Keep Holding On

Plot: After Snape's wife, Amelia, is killed by Death-Eaters as a message to Snape. Snape takes his daughter to the Potters, in hopes they will take her in. Sure enough they do, however events happen and Lily and James are killed. Severus takes his daughter to an old friend(Clint Barton) to be raised, still not wanting to risk his daughter's life even if Voldemort is supposedly gone. Now Snape's Daughter, Angelica Lillian, is being raised by none other than the Avengers, SHIELD, and Loki.

2nd Story to my: Snape's Daughter Series.

1. Even if it Breaks your Heart

2. Keep Holding On

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or Avengers... although I do wish I did. :) Also any references made to ANY other Novel/Movie/TV Show IS NOT MINE I own nothing except Angelica and the plot.

Chapter 2

Angelica sat in the penthouse, playing on Tony's new StarkPhone, well more or less hacking into SHIELD through Tony's StarkPhone. It was always amusing how much trouble she could get Tony into simply by hacking into SHIELD's Mission overview, which allowed her to know every mission every Agent was on at the moment or what they were scheduled for and when they were to leave. The phone was snatched out of her hand and she looked up to see Natasha. "Hi, Auntie Nat."

"Don't Auntie Nat me. You know your not suppose to be hacking into SHIELD's overview." Natasha scolded.

"Well, I'm bored, and its fun to get Uncle Tony into trouble." Angelica shrugged.

"Angelica Lillian Barton, I just got a call from Director Fury saying Tony hacked into the system again. Thing is Tony lost his phone last night." Clint scolded when he walked into the penthouse.

"I have a feeling, I'm going to be happy when I'm back in Hogwarts again." Angelica grumbled as she headed off to her room.

"Angelica!" Natasha scolded, and the dark heir girl simply scrunched up her nose.

"Hey, Angel, we need to talk." Clint said, once the elevator closed. It was their floor of the Tower, the one she grew up in and even helped decorate when she went through the 'I want to be a Princess' stage.

"About what?" Angelica asked looking up from her book, which she was finding rather interesting.

"Your behavior recently." Clint replied, sitting down on the couch with her, and watching her the entire time.

"What about it?" Angelica asked tilting her head ever so slightly, she had a bad habit of doing that when she was acting confused and Clint used it to his advantage.

"You know what I'm talking about. The way you lash out suddenly at Natasha or Pepper for doing the simplest of things." Clint replied calmly, keeping his patience under control, knowing Angelica normally had a lot of patience and control but sometimes she simply chose to not listen to either and lash out.

"Dad, I don't want to have to dress up and act like someone I'm not every time there's an Avengers' Fundraiser or something. I don't want to have to act older than I am during those events. I don't want to constantly be 'in school' even though I'm out of Hogwarts for the Summer Holidays. I want to be a normal twelve year old. I want to be with friends, act my age, and not be constantly around Adults." Angelica's eyes were clearly searching Clint's for something.

"And what do you want me to do, Angel? I can't snap my fingers and have everything you want here for you." Clint argued.

"You don't get it do you?! I want to be who I actually am! I don't want to be something that you, Aunt Nat, Uncle Steve, Uncle Thor, and Uncle Tony train to be what you want. I don't want to go to fundraisers. I would rather be at Hogwarts than studying how to break a man's arm, or kill him without anyone knowing-" Angelica was cut off.

"FINE! You know what, if you want to live in the Magical World then why don't you go live with him? See if I care!" Clint lashed out and stalked off, he didn't have to say Severus' name for her to know who he meant.

Angelica froze where she was at his last statement, and she felt like her heart had just broken into two. Did he really mean that? Did he really want her to go live with him? Or was he trying to guilt her into doing something neither of them really wanted her to do. She wasn't sure and she took a deep breath and went to her room before she pull out a piece of parchment and grabbed a pen from the desk and started to write a letter.

Less Than One Day Later

Severus was busy getting ready for the new school year, when an Owl arrived. He didn't recognize the Owl and wasn't sure really who would even send him a letter other than Dumbledore to tell him where to meet him and when but it was normally Fawkes not a Tawny Owl. He opened the letter and read it:

Not even sure why I decided to write to you... but well I suppose your wondering whose Owl it is and well its mine. His name is Gus. And as for who is writing... its your daughter. Angelica Lillian Barton (Snape). I have several questions to ask you... about the day Mum was killed. They always told me it was a freak accident and that Dad was on a mission with the other Avengers and Pepper had been at work, and Pepper being the closest was the first to know and then Loki found out and he got through to Thor who told the other Avengers. How did she really die, is what I want to know. And why was she killed? What was she even like?

I understand that you probably think that I'm a traitor since I'm in Gryffindor. But I can tell you one thing. I know deep down, I belong in Gryffindor even if it is a tiny fragment that belongs there I still belong. The hat told me that I would do well in Slytherin, considering I could be cunning if I wanted to. But it said i had more bravery in me than I should for Slytherin. I hope that you can accept me even if I am in Gryffindor.

~Angelica Lillian Barton

Severus stared at the letter for several long moments before looking back at the Owl the letter had said was named, Gus. He couldn't help but smirk at the mere Name of the Owl, it really was a Muggle Name for Witch to name her Owl. But he shrugged and looked back at the letter. He wasn't really sure what to write, so he decided to find a picture of Amelia holding Angelica and send that with a note saying he would explain everything in time. He only hoped she would accept the fact he just didn't want to reveal everything to her all at once.

"I can't go to London with you, I'm sorry." Natasha said as she stayed on the ground as Tony, Clint, Loki, Pepper, Thor, Remus, and Bruce boarded Tony's private jet to London so they could see Angelica off.

"Why not? Auntie Nat, you promised you would go!" Angel whined.

"Well tell that to Director Fury. He's the one sending me off on a Mission in less than four hours." The Black Widow replied, kneeling down to be eye level with the young witch. "But, I'll make you a promise, okay?" Angelica nodded. "I'll be there to pick you up for the Christmas Holidays if you decide your coming home, deal?"

Angel hesitated but then wrapped her arms around the Black Widow, and asked her typical question, "You'll return right?"

"Always." Natasha whispered back before seeing the young Witch climb onto the jet and she had to leave so it could start up. She gave a small wave to the dark haired girl who sat in the window, waving to her before she left.

I would like to thank those who reviewed already on this story. I'm thrilled to know that so many people love this little Story that came to my mind. Also I have another Poll going up so please take a look. This will be up for... let's say until Tuesday: November 6th, 2012. I hope you can all vote, it would really mean a lot. The question is: Should Draco and Angel be 'secret friends' in their second year?

Thanks for reading!