It\'s All Done With Mirrors

A/N: More citrus!


Chapter Thirteen
Another blast from the past.


Head of Slytherin\'s Private Quarters, March 1998

\"I want you so much, Severus,\" Hermione whispered into his hair, as they lay together on his bed, kissing.

He propped himself up on one arm, and looked into her lovely face.

\"Hermione, I want you too, but we really should wait until...I am so honoured that you could want to give yourself to me...I\'m so astounded at what we\'ve just done...it all seems so...sudden,\" he added, realising how lame and cliché-d he must sound.

Hermione giggled, and he blushed. \"Surely that is supposed to be my line?\" she purred. She lifted a hand and stroked the side of his face, her face appearing both tender and fierce at the same time.

\"Severus, I love you. I want to be with you, don\'t you agree that it would be the most ridiculous thing in the world if I didn\'t want you inside me?\"

But they\'d just accelerated from stolen kisses and long looks to...Severus\' free hand reached out and touched her cheek. \'Her eyes are so damned beautiful,\' he thought.

\'Doesn\'t he want me? Why isn\'t he saying anything?\' Hermione wondered, beginning to panic slightly. Perhaps she had misread his desire for separation from her...perhaps it had nothing to do with propriety, and everything to do with regret. But if that was the case, why the hell hadn\'t he damn well said anything?

Well, she certainly hadn\'t given him much chance this afternoon, had she? Barging in and pulling his cock out without so much as a \"How are you?\". \'Way to go, Granger,\' she thought miserably, and a tear welled up in each eye.

\'Why is she crying?\' Severus looked at her in alarm. Did she regret what had just happened? He didn\'t want her to cry, he loved her! He wanted to devote the whole of his life, engineering the world to be absolutely perfect for his darling Hermione.

Moved by her obvious distress, he acted on impulse, bringing his lips to her eyes to kiss away the tears.

\"Oh, Severus,\" she burst out, sitting up abruptly. \"I\'m so sorry...I didn\'t even give you a chance to...I\'m just so appalled with myself! Haranguing you while you\'re working, hell-bent on seducing you - \" She broke off, her small form wracked with sobs.

Severus wound his arms around her, kissing where the tears fell on her cheeks, her lips and her neck. He deftly undid a button on her bodice, and another, following the path of her tears with his tongue. He undid a third, and with a hungry groan realised that she wasn\'t wearing a bra. His mouth roamed over the exposurveurve of one breast, tasting the sweet taste of her flesh mingled with the salt of tears.

Hermione moaned, as Severus\' tongue snaked under her breast. A delicious warmth began to pulsate between her legs as he trailed erotic kisses over her skin. She gasped again as he moved his hands to her breasts, cupping them in his palms, while his mouth claimed a nipple, causing her to let out a cry of longing.

She was so beautiful, thought Severus feverishly, as he slid his velvet tongue over her tightly wound flesh. He tantalised thut but bud with his lips and teeth, drawing wanton sounds from her open mouth.

Rapidly, he took one hand from her rounded breast and swiftly unbuttoned the rest of her dress until he reached the warm nest of curls between her thighs. Severus cupped her mound of Venus, causing her to tremble and shout out his name. Eagerly, he parted her pubic hair with one long, pale finger, stroking along her slick flesh from the top of her cleft to her soft depths, and plunged it into her.

Hermione collapsed backwards onto the bed, shuddering. He had brought her towards a peak so high it would be impossible to scale alone. She felt his mouth leave her nipple, and whimpered, but the complaint ended on a cry of delight as she felt his face bury itself between her thighs...

Severus felt drunk from the divine taste of her womanhood. His long tongue swirled around her clitoris, while he stroked her from within, with his finger. He could hear her panting with anticipation, which spurred him on in his delicious ministrations.

\'She tastes like...heaven,\' he marvelled. \'Like petals blended with wine and sea salt...and honey.\' Allowing his fingers to leave her deep well, Severus held her hips, pulling her pelvis towards his mouth, as his tongue dove into her, lapping at the juices of her arousal. He heard her cry out his name, her hips bucking against his face.

