I didn't speak to Severus for three months after our explosive fight. I was afraid of him, more afraid than I had ever been of anything in my life before, other than Voldemort.

I would get back to my room from classes everyday and Dobby would tell me that Severus had found some time for the girls in the day. I was relieved that he was coming to see the girls, but hurt that he wasn't trying to see me.

After our fight, he was cool towards me. There was no anger, yet there was no remorse. Just a neutral vibe that emanated from him whenever we crossed paths. We only ever talked when I was in class with him. And even then it was a little amount.

The first time I truly spoke to him after our fight was when I was pleading with him for help.

Exams had started and I was studying like no other. Hermione and I were both cramming together for the O.W.L.s in the library for hours on end, reading books until we fell asleep at the tables and Madame Pince shooed us out.

Then I would collapse on my bed in my room and sleep through the night. I was worried that I was sleeping too well because I never heard Melanie and Posy crying at night, but figured that they had just passed the stage of crying every two hours. Only after I had my son and he didn't pass that phase for months and months on end did I ask Severus why he was crying more than the twins ever did. He told me that he had taken them every night to let me sleep and woke up with them every few hours.

Somehow I got through most of my exams. With Umbridge constantly breathing down my neck, this wasn't exactly easy. Somehow she had heard that I was Voldemort's daughter and had been following me. One time she even pulled me aside and told me to stop being so delusional and following Potter's orders to try and infiltrate the Ministry. I snorted in her face and told her that if she didn't get out of my face I would send my father after her.

Surprisingly enough, even though she "didn't believe" that Voldemort was back, she didn't bother me about it again.

One day, an exam was interrupted by the Weasley twins exploding bombs everywhere and annoying the hell out of Umbridge. I laughed until my sides were sore. And then I could hear Hermione's panicked voice.

"Harry, are you alright?"

I ran over to the two of them and saw that Harry was sprawled on the ground, clutching his forehead, more presumably his scar, with his hand. I helped Hermione heave Harry off of the ground. He was mumbling something and looked terrified. We helped him back inside and into a chair.

"He's got Sirius!" he finally said coherently.

"What?" Hermione and I said in unison.

"Voldemort has Sirius in this room with shining orbs… He's telling him to get it off the shelves. I think it's the weapon."

I was skeptical about this. I tried to tell him that it probably wasn't happening and he had just dreamed it, but he was already making plans to sneak into Umbridge's office to use the Floo to see if Sirius was still at Grimmauld Place.

In the middle of his babble with Hermione and Ron, the latter who had just showed up and had been filled in on everything, I cut in.

"Harry, I don't think that this really happened. I think he's trying to manipulate you."

And I believed it with my whole heart. But Harry narrowed his eyes at me and said, "I think you just want Sirius to die. You don't care."

I threw my hands in the air in exasperation. "What would I have against Sirius?"

"You only want him dead to hurt me," Harry accused. "You know Voldemort has him."

"Fine Harry! I'm a selfish human being and my simple little girl's heart is still pining over you to the point that I would take someone you love out of existence just to gain your attention back little by little."

I stormed away to them making more plans to break into Umbridge's office.

I went to my room and paced. Voldemort would do anything to hurt Harry, I knew that, but this didn't seem right. It seemed phony almost, the way Harry described his vision. And then it dawned on me that Voldemort may have finally found the connection between their minds and was using it to his advantage.

I paced even more, wondering how I would convince Harry of this new revelation. I flew up to Umbridge's office. I took a small peak in and saw Ginny, Neville, Ron and Luna all being held by Umbridge's Inquisitorial Squad. I inhaled sharply, and Goyle looked in the direction of the door. I moved out of the way before he could see me and my mind started racing a million miles an hour. I couldn't leave all of them to Umbridge's cronies.

I poked my wand in the door ever so slightly and spoke a few well chosen words. Soon the entire office was filled with my smoke charm and I ran in, stunning Crabbe and seeing Ginny wave her wand to one of her famous Bat Bogey Hexes. Soon the entire Inquisitorial Squad was incapacitated.

Every one of them snatched their wands and Ron tore out of the room. Everyone seemed to be following him, so I did the same, wordlessly.

