Lily Evans strolled through the halls of Hogwarts. As a Prefect, she had to patrol the hallways at night of any wondering students. On that particular night, something told her to venture down near the Slytherin dorms. It was technically apart of her route, but she typically didn't go that far. She was a Muggle-born so who know what they would do to her!

She was almost to the entrance to the dungeons when she heard it, a low moan. She was about to walk away, after all, she didn't particularly want to walk in on anything a Slytherin was doing, when she heard it again. Only this time, she thought it sounded pained. She walked over to where she thought she heard it from and leaned her head against the door. This time she was convinced that whoever was moaning was moaning in pain so she gently opened the door.

Only to see the last person she wanted to. She and Severus Snape had been friends from the time they were nine up until the end of last year when he called her the M-word. Since then she had done everything in her power to avoid him. Now, it seemed, fate had turned against her ('maybe he hadn't noticed her yet?') but then she realized that this was her former best friend and he was in pain so she decided to see what she could do. He would have done the same thing for her. Or so she hoped. "Severus," she said quietly. He looked up at her.

Now, Lily had seen him look pretty bad, after all she knew what Tobias, amongst others, namely the Marauders, were capable of, but she was pretty sure she had never seen him look this… weak. He was leaning against the wall farthest away from her clutching his rounded stomach. Wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait, rounded? The Severus she knew would probably freak out if he gained even a half of a pound so why the hell did he look about the size of a pregnant woman. Hm. No, that was impossible. Right? But, then again, the wizarding world was a lot different from the Muggle one so maybe it wasn't completely impossible. "Sev," she said gently, unknowingly reverting back to the childhood nickname, but whether it was to comfort him or her she wasn't entirely certain. "Are you… Are you pregnant?" a nod followed by a whimper of pain. "And in Labor?" Another nod.

By this point the only thought in her head was, "Holy shit!" She wanted to become a Healer and had been studying the different Magical Maladies, but had never come across anything on female pregnancies, much less male ones. And she had certainly never heard anything about childbirth. So she decided to do the only thing she could think of at the moment, "I'm gonna go get Madam Pomfrey."

"No!" He shouted before looking away. "I- Please don't leave." She looked at the door and back at him a couple times before sighing and moving to sit beside him. She grabbed his hand to offer what little comfort she could, but regretted it when the next contraction hit a few minutes later. "Wait, Sev, how long have you been having contractions?"

"Since- Ah!- since this morning, but I-I didn't think they were- Fuck!- the real thing. Son of a bitch. This freaking hurts!"

'Shit,' she thought before gently prying her hand from his. She moved so that she was positioned between his legs and grabbed at the waistband of his pants. He looked at her in confusion. "Calm down. The contractions are really close so I think you might be able to push soon." She could have sworn she saw a flicker of fear go through his onyx eyes, but it was gone before she could really tell.

Once she got his pants off and transfigured three blankets, one to put under him so he wasn't laying naked on a dirty floor, one to put over his legs to protect his privacy should anyone come looking for either of them, and another to wrap around the baby once it was born. She found a knife and cast a quick 'Scourgify' so it was clean when she cut the umbilical cord. Once she was done, she moved back to her previous position, between his legs, and noticed something. The head was starting to emerge.

Now, Lily had never read anything about childbirth, or pregnancies in general, but she could easily assume that male pregnancies were highly risky since they were probably purely magical and thus the longer the baby stayed inside him the more danger he, and the baby, was in. She could also figure that once the head was out, it was safe to push. That's why she said, "On the next contraction, I want you to push. The head's already starting to come out so it's ok." He nodded and a few minutes later did just as she had requested.

What felt like hours later, but was probably only one at the most, he seemed worn out so Lily told him to relax on the next couple.

"Fuck, Lily, it hurts," he moaned as the next one hit.

"Shh, Sweetie, I know," she gave him her hand again after transfiguring a wash cloth to wipe some of the sweat from his forehead. He leaned against her shoulder then looked up at her as though to ask if it was ok. She nodded.

They waited for a few more minutes to pass until Lily went back to finish the delivery. "The head's mostly out so a few more pushes ought to do it. I think. Ready? Push," She said once she had her hands on the head so it couldn't fall onto the floor once it came out. "Good job. You're doing great," she said. "Now relax."

A few minutes and three pushes later, Lily held up a screaming baby. "Congratulations. It's a girl." She smiled. "She's beautiful," she said as she was trying to wrap the still screaming baby in the blanket. She finally succeeded and handed the baby to the new mother. "What's her name?"

"Sabrina Eileen Prince," he said and smiled at the newborn, who had stopped crying as soon as he was placed in his mom's arms. Lily knew she's never seen that much love in his eyes for anyone or anything and smiled to herself, happy that her friend finally had something that made him genuinely happy.

"I'm gonna go get Madam Pomfrey now," she said softly so as to not interrupt the precious moment between mother and daughter.

"Wait," he said looking up at her. She stopped beside the door and turned around. "Would you… um… like to be her uh… Godmother?"

Lily froze. Of all the things he could have said to her that was the last thing she had expected. He must have mistaken her silence as a refusal because he said, "It's ok if you don't. I just thought that since you helped deliver her and we were once really close, but it's o-"

"Sure," she said, interrupting him.

"What?" He seemed genuinely surprised.

"Sure. I-I'd love to. I just didn't think you'd want me to. I mean, I have been ignoring you for the past few months."

