A/N: I know that I disappeared... Sorry. Life sucks sometimes and I can't get into writing again. But I skipped school today for the third time this week and wrote this before and after watching reruns of ER. Hope you enjoy.
Stepdad
Chapter 11
Sirius and Lily had retired for the evening after a long and, to Lily at least, painful dinner with the Blacks. Lily was determined to stay in this house for as little time as possible. "Sirius, darling, how do you think Harry will react to this all?"
"Oh, he'll be thrilled! How could he not be happy that his beloved Uncle Siri is his dad? Don't you worry about a thing, love. Things will work out beautifully."Sirius took her in his arms and gently guided her to the balcony. "Look at this view. Harry will love it here. You just wait and see, love." He kissed her passionately and led her back inside to the bed. "Now, I think it's been far too long since we've been together, love. What do you say we remedy that?"
Lily gave in, only because she saw no other way to stop it without angering Sirius. She didn't enjoy it, it didn't feel good. In fact, she felt dirty afterwards, so much that she had to go to the shower and scrub herself almost raw to rid herself of the feeling of his touch. How could she do that to her own child?! How could she torment him into thinking he was being hurt by a man she absolutely adored.
Damn Sirius with his ideas of revenge over his childhood nemesis. She had thought at the time it was the only way to get out of marrying Severus because she was scared that it was too soon after James had died but now she truly regretted it. She deserved to go to the lowest parts of hell to burn for eternity like those muggles she knew as a child thought.
What would James think of all this? He adored Harry even though he knew he wasn't his own. Plus, James truly had gotten over any petty schoolboy grudges that he and Severus had shared and the two were close friends at the time of James' death.
Lily knew that she was pregnant with Severus' child. She knew when she and Sirius and landed after they portkeyed to the manor. Now she doesn't know what to do. They'll know that she had helped Sirius escape and that she had gone with him. Oh, the mess she was in. She couldn't see a way out of this except to just leave without Sirius and hope he didn't find her until she could give him some answers.
Her resolve strengthened, she gathered her belongings quickly and quietly and headed to the apparition boundaries of the grounds, hoping that there was still time to fix this mess.
It was past midnight when Lily apparated to the grounds of her home in Godric's Hollow. There were no lights on and the decorations from the would-be wedding were still in place. Hoping against hope that she would find Severus in the house somewhere she headed to his basement laboratory thinking he may be brewing to keep his mind off things. Upon entering the lab she found it in the same condition it had been in three days ago when she had last entered the lab save the fact that Severus was nowhere to be found.
She went upstairs to her bedroom, where she thought that if he were still there that would be where he would be. She was disappointed to find the bed untouched since this morning. Lily sighed and walked down to the living room where she had last seen Severus. Sitting down on the sofa, she wondered if Harry was with Severus and why she could not sense him. It was a well known fact in the Wizarding world that mothers could sense where their children were when they were in danger or in distress.
She was certain that her son would be feeling a great deal of distress at the moment given that his mother had vanished even if he were asleep as she hoped he was. Just as Lily was falling asleep, she was woken abruptly by a banging door. Severus Snape entered the house looking ready to murder.
"Severus! What are you doing?" She exclaimed running toward him.
"Where is he? Where is that filthy mutt?" Severus truly looked as if he were about to hex Lily if she did not answer.
"He's at his cousin's house in France. Sev, I'm so sorry for leaving you like that-"
"I do not want to hear it, you vile Mudblood," Lily gasped, Severus hadn't called her that to her face since fifth year. "You are nothing to me anymore. Not after what you did to Harry."
Lily, not knowing that Harry had heard her conversation with Sirius, was thrown a bit. "What do you mean, Sev? What did I do to Harry? Because I left?" She hoped that was what Severus meant, if not she was in more trouble than she had thought.
"No, you pathetic waste of magic, leaving was the best thing you could have done for him. What you did was leaving him to the tender mercies of dark magic that a mother should never wish on her son. Why would you do that to him? WHY?!" Severus' normally pale face was now red and he was breathing heavily in his rage.
Lily studied Severus and thought a moment. "Sev, I was scared. I didn't know how to tell you that and Sirius came to me with this curse idea and I agreed because I was weak. I know that you'll probably never forgive me but maybe Harry will. Where is he, where is my son?"
"You have no right to ask about him. He is safe that is all you need to know. The aurors are coming for you to take you to Azkaban. You are lucky that I do not wish to go there myself or you would be dead already, you mudblood." Severus quickly cast Expelliarmus and Lily's wand flew to him, leaving her defenseless. "You're right, I will never forgive you for what you've done, not because of my own pain but because of Harry's. Do you even know what you've done to that poor boy? He can't even sleep because he's afraid that you'll find him and take him away!"
"Sev, please! He's my son! I love him, I want to see him before they take me, please!" Severus looked at her, wondering at her boldness. He shook his head and turned to leave as he heard the aurors enter the house. "Severus, I'm pregnant with your baby!"
Severus turned and looked at her, "I want nothing to do you, you filthy mudblood." He turned and walked out of the house, never looking back as she cried out to him.
Severus returned back to his stepsister's home in Surrey and looked in on Harry who was feigning sleep as he heard his father come in. "I know you're awake, Harry."
Harry opened his eyes and looked up at Severus. "Where'd you go? I heard you get up and leave a few minutes ago. What happened?"
Severus sighed, wishing that he could wait until the morning to tell the boy that his mother was on her way to prison. "Your m- Lily went back to Godric's Hollow. I had Minerva set up some alarms after we left to inform me of any intruders, so that, in the event of Lily or Sirius returning the aurors could be alerted and they would be taken into custody."
"So she's gone to Azkaban?" Severus nodded and watched the boy's reaction. Harry simply sighed and laid his head back on his pillow. "What about Sirius? Where's he?"
"Lily said that he is in France at his cousin's house. If it is the cousin that I know, the aurors will never be able to penetrate the boundaries of the grounds. The wards are very strong."
"What if he comes back for me?"
"I do not think that he will, now that your mother is gone to prison. He will know, once he realizes what has happened, that it is not safe for him to leave the grounds." Harry nodded and they sat in the dark in silence for a few moments. "Do you think you'll be able to sleep now?" Harry shrugged and continued to stare into space. "Do you want something to help you sleep?" Harry nodded and Severus rummaged through his pockets looking for a vial of Dreamless Sleep potion. He finally found it and handed it to Harry who drank it quickly and promptly fell asleep.
Severus sat with his son for several minutes, simply watching his chest rise and fall in time with his soft, even breaths. Smiling sadly, Severus rose and walked over to his own bed, just feet away, and laid down. After clumsily toeing his shoes off, he fell asleep quickly, exhausted from the day's events.
Meanwhile, back in France, Sirius woke to a dull thud of something falling to the floor. Seeing that it was only his watch, he shrugged it off and looked around. Lily was nowhere to be found in the bedroom so he rose from his warm bed to look into the bathroom where he could tell that she had taken a shower. Shaking his head, thinking she had gone down to steal a midnight snack, he went back to bed and fell asleep until morning.
A/N: I'm thinking that since Severus isn't really Harry's stepdad that after another chapter or two, I'll make a break from this particular title and have another story in the same universe as this one, but with a more fitting title and few years in the future. Let me know what you think [though I'll probably do it regardless ;-) .
Thanks for the reviews, please keep them coming!
Oh, and I don't want any grief for Severus calling Lily a mudblood... He's pissed off at her... People say things like that when they're pissed :)