Can I stay here (forever)?
Hermione, with Severus’ seed still trickling between her legs, removed herself from his embrace.
And he knew well what it meant.
She had to return back home; to the husband she had divorced from in all but writing –see, people barely took kindly having a woman, a Muggleborn, as the Minister of Magic; but having a divorced woman in that role was a pill that was hard to swallow.
No matter she was miserable staying with that bastard. No matter her children didn’t really see their father. No matter their father preferred spending his nights with a different witch each time.
No matter Severus had fallen for Hermione Granger so hard, he could barely breathe every time she left to go back home, thinking that they wouldn’t do this again.
He couldn’t protest; they had gone through this talk so many times already. Making love, then arguing and promising each other that this was a mistake that had to stop only for them to reunite, like two polar opposites that couldn’t stay apart for long. And he craved for her; he craved for her moans and her orgasms, but lately…He also craved to see the little dimples on her cheeks that formed when she grinned, and to count the freckles on her skin when she was asleep and unguarded to his feelings.
He looked at her back, as she picked her shirt off the floor, pulling it over her body. He didn’t have the patience to unbutton it earlier, so he just tore it off her.
Only– this was his shirt, not hers, he realised when the fabric reached the middle of her thighs.
“That’s not your shirt,” Severus muttered and she, exquisite woman, didn’t turn to face him. Her movements stilled as the fabric settled over her upper body.
“I am just going downstairs to drink some water,” she whispered. Then she turned around, and Severus could swear he hadn’t ever seen her so excited.
“I’m not leaving you. Not this time,” Hermione went on to explain. “Ron decided to sign the divorce papers, so…can I stay the night?”
“More than the night,” he only managed to mumble before pulling her back into their bed.