Previously:
Alex dove into the pensieve without a second thought…
Chapter 13:
Alex looked at his surroundings and saw that he was in a nice dining room with a table that was set for six.
Four children, three about nine and one about eleven, and two adults entered talking happily.
"Mum, Dad, this is Severus and Clara." A young girl with red hair and emerald eyes said.
Alex realized that this was his mother and his Aunt, a surly-looking blonde girl sitting next to a brown-haired girl named Clara.
"It's very nice to meet you both, dears. I'll bring out dinner now, Petunia, come help me please." An extremely pretty woman with red hair and hazel eyes asked her daughter.
The dinner was wonderful and went without any incidents until they were going out to the playground, as there was a full moon that night.
"Clara, Sev, come on!" Lily said, screaming with delight as they pushed her higher.
"We're tired, Lils." Severus said, laying down on the grass and looking at the star-filled sky.
"It is a beautiful night." Clara said shyly as she sat down next to Severus.
Lily got off the swing and sat down on Severus' other side.
"It's perfect tonight." She agreed, taking his hand in hers.
Severus was enjoying every moment until he realized how late it was.
"Lily, I've got to go. It's late and my father is really strict. I'll see you tomorrow." Severus said, letting go of her hand and running off towards his home on Spinner's End.
"Lily, I should probably go too, my parents are going to be worried, bye." Clara said, going towards one of the nice suburban houses in the opposite direction of Lily's.
The memory faded, leaving Alex happy that his father had some good friends in his childhood.
He jumped slightly when he heard the door open and slam shut again, no doubt his father in more than a slightly bad mood. Stashing the pensieve under his invisibility cloak in his trunk as well as the memories, Alex made his way to the living room to apologize like Hermione had asked him to.
"Alex," his father said upon seeing him. "I apologize for looking into your mind, it was not my intention to hurt you." Severus said, looking his son in the eyes that were still blue.
"I'm sorry for blowing up." Alex said, looking down. "You may or may not choose to believe me, but our childhoods are similar. I will listen if you need to talk about it." Severus said, placing a hand on his child's shoulder and looking into the deep blue eyes, the result of a very strong glamour charm.
"I'm used to it." Alex said, shrugging and sitting down carefully, minding his injuries which had been forgotten in his haste to get out of the dungeons that morning and were now bleeding slightly.
"You're bleeding." Severus said, noticing a small trail of blood seeping from his shoulder.
"I'll go wash it out, then." Alex said, trying to get out of the room before Severus could see any more of his injuries.
"Sit down and I will heal it." Severus said, accio-ing a few pain killer potions and a dreamless sleep potion.
"It's nothing, just a small scrape---" Alex tried to say, but was cut off when his shirt was pulled off and he head a small gasp and a muttered 'those bastards'.
Alex laid facedown on the sofa, not really wanting to argue with his father anymore. He let Severus heal him and heard him muttering obscenities under his breath at the Dursley's.
"That obeast idiot muggle used a whip on you!?" Severus had raged when he saw the marks on Alex's back.
"Yes, sir, but it wasn't too often." Alex had said, trying to defend them.
"Don't make excuses for them, what they did to you was unacceptable and inhumane."
Alex had kept quiet after that and Severus continued his healing. Alex's mind soon drifted to Sirius. 'What would u think of me if you could see me now, Sirius? Would you hate me for not being James Potter's son, for being your enemy's son? Why did go to rescue me, it was all my own stupid fault that I was there in the first place, I didn't even make an effort to learn Occlumency, now did I? It was my own stupid fault.' Alex thought, not noticing the stray tear that ran down his face, Severus, however, did notice.
"Does it hurt anymore?" He asked, concerned that he was hurting the boy.
"No, sir."
"If this is about your godfather, I will tell you that while I did hate him I never wished him dead."
"It's my fault Voldemort put a fake vision in my head and I believed him, I thought it was real." Alex said, tears flowing down his cheeks.
"Black's death was no one's fault except for Bellatrix's. You did not cast the curse that killed him and therefore it was not your fault."
"Sir, how did the Order find me last year?"
"I alerted the Order and Dumbledore that you had gone to the Ministry after I returned to Umbridge's office and noticed that some of my Slytherins were suffering the effects of various hexes."
"We led Umbridge to the forest where the centaurs captured her."
"Ms. Granger's plan, I believe?" Severus asked, already knowing the answer.
"Yes, sir."
"You'll have to tell her thank you from me, I loathed Umbridge more than even Longbottom."
"Yes, sir, I will."
"Tomorrow your arrival will be announced have you properly chosen your classes?"
"I want to do Transfiguration, Charms, Care of Magical Creatures…"
"You're taking Hagrid's class again? After all the incidents in that class?" Severus asked, incredulously.
"He's my friend, besides it might be nice to take that class again. We only had a few assignments and it wasn't that hard."
"When I was at Hogwarts in my sixth year I took, Care of Magical Creatures, Transfiguration, Charms, Potions, Astronomy, Ancient Runes, Herbology, and Arithmancy."
"Hermione is taking the same classes. Didn't you take History of Magic?"
"I might have if the teacher didn't make everyone in class fall asleep. I do believe that was the only class I did not pass with 'Exceeds Expectations' or more other than Transfiguration."
"I think I'll take the same classes you took minus Ancient Runes and Arithmancy."
"That would be acceptable. Get your trunk packed by the way, tomorrow you'll move into the Slytherin rooms."
"Is there any difference in the dorm rooms other than the colors?"
"You will see later." Severus said, not wanting to spoil the surprise.
"There is dinner in your room, eat and go to bed, you have to get up unusually early tomorrow." Severus said, worried the boy might oversleep.
"Goodnight, father." Alex said, testing out how it sounded.
"Goodnight, son." Severus said quietly as Alex's bedroom door closed.
A/N:
Thank you so much for all the kind reviews!
So far I have 81 (before posting this chapter)
The best Severus/Harry no slash story I have read so far is Arms of a Dark Angel by Snapegirlkmf
It is extremely good and I recommend it to everyone!
If you like Hermione Granger/Severus Snape relationships you should read Phoenix Song or Hermione Granger and the Half-Blood Prince by grangerous it is amazing!
A few other favorites of mind are:
A Father's Sin : Severitus
A Most Unexpected Christmas : chamita116
For Duty and Honor : Bratling
Slytherin Child : Jolie1
What's in a name : Darth Vice
Wonderful the childhood of Ssnape : millicityshaman
Namesakes : I am Albus Severus Potter
The Halfblood Prince :
More the Fool He : Strega Brava
We Sort too soon : kuonji
Lucius Babysitting : Athenav1
Babysitting Master Malfoy : The Werewolf Mage
Prequel to the Boy named Freak : liketoreadandwrite
The Boy Named Freak : liketoreadandwrite
No Longer a Freak : liketoreadandwrite
There is also this really cute story on Potionsandsnitches . Net that includes a young Harry who believes Snape is Batman.
READ AND REVIEW PLEASE!!!!!!