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Where Things Lead This Time	By : ronsmistress Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Snape/Hermione Views: 14642 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Severus meanwhile was trying to talk to a heavily drunk Lucius. “I don’t know what happened,” he took a drink, “she was happy at dinner,” he took a drink and refilled the glass, “we flirted during desert, she held my hand,” he took a drink, “we danced, Severus.”

“I saw that part Lucius.” Severus was equally depressed about what had happened. He had hoped to have some more time with Hermione, enough at least to secure a second date. For the meantime he was focused on his friend. He had seen Lucius like this only once before, when he asked Narcissa to marry him and made him wait a week before answering.

“She held me Severus,” he took a drink, “just like she did at the club,” he took a drink, “it was all going so well.” He downed another drink.

Severus listened to Lucius rant and drink himself into a stupor, eventually falling asleep on the couch in his lounge.

Severus sent out an owl before turning in himself.

Hermione woke the next morning and peeked in Ginny’s room. She smiled when she saw Ginny still asleep. The night before had been exhausting. Ginny must have cried for an hour and half straight after they had come home.

She went to the kitchen, to make a big breakfast. It was never a good thing to bury bad feelings with food, but there was nothing better than a man bashing feast over a meal to make a girl feel better.

She had toasted muffins and eggs finished, and was listening to the sausage sizzle when she noticed an owl perched in the window. She let him in, giving him some toast and read the scarp of parchment in this claw.

‘Meet me at Flourish and Blotts at noon. Come alone. SS’

She quickly scrawled out on the bottom of the paper. ‘Will be there. HG’ then sent the owl off again. She looked at the clock. She had four hours to get Ginny talking. She knew Lucius wanted to see Ginny again, and she knew Severus saw it as well. She needed more information. Maybe between her and Severus, they could straighten things out.

Ginny woke up soon and was in a dreadful mood. “Coffee?” She murmured walking into the kitchen. Hermione had it poured and sugared in no time.

“All right Ginny, let it out. What happened?” She said tucking in.

“I don’t want to talk about it.” Ginny said, starting on her own plate. Hermione had heard that before so she said nothing. “THAT SON OF A BITCH OVER ARROGANT INCONSIDERATE INBRED BASTARD PRIMATE!” She screamed out after a second. Hermione would have laughed at the ‘primate’ bit if Ginny hadn’t been so pissed off.

“So what did he do, come on Gin, get it out of your system. We can’t man-bash without a reason.” She said.

“Or a beaters bat.” She added. Hermione let out a chuckle. When Ginny heard it she gave in and giggled as well.

“So, what happened?” She pressed again.

“Would you like a list?” Ginny said sarcastically. Hermione thought about her agreement to see Severus and got excited.

“Yes, lets make a list.” She ran to her room and grabbed a parchment and quill, then hurried back to the kitchen. Ginny laughed as Hermione wrote at the top, “How To Fuck Up A Date’. “Ok, lets start at the beginning.”

“Well, for starters, the compliment about Slytherin colors was an unusual one. I took extra time with my hair, made sure my make was nice, chose a color that went well with bright red hair, I thought I looked good but he comments on his house colors.” She said. “I still don’t know how to take it.”

“I was wondering about that, did he mean that as a genuine compliment.” She asked as she wrote. Ginny shrugged as she ate. “Ok, we get to the theater and notice everyone has flowers but us.” Ginny nodded.

“Yes, I mean I don’t care about gifts, but every woman in attendance had flowers, so did we not deserve them?” She asked. Hermione had been thinking the same thing. Ginny didn’t put much stake in flowers, but she didn’t like to be thought of as unworthy of anything.

Ginny grew serious. “They didn’t introduce us to a single person in that theater and they rushed us to the box.” Hermione wrote as Ginny spoke. “It made me feel like he was embarrassed to be seen with me.” There was a touch of sadness in her voice and it hurt Hermione to hear it, but then again she felt the same way.

“Alright, anything else before we left the theater.” Hermione asked. “What about when he left the box?” Ginny nodded.

“Yes, leaving to discuss business was rude” she took a drink, “and he didn’t even excuse himself. I don’t need politeness?”

Hermione made a note of it. “Yes, he had to have his friend come and get him.” She shook her head.

