Stuck By Law *COMPLETE* | By : Talented_Mrs_Lupin Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Snape/Hermione Views: 56665 -:- Recommendations : 2 -:- Currently Reading : 1 |
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Two weeks later Severus walked in to his sitting room after his classes and heard sobbing coming from the bedroom. He looked at the clock which read 4:15 an hour after his last class and still another hour or so before Hermione got home from work. He pulled his wand out of his arm-holster and silently made his way to the darkened room, pushing the door open and looking around the corner. Hermione was sitting on the bed with clothes all around her, she was shaking and attempting to keep her sobs quiet.
“Hermione?” He said walking over as quickly as he could to her side without running “What’s wrong…what’s happened?” As he knelt down looking at her, taking in her tear streaked face and shaking form. All the thoughts about what he read could happen in a pregnancy went through his head and he suddenly felt fear and a pain in his chest that made him worry.
“I…” She looked at him “I…”
“Hermione” He said soothingly “You know that I can’t give you a calming draught. I need you to take a deep breath and know that I am not going to be mad or angry, I love you and you can tell me anything” He watched her looking at him for a minute before she shook her head and noisily wiped her nose and face.
“It’s stupid, really” She answered in a quivering voice “As Ron would say, it’s completely mental”
“What is it?” He asked again “I’ll be the judge of what’s mental or not, okay?”
“I came home around three forty-five” She told him “I knew that you’d be back soon and I know that we haven’t…had sex in weeks. So, I was going to put on that kinky little nightie I bought in Hawaii on our honeymoon”
“Alright” Severus said “You could have been wearing a tea-cozy like a common house-elf and I would have been aroused by merely seeing you”
“Not anymore though” Hermione sobbed out “It doesn’t fit…neither does my wedding gown” She waved her hand at the two garments and a few others that lay on the floor near the bed “I’m fat!” She screamed “I’m fat and ugly…I found two zits this morning and I have a few stretch marks on my hips now”
“You are more beautiful now than you were on our wedding day” Severus said and then she burst in to even more body-shaking sobs “No, no…I didn’t mean it like that!” He racked his brains for the right thing to say. If he were kind and gentle like Remus he would know what to say to her, if he were married even half the time Arthur was then he would know her well enough to have said the right thing in the first place.
‘Believe me’ Potter’s voice from his wedding day rang out in his head ‘When Hermione is crying or freaking out about something, the worse thing you can do is lie to her about what’s bothering her. I’m not saying to be a jerk to her about it but agree and then point out all the good that comes from whatever the problem is’
“Okay” He said soothingly “You are gaining weight” She started wailing again and he rubbed her arms until she calmed once more “Hermione, we’re having a baby. You can’t keep your shape and expect a baby to grow like that, it needs room to grow, plus if you want we can go for walks in the morning and the evening for exercise and once the baby comes I’ll help you lose the baby weight”
“Really?” She sniffled “But…what about until the baby comes, I’m a whale!”
“You are not a whale” He assured her “You are the woman that is becoming more and more beautiful as the months go by. You are carrying my baby in there and I happen to find that not only beautiful but sexy as well…what man wouldn’t?”
“But my stomach…” She muttered looking at her still relatively flat stomach that only had a slight bump to it.
“Is expanding with my child” He said placing his hand on it “And I couldn’t be happier”
“Really?” She asked “You’re excited?”
“I’m terrified” He said “But I can’t wait to teach our child all about the world that we fought to make safe”
“Thank you” She whispered and jumped on him causing him to fall on to the bed with a laugh. He ran his fingers through her hair and smiled to himself for a job well done.
“Well” She muttered with her head gently against his “I guess I should have known. I just didn’t expect to get fat right away, I thought that it wouldn’t happen until I was like five or six months…I’m only two and a half”
“The book I’ve been reading” He said “What To Expect When The Witch You Love Is Expecting, told me that it really depended on the body shape of the woman. You’ve always had an amazingly curvy body so you may gain more weight than say Ginny”
“What do you mean exactly?” She asked secretly touched that he was reading that sort of book because of her.
“Ginny is tall and rail thin” He pointed out “You are shorter and have curves. Ginny will probably only get a little belly and you will likely get a larger one, however I am not a healer so I may be wrong” He kissed her forehead “The only thing I am sure about is that I am happy with you, that you are the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen and I know that will never change”
“You’re so sweet” She leaned up and kissed his lips before pulling back with a sigh “Do you think the house-elves would send up a dish of potatoes with muggle mayonnaise mixed in to it?”
