Revelations

"What do you mean lovers?" Isabella glared at her daughter.

"Just how it sounds, Mother!" Hermione retorted.

Nathaniel turned a nasty eye at Severus. "You did this to my daughter. You put her under one of your spells."

Severus was deeply insulted. "Excuse me, sir; I don't cast foolish spells!"

Hermione glanced around the restaurant, expecting everyone to be staring at them, but only Harry and Ginny were paying attention. Hermione furrowed her eyebrows in confusion.

"If you two would just calm down for a second, we can talk about this like adults," Hermione interjected.

"You want us to calm down? You are the one who brought two gigolos to a private, family meeting," her father stated.

"Hey, now wait a minute. We are not gigolos!" Remus said angrily.

"Is that what this is? A family meeting! Since when did we start acting like a family again?" Hermione interjected.

Remus was trying to be the voice of reason. "I think everyone needs to quiet down before we cause an even bigger scene."

Nathaniel looked around the restaurant and noticed a few patrons looking their way, but not as many has he thought there would be. "Hardly anyone is watching us. Besides, can't you cast a no listening spell or whatever it is called?"

A surprised look fell on Hermione's face. "How did you know about that?"

"Do you really think that I never looked at any of your books when you were home? You are my daughter. I care and worry about you."

Hermione sat and stared at her father in a stunned silence; she had never known he took an interest in her schooling or the magical part of her life. He always cared about her, but he never really asked about school when she lived at home. She thought that he had no interest in those aspects of her life.

There were several minutes of uncomfortable silence when the waiter came and served their food. Hermione was surprised because they had just arrived.

"You ordered already?" Hermione asked in a quieter voice.

"Well, we couldn't very well wait for you, since you were late," Isabella sneered.

"We were not late," said Hermione through gritted teeth.

Isabella waved her daughter off as if she were of no importance.

Severus and Remus stared at their lover's parents, not touching the food. They did not feel like eating with these people. Hermione looked at the food that her parents had ordered; it mainly consisted of seafood, to which Hermione was allergic.

"Why did you order so much seafood? You know that I can't eat it."

Isabella ignored her daughter.

Remus just shook his head. "This is going nowhere," he whispered to Severus.

"I ordered you some vegetarian egg rolls," Nathaniel said, looking a little guilty as he handed his daughter a plate full of the fried rolls.

"Thank you, Dad," Hermione whispered.

Isabella rolled her eyes at the father-daughter moment. "If you two are done talking, I would like to eat my dinner in peace and quiet."

Giving up, Hermione cradled her head in her arms.

"Young lady, get your elbows off the table. That is not proper etiquette." The older woman sneered.

Hermione had to stifle a laugh from slipping out of her mouth. If she only knew what they had done on the table the first night the three of them made love, her mother would have a heart attack right there in the restaurant. She looked at Remus and Severus, who had small smirks on their faces.

Coming back to the present, Hermione looked angrily at her mother. "The whole point of this dinner was to sit and talk about what you have been putting me through for the past three years."

"Hermione, why don't you just say what you came here to say."

The witch raised her eyebrows at her father. "Alright, if we want to skip the pleasantries."

Hermione took a deep breath before she began the speech that she rehearsed over and over the past three days. "I came here to tell you that until the divorce is final, I don't want any more contact from either of you. You have done nothing but make me miserable for the last three years, and I can't handle it anymore."

Hermione took a deep breath; that had gone a little smoother in her head than what she actually said, but she still got her point across. As she looked at her parents, she noticed that her father had a glimmer of regret in his eyes. Her mother on the other hand was very cross looking.

"You are my daughter; I have every right to contact you," her mother said.

"But you don't have the right to harass me!"

Nathaniel was very sorry for causing his daughter grief. He never meant things to get out of hand like they had, but he was so angry with his wife that he accidently took it out on his daughter by making her choose sides.

"Hermione, I'm sorry for all the stress I've caused you," her father finally said, breaking the silence.

"You're a whore," Isabella whispered.

Hermione gasped, her eyes filling with tears as everyone at the table including Nathaniel stared at the older woman.

Remus' eyes flashed amber. "Now wait just a minute!"

Severus started to reach for his wand.

"How dare you two corrupt my daughter like this?"

"Excuse me!"

"You two are old enough to be her fathers! Aren't there laws against this? Did you seduce her when you were her teacher?"

"Who are you to judge, Isabella?" Nathaniel turned towards his almost ex-wife. "You are the one who had repeated affairs with four different men!"

The trio stared in shock. Hermione was silently crying at her mother's vicious statement about her character, and she barely heard her father's assertion.

"You two have been putting your daughter through hell because you had an affair?" Severus said, looking pointedly at the older woman.

"Well, if it weren't for her, then her father would not have remembered the affairs."

"Wait a bloody second! You are blaming me because you decided to break your marriage vows?"

