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Stuck By Law COMPLETE	By : Talented_Mrs_Lupin Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Snape/Hermione Views: 56665 -:- Recommendations : 2 -:- Currently Reading : 1
Disclaimer: I don't own anything to do with Harry Potter and make no money off of this, it's only fanfiction.

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Severus awoke in the middle of the night breathing heavily and clutching his chest. He dropped back to his pillow and looked next to him, Hermione was sleeping peacefully beside him snoring lightly. If she had nightmares from the war he never knew it, she wouldn’t tell him and she apparently never woke up in a state of panic like he did. His nightmares had changed since the war, no longer would he see the dark lord torturing him, instead he would be torturing and killing Hermione and Aibhlinn. It was always the torture of his little girl that hurt the most, he knew that Hermione could and would protect herself but his daughter was too small. While she was already showing signs of magic it was no-where near strong enough to take down Voldemort as she was only a baby. He tried to relax but a sharp, burning pain over his old dark mark scar caused him to tense up again.
“Fuck it” He groaned and pulled himself out of bed “It almost five anyway”
He took a shower and dressed for the day. Then, stood in the bedroom for a full five minutes and watched his wife sleep. He had given much thought to the worry she had expressed a few days before about keeping the law in place. It did have its perks and as any father would, he had his worries and doubts about his daughters ability to choose for herself (and she was still a baby) but he also knew how miserable some were because of this law. It was like playing god and while he wasn’t a religious man by any means he didn’t think it wise to try to do that. His scar throbbed and he frowned down at it before hearing Aibhlinn start crying and heading off in that direction to change and take care of her.
“Shh” He whispered to her “You’ll wake mummy” The baby gurgled and said something that could have been ‘dada’ before giggling “You don’t think I’m a house-wizard, do you?” Aibhlinn laughed and slapped her hands against his while changed her pajama’s “Oh great, already laughing at me. It would be my luck I’d have a child that was likely born with James Potter’s soul” She laughed again and hit at his arms playfully while he sat down with a bottle to feed her “Now shush” He said “Or I will give you up for adoption and convince your mother the merfolk took you as their own…we can always make another one” Aibhlinn slowly fell back to sleep in her favorite place, Severus’s arms while he read a book by firelight, not wanting to wake her up again. He looked at her sleeping form and smiled to himself, they were all words for he knew that he would never be able to give her up, he needed her more than he needed his next breath. He leaned forward and very gently kissed her forehead whispering those very words to her while she dreamed. She and Hermione were more than he ever deserved, this was backed up by a particularly painful throb from his dark mark scar. He had no idea that at that moment Lucius and Draco were both shocked awake by the similar burning in their own scars.
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Dear Hermione,
While I share your fear about Aibhlinn marrying the wrong guy…or any guy for that fact, I can’t in good faith tell you that you should keep the law in place. I’ve thought about this for the past couple of days and I think that there is the possibility that we are one of the very few matches that are happy and not suffering under it. In the end I know that you will make your mind up for yourself but I merely ask that you please remember why you ran for the position of minister in the first place. It wasn’t so you could keep everything the way that Percy made it, it was so that you could get the world back to the way it was before…no, it was so that you could make it better than it ever was. Whatever you choose I will always support you but I beg that you choose something that you are able to live with.
With love,
Severus.
Hermione sighed and leaned back against her the back of her office chair. She knew that he was right even before he wrote her the letter that morning, she was scared and even angry when she had suggested keeping the law in place. Severus had been perfect, he listened to her crazy ideas and worries and then just kissed her and told her he loved her. That was all she ever needed to hear, that he loved her and suddenly the world slowed down again and her brain kick started and she was normal again. She had spent most of the evening reading to Aibhlinn and talking with her. That night she put her to bed with Severus standing in the doorway watching her with a happy expression on his face.
“Mrs. Snape” Hermione’s assistant said walking in to her office “There is a reporter here to talk to you about the upcoming election”
“Yes” Hermione said “Thank you, can you send her in please?”
“Of course” The young woman answered and walked out. Hermione put the letter safely in a drawer that she locked with a strong charm before folding her hands on the desk top and waited.
“Here you are, Miss. Skeeter” Nadia showed her in “Anything I can get you ladies, Mrs. Snape?”
“Yes” She said “Some tea please Nadia, if you will”
“Of course” She answered and walked out of the office only to reappear a few minutes later with the tea and cakes.
“Hello Rita” Hermione greeted as the door was closed and she silenced it “It’s been a while”
“It has” Rita agreed “You look wonderful and I have to say that I do love writing the stories about you”
“I bet” Hermione answered “Now the story I am going to tell you I will be reading before you leave and I will be bringing the story to your editor so there’s no way you can make changes to it”
“Still suspicious, I see” Rita smirked “Or is that your husband rubbing off on you?”
“A bit of both, I’m sure” Hermione answered honestly “I’ve always been suspicious of you, Rita” She smiled “And with good reasoning, I’m sure you’ll agree”
“I will” She answered.
“Severus has just helped me remember that the world isn’t candy and rainbows” Hermione said “Nothing bad”
“So this story” Rita said after they sat in silence and stirred their tea for a while.
“Ah yes” Hermione said nodding her head “Where to begin”
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What If:
What if…that is something that you ask yourself many times throughout your life. What if you hadn’t had that extra slice of cake, what if you had gone to the dance with that boy and what if you’d made a different decision? These are questions that sadly for most, you will never have an answer for…or could you? I sat down with Hermione Snape and she told me a story about a potion that most never think to try and she told me what she learned her life would have been like without the marriage law.
“I took a ‘What If’ Potion” Hermione told me just yesterday “It’s a potion that will show you what your life could have been like if you had made a different decision” Here she looks saddened but soldiered on with her story “I saw what my life would have been like without the law and I have to say that I am happy the law was put in place” While she never gave me all the details she did give me some “I was married to someone that didn’t love me, someone who cheated on me and flaunted it around for me to see. It was an emotionally and verbally abusive relationship for both of us and I was horrified to learn that I was so unhappy in this marriage that I was cheating on my husband” She was forced to wipe away the tears that were streaming down her face “It was terrible. That is not a life I want for myself and am happy to have my husband, Severus”
While this reporter watched the emotional young woman break down completely I found myself crying as well. Isn’t it every woman’s fear that the man that should love them for all eternity really doesn’t love them at all? That may be the reasoning behind so many single women and mothers without husbands and why so many children had only one parent. It’s a trust thing and poor Hermione Snape saw just how horrible it could have been. She wants to let everyone know that she thanks Minister Weasley for placing the law when he did because it saved her life and her heart.
Written By: Rita Skeeter
A/N: I hope you like this and what’s up with Snape’s scar? Please Review!!!!
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