Saving Severus Snape (гет)

Hermione's Plan: Travel back in time and show Severus Snape that he does have life worth fighting for.
Not Hermione's Plan: Fall in love with him.
**COMPLETED**
 
fanfictalk.com Slytherin's My Father Will Hear About These Awards
2019 Winner - Best Representation of a Canon Character (Severus Snape)
2018 Winner - Most Addicting
2017 Winner - Best Chaptered Fic
HarryPotterFanfiction.com Dobby Winner 2017 - Best AU
fanfictalk.com FROGS
2017 Winner - Best Novel
2019 Winner - Best Long-Form Romance (Hermione/Snape)
Chapter 1: i Notes: (See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text 2nd May 1998 - 10:30am
Twenty-eight hours since she had last slept. Could that have been right, she wondered? It felt like days. In those last twenty-eight hours, she had broken into Gringotts, disguised as Bellatrix Lestrange, escaped on a dragon, fought a battle the likes of her kind had never seen, and witnessed more death and devastation than anyone - especially any eighteen-year-old – should have ever experienced. By all rights, she should have been exhausted. But she wasn't. It was a few hours since Ronald Weasley and Harry Potter left Dumbledore's office for the comfort of their four-poster beds, in the Gryffindor dorms. They begged her to follow, yet for some reason, she could not bring herself to leave. There was something Hermione Granger had felt was just... wrong. There was something that happened, in the early hours of the morning, that she felt was not meant to be. Of course all of those who had lost their lives really should not have, but there was one death, that deep down in her gut, she knew should not have been.
Hermione paced in front of Professor Dumbledore's desk - well, technically, she supposed, it was Professor Snape's. The sun was shining through the windows and, since the sounds of battle had ceased, it was eerily silent. Her brow furrowed as she spoke to herse