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What Happens Now?	By : astartelydianna Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Snape/Hermione Views: 16016 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Big thanks to JenJenSon for being my beta and finding time to go through this even though her footy team were playing today. (and mine too and they drew). Anyways....

What Happens Now?

Chapter 3

Hermione never found out what it was the Snape actually wanted her for when he came looking for her. Instead as they reached the dungeons he had automatically turned to enter the potions classroom and she had been left to return to their quarters. She did however corner him later when he returned from the evening meal in the great hall.

“So are you going to explain the house elf that is magically providing me with meals and snacks throughout the day and your behaviour earlier or am I supposed to just guess?” she asked him, as he passed the sofa where she sat.

“Knock yourself out.” He grunted, removing his outer robes and hanging them by the door.

“I’m being serious.” She insisted. “We need to talk about this sometime, I have to go see a medi-witch eventually and you’re supposed to be included in the decisions but you just seem busy acting indifferent to the whole thing when you’re obviously not.”

“I don’t care.” He mumbled.

“If you didn’t care about at the very least the baby, you wouldn’t have instructed Lolly to bring me healthy snacks and meals all day.” She pointed out.

“That was to stop you throwing up every second of the day, you’ve started to look paler than me you know?” he snapped.

“And I’m grateful for that.” She said, putting her book down and sitting up right. “I think I made my point earlier in the office; I know that you don’t love me, I know you don’t even particularly like me and I don’t love you either. I do however know that you’re not quite the heartless bastard you act like all the time either so can you cut the crap and just sit and have a sensible conversation about the fact that I am going to have your baby?!”

Severus Snape didn’t exactly know how to react to the small girl’s rant. He opened his mouth to reply but shut it again uselessly while he tried to think of the best approach. Finding none he just let his body lower itself to sit next to her on the sofa.

“Speak.” He sighed defeated.

“Alright, you are who you are and I don’t expect that’ll change all that much wife or no wife, baby or no baby, but we are having a baby and I’d rather the baby didn’t know that his or her parents spend more time fighting or avoiding each other than anything else. Out there I don’t care how much of an arse you are to your students, in here I don’t expect miracles but I want you to be civil and try to take part in our child’s life as much as you can. Is that acceptable?” Hermione asked.

“You think I’d take this out on the baby?” he asked in a stiff voice.

“That’s not what I said, but I know you don’t really like children so...I thought maybe you’d just be distant.” She tried to explain.

“I don’t like teenagers, especially hot headed ones that come into my classroom and make things blow up. Potions are dangerous, magic is dangerous and far too many students treat the whole things as fun and games. That is why I’m an arse, as you put it. If my students are too scared to run riot they won’t, therefore less accidents.” He explained. “I don’t know how to be a good father, mine was a pathetic excuse for one but I will try. I never thought I’d ever even have a child much less have one forced on me but it isn’t the child’s fault.”

“I’m glad you agree.” Hermione nodded, she reached out shyly and took his hand. “It doesn’t matter that you’re strict, parents are allow to be strict to prevent their children getting hurt. As long as our child knows that you care about it that’s what’s important. You’ll be a good father.”

“And try not to let the child realise our whole marriage is a complete farce.” He muttered.

“It doesn’t have to be. We’re married end of. Not all marriages have love, not the romantic kind and let’s face it, the ministry is just throwing people together that’s given us a lousy start.” Hermione sighed, releasing her hand. “But what we can do is start from the beginning and try to be good company for each other, try to get along. That’s all we can do.”

“So, I trust you’ve felt better today?” Severus asked awkwardly. Hermione nodded. “Good, and you need to see a medi-witch?”

“Yes, unfortunately it would appear the pregnancy is not something the Hogwarts library covers in much detail so I don’t really know what to expect or what I should or shouldn’t be doing. That’s why I was talking to Minerva when you turned up yesterday. I didn’t even know what type of travel was allowed.”

“Floo or broom.” He answered automatically.

“So I could have asked you that whole time?” Hermione asked in disbelief.

“I did some studying as a Healer when I was doing my Mastery in Potions.” He explained dismissively. “Is there a reason why you wouldn’t just go and see Poppy with these questions?”

“Well...as you can imagine a student or two seeing Professor Snape’s wife regularly visiting a medi-witch...” she left the rest hanging.

“Enough said.” He nodded. “Sorry if being my wife is causing you to be the centre of gossip and speculation.”

“Like I told Minerva, I could have done much worse.” She shrugged.

“Some would not agree.” He said narrowing his eyes. Hermione couldn’t help but laugh. “Into the fireplace with you.”

“What, now?” she asked.

“Yes now, let’s go and find you a medi-witch.” He said impatiently, ushering her into the fireplace. She took a handful of powder and in a flash of flames and smoke she was stepping out into a clean white hallway. Seconds later something hit her from behind causing her to topple forward but an arm reached around her waist to hold her up before she fell very far. “Did you think to move from the fireplace Miss-Hermione? Since you knew I would be coming out behind you?”

“Sorry.” Hermione mumbled, as they headed to the reception desk.

“Good evening can I help y- Oh Professor Snape!” the lady recognised him immediately. “What can I do for you today?”

“We require a medi-witch, for my wife.” He told the young witch.

“Oh!” she exclaimed. “Of course, if you could just fill in these forms Mrs Snape and you’ll need to sign them too Professor and someone will be with you as soon as possible.”

“Thank you.” Hermione said, as her husband just took the clipboard and stalked off without a word. As she took a seat next to him she saw that he had already started filling in the form for her. “You know all that about me?”

