Echoes of the Soul

Severus prepared the lab while Hermione showered. She felt tired but amazing as she stood and let the water glide over her body. She washed her hair and lathered her body with a bottle of stuff Severus had lying around. It was obviously what he used, it smelled of him, a musky woody fragrance. Hermione almost swooned as she opened the bottle.



When she was dry she opened his wardrobe and threw on a white shirt over her muggle jeans. She didn’t want to wear her T-shirt, it was starting to feel too tight across her breasts. Hermione laughed to herself, obviously a little Severus massage was having a positive effect on her body, her boobs were definitely getting bigger.



She wandered through to the lab and smiled at him.



‘Feel better?’ He smiled and caught her in a hug.



‘I feel better than that, I feel amazing!’ She grinned.



‘Mm. You look it too, but don’t distract me. This is important.’ He laughed a little. ‘Read this.’



He gestured to a sheet of parchment on the workbench. Alongside it was a phial of potion. Hermione walked over and started to read. She crossed her arms and pouted at him.



‘Did you want to remind me of my failures, Severus? This is my potion formula, I know what it says.’



‘Correct. Now do as I say and read it, slowly.’ Severus folded his arms and she knew not to argue with him.



Hermione reluctantly pulled the parchment to her and started to read it. She stopped half-way.



‘But, if I added that then…’ She looked up at him, her eyes wide.



Severus nodded. ‘Keep going.’



Hermione read to the end of the page. ‘No!’ She gasped. She lifted the phial, tipping it one way and then the other.



Severus grinned. ‘It’s a clever potion. It’s going to make you a small fortune in galleons too.’



‘Of all the stupid mistakes. Thank goodness it was only Ginny and me testing it… imagine making a Conception potion instead of a Contraception one!’ She laughed a little.



Severus grinned at her. ‘It’s quite brilliant. I think that depending on which way you hold the bottle when you drink it determines the sex of the child, look…’ He tipped the bottle one way and then the other and it shone alternately pink and blue.



‘I will need more test patients… Ginny is the only positive result so far…’ She mused and looked back down at her notes.



Severus coughed a little and she looked up. ’Hermione. You have been taking the potion, haven’t you?’ he said softly.



She looked at him unblinking for a moment and the colour slowly drained from her cheeks.



‘I think we should go and see Poppy, Severus…’



***





Poppy Pomfrey was more than a little surprised when Severus and Hermione arrived at the hospital wing and eyed them both curiously. Albus was the only person who knew they were a couple but it was clear from their body language how comfortable they were together. In fact, Poppy mused, she had never seen Severus so relaxed.



Hermione was nervous, Poppy was looking at her as if she was a schoolgirl. Severus felt her shiver and took over.



‘Miss Granger is in need of your services, Poppy,\' he spoke smoothly ‘in private.’



Hermione put her hand on his arm and Poppy’s eyes widened. ‘No Severus, I need you to be there too.’ She looked at him an watched as he glanced over at Poppy who was frowning a little, wondering about he nature of the relationship between the Professor and his former student. Hermione sighed in exasperation.



‘For goodness sake, Severus! If we’re right, everyone will know eventually and they will know the part you played because it will be obvious. We may as well start being honest now, I’m not ashamed.\' She turned to Poppy, who had turned as white as her crisp hospital sheets.



‘Madame Pomfrey, Severus and I are in love, have been for ages actually, and we think I might be pregnant. Do you think you could do the test?’



Severus grinned at her and looked at Poppy. ‘What she just said.’ He chuckled.



‘Well I never! Very well, MISS Granger…’ Poppy emphasised the ‘Miss’ and Hermione rolled her eyes at Severus. She was so old fashioned.



They went behind a screen and Poppy motioned to Hermione to lie on the bed. She withdrew her wand and looked at Hermione. ‘This may tingle’ she muttered and spoke an incantation.



Almost immediately Hermione felt a fluttering in her abdomen and giggled. Slowly, a circle of golden sparks appeared above her stomach, spinning quickly before dispersing. Poppy lowered her wand.



‘Well. I don’t know whether to commiserate with you or congratulate you, Miss Granger. But you are indeed with child.’



Severus inhaled sharply and looked at Hermione. Their eyes met and Hermione started to cry and laugh at the same time.



‘Oh Severus…’ she sobbed. He swept her into his arms and held her close.



‘Hermione, my beautiful witch…’ he murmured into her hair.



Poppy watched open mouthed and a tear started to trickle down her face. She smiled and patted Severus’s shoulder as she left them to their privacy, murmuring ‘well I never’ under her breath.



Severus pulled away and stroked her hair from her face, kissing her lips and her tears away from her cheeks. ‘How do you feel?’ He murmured.



‘Happy…’ She smiled at him. He smiled back at her.



‘Me too…’



***



Albus stood on nothing ness and smiled at Iydella and Rasari.



‘We are eternally grateful to you Albus.’ Iydella spoke to him and bowed her head.



‘It has been a pleasant undertaking Holy Goddess, they are dear to me.’ He replied.



‘You will care for our children and their offspring, of which there will be many.’ It was statement and not a question.



Albus nodded at Rasari. ‘As if they were my own.’







***





‘Is it safe, Severus? Maybe we should do it another way…’



‘We’ve already been doing it this way, Hermione, you just didn’t know you were pregnant then. It is safe, I promise you.’ Severus caressed her breasts a little in encouragement.



‘I don’t know…’ Hermione bit her lip.



Severus groaned and rolled off her, his glistening cock deflating a little. He turned his head to look at her.



‘Do you want me to go and check with Poppy?’ He grumbled at her.



‘No I do NOT!’ She snapped at him.



They lay there in silence. Hermione sighed and then grinned over at him.



‘I know. Don’t go anywhere, I’ll be right back.’ She hopped out of bed and threw on her jeans and jumper before trotting into Severus’s sitting room.



Severus heard her floo out and sighed. She probably wouldn’t be back for ages. He licked his lips. He could taste her sweet orgasm on them from earlier and remembering her screaming his name as she came over his face. His cock twitched and he wrapped his fingers tightly around himself and started to thrust. He moaned in the back of his throat and stopped abruptly as he heard the floo go again.



Hermione trotted back into the bedroom and quickly pulled her clothes off before joining him under the covers. She slid her hand along his cock and encountered his own hand still tightly wrapped around the shaft.



‘You started again without me!’ She laughed and he moved his hand away, closing his eyes as she began to stroke him.



‘Did you find out, Hermione?’ He gasped. The witch was so good at this.



‘Oh yes, it’s safe. Even hard fucking is fine, apparently…’ she whispered huskily and Severus groaned at the thought of hard fucking her.



‘How did you find out that little gem?’ He asked her breathlessly.



‘I went to ask Ginny.’ She grinned up at him.



Severus balked and stopped her hand on his cock. ‘What? Are you telling me that right now, the Potter’s know we are fucking?’ He was shocked.



‘Well…’ Hermione squeezed her hand tightly and Severus shuddered. \'They think we are…but we’re not fucking, hard or otherwise, are we, my love?’ She teased him and ran her thumb over the end of his cock.



Severus grabbed her wrists and pushed her firmly onto her back, spreading her legs with his knees and thrusting his length firmly into her.



‘Oh yes we are witch…hard fucking, that’s exactly what we’re doing…’ Severus began his assault.



Hermione smiled at him sexily. ‘Excellent….’ She murmured.









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Whoo hoo... hard....you know, what she said! Last chapter guys, epilogue and thats me spent, literally. Hope you\'ve enjoyed my fic. Let me know.