Hey all!
It was good to see that I still had a lot of my readers. Was a little worried that I may have lost some of you, there were one or two I haven't heard from but most are still reading and enjoying! But there are also some new ones! I even have a couple of people that are reading the story with there friends! That is very cool and I hope you are all enjoying the story so far!
Right well less of me talking and more fighting! That's what we want right…
Snape stood still, waiting for his words to sink in.
This wasn't quite how he had planned on telling them but having them look at her as if she was a piece of dirty, and he a monster, was just not on!
He may be use to the looks but she was not, not to mention the fact that she was anything but a piece of dirt. She was his diamond in the rough.
Both men looked very ill. Weasley may have even been swaying a little bit. The potter boy was the first to recover, he watched him take a deep breath and open his mouth to say something, but just before he could a women came out of Hermione's house.
She had straight, greying brown hair that was held up in a ponytail. She was of medium height and medium weight. In fact there was nothing about this woman that was special. She was closely followed by a man, who was also of similar height and weight. The only thing that made him more noticeable was his lack of hair.
"What is all the shouting about?" she asked the two younger men as she wrapped her arms around Hermione. "Hello, sweetie, you were a meant to come in the house before you saw the surprise."
"Sorry mum." She mumbled back.
Her mother released her. He waited for Hermione to embrace her father but she did not. Instead she looked back at the, now recovering, Weasley boy.
Maybe she had said the truth when she said she had not wanted him to be Potter, maybe she wanted him to be Weasley. The thought made his stomach turn and his throat go dry.
She said she wanted you to be you, nobody else, stop second guessing her. He told himself over and over again. Maybe one of these times it will work.
For a moment or two no one said anything, they just stood there looking at one another.
The silence before the storm.
He watched with interest as the Weasley turned a strange colour of red. He took a step forward, glaring at him, and then he took another.
If that excuse of a man thought I was going to back down to anything he could give, then he had another thing coming.
"Ron." Hermione whispered.
The red head turned to his wife.
"Don't speak to me!" he spat.
"Hermione, what he said, it can't be true…" Harry stated his voice weak.
Hermione nodded.
"It's true." She turned to his parents. "Mum…Dad, this is my husband. Professor Severus Snape."
Both parents looked form her to the man at her side.
"Is he the teacher you have an apprenticeship with?" her mother asked.
It was Severus's turn to glance at his wife with a look of confusion on his face.
Hermione was looking at the floor.
"That's something else... I left school a long time ago."
What the hell was going on here? This was more than he knew about. He was finding it hard to pay attention to the new topic and keep an eye on the angry men in front of him.
"What do you mean?" her mother asked.
"I…I have a flat in London. I've been living there and I have been working…in the magic world." The last bit was just louder than a whisper.
But everybody heard it. Her mother gasped and her father sputtered.
The news did not seem to affect either man in front of him. He knew this, so he felt no shock. But why had she not told her parents.
"You know the rules, Hermione Jane Granger! You were to finish at that bloody school and come home." The father spoke for the first time.
"Forget that!" the red head shouted. "She's married to this greasy git, this…great big bat!"
"Why in god's name would you marry him?" Harry shouted at Hermione.
"Do not shout at my wife." Severus said dangerously to both men. Out of the corner of her eye she could see that Hermione looked very pale.
"Don't tell us what to do!" Ron shouted. "You have no control over us anymore!"
"I have plenty of control. I am twice your size and could break you like a twig. I think that gives me a fair amount of control…don't you?" he said evenly.
"This is the brute you wanted to marry?" Harry asked Hermione, his voice low but the hurt clear in his face.
"It is clear what must be done." Hermione's father said. Everybody turned to look at him. "She should do what she should have done a long time ago. She has to leave the wizard world."
Hermione went paler if it was possible. He was starting to worry. She looked like at any moment she would not be able to stand anymore.
"I'm afraid, sir, that's not possible." Severus said to his father-in-law.
"Of course it is." He snapped back.
"No, sir, it is not. Our child is wanted by many." He said.
He turned his head to look at Hermione as she gasped. She looked at him, her eyes bright in her pale face. She shook her head slightly. It had to be said, the sooner the better.
"You're pregnant?" her mother asked.
"You're what!" Ron shouted.
Harry just stood there shaking his head. Her father turned an interesting colour of purple.
He heard Hermione take a deep breath.
"Yes, I'm pregnant and I'm happy about It." she put her hand on her belly. "I'm not coming back home dad. I'm staying where I am." She turned to the two younger men. "I'm staying married to Severus and I'm going to have his baby. Now you can either hug me and tell me you are happy for me or…" she paused and swallowed. "Or you leave and never speak to me again. The choice is yours."
He was proud of her. Pride in his wife and something else filled his body.
Because his eyes were on his wife and not the Weasley boy he could not stop him in time before he grabbed his wife and shock her hard, his fingers digging into her. He took a couple of steps forward, but his child beat him to it.
Hermione gave off a bright white light that sent the boy flying. He landed in some trash cans the other side of the road. Turning back to his wife, he saw her glowing and her eyes full of shock.
He gently took her arm. She looked up at him with wide scared eyes.
"Take me home Severus." She whispered.
He nodded. Wrapping his arms around his wife he thought about Hogwarts gates.
Just before they left, they both heard Ron shout…
"That was supposed to be me!"
Phew, wipes sweat from brow, that's me all done. Review and let me know what you think?
Oh, by the way,I would have had this up hours ago butI had trouble up loading it. Anybody else have that! Or does it just not like me...Sniff Sniff!
