[HP] Can you be gentle with me

On this day, NigelSnape woke up very early as usual, went downstairs after a brief wash and wash, and went to the kitchen to start working on the family's breakfast.

──To be more precise, it should be said that he was busy trying to make some new tricks, so that his beloved father could show the kind of person who wanted to complain about the taste of the food, but because of Tahlia's presence and not wanting to hurt his precious son's self-esteem, he had to force a smile An expression that compliments the delicious breakfast.

Nigel curled his lips.

This is what he looks forward to most every day.

Not long after, a strong smell of food wafted from the kitchen. Nigel took out his wand and commanded the plates full of food to move steadily to the big table outside.

Unexpectedly, when he stepped out of the kitchen with both feet, he saw that the host and hostess of this house had already sat down at the big table, and he intuitively felt that the way they looked at him today was a bit strange. Satisfied──

"What's wrong?" he asked reflexively.

The two people in front of them looked at each other in embarrassment, then turned around, coughed lightly almost at the same time, and opened their mouths. "We have something very important to discuss with you."

Nigel didn't speak, walked to his place and sat down silently, but he couldn't stop his heart full of complaints.Damn he was still not used to how well Tahlia and Severus got along.

He waited for a while, and found that his parents didn't seem to be planning to speak right away. After thinking for a while, he picked up the fork on the table, made some fried eggs and bit off with one bite—

"Do you want a brother or sister?"

Nigel was startled, and he spat out the egg that he just took a bite of, and the fork in his hand fell to the table with a bang.

"Huh?" He looked at Tahlia blankly and asked.

Tahlia coughed lightly. "I mean, have you ever thought about having a brother or sister?"

Nigel blinked, seemingly completely unresponsive to what he heard just now, still staring at Tahlia in a daze.

"Nigel?"

"What...cough, I mean—" Nigel came back to his senses, and put down the fork in his hand. "Actually, I haven't thought about this question. Why—why do you ask me this?"

Snape showed a rare embarrassment expression, and exchanged glances with Tahlia, but Nigel suddenly understood, and his eyes widened immediately.

"You...you──" he stammered, his eyes wandering back and forth between the two in front of him. "And you... I mean, Mom—"

"Having a baby, yes." Snape answered, coughing dryly in disguise.

"But...but..." Nigel still looked disbelieving, and then, he gave Snape a hard look. "What's the matter with you?"

"Nigel, Sev he didn't do anything—"

"Nothing?" Nigel raised his voice, continuing to stare at Snape. "You know mom isn't...very old enough to conceive! She's—I mean, I'm in my twenties!"

"Nigel──" Tahlia couldn't help crying, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

It's true that she can't be called young, but hearing this from someone else will still make her feel very embarrassed, very embarrassed...

"Nigel, you don't have to worry about that, Sev—"

"I don't think you've forgotten what subject I was a professor at school, Nigel..." Tahlia was about to explain something when she was interrupted by another sentence from Snape.I saw him calm as usual, without a trace of sullenness, silently looking at his son. "Tahlia is absolutely healthy enough to conceive a new life, she—"

"Oh? So that's why you're so unscrupulous?" Nigel raised an eyebrow, and for a moment Tahlia felt as if he was staring at a younger version of Snape, or rather, a younger and milder version of Snape. "I'm always under the illusion, Severus... sometimes you seem to completely forget that I'm home too, don't you?"

"Nigel!" Tahlia protested, feeling as if all the blood in her body rushed to her forehead at Nigel's words.

Embarrassed by what was said, Snape shut his mouth briefly, though he found his voice immediately and spoke dryly. "I'm very sorry."

Nigel also shut his mouth, suddenly remembered what he said just now, and fell into the same embarrassment.

For a moment, the Snape house was completely silent, and no one spoke a word.

After an unknown amount of time, Tahlia silently picked up the fork on the table, coughed lightly, and opened her mouth. "We... let's have breakfast first, otherwise it will be cold──"

Snape and Nigel nodded silently, picked up the cutlery, and—

"Cough cough cough..." Snape coughed violently. Seeing this, Tahlia stepped forward worriedly and patted him on the back.

"what happened?"

