Chasing Destiny

An - A big thank you to everyone who has reviewed, i really appreciate it. I finished this story and all of the editing today so i should be able to get a chapter up every day or so!! yay!







The next morning, Hermione and Ron sat at the breakfast table once again waiting for Harry. When he finally walked in, he had a huge grin plastered on his face.



“Mornin’.”



“Harry what took you so long?” Hermione asked.



“I was talking to Sirius. Dumbledore is making them teachers right away, well Professor Lupin anyway. It turns out that the next two full moons are in the Christmas holidays and then on a weekend after that so Sirius doesn’t officially need to be a teacher yet.”



“Well what's he going to do in the mean time?” Asked Ron.



“Well hang out with his favourite godson of course and teach us some of his tricks.” Harry exclaimed excitedly. “One week till the Christmas holidays start and the fun begins. We have the Yule ball and then Christmas and new year to look forward to.”



“The next few weeks are certainly going to be the best in a long time. No you-know-who to worry about and good times all the way.” Ron said as he finished Hermione’s untouched toast. “What's wrong?” He asked while munching away.



Nothing. I Just feel a little queasy that’s all.” She said as a certain set of black robes swooped into the hall. She stared at Snape as he sat down and they locked eyes. Hermione made her excuses and went back to the Gryffindor common room.



“What's up with her?” Harry asked.



Ron shrugged “I’ll ask her in class.” And they carried on with breakfast.



On the way back Hermione met Ginny who looked more upset than Hermione felt.



“What's wrong Ginny?”



“Well I think Harry’s going to ask Lavender to the Yule ball and you know how I feel about him. I just need a dress to knock his socks off and then he’ll realise who he should have taken. The thing is, I have no money to buy a new dress and all of my dress robes are hand me downs from boys that my mom’s tried to make feminine. I look frumpy in all of them Mione. What am I going to do?”



“Well that’s certainly a lot to take in at the moment Gin.” Hermione smiled warmly. “Lets see. I don’t think I can help you with the Harry problem but you are looking at the girl who can transfigure anything. We’ll create you a new dress from some old robes and you’ll look fantastic!”



“Oh Hermione how can I ever thank you?”



“I haven’t done anything yet. It may not turn out like you wanted.”



“It will. I have no doubts. I’ll meet you in my rooms on Friday after potions and we can create a masterpiece.” Ginny hugged Hermione and carried on to class.



Hermione smiled to herself. At least she had managed to make someone happy in all of this mess and she didn’t even have a date yet. She thought about Severus for the twentieth time that day and sighed. She really needed to speak to him. She just wished things could go back to the way that they were before but she knew that it would be impossible. With another sigh, she decided that she needed to tell him what she had been thinking about. She needed to finalise things between them and get on with her life. She went down to the dungeons to catch him before the mornings classes.



Severus had spent the last few days moping in his rooms. All he could think about was Hermione. He couldn’t concentrate on anything else. She had obviously avoided him at breakfast and he now knew that she must have been doing it all week. He looked up from the marking he was trying to squeeze in before class as he heard a small knock on the door.



“Enter.”



Hermione opened the door and stepped through to the classroom. Severus was surprised to see her but glad all the same.



“Erm.. Professor I wanted a word. Is that ok?”



“Yes of course Hermione, I didn't expect to see you down here.” He motioned for her to sit down. She did so and replied.



"I don’t have long. I have to go to class soon but I came by to tell you that I’ve thought about things and I don’t think I want to be with you." She shook her head and wrinkled her nose at her own wording. "No. I know I cant be with you. You’re my teacher and however we feel about each other, we shouldn’t carry on together. I just cant forgive you for what you did to me.”



Severus slammed his hands on the table making her jump. “I had to Hermione. Don’t you see. We would have both been killed by Lucius.”



“I wasn’t talking about that. I was talking about when you let me believe that you didn’t want me because of what had happened to me. When you kept vital information from me and made me believe some unknown person had taken my innocence.You lied to me and made me feel worthless, tainted and used. I can’t trust you anymore. You’ve changed Severus and not for the better.”



“Hermione I…”



“You what?” She snapped. “And its Miss Granger to you.” She didn’t give him a chance to reply and stormed from the classroom. It hadn’t gone as she had expected but he made her so mad that she had to leave before she said something that she would regret.



How dare he assume she would ever be angry about what he had to do.



Did he think so little of her?



Did he even know her at all?



He didn’t even known why she had been mad. That self absorbed, arrogant prick. Trust him to prefer wallowing in self pity about something he was forced to do rather than facing the fact that he lied and hurt the person he loved all of his own accord.



She stormed out of the dungeons and bumped straight into Draco Malfoy. Hurtling to the floor, the books she had been holding flew out of her hands.



“Is it your life’s work to keep bumping into me in abandoned corridors Granger?”



“Fuck off Draco and leave me alone.”



“My my, feisty aren’t we? Your the one that insists on running into me all the while.” He sneered. “Not that I mind.” He said as he grabbed her behind as she stood. Since his father got him reinstated in school after two days suspension, he had been walking around like he owned the place.



“Get off you pervert and don’t ever touch me like that again.” Hermione shouted as Draco stooped to pick up the books she dropped.



“Oh come on now mudblood, my father said you’d be practically begging me for it after your display for him.” He sneered.



“Display?… Display?… He had me raped for his own pleasure and then tells you I was good? Ugh. You make me sick. I’m glad your Lord is dead. He was as crazy as you all are. I hope your father rots in prison forever.” Hermione retaliated. Seeing the satisfied grin appear on Draco’s face, she questioned whether she had been entirely correct in what she had said.



“What are you sneering about?” she asked.



“Well I just thought you’d like to know that my father was released from all charges. Turns out he had no idea what the Dark… er… I mean Voldemort had planned and he was under imperious curse. Its so upsetting that he was forced to do all of those things under the curse. Don’t you think?”



“Ugh. That’s low, even for you. You’re lying scum, the lot of you. Now get out of my way.” Draco blocked every path she chose. “I said get out of my way Malfoy.”



Draco raised his hand to Hermione and Stopped as he heard someone approach.



“I’d listen to the lady if I were you.” A low, smooth voice said from behind Hermione.



Lady? Who around this place thought of her as a lady?



“Fine. I’ll see you around Mione.” Draco added as he walked away.



Hermione turned around cringing at his use of her nickname.



“Sirius!” She ran and hugged her rescuer. “What are you doing down here? Oh and thank-you by the way.” She exclaimed.



“I was going to get Remus his standing order of Wolfsbane from Professor Snape before he started teaching. What about you? Aren’t you supposed to be in class?” He glared at her friendlily.



“Well I was on my way but obviously decided that listening to Draco insult me was much more worth my time.” She smiled.



“I see. Classified? Well you’d better get to class. We wouldn’t want the sexiest Gryffindor that Hogwarts has ever had, bar me of course, getting a detention now would we?” He winked.



Hermione smiled flicking her hair and walked away. When she got to class, she was lucky as Professor Binns was too busy droning on to even notice that she was even missing in the first place and she was able to sneak into her chair.



That night Hermione sat in her bed in the head girls quarters and thought about the conversation she had, had with Severus. It was strange being in this bed but as the weeks went on she was getting used to it. She remembered when she would sneak back just before the school began to awake and get dressed for class. She hadn’t slept in her room for a long time.



She wondered if she had done the right thing. Seeing Snape so hurt when she had broken it off reminded her of how hurt she had been when she thought that she wasn’t good enough for him since that night. The frizzy haired girl turned over and slipped into a troubled sleep.





An - dont worry, Severus goes back to his evil ol' self soon enough. We can't have him moping forever!