Bid for Love
Chapter 7
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AN - I own nothing! I’m
just borrowing from J.K. Rowling!
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Chapter 7
“Ten thousand galleons!”
mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'> Ginny exclaimed.
“That’s
a lot of money girl,” Tonks said.
“Money
well spent,” the Patil twins said together.
Hermione
nodded and then giggled, saying “I’ll probably need ten thousand new knickers
since his voice gets me all wet.” When she felt a hand on her arm, she turned
seeing Snape.
“Ladies,”
Severus drawled as he looked at them for a brief moment, and pulled Hermione
against him. He bent his head, his mouth an inch away from her ear. “Where were
you the whole time?”
“In my seat Snape!”
mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'> Hermione answered
hearing the anger in his voice. “Don’t need to be angry at me, the deed is
done. Trelawney is no longer your problem tonight.” She turned to see Trelawney
at the other end of the hall. The witch was obviously crying, and it was making
her feel guilty. “And she doesn’t look all too happy.”
Severus
looked at Trelawney, also feeling a tad bit guilty. He knew it would hurt her,
but didn’t know the effect until he finally saw it. “I’ll go talk to her,” he
said, and towards the emotional witch.
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Severus
took hold of Trelawney’s hand, and successfully pulled her towards the staffs’
door behind the stage. On the way, he ignored her sobs, and the curious glances
of some people.
“Why Severus?style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:
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She took off her glasses and wiped her tears with the back of her hand.
Severus
bit his lip, not really knowing was to say or where to begin. He didn’t want to
say anything to upset her some more. “Sybill,” he
said using her name for the first time. “I have no feelings or attraction
towards you. I thought I had made that clear over the years? If I was
interested, don’t you think I would reciprocate your feelings towards me?”
“I—I
just thought that you were playing hard to get?” she replied. “You are a man
who doesn’t show much emotion, so I just tried harder and harder to grab your
attention, making it very obvious.”
“But
why?” he asked back, gritting his teeth. “Why me?”
“I
had a vision that you and I would be together,” Sybill
replied. “This image of you with a woman who wore glasses and curly hair kept
on coming to me, saying that it was meant to be—destiny.”
“Maybe
it was a mistake, not all visions come true,” Severus said.
Sybill nodded, and sniffled. “But I’m the one that foretold
the one of Voldemort and Harry Potter. I feel
terrible really. I thought we would become a reality. Reality however, took
another turn.”
“I’m
sorry,” Severus said softly.
“I
should be sorry. Been a pain to you all these years,” Sybill
said as she hugged herself, feeling vulnerable.
Severus
reached into his breast pocket, pulling out the red rose that he wore all
night. “Happy Valentine’s,” he said, handing it to her.
Sybill frowned in surprised as she looked at the rose, and
then at him. She took the rose, and smiled a little. “You should get to
Professor Granger. She must really like you to spend that much,” she said. “I
won’t be a bother anymore, you have my word.”
Severus
watched her walk down the corridor, feeling less guilty. At least the
one-on-one talk allowed them to voice their truths.
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“Well,
well, well,” Sirius said, as he saw Severus approaching. He,
stood not a few feet away chatting with each other. “I thought you’d run off
and abandoned our Hermione here.”
“Jealous
Mutt, that I got the highest bid of the night?” Severus asked with his
signature smirk on his face. “Pay up,” he demanded his hand sticking out. “You
lost the bet. I beat you.”
“Arse!’
mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'> Sirius hissed when he
reached into his pocket, and handed him a pouch full of galleons.
“You
guys bet between each other?” Hermione said glancing between the two.
“Unfortunately
for him, he did,” Severus said as he took a step towards her and placed his
hand on the small of her back.
“Well,
I should get going with my date,” Sirius said.
Remus and Harry too did the same and departed. The girls
said their goodbyes to Hermione, and left for their own little night out.
“Things
go well with Professor Trelawney?” Hermione asked as she looked up at Severus.
She could feel the warmth of his hand on her back, and it seemed to get warmer
the longer it stayed there.
“Fine,”
Severus muttered and looked down at her. “So what are your plans for tonight?
No chippendales!”
“Something
simple,” Hermione shrugged with a smirk. “A movie and dinner
in muggle London. Nothing
too fancy. The ten thousand galleons for the auction are already painful
as it is. And it’ll keep us away from the prying eyes of the media,” she added,
cocking her head towards the press and cameras that were taking pictures of the
winners and their prizes.
“Not
going to complain there,” Severus said as he led Hermione out of the Great
Hall. “But I must say, I am not looking forward to
our… date. I don’t like cinemas and it’s been years since I last went to one.
“Afraid
you might get shot down again,” Hermione giggled.
“Tormenting
me must be some sort of joke to you?”
“You
should’ve seen your face when you thought Trelawney had you,” she laughed. “I
swear, it looked like you were going to die of a heart
attack.”
“And
for the nth time Miss Granger, I am not old nor do I have heart problems,” he
growled.
“Don’t
worry Severus,” Hermione said, barely blushing when she realized she had called
him by his given name for the first time. She summoned all her Gryffindor
courage and slipped her hand in his, their fingers entwined. For a second, she
feared that he would pull away, but didn’t. “Nothing bad will happen to you
tonight. You won’t be tormented anymore, I promise.”
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AN – Just for
clarification, Hermione paid with her money not Sev’s.
In chapter 3, he said that he would pay her back, so let’s see what happens in
the next few chaps. I know you guys expected the date in this chapter, but
there is something more to this fic as you may have
just read. The date, just around the corner.