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This was great and also agonizing! Everything between them is so fraught with tension and no wonder Hermione is going mad. I would be too if I spent my days trying to decipher Severus Snape. This was a really great chapter and I can't wait to read more! Please update again soon, I really want to know where it goes from here. I really doubt Hermione will be able to stick to her plan of only interacting in the workshop, but maybe if she does Severus will realize that he does want more with her and that even though she drives him crazy, it'll drive him crazier to not have her. Seriously though, I'm dying for an update!

thanks for the update once again. You intro was informative, as I had forgotten how much trauma they've both experienced. I am sorry Hermione had such an awful time and then worse aftermath with Charlie, but I am sorrier that she didn't really learn anything from it. I don't know what Severus' deal is, but she needs to stick to her current plan of separating her home and work lives. He is far too complicated for her to deal with until she has A LOT of counseling and a few thousand pounds of psychotic drugs. lol Thanks, hon! HG4eva

Wow. This was a really great chapter. I like Severus admitting that he's damaged as well. He has definitely acted like his greater experience in the bedroom and in life made him a more "together" person than Hermione. I like him admitting that he's fucked up too.
I also liked Hermione unburdening herself, she was so isolated and it seems like in reaching out she has opened up possibilities of a greater support network.
I would love for her to set up firm boundaries with Severus. He said she's not his girlfriend, then he needs to stay out of her bed, physical interactions are limited to work and she can ask around and find out how much a room to rent is and start paying him. Or move out. But stop giving him all the power.
I love this story and yes as another reviewer said, the sex is freaking HOTTTTT!!!

Oooh, I'm so excited! I haven't checked this site in a couple of months, but I did today with specific goal of seeing if this story had been updated, and lo and behold... I'm full of yay and squee right now, you are excellent, this story is wonderful, and now I'm off to read. Thank you :)

Did I detect a Rent reference?😜
Bang up job.
Just thrilling.
Write more.
Please.

That was another very very steeamy chapter. I like thd tension which this Nigrl brought in the story. I think it is time for Hermione to move out of Spinner's End. She has worked for George for auite some time and she has gained enough money. And as she can't accept Severus' poligamic nature - this is the only way to sustain her pride and dignity. And she has a right to do it as Severus is so confusing like most men - they speak one thing but fo the opposite. I thin it will do him good to live a little without Hermione. He seems to be indifferent and not affected of yhe fact that Hermione slept with another man but it maybe only what he shows in the outside. He is a strange creature. Poligamic... but that does not seem to work well with Hermione. I hope you update as often as you have done recently.

An update!
So now Hermione knows what she wants. And Severus probably as well. And it feels like he perhaps wants something with her too - he is just too hesitant to commit.
Charlie part was interesting. Thank you and please write more.

that was a very interesting chapter, explained a lot of things ///Snape has a lot of issues ..doesn't thing he deceivers love one of the big ones ..that Nigel needs to go he is in the way...Hermione well she has loads of problems... still can't get it in my head that Snape followed her ok Thanks for the update !!!!

excellent, excellent chapter! and your author's note makes a great point, i often forget the amount of trauma they've had to endure b/c of the war and all the emotional damage and ptsd that comes with it. it sheds a lot of light on their behavior towards each other.

the bit with charlie and contracting the std from him though...yikes! hermione says she really didn't learn anything from that experience in regards to severus, but she did learn a valuable lesson: don't go off having unprotected sex.
but i'm glad hermione finally got to talk with ginny, she'd been bottling up her emotions about the whole situation for far too long!

the scene where snape is leaning on hermione's shoulder, presumably crying (or trying not to?), is very telling of his emotional state. he's far more fragile than he's been letting on, and quick to deny himself love.
but everything he's been doing seems very self-destructive though. playing the mind games with hermione, the violent sex, pushing her away from him while simultaneously being intimate with her, and then there's his bringing in nigel, somebody he clearly has a past with and puts his defenses down for. i thought perhaps the thing with being with nigel & hermione was just his polygamous nature, but i'm not so sure anymore.... it seems like more self destructive behavior from him. it's almost like he's collecting a jar of hearts.

i'd like to see a conversation happen between hermione and nigel, partly so i can learn more about what his relationship to severus was before and gain a different perspective on it, and partly because it might do some good to clear the animosity that's formed between the two of them. but i won't hold out hope for that, i doubt you'd satisfy our curiosity that easily with this fic :P

but again, this was another fantastic and thought provoking update! and i'm extremely curious and excited to see what's going to happen~ c:

Girl, you got me holding my breath for the next chapter, you know that?

I'd love to write down my thoughts about your characters, but I don't speak English very well. So sorry.

Keep going. It's amazing!