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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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As October came around the weather went from uncharacteristically warm to a cold rain that seemed to happen every day. Trips to the park became few and far between for the elderly woman and Hermione but the younger witch kept them active each day. With the rain a constant ‘hello’ to them both, they both had breakfast and then went to the seldom used day room and exercised before they went to a study on the first floor and would do some sort of art project. From painting a scene outside, to a memory, each-others portraits to making fun little Halloween decorations that they insisted Severus bring back for the first years. They did baking, cooking, wine-making and Hermione charmed a muggle television and DVD player to show whatever movie they wanted. They watched children’s movies, movies made in the 50’s and 60’s as well as musicals and more modern-day movies. She was amused to find that Amelia rather enjoyed Fifty Shades Of Grey but it led to a sex-talk that left her blushing.
“You know” Amelia said, it was a Friday afternoon and about an hour before Severus was due home “I do believe that Severus was hoping for some of that chocolate cake we made on Wednesday...do you think we should have saved him some?”
“Probably” Hermione answered “Too bad” The woman stretched and winced in pain a little, she claimed that her bones ached all the time when it rained but Hermione knew that it was the nerve damage that was slowly killing her that caused her pain. With a small sigh Hermione gave her the potion to alleviate the pain and then helped her lay down on the window-seat that was charmed in to a bed. Amelia was asleep before her head hit the pillow and Hermione took the chance to leave the room. She walked out of the brightly lit living room and entered the shadowy front hall, crossing over towards the kitchen so she could get in to the ice cream they’d made earlier that week.
“How is she?” Severus asked, stepping out of the shadows and startling the hell out of her. She whipped around with her wand held high enough to kill him if that be her wish but she recognized him at the last moment.
“Holy shit!” She exclaimed before lowering her voice and peeking in at Amelia who shifted a little but never awoke “What the hell?!” She hissed at him grabbing his arm and dragging him in to the kitchen where the house-elves were just vacating to go clean Amelia’s bedroom “You could become a bloody assassin without using a curse at all, just sneak up on them like you’ve done to me so much!”
“First off” He said, coolly as ever though she noted a sparkle of amusement deep within the depths of his blueish black eyes, then she wondered when the hell she ever noticed that his eyes had some blue in them “It’s not my fault that you’re so easily frightened and you knew that I’d be here”
“Amelia is...” She looked down at her feet “Not getting better”
“Is she getting worse?” He asked, he knew that his aunt had had a Healers appointment earlier that week but he’d not been able to go to it with her and instead left that to Hermione.
“You were right to hire me” Hermione whispered and saw him lower his head slightly, she’d known that he loved Amelia but over the last two months it became more noticeable.
“How long?” Severus whispered and Hermione felt tears fill her eyes as she turned away from him and towards the counter so he wouldn’t see them.
“The Healer said that its likely she won’t see Christmas” Hermione answered, ignoring the lump in her throat at having to say the words aloud. They didn’t seem that bad only thinking them and she’d been thinking that at least she had another month possibly a month and a half but now that time seemed too close.
“Oh” He answered, his own throat became tight and he saw that Hermione was upset “I’m sorry” He said suddenly and she turned to look at him confused “I shouldn’t have brought you in to this, I should have just taken the time off of work and took care of her myself”
“I love taking care of her” Hermione said “And I thank you for making me come here. Also, using your personal potions notebooks has been amazing!” She handed him a bowl of the homemade ice cream with chocolate syrup and brought her own to the table by the window “I have perfected so many of my own potions just by trying the stuff you’d written in the bloody margins not to mention the actual potions themselves”
“I’m glad you’re enjoying them” He smiled slightly and took a bite “This is really good by the way, where’d you get it?”
“We made it” She answered “I’m sorry about not saving you any of the chocolate cake that we made earlier in the week, it was just too good” She looked at the drip of chocolate sauce that was stuck to his bottom lip and smiled a little. She reached over and ran her index finger over his bottom lip and then held her finger up to him, he looked at her for a moment then sucked her finger between his lips. She ran her middle finger over his bottom lip and his eyes locked on to hers and she smiled before pulling her finger away.
“I...” He started and she nodded with a small laugh.
“I know” She said “Severus...”
“Yes?” He asked almost eagerly.
“Do you mind if I leave early tonight?” She asked, hating herself for her fear “Its been a long week”
“Sure” He said with a small smile. Then they both returned to their ice cream with silence between them, not an awkward one however it was a bloated silence and they could tell there was something more that needed to be said but neither could say it.
