Chapter 2. One Year Ago
The night Lily and James Potter had left this world, a man with greasy black hair and beetle black eyes Apparated to Godric's Hallow.
A childless Severus Snape had gone to see the family he had ruined. The child he had orphaned. And, especially, the woman he had loved and technically killed.
This is all my fault! he thought as he walked over James's body. He looked ahead. One of the rooms in the hallway was wide open. When he reached the open room, he saw a baby boy crying, a lightning scar on his forehead, and another child, he would soon discover, was in the crib behind him, as if the boy was being protective of it, being strangely quiet. He then saw Lily Evan's body, a pleading look on her motionless face. She was as beautiful as he had remembered. He kneeled down and held her body close to his, and sobbed. He had never felt so much pain in his entire life time. He then heard a third voice crying. He looked at Lily and hoped for one miraculous second she was alive. How could I be so stupid! She's dead, gone forever! he thought when her facial expression did not change. He looked into the crib and saw a second baby hiding behind her brother.
"Lily had two children?" Snape asked himself, then realizing it was true, "A boy and a girl!"
"He compared the two and decided the girl looked more like Lily then the boy, who reminded him horribly of James. Horrible memories flooded into Severus's mind.
"Harry Potter," Snape said softly to Lily's son. "Good luck." He picked up Lily's daughter and left, knowing Hagrid would soon be here to pick up Harry to take him to Lily's awful sister.
A/N: Thoughts?