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The Reluctant Highlander	By : Tigerrr Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Snape/Hermione Views: 15152 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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The tall, dark haired wizard stalked into the Great Hall in
a swirl of black robes, surveying the sparsely filled House tables with his
signature glare.� He proceeded up the
aisle when, out of nowhere, a spell struck him suddenly and he was downed in an
ignominious heap while the students laughed. He leapt to his feet, preparing to
give his attacker a piece of his mind when he spotted a pair of green eyes
looking right at him.� Anger quickly
dissolved into intense embarrassment, and he stuttered �Um, h-hullo, Potter,�
absolutely mortified.� The owner of those
eyes was about to speak, when-

�Zackie boy!
Impressing the Gryffindor ladies with your acrobatic skills?� He wanted to go for ballet instead of
enrolling here at Hogwarts you know, Potter��

��Or were you trying out the Wronski
Feint and forgot you weren�t supposed to hit the ground?�

These remarks came from Zacharias
Snape�s two brothers, who looked at him with identical black eyes, tossed back
identical black hair, and swirled their identical black school robes as they
ribbed him about his crush on Siriana Potter.� Right in front of her while she watched
silently � he thanked Merlin that she, at least, hadn�t laughed when he had
tripped.

�I�m sure you�ve
mistaken this table for your own � why else would you be here?� came their father�s soft drawl behind them and the triplets
all whirled to look up into the unamused face of
their sire.� �To your
House table, gentlemen.� Now.�� His sons scrambled to obey with a hasty �Yes
Professor� apiece.� Their Slytherin
Housemates laughed at the normally irrepressible trio�s discombobulation,
pointing to the head tables where Hermione Snape sat shaking her head and
sighing.

Severus shifted his gaze down to where his son�s assailant
sat, attempting to swallow her giggles behind one hand.� �Miss Snape � I suggest you confine such
tactics to the Quidditch Pitch,� he reprimanded.� His youngest smiled up at him until he
continued.� �Perhaps then your House
might win a match.� Until then�.five
points from Gryffindor for tripping a fellow student, and ten more for causing
a scene.�

�Yes, dad,� Elizara Snape muttered
with ill grace, correcting herself as her father raised an admonitory eyebrow
at her.� �Yes, sir.�� She shot a glare at her brothers who were
pointing at her with exaggerated parodies of laughing fits.� As her eyes slid across the other young
wizards at the Slytherin table, she suddenly saw Valen
Malfoy wink sexily at her.� Dropping her
dark eyes immediately and flushing, she entered into an intense whispering
exchange with her best friend, Heather Longbottom.� She peered through her long eyelashes to see
Val now levitating the hashbrowns over to the
Hufflepuff table to deposit them on Ivan Finnigan�s
head.

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Hermione smiled at her husband as he guided her back to
their quarters after breakfast � they had been invited to the Burrow for the
afternoon since it was the weekend.� She
grinned as he walked by her side, muttering all the while about idiotic
children and how he should have stayed on the contraceptive potion.� �Is Zach still trying to attract Siriana Potter? He�d be better served watching where those
big feet of his were going instead of concentrating on the emulation of his
Head of House. And was that Valen Malfoy I saw making eyes at Zara?�

Severus sighed.�
�Actually, Potter isn�t exactly little � she�s in sixth year, after
all.� As for Malfoy�he�ll bear watching;
he might only be after help with homework but she seems to fancy him.� Besides, you should know by now that
Slytherins make adequate partners to Gryffindors,� he teased, placing his hand
on the small of her back as he looked down at her.� After twenty years of marriage, he still felt
that lurch of his stomach when she looked at him like she was doing now, her
love shining like a beacon from her eyes.

