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Moonlight and Roses
Chapter 7 … Moonlight and Roses
“Really Professor? Oh shit is the best you can come up with. I wasn’t expecting moonlight and roses but it wasn’t that bad was it?” Hermione teased him lightly.
He let out a breath he didn’t know he was holding in, and searched her face. Honestly how could she joke about this, it was the last thing they should be doing.
“Miss Grang…Hermione, we can not do this. This is completely inappropriate we…” and before he could finish his thought, the chit had the nerve to actually shush him.
“Severus, don’t do this. I can make my decisions and I’ve decided that I want you. You have to be daft to think the headmaster doesn’t know what’s going on. You would be an idiot to miss the tension between Ginny and Remus, and of all the things the headmaster is, an idiot is not one of them. He is probably up in his office right now eating jelly bean sandwiches and listening to the portraits rat on us. If last night didn’t cause problems then I think we will be okay.”
“You don’t seem to get it Hermione; I obviously can’t control myself around you. If I let myself take advantage of you now then how can anyone ever send their children to me again with a clear conscience?”
“Damn it Snape! I am telling you right now that I will do whatever I can to bend you to my will if you walk away tonight. I may be a virgin but I am not naive and I will not let you throw what we can have away because of some backwards sense of nobility. Ginny and Remus are probably fucking like rabbits right now… oh don’t you look at me like that, you know its true…and we can be giving them a run for their galleons in that department but instead we are having this waste of a conversation.”
By the end of her speech Hermione was red faced and her voice had risen several octaves. To her dismay Severus had remained stoic throughout the entirety of tirade, but now that she had stopped speaking she could see the inner battle he was fighting with himself. She softened her tone and decided to appeal to him again.
“I’m not asking for the world, I am not even asking for part of it, but I am asking you to give us a chance. We can take it as slow as you want and I have no desire to have rumors run rampant through this school about us so discretion will be observed at all times. But Severus, if you walk away from this opportunity I won’t promise you I will wait for you. I think we could be great, but you have to give us the chance to try first.”
His dark eyes softened while he listened to her and though he knew very well it had started out as a completely sexual attraction on his part, he had always respected her. He could think of several great couples throughout history that had started on less then that. She was a passionate little witch and he was drawn to her. When he opened his mouth to respond to her he was surprised to see a wistful smile upon her face while she lifted her finger to his lips.
“Don’t tell me tonight. Tomorrow I will come to your office after dinner, just tell anyone who asks that I am going to finish organizing your stores. Please think about it hard Severus, I don’t love you but the prospect of it doesn’t seem nearly as ridiculous as it did last week.”
With her final peace said, her finger slipped from his lips to trace his jaw line. Her eyes roamed his features as if to drink in everything she could of his face before she leaned forward and once again placed her lips, hot and soft against his own. If she thought that the fireworks were a result of their first kiss together, then she was mistaken, for the second one was just as amazing. She didn’t allow it to deepen this time though and it took all her willpower to step out of his embrace.
The sound of her Mary-Jane’s clacking on the stone floors as she walked away was the loneliest sound Severus had ever heard in his life. How in the hell did she do that? One minute he was ready to tell her to get lost and that it would never work, and the next she left him feeling like his heart had been ripped out. Had she cunfunded him?
He turned towards his study and poured himself a liberal amount of Firewhiskey, wincing as it burned its way down his throat. She was everything he ever said he wanted in a partner and he couldn’t deny the allure of having someone to cling to in his life. It was against the rules though and more importantly it was entirely unrealistic to expect a vivacious young woman like her to stay enamored of him for very long. Once she was in his life, could he bear to let her walk away when she was through with him? Would she be another Lilly?
So many things ran through his head at lightning speed that he could barely concentrate on a hope before a fear would pop up in its place. Every time his head said to let her walk away for good his heart would give an uncomfortable squeeze and everything would come full circle to his doubts again. I he let her walk away he would never be able to try with her, if she stayed she could break his heart and he would be worse off then before. What was a man to do? Prostitutes were so much easier. No pun intended.
After his back began to ache from the uncomfortable position he was in and his head throbbed from the glasses of Firewhiskey he had consumed, he dragged himself to bed. His feet shuffled against the floor and his eyes felt gritty and raw. He had spent all night working towards a conclusion and he was no closer to it. Sleep wouldn’t come easily this night, but hopefully when it did the sandman would bless him with an answer.
A/N- I apologize for the delay in this chapter, but the cute little plot bunny hopped right away from me. On the upside I spent a delicious weekend exploring every inch of my boyfriend’s body (road head is so naughty!) and I demanded he return the favor. So this Sunday evening I am feeling positively refreshed and with mid terms done in two days I shall work my hardest on updating often. I would also like to that the person who alerted me to having anonymous reviews disabled. I have rectified that situation and all you anonymous readers (after all I was one of not three months ago) are free to review away. Please do. Happy reading all!
