Hermione's Baby
Chapter 6
(Merry Christmas Everyone!)
The rest of the class was uneventful. If anyone, even the Slytherins, shot a curious glance at either Hermione or Severus, Snape did not hesitate to hand out detentions and relieve their houses of points. Neville didn't dare ask Hermione a question about his potion, but miraculously didn't blow anything up.
The minute the bell rang, Snape barked "Everyone get out now," and get out they did, leaving Hermione alone with her husband. They both remained silent for a few moments, looking anywhere but at each other.
Finally Hermione made the first move. Getting up from her seat she slowly approached Severus. Placing her hand gently on her arm she said quietly "I'm sorry Severus. For everything."
He shook her hand off before looking her in the eyes for the first time since she had gotten back. "I understand that you had to come back," he began curtly, "but I can't forgive you for not telling me the truth. Not yet. Give me time and perhaps I will be able to, but not quite yet."
Hermione swallowed but nodded. "I- I understand Severus," she said unhappily, trying unsuccessfully to hold back the tears. Just know that I love you, and every day I was away from you in that blasted house I was cursing myself for leaving and doing this to you."
Severus didn't say anything but nodded curtly. Hermione saw herself out and headed towards Charms, muttering a charm to get rid of the evidence of her tears. When she arrived late, Flitwick looked at her and said "I assume that you have a good reason for your tardiness Mrs. Snape?"
Hermione ignored the cringes of her classmates and said wearily "I'm sorry professor, I was talking with Severus."
Flitwick nodded and, once Hermione had sat down in her customary seat at the front of the classroom, proceeded with the class. Hermione ignored the attempts of her classmates to start conversations, and focused all of her attentions on her work.
She remembered doing the exact same spell with the marauders, Lily and Alida in the class. The spell caused a chair to follow people around so that wherever they went they would always have somewhere to sit. Peter had ended up discovering a new spell that turned chairs into light bulbs, which in themselves had fascinated the members of the class of non-muggle heritage. Alida's chair followed her so closely that it would run her over if she ever stopped moving, and James' had simply exploded. It had been a very enjoyable class, and Hermione's eyes filled with tears as she remembered it.
Flitwick, seeing Hermione's eyes tearing up, and knowing what had caused the tears, quickly said "Mrs. Snape, would you like to be excused? I know that you can do this spell, in fact I remember that class very well."
Hermione snorted slightly but said "Thank you Professor. I would really appreciate it," and left.
She had no idea where she was planning to go, all she knew was that she had to be out of charms. Then she thought 'I should talk to Alida. Maybe she'll help me.' With that thought in mind, Hermione walked purposefully towards the Defense against the Dark Arts classroom.
When she knocked on the door and heard Remus say 'enter,' she slipped in and walked quietly towards the front of the room.
"Lav-herm-" Remus shook his head slightly and grinned apologetically at her, "what can I do for you?"
"Sorry to disrupt your class Remus," she said quietly, "But I was wondering where Alida is. I would really like to talk to her."
"Of course. She's in my office. Just go through that door."
"Thanks Remus," said Hermione smiling gratefully at him, "Oh. . . and in terms of the name, you might as well go with Mrs. Snape. The whole school will probably be aware of this new development by dinner."
Frowning slightly, Remus nodded, and Hermione smiled once more at him before heading towards his office, ignoring the whispers of the students wondering why their head girl had just asked to be called Mrs. Snape.
Entering Remus' office, Hermione said "Alida?" tentatively when she caught sight of a head bent over a book.
Her friend's head lifted and she smiled at Hermione. "Laven-" she started, but her voice faded out uncertainly.
Hermione smiled kind of sadly at her, "It's ok Alida. Call me Lavender. Or if you want to get technical, Mrs. Snape. I guess." As she finished, to her horror, Hermione's eyes filled up with tears.
Alida immediately jumped up and pulled Hermione into a hug. "Oh Hermione. If you had to come back to the future why is he so mad at you?"
Hermione gulped and wiped at her eyes, biding her time and wondering what to tell her. Finally she decided on the truth. "Well, for one I never told him that I was leaving."
"But that's reasonable. He would have tried to make you stay," she said reasonably.
"But he would have let me go if I had also told him that I would die if I stayed there for too much longer," Hermione said wearily, collapsing into a chair.
"What?" gasped Alida.
"My body was made for this time," Hermione explained, "The longer I stayed there, I got more and more tired, and my magic was leaving me. I'm still not fully healed."
"Oh you poor thing," said Alida, "But I guess that then he would probably let you go. So why didn't you tell him?"
"I-" Hermione bit her lip and choked back a sob, "Because I was pregnant."
