A/N: Hello. I'm writing a fanfiction. With my best friend Anna, she deleted her account here, therefore she sucks. We came up with the idea for this story while playing The Sims 3 Generations. We know, it's very strange. I know it's hard for you Potterheads to imagine a world without Lord Voldy, we are ourselves having a hard time accepting that everyone is alive. Also, some characters may or may not be out-of-character.

Enjoy.

-Anna och Kajsa (KajsaVi).

P.S Awkward is our favorite word.

"Thing's I'll Never Say"

Chapter 1

"Excuse us."

Life wasn't easy; Severus Snape was a living example of this particular fact. His parents had been fighting non-stop when he was younger, he had lost the girl of his dreams to his enemy and he didn't have his dream job, though he had been very close to have it, more than once. So, when he found himself dueling Bellatrix Lestrange in his own house, he really just didn't care anymore. He didn't even lift an eyebrow when he realized that his house – he refused to call it home – was too destroyed to live in. The shattered things around him that were his belongings; when this didn't make him change his impression, he knew that his life really couldn't get any worse. So he went to the one person he knew he could go to. And he lied to her.

The four members of the Potter family were gathered around the dinner table. Harry and Elizabeth on one of the long sides of the table, James and Lily on the other side, and everyone with the surname Potter were facing the man on the end of the table for six. Severus Snape, wasn't as greasy looking as he usually was while teaching at Hogwarts. 'Maybe he has taken a shower?' Harry thought, letting out a small grunt that was supposed to be a stifled laugh.

James had this weird look in his eyes, it pretty much gave the saying "if looks could kill" a face.

"So, Severus and I have discussed this and he will be staying here for a while." Lily said, and shot a small innocent smile towards Snape. "His house got burnt down." She explained.

"I wouldn't be surprised if Bellatrix Lestrange was behind this." Said Snape, as if he was trying to lighten the heavy mood, which was the last thing anyone would expect him to do. Though everyone - except Lily - seemed to get a bit lighter and happier with the thought that someone had tried to kill him.

Silence fell over them for a moment. Harry, who had just finished his fifth year at Hogwarts (Also just survived the O.W.L's) stared at his sister Elizabeth, who looked much forward to her fourth year at the school. She gave him the concerned look only women can give; neither of them had ever felt even a little bit okay with being in the same room as Snape. He hated both of them, for sure, and now he was going to live with them. Sigh.

Everyone was waiting for someone to break the silence and James was the hero of the day. "Excuse us," he said while standing up. He grabbed Lily by the elbow and pulled her up from her chair. She looked furiously at him for making her leave. They left the table and went out of hearing distance; leaving Harry, Elizabeth and Snape alone. The silence grew more and more awkward for every small second that passed.

"Beautiful weather today." Elizabeth said awkwardly, making both Harry and Snape to look out the window. Harry silently agreed while Snape was totally quiet.

Meanwhile, James had dragged Lily up the stairs, where he was sure they wouldn't be heard. "Are you at your right mind, Lily?" James said with his voice bathing in fury and his hand tightly gripped around his wand.

"Yes, thank you very much!" Lily replied "And put that away!" referring to his visible wand. When he didn't do as she said, she ripped it from his hand, "Severus Snape is my friend, believe it or not, and he can stay here for as long as he has to and wants to." Her voice wasn't so much more cheerful than his.

"Well, if you hadn't noticed, he and I aren't even close to being friendly," James answered.

Since their fight had been done silently with them whispering angrily at each other, it would have sounded rather silly in anyone else's ears. They didn't care much about that anyway. "Oh, James, please don't be so judging. What happened between you is old and - "

"Unforgiveable and unforgettable." He cut her off, but he kept go in a friendlier tone, "Lily I can't have my enemy living in my house."

"This really isn't anything -"

"Er… mum and dad." Both of the adults turned their head to the side and faced the dark haired boy who was their son. They hadn't even heard him coming up the stairs. "It's getting terribly unpleasantly awkward downstairs, we've been sitting there for so long that I think the grease from Snape's hair is dripping onto the dinner table."

"Harry!" Lily said with the most horrified tone she'd ever been heard with. "James, please don't encourage him!" she burst out when she saw the grin on her husband's face. "We WILL talk about this." She gave both of them the same face Hermione always gave Ron and Harry when they didn't do their homework when they should, and went back downstairs. They heard her cheerfully talk to Snape, and him answering her darkly. Elizabeth's chair made a loud noise as it scraped to the floor and she hurried up the stairs to get away as fast as possible.

Harry and James stood in the spot for a few seconds before Harry looked at his dad and mumbled – so he wouldn't be heard by anyone else - "You're not very happy about this are you?"

