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Iron Dragons and Firelegs COMPLETE	By : FemmeBono Category: HP Canon Characters paired with Original Characters > Het - Male/Female Views: 2353 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
- 13
- 14
Cht. 14, Aftermath

Eight months later

Lucius and Severus were reclining on the leather divan before the smoking room fire, a glass of cognac in one hand and a hand-rolled Cuban in the other. Severus, silently admiring his green snake boots, which had been a Christmas gift from Lacey, glanced over at his silent friend. Despite a calm front, Lucius� glass belied the level of his nerves, as it was significantly lower than Snape�s. He had been thrown unceremoniously from his own bedroom after being deemed a coward and the foulest cockroach ever to slither across the face of the earth. In an effort to calm him, Lacey had sent for Severus, whose answer was to ply the man with cigars and liquor. Two floors up, Lacey tried to reason with her friend.
�Come on, girl! You can do this,� coached Lacey. �Breathe through it, honey.�
�I fecking AM breathing,� growled the girl as another large contraction wracked her body. She was doubled up near the foot of the bed with a medi-wizard that she swore was useless and a mid-wife who had gone back to trying to feed her ice chips. It was incredibly brave of the woman, considering the new Mrs. Malfoy had tried to punch her when the old lady started patting her hand.
�Here we are then,� the medi-wizard piped up, �we�ve got shoulders, so just one more big push, my girl and you�re through for the duration.�
�Oh goddamn Lucius,� gasped Kellye, scrunching up her face as she bent nearly in two again. �How could he do this to me?�
Standing next to her friend, Lacey considered it prudent not to point out that Kellye had opened herself up for it quite literally. Instead she stood blithely by, feeling the mother of all bruises on her arm from the younger girl clinging to it in her pain. When my time comes, thought Lacey idly stroking her burgeoning belly with her free hand, she�s getting all this paid back.
�Ah, there,� crooned the mid-wife as a hearty cry rent the air. She moved to stand by the medi-wizard and take the squalling pink baby who had just been ushered into the world. The medi-wizard swiftly clipped the cord and allowed the nurse to swaddle the child.
�Looks like you have a healthy baby girl, Mrs. Malfoy,� he said beaming as though the ordeal had never taken place. �Congratulations, madam.�
No sooner had he said this, then the nurse placed the baby in Kellye�s arms. Her eyes filling with tears as she looked upon her daughter for the first time, the new mother laughed as she looked back up to her friend. �She�s completely bald, poor thing.�
�Well, no,� said Lacey, running a finger over the soft little head. �She�s just really really blond, honey.�
�Oh,� crooned Kellye, tearing up again. �She looks like Daddy.�
As she said this, the medi-wizard exited, stopping only to shake hands with Lucius, who was already on his way inside. Malfoy crossed to his wife, planted a lingering kiss on her forehead and promptly swept the baby into his arms.
�A girl?� he asked incredulously, before breaking into a smug smile and settling down on the edge of the bed next to Kellye. He looked up at her wonderingly and said, �what in the world will I do now with two women in my life?�
�Spend entirely too much time with me, I wager,� said Severus, surveying the scene from the doorway.
�Bollocks,� said Malfoy.
�Step inside, Severus and meet my daughter. Livia Maria Malfoy,� he boasted, placing the baby in Snape�s arms before he could protest.
The tiny child opened her bleary eyes and met Severus� dark ones. For one breathless moment they simply stared at each other and Lacey felt her own eyes well up. The spell lasted for only a minute before she started wriggling and fussing, and Kellye held out her arms to try feeding.
Leaving the new mom and dad with their attentions wrapped up in their child, Lacey and Severus stepped quietly out the door and Flooed back home from the sitting room downstairs. They stepped out onto a Persian rug in the living room of the Prince cottage, and Severus led a yawning, waddling Lacey back to their bed. When they were both settled, Lacey sighed deeply, looking down at their linked hands and the diamond engagement ring glittering in the firelight.
�Four more months and that�ll be us,� she said.
Severus tipped his head forward and placed a kiss on her shoulder as he spooned around her. �And if Malfoy doesn�t return in kind with a bottle of mulled mead, we are no longer friends.�
Lacey swatted him and snorted. �He looked really happy to have a girl. I was surprised.�
�Things are much better now between he and Draco. Besides, there is no pressure to continue the lineage. He can be happy enough to spoil the child until the end of the earth.�
�And I�m sure he will, but he won�t be the only one.�
At that, Severus spread his hands wide over her rounded belly. �Father�s privilege,� he said.
�Do you think he�ll take after you?�
�Perish the thought,� said Severus wryly. �Although I will say this nose--and I should have warned you--does breed true. I�m afraid he�s stuck with it.�
�Ah, well,� she said, patting his hand. �You know what they say about big noses�� She began to laugh, only to shriek when he dipped his mouth to her neck and began tickling the sensitive flesh there.
�Just kidding, just kidding! I surrender,� she giggled, �stop!�
And there he left off, cradling her in his arms and nuzzling her hair as they both drifted off to sleep. It was only a matter of weeks until summer holidays, and little more than a year until Lacey�s retirement. Once the baby was born and she said goodbye to the military, they would be married down by the pond with its family of swans and its peaceful trickling waterfall. It would be a simple affair, with only close friends, not nearly as private as the sudden elopement months earlier of magical Britain�s elite patriarch. Malfoy had made headlines when he shocked the entire wizarding world by marrying a Muggle. Pureblood society had been even more scandalized to find that his new wife was already pregnant.
Severus, thankfully, would have to deal with none of that to-do. He still had several years left until his own retirement, but without the cloud of Voldemort hanging over his head, he even found that he enjoyed teaching nowadays. Now he could relax with his classes and bond with the students--a thing he never thought that he would see himself doing. Nevertheless, he looked forward to his nights at home, and so long as there was not a Hogsmeade weekend or nightly duty, he Flooed back to his little cabin in the woods to his fiancée who had been equipped with a Floo service of her own, connected to her major�s office. To Snape�s mind, it was the perfect set-up. And as he lay his head beside the mother of his child, he thought, this surely was the perfect end to a perfect day.
　

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Livia, first empress of Rome

Maria, last empress of Rome

(both consorts)
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- 14
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