Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter nor am I making any money off of this.

A/N: I got this idea the other day while baby-sitting my godson. I will admit that it got a little away from me towards the ending; hope you like it!


"Are you sure that he's alright with Jason?" Ginny asked.

"I'm sure he'll be fine," Hermione replied. "He's been home with me before when I watched him."

"Has he ever been alone with a baby before?" Ginny questioned.

Hermione tried to choke back a laugh, "No."

Ginny started to laugh.

"But Remus is coming over to pick up his potion."

"Poor Remus," Ginny said, still laughing, as they entered a shop.


"I don't know why Hermione left such a long list," Severus said. "You're not so bad."

Blue eyes looked up at him.

"And when she left, she bid goodbye laughing," Severus said, as he took the bottle out of the baby's mouth. "You're usually not bad when she's here…" He trailed off, and Jason burped.

"Hermione usually has you take a nap after you eat around this time," he said, walking into another room and placing Jason in the newly-transformed crib. As soon as he was lying down and realized that he wasn't going to be carried anymore, Jason started to cry.

Hastily, Severus scooped up the baby and immediately, he stopped crying.

"I'm putting you down now, so you can take a nap," Severus said.

The baby gurgled at him.

"Good," he said, and set Jason back down and covered him. "And here," he said, and handed the small boy his stuffed duck.

Once Severus saw that Jason wasn't crying, he quickly made his exit from the room – right when someone knocked on the door.


"You wouldn't mind if we stopped in there, would you?" Hermione asked, pointing towards a small shop.

"Not at all," Ginny replied.

"Thanks," Hermione said, walking into the shop. "I need to pick up an order."

"Stuff for the shop?"

Hermione nodded, as a lady appeared behind the shop's only counter.

"Hello," Hermione greeted.

"Here for a pick up or order?"

"Pick up," Hermione informed.

"Last name?" The woman asked.

"Snape-"

"Oh yes, your husband called this morning. Ernie said that one of you would be coming," the lady said, as she disappeared into the back room.

"So," Ginny began, leaning up against the wall next to the counter. "Are you two going to have another mouth to feed anytime soon?"

"Here's your package, Mrs. Snape," the lady pushed the package across the counter.

"Thank you," Hermione said politely, shrunk the package, slipped it into her pocket, and left the shop.

"So?" Ginny asked, once they were out on the street again.

"We decided to wait until the shop is completely up and running," Hermione replied.

"It's been six months already since you opened," Ginny stated.

"I know; that's what I said," Hermione said. "But now he's trying to create a potion…it already exploded the cauldron three times and he doesn't want to do anything until it's all said and done. That's what's in the box – hopefully, it should solve all of his problems with that stupid potion."


Severus mentally cursed when he heard the knocking at the door. He moved quickly to the door and ripped it open.

"Severus!" Remus exclaimed.

"Ssshhh!" Severus scolded and pulled him into the house and shut the door.

"Why am I whispering?" Remus asked, as a wail came from the other room. "Oh! You have Jason?"

"Yes-"

"Where's Hermione?"

"Out with his mother-"

"Oh yes, Harry has a meeting today at Hogwarts, doesn't he?" Remus asked, walking towards the crying baby.

"So you're all alone with him today?"

"Obviously-" Severus stopped when Remus started to laugh. "Why does everybody think that that's funny?"

"Because it is," he said and picked Jason out of his crib. "Hello Jason! It's Uncle Remus!"

Severus rolled his eyes. "I'll go and get your potion for you."

Severus wasn't even gone thirty seconds when he heard Remus yelling.

"Severus! I need your help! Severus!"

Rolling his eyes again, Severus grabbed the flask containing the potion for Remus and walked back into the room. As soon as Severus' eyes landed on Remus, he started to laugh; Jason had upchucked all over the front of the wizard.

"Severus," Remus said, holding the baby out. "Can you take Jason for a minute?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"I don't want to get covered in throw up," Severus said.

Remus looked at Severus sternly.

"I said I wouldn't take him. I never said that I wouldn't help you," he told Remus, taking out his wand. "But on the other hand…"

"Severus!"

Severus flicked his wand, making the two instantly clean.

"Happy?" Severus asked.

"Very," Remus replied and then turned his attention to Harry's son. "Why hello there! How are you? I'm sure you're doing so much better now!"

"You better watch it Lupin; you might make him vomit again," Severus commented.

