The day Severus finally gave in.

Hermione had always assumed that if the war didn't defeat her, nothing could. Constantly going in and out of St Mungo's as a patient with a rare autoimmune disease was not how she would have chosen to spend the six months after Voldemort's fall.

Not every couple marries for love.

This story was written as a gift for Natasnape for the 2010 SS/HG Exchange. The prompts are within, but as a hint, "Priapism, n. Pathology. continuous, usually nonsexual erection of the penis, esp. due to disease."

HG/SS Four year old Athena Snape's attempt to seek revenge against her parents has interesting consequences for them both in a time when her very existence had never yet been thought of. Slightly AU Snape alive , EWE? Rating for some language later.