"James I can't believe you! It's your fault I lost a good friend like Severus! It's your fault!" Lily yells at her husband soon to be ex husband.
"He was a freak Lily! He worshiped the Dark Arts! He's a freak!"
"No he's not! You have no idea of what his home life was like. He got the shite beat out of him every time he went home! He and his mother were abused by his father for being 'freaks'. He took an interest to the Dark Arts to figure out on how to defeat it. Then his bastard of a father beat his mother to death after seventh year and that was when he turned to the Dark Arts thinking there was no way out. His father wanted him to be like so he got his wish. He turned to be an evil bastard!" Lily shrieks.
"Whatever Lily!"
"Don't you 'Whatever Lily' me James Harry Potter! We're through! I can't believe it took me this long to see your such an arrogant bastard! I'm taking Harry and leaving." She said going upstairs and packing their bags, then shrinking them down and putting them in her pocket.
Once that task was done she goes and picks a sleeping Harry up and leaves the house with an agape James not believe she actually took his son and left.
Putting the sleeping infant in the carrier Severus heads out to Diagon Alley. He needed a few things for some of his potions.
Arriving in Diagon Alley Severus walks into the shop and the shop keeper goes over to them and she starts fawning over the sleeping infant.
"Oh she is just so precious."
"Thank you."
He looks for all the needed ingredients then he goes and gets them and pays for them then he heads back out into the street and he goes into Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions to get some robes for his baby girl and he sees Lily in there with her son.
"Severus!"
"Lily how are you?"
"Horrible. I found some things out about James and we're getting divorced."
"I'm sorry. Who's the little guy?"
"My son Harry. Who's that precious little girl you have with you?"
"My daughter Christina."
"She's beautiful. Where's her mother?"
"She died." He said shortly not wanting to talk about it.
Her mother, Joanna, was killed by Voldemort when she strictly disobeyed his orders.
He had been forced to watch as his little girl slept upstairs next to Lucius and Narcissa's boy.
"Oh I'm sorry." She said with sympathy.
He nods.
"Do you have somewhere to stay?"
"No but we'll most likely stay at the Leaky Cauldron."
"No. That is no place for you or a baby. You can stay with us. I have plenty of room. I had bought a bigger place for myself and Christi's mom when she was pregnant with her."
"Severus…"
"Lily I insist. Just until you get back on your feet or until P…James comes groveling and begging for you to take him back."
"He's not coming back and alright I'll stay with you. I appreciate it Severus."
"Not a problem." He said as Christi started fussing.
"Do you mind?" Lily asks.
"Not at all." He said as they switched children.
Lily reaches into the green and silver carries and lifts the fussing three month old out of her carrier.
She gently bounced the fusing three month old and she starts calming down and she snuggles into Lily's arms and goes right to sleep in her arms.
"So what are you doing now in days?" Lily asks as they head to the nearest Floo system.
"Teaching Potions at Hogwarts."
"Severus that's amazing! What are you going to do about Christi?"
"No idea. I haven't gotten that far ahead. I've just been taking it day by day it's been difficult since her mum died."
"I can move to Hogsmeade with Harry and I can take care of her. I won't mind. She's an angel and besides Harry would have a playmate and they can grow up together and they can be good friends."
"Are you sure you want to make such a big move?"
"Yes, it will be good for us. Besides it will be easy for you to visit her and I need a clean slate."
Arriving back to the Snape home someone knocks on the front door and Severus goes and sets down the four week old in playpen he has set up for Christi then he goes and answers the door seeing Remus Lupin, his girlfriend Emmeline Vance and their one old daughter Ivy Lynn Lupin.
"Snivellus, is Lily here? Prongs has some crazy idea that she's come here for Merlin knows why."
"What do you want Remus?" Lily asks coming into view with the still sleeping three month old on her shoulder.
"Who's kid is that!" Remus asks.
"She's my daughter." Severus growls slipping into protective father mode.
"Lily come on and let's get back to Godric's Hallow. You and James belong together." Remus says.
"Lil why are you guys fighting?"
"He's the reason why Severus snapped at me fifth year after our OWL's. He and his little gang are the reason why everyone thinks he's an evil bastard when he's not."
"Bullocks! He's a fucking Death Eater!" Remus yells.
"Oh! Daddy said bad words!" Ivy giggles.
"And you are to never say either of those words understand Ivy Lynn?" Emmeline tells her.
"Yes mummy."
"If you know what's good for you wolf you'll get off of my property before I hex you!"
Lily and Emmeline jump in between them and Lily immediately hands Christi to her father and he visibly clams.
"Sev, back down. He's trying to rile you up like old times. Don't let him win."
He nods and takes slow deep breaths to calm down.
He backs off and then he heads upstairs to lie his baby girl down in her crib then puts charms up so that if she starts crying he can hear her.
He heads back down and sees that James showed up and Remus was standing in front of him trying to keep him calm.
"YOU PLANNED THIS YOU FUCKING FREAK! YOU PLANNED THIS!" James yells as Remus grabs him and holds him back.
