Chapter Ten; Father and Son

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"Well Harry, it looks like we have some time to spend together on our own." Snape told him.

"Really? Do you mean it? Just the two of us?" Harry questioned him eagerly.

"Yep," Snape began with another little chuckle. "so tell me, what would you like to do first?" he asked him as Harry thought about it for a few moments before tapping his finger to his chin.

"Let me see,.." he began. "Could we play werewolf?!" he asked him eagerly.

"That depends," Snape began. "how do you play that?"

"Well you pretend to be a werewolf and then I run away from you and you try to catch me, if you do I become the werewolf and I get to chase you." Harry explained.

"Well, alright." Snape began before he set him back down on the ground. "That doesn't seem too bad." He admitted with a grin.

"Yay! I love playing this game! I play it with Ron and the Weasley twins all the time!" he exclaimed excitedly while repeatedly jumping up and down.

"I spoke too soon." Snape muttered under his breath with a shake of his head and the roll of his eyes. "Alright, you better watch out! I'm a werewolf and I'm coming to get you!" he growled as he curled his fingers to make them appear as claws. Harry quickly glanced over his shoulder and shrieked before he started run away as fast as he could while his father chased after him roaring and howling.

Harry squealed with giggles as Snape started to snarl before finally catching up with him on top of the hill and wrapping his arms tightly around him. "I got you!" he yelled before he raised him up into the air and spun him around while Harry continued to squeal and giggle before they tumbled down the hill together with Harry landing on the top of his father's chest.

"Thank you Daddy, I love you." He told him with a grin as Snape smiled up at him.

"I love you too." He told him before placing a quick and tender kiss on his cheek.

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By the time supper came around, Lily found that she was completely exhausted. After all, even though she had her husband back to help her, it wasn't easy looking after a seven year old and a one year old. Pretty soon the baby would be born and she would have to eventually look after three children all under ten years old at once. On one hand she was really excited about it.

Right around the Christmas holidays she would be having her baby shower, finish building the new nursery, and finally picking out a name for her new daughter. On the other hand, she was really worried about it. Although Harry and Tobey were both really sweet boys, they were also unintentionally rambunctious. What if they ended up being too rough with their new baby sister?

Tobey still had a habit of hitting people and throwing things, including his dinner which most of the time ended up mostly on the outside of him than the inside of him. He nearly always had to have a bath after he finished. Lily didn't want him teaching his new sister bad habits or accidentally hurting her. She wasn't as worried about Harry though. For the most part he was a well behaved little boy, but still, it would be another little child that she would have to look after.

Later that night Snape read to Harry and got him ready for bed a couple of hours after Lily put Tobey to bed. Finally the two boys were sound asleep and that left Lily and Severus some time alone. "The boys look so peaceful when they're sleeping." Lily said as she started getting undressed and grabbed ahold of her robe.

"Yeah, I know they do don't they?" Snape responded while at the same time removing his own clothes before his wife heaved a heavy sigh and climbed into bed pulling the covers on top of her. "Are you alright?" he asked her out of concern before he put on his own robe and pulled back the covers on his own side of the bed and climbed inside to join her.

"Yeah, I'm fine." She began as she cuddled inside his chest and he placed a loving and comforting arm around her.

"No you're not. You're lying." He told her.

"It's just that I can't stop myself from thinking about how I'm going to be able to handle everything when the baby comes. I have to make sure that Harry's behaving himself in school while at the same time making sure that all of his school and homework is completed, then I have to worry about taking Tobey to daycare, and making sure that I have enough energy during the day to take care of the baby when I know that she will keep me up half the night." She explained.

"Listen Lily, you're worrying way too much and it's not good for anyone to be under this much stress. Especially for a woman who is with child. Besides, you have your parents and James' parents to help you out if you need them. Along with Mrs. Weasley, which I hate to admit it, but I'm sure she would give you a hand in babysitting whenever you needed her." He told her before he planted a tender kiss on her forehead. "Now go to sleep." He told her.

"But Severus it's only a quarter to nine." She said.

"So? It won't kill you to get a few hours of extra sleep. Especially since Harry will probably be up bright and early tomorrow at the same time as his brother because he'll be excited about being back inside the castle." He told her before he kissed her forehead again.

"Oh, alright. I'll try." Lily told him before she looked up at him and kissed his lips. "Goodnight." She told him.

"Goodnight," he began before he kissed her back and wrapped his arms tightly around her before waving his wand and turning off the light. Then he rested his chin on the top of her head and with one final soft kiss to the top of her head they drifted off to sleep together.

