********************************************************************** Another chapter of my-oh-so-wonderful story! Could someone beta for me, please?

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The younger Severus and the baby were again in the lab. Severus seemed to be tense and was pacing furiously in the room.

Just like if he had made up his mind, He opened his window and whistled a long tune. Suddenly a big crow flew in to the room.

Severus was looking with apologising eyes to the bird and muttered:

"- It's for a good deed, forgive me, old boy".

He took about his wand and muttered a spell Hermione never heard before. Suddenly the bird fell on the ground, crumpled. Something white was in floating in the air.

Severus took quickly the baby and muttered something and touched with his wand the baby's shoulder blades. The white cloud entered the body. The baby squeaked in pain.

Severus took the baby in his arms and rocked it. After that the baby didn't cry anymore, Severus took a vial and gulped the liquid.

Severus skin went extremely white, and he almost collapsed on the floor. Quickly he muttered a spell and pointed to the baby. The baby screamed in pain, but this time Severus was too weak to stand up.

Severus opened another vial and gulped the continence and stood slowly up. He took the baby in his arm and hugged it tight against him.

Hermione was chocked and touched when she saw her feared Potions Professor crying over a small baby.

Hermione turned around and looked into Severus dark eyes.

Severus couldn't handle if she would look at him with pity in his eyes. But when he met Hermione's eyes and he only read sadness in them.

Severus smiled shyly to her and concentrated again.

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Hermione saw a lost looking Severus Snape holding something tightly against his chest. He started to walk in the streets of Muggle London. The older Severus and Hermione started to follow the young man.

Hermione was surprised as the younger Severus started to follow her mother. Nonetheless, Hermione enjoyed looking at her young mother. Somehow Hermione was also feeling sick because she didn't know what would happen to her. They continued to follow her, until they reached the house were Hermione still lived.

The younger Severus was tightening his grip around the baby. The young man entered the house. This time the older Severus followed his younger self into the house. Hermione was following him.

The young man took something out from his pocked and put it in the baby's hands. He fumbled under his shirt and took out a time turner. With a flash he disappeared.

Severus concentrated again, and Hermione was suddenly face to face with the younger Severus.

The younger Severus tightened his grip around the baby and apparted. Now, he was inside the Granger's apartment/ flat. Hermione studied the living room.

~Thank God my parents have changed the furniture. I must ask mom where she had put those funky armchairs. ~

She focus again, and saw the younger Severus enter her parents room. She followed him, mesmerized, completely forgetting the older Severus.

Hermione watched wordlessly when Severus Snape was putting her own mother under several spells; first he checked that she wasn't pregnant. Then, he put a pre-natal spell on her; several spells and potions later, Severus Snape put the transparent baby into her mother's stomach.

The young man backend from the room and apprated away. The older Severus concentrated again. She saw the younger Severus put a black stuff toy into an envelop and shoved it into the Granger's letter box.

Then he took the time turner and disappeared again.

The older Severus took Hermione in his arms and covered her eyes with his hand again and concentrated for the last time.

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With a thump, Severus and Hermione landed on the cold floor of Severus's Chambers.