Doubts and Desires

A/N: Thank you for being so patient with me. I know it has been a long while since I\'ve updated. There was Thanksgiving, and then professors realized that we only had two weeks of school left, so they gave lots of assignments and then there were finals. After those I went home for the first time since August, so I was busy with that and now school is starting back. *sighs* Anyways, thapthapter is finally written, and I\'m going to really try to write as much as I can. I still need to write chapters in my other three fanfics (Where the Heart Is, I\'ll Forget You, and Pursuing a Flower). Also, if you would like to know how I\'m doing on my fanfics or my general life, I have put things up in my deadjournal, which can be found at http://www.deadjournal.com/users/snapesdream/ . Thank you for all of the reviews as well. I greatly enjoy reading them, and it\'s so rewarding to see how much people are enjoying the story. Sorry again for it being such a long time between chapters.


Chapter Fourteen: An Unusual Request


Severus woke up early that morning. He smiled as his hands lightly ran over the sleeping and naked Hermione. Since that one night over two weeks ago, they had taken to spending a lot of time in each other’s quarters. He was still surprised that she wanted him so much, but he knew she did just by looking into her lovely eyes.

Hermione shifted in his arms and opened her eyes. She smiled when she saw that he was awake. “It’s nice to wake up to this.”

“Yes, it is,” he drawled as he pulled her up closer to him and caught her lips in a passionate kiss. He had woken semi-aroused, but he could tell that he was quickly becoming harder.

Her hands ran down his chest. She knew that neither one of them was perfect, but they were perfect for each other, which was all that mattered. Her hands went lower. “Very nice to wake up to,” she murmured against his lips as she ran her fingers long his erection. He moaned softly into her mouth. She smiled and moved to straddle him. Moving down, she placed feather-light kisses down along his jaw and to his neck. She was quite aroused and knew that he could feel her wetness against his skin. Slowly, she kissed down his chest, lightly running her tongue around his nipples. She scooted down, kissing his upper torso and making a beeline toward his erection. She moved her long hair to the side, which caused it to send a tickling sensation over his skin that was making him more aroused. She got to the base of his erection. Her heated gaze ran over it, noticing how the blood had moved to his cock. Her hot breath was lightly hitting it, causing his cock to twitch toward her. Her eyes slowly rose to meet his as he was watching to see what she would do. They had experimented a little with each other but nothing much. Her pink tongue darted out and ran over his cock from the base to the tip. She loved how his hips had bucked involuntarily toward her. Her lips parted and took the tip of his cock into her mouth and slowly ran her tongue over the tip, tasting his pre-cum.

He moaned and thrust toward her, causing her to take more of him in her mouth. Although he was greatly enjoying the wicked pleasures she was giving him, he wanted to please her as well. “Turn around,” he called out in a husky tone.

She raised her head and looked at him with a confused look.

“Head there, rest of you up here,” he commanded in a rather sharp, professorial tone.
She practically scrambled and turned around. She obviously wasn’t moving fast enough, since he had grabbed her hips and brought her hot pussy to his mouth, running his tongue along the folds. She moaned against his erection. Oh, so this was the ancient art of 69!

She closed her lips around his erection and began to lick and suck while he continued to pleasure her. Soon it became quite obvious that they were trying to get the other one to cum first. Each one began to quicken the pace. She relaxed her throat and took him deeper, which caused him to growl against her clit. The sensations pushed Hermione over the edge as she let out a choked scream and pulled away from his cock as the waves of her orgasm washed over her.

Severus gave her no time to relax when he pushed her off of him and quickly mounted her. He heard her give a gasp of surprise as he pushed his cock through the wet, slippery folds and began to thrust in and out of her. He did not last long though, considering of all the pleasure he had been given before. “Hermione,” he whispered in a low, husky voice as his hot cum shot inside of her. He lightly collapsed on her and slowly stroked her hair as his breathing calmed down.

She snuggled against him, enjoying the feel of his weight against her. She felt so relaxed and safe. It felt like nothing bad could happen to them like this.

He slowly began to place light kisses against her neck, relishing the fact that he was very lucky to have a woman who wanted him as much as he wanted her. His kisses left her neck and hovered above her lips, just about to possess them when an infernal voice called out.

“Severus?” the voice was heard in the living room.

“Crap,” he mumbled, quickly tossing a blanket over them just before the Headmaster’s disembodied head appeared in the fireplace.

Acting as if he didn’t notice that they were just covered with a sheet, Albus said, “Severus, Hermione, if you two would come on up to my office, I have something of great importance to discuss with you two.”

“Yes, Sir. We’ll be there in a little bit,” Severus said in an obviously annoyed and slightly embarrassed tone.

Albus merely nodded and left.

Severus kissed her lightly on the lips and pushed himself off of her by using the bed. “We better get ready and find out what he wants.” He had cast a cleansing spell of them and was getting dressed for the first time since Friday afternoon.

