Unexpected Feelings;

A Severus Snape and Hermione Granger Fanfic;

By emmielovestonks;

Disclaimer – I own nothing but the plot;

A/N I haven't written in a long time and I'm so sorry, I've just been really busy with school. I had started a sequel to 'How It Should Be' called 'How It Turned Out' but the more I planned the more I hated it and nothing seemed to work so I've decided to stop writing that and start on something new. I hope you all like this story; it is similar yet completely different to 'How It Should Be'. With all this said, let the story begin.

Many things had happened for Hermione Granger over the last twelve years: she'd helped Harry defeat the psychotic daemon that was Lord Voldemort; she'd finished Hogwarts after going back to complete her N.E. ; she'd completed studying to become a Healer; she'd dated Charlie Weasley as she and Ron knew they were meant to be friends and finally, she'd got pregnant.

It was a shock to everyone when Hermione revealed she was pregnant only a month after the final battle. The main question was, obviously, who was the father? Now Molly and Arthur presumed it was Ron but Hermione said that it wasn't him, but someone in a forest and kept it at that. It was only when her twins were born, on 31st October, when everyone knew who the father was. There was no denying it. One of the boys had black curly hair with black eyes and the other had straight brown hair with hazel eyes.

"Hermione, how?" It was all Harry could ask. All the other Weasleys, including Ron and Ginny were in the waiting room as Hermione didn't want everyone there to judge her. Harry was her best friend, more that Ron and Ginny, she owed him the truth, so she told him.

The truth was, when Harry had seen the doe Patronus that led him to the sword, Hermione was awake and she saw it too. Unlike Harry, she actually saw the person casting it too. That person was Severus Snape. Hermione exited the tent and look right at him. Despite knowing that he should have disappeared straight away, he didn't. He walked straight over to her and kissed her. It was the last thing Hermione had ever expected him to do but with the situation that she could die soon, and she didn't want to die a virgin, she responded and one thing led to another. Nothing was said until afterwards.

"I'm sorry, I don't know what came over me," Severus admitted stroking her hair away from her face as they snuggled close from the bitter weather.

"It's okay," Hermione reassured, "I know I won't forget this."

"I must leave," He whispered. "Potter will be back any minute." Hermione could only nod in response. "I will do everything I can to help you, but you have to help me do this in return."

"Be safe," Hermione managed to utter before he left. With one more kiss shared, he left the tent and Hermione fell asleep, only to be woken by Harry turning up with Ron a few minutes later.

Harry listened to Hermione's story with one question that he was dying to ask.

"No Harry, there was nothing going on between us," Hermione said to him before he could ask. "And I haven't told him about the boys, not even when I was taking care of him after the snake bite. I couldn't tell him because there were no feelings between us; it was just one night where be both needed someone and we both happened to be there."

It's been many years since that conversation happened with Harry and now Hermione was waking up in her cottage to the sun of July shining through her window. She moved into the cottage shortly after giving birth to her sons, Sebastian Mark and Henry Arthur Granger. The cottage was in walking distance of the Burrow and it was rare that Hermione wasn't there less than once a week. Hermione sighed and looked over to her clock on the wall, 9 o' clock. The post would be arriving soon and she knew today was the day that the Hogwarts letters would be given out. She had promised Molly that she and the boys would be at the Burrow when they opened their letters, so she stepped out of bed and started her morning rituals.

In the bedroom down the hall, there were two boys sleeping soundly. The room started off as two separate ones but with some spell work, the two rooms became one. Their bedroom was decorated with blue and red mainly with small patterns in gold and silver. They both had separate beds at either side of the room and wardrobes with their own clothes and a separate desk each but in the middle were beanbags and games that they shared. They usually shared this room with their best friend, Teddy Lupin who was a couple of months older than them, though he would be in the year above them at Hogwarts.

The twins liked to be together in everything they did and were convinced that when they went to Hogwarts they would either be in Gryffindor or Ravenclaw together, even though their best friend was in Hufflepuff like his mother. They had no idea that their father was a Slytherin or who their father was. They never even asked if they had a father, they were both that happy with each other and their mum. That was their family.

Once Hermione was ready she knocked on the twins' door and walked in.

"Rise and shine boys, we need to be at Auntie Molly's in half an hour," Hermione called and waved her wand so the curtains were open.

Groaning slightly, Sebastian was the first to slump out of his bed and went into the bathroom to wake himself up, while Henry tended to stay in bed a little longer to come round.

"I'll get your breakfast ready, boys," Hermione laughed lightly as she made her way downstairs.

The Weasleys were family to Hermione. They took her in when she was pregnant as she wasn't strong enough to go find her parents in Australia. They helped her through the last stages of her pregnancy as by the time they were fighting Voldemort she was around four months pregnant but wasn't showing. She had no idea that she was pregnant at first. She just started being sick and was sure it was something she had cooked. Then when she went out shopping for her and the boys, she took a Muggle pregnancy test and it came back positive. She panicked slightly knowing that she could never tell Severus that he was a father. She also panicked as she couldn't be pregnant when Harry needed her. So she placed a spell that she'd read in a book over her stomach to make sure that it was protected with everything that was going on. Not even a strong curse could affect it, which came in lucky when she was at Malfoy Manor. Hermione always shivers when she thinks of that place, even though she and Draco got on very well now and even worked together in St Mungo's.