“Most of it, yes.” He nodded, before signing the section at the bottom and passing the forms to her. There were only a few bits missing from the forms such as the first day of her last period and the part where she had to sign. Hermione went to hand the forms back over to the receptionist.

“Excellent.” She smiled up at Hermione, as she quickly scanned through the forms. “I assume you would prefer a female medi-witch?”

“Please.” Hermione nodded.

“First pregnancy?” the other witch asked. Hermione nodded shyly. “I assure you we’ve got several brilliant medi-witches that are wonderful and experienced with pregnancies. We’ll be needing them in the coming months with all these new marriages.”

“Of course.” Hermione nodded.

“Please take a seat I’ll put these forms through and someone will be out in the next five to ten minutes for you.” She smiled.

“Well?” Severus asked as Hermione sat back down.

“Five to ten minutes.” Hermione replied. “Could you at least you know...not try to scare the hell out of the medi-witch? This person is going to be delivering our baby so...I’d appreciate it if you’d play nice.”

“As you just pointed out, this person is going to be directly responsible for the medical wellbeing of my wife and child so if they prove to be remotely incapable then no I will not play nice.” He replied. Hermione just sighed in defeat.

“Mrs Snape?” a voice called a few minutes later. Hermione stood and headed over to the older witch. Severus reluctantly and menacingly followed suit. “I’m Madam Sellious but please call me Mary.”

“Hermione.” Hermione smiled, shaking the older witches hand. Hermione liked her instantly, she reminded her a bit of Molly Weasley, she was a similar age with dirty blonde coloured hair tied into a loose ponytail over her shoulder and the same warm roundness to her figure.

“and this must be the lucky father to be.” Mary smiled, reaching out to greet Severus. He took her hand and shook it before they were both shown through to a private room. “Please take a seat. So you’re expecting then Hermione? You’re first?”

“Yes.” Hermione nodded.

“How exciting! The first is always both the most terrifying and exciting.” The medi-witch said fondly. “Right, so from your dates on here that would make you around seven weeks. So I just need to do a test for our records to confirm.” She stood and retrieved a potion vial from the cupboard behind her and passed it to Hermione. Hermione drank it down in one. The same pulsing glow filled her stomach. “Excellent, so that definitely confirms the pregnancy. Have you been having any symptoms?”

“Sickness.” Hermione replied. “Lots of it.”

“Well, that’s a sign of a strong pregnancy so as awful as it seems it’s a good sign. Basically it means your hormones are all doing their jobs. To ease the nausea you should eat little and often. Perhaps instead of three main meals even split it into five or six smaller ones. Try to have a tiny snack before you even get out of bed in the morning that will probably help.” Mary said. “Anything else.”

“My um...” Hermione blushed, and deliberately looked away from her husband. “my breasts hurt, only for the past week.”

“That’s normal too. It’ll probably happen on and off throughout the pregnancy. They’ll grow too, sometimes by a lot towards the end.” The medi-witch nodded, then she seemed to take in the couples discomfort. “Ah, Ministry pairing are we?”

“Yes.” Hermione replied quietly.

“I didn’t spot it at first; your husband comes across as very protective of you.” The lady smiled. “I’m sure you too will still work out just fine. You have the whole of this pregnancy to get to know each other. You wouldn’t believe some of the couples that I see in here!”

“I’m lucky.” Hermione nodded. “I could have done a lot worse.”

“Right my girl, I’ve got some reading material for you, basic do’s and don’ts and of course if you have any questions then ask away. Feel free to make an appointment to ask questions or just for a check up at any time but the next appointment that I need to make for you isn’t until around twelve weeks.” Mary explained, handing a book and a few leaflets to Hermione. “The twelve week appointment is a very exciting one so be sure to bring your husband with you. You’ll get to see the baby for the first time, we have both muggle and wizarding methods of doing this in the hospital so whichever you’d prefer. We’ll take a few blood tests and you’ll be able to hear the baby’s heartbeat as well.”

“Thank you.” Hermione smiled at her. “I’ll read all this first and then come back if I still have questions.”

“Excellent, and you Mr Snape? Any questions?” the medi-witch asked, as he and Hermione stood to leave.

“Just one, are there any potions she should not be given during pregnancy?” he asked.

“Ah, that Snape.” Mary nodded. “That Professor, of course I should have known it straight away but I didn’t connect the dots. I blame that on six kids and old age. There is a list of potion ingredients that could be harmful for the baby in the information I gave Hermione, let me just grab another list so you can each have a copy.”

“Thank you.” He nodded.

With that the couple made their way back to the floo connections and back to Hogwarts. Hermione for one was much happier now that she was armed with reading material. Severus however refused to allow her to read it that night, instead practically forcing her into bed to get some rest assuring her that she would have plenty of time to read them tomorrow.

“And perhaps if you find that you are feeling better you may also take a trip to Miss Weasley.” He commented, turning off the light and climbing into bed himself.

“She’s Mrs Potter now.” Hermione commented. “Besides I thought you wanted me where you could find me.”

“Well if I know where you are then I can still find you can I not?” he retorted. After a moments silence he spoke again. “I may have over-reacted, but with you pregnant you will need to get into the habit of telling me if you have plans to go somewhere so that if later down the line there is an emergency I can find you.”

“If I feel alright at lunchtime and then I will come and tell you if I am going out to visit anyone.” Hermione told him, before rolling onto her side away from him and closing her eyes.
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