Giving one last push with all the energy she hears small fragile cries fill the room and the doctor saying, "Congratulations you have a little baby…"
"You have a little baby girl." Dr. Reynolds says gently placing the small baby girl on Christi's chest.
"She's so gorgeous." Severus says.
"She really is."
"We need to take her for a little while just to get cleaned up and thoroughly checked out. We'll have her back within the next hour or so."
Both the new parents nod and the frail little girl is taken and wrapped up in the blanket that had been lying on Christi's chest and taken from the room as Christi she herself was cleaned up and the after birth was delivered.
"What do you want to name her?" Severus asks.
"Something different and unique."
"How about Zoey it's Greek and it means life."
"I thought about that but I was thinking maybe Z-o-w-i-e. For the spelling its different and unique. Then I was thinking Eileen for her middle name." She says hoping that Severus caught the middle name she had picked out for their little girl.
He looked shocked and a bit stuttered.
"Really?" he asks.
She nods, "Of course, Eileen has been more of a mother to me than my own mother." She explains.
Severus nods and gently snogs her cupping the side of her face.
"Why don't you go and check on Zowie? I'm just gonna try to go and get some sleep."
He nods and he heads out of the room and to the nursery to check on his baby girl and to find a nurse so that he could fill out the birth certificate and other information.
XXX
"Master, Mistress, Loretta just heard that Mistress Christi is betrothed to Potions Master Severus Snape and just had a baby with him." The timid little house elf said.
Achilles leans forward resting his elbows against the end of his arm chair.
"Severus Snape you say?"
"Yes Master. He's a descendant of the Prince line and youngest Potions Master in Britain." Loretta nods her ears flopping.
"Where is she?"
"Loretta heard St. Mungo's in London Master. Loretta could find out for Master. Loretta would be most pleased to find out."
"Go find out and report back."
"Loretta do that!" the small elf said then popped out.
"Rosetta didn't we go to school with Severus?" ponder Achilles.
"I believe so."
"The name sounds familiar but I just can't place a face with a name it's been so long."
A little while later Loretta pops back.
"Mistress is in St. Mungo's! Loretta did good?"
"Yes." Rosetta said then she and Achilles rose from their seats and over to the Apparition point outside their estate.
They Apparate to the hospital and then go to the information desk and find out what room Christi is in then they head up to her room. Arriving to her room they find Christi sound asleep and Severus quietly pacing the room gently bouncing a little pink bundle in his arms.
"Severus." Rosetta says making him turn around and look in the direction of Rosetta and Achilles.
"Rose, Achilles. What a surprise seeing you here."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"It means I'm surprised you're here. I mean you never even bothered with her when she pregnant with her son and when he was born. You've been absent from both of their lives but now you're all of the sudden here."
"The child is out of wedlock!"
"So? You two haven't changed a bit. Still worrying about you're pure-blood's only ways. I'm surprised I never saw you two at Death Eater meetings." He snorts.
It had been made known that he was entirely on the light side and that he was just a spy for the light to feed information back to Dumbledore throughout the war time.
"We agreed with Voldemort we just didn't want to be minions. Though our daughter associated herself with filth like mudblood's and the less fortunate like half bloods." Achilles states, "None taken." He says quickly.
"Highly taken!" he growls deep in his chest causing Zowie to fuss and whine.
He quickly goes back to gently bouncing his little girl to hush her and keep her asleep so that she didn't her mother who was sleeping soundly.
"She's quiet tiny." Rosetta notes.
"That's because she was born three months early." Came Christi's voice.
"What caused an early labor?" Achilles asks.
"We don't know but it happens. But she's fine and a happy healthy baby. She may have some minor health aliments later on but that's expected since she was born early."
"How are you feeling?"
"Tired and sore. Why are you here? You never cared before. Why now? Why is my daughter so special you come all the way out here from your high class life in Mediterranean to come and see her and me."
There was just a long awkward silence in the room after that.
"Well, sweetheart…well…"
"Unbelievable." She mutters in Greek under her breath.
"We wanted to reconcile with you. We know we haven't been the best parents with you but we were just looking out for your future."
"So trying to marry me off at seventeen was looking out for me? Yea, right. You just wanted me with a pure-blood when I wanted to live my life and do what I wanted. But then I had a Mateo and things sucked and you kicked me out because he's a wedlock child but he is a pure-blood child. He's a Malfoy and the heir to the Malfoy line. But you didn't bother asking me that when he was born all you saw was me knocked up and unmarried."
"We want you back in the family." Rose said.
"So what all these years I haven't been part of the family!"
"You know what I mean."
"No I don't."
"What I mean is I want us to start acting like family again. Before everything went bad."
"Oh like before my fourth year when Moldymort came back and started destroying lives again?" she asks smirking at the ridiculous nickname she and her friends gave to Voldemort.
Severus had to cough as if he was clearing his throat to cover his laugh. He had heard Christi and her friends call Voldemort that many times while in school. Christi smirks getting why he did that.
Before anyone could say anything Zowie let out a howl and started crying turning beat red in her face. Severus starts bouncing her and gently patting her bottom.
"That's not gonna work. She's hungry and needs to be fed." Christi giggles.
Severus nods and gently transfers the screaming infant to her mother and ushers Achilles and Rosetta outside.
"Why are we out here?" Rosetta asks.
"She's feeding the baby."
"So we can be in there." Snorts Achilles.