“The highlight of that part of the evening was Nureyev’s bum.” Hermione let out a laugh. “Although laughing at me because I didn’t know how the charm worked really hurt my feelings. How was I supposed to know how it was done, I‘m not a regular at theaters and such.”

Hermione nodded, and pushed her now empty plate forward and moved the parchment in front of her. “So, now we are at dinner and things are going ok….”

“Well, being closed off like that made me think again, that he didn’t want to be seen with me.” She said.

“I didn’t see that.” Hermione said looking up.

“You didn’t?” Ginny asked earnestly.

“I think they just wanted privacy.” She said. Ginny thought for a moment then nodded.

“I suppose your right, I‘ll give them that. But seeing as how they were supposed to be proving that they didn’t care what anyone thought about them seeing us, it wasn’t a very good method. I think I was still feeling insulted from the theater. Ordering dinner for me was a bad thing and he’s lucky I liked the dish.” Hermione nodded.

“I hate that. There is nothing I detest more than a man who doesn’t let me order my own meal.” She said.

“I think they picked up on that. Did you see how nervous they were when we gave them that leer?” The girls shared a laugh as the nervousness of the men at that point.

“Ok, so things were great by this point, but after dancing everything went down the toilet. What happened?”

“We were dancing and it reminded me of the club. When we went back to the table we were stopped by someone he knew.” Hermione watched as she spoke and her face took on a depressive state. “I stood there like a thing on his arm while he talked. He didn’t introduce me, he didn’t say anything about being there on a date, for the whole conversation he had, which was slightly pointless by the way, I didn’t exist.” Her voice had dropped at the end and Hermione knew her feeling had been hurt in the worst way. Being ignored was something nobody like, man or woman, but to be on someone’s arm as his date and blatantly ignored was just horrible. How could Lucius do such a thing?

Ginny had always taken insult for being a Weasley, but insults and teasing she could handle. It was quite another thing to her to be treated as if she didn’t exist. Especially by someone she had been intimate with. She could well understand the tears that had ended the evening.

Hermione knew she was done talking. She was cradling her coffee cup in both hands and staring into it, before she stood.

“I’m going to spend the day do absolutely nothing.”

“Ginny are you sure?” The girl nodded. “I’m going to run to Flourish and Blotts later, do you want me to bring you something from Diagon Alley?” Ginny shook her head and disappeared into her room.

Hermione took the list and stuck it in the pocket of her cloak. After she put the dishes in the sink she went to shower and dress.

Severus waited outside the store on a bench, glancing up and down until he saw the young lady he was looking for. Hermione walked up to him and smiled. He opened his arms and kissed her. She heard a chuckle from someone walking by, but she didn’t care.

“How about tea?” He asked when he broke the kiss. Hermione nodded and they walked to the Three broomsticks.

After they had settled at a table and ordered tea Hermione jumped right in. “I spoke with Ginny this morning.”

Severus nodded. “How was she last night?”

“She spent the following hour after you took us home crying. And I mean really crying, not letting a few tears fall, she was bawling.”

Severus rubbed his eyes. “I could see she was upset. Did you find out what happened?”

“Things happened the whole night Severus.” She said.

“Ok, tell me everything.” Their tea arrived and as Severus added his sugar Hermione took out the list. “You wrote them down?” He asked.

“Severus, when women man bash they make a list when there is more than two reasons.”

His eyebrows rose. “Man bash?”

“Girl talk Severus.” She handed the list over and sipped her tea. Severus looked at the first item.

“Green is Lucius’s favorite color.” He said.

“Be that as it may, Ginny tried very hard to look elegant. She took a lot of time making sure she looked nice and she chose a dress that made her hair stand out and he said nothing about it. She is actually very vain about her hair, because it‘s a brilliant shade, so she dresses to make an eye catching appearance when she can.”

He nodded and looked at the next item. “Lucius and I realized too late that we didn’t bring you flowers.”

Hermione felt a little bad about that one. “I really don’t care about flowers to be honest with you, it was more about being the only women at the theater who were given that simple courtesy. It made us feel less then deserving. That comment from the glorified show girl to Ginny didn’t help matters.”