When the boys were 1 year old, Hermione, with the help of Ron and Harry, went to Australia to track down her parent and luckily she found them in Sydney. She undid the spell and told them everything about the war and Sebastian and Henry. It was a magnificent amount of information for them to take in but they were used to it form dental school. Helena, Hermione's mum, understood straight away and was just glad to have her daughter back. Mark, Hermione's dad, was a little disappointed to find out about his grandsons, seeing as Hermione was barely 19 when she gave birth to them, but he, too, was glad to have his daughter back. They all flew back to England and the Granger's met their grandsons and immediately fell in love with them. Hermione was so happy.

Fifteen minutes later, Hermione, Sebastian and Henry were sitting at the breakfast bar eating scrambled eggs on toast.

"Mum, why are you so tense?" Sebastian asked as Hermione was just moving her food around her plate instead of eating it.

"I'm not," Hermione shrugged and started eating properly.

"Don't lie to us, Mum, you know something," Henry added.

"There's nothing," Hermione told her sons, "Now, eat your breakfast."

But Hermione was tense and she had a reason. She hadn't seen Severus since nursing him back to health. She had no idea if he was still teaching and she was convinced, if he was still teaching, he'd be deputy head or even head master of Hogwarts now. She didn't want the twins to see his name when reading their book lists even though they'd have no idea who he was. She also didn't want him to realise he had children when they walked into the castle. There was no denying that they were his sons, they were literally him and Hermione mixed together.

"When are we going to Auntie Molly's?" Sebastian asked. Hermione glanced at her watch.

"Now," she replied and smiled, "Come on."

She picked up her wand and the boys followed her out of the house. With one charm, Hermione locked the house and set the wards so no one could enter.

It was barely five minutes and they were over the threshold of the Burrow.

"Look at how big you two are now!" Fleur cried when she saw the boys. It looked like the whole family was there ready for them to open their letter, it was a little unnecessary but Hermione was glad, especially when she saw Harry, Ginny, Ron and Luna there. They were all with their kids. There was Harry and Ginny's children, James and Lily who were four and two and Ron and Luna's daughter, Rose, who was four as well. It was a couple of years after the twins were born when Harry finally asked Ginny to marry him and it was around the same time that Ron shocked everyone saying that he was dating Luna but you couldn't deny that they were in love when you saw them together. Even Fred and George were there with their wives, Angelina and Katie. Charlie was nowhere to be seen but Hermione was glad for that, their brake up was amicable but it still hurt a little that someone would want to choose to work with dragons than be her boyfriend. Was she really that bad?

"Auntie Fleur, you saw us less than a month ago," Henry groaned as Fleur pulled him and Sebastian into a tight hug.

"It doesn't matter, boys, you have still grown," she insisted before letting them sit down on one of the many sofas.

Bill was just about to break the silence when something started flying towards the house.

"The post is here," Molly announced bringing two sets of post in.

"Minerva must know you're here, Hermione," Arthur commented on the two Hogwarts letters Molly was carrying. One addressed to Mr S.M. Granger and the other addressed to Mr H.A. Granger.

"Minerva?" Hermione asked.

"She's still the headmistress," Harry told her, "And Remus is deputy head as he's back as the Defence against the Dark Arts Professor." Hermione let out a sigh of relief, Severus wasn't there any longer. Harry knew why Hermione let out a sigh but she was mistaken; Severus still worked there, but Harry didn't have the heart to tell her.

"Yes, we're in, Mum!" Henry yelled.

"Did you ever think you wouldn't be?" Ron laughed, "You've been using your magic since you were six!"

"Leave him be, Ron. I was like that before I got my letter," Luna replied swatting her husband on the shoulder causing their daughter, Rose, to giggle.

"Be careful, Luna," Molly chided, "remember the baby." Molly was right; Luna was six months pregnant with her and Ron's second child. They'd been trying ever since Rose was two but it took them a little longer to finally conceive.

"Don't you worry, Molly," Luna assured her. "I used the same spell Hermione did when she was carrying the boys." Molly was grateful for this.

"Yeah, I've used that spell too," Ginny admitted. At this everyone turned their heads towards Harry and Ginny. "Yes, I'm pregnant again."

"Congratulations!" Everyone cheered.

"So when are we going to get our stuff?" Sebastian asked his mother breaking up the conversation between them all, not registering what was going on.

"I don't see anything wrong with tomorrow," Hermione shrugged. "Is that okay with my babies?" Hermione ruffled up their Sebastian's hair.

"Mum!" He cried and ran to the other side of the room and started talking to Victoire, Fleur and Bill's oldest daughter at ten.

With the letters out of the way, Hermione sat with Ginny and Luna and started discussing pregnancy with the girls. She didn't want to admit it, but she wanted to be pregnant again too and have someone who loved her by her side. Was it too much to ask?