"Adeline Jean Snape, you put your brother down right this instant." Hermione demanded, rounding the corner of their small cottage on Hogwarts' grounds. Cailen Severus Snape fell immediately to the ground with a thud and Hermione shook her head.

With stern eyes she snatched her daughter up from the ground and carried her on her hip into the house, setting her in a corner and flicking her wand at a little timer on the counter.

"You do not move from this spot until that bell rings." She told the six year old girl with a stern face before she popped back outside to check on her son. He was ten years old and had the most patience with his sister she'd ever seen.

"Cai, are you okay sweetie?" She helped brush off the boy with long black hair, his sharp brown eyes made her think more of his father than herself and she smirked.

"I'm fine mum, you worry too much." He grumbled and took off into the house. Hermione crossed her arms and rolled her eyes at her children.

Still, the smile that played at her lips gave her away, always had.

She could see her husband walking toward them in the distance, his robes billowed around him as he approached their little home. They'd chosen not to raise their children inside the castle, as much as they would have loved to maintain their library it was a necessary evil when Adeline was born that they get something more comfortable for their family.

Luckily both of the Snapes were very talented with a wand and expanding their home to add a library had not been difficult.

She dashed across the lawn to meet her husband half way, her arms flung around his neck as soon as he met her and he caught her in still strong arms.

"You act as if you've not seen me in a year witch. It has only been a few hours." He grunted as he set his little wife on the ground, her eyes sparkled in the sunlight as she stared up at him.

"Hours, years, it's all the same when you're away from the man you love." She walked her fingers up his button clad chest and he shook his head, a small smile played at his lips.

"I missed you as well." He bent, lips captured hers before he broke away and glanced to their home.
"And the children?"

"Good as ever." She smirked and he shook his head, his hair had grown to the middle of his back and she found she quite liked to run her fingers through the long black locks.

"So not very good at all, I'd wager."

She burst into a fit of giggles and turned around to see Adeline outside of the cabin, chasing her brother around.

"You'd win." She smiled up at him and he shook his head.

"You let them act out." He cocked an eyebrow and she took his hand in hers, her eyes sparkling.

"Soon I won't have the energy to tackle them alone." She winked and he stared down at her, black eyes wide.

"Not again." He groaned and she laughed with that dazzling smile on her face.

"Again. Perhaps a certain Master Snape should be a bit less insatiable." She winked and it was his turn to smirk.

"Yes, perhaps she should." She smacked his shoulder and took his arm, allowed him to lead her back to their home.

"Oh you."

He spun her quickly and grasped her hips in large hands, his command over her had never waned. Not even after twelve years and two children.

"Mine." He growled and took her lips in a hard kiss. Leaving her dazed as he strutted away, that swagger in his step that he only got when he'd left her stunned.

She walked behind him with a laugh, shaking her head and watching as he joined their children.

Snatching up one with one arm and then the other and flinging them over his shoulders.

"Been giving your mum a hard time I hear!" She heard him roar playfully before he bounced them on his shoulders, earning squeals and laughter.

And he said she was the reason they were rotten.

Hermione settled her hand on her stomach and smiled at her beautiful little family.

All she ever wanted.

And it was all hers.