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Toria: I love it where I left it, don't you? Sorry, I just love cliffies. Thank you, and I'm updating now!
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Inkling1: I'm sorry. I'm a bad girl, huh? I'm updating now! No worries! Thank you! School won't be starting for a couple more chapters. I have to get Sev and Lily time in here and got to get Sirius in here, too and get him somewhere. I like the baby language, its fun to write, but it seems my spell-check don't like it too well. it says it's wrong. don't know why, though. Lol. You'll see what dear Lily is doing here in this chapter!
Jay: I know what BUMP means and I'm surprised you do. You go to harrypotter message boards, don't you? And I think the tempting tidbits are explained here. Thanks!
Blackrose1365: Ahh. that has been explained. Thank you though!
Tropic: Yes, I like the wish thing too. It just came up and I thought it was cool. Thank you!
Riley: Thank you. Sirius will be here within the next four chapters, don't worry too much! Cute nickname. but I think I'll make him Papa Pafoo though. (Yes, Pafoo. his second word.) Thank you, and Lily is explained here!
Nemisis3: Yes, Do you not like the way I like to leave like that? I am quite fond of it! Thank you. Sirius is going to be here within the next four chapters, no worries! Lily is explaining here. and I do hate why Harry- cub is so nervous, don't worry, he will be as normal as possible here! Thanks for the MPRG explanation. I'm really memorizing it now!
lilinfields: Thank you! I have no clue what you mean, but I'll pretend that I do. Lol. Thank you, I think I'll need it.
ONWARDS! ___________________Last Time____________________
A woman with red hair and green eyes in pink robes was at the door holding a little girl that looked like she was about two or three in her arms.
"Lily!?" Severus and Remus asked at the same time.
____________Now___________________________________
Severus ran over to the woman.
"Sev!" Lily hugged the child closer as she ran to meet the one she loved.
Severus stopped and Lily ran into his arms and he held her and the child tight.
"When. why. how." Severus asked.
"I got here with Hali just a few minutes ago, Sev!" Lily was crying and put Hali down for a moment.
Harry walked up to the little girl. All of the teachers were too stunned to do anything. Everyone except Remus who walked over to Harry and Hali.
"Harry," Remus said softly, "This is Hali." Remus had just got the girls name when Lily said it, but didn't know if it was her child or not.
Harry turned his head to the side a little and looked at the new girl.
"Hello. I'm Harry." Harry looked at the girl really good. She had black hair just like his, but hers was curly and she had blue eyes. She looked more like his mother than his father with her soft skin and light tan.
"I'm Hali." She said shyly. She played with her purple robes for a moment then looked at Harry. "You my brudder?" She asked.
"I don't know." Harry said, shrugging.
Lily had stopped crying and looked at her children. Hali walked over to Harry and held his hand. Harry jumped and looked at Hali in wonder, but then knew she couldn't hurt him and let her hold his hand. Lily walked over to Harry and kneeled down to his eye level.
"Hello." He said politely.
"Harry!" the woman exclaimed hugged her child and kissed his forehead.
Severus saw Harry tense up and flinch, but Lily was oblivious. She was home, she didn't have to hide anymore, she had her husband back and had both of her children, she was now very carefree and she wanted to keep it that way!
"Lily. you should know one thing about Harry." Severus said slowly, walking up to his wife.
Hali let go of Harry's hand and just looked around at the huge room. She walked around and Dumbledore picked up the little girl and noticed that everyone was watching Lily as if she'd risen from the dead. (Which, some people really think she did.) Hali started to squirm, so he put the little girl back on the floor and she walked back to Severus, Lily, and Harry.
"What is it?" Lily asked Severus.
"He's been abused all these years." Severus said.
Lily seemed not to have heard this statement, but Severus didn't want to spoil this moment so he watched the mother and son.
Hali was watching this scene and walked over to the man that had hugged her mother.
