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Summary: A girl from Harry's past is now Snape's newfound daughter. Later on there'll be a Snape adopts Harry, story! Also, Harry will have a whole new family. Lots of mystery, angst, fun, romance…etc!
A/N: This chapter is for all my wonderful reviewers. I am glad to see that you guys/girls are as excited to read, as I am to write. All your lovely reviews are greatly appreciated. Thank you very much! Enjoy! Oh and in my story, Draco is a good guy! So, if you have a problem, you can always review it to me!
Very Important: I was wondering if it would be OK that my story also has other people's point of views. Ex: Snape and Selena, etc.!
This is the letter
Bold/Italics: This is the flashback
Plain: This is Severus thinking
Bold in parentheses: (This is Authors Note)
Italics plain: Memories from the pensieve.
Now on with the story!
Chapter 1: Severus' past…
May 20, almost the end of Harry's fifth year:
Dearest Sev,
There were only two people Severus allowed to call him Sev. One was his mother and the other his wife, Victoria; however, they both had passed away, his mom when he was thirteen and his wife when he was eighteen.
It has been an awfully long time since I have seen you and longer since I have held you close to me. Yet you live in my heart and soul everyday. I know you must be wondering who has sent this to you (A/N: this letter has been charmed so the reader can not see the ending before reading the letter; meaning that one isn't allowed to skip the entire letter to see who it's from). Well it's me Victoria your one and only wife (I hope).
Victoria, Severus thought. This was impossible. His wife is dead never to return. Was this some kind of a joke? With mixed emotions and shaking hands, Severus made himself continue reading.
I know you must be speculating if this letter is a joke, but truly it's not. I love you Severus Snape with all my heart, and I hope you know that I didn't let you go that day because I hated you (as I am sure you think) I let you go because I was not thinking of you or me. Actually I was thinking of a very special someone who was about to enter our lives. Someone whose fate you signed the day you took that wretched mark. The day you became a death eater, you condemned our family to a life of misery and tied our future to the one you call The Dark Lord.
Severus paused now, paling. What was going on? How could he be getting this letter from Victoria, sixteen years after her death? As much as he didn't want to believe, Severus knew from heart that this letter was from Victoria. In fact he remembered that day when he had last seen her, the day she had found out that he had become a Death Eater. He remembered the day as if it were yesterday; it was the same day that Severus wakes up from his nightmare thinking about.
Stop, Severus commanded himself, stop thinking about that day! He tried to focus his attention back to the script handwriting.
I'm not telling this to blame you. Well, not much. I have forgiven you by now because I love you and I have faith in the belief that you were forced into taking that mark. No dearie, I am telling you this because I have a secret you should know about. Now that my time is running short, I can finally confess the truth to you and leave this world in peace. Sev our last day together, when I found out the truth about you being in league with the Dark Lord, I had something to tell you too. Sevvie, I was pregnant. (A/N: Big surprise there! Hah.)
I later found out that it is a little girl. I didn't tell this to you sooner because I was afraid for her life and ours. Sev, she is alive today. I am sending this letter to you a month before her sixteenth birthday, hopeful that you will be able to find her and tell her of her real parentage. I know that you must be pondering on how our daughter has survived and where I am. I am not in this world any longer, but Sev you can have your dream of raising a family even without me. Please, I beg of you as your wife and lover, please find our girl, our angel and our savior. You'll know about everything in the next memories I am sending you about the truth of what happened that dreadful night almost seventeen years ago. Inside this package I am also sending a letter and some memories for April Selena Snape, our little cherub.
Please forgive me. Nothing is lost yet, when the time is right, you will once again find me to be near you. I miss you dearly. Just today I saw your face in the magazine of Potions weekly. I love you Severus, the ruler of potions and my heart.
With lots of love, adoration, and affection,
Victoria Savvy Piers Snape
A.K.A: Your little lynx,
Savvy.
(A/N: I know everyone is very confused, but keep on reading further. Everything will be explained)
The parchment fell out of Severus' numb hands. If he had doubt about this letter it was now gone. Severus called Victoria his Savvy lynx because of her feisty ways. And even though she hated her middle name, she would always end the letter with it, only over the summers just to cheer him up, since his dad was being a complete arse.