"Precisely!"

Hermione could not believe what she was hearing. This person sitting across from her was not her mother. She didn't know who this person was.

"Why couldn't you just leave us in Australia?"

"Because I missed you, and I wanted my parents back."

"Well, congratulations, you have us back. You ruined our lives."

"Isabella, you ruined our lives, not Hermione!" Nathaniel pointed out.

Isabella was unusually quiet but still had an angry look in her eyes.

Hermione looked at the woman who no longer resembled her mother. "Why?"

"Why what?" she asked angrily.

"Why did you have affairs? And why are you blaming me? I have done nothing to warrant your behavior. I was trying to keep you safe from an evil thing that was bent on making me pay for things that I have never done. And when I finally think things are getting back to normal, you spring your divorce on me and throw me in the middle of your own personal war! I have done enough battling for two lifetimes. I don't need it from my parents!"

Her father tried to interrupt her, but Hermione held up her hands to stop him. "Let me finish. After everything I have been through, I finally found two people who make me feel like I am someone again, not just a pawn in a war or a walking library. They care for me and cherish me as a woman, not as a rag doll being tossed around for some sort of personal sport."

Remus and Severus half expected to hear applause after that speech. They both were very proud of their witch. Both unconsciously placed their hand on the small of her back.

Wow, Hermione thought, who knew that she had it in her to finally take a stand against her parents? Part of her felt proud, but another part was very sad at the broken relationship with her parents. She felt her lovers' hands on the small of her back, which gave her the courage and comfort that she needed. From that day forward, no matter what happened, the trust and security that she had with her parents would forever be broken, and it would be a very long time before she would find comfort with her parents, if ever.

The affects of her daughter's heart wrenching speech had no affect on the older woman. "You are no different than me, young lady."

Hermione, at her wits' end with her mother, practically felt the snap of the last bit of control she had. "At least I love Remus and Severus. Can you say the same thing about your lovers?"

Hermione heard two gasps on either side of her. Her eyes widened; she hadn't meant to use the word love. It had just slipped out. Yes, she had fallen in love with them, but she hadn't wanted them to know for fear of scaring them off. She was still trying to wrap her mind around the fact that she had fallen in love with them so quickly; she was scared and didn't want to jeopardize what they had together.

Remus and Severus were staring at each other with eyes wide; they didn't know how to handle this new bit of information. Both really cared for her, and Remus was in love with her. But what about Severus? He would never hurt Hermione, but could he possibly love her?

"D... did you say love?" her father stuttered.

Not wanting to deal right now with this new subject, Hermione abruptly stood up, causing a few more people to stare. "I can't handle this anymore. Until you two finalize your divorce and stop blaming me for your problems and start acting like my parents again, I don't want to talk to or see either of you!"

And just like that, Hermione, Severus and Remus walked out of the restaurant and never looked back, leaving a stunned Nathaniel and a seething Isabella behind.

****

"Well, that was fun!" Hermione said sarcastically as she plopped down on the couch in the library. These were the first words she had spoken since they left the restaurant.

"It could have been worse."

"How?"

"Severus could have never casted the silencing spell."

"Yes, that was some quick thinking. I would not have wanted a larger audience."

"I half expected applause to break out after your speech that left your father flabbergasted and your mother boiling mad."

"I have no idea where that came from. My mother was making me so livid that I just lost it."

"Your father didn't say much after that."

"He didn't say much at all."

"I did notice that."

At that moment, Harry and Ginny burst through the door. "Hermione, that was great. You should have seen your parents' faces when you left. I don't think they are going to bother you ever again." The moment the words left Harry's mouth, he regretted them. He was excited that Hermione finally told her parents what she had been bottling up inside of her, but he knew that the relationship with her parents was forever marred. It would be too much for her to take right now.

Hermione had a look of utter sadness on her face. The events of the past few hours weighed on her, and she just wanted to crawl into bed.

"I'm going to get ready for bed; I'm just really tired. It has been a stressful night."

Remus helped her off the couch. "Do you want us to come up with you now?"

"No, I think I need a few minutes to myself first, thank you."

Severus kissed her on her head, while looking irately at Harry. "We will be up in a little bit."

Hermione nodded and wearily made her way up the stairs.

"I'm sorry, Hermione," Harry whispered.

"I know; I just need to sleep. We will talk in the morning."

"Goodnight, 'Mione," Ginny called out.

"I will talk to you tomorrow, Ginny. I'm just really worn out from the day."

"I understand; we will talk when you feel up to it."

Hermione considered Ginny her best friend, and after the war they became even closer. Hermione confided several times to the red-haired witch about her parents. Ginny knew the look on her best friend's face. She needed to rest. The emotions of the day had taken too much out of her, and she needed to sleep it off and face the next day with a clear mind.