“Really Professor? Oh shit is the best you can come up with. I wasn’t expecting moonlight and roses but it wasn’t that bad was it?” Hermione teased him lightly.
He let out a breath he didn’t know he was holding in, and searched her face. Honestly how could she joke about this, it was the last thing they should be doing.
“Miss Grang…Hermione, we can not do this. This is completely inappropriate we…” and before he could finish his thought, the chit had the nerve to actually shush him.
“Severus, don’t do this. I can make my decisions and I’ve decided that I want you. You have to be daft to think the headmaster doesn’t know what’s going on. You would be an idiot to miss the tension between Ginny and Remus, and of all the things the headmaster is, an idiot is not one of them. He is probably up in his office right now eating jelly bean sandwiches and listening to the portraits rat on us. If last night didn’t cause problems then I think we will be okay.”
“You don’t seem to get it Hermione; I obviously can’t control myself around you. If I let myself take advantage of you now then how can anyone ever send their children to me again with a clear conscience?”
“Damn it Snape! I am telling you right now that I will do whatever I can to bend you to my will if you walk away tonight. I may be a virgin but I am not naive and I will not let you throw what we can have away because of some backwards sense of nobility. Ginny and Remus are probably fucking like rabbits right now… oh don’t you look at me like that, you know its true…and we can be giving them a run for their galleons in that department but instead we are having this waste of a conversation.”
By the end of her speech Hermione was red faced and her voice had risen several octaves. To her dismay Severus had remained stoic throughout the entirety of tirade, but now that she had stopped speaking she could see the inner battle he was fighting with himself. She softened her tone and decided to appeal to him again.
“I’m not asking for the world, I am not even asking for part of it, but I am asking you to give us a chance. We can take it as slow as you want and I have no desire to have rumors run rampant through this school about us so discretion will be observed at all times. But Severus, if you walk away from this opportunity I won’t promise you I will wait for you. I think we could be great, but you have to give us the chance to try first.”
His dark eyes softened while he listened to her and though he knew very well it had started out as a completely sexual attraction on his part, he had always respected her. He could think of several great couples throughout history that had started on less then that. She was a passionate little witch and he was drawn to her. When he opened his mouth to respond to her he was surprised to see a wistful smile upon her face while she lifted her finger to his lips.
“Don’t tell me tonight. Tomorrow I will come to your office after dinner, just tell anyone who asks that I am going to finish organizing your stores. Please think about it hard Severus, I don’t love you but the prospect of it doesn’t seem nearly as ridiculous as it did last week.”
With her final peace said, her finger slipped from his lips to trace his jaw line. Her eyes roamed his features as if to drink in everything she could of his face before she leaned forward and once again placed her lips, hot and soft against his own. If she thought that the fireworks were a result of their first kiss together, then she was mistaken, for the second one was just as amazing. She didn’t allow it to deepen this time though and it took all her willpower to step out of his embrace.
The sound of her Mary-Jane’s clacking on the stone floors as she walked away was the loneliest sound Severus had ever heard in his life. How in the hell did she do that? One minute he was ready to tell her to get lost and that it would never work, and the next she left him feeling like his heart had been ripped out. Had she cunfunded him?
He turned towards his study and poured himself a liberal amount of Firewhiskey, wincing as it burned its way down his throat. She was everything he ever said he wanted in a partner and he couldn’t deny the allure of having someone to cling to in his life. It was against the rules though and more importantly it was entirely unrealistic to expect a vivacious young woman like her to stay enamored of him for very long. Once she was in his life, could he bear to let her walk away when she was through with him? Would she be another Lilly?
So many things ran through his head at lightning speed that he could barely concentrate on a hope before a fear would pop up in its place. Every time his head said to let her walk away for good his heart would give an uncomfortable squeeze and everything would come full circle to his doubts again. I he let her walk away he would never be able to try with her, if she stayed she could break his heart and he would be worse off then before. What was a man to do? Prostitutes were so much easier. No pun intended.
After his back began to ache from the uncomfortable position he was in and his head throbbed from the glasses of Firewhiskey he had consumed, he dragged himself to bed. His feet shuffled against the floor and his eyes felt gritty and raw. He had spent all night working towards a conclusion and he was no closer to it. Sleep wouldn’t come easily this night, but hopefully when it did the sandman would bless him with an answer.
A/N- I apologize for the delay in this chapter, but the cute little plot bunny hopped right away from me. On the upside I spent a delicious weekend exploring every inch of my boyfriend’s body (road head is so naughty!) and I demanded he return the favor. So this Sunday evening I am feeling positively refreshed and with mid terms done in two days I shall work my hardest on updating often. I would also like to that the person who alerted me to having anonymous reviews disabled. I have rectified that situation and all you anonymous readers (after all I was one of not three months ago) are free to review away. Please do. Happy reading all!