-1Severus watched as figures, of what he know knew were his unborn children, moved in the frames. Then he conjured a bedside table, and placed the pictures on the table. He put them facing the wall, and he explained to Hermione's undoubtedly raised eyebrow.

"I don't want them seeing what mommy and daddy are going to be doing."

"And what would that be?" She said as he turned back to her.

"Exploring." Snape said only a fraction of a second before he grabbed her and yanked her onto the bed. It startled her, but she knew he wouldn't hurt her.

She ended laying flat on her back with Severus above her. Trailing fingers down collarbones and scraping thumbnails down breasts. The sensory input was a little too much for Hermione. She put her hand up, "It's my turn." She pushed on his shoulder, and he laid down. Somewhere in the midst of everything his clothing had left his body, while she was still fully clothed. So he laid pale, nude, and perfect, on the black silk. She straddled him, and she felt the passion that was already there, he was hard and firm against her panties. She leaned forward and kissed down his chest. Using hands teeth and fingers she explored and probed every part of his upper body, except his nipple. She leaned forward once more, and this time took one of the pink nubs into her mouth. She loved the taste of him. She realized his skin had blue undertones, not the green that she was used to. She also realized they were standing out, a lot more now. He raised his arms, and she saw what he was meaning to do. She helped him take off her lingerie gown, and she was left in her underwear. Her breasts were now free, and they were quite bigger than he remembered them. She sat above him, and as soon as he touched one of her dark nubs blue undertones to match his own sprang from her skin. Her eyes glowed like amber fire, and her hair whipped around her face. Then he saw the night sky above her, and something hard underneath him.

He was lying in his garden and the only change was Hermione was now nude, and she was crowned with a wreath of roses and lilies. Blue and black roses, and white and orange lilies. She moved above him, and she plunged him into herself. The movement brought a moan from Hermione, and Severus was brought up off the floor as if a giant hand picked his upper body up. Hermione reared off of him then plunge back down, then she started to have a rhythm He started moving with her slow pace, and he brought her, but he was not done. He brought her twice more before he let his seed spill. They came in unison, and then the night around them was obliterated by the bluish light that emanated from their bodies. They glowed as if they both swallowed stars, and they were blinded by each others lights. Finally when their magic dies down, they both ay in heaps on black silk sheets. Hermione was already half asleep, and he cuddled with her. Before he knew it he was asleep.

The next day passed as a blur with Hermione's engagement ring safely tucked away underneath her new robes. Everything was so busy, and with the revelation of twins, Hermione realized that the wedding had to be pushed up. They would tell everyone at the newly invented Halloween ball, and have the ceremony by Thanksgiving. The hardest part was that she was going to have to tell Harry, Ron, Ginny, and her parents. She decided they should be told tonight, so as soon as they were done the feast. It was twenty minutes before they got there and Severus was telling her she would be fine. All the teachers were looking at Severus like he was growing two heads, he didn't notice.

Then, a minute before everyone arrived, They all took a seat at the staff table. Her nerves were arching to the point where Madam Promfrey had given the go ahead on a double nausea potion, just to get her through the feast. As the first students arrived in the great hall three stopped and stared at her, she promised an explanation with a look, and they sat down. She understood their raised eyebrows, (if you could call them that, their eyebrows nearly jumped off of their faces) She was not only sitting at the staff table, but sitting next to the one and only hated professor Snape. She noted Ginny had gained weight over the summer, and looked very pale, Harry looked morbid, and Ron was oblivious.

The feast and sorting passed in a blur, she was announced as Snape's apprentice, and got weird looks from all houses. Sympathetic from Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff, outraged from Slytherin, and confused from Gryffindor. Snape did the unthinkable then, yelled at his own house.

"I want you to give the same respect to her as you do to me. In fact she will even have discipline privileges against you. Anything that say, and or do to disrespect my apprentice will go directly through her to me."