"She's gone mad. Absolutely and utterly mad."

A few hours had passed when James went down the stairs again. His anger had disappeared and been replaced with a generally happy feeling when he'd been talking to Elizabeth. He'd been giving her hints about the fact that he wanted to know about potential boyfriends, but when she reached for her wand; he bolted. Though now, going down the stairs he kind of wished that he would have let Elizabeth illegally curse him.

Snape and Lily were still sitting at the dinner table, and by the looks of it they were having a heart-to-heart. He felt his gut bubble up with anger again, and he stormed childishly into the kitchen. "Lily, may I speak to you again?" his bitter voice could make Father Christmas cry.

"Sure" Lily said with the smile that would make James' heart melt but this time it got the monster inside him to flame up, for the smile hadn't been for him, but for Snape.

Sometimes he couldn't help for the jealousy to take over him.

Lily walked up to him and kissed his cheek. James felt triumph, but not for long because he swore he could still hear her last laugh on her lips. "Where exactly did you plan for our guest – if you'd like – to sleep?" he asked her.

"The guestroom, of course? What did you have in mind?" she smilingly replied to his question.

"The cellar."

Lily's smile disappeared so quickly that he felt guilty "Please tell me you're kidding; because you cannot be serious." She stared at him with a look that made him want to beg for her forgiveness. "Severus is my oldest friend; you can't expect me to tell him that he's supposed to sleep with our old, dusty furniture in the cold cellar!"

"Fine! I'll tell him!" James said. "And the celllar is just warm enough for him to survive. And the furniture there is not dusty."

And just when he was going to stomp away, Lily grabbed his arm and pleaded "Please, James…"

He didn't look at her, he just went to the guestroom to destroy every inch of furniture in the small room, so there could be no one sleeping there. He would make sure.

Lily sighed a long, loud, sad sigh before she stepped into the kitchen again. Snape was still sitting in the same spot he'd done all day, and he knew he'd sit there for years at the time if it meant that Lily would sit there with him. She sat down beside him and said – with a bittersweet voice "It seems like you'll have to sleep in the cellar, Severus. I'm terribly sorry," she sighed "I'll go clean a little for you."

"I will come with you." Snape said simply. He didn't say much around everyone else, since that was his character, but with Lily… it was another story. He felt different. He felt better.

They both left the room and went for the stairs that led down to the cellar. It was quite clean already for a cellar, no cobwebs which is what you would expect from a cellar stuffed with furniture. This didn't go unnoticed by Snape, and he said "It's really…"

"Clean. Yes, I know." Lily said "it's because Elizabeth comes down here to play the piano" she made a hand gesture towards the grand piano in the corner of the room. "We keep it down here because it's way too big to keep upstairs. Well, she keeps it clean here so…"

He nodded understandingly, but didn't reply.

"Okay…" Lily said awkwardly "I guess I'll make up a bed for you."

She waved her wand and made an old bed fly out from the mess – a bed everyone had forgotten was there – and she put it in the one empty corner there was in the big cellar. Beside it she put a small table as a nightstand. "I know it's not much, but I'm afraid it's all I can offer you at the moment." Lily said apologetically. Her smile told another story than what she had told Snape, but he didn't say anything. "I hope it's enough."

"It's more than enough, Lily." Said Snape quietly, as to hide the friendliness.

Lily gave him her greatest smile, then she waved her wand to reveal a closet before she started to climb the stairs, but before reached the top she turned around and said sweetly "Goodnight, Sev."

Snape actually smiled.

Lily walked around in the house to gather her family so they could have the talk she promised they would have. She walked in the house and banged on their doors and screamed "Living room, NOW!" And when she was done she went to the living room herself. The three other members of the family all stood on different spots in the living room, but when she pointed at the couch they all sat down.

"Brace yourselves." James whispered from the corner of his mouth. He knew what was coming towards them. It was like looking up at the sky and suspecting a storm, only now he was sure it would rain and thunder would occur. A lot of the later.

"What the hell?" Lily shouted, and the three on the sofa were so taken aback from their cursing mother. Well, wife for James. Never the less, it scared them. "What is your problem? Huh?"

"Mum…" Harry tried to cut her off.

"No, I don't even want to hear it! Elizabeth and Harry, I have raised you better than this, and James…" she looked at her husband with such disappointment that he wanted to start to cry.

"You should see how he acts around us at Hogwarts, mum!" Harry spat out, before Lily could start to yell again.

"You wouldn't even believe it." Elizabeth backed him up loyally. She almost instantly regretted it; her mum looked like she could lock her up in her room until graduation. Elizabeth muttered something and looked down at her shoes.

