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Stuck By Law COMPLETE	By : Talented_Mrs_Lupin Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Snape/Hermione Views: 56674 -:- Recommendations : 2 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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On Monday, Pix showed Hermione to her new office and she nearly swooned. The office was huge with a white desk, white hardwood floor with a dark blue area rug on it, magical filing cabinet that took up the entirety of one wall, floor to ceiling magical windows that showed a city line at dawn. There were magical computers, a hanging chair in the corner, a couch a little ways away and a small magical mini fridge. There was a door to the left side of the room that led to a private bathroom and to the side of the bathroom was a little ‘baby room’ so she could nurse and change the baby and put a little basinet for her to sleep in.
“I hope this office is suitable for you” Pix said “Mine is just down the hallway two doors to the left”
“Its beautiful” Hermione said “Are there files already in these cabinets?”
“No” She answered “When we get a new batch of students that come of age we will send them to you and we want you to read their files and place them together, slowly weeding them out”
“Okay” Hermione said “How do I make the files though?”
“By reading their letters” She answered “That’s a new adjustment. When a lady starts to correspond with a gentlemen you will also get a copy of the letters and you are to keep them in the files”
“But…why?!” Hermione was horrified at the thought of going through someone’s mail.
“Well we need to know if someone’s partner weather it’s a woman or man is being pushy or abusive” Pix answered “Also, if we see that say Miss. X and Mr. O are perfect for one another but she is leaning towards Mr. Q who isn’t perfect for her then we lean in a little”
“How?” Hermione asked.
“That’s up to you” Pix said “A letter of suggestion, a date between Mr. O and Miss. X”
“That would be good” Hermione agreed “Will I get cases that I follow like the person who has my case?”
“Well first things first” Pix said “Now that you work here you no longer have a caseworker. The other answer is yes, you will get a case as soon as I feel that you are ready”
Pix smiled for a few minutes before she told her to have a good day and to call her if she needed help with anything. Hermione circled her new office feeling more than a little overwhelmed, she sat down and turned on her computer checking her mail first thing. Other than a ‘welcome to the Ministry’ email from Percy she didn’t have anything so she leaned back and waited. She sat around for an hour with nothing to do and was about to call her boss to see if she was doing something wrong when a stack of files dropped on to her desk. She looked up to see a smirking young woman who looked at her pregnant belly with a nasty smirk before turning and walking out of the room.
By noon she had four possible matches made, she had decided that she would need to bring those files home (and any other ones that she may have done) to look at and make sure that there were no mistakes made. She had learned some spells, thanks to her boss, that allowed her to speed up the process of matching. She had her healthy lunch while she overlooked the already finished files before she finally moved on to another mans file. When the clock read 5:45pm Hermione jumped up and started collecting her stuff. She momentarily noticed that the skyline in her window was showing dusk, the sun was orangey and red with pink streaks. She collected a few files and then headed home to where she knew her husband would be waiting and angry about her spending so much time at work.
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As October came near an end and Hermione had been back at Hogwarts, she was working a lot and was saddened to say that she was happy. The ministry, while not being perfect, offered her a job that challenged her. She had never really noticed how unfulfilled she had been with the Malfoys, her job there, when she was first hired, had been to take care of their finances. But by the time they let her go she was more of a glorified babysitter of two grown women that had trouble not buying everything they saw. Now that she was in a position that challenged her and encouraged her to give her opinion on everything she wondered why she had put up with her little babysitting job for so long without going insane.
“What are you thinking about?” Severus asked as he laid on the bed and started rubbing her belly with a potion to keep the stretch marks away.
“I was just curious how I stayed a glorified babysitter for the Malfoys for so long” She answered with a shake of her head “I mean the ministry job has been so amazing and I am pretty sure that I have made some great matches”
“So” He said carefully as her moods had been so shaky recently and he didn’t want to anger her “You are suddenly okay with what they’re doing now that you get to call some of the shots?”
“No” She answered slowly thinking about her words before saying them “Not really. You know how I am, I freak out at first and then I do research and really think it through and often come up with my own conclusion”
“And what is that conclusion?” He asked.
“That it really does need to stop” She said “But that I understand Percy’s reasoning behind what he’s doing and I see why it’s a good idea for a little while but that it can’t happen forever”
“So” He leaned up “You’re okay with tricking people in to getting married?”
“No” She answered “That’s not really what I’m doing and I’ve decided that I am going to make the process so that it’s more like normal dating. Instead of the woman having all the choices and yet no choice at all I’m trying to change that” She said and he nodded “Remember when we started communicating, I had the right to just say screw you and never speak to you again”
“I know” He told her “I worried about that every time a letter showed up”
“Well” She said “I want to give the man that choice. Instead of him choosing her and her being the only one with the ability to say goodbye, he gets an equal chance to do that as well” She picked up her notebook with all her notes in it “I mean, we did good and are happy but what about someone who isn’t so happy?”
“They can divorce in the future” He pointed out as he moved to his side of the bed.
“Yes but what if the process was so perfect that they didn’t need to divorce” Hermione offered “That he chose say three women and they chose three men, went on a few dates and met with a counselor to narrow it down…I haven’t gotten it all figured out yet” She blushed and he kissed her.
“It sounds interesting” He promised “How is my daughter doing in there. You are remembering to eat regularly, right?”
“Of course” She answered “Percy invites me out to lunch every day and Pix checks on me all the time to bring me snacks or make sure that I’m eating properly”
“Good” He nodded “How about reading to her?”
“I read all my idea’s to her” Hermione said.
“But you promised to read some Potions Magazines to her too” He said “And other educational books or magazines along with the muggle classics we agreed on”
“I will” She promised
“When?” He asked “You only have two months left!”
“Calm your nerves” She soothed “I can also read to the baby after she comes out”
“But…” He started.
“Why don’t you read to her now?” She suggested and he smiled.
“Okay” He said “Before I do what do you think of Aibhlinn for a name?”
“Aibhlinn?” She repeated saying it incorrectly.
“Don’t say it like ‘A-bah-Lynn” He corrected gently “It’s pronounced ‘Eve-Leen’ or a lazier way of saying it would be Evelyn”
“I like it” Hermione said after a moment or two of saying it over and over again until she knew how it would feel and sound to say it “Unique like our names and yet beautiful as well”
“That’s what I thought” He said as he pulled out a Potions Magazine to read to Aibhlinn.
A/N: I hope you like this chapter. The name Aibhlinn means ‘Wished for’ or ‘Longed-for Child’. I liked it and thought it kind of fit the subject of this story so please tell me what you think.
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