Albus had to put a hand on Severus' shoulder to get him to stop, then Severus' face went back into the cynical mask he used and he was led back to the table. As soon as he sat down she put her hand on his leg underneath the table but kept her eyes averted. She knew she would be seen using that gesture, but she would be seen if she blatantly looked at him. The feast was concluded, and she caught her friends right before they walked out the door.

"Can I talk to you?"

"We were going to just wait for you in the common room, but yeah, where do you want

to go?"

"My chambers. Meet me there in an hour and a half?"

"You know we will. Where exactly are 'Your Chambers' Hermione?"

"Snape's chambers, I have my own room there." She said quickly. They nodded in agreement and split up Hermione going downstairs, Harry, Ron, and Ginny going up.

Hermione was stopped by a group of Slytherins right outside the entrance to her chambers.
"Snape thinks we're going to have a mud blood as a teacher. We'll show you respect alright." They hurried her into their common room, and upstairs to the prefect area. Malfoy was sneering at her, and dismissed the other slytherins with a few words and a wave. "They can have you when I'm done." He said as she was scrambling backward. He muttered a spell, and ropes bound her wrists.

"Apparently, mud blood, I must have overlooked something with you. But, if you're good enough for Severus Snape, you're good enough for me." he said as he got closer, but saw the great displeasure in his face. He seemed to notice what she was doing, scanning him for emotions, and licked the side of her neck. Her wrists were bound and were not able to move. He ripped open her robes, and saw the tattoo. Her power flared, but was not enough to dissuade him. She had taken a potion to limit her powers, being pregnant had not helped her control. He dug his elbow into her stomach as he leaned on her, and a searing pain went through her body. Her breasts sprung free as he ripped the fabric of her bra. Her veins glowed blue, and she was at her desperation point as Draco with an irrationally disgusted face had managed to get down to her panties, and was about to rip them off as Severus stormed in.

He flew on him, Tackling him and rolling them off of her. He had enough sense to release her wrists but that was all. He beat Malfoy. Punches, kicks, slashes, hexes. It never seemed to be enough. When Hermione got her robes closed, she looked over, and saw Severus beating Malfoy like there was a time limit. When Severus pointed his wand at him, and muttered Avada Ke… He only got that far, as Hermione had muttered Expelliarmus.

She ran over to him, as he tried to pick up his wand. "He's not worth it. I know. But he's scum, he's not worth an Azkaban sentence." She then realized her three friends were standing in the doorway. Harry muttered, "Come get us when you're done." Then they were gone, he looked angry, even his walk had an outraged lilt to it.. Severus picked Malfoy up by the collar, and Hermione led the way to Dumbledore's, office. Snape threw Malfoy down as soon as then entered the doors. Minerva and Albus just stared at them.

"He tried to rape a student... A faculty member." His nostrils were flaring and his eyes held such hatred.

"Dare I ask who?" Albus said grim.

"My… Miss Granger." he had almost said fiancé.

It was then that Hermione stepped into the room from the shadows. Snape was covered in blood as was Malfoy, but it was Hermione that was bleeding fresh.. She had blood streaming down her thighs, and she was quickly paling, she was hoping she had gotten cut, slashed even, she didn't want to loose the babies. Minerva saw a drop of blood hit her shoe, and she knew Hermione did not want to worry Severus.

"I'm taking her to Madam Promfrey. Severus you stay here. Albus, deal with this." She said in a hiss, as she rushed over to Hermione, and drug her out of the headmasters office. She grabbed two small items out of her pockets as soon as she left the office, and made them bigger. Then she breathed a sigh of relief. She handed the two items to Hermione.

"They're both fine." She said. Hermione looked at the pictures, and there sat wriggling in their frames, the pictures of her children. Hermione let out a breath she hadn't known she was holding. Then they walked together to the hospital wing.

