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Chapter Forty-two;

Severus' eyes jolted open, he stared at the ceiling in silence, and contemplated in his head what the hell Sirius was up too. He turned his head to stare Sirius and when black met grey, he turned his gaze into a glare. "Why?"

"I'm just curious."

"Bullshit" Severus said, pushing to sit up on the couch. "Why do you want to know what I think about… kids?" He asked, repeating the question.

"I just…" Sirius paused, letting out a sigh and pushing himself to stand. "I thought… I've always wanted a family."

Severus looked up at Sirius, his eyes a bit widened. "Wh- well, what does that have to do with anything?" He asked, even though he was fairly certain he knew exactly what Sirius was getting into.

Sirius frowned down at Severus. "Well… we're getting married… or bonded, whatever. The next step in life would be kids, right?"

"The next step…? Oh, so you think since we're getting bonded we have to have kids now, right? To be normal?" Severus asked, scoffing.

"No! I want kids! Don't you?"

"Why would I want kids? Don't you get enough of them teaching?"

"No! I want my own! To raise from a baby!"

"Well then I wish you good luck going to Knockturn Alley to find a Woman to have your children."

"Sev…"

"No! Shut the hell up!" Severus bellowed, pushing himself up and walking to his room to slam the door behind him.

Sirius groaned. "Why the fuck do we have to fight so much!" He yelled, walking out of Severus' chambers and slamming the portrait door, ignoring the glare he received from Salazar.

[January 9th, 1999]

Sirius happily trotted to the Great Hall for lunch, and upon entering, he saw some of the Hogwarts students – though not many as most had left to Hogsmeade with Vector and Filius – and about sixteen small children whom were sitting at a conjured table next to the Head table. Sirius walked past them giving them all a smile and receiving one back from each of their small faces. He took a seat next to Remus and grinned. "They're adorable."

Remus shook his head and smiled. "Yeah, they're adorable until they get hyped up on all the sugar Albus arranged for them to have for lunch…"

Sirius smirked. "What all happened? I mean-" Sirius paused as he was interrupted by Remus.

"Oh, well Minerva and Albus showed them around the castle, after lunch they're going outside to play in the court-yard." Remus answered.

Sirius' grin widened as he began to eat, listening to the small children chat and all ask their Matron different questions about Hogwarts and the enchanted ceiling. He thought back on Severus and looked over at his normal seat, which was empty and sighed. After the fight the Friday before the last, they had up the next day by just not speaking of it, but Sirius still refused to accept the fact that Severus didn't want kids. He frowned when he also noticed they hadn't spoken much the whole week, mostly in the mornings shuffling to get ready and then at nights when they were exhausted and would fall asleep.

By the time Sirius was finished thinking, he had noticed half of his food on his plate was gone as he aimlessly shoved food into his mouth and that lunch was over with and everyone stood up to follow the children as they all shuffled in a line outside to the court-yard. They all began to run through the snow and pick up snow and throw it at one another, the Professors stood to the side talking – of course after Albus had casted a warming charm around the area – even the matron was in on the conversation which Sirius wasn't paying attention too, instead he was watching the children play, a smile on his face at how adorable they all were.

Before he knew it, Sirius was morphed into a dog and running out in the snow, quickly being noticed by the children who all ran up to him and petted his head, or tried to cover him with snow. When he morphed into a human, they all gasped in surprise and then began to laugh and run as he lifted up snow and tossed it at them. All the Professors as well as the matron laughed at the childlike antics and watched in amusement – even Severus who was now standing on the side, unnoticed and watching in curiosity – unnoticed except by Remus, who watched him with his eyebrow quirked.

Severus had his arms crossed, watching as his idiotic bo- fiancée rolled around in the snow with some random children he had never met before. He rolled his eyes and let out a sigh, jumping from being startled when Remus walked up beside him. "Hello, Severus."

"L- Remus." Severus greeted, nodding his head.

Remus grinned, he knew all about the fight between Sirius and Severus – as Sirius had complained that Severus didn't want children – and so Remus decided to take it upon himself to show Severus that having kids was different than teaching them. "Isn't the scene… ah, adorable?"

Severus' eyebrow quirked. "What scene?"

Remus gestured towards Sirius who was now rolling a ball of snow to make a snowman with two little girls. "That one."

"I… suppose." Severus admitted, now debating in his head how to get away from this conversation.

"He looks very happy" Remus stated.

"Does he now?" Severus asked, giving a glare over at Remus.

