Love Bites (REPOST)

Chapter 11 ~ Questions and Answers

Hermione sat there quietly, not responding.

Severus looked at her, frowning. It was next to impossible to resist the veritaserum potion.

"Dr. Granger, tell me about your love life," he said to her again, his voice more commanding.

The witch continued to sit there without answering the wizard. Severus studied her, then decided to take a different approach.

"Dr. Granger, why aren't you telling me about your love life?" Severus asked her.

Hermione blinked slowly.

"Because there is nothing to tell," she responded.

Severus blinked at her. Nothing to tell? Surely there was someone. Some interlude…some attraction to a wizard at some time.

"Explain your answer," he pressed.

"At Hogwarts, I was always focused on my grades. At university I focused on my Spellmaking degree, intending on pursing a relationship after I got it. Then my parents and Ron and Harry died. The pain was too much. I didn't want my heart torn out again, so I pursued more study to keep busy and left no time for anything else. I didn't want to face real life. Real life hurts too much," she said.

Severus looked at her with incredulity.

"Have you never been involved with a wizard on any personal level, Dr. Granger?" he asked her, his voice low.

"Only Ron and Harry. They were my best friends. I studied with a wizard once, but the relationship was purely intellectual on my part. When he made an attempt to make it more personal, I stopped studying with him. I had no time for anything but study," she replied.

Severus looked at the witch. She was thirty years old. Her responses implied she had never been touched by any male in an intimate fashion. That meant never been kissed and certainly never been fucked.

"Dr. Granger, you are a young witch. Surely you have sexual urges," he said.

"No. I was able to repress those urges by throwing myself into my studies, earning my degrees and keeping my role full when I interned at various institutions. Sex never crossed my mind. I had no need for it," she replied.

Severus stared at the witch. No need for sex? Hm. Well he supposed it was possible to live in denial, to psychologically turn off. But it seemed like such a shame. The witch had no idea what she was missing.

"Are you a virgin, Dr. Granger?" he asked her to make sure he was getting the implications right.

"Yes. I have never had sex. Or even been kissed," she replied.

Severus blinked at her again. This was interesting. It was time to ask about today.

"Dr. Granger, did you feel anything while examining my penis today?" he asked her.

There was a slight quaking before the witch answered him. He recognized it as a negative response to the veritaserum. An attempt not to answer.

"Yes," she said shortly.

"What did you feel?" he asked her softly, trying to keep the negative response from happening. But the hesitation and quaking were much more pronounced.

"Answer me, Dr. Granger. You must tell me the truth," the Potions Master said insistently.

"My stomach felt as if there were something moving inside it, I became hot all over, I wanted to keep touching it even after I was done with the examination. I wanted to continue to listen to you groan. I wanted to take your penis into my mouth," she said in a low, quavering voice.

Severus felt his cock throb powerfully at this admission. He was sure her reaction was inspired by Vashti's curse.

"Was it the curse that made you feel this way?" he asked her. Deep down she would know.

"Partially it was the curse. Partially it was the way you responded to me touching you. How you sounded. How you looked. The way you looked at me," she answered, still quavering.

"How did I look at you, Dr. Granger?" he asked her.

"Like you would consume me, devour me. No one ever looked at me like that before. It felt…it felt like I wanted to be devoured," she responded.

Severus studied her. Here was the crux of the matter. Suddenly the two house elves winked in, their arms full of bed linens. They walked to the guest bedroom and the door swung open. They entered and the door shut behind them. Severus looked at Hermione again and continued his questioning.

"Do you want me to devour you Dr. Granger?" he asked her.

"Perhaps one day. You are not a starter wizard, Professor," she answered.

Severus looked perplexed.

"A starter wizard, Dr. Granger?" he asked her, his head cocked.

"Your penis is too big. You would not be a good wizard to have sex with for the first time. I need an average sized wizard to deflower me," she responded. "I would have to work my way up to someone as large as you are."

Both of Severus' eyebrows rose. Sure he was huge, he knew that…but he had never thought of himself as a wizard that a witch had to "work up to". She just had to take him as he was. The wizard fought back a laugh. Of course Hermione would think like this. In her mind, it was a logical progression to work up to a large cock rather than to start out with one. To first take baby steps before she ran full gallop. He smirked.

"Are you still repressed, Dr. Granger?" he asked.

"No. I've been thinking about you and sex on and off all day," she replied.

"Always in my presence?" he asked her.

"No," she responded.

Severus tapped his pale finger to his chin. Vashti's curse seemed to have long reaching implications. He had not been in the witches' presence when they decided to come to his rooms. So there could be a lasting signature that kept a witch randy for him once they felt the influence of the spell. Hermione could still be feeling Vashti's curse out of his presence. There was really no way to tell, though she believed it was partially her own attraction because of what she felt during examining him.

"Do you think you would like to touch me again, Dr. Granger?" he asked her.

The witch hesitated and quavered again.

"Yes," she said softly.

His black eyes glinted.

"Would you like to have sex with me, Dr. Granger?" he questioned her, his belly tightening.

