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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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“I revoke the curse!” Zoey screeched in panic “I revoke the curse, I revoke it...damn it, I revoke the bloody curse!”
“It’s not working” Amelia said desperately “It’s not working, why isn’t it working?!”
“She has to be forgiven by a Prince family member” Marek informed them “But then again...maybe not”
“Zelda” Zoey whispered to her sister who had been quiet the whole time, her eyes locked on the young woman who was floating in the air “Why doesn’t it work?”
“Because...” Zelda whispered more to herself than to the others “It’s not a Prince that has to forgive...we have to be forgiven” She turned her tear-filled eyes to her sister and then looked at the ground shaking her head as it all became so clear for once. She had been so blind, so stupid and so greedy and the woman getting ready to plunge to her death was going to be paying for her stupidity. She looked over at Marek, where he stood stone-faced, watching his only heir getting ready to hang herself.
“Marek” Zelda’s voice came out almost gasping, the realization of how horrible she’d been to him was almost a physical pain “I’m sorry” He looked at her, his brown eyes widened in surprise as he took in the hurt and tears in her eyes and she sobbed “I was...stupid and greedy, I should have followed through with my promise to you. Your goodness, the goodness that runs through Hermione’s veins, it scared me. I’ll admit it now, you were as good as I was bad, as I was rotten and my fear of your curse bled in to Zoey’s curse...that’s why her revoking the curse didn’t work...it all comes back to me” She lowered her gaze “I’m sorry” Amelia gasped when Hermione pointed her wand at the noose and took a deep breath, they heard her speak the finite spell and watched her start to fall towards the floor with a momentum that would surely break her neck.
“I forgive you” Marek said to Zelda, his eyes locked on hers “I forgive your lying, treachery, hatefulness and the heartbreak you caused me” They all looked over when the noose straightened out, stretching tight and then broke immediately dropping the woman on to the hard floor.
~~~//~~~
Hermione laid on the floor where she landed breathing in the dust on the floor. Her knee was throbbing where it had hit and both her feet felt broken, she let out a loud sob that broke off in to a high-pitched scream before taking a deep breath and screaming again, louder this time. She fell on to her side and looked out the door watching as a shadow formed on the wall and slowly got bigger and bigger before she could make-out Severus walking quickly towards the open door. His eyes scanned the scene before, she saw him look at the rope swinging above her, the noose still hanging around her neck and her lying in fetal position on the floor. He walked towards her slowly, his eyes watching her the whole time waiting for her to maybe lift off the ground and rotate mid-air. Severus knelt down in front of her and shook his head, she saw tears fill his eyes and he dragged one finger down her cheek.
“I think you need help” Severus whispered to her “I thought I could do this, I thought I could help you but I’m not so confident anymore”
“It stopped” Hermione told him “The voice in my head, she’s stopped. She was always telling me to do something horrible and that’s why I was trying to silence her but when the rope broke she disappeared completely from my mind”
“A therapist” Severus spoke as if she hadn’t spoken “Maybe some time in the hospital”
“No!” She snapped “You can’t do that to me. You can’t please”
“Hermione” He pulled her in to sitting position and stared in to her eyes “You just tried to hang yourself!”
“The curse” She started.
“I know” He said “And until we lift it you need to be watched closely”
“I think it is lifted” She said desperately “Please”
“Come on” He lifted her in to his arms “I think I’ll leave your pain for the night, it appears that you wanted it that way”
“Please” Hermione gasped as he lifted her in to his arms and made his way back to the bedroom. He laid her down on the bed and sat with her as she slowly fell asleep but he watched her and considered his options. She wasn’t his wife so he technically couldn’t commit her to the hospital, he couldn’t force her in to therapy and in his own heart he couldn’t bear to leave her alone.
Luna knocked on the door a few hours later, Severus had a charm on the front door that let him know when someone was there. He stood up silently and walked down the stairs, he didn’t say anything just nodded towards the kitchen knowing that she’d follow him. Once in there he went over the nights activities not sparing her any of the details and then waiting for some of her amazing advice that she always seemed to have. He wasn’t ready for her to sit back in her chair and look at him, like she was waiting for him to continue. He didn’t understand how it worked, when he didn’t want her to speak she wouldn’t shut her mouth but when he needed her to talk she couldn’t remember how to form words. He locked eyes with her.
*He wants me to give him permission to hospitalize her*
*His eyes are dark blue*
*Why the hell did I notice that?!*
*He’s waiting...what do I say?*
*It’s been too long. He knows that I’m stalling or that I’m lost. But what do I say to him?*
*On one hand if she isn’t hospitalized she could do some real damage to herself. On another if it was the curse and it was lifted somehow last night then she was perfectly fine now*
*He’ll need someone to take care of him if she’s hospitalized...Why would I even think that?!*
Severus pulled back from her mind and frowned at her. Luna looked a little guilty and he wondered if maybe she knew that he’d just been listening in on her private thoughts. At this moment he wished that Hermione was around and he could have her handle the obvious attraction issues the insane girl was having about him.
