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Chapter 1: Spinners End
Severus was sitting on a ratty couch with his head in his hands. Success. What a horrid word. It would not have been so horrible if it hadn't meant the end of the world to him. What little scraps one would call a heart was gone. All in what his fellow Death Eaters called 'success'. It was when he was at the lowest emotional point a person could seemingly be at that a sound emitted from his fireplace. Which was something that he noted he had to get removed as soon as possible. He looked up with sad eyes and noticed the dust flying about the fireplace. Someone was flooing in, he quickly got out his wand on the ready to attack whoever came through. He knew it wasn't a death eater, they didn't bother flooing, they usually apparated in. He knew it was no Order member because no one in that blasted organization would be caught dead near, let alone in, his home. He was shocked to see a red headed woman with two children in both arms stood in the fireplace, tears streaming down her face stared at him weakly Severus lowered his wand.
"You're…alive." He said aghast, hoping that this was no illusion. She just stood there staring at him, "Let me help you." He said awkwardly taking one of the boys from her arms and sitting back down on the armchair, offering her a seat on the couch.
"He killed Alisha." Were Lily's first words as she carefully sat on the edge of the couch. It took Severus a few moments to recognize the name.
"Lupin's wife." He breathed, "Was anyone else killed?" He asked noticing that Potter didn't follow suit.
"I hope not." That's when she broke down into weeping. Because she was holding one of the boys, she didn't bother wiping away the tears that streamed down her face.
"I'm sure Pot-…James, will be fine. He's had auror training…" Severus tried comforting her with no avail; it had never been a skill of his to be a warm shoulder to cry on. He noticed she stopped crying a moment to stare at the child she held tightly in her arms. "Is Harry alright?" She asked him after looking up from the boy she held,
After registering the name of the small child he held he looked down at the green eyes that stared at him with an odd look of wisdom, "He looks alright…" Severus said tearing his eyes away from the boy's menacing stare. "We should take them to Poppy, she knows more about this." He didn't mention how he also felt that she needed a better bed than his dusty couch or the discomfort at the two infants in the room.
"I don't want to floo with them again." She said, her voice sounding weary and scratchy, "bad for their lungs." Severus was amazed at how she focused on her children's well-being even during a time of crisis like this.
"But you need to rest and…well…I know that here isn't the best place for sleeping." He said looking at the floor. To his surprise, he heard a musical-like laugh, one he had not heard in a very long time.
"Sev," She said through her giggles, "At this point I could sleep in the middle of a highway." With a mere flick of her wand, a playpen appeared with toys stocked in it.
"Um…I have one question," He felt his face turn red he was sure she said it before, "What're there names again?"
"This is Steven," She said setting him down first, Severus noticed the boy had a lightening shaped cut in the middle of his forehead but said nothing. "That's Harry." She then took Harry from Severus. Severus could have sworn he saw the baby glare at him…he figured it must be a trick of the dim lighting.
Severus took in the names and then nodded solemnly. "There is a guest room," He said, it was a lie the room was actually his own but he wouldn't dare let her near his parent's room, he didn't even go near that room since their death. He gestured in the direction of the room; she followed his hand with her eyes.
"Sev," She said in a shaky voice, "I'm sorry."
Severus raised an eyebrow in confusion, "For what?" he looked at her once emerald green eyes that now were peeking over dark circles.
"I doubted you." Tears fell from her sad eyes as she spoke, "I-I'm sorry…" She took a deep breath then, "I l…love you." He was taken aback at first; it took him a few moments to regain his breath from that unexpected statement,
"You need rest." He said firmly, she shrugged and left the room. He watched her leave with watchful ebony eyes he felt his heart being torn in about a million different directions. He didn't have time to contemplate, he realized not only was his one and only married love was laying in his extra bedroom but there were two kids in his house. He wasn't good with kids.
He raised his wand, thought of those lively green eyes, and said softly, "Expecto Patronum." A silver doe shot out of the wand's tip. "Go to Hogwarts." He told it calmly. The doe nodded and leapt away, out of his house and into the night.
Severus sat down on the couch awaiting a reply thanking Merlin that nothing else would happen for at least a little while. Then again, he didn't notice the child staring at him with big intelligent green eyes.
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