Hermione woke up with an arm around her stomach and a hand on her hip. She sighed and scooted herself back against Severus who moaned at the contact. Severus snuggled his face into her hair and rested his head on her shoulder.
"Morning, beautiful." he said groggily. Hermione giggled at him.
"Morning, Severus." she said rolling over to face him.
"Can I have my arm back?" Severus asks pulling his arm from underneath Hermione.
"Of course! I am so sorry." Hermione apologized lifting her upper body slightly so he could pull his arm free.
Severus used his free hand to cup Hermione's face and pull her in for a kiss. Hermione wrapped an arm around Severus's back and let out a small moan. Severus slipped an arm down and ran his fingers up and down her spine making her move closer to him.
2 weeks later
"Hermione what is going on?" Severus asked from the other side of the bathroom door.
"I don't know. I was fine until you set lunch in front of me." Hermione said kneeling over the toilet. Moments later she started puking again. "I don't think I have anything left to throw up, Severus, make it stop please." she begged.
Severus walked into the bathroom and sat down on the floor next to the small witch and pulled her into his lap. He lovingly stroked her hair and pulled a washcloth from the tub, wet it with cool water and wiped her face and neck with it.
"Thank you, Severus." she moaned and dug her head into his chest.
"Please do not hate me for the question I am going to ask you but it is important you are honest with me, Hermione." Severus said pulling her head from his chest, "Is there a chance you could be pregnant? This is the 3rd day I have either followed you, heard you or found you at the toilet puking up everything left in your body."
Hermione stiffened her body against Severus. She thought back and couldn't remember taking her birth control potion in the last month since she had been with Severus.
"Hermione, I won't be mad at you. What is going through that beautiful head of yours?"
"I haven't taken my potion since I moved in. I should have a couple days after I got here." Hermione said solemnly.
Severus set his large hand on her small stomach and whispered in her ear.
"I love you Little Lioness. We will figure this out after we discover if you are pregnant or not."
"I made one change in my life and here we are discussing pregnancy on the bathroom floor after I threw up everything in my body for the 8th time."
"Do you want to go to a Healer or would you rather I do the spell?" Severus asked stroking her back.
"I trust you to do it right, Severus. I would rather keep it between us for now."
"Let us take this to our room." Severus stood up and stretched. He looked down at the haggard looking body of his partner and squatted down and picked her up bridal style and walked to the end of the hall to their room. "We will do this in a bit. You need to take a nap, Hermione. I will be back in a couple hours. I need to clean up a ruined potion."
"I am so sorry, Sev-" Hermione said as she fell asleep on top of the blankets.
Severus went down to the potions lab in the basement and started to clean up the bubbling mess that was the potion he was working on when Hermione bolted from the room. He pulled out his wand and vanished the rest of the mess and sat down on his work stool. He propped his elbows on the workbench and set his forehead in his hands.
"This isn't how I planned this." he thought to himself.
Severus Accio'd a quill and parchment. He wrote a short note and called for his eagle hawk, Raven.
"Take it right to him and leave. He can handle it from there." he told his bird. Raven nudged his head against Severus's palm and took flight.
A few minutes later, Severus felt his wards shift to allow his visitor.
"I am downstairs." he yelled after his door closed.
Lucius walked down the stairs and looked at Severus.
"What seems to be the issue, Severus? I have never seen you looking this glum. Did the witch leave?"
"No she is upstairs sleeping. The problem is bigger than that. I am going to need your long term help with this."
"Long term? Severus what is going on?" Lucius asked curiously.
"She's pregnant."
"Are you certain?" Lucius asked stunned.
"We need to preform the spell but we are certain."
"Let's go and do it while she is sleeping. You can do it with her again when she wakes."
Lucius and Severus walked up the stairs to the kitchen and went to climb the stairs when they were met by Hermione coming down.
"Oh, hello, Lord Malfoy." Hermione blushed looking down at what she had changed in to. Severus laughed at her choice as well. She was wearing one of his shirts and had rolled a pair of his boxers to fit her tiny frame.
"I am not changing." she said towards Lucius.
"We were coming up to wake you so we could preform that diagnostic spell." Lucius said to her.
"There is no need to change, Hermione. You need to be comfortable." Severus said to her pulling her tiny frame close.
"I thought we were keeping this between us." Hermione whispered.
"I need him to do the spell, Hermione. We can make him swear to never tell a soul. He is better at medical spells than I am. I don't want to have to re-do it because I did it wrong."
"I swear I will not tell a soul what I find here this evening in regards to your condition Hermione." Lucius said holding his wand.
All three of them felt the magic swirl around them sealing a Wizard's Oath from Lucius to Hermione.
"Shall we move in to the study?" Severus said picking Hermione up again and carrying her to the study.
"Get comfortable Severus and Hermione. I will be just a minute and the spell will only take a minute. Ms. Granger please pull up the shirt you are wearing and expose your lower abdomen." Lucius said.
Lucius turned towards Hermione and lifted his wand. He saw her stiffen and her eyes darken.
"Calm Hermione. He isn't going to hurt you." Severus whispered in her ear. He felt her relax and nodded to Lucius to continue.
Lucius muttered a few words and a green glow wrapped around Hermione hips and lower abdomen. The word "Positive" hung in the air between them.
"Congrats, Hermione and Severus." Lucius said and Apperated out with a small pop.
"I'm pregnant." Hermione whispered.
Severus wrapped his hands around her hips and smiled.
"We are pregnant, Hermione. I am not going anywhere."