Happy New Year to all!

Lol, I think I said that at the end of the last one but I wanted to say it again! Lol!

Well thank you for the reviews…and guesses to the story line!

Read on…

Severus sat behind the huge table in their bedroom. He wasn't writing anything and he wasn't reading anything. He sat there watching his wife sleep.

Ever since she had fallen pregnant she has sleep twice as many hours than she was awake!

It amazed him; she would sleep for 4 hours be awake for 2 then need to sleep again.

Not that he was really complaining, it meant that he could look at her without being interrupted.

He had nipped down stairs to tell his mother that Hermione was sleeping and that he would come down when they were both ready. About half an hour ago she sent up a tray of food for them. His stomach was telling him he was hungry but he wanted to wait and eat with his sleeping wife.

Severus sighed and turned to look out the window. It was strange to be back in the house he had grown up in. And not a good kind of strange. When he had been down by the forest he thought it might not be so bad. It was good to see his mother again; he wished he could see her more. It was the paintings that had unsettled him. That little brat had almost said too much.

That little brat is you!

Sighing again he got to his feet and quietly left the room. There was another room that he wanted to go to. A room that he had been putting off seeing. He walked along the corridor and opens the very last door on the right.

The smell of stale air and musty books hit him hard. The dust flew around before his eyes, making him cough slightly. Sighing once more he stepped into the room.

He remembered as a child walking into this room had been like Christmas to him. Now it just seemed lonely and sad, like it had not seen love in a long time.

Books lined the walls, from floor to ceiling. The only gap being where the window was. A massive great oak table stood in the middle of the room, with matching chair. That was all the room contained.

On the table there were some papers and a pair of glasses. Severus walked slowly round the table and picked up the glasses and held them in his hands.

"I knew it wouldn't be long before you came in here."

Severus's head snapped up to see his mother looking at him. The normally bright face now looked old and lonely.

He nodded in reply and put the glasses gently down on the table.

"You miss him still?" she asked.

He nodded again.

"Me too, son, me too." She walked further into the room and stood by the window. He didn't need to stand by it to know the view off by heart. It looked down on to his mothers rose gardens. It faced that way so that his father could watch his mother pot about when he was working. He said it made him feel closer to her.

It was silly, as a child he had thought it a load of rubbish, but now he had a women in his life, a women he was still trying to figure out his feelings for, he understood.

"She's muggle born isn't she?" his mother asked, making him tense up. "I may not be as sane as I use to be but I'm not blind nor deaf."

"I had no choice." He said.

"There is always a choice." Rosemary said in a saddened tone.

Had there been a choice this time? He could have tried harder to find someone else. He could have even not turn up at her house. If he had done that then the curse that they were put under would not have been put on.

It was no good thinking like this! He did what he did and now it was done! And if he was honest with himself he was content, close to happy but not quite there. None the less it was the closest he had been since he was a child.

"Your right but I don't regret mine." He said evenly.

Rosemary spun around to look at her son.

"I married a muggle, your father, and I don't regret it but do you see him here talking to you now!" she snapped.

Severus winced.

"Mum…" he started to say.

"Don't mum me!" she walked right up to her son and poked him in the chest. "You promise me you would not marry a muggle born…a muggle anything!"

"Mum…"

"You have to end it."

At that Severus stood tall. "I will not."

Rosemary glared at her son.

"You will do as I tell you." She whispered in a deadly voice. "I will not have her in my family; I will not have her bring a child into this world."

Severus glared at his mother.

"And what does that mean?"

"It means, I don't care how you do it but you will get rid of that baby she is carrying?"

Severus could not believe this. His mother was treating him like a child. His mother wanted him to get rid of his own child. He knew people thought he was heartless but his on mother thought he could do something like that!

"I will not." He growled back. "I will be there when my baby comes into the world. I will be there when it takes its first steps and I will be there when ever it needs me. I will be there with Hermione whenever she needs me and for as long as she needs me. I will be a good father to my child. It is just a shame that it will never get to know his Grandmother!"

Severus turned to leave the room but found Hermione standing in the door way. Tear tracks down her cheeks.

"Do you mean that?" she whispered.

"I wouldn't have said it if I hadn't meant it!" Severus snapped without really meaning too.

Hermione's chin tilted up and she walked it to the room. She stood by his side and said to his mother.

"I thought you were different but you're just the same as everyone else." With that she took his hand and they left the room to get there stuff.


Rosemary stood at her husbands study window and watched her child and his wife leave.

He may think that she is a horrible person and his wife may hate her, but she was doing what she thought was right. Did they really think that everybody was going to be happy at the match they made? Happy that they were going to bring a child into the world that was not pure-blooded! Well more fool them.

She had been down that road. Had married a muggle, wanted people to see him the way she did. But they would not and it had slowly killed him. His life was taken from him by her brother.

She was just trying to do the right thing for her child. If that meant making him see what a mistake he was making then so be it.

She watched as Severus wrapped his arms around his young wife and her snuggle closer. He may not know it yet but she had a feeling that he may have fallen in love with her.

It's such a shame…they make such a lovely couple after all.

Okay that's another chapter done folks! I hope u liked! Well review and let me know what you think.

Oh and I will say this again because I just can't stop myself…HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL!

HC