~~~//~~~
Hermione sat on Luna’s couch and watched her absorb the entire story about the curse and how it came to be put on the Prince line. She was glad that Ginny was still in whatever country her tour was taking her to because she’d have interrupted with little remarks and that got rather annoying after a while. Luna leaned back in her spot and bit her upper lip before bringing up her hands in an ‘I don’t know’ manner which made Hermione sigh and tilt her head back to the couch while bringing her wine glass up to her lips.
“It’s a curse they have to lift themselves” Luna said “I don’t know”
“Is it possible that there was an heir to the Kinnocks line?” Hermione asked “We could search them out...”
“Hermione” Luna said giving her an exasperated look “It happened in the mid to late 1800’s and he was a muggleborn that never had children or any other known magical relatives”
“But he wasn’t a celibate monk” Hermione pointed out “Surely in the rest of his life he had sex, possibly with prostitutes weather they be magical or not”
“I don’t think there’s a magical history book on prostitutes, Hermione” Luna said as she sighed “As for the feelings of sadness about losing Amelia so soon...you’ve always felt bad for the patients you’ve lost, it’s what makes you a great hospice healer”
“I don’t know” Hermione said shaking her head as she lowered her eyes “It feels different”
“Is it possible that you’ve...” Luna thought for a moment about how to word what she was thinking “Grown some...feelings towards Snape and they are causing you to love Amelia as if she were your own aunt and not just his?”
“I don’t know!” Hermione burst causing the blonde to jump at the sudden outburst “I don’t know...maybe, I just...he has changed from my time at school or maybe he hasn’t maybe this is the man that Lily Evans had befriended all those years ago” She turned pleading eyes towards Luna “I don’t know what’s wrong with me”
“Ask him on a date” Luna said “You’ve a day off tomorrow, I can stay with Amelia and you two go and have fun, drink a little and maybe talk about somethings”
“Like what?” Hermione asked “The curse or his dying aunt?”
“Think of something” Luna snapped “Do you want my help with watching her or not?”
“I do” Hermione whispered.
“Good” Luna smiled “Now, I’ll paint your fingernails and toenails and then you shave...everything”
“Why?!” Hermione looked horrified.
“Will you get lucky?” Luna shrugged “I don’t know but should you prepare for it?” She grinned “Definitely”
The next night Hermione made reservations for dinner at five at a privately owned (by Harry and Draco) restaurant and then figured that if they made it through the meal with little to no bloodshed they could make plans afterwards. She’d taken Luna’s advice and after the manicure and pedicure she’d taken a long bubble bath and shaved everything that needed it. She borrowed a black long-sleeved dress that stopped at her knees and had no back to it at all (might as well plan for a good night, as Luna said while they looked through her clothes) and she chose a pair of black knee-high boots that had a small heel on them. The front of the dress had a scoop neck and she wore a black choker that made her neck look a little longer than normal. She usually wore her hair up in a pony-tail so she decided on leaving it down and flowing in glossy curls over her shoulders. By one in the afternoon she was ready to go and she and Luna apparated to Prince Manor, the blonde was silent as they walked to the front door. Hermione walked in and saw Severus sitting near the sleeping woman looking at a book in his lap but his head snapped up when Luna quietly closed the door. He looked over at Amelia and then got up to see what was going on with the girls, usually when Hermione left the manor for the weekend she didn’t come back until Sunday night and usually right before he left.
“Is everything alright, Hermione?” He asked.
“Yes” She answered “Luna, could you...”
“Of course” Luna said and walked in to the living room without a second thought.
“Why is she here?” He turned to follow her and presumably kick her out.
“Severus” Hermione said, grabbing his wrist and pulled him back towards her “Luna is going to stay with Amelia tonight”
“No she isn’t” He snapped “Why would she?”
“Because I am taking you out on a date” Hermione said boldly.
“No, I don’t think so” Severus spoke with a red face “Amelia needs me...”
“I got all dressed up for you” Hermione said with a playful pout that turned in to a look of embarrassment when she realized what she’d said “Our reservations are in an hour, go get ready”
“But I...”He tried and she shook her head and started tapping her foot.
“Go” She snapped “I’ll wait”
~~~//~~~
Severus and Hermione sat in a dark booth together trying hard not to look at one another. All of her bossiness had gone out the window when he came down all dressed up in his usual black. They made a silent trip to the restaurant and now had been sitting together in silence for the last ten minutes. Their orders had been put in, their wine had been delivered and other than the soft sipping noises their table was the quietest.
“Is this what you had in mind when you asked me out?” Severus asked “Which I am still shocked you asked”
“I am too” Hermione admitted “And no, I wasn’t really picturing anything in my mind when I asked. I just thought that it would be nice to get out of the house, away from the sadness and get to know each other in a more...neutral setting”
“What did you study exactly, when you were at University?” Severus asked after a moments hesitation.
