A/N: Sorry it's taken me so long to update! I've been left in my flat all by myself this weekend so I've been pretty drunk with some of my friends, I could hardly see the computer screen, let alone the keys!! Again, big thank you to every one who has reviewed, one hundred and seventy-four reviews and only two of them were bad! I'm so proud!! Thank you as well to every one who suggested names for Baby Boy Snape, I hope you like the final choice for his name. This chapter is mostly about Sev and Luci. And good luck to all my readers who are fighting with coursework and looking forward to their GCSE's! Luv Willow Delace xx

Chapter Sixteen – When Suffering From Impractical Magic

"I hate you. I have never been in so much pain in all my life and it's your entire fault. If Poppy didn't take my wand away then I would blow you to bits." Severus muttered in the general direction of a gurgling baby, who was lying in a crib in the corner of the hospital wing. "We have got to name you... it will make it easier to curse at you!"

As it turned out, Baby Boy Snape had done nothing with Severus' wand. He just happened to be holding it at the time. After doing a spell of Severus' wand, they found out that the last spell done was one to clean up a bubbled over cauldron earlier that day (will Neville ever learn?). It seemed that Baby Boy Snape was capable of wandless magic, and they still didn't know what he had done to Severus' hand.

Severus left the baby with a love struck Hermione and wandered off downstairs, back to the dungeons, to see Lucius. Lucius was sitting up in bed, just playing with his hands, when Severus' arrived, puffing and panting (all those stairs aren't easy when you're six months pregnant you know.) "How long have you been awake?" Severus asked, walking over and perching on the edge of the bed, kissing Lucius on the forehead.

"Only a little while, I was about to come and find you."

"No. Poppy ordered bed rest and she meant it. You are staying there for the next few days whether you want to or not. What were you coming to find me for anyway?"

"Well, I was thinking about what we could call the baby and I think I've come up with a good name for him. But if you don't like it then we don't have to, it's up to you." Lucius said nervously, tying his hands all in knots. Severus smiled and snorted a small laugh. "What's so funny?"

"Oh nothing, it's just not like you to be so worried about something. The only other time I've seen you this worried was when you left Draco at the station on his first day of school." He smiled again at the memory of a rather twitchy Lucius, trying to be the big man in front of his son. "But anyway, what did you want to call him?"

"Well I was thinking that his first name could be Kellan... I don't know why, I just like it. Then his middle names could be Tyler, and Damien. But it's up to you, I really don't mind, but I do want him to be a Snape, I want him to have your name."

"I think that it's a beautiful name, and I wouldn't have it any other way. Kellan Tyler Damien Snape. It's perfect, just like he is."

There was a knock at the door and a rather less than amused looking Ron walked in with the baby in his arms. It was screaming like tomorrow wouldn't come. Lucius laughed. "Just like Draco. And if he's as evil as his big brother then he'll be crying like that all night."

Severus glanced at his hand, but said nothing. He looked up at Ron, who looked as if he was going to throw Kellan at someone if they didn't take his away soon. Ron held Kellan out to Severus. "He won't stop crying, Hermione said that I had to bring him down to you so that you can feed him."

With some difficulty, Severus took the baby from Ron and passed his to Lucius. "Thank you. Will we be seeing her at all any time in the not to distant future? The girl hardly seems able to stay away. I'm surprised that she didn't bring him down in the first place."

"You know Hermione, babies are cute and fun, but when there is studying to be done it's a whole other matter. Draco waved a book at her so that he could spend some time with his little brother and she's now annoying Poppy with wanting to know every little detail about Wizarding diseases. She'll probably be by later though, it doesn't take her long to read a book twice."

Draco wandered into the room. "I leave the hospital wing for two seconds and you've stolen my brother away!" he said with a smile as he walked over and sat down on the bed next to his dad. Kellan was still crying. "Don't cry little one, big brother's here." He cooed, but Kellan ignored him.

"We've named him." Lucius said with a smile, rocking the baby to try and get him to sleep. "His name is Kellan. Kellan Tyler Damien Snape."

"Hello Kellan, hello baby, Draco loves you, yes he does!" Draco said, dissolving into incoherent noises at Kellan, who was still ignoring him.

"Well, I have to use the bathroom, so take him away for a minute." Lucius said, passing Kellan to Draco. It was like a miracle. The second he was in Draco's arms, the crying stopped. A tiny hand curled round Draco's finger and big black eyes blinked up at him. Draco stoked his baby brother's fine layer of platinum blonde hair and smiled at him.

"That's better isn't it, you just needed your big brother to look after you. That's all you needed wasn't it. Yes it was." Draco said. He couldn't keep his eyes off of Kellan. And who would want to. He was beautiful.

"How can you keep his so quiet? He screamed when he was with the three of us." Severus said, a little confused.

