Severus and Lily: The Snape Family

Chapter 7 - New Beginnings

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Harry being gone in the evenings still afforded Severus and Lily some privacy.

Severus and Lily were a communicative couple. Since Lily's return, they had spent entire days just chatting with each other. But the Snapes both appreciated the quiet moments too, those wondrous, intimate times when no words were necessary and their bond as lovers was silently acknowledged.

One particular night, Lily tangled her fingers into Severus's soft black hair as their lips met passionately. Lying beside her husband, Lily allowed the candlelight to bathe them both in a soft glow.

Lily sighed into their kiss, enjoying the strength of Severus's embrace as he cradled her like she was the most precious thing in the world.

To Severus Snape, Lily was the most precious thing in the world.

Severus moved slightly and one of his hands slipped down, ghosting over his wife's swollen breasts to rest lovingly on top of her mounded belly.

Severus pulled back from Lily's lips and kissed across her jawline. He moved to her throat as he gradually nipped his way down her pale flesh, lower and lower.......

Lily was expecting her husband to linger at her nipples but he didn't stop until he reached the heavy curve of her belly. Severus splayed his hands on either side of her full womb, leaned it, and gave it a gentle kiss. He pulled back in awe when his efforts rewarded him with a gentle ripple of motion.

Lily wasn't disappointed, she was more than willing to make love to her husband, but she was also extremely exhausted.

She wasn't going to complain if he wanted to wait.

"We love you, Sev." Lily smiled up at him, placing one of her hands over his as the child within her moved again.

Severus stared down at Lily with a gaze so full of unspoken, devoted reverence that he looked like he was in great pain.

Maintaining eye contact with his beloved, Severus moved back down and pressed another tender kiss right over the peak of her abdomen, only closing his eyes when his lips touched her skin.

His touching gesture made Lily sigh again and her fingers found the softness of his dark hair once more.

Severus had planned on spending the evening giving his darling some pleasure as a reward for all of her efforts, but when Severus felt Lily's fingers fall limp, he looked up.

Soothed by Severus's loving attention and his calming scent, composed of vetiver and crisp parchment, Lily had fallen asleep. A terse look crossed Severus's face and he moved up to cuddle his wife close, careful not to disturb her.

Lily's second pregnancy had been different than her first.

Not worse, not better, just different.

She hadn't been as sick as when she carried Harry and this time, her blood pressure was fine. Although she spent more time sleeping than awake, Severus was relieved that Lily's reproductive condition, which he had cured with an elixir shortly after Harry's birth, hadn't plagued her any further.

But the exhaustion she experienced.....

Harry and Severus could barely keep her conscious and as her due date approached, her fatigue seemed to increase.

Severus knew that some of it was normal but Lily could sleep for entire days and not wake to eat, drink, or use the lavatory.

That bothered him.