Everlasting Relationship (Snamione)

Chapter 19

The door opening wakes Severus up sometime later. He blinks his eyes open and sees the man walk into the room. It's the same man who Lucius knocked out the day he escaped. This time he isn't wearing a mask. Severus is shocked to see it is one of the aurors.

Severus can feel his wand digging into his back. He must have laid on it in his sleep.

"Hermione doesn't want you anymore." He smirks. "She's all mine now." Severus can tell this man is delusional, and truly believes Hermione would actually like him.

"She will always come back to me." Severus mutters from his place on the ground.

"Not if there's no one to come back to." The man, Liam as he's called, pulls out his wand.

"That is not a good idea." Severus responds.

"Oh? And why's that?" Liam raises an eyebrow.

"Because," Severus shifts slightly, his leg erupts in pain, but it is not nearly as bad as before. "If you kill me, she will never forgive you." Severus explains, he needs to work with the man's delusion.

"She won't care. She doesn't love you. She couldn't care less if I kill you." William frowns.

"On the contrary, I was her first love, for twenty years, killing me will only drive her away. I highly suggest you don't." Severus waits as Liam ponders this.

"Well, what she doesn't know doesn't hurt her." Liam raises his wand and sends a spell toward the wounded man.

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Hermione is back in that damn room she started in.

Thank Merlin she isn't shackled again, but the door is locked. William locked it as soon as he left. She is too antsy to do anything but pace the room. She searched the drawers to the wardrobe, looked under the bed, on the book shelf, and nothing useful could be found.

The door unlocks and Hermione's head whips toward it. Someone shuffles in.

"You!" Hermione exclaims. Standing before her is Theron Lennon. He's holding a tray of food and his wand.

"I'm so sorry. I had no choice." He gives Hermione the most sincere look of apology. "My life is on the line, one mistake and I'm gone." The door shuts as he steps in.

He shuffles over to the bed and sets the tray down.

"I made some beef stew and bread, William wanted me to give you some." Theron gestures to it.

"I'm not hungry," Hermione snaps, but her stomach betrays her by growling loudly.

"I'm sure your not," Theron shakes his head. "When your finished, Vilinity wants to see you." He lowers his voice. "I suggest taking your time."

Hermione doesn't answer him. She just stands there glaring at him.

"Just knock on the door and let me know when you're done." He nods and leaves the room.

The smell of the stew is enticing, and Hermione tries to resist. But her hunger wins her over and she moves over to the bed and eats the food. She eats slowly, not wanting to speak with the woman who started all of this hell.

Sooner than wanted, the food is gone. Hermione sighs and continues to sit there.

"Mrs. Snape," Theron peeks his head in. "Lets get this over with." He opens the door wide and gestures for her to come. Hermione eyes his wand.

"I may be older, but I am quick." He warns. Hermione frowns and follows him down the hall. He takes her to another room.

It looks to be an office. With a large bay window to the left. Hermione can see the street through it. A handful of people are walking along. If she could just jump through the window and survive the fall, she could get away.

But what about Draco and Severus? A voice questions at the back of her mind.

To the left is a large desk where Vilinity is lounging across the top. Two men are standing beside each side of the desk. One is extremely large and muscular. He has a small wand gripped in his large fist.

The other is Mich smaller than everyone in the room. But a crazy look rests in his eyes. He holds a rather large wand. Both men look mean and would not hesitate to kill.

The thing that catches Hermione's attention the most, is the large portrait on the wall behind the desk. It's similar to the headmaster portraits at Hogwarts, but this one holds a sinister being. Bellatrix Lestrange glares down at Hermione.

"Like what you see?" Vilinity smirks.

"How's the scar, you filthy mudblood?" Bellatrix cackles from the painting. Hermione's hand immediately moves to the horrible scar Bellatrix gave her all those years ago. It had given Hermione nightmares for a long time.

"Mother, please, I'm trying to look intimidating." Vilinity murmurs. Bellatrix rolls her eyes.

"So," Vilinity slides off the desk and sashays forward. "Are you curious as to why your still alive?" Vilinity asks.

"There's a lot of things I have been wondering, one being whether I going to be the one to kill you." Hermione snaps.

A stinging pain whips across Hermione's face, Vilinity just nearly smacked the magic out of her.

"Don't be disrespectful!" Vilinity growls. "The only reason you are alive is because of Liam. But I will kill you if provoked, he can get over that. There are way better woman in the world." Jealousy flares in Vilinity's eyes.

"Yeah, but you know, if you kill me, he will never love you." Hermione sneers.

"Are you going to let that bitch disrespect you like that?" Bellatrix growls from her portrait.

"Mother, if you please!" Vilinity snaps. She flicks her wand and a curtain shuts over the portrait.

"I may not be able to kill you, but I know something that will do it for me." She grins. "Those two little brats of yours, their deaths would bring you a lot of pain and suffering."

"You wouldn't." Hermione gasps.

"What, you think I wouldn't kill a couple of kids? Please, my conscience is the least of my worries." Vilinity rolls her eyes.

"I could easily find a way to get them in my possession and it's all downhill from there." Vilinity seems to find pleasure in the pain in Hermione's eyes.

"Or, maybe I can let my two men here have at them first, they have many great ways to torture a person." Vilinity is starting to get the same crazy look her mother had.

"Now off you go, your face tires me." She waves her off. Theron grabs Hermione's arm and pulls her out of the room. Hermione doesn't fight, she will not put her children in danger like that.