Epilogue

December

It was Finnish Independence day and the villagers were celebrating. Severus and Hermione were in one of the restaurants having a nice dinner when he got down on one knee and proposed the idea of marriage. Hermione agreed, knowing that their hearts and lives were leading them down similar life paths and that he loved her and she him more than she knew it was possible to love.

Midsummer's Day the following year

Hermione wore a beautiful light gown of sheer white, trimmed with lace she had made herself. Severus wore a traditional summer suit of beige. Fred and George were the only British wizards to attend the wedding because they were the only ones Hermione trusted with the knowledge of her location. Misty stood with Hermione as her witness and the happy couple became Mr. and Mrs. Snape under a cloudless blue sky on the shores of Sotkajärvi.

Five years later

Having made their mark on the small village of Magikylä with their magical eye masks six years earlier, the Snapes were now a prominent family in the wizarding village. They had eventually shared the Translation Charm with the locals so they could communicate freely and openly with no barriers of language to overcome.

The two buildings had been knocked down and rebuilt as one larger building spanning the two lots. The residential quarters and private lab at the back and the combined apothecary and knitwear shop at the front. Locals visited SS Potions and More regularly and respected the owners. The business was so good that they regularly shipped products to other witches and wizards across the Arctic circle who were in need of some of their specially developed products to help them survive in the beautiful but challenging landscape that was their home.

Hermione and Severus celebrated Midsummer each and every year by returning to the back garden and making love upon that green and silver blanket where their love had first blossomed all those years ago.

Fin

A/N: The prompt from SSHG prompt fest Summer 2015 as given by iqeret. Original posting can be found on livejournal.

Prompt: Snape opens a store of some sort (potions? made to measure robes? tea?) in a rather obscure part of the world (random tiny town in the UK is fine, but _not_ in the Americas, please). One day, sometime after he has settled in, he goes next door to buy something he needs, only to find out that his neighbouring shopkeeper is none other than Hermione Granger