When he didn't notice her, she tugged on the man's robes. "Lo! Lo!" She yelled. Hali just barely reached the man's knee and it was all she could to get the man's attention.
Severus looked shocked to see the little girl but picked her up anyway.
"Hello. I'm Severus. What's your name?" Severus asked.
"Hali Jade." The little girl said with a smile.
#Lily's smile.# Severus thought.
Remus walked over to Lily.
"Lils, I think Harry here needs to breathe." Remus joked.
"Remus!" Lily exclaimed. Harry squeezed out from his mother's hold just in time to not get squished because Remus was now Lily's captive.
Harry walked over to his dad to see him holding Hali.
"Dad!" Harry said with annoyance.
"Hey, cub." Severus said as he picked up Harry with his free arm.
"Dis your daddy?" Hali asked Harry.
"Yep." Harry said. He hugged Severus around the neck and watched his mother greet everyone in the room with a hug.
"She likes hugs, don't she?" Harry asked.
"Looks like it, pup." Remus said walking over, massaging his neck. "That woman still has a death grip, huh?" Remus looked at Hali. "Hello, Hali." He said, holding out his arms to the little girl.
"Hello." Hali held her arms out to Remus and he took her from Severus and held her on his side.
"I'm Remus." He said.
"Wee..Wee.muss." She tried to pronounce his name but couldn't. She had heard the name many times when her mother would talk about her past as they drove around in the United States, but had never actually tried to say the name and was very hard to pronounce for a three-year-old.
"I call him Papa Moony." Harry said.
"Can I calls you Papa Moony too?" Hali asked, giving Remus a sweet smile.
"Well, sure!" Remus laughed.
A light tapping of a spoon on glass was heard and everyone went quiet.
"I think this party should be cancelled due to the surprise visit we have just received." Albus said. Some people nodded and most were still to shocked to do anything but stare.
"I agree." Remus said loudly.
Lily walked back over to Severus and her children with tears spilling down her face.
"Will Miss Evans, Mr. Lupin, Miss Evans, Mr. Snape, and Mr. Snape please come to my office?" Albus asked. Everyone walked out of the room and the little group started for the Headmaster's office.
"Lily? How did you get here?" Severus asked. Lily held Harry and walked with Severus' arm around her waist while Remus listened to Hali talk about Mississippi, where she used to live.
"I used the Knight Bus, apparation, and floo." Lily said softly.
"When did you get here?" Severus asked with concern.
"Can we wait till we get in the headmaster's office?" Lily asked as they neared the Gargoyle.
"Okay. Pixie Styx." Severus said and the large Gargoyle sprang to the side. They all started to walk up the spiraling staircase, Hali's voice echoeing off of the stone walls as they reached the door.
"Dad. is that mum?" Harry asked Severus.
"Yes, Harry. This is your mum." Sev said.
"Really? Why didn't anyone tell me?" Harry asked as he hugged his mother.
"Lily. It's so good to see you after all these years." Albus said as the group walked into his office. Harry wondered how the old guy got there before he did, but Harry didn't worry about it too long.
"It feels wonderful to be here again." Lily responded as she sat down on the large leather sofa in front of Albus' desk.
"You know we have many questions for you, Miss Snape." Albus said, looking over his half-moon glasses with his eyes twinkling.
"Yes, I know. Would you like for me to start at the beginning?" Lily asked.
"That's the best place to start." Remus said. Severus took the right side of the couch with Harry on his lap. Lily said next to him with Sev's arm around her and Remus sat on the left side with Hali sleeping in his arms.
"Well. okay. James and I of course went into hiding with Harry. Contrary to popular belief, we did not use Sirius as out secret keeper. Please, no questions until I finish." Lily warned as Remus' mouth opened to say something. "We used Peter as our secret keeper because we thought Sirius was too obvious and at that point we thought Remus was the spy. I'm truly sorry Remus."
Remus shook his head. "It's okay. It was the most obvious answer. I would have suspected me too."
