enchantement - SOULBOUND I̲̅ || SS/HG ✔️

53. Fragrance

"Oh shit!" Yelped Hermione as they walk down to his now empty classroom, causing both Severus and Harry to snap their heads towards her, "Sev what are we going to do with the Slytherins, and even the other students? I revealed too much, oh damn it!"

Severus had to bite back the sudden lustful pull towards his witch, and simply responded, "I've taken care of everything, don't worry."

Frowning back at him, Hermione grabbed his hand and tugged on it playfully, "Severus!"

It had been a while since Harry had seen his friend act childish after a fit. He had noticed her change in attitude in second year after Draco Malfoy had called her a 'mudblood' in front of the Slytherin and Gryffindor Quidditch team. She had gone from being a sobbing witch to a playful childish girl. He thought it cute and endearing, making him want to wrap his arm around her securely and never let go, yet now he knew it was Severus' role.

He snickered as he noticed the shocked expression on his face, paled at saucers' eyes staring down at her, "what's wrong with you witch! I told you that I've taken care of everything. A memory spell and voilà, your overwhelming crisis forever forgotten...what are you doing?" He squealed when she stepped on his foot, "are we penguins, Granger, get off my feet, or do you think you are a lightweight?"

"Stop screaming, you sound like Moaning Myrtle on her periods," she snapped, yet her wiggling left eyebrow told her off. "Listen, I just...thank you. I'm not good with apologies, and my ego is probably larger than your...anyways, I'm sorry."

Severus scoffed, enjoying this new Hermione. He remembered when she had once done the same affectionate gesture towards him - which had left two distinctive traces of her under-shoe design on his vintage ones - yet it was overly charming for him to glower her.

Snuggling his head into the crook of her neck, Severus whispered, "I know a way you can effectively pardon yourself."

Secretly for only Hermione to know, he sucked onto the exposed skin on her neck that had been lightly bruised from this morning passionate encounter. Containing her moan, she wrapped her arms around his shoulder, pretending to hug him when in fact, she was digging her nails into his cloak, trying to pry him away from her.

Harry had looked away, figuring they needed a few seconds alone. Yet seconds turned into minutes and once he turned his head around they were snugging the daylight out of each other, their lips battling against the other and occasional tongue wrestling.

Coughing, hoping it will catch their attention, Harry took a deep breath completely shocked by their attitude.

"What's that smell?" He asked, his question falling on deaf ears. "Guys!"

Jumping in fright, Severus snapped his head at the chosen one, before understanding what had happened. Inhaling the scent of his surroundings, Severus instantly grabbed his wand once he noticed the smell and waved it around himself and his two students, shielding them from the mystified perfume.

"This is strange," remarked Hermione as she looked around them, "last time we smell this..."

Harry instantly palled, his hand meeting his forehead with a small slapping sound, "why is it that you feel like copulating whenever I'm around? Am I that attractive I turn you on?"

Severus' wailed with laughter, placing a hand on the wall beside him, trying to hold himself up. "Don't flatter yourself, kid," he snorted, "My only turn on is standing in front of us."

"Yes of course, but before I came around, Ravensun was your target." She responded, her eyes still looking around the area, searching for a clue that would explain the essence that now loomed in the corridors leading to the dungeons.

"Oh right, I completely forgot you courted her before. What's wrong with Professor Ravensun by the way? She looked sick this morning."

Hermione grabbed both her best friend and lovers hand as she walked deeper into the corridors having detected something and knowing that they needed to stick together in order for the protection charm to operate.

"Where did you see Seraphina?" Suddenly asked Snape, his focus now on the chosen one who was watching his best friend crouch on the ground - seemingly searching for something.

"She was leaving the infirmary, I had to go there this morning as Ron had terrible gastric issues at night and needed some medications," he explained, before his jaw clenched and he turned around to face his professor, his eyes darkened with anger, "why the sudden interest Professor?"

"Dear Merlin," gasped Hermione, interrupting the boys' conversation, who instantly were by her side, looking down towards where her finger was pointing at. "This glass must have contained the lustful essence."

Fragmented in a dusted corner of the hallway was a small glass, liquid tainting the ground, a light pink fog evaporating in the air. Hermione lifted her wand and with a flick of her wrist, the vial was restored, the liquid gliding it way back inside its container.

Picking it up, Severus took it away from her hand and placed it inside his large pocket, "I'm not one to share, and if it breaks inside the protective bubble I created around us, I believe I will finish what Voldemort had started."

"It won't work on him," laughed Hermione as they continued their walk towards his private quarters, "he is interested in badly dyed hair."

"Hermione!" Harry squealed, nudging at her side in utter outrage, "shut up," he mumbled, his eyes firing daggers at her.

The feeling of going through a spidery web startled the two Gryffindors as they stepped out of the shield Snape had placed around them, the distance with the main caster being now too grand to keep it up. Hermione turned around searching for Severus who was scrutinizing Harry from head to toe.

"That's why it didn't enchant him, for the lustful essence to function you need to be with someone you desire."

Listening to him, Harry raised his shoulders in confusion when Hermione raised a questioning eyebrow at him, "no, it can't be!"

"Severus, what's going on?"

His frown had become significant on his face, creasing his skin, "how didn't I see this before!"

"Professor Snape?"

Taking the vial out of his pocket, he rose it up for them to see, his hand shaking, "you don't understand, this lustful fragrance is my own creation!"

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