"I deserved it. I swear I never meant to call you that, I just… I don't even know why I did. It just kinda slipped out. Heat of the moment and all." He blushed.

"I think I understand now. I mean if our positions were flipped, I probably would've lashed out at the next person to say anything as well."

"So does that mean I'm forgiven?"

Lily smiled and nodded. "Yeah, I suppose I can forgive you," she smiled mischievously then added, "But if you ever call me a Mudblood again, Sabrina's gonna lack a mother."

Now it was Severus's turn to smile, knowing she'd never follow through on that particular threat. "I suppose that's acceptable."

Lily walked over and held out her arms to signal for a hug and Severus consented after rolling his eyes at her childish idea.

Three Years Later

It had been three years since that fateful day in that abandoned class room. And everyday that passed Lily was even more grateful that it did. It hadn't been for little Sabrina then she and Severus never would have repaired their friendship.

As a matter of fact, today was Sabrina's birthday so Lily was trying to get James to hurry up so they weren't late to her Goddaughter's birthday party. Earlier that month, Severus had invited her and James, as well as the rest of the Marauder, who had finally become friends- kinda, there was still the occasional argument between them, but for the most part they got along - mostly because Lily "accidentally" let it slip to Sirus that Sabrina was his niece - and a few of his own friends to come to a small get together at his house in Spinner's End for a party. And written under Sev's neat print was a large, sloppily written "Please bring presents." Needless to say, everyone got a good laugh out of that once they saw it since it was obvious who had put it.

It was another twenty minutes before they finally left the house and Disapparated to Spinner's End. As soon as Andromeda, who had become instant friends with Severus once Narcissa introduced them, opened the door, Sabrina jumped into Lily's arms. "Lily!" The now three year old shouted excitedly. "Mummy! Lily's here!"

"Hey, Lils. 'Bout time you showed up. Sabrina was starting to worry," he said before picking the toddler up off the ground and placing her on his hip.

"Nu-hu," she said before she noticed something. "Where's my present?" All the adults in the room started laughing.

"Don't worry, Squirt. We got it. But you can't have it until later. It was too big to wrap," James said. Once the words left his mouth, Severus glared at him, thinking of all the dangerous things that one can buy for a three year old, but relax slightly once Lily told him what it was. Although he still wasn't happy about it, he supposed he'd have to get over it. Sabrina wouldn't ever want to part with the item once she finally got to see it.

"Oh. Ok!" Sabrina started to squirm in her mum's arms, wanting to get down and socialize with the rest of the people who wanted to see her. "Down. Now."

Severus laughed before letting the child slide down his side onto the ground. "Alright. How about you go tell everyone to head to the kitchen. The cake's ready." Sabrina's eyes got really wide before she zoomed off to inform everyone that the cake was ready. Once everyone was situated in the kitchen, the group of friends and family sang 'Happy Birthday' before Severus helped Sabrina cut the cake.

A little while later, everyone went outside so Sabrina could open all of her presents. Severus got her a toy horse that could take the child on a ride around the house, some coloring books, a game that connected to the telly to teach her numbers, letters and colors, and a child camera since she always wanted to use her mommy's camera. Andromeda got her a Farm House set with animals that could move around and make noise. Lucius and Narcissa sent her a toddler broom that only went up about a foot in the air. Eileen sent her a set of children's books, both wizarding and Muggle. Remus got her a children's potion set and a book of potions that could be made with it, knowing it was something that both Sabrina and Severus could do together. Sirus got her a child-sized muggle version of his motorcycle, for which a certain mommy wanted to kill him for. Peter sent him some blocks, not knowing what else to get the child. Rose and Henry Evans, who were practically Sabrina's grandparents, sent her some board games that wouldn't be too difficult, but given who her mother was, everyone thought she would be really smart anyways. And Lily and James got her a muggle toy car that they had enchanted so that it was similar in design to the horse but with a slightly farther range. Something Severus wasn't too happy about.

Everyone stayed for a few more hours until they slowly started to head home until soon only Severus and Sabrina were left. Severus was just finishing up the dishes and decided to ask her what she thought of her party. "It was really fun," Sabrina said while trying to hold back a yawn.

"Sounds like someone's ready for bed," Severus said.

She just nodded. "Can you read me a story?"

"Sure. Just go pick one out," Severus said, thinking that the child probably wouldn't make it through the first page before she was sound asleep. A moment later, Sabrina can back with the book, Henry the Hippogriff. The two went up to Sabrina's room, where Severus began reading, "Once there was a Hippogriff. His name was Henry. Henry was a nice Hippogriff, but had one very big problem," Severus began before looking down and seeing that he was right. Sabrina was already asleep. He slowly moved out of the bed and pulled the covers on the sleeping child and kissing her forehead. "Good night, my little Princess."

While laying in bed that night, Severus reflected on the past three years, as he had often done when he couldn't sleep. So what Regulas had abandoned them the minute he found out his boyfriend was pregnant? Or who cared that they only had just enough money to be able to survive? Severus was slowly coming to realize that they had a large group of people that cared about them and would undeniably do anything to help them, not that Severus would let them as he had way too much pride. As long as Severus was able to keep his current job, making potions for those who couldn't, and had a steady income, it didn't matter that they didn't have tons of extra money like the Malfoys or even the Potters, and that they wouldn't have all the new and interesting stuff like everyone else. As long as there was a way for them to get by everything would be ok. And with that thought in mind, Severus finally drifted off to sleep.