"This level of physical exertion would have caused you to miscarry alone. You were injured directly on that spot, and you were bleeding, but it stopped. The babies are moving around merrily, like nothings happened. Someone is looking out for you my dear. But, you must take it easy over the next few days. You may continue to take double your regular dose of nausea potion, I don't want you using your stomach muscles too much. No lifting, at all, and rest as much as possible. Sit down during lessons et cetera."
"I will, thank you. I'm going down to the dungeons, may I use your floo?"
"Yes."

Hermione flooed down to the dungeons, then sat down on a couch. She realized a coin was there from her year in the D.A. She scrambled the numbers hoping that they were not asleep, and after about three moments she heard a knock at the door, then Harry's voice, talking to Ginny. She disarmed the wards, and they came inside. She was sitting in the couch with her feet propped up on the coffee table with a pillow. She knew she looked pale, and she didn't care.

"Are you alright?" Ron finally said.
"Yes." she said, and even to herself she sounded exhausted.
"We saw what happened. When Severus went in there we were trying to get in. We saw what was happening. The door was bewitched to show everything in it as if it were made of glass though we couldn't get through." Ron's and Harry's eyes both blazed like you put fire behind it. Ginny looked psychotic.
"We wanted to kill him." Ginny said, and her voice was thick with rage.
"Severus almost did."
"Severus?"
"I have to tell you guys something." Hermione said looking down.
"Does it have anything to do with the ring on that necklace?" She'd forgotten she had changed into the green nightgown, and robe Severus had given her. It had a low neckline, and you could see the chain.
"Yes I'm getting married." She said still looking down.
"To whom?" Their faces all changed from anger to confusion. She didn't want to tell them, but she knew she had to.
"To Severus." she whispered. Ginny's face went soft, Harry's face went blank, but Ron's face went back to anger. Then he stormed out of the room.
"I'm your friend, I don't have to approve, but I'll be there." Harry said.
"That's all I can ask. I'm actually surprised you didn't storm off like Ron."
"Don't worry about him, he'll come around, he's had a crush on you forever. And, you know what, I might have stormed off if I hadn't seen what happened in Malfoy's room."
"What do you mean?" Hermione said with genuine confusion.
"I mean I've never seen Snape that angry, he practically killed Malfoy because of what he did to you. Even with that I would have beat him up, but he went off the handle. Malfoy didn't hurt you, he was about to. But you left without a scratch, and Snape was about to use a killing curse on him. Not that it wasn't totally justified but…"
"Well, there's more… I'm pregnant."
That left Harry shocked, but Ginny's reaction was a puzzling one. She actually buried her face in her hands and started to cry. Harry put an arm around her, and Hermione raised her eyebrow.
"I'm pregnant, or I was. I got on the train and I started bleeding." Ginny said almost incoherent through her tears.
"I'm sorry Ginny. Are you sure you lost it? I mean I was bleeding and I didn't lose them. Hold on… Come here." Ginny went over to Hermione hope flickering under her surface. Hermione conjured paste that Minerva had given her after she used it on Hermione. She used it on Ginny, and performed the same spell Minerva had used. A picture of a wriggling baby about five weeks older than her own, with a heartbeat that was slowly fading.

She looked at Harry, "Go get Severus. Now!" She said, her maternal instincts flushing the emotion out of her voice. She propped Ginny's feet up on the coffee table and then got up, and got out a cauldron. Severus and Harry ran into the room. "I need you to brew an anti-abortion potion right now. It's not for me it's for her." Severus looked at Ginny, then nodded. Harry went back to Ginny, as Severus and Hermione went into the lab and started brewing. Snape quickly took everything from Hermione and made her sit. His only explanation was "I talked to Poppy." The whole potion was done in twenty minutes. Then ten minutes to cool, Hermione clutched the picture in her hand, and she was staring at it. The heartbeat was thread-y, but it was still there. Snape ran into the other room with the potion, and Hermione wasn't far behind him. She watched as Ginny gulped down all the potion, and as the heartbeat got stronger, and the thing was freely moving.
"Do you want to know if it's a boy or girl?" Hermione asked.
"Yes." They said in unison.
"It's a boy." Hermione said as she handed them the frame. They both looked at it with absolute happiness and Ginny began to cry again.
"I'm sorry, it's these stupid hormones."
"My backs killing me."
"Is this our time to chime in about the hormones? Ginny's have been murder, trying to keep them under wraps when at her mothers house. Muggles should find a way to bottle hormones and put them in their furnaces. She ran from cold to hot in two seconds flat." Ginny glared but then realized as Snape laughed, that they were bonding. Hermione just sat there with her mouth agape.