"What?" exclaimed Alida again.
"You can't tell anyone," said Hermione suddenly and forcefully, "Only Albus and I knew then, and Severus knows now."
"But- but-" said Alida at a loss for words, "Why didn't you tell him? He would have been supportive."
"I know," whispered Hermione, "but I also knew his future. He had no wife and no son. And he had been a death eater. You have no idea how confused I was about everything. I now realize that had I not left he never would have become a death eater. But the pregnancy hormones-" At this point she completely broke down and started sobbing.
Alida put her arm comfortingly around her friend and just held her as she cried. Finally the tears stopped and Alida said "So are you pregnant now?"
Hermione shook her head, causing Alida to gasp "you aborted it? I never thought that you-"
"I didn't abort it," Hermione interrupted in a dead voice.
"But. . ." Alida was confused, "Then what-"
"I had to give birth to him in the past, because just as I was supposed to be in this time period, he was supposed to be in that time. So I left Severus and went into hiding. Albus helped me. He didn't completely understand, but he also wouldn't let me tell him my reasoning because he didn't want to know the future. So I gave birth in a muggle hospital and gave my baby up for adoption. At a muggle orphanage. I didn't even get to name him." Here she broke down again, and Alida didn't say anything more, just held her as she continued.
"I-" she swallowed "And Severus needs time before he can forgive me. And I understand that, but also it was just three days ago that I gave birth and gave my baby up. And the pain is still recent. And-" here she paused for a second and then really broke down, "I know who my son is. But he's the age that I'm supposed to be. And I don't know how to tell him. And if he knows that 'that bastard Snape' is his father-"
Hermione couldn't talk anymore, so she just let Alida hold her as she cried.
"Who is it Hermione?" she asked gently, "You don't have to tell me, but maybe it'll help."
Hermione gulped, and then looked her friend in the eye with tears running down her face before she said shakily "S-Seamus Finnegan. He's in my year. And- he's older than I'm supposed to be. And - oh Alida, I'm so confused!"
"Shh. Hermione don't worry. It'll be ok," Alida comforted soothingly, holding her friend tightly against her.
"And also- Lily. . . James. . . Sirius. . . it's all so recent for me! I mean, I know that I already knew it would happen, but-"
"I know," said Alida soothingly, "I know it's hard. I still break down about them sometimes."
They sat in silence other than Hermione's reducing sobs before she broke the silence saying tentatively, "Erm. . . Alida?"
"Yes Lav?" she replied.
"Did you guys ever talk to Severus after I left?" Hermione asked quietly.
Alida sighed heavily before saying "We tried. I swear to you Lavender, we tried. But he was so heartbroken, and he had convinced himself that you had - erm - left him for Sirius" here she paused and looked at Hermione apologetically "that he wouldn't let us around him."
Hermione sighed before saying "That's what I thought probably happened. Thank you for telling me."
"Of course Lavender!" said Alida, smiling at her friend. They sat in a comfortable silence, losing themselves in the past.
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When they finally emerged to go to dinner a few hours later, Hermione was all cleaned up, and it was impossible to tell that she had been crying, except for the aura of sadness around her.
She and Alida walked through the hallways, ignoring the stares of the students, chatting about their schooldays until, when they had almost reached the great hall, a voice rang through the hall saying "Hey Granger- hey mudblood."
Hermione sighed, gave Alida a warning look and turned around. "What do you want Malfoy?"
They had attracted a big crowd by now, and Malfoy, smirking said "What's this about marrying Snape? Why would he marry a mudblood like you? And his student at that? You're probably nothing more than his whore."
Not noticing anything except for her anger and the smirking ferret in front of her, Hermione stepped closer to Malfoy. Then, without warning, she smacked him. Hard. "whore am I Malfoy? You make me sick. You have absolutely no idea what you're fucking talking about."
She was just pulling her wand out to curse him when it was snatched out of her hand by her husband, who was glaring at Malfoy in fury. "Would you care to repeat that Mr. Malfoy?" he asked in a dangerously low voice.
Gulping, Malfoy said "N-no sir. I- err-"
"First of all," Severus snarled, towering over the now cowering ferret, "Her last name is certainly not Granger. Because she was/is NOT my whore. And as for her being my student, well. . . are you stupid boy? Do you not understand the concept of time travel? Do you think that I was a teacher while I was still ATTENDING this school?
"And if you still need bloody more proof, ask your fucking father. Because he was AT the wedding. Do you understand boy?"
"Y-yes professor," Malfoy stuttered, cowering under the glare of his angry head of house.
"Good," said Snape shortly, before he turned to leave. As he headed away, he turned around once again and said "Oh, and Mr. Malfoy?"
