What a Beautiful Curse *COMPLETE*

Hermione and Neville were seemingly missing from the house when Severus had gotten home from his extremely long week
at the school. While his body went through the motions of teaching Potions to the students his mind was not even in the
same region, he was thinking about Hermione not only worrying about her mental or physical health but if she was 

possibly finding comfort in the well-muscled arms of the much younger man. While he attempted to sleep in his cold and 

lonely quarters in the dungeons a movie played behind his eyes, in his dreams and tortured mind he saw Neville 

Longbottom repeatedly taking Hermione in varying positions and in different rooms. By his last class on Friday, Severus 

was nearly insane with a jealous rage that he wasn't sure was even justifiable at the moment, he let the class out 

twenty minutes earlier than he usually would have and took off in to his private chambers. The students happily packed 

up and made thier ways back to their respective houses not knowing or even caring why the usually stand-offish professor 

was being nice enough to let them start thier weekends early. When everyone was gone from his classroom Severus locked 

the store room, his office and chambers and then his classroom and made his way to the front door only being held up 

once by the headmistress wondering where he was going so early. He lied and told her that his students had been working 

so hard and doing so well he was feeling a little more charitable than normal and gave them an early release as a thank 

you for not blowing anything up or giving him a headache all week. Minerva laughed and made a comment that Hermione was 

softening him up and with a forced laugh of his own, Severus walked out of the castle and apparated as soon as he was 

outside of the gates. Severus forced himself to walk up to the house and inside the lightened front hallway, stopping 

briefly to wonder when it had become such a bright and cheerful place. He looked in all the rooms on the first floor but 

couldn't find Hermione or Neville, he started walking up the stairs and stopped on the landing his eyes widening and 

then narrowing dangerously. There was male grunting coming from a large and rarely used set of rooms, a set that he was 

pretty sure hadn't been used in at least fifty years, there was a very feminine groan a little bumping, two gasps (from 

both parties) and then there was heavy breathing.

"Oh god..." Hermione breathed "Oh...I actually hurt now" 

"I know" Neville agreed with heavy panting and a small laugh. 

"It's really big Neville" Hermione gasped "You didn't give me a sufficient amount of warning"

"You wouldn't have done it had I warned you" Neville accused.

"Why did I agree to this?" Hermione asked, only now regaining control over her breathing. 

"Because you love me" Neville answered, Severus felt his heart breaking as he got closer to the door.

"Severus isn't going to like this at all" Hermione said as if in afterthought. 

The potions master pushed open the door and walked in quickly. A part of him wanted to catch them in the act and another 

part just wanted to run back to the school and think of an excuse never to come back, to force himself to believe that 

Hermione was happy with him. The anger in him, however, won out over all of it and he chose to walk in to see thier 

position, to let them know he knew and to watch the horror paint Hermione's face but that wasn't what he walked in on at 

all. Neville was sprawled in a chair with his long legs out in front of him and his head resting against the back of the 

chair, Hermione was lying flat on her back at the end of the old dusty bed and she was looking at the ceiling while her 

chest still heaved. At her feet was a huge simple enough looking enclosed wooden curio cabinet, Severus looked down at 

the floor and noted small scrapes and drag marks in the dust that led the way towards where the cabinet now stood 

against the wall. He wanted to slap himself for being such an idiot, he thought they'd been having sex and had been 

talking about the size of Neville's manhood and the whole time they'd been discussing a damn curio cabinet. Severus 

looked at them for a minute before he chuckled, cunfusing them both as he started to laugh harder and harder no longer 

able to string along sentences to tell them what was so amusing. Hermione stood from the bed and quickly wiped away the 

dust on the back of her clothing as she walked over to her laughing fiancee, she was worried that maybe he'd been 

poisoned or maybe hit with a giggling curse cast by a student that wanted to get him back for something he'd done 

earlier that week. Hermione put her hand gently on his shoulder and slowly he calmed down and pull her roughly against 

him, kissing her deeply, she responded with a throaty moan and closing her eyes while he fixed his black eyes on 

Neville, challenging him to try to do something to or with Hermione. Neville grinned and shook his head as he 

submissively lowered his gaze to the ground.

"Wow" Hermione said, when he allowed her to breathe again "Did you miss me or something?"

"I always miss you when I'm gone" Severus said "You may leave now, Longbottom as you can see I'm home" 

"Actually" Hermione said "I told him that he could stay here for a while" 

"What?" Severus asked, narrowing his beautiful eyes to look at her with something akin to betrayal deep within thier 

depths "Why would you do that?" His words were clipped and held anger behind them. 

