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The New Life	By : lilith395 Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Snape/Hermione Views: 14590 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 2
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A/N: Thank you so much for the reviews, keep them coming, they make me smile^^ Ten points to whatever house you're in if you can find the canon 'mistake' in this chapter... it's something I had to do, even if it's obviously wrong. Not truly important to the story but it makes the writing so much easier.... Let's see if any of you can spot it :P

Malaysia

For the umpteenth time this trip I shove one of the anti-nausea potions her way. Really, if this keeps up I’m going to have to make a stop home at the end of the week. And that really doesn’t fit into our schedule.

It is a shame though, had she not gotten queasy every other moment, the girl might have been able to appreciate the view. For it is breathtaking. Behind me I can hear her breathing calm down and expect she is starting to take in her surroundings. For a few moments I stand there, debating whether or not I dare. I decide I don’t.

“Come” and I start walking down the slope. I hear her scrambling after me.

“Severus?” Oh, what now? “Hmm?”

“Where are we?”

I stop walking and turn to face her. The look on her face seems sincere, though I am sure she just spent the entire night going over our itinerary. I wonder…

“Professor Granger, may I ask you a question?” I ask and she nods, dividing her time between looking at me and staring around us, wide-eyed. “Have you ever been out of the country?”

“Erm..” She seems to study one of the nearby bushes, but I have seen that look on her face enough times to know she was thinking. It looks as if she’s trying to remember something she read back in first year. For a moment, only a moment, it makes me want to smile. And then it passes. I’m already out on a limb here, stretching the limits of my good mood to the point just shy of breaking. I’m not going to push myself over the edge by smiling and making my jaw hurt. I notice her shaking her head.

“We went to France one summer when I was five, why?” She looks back up at me, those big honey eyes staring into my brown ones.

No. Yes. No. Maybe. No. Oh Hell. I hold out my hand to her. If this is the first time she’s ever been out of Europe, and for two whole weeks, she sure as hell is going to appreciate the sights while we’re there. She eyes my hand suspiciously. I sigh, grasp hers and pull her back up the slope. At least we hadn’t gone down that far yet.

Once we get back up the mountain I roughly pull her to my side and turn her around with my hands on her shoulders.

“Look” I bite out.

I feel a smirk appearing on my lips at her gasp. Even if this means a half hour delay, what with the traipsing up and down the blasted mountain, seeing the valley in all its glory is worth it. I am not entirely sure why it is so important to me that she sees it, but it is. It would do me no good to dwell on it.

The trees and shrubs stretch as far as the eye can see and far off in the distance I am able to make out a small village. I have been here quite a few times over the last 20 years and still this place takes my breath away. It feels a little odd for me to share it with someone, but somehow, I’m glad it’s Granger. There is a part of me which tells me it’s because I know she, like no other, can not only see the beauty and appreciate the fine wilderness, but also see it for what it is. A world of possibilities, littered with the best of potions ingredients. It might be a little shortsighted to see such beauty and think only of how much you can boil up in a cauldron, but it’s there, and it’s who I am, and I believe it’s who she is as well.

“It’s gorgeous” she breathes, barely audible. She glances over her shoulder, which, I just realize, I’m still holding, and smiles at me. “Is it very wrong to point out how much of it we can use at work?”

The smile I feel threatening to break through I can suppress, but the small chuckle I cannot. I remove one of my hands from her shoulders, idly wondering why in Merlin’s name I cannot seem to remove the other, and reach into one of the pockets of my specially made gathering cloak to pull out one of the ingredient pouches I took with me. I hold it out for her.

“I think we can make some time to gather some of it. But now, we ought to make haste, our prey isn’t going to wait for us all day to cut it up, is it?” Pushing her gently in the direction of the path, her eyes still scanning everything she can see between us and the horizon, I get us back to our mission for the day.

Now, where is that disfigured donkey?

A/N: thank you for reading. The 'disfigured donkey' Severus mentions is an Abath. According to Wikipedia, the Abath is a Unicorn-like creature native to the Malay Peninsula, and though I have one particular mountain in mind, don't ask me what name it goes by, I have no clue whatsoever, and am too lazy at 7 in the morning to go look it up, you could imagine them to be practically anywhere in the Malaysian wilderness. It all looks pretty much the same from what I've seen. Again, not truly important, but I know I always like to know these sort of things so I thought I'd share it with you... I'm rambling now, so I'll just go and cut myself off for a while... *sleep mode*
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