Chapter 10: Small Wonders Never Cease

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The Bedroom, The Sinclair Residence, Unknown World...

Severus Snape let out a contented sigh as he entered the bedroom of the Sinclair residence led by Hermione whom seemed of the mind to make it her business to ensure that he got to bed ensuring he was kept in accordance with Remus Lupin's medical diagnosis. He had been considering all that happened since his awakening and subsequent visit to his apparent best friend's office. Hermione seemed on the verge of tears the longer she had time to process all that she had been told in accordance with his health.

"I'm so sorry." she said finally breaking the rather uneasy silence that had fallen between them once they closed the door shutting themselves off from the rest of the world.

"You have nothing to apologize for." said Snape with a sigh as he made his way toward the bed. Some how it seemed more inviting than he ever could have imagined as he began to feel the weight of exhaustion upon him.

Sitting on the end where he often found himself awakening, he took off his boots and threw them into a nearby corner. Hermione helped him out of his jacket and shirt putting everything away in a neat manner before turning her attention back to the shirtless man whom had set about stripping down to his trousers.

"Before when I was yelling at you..."she began.

"Hermione...let it go." he replied knowing all too well that her transgressions in terms of their forced relationship had been far less than his own.

She nodded in agreement noting that now had not been the best time given he was ordered to keep his stress level down and get some much needed rest. Once she had finished making everything tidy again, she quickly climbed into bed right along with her husband wishing to sit with him at least until he fell asleep before heading back downstairs to deal with the rest of the family.

"I love you." she said meaningfully as she stroked his cheek. "Despite the frequent number of rows we've had recently...I often wonder if you know how much."

Snape said nothing simply choosing to smile and run his fingers through her unruly brown hair knowing all too well that he could not give her what she had truly been looking for due to being incapable.

"I know." he said finally breaking his silence before closing his eyes following a minor onset of pain.

Hermione sighed contenting herself to resting her head on her husband's chest as she listened to his heart beat and subsequent breathing. She worried for him perhaps a bit more than most women worried for their husbands due to their history. He had been the first man she had ever loved despite not truly seeing her affections for him until he was at his lowest point with no one able to pull him back from the brink of self destruction aside from her.

Yet despite her efforts she couldn't seem to shake the horrible feeling that she was indeed losing the man whom had meant so much to her. Snape found himself unable to stay awoke as he drifted off into a contented slumber as the notion of concern continued to cause his apparent wife to obsess over him.

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The Next Morning...

Snape found himself once more awakening in the strange bedroom back at the Sinclair residence and rolled his eyes. The endless nightmare of having to live another's life had been still very much in effect it seemed as he stretched for a time only to find that he had not been sharing the bed alone. His eyes widened as he pulled back the covers to note a certain small girl with the most unruly raven hair curled up into a ball asleep beside him.

There had been no sign of Hermione and his initial terror at having to awaken with the most persistent child he had ever known since Granger herself had been at the forefront of his mind.

"Just what do you think you are doing?" he asked in annoyance at having his slumber cut short via finding Eileen in bed with him.

She looked up at him with an innocent yet sleepy face and immediately rested her head against his chest as if his annoyance meant little to her. Snape rolled his eyes finding himself amused by her gall of all things.

"You're funny Daddy." she said in her rather small voice. "Now stop hogging the covers."

She pulled them back over her small body covering her pink pajamas and closed her eyes.

Before Snape could comment, Hermione had come into the room smiling as she watched them.

"You two were always so inseparable." said Hermione with a sigh before moving back toward the bed and slipping back beneath the covers. "I think she took what happened a lot harder than we initially believed."

Snape had still been at a loss for words as she skillfully leaned toward him kissing his pale lips before ruffling her slumbering daughter's hair.

"She's just as stubborn as you are." she said fondly. "I can't count how many times you two have teamed up to give me grief since the day she was born."

The Potions Master thought it strange that his apparent partner in crime during this strange ordeal was a little girl of all things.

"So due to her concern you allowed her to join us?" he asked with an arched brow.

Hermione shook her head.

"Don't give me that look, you've been scheming to give her her way for years...the one time I do it you revert to being a git." she said in annoyance before catching herself. She had almost forgotten that her husband's memories were not as prominent as hers. "I'm sorry I keep forgetting about your amnesia."

Snape sighed.

He supposed if he were going to need an excuse for not knowing about any of the people around him that was as good as he was going to get. Of course it now came with everyone going out of their way to walk on egg shells around him or tell him things he had not wished to know to begin with.

"You know it's hard to believe she's this big...let alone that her birthday is next month." said Hermione looking rather fondly upon her sleeping daughter.

"Next month?" asked the rather clueless wizard. "W-When?"

"January 30th of course." said Hermione taking into account that her husband's memory wasn't what it use to be. "She's still obsessed with both your birthdays being in the same month."

"Of course." said Snape noting all too well that the little girl whom had been the namesake of his mother also shared Lily Evans' day of birth.

It was clear that the Enchantress had not been without her sense of humor in the form of mild cruelty.

"I..." he began only to be silenced by his daughter awakening for the second time.

She rolled onto her back as her obsidian gaze flickered between both her parents before she curled beside her rather clueless father.

"Morning Mummy, Morning Daddy." she said once she had come to her senses.

"Good morning Sweetheart." said Hermione kissing her on top of the forehead before turning her attention back to her husband.

