Note: SO SORRY FOR THE DELAYED UPDATE. This chapter will be about how Severus meets Cilwenu's mother (also an OC, so she is not someone from the series either. Hope you guys do not mind.) . I have not decided whether or not the information about Cilwenu's mother will be parted into an additional chapter, buuut we will see. For now, the readers of Wandering, Wondering, Why, that story is on a hiatus until this one is complete. Thank you!

Chapter Twenty:

The Pub near his home was less than crowded, but not empty. The only seats occupied were located at the bar, the rest of the lot were scattered about the area. Burly men and almost fully exposed women lurked in the shadows. Deals were being made and whispers were too loud to qualify. He could feel the insecurity in that Pub.

But Severus didn't really have much to lose.

Severus settled himself on a most squeaky, wobbly stool, and glanced around the Pub cautiously. Their eyes were on him, but why they were, Severus wasn't entirely sure he really wanted to know. He drummed his fingers nervously on the worn wood, while his wand, hidden within the layers of his clothes, seemed to press into his side in case of an emergency. Those eyes were starting to make his skin itch.

"What's yer poison?" a homely, and misshapen woman asked from behind the bar. Her voice was laden heavily with influence and the smell of something musky.

Severus looked up at her curiously, about to reply when another figure walked up and brushed a porcelain hand across Severus' neckline. He merely flinched, when, normally, Severus would have yanked out his wand and readied for battle.

The figure was small, petite, and almost beautiful enough to shatter glass. Her smile was wide and bright, just enough to make the room look like it was bouncing with sunlight. The woman, like an angel, had a sweetness about her presence. Her cascading blonde hair, and deep blue eyes made Severus fill with a sudden rush of emotions he'd only ever felt around one other woman.

Lily Evans.

"You've kept me waiting long enough."

With mistakes and assumptions, came conclusions and truth.

Vivienne, Severus had discovered, was exceptionally good at Divination. She saw herself more as a fortune teller, but as hard as he tried, there was no convincing her that it was the same thing.

Three months in, she became pregnant, but Severus and Vivienne were not exclusive. Severus was having a hard time accepting the fact that this woman was still hanging around. There had been something about her that kept him interested. He felt like he was betraying poor Lily, married to James Potter.

The same James Potter guilty of giving Severus hell in Hogwarts.

Sitting with Vivienne in the doctor's office, Severus ignored the constant staring from other people. He kept his eyes down, or focused on the slim belly belonging to the petite blond. It would swell soon, he thought, swallowing for the tenth time in those five seconds.

Vivienne crooned, beamed with a smile so wide that it might wrap around her face many times. She held Severus' hand, and leaned against his shoulder.

She loved him, it was apparent.

If only he felt the same way.

"I cannot wait. She will be so beautiful, Severus, I promise."

He tilted his head to the side. The fact that she could already see so much ahead of time still amazed him to no end. He was a wizard, only mastering potions throughout life. Fathoming the ability to see unimagined future memories… why, that would be completely, mentally, marvelous.

"She?"

"I want to name her Cilwenu."

Severus was not sure, exactly, just why they were at the Doctor in the first place. He supposed that Vivienne wanted to prove to him that she was actually pregnant, and not trying to string him along. She knew marriage was not an option, and was okay with it. All she wanted was to let him know that somebody loved him, and that somebody was always going to be her. Having to prove her point was merely nothing.

Keeping him there would be the key.

"Once I make you see that I am not lying-"

"I never once doubted-"

Vivienne's giggling made his sentence falter. "You have doubted me. I know. You cannot tell me otherwise, Severus."

He looked dead at his feet.

"You need to understand something, my love. I have seen deep into the future. Something is going to happen… when Cilwenu turns one, I will not be here anymore."

"The preparations are almost all set." Vivienne said, clasping her hands together in a tight wind. She looked around the dark purple and green room, lined with a sort of silver molding,

Kind of dark, but it would be Cilwenu's room. She would grow into it, not having to change a single thing. According to age and preference, Vivienne made sure that the room would make-shift, and morph to whatever her daughter would like. It was all set. Almost.

Severus paced around the den nervously. He was wiggling his fingers and moving his lips. Nothing was coming out, and the closer the pregnancy was to ending, the more he did such things. His behavior changed dramatically everyday.

He became moody, he called Lily, he screamed. Severus even went as far as to almost striking Vivienne.

Although stopping himself, the urge was still there. He just wasn't sure how it was going to be once Cilwenu did come. What would happen? Would these raging thoughts leave his mind?

Would the baby soften Severus in a way, breaking that anti-social shell that he'd formed throughout his teenage years?

The more he mulled it over, going and filing out all the possibilities… Severus cracked.

He felt a piece of himself break off and dissipate.

No, he couldn't do this.

Vivienne, still standing in the baby's room, twirled in a circle, caressing her five month swelling belly. The baby swam and nudged her mother lovingly. Every now and then, Vivienne would sing to her, and tell Cilwenu that everything was going to be okay.

The distance between them would be broken soon, and even though for a little while, Vivienne would make the most of it.

Ten times over.

Severus' figure blurred past the door. Vivienne stopped in mid-twirl, and tip toed to the door. Her blue eyes watched as her love frantically made his way through the foyer. She pushed out of Cilwenu's room, and practically glided over to Severus.

Severus was crying, his tears so crystal clear that it was heartbreaking. When she touched his arm, he stopped, and shivered violently. Vivienne turned Severus around on his heels and looked up into his dark eyes. She smiled, wiping away the tears before kissing her fingertips and tasting the salty weakness.

"Severus. You cannot leave me." She said in a most tantalizing, almost threatening tone. She smiled more, and leaned in to embrace him tightly.

Severus shook more, he sobbed, and bowed his head. Lily…

She was all that went through his mind at the moment.

"Cilwenu cannot grow up on her own, Severus. You have to promise me that you will stay long enough for me to be with my daughter. For her first year, I will be the one to take care of her, but when she turns one, I will not be here anymore. I will be gone. You cannot leave our child out in the world without her true father. She will not survive without you. Only you, Severus, can show her what real love is all about."

He trembled when his lips parted. Something cold shot through his being at her words. He couldn't believe it.

"When I go, you have to erase her memory of me. All of it." Vivienne began again, "For the sake of our child, please stay. Promise me that you will not leave."

Note: This WILL be rewritten once the story is over. I want to make the next chapter about how Vivienne dies and all that stuff. I hope you liked it anyways. This is better than providing you guys with nothing, right? Please review. I really am sorry for such a LATE update.