Hermione overhears something she shouldn't concerning Professor Snape and decides that maybe the House-elves aren't the only ones in need of protection.

Ten years after the war, Severus Snape is given a task that may just prove his undoing.

Now Complete! Severus Snape is not a kind man, but Hermione Granger is past caring. She wants his approval and will do anything to get it. How far will she go? Even she has no concept of the depths to which she will fall in her quest.

The war is a distant memory and Severus, having survived, retains his teaching post at Hogwarts. Hermione too took a professorship after the fall of Voldermort. All these years later, has Snape finally seen enough of loneliness? COMPLETE.