"Good morning." replied Snape as polite as he could manage despite his lingering annoyance in the wake of an uncomfortable situation.

"Are you feeling better Daddy?" asked Eileen sounding rather hopeful.

"I suppose having nothing to do ensures I follow the doctor's orders...so yes in a manner of speaking." he replied.

"Good." said Eileen with a rather thoughtful look on her face. "Mummy is a good nurse isn't she Daddy?"

Snapes sighed.

"That she is." he said meeting the amber eyes of the witch he had spent the better part of her life instructing in Potions-making and the like. It had been strange to note how much she had changed over the course of three years and one strange night of drinking.

"Are you two still angry at each other?" asked Eileen with an arched brow.

"No." replied Hermione turning her attention to her daughter. "Daddy and I are quite happy together, it's just that sometimes he forgets things and I have to remember that it's due to the fall."

Snape resisted the urge to roll his eyes as he climbed out of bed and headed toward the loo. If they were content to speak of him as if he had not been in the room then he was content to ignore their conversation.

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The Loo, The Sinclair Residence, Unknown World...

Snape shut and locked the door behind him taking a moment to not how considerably he seemed to have aged in this place without his wizarding blood. His graying hair and increasingly poor eyesight had been alarming when he first arrived but at the present time he simply wished it could be reversed.

With a sigh he turned his attention to relieving his aching bladder before he was immediately startled by the sudden appearance of the meddlesome Enchantress whom had turned his world upside down.

"Getting settled in are we?" she asked causing Snape to nearly leap out of his skin and inadvertently urinate along the far wall in response.

"SHIT!" he shouted noting the mess and utter embarrassment of being intruded upon.

The lion maned enchantress smiled taking note of his rather impressive physical attributes before leaning against the wall and messing about with her magical prowess. Snape rolled his eyes trying his best to finish up and tuck his cock away before there was any more to her prying.

{"Sidney are you alright in there?"} asked a rather concerned Hermione at the door.

"I'm fine." replied Snape quickly before she took it upon herself to also invade his privacy. "The floor was colder than I anticipated."

The Enchantress smirked at how easily deception came to the rather sly Slytherin wizard.

{"Are you sure?"} began Hermione still concerned.

"I believe I can manage taking a bloody piss woman." said Snape in annoyance.

"Why all the hostility...she's simply looking after your well-being?" asked the Enchantress.

"I do not require her to look after something well beyond her capabilities to restore." hissed Snape still very much annoyed despite keeping his comments low in case he was being set up once more by the strange magical woman.

"So you have been well informed." said The Enchantress sounding a bit impressed."

"I've been informed but I wouldn't say well had anything to do with it." replied Snape bitterly.

"None the less it's more than you knew about your current predicament before hand." remarked the enchantress.

"Do I even want to know why you've set me up in a world where I am destined to die?" he asked.

"As I've told you before handsome...this world is in accordance with your hearts desires." she said before stroking his pale cheek and treating him to a smile. "Everything you see before you, you asked for darling...I simply adhered to your wishes...of course how you navigate this place is entirely up to you."

Snape narrowed his eyes at her.

"Bullshit." he hissed once more reflecting his annoyance. "You are up to something and I will find out exactly what it is."

The Enchantress smirked.

"Darling...I'm counting on it." she said before taking her leave of him.

Snape finished up in the loo following having the door bombarded via annoying knocking.

He opened it to find both Hermione and Eileen standing at the door with looks of concern filed across their faces.

"Can't a man use the loo in peace?" he growled.

"You were in there for an hour and you didn't reply when we called you." said Hermione.

"You two are being ridiculous." he said making his way toward the dresser getting out what appeared to have been his attire for the day.

"Where do you think you are going?" asked Hermione not at all liking the idea of her husband waltzing about the house after being told he needed to stay in bed.

"Somewhere that doesn't involve being treated like an invalid."replied Snape hurrying to get his attire before returning to the loo to get dressed.

Hermione sighed not wishing to get into another row with her stubborn husband.

"Come along Ellie, you must be famished." she said.

"Aren't you going to stop Daddy from hurting himself?" she asked.

Hermione shook her head.

"You're father's a big boy, he should know what he can and cannot do pertaining to his condition and much to stubborn to contend with no matter the ordeal." she replied. "We'll just have to ensure everything is prepared when he realizes we were in the right and he needs to stay in bed."

Eileen looked back at the bedroom door then at her mother.

"Alright." she said said taking her mother's hand. "Hopefully Daddy doesn't get into too much trouble."

The two of them left the stubborn man given to foolish impulses and set their sights on breakfast.

Snape emerged from the loo sporting a pair of denim jeans and a gray sweater. Not an ideal choice but it was all he could find that hadn't completely bordered on ridiculous in terms of Sidney Sinclair's choice of attire.

The former wizard took it upon himself to creep down the stairs and caught sight of the car keys left on the hook near the kitchen door. He skillfully evaded Sinclair's family in order to get them before taking off into the snow pelted world contented to finally get some distance between himself and the dullard muggles that fussed over a man that no longer existed.

He commandeered a rather tasteless minivan and took off before anyone had the knowledge nor the gall to put a stop to his exploits.

Soon. he thought. Soon he'd once again be a free man far away from the crazed witch's game and the muggles that increased his annoyance.

As the minivan disappeared along the snow pelted highway The Sinclair residence got smaller and smaller in the rear view mirror.