"Yes sir?"
"That will be fifty points from Slytherin."
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A/N: so.. Sorry that it took so long to update, and I know that the chapter's short. But Merry Christmas everyone!!! I hope that everybody had a great day and got lots of presents, and for all you Jewish people, I hope that you are having a great Chanukah. Anyway. . . if you're enjoying the story, please please please REVIEW. . . I want to get at least 100 soon. Even more and I'd be extremely grateful.
Hey everyone, also I was wondering. . . where exactly does one find all of those challenges? I mean everything says like WIKTT or whatever, but are the challenges themselves actually posted there? Is there like a specific website to find them? Thanks! (
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Loony Luna Potter: Thanks. I think that Lupin calls Hermione Lavender because she has grown up during the time she was in the past, and he sees her as that girl now. And also he's probably been wanting to do that for a while.
Heretic angel: I don't know if Voldemordt will be playing a role in this. It might be one of those fics where he's already been defeated. I'm not really good at writing Voldemort etc type fics. Anyway, thanks! (
DistinctVagueness: Thanks for the complements on plotline and writing style. Yeah. Maybe I should have had Neville's potion blow up or something to add something to it. Hmm. . . I'll try to update Minnie Ranger Snape eventually. But we'll see (
PinkTribeChick: Thanks so much! I understand that a lot of people don't like the whole sev/Hermione idea. I find it intriguing because of the aspect of a forbidden relationship. But don't worry. I completely understand if you still don't like it. I'm just warning you, I'm not going to get around to stuff really focused on Seamus for a while. I still have to get sev and Herm back together. But just stay w/ me and we'll get to it. . . don't worry! (
Melwasul: thanks! Well. . . he's eventually going to find out. But not quite yet. Don't worry! (
GK: thanks. . . well. . . they couldn't tell her, because she did have to go back into the past. The logic of time travel cases. I can't say that I understand it any more than you . . . (
GreekGoddess1: thanks! Well. . . sorry, but you're probably going to be waiting for a while for the updates to Minnie Ranger Snape! :'(
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Chapter 6
(Merry Christmas Everyone!)
The rest of the class was uneventful. If anyone, even the Slytherins, shot a curious glance at either Hermione or Severus, Snape did not hesitate to hand out detentions and relieve their houses of points. Neville didn't dare ask Hermione a question about his potion, but miraculously didn't blow anything up.
The minute the bell rang, Snape barked "Everyone get out now," and get out they did, leaving Hermione alone with her husband. They both remained silent for a few moments, looking anywhere but at each other.
Finally Hermione made the first move. Getting up from her seat she slowly approached Severus. Placing her hand gently on her arm she said quietly "I'm sorry Severus. For everything."
He shook her hand off before looking her in the eyes for the first time since she had gotten back. "I understand that you had to come back," he began curtly, "but I can't forgive you for not telling me the truth. Not yet. Give me time and perhaps I will be able to, but not quite yet."
Hermione swallowed but nodded. "I- I understand Severus," she said unhappily, trying unsuccessfully to hold back the tears. Just know that I love you, and every day I was away from you in that blasted house I was cursing myself for leaving and doing this to you."
Severus didn't say anything but nodded curtly. Hermione saw herself out and headed towards Charms, muttering a charm to get rid of the evidence of her tears. When she arrived late, Flitwick looked at her and said "I assume that you have a good reason for your tardiness Mrs. Snape?"
Hermione ignored the cringes of her classmates and said wearily "I'm sorry professor, I was talking with Severus."
Flitwick nodded and, once Hermione had sat down in her customary seat at the front of the classroom, proceeded with the class. Hermione ignored the attempts of her classmates to start conversations, and focused all of her attentions on her work.
She remembered doing the exact same spell with the marauders, Lily and Alida in the class. The spell caused a chair to follow people around so that wherever they went they would always have somewhere to sit. Peter had ended up discovering a new spell that turned chairs into light bulbs, which in themselves had fascinated the members of the class of non-muggle heritage. Alida's chair followed her so closely that it would run her over if she ever stopped moving, and James' had simply exploded. It had been a very enjoyable class, and Hermione's eyes filled with tears as she remembered it.
Flitwick, seeing Hermione's eyes tearing up, and knowing what had caused the tears, quickly said "Mrs. Snape, would you like to be excused? I know that you can do this spell, in fact I remember that class very well."
Hermione snorted slightly but said "Thank you Professor. I would really appreciate it," and left.
She had no idea where she was planning to go, all she knew was that she had to be out of charms. Then she thought 'I should talk to Alida. Maybe she'll help me.' With that thought in mind, Hermione walked purposefully towards the Defense against the Dark Arts classroom.