Lily looked relieved and continued her story. "Severus and I kept meeting each other in secret. I know, we weren't really supposed to, but we did because we loved each other. We would sometimes spend the night over at his mansion, and James knew we were meeting so he didn't mind at all.
Well, I got pregnant with Hali a month before Voldemort decided he wanted us killed. Peter must have been the spy because Voldemort knew exactly where we were. I used a charm that I made myself that will deflect any curse, and put it over Harry and myself. When the Killing Curse deflected onto Voldemort and killed him, I transfigured my teapot into a perfect image of myself dead so people would think I really was dead." Lily paused for a moment.
"I'm truly sorry." She added. "When I heard Sirius come in through the door and yell, I left Harry there after I put that scar on his forehead to make people think he was the one that killed Voldemort. I left him because I knew he would take care of Harry and I ran to Albus to ask for help getting a new identity and place to stay."
Severus and Remus looked sharply at Dumbledore, but the man was choosing a lemon drop out of one of his many trinkets. He offered some to his company, but only Harry took one.
"The reason I wanted to do this was that I knew that people would come looking for me, Harry, and Hali if they knew that I was still alive and that I had killed Voldemort. We would've been in so much danger. I needed to absolutely know for a fact that Voldemort was dead before I could come back to my baby boy and my only love. I'm sounding like a storybook character but this is true. I have not had any contact with anyone here except an owl or two a year from Albus." Lily paused to wipe tears from her eyes.
"I heard from Albus that Harry was having troubles and that he was here now and I decided to come back and see exactly what troubles were being caused. I took the Knight Bus, Floo, and Apparation here and arrived about." Lily looked at her watch for a moment, "An hour ago. What was wrong with my little boy?" Lily took Harry in her arms and hugged him and just sat there holding him. "Any questions you would like answered?"
"Yes, is Hali mine?" Severus asked. The question had been bugging him ever since he saw the girl in Lily's arms and he desperately needed to know the truthful answer.
"Of course she's yours, Severus! I wouldn't see anyone but you!" Lily exclaimed.
Lily kissed Severus and Remus started to gag.
"Hey, Moony, at least I can get a girl!" Severus said, slapping Remus on the back of the head lightly.
"Hey, it's not my fault girls are scared of my looks, is it?" Remus said, running a hand through his hair and grinning.
"Of course it's not, Remus, of course it's not." Lily said sarcastically.
"Okay, Lily, do you wish to stay in England or go back to America?" Albus asked.
"I want to stay here if it is okay with everyone." Lily said softly.
By now Harry was asleep and happy that he had his parents back.
"Lily, I have been waiting for you to come back to us for years, I would like nothing more than you to stay here." Severus said truthfully, holding Lily's hand in his.
"Okay, where will Lily, Hali and Harry be staying?" Remus asked.
"They can come and stay at Snape Manor." Severus suggested.
"Okay, then it is settled. Severus, you can take your family back to Snape Manor and they can get settled in. When will you be going?" Albus said, folding his hands together happily.
"Hmm. how about tomorrow?" Severus asked Lily.
"Can Remus help? Where's Sirius?" Lily asked.
Remus looked down sadly at the three-year old girl in his arms.
"Remus, where is Sirius?" Lily asked again.
"In Azkaban." Remus replied in a whisper.
"AZKABAN!?" Lily exclaimed. "Why?"
"He killed 13 Muggers and Peter." Severus said.
"Peter was the Secret Keeper. Sirius thought James and I were dead." Lily started to cry. "Sirius was like, my brother, you know?"
Remus took Harry from Severus as Severus took Lily and started to comfort her.
"Peter's not dead." Lily suddenly said, bolting upright.
"What?" Albus asked.
"No. I saw him in the school when I was walking up here. He's an Animagus. A rat." Lily said, looking at the Headmaster.
"Well, we must find him quickly and get Sirius out of Azkaban then." Remus said snarling. "That rat will be given the Dementors Kiss if it is the last thing I do."
