Hee! I love it. :) Two of the things that bothered me most about DH was 1) Harry has this 'saving people thing' and yet, he didn't try to save Snape, and 2) Hermione has been bending over backward to help everyone throughout the series, even house elves and she's always respected Snape, and yet she doesn't even try to dig through her bag of tricks to find dittany or try to use a spell to stop the bleeding? That really stretched credibility for me, when JKR herself established those two personality traits for the kids. This fic rather nicely redresses those issues and provides a nice rationale for some lovely first time sex. Snape being shy and bashful yet bossy is icing on the cake (or is that mustard on the face?). :)
Thank you! I enjoyed this very, very much. :D Happy Holidays!