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What a Beautiful Curse COMPLETE	By : Talented_Mrs_Lupin Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Snape/Hermione Views: 12102 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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‘He’s never going to marry you’
‘Yes, he will’
‘He isn’t cursed anymore, he will never want some stupid little know-it-all in his life forever’
‘Severus loves me’
‘You were a means to an end and now you’re a good screw at the end of a shitty school week’
‘Shut up!...just shut up, please’
‘You didn’t even know your own mother was adopted, didn’t know that she was depressed...if you hadn’t gone to talk to Gayle then your mother would still be alive’
‘I was just trying to help!’ Hermione dropped her face in to her hands and started to sob.
‘Just trying to help’ Her brain mocked ‘You screw up everything you touch, your father doesn’t want to talk to you, your friends are all weary about being near you...the “great” Hermione Granger...nothing more than a murderer’
‘I’m not a murderer, I’m not...I’m not...I loved my mother and I would never hurt anyone!’
‘Just kill yourself’ Her brain whispered ‘The world will be a better place without you, Severus won’t feel the need to be bound to marry someone so disgusting and your friends won’t be afraid to bring their children around you because you won’t be there to poison them with your sadness!’
Severus stood outside the manor home and looked at it, Hermione hadn’t come out to see him the minute he apparated outside the gates. It was February and while Hermione hadn’t been her normal self the last two months she had been a little better. She would always run out to greet him with a kiss and talk about her week, usually she’d make dinner for or with him while he told her about his week but this day was different. Luna hadn’t written to him though, she’d promised that if anything bad happened she’d write to him immediately. He thought that maybe they were busy cooking or talking and had lost track of the time. When he entered the house he found Luna standing at the bottom of the stairs twisting her fingers together nervously.
“Luna...” He greeted.
“Today’s not a good day” She answered his unasked questions “She’s been in her room crying, screaming and pleading with her own brain all day”
“Is she...safe?” He asked.
“Yes” Luna answered “I made sure that if she leaves the room which has been cleaned out of possible harmful things I will be alerted”
“What happened?” He asked, he knew that he was coming off angry and he was but not with her, he was angry with the situation.
“She woke up like this” Luna said “Crying and screaming, like I said. Now, Severus...I know that you don’t want to hear this but I don’t think keeping her home is a good or safe anymore”
“No” He glared at her angry for her speaking what he knew to be the truth.
“Please don’t be mad” She pleaded with him “But I can’t be here all the time and I fear that she’ll...hurt herself when I’m gone. I’ve started timing myself when I use the loo because I’m scared to leave her alone, even when she’s sleeping”
“I’m sorry, Luna” Severus heaved a great sigh “I know its not fair but the thought of putting her in to a facility...I can’t do that to her” He looked up the stairs as she screeched out ‘I hate you, I hate you!’ and he knew that she was talking to herself and it pained him.
“But what if...” She trailed off and then lowered her head as if ashamed of herself which she was, she didn’t like thinking of her best friend rotting away in a mental institution but there was nothing else she could think of to do “I’m sorry” She said, turning her tear-filled eyes away from him “I just...”
“I know” He said, he put his hand out and gently on her cheek to wipe away a tear that had escaped from under her eyelid “It’s frustrating but...”
“I know” She said watching his hand moving away from her face and still feeling the warmth on her cheek. Then she shook her head and walked towards the front door, Severus was a good man and he was a man that was in love with her best friend. He was having a hard time at the moment and she knew that he may have been reaching towards her for comfort but she’d be damned if she betrayed her best friend like that. He could find all the comfort he needed in the woman that needed him the most.
“Have a good night, Luna” He said “I’ll see you Sunday night unless something changes”
“Good night” Luna said as she closed the door and went back to her apartment.
Severus walked up the stairs and went in to the bedroom, Hermione was curled on her side clutching the blankets tightly in both fists. She was asleep but he knew that wouldn’t last too long, Hermione hardly ever slept when she was alone. That had been the cause of many a letter from Luna, she needed dreamless sleep potions but couldn’t have too many and she always needed a pepper-up potion but couldn’t over-do that either. He walked over to the desk he’d had moved to the bedroom from the study and he set down the stacks of paperwork he had. With her depression getting worse and worse, grading the homework and classwork from his week was quickly becoming a vacation. She rolled on to her back and let out a pained moan that cut him to his very heart but she didn’t awaken so he thanked his lucky stars and started to sort through his paperwork.
Severus tried to concentrate on his work but the labored breathing of his fiancée kept catching his attention and he found himself watching her closely. She remained the beauty she’d been when she’d stomped in to the manor back in August but she had lost a lot of weight recently, her hair apparently hadn’t been washed in days and she was deathly pale. Luna was a young woman with a thriving paper and a thriving job in the ministry as a Hospice Healer. She should be out in the world meeting young men that want to date her and then hoping to marry her and start a family. The young blonde shouldn’t be cooped up in an old manor home listening to her once brilliant best friend and boss slowly go insane. If he were a stronger man he’d be able to sign the papers that would have her committed to the insane asylum but his heart would never allow it. He loved her too much and there was a part of him, maybe it was his pride, that wanted to be the one who made it all better. He watched her thrash about and open her eyes, she didn’t see him as she buried her face in to the pillow and begged her bullying thoughts to leave her alone for once. He knew she was struggling too much, the she was hanging on by a thread and soon, too soon, she’d reach the same break her mother did. Severus feared that he’d come home some Friday to the news that his beloved was dead by her own hand.
“Hermione, love” Severus whispered in her ear as he knelt by the bed “Honey, I’m home. Can you talk to me?”
“No” She answered through her sobs “Just leave”
“Please” He begged her “Please, my love. Please just help me help you” She let out a frustrated scream and covered her face with the blanket and started sobbing again “I’m sorry, I am so sorry. My curse was so much softer than yours, I should be the one suffering this badly not you...never you” He dropped his head on to his arms, reaching out a hand to hold her and listened to her whispering hateful words to herself.

“Do you see what you’re doing?” Zelda asked Zoey from their spots standing invisibly in the corner of the room where the two were staying.
“It is the curse, not me” Zoey snapped
“Stop being to selfish!” Zelda hissed at her “End this curse”
“Selfish?” Zoey asked glaring at her sister “You put a curse on Kinnocks because you wanted a richer man!”
“And you cursed him because he wouldn’t give you a chance” Zelda shot back “Look at her, look at him...that is our descendant and he is a step away from doing something that will inevitably kill him”
“Fine!” Zoey snapped “I’ll remove it...soon”

A/N: Hope you like this, thank you for the reviews. The curse is stronger on Hermione because she is magical and her mother wasn’t. I have to say the fight with her mind at the start of the chapter...yeah, if you’ve never fought depression take it from someone who has for years. That fight isn’t as bad as it can be.
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