When she knocked on the door and heard Remus say 'enter,' she slipped in and walked quietly towards the front of the room.
"Lav-herm-" Remus shook his head slightly and grinned apologetically at her, "what can I do for you?"
"Sorry to disrupt your class Remus," she said quietly, "But I was wondering where Alida is. I would really like to talk to her."
"Of course. She's in my office. Just go through that door."
"Thanks Remus," said Hermione smiling gratefully at him, "Oh. . . and in terms of the name, you might as well go with Mrs. Snape. The whole school will probably be aware of this new development by dinner."
Frowning slightly, Remus nodded, and Hermione smiled once more at him before heading towards his office, ignoring the whispers of the students wondering why their head girl had just asked to be called Mrs. Snape.
Entering Remus' office, Hermione said "Alida?" tentatively when she caught sight of a head bent over a book.
Her friend's head lifted and she smiled at Hermione. "Laven-" she started, but her voice faded out uncertainly.
Hermione smiled kind of sadly at her, "It's ok Alida. Call me Lavender. Or if you want to get technical, Mrs. Snape. I guess." As she finished, to her horror, Hermione's eyes filled up with tears.
Alida immediately jumped up and pulled Hermione into a hug. "Oh Hermione. If you had to come back to the future why is he so mad at you?"
Hermione gulped and wiped at her eyes, biding her time and wondering what to tell her. Finally she decided on the truth. "Well, for one I never told him that I was leaving."
"But that's reasonable. He would have tried to make you stay," she said reasonably.
"But he would have let me go if I had also told him that I would die if I stayed there for too much longer," Hermione said wearily, collapsing into a chair.
"What?" gasped Alida.
"My body was made for this time," Hermione explained, "The longer I stayed there, I got more and more tired, and my magic was leaving me. I'm still not fully healed."
"Oh you poor thing," said Alida, "But I guess that then he would probably let you go. So why didn't you tell him?"
"I-" Hermione bit her lip and choked back a sob, "Because I was pregnant."
"What?" exclaimed Alida again.
"You can't tell anyone," said Hermione suddenly and forcefully, "Only Albus and I knew then, and Severus knows now."
"But- but-" said Alida at a loss for words, "Why didn't you tell him? He would have been supportive."
"I know," whispered Hermione, "but I also knew his future. He had no wife and no son. And he had been a death eater. You have no idea how confused I was about everything. I now realize that had I not left he never would have become a death eater. But the pregnancy hormones-" At this point she completely broke down and started sobbing.
Alida put her arm comfortingly around her friend and just held her as she cried. Finally the tears stopped and Alida said "So are you pregnant now?"
Hermione shook her head, causing Alida to gasp "you aborted it? I never thought that you-"
"I didn't abort it," Hermione interrupted in a dead voice.
"But. . ." Alida was confused, "Then what-"
"I had to give birth to him in the past, because just as I was supposed to be in this time period, he was supposed to be in that time. So I left Severus and went into hiding. Albus helped me. He didn't completely understand, but he also wouldn't let me tell him my reasoning because he didn't want to know the future. So I gave birth in a muggle hospital and gave my baby up for adoption. At a muggle orphanage. I didn't even get to name him." Here she broke down again, and Alida didn't say anything more, just held her as she continued.
"I-" she swallowed "And Severus needs time before he can forgive me. And I understand that, but also it was just three days ago that I gave birth and gave my baby up. And the pain is still recent. And-" here she paused for a second and then really broke down, "I know who my son is. But he's the age that I'm supposed to be. And I don't know how to tell him. And if he knows that 'that bastard Snape' is his father-"
Hermione couldn't talk anymore, so she just let Alida hold her as she cried.
"Who is it Hermione?" she asked gently, "You don't have to tell me, but maybe it'll help."
Hermione gulped, and then looked her friend in the eye with tears running down her face before she said shakily "S-Seamus Finnegan. He's in my year. And- he's older than I'm supposed to be. And - oh Alida, I'm so confused!"
"Shh. Hermione don't worry. It'll be ok," Alida comforted soothingly, holding her friend tightly against her.
"And also- Lily. . . James. . . Sirius. . . it's all so recent for me! I mean, I know that I already knew it would happen, but-"
"I know," said Alida soothingly, "I know it's hard. I still break down about them sometimes."
They sat in silence other than Hermione's reducing sobs before she broke the silence saying tentatively, "Erm. . . Alida?"
"Yes Lav?" she replied.
"Did you guys ever talk to Severus after I left?" Hermione asked quietly.
