Love Bites (REPOST)

Chapter 31 ~ Return and Issues

Severus helped Hermione climb up the exit, pushing on her ass to get her up and staying close in case she should slip and fall.

"It was much easier getting in then getting out," Hermione gasped, trying to grip a rock as she pulled herself upward.

Finally they reached the top, Hermione scrambling out of the crevice into the bright moonlight, Severus pulling himself up behind her. They both stood up and breathed in the night air, grateful for freedom. Severus looked at the witch. Her clothing was bloody and in tatters. His black eyes rested on her face.

"You almost died for me," he said softly.

Hermione looked at the wizard. She really hadn't thought about that aspect of it. She was simply trying to keep him from Vashti.

"I told you I would do what I had to do to keep you from turning," she replied, "I didn't think about death, I only thought about freeing you. I didn't want to fail you."

Severus blinked down at her.

"Do I mean that much to you, Hermione?" he asked her, a tight feeling in his chest.

Hermione felt her heart speed up. She saw where this could possibly go and she wasn't ready for rejection. The wizard didn't do "love'.

"Severus, you came to me for help. You were my patient. I had an obligation to do what I could for you, and that is what I did. If it wasn't for Adam, however, I'd be dead and you'd be sitting in a throne next to Vashti plotting the downfall of the human race. So Adam is the real heroine," Hermione said. "Not me."

There, that should get them off the topic of what he meant to her.

Severus knew the witch was sidestepping. She did a pretty good job of it too. He decided to let it rest for now and reached out, pulling her into his side.

They disapparated and reappeared in his study with a clap of thunder. Severus released her and looked around his rooms appreciatively.

"Home at last," he breathed, pulling out his wand and casting a freshening spell.

Hermione looked at the wizard. He was cured now which meant he would be returning to the dungeons, and teaching. She had become used to him in her rooms. Now, he was leaving. She watched as he lit a fire in the floo, then walked into his bedroom.

Hermione trailed behind him and stood in the doorway as Severus turned up the torches and freshened up the bed. It was obvious he intended on staying here tonight. She couldn't blame him. He had been sequestered in her rooms for weeks. It must feel nice to come back to his own quarters again.

Hermione saw his reflection in the mirror of his dresser. He was completely solid. She smiled slightly at his image.

The wizard walked into the bathroom. After a moment, Hermione heard him release a long, strong stream of piss. It sounded as if he had held it for days. The wizard groaned with relief. The loo flushed and she heard the basin run for a moment, then Severus emerged.

"I suppose you are going to sleep in your own rooms tonight," Hermione said to him.

Severus nodded looking at his four-poster.

"I missed my bed. The one in your guestroom was much too soft. I prefer a firm mattress…one with less give," he said, his dark eyes resting on her.

Hermione looked down at her tattered clothing.

"I suppose I'd better go," she said, "I look like I had a run in with a dragon."

Severus scowled.

"Go? You aren't going anywhere but to my bed," the wizard said. "We've had a long night, Dr. Granger, and I prescribe rest. I want you here when I wake up in the morning."

"But there's no one in the infirmary, Severus. I can't leave it unattended," she said. "I just hope no one needed me while we were gone. I have a duty to the school, you know."

The wizard blinked at Hermione. She was right. Adam was gone. She had to return to the infirmary. The witch had the kind of job that required her to be available day and night.

"Very well," he said, "I understand Hermione."

Hermione looked at him a moment.

"Good night, Severus," she said.

For some reason she couldn't bring herself to cross the room and kiss him goodnight. It must have been because now…it all was over. She knew he said he wanted to continue but things were going to change. They weren't going to be in close proximity any more. They wouldn't be spending so much time in each other's presence. More than likely, the separation would eventually become a divide, and they would return to their normal lives.

Hermione returned to the study, grabbed a handful of floo powder and threw it into the flames.

"The infirmary," she said softly, her eyes glistening. It was going to be so quiet in her rooms with both Adam and Severus gone.

Suddenly she was aware she wasn't alone. Severus was standing behind her, looking expectant as the flames turned green. She looked up at him.

"What are you doing?" she asked the wizard.

"Going with you," he replied. "I said I wanted to wake up with you in the morning. I can't do that if I stay in my rooms."

Hermione smiled and stepped through the flames, followed closely by her lover.

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They emerged in the infirmary. Hermione immediately checked her system to see if there had been any unanswered buzz-ins. There hadn't. She let out a sigh of relief.