"Hermione, what are you having?" Harry said after a moment.
"Both, we're having twins." She smiled.
"Oh Snape, I pity you. Later in the pregnancy, she'll be a riot."
Snape laughed. "You mean it gets worse? " He twisted his face into mock horror. Then said, "Actually the only thing that's been bad is her 'morning sickness' as muggles call it. But, even that has been tolerable for me."
"You're lucky then, Ginny threw up on her dad, and then yelled at him about it. While it was funny, it almost outed us right there."
Snape laughed again, and Hermione realized neither of them were 'faking' it. Snapes voice brought Hermione out of her trance. "Would you mind if I stole Harry away for a little while?"
"Not at all." Ginny said with a flourish of hands.

The next moment they were gone, after Severus gave Hermione a quick peck on the cheek.
"Are you two going to get married?"
"Yes, as soon as I start showing. We're going to pick out a ring next week. I wanted to ask you if you knew of the sensitivity charm?"
"No, what's that?" Hermione said scrunching up her face.
"It lets you feel the baby."
"No I haven't heard of it."
"Here, give me your hand, Sensitivilus. Now put it to your stomach." Hermione did as she was told, and she felt the most amazing fluttering sensations.
"It wears off in twenty four hours." Ginny said.

"Thank you." Hermione said blinking back tears. "Now this is hormones. Have you noticed, Severus and Harry are actually getting along?"

"Yeah, I thought that was weird too, but you two saved our baby. Our family, and Harry hasn't ever had one. That gained Snape a lot of respect. Harry wanted this child. I wanted a baby with him, but not right now. Not while I'm still in school. I mean I am officially considered an adult, but this is my last year." At Hermione's raised eyebrow. "I used a time turner over the summer, and completed a grade year. So that when Harry leaves, I will also."
"Wow, Ginny, congratulations. I'm hungry." she started to giggle.
"That was really random, but I'm hungry too. What do you want?"
"I want mashed potatoes, and chicken, and Jello."
"Yeah that sounds good." Hermione clapped and a house elf appeared. She ordered what they wanted and a couple minutes later the food had been served. On their laps of course, and they ate.

Severus had asked Harry a favor, and he readily accepted. Then Harry broke down, it was odd. Severus was doing this for Hermione, but, he found he genuinely enjoyed having someone to make jokes with. He would keep this up, for Hermione of course. When they arrived back Ginny was asleep on the first sofa, and Hermione was gazing into the fire. She blinked at them.

"You've been gone a long time." Hermione informed them voice thick with tiredness.
"We had much to discuss. Harry, I think you and your little lamb may sleep in my extra bedchambers tonight. She needs to keep off her feet as much as possible. Hermione and I are going to retire."
"Sir… I don't want to ask this, but… Would you be able to carry her? I can't and I don't think it wise to use magic on her right now." without a word Severus went over to Ginny and picked her up. He brought her to the extra bedroom, and laid her down on the bed. Harry said a quick "Thank you" then he was gone also. Hermione was still on the couch, and startled a little bit as Severus picked her up. He kissed her forehead, and brought her to their bedroom. He showered and dressed. When he came back Hermione was still awake, though barely. When he snuggled up against her she grabbed his hand and her wand. She did something and then placed his hand on her stomach. He felt feather light sensations and sat for a moment in awe. Then he noticed Hermione's breathing had changed. He fell asleep never removing his hand from her stomach, still feeling the movements.