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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“Spring’s right around the corner” Neville said, as he looked out one of the windows in the day room in the back of manor.
“We still have two weeks before March even gets here” Hermione said from her place in the seat watching him while writing up a note to Percy “Then two weeks of winter well in to March before the sun warms up enough to melt the snow, you can’t see Spring yet”
“Sure you can” Neville said “Come here, I’ll show you” Hermione looked at him for a moment and wondered where Severus was, he was leaving for the school in less than ten minutes and he’d yet to come in to say goodbye to her. A little reluctantly she stood up and made her way to Neville’s side, amused by her ability to be surprised by his impressive height of 6’3, though it was hardly a surprise anymore.
“Where is it?” She asked with a small smirk as she looked out the window “Where do you see Spring in this sunny but freezing and rather dreary winter day?”
“Right there” He answered pointing a long finger towards the woods where she could see a little woodland creature was scurrying about looking for food “And there” He pointed in a different direction where she could see a bunny hopping around then at the trees where she could just make out little buds forming “They may not make it through another freeze but they are trying to live against all the odds that are stacked up against them”
“Just like me” Hermione whispered, tears filled her eyes and she smiled at Neville “When I had that voice in my head pointing out things I didn’t want to see and telling me things, whether they be truth or not, that I didn’t want to know I kept thinking about how easy it would be to shut her up...to drown her out. But I kept pushing forward, day after agonizing day I kept putting one foot in front of the other even if it felt like I was dragging the whole world behind me”
“Severus told me what happened” Neville told her “About why you were out of work for so long and why I am here along with the signs to look for in case of a relapse”
“I know” Hermione said “But the curse is broken and there won’t be any relapse”
“Why didn’t you fight through that voice this last time, Hermione?” He asked her “Why did you give in and try to hang yourself?”
“You don’t understand how it felt” She explained “It always felt like I had the weight of the world on a chain that was cuffed around my throat. Every time I moved I was forced to drag it with me, some days it was so simple and easy to pull along but some days...oh Neville, some days I could scarcely breathe much less move through my days” She turned away from him, afraid to see his disgust or worse his pity “In those wee hours of the morning when I tried to hang myself I just couldn’t take the voice anymore, because at the time she was right I was as much a weight around Severus’s neck as my depression was on mine and I couldn’t live like that much less expect him to. I felt, at the time and it was thanks to the depression, that I was making the best decision for the both of us”
“You couldn’t have known what was right for him” Neville said.
“I know that, now” Hermione said “But then...I just didn’t want to hurt him anymore and the voice in my head kept pointing it out to me that I was”
“You don’t have to defend yourself against me” Neville said, he put his arm around her shoulders and she dropped her head against him with a sigh before she heard Severus clear his throat.
“Okay, Longbottom” Severus said, sizing the man before him up a little “I gave you the instructions, I also locked the potions stores, lab and everything else just in case” He frowned apologetically at Hermione “Just relax this week. Take care of her and make sure that she is happy and safe”
“And if I need a potion?” Hermione asked “Should I trust Neville to make it?” Neville looked almost as horrified at the idea as Severus did.
“Of course not” Severus snapped “And don’t you dare use his inabilities to make the simplest potions a way to kill yourself...that’s just cruel”
“Severus!” Hermione gasped.
“Come here” He demanded and she walked over giving him the best ‘angry’ look she could muster which wasn’t as impressive as she’d hoped “I love you” He was speaking low enough that Neville couldn’t hear them “I am concerned...am I going to come home on Friday and have to beat the shit out of that little...”He clenched his teeth.
“Oh my gods” Hermione said with a big grin “You’re jealous...aren’t you?!”
“I am not” He stated firmly.
“Yes, you are” She laughed wickedly “You’re jealous...oh this is just too good!”
“How am I supposed to feel?” He asked her with a glare “You just tried to...kill yourself a few days ago which means that you’re feeling sensitive and now there’s going to be a man in the house that isn’t me...what if he...”
“He won’t try to take advantage of me” Hermione soothed.
“But what if you want to...”He tried again.
“I am not going to want to sleep with Neville” Hermione assured him.
“Oh really?” Severus said, skeptically.