Severus watched as she walked back up the infirmary. She paused in front of Adam's empty bedroom. It was dark.

"I'm going to miss that wizard," she said softly.

Severus scowled a bit, then his face relaxed.

"Adam was really a very brave young wizard. But I think, Hermione, that he will be happy as a Queen. Now as for his king…" the wizard said, smirking a bit, "I imagine he will have to make quite a few adjustments."

Hermione smirked. Well, at least Adam wasn't alone anymore.

She started walking towards her rooms, Severus falling in step beside her, looking at the witch thoughtfully. He was cured now, and Hermione seemed to be acting a bit cool towards him. She hadn't kissed him once since they left the catacombs. She hadn't kissed him when she was about to leave his rooms either.

Quietly, he whispered the legilimency spell and entered the witch's mind. He saw Hermione working in the infirmary, the labs, and curled up alone in her bed, reading a book. Then he saw himself back in his classroom teaching, in the Great Hall eating, Hermione passing behind him and going to her seat. They didn't speak or acknowledge each other. Then he saw himself again, fucking some strange witch in his bed. He pulled out of Hermione's mind, frowning slightly.

So, she thought they were going to end whatever it was they had, and go back to their old lives. Well, Severus wasn't ready to end it or to let her end it either.

Hermione pressed the bricks that opened the wall to their quarters. She walked into her bedroom silently, followed by Severus who sat down in the armchair and watched her as she removed the remnants of her uniform. She removed her bra, then her knickers.

Severus' nostrils flared. He smelled the distinct odor of sex. A cold, jealous feeling washed over him.

"Hermione," he said sharply to the naked witch, who had been about to head for the shower.

Hermione turned toward him.

"I detect the odor of sex on you," he said, his dark eyes burning possessively. "Why is that? What did that vampire do to you to change you? He didn't fuck you did he?"

He felt his heart clutch in his chest as he asked her that question…if she had fucked that vampire…he didn't know what he would do…but it would be ugly…very, very, ugly. He might have to fetch his sword, go back to Adam's lair and dice his king into tiny pieces.

Hermione frowned at him and put her hands on her hips.

"Don't you think I would have mentioned getting fucked by a vampire?" she asked him angrily.

The nerve of the wizard.

"Why do you smell like sex, then?" the Potions Master asked, rising from his seat and walking over to her discarded knickers, picking them up and smelling them. But it was only her scent of climax…no male ejaculate. She must have come on herself. But why?

Hermione sighed.

"I think it's a normal reaction when a woman is bitten by a male vampire. I…I…had an orgasm when Victor bit me. I guess it happens to lessen the shock of being bitten," the witch said.

The vampire had given her an orgasm? Severus' heart started pounding.

"Was it a good orgasm?" he asked her as she walked into the bathroom. The wizard followed her.

"It was an orgasm, Severus," she replied, opening the shower and turning on the water.

"A big one, or a little one?" he pressed, leaning against the vanity, scowling.

"I don't know Severus. A big one I guess because I was out of it for several minutes," she said stepping into the shower and closing the translucent glass.

"Did you like it?" he called over the rushing water.

"Leave me alone, Severus," Hermione called back, soaping herself. "I was under the vampire's influence. I wasn't myself."

Severus frowned blackly. That meant she HAD liked it. His face curled up into a snarl and he stormed into her bedroom and began to undress quickly.

Another male had made his witch orgasm. He didn't care that Victor hadn't fucked her…it was the point the vampire had given Hermione sexual pleasure, something only HE was supposed to do. How much pleasure had she felt? More than with him?

Completely nude now, Severus scourgified himself thoroughly, then climbed into Hermione's bed, sliding under the sheets and propping himself up on the pillows. He folded his arms. He was fully erect and pulsing, his swollen cock absolutely engorged with blood. The sheets were hugely tented over his lap.

Severus listened to the shower running, his black eyes focused on the bathroom door as he imagined the witch shuddering against the vampire. Hermione always quaked when she came. The wizard's belly was uncomfortably tight with jealousy.

So Hermione had an orgasm with a vampire did she?

Well, no fucking vampire was going to outdo him.

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A/N: Ooh, Severus is jealous as hell. I think we all know what that means. Lol. You know, I had a friend who told me that her ex-boyfriend used to always smell her panties whenever she came home from being out without him, checking to see if she had sex. Wild, huh? :::shudders::: Anyway, please review.