Disclaimer: I own nothing in the HP stories except the characters I create.

The story behind this fic is sorta weird. I had finished reading a fanfic for the HG/SS pairing one night and was thinking about it in class the next day when I thought, 'Hey, wouldn't it be funny if Hermione became a professor at Hogwarts and had some kids that were not only hers but Snape's as well?' When I looked back and saw that this had been done already tons of times, I had another thought and this is what came of that one thought.

Flowers and Warriors Prologue

Running out of the school, Hermione went past a group of fourth year Ravenclaws on her way to the school gates. 'Got to get away from here,' she thought as she heard faint yelling from behind her. Holding out her hand, the gates opened in front of her, as she got closer. When a flash of red hit the ground next to her, she picked up her pace as she drew closer to the gates. "HERMIONE!!!" Harry yelled to her as she dodged another stunner. Passing the gates, she barely heard the gates slam shut behind her as she stuck her wand hand out in front of her. Seeing the Knight Bus appear in front of her, she quickly got on before a startled Stan Shunpike saw behind her.

"Please, take me… to Liverpool," she gasped out as she sat in one of the bus's many chairs. Jerked back in her seat as the bus took her away from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, she let the tears she had been holding back roll down her cheeks. Placing her hand on her lower abdomen, she smiled faintly as she thought of what the future held for her. 'All I hope is that I will have a home to go to after all this.' With that thought, she fell asleep as the jerky motions of the Knight Bus threw her back and forth.

A few weeks later, Hermione found herself on her back as she screamed so loudly she thought her eardrums would burst. "Just a few more times, cuz," a man with spiky black hair said as he held Hermione's hand. Suddenly, a loud cry echoed through the room. "That's it! You feel alright, Mia?" the man said as he looked at her with his ice blue eyes.

"NO!" Hermione yelled as she pushed down again. "It feels like there are two watermelons trying to get out of my body!"

"No wonder you feel that way," the midwife at the end of Hermione's bed said as she cleaned up the baby in her arms. "You have two other babies that are making their way into the world." Hearing this, Hermione pushed again and again as she finished giving birth to two more babies with her cousin's support. After the babies were cleaned up, Hermione looked at her children as she held two boys in her arms while her cousin held a little girl. "So…" the midwife said as she looked at Hermione. "What are the names?"

Looking down into the faces of her children, Hermione softly said, "Lucian, Sebastian, and Anthea." Watching as her two little boys cuddled up to her, Hermione smiled softly as she realized that she now had to get a job to care for her children. The problem, though, was who would hire a barely-out-of-school, single mother? With that thought on her mind, she let herself be led into the realm of dreams.