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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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A big thanks and a virtual brownie for my beta JenJenSon for her help as always.

What Happens Now?

Chapter 5

Hermione sighed and put down her books at last. She had made significant progress in her studies and had decided to combine her two degrees to lighten her workload slightly. Since she had decided to do both potions and charms she had decided to make her research about how spells could affect potion making. She had written her summary on the negative points and negative affects and then the advantages of it but she needed to do more than written work. She needed to prove her ideas with some practical research, the only catch was that if Severus found out about her attempting some of her potions while pregnant he would probably shout so loud the whole of the Slytherin dorms would hear him.

“Well...he has a private lab...” she murmured to herself thoughtfully. “Some of my potions don’t take long so I could get some done while he’s busy teaching...that only leaves the longer potions to figure out.” She frowned and stopped talking to herself to write a list of everything she would need to efficiently make three of her potions tomorrow while he was teaching.

Her stomach growled and interrupted her thoughts a few moments later. It was nearly time for dinner and Hermione at now eleven and a half weeks had finally stopped feeling ill all the time. She still had the occasional moment where she felt pretty bad but she was glad that the sickness seemed to be going away at last. Ginny however was now at seven weeks and experiencing her sickness in full swing.

She went and found some more suitable clothes to wear and decided to join everyone in the great hall today since she could actually enjoy her food again. She usually had her meals in the great hall once or twice a week to catch up with Minerva and Hagrid. Severus rarely spoke to her in the great hall or any time in public actually but he had been making more of an effort to be civil in their rooms so at least she had that to be thankful for.

She made her way to the hall and was there before even her husband. Minerva beamed when she saw her.

“My dear you’ve started glowing!” she said happily. “Are you showing yet?”

“A tiny bit, but you can’t tell through my clothes really.” Hermione said. “Molly said it won’t be long now though. She said everyone will probably be able to tell in the next month or so.”

“It’s very exciting though.” The older witch smiled.

“It is.” Hermione admitted. “I’m definitely a lot more excited about the idea now that I’m not feeling so sick all the time.”

“Hermione, I didn’t know you were joining us this evening.” She heard a familiar drawl appear beside her.

“Well since a student already asked me yesterday if it was true that I was your wife I figured there was no reason to hide in our rooms all day.” Hermione retorted.

“Which student?” Severus snapped.

“I don’t know.” She sighed. “Is that important? You can’t really give them detention for asking a simple question and he was very polite about it.”

“And what did you say?” Minerva asked with a smile.

“I just said yes.” Hermione shrugged. “He said ‘really?’ and then ran off pretty quickly.” Hermione left out the part where he looked at her in sheer horror. Minerva just chuckled quietly while Severus stabbed at his food in anger.

“Severus if you break that plate you’re going to look pretty silly.” Minerva chided.

“Well, what is it with students in this school and having to know everything? We’re definitely going to have to hide the child when it gets here.” He muttered.

“And what about before then? When I’m a pregnant whale? Are you going to lock me up too?” Hermione asked in horror. “I don’t see what the big deal is, you’ll have a wife and child like loads of other wizards out there. It’s normal.”

“Nothing about this marriage is normal.” He snapped, getting up and leaving the hall. Hermione sighed; she really was getting sick of him doing that.

They barely spoke for nearly a week and when they did it was abrupt, direct and barely more than three words. Hermione was hoping that he would have come around sooner but he didn’t seem to be calming down at all. So she sent him a note with the details for her appointment later in the day and decided to go for a walk and visit Hagrid in the meantime.

Just as first period ended Severus noticed an envelope on his desk. Curious that he didn’t recognise the handwriting or seal he dismissed his class and then opened it.

‘I have an appointment at half three this afternoon to see the baby. You are welcome to come. Hermione’

He put the note back in the envelope and tossed it in his draw before his next class started trailing in. Did he want to go? He wasn’t sure, he would have to cut his last class short to make it, not that the students would mind of course but he was more worried about how awkward it would be.