"James shut the bloody hell up!" Lily snaps.
"Lil, sweetheart, please come back and give me another chance. Please." James begs.
"No."
"Lil! Please!"
"I said no James! Not after everything I've found out."
"Lily I was a stupid immature, jealous, arsehole back then! Please Lil! Please!" pleads James.
Lily stands there gnawing her lower lip then nods after a long tense moment.
"Alright."
James smiles and shoves past Remus and snogs Lily spinning her around.
After a moment Lily looks at Severus.
"I appreciate everything. How about we do lunch in a few days?"
"Sure." He grunts as Christi starts crying.
He turns and sweeps out of the room to tend to his crying infant.
Heading home Remus and Emmeline head home and put Ivy to bed.
"She's so precious." Emmeline said.
"She is. She's going to be amazing witch when she's older." Remus said.
"She will be. We should let her sleep now."
He nods and they step out of the nursery and head downstairs.
"The full moon is in two nights."
"I know. I hate to have to leave you two. But I don't want to harm either one of you two."
"I know. Remus there will be a cure found for this. Who knows, maybe Ivy will find a cure for it." Emmeline said.
Remus chuckles snogs Emmeline softly slipping his hand behind neck as she slips her arms around his neck and laces her fingers in his hair.
He pulls back a moment later needing to breath.
"I love you Remus."
"I love you too Emme."
"Come on, let's go outside it's nice out." Emmeline said.
"I'm actually meeting with Padfoot and Prongs to prep for the full moon in two days."
"Alright. Just be careful."
"I will. I might be home late. Don't wait up."
Emmeline nods and heads back inside as Remus heads over to James'.
Getting there he hears Harry's screaming through the front door.
He smirks as James answers looking flustered.
"Hand the kid over." Remus chuckles taking Harry who immediately stops crying.
"Show off." James mutters.
"Whatever you say Prongs. Padfoot here yet?"
"Not yet. How's Ivy?"
"An angel. She's a good little girl."
"That's good."
"Yea. I love that girl to death. I just want to monitor her interactions with Padfoot. I don't want him turning her into a mischief-maker or Emme will skin me alive." He laughs.
"Hey! She can start creating the next generation of Marauders! She and Harry can start it and get Snape's daughter to join as well then whoever else to join." Sirius chuckles.
"No you will not! We don't need more Marauders running around and Severus is a great guy if you had actually taken the time to get to know him in school instead of bullying him. Which reminds me. James, love, you're going to start being nicer to him because I intend on helping him as much as possible and that includes taking care of his daughter while he's at Hogwarts teaching and if you don't like it suck it up do it anyway." Lily informs her husband.
"I said I didn't like Snape. I could tolerate his offspring, especially if you're around her to keep her away from the Dark Arts, no matter what 'daddy' says."
"Well you're going to have tolerate him because he is her father. He and I have been friends since we were kids. He's a really good guy. You just need to take the time and get to know him. You know there are reasons behind people turning to the Dark Arts. You are just too stubborn to realize that. Some are raised that way, some just turn to it out of pure stupidy or others, like Severus, see it as a way out. You have to look at the factors in peoples lives. Like I told you before about him. His home life was hell. He had the shit beat out of him and his mom constantly because his father thought he and his mum were freaks. Then after seventh year his dad beat his mum to Death. So he saw it as a way out. Think about it." She said Harry as he started crying and heading into the kitchen to make his bottle then to take him upstairs to feed him.
"Prongs, man, you just got your arse handed to you by Lil." Sirius howls with laughter.
A few days later Lily and Severus were sitting in an open cafe with their kids having lunch. Christi was just happily babbling away in her seat and 'chewing' on her fingers making Severus chuckle.
"You're a great father Severus. She's lucky to have you."
"Thanks. He's a good little guy. I haven't heard a peep out of him."
"Trust me he's usually screaming. You're seeing him on a rare day." Lily laughs.
Severus chuckles as Christi whimpers in her seat.
He smiles and swiftly lifts her out and pulls her bottle out and casting a simple warming charm then proceeds to feed her.
"You nervous about leaving her soon?"
"Terrified. I haven't left her alone since her mom died."
"That's normal. She's going to be fine and you know you can fire call us anytime you want to check on her."
"I know. I'm just anxious." He says smiling at his little girl in his arms.
He'd kill to protect her and keep her.
"So what does James think of this? Because if this is causing problems for you two I can work something out with Dumbledore to bring her with me. I don't want to cause problems between you two." He said as she finishes her bottle then whimpers.
He lifts her over his shoulder and gently pats her back until she gives a very un-lady like burp making Lily laugh.
"I bet that if Sirius was here he'd say she'd give Harry a run for his money." Lily laughs.
"But I really don't care what James thinks Sev; I'm going to help you out anyway. You need help and I want to help you. I mean you helped me out in the past now I want to help you out. I mean it when I say I really appreciate you and everything you helped me with now let me help you."
He smiles and nods.
