I need a mother

Author: Leta McGotor

Summary: What happens if SS has a daughter who has found the ideal companion for her. But what will happen if the dark Lord finds out. MMSS

Diclaimer: I owe nothing but Cassy. The other belongs to JKR.

'Dad, dad ...you are back again. I've waited for you. You are late.'

A little girl barely eight years old was running to the figure standing in the doorway. She knew that this figure was her father. And she was right. When she arrived at him he lifted her up and hugged her tightly. She grinned at him because she was the only one who could get the chance of hugging by her dad.

'Yes, I know, I'm sorry. Will you ever forgive me?'

He carried her into the kitchen and set her down on the table. The woman standing there ignored them and strode past them out of the room.

'What have you done to her that she is so angry? Or is it because I'm here again?' he asked in a puzzled voice.

'Oh, she don't like it when I'm sitting on the table. I'm often sittting here because it is too high for me. You see?'

She jumped from the table and stand next to it. She was right. She could barely look on it without standing on her tiptoes. Her father laughed and she smiled. Her father doesn't laugh often only when she is around.

The girl didn't know how right she was. Her father was working at Hogwarts. There he was the Potions Master and the Head of Slytherin House. To say it short her father was Severus Snape and he wouldn't laugh even if his life would depend on it.

But now he wasn't at Hogwarts, no. He was at home and had his wounderful daughter around him. His daughter meant all to him. He would go to all tortures of the Dark Lord only for her, for just a simple smile. He loved her more than anything and anyone else.

The little girl has climbed on a chair while he was lost in thoughts.

'Why have you been so late?'

She stared at him. She belonged to those people who have to know all what is going on. And now she waitet for an answer.She liked Hogwarts very much. Surely she had visited the castle just one or two times but she loved it. She couldn't wait to get old enough to go to the school. In her eyes it was the greatest adventure what would happen to her.

Her father remained silence. He could tell her the truth about him coming so late but he didn't want to frighten her with stories about the Dark Lord and about the Order.

'I think I've spoken enough lately. So I prefer you telling what you have done latest, Cathrine Merina Snape.'

He knew she still hate it when he called her by her whole name. All the others called her Cassy. He did it, too, but he liked it when she glared at him. That was the reason he had an argument with Minerva McGonagall so often. Then she glared at him in the same way and reminded him on his daughter.

'I hate it when you call me so.'

He started laughing. He knew her far too well. He knew she would laugh with him and then sat down to tell him what she hade done over the next several hours. And really she laughed and sat down.

Several hours later Cassy still told her father what has happened. But then her aunt came into the kitchen again.

'It is late. You should have been in bed for nearly one hour. You can talk tomorrow. Severus, you are belonging in bed like your daughter. You look horrible.'

With that statement she left him alone in the kitchen. Aunt Ethel was nearly 90 years old and was extremely bored all the day. Therefor she had agreed to take care about Cassy when her mother died. Then Cassy was just a few weeks old and so tiny. She had agreed to take care of the girl until her father would marry again. Now the girl was eight years old and her father wasn't going to marry someone in the next time.

Often she had told him the girl was needing a real mother but he hadn't listened to her. That shouldn't bee her problem. He was her father and not her.

The next day Aunt Ethel, Severus Snape and his daughter went to Edinburgh. Because Aunt Ethel lived in a little village Cassy pleaded every now and then for going to Edinburgh. Cassy loved this city. She liked the novel 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' and of course she knew that the contrasts of Edinburgh were used for it.

So her father and aunt went with her to the Princess Street, the shopping mall. Severus Snape had the opinion that his daughter needed a new skirt and new shoes. Severus himself was interested in other things and so Cassy went with her aunt.

Cassy ran through the street back and forth, looked at shop windows and was so happy that she jumped back to her aunt only to run in the next five seconds to another shop.

Aunt Ethel looked for a shop for dishes and when she has found one she let Cassy alone outside. Cassy had no problem with that because she still ran from one shop to the next.

Because her eyes were stuck on some books and her legs wanted to the next shop she ran straight into a woman.

'Ouch'

'Oh, sorry. I haven't seen you.' Apologised Cassy and looked up at the woman who put up the things on the floor.

'I have to apologise. I went straight into you. Are you all right?' she asked.

'Yes, I'm fine.' Cassy helped the woman to put up her books and the two bags when her gaze fall on one of the books.

'You have a book about Transfiguration?'

The woman looked up and stared at the book in the hands of the girl.

'Ähm, yes. It is a … fairytale for … ähm my … ähm … nephew.' The woman answered and tried to reach the book. But Cassy opened the book and read.

'No' she said. 'That's a real Transfiguration textbook. I've seen that book before in Diagon Alley, I think. I don't understand it because I'm not going to Hogwarts yet.'

She gave the book back to it's owner. The woman stared at her.

'You know?'

'Yes, of course. My father is a wizard and my aunt is a witch. But I'm just eight years old. I can't wait to go to Hogwarts. I think it's great. Iwas really impressed the two times I've been there.'

'You've been at Hogwarts? I've never seen you there. How and why do you was there?'

Cassy hesitated. She didn't want to say too much but now she had to realize that she already had done that. Other people would have been starting to talk about the weather nut Cassy hated to do so. Therefor she answered.

'I'm Cassy. I'm not often here. We are here for shopping. Dad meant I need new shoes and so on. I'm looking for a shop but I haven't found one yet. Can you help me?

But the woman remained on that topic they have spoken about.

'I'm Minerva McGonagall. Really, I've never seen you at Hogwarts. Do you live in Hogsmead or somewhere else near the school?

No. Do you live here? I'm still looking for that shop. Can you help me or not?'

Minerva McGonagall sighed. She didn't want know it already. Therefor she stand up because the two of them were still kneeling on the floor and turned around.

'Come on. I'll show you where you can buy new shoes.'

So she went along several other shops the girl with the name Cassy by her side. Cassy herself was happy. She had found someone interesting. Shopping with her aunt was very boring and now she'll perhaps have a bit fun.

So, what do you think? Tell me, please. It's my first story in English and my second I ever wrote. Tell me what is good and what I've to improve.