Everyone has their problems
Chapter six – Going back.
It was late evening the day before Harry was sending four of daughters off to Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry. He knew they would be safe their but he couldn't help but feel slightly on edge at the fact that his hectic family life was going to be considerably reduced. Before he had always had Severus and now he just had Maria and the unborn child growing inside of him.
He had tucked them all up in bed and was just about to go to sleep himself when he felt the baby kick and his resolve to leave Severus to sort out his problems on his own were broken. He through some floo powder into the fire and stuck his head in.
His head was sticking out of the fireplace in the front room, which was unsurprisingly empty; a house elf soon appeared after hearing his calls. It bowed ridiculously low and asked how it could be of service. "Could you fetch Severus?" Harry asked and at once he noticed a flicker of fear crossing the creature's ugly face.
"Mr Snape is busy sir, he has not appeared from the dungeons in many nights and has already killed two house elves when they attempted to feed him sir, we do not dare go down there any more." The thing squeaked in a terrified tone.
"Ok, listen…what's your name?"
"Misty."
"Ok, Misty, I want to come to my address and watch over our children and I'll talk to Severus." Harry gave the house elf the address and at once it appeared beside him. Harry told him what to do if the girls awoke and then flooed into Snape manor's living room. He was determined to have words with his husband, he couldn't have him scaring the servants.
He walked down to the dungeons with determination and hammered on the door, he could hear crashing and shouts from within, their was no answer to his own knocking so carefully he opened the door.
What he saw shocked him, his husbands lab was in ruins, potion ingredients lay scattered around the place, some still in there containers and others seeping across the stone floor. Harry knew what kind of things that his husband worked with and knew that most were poisonous and flammable, especially when not treated with appropriate care. "Severus?" Harry shouted as he stepped over a horrid yellow substance. "Show yourself this instant." He demanded.
The door across the room that led to his Severus' study flung open and a tired manic looking Snape appeared, now any one else would have been petrified at this sight and run away as fast as they could but not Harry, he being the brave Gryffindor that he was stood his ground looking disappointed.
"What have you done Sev?" He asked, the eye contact that they shared was deep, deep enough that it could possibly be considered soul searching. Harry was most certainly searching for an answer to this madness that had suddenly come over his husband.
"This is why you left me so I'm destroying it, I want you back in my life and I am prepared to do anything to get you back, including quit my job, which I already have done."
Harry sighed in a way that showed Severus he was not happy. "Did you even thing how we were going to pay the bills? Even our families money combined won't last forever, what do you plan on doing now, especially with our sixth child on the way?"
"I thought you'd be happy, I did this so I can be a father to the girls and be your husband. Who cares about the money, we'll manage as long as we're together."
"Sev, you are my husband and you always will be, the girls look up to you, the reason I suggested this separation period was because you worked too much, I didn't want you to stop completely, you love your potions almost as much as you love your family and on occasion I would say that you love them more, you can't just stop doing what you love."
"But I want you in my life, not half the way across the country with god knows who coming round to see you…including Malfoy."
"Severus Snape, if you are accusing me of cheating on you I would like to hurriedly remind you that I am seven months pregnant and am hardly capable of seducing others and even less likely to be sleeping with any one."
"But your still gorgeous no matter what, you know I wouldn't blame you for hating me."
"Why do you say that, I could never hate you?"
"I got involved with you and I got you pregnant, I bonded with you before you were even past the age of twenty two, I took away your life and placed burdens on you that you should never have had to bare like the weight of a child."
"You forget that if it hadn't been for our first child then I would be dead, it was our power combined that destroyed Voldermort, you saved my life so I could have this life, I wanted nothing more than to raise a family and be a house husband and to have it with you, the love of my life, well that is just an added bonus."
Harry paused taking in his husbands features, he was tearing up now and Harry couldn't help but embrace him, he felt his partners arms encircle his waist and he felt complete again.
"Now listen very carefully Sev, I want you to clean yourself up and I suggest this place too, I have to take the girls to Kings Cross tomorrow, I want you to come round for dinner, I believe Misty has the address and if you kill any more of the house elves I will not be very happy."
"Do not treat me like a child that has been misbehaving Harry, I am your husband and I am your senior, I am not a child."
"No I agree, you're not a child on a good day but look around, would a responsible and sane adult do this? You have endangered your own life, mine and our unborn child's, when I left I asked you to sort out your issues and come to terms with everything in your life and figure out a balance. I don't want to lose you Severus."
Harry released him from the embrace and looked him directly in the eye before kissing him softly on the lips and turning to go, it hurt him to see Severus so upset and he wasn't acting like the man he married all that time ago, that man had gone and he doubted that he would ever be coming back. Just seeing Sev had made it clear that he was indeed doing the right thing.
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The following morning the house was in complete chaos, trunks, robes, wands, spell books and potion ingredients were scattered all over the place, Harry's instruction to pack up the night before had gone unnoticed and now they were running late.
Harry wasn't just worried but stressed by the time that they were on the road, they had and hour to drive to a destination that on a good day with no traffic took two hours.
"Dad can't we just use magic?" Bonnie shouted from back as she clutched at her owl cage in which sat Walnut. Harry at once remembered his second year and smiled, no he couldn't…could he?
"Did I ever tell you about the time that Uncle Ron and I flew a car to Hogwarts because we missed the train?"
The girls all shook their heads and Harry told them the story, making sure to add the bit where he got told off for doing it so not to get any ideas. They finally made it to Kings cross five minutes before the train was due to leave and after hurried goodbyes they were off and Harry couldn't help but tear up.
Ok I would just like to say that I am very, very sorry that it's been so long but Fan fiction is just something I do when I am stuck with my other stories which aren't posted on FFN. I should update soon though but no promises. Hope you enjoyed the chapter, please review xxx.
