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Once they were seated in the waiting room Harry finally said,
"The doctor said that they think all of her female organs are scared. Bellatrix did it with that curse didn't she?"
"Yes." Severus answered through clenched teeth. It angered him that he couldn't do anything about this. That it was someone he called friend at one time that did this to her all because she was muggle born.
"I hope I made the right choice."
Severus turned looking at him waiting for him to finish, when he didn't Severus finally asked.
"What choice?"
"I told them that if it really was that bad to remove them all, the doctor talked like it would just get worse."
"You made the correct choice."
"How do you know?"
"She must have been in pain the day after we caught the last of them, while we ate supper she paled. I should have forced her to tell me what really was wrong then."
"You do know this is Hermione, she is as stubborn as they come and she is not going to tell you anything unless she wants too."
Severus knew Harry was right, but it didn't stop him from beating himself up about it.
An hour passed, Severus had paced most of the time. He knew all of this was out of his hands, he couldn't do a thing about it. He had to trust someone he didn't know to take care of the most important thing in the world to him, the most precious. The one thing he would give up everything for, and never miss any of it. When it came down to it he'd even give up his magic for her. His mind travelled again to her cut open lying on a table when his thoughts were interrupted,
"Don't think about what they are doing, it will only drive you crazy." Harry said.
Severus sat down before saying,
"I hate hospitals, in my experience they only bring death."
"Not always, there is also healing, and don't forget life. Have you been listening to the announcements?"
"No."
"They announce every time a baby is born, hear that?" Harry asked as music came across the speaker again.
"Yes."
"It's played five times since we've been sitting here, so hospitals don't always only bring death."
They sat in silence for almost another hour before they were called to a room off of the waiting room, as they waited for the doctor Severus clenched his fist to stop his hands from shaking.
The doctor finally entered saying,
"Well, she did amazingly well. We did end up performing a total hysterectomy, there was no other choice there was just too much damage. But she's fine, in recovery. Well I hesitate to say all is well, when we woke her she was screaming about snakes."
Severus looked away, knowing she more than likely had that damn nightmare about him. Harry said,
"She has a huge fear of snakes, always has."
"Well that sounds reasonable, I would like one of you to sit with her while she's in recovery though. It's disconcerting when she starts screaming about them attacking."
"You go Severus, I'll go let everyone know she will be okay."
"She may….."
"No, I know for a fact that she would rather see your ugly mug than mine."
"Insolence."
"Yeap, you go. I'm sure I'll see her soon enough."
Harry left when the doctor left taking Severus to Hermione. He walked down the hall toward the exit pulling out his cell phone to call Big D first before he got to Hermione's house to use the floo. When he looked up from dialing he saw Draco and Astoria coming toward him he held up a finger to hold off questions until he was done.
"Deb?"
"They said Hermione will be fine."
"No, it had something to do with scar tissue."
"Yes."
"I'm sure that won't be a problem."
"Sure, talk to you later."
Harry closed the phone saying,
"Draco, Astoria."
"We heard what happen, how is Granger?"
"They said fine, but it really is going to upset her."
"What did they do to her?" Astoria asked.
"The doctor called it a hysterectomy."
"Oh no." the woman said as Draco had a questioning look to which she said, "you really didn't pay attention in muggle studies, they just took everything from her that gave her ability to have children."
"Oh no, she's not alone is she?" Draco asked thinking about how badly she took the miscarriage she had.
"No Severus is with her, the doctor said she kept waking up screaming about snakes."
"Where are you going?" Astoria asked Harry.
"I was headed to Hermione's to floo Ginny, Minerva, and Luna. The doctor said it would about two hours before they moved her to a room, your more than welcome to come with me or if you really want to go up and wait you can."
"Let's go." Draco said to Harry as they all left to Hermione's house.
~~^~~SSHG~~^~~
Severus was led to a small room that Hermione was in, she looked to be sleeping at the moment.
"Go on, the nurse will be in periodically to check on her."
Severus slowly walked up to the bed, he took her hand again. He stood there for what felt like hours watching her sleep. He knew it wasn't that long, but he wanted her awake to hear him, the nurse came in checking the machines then left again without a word.
When she squeezed his hand he leaned over the bed whispering to her,
"Hermione wake up, it's just a dream."
He watched as she eyes popped open and she looked around before saying,
"The snake… you….."
"Shh, I am fine. Remember you saved me, you gave me a chance that I didn't deserve."
She reached up laying her hand on the side of his face before saying,
"Dream?"
"No, this is all very real."
She moved her hand tucking his hair behind his ear. She smiled at him before saying,
"You are alive."
"Very much so."
"Nagini?"
"That was all a long time ago, she won't hurt anyone remember? Neville killed her."
"Yes, when she tried to come after Ron and I."
"From what I understand."
"Don't leave me anymore."
"No, never."
She laid her hand back down closing her eyes again as the nurse came back in checking the machines then asking,
"Can I get you anything? Tea, coffee?"
"Coffee would be nice, thank you."
"Sure, I'll be right back."
Severus thanked the nurse again when she brought him the coffee, he never let go of Hermione's hand as he sat by her bed in the recovery room. When she would squeeze his hand he would wake her and they would basically have the same conversation they had the first time ending with him telling her he wouldn't leave her anymore.
~~^~~SSHG~~^~~
Hermione started to wake up, she felt strange. Like she was waking after a night of sleeping too long without interruption. She went to move her hand to her eyes to rub then when she noticed she couldn't, she looked down to see a head of long black hair laying on top of her hand.
She paid no attention to the room around her, her only thought was what Severus was doing like that and not in bed with her. She went to reach across herself to move his hair out of his face and that was when her memory returned, she passed out at work. After that it was mostly flashes of images crossing her mind.
She finally reached across herself, ignoring the pain in her stomach, she brushed his hair back from his face. Then she ran her fingers through his hair, keeping it back out of his face.
Author's Note: Comments really do make me smile and brighten my day.
Okay so the part about the music playing when a baby is born came from real life, a hospital my mom was in for a time would do this every time a baby was born. I thought it was sweet and added it, I have no idea if they do this everywhere or not.
Also I wanted to let you know that I have a couple of Severus/Hermione videos on youtube, the link is in my profile.