"Harry, " Severus said, the boy looked up at him with white eyes. "Do you need to go potty? "
"No, daddy." Harry said, instantly, "But Jamie already did."
Severus shook him self from his shock of Harry calling him daddy so soon. Honestly, he'd never thought he would ever have a child who would call him daddy. He smiled at his son. HIS son. He was still trying to wrap his head around that.
"Well, James?!" Lily demanded, "Jamie has used his nappy what do you do?"
"I call his house elf to change it." James said, lazily.
Madam Bones frowned at the man.
"You're child is hungry what do you do?" She asked, signaling for Auror's to escort Lily to change Jamie.
"Call a House Elf to feed him." James replied.
"Your son wants to play what do you do?"
"Give him his broom."
"You'll let a 15 month old child zoom around on a broom without supervision?!" Madam Bones shrieked.
Lily was back and was smirking.
"Of course not!" James gruffed, "I'm not stupid! I'll his elf watch him!" he sighed, "Look I don't see the problem here. This was how I was raised."
"That explains so much." Severus drawled.
"Severus please!" Lily hissed, but she couldn't stop the twitching of her cheeks showing she wanted to smile at his comment. "James as hard as this might be for you to understand children need their parents love and attention. You can't just leave them alone to be raised by house-elves."
"Why not?" James asked, truly not understanding. "I was."
"Severus, don't you dare!" Lily scolded. Severus shut is mouth and turned his attention to the boy in his lap. "James, what your parents did to you was wrong!"
"How many beds are we going to need in your room?"
"2." Harry answered . Showing him three fingers. Severus corrected him. "2."
"What color do you want your room?"
"Black." Harry said, instantly lowering his hand and holding his book. "With silver."
" A child after my own heart." Severus chuckled. He ran his fingers gently through Harry's hair.
"Jamie will want red and gold though or he wont be able to sleep."
"Naturally." Severus drawled, not noticing that he'd gotten peoples attention."How about we do have the room in Black and silver and the other half in red and gold?"
"I would agree that that is the best course of action we can take at this time." Harry said, and smiled when Severus began rubbing his head.
Sure enough it worked out just the way Harry said, Lily got full custody of Jamie while Severus and Lily shared full custody of Harry. Lily and James' divorce was announced the next day along with Lily having custody of Jamie and somehow Harry's Paternity had gotten out as well. By the time the Death Eaters got to Spinner's End they were long gone.
Lily looked around the French Estate that she'd won in the divorce. She'd taken James to wringer because she'd been smart enough to get a pre nup and he'd been dumb enough not to have her sign one. In the Wizarding World that meant she could take everything. Leaving him with just enough to live on. So she had. Or at least close to it.
"No." Severus drawled, and pulled her to him appertaining. This time they appeared in Germany. A Prince Estate.
"Severus, " An old voice called they turned to see an old man. "You Severus Snape?"
"I wouldn't have been able to get here if I wasn't." Severus replied dryly. "Grandfather."
"Grandfather." Harry echoed.
"Ja, Ja." the man said, nodding. "This your wife?"
"No." Severus said, "But this our son, Harry."
"Hello, Grandfather." Harry said, looking at him with white eyes. "Please do not come any farther. If you do you will fall."
The man stopped leaning on his cane.
"Come in for tea." Calamus said, "Now you are not married but have a child?" he eyed the other boy. "Children?"
"Child." Severus said, "and Lily and I never slept together. We don't know how Harry is mine but my mother did a blood test to confirm it."
"Eileen is still alive?"
Severus told Calamus about his mother as they went inside and drank tea. Harry was given a sippy cup full of milk and Jamie a bottle.
"I was actually thinking of asking you if there is any unused Prince properties where we could live." Severus said, it was an unspoken agreement that they were going to live together with the boys. "Dumbledore is going to declare one of these two his so called champion of light and we can't allow that . Lily's already warned the Longbottoms and they've left for some tropical island that Herbologists love. This way we remove all of his Champions at once and he has to fight this on his own."
"There is an old property that Princes use when they wish for safety . It's been unused for over a Millina now but the house elves keep it maintained. " Calamus stroked his beard. "It's in old Salem. The House has stood since the Witch hunts. It's an old Town house. We've kept it in working order."
"Old Salem?" Lily asked.
"Ja. After the trials the Muggles moved to there own area and we kept the old area. We have Old Salem where everything took place and they have old Salem where they think everything took place." Severus chuckled at that. "The schools in the area are very good from what I'm told. I haven't been there in a long time myself . My grandfather took me when I was a wee lad but we never stayed. Things may be different there these days. "
"It sounds like a good place." Lily said, "I'd like to at least see it, Severus."
Severus nodded.
"I agree."
"then I'll have Bertie ready the old port key to take you. The time difference and all maybe a little hard to adjust to but I'm sure you'll handle it just fine."
It was early morning in Salem and fog was settling across the town of Salem. The grand house stood before them. The lawn was huge and well cared for, the house old but everything kept in perfect shape. Together the new family of four walked towards the house and their new beginning.