Chapter 8

After a while no one had anything to update Ron about and it was about time for curfew, so they all decided to go to bed for the night. Hermione led everyone to the door to bid them all individual good nights. Ginny was the first up, of course.

"I am so glad I was invited here to learn about the baby and Ron." She said, hugging Hermione tightly. "I'm glad you are happy about the baby, and I am soooo excited for you both." Ginny continued with a grin on her face, not being able to keep the squeal out of her voice any longer. Hermione smiled at her.

"I'm glad that you are as excited about the baby as I am. I am also really scared. I will need all of my friends to help me through this." Hermione gave Ginny a final hug before she moved to wait so that Neville could hug Hermione and speak with her for a second.

"Why were you nodding when I told you about the baby?" She asked him.

"For two reasons actually. The First reason is that I kind of already knew that you were pregnant."

"What? How?" Hermione quickly asked.

"I am just very observant. I have to be because I am so shy, so much that hardly anyone tells me things. I noticed your dizzy spells. Like the one in Transfiguration, when we were trying to turn that pig into a chair. Harry and Draco were really busy working but I saw you drop your quill off the side of the desk and reach down to pick it up. When you came back up, you looked like you were about to pass out. I know about pregnancy only because my older cousin is married and I was around her when she was pregnant with her oldest daughter. She would tell me things about it that at the time I didn't want to know. Now I have to go. I will see you later." He finished, and turned to follow Ginny out the door.

"Wait, what about the other reason you knew?" Hermione called after him.

He turned to look at her and said really cryptically "You'll see"

She looked after him with a quizzical look on her face. Finally, she turned to Luna, who was waiting patiently for her turn.

Luna looked at Hermione for a moment with a puzzled look on her usually misted face, and then smiled. "You will both need to be patient. Nothing is as it seems."

"And why were you nodding when I told you I was pregnant? Same reason as Neville?" Hermione asked.

"Oh, no. I really don't pay attention to people around me. I knew because the wrackspurts told me. Normally they don't help people with things like this but they made an exception for me. Most people just think I am crazy, and that works just fine with me, but really I am just trying to listen to the important things. That's why they told me. Good night, Hermione." Luna said and skipped to the door.

Hermione turned to talk to Harry when she heard Luna say something. All she caught of it was, "… I saw… Vision… Not what they seem… Ron… Surprise..." Looking over her shoulder, she saw Luna had skipped down the hall and turned the corner in the direction of her common room.

Hermione shook her head and turned back to Harry. "Sorry. That girl is so weird. I like that she is so open about what she believes but..." Hermione trailed off shaking her head.

Harry laughed and gave her a comforting hug. "Don't worry. She won't bite you or hurt you in any way. Luna may be a little strange but she is still human. I have to go now, but Congrats on the baby. If you need anything just ask. It doesn't matter what it is or what time it is, just ask. Got it?" He told her, looking her in the eye with his eye brows raised. Hermione nodded and smiled.

"Good Night, Harry." She said as Harry walked to the door and headed towards Griffindor tower. Hermione closed the door and turned around. She had expected to see Ron still there, but he had vanished. She looked at Draco in question.

"He said that he wanted to go look around the castle some more." He shrugged. Standing, He headed towards his room, saying good night just before he entered his room.

Hermione shook her head. It had been a very eventful day. Too much had happened in just a few hours. Of course, she realized that things were just starting to change. She walked into her room and headed for her bathroom. While undressing she caught a glimpse of herself in the full length mirror and stopped after she was done undressing. Placing her hands on her abdomen and turning to the side, she smiled and rubbed her belly.

"I already love you. I know your father does too. He may not say so, but he does." She sighed and smiled. "I can't wait to meet you, baby! I hope… ", She trailed off and dropped her hands. Still smiling, she headed into the shower to clean and get ready for bed. She knew that she didn't have to worry about school the next day for it was Saturday, but after she was ready for bed, she decided to finish her homework. She really didn't have much to do considering that she did most of her work in her spare time including during lunch, but she wanted to be sure she had everything exactly right.

When she was done going over all of her class work, she looked at the time. 3:26 am.

'Great! I am going to be so tired later this morning when Draco and Harry wake me up. I hope they don't since it is the weekend. Oh, well. I will just kick them out if they try to wake me up.' She thought as she moved her work and went to lie down. As soon as her head hit the pillow, she fell into a deep peaceful sleep.

The next morning, Hermione awoke to pounding on her door. Glancing at the clock she was surprised to see that it was already noon. Getting out of bed, she walked to the door and opened it to see Severus, Harry, and Draco. They all had a worried look on their faces.