"Yeah, what's the matter, Severus? Isn't it delicious?" Nigel also asked with feigned concern.

Snape swallowed slowly, forcing a smile. "No, it's okay, your cooking skills are still commendable──"

"Thank you." Nigel smiled brightly. "Very glad that you liked."

After breakfast, the three of them were finally able to sit around on the sofa in the living room, and continue this...to use Tahlia's words, unspeakable questions.

"Are you sure?" Nigel coughed dryly, raised the teacup in his hand and took a sip in disguise, and asked.

"We've been to St. Mungo's," Snape replied flatly.

"Hmm..." Nigel replied, and then didn't know what to say next.

After a while, Tahlia opened her mouth slowly after coughing lightly. "Therapists say it's been over a month, Nigel."

Nigel opened his mouth slightly and blinked a few times, but still didn't know how to speak.

After an unknown amount of time, he cleared his throat again and asked. "So, you want to have a baby—"

"Of course." Unexpectedly, it was Snape who answered, but Nigel just gave him a blank stare.

"Oh, Severus!" he said angrily. "Have you asked Mommy's opinion? It's not your birth—" Then he turned his head and looked at Tahlia seriously. "Although I know Tahlia definitely wants to..."

Of course Tahlia wasn't going to take the baby, he knew what happened when he was born, Tahlia told herself all about it afterwards...

So he knew very well that Tahlia would definitely give birth to this baby—otherwise, he would never have been able to come into this world smoothly.

"But it's going to be hard..." Nigel continued. "There are many things that require special attention—"

"I'll be in charge," Snape said quickly. "Nigel, you know I will."

Nigel stared straight at Snape for a moment, then sighed. "That's right, of course you will...otherwise Mom wouldn't be with you—" As she spoke, her voice gradually became weaker, and finally almost turned into a murmur. "Merlin bless..."

A brief silence.

Then Snape cleared his throat and spoke slowly. "Therefore, you should also know—"

"Yes, I know—" Nigel interrupted his father. "But I still want your promise."

Snape raised one eyebrow, stared straight at his son for a while, and then spoke cautiously. "You have my word, Nigel...I'll keep your mother safe and make sure everything goes well."

Nigel nodded slightly, then stood up slowly. "Then, let me know if you need any help... I still have an appointment today──" After getting a nod from both parents, he straightened his collar a little, then stepped into the fireplace and disappeared .

Even so, after several months, listening to Tahlia's hoarse cries inside the door, the Snape father and son who were anxiously waiting in the corridor outside were still too nervous to sit still, even though they would not admit it, anything Everyone who passed them would agree that even their anxious pacing was identical.

Nigel knew that his father had absolutely kept his word, that he had hardly left Tahlia in the past few months, that whatever Tahlia needed, he was able to prepare it before she asked, considering he was even in school Nigel thought it was the most thoughtful gesture his father had ever made in his life.

Thinking about it, he unconsciously turned his gaze to the man who was still pacing anxiously.

"dad."

Snape stopped in his tracks, and after a few seconds of being frozen, he turned his head slowly, his eyes were wide open, anyone who knew Snape well would be amazed at the fact that he couldn't hide it now There was an expression of shock and joy at the same time.

This made Nigel laugh unconsciously, and the nervous and worried emotions disappeared without a trace at that moment. "You should see yourself now, Severus."

Snape opened his mouth slightly, then closed it again, seemingly still in astonishment, and after a while, he managed to find his own voice and managed to utter a sentence. "I didn't expect—"

"Honestly, I didn't expect that either." Nigel admitted generously.

If in the past, someone told himself that he would truly accept the fact that Snape was his father from the bottom of his heart at some point in the future, he wouldn't believe anything, even, he would only think that person was crazy. I feel that, considering that I was the main and most important member of DASS (Defense Association against Severus Snape) before, even though it has been disbanded for a long time, it does not prevent them from sometimes suddenly wanting to play some tricks to give his beloved Father made some stir-fry.

"I want to thank you for Tahlia," he said again. "Anyway, it's the happiest life I've seen her live since you moved into our house," and continued before the man in front of him had a chance to say anything. "But that doesn't mean I'm going to ignore what you did to Tahlia, Dad. I just think that if anyone deserves a second chance, it's you. And I hope and I'm willing to accept that you."