We made it to the edge of the forest and Hermione and Harry came bursting out of the foliage. Ron handed them their wands and he explained how we had all gotten away from Umbridge's office.

I took this time to jump in and say, "Harry, I think you're being set up. I don't think he really has Sirius."

"Sirius wasn't there when we flooed him, and he's always in that house," Harry said sharply.

I tried pleading with them all. "Please, don't be so rash! Maybe this is exactly what Voldemort wants! Let's tell Dumbledore."

I knew that Dumbledore had left the school after the D.A. had been dissolved because of Umbridge, but it couldn't be too hard to find him. It couldn't.

Harry snorted derisively and said, "He doesn't want to be bothered with me right now."

I panicked. If they went off to the Ministry and Voldemort was there, there was no telling who wouldn't make it back. Especially Hermione because she was muggle-born.

"Please Harry." I gave him one last pleading look in which he searched my face for something. Apparently he didn't find it because he turned to the others and said, "How are we getting there?"

I screamed in frustration and charged back up to the school. I flung the door to my room open and paced my room feverishly. Posy and Melanie could sense my excitement and fear and started crying out of fear themselves. I picked them both up and put one on both hip and kept up my steady circling of the room.

What am I going to do? He won't listen to me…

And then it dawned on me. I was going to have to shelve my fear and pride and go see Severus.

I called for Dobby to watch my children and ran down to the dungeons as fast as my little feet would take me. I got to Severus's office and placed a hesitant fist near the door, wondering if I could face my husband after not talking to him for months on end.

I didn't have to knock. He opened the door and stood there with his mouth positively gaping. I was sure I had the same dumbfounded expression on my face. I then pulled my face into something more urgent and cleared my throat.

"Severus, they're headed to the Ministry! They think it's the only way to save Sirius, but I know it's a trap, I just do. You have to help!"

He looked at me for a long time. I started squirming, thinking that he wouldn't help me at all after all this time apart.

"Please," I begged in the simplest way. I knew I didn't need a grandiose speech to convince him. If he wasn't convinced after you said "please", then he wouldn't help you at all.

My heart sank as he started his first sentence.

"Why should I help you after you have been nothing but extremely cold to me after everything that happened?" he inquired.

"This goes beyond a marital spat Severus! This is about protecting innocent people! And I'm sorry for calling you names over and over, but you don't seem in the least contrite about slapping me across the face!"

He blanched at my harsh words, and I knew that he truly was sorry. But it was going to be a long time before I could forgive or trust him again.

He seemed to reach a conclusion of his thought process and sneered, "Fine, I shall help Potter and his friends. "

I was relieved, and not too worried about the sneer. I knew that it was only to protect himself against the tongue-lashing he thought I might give him.

"What happened?" he asked sharply.

I relayed everything about Harry's vision and his assumption that it was the weapon Voldemort wanted. I told him that I suspected it was Voldemort playing with Harry's mind and Harry's obstinacy to my pleas, swearing that Sirius was in trouble because he hadn't been at the house.

"I fear for them Severus! I'm afraid they're walking into a trap; some of them might not make it out."

"Come in," he instructed. He took my hand and I walked through the door and sat on one of the familiar chairs, looking up at him expectantly.

"You are to not leave this room. Call for Dobby and have him bring the girls along so that the three of you won't be separated."

He flicked his wand and made some sandwiches and lemonade appear on his desk and said, "If you are hungry, there's some food."

He looked at me intently for a minute. I returned his thoughtful and searching gaze. He walked back over to me from the door and took my face in his hands. He kissed me once on the lips and pulled away swiftly; there was no time, he had to warn Dumbledore.

"Stay here," he warned. "And stay safe."

He exited the room, locking the door behind him. I expelled the breath I didn't know I had been holding and then sucked it right back in.

What if they don't get there in time? What if someone dies?

I called for Dobby and the girls and furiously paced around the room, picking up where I had left off only thirty minutes before.

Author's Note: Hope you guys enjoyed! As always, review your comments and what you want to see in the next couple of chapters. Until next chapter! :)