Hollow

Once more, all the characters belong to JK Rowling and I just mess around with them and put them in strange situations.

ALL CHARACTERS ARE OVER

And as always, IF YOUR OFFENDED BY IT, DON’T READ IT, I did make it NC-17 for a reason, hehe

Here were are, hope you all enjoy part two.


CHAPTER TWO: GUILTY CONSCIENCE

Snape’s mouth opened and he began to shout out “ No”, but his words were too late. Lying in front of him in an unconscious heap with Hermione Granger, the know it all mudblood. He pulled his limp body up from the ground and stared at the dark lord, but it was too late the dark lord had blended into the darkness and once more, he was gone, unscathed.
“ Hermione!” a voice shouted, and out of the darkness, came Harry Potter running with Weasley at his heels. Harry Potter knelt down beside his unconscious friend, a look of concern reigning on his face.
“ Is she alive?” asked Weasley, bewildered, and bemused.
“ She’s still breathing, and I feel a pulse,” said Harry.
“ And what are you doing out at this time, Mr. Potter and Mr. Weasley?” Snape asked as coldly as ever. “ It’s well past curfew, you should be in your common room. Might I have to talk to your head of house?”
“ Don’t you have a heart?” snapped Weasley in a sharp voice. Snape looked down on the ground, once again afraid to show any emotion or response that might make him seem weak. He looked at Hermione’s unconscious body, her skin pale, her eyes closed, a rip on her robe from where the light had hit her.
“ I’d advise you two to get back to the common room before I do tell McGongall about you’ve been sneaking around with your father’s retched invisibility cloak again… Why Dumbledoave ave you that thing in the first place, I have no idea. But go, Mr. Potter and Mr. Weasley.”
“ What about Hermione?” asked Harry.
“ I shall take care of her myself, now be off with you two.” Snape watched coldly as the two of them walked off, shoulders slumped, head hung low. When they were out of view he knelt down by the body and looked at it, a surge of incredible hatred filled him up. “ YOU STUPID GIRL,” he shouted, banging his fists into the ground. “ How could you be so stupid thinking that you alone could stop Voldemort’s curse?” Before he finished the sentence he felt tears in his eyes.

Snape pulled himself together, wiped at the few tears that had strayed with his black cloak. He then wrapped his arms around the girl’s slender body and heaved her off of the ground. Then he walked towards the castle.
Madame Pomfrey saw the unconscious girl in his arms and led him over to an empty bed; she drew the curtains around the area and then helped him place the girl in the bed. “ What happened Severus?” she asked sternly.
“ Voldemort somehow found a way to appear on the grounds,” Snape started explaining.
“ The dark lord?” asked Madame Pomfrey, shocked. “ I must alert the headmaster,” she said running off. She returned a few moments later with Dumbledore, a look of concern and hatred contorted on his face. Dumbledore eyed Severus stern.
“ What happened?” Dumbledore asked, his voice filled with indescribable rage.
“ I was outside looked at the moon, and suddenly Voldemort appeared…and he said that he knew I was a double agent and that I wasn’t loyal to him and that I had betrayed him and he performed the crucio curse on me…” Snape heard Dumbledore tisk, Dumbledore did not approve of the use of any of the unforgivable curses. “ He raised his wand to perform it again, and then out of the darkness, Hermione came running, shouting no, and she stepped in front of the light, and the curse hit her instead of me. Then when I turned to look again, he was gone…”
“ Voldemort appeared on Hog Hogwarts grounds?” Dumbledore’s facial expression changed to one of hatred and rage. “ There must be an immediate meeting of all the teachers. And I must send an owl to the ministry of magic.” Dumbledore eyed Snape again. “ You must let Madam Pomfrey look at you Severus, you’ve been through a lot.”
“ I’ll… I’ll be fine,” Snape snappedBut But what about the girl?
“ She’ll be okay, in time that is,” Madam Pomfrey said. “ She’ll need rest, and she’ll need to regain her strength.”
“ I… I just don’t understand it,” Snape said softly.
“ Understand what?” asked the headmaster.
“ Why she did what she did!”
“ Because she has a heart, that’s why,” a voice butt in. The three turned towards the curtain, Weasley and Potter were standing there. “ She couldn’t even stand to see someone like you experience something as painful as that.” The voice belonged to Ron Weasley. Both of them were still in their robes.
“ I thought I told you to get back to your common room,” Snape said.
“ We had to see how Hermione was,” Harry said in a voice reminiscent of his father’s. A voice that dripped with a surge of false importance and superioritygingging through it, as defiant as ever. James Potter had always ignored the rules. “ She’s one of our best friends.”
“ Now, now, Severus, I don’t see why Harry and Ron couldn’t come by to see if Hermione was okay. Things like this are always hardest on the people who care,” Dumbledore said, as usual sticking up for Potter. That’s not it at all headmaster, Snape thought, they just wanted to make sure I didn’t finish what the dark lord started.
“ Is she going to be okay?” Weasley asked.
“ In time, she’ll be fine,” Madam Pomfrey started. “ it’ it’ll take a long time for her to fully recover. Not very many people can stand a crucio curse of that power, especially seventh year students.”
“ Hermione won’t like that,” Weasley started. “ All the school work she’s going to miss.”
“ I know this is going to be hard on you, Ron and Harry. But I think it would be best for us all to get some sleep. You can come see Hermione tomorrow.”
“ Okay headmaster,” Harry said and the two of them slowly walked away. Snape’s eyes burned holes in their back as he stared. He heard Harry mention something about sending an owl to Sirius, his godfather, his anger erupted. He still blamed it on Harry that he didn’t get his order of Merlin for the capture of Black in the first place“ Th“ The meetings going to start soon, Severus,” Dumbledore began.
“ Please, Headmaster, grant me one request.”
“ What would that be?”
“ Let me stay with Hermione. I feel responsible for what’s happened, and I would like to sit with her for a while… I need times to piece things together before I face anyone else.”
“ I understand Severus, this must have been a horrible ordeal for you both.”
“ Thank you headmaster.”
“ Yes… I must be going now, everyone else is probably there already.” Dumbledore started walking away, he eyed Snape one more time. “ Don’t let it kill you, Severus, you’re not at fault here,” and with that Dumbledore disappeared.
“ I’ll leave you two alone,” Madame Pomfrey said. “ If you need me, just call.” She left as well.

Snape sat in the empty chair by the, he, he felt weak, like his insides had been torn apart, and for the first time in a long time, he felt absolutely helpless. Severus Snape was never one to feel helpless or powerless, let alone weak. He took Hermione’s hand from her bed. Her hand was cold, like ice, like she was dead. Her hand was so slender, so pale… “ Stupid girl,” his whispered. “ Why’d you do it? Why? I don’t understand it. After everything I’ve put you through…” He thought of everything and all the reason’s why she should hate him and let him experience the pain. All the abuse he put her through in class... not even just in class, outside of class as well. Laughed as Malfoy had made her front teeth grow. Taken off points for her trying to help other people. Everything… Of course he had reason to hate her as well. How she was such a know it all, how she had lit his cape on fire that one Quidditch match, how her and her friends were always sneaking around with that damned invisibility cloak… “ WHY YOU STUPID GIRL, WHY?” he screamed, as the tears burned his eyes… Finally he couldn’t take it anymore, he let go of her hand, watched it flop lifelessly beside her, and then he started crying.

Lost Angel’s Endnotes: Hope you all like it so far… Don’t worry there will be sex, I promise, for those of you reading this for that ;-) I tried to keep everyone in character for the most part, hope I succeeded. And chapter three will be up soon,