The sounds of Addison's cries startled Severus awake.
"What! What's wrong!" Severus exclaimed, bolting into a sitting position and looking around.
"It's Addison, love", Hermione said sleepily, climbing over him to get out of bed.
Severus scrunched his eyes and looked around, still half asleep.
"Severus, Addison is in his bedroom."
"Oh." Severus got out of bed and followed Hermione into Addison's room. "Addison never wakes up in the middle of the night anymore."
"What's the matter, my love", Hermione cooed at Addison as she reached into his crib and picked him up. "Oh! Severus he's burning up!"
Addison's cries turned into wails as Severus' reached over and felt his head.
"Bring him out into the sitting room, I will go get a few potions from my classroom."
"Should we floo Poppy?" Hermione asked nervously.
"Addison should be ok with the potions. We will see if we can get his fever down, if not I will floo Poppy. He'll be alright."
A loud clanking sound came from the bathroom that was next to Addison's room.
"What the hell was that", Severus said as he walked out of the room and to the bathroom, followed by Hermione.
Before Severus could see completely into the bathroom he could hear Abby's agonized moans. As he stepped into the door, Abby came into view. She was curled up into fetal position in front of the toilet. The stench of vomit filled the air.
"Abby? Are you alright?" Severus questioned as he reached down and felt her forehead. Abby moaned when he touched her. "Damn, she's burning up too."
"I'm flooing Poppy."
"I think once they get potions in them, they will be ok."
"Severus, Abby has had a fever since yesterday. The potion obviously only worked for a couple hours. Abby's brain is going to fry if we don't floo Poppy! And Addison's little body can't take this!" Hermione was almost in tears, this was the first time Addison had been really sick.
"Alright love, calm down", Severus said soothingly. "Let me get Abby off of the floor and I will floo Poppy."
"No", Abby moaned. "The floor's cold, I don't want to get up. Dad, I need some wat..." Abby stopped abruptly, sat up as quickly as she could and lunged for the toilet, vomiting.
"Severus, please go get Poppy", Hermione pleaded.
"I'll be right back."
A few minutes later, Severus walked back to the bathroom. "Come, bring Addison into the sitting room. Poppy is going to check him first, while I try to get Abby out there."
"Alright", Hermione said and then walked quickly toward the sitting room.
Hermione walked into the sitting room, Poppy had transfigured the two sitting chairs that sat by the fire. One was a bed, identical to one that was in the infirmary. And, the other was a crib, similar to the one Addison slept in when he was first born.
"Let me see the little one", Poppy said gently, as she took Addison from Hermione. "Oh my, you are burning up aren't you." Addison's cries had simmered to a tired whine.
Poppy laid Addison in the crib, lowered the railings, and ran a few diagnostic test on him.
"I imagine Abby caught the flu that's been going around the castle and then transmitted to Addison. Quite a nasty virus that's going around. It involves high fever, vomiting, and body aches", Poppy told Hermione.
Severus walked into the sitting room with Abby in his arms. Her head was slightly hung back over Severus' arm.
"Is she alright, Severus?" Hermione asked concerned.
"Yes, she keeps falling asleep", He replied as he laid Abby onto the make shift infirmary bed. "How's Addison?"
"He has the flu, as I suspected", Poppy said. She uncorked a few potions and coaxed Addison into swallowing them. Poppy then walked over and started examining Abby. "Like I told Hermione, I think Abby probably caught the flu that's been going around the castle and gave it to Addison."
Severus nodded and walked over to Hermione, who had picked Addison up and was cradling him in her arms. Abby let out a moan and started swatting at Poppy's wand.
"Abby be still or I will have to restrain you", Poppy said softly, continuing her work.
Abby swatted her wrist again and her left wrist plopped against the bed. She let out a whimper.
"Has her wrist been bothering her lately?" Poppy asked.
"She hasn't said anything or made any indications that it has", Severus replied walking over and sitting next to Abby on the bed.
"It's probably just from the body aches and the fact that her body is weak from the flu. But, Healer Bronson requested that anytime Abby is ill or has a medical problem that I floo him after I treat her."