"Alright but just tell me if it becomes too much for you two and I'll talk to Dumbledore about working something out so that I can have her there with me. I don't want to cause any problems with you and James. I don't want to ruin your happiness."
Lily smiles.
"Christi's mom was lucky to have you and she's lucky to have you. You're still as sweet as ever."
"Thanks Lily."
"You're welcome.
He smiles and they continue having lunch.
After a couple of hours they head home and as soon as Severus steps through the front door his left forearm starts burning and he hisses in pain.
He goes and lies her down and he calls for his house-elf, Koty.
"Koty here Mater Severus."
"Koty, watch Christi for me. I'll set up the snitch in her room to alert you if she wakes up or if anything is wrong with her. If anything is an emergency come and get me at Malfoy Manor immediately."
"Koty, do that Master! Koty will look after young Mistress."
He nods and goes and lies his daughter in her crib then reaches into the drawer and activates the Golden Snitch which doubled as a nightlight. He charmed it when Christi was just a newborn to alert Koty if something was wrong with her then Koty would alert him or Joanna.
He releases the Snitch and lets it flutter around the room then he goes and leaves the door cracked marginally then he goes into the Floo and Floo's over to Malfoy's.
Walking into the house Lily finds James and Sirius in the middle of a game of Wizards Chess. Remus was there as well in a tuto and tiara playing dress up with Ivy keeping her busy.
"AUNTIE LILY!" Ivy squeals when she sees Lily walking in and she runs over to her throwing her arms around her jean clad legs.
"Hi sweetie. I see you got your daddy in a tuto and tiara."
"Yup! Daddy look pwetty! But I want to do ballet! I wanna be a ballawina!"
"Oh really. That sounds fun. I think you'd make a very pretty ballerina. Now let me go and put your cousin down for a nap then we talk more okay?"
"Okay." She said letting go then she runs back over to Remus.
"Daddy ew pwetty!"
"You're very pretty too, sweetheart."
"Check mate." James says a smirk in his tone.
"Cheat." Sirius laughs.
Lily comes back down and she scoops Ivy up and holds her on her hip.
"So how are you sweetie?"
"Good. When can Harry play?"
"Not for a while sweetie. He's still too little."
"Oh! Okay." She exasperated.
"I'm bored. I gots no one to play with."
"I'll play with you munchkin." Sirius says.
"YAY! Doggie Uncle Sirius? Pwease?" she begs pouting her big black eyes going big and wide and shinning.
"Sure kiddo." He said.
"She has you wrapped around her finger tighter than me Sirius." Remus laughs.
"Ha! Yea right Remus. You're the one in the tiara and tuto." Lily chuckles.
"Whatever Moony!" Sirius laughs switching to his Animagus form.
Ivy squeals and runs over to him and throws her arms around his neck then pulls herself up on his back since he was a large black dog and she could ride him.
"Run! Run! Run!" Ivy squeals giggling.
"No running with her Padfoot! Just a slow trot. I don't want her getting hurt." Remus tells his long time friend.
Sirius nods and he trots out of the room making Ivy squeal and giggle. She loved her Uncle Sirius.
Arriving at Malfoy Manor a child's squeal of delight captures Severus' attention. He looks and smiles seeing his godson reaching out to him from his mother's arms. Severus smiles and goes over takes him.
"Hello Draco." He says bouncing the small boy.
"He's missed his godfather."
"I've missed the little guy to but I've been busy with Christi."
"where is the little girl?"
"Koty's watching her."
"Oh, well the Dark Lord needs you up in the study."
He nods and hands his godson back to his mother then heads upstairs.
He enters the study and gives a respectful bow.
"You called my Lordship?"
"Yes, I need you to brew up a potion for me."
"Of course. Which one?"
"Death-Cap Draught."
"Of course, but it's going to take me a while. It takes two weeks to brew and takes constant attention."
"Then get it done."
"Of course, I just need time to find someone to watch my daughter."
"Do it and do it fast. I want it in two weeks."
He nods and leaves. He heads to the nearest apperation point then he apperate's to Godric's Hallow and sees Sirius in his Animagus form playfully chasing around Ivy.
He approaches the dog and waits for him to notice.
"Black. Where do the Potter live? I need to speak to Lily."
The black dog eyes him suspiciously.
"Black please. I'm not trying to take her from Potter. I just want her happiness and she has that with him."
The dog nods then looks over at the house.
"Thanks."
He heads over there and knocks on the door.
A moment later Lily answers with a squirming Harry in her arms.
"Severus is everything okay?"
"Yes, I just need to ask you if you can watch Christi for two weeks. An old…acquaintance has asked me to brew up a difficult potion that takes two weeks and constant attention." He said.
He couldn't tell her that he was a spy for the Order against Voldemort or she would never trust him. He had to keep it under wraps and away from her unless he was told otherwise by Dumbledore.
"Sure thing. When do you need me to pick her up?"
"How about eight?"
"Sounds good. I'll Floo over."
"Great. See you then."