I feel terrible, I have not posted in a while and honestly I lost my muse for a moment, but I think it's back, I found myself in a tough spot with the last chapter, and I had a new one started then My old computer broke, so I have a new one and had to start all over because I didn't back up my files like a putz.

Not a command, not a question, but just one word that shook him to his very core. Leaning down to kiss her once more he gave her his answer

"That's a terrible Idea Hermione." He said sitting on the edge of her bed. She rolled on her side and proped her head up with her hand.

"Why?" she appealed, "and don't feed me some tripe about propriety since your sense of propriety flies out the window whenever our proximity becomes too close."

He smirked, "Because I truly enjoy what I have with you." she looked confused so he continued on. "It's not propriety or lack of want that brings me to deny you, as a matter of fact it takes everything I have to say no. It's how much I really like what we have that makes me want to do things right. To show you how I respect you, honor you, cherish you….not love exactly…but to revel in the simple joy we can bring each other here and now."

"Oh Severus," she sighed, casting her eyes down. "I understand I do truly, It's only that each day I open the paper, or you bring me news and It's all death, death and more death…I…I can't help but think I could very well die tomorrow. It's all so precarious isn't it?"

"It is, but I assure you I will make sure you get out of this alive, and you can live and revolutionize the wizarding world with that know-it-all mind of yours."

"Hmm" she sigh and laid back, "That sounds grand but In all honesty I don't want to revolutionize anything, I just want to do some good in the world, marry…maybe have some babies…" she yawned and closed her eyes. "G'night Sev'rus"

And then she was asleep leaving Severus to his racing thoughts, Marriage, babies….a vision of a radiantly Pregnant Hermione flashed into his mind and he felt the air leave his lungs, a crushing feeling enveloped his heart as he reminded himself that was another man's Hermione. A younger man, a whole man…Not him, Not the broken death eater, the murderer.

He woke in his bed with the sun pouring through his window, casting a warm amber hue on the walls. He stretched and laid back feeling surprisingly comfortable on his old lumpy mattress. He heard clattering in the kitchen and smiled, HermioneI wonder what 's making for breakfast this morning. He though to himself, he began to reach for a shirt but realized he had already been wearing it, shrugging it off he shuffled down the hall to the kitchen, but he found it empty when just moments before He had heard her shutting a cabinet door and running water. Must be more tired than I thought. He shrugged and began to fix his tea, he opened the refrigerator to retrieve his creamer and had to move several clear bags that were filled with a whitish liquid and dated in order to reach it. Hermione must have decided to brew a potion, I can't think of any that require rapid cooling though.

He had just finished stirring when he heard the telly click on and fill the room with sound but instead of the news, like they tended to watch her heard children's voices. Is she watching children's programming? He followed the sound into the next room but was surprised to find it empty, and not at all how he had left it the previous night. His liquor cabinet was gone replaced with a new bookshelf filled with thin colorful books, he pulled on off the shelf an recognized it from primary school, It was 'Whinnie the pooh'

What the devil is going on here? He thought to himself reshelving the book. He lifted a picture frame from the mantel where several pictures now stood next to the one of his mother. In it he saw Hermione twirl around in a beautiful white gown, and hug an older woman whose face was obscured.

He set the frame down quickly and walked down the hall to Hermione's room to see if this was her idea of a joke but when he opened the door he wasn't greeted with the plain white walls and mission style furniture that occupied the room when he had gone to bed, instead the room held a cot, a very small bed, and a toy chest and everything that occupied the room was pink. He heard a gurgle come from the cot and he backed out slowly closing the door behind him. Did I fall asleep in the wrong house? He asked himself.

It was when he heard shrieks coming from the bathroom all thoughts of things being out of place were forgotten, he bolted towards the closed bathroom door with his wand drawn. He flung it open and caught a glimpse of Hermione's bushy hair kneeling beside the tub that was occupied by a raven haired toddler, then he slipped in a puddle and felt himself falling far longer than necessary. Gasping he bolted upright in his bed, and threw back the thin blanket. A dream…He ran his hands through his hair, and laid back. Trying to ignore the strange emptiness the dream left him feeling.

This is it for now, I just wanted to get this out for anyone whose been hanging on for a new chapter. I'm sooooooooo friggen sorry you had to wait!

Ok, so First in honor of Darren Criss making the Cover of entertainment weekly I put a "what the devil is going on here!" in this chapter. Lol (if you're lost go to you tube, Type starkid, click their page and watch A very potter musical, All of it, I don't need to tell you to watch the sequel because you;ll be dying to after AVPM is done.)

On to boring personal updates…my boss's wife had a baby yeay! I want another one sooooooo bad, but Time is just not right for us, as for the surro thing, It's gone up in the air. Idk what I'm doing I still want to but finances and insurance are just juggling around so meh…

My daughter is a holy terror, she screams a lot, hence no writing at home. She does however know where her belly button is, she walks, runs, can dial my work line and frequently calls my boss while I'm not looking! Lol she also scolds the cat, she clearly says "no!" every time the cat claws at furniture.

She is awesome tho, she boogies to wizard wrock! Lol

Ok, I'll get back on track soon beautiful people! And check me out on Youtube! WarpedKawaii I'll be posting more stuff as time goes on!