Things Happen

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“So Hermione, how is Snape doing with Alyson?” Harry asked when she sat down with him at the head table.

Hermione smiled “They adore each other, not that he will ever admit to adoring anyone, but you can tell. It seems like they have been together since she was born, but it has only been two weeks.”

“You ok with Alyson liking him this much?”

“Yeah I guess so, it’s weird though. She used to be just a mommy’s girl, but now she is daddy’s princess and she doesn’t even know it.”

“Oh Hermione can you watch James and Liliana next week? I want to take Ginny out for Valentines Day.”

Before Hermione could answer Severus came up to the table and asked to speak to Hermione in private. “Sure Severus, why don’t we go to my office?” When they got to the office Hermione was confused because Severus seemed kind of nervous. “Is something wrong?”

“No not really, I just wanted to ask if you would go to dinner with me on Valentines Day.” Hermione looked at him in shock.

“You want to take me out in public when I look like this.” She asked jokingly indicating her big pregnant belly.

“I think you look beautiful.” He gave her a half smile. “So will you go with me to dinner?”

“Yes Severus I would love to have dinner with you.” He nodded and left the room while Hermione sat down at her desk and thought over the conversation she just had.

Later that afternoon Hermione stepped through the doorway of her rooms and saw her daughter playing with her dolls on the living room floor. “Hi sweetie, did you have a good day today?”

“Oh yes, it was fun, first Sami took me outside and I got to play in the snow and then I went down to Sevus’s classroom and I got to help him make a potion.” Alyson stopped her excited rambling and looked at her mom with a funny expression on her face. “Mummy is Sevus my daddy?”

Hermione gaped at her daughter. “Alyson, why do you think that?”

“Well, we do look kind of a like and I like him. He is nice even though he tries to act mean sometimes.”

Hermione laughed at her daughter’s accurate description of Severus. “Come sit over here with me.” Alyson climbed up onto the couch with her mom. “I have never lied to you before so I will tell you the truth right now. Yes, Severus is your daddy. He was scared when he first found out about so he wanted to get to know you before we told you that he was your daddy.”

Alyson smiled “Is he the baby’s daddy too?”

“Yes Alyson he is.”

“Ok are we going to go live with now, cause isn’t that what mummies and daddy’s do?”

Hermione was stunned for a second. “No, sweetie we are not going to live with Severus.” “At least not yet” Hermione thought to her self and smiled.

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The next day Alyson was playing in the dungeons when she looked at Snape. “Daddy are you going to come live with me and Mummy?”

Snape dropped the potion vile he was holding and was too stunned to respond.

“Well daddy, answer me.” She demanded impatiently

“Alyson how did you know I was your daddy?” He asked

“Well I asked Mummy last night and because she doesn’t lie to me she said that you were my daddy.”

“Come on little girl lets go find your mum.”

“Ok” Alyson called and was already running for the stairs.

“Alyson don’t run on the stairs.” Snape yelled after her, but it was already too late. When Alyson was half way up the stairs she slipped and started falling backwards. “ALYSON!!!!” Snape yelled, but it blended in with the little girls scream and she fell down the stairs.


Snape ran to her as she lay on the bottom of the steps unconscious. “Aly wake up, come one baby girl wake up for me please.” Snape begged with tears running down his face. He picked Alyson up and ran as fast as he could to the hospital wing yelling for Madame Pomfrey the whole way.

“Professor Snape what happened to the poor child?”

“She was running up the stairs when she slipped and fell back wards.” He was shaking so badly after she laid Alyson down on a bed that he needed to sit down, tears streaming down his face while he held onto Alyson’s hand. He watched Pomfrey wave her wand over the girl and noticed that some of her visible wounds were being healed. The door to the Hospital wing slammed open and Hermione rushed in demanding to see her daughter.

Snape went to her and told her what happened and that Madame Pomfrey was tending to her right now.

“How could you?” Hermione yelled at him. “How could you let her get hurt like this? You are supposed to be watching her and now she is seriously injured. Get out I don’t want you near her anymore. Just go away.” Hermione said in a deadly quiet voice. She never noticed Snape become very pale and he cast one more glance at Alyson before walking out of the hospital wing.