"Yes, he told me the same thing", Severus said.
"Abby has the flu as well", Poppy said. "I gather you will have more luck getting her to take these potions." Poppy handed him three vials of medical potions. "I will floo Healer Bronson later in the morning, expect a visit from him."
Severus nodded.
"Addison and Abby will both sleep well into the afternoon, so don't be alarmed. I doubt either one will have much of an appetite until diner time. Even then they won't want to eat much. They should be fine by tomorrow and Abby should be good to attend classes on Monday."
"Alright, thank you", Severus said as Poppy stepped into the floo.
Hermione laid a sleeping Addison into his crib. "I'm sleeping out here on the couch." She turned around and Severus had already enlarged the couch and was summoning pillows and blankets from their bedroom.
"Gods Severus, it's three in the morning", Hermione groaned as she sunk down into his arms on the couch.
"At least it's the weekend."
Around 8:30 in the morning Severus woke up to Hermione getting off the couch. He watched as she walked over to Addison and placed her hand on his head.
"How is he", Severus said stretching out further on the couch.
"Addison's fever is gone, he's still sleeping", Hermione said and then walked over to Abby. She was wrapped up into a cocoon in her blanket. Hermione pulled the blanket apart at the head of the bed and Abby's foot popped out. Severus and Hermione grinned.
"Abby moves around a lot when she's sick. Usually takes her awhile to get comfortable", Severus stated.
Hermione went to the other end of the bed and pulled the blanket back, feeling Abby's head. "She still feels a little warm."
"I assume Healer Bronson will be here soon. He should be able to give her more potions."
Hermione nodded and walked back to the couch and laid down with Severus.
"Well, this should be a fun weekend", Severus said sarcastically.
"You could go spend some time with Page Summer, I'm sure that would brighten up your day", Hermione said smirking.
Severus scowled, "Your as bad as Abby."
Hermione grinned, "Well, you always did have a thing for the young new professors."
Severus snorted, "Only when it was you."
"Really? And here I thought I annoyed you to no end in the beginning."
"Oh, you did. You were a pain in my ass in the beginning. A lovely pain in my ass."
Hermione grinned, "So all that bickering and anger was a front in the beginning? Hmm?"
"Definitely not. You would bicker, argue, and go toe to toe with me and it pissed me off. But I loved it. You were the only women who could match me in anything, I was really taken with you, even in the beginning. I still am."
"Why did it take so long for you to act on it?"
"Well, there were a number of things", Severus replied, pulling Hermione into the nook of his arm and settling her there. "At first, I wasn't sure that you had any interest in me and I didn't want to make a fool of myself and make an unwanted move."
"Oh, it would have been wanted."
"Trust me, I know that now. I knew you had feelings for me by the end of your first year of teaching. I mean we spent so much time together. When you weren't off with Harry, Ron, and Draco, you were with me. Plus, I had Abby to consider, she was still very young. My time was spent either at Hogwarts or with her and I already didn't see her that often, I didn't want to spend any less time with her."
"I wouldn't have taken you away from Abby."
"I know that. I also didn't want to jump head first into a relationship. I wanted to broaden our friendship and then take it further, like we did. I think it worked out nicely."
"Me too", Hermione said kissing Severus lightly.
The floo light up green and a letter flew out and landed on top of Severus' chest.
"Is that from Healer Bronson?" Hermione asked as Severus opened the letter.
"No", Severus said sighing. "It's from Page Summers, she wants to use my classroom and my assistance."
Hermione scowled, "She doesn't waist anytime."
Severus didn't reply, he was busy writing a reply.
"I can keep an eye on the kids if you need to go", Hermione said, obviously not happy about the idea.
"No, I'm telling her she can use my classroom if she likes, but our kids are sick so I'm not available."
"You're really going to let that women use your classroom alone?"
Severus thought about, "Right, I'll just tell her to wait until next week. Then you and I can assist her."
"I am not assisting that cow!"
Severus smirked, "I just meant you could come with me."