The longest hesitation occurred this time. A full minute passed before she answered him.

"If I were able to take you, yes. But you are too big, Professor," she said.

Telling her that she could take him if she wanted him would do no good under veritaserum. It wouldn't sink in and she would have no recall of it.

"Is there anyone else you would consider having sex with?" he asked.

"No. No one else ever made me feel like you did," she responded.

Severus stared at the witch in her oversized clothes. He wished he could see her shape at least.

"Why do you wear such large clothes, Dr. Granger?" he asked her.

"In university, my body was distracting. I wasn't taken seriously by wizards. I could speak to them but their eyes were always sweeping over my body and I could tell they were thinking sexually and not intellectually. So I began wearing shapeless clothes and everything improved. I pinned back my hair as well to look more intellectual and less sexual. It is easier to work around wizards when they aren't thinking about what you look like naked," she said.

"Tell me what your body looks like, Dr. Granger," Severus asked, his voice dropping very low as his eyes swept over her uniform and lab coat.

"I am short, five-three. My measurements are thirty-six, twenty-three, thirty-six, which gives me very strong female attributes that wizards respond to. My thighs are kind of heavy like my mother's. My nipples are very dark, almost brown and my pubic hair is chestnut, I keep it neatly trimmed. My limbs are very flexible and I am in good shape because I exercise frequently," she said.

Thirty-six, twenty-three, thirty-six? Good gods. She certainly would be very distracting in clothes that fit her properly. Still he would like to see her in clothes that fit. Actually, he would love to see her naked. Too bad veritaserum didn't have mind control properties. The elves exited the guest room and nodded to the Professor before winking out.

Hermione's eyes began to blink, and Severus realized that the serum was wearing off.

Quickly, he rose and stepped over to the witch, leaning her back in the armchair and stretching out her legs. He took the stasis spell off her salad, then strode quickly to his room, entered and closed the door.

Hermione came to herself and looked over to the Professor's empty chair. Where had he gone? She was just talking to him.

She realized she was leaning back in the chair, her legs stretched out. Had she fallen asleep? It certainly looked like it. She rose and stretched, then looked down at her salad. It still looked fresh. The clock over the fireplace showed an hour had passed. She must have dozed off and the Professor retired rather than wake her. That was considerate of him.

No longer hungry, Hermione left her food on the table for the house elves to collect, walked to her bedroom and closed and warded the door.

The guest room door cracked slightly, and Severus peered out. The witch had gone to bed. She believed she had dozed off just as he hoped she would. He closed the door and divestoed his clothing, then climbed into the four-poster naked, lying on top of the sheets. The house elves had provided Slytherin colored bedding. They knew what the Professor liked.

Hm. So Dr. Granger was attracted to him, most likely because Vashti's curse had reawakened the witch's natural urges and she had seen him naked and sexually aroused. The fact that Hermione was under the curse did nothing to tug at the wizard's conscience. He was a Slytherin. His own desires came first…the successful completion of them was always his primary purpose.

Gods, she had wanted to put her mouth on his cock. If she had, Severus could guarantee that Dr. Granger would no longer be a virgin. The Potions Master would have bent her right over that cot, lifted that lab coat, pulled down those huge trousers and lit into her good and hard. He wouldn't even have realized she was a virgin, and probably wouldn't have stopped once he did realize it. She would have been deflowered after all. He'd have no other recourse but to continue.

Severus felt himself hardening at the thought of being the first to fuck the untouched witch. She had told him all he needed to know, and her natural urges combined with Vashti's curse made her a prime target. All the witches at Hogwarts might be attracted to him, but there was only one witch in the castle walls that he wanted to lay wand to…and that was Dr. Hermione Granger. She would be his focus until the curse was either cured or completed. The game was afoot.

He snorted when he remember how she said he was "no starter wizard." His dark eyes glinted. Ah, well…Dr. Granger wasn't going to get the opportunity to "work her way up" to him. She was just going to have to start at the top.

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Vashti sat scowling on her throne of bones in the catacombs. The wizard had finally acknowledged her reality, and the fact that the curse that was on him. The Vampire Queen had felt the shift inside him when she settled into his mind. The power of her sexuality was also in force, attracting witches to him. So he was in the process of turning. But the reason she was scowling was because she felt the presence of another desire in him. A strong and focused desire for a single mortal woman.

That could ruin everything. If he were just fucking the hordes of attracted women because he could, that was one thing. But to have a targeted desire for a single woman meant the wizard's desire for Vashti could be compromised, possibly redirected and enflamed for this mysterious woman.

Severus' will had to be completely turned to Vashti, or she could not draw him to her and complete the turning that would keep him self-willed and sentient. She could not make him a king. The Queen had to find out who this woman was and gain access to her. Send her minions to kill her.

The woman could not be allowed to live or she could steal her king.

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A/N: Some Q & A session. Severus is so slick. He made Hermione think she had dozed off to cover the lost time when under the serum's influence. Now Hermione is on Vashti's radar, and the witch has no idea she's been targeted for death.