�I do know it,
love.� She kissed him as he shut their door.�
She still couldn�t believe they had children together � let alone
triplets, she thought as her eyes moved past the wizarding
pictures on the mantelpiece.� She had
been aware of carrying twins when at the obstetrician�s, but the youngest, Tolian, had somehow been overlooked�.they had found out later
that during the sonogram, Zacharias and Elgion were obstructing the view of their brother and by a
fluke, they hadn�t heard his heartbeat.�
She shook her head again as Severus moved away to gather their cloaks
and bring their favorite lounging pillows into the room.� She had heard plenty about identical twins,
but identical triplets?� And all three,
following in Fred and George�s footsteps, liked to wear matching clothes and style
their hair just the same.

Eighteen and in their final year at Hogwarts, they had
pulled every trick in the book upon their mother � their best to date was when Elgion took the O.W.L.�s in
Transfiguration three times; once for each of them.� They never dared pulling a switch on their
father who, strangely, could always tell them apart.� She looked at her husband now, who was
sliding off the teaching robes he always wore and unbuttoning his frock
coat.� She could see the fine lines of
age beginning to etch themselves into the alabaster skin, and spidering out around the corners of those piercing black
eyes�.yes, he was getting older. But a witch in his bed would never know it,
she thought with a smile.� He was still
as fit and muscled as he had been when she had been plopped into his bath, and
as insatiable.� Not a day dawned that
didn�t find him tumbling her energetically and complaining when they had to get
up and out of their bed.

By all accounts, their offspring would be just the
same.� All three boys could usually be
found lounging around the Fat Lady�s tapestry waiting for their latest
girlfriend to appear when they should have been studying.� When Hermione asked Severus if that was how he had spent his time, she was treated
to an acid remark that since he was busy evading hexes aimed at him by the
triumvirate of Black, Lupin and Potter, he had precious little time to devote
to romancing witches. She had seen how Tolian had
slipped back over to the Gryffindor table to steal kisses from his current
girlfriend, Jasa Thomas, and she knew quite well that
all three young men had been thoroughly relieved of their virginity courtesy of
Hogwarts witches � they�d all been caught numerous times in indelicate
situations with various girls from all four Houses (though they seemed to
prefer Gryffindors). Their youngest, a dusky raven-haired beauty, drew boys to
her like flies to honey.� Valen Malfoy had been spied inserting his hand into the
upper portion of his shirt and thumping his chest to mime the beating of his
heart for her while the triplets laughed uproariously.

Now Severus walked with her to the main gates of the school
with their four children trailing behind them squabbling over something and
generally teasing the lovesick Zacharias about Siriana.� After Disapparating to the Burrow, they were greeted
enthusiastically by Arthur and Molly who, as always, inspected the triplets and
told Hermione that her twins were bad
enough; she�d never know how the younger witch handled three.� And of course much was made of Elizara, who oft times was ignored in favor of her
rambunctious elder brothers.� It turned
out that Fred and George were in residence, and Zara
immediately turned pink and started fussing about her appearance � she had
confided to her mother, who swore not to tell Severus � that she had �a thing�
for Fred, who was still single.� From the
looks the Weasley twin was giving her, the attraction wasn�t exactly one-sided.

It was quickly proved that they years had not diminished the
twin�s mischief-making tendencies, and they lured the triplets off somewhere
while everyone else talked.� Hermione was
delighted when Harry and Ginny showed up later with Siriana
in tow.� They moved to the garden so as
not to crowd the house while Hermione went to fetch her cloak � it was a trifle
cold out.� Thus she missed the full
spectacle of the Snape triplets streaking, literally, through the garden at a
dare from the Weasley twins.� She did,
however, glance up out of the windows and saw three flashes of black hair and
pale skin racing past.� Coming out of the
house, Hermione took in the Weasley�s startled faces,
Siriana Potter�s bright red one, and Severus nearly
crying with mirth.� �What is going on out
here?� she demanded.

