Chasing Destiny

A/n - not much left now!!! dont worry folks i have another story in the works, ive even got the first couple of chapters ready. just needs the last half typing up. thanks for the reviews!





Draco kept quiet about the split of the marriage and so Hermione kept up the pretense of being married over the next two months. She had left the manor but whenever she went into the wizarding world, she answered to Mrs Malfoy.



As her stomach grew, so did her hurt at what Severus had done. She stayed at home with her parents whom she had told she needed some family time while they let things die down after her split with Draco. They had sensed that something was wrong but had kept quiet and supported her daughter.



Three weeks before her due date, Hermione was summoned to the castle to discuss her options with Professors McGonagall and Dumbledore. She sighed and began to pack her things knowing that the Headmaster would think of some reason for her to stay for a few days. They had tried everything to get her back there in hopes of orchestrating a meeting with Severus. She had been forced to attend this time as she was due soon and would need to sort her life out soon.



Hermione hoped they had found someone for her to apprentice with. she had been looking forward to what Severus had planned for them. She packed the last of her things and levitated her suitcase downstairs. The headmaster had arranged to have her parents house hooked up to the floo network for the next hour so she could't afford to be late.



"Are you sure you are ok to travel like this Hermione. I remember when we were forced to travel through the fire. It was horrid and so dirty." Her mother said as she wrapped a scarf around hermione.



"Mom stop fussing. Please." Hermione smiled at her parents worried faces. "Its safer than driving at this stage in my pregnancy. We'll be fine wont we?" She stroked her bump which gave a bob in response.



"Active today isn't it?" Her father said proudly kissing her on the top of her head.



"Yes, it must know we're leaving the house." She grinned picking up the floo powder and throwing it into the flames.



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Severus was a broken man.



He had heard nothing from Hermione. He had at least expected a secret owl or an attempted visit to him but no, after finishing her exams, she had disappeared. She hadn’t spoken to him in nearly four months.



He knew that she would be due soon and he longed to see her rounded form and her unruly hair for one last time before their child was born.



Hermione came out of the Headmaster’s office. He told her that she had received O’s in everything. She could do whatever she wanted. Albus had owled her results out and found that almost any Potions Master would accept her due to having the highest marks in Hogwarts history. She contemplated which Potions Masters she would approach first as she headed for her old rooms. The Headmaster had offered to help her look over her application forms in the morning after a full evening’s rest as she had predicted. He hadn’t even asked her why she wasn’t working with Severus anymore. He probably knew all about his betrayal and was trying not to hurt her.



Suddenly, Hermione hit something hard.



She hadn’t been looking where she was going and bumped into Snape on her way around a corner. She was knocked off balance but stayed on her feet.



“Hermione?” Severus’s face lit up. She was beautiful. Fully rounded in her pregnancy and glowing.



“Professor Snape.” She greeted the man who had broken her heart coldly and went to carry on with her journey.



He gently pulled on her arm and forced her to look at him.



“Don’t you even have a few minutes to talk to me? How’s the baby?” He asked her, still surprised to bump into her in the hallway.



“What do you really want?” She asked. “Feeling lonely now that the students have left for the summer?”



“What’s wrong?” Severus was confused.



“How’s Pansy?” She replied not noticing the look of confusion in his eyes.



“Miss Parkinson?” He asked, his brow furrowing.



“Oh so you two play teacher and student do you?” She huffed. “Does she have to call you professor?”



“Hermione, I have absolutely no idea what you are going on about.” He shook his head.



“Oh don’t play dumb Severus, it’s completely unbecoming of you.” She moved to pass him and he stepped in front of her.



“Seriously, I don’t know what you’re talking about. What’s made you so upset?”



“Oh I don’t know, maybe it was walking in on you and Miss Parkinson all over each other in your office the day I annulled the marriage to Draco.” She crossed her arms and looked away from him. “Was she a better kisser than me?”



“You think that we were… that’s disgusting Hermione. She came on to me and I pushed her off. I’ll take veriatserum if you don’t believe me.” He looked her in the eye. “Wait, annulled? You’re not married anymore?”



Oh Lord what had she done!?



“You pushed her off? Oh… I ran away too quickly to see… of course… I should have known.” Hermione looked sheepish. “Narcissa found a way to persuade Lucius. He retracted the law so I annulled the marriage. Unconsummated, it was even more worthless than I thought.”



“Unconsummated?”



“Yes of course. You didn’t thing I’d really sleep with that moron did you?” She put her hands on her hips.



“Well you thought I was having Pansy bloody Parkinson on the side.” He folded his arms over his chest.



They both smirked.



“We’ve both been complete dunderheads haven’t we?” Hermione looked up at Severus smiling.



“Yes but I’ll never admit it so you’d better forget this whole thing.” He closed the gap between them and bent down and kissed her.



“I love you Severus.”



“And I you Hermione.” He looked around the corridor before kneeling in front of her. “Hermione, will you marry me?”



“YES!!! Of course I will.” He stood and she threw her arms around him, kissing his face all over. The kissed slowly and Severus slid his arms around his future wife. The extatic woman laced her hands through Severus's hair and moaned against him. Pushing her back towards the wall, he manoeuvred around his child growing within her and kissed her neck untill hermione pulled back panting.



“Perhaps, Hermione, we should take this back to my rooms and continue there?”



“Yes of course but I believe that I should rightfully tell you something first.” She bit her lower lip.



“What is it?” He panicked.



“Well…imnlbor.” She mumbled.



“Excuse me?”



“I’m in labor.”







A/n – oh no!! Just when things were getting hot! Well they would have found it hard with her enormous stomach anyway! Hard but doable ;)