"Hermione?" A voice called from the fireplace.
"DADDY!" Violet ran from her room as fast as her legs would take her when she heard her father's voice. She beamed at him as he lifted her up and kissed the tip of her nose.
"Hello angel, where's mummy?" Severus asked gently.

Violet wriggled out of his arms as he set her back down. Taking his hand she led him to the piano room where Hermione's form was pouring over the piano, her sweet soprano singing Beautiful Disaster by Kelly Clarkson. Severus and Violet stood in the doorway watching the beautiful figure in utter amazement. Love and adoration filled Severus' eyes. Almost twenty minutes went by before Hermione realised that she had an audience. She swivelled on her seat with a soft smile on her face.
"How long have you been standing there Severus?" She scowled playfully.
"Almost twenty minutes, Violet brought me in here when I asked where you were." He explained, leaning against the door frame.
"Have you finished your essays already?"
He sighed dramatically, "Yes, and do you have any idea how painful it is to mark essays without a single decent one in the pile?"
"I can't imagine how dreadful it must be." Hermione mocked and Severus only growled in return.

After lunch in the Great Hall, Hermione, Severus and Violet found themselves walking towards the Defence against the Dark Arts classroom with Remus Lupin. They hustled into his warm office and straight to the floo. Severus and Violet flooed together, while Hermione and Remus went alone. Hermione stumbled out of the floo only to land in a slender pair of arms.
"Wotcher 'Mione." Tonks' familiar voice filled the air.
"Hello Tonks!" Hermione stood up straight and embraced her.
"Where's your little one?" The Metamorphmagus asked the know-it-all.
"Right here." A deep baritone was heard, followed by a squeal of joy.
"Professor Snape, what are you doing here?"
"Severus is Violet's father." Remus answered for them, coming out of the fireplace.
"Oh, oh I see." Tonks blushed and walked into her husband's arms.
Violet wriggled from Severus' arms and ran over to Hermione.
"Tonkies?" She asked looking at the woman in a white and black long sleeved shirt with a pink Weird Sisters band shirt on over the top.
"Yes, Vi, this is Tonks." Hermione smiled at her daughter.
Violet walked towards Tonks and was enveloped in her arms. She immediately reached for her pink hair, feeling it between her fingers.
"Mione, she is adorable!"
"Yep, yep, yep!" Violet clapped cheekily, causing Remus and Severus to laugh.

Upon explaining everything to Tonks, they sat down and had some tea while Violet waited patiently for Teddy to wake up. Their living room was slightly crowded with old furniture and bookshelves, the cream paint on the walls slowly chipping away to reveal pale pink and brown floral wallpaper. Hermione liked it; it had Lupin written all over it. After almost an hour of talking, the floorboards creaked and a little boy appeared at the end of the staircase.
"Dad!" Teddy gasped sleepily and his hair changed to a bright blue.
"Hello sleepy head." Remus smiled at the boy and held his arms out. The boy was small and slender, with normally strawberry brown hair and big blue eyes like his mother. He wore blue and white striped flannelette pyjama pants and a red Chudley Cannons t-shirt. Tonks smiled at her husband as he kissed his son's hair and let him sit on his knee. Violet scowled at Teddy for stealing her spot on Remus' lap.
"Teddy, do you remember Aunt 'Mione?" Tonks asked sweetly.
"No..." He smiled shyly looking at Hermione.
"That's okay, Teddy, you've grown up since I last saw you. Do you go to school yet?" Hermione asked softly. Teddy shook his head and mumbled something incoherent. Remus nudged him and he spoke louder.
"Not Hogwarts, but I go to a school like Hogwarts to learn how to read and write and how to control my magic." He smiled, slowly coming out of his shyness.
"What do you like to do the most?"
"Change my hair and my face like mummy does." He smiled brightly, changing his hair to bright pink and making a mini replica of his mother. Hermione laughed, and Severus smirked.
It was now that Teddy noticed Severus, he looked terrified as he calculated how tall the man must be, this was until Violet and she walked over to her father, trying to climb onto the couch with him. Severus helped her up and gently tucked her into his shoulder. Teddy smiled brightly at him, changed his face back to normal and turned to Violet.
"What's your name?" The little boy asked sweetly.
"Violet!" She clapped.
"Would you like to come and play with me?"
"Tan I daddy? Peas?" She asked, looking into her father's eyes.
"Of course angel, just be careful."
"Otay."
She slid off her father's lap and took Teddy's waiting hand. The four adults watched as they walked up the staircase hand in hand. Teddy slowed himself to Violet's pace, helping her up the stairs if she needed it. Hermione and Remus looked at each other and smiled, knowing that they'd become great friends.
After hours of playing, Violet was asleep on Teddy's bed. Teddy tucked her in and walked slowly down the stairs.
"Where's Violet, Ted?" Tonks asked her son.
"She was tired, so I read her a story from the bookshelf and let her sleep on my bed. I tucked her in under the blankets." He told them quietly.
"Thank you Teddy. All of that playing must have made her tired. We'd better get going, I still have essays to mark." Hermione smiled at the little boy.
They all stood, Tonks went and retrieved Violet from Teddy's room and they bid their goodbyes after Remus kissed and hugged his wife and son.

