enchantement - SOULBOUND I̲̅ || SS/HG ✔️

36. Deprived lovers

Even though Severus knew that he needed to have a talk with Hermione about what her memories had revealed to him, he prefered spending the rest of their free afternoon together, snuggled close to the other, in pure and delightful silence.

He was still astounded by what he had seen, felt, and above all, encountered. In his lifetime of using legilimency on others, he had never experienced something as vivid and frightening. Although he made mental notes to talk to Hermione about what he had remarked in the other timeline - issues that simply didn't work with her own views of that evening - Severus' couldn't take his mind off these silver eyes that loomed before him as he left Hermione's mind.

"Love?" He whispered, breaking the silence that had been set in the room since they had woken up from their short torpor, "when you left, did you see anyone?"

Lifting her head upwards to meet his terrified gaze, Hermione sighed, "it was just you and me. But what did you mean when you said someone apparated once I left?"

"I'm sorry I brought this up, let's leave it for next time." Bringing his face closer to hers, he hovered his lips above her forehead. He had grown to care for this woman, even before she confessed they had been an item in another timeline, his attraction to her had been inevitable from the start. "This whole thing has worn me out" he lamented, caressing her cheek with his thumb, "and unfortunately, I such as yourself need to attend Slughorn's horrendous party."

Bitting her lip suggestively, unable to contain her raging teenage hormone for getting the best of her, she bit on his exposed nipple causing him to yelp.

"'Mione!"

Swinging her leg on the other side of his hips - straddling his waist - Hermione lowered her tongue on his neck and tentatively bit his skin - sucking, pulling and devouring it. "You taste delicious" she murmured, her tongue trailing up to his earlobe, "so very sweet."

The witch was taken aback by the response she got from her lover, who chuckled and playfully smacked her derrière. "I believe the one who is insatiable in this relationship is you, my dear."

Smirking against his ear, she bit on his lobe, getting ready to make him regret his words. Before he could lift her off his body, Severus felt her malicious hips grinding against his shaft, hardening him.

They had both been naked from their previous antics, which only made Hermione torturous movements all the more pleasurable for the man under her.

"Love you need to go back to your tower, the party starts in three hours. Besides -" he was caught by the feeling of her arousal dripping on his sack. Gulping, Severus tried his best to clear his mind from any inappropriate thought and went on, "- you need to find someone for that party, that nincompoop of McLaren isn't attending it anymore."

Hermione wasn't listening, too focused on teasing her lover. She knew he was going to give in to her actions, but for now, she was enjoying teasing him. "I love you" her husky words rang in his ear, making him shiver in pure ecstasy.

If anyone had ever told him that a caring and loving woman like Hermione would turn him into a love-slave, he would have never believed it. Yet now, as she clearly dominated the situation - trying to make him surrender to her actions - Severus realised how scared he was of losing her.

Her memories weren't the only things that deterred him. He knew someone was after her, and the mere fact that he didn't know how to protect her from evil made his affection for her grow all the more powerful.

Wrapping his arms around her back, he pulled her down - chest to chest - and hugged her tightly. "I love you Hermione" he spoke, tears threatening to escape his shadowed ebony orbs, "a lot has happened and I am sure a lot more will happen in the near future. Just know I will always be there for you, no matter what."

Kissing his lips, Hermione let her own tears fall as she saw her potion master cry from under her, "I thought the war was all I had to be worried about, but now, with you in my life, I realised that I have so much more to fight for." She marvelled at his jet eyes lightened by his sadness, the sparkles in his peepers like a million stars in the night sky - for Hermione, and only for her to see. "I tried to understand why your husband left you, sacrificed his life for you and didn't fight for it when he could have. But I can't. How could he give up on such a love, have a family with you and live happily ever after with the love of his life? I don't understand and I never will. I'm ready to give up everything for you Hermione, you are all that I have."

"I hate seeing you cry honey, please" cried Hermione, placing short yet lingering kisses on his lips. "There are many things we don't know anything about, but for now, I believe it is best if we focus on us, and us only. Then tonight we will go to the restricted section and find all the information we need."

Intertwining his fingers through Hermione's mane, Severus snickered, "I love how beautifully you turned your words around to not make it seem like all you want is a good sex-session before the party."

Outraged, she merrily kicked his chest, her eyes widened in horror, "stop speaking like this, you make me sound like a deprived lunatic!"

"But you are a deprived lunatic" he winked as she stood up, her naked body looming not far from his. "Not even an hour ago we were engaged in -"

"-that doesn't count!" She interjected, throwing a pillow at him, "I wanted to have my mind distracted from your invasion, Severus! You are twisting the situation around. Besides, I don't hear you complaining!"

Turning her head around, she walked out of his room and directed her steps towards the bathroom, feeling the need to have her sore body dipped in the warmth of the dungeons' water.

Once the stream running inside the magically enlarged tub, Hermione dipped her feet, moaning at the tingling sensation from the contact of balmy water against her cold skin.

"And now who is deprived?" She joked as she detected - from the corner of her eyes - Severus standing like a scowled child at the door, waiting for her to grant him entrance.

Growling in response, Severus towered above her and lifted her off her feet. "You're such a cave man."

"You, woman, me man. Me want you." He spoke in a low roar that caused Hermione to purr in response, "now witch, let me bath you."

Kneeling to let their body sink under the water, Severus found himself methodically between her legs and lowered his head down to her mound. "What are you doing?" she half-asked, half-choked as she felt his tongue slither inside of her and out.

"What does it look like I'm doing my fox?" He hummed, before impaling her in one swift motion, prompting her to trash her head back against the green tiles. "What kind of man would I be if I would refuse absolute bliss to my woman?"

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A/N: I know I have not been uploading regularly recently. I have been going through a lot, and no matter how hard I wanted to go back and write this story, I simply couldn't. I'm not giving up on it, don't worry, I love this story too much. I simply didn't expect things to turn the way they did, which simply made it harder for me to write.

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