Remus smiled innocently at Severus, and Severus rolled his eyes inwardly, turning his attention back to Sirius. He frowned as he saw how happy Sirius looked, enchanting the snowmen to throw snowballs at some of the other children, which had caused a snowball war between everyone with Sirius in the middle. Severus bit the inside of his cheek, mentally debating on what he should do. He took a gaze around at all the professors and then his eyes fell on a small boy sitting on a bench by the stairs to enter back to Hogwarts.

Severus pushed off the wall he was leaning on and walked over towards the boy. He took a seat and looked over at him, the boy appeared to be about four or five, and he had shoulder-length brown hair which was partly in his eyes as he stared down at the small notebook in his lap full of notes and random pictures. Severus stared over the boys' shoulder: The notes read random facts about Hogwarts – "Probably things Albus said on the tour" Severus thought, and the drawings were not just stick figures which he would expect from someone the boys' age, but actual small drawings of animals and things. "You're quite good." Severus said aloud.

The boy froze in the middle of his drawing of the Hogwarts house crest, glancing up at Severus, his black eyes met Severus, and the boy smiled coyly. "Thank you, sir."

Severus nodded and he turned his gaze back to the children. "Why are you not playing?"

"The other kids don't like me much" the boy said truthfully, picking up his pencil and drawing again.

"Why's that?" Severus asked.

"Because I'm a squib" The boy said bluntly.

"I see… that is no reason for another to disli-" Severus began but was interrupted.

"But they do."

"Hm." Severus hummed, frowning over at the boy. "I'm Severus Sna-"

"I know who you are, sir."

"Oh?"

"Severus Snape – youngest Professor to have ever taught at Hogwarts, he began at the age of 21, and teaches Potions – which along with Defence received an 'O' on his NEWT's, which is why last year he was moved from Potions to Defence, but after the year was up and the battle of Hogwarts, decided it would be best if he moved back to the subject he was known for Potions – as well as the subject where he was the Potions Master, one of the greatest in the world – possibly the greatest" the boy recited as he shaded in the crest on his paper.

"How…"

"Mr. Albus explained that to us."

"And you just recited it to me word for word?" Severus asked.

"Yes, the Matron says I have a very good memory." The boy said, smiling up at him. "Aidan Nixon, pleasure to meet you" he said, holding his hand out.

Severus took the small hand and shook it. "How old are you?"

"I'm 5, just turned it. How old are you?"

"39."

"You're very old."

"I most certainly am not."

"Well to me you are." He stated, turning back to his paper and drawing again.

Things got quiet as Aidan continued on his drawing and Severus turned back to watch the other children, and now Professors were all out in the court-yard, all with a group of children and talking to them or tossing snow at each other, or enchanting more snowmen to gang up on Sirius. When he turned back to Aidan – he found Aidan was staring. "You can go talk to the other children, I'm sure they have more in common with you."

"Why would you say that?"

"They're magi-"

"Magic has nothing to do with having something in common with one another."

"Hm" Aidan hummed as he turned back to his paper and let his hair fall in his face.

"Might I ask you a question?" Severus asked.

Aidan nodded his head. "Okay."

"Were you born in the orphanage?"

"No – I just arrived there a few months ago. The Doctor told my Mommy and Daddy I was a squib, and they got rid of me. Because they were um pure-bloods, and stuff." Aidan explained, closing his notebook.

Severus stared in silence at the boy, feeling a bit bad – he wished that the whole pure-blood nonsense would pass with the fall of Voldemort, but he knew that was just something that would never happen. "I see…" He whispered, trying to think of something comforting to say. When he turned his gaze back towards the grounds, he came face to face with Albus.

"Hello, Severus, and ah, Aidan, correct?" Albus asked.

Aidan nodded his head, and Severus looked up. "Hello, Albus."

"I see you two are having a chat, do neither of you wish to join us?" Albus asked, gesturing behind him at the others.

"No thank you" both Aidan and Severus answered at the same time, which made them both look at each other and give a slight glare and then turn away.

Albus chuckled. "I see, well I'm sure you two can find something to keep you occupied, 'eh? Aidan, maybe Severus could give you another tour." Albus said, his eyebrows rising at Aidan as he turned around and walked away.

Aidan looked over at Severus. "Oh, I asked Mr. Albus if he would give us a tour of the Potions classroom – because he showed us the others, but he said you didn't like people in your classroom much."

"I see. Why do you want a tour of my classroom?"

"I want to see you brew a potion – my Fath- um, ex-Father he used to follow your work! And make potions… and stuff, I just…" Aidan trailed off, looking down at his notebook.

Severus frowned and pushed off the chair. "Alright then. Shall we?" He asked, already beginning to walk through the doors into Hogwarts. Aidan smiled and grabbed his notebook, jumping up and running after Severus to follow him.