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Nothing But a Kiss COMPLETE	By : Snapes_Slave Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Snape/Hermione Views: 12648 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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DISCLAIMER: The claim to fame on Harry and all his pals, goes solely to Mme Rowling, I simply like to play dolls with them sometimes...

The start of term came, and with the arrival of students upon the Hogwarts Express, came the welcoming feast and the first time Hermione would be leaving her daughter with a stranger. In the states, she had had a flatmate that she knew and (mostly) trusted already. But, of course, Severus had known her trepidation in trusting someone she didn't know, and had introduced her to a house elf by the name of Mipsy.
"Now, keep an opened mind. I've known Mipsy for years. I trust her implicitly, and she has been my personal Elf at Hogwarts for about 9 years, now. She has seen me at my worst, has helped to nurse me back to health after hours of torture as well as when I was searching for you. I think you are aware that I am not a particularly nice man, but under those circumstances, I was... shall we just say, quite dreadful. Mipsy has a God-like level of patience and determination. She is also very caring and nurturing. You could not find a better Elf to watch your daughter."
"I'm sure she is wonderful, Severus, I'm just not sure I'm ready to leave her here yet. Something has just been nawing at me lately, and I don't feel good about leaving my child." Hermione tried to explain.
"I know, Love. But you will have classes to teach, and with your particular subject, I do not think it wise to just strap her to your chest and teach with her on your person all day." His raised eyebrow, daring her to rebut him.
"You're right, I know. It's just hard." She pouted.
"We'll just try her out for the feast tonight, and if she does well, she can keep doing it, alright? If everything goes awfully, we can keep looking. Agreed?" He asked, pulling her into his embrace and resting his chin on her head while his hand rubbed soothing circles into her lower back.
"Fine. Agreed." She said on an exhale.
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The feast had gone as usual. Students were sorted, announcements were made, and new staff introduced. Hermione sat at the head table sandwiched between Severus on her left and Draco to her right, as the headmistress sat to the other side of her fiance. His bored expression lasted most of the way through the meal, breaking momentarily as his house gained new members, where he would clap respectfully and give a slight incline of his head. Hermione, in her own boredom, had made it her mission to get some sort of reaction from the man who sat looking just a bit too much like the vampire he was rumored to be with his pale skin and harsh, dark features.
Placing a small hand on his right leg, just above his knee, she squeezed lightly.
Nothing.
I'll have to be bolder she thought. She raised her hand and tightened her grip.
Nothing.
Gods, is this man a statue? Has he been hit with a spell to stay that motionless? She wondered. She pushed her hand just a touch higher, landing about 3 inches just south of one of her favorite targets and squeezed again, this time offering up a slight scratch, as she ran her blunt fingernails along the inner seam of his trousers. He gave a gasping intake of breath and turned his head sharply to glare at her from the corner of his eye and she felt him start to harden.
Mission accomplished, she thought.
The noticeable spark in his dark swirling pools warning her, unmistakeably, of the punishment to come later. Her knickers became decidedly sodden at the look. He grasped her hand on his thigh gently and brought it up from under the table. Before placing it on the tabletop, next to her plate, he placed a sweet, gentle kiss to her ring finger. She smiled coquettishly at her lap, a blush rising in her cheeks.
Ever the observant one, Draco noticed the play his friend was making on his Godfather under the table. He also noticed the very public, if small, display of his kissing her hand. It was a shock, to say the least, to see this excessively private man kissing a woman in such a public setting, but what shocked him the most, was the massive diamond he saw on her finger when it was placed carefully on the table. Draco almost began choking on his wine when he gasped. He coughed roughly, Hermione patting his back.
"Are you alright, Drake?" She asked, genuinely concerned and completely lost as to what had caused his reaction.
"What is that?!" He asked in a loud stage whisper, prompting most of the head table, as well as some of the closer students, to look at her hand, where he pointed. Hermione's blush turned crimson, as she covered her hand and turned her shy smile to Severus. With his small nod and nearly hidden smirk, she looked back at Draco and nodded with a smile splitting her face nearly in two.
