Takes place four years after the first chapter. Jay is now eight. Thanks to Sailor Dreamer95 for suggesting this.
Severus stood by the front window watching his only child, his little girl, play in the snow with some boy. "Starting the creepy dad image soon I see." Severus kept his attention on the sight outside as Lily brushed snow of her coat while stomping the frozen liquid off her heels in the doorway. "She's only eight. She shouldn't be playing with boys." Frost bitten fingers snaked around his waist and a content sigh could be heard. "Don't tell me that you're jealous of some child because you are no longer the only man in Jay's life." Severus's posture straightened and his glare at the laughing boy only increased.
Jay was currently in the process of building a snow fort around herself as her newest friend began to form an arsenal of snow balls in preparation for a war of epic proportions to two children. "Where's your dad? No use in bragging about how amazing he is if he won't come outside. What sort of man won't come play in the snow?" Jay's head snapped up, her face already fixed in a glare that matched her father's. "He is a busy man with important work to do. Go back to getting ready to lose."
Severus turned to face his wife who was only a few inches shorter than him at the moment. Her nose was still red from playing in the snow with the children outside. "She doesn't get to see us all year until we're off for winter break. I have pitiful essays to grade, supplies to purchase…" Lily's eyes slowly widened at the view behind Severus's back. Two young children yelling at one another in the snow never led to anything positive. "Sev." By now the Potions Master's anger at risen and he was rambling on about how he was only home for a select amount of time and he should be spending that time with his daughter. Lily moved her hand from her husband's waist and placed it over his mouth in an attempt to silence him long enough for her to speak. "Our daughter may have broken the neighbor boy's nose."
The future Slytherin was holding her scarf under the bawling boy's nose in an effort to stop anymore blood from soaking into his coat. By the time her parents had trudged through the snow to sort out the situation, her scarf had changed from Slytherin green to Gryfindor crimson. "He called you a freak daddy! He said that his daddy was much better than you and that you were a freak." Jay managed to rush out her reasoning for the boy's nose in one breath. She knew she would be in trouble, but she was smart enough to at least have a reason that gave her the right to punch someone she hardly knew.
"Yes, well. That won't get you out of trouble." Severus cleared his throat after speaking. He could feel his wife's smirk as she ushered the still crying boy home. Jay's mitten-covered hands shot up in the air in a sign showing she wished to be picked up and carried inside; something she hadn't done since she was younger. Now, she simply climbed on to his lap and started a conversation asking about being a professor or potions.
With her head resting on her father's shoulder, Severus began retracing his path in the snow and tried to hide any sort of pride in his daughter for keeping his position as the only man in her life. For right now, she still wanted to be just like her daddy.
Lily simply shook her head at the sight that met her when she returned home after a long discussion explaining to the neighbor what happened. Jay managed to avoid punishment by snuggling up to Severus during his talk with her. "You've gone soft," Lily whispered. Jay would be in trouble when she woke up, but Severus refused to wake her up and move her from her position beside him.