When Hermione Fights

Lucius and Severus

Chapter beta: Dani

Chapter translator: Aivy

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Severus' POV

That annoying, long-haired idiot! What did he want from me?

Stupid question, I knew that. Why did he pressure me so insistently? Why always me?

Oh, I knew that too, if I was honest with myself. He had found someone that enthralled him! Someone that appealed to him, appealed to him very much. She was an enormous challenge and what a challenge she was. She was a league of her own because she was brutally stubborn.

Lucius knew only a fraction of what Hermione, alias the bitch, was capable of!

I doubted that even I knew a fraction of what she was capable of. But why should I play his informant and serve him any information on a silver tray?

That would be the day! No, never ever, I swore to myself!

I felt sorry for myself when I had to look at this ever more fanatical lunatic, whose greed for possessing her almost jumped out of his cold, grey eyes. Actually, I should feel sorry for her since she would be permanently exposed to his latent advances from now on and that had to be gruelling.

It is a good thing that her handsome skull was almost as thick and stubborn as his. In fact, the two had earned each other. Let Lucius get obsessed; in her he might find his master, I had no doubt. She had acquired my respect a long time ago to my regret, although I would never admit it. The part of me that had surrendered to that realization had been locked deep inside of me, very deep.

Even I could not understand her. That was a good thing!

Although I had been able to make myself invisible successfully so far, my luck had now run out. Tonight, he had ordered me to come here, as a demand coming from the Dark Lord's right hand. Well, how could I resist this order?

It was a matter of despair!

Whether you believe it or not, his haughty lordship had been working me for hours, endless hours, in his energetic relentlessness. Can you fathom that?

This man had an amount of stamina that was not endurable. He talked and talked, no silence whatsoever during his lengthy monologue. I rolled my eyes in annoyance!

So far I had managed to escape him all Monday and almost all Tuesday, but in the evening, as I said, he had pulled out all the stops. I did not know him to be so impatient, so overzealous. I had calculated that I would be able to hide a week until he would resort to the last means to get hold of me, but I had thought wrong. Lucius seemed to be very bothered by all this.

Now I had sat here for over two hours already and he whined, lamented and nagged incessantly because I should finally tell him about my history with her. The bitch really brought nothing but trouble and I resented her for it.

He continued to whinge until he had pushed me far enough that my glass flew towards him again. Lucius dodged with the natural agility he possessed and the glass smashed to pieces on the wall behind him. Then a much too satisfied grin appeared on his aristocratic face, for he knew he had annoyed me for so long that I would soon give up. How could a single person be such a nuisance?

"Severus, I have the right to know if you have landed in bed with the new member of the family," he continued happily, being much too pushy. "Now you have even assaulted me again. I just want to know what happened! Tell me!"

I could feel the headache behind my temples, so I closed my eyes in anguish.

"Severus, must I remind you that I have always done everything for you, starting in your youth? I've always taken good care of you, so it is probably not too much to ask you to tell me this little intimacy, among friends and old companions!