Epilogue The snap

Hermione's point of view

I was in the living room in Avengers tower.

I'd been experiencing braxton contractions all morning.

People started vanishing all around me.

I stood up and felt an almighty gush. My water broke.

Contraction after stinging contraction caught me off guard.

"Mione, you OK?" George asked

I shook my head as another powerful contraction tore through me.

"Has it started?"
I nodded…

"Just breathe…"

Fred and George made a basket and carried me downstairs to the infirmary, stopping for every contraction.

Bruce examined me.

"You're four centimetres… It's time. Fred, alert the birth team."

I was giving birth to a child I didn't want, who was conceived from rape… and the world was ending around our ears… I refused any and all pain medications. I had got myself into this mess by acting like a whore, I would deal with the pain head on.

"Hermione please, get the epidural or something, you might be in labour for hours and you're going to get tired, and that will complicate matters."

"Nope. I'm the stupid whore who got herself knocked up, I am therefore the stupid useless mudblood whore who deserves to birth the child I conceived unmedicated and in agony. It's ALL deserved. Every scrap of pain is deserved. I deserve it all. I'm a slut, I'm a tart, I'm a harlot, I'm a tramp, I'm an ugly worthless mudblood who deserved every pain…"

"Hermione. Please, listen. You're putting your life at risk"
"Good. I don't deserve to live any more."

"Finite Incantatem"

"Who put a self-deprecating hex on her?"

"I have no idea, she's been like this for months"
"Then someone obviously stealthed their way into the castle and put it on her.

Dumbledore's point of view
In the chaos of the Snap I had broken out of Azkaban with help from some of my followers… My goal now was to get back to Hogwarts and start running things properly. There would be no more muggleborn in my school, no more werewolves, no more children with extra needs either. Hogwarts was about to become a training ground for the war.

Tom's point of view

"Minerva,

Dumbledore has taken back control of Hogwarts"

"We need to go to New York, right now."

Odd pipes began to appear around the place… each one had a powerful suction function and it indiscriminately dragged its prey out of the air…

The end.

AN: I know I know… how dare I end this on a cliffhanger?
I'm not technically doing NaNoWriMo this year.

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However I will be writing in November

The project I am writing in November will be Stark for President as 1 novel. It just doesn't seem to work as a series or I'm too WHATEVER to write the damn thing as a series. There will be two prequels to this version of Stark for president, this story and a Call the Midwife/Marvel crossover called A Clean Slate which precedes this one.