Author's Note: Hello everyone. This is my first long story hope you like it. This is a Hermione/Severus fanfiction.
Once Loved
September 21, 1979
Jean Smith looked down at sleeping daughter and smiled at the tiny beauty. She had been born only two days before but Jean knew that
her daughter would be a wonderful baby. She was a beauty with light skin, brown eyes, brown curly hair, and a cute button nose like herself.
She was quiet and didn't fuss and Jean thanked the gods for giving her the wonderful gift of having a child.
She remember how seven months prior she hadn't felt the baby as a gift but as punishment for that rash decision of getting drunk
and having that one-night stand with the tall dark stranger she had met at a bar.
She didn't remember the details but she remembered looking up from her drink and her mind going blank as she saw the tall sexy man
in the corner of the bar and as he smiled, her body melted. She remember seeing him come over to her and asking for her name. She also
distinctly remembered asking him if he was serious and that he answer "Always."
She had laughed thinking he was telling her a joke but she had later learned that his name was Sirius.
Sirius Black.
Just thinking the name gave Jean the shivers. She remembered after an hour of drinks and subtle flirting he had asked if she wanted a
ride and she had accepted. They went out the bar and left the pulsing rock music behind as they headed for his motorcycle.
The rest, Jean admitted to herself, was a blur she remembered asking him into her place, the hot sex they've had in her stairs, in her kitchen,
in her bathroom, and finally in her very comfortable bed. Jean wasn't sure if it had lasted all night but the way her body felt in the morning she
knew it had been a great exercise. Unfortunately, when she had woken up Sirius had been gone.
Jean snapped out of her thought by the knock on her door. She looked down at the sleeping baby in her arms and placed her in her crib.
She walked down the stairs into her living room and opened the door. In an instant a jet of green light flew into the room and killed her instantly.
Regulus ran as fast as he could toward the house on the suburb trying desperately to get there in time. But as he looked up at the sky and
saw the Dark Mark hanging over Jean Smith's house and knew that it was too late. He slowed down and hid next to her fence to see if there
were any of his fellow Death Eaters in sight when he saw none. He walked slowly onto the yard and into the house. He stopped at the opened
door and looked down at the women at his feet.
She was lying in an unnatural pose that if she had been alive would have resulted painful but as her lifeless brown eyes stared up at Regulus
he knew that the dark beauty that had captivated his brother would never feel pain again. Just as he was about to turn an go he heard a soft sound.
It sounded like a cat or some little creature that was in pain. He walked into the house looking around. He looked inside the living are which was
spacious and messy , he walked on to a staircase and followed the sound up the stairs pass a washroom and into a small bedroom painted in a pink color
that Regulus though would make any self respecting Death Eater puke at its mushiness. He looked around and noticed a small bed and at it's side a crib.
He walked slowly toward the crib and the sound coming from it. Deep in his mind he knew that what he found there would change his life forever and he
wanted to turn around and run as far away as possible. But as he looked into the crib and saw the brown eyes staring back at him he knew that a new Black
had been born and that he would do anything to protect the tiny baby. He picked the baby up from her crib and walked down the stairs across the living room and
over her mothers death body.
He walked down the street into an alley and apparated into the quiet back yard of his squib friend John Granger. He looked at the baby again and knocked the door.
Jean Granger, John's wife opened the door.
"Regulus, is that you, what on earth are you doing here at this hour and is that a baby your carrying! Well, don't just stand there, come in."
Regulus walked into his friends home sat on the couch and looked at his friend and his wife and told them the story of the baby who had lost her mother
and how she needed someone who could take care of her. He looked into his friends eyes and asked him if he could take care of his niece.
John and Jean Granger had been married for seven years and had been unable to have children. Both had been born to squib parents and came from a
long line of Purebloods but had been abandoned by their family for coming into the world without magic. Jean looked at her husband and then at the men
that he had called a friend for almost twenty years. She looked at the sleeping infant that lay in his arms and took her into her own.
The Grangers looked into the sleeping infant and knew that their prayer for a child had been answered. Regulus looked up at his friends face
and knew that his niece would be safe for the time being. He stood up walked to the back door turned back one last time and apparated into his home
at 12 Grimmauld Place.
He walked in and for the first time saw his ancestral home with a new light. Regulus felt his mark burn and before Apperating to Lord Voldemort
he made a promise that he would keep his niece safe if it was the last thing he did. And he knew that to protect the newest Black he would have
to betray all he knew including his Lord.
John looked at his wife then at the sleeping baby in her arms. He put his arms around his wife looked her in the eyes and asked,
"So, love, what do you want to name her?"
Jean looked down at the sleeping baby and thought 'mine'. She then looked at her husbands eyes and said "Hermione!"
"I want her name to be Hermione"
John looked down at the sleeping baby. His eyes softened and he sent a silent thank you to his childhood friend before turning to his wife and saying,
"Hermione Granger it is."
Author's Note: So this is my first chapter. Please send feedback. Much love. Oh and I want to apologize for the chapter being so short. So hopefully the next chapters will be longer.