For a long time, Severus sat there on his deep blue velvet couch, the letter lying forlornly, still on the floor and the package lying on the coffee table. Lastly, after what seemed like an eternity later, Severus rubbed his hands over his face. Then he picked up the letter from the floor and opened the package again. Inside it was a couple of small glass vials and another small package, which he figured was for April.
Severus slowly took them out and arranged them nicely on the table. He then conjured up a pensieve, the one he kept personally, the one that Harry Potter had broke in just about a month ago. He glowered at the memory of catching Potter in Snape's worst memories. He sighed, he would not think about it. His emotions were already churning inside him, making his head hurt and stomach queasy.
He slowly opened a light blue colored vial and poured its contents into the gem-stoned pensieve. This particular pensieve had been a present, the first present he had ever received, from Savvy (A/N: Severus calls Victoria, Savvy, her middle name, so from now on I will be referring to her as Savvy when we are in a Snape's POV) and he had used it ever since.
The surface of the pensieve fogged as images swirled around, as if in a haze. Severus took a deep breath and plunged in to the depths of the churning mist.
First Memory from the pensieve:
Severus looked around in the dark room, trying to recognize his surroundings. Suddenly a candle was lit in the dark. Severus saw the familiar light brown hair pulled back in a high ponytail and blue eyes filled with mirth. Like always before, Severus took a moment to register the beauty of the women holding the candle. It was the same beautiful face that appeared to him every time he closed his eyes.
Victoria closed her eyes and muttered a small incantation and suddenly the whole room was filled with light, as every candle was magically lit. She was wearing a burgundy dress that clashed and showed off her blue eyes. Somehow, this picture looked very familiar, but he was not able to recognize when this memory had taken place. He saw her look at the clock; there was a sort of excitement about the way she moved, in every step she took. He looked at the calendar that Albus gave him every year and realized with a dread that this was the day she had found out that he was a Death Eater.
Savvy sat down on the dark blue divan, after just staring at the wall, she leapt up in an enthusiasm.
"Oh Sev," he heard her whisper to herself, "just wait till you find out." She sighed and twirled in a perfect circle.
"We'll tell your daddy today," Savvy muttered as she put both her hands on her belly, "I promise."
All of a sudden there was a soft knock on the door and a 'thump' outside. Severus could see the confusion on Savvy's face as she opened the door.
Severus saw a body of a man lying lifeless on the terrace.
Savvy screamed.
"Severus," she rushed forward towards her unconscious husband, "Oh god what happened."
She conjured up a stretcher and cautiously put her husband in it. Inside, she locked the door and after laying Severus on a conjured bed, she slowly took an assessment of his injuries.
Severus looked at her, not believing how foolish he could have been. He saw Savvy return with a handful of potions which she proceeded in putting in his own body. It was a little uncanny looking at ones own self.
After giving the unconscious Snape all the potions, Savvy quickly roused him with a quick 'Enervate.'
He saw himself slowly wake up.
"Oh, Severus," Savvy said, "Are you ok? What happened? Where have you been? How come you are hurt this badly? Is it Voldemort?"
Tears quickly sprang to Savvy's beautiful eyes.
Severus saw himself get up to sit as he pulled Savvy in a tight embrace.
"Thank god, I thought I'd never see you again." Severus said. "For your questions, yes I am fine, but I have something to tell you, Savvy."
"What is it?" Savvy asked, confusion lining her face.
"Savvy, do you remember the two nights in my fifth year, when everyone thought I had disappeared."
She nodded. "Everyone thought that you'd taken the dark mark."
Her eyes darkened. Severus hated this part.
"Well, um… you see Savvy, I have to show you something."
Severus pulled his left sleeve back to reveal a clear, unmarred skin. He pulled out his wand and muttered in ancient Latin. He took away his hand to reveal the skin marked with a skull and a snake going through its mouth.
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A/N: Sorry for leaving this chapter like this, but I just wanted to update soon and this was the only way!
By the way, the answer to last week's ques. was that the black serpent represented Severus and the blue, Savvy. I also, actually got the idea from Greek mythology. I am a big fan!
Congrats to: for almost/and getting the question right:
1. Jen 77
2. PhoenixGrifyndor
3. Opal
To everyone else thank you very much for reviewing! It made my day, so I was anxious to update soon! Did not want to keep you all in suspense.
If there is any prob. or question, plz. review and ask. Also, two or three chapters following this will be in Sev and Selena/April's POV because I hope everyone knows what happened to Harry at the end of the fifth book!
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