"Damn, I didn't mean to make her upset," said Harry.

"Well your ill-timed remark didn't help, Potter!" Severus sneered.

"Excuse me for trying to make light of a horrible situation."

"Maybe you should just..."

"Just stop it! Hermione has had a very hard time, not just tonight, but over the past few years. She doesn't need the two of you bickering right now. So whatever problem you two have with each other, get over it because she is going to need all of us to get her through this! So grow up." All eyes turned to the younger witch, whose angry blush was as red as her hair.

"Couldn't have said it better myself, Miss Weasley," Remus said flatly.

Severus and Harry exchanged one last heated stare and a few silent words before turning their attention elsewhere. One needn't have been a mind reader to figure out the meaning behind their expressions.

"Now, if you two are done, Harry, can you please escort me home? I'm a bit tired and would like to call it a night."

"Of course." Harry knew when to leave well enough alone.

When Harry and Ginny left, Remus turned and spoke to Severus. "Hermione did say she loved us tonight, didn't she?"

Severus nodded. "I heard that too, and did you notice that she avoided the topic when her father asked her?"

Remus nodded. "What do you want to do about it?"

"I don't know, but for tonight let's just leave it be."

"Agreed. Let us have a drink and give Hermione a few more minutes to herself before we head to bed."

"That can wait a minute. With everything that has been going on with Hermione and her parents, we haven't discussed this month's full moon yet."

"How many more tests do you need before you can create the latest potion?" Remus questioned.

"I need to collect your blood seven days before the full moon. I will give you the new potion the day before and pray that it works the way we want it to this time."

Remus nodded; his transformation was only nine days away. For the past six months, Severus had been testing a new potion on the werewolf to try to stop him transforming into his furry other self.

While on an excursion to Africa, the dark wizard came across very rare herbs that were known in ancient times to cure people of strong curses. Severus spent several months analyzing the properties of the plants and discovered that combined with the Wolfsbane potion, they would start to clean the body of the Lycanthropy curse. The trick was finding the right ratio of the herbs to stop the transformation. So far the potion hadn't worked quite the way it should have but had at least eased the painful transformation. Last month, Remus hadn't transformed until seven hours after the moon rose.

In addition to the blood tests, Severus gave him a full physiological exam to see if the wolf's instincts were still intact. Remus came to the conclusion that part of his personality would always be present. Having been bitten at a young age, the wolf was now part of Remus' psyche, and to take away that part of him would ultimately destroy the wizard. But being able to stop the transformation and to stop himself from hurting anyone was what kept Remus going through these tests every month.

"Even if the new potion works, I still think it is a good idea for you to distance yourself from Hermione, at least until we know how you are going to behave. I don't want you to hurt her."

"I could never harm her."

"Still, you may not transform after you take the potion, but we have no idea how your behavior will be. I don't want Moony hurting our girl."

Remus' eyes widened. "You really care for her, don't you?"

"You know I do," he whispered. "If it weren't for her quick thinking and that brilliant mind of hers, I wouldn't be alive now," the dark wizard said, thinking about his near death experience in the Shrieking Shack during the final battle.

"I seem to recall that you were not happy with her at first. You wanted to die."

"Yes, when I found out that she put a stasis charm on me to keep me from losing anymore blood and cast a compression charm on my chest to keep my heart pumping until someone could come back and help me, I wanted to kill her for interfering with my death."

Severus hadn't wanted to live through the battle. He hadn't wanted to deal with the repercussions of his deeds surrounding his life as a double agent. He knew that people would always see him as Dumbledore's murderer, even though the old wizard had made Severus kill him. That was why he hadn't returned to Hogwarts, even after Minister Shacklebolt and Headmistress McGonagall had testified on his behalf to keep him out of Azkaban. They had offered him his job back at Hogwarts, which he'd declined. He wanted to open his own private potions research company.

Remus shook his head. Leave it to Severus to be mad at someone for saving his life. "But after some time..."

"Yes, after some time I learned that life is really worth living, and I forgave her for saving my life," Severus said, slightly embarrassed, not that he would let that show.

"If this potion works, a lot of werewolves will be indebted to you."

"It's not like I am going to be giving it away, they will pay for it and..."

"Can't you just be happy that you are going to be helping a lot of people to get their lives back to normal?"

"I don't do happy, Remus!"

"Oh really? Well, in that case, I think that I will go upstairs and get happy with Hermione while you stay down here and brood."

Severus raised one eyebrow at the werewolf. "I don't think so."

Remus smirked at the Potions Master. "Why don't we see how our witch is doing?"

"Hold on one more second. I don't want Hermione to have to choose between the two of us. Whatever happens I don't want to put her in the position that her parents have put her in."

"Agreed. If we have a problem with each other, we work it out without involving Hermione."

"Good, now that that is settled, let us go to bed."

