person on lifesaver.

Snape is so wonderfully screwed up and you made him sound sexy as hell (not that he needs it in my book).  I hope there will be new chapter soon ^_^