Paparazzi part two

Notes- I planned to have one chapter one song but chapter ten has become so long that I have had to divide it into two chapters. Please review and as always enjoy. This is very last chapter for Stockholm if you had travelled the journey with Hermione and Severus then thank you and if you haven't already reviewed please take five seconds to give me some feedback.

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"Not sure what it means

But this photo of us

It don't have a price

Ready for those flashing lights

'Cause you know that baby I

I'm your biggest fan"

Six years later...

Hermione swung little Hayden over her head as she played aeroplanes with the over-active four year old. She looked over to her husband who had what looked like a bundle of blankets in his arms but was actually two month old Beth. The small girl pushed her body against the man as she slept.

Hermione took Hayden off her shoulder. "How are your parents?" She smiled at him.

"Good," he replied quickly, then "more plane Hermy." Hayden and Beth were the two children Ron and Draco had adopted. Hayden had come into their care more than three years ago when they had discovered adoption.

Biologically the child was the product of a pure-blood American heiress who had an affair with a poor British muggle. The child was the product of so many crossed lines yet his parents loved him so much. Hermione had been his constant female company along with Ginny Potter. The little boy would never admit it but he preferred "Hermy" at least she played with him more Ginny always seemed to be having babies. Hayden pulled a face at that thought. Until last month babies had been those screaming things that lived at Uncle Harry's and Aunt Ginny's then his papa and daddy had brought home a baby and to make matters worse it was a girl.

Bethany Eleanor Molly Malfoy-Weasley was biologically the child of Hayden's papa and a surrogate witch. Her paternity could not be denied she already had wisps of white-blonde hair on the top of her head. Ollie looked up to the other people his life. Uncle Sevy and Aunt Hermy, at least they weren't going to come home with babies one day he thought. Aunty Hermy had promised him that one day, he couldn't quite remember when.

"What's up Hayden?" Hermione smiled at the little boy who was looking at her and Severus curiously. Hermione was a little worried Hayden who had been an only child for so long would reject Beth but he had been nothing but sweet to her so far.

"Can you make a promise?" He asked her.

"What kind of promise?" Hermione asked him kneeling down so she was looking the little brown haired boy in the face.

"That you and Uncle Sevy will not come home with a baby one day." Hermione let out a laugh.

"Promise," she was going to say but her husband interrupted her.

"Hermione," he smiled " are you sure you want to make that promise?" Hermione stood up from where she had been kneeling.

"Severus," she smiled at her husband "we had this conversation years ago. I'm nearly thirty and you're twenty years older again."

"And?" he said coyly taking her hand in his with the other he still held the sleeping Beth. "Do you doubt that I am up to the task?"

"Making a baby? No but you know how much work children are you have two godchildren and think about it you would be sixty before your child went to Hogwarts."

"Are you regretting marrying an older man?" He asked a slight edge of steel in his voice.

"No," she smiled warmly at him "I have always wanted children I just want a husband to help me bring them up."

"You know wizards live longer than muggles?"

"Yes I do." Hermione looked a picture on the fridge, it was Hermione and Severus on their wedding day. Hermione had always been touched that Ron had kept this picture knowing how much he had disliked the pair getting married.

Five months later...

"Mrs. Snape?" asked a reporter waiting outside St. Mungo's "what do you say to the rumours that you are expecting a love child with Severus Snape. Hermione shook her head at that and very much wanted to ask the young woman how one had a love child with one's own husband. Instead though she stuck to the script Jenson had provided and said,

"No comment." She would have to start making comments soon she knew she was almost three months pregnant and sooner or later her tummy would begin showing even under her baggy healing uniform. Hermione disappeared into the crowd and the reporter lost her. Hermione had found from experience that the London Underground was better than appariation to throw reporters. She got off at a quiet station and apparated home.

"Is that you Hermione?" She heard a shout from the kitchen.

"No it's a burglar," came the sarcastic response. Hermione smiled and for the hundredth time wondered if her husband's temperament was rubbing off on her. Severus came through from the kitchen an eyebrow raised at her, she smiled and lent in to kiss her husband before she noticed that a crowd was gathered in the couple's small living room. She broke away knowing some of her friends, Ron principal amongst them, had never got used to her kissing their former professor.

Ron, Draco, Ginny, Harry, Lavender, Neville and Luna where all gathered in the front room.

"We have an announcement," Severus said to the assembled group taking his wife's hand.

"Shock horror," Draco replied throwing his arms up "and here was me thinking we where here here for a jolly." Severus gave his older godson a sarcastic look and the young man stopped talking.

"We are expecting a baby," Hermione said in the quietness before anyone had a chance to speak. The faces of the assembled group could not be more different. Ginny looked a little smug and was nudging Lavender who was passing over a couple of sickles. Harry and Draco looked shocked, Ron looked appalled. Neville looked at the pair amazed and Luna with her hand in his simply looked as though the pair had announced the most natural thing in the world.

"How do you think it went?" Hermione asked her husband several hours later as the pair were cleaning the dishes after the food they had severed their friends.

"Good," her husband replied simply.

"Excellent because you are aware you have to tell my parents." Hermione couldn't help it but laugh at Severus' face. He had met the Grangers several times and liked them but he could not imagine telling Mr. Granger that her daughter was having a baby with a man the same age as himself. He had that conversation once on the occasion of their engagement, it had taken all Hermione's power to get her parents to agree to their marriage.

"Kidding," Hermione said as her face broke into a broad smile and Severus felt his heart relax. He leant in and kissed his wife, and with no objections this time he kissed her fully on the lips.

THE END

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To give you an idea of what I am planning at the minute. My next story will be a H/G story that I have head in the pipeline for a while but took a surprisingly short time to write. It sis called "Memory of a night" and so far is 12 chapter. I plan to begin posting next week.

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