"Here's the thing
We started out friends
It was cool, it was all pretend
Yeah, yeah, since you been gone
You dedicated, you took the time
Wasn't long, till I called you mine
Yeah, yeah, since you been gone
And all you'd ever hear me say
Is how i'd picture me with you
That's all you'd ever hear me say
But since you been gone
I can breathe for the first time
I'm so moving on, yeah yeah
Thanks to you
Now I get, what I want
Since you been gone
How can I put it, you put me on
I even fell for that stupid love song
Yeah, yeah, since you been gone
How come I'd never hear you say
I just wanna be with you
Guess you never felt that way
But since you been gone
I can breathe for the first time
I'm so moving on, yeah yeah
Thanks to you
Now I get, what I want
Since you been gone
You had your chance, you blew it
Out of sight, out of mind
Shut your mouth, I just can't take it
Again and again, and again and again
Since you been gone, (since you been gone)
I can breathe for the first time
I'm so moving on, yeah yeah
Thanks to you
Now I get, I get what I want
I can breathe for the first time
I'm so moving on, yeah yeah
Thanks to you
You should know that I get
I get what I want
Since you been gone
Since you been gone
Since you been gone"
Hermione sang to herself as she tried to sneak a snack from the kitchen of her 'home.' Her life was hell now and she would not deny it to anyone, not even to herself.
The last time Severus or anyone for that matter saw Hermione Granger was at Graduation or on the train home. It was said that she went home and lived her life as a Muggle. When she started to ignore owls from her friends Severus was called in.
"Severus, my dear boy, sit down, sit down." said Albus.
"Headmaster." said Severus inclining his head and taking his usual seat.
"Hermione Ganger has stopped responding to owls and Harry and Ron are concerned. They seem to think something is mortally wrong with her. I was wondering if you would go to her home in London and check up on her." said Albus.
"Of course." said Severus and with that he left.
"YOU FUCKING BITCH!" yelled Hermione's father from the living room. Hermione got up and went to him.
"Now that is no way to talk to someone." said a cold voice that Hermione had forever tired to forget.
"This is him, isn't it?" yelled her father. "The father of that bitch you had."
"Yes." whispered Hermione looking down at her feet.
"Hermione?" asked Severus.
"SHUT THE HELL UP!" said her father. When he stopped yelling there was a distant cry of an infant.
"Shut the fucking thing up, whore!" said her father striking her. Hermione stumbled and ran up the stairs to her room and picked up her daughter. There was yelling and screaming down the stairs followed by the heavy thud of feet. The lights to her room were off so when she saw the dark figure in the hall way she put her daughter in her crib and turned to the figure.
"I won't let you touch her." she snarled. The figure in the dark turned on the light and looked at Hermione. She broke down, it was Severus. She ran to him and wrapped her arms around him in an embrace and cried.
"I'm sorry, so sorry." he cried into her shoulder. Her daughter started to cry again. Hermione detached herself and looked at Severus.
"Want to meet you daughter?" she asked him. Severus' eye's filled up with tears and he nodded his head. They both walked over to the makeshift crib and Hermione picked up the crying infant. She had cold black hair, like her father, and her fathers dark onyx eyes with specks of chocolate from her mother. Hermione held the baby out to him and he took her.
"She's beautiful, what's her name?" he asked her not taking his eyes off of his daughter who had stopped crying when Hermione placed him in her arms.
"Alexandria Artemis Snape." said Hermione. Severus looked up at Hermione and then back down at Alexandria.
"A beautiful name for a beautiful baby. How old is she?" he asked her.
"Three months, born March 27th." said Hermione proudly. Severus looked up again and into Hermione's eyes.
"I love you." that was all he said and she knew he meant it. All the truth that she needed lie in his eyes.
"I love you too." said Hermione as tears welled up in her eyes.
"I need to get you both out of here." said Severus.
"Where will we go?" asked Hermione.
"Hogwarts, with me, that is if you want to." he said looking away. Hermione placed her hand under his chin.
"I'd, we'd love to." she said and kissed him.
Within minutes she was packed with all her and Alexandria's things. Severus had shrunk everything and put it in his pockets. When everything was ready he apparated them to Hogsmaid and from there they rode a carriage to Hogwarts where Albus was waiting for them.
First chappie, short, I know, the next one will be longer.
Amanda