"He can calm him, because Narcissa could do it. Draco used to scream when I held him, but the second she took him he would be quiet as a dormouse. He has more of his mother in him than he thinks."

"But I look just like you. Same hair, same eyes, same figure. What makes you think that I'm so much like mum?"

"Severus, you know what Narcissa likes don't you?" Severus nodded. "Okay then, I'm going to ask you some questions and I want you to answer then truthfully, don't just say what you think I want to hear. There aren't going to be any more lies in this family. Okay, first question, what's your favourite subject?"

"Charms."

"What's your favourite animal?"

Draco blushed a little. "A unicorn."

"Did you have an imaginary friend?"

"Yes."

Lucius suddenly looked very solemn. "Would you have joined the dark lord a year ago just because I asked you to? Because you loved me too much to turn me down?"

Draco nodded sadly and there was a nasty silence in the room. Kellan tightened his grip on Draco's finger. "He's going to be independent. I just know it. He'll only do what he wants. But he will still love and respect you with every inch of his heart and soul... just like I do." Draco said, lying carefully against his father's chest, so as not to hurt Kellan. "We'll be okay, all of us."

Severus walked back over and sat down on the other side of the bed, just as Ron smiled and left, closing the door quietly behind him. Severus put his arms around his step son, his baby and his love. And the happiness seemed to fill the entire room as they just sat there together. Draco sat up. "I have to go and find Harry. Do you want us to come back here after?"

Lucius nodded, and Draco handed him Kellan, who whimpered when his hand lost contact with Draco's finger. Draco smiled down at him. "Be a good boy Kellan, and I promise I'll come back soon." He kissed Kellan on the forehead. "I love you baby."

He departed the room and Kellan stayed quiet, Severus wondered if maybe he had understood what Draco had said. Lucius smiled at him. "What are we going to call your little one when it's born?"

Severus looked disgusted. "She is not an 'it' Lucius. And what I'm going to call her is a surprise, so you'll just have to wait." He said with a smile.

"Well while I'm waiting, I really have to use the bathroom." Lucius said, placing Kellan in Severus' arms and hauling himself out of bed. The door clicked shut behind him and Severus looked suspiciously at Kellan.

"Please don't hurt me. I'm your daddy and I love you... so please don't hurt me!"

A/N2: I'm sorry it got a bit mushy in the middle there! But it seemed like a cute idea that they have the whole brother bond thing going on. It all got a bit ooc as well, but that couldn't really be helped with the nature of the scene, and trust me, I tried doing it with their normal characterizations and it wasn't even nearly as good.

Replies to reviews:

[Ara Kusabana] Thank you for the goodies! I love this story... but I wrote it so it doesn't really count.

[slasherbabe] I don't mind you being clingy, I love you to bits sweetheart. You got your 'powerful' baby Snape!! Yay!

[Shania Maxwell] I promise that no ones baby will be a James, or a Harry, or a Lilly, or a Petunia ::shudders at the thought:: Harry changes his mind on a baby name... that's all I'm saying.

[driven to insanity] yep, there is much naughtiness with Ron and Hermione at the moment... Sing all you like babe, rebel against the system!

[Sirius-gal-4-eva] I hope you liked the name that I picked!

[Reese Craven] One new chapter, freshly written by a finally sober me! I don't like it... head hurts... ::pout::

[Harry's Sister] There are much better writers out there than me, like Natalie J, I am loving her stories at the moment, but thanks for the compliment anyway! I'm doing my best to update but I'm trying to do everything at once these days!

[RosE-ofHeL] I hope that you liked what I called him. I made Tyler his first middle name. And thank you for the description of grown up Kellan, I used it as much as possible in this, but he is still a baby so right now he's more cute than sexy!

[ana-pj] Sorry I didn't use your name, but he already has three names, I thought it cruel to make his name too long.

[JAML] You don't have to appologise for missing a couple of chapters, the point is that you still came back to read it!

[Mary Potter] In regards to your question, it will be answered in the next chapter. Just hang in there for a bit gurl!

[xO yUmmi yUm Ox] Cool coincidence! I actually started writing that scene because I was listening to 'Breathe' by Kylie. And there's a whole bit where she says: Breathe, breathe, it won't be long now, breathe, breathe... and I decided that it was about time that Lucius had a baby!

[shylaofslytherin] I'm glad you like!!

[fishnetfairy] Hello my darling! I went with the random, though I kept a sort of normality to it by giving him the middle name of Tyler.

[Asioleh] It will be explained in the next chapter. Narcissa has a very big part to play in all of this.

[katina] Because they were together when Narcissa died (Luci gets pregnant) and after that they were secretly together for a bit, during which time Sev gets pregnant. And then a couple of months after that Harry and Draco get really drunk!

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