“That sounds…” He looked at her “Wonderful and I am sure that they wouldn’t mind in the least”
“Will you ask them?” She pouted.
“Of course, my love” He kissed her again and stood up.
~~~//~~~
Hermione sat with Tonks and Ginny at a small café they had found in Diagon Alley. How the place remained open while it was so hidden and fairly priced she would never understand. However, it had become one of her favorite places to go with the girls on their Fridays out. She was currently enjoying an extra-large and extra-sticky cinnamon bun, the way she would close her eyes and moan in ecstasy made the girls laugh. She merely glared at them and finally put her bun down, wiped her hands on her linen napkin, wiped the corners of her mouth and took a sip of her extra sweetened tea.
“Sorry” She said blushing slightly “It’s really good, though I feel that if my parents knew how much sugar I’ve been consuming they would kill me”
“You’re pregnant” Ginny pointed out “Its normal to crave things that you don’t normally eat. I’ve been craving broccoli…I hated broccoli before I got pregnant”
“But I thought the cravings didn’t start until like your fifth month!” Hermione said glaring at the pastry as if it was personally to blame for tasting so good.
“They can start anytime” Tonks said “I didn’t get my first craving until I was like seven months along with Teddy”
“I have cravings every now and then” Ginny said “Like the broccoli…sometimes I just need to eat and then nothing”
“Well” Hermione frowned “I wake up craving super-sweet tea and it only gets worse from there. I actually brought chocolate in to bed last night”
“Did you get it on the bed?” Ginny asked.
“Oh yeah” She smiled and shook her head.
“Was Severus very angry?” Tonks asked and Hermione laughed at them shaking her head in wonder.
“It was melted chocolate” She told them and when they just stared at her she added “I put it all over Severus…and licked it off, believe me we got it all over the place and he didn’t mind in the least”
“Got to love those hormones” Tonks said while Ginny laughed “Mine got terrible around my sixth month, poor Remus even with the extra strength and stamina he has because of the Lycanthropy couldn’t keep up and had horrible cramps in his lower back and legs the next day”
“It’s hard to believe that in one more week I’ll be going in to my second trimester” Hermione said “This is all moving so quickly and soon there will be a baby in my arms”
“The trimesters are so strange and different” Tonks said “In the first trimester if it weren’t for the feeling of butterflies flying around your tummy and the slight weight gain you’d never know. Then the second trimester hits and is marked with more weight gain, more breast tenderness, heartburn and by the end baby movement. Finally, the third trimester, you’re a complete whale, never want to have sex, looks like an alien is trying to escape from your stomach and you’re ready to reach up and pull the kid out yourself”
“So basically” Ginny surmised “It goes from ‘Oh my god…’ to ‘Isn’t my belly adorable?’ to ‘Get out of me you demon!’, right?”
“Yes” She answered and all three women shared a laugh “So, how is Severus coming around?”
“Good” Hermione answered “Surprisingly. He’s been reading about muggle and magical pregnancies along with ‘how-to’ parenting books, he constantly talks with Remus, as you know” She gave her a look which the older woman nodded at “And he’s been owling Arthur a lot to for advice I think. I really think that he is coming to grips with this and it even excited about it sometimes. He’s even been really cute, when I had a break down about my weight gain last week he did everything he could think of to make me happy again”
“Have you guys thought about baby names yet?” Ginny asked eagerly “Harry and I have been kicking a few around like Lilian Rose for a girl and Arthur James for a boys name”
“Those are wonderful names” Hermione said honestly “I like the use of Harry’s parents names in there”
“Mine as well” Ginny said “My mothers middle name is Rose. We decided that the girls name would have his mothers name first but the boys name would have my father name first”
“Good decision” Tonks said and Hermione nodded “Remus and I are thinking about names but end up getting irritated over it so, whatever. The baby will likely be known as ‘The Lupin baby’ for the first three years of its life until we can agree, what about you and Severus?”
“I’m not even out of my first trimester so of course not” She said “And we said that we aren’t even going to think about it until after we know that I am having”
“Well” Ginny said “Good luck getting him to agree anything you want” Hermione smiled knowingly, they all thought her husband as a man who was hard to get along with but she knew differently. He was kind and gentle and loved her, he would agree with whatever she wanted not that she was going to abuse that knowledge though.
A/N: I hope you like this, still resting up after the long week of work but I’m doing what I can. I’ve got to start working on making Christmas presents, LOL. PLEASE REVIEW!!!!
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