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Torment Completed	By : Kvarta Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Snape/Hermione Views: 31713 -:- Recommendations : 3 -:- Currently Reading : 8
Disclaimer: This is a work of fan fiction. Harry Potter is owned by J.K. Rowling. This story is purely for entertainment purposes, no money is being made from it.

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A/N: @BlackRose "I think he was so certain that he would die in the end, that now that he is alive he doesn’t really know what to do " - true, he was ready to die, he wasn't ready to live; "Although Hermione is mad at the headmaster, the truth was that everyone was just a tool during war." - also, true. But people don't take that easily even if it is true, and even if they know it to be true.
To avoid further confusion:
Italic - Past, memories
'Single quotation mark' - inner monologue, thoughts
"double quotation mark" - actual speech
Warning: Ron bashing big time - if you like Ron, you better skip this chapter.
The days went on. Painfull, slow days full of two women fussing and ordering him around. He didn’t expect much more from this day either. What struck him as… preposterous would be a correct word, was that he missed the time when he was plotting with Gran…Hermione. Calling the girl by her name presented a difficult challenge. Names were intimacy he avoided at all costs.
Dull ache in his legs throbbed, reminding him that his morning “walk” and torture in the water just ended. It was, however, welcomed pain given the fact that he managed to lift his foot off the ground, even if only for few short moments and not making an actual step.
The door swung open and Lucius hobbled in, followed by Potter. He frowned, couldn’t the boy wait outside?
“Miss Granger you have guests…” started Lucius giving him a sly smile
“Harry! Let’s go out of the room, you shouldn’t have… Sorry, Severus. Thank you, Malfoy…”
“Not only Mr Potter, your second guest is waiting in the small garden, he is not permitted to enter my home!” Lucius’s voice was cold and full of detest. There were only a few people who could evoke this reaction in Lucius.
The girl blinked at Lucius then at Harry, confused
“Ron is waiting for you, Hermione.” Boy-annoyance smiled at her
Hermione squealed and jumped, clapping her hands. To surprise of all in the room, she darted to her trunk, digging through it then ran into the bathroom, passing Lucius and nearly knocking him down. In record time she darted out of the room wearing the same robes she had at the Malfoy ball. He frowned. Potter cleared his throat
“I appreciate what you are doing Mr Malfoy. I’ll wait outside.”
“Nonsense, Potter. Stay. By all means, I do believe you should see this.” Lucius sounded…pleasant, polite…
‘What are you up to, you old fox?’ he thought
Lucius snapped his fingers and an ancient looking elf appeared.
“You two may not follow the gossip columns, but I do.” Informed them Lucius, sounding all too amused “This should be good. Grouch if you will.”
Elf napped with his bony fingers and a sphere appear floating in the air, displaying Ronald Weasley, dressed haphazardly and without care. He was pacing up and down with a dumb look on his face. He suppressed the shudder. That block of wood was completely undeserving of a woman Hermione Granger will be one day. The girl showed up, running over the cobbled path through the maze of a short hedge, straight into the arms of said block of wood. Lucius cleared his throat
“You two do realise what she just did?”
“How…how do you do that? How we can see them?” blurted Potter and Severus rolled his eyes
“Made a mistake of colossal proportions.” He grumbled, “She can be incredibly dense for someone so smart.”
“Oblivious.” Lucius clucked his tongue
The sound spilt from the sphere and they turned their focus on it.
~ “Ron!” it was a happy cry
“Hey, Mione.” The oaf smiled
“How…how are you? How’s your mum? Your dad? How’s George?”
“Fine. Mum…she’s still…it is hard on her, but she’s putt’n the brave face, you know? Dad got a Ministry position, Percy returned to work with him. He got a rise, so…it is better. I’m working with George, now. Well, more like I’m replacing him in the store…It is still tough on him, more than on the others.” He paused awkwardly “How are you? Harry, he won’t talk about you, you know?”
“Never better.” the girl flashed him one radiant smile ~
The sensation of wrongness pressed hard on Severus, he frowned, there was no reason for him to feel that way.
~ “I…I had some problems, I still do have them but not as much, I am much better now. And Severus is going on nicely, I hope he will start walking soon.”
“You call him by his name now?”
“Well…yeah. We sort of shared a lot. And he helped me. Not sure if he wanted to, but he did it anyways. And I found out some things… Why?” she wrinkled her nose
“I was just hoping… Look ‘Mione, I was wondering if we could…you know…maybe try it again?” the boy sounded irritated, rocking back and forth on his feet
“Ron?” she whispered “I… You… you do not love me. So why?”
“Why what?”
“Why would you want to be with me if you do not love me?”
“We… we were good together.”
“Did we?”
“You don’t love me anymore?”
“I do, I always did and always will. But, Ron, I am not in love with you. No more than you are in me.”
“But we could still…don’t know…try to make it work.”
“But – why.” ~
Severus glanced at Lucius who had an amused look. He had a need to growl. It did look like the girl is going to relent. All his talking… it was just useless waste of air. In the garden, Weasley oaf was digging the tip of his foot into the meticulously trimmed grass. Lucius did growl at that. Potter had such expression of hope on his face, he found it almost painful to see.
~ “We were good together. And… I do care about you. How…how do you know that you are not in love with me?”
“I know…it is complicated but…Severus…no, it is just complicated?”
Ron lifted his head sharply, his expression changed. ~
“Oh, this is going to be… goooood.” Mumbled Lucius under the breath, so quietly that Potter didn’t even catch it, but he did.
~ “Severus?” hissed Ron “Since when do you call him by his name?”
“Well, yes. There was that Ball for the New Year, and…” she tried to explain “it is just to mixed up to explain, Ron.”