"This is fantastic! Brilliant show, old man!" Draco loudly exclaimed, gathering the witch into a tight hug and offering his uncle a hearty hand shake and slapping him on the back. "Never thought it would happen. This is one good man you have, 'Mione. And, Severus! Very well done."
"Pardon, Draco, but could you please be just a bit louder? I'm not sure the back of the house tables have picked up on what you've said yet." Severus fairly sneered at his Godson. Ever the Slytherin, and realizing the unlikelihood of reciprocation in the current setting, Draco stood with a sly smile on his face and lifted his wine goblet. The room hushed and all eyes turned to him.
"Oh Gods, Draco please don't" Hermione whispered harshly, covering her red face with her hands. Severus' scowl deepened.
"Your attention, please. I would like to offer my congratulations to your new Charms professor and the Slytherin head of house and Potions Master on their recent engagement. Shall we all say congratulations?" He said loudly, thus insuring that everyone present in the hall heard. The hall was silent... before erupting into nearly thunderous applause. Severus' face immediately lifted, and a shocked but pleased expression was on his face, as he held his fiance's hand comfortingly. Wolf whistles could be heard from down the head table, and with a glance to confirm, Severus saw that not only was Minerva responsible for one of them, but so were Filch, Madam Hooch and Hagrid, who was also dabbing at his eyes with a napkin.
"Come on, man! Give us a kiss!" He heard someone yell from the student tables. He could have sworn it came from one of his house, before he heard a responding yell, from the direction of the Gryffindor table, "Naw, he doesn't have it in him!"
Never one to be challenged by a Gryffindor, he rose to his feet, tugging Hermione with him and planted a steamy, passionate kiss to her lips in the front of the Great Hall, bending her slightly over his arm, which was anchoring her at the small of her back. Her hands had begun the kiss settled on his forearms, then rose to wrap around his neck, finishing in his hair by the time they pulled part for air. They breathed harshly, trying to calm their unexpected ardor, as the whistles went on. Snape gave Hermione a look of mischief that she knew all too well, before turning and addressing the tables before him.
"And don't expect it to change how I teach! 10 points from Slytherin and Gryffindor for cheek and instigating!"

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The first 3 months of classes had flown by. Mipsy had tuned out to be everything Severus had said and more. Lorelei, although curious of the Elf's appearance, took to her immediately. Rarely, would Mipsy need to bring the child to see her mother during a class, but it had happened once or twice, much to the delight of her 4th year Hufflepuff's and Ravenclaw's. What had been the final straw in shocking the entire student populace, were the several occasions when the child would wake from her nap begging for "Daddy!" Or "Sev-us!" with monstrous tears on her face. On these days, Mipsy would try every trick she could think of, to no avail, and POP! into his classroom to ask permission first.
"Bring her here, Mipsy." He would say, gently. The Elf knew how he was, and to see him in a classroom, versus with his 'child', one would think they were seeing two completely opposite people. He would gather the wailing child in his arms, clinging to her just as tightly as she did to him, bouncing her slightly up and down and murmuring in a low voice to sooth her.
"Did you have a bad dream, little one?" She would nod, her lip quivering as she sniffled and gripped his robes tightly. "It's alright, Love. Daddy's here. I promise, everything is ok, Love. No bad men. No one will take you away, alright, sweet? I've got you." He would rock her, up and down and side to side, stroking her hair gently and whispering to her as she calmed. He would pull her back from his shoulder and look her square in the face.
"That's it, Love. We're alright now, right, little one?" She would nod. "Because we're tough, aren't we?" Another nod and he would smile at the very serious look on the tiny innocent face, before mimicking her expression. "Ok, are you ready to go with Mipsy, Love? I promise I'll be home soon, alright?"
"'Tay, Daddy. I love you." She would say in her small voice before placing a wet kiss to his cheek.
"And I love you, Little one. I'll see you soon." He would kiss her cheek in return.
As she left with her nanny-elf, and the snickers set in, Severus would delight in stripping house points from his young charges. After the first couple times, the classes decided to hold in any outward reactions to his seemingly out of character behavior. The detentions with Filch were murder.
