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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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The blankets were shaking when Hermione walked in to Amelia’s bedroom in November. It was seven fifteen, she’d waited a few extra minutes in the dining room because the elderly woman hated to be rushed. She rushed to the side of the bed and looked down at the tiny woman who lay there, her eyes were open and staring unseeingly at the ceiling. It was her nerves, this wasn’t the first nerve damage case she’d had but it was the first time that Amelia had ever had an attack. She got straight to work, conjuring all the potions that she’d need Hermione forced a calming potion down her throat and then rubbed a topical potion on her joints to unlock them. This was when it got a bit difficult. With her joints unlocked and a calming potion in her she’d no longer be in charge of the motions of her body, the first time Hermione did this while working at a hospital in America she had gotten a broken nose. As soon as the topical potion sank in to her skin Amelia’s right arm shot up and Hermione had to dodge a fist and then another one and a leg that shot out towards her. Most healers used restraints to keep from getting injured but Hermione didn’t believe in them and only used them if the family requested it. While holding down one arm and using her leg to gently lay over Amelia’s trembling and jerking ones and then gave her a shot. The shot contained a potion that more or less paralyzed her while knocking her out and easing the pain and pressure off her nerves. Finally, the elderly woman stopped fighting, her eyes slid shut and she breathed a sigh of relief while falling back asleep.
Hermione made her way to the study she’d taken on as her own and sat down at the desk. She made note of the attack noting that she’d looked in on Amelia at six-fifty when she made her way downstairs to set up for breakfast and the woman had been sitting up getting ready. Then what she found when she went back up to see where she was along with the measures she took to calm Amelia. When her notes were done she wrote a quick note to Severus letting him know what happened that morning and promising to keep him informed throughout the day. When that was sent out Hermione leaned back and looked around, the shot that she’d given Amelia would keep the woman sleeping for the next twelve hours and she’d have to give her another to get her through the night, this was the first day since she was hired in August that she had nothing to do with her day.
With small shrug she walked over to the table she had set up with the rosters set out on the top. There was a stack of ones she’d already gone through and loads of ones she’d yet to have gone through. Severus and provided her with so many scrolls that she’d had to sit on the floor to pick through them. She found the year that Lucian Malfoy was born and sent back the scrolls that came before that, then she searched further finding the birth of Zeke Prince and then Zelda Prince and finally Zoey Prince. Once she found the birth of Zoey she knew that it would be sixteen years before the first Prince was born to that generation so she was able to pack those up and send those back to Severus as well. When Zeke Prince’s wife gave birth to the first hideous child named Lord, Hermione was able to skip another couple of years until there was the name of Circe Black which was the female baby born to Zoey and finally Oberon Malfoy born to Zelda Malfoy. Oberon had been born in 1890 by the time Hermione reached the 1900’s she was ready to give up so she stood and sent the scrolls she was done with back to Severus before she left the study. It was almost noon now, she figured that she would find something to eat and then maybe go outside, depending on how cold it was. She peeked in to Amelia’s bedroom and found her sleeping comfortably. So she continued on her way downstairs to go to the kitchen, coming down the stairs and crossing the normally shadowy hallway leading to the room she wanted.
“How’s she doing?” She heard suddenly from near the front door. She gasped and shot a stunning curse in that direction only to have it deflected and sent bouncing harmlessly down the hallway.
“What that fu...” She started, breathing heavily before fixing Severus with a glare “You’re going to give me a bloody heart attack”
“Sorry” Severus answered with a small smirk “Again” He couldn’t help but let his eyes trail over her form as she walked away from him. Usually when he visited she was wearing her work robe which was practically a nuns habit but today she was wearing a pair of jeans that showed off her perfectly shaped rear end and a sweater that hugged her breasts and waist line. With a slightly lecherous look in his eyes Severus followed Hermione in to the kitchen where they could talk a little louder.
“I gave her a calming potion” Hermione said, as she rummaged through the fridge for some sandwich stuff for the two of them “And a topical potion for calming the spasms in her joints then I gave her a shot of a potion that will go in and calm and to some extent repair her nerves, it won’t heal her but it will give her time to heal a little while she sleeps” She handed him a sandwich that she made and put a bag of chips between them “She’ll be sleeping until seven tonight and the shot is required again after she wakes up and eats something”
“Thank you” He said “For being here and taking care of her and for the sandwich” He waved the food in her direction “How is it you always seem to end up feeding me?”
“Someone needs to take care of you, Severus Snape” Hermione answered “It’s my pleasure to do so” Her face turned red and she looked around flustered, focusing on everything in the room but him “So, it’s Friday afternoon...don’t you have classes?”
“I gave my afternoon students an early weekend” He answered with a grimace “And a twelve page essay due first thing on Monday”
“Baby steps” Hermione laughed “I’m proud of you” She stood and collected their empty plates and he gripped her wrist and raised his dark eyes to hers.
“Thank you” He said “For being here with her”
“Your welcome” She answered “If you don’t have anything else to do, you can help me with the rosters they’re in the study” He made a small face “How did you get all those without Minerva noticing?”
“There’s a records room” He answered as he followed her up the stairs, his eyes locked on her swaying rear end that was right in front of his face “No one goes in there unless they want to prove that they’re pureblooded” They checked on Amelia before heading towards the study that she used “All the new professors are shown that room, just in case some magical blood goes missing they can go to the room and do a search through the rosters” He smiled at her a little “Most professors forget that the room exists but I remember”
“You remember everything, I’m sure” Hermione said with snort as she led him over to where she’d stopped and plopped in the chair with him sitting next to her.
