Aali's notes: I hope you all enjoyed the previous two chapters, I'll get back to you all in reply's when i get a chance. However I'd like to thank Kare for beta'ing this chapter for me, for she is a great beta, and I'd never have been able to post these stories wihtout her help. Kare you are the greatest, don't let anyone tell you otherwise!

The next morning, Hermione Granger woke up to a screaming baby boy. She got up and went over to his cradle, picking him up so she could feed him. She started to feed him. After 10 minutes, he started to drift back to sleep. As soon as she put him back down, there was a knock on the door. She waved her wand to see who it was. Albus Dumbledore, 'What is he doing here?' She thought to herself. But, not wanting to be rude, she went downstairs to let him in. "Headmaster, what are you doing here?" She asked before letting him in the door.

"I'm here to talk to you about Severus again." As soon as this was said, Hermione began to close the door. Albus stuck his foot in between the frame and the door. "Hermione please, I'm not here to convince you to go tell Severus about his son. I'm not. But I do need you to let me in, because I found something out yesterday, which I believe only you can answer." The look on the headmasters face was not a face you could easily deny. Reluctantly, Hermione opened the door to let him in. "Thank you Hermione."

"Headmaster, what is it you need answered," she asked in a cold voice "because I don't have much time. I didn't get much sleep last night. Christopher didn't want to go to sleep, which means I didn't sleep either. I am extremely tired." She yawned. It wasn't a complete lie. Christopher was a little crabby, and hadn't wanted to sleep. As a result she didn't get much sleep, but she wasn't extremely tired because of it.

"It will only take a few minutes Hermione. If I may?" He gestured to the couch. She nodded and went to sit down on the chair opposite the couch. "Hermione, please let me explain without interruption. There is a lot that I need to tell you, and afterwards I will answer any questions you may have." She nodded, and he continued. "Since you left Hogwarts, Severus has become a complete wreck. He doesn't eat with the staff; he doesn't allow anyone to come near him, except for me. He won't even patrol the halls like he usually does. We both know he likes to patrol at night, in hopes of catching students out of bed." She nodded at this, remember how he used to sneak up on her, and pretend she was a student out of bed. She then sighed, and waiting for him to continue.

"Well, ever since this depressive state has started, I've made it a necessity to check up on him once a week. To see if I can do anything to help his depression. Now ,every week since I started, he has refused my help, and never given me any answers. Until last night. He showed me a letter that you wrote to him. When I read it, it didn't make any sense, especially with what you had told me previously. I need you to answer me this one question. What did you mean when you wrote? 'The only thing I know for sure is that you didn't care for me' Because from what I, can tell he cares for you immensely. Otherwise, why would he have been upset at you leaving?" He gave the letter that he had on him to Hermione. Her face had become extremely pale, very quickly. She got up and walked over to the bookshelf in the sitting room. She started shuffling papers around, and then gasped. A look of pure dread washed over her face. She turned around to look at the headmaster, wondering where he had gotten this letter.

"How…Who…" She was so shocked, she collapsed. Albus using the quick reflexes he had obtained throughout the years, to catch her and stop her from falling. But it was too late; she was unconscious.

It was about an hour later when Hermione finally woke up. Albus was sitting in the chair looking at her on the couch, with a little baby squirming in his arms. "Hermione, he won't stop. I think he needs to be fed." Hermione looked at him for a second trying to gather her thoughts.

"What happened…All I remember is, you talking about Severus and…"

"I believe you were shocked to find that I had this letter you wrote to him." Hermione picked up the letter and re-read it. She started to sob, and covered her eyes with her hand, hoping not to let Albus Dumbledore see her crying. "Hermione?"

"How did he get this…" she muttered to herself. She stared at the piece of parchment. "I never sent it to him. How did he get it?" Albus looked at her, and went to sit down on the couch were she was currently at.

"You never sent this?" he asked. She shook her head. "But you wrote it?" She nodded once again, not trusting that if she spoke they would be the right words. "Why?"

"I did write it. We had a fight. It was about our relationship and he didn't want to talk about it. He claimed there was nothing to talk about. That there wasn't a relationship between us. I couldn't take it. I found out I was pregnant a week prior. So when he said we had nothing, I couldn't take it." She sobbed out, trying to gain control of her emotions. "I left a few days later, as you well know. He doesn't want children, he didn't want me. I wrote the letter because I was upset. I never meant for him to see it."

"Hermione, whether you meant for him to see it or not, he has seen it and it is hurting him. Now I don't know what he is thinking, because he has not opened up to anyone since your departure. But he does care about you."

"How do you know Albus? How do you know he isn't depressed for another reason? He could be upset because of something else. You know he bottles up all of his emotions, and then releases them in one fell swoop. It could be about something else." Even as she said it, she knew that Dumbledore didn't believe this at all; the way he looked at her told her that much

"Hermione, you know very well that he wouldn't be like this for many other reasons. Having the woman that he loves leave, not telling him why, and then getting this letter that calls him uncaring, and having a cold heart, is definitely one of those reasons. He cares about you Hermione. Don't shut him out."

"Albus, he doesn't care about me. If he did, he would have tried to find me." She got up and picked her up her son. She went into the kitchen, leaving Albus alone. She grabbed a bottle and cast a warming spell to make the bottle warmer. She began to feed her child. He then walked into the kitchen and looked at her feeding her son. She was a natural mother. He knew this, he just wondered if Severus was a natural father. He will be, he reassured himself, as he left the house.