The first few times she had had a bad dream, neither Snape nor Hermione worried. It was normal and would happen, especially while she was adjusting to such big changes. But soon, the dreams got more worrisome, as the usually deep sleeper would wake in the night frequently and would have to be calmed after a nap at least twice a week.
Severus thanked the Gods for being a master at Legilimency. He had no idea how people could raise children without it! He was able to easily see the dreams from her perspective, and he had to agree, they were terrifying. A faceless man in a long dark robe. Sometimes in her room as she slept or played, sometimes watching her mother, other times trying to hurt her mother or Severus. He would always tell Hermione after dinner, as they snuggled up on the couch in front of the fireplace, as they were tonight.
"She had another dream today." He said, voice low and heavily laden with concern.
"Oh no. What this time?" She asked.
"Today he watched as she slept, then when she awoke in her dream, and called for you, he started to hurt you. When you fell to the floor, he took her." He said, trying to keep his voice steady and quiet so he wouldn't wake the nearly two-year-old sleeping in the next room.
"Gods, what should we do, Severus? I'm out of my depth here. I don't think this is just a coincidence. Maybe I'm just paranoid from my years in the states and from her dreams, but I swear, I've felt someone watching me. Not all the time, but sometimes between classes, or when I'm alone. I don't understand this at all." She dropped her head in her hands and cried. "I have to protect her, Severus. But I can't if I don't know what I'm up against. And I've been so damned tired lately, I didn't think the adjustment to teaching would be this hard. I don't know what I can do for her."
"I don't really know what to do here either. And I don't think you're being paranoid, Hermione. I've felt it, too. I'll tell you what, tomorrow is Saturday. While the students are out in Hogsmeade, why don't we all go to see Minerva and Albus and see what they think about all this." He said as he stroked the back of her hand and pulled her closer in his embrace.
"I think that's a good plan. They should know. And I'm sure they'll have some ideas. We need to see if we can figure out anyone with motive. I just can't think who it could possibly be." She yawned into his chest.
"Don't think on it anymore tonight. Let's get you into bed, Love. We shall call on the headmistress tomorrow and get a plan of attack together. Perhaps you should go see Madam Pomphrey as well. You shouldn't be this exhausted. I know you get plenty of sleep and the workload should be nothing compared to what you're used to. You have me worried." He said with a furrowed brow as he rose from the couch with her in his arms.
"I'm sure I'm fine, Severus. I just need to get some more rest. These kids are running me ragged, and Lorelei's sleep habits of late aren't helping." she said lazily.
He carried her into the bedroom and laid her down, using his wand to change her into her nightdress of peach silk that hugged her curves and complemented her skin tone perfectly. He mentally told his rising ardor to relax. This nightdress always got his engine running, but there was no place for it to go this evening. His witch needed rest. Perhaps that was part of the problem, he couldn't seem to keep his hands off of her. He needed to let her recover a bit more between their bouts of lovemaking.
"If you're sure." He said, skeptically.
"Mmmm, you're so good to me, Severus. Thank you, Love." She said, curling into the mattress and nestling into his pillow, inhaling his scent. He quickly changed into his usual pair of black silk pajama bottoms and climbed in beside her, pulling her close.
"Get some rest, my sweet. The world can wait until tomorrow." He said, placing a kiss to her head as they snuggled in and quickly fell asleep, listening to each others breathing and heartbeats.
The baby, thankfully, slept through the night.

A/N: A little short, I know. I'm sorry guys. It just seemed like a good spot to stop for now. Should be posting another chapter tomorrow and maaaaaybe the day after. I know it's been a little longer than my usual for an update, but RL gets in the way, as much as I hate it. So does anyone have it figured out yet? There are a few BIG plot points just waiting to be revealed... perhaps one in the next chapter or two. I'm thinking this will have about 6 more chapters. Possibly a few more than that as the characters decide how the story moves. This will definitely have an epilogue (that's just how I roll. I HAVE to know how they end up down the road, you know?) and I think I know what I want to see there. Does anyone have something they want to see? Please please please review... It is seriously the best pick-me-up ever!
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