"I think I'll f… - " Harry said, in an attempt to escape, he thought that he should leave before anything else happened.

"Oh NO!" Lily shouted, making everyone jump three meters in the air. "You're not going anywhere." Harry whined like a small dog.

And as Lily went on, Harry imagined himself Floo his way to Ron. He still hadn't told his best friends about Snape moving in – which he should have done instantly – and he could only think and laugh about their reactions. Especially Hermione's. She would be very happy for him, because 'now he could study potions under the summer, with help!' Sigh. Anyway, he really wanted to go to the Burrow, he hadn't been there since a fast visit at Christmas, and he hadn't met Ginny since school ended, so he decided he'd go there tomorrow. He smiled at the thought.

"Harry!"

He snapped out of his trance. "Y-yes mother."

"Are you listening to me?" her voice had calmed down, a little. "Because I won't be saying this again." Though her mind was saying, 'I probably will'. "Severus Snape is my friend, and while he is here you will treat him with respect and you will take out the best sides in yourselves, understood?" she probably didn't notice the changing of her voice, because sometimes she was on the edge to yelling herself voiceless, and sometimes the sound that came from her was sweet and soft.

"But…" Elizabeth tried again.

"No buts,"

James who had not said anything for the whole time, stood up and left for his and Lily's bedroom. Lily followed him with her eyes, and then she mumbled to her children "Off to bed with you."

"It's six o'clock, mum!" Harry exclaimed.

"Do as I say."

Meanwhile this rather unfortunate event, Snape had been eavesdropping – by accident of course. He had heard Lily cursing loudly at her family, so he went to the top of the stairs to hear better what was going on. And when he heard her shouting angrily, he couldn't help but smile. She was defending him. But it troubled him because of what Harry and Elizabeth had said about him. He knew it was true that he had been treating them unfairly because they were James Potter's children. But it seemed like he also forgot they were Lily's.

Snape felt a sting of guilt for a few seconds. Those few seconds of misery made him go back down the stairs and sir down on the bed that Lily had made up for him.

As he sat there he started to wonder why he really disliked them. Well, according to Snape, Harry was just overly pretentious. But Elizabeth – if you overlooked the fact that her hair was as black and out of control as James' – she was pretty much a clone to Lily. He started to wonder why he hadn't thought about that more often.

Maybe he should?

He laid down onto the bed and closed his eyes.

Lily…

"James." Lily said quietly as she entered their bedroom.

She remembered the day when they had moved in, it was the same day that she had decided that this would be their room. James hadn't agreed, because there was a room upstairs that was bigger – the room that was now Elizabeth's – which he wanted them to have. But Lily wanted this room, and James had to give in. "James…" she repeated. She had no idea why she felt tears behind her eyes. "James!" she said it in a helpless way, one that made James almost shout out;

"WHAT?" he turned around. He'd been facing the window, which meant that he'd been sitting with his back toward her.

"Don't shout at me!" Lily said, though she herself; wasn't angry or mad. "You can't possibly me angry about this."

"I can't, you say? Don't tell me how to feel!" James answered angrily as he stood up.

"James please…" Lily tried to make him calmer, and as she said his name again, she realized how much she had said it just this day.

"I will not take this! Snape cannot live in this house, okay?" He loked at her with the 'if looks could kill' – face, he'd been wearing a lot lately.

"James, calm down!" Lily said, determined to keep her tears down. "Just…"

"Just what? Live with it? Accept it? Lily, why didn't you ask me first if he could stay here?" James asked, raising his voice on the last words.

"Because you would have said NO!" Lily shouted at him, having no means to calm James down anymore.

"Damn straight!" He screamed, (Honestly it all just sounded like a contest about who could scream the loudest.) and he made Lily frown with surprise. She didn't speak up for a while, until she said quietly,

"He has nowhere else to go, what was I supposed to do? Send him away? My heart doesn't work that way, James. I thought you knew that." Lily looked him in the while she spoke, which wasn't hard since they somehow had gotten in a position in which their faces were only inches away from each other. "And if you're not going to come back to your senses right now, I shall leave." And with that she left the room. She left James.

A/N We hope you all liked it. Or at least didn't suffer through it. It will get better. And more dramatic and awkwardness (Kajsa likes drama and Anna likes awkwardness.)

Also, I (Kajsa) have always thought that Lily and James were very passionate when they were fighting. Hence the cursive and bold parts.

And FYI, we LOVE Lily and James. We love Snapey too, it's just that we love Lily and James more.

Thanks for wasting your time.

NOW DO YOUR HOMEWORK.

Just kidding.