Severus Snape One Shots

Daddy I'm Home

(Notes: This story originated from an ask on my tumblr. Reader has been shopping for Severus' birthday gift. When he catches her in a white lie, punishment ensues. Content Warnings: Spanking, interrogation, vaginal fingering, vaginal sex.)

With a powerful thrust of my hip I swing the door open, struggling with the overloaded brown paper bags of groceries in my hands. "Home!" I huff out as I awkwardly kick my boots off and when I turn my head to the living room I see the Daily Prophet news sheet fold down, he looks at me from his favourite chair. I give him a smile as I rush to hide his gift before he stands up.

I move to the kitchen briskly, throwing the bags down on the counter and putting the parcel that contained his birthday present in a lower cupboard behind the potatoes. I get myself a sorely needed glass of water before putting the food away. I'm parched from rushing around to get home, I had been halfway running with the bags. When I turn around after downing my glass of water he startles me, he is right behind me. I hadn't heard him coming.

"You've been out longer than I thought."

"Diagon Alley was busy." I explain.

"Where did you go? Other than obviously the green grocer."

"Florish and Blotts."

"Yet...I see no books."

"They didn't have that cookbook I wanted. Sold out already." A damn shame because I had been hoping to try my hand at one of the recipe's my friend made last night.

"Took up a lot of time, did it? Not buying a book?"

"Well I had to look to see if they had it first. What's with the questioning?" I ask, internally scolding myself. I am already getting defensive and I had told myself I would not be.

"Well you've been gone quite some time. I really thought you would be home before me."

"Well it took longer than I thought."

"Indeed. You stopped nowhere else?"

"Okay you caught me! I stopped for an ice cream cone. I didn't tell you because I knew you would nag me about sweets before dinner but I was starving." I confess to a minor transgression. Ice cream when I was about to cook for us. The roast would take at least an hour though. The ice cream had kept me going when I felt burnt out.

"Oh yes, I am no fun. It is wise to omit things that contain fun lest I become upset." He is sarcastic, he seems annoyed.

"Why are you all grumpy?"

"Perhaps because my darling little sweetheart is lying to me."

"I am not!" I hope my lie isn't obvious on my face. It's so hard to keep things a secret from him. How many times has he ruined a surprise for himself by being too observant? Hiding things from him was hard, he always knew when things were slightly out of place.

"You are. I was under the mistaken impression that you were a good girl, and above such nonsense as lying to my face." He is baiting me to fight him. I told myself I would not ask him what is making him so nosey, it will give me away.

"Severus. I went to the bookstore, I got ice cream, I got groceries... maybe I chatted to too many friends along the way. Did too much window shopping. Would you scold me if something in the window of Madam Malkins caught my eye and I went in to see it?"

"I would scold you because you just lied to me again."

I'm about to open my mouth- insist I hadn't when I catch myself. He knows something, but I won't ruin his birthday present just because he's an overly observant taskmaster. I turn to try and unpack the food, to give myself time to make something else up. I take a single apple out of the bag when he raps his wand on the counter top loudly beside me and everything flies quickly to their homes, preventing me from using them as cover.