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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Severus was at the school setting up his classroom for the next school term. He had been very upset about what the ministry was doing and yet, and he would never say this in front of Hermione, he could see the reasoning behind their want to make the decisions for their world. He had heard about muggleborns marrying their own cousins because “it was okay in their world” and knew that something had to be done. He sighed as he waved his wand around and watched the broom and dustpan clean away the dirt while a feather duster cleaned away the dust.
At the house Hermione was just sitting down in the living room with a good book while the rain once again pounded the roof. She could hear thunder rumbling in the distance and shuddered, she’d never been a big fan of thunder storms while she was by herself. Her little girl kicked her and she smiled down at her belly and leaned her head back, ignoring her book for the time being.
“You are going to be a potions genius like your daddy” She said to her tummy “And a wiz at ancient runes like your mummy”
“Let’s hope she doesn’t inherit a need to talk to herself” She heard from the doorway and jumped up she pulled her wand out and aimed it to the man in the doorway while a shield that she didn’t cast came up all around her.
“Nice” Draco said as he and Lucius walked in to the room “Good shield, I didn’t even see you move your wand”
“That’s not my shield charm” Hermione said as she lowered her wand and willed the baby to ease up on the uncontrollable shock of protective magic “That was the baby’s magic”
“Amazing” Lucius said as the shimmering of the shield became dimmer and then disappeared “She will be amazing”
“She?” Hermione asked “I haven’t told anyone…”
“Severus has a big mouth” Lucius answered with a smirk “I have to say he’s all proud of himself now”
“He should be” Hermione answered with a grin “Marta!” She called out and a house elf appeared next to her “Can you get us all some iced tea and can you get me some crisps…mmm, with sour cream so I can dunk?”
“Yes, ma’am” She answered and blinked out of the room.
“So, to what do I owe the pleasure of your company on my day off?” Hermione asked “And in the middle of the work day, no less”
“Hermione” Lucius said with a sigh “We love having you work for us, Narcissa and Astoria love having you around and you are an amazing employee…but…”
“You’re firing me?!” Hermione’s eyes turned from red hot coal to chips of ice in a second “Well fine, I don’t want to work for you anymore!”
“Well…” Lucius pushed his hair back and tried to think of a way that he could word his thoughts without upsetting the pregnant woman “We’re not firing you”
“Oh really?” She tapped her foot angrily on the floor “Then what, pray tell, are you doing?”
“Well” He answered “Next year there is going to be a lot of traveling as Narcissa has it in her heart to buy a new villa in Italy and new vacation homes in different parts of the country” She nodded “We would need you to go with her to make sure that her little trips don’t send us to the poorhouse, are you going to be able to go?”
“Well…” She started.
“Astoria wants to go to muggle Salem, America in October as a friend of hers told her its really fun” Draco picked up where his father had left off “We wanted to go to Paris for Christmas, New York for the New Year…we will be traveling a lot and will need you to come along…will you be able to with the newborn baby?”
“So that’s your angle” Hermione hissed “Come here when Severus isn’t around, tell me that you really want me on your team but my status as mother will get in the way because now you suddenly want me to go on all these trips that you never wanted me to go on before!”
“Hermione…” Lucius started
“Get out” She whispered “Get out…GET OUT!”
“Hermione, please” Draco started to walk forward but there was a strange shimmering that came from her and both men were shot across the room. Draco landed against the wall leaving a rather large dent and Lucius was shot out the door in to the dining room, neither man tried to speak again and left the house quickly.
Hermione stood there and seethed while she watched the stuff in her living room lift from their spots and smash against the walls. She had no job, she knew that Severus would like her to stay home and take care of the baby but that wasn’t her. She needed to work, she needed to be creative and solving a problem. Her breathing got heavier and heavier and yet she could feel the familiar tingling in her hands that told her that her magic was seconds away start to ebb away. She would get another job, that’s what she would do, something that would allow her to have a baby around or for her to go to appointments when she needed to. She’d make the Malfoy’s sorry they ever fired her because no matter what they claim they did fire her. She put her hands on her belly and felt the baby’s unharnessed magic throbbing against her hand.
“Lesson number one my daughter” Hermione said “In this world a woman has to make her own way. There is no help, there are no knights in shining armor to help you out of a sticky situations. You have to make your own luck, your own living and you can depend on no one other than your family and yourself. It’s a harsh lesson to learn but not to worry, my love, you have me to teach you”
“Ma’am” Marta said from next to her “Is you wanting your snack and tea?”
“No” Hermione answered “I’m going to take a nap”
~~~//~~~
Lucius and Draco entered Lucius’s office at their place of business. Both sat down on either side of the desk and looked at one another, the whole world would be raining down on them once Severus found out. He had gone from a complete sarcastic prick who cared for no one to something even worse than that…a complete sarcastic prick who cared for his wife. Not to mention that he was better at dark magic than either of them and when angry there was nothing to keep his wand at bay. They were both royally screwed and though neither would say anything out loud they were each trying to think of a way to be able to hide from him.
“Astoria is going to be pissed” Draco muttered still looking at his feet.
“And you think that Narcissa’s going to be happy?” Lucius snarled “She liked Hermione more than she likes me”
“Mr. Malfoy’s” Kay, an assistant, said from the doorway “Mr. Tutman, the undersecretary to the Minister of Magic is here”
“See him in” Lucius said and fixed his best death glare on his face while the other man walked in with a bounce in his step and a smile on his face.
“Mr. Malfoy” He shook Lucius’s hand “And Mr. Malfoy” He shook Draco’s hand “How good to see both of you”
“Likewise, I’m sure” Lucius sneered, clearly stating that the other mans presence in his office was not welcomed.
“I trust that all has gone well?” Tutman asked.
“Hermione has been let go” Lucius stated coldly “As demanded”
“The minister sends his deepest apologies, Lucius” Tutman said “But he feels that Mrs. Snape would be better utilized within the ministry in one of our newest departments”
“I’m sure” He sneered.
“All will work out” Tutman muttered “You saw it our way when you agreed to let her go…”
“You threatened to make sure that I went to Azkaban for a bogus charge” Lucius snapped, his eyes flared with an unbridled hatred as he looked at the man “Now, get out….you got what you wanted”
“Mr. Malfoy’s” Kay was back after the Mr. Tutman walked out of their office and she looked nervous to be standing there.
“What is it, Kay?” Draco asked after a moment when he realized that his father was still too angry to talk nicely to anyone at the moment. They had been caught between a rock and a hard place, as the muggles would say, because they had to fire Hermione for a bogus reason and couldn’t tell anyone else about it. All because the ministry wanted her for something.
“Severus Snape is here” She said shakily “And he is furious”
A/N: There you go. Would have been longer but my hand is killing me and I couldn’t write anymore. Tell me what you think PLEASE REVIEW!!!!
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