Hermione is ill with an obscure Chinese curse. Severus is merely in love.

A change in career brings two people as close together as they always wanted to be... but is it too close?

The War is over, everyone is moving on. The future is, indeed, looking brighter than it has in years. Just like everyone else, Hermione is making plans, breathing easy, trying to let go of the past. Then she suffers a catastrophic loss and goes into hiding again, this time to seek vengeance for her loss. Only to stumble across a Potions master the world thought was dead. Will they recognize each other? NOT your typical SSHG. Rated Mature for a short scene of violence in the first chapter, and possibly more in later chapters. A/U. R&R

Status: Complete Hermione Granger has spent twenty years searching for the missing Potions Master. When she finally finds him he's not the man he use to be. ------- MY LOYAL READERS!!!! "...He was used, abused, and tortured most his life... you are a product of your own life and to stay alive he has to grow a very hard shell, abuse does that to you." - severussnapesalways "Hot! Great sensory description of power!" -CurlsonSatin "Wow, love it, it's great." -MulanFan "Love this story, eager for more!" -BookwormKW "Getting better and better!" -JitKaD32 "Oh my god, this is getting good, I love this story!" - JulianaMendoza3 "You write with feelings I make with my whole being. Thank you for putting a special flair within the theme of your writing!" -LindaKohler8 "Keep up the great work! This is very well written and I really don't think I've found a mistake!" - _AngelReaper_ "I love it!" -Crazinessgirl THANK YOU FOR THE IMMENSE SUPPORT!!!

Severus and Hermione love story. Dancing, love, and a ominous mirror will decide these two polar opposites fate. Will they give to their hearts urges, or will they suffer in silence. * I do not own these characters*

Severus Snape finds himself alive after the war, saved by none other than the insufferable know-it-all. But did he even want to be saved? Hermione on the other hand finds herself unconsciously, albeit dangerously drawn to the broken man. She vows to herself that if he needs her, she'll be there. But you can only help someone who wants to be helped.... What happens when he finds himself face-to-face with just the person he was trying to avoid, because she makes him forget everything he thought he knew about himself?

' One puff, and then a second. He simply couldn't stop himself from going for another drag. Just like he couldn't stop averting his gaze towards her sleeping figure, bathed in moonlight. One more glance and then I'm done. But he knew he was lying to himself; right from having their clothes being unbuttoned, to being an entangled mess together- the memory burns a vivid picture in his mind. The brown of her eyes- so warm, so intense, as if he knew looking deep into them was going to leave a mark on his soul. One more puff, and then I'd stop. But her skin, all soft and smooth seemed to inch closer, as though his touch was burning her to ashes. And she wanted to be burnt. Their moans were muffled within the confines of these walls, like the rings of smoke clouding his vision. Her lips that moved in complete sync with his own- disguising as his rehab, only to taunt him into relapsing. He looked at the cigarette in his hand and then at her, and just wondered- Why was I under the wrong addiction all this time? ' It has been some time since the war and most of them had moved on. But not her. She was trying to but one tempestuous night someone arrives at Hermione's doorstep like a hurricane. And the world comes crashing down at her feet. What will she do now? #slowburn #triggerwarning #mature content

Hermione slowly touched her lips with his, letting her professor experience his first kiss. He was unpracticed and unsure of himself, awkwardly not touching her, afraid of her shying away from him. He then broke from the kiss hastily, "Get. Out." What happens when our Gryffindor princess clashes with the cold and cunning potions master after the war as she studies under him as an apprentice? Not my oringinal book!!!!! Just wanted to share on here since it wasn't. The original is on Quotev

Part two of two. Recommended that you read Redemption I before reading. The war is over. Those who have survived must find their way in the new world. Where there is light there will always be darkness. A look into the past may seal the fates of the future. It was time that the world returned all it had taken from their lives. What is an ever after but a search for happiness? Contains Sexual Situations, reader discretion advised.

Part one of a two part story. A different tale of what could have happened following the aftermath at Malfoy Manor. The trio has been broken, new players have entered the game. Will all survive? Who will be taken? What will be given? What is a happily ever after if not a struggle to find the light in the darkest of times? The road to redemption is paved in blood. Hermione/Snape Pairing.