Revelations

A/N: Hey, I love reading reviews. They thrill me. However, you don't need to review each, individual chapter if you're a new reader. Also, the updates will be once every few days now, because I'm missing Chapters 18 - 28. Eleven essential, middle chapters...just gone...all gone! It breaks my heart...so I'll be doing my best to re-write them as closely to the originals as I can. If anyone read them the first time around...let me know if you remember anything!

Hugs and love to all my reviewers, you're so great! Please rate and review! - FallenAngel

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The cauldron exploded. Harry, and several others, were blasted off their feet. As Harry slammed, back first, to the floor, he thought. 'Of all the things to happen on the last day of Potion's class...'

Hermione was at his side in an instant. "Oh, Harry, come on! Everyone who got blasted is being sent to the infirmary. Ron will grab Ginny and meet you, me, and Draco up there. Lets go."

Harry stood up cautiously. His lower back was throbbing. "Yah, lets go."

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Severus stalked towards the curtained-off bed that held Harry Potter. Just as he was about to pull open the curtain, he heard Ginny Weasley say something that made him freeze in place. "Is Pomfrey sure the baby will be okay?"

'Baby? Harry's pregnant?' Severus can't wrap his mind around the idea.

"She wants me to stay overnight." He heard Harry reply softly. "My lower back hurts pretty bad and she said that's a bad sign. But so far, the baby's fine."

"Can we see an ultrasound?" Hermione cooed. "It's been over five months since you got pregnant, so we might be able to see if it's a boy or a girl! And you haven't had one yet..."

Harry laughed. "Sure. Ron, go and find Poppy and we'll get her to do one now."

"Not now!" Draco's voice startled Snape. "Sev always checks on students injured in his class! Imagine him walking in on an ultrasound. We're hiding this for a reason."

Ginny's voice was a bit disappointed, but she agreed. "He's right, you know. We should reapply the Glamour before..."

Severus jerked the curtain back and Ginny stopped mid-sentence. Hermione was sitting on Ron's lap in a chair next to the bed. Draco was sitting in a chair next to them. Ginny was sitting on the bed, on Harry's right, facing him, her right hand on his exposed stomach. A stomach starting to swell, obviously rounded with child.

'MY child.' Severus thought furiously. Before anyone could do or say anything, he roared. "POPPY! GET ME ALBUS!"

"Oh dear!" Poppy ran off before Harry could stop her.

Harry glared up at Snape. "Can I help you?" He asked waspishly. "You're invading my privacy."

"And you, Potter," He snarled. "Are keeping MY CHILD from me!" Harry winced and Severus screamed. "WHAT GIVES YOU THE RIGHT TO KEEP THIS FROM ME, POTTER?!?"

Harry pushed himself to a sitting position, wincing in pain as he did so. "It's my body, and my child." He snapped at his one-time lover. "I have every right to do whatever I want!"

"IT'S MY BABY!" Severus roared. "DON'T YOU GET THAT?!? YOU ARE CARRYING MY CHILD AND HIDING IT FROM ME!!!"

Harry grew pale and Severus turned around to see Pomfrey, mouth hanging open, and a disappointed Albus Dumbledore. The Headmaster turned to Harry. "Is what he says true, Harry? Is he the father?"

Harry looked away guiltily and nodded. "Yes, Albus, he is. But," He added swiftly. "It's still MY child, and I have the right to act however I see fit where my child is concerned."

"Harry," Albus said gently, staring intently at the ceiling and not looking at Harry, while everyone else in the room stared at him. "Knowing both you and Severus as well as I do, I'm assuming there is little love between you two. That having been said, there must have been special circumstances. Bit, the child is still Severus's as well. We need to discuss..."

Hermione screamed, pointing at Harry. "Oh my god, Madam Pomfrey! DO SOMETHING!" She shrieked loudly.

She was pointing at Harry, who's face was twisted in pain. His hands were on his stomach and blood was soaking the blanket and sheets. "OUT!" Poppy commanded. "All of you GET OUT!"

They all left, pale and shaken. All Severus could think was that his child, a child he hadn't known existed, was in danger. Might die, only minutes after he found out it existed. Sweeping past his tense, crying students, he went to his rooms. There, in the privacy and comfort of his living room, he broke down. For the first time since he'd been welcomed back to the side of light by Albus Dumbledore nearly twenty years before, Severus Snape, the ex-Death Eater, the spy, the infamous Potion's Master, cried. Not for himself, but for the pale, scared teen in the infirmary that carried his child. And for the child who might die before having a chance to live.

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A/N: Wow. Okay, I wrote chapters ten through thirteen one-shot, straight through. My hand hurt, lol. Typing took a while, though. Um...not much from here-on-out is planned, so it's back to winging it. Which means no more super-speedy updates. I have chapter fourteen written, but that's it. And the chapters are getting weird and complicated and hard to write, so I dunno how soon chapter fifteen will be done.

No, Severus is NOT, and I'm stressing that, OOC. He found out in the time span of about five minutes that Harry was pregnant with his child, that said child was being hidden from him, and then, right after that, that said unborn child might die. How would you feel? I'd cry, too. Probably throw things, too. And I'd be pretty pissed at my godson for helping to hide my child from me. Please rate and review! - FallenAngel