"He recieved an eviction notice last month" Hermione informed Severus "He was given thirty days to find a new place and 

to move out but he had a job that took longer than planned and was unable to find somewhere to go. I told him that I 

could use the company while you're away at the school and when he get's a new client he'll be gone...I didn't think 

you'd mind"  

"So you just let someone move in to MY house while I am at work and I'm expected to be okay with it?" He asked her 

clenching his teeth. Hermione's mouth dropped open in shock and her eyes widened for a moment before after several 

blinks she forced a laugh to bubble up from her chest and fall from her lips as she took a step away from him, watching 

the hands that had been holding her hands fall slightly without hers to hold them up. 

"I thought it was my house as well, Severus" Hermione said "I thought that being engaged meant that we shared everything 

and helped one another" She nodded her head to herself "I see that I am the only one who felt that way, excuse me 

please"

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Too angered about what she did to go after her, Severus gave Neville the harshest glare he could muster before storming 

away to his private rooms and study. Neville looked around the room for a few minutes before he went back to unpacking 

his stuff, he didn't feel bad in the least for staying with her and he didn't care that they were fighting because of 

his presence. He knew that Hermione wouldn't kick him out and while he sincerely wished that Snape had come back being 

completely okay with his extended stay in the house he wasn't surpised that it hadn't worked that way and he knew that 

Hermione would make sure that he was alright in a few hours. Neville knew that it wouldn't be a good idea to talk to him 

right away but assumed that in a couple hours he too could talk to the older man and let him know that he had no 

interest in sleeping with Hermione. She was like a sister to him, she was a great boss and a wonderful friend that he 

could hardly imagine living without, he would admit to her being attractive because he was a man and not blind but he 

wasn't in to one night stands and wouldn't ruin her relationship like that. Neville wasn't sure if he was destined to be 

married or single but he wasn't rushing things, if he fell in love then he fell in love and that would be that but 

unlike most his age he didn't want to push it. When his room was cleared of dust and his stuff was put away he finally 

decided to go find his friend as it had already been two hours and he was sure that she'd be pretty cooled off by the 

time he found her. He made his way straight to the third floor where she'd taken to spending her time when she wanted to 

be alone, she told him at one point that she felt closer to her ancestor on that floor even though he never lived there 

she was sure that his spirit came to visit and was on that floor. He walked to the bedroom that Severus told him that 

she tried to kill herself in and sure enough she was sitting on the floor leaning against bed looking at the dark walls 

and floors. When he entered the room Hermione looked over at him with a small smile and just shook her head as he sat 

down and looked at her, waiting. She needed to talk and he knew that she he would wait patiently until she'd figured out 

what she wanted to say to him and how she wanted to either ask for help or if she merely wanted him as a sounding board 

to listen to her tale of woe.    

"Do you think I overreacted?" She asked him after a few minutes "Do you think I should go apologize to him or wait for 

him to apologize?"

"I think that you reacted the way anyone would have in the situation" Neville said "I think that if you want to 

apologize then do it. No one was right nor wrong in the conversation, I think that Snape though we were having sex in 

that room and therefor he was already upset then springing my staying here on him like that was just the cherry on top" 

He grinned evilly at her "Just wait until I try to poison you so I can make him fall in-love with me" 

"Ah hell, Neville" Hermione whined "Don't remind me, I have to deal with the Luna situation on Monday" 

"I've been meaning to talk to you" He said, looking serious again "About three weeks in to your employment here with 

Snape's aunt, the patient that Luna was working with had passed away. You used to go and give your condolences so with 

you gone I took on that task, I told the wife that I was deeply saddened by the loss of her husband and she gave a 

hollow laugh and told me that she could tell by Luna's personality that this job hardened the heart" Hermione looked
confused "I asked her what she meant by that and she told me that Luna had been very cold and unfeeling about everything 

from the time they hired her to the time her husband died. She assumed that it was just a way we didn't get attached to 

the patient we were working with and I agreed so as not to have any bad press brought down on our office but that was 

when I started talking to Harry and Draco about her"

"What did they have to say?" Hermione asked. 

"Harry didn't notice anything out of the ordinary" Neville said "But Draco had an interesting view to our friend. He 

told me that he thinks we're all too close to her to notice that she's been severely changed since the war, that the 

changes have been small and slow to come to a full fruitation but he thinks that its there now and we're starting to 

notice it" 

"What did Harry say?" Hermione asked, always trusting her green-eyed friends views on peoples state of mind. 