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Of course Snape's suspicions had indeed been in fact correct. Harry and Tobey were both up at the crack of dawn. Harry went into the bathroom as usual as Lily changed Tobey's diaper, and after everyone was already they headed down to the great hall together. "Now boys, I want you both on your best behavior." Lily told them. "Do you understand me?" she asked them as Tobey grinned and smiled up at her.

"Oh I understand Mummy." Harry told her. That was until he saw who was already sitting at one of the tables a crossed the room. He narrowed his eyebrows and glared at Draco Malfoy who was smirking back at him and giving a small teasing wave in his direction. "Damn, I hate that kid." Harry muttered under his breath while his mother let out a rather large petrified gasp.

"Harry James Potter Snape!" she scolded. "What did I just say!? You keep talking like that and I'll have to wash your mouth out with soap! Besides that, you know better than that to speak like that in front of your brother, and your Sunday school teacher taught you that it's not nice to say that you hate anybody! Remember what she told you about turning the other cheek?" she questioned.

"Yes Mummy, I'm sorry." Harry told her although deep inside his heart he really didn't mean it. He figured that in this situation, that God would understand his reasoning's.

"Where did you even hear that word anyway?" his mother asked him before she carried Tobey over to the table and sat him down on top of her lap. Harry's eyes darted to the front of the room where his father now stood talking to Professor Dumbledore, the headmaster. "Oh, you have got to be kidding me!" she snapped with a roll of her eyes before Snape walked back over to the table.

"What's going on here? Are you frozen?" he asked as Harry saw him walking over in his direction.

"Our son just informed me that you've been teaching him how to use profanity." Lily said coldly while looking up at him with an icy stare. Snape turned to look over at her before turning back around to gaze down at Harry raising one of his eyebrows at him.

"Is that true Harry?" he asked him as Harry sheepishly looked down at the ground.

"Yes Father." He admitted guilty.

"Well, in that case, I want you to come with me." Snape told him before he reached his hand down to him but Harry continued to avoid contact with him and just simply sniffed before wiping away his tears. "I'm not going to strike you, so there's no need to worry. I just want to speak with you." He explained. "Come." He instructed as Harry finally glanced up at him and took ahold of his hand.

After that Snape walked him into the hallway. "Now I just want to get to understand you a little bit better." He began. "Because you and I both know just because I make a stupid mistake doesn't mean that you have to too. You're a very sweet little boy Harry, I know that. But lately you haven't been acting like yourself. You've been getting into fights, swearing,.. and I just what to find out what's bothering you." He told him. "Because the Harry Potter I know wouldn't act like that." He told him.

"That's just it! I'm not Harry Potter anymore! You adopted me remember!? But everybody always forgets that and they're always whispering about me and staring at my scar! Then to top it off, when I finally found a real friend that likes me for who I am, somebody goes insulting him in front of my face! It isn't fair! I don't want to be famous!" he cried with a rapid shake of his head. "I just want to be a normal little boy like everybody else. Why can't I Daddy? Why can't I have friends? I know that nobody will ever treat Tobey like that, and it just isn't fair." He said when suddenly Snape squatted down in front of him.

"Listen to me Harry, what have I always told you?" he questioned as Harry just simply shrugged at him.

"I don't know." He said.

"That it doesn't matter what people think about you. All that matters is what you think of yourself. You've got to like yourself first before you expect other people to like you, and just give it some time. If I would have learned that when I was your age I probably wouldn't have made a lot of those stupid mistakes that I did. I love you very much Harry, and I want your life to be better than that. Please don't make the same stupid mistakes that I made." He pleaded with a shake of his head while they gazed into one other's eyes.

"Alright, I won't." Harry began. "It's just so hard for me to fit in around here." He finished.

"I know son, I completely understand. But don't worry, things will get change. Trust me." Snape told him with a grin.

"I trust you." Harry told him as he smiled back up at him before Snape started singing softly to him.

I've been mistreated, ripped apart,

Headed down a dead end road.

I was conceited, and arrogant with nowhere to go.

Something was missing, I never quite knew,

That something was someone but who?

I darkened the doors, wherever I went,

Nobody wanted me, I was a wreck!

Yet something was missing, if only I knew,

That something was someone but who?

Who could that someone be, how could he make it known?

Who could need me for me?

Need me for me alone?

The world was a disaster, where was my pride and joy?

He questioned before he placed his hand on Harry's cheek and rested it there while gently rubbing it against it and gazing deeply inside his eyes.

Who dreamed that I would find it in one little boy?

Yes something was missing, but dreams do come true.

That something is no one but you.

He sang as a tear of joy trickled down both of their cheeks before Harry threw his little arms around his father's neck and embraced him tightly while Snape hugged him back and planted a kiss on his cheek before deepening the embrace.

That song was a parody of Something Was Missing from the movie Annie