Chapter 4: An Unexpected Visitor
A/N: I own nothing. Hermione emailed me and told me to leave Severus alone. So I guess I still own nothing.
"I'm going to kill him." McGongall looked down into the bowl filled with a silvery liquid. "Moving in on her like that when she is fragile."
"She loves him, that's why she refused to take the potion. Hmmmm…" Dumbledore said.
"Dear god, don't tell me you're going to allow this to happen. He's her teacher and she is his student. You can't allow this to happen."
"She is of age, Minerva. She is allowed to make her own decisions. And Severus needs someone to show him his life isn't as bad as he makes it. All he needs is some love and someone to believe in him. She's it and there is no way I'm going to stop her."
"I just wish it didn't happen this way."
"The world works in mysterious ways, Minerva. Mysterious ways."
"So what are we going to do about the baby?" Hermione looked up at Severus Snape's dark eyes.
"I don't know. We'll have to consult Poppy about it. There are certain things that need to be done, but in all honesty I don't know the specifics of it. The one thing I do know is there is a potion you should be drinking every morning to help the development of the child."
"Our child."
"Yes, our child. It's just a simply nutritional potion that will give you all the necessary vitamins you need. I should go brew up a batch for you." Severus said as he started to get up. Hermione though grabbed his shirt sleeve and told him "Please stay with me. I don't want to be alone right now." Severus sat back down on the bed.
"I'll have to get some brew for you for tomorrow. You're going to need it. But are you hungry? It is time for dinner and I'm sure if you don't show up and I don't there will be rumours all over the school about us."
"You're right. Is it possible for me to come back here after dinner? I can't stay in the same room right now with Lavender and Parvati. They wouldn't let me rest with my decision to keep the baby."
"Certainly you can come back after dinner. The password to my quarters is sunlight."
Hermione left Severus's room and walked up to the Great Hall for dinner. The moment she walked in she was surround by Ron, Harry, and Fred and George.
"Did he hurt you? I'm going to kill him. I swear it. That stupid greasy git. I can't believe he did that." Ron went off as he hugged Hermione.
"He didn't do anything to me. He did what he had to save our lives." Hermione said as she pried herself away from Ron. As she did Severus walked by to the staff table. He look at her mournfully as if he believed he lost her.
"He's brainwashed you. That's it he brainwash you. That's why you are defending him love. It has to be." Ron looked at her in shock.
"Ron leave her alone. Hasn't she been through enough without you badgering her?" Harry said prying her away from Ron's arms. "You are okay though?"
"Yes, I'm fine." Hermione said as she sat down at the table. Her eyes scanned up to the head table to see Severus look down at them. When their eyes met, it felt like time stopped for just a moment and then restarted back into the hell that it has become. It seemed like everyone at Gryffindor table knew what happened that night thanks to Lavender and Parvati. Hermione couldn't do anything but sit there and let them talk. She got up half through dinner and walked out.
"What's wrong with her?" Ron asked with his mouth stuff full of chicken.
"Well, she's just gone through a nightmare of a night and you guys can't shut up about what Snape did to her. You think she needs a constant reminder of what happened." Ginny said as she stood up and walked out too.
"Hermione." Ginny called out once she exited the Great Hall. She turned to see Hermione walking downstairs to the dungeon. Within a few minutes, Professor Snape walked out of the Great Hall and started to walk down the stairs to the dungeon also. Ginny slowly follow them. When she reached the bottom of the stair, she saw Snape with his arms wrapped around a crying Hermione. Hermione was looking up at him and then to Ginny's shock, Hermione kissed Professor Snape. Ginny stumbled at the sight of it.
"What was that?" Hermione said.
"I don't know. Stay here and I'll take a look." Snape walked over to the stairs and noticed nothing. "Looks like nothing. Let's get back to my room. You need to rest and I have to get your potion ready."
"Can I help you with it?"
"I'm sure that will be possible, but first you must eat." Ginny watched, from her hiding spot behind the hangings, as Snape wrapped an arm around Hermione and walked her into the Potions Classroom.
"Oh my god I don't believe it. Hermione is going out with Snape." Ginny quickly ran up the stairs to Gryffindor tower, where she ran into the boy's dormitory. She wrote a quick note to Harry saying she needed to borrow his invisible cloak and she would tell him later why.
Ginny slipped under the cloak and walked back down to the dungeon. Now she had to wait to see if she could find a good time to slip into the potions classroom to see what was going on. She hit some luck. Professor Dumbledore was walking down the stairs and was slowly headed to the potions classroom. Ginny quickly followed him in. To find there was no Hermione and no Snape for that fact either. She followed Dumbledore to Snape's office only to see once again no one was there. Dumbledore then walked to a painting on the wall and mumbled something that made the painting swing open. Ginny quickly followed Dumbledore again in hopes to see where Hermione had gone. She finally saw her lying down on a bed in the corner of the room.
"Is she asleep?" Dumbledore asked. Severus nodded a yes. "How is she doing?"
"She's handling things well for all that has happened to her in the past 48 hours. Being raped by me, find out she is carrying my child, and…"
"Admitting she loves you."
"How did you know?"
"I know everything. Like the fact that we're being watched right now by a Weasley." Severus looked around the room. "Miss Weasley will you please come out from under the invisible cloak." Ginny removed the cloak to show herself near the door she just entered thru.
"How did you get in here?" Snape snapped at her.
"I…I…followed Professor Dumbledore." Ginny stuttered. "I didn't mean to. I was just worried about her. I just wanted to make sure she was going to be okay."
"She'll be fine, Miss Weasley. Our Professor Snape is a very capable man to take care of her. Now if you may leave us to discuss more private matters." Dumbledore stated. Ginny nodded and walked out of the rooms. She couldn't believe what she just saw.