Severus got his amusement under control long enough to
inform her that her sons had just stampeded through their gathering, stark
naked.� �And Zacharias
had no idea that the Potters were here,� he snorted, �Wizarding
Truth-or-Dare, I expect.�� He dissolved
into laughter once more and Hermione looked over at Siriana
who was still beet red, but looking quite impressed despite herself.� Harry and Ginny goggled at the sight of their
former Potions professor laughing and Elizara tapped
her arm to ask to be Obliviated, please.� Hermione frowned when her husband suggested
to their daughter that she might want to hang onto the memory � blackmail via Pensieve was a powerful thing, after all.

More people arrived including, to Severus� displeasure,
Remus and Nymphadora Lupin and their two daughters -
who were the triplets best friends as well as their
liaisons to the female community at Hogwarts.�
They screamed with laughter at hearing of their friends
latest escapade and went to go make fun of the trio, who were trying to
convince Zacharias that it wasn�t the end of the
world and he had a better chance at Potter this way.� They stayed until dark, then Apparated back
to Hogwarts where the triplets were dispatched to their Common Room with an
injunction by their father to not get into any more trouble, and Elizara left to her House after whispering to Hermione that
Fred had asked her on a date.� That left
the two of them alone at last, and Severus towed her along to their quarters to
toss her onto the floor pillows that he had arranged prior to their departure.

They snuggled up in front of the fire, kissing and stroking
each other.� �I love you,� Severus
murmured into her hair as he worked on the buttons of her blouse.

�You love my boobs; that�s not
quite the same thing,� she teased as he slid a hand inside her bra to cup a
breast reverently.

�Well, they are
quite nice�that�s beyond dispute,� he remarked, kissing his way down her neck
to scatter tiny love-bites down the curve of her breasts and lick her peaked
nipples.� She sighed and arched her back
in invitation for him to continue.� Much
later they lay curled together in their bed, and after surveying her sleepy
Slytherin, Hermione thought the time was ripe to slip something past him.

�Sev.�

�Mmm?�

�Isn�t it strange now to think that once, all we were to
each other was student and teacher?�

�Mmm.�

�Severus.� You love
me, correct?�

�Mmm-hm.�

�You�d actually do just about anything for me, wouldn�t you,
sweetheart?�

�Mmm-hm.�

�Then you�d just love
wearing that kilt again, wouldn�t you, my darling?�

�Mmm-� Severus gave a great start,
eyes opening fully.� �No!�

�Damn it!�
Hermione swore, slapping at the blankets. Somehow he always managed to evade
the request after the time, on their tenth wedding anniversary, that she had tricked
him into taking an Unbreakable Vow to wear the kilt for an entire week
underneath his teaching robes.� Now he was
in a constant state of High Alert, even ten years later.� He sighed at his near-miss and flopped back
down into the pillows in an excessive display of relief.

�What, no �Curses! Foiled Again!� this
time?�

She lay back down and let him pull
her against his chest, lacing her fingers through his as they tried to settle
back down to sleep once more.�
�Severus�did you know that Elizara is
interested in Fred Weasley?�

Severus sighed, kissing her forehead.� �No, but it shouldn�t surprise me, given how
much she takes after you.� I�ll have a
talk with her about the dangers of same-House dating.�� Hermione giggled sleepily and pressed closer.

Gryffindor and Slytherin fell asleep in each others arms in
perfect accord and dreaming, as they often did, of a castle in the highlands of
Scotland
where a young woman loved a handsome laird who was totally devoted to her�.

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A/N: I hope you've enjoyed this story as much as I've enjoyed writing it...it was finished many moons ago and posted on www.thepotionsmaster.net/whispers as well as www.restrictedsection.org but I wanted to wait until AFF got settled before I tried to finish the story in this archive.

You might be interested (or not) to know that I have written the tale of the good Potions Master's seduction at the hands of his Transfiguration teacher, way back when ;) It's called "An Evening with Ogden's Finest" and can be found in the M/F section, and in my profile. For your digestive comfort, it has been rated "R" for non-appearing lemons.

�And they lived happily ever after.
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