Hermione helped Hagrid prepare for his afternoon class, he found her suggestions to be brilliant and asked if she would consider coming down to review his lesson plans sometime to see if she had anything useful to add. Since it wasn’t so long ago that she was on the student side of things she was very happy to help him with a few ideas that would get the students attention and keep them interested.

“Why don’t you stay for the class?” he asked.

“I would but my appointment’s at half three so I’d best go and get ready for it and make my way over.” She replied. “And since it would appear that my beloved husband is not coming I’d get there early so I can calm myself down. I’m very nervous.”

“It’ll be fine ‘Mione, don’t you worry.” He told her firmly. “and as for Snape, you give him an earful, don’t let him push you around for one second.” Hermione hugged him tightly as they said goodbye and she headed up to the castle.

Half an hour later Hermione took a handful of floo powder and stood in the fireplace. She stepped out and into the St Mungo’s entrance and headed to the reception area to sign in.

“Alright Mrs Snape, please take a seat and someone will be with you shortly.” The lady smiled.

Hermione took a seat in the waiting room, she was so nervous. She tried to spend the time deciding if she was going to have a muggle scan or a magical one. It wasn’t long before a shadow appeared in front of her.

“You didn’t wait for me then?” he asked.

“You didn’t reply to my note so I assumed you weren’t coming!” Hermione retorted, as he took a seat next to her.

“I nearly didn’t.” He replied, Hermione frowned at his blatant indifference. “You know how much it pains me to let students off early.” She snapped her head up to look at him in surprise.

“You must be losing your touch dear because I’m sure that was a joke.” She said quietly.

“Oh dear, we wouldn’t want that would we?” he smirked.

“Mrs Snape?” a voice called, Hermione stood and headed over to the medi-witch, Severus following closely behind. “Ah Hermione, Professor; nice to see you again. Please come straight through.”

They came and sat back in the room they had visited before.

“Now Hermione, if you’d like to just hop up here and we’ll have a look at you.” Mary smiled. Hermione walked over to the bed and climbed up before laying down awkwardly. “Nothing to worry about we’re just going to have a quick look at your tummy and have a listen for your little one’s heartbeat. So if you could pull your shirt up for me.”

Hermione pulled her shirt up and Severus felt he should avert his gaze so he did.

“Very nice, you’re starting to show which is wonderful.” Mary said, instantly his eyes snapped to Hermione’s stomach of their own violation. Sure enough he could see the slight swelling of her stomach, a small bump that he hadn’t even known was there. Moments later a thumping sound almost similar to the sound of a train filled the room. “And that’s the little one’s heartbeat. You’ll notice that it’s quite a bit faster than your own heartbeat. Have you decided whether you want a muggle or magical scan?”

“I don’t really mind, I’ve heard that the actual image is pretty much the same.” Hermione replied. The medi-witch stepped away from Hermione, letting the heartbeat grow quieter until it faded away and she sat up and pulled her shirt down.

“Well, the pictures that you’ll get to keep are usually the only difference, the muggle ones don’t move where as the magical ones do.” Mary explained.

“OK, magical then if that’s the only difference.” Hermione decided.

“Right you sit tight and I’ll go and get everything.” The medi-witch nodded, leaving them in the small room alone. Neither one said anything; they both felt a bit emotional but didn’t really know what to say to the other. A moment later Mary was back with a strange looking glass type object. “Right, Professor you’re going to want to take a seat up there by the head of the bed so you can see the projection on this wall here. Hermione if you lie back down and lift up your shirt I’ll get the lights.”

Severus awkwardly moved to sit next to Hermione’s upper half and they both stared at the black wall ahead of them until the light went off. The medi-witch moved the glass object over Hermione’s stomach and started chanting. Hermione held her breath as slowly an image began to appear on the wall ahead of them. Straight away she could see the baby shape in her stomach and felt her eyes start to tear up.

“Here we go, you can see your little one looks very happy in there. This over here is the heartbeat that we heard earlier. The next time we do this you’ll be able to find out the sex if you want to.” Mary explained. Hermione was enchanted, she let out a little laugh of happiness as she saw the baby kick out it’s legs in a frog like moment and move around in her stomach.

