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Chapter 2:
"Now before you start insulting me again, what is it you were sent here to do?" She asked calmly.
Severus bit his tongue, holding back all the disparaging remarks he could think of.
"The order and school were worried when the Gryffindor know-it-all bookworm never showed up for the last semester of her seventh year," Severus snarled.
"Well I don't know why you were all worried; I had sent the headmaster a letter saying that I would no longer be attending the school,"
"The headmaster is the one that sent me, so either he never received your note, or he has a reason for me to come and collect you to return to Hogwarts, either way you should go and collect your luggage, so I can get you there and get on with teaching the other dunderheads."
"I don't think you realise what it is that is happening here Mr Snape…"
"That's Professor Snape to you," Severus sneered.
"No you see it really isn't because I am no longer a student of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and I will not be going back, now if that is all sir, you may leave, I'm sure you are intelligent enough to remember the way out," Hermione said walking away from him.
Her quick dismissal of him had his anger at the situation rise; he walked over to her, grabbed her by the arm and started to pull her towards the door.
"If you're going to be like that, you can buy new equipment later. My job is to bring you back to Hogwarts no matter what."
Before Severus got anywhere near the door, the crying from earlier was heard and Hermione tried twice as hard to get away from Severus.
Just as he was about to ignore the noise and leave with her anyway, something came running into the room straight for Hermione, who in his moment of confusion had pulled her arm away and gotten on her knees.
"Shh it's ok, I'm here sweet heart," Hermione whispered.
At a second look Severus realised it was a child she was holding and soothingly whispering to.
"Muummmmeeee," The child cried.
Severus might not be great with children, but it didn't mean he hated them all, just the ones that were destined to destroy his classroom. He felt guilty for not taking her seriously when she said she had responsibilities, not guilty enough to admit it mind you though.
He wondered who the child belonged to, or if it was a sibling of hers, either way they would need to drop it off on the way, because he was still determined to get her back to Hogwarts, there was nothing that would stop him from getting the job done, or so he thought.
"Well Miss Granger, hurry up and tell me where the child belongs, and whom it belongs too so we can be on our way," Severus sneered impatiently.
"He belongs here Mr Snape, and as I have already told you, we are not going anywhere," Hermione said getting up and moving to sit on the couch, the child still in her arms sobbing into her chest.
"Well, where are his parent's, Miss Granger, and stop playing games you silly chit."
Hermione had, had enough. He was being incredibly thick for someone as smart as he was meant to be.
"Oh get over yourself Snape and open your bloody eyes. Just because you don't want to think it doesn't mean it's not true. I am his mother you stupid son of a bitch! Now if you don't mind, you have caused enough bloody trouble, you can get out," Hermione growled at him, the frustration getting to her.
Severus was so dumb founded, that he hardly had time to pick his jaw up off the floor before all the information had sunk in.
Hermione Granger, one third of the golden trio, know-it-all book worm, had a child, and had just done what no one else had ever had the guts to do, she yelled at him and abused him, and he knew he deserved it.
He now knew that there was very little chance she would be returning to Hogwarts, but he was very curious now how everything had happened, how Hermione Granger had ended up with a child and who was the father of said child.
He knew that he would have to get himself back into her good books if he was going to find out any information, so he used his Slytherin capabilities to get what he wanted, he knew that shocking her with something, so unlike himself would most likely do the trick.
"I apologise Miss Granger, I should have listened to you instead of concentrating on getting my own way. Albus has been as annoying and weird as ever over this mission to get you back, he never once mentioned that you had, had a child."
Hermione took a deep breath, and looked up from her son in shock, Severus Snape just apologised to someone, and Albus Dumbledore was not as all knowing as he made everyone believe.
"How about we start again?" Hermione asked and received a nod in answer.
"Severus Snape, potions master for Hogwarts," he drawled bowing slightly.
"Hermione Granger, ex Hogwarts head girl, now single mother of one," Hermione said.
"I never told Albus Dumbledore about my son, just that I had too many responsibilities and would not be returning to Hogwarts."
"I am sorry that the headmaster has wasted your time, but since you're here, would you care for a drink of something?" Hermione asked.
"Anything strong would be good, since I have to go back to Hogwarts without you,"
Hermione walked back into the sitting room where Severus Snape sat with a few fingers of brandy and a pensive look on his face.
She sat down, took a sip of her own drink and a deep breath before gaining eye contact with her unusual and in previous times very unwanted guest.
She just couldn't figure out what had changed and why it was that she suddenly though she could trust the one man she had always grudgingly respected but didn't know if she could trust.
She realised that she did trust him. So much so that she would explain what had happened and hope that he would find it in his rumoured to have heart, to help her and her son, if not disappear from all things magical, then at least protect her and her son from the monsters that would do anything they could to destroy the life she was trying to build.
"I trust you realise what I am about to tell you should be held with the strictest confidence, I don't want my secrets to be new for the world if I can help it!" Hermione started.
She told Severus Snape how she became involved with a wizard back in her fifth year, and that because of her time turner, although the relationship was unconventional it was totally legal, but they also knew most people wouldn't view it that way.
Hermione told Severus how her lover died at the wand of another magical person and how she was unable to let her lover know that she had been told of her pregnancy a few days before his death. She told him how hard it was to tell her parents that she had found and lost the man she loved, all in what felt like a life time
And finally that she was pregnant with her now dead lovers child.
"My parents were very understanding and supportive, we set up a system that would allow me to finish school and still keep my child."
Hermione took a sip of her drink before continuing.
"It was so hard, leaving him with them, knowing that it would seem like forever between visits!"
"But the last visit was the hardest, I had taken Aidyn for a walk, I had heard the ambulance, but I just didn't consider the fact that it would be my parents. They had been on their way to work when they were involved in an accident, they didn't survive."
"When I got the news, I knew that the rest of my life would be dedicated to giving my son a life he deserved!" Hermione finished, sniffing as she wiped a few stray tears away.
"Who is the boys father? There has to be a reason why no one knew about this!"
Hermione walked over to a silver cylinder and unscrewed the top, letting a sheet of parchment fall out. She handed it over to Severus and sat back down with her cup.
"Please don't judge myself and my son on his father's previous actions!"
Was the last thing Severus heard before he read the scroll in front of him.