Severus Hermione and Violet flooed from Remus' office straight to Severus' chambers, Violet was placed in his bed and the pair sat down in the living room. The books surrounding them gave the room a homely feeling; the fireplace warmed the cold room.
Sitting down on the couch Hermione snuggled into his chest and sighed lightly, thinking about what Remus told her at lunch.
"Sev?" She asked quietly.
"Yes?"
"Remus told me a few things at lunch."
"What did he tell you?"
Hermione tried to tell him what Remus told her, but tears started flowing down her cheeks. "Sev, I'm never going to leave you. Why don't you understand that?"
Taken aback, he replied coolly, "I don't understand why someone as amazing as you can love someone as horrible as me. You could've been happy with a happy, caring, young man, but instead you are stuck with me; an old, grumpy, selfish bastard."
"You are not old or grumpy! And for Merlin's sake, you are not in any way selfish! You can be a bastard, but that's only when you aren't around me or Violet. I love you Severus Snape, and I'm never leaving you, ever. I'd break if I left you." She cried.
Severus wiped her tears away with the pad of his thumb, "I'd break too, Mya. What happens when Violet finds out the truth about me? What if she gets bullied because of who her father is?"
"Violet is her father's daughter, she's strong, brave and determined, but she is like me in the sense that she'll stand up for what she believes in, which means that she'll stand up for you. In time, our little angel will be told the truth, and when she is, she will take it with strength. She loves you too much to hate you for your past."
"I love you Hermione. Please don't leave me." He pleaded to her.
"Never."
"Promise me."
"I promise."
She sealed their promise with a passionate kiss; their tongues touched gently and then grew more intense, fighting for dominance. When they broke apart, they were gasping for air. Forehead to forehead, they smile.
"If my bed wasn't taken, I'd so gladly use it right now."
"It's been two years Sev. We'll have to wait until Vi has a sleepover at Harry's."
"I can wait." He told her huskily.
"I wish I didn't have to wait."
"Oh?" He asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Tonight, my rooms."
"I can hardly wait." Severus kissed her again.
"I love you." He whispered
"I really love you."
"I really, truly love you."
"I really, truly, madly love you." She smiled, wondering if he'd seen the film.
"I really, truly, madly, deeply love you." He smirks, knowing what she was talking about.
Hermione gasps, "How do you know that film?"
"Mya, I'm a half-blood remember?"
"Yes, I know. And we watched it together on the night Violet was conceived."
"Were you hinting at something that night?" He asked with a smirk.
Hermione gasped and faked a hurt look, "How could you think that Sev? I only fell in love with you and everything. There was nothing to hint at all."
"You didn't have to hint Hermione. I loved you anyway."