“I started studying potions immediately” She answered “But after one term I decided on Healing and then I combined it and once all my studying was done I went to America and learned about Hospice work and its history from there”
“Why taking care of the dying though?” He asked “Surely you’ve had enough death touch your life”
“It’s different” Hermione explained “I am there for them when no one else is, I love them when they feel that no one else does and with some cases I am the first person they see in the morning and the last they see at night and they need me”
“And all I have is the school” He whispered more to himself than to her.
“Oh Severus” Hermione reached across and took his hand “You could be so much to those students if you tried. There were so many unloved, unfriended and needy students there when I was a student. If you’d opened your heart a little then you could be a great help to them when they need it most”
“And why do you assume I’d be able to help them at all?” He asked.
“Because we both know that you’ve been in their shoes” Hermione answered him with a small flutter of her lashes as she lowered her gaze.
Their food came and was consumed with some light conversation about potions, school, her future, his future and everything in between. When dinner was done (and there wasn’t any blood shed) they apparated back to the manor but Hermione convinced him to walk around the grounds with her instead of going inside. He ran hot and cold or sure and unsure would be more like it, he was perfectly happy to be chatting at some points and then others he’d be glaring at her obviously unsure of her intentions. While they walked around the house leading towards the front she made her move and took his hand in hers. It felt like the first date she’d ever been on, awkward and yet sweet all at the same time. He looked over at her with a smirk and she just knew that he was thinking the same thing that had just gone through her mind.
“Thank you” Severus said “I had a wonderful night”
“Feels awkward” Hermione pointed out.
“I know” He said “It should be reversed, I should have asked you out and I’ve been meaning to...”
“Society is the only one that thinks it’s a mans job to ask the woman out but that’s not right” Hermione said “I wanted to take you on a date so I did”
“Just remember that if we decide to get married I would like to ask you and not the other way around” He said with a small laugh before he dropped his face in to his hand and squeezed his eyes shut “Forget that I said that, please”
“I’ll try” She said with a smirk.
“Who’d have thought that when I saw your name on the roster when you were born that you’d have the power to make me feel like a blushing teenager” Severus sighed.
“Or a blushing bride” Hermione said and he laughed a little nudging her a little with his shoulder, she smiled and leaned against his side as she thought about what he said “The school roster knew that I’d be a witch before I even showed any magical ability?”
“The school roster knows that there’ll be a witch or wizard from the time the child is conceived” Severus explained “If the parents decide to abort the pregnancy then a red line runs through the name and that’s how they know to not look for the child at age eleven”
“Does it tell to whom the child is born?” Hermione asked.
“It’s not like a family tree or anything” Severus answered “But if you press your wand on the name it will say the names of both parents along with a current address”
“What if they’re dead?” She asked.
“It’ll give the address they were at when the child was born and the address of the cemetery they were buried in” He answered with a weary sigh “Why?”
“What about rosters from say...” She looked at their hands “The late 1800’s and early 1900’s?”
“Does this have something to do with the curse?” He sighed again.
“Severus” Hermione reached over and put her unoccupied hand on his cheek and turned his head to look at her “I have a feeling and its...its like pushing me to investigate this further”
“But a curse...” He trailed off.
“Is only as strong as you allow it to be” She finished “But Severus...please, will you help me?”
“You think Marek Kinnocks had a child, don’t you?” He asked then shook his head “Hermione, I looked in to this already” He lowered his head in shame “I thought that maybe...maybe I could end this curse if not for me then to show Amelia that it could be ended. But he had no children, no life outside of work and living as a reclusive there was nothing else, I couldn’t find anything else”
“Please” Hermione begged “Please, just allow me to do this, please”
“I’ll look in to the rosters for that time, if it makes you happy” Severus said “But you won’t find anything”
“Maybe not” She said “But thank you” They looked at each other for a few moments and Severus started to move in towards her. There were no less than four hundred thoughts going through her head the first being ‘Is he going to kiss me?!’ the next was wondering about her breath, if this was right and then there was the worry that she was making a huge mistake. His lips were getting closer to hers and she could practically taste his breath and then all her thoughts fled her mind and then...
“KISS HER ALREADY!” Was shouted out of the second story window and Hermione lifted her eyes to find Amelia and Luna leaning out watching them. Severus and Hermione laughed and shook their heads but the mood was broken and they entered the house listening to the ‘Boos’ from their audience in the window.

A/N: I hope you like this. Thank you all so much for the reviews, I have to say that I wasn’t actually even thinking about the whole “Beauty and the Beast” thing when I started writing this but I can see it now, duh. PLEASE CONTINUE TO REVIEW!!!!
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