"Very funny, Severu-Ow! Jason, don't do that!" Remus exclaimed, trying to free his hair from the child. "Please stop pulling Uncle Remus' hair now!"

As soon as Remus freed his hair, a terrible smell invaded the room.

"Good God Remus, what in the name of Merlin did you eat?" Severus asked, crinkling his face up in disgust.

Remus rolled his eyes, "It's the baby, Severus."

"I know," he replied. "You're stuck with him now. I bet he left you a present-"

"That's not funny," Remus said, and checked the baby's diaper. "He left a present for you."

"But he wants his Uncle Remus to change him."

"Don't make me do this alone," Remus said.

"On the contrary-"

"Severus, I don-"

"What makes you think that I do?" He quirked with a raised eyebrow.

Remus glared at him, "Didn't Hermione leave you with anything?"

"A list-"

"What'd it say?"

"I told her I didn't need a list," Severus replied.

"I do," he said. "Where is it? Go get it."

"I threw it out."

"You 'threw it out,'" Remus repeated the last three words slowly.

"Isn't that what I just said?"

"You threw it out!?"

"I don't need directions."

"Severus, you giant git!"

"Have fun," Severus bid, while the other man started to take off the baby's diaper. "What are you doing?"

Remus smirked evilly.

"You're not that childish," Severus said.

"Wanna bet?"

Severus' eyes widened and he instantly made his way to the door. However, right before he could exit, Remus whipped out his wand and slammed the door right on Snape's foot.

"MERLIN!" Severus exclaimed and dropped his wand to grab his foot, while Jason started to cry. "Why did you do that!?"

"You can't leave me!"

"You sound like you're pining for me! Get a grip on yourself, Lupin – I'm taken!"

Right when Remus tried to defend himself, the diaper slipped off of the baby and fell on to the ground.

"Now that's just disgusting," Severus said, as it landed on Remus' shoe.


"I wonder how everything went," Hermione pondered out loud, as she opened the door to her home. As soon as the door was open, the sound of wailing met their ears.

"Oh no," Hermione said, and the two hurried into the house.

"Maybe he fell asleep," Ginny said, making Hermione snort.

When they reached the room that the bawling was coming from, Hermione paused outside the shut door, noticing something sticking out from underneath it.

"Severus' wand?" Hermione asked, picking up the object.

"He peed on me!" Someone yelled from the other side of the door.

"Uh oh," Ginny said and the two flung the door open.

The sight that met their eyes would have been priceless, had it not been under the current circumstances. Remus was holding Jason at arm's length, his head turned away from the infant, while the abandoned diaper still lay forgotten in the center of the room. Severus had his head hanging out of the room's window, laughing.

"My baby!" Ginny exclaimed.

"Severus!" Hermione shouted.

Immediately, everyone in the room stopped and looked at the two women.

"THANK YOU!" Remus cried and practically ran across the room to Ginny, all while skillfully avoiding the dirty object on the floor.

"Merlin!" Hermione started. "You two are just like children! You're wizards with wands!" She said, and held up Severus' for him to see.

After Severus shut the window, he turned around and his eyebrows popped up.

"Thank you," he said, as he crossed the room and extended his arm out for his wand.

"Nope," Hermione said, taking his wand and stuffing it into her pocket. "I think I'll be keeping this for a while."

Severus looked like he had been completely robbed. "What?"

"Well, it was just lying on the floor," Hermione replied simply.

"But I didn't know the spell to change him," Severus defended. "I could have just cleaned him, but don't you have to have all of that other stuff too?"

Hermione raised her eyebrows, "Everything you needed was in the bag and on the list."

Severus' eyes widened, "Oh."

Hermione narrowed her eyes at him, "'Oh?'"

"Oh…"

"What does "oh" mean? Did you throw the list out?" Hermione asked.

"He doesn't 'need directions,'" Remus supplied from across the room.

Hermione looked angry, while Ginny walked up beside her with a happy baby.

"And to think," Hermione said. "We came back to ask if you wanted to come to lunch with us."

Severus just stared at her. "I don't think that you need directions for that," Hermione motioned to the dirty diaper on the floor.

Ginny started to chuckle.

"Enjoy the quiet," Hermione said, as she and Ginny shut the door to the room and left.

"Oh boy," Remus said, making Severus turn around and glare at him. "Is she mad at you."