Part Five

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A/N: The series was originally intended to only have four parts, but due to those dastardly inspiring ladies at the 'grangersnape100', there are now two extra segments! Here is the first segment they inspired.

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ONE MONTH LATER

“OH, MY GOD!” Ginny screeched. “YOU’RE PREGNANT!”

Hermione laughed. “Quiet, Ginny, I don’t think your mother heard you.”

“Well, you said you had big news, so I put a silencing charm on the door.” Ginny grinned. She looked at Hermione thoughtfully. “Aren’t you going to tell me who the father is?”

Hermione looked at Ginny pointedly. “If you can’t guess by now, you’re daft.”

Ginny looked at her, bemused. “If you’re telling me that it’s Severus Snape… oh, my God.” She looked at Hermione. “What happened in the cellar at Grimmauld?”

“That’s what Tonks said,” Hermione muttered. “Why does everyone assume we shagged in the cellar?”

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“So, you’re three months along now.” Hermione sat on a stool in Pansy’s office. Pansy was flipping through her chart. “Have you been experiencing any abnormal cramping, any spotting, anything abnormal in general?”

“No.” Hermione shook her head. “Aside from throwing up everything I eat and having an odd craving for carrots, I think I’m pretty normal right now.”

Pansy chuckled. “Well, at least carrots are healthy for you. Ron, the poor dear, was stuck eating all of my leftover chocolate mousse when I tired of it.”

Hermione laughed. She looked at Pansy. “How is he doing?”

Pansy smiled. “He asked for you today.”

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Hermione sat outside Severus’ hospital room door. She shifted uncomfortably. She was six months along now – a very obvious sight. He had been improving at an exponential rate over the past three months. Pansy said that he had recovered all of his mental capacities and that through Legilimency some of the mediwizards had been able to unlock areas of his mind that he had shut away while dueling with Percy.

He remembered everything now, Pansy said. He wouldn’t speak of details to anyone but Hermione, and she hadn’t been to see him in nearly two months.

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She’d written letters, not wanting to showcase her swelling belly to him while he didn’t remember. It would only confuse him, she had told Pansy. If he can’t remember that night, God only knows what he’d think, and he gets jealous easy enough as it is…

Pansy had agreed and had told Severus that Hermione was working overseas. Thus, he had written her letters and she him. With every letter she had seen improvement in his condition. He’d reminisce over a few more details with every day’s epistle, and she had contented herself with Pansy’s updates and the demands of her body, of her child. His child.

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She had not expected him to recover so soon, nor his words to be so harsh. The letter she had received yesterday had only contained two lines.

I remember that night. We need to talk.

And so she waited outside of his hospital room door. Pansy said he was to be discharged later in the week. They were still running diagnostic tests on him, just to make sure all his mental capacities were stable.

She jerked her head as she heard arguing through the door.

Severus was fighting with his attendants. How predictable, she thought, curling a lip.

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“My mental capacities are fully intact, damn it, as they have been for the past two weeks!”

“If you’ll forgive us, Prof… Mr. Snape, but we really have never seen such a full recovery from an Obliviate. You’re a medical marvel.”

“Remove yourselves my presence. And if Hermione Granger is sitting outside the door, have her come in. And lock the door. She has a bloody lot of explaining to do.”

Hermione gulped, her heart racing as she heard the thundering of feet towards the door. The two attendees came out.

“He, er, wants to see you, Hermione,” Terry Boot said. “And… um…”

“I heard, Terry. Thank you,” Hermione said, standing up. It’s now or never.

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One more segment to go!