Repsted chapter! big thanks to madamemischief!

a/N Bad news, well semi-good news for me. Friday the 13th May, is my 18th birthday party. I only found out about it Monday and I've jut got so much to do. My parents have booked the place and sorted out food and music but the rest is left to me. Which is stressing, I've decided on a fairy and pirate theme, so I'm busy getting all the costumes and stuff. I'm going as a fairy!

With this said, I don't know if I will be able to update again before Friday 13th.

You know what else! Stupid council is taxing me and making me pay rent of 50quid a week and I'm still in full time education. Where's the logic? I only get 30 a week. Dole, here I come!

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Chapter 3: Right, yeah that's going to work.

Snape watched the crowd as he walked from apothecary he acquires his private potion ingredients from. He would use the schools supply, but they were as crappy as muggle school dinners. The magical ability in that stuff wasn't strong enough to roast a chicken with, let alone make Wolfsbane. Glancing at the witches and wizards that blended into the background, he was caught of guard by the very flushed face of Hermione Granger, who was heading right towards him with a smile on her face and several bags in her hands.

"Good afternoon Professor, I wasn't expecting to see you until the 1st." Hermione said warmly shifting the bags into the other hand.

"I can say the same." Severus looked down at the number of bags with disgust. "You are a witch Miss Granger, why haven't you shrunk those bags."

"Because it doesn't feel like I'm on a shopping spree if I haven't got anything to carry and I have shrunk some things." Hermione felt her face heat up as she thought of the huge granny pants that were stuffed in her pocket. It would seem that they did do sexy underwear for the pregnant, just not very comfortable looking stuff, so she bought the comfortable ones planning a trip out later in the year with the very man in front of her.

"Shopping spree?" Severus questioned rising an eyebrow; he couldn't understand women and clothes. Why was buying new clothes such an enjoyment for them? What's fun about suffering a crowded area just for a new pair of knickers? Severus had had the most wonderful experience of listening to two old bats (McGonagall and Sprout) comparing the experience of buying a new wardrobe with having very intense sex. Clothes won, it would seem they get more satisfaction from buying a new pair of knickers, than having them pulled off by a very horny wizard. This new insight to woman would explain Hermione's flushed appearance.

"I needed a new wardrobe. The last outfit I brought was the one for my parent's funeral. I thought a little update was in order for my new apprentice job." Hermione shrugged. "It beats staying at home all day. Is that why you're here? To get out of Hogwarts?"

"I do not stay at Hogwarts during the summer, I am the head of my family, I have my own manor and several others properties." Severus informed her briskly, he didn't like how she had mentioned her parent's death, the event still made his blood boil. She was too… he couldn't think of the word, she was just too much. She affected him to a point where he wouldn't regret killing her.

"Oh, it was just that you were at Hogwarts when I came about the apprenticeship, I just assumed…" She smiled at him again. Severus pondered the fact that she didn't seem to mind the fact that she was leasing her womb to him for nine months. In fact she seemed quite happy. What was she planning?

"You were wrong. As much as I enjoy standing in the middle of this…cattle yard…I must return to my shopping so I can return to the peace of my home." Severus regarded those around him, as they pushed and shouted. Yes, it was just like a cattle yard, each wizard or witch moving with confusion as to what was happening before they were lead off to the slaughter.

"We could go to the Three Broomsticks and have a drink. Get to know each other a bit." Hermione suggested. She hoped to spend some time with him to see if it was possible to spend the next three years with him as well as to make him and herself fall in love with each other at the same time. Not to mention the baby.

"I don't have the time to." Severus said curtly.

"Please? It will help us to get to know each other a bit better before we move in together." Hermione smiled sweetly trying hard not to flutter her eyelashes, the urge to do so was a strong one, but she hung on for his answer.

"Very well." Severus shook his head as he began walking towards the pub, Hermione struggling with her bags to keep up. "Would you be quicker if I help you with those?" he asked slightly annoyed.

"I do believe I would." Hermione watched as Severus took the bags from her and strode ahead; the different weights pulling him towards the ground did not affect his strides. Blasted man, he could at least walk next to her, but at least she would be able to ask him some questions that had been eating away at her for a while now. She would get her answers, and bloody hell, she felt as light as a feather but she couldn't decide if it was from the lack of the weight of the bags or because she was, if you looked at it a certain way, about to have a date with Severus Snape!

A/N short chapter I know, I just wanted to post something before I become so bloody busy. Please review and if you do please leave an email address as I love to reply to you all.

Sammis