Ch.16 Baby talk
The begining of March meant that Harry was only another month away from becoming a full-time Auror, today, though, was his day off from training and he decided to sleep in.
This would normally be a difficult task since Renee always blasts music in the morning but this morning was different. There was no early morning music blaring throughout the house, waking the entire neighborhood, the usual smell of coffee wafting through the house was missing as well.
Harry momentarily thought that either Renee wasn't home or he had really slept in, but the sounds of voices in the kitchen and the numbers on the clock told him that it was only ten in the morning and Renee was infact home.
Rolling out of bed, he grabbed a pair of jeans then headed out for the bathroom to have a quick shower and change before joining Renee and from the voices he recognized Laina and Camron.
Not paying too much attention, since he was still sleepy, he wasn't fully awake until after his shower and while he was putting his clothes on he noticed an odd little stick thing by the sink. Since he wasn't really sure what it was he ignored it then headed out to the kitchen where he was greeted by the anxious faces of Renee, Laina and Cam.
"Good morning!" Cam was beaming for some reason, Renee sat curled up in a chair, her eyes darting to the clock every now and again.
"What's going on?" Harry couldn't help but ask, Laina beamed now "Renee's just a little nervous about something...", Harry looked over to see Renee looking from the clock to the hallway. Cam was practically bouncing in her seat "I hope it's blue!" she giggled, Harry raised an eyebrow "Blue? You mean that thing in the bathroom with the blue line on it?".
Cam stopped bouncing imediately, Laina slowly turned towards Renee whose eyes widened to the size of dinner plates as she shrieked "It turned blue?".
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Severus was idly checking papers, he had one more class that day and then after garding their work he'd be able to see Renee. His flee from Hogwarts was delayed though because Dumbledore wanted to speak with him about something, he had a feeling that Tonks and Lupin had opened their big mouths about the incident at the park. He sighed deeply and made his way to the Headmaster's office, spoke the 'candy code' to the gargoyle to let him in and from the look on Dumbledore's face...yeah, he knew.
"Severus, please do sit down" the usual twinkle was in the old wizards eyes as he guestured to the chair across from his desk. He waited for the younger man to sit down before smiling knowingly "So, I hear that Miss Renee has shown some...unusual power for just a mere muggle, am I right?".
Severus didn't respond, he knew that Albus knew and there was no point in trying to lie about what happened, so he just sat there with his arms crossed and his eyes narrowed. "What did you really call me in here for?" he asked flatly, Dumbledore slowly nodded his head "Alright, alright...enough teasing, I'll just get to the point", 'Well, this is new' Severus sarcastically mused in his thoughts.
"There are quite a few coinsidences that would point the finger to Renee possibly being Cecelia...whether she is or not I can not tell from just stories..." Dumbledore straightened in his seat.
"I was thinking that I and a few Order members should...meet Miss Renee and do a discreet interogation..." he paused to see Snape's reaction...which wasn't pleasent.
"Interogation? You're acting as if she's some criminal! And discreet? If I know you as well as I think I do, one of the other Order members you'll bring with you is Moody and that man is NOT Discreet!" the black haired man was quite angry.
"Please, calm down Severus...if Moody is all you're worried about I will not bring him...", "That is not the point!" Severus snapped back.
Dumbledore sighed deeply "There is...another thing to address here..." he now leaned forward on his desk the knwoing smile back on his face.
"I think that she should know the truth about you...after all, you know many of her secrets, it's not fair to keep such a secret as you being a wizard from her...", Severus opened his mouth to argue but apparently Albus wasn't finished.
"Of course, I only say this since you're planning on marrying her..." a sound almost like a giggle escaped the old wizards lips, shutting up Severus quickly, the black haired man's eyes wide now.
"What, have you being spying on me? How the bloody hell did you know about that?" Severus gasped 'Is nothing private in my life anymore?'.
"You should know, Severus...I am friends with just about everyone...especially those who work in Diagon Alley...like, say, the Gem-smith who made the beautiful ring you'll be giving to Miss Renee" the smile and eye twinkle came all at once.
Severus scowled at the old wizard "So, in other words...you were spying on me!", Dumbledore simply started chuckling, making Severus grow angrier. He stood up and started to stormed out of the room when Dumbledore called back out to him "Severus, I'm sorry...but it is important that she knows...".
Severus lowered his head, knowing that it was true "I know...I'll tell her...", "Good" Dumbledore brightened "Now, I suggest you get rid of that scowl before popping the big question to her!", Severus growled angrily and slammed the door shut behind him as he heard Dumbledore start to laugh again.
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If Harry wasn't awake from his shower, he was definately awake now "Blue means you're...so that was a...", "I'm going to be an Aunt!" Laina squealed and hugged Renee tightly.
Dart entered the room and started runing around barking until Cam grabbed him by his front paws and started dancing around with him cheering "Aunt Renee's pregnant! Aunt Renee's pregnant!".
Renee burst into a nervous laugh "I'm Pregnant...oh my freakin' gawd, I'm pregnant!", "Time to celebrate!" Laina declaired "C'mon, we're all going out to eat!".
After their lunch celebration filled with excited chatter about Renee's pregnancy and planning for a baby shower and how Renee needs to tell Severus as soon as she sees him. Cam and Laina went back home and Harry took Dart out for a walk, which was around the time Severus showed up at the house looking anxious himself.