Hermione huffed and snuggled onto Severus chest, as he rewrote his reply. Severus muttered something and the floo light of green, he threw the letter across the room and into the floo.
"You really need to teach me wandless magic", Hermione said smiling.
The floo light up again, another letter flew out and fell on Severus.
"Can't she just leave us alone!" Hermione exclaimed.
"It's from Healer Bronson, he will be here in an hour", Severus smirked.
"Oh"
The floo light up again.
"Who is it now", Severus said scowling.
"Severus? Hermione?" Eileen called out.
"We are on the couch mum, what is it?" Severus called back.
"Poppy told Albus that the children are sick?"
"Yes, they're better now."
"Are you decent? I'm coming through."
"Yes mother, the kids are in the living room with us."
A few moments later Eileen walked out of the fireplace.
"Oh, my poor babies", Eileen said reaching into the crib and and rubbing Addison's cheek.
"Merlin, she's worse then you are", Severus said to Hermione.
"Shut up", Hermione said slapping Severus' chest.
"What's the matter with them", Eileen asked, walking over to the end of Abby's bed and pulling the blankets back.
"They have the flu", Hermione replied.
"Oh! Abby still has a fever."
"Healer Bronson is coming to check her in an hour", Severus replied.
"Oh, alright. Why don't you and Hermione go shower and freshen up. I will keep an eye on my grand babies" Eileen said as she wrapped Abby back up in the blanket.
An hour later Healer Bronson flooed into Severus' and Hermione's chambers.
"Mr. And Mrs. Snape, nice seeing you again", Healer Bronson said happily.
"Please, call us Severus and Hermione", Hermione said.
Healer Bronson smiled and nodded.
"Abby is in these blankets, just give me a moment", Severus said trying to pull the blanket off of Abby. "Abby wake up. She is really tangled in this blanket."
Severus flicked his wand and the blanket fell to the floor. Abby opened her eyes and scowled.
Severus smirked, "Looks like she's feeling a little better."
"I'm cold! Give me back my blanket!" Abby said sitting up and glaring at Severus.
"Good to see Abby's personality is still intact", Healer Bronson said grinning.
"Abby, Healer Bronson needs to check you over. Then you can have your blanket back and go back to sleep", Severus said, and then turned back to Healer Bronson. "She still has a fever."
"Yes, Abby's immune system is still recovering. It will take her a little longer to fight off the virus. But, with the potions I brought with me, Abby will recover in no time." Healer Bronson pushed Abby gently into a laying position and started examining her.
Addison let out a noise from his crib. Eileen walked over, bent down and picked him up. Addison's lower lip started to quiver and he reached for Hermione.
"I think someone wants his mummy. Oh, he's just so cute when he makes that face", Eileen said handing Addison to Hermione. Addison wrapped his arms around Hermione's neck and laid his head on her shoulder.
"Abigail, has your wrist been bothering you", Healer Bronson asked as he flexed Abby's wrist. Abby winced.
"Sometimes after practice it does or if I use my left arm for a long time. I don't know why it hurts now."
"This flu that's going around comes with body aches, which is making your wrist soar. I will give you something for it."
There was a soft knock on the door, Albus poked his head in. "Is it alright if Harry and I come in?"
"Of course", Severus replied.
"I just wanted to see how Abby and Addison were doing. Albus told me they were both sick now", Harry said walking in behind Albus.
"They're ok. They just need a little rest", Hermione answered.
"Ok, Abigail you should be up and around later today. I wouldn't suggest any heavy meals until Monday. Don't use your left hand to often, either. You should be fine to return to classes on Monday", Healer Bronson said. "Now, let me see Addison. I will check him over again, since I'm already here."
Hermione handed him Addison and went and sat back down with Severus.
"You better be careful Harry, you don't want to carry this home to your little ones", Hermione said.
"They are actually at the burrow. Once we heard the flu was going around, Ginny and I decided it was best that her and the kids stay there for a few days."
"Alright, Addison should be good as ever by this evening. I have also left some extra potions for him, just in case. That should be all for now, if anything changes feel free to floo me."