“Yes, really” Hermione said “Plus, we just had sex five minutes before you came in...duh” She grinned at him but he looked unimpressed but also not angry just still a bit jealous.
“Not amusing, Hermione” He said gravelly.
“Severus” She put her hands on either side of his face and kissed him “I love you and only you. I revoked a bloody curse so I could be with you, I have fought my inner demons and nearly lost just to be with you...nothing’s going to change that” She kissed him again “In June I will become Mrs. Severus Snape and we will have children and I will never regret any of my feelings or anything else for that matter because I will have you and that’s enough for me”
“I love you too” He said, she could hear that he was speaking around emotions that were clogging his throat up “And if he touches you at all in a sexual way I am going to break all of his fingers slowly” Hermione shook her head.
“And if any of those seventh year Slytherin sluts with the perky little breasts and firm asses even fantasize about you and I hear about it I will make them wish for death and never grant it” Hermione told him without breaking eye contact, she kissed his chin gently and then pulled back and looked at him “Have a good week”
~~~//~~~
Neville sat down near Hermione on Wednesday and watched as she was writing up reports that Percy had sent her. He knew that she missed working and in his mind that told him that she may not be fully healed but she was definitely on the way there. He had told her about a couple of his cases and the families that he had helped, then he told her about his apprenticeship and classes and how he wasn’t sure if he wanted to work at the school yet. That was when she explained to him that she was happy with all that she and the team had done but she wasn’t sure if she wanted to work at the Ministry after she got married. She told him that if she chose to leave she’d want him to take over as the boss. He wasn’t sure what to say to that so he stayed silent and figured that when the time came that she was going to leave and hand the torch over he would have a more solid idea of where to go in his future.
“What do you suppose your children are going to look like?” He asked suddenly and Hermione glared at him “I’m not being a jerk, I just like to wonder what peoples children would look like” When she continued to look at him he shrugged “I imagine that Draco and Harry’s child would have sleek black hair, a pale pointed face that would grow to have a lot of the Malfoy family traits, I think he would have Harry’s slightly feminine frame and sweet smile and I like to think that he would have a perfect mixture of Draco’s grey-blue eyes and Harry’s emerald greens ones making a light teal color”
“I think that would be a very handsome child” Hermione said “And I’ve never cared what our child or children would look like, I will raise them to be kind, caring and intelligent. Looks will not matter to them as it’s not mattered to me, but Severus’s and my child or children will always be beautiful to me no matter what”
“Because it’s what’s on the inside that matters to you” Neville finished “Which is why you and Ronald never fully patched up your friendship after he abandoned you and Harry in the woods during the war...it was because...”
“On the inside of Ronald Weasley” Hermione took over “I fear there is nothing more than a selfish, greedy and jealous coward”
“Does the house seem brighter?” Neville asked looking around the room that was pleasantly bright “It’s brightened up since you started talking about your future children being beautiful”
“This house has a few unknown curses on it” Hermione said looking around the now pleasantly bright and homey feeling house “I think we’ve unknowingly lifted one”
“Well” Neville smiled at her “That’s good”
“Better than the dark and foreboding feeling it had before” Hermione said “Think about how surprised Severus will be when he comes back to a welcoming home instead of the cold and unlovable manor he left on Sunday night”
“He will be happy” Neville agreed “Hermione, what do you want to do or be once you get married?” He lifted one shoulder “You said that you were thinking about leaving the Ministry so what is it that you want to do?”
“I want to be a good wife” Hermione answered and then snorted “I used to roll my eyes when Molly would go all ‘housewife’ on me and talk about cleaning the house and cooking but I think I’m starting to understand it. I want to know that I am keeping a house that he’d be proud to be in, I want to strive to be the good wife that would want to be a good husband to” She smiled “I have had the luxury of seeing so many different marriages in this line of work. The ones that have very little love, ones that have too much love, ones that were arranged but worked out and the ones that don’t work out at all. I know that to be treated as the wife I want to be treated as I have to treat him the way he should be treated”
“What about the fact that he’s working at the school?” He asked.
“That is an obstacle” Hermione agreed “But it’s one that we’ll work on when the time comes”
“Well I wish you luck” Neville said with a laugh “I feel that you’re going to need it”
A/N: Here you go, a second chapter. Tell me what you think. PLEASE REVIEW!!!!
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