Hermione shivered in the cool dungeon air from the loss of heat. “We’re not in trouble, are we?” she inquired as she stood up and quickly got dressed. There was a blush to her cheeks from being caught by the Headmaster in Severus’ bed.

“No, I don’t think so,” he said, having no clue actually why they were being called. “Ready?”

“Yes,” Hermione said as she had pulled her hair back in a clip.

They both left and quickly walked up to the Headmaster’s office. Severus stated the password, “Lemon drops,” and they both ascended the stairs.

“Come in and have a seat,” Albus called out as soon as they had reached the door. He noticed their confusion as they sat down. “I know that you two are wondering why I have called you here. I actually have a favor to ask of both of you.”

Severus’ eyes narrowed. He was always wary of Albus’ favors. It was how he had become a spy for Voldemort the second time, even though he was quite content not to go back to the Dark Lord. “What is it, Albus?”

Albus remembered quite well when he had asked Severus for the last favor. This one was in just as great importance. “I need the two of you to work on a potion. Create the potion, actually, since no one has ever been able to create one before.” He leaned forward slightly and looked at them. “This is of the utmost importance, and if anyone can create this potion, it would be the two of you. I have my complete faith in the two of y--.”

“What does this potion do?” Severus stated, cutting Albus off since he didn’t want to put up with all this flattery.

Albus sat back and stated plainly, “I need a potion that will block the Killing Curse.”

Severus blinked. “But…it’s impossible! No one has ever been able to create a potion like that before. They have tried, but it’s never worked. And, why do we need a potion like that anyways? What is such the rush now for it?” He raised an eyebrow, giving Albus a suspicious look.

Albus kept quite a calm exterior. “We have always had a need for such a potion. It has been four years since Voldemort has been gone. You know as well as I do that the dark powers are still out there. I believe we need to be prepared, and I honestly do think that with the two of you working together on this, that you will be able to come up with a potion. It is very important. Will you at least try to work on it?” He gave them a look that he wasn’t going to take no for an answer.

Severus looked over to Hermione. “What do you think, Hermione?”

Hermione had been rather pensive about this potion. She understood the importance of it, especially since it was needed anyways just in case, but for it to suddenly come up now, she was rather curious about it. They had actually discussed creating such potions, and she had worked on a few of her own, which were still in testing and research stages. She could put them off for this though. “Although such a potion has not been successfully produced, I do think it would be quite valuable to create for the entire wizarding world.” She looked at Albus seriously. “There are no promises that we can work this potion out either, Albus, but we can work hard at it and give it an honest shot.”

Albus smiled, relieved that Hermione was being such a good sport about this. “I would like the two of you to begin your research and trying out various methods as soon as possible. I thank you for doing this. It is important.”

“If that is all?” Severus inquired, wanting to get out of there. They had agreed to this insane task, and he was beginning to wonder what exactly Hermione had gotten the two of them into with agreeing to work on this project.

“Yes, it is. I want updates of your progress every other day. You two are dismissed.” Albus said, giving them a knowing smile.

Severus stood up curtly and walked out, not even waiting for Hermione to come with him.

“Bye, Albus,” Hermione said, giving a slight exasperated sigh as she ran off to catch up with Severus. “If you didn’t really want to do it, you should have told him and not left it up to me.”

Severus paused and turned around quickly, catching her by surprise. “I didn’t feel I had much choice. Albus wants what he wants and will do what he can to get it.” He almost chuckled at the thought that he had sometimes wondered if Albus didn’t have a bit of Slytherin in him that crept up at times. His powers of persuasion were quite legendary, and he didn’t think that was exactly a normal Gryffindor trait. He noticed her expression and sighed. Lightly, he touched her cheek. “It’s okay, Hermione. We will work on this potion and with a little work and luck, we might even be able to get it to work, but I have to admit that I’m not crazy about the idea or the fact that Albus seems so intent on getting this done now. It’s just rather suspicious, and I don’t like to be kept in the dark on such things.”

She nodded. “I have to admit that it is an unusual request. I never would have expected it, but it sounds quite challenging.” Her eyes sparkled. She just couldn’t give up such a challenge.

He noticed the sparkle and remembered it actually from her student days when something was challenging her. Some things never changed, he thought, finding this part of it rather comforting. “Let’s go downstairs and forget about our little task for Dumbledore for the moment.” He was already practically pulling her downstairs to the dungeons and ignoring the group of students that they had passed for the most part except giving them a timely glare that caused them to look away and scatter. They quickly got back downstairs and into his quarters.

“Oh, are you sure? Perhaps we should get started doing research,” Hermione said, her mind already thinking about various books she could check out to begin her research.

He leaned in and pulled her closely, knowing that she could feel that he was already aroused again. He then kissed her possessively, slipping his tongue inside of her mouth to intertwine with her own. “Forget about it for now,” he said into her mouth.

She moaned in response and completely gave into him again. She just couldn’t quite deny him, and she honestly did not want to. The potion request could wait until later. What was the rush anyhow? It wasn’t like they were in sudden danger.


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