"Thank you", Severus said standing and shaking Healer Bronson's hand.
"Not a problem. And Abigail, I look forward to seeing your first quidditch match next weekend. My friend Sebastian has nothing but good things to say about you."
Abby smiled at Healer Bronson as he stepped into the floo.
Monday morning Hermione woke up to an empty bed. She looked around the room and saw the bathroom light was on and the door was open. She slowly got up and made her way to the bathroom. Severus was sitting on the floor with his head laying on the side of the toilet.
"Please kill me", Severus moaned. He turned his head and threw up in the toilet.
"Oh Severus, how long have you been vomiting?"
"An hour maybe, I'm not sure."
Hermione opened up the cabinet and pulled out the potions Healer Bronson left. "Why didn't you take these."
"I forgot they were there", Severus answered, taking the potion from Hermione and downing it.
"Love, you have a fever. You must have caught the flu from Abby and Addison." Hermione pulled Severus into a standing position and helped him walk back to the bed. He let out a moan as he laid down.
"Do you need anything?"
"Some water."
"Alright, I will be right back. Then you need to rest, I will floo Albus and tell him you can't make classes today and probably tomorrow." Severus groaned something and his eyes fluttered shut.
Severus had woke up a few times, once when Hermione had checked on him and two others when his mother had. The next time he woke Abby was sitting at a configured desk, in the middle of his bedroom.
"Shouldn't you be in class", Severus asked hoarsely.
Abby jumped and then smiled. "You scared me. I don't have a class right now, my last class is in a half hour."
"Why are you in here?"
"Hermione, grandmum, and I have been sitting with you all day."
"I'm not a baby!" Severus exclaimed and then moaned.
Abby grinned, "They said you were moody. Dad we are just taking care of you like you take care of us when we are sick."
Severus mumbled something and Abby's grin widened.
"Did you eat lunch?" Severus asked.
"Yes, but not a lot. My stomach still doesn't feel right."
"Do you have practice tonight?"
"My house team doesn't have practice, but I'm practicing with Sebastian Curry."
Severus nodded and then scowled, "Who covered my potions class."
Abby grinned.
"Please tell me it wasn't your grandfather."
Abby started snickering.
"Damn it!"
"Don't flip out dad, Granddad only covered the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd years. Hermione was able to fill in for you for the upper years."
"Thank gods, what did she have you brew?"
"Medical potions for the infirmary."
Severus nodded, "Do you know what the younger years brewed?"
Abby grinned, "They made ice cream."
"I knew that old bat would do something like that!"
Abby laughed, Eileen walked in.
"Abby, I told you not to get him going!" Eileen said looking at Severus' scowling face.
"I didn't!" Abby said grinning, "He asked what grandfather had his potions classes brew."
Eileen grinned too.
"I need to get to Defense Against the Dark Arts. I will be back after dinner."
Abby exited their chambers and walked about ten feet and ran into someone.
"Oh, sorry", Abby said startled and then looked up, Page Summers was standing in front of her.
"No problem, Abigail right?"
"Right, you can call me Abby."
"I was coming to check on Severus."
"He's still sick."
"I'm aware of that. I thought I could make him feel better", Page said with a smile.
"Erm, right. He has all the potions he needs. My grandmother is with him now. I'm sure he's fine."
"That's too bad. I'm positive I could have done a few things to make him feel wonderful."
Abby scowled, "I'm sure Hermione's already taken care of that."
Page glared, "Ten points from Gryffindor, for addressing a Professor by their first name."
"Hermione is my step mother, I can call her what I please."
"Ten more points from Gryffindor."
"Well, Professor I believe you have made me late for class."
"What a shame, Abby."
"That's Ms. Snape, Professor."
"Maybe your own mother should teach you some manors", Page sneered then she smirked. "Oh, yes, I meant step mother."
Abby scowled and mumbled "bitch", under her breath.
"What was that?"
"Nothing"
"Insolence! Detention tonight at 8!"
"Fat chance in hell for me showing up to that" Abby seethed and stalked down the hallway, mumbling obscenities the whole way.
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