***

When the two wizards made their way to find Hermione, they found their witch asleep in Remus' bed. She was only in her knickers and had tear-stained cheeks.

Remus swore when he saw her. "I knew we should have gotten up here sooner."

"I don't think it would have mattered. She's had an emotional overload tonight; crying was an inevitable result."

The two wizards quietly stripped and carefully got into bed without disturbing the sleeping witch. They wrapped themselves around Hermione, enveloping her in their warmth.

***

Hermione awoke in the middle of the night. She felt two pairs of strong arms wrapped around her. She could feel Severus' breath on the back of her neck and the soft breathing of Remus on her breasts.

She would have never gotten through that meeting if they had not been with her. She said that she loved them. She hadn't meant to say love; she had meant to say care. She couldn't very well take it back as they were there. They heard her say love; now she was going to have to deal with what came next.

Her biggest fear was that they would make her choose between the two; she didn't think she could handle it if they made her choose.

"You are thinking awfully hard for someone who just woke up."

A small gasp escaped from Hermione. "Remus, I thought you were asleep."

"I was, but I'm a light sleeper."

"It's a wonder how anyone can sleep with you two talking!" Severus grumbled.

"My, my, aren't we grumpy, Severus?"

Hermione turned over so she was lying on her back. "What time is it?"

Remus looked that the clock that he kept on the nightstand. "It's three."

"Damn, I'm never going to get back to sleep now."

Severus and Remus both had the same look on their faces. 'I think we can help with that," they both said in unison.

Both latched on to the witch's nipples. She hissed at the contact. One hand made its way down Hermione's stomach to her panties. She moaned at the attention.

"Severus, so you think we should resume our lessons?"

"Yes, yes I do. What one are we up to?"

"I don't remember. Are we at lessons of distraction?"

"No, I think we already did those."

"If you two don't start doing something, I am going to scream the house down."

Severus smirked at her. "You are going to do that anyway."

"Which reminds me..." Remus quickly casted a silencing charm, "we don't need an audience tonight."

"No we don't," said Severus with a bit of a bite.

Remus flashed him a warning look.

"Now where were we?"

Severus kissed his way down Hermione's body, licking her belly button. She could feel his hot breath on her mound through her knickers.

"Oh, gods, please don't stop."

Remus attached himself to her neck, kissing, licking, and nipping at the delicate flesh. One hand massaged her full breast, pinching her nipple. Little sounds of pleasure were escaping Hermione's lips.

Severus eased her knickers off and blew on her throbbing clit. Hermione thrust her hips towards Severus' mouth, and his tongue swiped her moist pussy.

Remus bit her neck, leaving a small mark. He licked and nuzzled the new mark before he turned his attention to her taut nipple.

Severus inserted one of his long delicious fingers into her warm channel. The wizard loved the taste of her; he could not get enough.

Hermione was in heaven. How could she be so lucky to have two wizards who showed her so much attention?

Hermione couldn't hold out much longer; her orgasm ripped out of her, bathing Severus in her sweet honey. Still riding out her high, Hermione rolled on top of Remus, surprising the werewolf. "I need you both inside of me."

Remus gave her a wolfish smile as he lifted her slightly and plunged his hard dick into her still throbbing pussy.

Severus wasted no time in casting a lubrication charm on her puckered hole. He eased in one finger, and then two until Hermione was prepared enough to receive his hard member. Hermione was getting used to being fucked in the ass. It didn't take long for Severus to become fully sheathed inside of her.

Remus continued to massage her breasts, pinching her nipple. He was a breast man and loved the sounds that Hermione made when he squeezed her plump mounds.

The three performed the well-practiced dance of their lovemaking. That evening seemed more intimate than their previous encounters. With the emotional night Hermione had had, she needed to reassure herself that this was not about gratification, but about love, no matter what her mother thought.

Severus latched on to her neck and slightly nipped the skin just above Remus' mark, leaving one of his own. Both wizards sped up their thrusts. The tightness of their girl was not making it easy to prolong their lovemaking.

Remus slid a finger down to dance on Hermione's clit. A loud cry tore from the witch's lips as her second orgasm rippled through her body, bringing her two lovers with her.

Hermione collapsed on top of Remus. "Wow... that was... wow!"

Severus chuckled as he cast a quick cleansing charm and slid next to Hermione.

"Yes, that was a pretty wow," Remus said.

Hermione yawned. "It also wore me out. I think I might actually fall asleep again."

"Glad we could be of service," Severus whispered as he ran his fingers through her hair.

Remus drew lazy circles on her thigh as the witch drifted into a peaceful sleep.

Soon the two wizards followed her into a peaceful sleep.

A/N: Thank you Valady and bookofsecrets for looking this over for me. I want to thank everyone who has stuck with this story. I know that I take a while to update, but I will finish this story.