"Why weren't you at breakfast? Are you okay? Do you need to go to madam Pomfrey? Are you getting morning sickness?" Severus asked in a rush and would have continued with his questioning if Hermione hadn't lunged at him and kissed him to shut him up. She heard Harry and Draco chuckle and shuffle slightly away from them. Hermione pulled away from Severus to wave at them and pull Severus into her room.

After the door closed the skipped to her bed and sat down and beckoned for him to sit next to her on the bed. He stared at her in confusion for a moment. When he didn't immediately move to sit she smiled.

"I wasn't at breakfast because I was up late last night and I was tired. No I don't need to see the nurse. No I am not getting morning sickness. Yes, I am just fine and so is the baby." The last she said with her hand on her abdomen.

Severus smiled so suddenly it surprised her. He walked over, sat next to her and placed his hand over hers. His face was in an expression she couldn't read.

"It didn't really sink in. We're having a baby. I know for a fact that this won't fully sink in until a lot further in the pregnancy, but I am starting to realize that it is real and I didn't just dream it." He smiled at her and she smiled back. They leaned towards each other and kissed.

The kiss was gently at first, but turned fierce and passionate quickly.

Without breaking the kiss, Hermione lay back on her bed and pulled him with her. His hands moved from where they had settled on her waist up to her breasts to cup them. Hermione broke the kiss to arch her head back and her breasts into the caress. Severus smiled. "Sensitive?"

Hermione nodded and said breathlessly, "About a week ago I noticed, but I didn't understand why then but I know why now. A perk of the pregnancy." She smiled and he laughed at the last remark.

He leaned forward to kiss her again before he used his thumbs to caress her nipples. Her reaction was the same as last time and he grinned. Moving his hands to the hem of her night shirt, he pulled it over her head and tossed it over the edge of the bed. Leaning down, he took one of her nipples into his mouth to suckle and used his other hand to pay the other nipple some attention. When he heard her gasp of pleasure, he almost grinned, but continued instead.

Hermione's hands had been bunching in the fabric of his shirt but now moved to the buttons at the front to start unfastening them. After that was accomplished she pushed it off of his shoulders. He rose to pull his arms out of the sleeves and let the garment drop to the floor. Sitting up, she kissed his chest and got a lick to his nipple before he pushed her back onto the bed to continue his perusal of her body.

After a few minutes of him torturing her with pleasure, she got fed up with not being able to do anything and tried to flip him onto his back. Not expecting this, he complied and rolled over onto his back. She straddled him and leaned forward to kiss him again. Leaving his lips, she trailed her lips down his neck, licking and kissing along the way. He grabbed her sleep shorts and pushed them and her knickers down her legs as far as he could. When she refused to move to help him remove them, waved his hand and they vanished.

"Hey, those were my favorite shorts." Hermione protested. He waved his hand again and the shorts and knickers appeared on the floor with her shirt. "Thank you" She said, smiling. She reached down to remove his pants as well, when she noticed that he had already done so. She looked at him with a pout. "No fair" Severus only smirked.

Severus flipped them both over again and settled between her legs. Leaning forward, he kissed her passionately before he thrust into her tight sheath. She gasped and moaned. "Oh! That feels sooo good! Move!" She said, trying to thrust herself onto him.

He immediately did as she asked. He pulled almost all the way out before slamming back in. Hermione cried out, "Yes! Like that! Ahhh!" He started to thrust faster. With him pistoning into her it didn't take long for them to both come. With a final thrust, she screamed his name. He released right after her and shot his seed deep inside her, before collapsing onto her.

When they both go their breath back, he rolled off of her and laughed. Turning her head, she looked at him in question. "Sorry, It's just that I only came to see if you were okay or if you needed to go to the hospital wing or not and we end up having sex again." After he said this, she smiled.

"Let's do something together today. Like have a picnic. Something." She suggested and stood up. He stood up as she walked over to her wardrobe to get a change of clothes. "Okay. We will have a picnic out by the lake."

"Well first I have to take a shower. You want to join me? Just for the shower, nothing else. I'm hungry." She replied to his look.

"Okay. We shower and then we go for a picnic. Let's go." He replied gathering his clothes. On his way to the bathroom, he swatted Hermione on the arse as she leaned over to pick up her bra, that she had dropped after taking it out of the drawer. She straightened immediately, yelping his name. He looked at her and grinned as she fake glared at him before laughing and following him into the bathroom for their shower.

A/N: Yayyyy! Thank you all for giving me the 22 reviews I asked for! And this was your reward. This is 4 whole pages of story and over 2,000 words. That's a record for me! Thank you all for favoriteing this story and reviewing it.

Also, I just wanted to let you know that I am about to start another story. It has been really getting on me to write it and I haven't been able to concentrate as well so I figured, why not just write it and get it out. So it will be up right after this chapter. It's called Erised Revealed. It is another Hermione/Severus Romance. I hope you go read it, too. Thanks!

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