Chapter Forty-three;

Sirius looked around the Great Hall, smiling as he saw almost every Professor had a small group of children sitting next to them, asking questions, eating, and chattering about the day. Sirius even had three students who were all sitting next to him and one on his lap whom was about three asking how he can turn into a doggy. All the Hogwarts students were given the option to have dinner after the children left being supervised by Filch and almost all agreed to it except a few Hufflepuff, Gryffindor, and Ravenclaws who found the children cute.

Sirius nibbled on a carrot stick the three year old in his lap so kindly gave him to eat and let his eyes wander around the hall. They stopped on Severus' empty chair, Remus had told him he had a run in with Severus for a few minutes and that Albus sent him off to do something, he was a bit curious as to what Albus wanted Severus to do – he figured it was to make a potion Poppy needed. Sirius turned his attention back to his plate and pushed his food around with his fork, he was brought out of his thoughts by Remus nudging him in his side. "What?" He asked, glaring over at Remus, who was staring with his mouth slightly opened in shock. Remus pointed at the front of the Great Hall and when Sirius turned to look, his eyes widened.

There was Severus, walking into the Great Hall whilst giving a long haired boy a piggy-back ride, a smile on his face and speaking to the child about something he couldn't hear as he walked up to the Head Table. When they reached the table, Severus shifted the boy to sit in his lap as he took his seat and grabbed a goblet and took a sip. The boy grabbed some food onto a plate and began eating, turning to look at Severus and smiled. Sirius looked over at Remus and lifted the child in his lap and placed him in Remus'. "Be right back." He whispered, pushing out of his chair and walking down the table to take a seat next to Severus. "Hello, Sev and…" He paused to look at the boy who looked back, his eyebrow raised.

"Aidan" the boy said, turning his attention back to his plate.

Severus looked at Sirius. "Oh, hello. How was your day?" Severus asked as he grabbed a plate for himself and began placing food on it.

"It was fine. So, what did you two do today?" Sirius asked, stabbing some food off of Severus' plate and taking a bite,

Severus gave a glare at Sirius after he took a bite, and then Minerva spoke. "Yes, we haven't seen you two almost all day. What were you up too?"

"We were making a potion, m'am." Aidan said, smiling at her.

"A potion?" Pomona asked, quirking her eyebrow.

"Yes, I was showing him around my Potions lab and he wanted to watch me make a potion, so he helped with preparing the ingredients for some Pepperup" Severus explained.

Aidan nodded his head and began to go into detail about how a Pepperup Potion is made, and all that he learned – like how you're supposed to not powder down the bicorn horn but break it into small pieces, and how the Mandrake – which he also made sure everyone understood it was also called Mandragora – was supposed to be crushed, or the leaves were, and how he did that and Severus had told him he done a very good job.

Severus watched Aidan explain everything, smiling, and Sirius watched Severus, his eyebrow quirked and his lips curled into a smirk. When dinner was over, everyone stood and the children all said their goodbyes before leaving by portkey with their Matron, and Sirius waved off from Remus as he quickly followed Severus in silence back to Sirius' chambers. When Severus murmured the password and pushed the door open, Sirius grabbed both his hands and shut the door with his foot before pinning Severus to the wall and crashing their lips together.

Severus responded to the kiss, and Sirius could feel him smiling against his lips. After a minute or so of being engrossed in the kiss, Sirius pulled away to catch his breath, gently placing kisses along Severus' jawline. "So…"

"What?" Severus murmured, smirking.

"Did you have fun today?" Sirius asked.

"Fun…?" Severus repeated, quirking his eyebrow.

"Yeah, making potions with that kid" he said.

"Aidan?" Severus asked.

"Yes, Aidan – you seemed to have had fun with him. He seems to have learned a lot" Sirius stated, kissing Severus' neck.

"Hm. Yes, he's a very bright kid" Severus said, panting.

"Did you reconsider… maybe you might want children?"

"Sirius…"

"No – just listen, okay?"

Severus sighed. "Okay…"

"Well… you spent the whole day with that kid, and you looked really happy. Now imagine your own child – you could teach him everything you know about potions, I'll teach him loads about Transfiguration, and how to play Quidditch and other random stuff" Sirius said, smiling against his neck.

Severus was quiet for a minute, going over things in his head. "What… if it's a girl?"

Sirius chuckled. "Then… we get to teach her the same things we would teach a boy, but when she's old enough to date we get to scare the hell out of some boys." Sirius said, smirking.

Severus let out a chuckle and shook his head. "Sirius…"

"Sev, come on… just… think about it a bit?" Sirius pleaded, nipping at Severus' neck.

"Fine…" Severus said as he gritted his teeth together.

"Thank you, love" Sirius said, pushing his lips to Severus' and then nipping at his bottom lip.

Sirius pulled Severus towards the bedroom, as they trotted there they slowly shed their clothes. Sirius pinned Severus to the bed and smirked down at him, leaning down and nipping at every part of Severus' body he could before preparing and taking him – multiple times so they could explore which positions Severus liked – which Sirius discovered he liked really any position so long as he could see Sirius face to face. Sirius also noticed that after every round Severus was drift off for a few minutes – which Sirius found adorable in a way. When they finally finished, it was just shy of sunrise and Severus was utterly exhausted and knocked out with his head resting on Sirius' chest, Sirius was running his fingers through Severus' hair, smiling down at him, he then debated in his head that tomorrow they should probably begin working on the bonding ceremony and things. Sirius let out a yawn and closed his eyes to get some sleep before they had to wake up and to clear his mind.