The love of a child

Chapter nineteen – Just a normal day.

Harry only had to wait two trying hours until they returned however it wasn't even wit half the number that they had left with. Severus and Sirius were thankfully among those admitted to the infirmary upon arrival; however Harry was forbidden from going up there until he had slept for at least four straight hours and eaten a good meal.

Remus was unaware of what had happened until he awoke and went to see Harry who told him everything. After getting over the anger about not telling him in the first place he calmed down and agreed to join Harry in going to see them in the hospital wing. Out of the twenty five men and women that had gone only six had returned, Harry couldn't help but think what if he had done something, anything, differently, would more have survived?

They entered, Harry held Bonnie in his arms, Remus at once rushed to Sirius' side, the man was out of it and badly injured, he barely recognized his lover. Severus was sitting up in bed reading the Daily Prophet. At the sight of his husband and daughter he folded it up neatly and put it down so he could hug them.

"I was just reading a rather interesting article about you and wondering when you'd be up here to see me." He said after Harry had settled himself on the bed alongside him with Bonnie on his lap.

"Oh yeah, what's it about?" Harry asked not in the least bit interested, he was just so thankful that Severus was alive and well, he was going to buy Bonnie a very big present for what she did yesterday.

"Take a look for yourself." Severus said handing him the paper, Harry unfolded it and read the heading. BOY-WHO-LIVED MARRIED WITH CHILDREN! The picture taking up nearly the entire page was of them kissing at the alter, it was the most beautiful picture of the two of them he had ever seen and he had seen quite a few.

Harry snorted in disgust. "Look how fat this picture makes me look." He complained rubbing his large stomach. "I'm not that fat am I?"

Severus didn't even bother answering he took Harry's chin in his hand and turned his husband's head towards him so he could kiss him. "You look beautiful." He said but before they could kiss again they were interrupted by a small cough. It was Poppy Pomfrey.

"I would like to remind you that this is a hospital wing not your bedroom and I would also like to inform you that when your ready Severus you may go, it seems that your darling daughter did an excellent job in healing you, not much that I had to do at all."

"Thank you." Harry said before turning to Bonnie and putting on his baby voice. "And thank you for taking care of your Papa for me." He kissed her forehead before handing her to Severus who for the first time in four months held her in his arms properly. There weren't enough words in the English language to describe how much he had missed his family. There was no way he was going away on any more missions any time soon, no matter how important they were to Albus Dumbledore.

The headmaster it seemed was losing some of his mind after so many years of living, Harry nor Severus was surprised at this new development as they had both thought for a while that the old man was long past his sell by date. They wouldn't have been surprised if they had been told that he wouldn't be around for much longer.

Harry helped his husband hobble down to their rooms where bonnie was put in her play pen and they settled themselves on the sofa for a quite day. Harry loved times like this, where they could just curl up on the couch together and forget about all their commitments. However it wasn't so easy for Harry, with Remus in the hospital wing with Sirius there was no one to fill in for the defence against the dark Arts classes meaning he had to go.

"Sev, will you be alright looking after Bonnie today, your classes are still being covered, mine however aren't so I have to go." Harry asked not bothering to get up and get ready to go and teach.

"Yes I think I shall be fine, you go and have a life, leave me at home with the kids." He said in mock exasperation which had Harry practically laughing.

"At the moment my love there is only one child, but in five months time were going to have three and then I'll be the stay at home mum, in a manor of speaking."

"And why won't I be?" Severus asked. "I mean we could alternate."

"I have Remus to help me out with my classes, whereas you have no one unless you're willing to let me take your potion classes once in a while, I'm sure the students would love it."

"Good point, I don't think I'd be a very good stay at home dad, I think I'll stick to teaching and perhaps we'll buy a big house and you can go and take care of the children there because we can't really bring three children up here."

"Ok to start with who said we were stopping at three." Harry said with a very cheeky grin. "And second I would love a big house, one with a two car garage and a white picket fence, a family home."

"And we can have that, I'll give it all to you, no matter how much it costs."

"But it's not that simple anymore." Harry said sadly. "I have Voldermort to deal with, as soon as I've taken care of him we can have it all but not before, I don't want to risk leaving Hogwarts until the danger threat is gone."

"Who said you were going to have to take care of Voldermort, I don't want you to risk your life any more, your not their saviour any more Harry, you've already killed him once."

"I am the famous Harry Potter, the boy-who-lived." He said standing up and placing his hands on his hips. "No one can defeat me."

"Go on get to class you egotistic prat." Severus said lovingly and watched as Harry did as he was told. He had the most perfect idea, he had been left a reasonably sized home somewhere between Scotland and England, in the country side, somewhere hardly any one dared venture. It had been his great Uncle Milton's house before he had passed on and as the only Snape left (not counting Bonnie and Harry) it had been left to him.

He made a mental note to himself to go and check out what condition it was in so he could get ready to show it to Harry. He was one hundred percent positive that he would love the house once of course it was done up nicely and made to look like an actual home rather than a pureblood wizards family estate.

He didn't want that with Harry, he didn't want him to be a trophy that he showed off, he didn't want his children to be his heirs, he wanted them to be a family. When he looked at how the Malfoy's had ended up that is how he thought all pureblood families would go. But not his, he wouldn't allow it."

Going along with the old saying keep your friends close and your enemies closer Severus had decided to give young Draco's life some meaning and was training him to take over as potions master in his senile years that he wanted to spend alone with Harry. Although thinking about it Harry wouldn't be senile he'd just be fairly old. He pushed this to the back of their mind; he had other thinks to worry about other than the large age difference between them. They were bonded now, that didn't matter.

Snape was trying to remember how exactly his great Uncles house had looked like and was planning wall paper colours already. He never would have shown his excitement about this to any one but Harry. He had been good at keeping how hyper and loving he got a closely guarded secret, something he was rather thankful for, he couldn't go losing his mean glowering self for potions classes now could he.

Harry returned to their rooms at lunch time completely shattered he collapsed upon the sofa, his eyes closed. Normally a few classes would not have tired him out so quickly but the pregnancy was finally slowing him down a little, which was most likely a good think, he had always been able to move a round far to quickly in his pregnancies than someone in his condition should have been able to.

Severus moved behind him and began to massage his husbands shoulders making Harry moan in delight, a sound that was very much turning on Snape who continued to massage just for those noises.

Finally Harry's stomach rumbling brought a stop to the entire thing, despite his hard on Severus insisted that they go and eat before anything happened. This placed Snape in a very awkward and uncomfortable position all the way though lunch. A situation which Harry found overly amusing and constantly reminded him that it was his own fault.

When the three of them got back to their rooms Bonnie was put down for a nap, once in there own bed room Severus couldn't stop himself practically pouncing on his younger lover and ravishing him towards and inch of his life.

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