A/N: Welcome everyone, to a challenge story between my sister and I. It's your classic mass pregnancy story. We decided to do the same concept and see how different our stories came out. Long Live Severus Snape. Blessed Be J.K Rowling. I do not own any Harry Potter characters and/or world. Thanks enjoy. KD
Belladonna and Bluebells
September
First Week
"Neville LONGBOTTOM!" Professor Snape snapped at the timid boy for the umpteenth time. The first double potions class of the year had dragged on for what seemed like hours. The Slytherins snickered quietly from across the room. Neville froze his hand hovering over the stoppered bottles of ingredients.
"Miss Granger, would you be so kind as to keep an eye on your partner!" He snarled
"Yes sir" Hermione Granger replied promptly in a nervous voice. Grabbing Neville's hand, she lend it towards the correct vial. The dark man turned abruptly on his heel and marched back towards the front of the room. Hermione quickly whispered at her workmate as she watched his hands shake making the small glass bottles rattle as he selected the curly brown root.
"Please be careful, Neville. I know he scares you but you must pay attention" she wined desperately at the red faced boy, he only nodded and cleared his throat.
"Psst!" Someone poked Hermione in the back with a stirring spoon she jumped and spun around in her chair to glare at her best friends, Harry Potter and Ron Weasley sitting at the double desk behind her.
"What!?" She whispered sharply at them.
"How do you get this..."Ron began but was cut off by a squeak, next to her Neville whimpered just before a strong long fingered hand grabbed her upper arm firmly.
Hermione yelped as the cold grip tighten, twisting her forcefully back to face the pale, hooked nose and angry expression that belonged to the hand that forced her to turn. An action which caused her elbow to bump her partner's arm. Severus yelled and released her just as an acrid smell began to fill the room and their cauldron began to crackle and spit.
Severus pulled his wand out but it was too late, thick violet smoke started billowing from the small pewter vessel.
"Out! Everyone Out! Quickly!" Snape barked at the class. Panic ensued, Gryffindors and Slytherins alike climbed over the benches and each other in their haste to escape the growing cloud. Those closest to the accident coughed and spluttered, poisoned for sure.
"Vires Dissipare" Severus quickly muttered the spell, that cleared the air. He growled at the purple sheen over the failed potions, over his classroom, the remaining students and himself. Darting forward he grabbed the shocked students standing before him by the scuffs of the neck and dragged them from the room.
"Potter! Weasley! Hospital wing now!" he yelled at his captive's friends as he pulled them up the stone corridor to the main castle. As the indigo coloured bunch walked through the hospital wings door, Madame Pomfrey was releasing the last of the rest Severus Snape's potions class who all looked a lot least vibrant.
"Severus! What happened?!" The medinurse ask of her colleague with a stern look on her round face, humour in her kind grey eyes. Severus grumbled and pushed Hermione and Neville forward in answer.
"I'm sorry!" Neville whined at her.
"I tried to tell him, I just looked away for a second" Hermione confessed while glaring at Harry and Ron.
"I understand these things happen now I need you to tell me what it is you added to your cauldron that caused this?"
"I believe it was the belladonna root that caused this..."Snape snarled rubbing at the vivid purple mask covering his body, that was beginning to itch.
"Oh dear...very well, in the showers now!" She ordered in her firm and sure voice, pointing at the bathrooms of the main hall of the hospital wing, where the beds stood in rows with curtains around each for privacy. She watched them march past her, heads hung in defeat.
Once the students had pass further down the hall, Madame Pomfrey turn to Severus, a frown creasing her, pale brow.
"Am I correct Severus, that Belladonna is the key ingredient in most fertility potions?" She asked wringing her fingers.
"I'm afraid so Poppy and the other ingredients in the Glee potion they were supposed to be brew will only amplify the matter, I shudder to think..."
He did visibly shuddered and turning on his heel, speed out of the room yelling over his shoulder
"Sorry Poppy I must bathe" He fled for the shower in his chambers. Storming through the door of his dungeon abode, the portrait of his great aunt Ellowyn growling about an angry purple demon that looked like her nephew. Severus tore off his robes, throwing them towards the hearth in his living room and thinking he must burn them later. Moving naked through to the second room, his bedroom and onto the small white bathroom, he flicked his wand at the taps in the shower and dropped the thin wood in the allocated slot in his toothbrush holder and dived under the water before it had even warmed completely.
He yelped at the chilly water, then sighed and began scrubbing the thick purple substance from his skin. His pale skin quickly turned bright red and raw in places. He knew it would do no good, that the potion would have taken effect the moment it touch him. 'FUCK!' He thought angrily banging his fists on the shower wall.
'Blast that useless boy and his clumsiness. He is quite possibly un-teachable' Severus cursed at his stupidity for allowing these potent ingredients near Neville Longbottom in the first place. Skin raw and fists aching Severus turn the water off and step out of the cubical.
'I suppose I should return to the hospital wing for testing' He thought bitterly as he passed back into his room. Dressed and made his way back. Upon entering the wing he found the greying medi-witch addressing a smaller slightly less grape coloured group. There was tension in the air and Poppy's face looked grim.
"Ah Severus, I was about to inform the students best you be here also." The students shuffled nervously. Severus glanced angrily at Neville Longbottom, Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and lastly Ron Weasley.
"Hahmm..." she cleared her throat "...I regret to inform you all, that I believe that particular combination of ingredients in the cauldron at the time of your accident, is capable and likely to have caused..." she paused to sigh and finished with the word Severus both expected and dreaded hearing. "...pregnancy." The students gasped, stocked. Ron lay faint on the bed he had been sitting on and Severus cursed.
"I...I'd like a...er test if you wouldn't mind Poppy." He awkwardly asked holding out his right arm.
"Very well, give me a moment" She answered and ducked into her supply room and returned with a murky orange paste in a bowl and some paper towels. It took a moment more while she was applying the paste to her colleges' forearm, before Hermione finally found her voice and started asking questions at high speed.
"What do you mean pregnant! With whose baby? How are the boys pregnant? Will it be a normal pregnancy? Oh...what will I tell my mother!?" She took a deep shaking breath and burst into tears.
Neville had silent tears running down his cheeks, muttering confusedly to himself, Ron still lay unconscious on the bed, while Harry was merely staring at the grey skies out the hospital window clicking each of his knuckles absentmindedly. He only looked up when Severus cursed again. Madame Pomfrey was handing him a paper towel to wipe the paste now pale pink, confirming his pregnancy.
"I'm sorry Severus..." she coughed and cleared her throat again she addressed Hermione's questions "Hermione dear...how about you sit back down..." She handed her a paper towel for tears and waited for a moment while she got settled.
"...Firstly, you'll likely be pregnant with the person or people you were in closest proximity with at the time of the...er application of the potion. Secondly the pregnancy should be as normal as any, however thirdly with the male pregnancies; naturally an artificial womb will have formed, just behind the abdominal muscles..." She sighed and went to Ron's bedside, touching him gently on the shoulder. 'Unbelievable' she thought while Ron finally stirred.
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