"He fought about it for a few minutes" Neville said "But Draco had a point. Ginny's changed from the war and her first 

year but she's been wide open about that, same with Bill Weasley, I know that I've changed and you have too and even 

Harry and Draco have changed and we've all been very open about it all and even seeking help when it's needed" Hermione 

nodded "Luna on the other hand has been trying so hard to make sure that we all see the same sweet and hair-brained 

Ravenclaw we all learned to love, she won't admit to having been changed by the war at all and after so long of denying 

all that I think that it finally did something to her"

"But to honestly be upset that I didn't die?" Hermione asked. 

"Her father died because of what happened in the war" Neville said "I think that some part of her is upset that you 

didn't suffer more from the war, that you didn't lose a parent or anything else like that in the war when so many others 

did" Hermione lowered her head "Don't feel bad. She had deluted herself in to thinking that if you were out of the way 

she could take over your perfect life with the perfect friends and the perfect fiancee"

"So what do I do?" She asked him and he shrugged.

"I tried to get her to get help" He informed "I think maybe...talk to Kingsley about this, if he, the minister of magic, 

feels that she could be a threat to herself or others he can have her committed and get her the help that she needs" 

"Then that's what I'll do" Hermione said, standing up she helped her friend off the ground "I need to go talk to 

Severus" 

"I'm going to go have a drink with Draco and Harry" Neville said "They are considering on adopting a baby" 

"That's great" Hermione smiled "I really missed a lot, huh?" 

"A bit" He smiled "Have a good night" 

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"You hurt me" Hermione said from the doorway to Severus's bedroom, he turned and looked at her and she could see that he 

was quite upset "If you want me to be your wife then you need to understand that this is my home too and that if need be 

I will help my friends no matter what, do you want me as your wife?" 

"Yes" He said standing up and walking towards her "I..."

"Shush" Hermione said, holding out her arm and placing her open palm against his chest to stop him "If it were Narcissa 

or any of your other friends I would have been okay with it, even if I was insanely jealous that they would be here with 

you when I am not" 

"Hermione, I..." Severus started.

"Shush" She said again "I don't want to hear your words, I don't want to know your excuses even if they are good. I want 

to know that you love me and I want you to express your love AND your trust in me without those words"  

He was unsure of what to do, he knew that sex wasn't what she was asking for though her eyes were filling with a lust he 

hadn't seen ages. He had to prove to her that he was going to be an adult about having Longbottom in the house when he 

wasn't around and that was far more difficult than she could ever understand because he was worried that she would 

realize how old he was and decide that she wanted a younger man and how better than Longbottom who was a good man and 

would love her unconditionally. Hermione walked closer to him and slid her hand up his shirt, pushing it over his head 

and then leaned in and kissed him, her eyes locked with his and she smirked as she lowered her hand and grasped his 

erection. He let out a light gasp as she stroked him through the material of his pants, she stepped back and he frowned 

when she let go of him but a smile replaced that frown when she waved her wand and left herself naked to his hungry 

gaze. She pushed him back so he was sitting on the bed and she pulled him out of his pants stroking him again before 

placing her core over his member making sure to keep eye contact with him the whole time while she lowered herself on to 

him. He wasn't used to her being the one in charge but this new, dominent side of her was more of a turn on then he 

suspected, she rode him hard not taking the time even see if he was close to an orgasm or not and more arousing was her 

lack of caring. She bounced nearly uncontrollably in his lap and he thrusted up in to her, her fingers sought out and 

rubbed her clit to bring herself closer to what she wanted and needed for so long when she reached her orgasm it was her 

loudest one yet but Severus wasn't done. He tossed her off of him and grabbed her leg lifting it high on his hips and 

giving him a better angle to pound in to her all too willing body, his rubbed her clit again and he smirked at her. She 

wanted to play with him thinking that she'd finish and he'd just cum when he was ready, well that didn't work for him 

and he was going to make her orgasm again even if it did wipe her out. She screeched her second orgasm while Severus 

groaned out his own, he pulled out and slid to the side of the bed with a smirk when he realized that she'd passed out 

instantly. It was so cute when she tried to take charge. 

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A/N: I hope you like this, sorry about any messed up words or the shortness of the chapter I lost my WORD and am using my NOTEPAD on my computer. Tell me what you think!!!!