Dance With The Devil

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sorry its been so long since i updated. midterms had me packed under books for liek 2 weeks. ugh.

Chapter 13

Hermione cracked an eye open to the sun streaming into the bed room. It was so bright!
No one had closed the curtains before bed. She wasn’t sure what time it was but she had a feeling it was still early. She looked at Severus sleeping next to her. He was lying on his back with one arm flung across his eyes.
“Well you blocked the sun out. But I can’t.”

Hermione was too awake to go back to sleep. So she got out of bed and stumbled into the bathroom. Her hair looked like a giant rat nest. She proceeded to brush her teeth and use the toilet. She was normally a bight chipper person in the morning. But seeing the hair she had to tackle today made her scowl. She decided the only way to deal with it was by having a bath and conditioning it.
“Stupid curly hair.” She said as she prepared her bath.

“I agree, although I wouldn’t say the curly part of it is stupid. More like the unruly part. I rather enjoy the curls…when tamed.”
Hermione looked up at Severus standing in the door way…stark naked.
“I uh…bath…condition…nice hair.” She stuttered. Although she was also standing naked she was more concerned about him being naked and his very large morning erection.
“Don’t worry you silly girl. I don’t want to have sex again. I simply need to use the facilities.”
“I was just about to use the bath.”
“Well go ahead. I won’t disturb you.”
“Uh alright.”
Hermione stepped into the tub and laid back. She began to relax and wash her hair. She tried her hardest to ignore Severus musing about the bathroom. Although she couldn’t ignore him when he climbed in the tub with her.

“What are you doing? This is my bath.”
“Not anymore. I need to get clean too and it just seems silly to draw two baths. The tub is more than large enough to accommodate us. I’m not going to accost you. Stop thinking that.”
They began washing themselves in a comfortable silence. Hermione was blushing when she thought of the parts of Severus that lay below the bubbles. Since they both seemed relaxed Hermione decided now was the best time to speak to Severus about something on her mind.
“Severus?”
“mm?”
“Can I invite Harry and Ron over this weekend?”
“Yes, as long as they don’t irritate me. This is your home too. You do not need to ask me for permission. Fair warning is good. This home is big enough to accommodate you to receive people and a completely different area of the house than I am in.”
“Alright. Thank you Severus.”
Severus could see Hermione was wrestling something else over in her head.
“Anything else?”

“I uh…you know it’s not nice to spy into my head.”
He knew there still was a few things they hadn’t talked about yet.
“I wasn’t spying. It’s plainly written all over your face. Your not hard to read.”
“This baby business is still tugging at my mind.”
“As it should. You only 18 and your already married and expected to have children. I feel it would be best for both of us to wait until the end of the next school year before conceiving. We have a better chance of leaving this marriage without strings if the law is over turned before then. But if we do have children that would defiantly put some dents in our plans for the future. I know you wanted to go to university. You would not be able to live on campus. You would have to live here and floo to school. We can hire a nanny to care for the baby when we are out of this home. I confess that if we do have children I would not be living at Hogwarts anymore. I would live here and floo there.”
“Why?”
“I want to be with my children. For as much as I am not in favour of being forced to reproduce, they are still my children, my heirs. Regardless of their mother or the marriage or under what circumstances they were conceived. I may be a dark man but I am not a monster. I do want children…just not this soon.”
“You have surprised me. I figured that you wouldn’t want kids and when there were kids I figured you wouldn’t want to be around.”
“Well you have underestimated me. This bath is beyond done. Get out.”

There he went ordering her around again. She got out of the bath and toweled herself off.
For the first time she noticed the wedding ring on her finger. She didn’t remember putting it on. She went out into the bedroom where Severus was putting on his cloths for the day.
“Severus? Did you put this on me while I was sleeping?” She waved her hand up.
Severus looked down at his ring.
“No, Hermione. It is part of the ceremony. It gets put on you then.”
“No one put anything on me. How did it get there?”
“Magic.”

Hermione smile and then went to get dressed. She stopped. She had no clothes here.
“Uh I have no clothes here.”
“Yes you do. Your parents sent me all of your things. Your clothes have been unpacked into this wardrobe.” He indicated to one on his left. “And you other things are still in boxes in another room.”
Hermione dressed comfortably. She still didn’t feel like she lived there. The next thing she would have done would have been to go to the kitchen for breakfast. But she didn’t know where that was.
“Severus, could you show me around now so I can get my bearings.”
“Of course, let us go to breakfast first.”

Severus and Hermione set off. She found the kitchens on the first floor towards the back. They were house elf run of course but there was still an area inside them to sit. There was of course a dinning room, but it was massive. Severus said he didn’t like using it because it was just too big. He toured her all over the house. Not that you could call it a house. He showed her the more personal part of the manor. Where their bedroom was, extra bedrooms, baths, study, sitting rooms and the library. He had to drag her out of that room while she was protesting “but you have so many! I need to see them...please!!”

They toured the grounds too. The lush patio with the gardens surrounding it. The green houses, “Yes I like to grown my own ingredients when I can.” He told her when she laughed at him when he told her he gardened. Hermione pictured Severus in flowery gardening gloves and a wide brimmed sun hat. The image brought laughter out of her. Severus glared at her. She stopped. He showed her the large pond teaming with fish. Apparently he liked to fish too. There was a tire swing over the pond. Hermione saw it and asked about it.
“It is from when I was little.”

Hermione couldn’t contain her laughter anymore. She bust out laughing until the tears came. Severus waited patently and then asked her what was so funny.
“You as a child.”
“Well of course I was a child!”
“I know but I’ve never contemplated you as a kid. Plus you garden and you fish. I can’t imagine you puttering around the flower beds or relaxing but the pond, fishing pole in hand. It’s just a little funny to me.”
“I expect it would be. But now I am to leave you. But I’m giving you homework.”
“Really?! Can I used the library? What is it about?”
“No Hermione not that kind of homework.” They started to walk back to the manor where tea had been set up on the patio. Hermione sat down and started on a cup of tea for herself. Severus remained standing.
“I am going downstairs to work in my labs. You are never to enter them without me. I am very serious about this. It is for your own safety. While I am there I want you to write down five sexual rewards you would like and five sexual punishments. Then put them in the box on the table in front of the fire place in our bedroom. This is so you have a 50/50 chance of getting punished as you do rewarded.” Severus purred down at her. He turned and strode into the manor.
“Tibby?” She called
The house elf appeared.
“Can I have a quill, ink and some parchment please?”
The elf nodded and disappeared. The elf reappeared less that a minute later, everything in hand.
“Does the mistress need anything else?”
“No, but would you sit with me? And could you call me Hermione?” The elf shook her head. “Ok well Mistress is just too long. How about miss? Have a cup of tea?”
The elf looked very timid at first.
“Please?”
“Ok miss, I will.”
“Thank you.” The elf pulled itself into a chair and took a cup of tea.

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