Woke Up This Morning

OK, this is my first fic on here, popping my literary cherry so to speak... Hope you guys enjoy! Review please and tell me what you think.
*Disclaimers- These characters don't belong to me they belong to JK Rowling, this song doesn't belong to me it belongs to Nickelback **cheers and applause for Nickelback** This song fic isn't for profit, it's for fun and to cure the boredom....
~~Passages with (*)s are song lyrics~~
Laissez les mal temps rouler! (I hope that's correct, my french is a bit rusty)(btw, it means let the bad times roll)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Song- Woke Up This Morning by Nickelback
Characters- Snape and Hermione
After the war
Canon compliant I think, but I'm not JK or God so I could be wrong...


*I paid my last respects this morning on an early grave
Already said goodbye... nothin' left to say
A tiny church, a tiny town and not a tear was spent
Not how I wanted it... I'm hating all of this*

Snape stood alone at a grave marker near a small chapel in the English countryside. He glared at the simple headstone. "Hermione Granger, born 1989-died 2007"
"Was it worth it Hermione? Was HE worth it?! You didn't have to be there! You could have been with me, fighting the Death Eaters; but no the Golden Trio had to be together to defeat the Dark Lord! Now you are all dead!" Snape fell to his knees before the headstone. "Why? Why couldn't you have stayed back? No one even remembers you died... Do you know that there wasn't even a funeral? They just buried you out here in the middle of nowhere in a big wooden box, not even a real coffin. They didn't give you any honors! They didn't even list you among the warriors who died in battle. You are unmourned and forgotten but for me." Snape stood up and brushed himself off, he sneered at her grave. "How dare you make me grieve for you."
Snape disapparated away from the simple graveyard back to Hogsmeade. As he walked up to Hogwarts he thought of Hermione and how much he missed her.

*Now I know why I hide my love from you somedays
No I don't mind keeping this bottled inside me
You came along and tore this wall down aroud me
Looks like you found me... now I know why
I felt like shit when I woke up this morning*

When Snape reached his chambers he raged to himself, breaking things and drinking heavily. He remembered her and how she made him feel... He watched memories of her in his pensive. The first memory that came to him was of her finding him after he killed Dumbledore.
(Memory)Snape was in a ball at the edge of the forest, sobbing as he stared at the castle... his only home. He was so intent on it that he didn't hear the witch approach him.
"You didn't want to kill him, did you?" Hermione said, unsurprised.
Snape didn't even move when he first heard her voice, he didn't care if someone had come to kill him. He did however turn confusedly at her words and tone. "No, I didn't... I had no choice... he already knew."
He blinked as she knelt down and held him. "You don't look like you're done crying yet. Let it go, I'll watch over you." He didn't even stop to wonder at her kindness, he just let the tears come.
She just held him and stroked his hair as he cried. After his sobs calmed she looked in his eyes and wiped away his tears with the edge of her sleeve. "Now, that's much better, isn't it, Severus?"
His eyes grew wide, she had used his first name! And, he thought, she said it with love... He leaned forward and caught her lips with his.
They kissed passionately for a few moments, when they pulled away she said to him,"Come back with me, they found evidence from Dumbledore that clears you. No one in the order blames you for what happened."
He nodded and stood with her. They walked up to the castle without saying anything, hand in hand.(End Memory)
Snape sobbed as he watched memories of them after that; memories of them making love, working together, even memories of them laughing together as they enjoyed some downtime at headquarters. The hardest memories to watch were the ones of them planning their life together; a wedding, children, and once even granchildren were mentioned. He drowned his sorrows with the hardest Firewhiskey he could find but before he passed out he had a glimse of the memory he dreaded most; the day he proposed to her. All he saw was himself slipping the ring on her finger before the welcoming darkness swallowed him.

*I've been a loser all my life, I'm not about to change
If you don't like it... there's the door... nobody made you stay
There ain't a woman on the planet who can deal with it
Just how I wanted it... I'm hating all of this*

For the next few months he was back to his old ways full swing, maybe even a little worse. Hogwarts had reopened after the war ended and he was back in place as the Potions master. He still snapped at students and tore house points away for even the tiniest of transgressions, only this time it wasn't targeted at one house. All the houses, even his own Slytherin got this treatment.
Unbeknownst to Snape, he was being watched. Hermione's ghost saw everything and wept every night for what she had done to him. Finally, one night after one of his drunken rages, she decided to come to him.
When Snape woke he slowly opened his eyes. There was a faint light in the darkness of his dungeon bedroom, and it was coming from the foot of his bed.
"Why are you doing this to yourself, Severus?" Snape jumped up at hearing that familiar voice.
"Hermione! What are you doing here? You shouldn't be here, just leave!" Snape was furious, he couldn't believe that she would have the audacity to finally come back in that form.
"Severus listen to me,--"
"No! You are dead, leave! You don't belong here and I don't want you here!"
Hermione looked up at him with silver tears in her transparent eyes. "If that is what you wish.... Severus." She whispered his name as she floated away.
Snape sat on his bed and shook his head angrily. He was finally alone. It was what he wanted but he hated it.

*Now I know why I hide my love from you somedays
No I don't mind keeping this bottled inside me
You came along and tore these walls down around me
Looks like you found me... now I know why
I felt like shit when I woke up this morning*

Snape knew what he needed to do to finally rid himself of his lost love. He would erase her. He searched his chambers for every bit of evidence of her existence. He found gifts she had given him; photographs, some muggle and some magic; and after searching his room he found her ring, the engagement ring he had given her. He destroyed all these things and then turned to his pensieve. He found every memory of her, even of her school days, and erased her. Now there was nothing left but the memories in his head. He went to his bookcase and found an obscure tome. It contained a memory spell that could erase an item from the caster's mind completely.
Snape sat on the floor and cast the spell. It immediately knocked him out. When he woke he looked confusedly at the mess surrounding him. Shrugging his shoulders, he called a house elf to clean it and left to teach his classes. There was an entire school of children to give hell to.


A/N: Hey, if you just read all of that, thanks. I really hope you guys are pleased. Please review and tell me what you think.

Hugs and love for all....
Domine