Chapter 32: Love and mending

Poppy confirmed her original findings and congratulated her. Hermione ran down to the great hall to give her news to her husband, he was away at a meeting with Albus when she awoke. She stopped outside of the big doors catching her breath, when she felt like she had control, she rounded the corner and as soon as she saw her husband, her heart jumped into her throat and she picked up her pace, just under the pace that would cause unwanted attention and stepped up to him; she smiled and said.

"Good morning my husband."

"Good morning Hermione, how did you sleep?"

"Good, I have something I want to tell you."

"Oh?" He didn't look up from his glaring at the students; she took this as her queue to lean down and whisper in his ear.

"I'm two months Pregnant Severus." She moved away and waited for it to register. She didn't have to wait long, he looked at her, love written all over his face; he abandoned his plate and stood sweeping her up in his arms and spinning her around. She squealed in delight before he put her down.

"Really?"

"Yes."

"No jokes?"

"Do I look like the Weasley twins to you?"

He gave her one of his rare pubic smiles and kissed her lightly, both took their seats completely oblivious to the students' reactions to their little moment.

"Dare I ask?" Minerva said from Hermione's left.

"No, it's a surprise." Severus chuckled next to her.

"Ok," Minerva thought she already knew but she waited until they said something.

That of course was the be the middle of March, it was now the beginning of April. Hermione couldn't help but smile at the thought of being pregnant; it made her smile so much that it scared her students, but she didn't care. She still hadn't told her parents or Minerva or Albus, she and Severus kept it to themselves for now, revealing it in due time.

Today was the final match between Gryffindor and Slytherin for the Quiddich Cup. Hermione was excited to see all of her friends on the starting lineup; she sat with Minerva, Albus and Severus in the teacher's box. They cheered on their respected houses and Hermione let it slip every once in a while and cheered for Draco and the Slytherins, much to her husband's amusement.

The cheers hadn't died down in the past three hours; the score was now Slytherin 250 and Gryffindor 240. Each time one team would score the other would score immediately after, causing it to be a tight game but the fans didn't fade out in the slightest. In fact with each score, the roar got louder, Hermione smiled as she sat next to her family but she had stopped standing a cheering long ago. They sat there waiting for something interesting to happen, apparently so were both seekers. Draco and Harry had flown over to the box to talk with Hermione as they searched for the snitch.

"So what do you think dear cousin, are we going to win?"

"Darling cousin, you know I cannot go against my own house." They smirked at each other just as harry spoke.

"Bye Draco."

"Harry that's cheating!" both seekers sped off in search of the snitch.

Suddenly, Hermione got an odd sense of Déjà vu, Harry and Draco were both being chased by a rouge bludger, and she gasped. "Draco look out!" he couldn't hear her. "DRACO!" The bludger closed in on the two seekers. She stood in panic, calling after both seekers; she barely got to an apprentice under Madam Pince before he shot off a hex after the two. "Are you mental, even with that wand it is too risky, you could hit one of them, put that away!"

"I am protecting the students"

"So am I, now put it away before I use mine!" he didn't need any more of a threat.

She turned just to see Harry catch the snitch and Draco get hit with the bludger. "DRACO!" she called, "Oh my God! She looked up to see the other bludger coming after her from the left; "DUCK!" it barely missed her head. "Harry come here quickly!"

When Harry was close enough, she hopped on the back of his broom, "Quick, to Draco." Harry went as fast as he could with two people, but both were oblivious to the bludger that hit Draco was coming straight for them, Hermione heard her name just in time for her to turn around and for it to hit Harry off of the Broom. "Harry!" Now what was she supposed to do, she hated flying, she didn't know how. Thankfully Ginny came up and guided her to the ground, once again the bludger coming for them, "FINITE INCANTARTEM!" and it was over. She ran over and checked Draco and Harry over as Madam Pomphry came up to her helping her.

Severus came up to her and wrapped his arms around her waist, "Are you alright?"

"Yeah I'm fine, I just, I'm just a bit shaky but I'll be fine."

"Are you sure, what about…?"

"Severus I am fine, let's worry about Dr…" Suddenly her world started spinning.

"Hermione!" Minerva called as Severus barely caught her before she hit the ground. "Is she alright?"

"I hope so." He led the group up to the castle leading to the infirmary. "Albus Minerva, contact Bella and Narcissa." Albus did what he was instructed to do.

"Severus, she's going to be alright, it was just a fainting spell; they happen all the time under stress."

"It's not just her I am worried about Mom, she's pregnant." He didn't even realize he said it until she squealed.

"A baby really, how far along?"

"Yes a baby, about three months now, now keep it quiet, we haven't even told her parents, we were going to wait until the dinner this weekend."

The two sat in silence for a while as they waited for the other five. They soon arrived and Poppy went over the vitals with the family.

"Hermione is going to be fine, just a fainting spell, although I wonder what caused it with her in her condition, she ate plenty this morning and she has seemed overly happy over the past few weeks."

"So the baby…"

"Is going to be just fine Severus, don't worry so much, she is going to be fine. However, until I can…"

"Wait a baby?"

"Yes Bella we are expecting again, we were going to tell you this weekend but obviously this is going to change."

"Oh Severus, my babies are expecting," Bella said close to tears.

"Belle, are you crying?" Narcissa jokingly asked.

"No Cissy shut up." The group laughed mildly at the joke but Severus soon turned back to Poppy.

"So what are you suggesting?"

"I am going to suggest bed rest for at least two weeks, no strenuous work; that means no teaching, and no grading. She needs to eat properly and take these vitamin potions every day and I will check up on her once a week, assuming that her progress is going well."

"That's bull."

"Hermione?" Severus quickly went to her and grabbed a hand, "Love are you ok?"

"That's crap; I can't be on bed rest I have too much to do."

"Sorry dear but let's think about the baby for a little while, I might take you off of it early if you are doing fine. Don't argue with me young lady or I will add time."

"Yes ma'am."

"Good girl, I will leave you with your family." She left and the family acted all excited about the baby, thinking of what to name it, what to do about a nanny, and what do to about the baby shower and the living arrangements. Hermione couldn't remember being so happy.