"Not unless you want to see how much of a woman your daughter has turned into." Severus smirks waiting for Achilles reaction.
It takes a moment for it click in his head then he nods stoically. They stand there in silence for a little bit before they here both Mateo and Scorpius' laughter coming down the hallway. Severus smiles at how hyperactive the boys got when they were together.
"Uncle Sev!" they both yell in unison slamming into him like a ton of bricks.
"Hello boys."
"Is my brother or sister here yet? Huh?" Mateo asks excitedly.
"Sure is. You have a baby sister. We just have to wait a while to go in and see her as your mum is feeding your sister right now."
"I can help!" he pouts.
"Not with how your mum is feeding her. She's not using a bottle." He explain as best as he could. They weren't ready to give him the birds and bees talk and he didn't want questions arising with both boys about what 'nursing' meant because that would lead to him having to say 'breast-feeding' and that would eventually turn into the sex talk and neither one of them wanted that quiet yet especially Christi.
Mateo frowns with not understanding what Severus meant by that.
"She's feeding the baby from her breast Mateo." Rosetta said.
"Who are you?" he asks nervously. He really didn't like meeting new people they made him nervous when he and Severus first met that was a rare interaction of him not sinking into his shell when meeting someone new.
"We're your grandmother and grandfather. We're your mum's parents."
"Oh." He shortly said then looked up at Severus, "What did she mean by mummy is feeding my sister from her breast?" Mateo asks making Severus groan.
"I'll tell you when you're older."
"But I want to know now!" he whines.
"Mateo Orion Pabletti I said I would tell you when you're older and that's final." Severus tells the boy with a stern tone.
"Yes, Uncle Sev." He mutters then adds, "But what is it!"
Severus sighs and looks at Rosetta saying, "You started this now you finish it."
"Finish what?"
"We been putting off on giving him the talk but you had to go and tell him she was nursing but with the more technical term so now you tell him in a subtle way while I go and check on them." Severus snorts as he heads inside Christi's room to check on mom and daughter leaving Rosetta to finish what she started as Draco came up.
"So grandmother what's a breast!" Mateo asks getting impatient wanting an answer.
"Excuse me? What did you just say young man?" Draco asks his eldest son.
"I just asked what a breast was! Uncle Sev won't tell me but he told grandmother to start what she finished! I'm so confused! Will someone just answer my question!" he says exasperated.
"Wait, excuse me?"
"Well Severus told him that the reason why he couldn't see Christi is because she was feeding the baby and he said that he could help and he told him that she's not using a bottle and I told him she was feeding the baby from her breast and he started asking questions."
"You have no right telling my son that! He's nine nearly ten! He doesn't need to be hearing that! But you can get yourself out of this pit you've dug yourself into. Severus, Christi and I have all agreed that we won't give them the talk until they're thirteen."
"Them?" Achilles asks.
"Mateo and my other son Scorpius, both of the boys are nearly ten." He said.
"Just getting around are you?" Achilles asks.
"Boys go to the seventh floor and get something to eat and something for the baby." Draco said addressing the two nine year olds.
The boys nod and go to do as they were told.
"Look Mateo was a drunken one night stand. Christi and my friends thought it would be a good idea to take us out for a hen's and mate's night out and get us piss drunk. Well it worked and we shagged and Christi ended up getting pregnant with Mateo but we don't regret that choice as it's made our lives better. Yes these last couple of years I've been a prat but Severus has made me noticed that I've been a prat to her and Mateo all these years. So when the boys get back you dig yourself out of this pit."
A few minutes later the boys come back carrying their gifts in hand. Mateo was carrying a pink teddy bear and Scorpius was carrying a porcelain angle in his hands carefully to make sure he didn't drop it.
"Mateo a breast is a…a…very private area of a girl that should only been seen by someone you love dearly." Rosetta says.
Draco is just standing there smirking in delight at Rosetta's discomfort and how she's struggling to find the right words.
"So Uncle Sev can see it?"
"Yes."
"What about me?"
"Not until you're thirty five young man." Draco snorts.
"Why you and Christi were nineteen when you had Mateo."
"We were incredibly young."
Rosetta and Achilles roll their eyes and ignore him as Severus comes back out.
"Draco you and the boys can go in now."
Mateo's eyes light up and he scampers into the room and he carefully climbs up onto the bed next to his mother.
"Mateo this is your sister Zowie."
"She's pretty mummy. I got her a teddy bear." He said holding the teddy bear out.
"How sweet baby boy."
"Thank you mummy."
"What did you get Zowie Scorpius?"
"I got Zowie a porcelain angle Aunt Christi."
"That was very sweet Scorp."
He smiles and climbs up on the other side of Christi to look at the baby. He smiles at Zowie who just blinks and stares at both the boys. Christi chuckles as she hears Severus growling outside.
"Oh boy." She mutters as he walks.
"Please tell me my parents are still intact."
"Yes, they were just given an ultimatum."
Christi rolls her eyes as Draco walks in.
"Bloody hell Uncle I haven't seen you look that menacing in years."
"Draco tell me what he did right now."
"He threatened them that if they don't give you a heartfelt a apology to you about their behavior toward you and if they wish to reconcile with you they need to promise to leave all their pure-blood notions aside and accept your decision and for them to respect both Zowie and Mateo and treat them with respect and decency or they won't be allowed anywhere near you or the kids."