"I have to tell you something!" Renee hugged him tightly, Severus swallowed a lump in his throat before taking her by the shoulders "Wait, I have to tell you something...". Renee's heart sank a little, the tone of Severus' voice gave her the feeling of bad news as he led her to the kitchen to sit down for whatever he had to tell her.
"Now...we've known each other for almost a year now, right?", it wasn't a question but Renee nodded anyways in hopes to get him to hurry up with whatever he wanted to say.
"And I know so much about you now...and we're not keeping secrets from each other...well...I..." Severus couldn't find a way in his mind to say this delicately, it didn't help that Renee looked extremely worried.
"I'm not a teacher at Clifton High School...I teach at...Hogwarts...school of witchcraft and wizardry, beacsue...I'm a wizard..." He lamely stated, no longer looking at her.
Renee just sat there blinking for a few minutes before finding her voice "A wizard, how, exactly?" she sounded a little disbelieving, almost amused even. "A wizard like..." he took out his wand and aimed it at the coffee pot "...this..." he finished and quickly said a spelled that got the coffee pot started up, brewing a fresh pot of the hot drink.
Renee sat there blinking again, Severus mentally cursed himself 'That was the smallest attempt I could've picked to show her and because of...of coffee, she's going to leave me. Just bloody buggery great!'.
"So..." Renee's voice was barely audible "...you can do...magic?", Severus took in a deep breath "Yes...", she slowly nodded her head, her eyes never leaving the coffee pot. "Is this...party magician magic or...is this pagan, wicca whatchamacallit magic?" Renee's voice held a hint of amusement in it when she asked.
Severus eyed her for a second "It's...well...its just...magic...I'm not really sure there's a simple way to answer that...", "Then explain it to me...please...". She looked up at him "If this is something that's...apart of your life...I want to at least understand it...".
A sigh of relief escaped his lips, he then sat down and startedto explainall about the wizarding world to her, and when Harry came back home he reluctantly joined in the explaination, which then Renee learned that he too was a wizard.
Severus spent the night that night, Renee kept asking all sorts of questions, some were serious questions but she didn't hold back from asking joke questions. This sort of thing normally irritated Severus, but he didn't mind it when Renee was asking these questions, he was...actually quite content with her reaction and questions.
That morning, Severus woke up first, he discreetly slid off the bed ot rummage in his discarded coats pocket before climbing back into the bed and waking Renee up. "Mnn, five more minutes..." she mumbled and went to roll over but he held her shoulder gently "I will not hesitate to rip the covers off, you know?" he chuckled at the slight pout Renee gave him. She sqeezed her eyes shut before opening them wide then squinting at the bright sunlight that seemed to have poured into her room without her knowledge "I'm awake..." she sleepily smiled.
Severus took her left hand and pulled out a line of golden thread then tied one end of the thread to her ring finger, Renee's heavily lidded eyes stared dumbly at the stringed finger.
"Have you ever heard the tale that states that every individual is connected to their soul-mate by a simply thread? They say that every one person has another one person at the end of their string..." Severus idly chattered away.
"Well...I believed that I had found my one person at the end of my string...but then that string was cut and I was left with no other one person...no soul-mate...", Renee knew who he was talking about, Severus had told her about Cecelia.
"But then...I felt a little tug on that string...and there you were...and I realized that it's not who was at the end of your string thats your soul-mate, but who is at the end..." he then tied the end of the string to his own ring finger, but there was something else on the end of that string that caught Renee's eyes.
A beautiful diamond ring slid from his end of the string to Renee's ring finger, her eye sight was not the best but she could see it was a diamond ring...from him...on her finger!
"I believe, what I am truely trying to say is..." Severus swallowed hard, there was no turning back now "Will you marry me?".
Renee's wide eyes were looking down at the ring, trying to focus, but what did that matter anymore? She had a question to answer! "Yes! Yes! Yes!" she started shouting then lunged at Severus, hugging him tightly.
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"Yes! Yes! Yes!", they heard her shouts from down the hallway, Laina and Camron were over again, wanting to know how Severus took to the baby news.
"From the sounds of it...I'd say he took the news rather well..." Camron snickered, "Are they always this loud? I feel sorry for you, dear" Laina nudged Harry as he snickered as well.
The sound of quick footsteps then Renee bursting into the kitchen caught them all off-guard, "That is one extremely long penis..." Laina joked, causing Cam and Harry to nearly choke on their laughter.
Renee tilted her head in confusion for a second before bounding over to them "Look!" she held her hand out, the string was gone now but the gorgeous ring was displaying nicely.
"Oh my gawd!" Laina grabbed Renee's hand "Two bits of wonderful news in two days!", "First you're pregnant, now you're engaged!" Cam sighed dreamily.
"P-pregnant?" Severus choked at the doorway to the kitchen, Renee froze and her eyes widened, "You didn't tell him?" Laina gasped.
Renee turned to Severus then to Laina "I...I guess I was so distracted by everything that's happened lately that I...I forgot to tell him...".
"With what all that happened?" Camron asked, "Oh, well Severus and Harry are wizards" Renee blurted, now it was Harry and Snape's turn to go wide-eyed, "I...wasn't suposed to tell, was I?".
Sorry if it seems kinda rushed...I'm just sticking to what's important in the story now...this fic is almost over, can you believe it? I don't wanna end it:cries: my baby :huggles fic: anywho...please review, and thank you for reading!