Snape didn't know what to say, Nigel's words affected him more than he expected.

"...don't be silent, Severus──" Nigel smiled again, and walked slowly to Snape's side, putting a hand on his shoulder. "We're going to have to continue to be a family in the future—the three of us, I mean... four."

family……

This used to be something Snape didn't even dare to think about. The life of having a family has always existed only in his very young fantasies, but now he got it so naturally, and the young but confident face in front of him is Looking at himself with a smile, it was his son──

He may have gone through many detours in the past, he and Tahlia, they spent too much time chasing each other, but now such a life, he will hold on tightly for the rest of his life, and will never let go no matter what.

"Nigel, I..."

"Wow────"

The loud howling sound pierced the air and entered the ears of the two people waiting in the corridor. Their reactions were also quite consistent. The moment they heard the sound, their eyes were fixed in the same direction.

The two stared fixedly at the door, and then when the door was opened and a smiling man walked out, they went forward at the same time.

"Mother and daughter are all safe." Before they could ask, the man spoke directly as if he had anticipated their question. "You can go in and see them..."

They met each other tacitly, and then, taking advantage of the space the man gave up, they entered the room one after the other.

There is only a bed inside, illuminated by a standing light source, and a woman sitting on the bed, holding a small baby wrapped in a towel in her arms.

Tahlia's gaze shifted to them the moment the two of them entered the room. Although the sweat on her face hadn't even had time to be completely wiped off, and there was indescribable fatigue in her eyes, when they stepped into When we were in the room, Snape still saw her smile on his face, like a ray of sunshine, reflected in his eyes instantly.

There was a contented and happy smile on her face.

Before Snape realized it, he was standing beside Tahlia, looking down at her and the life she held in her arms.

"She's crumpled..." a voice behind her, followed by Tahlia's chuckle.

"Newborn babies are like that, Nigel...you were too."

Nigel walked to the other side of the hospital bed, looking at his sister with a complicated expression, as if he couldn't believe that he looked like this when he was just born.

"The skin of a normal newborn appears to be like this, and there will be peeling and peeling within a month or two, but it will gradually recover after a few months..." Snape said a few words suddenly, in the Realizing that Nigel looked at him in astonishment, he coughed lightly in embarrassment. "I mean, your mother was right, it's normal—"

"Did you recite the contents of the book just now?" Nigel asked with a smile.

Snape turned his face away and didn't answer, but Nigel was amused to notice that his father's ears turned red instantly.

"Have you decided what name you want to name your sister?" And he didn't continue to tease Snape, but changed the subject and asked.

"Oh, we discussed it, didn't we, Sev?" Tahlia replied with a smile. "Just Joanne, Sirius suggested, and I think it's fine—"

"Puchi──" Nigel couldn't hold back his laughter this time, it was so funny to see the obvious dissatisfaction on Snape's face but he didn't dare to say anything. "Oh? Sirius suggested?" It was funny to see Snape's face darken beside him. "That's a really cool name, isn't it, Dad?"

"…Indeed." Snape hissed.

"Speaking of Sirius..." Tahlia seemed to suddenly think of something, turned her head and smiled at Snape. "You have to send me a birthday present. I promised him that I would definitely prepare a present for him this year. Originally, I wanted to send it myself, but I didn't expect that today—"

"Today?" Snape growled sharply. "Today is that guy Black's birthday?" His expression seemed to almost lift the hospital bed, and if Tahlia was not lying on it at the moment, Nigel strongly doubted that it would definitely be the fate of this bed.

Compared to Snape's excitement, Tahlia looked very calm, she nodded, raised her head and said seriously. "Yeah, it's today... that is to say—" She lowered her head happily, looking at the little life in her arms. "Our little girl has the same birthday as Sirius! We can celebrate together in the future—"

Damn.

Snape forced a smile.

Damn he didn't hear...

He heard nothing.

Absolutely... nothing.

Celebrating or something... He must have heard wrong.

Yes, he didn't hear it!There are no doors!