“I don’t know what you want me to say, Severus” Luna said “I am not her parent, I am not her keeper and I can’t make decisions concerning her”
“I won’t allow you to put me in the hospital” Hermione said from the doorway where she was standing watching the two “I am not going. I had a problem, that’s true but the curse has been broken and I feel different, I feel happier and lighter and in love” She walked over and put her hand against Severus’s cheek “I want to be here for you, to love you and take care of you the way you took care of me when I was...indisposed, if we’re to be married isn’t that what its all about?”
“Hermione” Severus said as he took her hand between his and looked at her “I’m worried that its not done, I can’t come home and find you dead. I won’t be able to get over it, I already lived through the loss of one woman I loved but I can’t again...”
“I know” She said “You just have to trust me, please”
“Fine” He said with a sigh and saw Luna give him a strange look before forcing a smile on her face “Luna, would you mind spending the next week with Hermione?”
“Not a problem” Luna said “But I really do need to get back to work”
“I’ve been paying you” Severus pointed out.
“Yes” Luna smiled “However, I would like to have some new clients and I really need to spend a few days in the Quibblers office, I fear my reporters are starting to think that they are running the show and that’s just not true”
“It’s fine” Hermione said, she gave Luna a searching look. While Luna had a way of surprising Hermione the new attitude she was seeing was a little disturbing in a way she couldn’t really explain “You do what you need to do and I’ll call Neville over to hang out with me for the week”
“Alright” Luna said “If you don’t mind I need to get home”
“Have a good week and good luck with the Quibbler” Hermione said “And if there’s anything that you need to talk about...”
“There isn’t” Luna said quickly and a little coldly.
“I’m going to Floo Neville, like I said” Hermione told Severus as she stood up “And I’m going to Floo Ginny, somethings off about Luna”
“Hold on” Severus called out as she walked off. He told her about the conversation she’d had in her head when he’d peeked in. Hermione frowned and sat back down, she would talk to Ginny about this but if she wasn’t mistaken it almost felt like Luna was a little upset that Hermione had survived. And what the hell was she doing showing up at Severus’s house in the morning?!
“Did you ask her to come over this morning?” Hermione asked him accusingly.
“No” He answered “She just came over. She does it nearly every morning, she’s been here every morning for the last couple of months”
“Oh” Hermione said “Whatever, I’m going to make my Floo calls”
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Hermione walked in to her private quarters and sat on her bed for a few minutes. She thought about Luna, she saw what was going on Luna had grown feelings for Severus and while the ‘good friend’ in her told her to stay away and love her friend another part of her had hoped that Hermione would move out of the way so she could have a shot at him. It was something that commonly happened, in the magical hospice hospital in America there had been a Healer that had actually diluted herself in to thinking that she was in a secret relationship with the husband of a witch who’d been very sick. When the witch had passed the healer tried to convince the man that she ‘knew’ how he felt about her and that she felt the same way, it had gotten so bad she ended up in a magical mental hospital.
“Ginny” Hermione called through to the burrow and waited “Can you come through?”
“Sure” She answered “Wait a second” Hermione waited for a moment and then the tall red-haired woman walked through wearing a party dress that was so sure that Hermione was pretty sure that she saw Ginny’s vagina. The heels were disgustingly high and the Hermione kind of thought she looked like a Christmas ornament as the dress was a sparkly silver color.
“Listen to this story and don’t interrupt, okay?” Hermione said and Ginny nodded with a small laugh and let her go on with it. As the story progressed, though, keeping silent was becoming harder and harder and more than once she wanted to cry “Am I right about what’s going on with Luna?”
“Yes” Ginny said without hesitation “Luna’s told me about how different he is, how sweet he can be and how she could only hope to find a man like that”
“Oh” Hermione had hoped that Ginny would laugh and tell her that she was being mental, the truthfulness she was telling her now hurt her feelings and made her angry all at once.
“Hermione” Ginny said “Don’t get me wrong. She loves you and I know that she is happy that you’re alive but I think that Snape showed her kindness and he was dependent on her in a way that a husband or boyfriend is dependent of his wife or girlfriend” She shrugged “I think that Luna never realized how great a relationship could be until now and she’d hoped that, if something happened to you she could wiggle her way in to his heart”
“That’s sick” Hermione said with a sigh “And sad, so what do I do?”
“I think you need to keep her away from here for a while” Ginny answered “Maybe try to hook her up with someone”
“Like who?” Hermione asked with a sigh.

A/N: Who should Luna be with?! Tell me what you think...
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