Severus looked up. “You are deserving Hermione, believe me. I haven’t been on a date of this caliber since just leaving Hogwarts myself, and the only woman Lucius dated seriously was Narcissa. It’s been a long time since me or Lucius has had to make on honest impression on a lady. We are out of practice.”

“I know. Things like flowers are little things, and me and Ginny can overlook things like that. Honestly.”

Severus looked back at the list then shook his head again. “I knew it was a bad idea for Lucius to talk to that man. I should have gotten him faster.”

Hermione had nothing to say, she agreed. “It was rude of Luicus to leave.”

“I don’t suppose you’d like to hear his defense?” He said.

“He has one?” She asked lifting an eyebrow.

“Narcissa didn’t mind when he stepped out for a moment as long as she didn’t have to listen to boring talk. It was habit for him to respect her wishes and speak outside the curtain.” It made sense.

“But being with Ginny that night wasn’t a distraction for him?” Severus couldn’t counter what she said.

He looked at the next point then straight at Hermione. “Lucius was not ashamed to be seen with her.” He said with firmness.

“It felt like it to me as well as Ginny. Severus we were rushed past people as if you were trying to get us to our seats before we were seen.” She spoke honestly about her feelings. She had to get her point across as well as Ginny’s since she wasn’t there to make it herself.

Severus felt bad. He had just wanted Hermione to himself. “That wasn’t how I was trying to make you feel.”

“If you tell me that wasn’t your intention then I believe you, but yes, it seemed like you didn’t want anyone to know we were together that night. I know now that it wasn’t your intention and I believe you.”

“I’m sorry.” She touched his hand and smiled. “We just wanted you alone.” She gave him a smile.

He looked at the next item. “I can’t speak for Lucius as to why he laughed when she asked about the ballet.” She nodded and sipped her tea. Who knew what Lucius was thinking when he did that. “But I know he felt bad when he saw that it hurt her feelings.”

He looked down at the list again. “I realized the dinner mistake when you to looked at each other. I didn’t know you liked white wine over dark or that you were a vegetarian.”

Hermione smiled. “It was more about having choices made for me, I don’t like it and neither does Ginny. These are things you pick up when you have been seeing someone for awhile, we haven’t, so I can disregard that, besides you apologized last night and I appreciated that.” He was grateful for her forgiving nature. Any woman at this point would have walked out on him.

“Hermione this doesn’t sound like Lucius.” She said looking at the last point on the list. “He had a whole conversation and didn’t introduce her? Not approaching anyone is one thing, we wanted time with you alone, but to blatantly ignore her.” Severus frowned. “That’s not something he does.”

“Ginny didn’t misunderstand anything Severus, she knew what happened.” Hermione was willing to accept that they were not professional daters but outright rudeness was something she would tolerate. Neither would Ginny.

“I’m going to talk to Lucius and find out. You may get a visit from us later.”

“Severus, what possible reason could he have for ignoring her like that?” Severus’s concern was a good sign. It meant that there had to be an explanation neither had thought of.

“Just expect us.” She gave in and nodded. “Might I be able to talk you into a second date?” Hermione smiled then let it slip away. “You’re concerned for Miss Weasly right now aren’t you?”

“Yes, I don’t want to rush off on a second date while she’s at home hurting.” She explained.

“I understand. Let me see if I can get anything out of Luicus. We might be able to make her feel better.” His face grew serious. “I know he feels something for her. I want him to have it. You’ve seen how they are with each other. He’s finally connected with someone, and I’d hate for them to miss that. Besides after the dress rehearsal, the next one should go perfectly.”

Hermione chuckled nodded. “Yes, I agree. It was my idea to accept and it ended so horribly. Oh Severus I had such high hopes for that date, and it was just awful for her. ”

He wrapped an arm around her shoulder as they walked out to the street. “I know, so did I. It was great seeing Lucius happy for once. My own company was quite impressive as well.” She grinned up at him.

“Well after a few hurdles I found the escort I had to be quite a gentleman.” When they got to the apparation point, Severus held her hands in his.

“We’ll see if we can help out these two but I would at least like a confirmation that I can have another date.”

“I’d like that Severus.” He smiled and they shared a gentle kiss. “I have a feeling I’ll see you soon.” She nodded and apparated away. A moment later he vanished as well, right into Malfoy Manor.
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