\"Severus! Ahhhhh, ggggodddsssssss!\"

Hermione squirmed as her orgasm seared through her. Every cell of her body seemed to be screamin ecs ecstasy. She could feel his face pressed against her centre, licking her clean like an animal. As her climax subsided, he continued to slowly move his tongue inside her, prodding softly and exquisitely her trembling flesh.

She propped herself up on both elbows, wanting to see his face...and at that moment Severus raised his eyes and removed his mouth from her. Hermione saw the shine of her juices on his cheeks and chin and lips, and trembled again.

I love you, too, he mouthed.

A slow, beautiful smile spread across her flushed face.


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Headmistress\'s Office, Hogwarts, 2010

\"Hermione?\"

Lavender was waving her arms at me, and it was my turn to blush.

\"Sorry guys, I was miles away.\"

I was saved from any further embarrassment by the arrival of Fawkes, the Phoenix. She landed on Dumbledore\'s shoulder and pecked affectionately at his earlobe.

\"Now then, Fawkes,\" murmured Dumbledore. \"I trust our friend is still sleeping soundly?\" Fawkes uttered a three-note cry, which must be an affirmative response, because the old wizard beamed.

\"Splendid! Now, Miss Granger...you will please proceed.\"

I opened my mouth, and then caught sight of Malfoy\'s smirking face. He had obviously got more than a clue as to where I\'d been in my mind just then. My face reddened even more, and I shot him a glare worthy of any Potions Master.

\"As I was saying, I pursued Severus, and then we...made love. And it was making love, Harry, OK?\"

Harry muttered something, but I chose to ignore him.

\"I wished it had been simpler, but the reality was that he was still my teacher, and I was officially underage, and about to take exams he would be marking. So we really couldn\'t be anything other than secretive about it. I wanted to continue meeting with him in the Library, and was even thinking of making him give me a couple of detentions...but Severus said that after what had happened that afternoon it would be best if we stopped all that until after I had graduated.
\"I fought against him, initially, but knew deep inside he was right. And I didn\'t want him to lose his job, which he certainly would have done, if you had discovered our activities, Professor Dumbledore.\"

Dumbledore regarded me gravely. \"My dear,\" he said, sighing. \"I have to say that I did have more than an inkling of your relationship with Severus. However,\" he went on, ignoring my startled gasp, \"you are incorrect in your assumption that I would necessarily have dismissed our worthy Potions Master. You forget, Miss Granger, that your use of the time turner in your third, fourth and fifth years at Hogwarts had an extraordinary effect upon your physical self.\"

\"I...I grew older, Professor?\"

\"Indeed you did, my dear. While your colleagues Mr. Potter and Mr. Malfoy graduated from Hogwarts at the age of seventeen, I calculated that your age was closer to nineteen years of age, making your liaison quite all right...in the legal sense.\"

A great weight seemed to lift from me, with the result that I felt rather giddy.

Dumbledore continued. \"However, I was pleased when it was apparent that the two of you had put some space een een you. I am certain that this was Severus\' decision, not wanting your excellent NEWT marks to be cast into doubt. Which would surely have happened, had you continued to see one another during the last term, although I know Severus\' feelings would not have affected your Potions marks. He is an honourable man.
\"I did not, however, know about your condition until Draco reported seeing you in Avebury. And am I right in assuming that you yourself overlooked your pregnancy while busy with studies and exams?\"

I nodded. Merlin\'s arse, I had just exploded the idiom: \'Tell me something Dumbledore *doesn\'t* know\'.

\"Then,\" Dumbledore continued, taking my arm, \"there are only a few more things which need to be clarified by myself. I take it you have a few questions yourself about the past 24 hours or so?\"

I nodded again. \"First of all, I\'d like to know why I have been hearing Snape\'s voice in my head every time I go near a mirror.\"