“I remember you turning yourself in to a cat in your second year after stealing ingredients from my stores” Snape answered and her face turned crimson, she lowered her eyes and shook her head.
“I was so embarrassed” She said “Still am, apparently”
“I never got to see you” He admitted “But I bet you made a cute cat”
Hermione lowered her head again blushing before she showed him what she’d done already and how she was going about her searching. They set to work, she was only pretending to work for a while and watched him from under her lashes wondering if he could feel her presence like she could feel his. If he wanted to touch her hand the way she wanted to touch his hands, if he wanted to pull her to him and hug her the way she wanted or maybe if he wanted to kiss her like she wanted to. Finally, she touched her wand to a name before moving on to the next and the next and the next, it was amazing how many magical babies were born in just one year. She tapped her wand on the name Heziel Cariner which was a little boy that had been born in mid-April to a muggle woman named Scarlett Cariner and a muggleborn wizard named...
“OH MY GODS!” Hermione exclaimed, causing Snape to jump at the outburst. If it had happened at any other time she’d have been happy that she’d been able to startle him considering he did it to her so much and took such pleasure in doing so.
“What is it?” He asked “Is it the alerting charm on Amelia?”
“No” She answered, breathlessly “Heziel Cariner”
“Who?” He asked, moving closer to where she was sitting.
“Heziel Cariner” She repeated turning to look at him “Born to a muggle woman named Scarlett Cariner and a muggleborn wizard” She held out the paper for him to see the name.
“Marek Kinnocks” He said “You were right” He looked at her in awe “You were right, there was an heir the whole time and still could be someone...you were right”
“I know” Hermione smiled at the paper while feeling that familiar fire curling around her stomach, the pounding of her heart and the adrenaline that always accompanied finding the right answer to a seemingly impossible problem or another clue in a grand adventure. She raised her excited eyes to Severus’s and then reached out and grabbed his head pulling him towards her and kissing him. He was shocked for a moment before he started to respond to her soft lips and adventurous tongue. The need for air though had them separating and looking at each other with lust-filled eyes, it would be easy now to convince her to go to his room with him or to just take her right there. However, as alluring as both thoughts were he would let her make the next decision about what would happen between them.
“Sorry” Hermione said “I got...carried away”
“It’s okay” He answered with a small smile to show her that it really was okay with him.
“Okay” She said turning away from him and his glorious lips that she wanted to kiss again “So, why don’t you continue looking in to the rosters to see if there were any more births that were connected to Marek and I will go to a muggle library and see if I can find something on Scarlett Cariner”
“Why?” He asked, he was not at all eager to have her leaving now. While he knew that it was his libido thinking for him but going through the rosters was the last thing he wanted to do at that moment.
“Learning about her may open up the doorway to her family and possibly finding a magical heir to the Kinnocks line which could end this curse” Hermione explained, she knew he was aroused and knew what he’d rather be doing and to be honest with herself she wanted to do it too but that wouldn’t lift the curse “I’ll be back before Amelia wakes up, the library is only open until five and its already one-thirty, I’ve got to go now”
“Okay” He sighed and watched her go to the door but she stopped and smiled which he returned weakly “Good luck”
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Hermione apparated two blocks away from the library and half-jogged half-walked to the big stone building. She was mentally beating herself up for leaving at all, it would have been more fun to stay and ignore the rosters however she really was like a dog with a bone when it came to a mystery. This curse was consuming her more and more, it wasn’t because she felt bad for Zelda because she didn’t that witch deserved to be punished. However, Amelia and Severus didn’t deserve it just like Marek didn’t deserve the heart ache he had gone through. Hermione ran up the ten wide stone steps in to her favorite building in the entire world, the library. She told the woman at the desk that she wanted to look for someone alive in 1900 and she was pointed in the right direction but offered no help. She went through a few books and then a slide show of old newspaper clippings landing on one from a 1930 obituary.
Scarlett Cariner:
January 10, 1875 to July 23, 1930
Scarlett passed away early in the morning of July 23, 1930 after a long fight with cancer. She leaves behind a thirty year old son, Heziel Cariner and a twenty year old daughter Sherry Cariner.
Hermione stared at the paper waiting for more to suddenly appear before her. She was twenty-five when she had Heziel and fifty-five when she died and that was it, nothing more she leaned back and growled in frustration. It was almost five, they would be closing soon and while she could apperate back in after they were closed she refused to do that. She leaned forward and typed ‘Scarlett Cariner’ in to the search engine and suddenly had a picture before her. A woman with super curly light colored hair, too much make-up, a super low cut dress and standing in an obvious mugshot. She skimmed the information and the word ‘prostitute’ popped out like it was highlighted.
“Miss” The woman said “We’re closing in five minutes”
“Can I print this?” Hermione asked.
“Printers broken, sorry love” She answered and turned to walk back up the stairs. Hermione looked around to make sure that she was the only one down there before preforming a copying charm and, taking her information, she left the library and apparated to her parents house. She still had a few things to look up and needed a safe place to be able to work magic. Her parents were home but they wouldn’t mind seeing her, she just had to remember to be back by seven, she still had a few hours.

A/N: I hope that you like this chapter, still waiting for more reviews. Do you think there’s an heir to the Kinnocks line still out there? Do you think the heir will be able to lift the curse? Do you think it’ll happen before Amelia dies?
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