Alida sighed heavily before saying "We tried. I swear to you Lavender, we tried. But he was so heartbroken, and he had convinced himself that you had - erm - left him for Sirius" here she paused and looked at Hermione apologetically "that he wouldn't let us around him."
Hermione sighed before saying "That's what I thought probably happened. Thank you for telling me."
"Of course Lavender!" said Alida, smiling at her friend. They sat in a comfortable silence, losing themselves in the past.
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When they finally emerged to go to dinner a few hours later, Hermione was all cleaned up, and it was impossible to tell that she had been crying, except for the aura of sadness around her.
She and Alida walked through the hallways, ignoring the stares of the students, chatting about their schooldays until, when they had almost reached the great hall, a voice rang through the hall saying "Hey Granger- hey mudblood."
Hermione sighed, gave Alida a warning look and turned around. "What do you want Malfoy?"
They had attracted a big crowd by now, and Malfoy, smirking said "What's this about marrying Snape? Why would he marry a mudblood like you? And his student at that? You're probably nothing more than his whore."
Not noticing anything except for her anger and the smirking ferret in front of her, Hermione stepped closer to Malfoy. Then, without warning, she smacked him. Hard. "whore am I Malfoy? You make me sick. You have absolutely no idea what you're fucking talking about."
She was just pulling her wand out to curse him when it was snatched out of her hand by her husband, who was glaring at Malfoy in fury. "Would you care to repeat that Mr. Malfoy?" he asked in a dangerously low voice.
Gulping, Malfoy said "N-no sir. I- err-"
"First of all," Severus snarled, towering over the now cowering ferret, "Her last name is certainly not Granger. Because she was/is NOT my whore. And as for her being my student, well. . . are you stupid boy? Do you not understand the concept of time travel? Do you think that I was a teacher while I was still ATTENDING this school?
"And if you still need bloody more proof, ask your fucking father. Because he was AT the wedding. Do you understand boy?"
"Y-yes professor," Malfoy stuttered, cowering under the glare of his angry head of house.
"Good," said Snape shortly, before he turned to leave. As he headed away, he turned around once again and said "Oh, and Mr. Malfoy?"
"Yes sir?"
"That will be fifty points from Slytherin."
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A/N: so.. Sorry that it took so long to update, and I know that the chapter's short. But Merry Christmas everyone!!! I hope that everybody had a great day and got lots of presents, and for all you Jewish people, I hope that you are having a great Chanukah. Anyway. . . if you're enjoying the story, please please please REVIEW. . . I want to get at least 100 soon. Even more and I'd be extremely grateful.
Hey everyone, also I was wondering. . . where exactly does one find all of those challenges? I mean everything says like WIKTT or whatever, but are the challenges themselves actually posted there? Is there like a specific website to find them? Thanks! (
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Loony Luna Potter: Thanks. I think that Lupin calls Hermione Lavender because she has grown up during the time she was in the past, and he sees her as that girl now. And also he's probably been wanting to do that for a while.
Heretic angel: I don't know if Voldemordt will be playing a role in this. It might be one of those fics where he's already been defeated. I'm not really good at writing Voldemort etc type fics. Anyway, thanks! (
DistinctVagueness: Thanks for the complements on plotline and writing style. Yeah. Maybe I should have had Neville's potion blow up or something to add something to it. Hmm. . . I'll try to update Minnie Ranger Snape eventually. But we'll see (
PinkTribeChick: Thanks so much! I understand that a lot of people don't like the whole sev/Hermione idea. I find it intriguing because of the aspect of a forbidden relationship. But don't worry. I completely understand if you still don't like it. I'm just warning you, I'm not going to get around to stuff really focused on Seamus for a while. I still have to get sev and Herm back together. But just stay w/ me and we'll get to it. . . don't worry! (
Melwasul: thanks! Well. . . he's eventually going to find out. But not quite yet. Don't worry! (
GK: thanks. . . well. . . they couldn't tell her, because she did have to go back into the past. The logic of time travel cases. I can't say that I understand it any more than you . . . (
GreekGoddess1: thanks! Well. . . sorry, but you're probably going to be waiting for a while for the updates to Minnie Ranger Snape! :'(
EuphoniumGurl0***** Jordanz***** BluMie***** hevensdevil***** crazeecuteexo *****v-weasley***** F75***** me***** Katrina Tonak **** Wytil ***** danielita ***** wendynat ***** aderyn ledell ***** spaz141 ***** severus lover ***** Anarane Anwamane ***** Tessa ***** rose petel ***** little-lost- one ***** AnnabelleElizabeth ***** Mystical Witch:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ thanks!!! (