“I, I can believe it, ‘Mione. You and Harry both. He…you know who he is, remember?”
“I do, Ron. He had to… he is a hero…”
“He chopped off Fred’s ear, he is a Death Eater, he killed Dumbledore!”
“At the moment I could kill him myself.”
“Snape?” asked Ron with voice full of hope
“No, Dumbledore! You don’t know…”
“I know…”
“No, you don’t! Look I tried something and I messed up…it is complicated…let’s just say – I know more than I ever wanted to. Dumbledore wasn’t…”
“Don’t.” stopped her Ron “What are you doing ‘Mine? You live in the Manor! You do not leave Snape’s side! You trash-talk Dumbledore! Do you know what people talking about you?”
“As a matter of fact, Ron, I do. More than once they told me to my face.”
“And you don’t care?”
“I do share the room with him, I have my own bed but I am sleeping in the same room with Severus. And yes, I live in the Malfoy Manor at the moment. Not because I want to but because I have patient to take care of. I know the truth. Harry knows the truth. Do you?”~
“Here we go” chuckled Lucius, Snape glared at him, Potter’s head jerked in Lucius’s direction “You really do not follow gossip columns.”
~ “ Do you even hear yourself? Patient? You are not mediwitch! There is not one reason why you should be here, beside him! Worse even -you are proud of it! I thought maybe… I… and here thought I am doing you a favour, taking care of you.”
“Favour? What favour? I do not need to be taken care off, Ronald.” her shoulders squared just a bit
“Right, like you are doing a great job of taking care of yourself. Helping, living with criminals!”
“Severus is not a criminal. Malfoy is a prat but Malfoy’s still helped Harry. They are all officially exonerated, Ron.”
“Yeah, like that’s gonna change who they are?”
“What. Favour. Ron?” her voice determined, her brows narrowed in a frown
“My family, we hold some status now, you know? If you need someone…I thought…we already did it and…”
“Did what? Dated? You left me, Ron. You couldn’t handle being with me like I was and you left me. So what did we do that you wish to repeat? Because I didn’t and I won’t change my mind. So what do you thought we could possibly do?”
“Well, I don’t have a girlfriend right now, you know,... So I thought it would be good for you if you are seen with me. You know – be with me. We already did it and…” ~
He looked like a storm cloud ready to explode. Lucius still looked amused. Potter was changing colours and expressions as he caught up with the meaning behind Weasley's words.
~ “And – WHAT, Ronald?” her curls bounced around in anger, her eyes furious in sudden realisation “You thought if I am helping Severus to recover that I am actually sleeping with him?” she paused, Hermione’s voice had a dangerous thing in it “What did you think, if we fumbled in the tent we could continue? I told you - I am not ready! Not now.”
“But…”
“But? You know I thought you came because you care. You really care about me. You just want to have someone until next girl comes along! What did you figure? That the rumours are true?That my reputation will improve if I am in the gossip columns with you?”
“Well…yea. It would be good for you.” ~
Severus suppressed the growl. Shure, the girl was annoying. He wanted her as far from him as possible. She was irritating. But even with all that, she did not deserve to be treated like that. Lucius looked like he’s having the time of the day. Potter was gaping, mouth open, blinking in disbelief.
~ “I am not hanged on a hook, Ron. I do not wish to be the girl you choose when all other options are unavailable. I don’t want to sit and wait for you anymore. Let me tell you something – you weren't all that good. Not that I would want a repetition of the experience at any rate.” She hissed
“So it is true?” Ron narrowed his eyes “If you can be with him – why not with me?”
“I am not. With. Him. And I am not stupid not to know when I like something or don’t. Go. Just, go, Ronald.”
“You really are…” Ron’s face was red and angry before he managed to finish the wand was in her hand, she flicked it
“Avis”
A flock of yellow canaries spring into the air and fly towards Ron, pecking him. He covered his head and run, yelling at her
“You really are mental! Fine – he can have you!”~
Lucius nodded and eld snapped his fingers, the orb disappeared. Heavy silence spread between them.
“I am going to kill him!” that was Potter, he jumped to his feet
“Where are you think you are going, Potter?” he growled, he felt angry, inexplicably angry
“Hermione… she needs me! I have to go to her…”
“And tell her – what, Mr Potter? That you just witnessed how he humiliated her?” Lucius raised an eyebrow, Potter blinked dumbly. “Do you think she would take it kindly?”
“No, Malfoy, you are right. What… what to do?”
“Potter, go to the tea room and wait. She will come into the house, and she won’t come here. Not in that state of distress. Do not tell her what you know – let her tell you, at her own pace.” Lucius sounded like he is instruction particularly dumb child how to mount a broom.
“Yes, yes you are correct, of course. Thank you, Malfoy. Snape.” The boy swiftly exited the room.
Lucius turned to him, looking like the cat that just ate the canary.
~ S ~ S ~ S ~
Hermione was standing there, shaking from anger. She was so mad, not even sad or disappointed – only frustratingly angry. She turned to exit the garden. On the garden entrance, leaning on one of the ornamental arches was Draco. Her eyes narrowed at him
“That was a good one, Granger.” He grinned
“What do you want, Malfoy? Came to gloat?”
“No, I came to keep observers at bay in case you need it. It turned out I was right.”
“If you say a word…to anyone about this…” she threatened, pointing her wand at Draco. He raised his hands like he surrenders
“Not a peep. I may not like you Granger, but at least I am civilised.”
“Sure.” She growled pushing past Draco. She wanted to scream. To blast everything in front of her. Only when she was nearly in the main entrance hallway she realised where she was.
“Misty!”
“You is call?” elf asked
“Yes. Can you… just, please, can you take me to the tea room.” Her voice broke.
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