“Can you feel that?” Severus suddenly asked her.

“No.” Hermione replied shaking her head.

“You’ll probably start feeling some slightly butterfly movements in about a month and from then on they’ll start to get more distinctive movements.” Mary told them both, she glanced at Severus. “You probably won’t be able to feel them until at least twenty weeks but you will eventually be able to feel him or her kicking from the outside. Do you have any questions?”

Hermione just shook her head in response, staring at the screen as if in a trance. Mary leant over the glass on Hermione’s stomach again and started chanting before laying a small card on the glass that blocked the image on the wall. Moments later she removed the card and replaced it with another before removing that also and then taking the glass away and turning the lights back on. She handed the two pieces of card to them, one each and ushered them back to their original seats.

“Thank you.” Hermione murmured, staring at the picture of her wriggling baby. Severus quickly tucked his inside his robes and took a seat next to his young wife. He could see the tears on her face still now that the lights were on.

“Now Hermione, I’ll need you to come back at sixteen weeks for a few simple test and a check up; your husband can come if he wants to. The next scan will be at about twenty weeks so Professor you will probably want to come to that one. For now though it would seem everything is progressing nicely, perfectly healthy and normal.” Mary told them.

They said their goodbyes and headed back to the floo where Severus disappeared straight through first and left Hermione to follow. When she stepped out of their fireplace she found that he was already gone. Hermione let herself cry now, she was so happy after seeing her baby but...her husband didn’t seem to care at all.

It was late when a movement in the bed woke Hermione. She groaned and rolled over.

“Sorry, but you were taking up the whole bed.” Severus’s voice said. “You’re not big enough to start claiming that you need the whole bed to yourself yet.” Hermione smiled a little at that. How could he change between hot and cold so quickly? She almost jumped as she felt a hand on her shoulder, turning her onto her back so Severus could see her in the dim light. There had been an unspoken rule that they pretty much avoided each other in bed to prevent them feeling awkward. “Sorry.”

“It’s OK, I know this isn’t really what you wanted.” Hermione replied sleepily. The dark man just stared down at her intently.

“No Hermione, I might have never let myself hope I’d find myself with a wife and child but I do want this baby.” He said quietly. “It hasn’t seemed real to me until now.”

“Do you mean it?” Hermione asked softly.

“Are you questioning my word?” he chuckled.

“Oh yes trust the word of the Head of Slytherin.” Hermione said sarcastically, they both laughed for a second before they fell into an awkward silence due to their closeness.

“I do mean it. I want this child.” He said. “As long as it doesn’t have my nose.” Hermione laughed loudly at this; feeling her troubles from earlier melting away as she did.

“Well I hope it doesn’t get my hair.” Hermione smiled.

“I think you’ll find there is nothing wrong with your hair, only the fact that you didn’t know the proper grooming spells to tame it until those awful Gryfindor girls showed you how.” He replied.

“Grooming spells? Really you want to go there?” Hermione grinned.

“You cheeky little chit! You know full well I wash my hair every day!” he barked at her.

“I know, I know.” She laughed. “God, maybe I should stick with charms and drop potions if the fumes are going to have that effect on my hair.”

“You’ll be fine as long as you don’t teach.” He replied. “When you throw in the extra fumes from all the student’s cauldrons that’s what does it. Yours alone shouldn’t have quite the same effect.”

“So...do you want to find out what we’re having at the next scan?” Hermione asked.

“I don’t know.” He replied. “I don’t really mind so it makes no difference. I didn’t know you were showing at all.”

“I barely am.” Hermione shrugged.

“It’s fascinating,” He commented. “that a female body can change so completely to accommodate a child.” They both lie in silence for a few moments before Hermione spoke up quietly.

“So what happens now?” she asked into the dark. Severus just took her hand and squeezed for a moment before they both moved back to their own sides of the bed to sleep.

For the first time in many weeks Hermione fell asleep with a smile on her face.
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