"Lily, will you please take Hali and Harry down to my rooms and let them sleep. We all know they need it and Peter may want to harm them if he saw you. No one or thing can get through the portrait hole. Severus, take Felaw around the school and look for Worm tail. Remus, you please have Moony help Felaw catch the rat. We will get Padfoot back. Alive if you will." Dumbledore said.
How was that? Hope you liked it, and tell me what you think in a Review! They tell me if I should continue so puh-lease review! Thanks for reading! I don't think Hali will be too much of a Mary-Sue, because she will be very important later on.
Katzy
((November 11, 2003: edited, spell checked, the whole sha-bang.))
Princess Pearliest: You're welcome. I totally agree, and I plan to have fun with the way Sirius is going to come in here later. The kid is explained in this chapter. at least it should be. Thanks and I'm updating..now.
Toria: I love it where I left it, don't you? Sorry, I just love cliffies. Thank you, and I'm updating now!
Mikee: Thank you! Thank you, you're welcome, and I'm looking forward to writing about Lily and her.. Um. the kid. Yeah. The kid. No spoilers up here, sorry. Lol.
Retvinzan: Thank you for telling me!
Inkling1: I'm sorry. I'm a bad girl, huh? I'm updating now! No worries! Thank you! School won't be starting for a couple more chapters. I have to get Sev and Lily time in here and got to get Sirius in here, too and get him somewhere. I like the baby language, its fun to write, but it seems my spell-check don't like it too well. it says it's wrong. don't know why, though. Lol. You'll see what dear Lily is doing here in this chapter!
Jay: I know what BUMP means and I'm surprised you do. You go to harrypotter message boards, don't you? And I think the tempting tidbits are explained here. Thanks!
Blackrose1365: Ahh. that has been explained. Thank you though!
Tropic: Yes, I like the wish thing too. It just came up and I thought it was cool. Thank you!
Riley: Thank you. Sirius will be here within the next four chapters, don't worry too much! Cute nickname. but I think I'll make him Papa Pafoo though. (Yes, Pafoo. his second word.) Thank you, and Lily is explained here!
Nemisis3: Yes, Do you not like the way I like to leave like that? I am quite fond of it! Thank you. Sirius is going to be here within the next four chapters, no worries! Lily is explaining here. and I do hate why Harry- cub is so nervous, don't worry, he will be as normal as possible here! Thanks for the MPRG explanation. I'm really memorizing it now!
lilinfields: Thank you! I have no clue what you mean, but I'll pretend that I do. Lol. Thank you, I think I'll need it.
ONWARDS! ___________________Last Time____________________
A woman with red hair and green eyes in pink robes was at the door holding a little girl that looked like she was about two or three in her arms.
"Lily!?" Severus and Remus asked at the same time.
____________Now___________________________________
Severus ran over to the woman.
"Sev!" Lily hugged the child closer as she ran to meet the one she loved.
Severus stopped and Lily ran into his arms and he held her and the child tight.
"When. why. how." Severus asked.
"I got here with Hali just a few minutes ago, Sev!" Lily was crying and put Hali down for a moment.
Harry walked up to the little girl. All of the teachers were too stunned to do anything. Everyone except Remus who walked over to Harry and Hali.
"Harry," Remus said softly, "This is Hali." Remus had just got the girls name when Lily said it, but didn't know if it was her child or not.
Harry turned his head to the side a little and looked at the new girl.
"Hello. I'm Harry." Harry looked at the girl really good. She had black hair just like his, but hers was curly and she had blue eyes. She looked more like his mother than his father with her soft skin and light tan.
"I'm Hali." She said shyly. She played with her purple robes for a moment then looked at Harry. "You my brudder?" She asked.
"I don't know." Harry said, shrugging.
Lily had stopped crying and looked at her children. Hali walked over to Harry and held his hand. Harry jumped and looked at Hali in wonder, but then knew she couldn't hurt him and let her hold his hand. Lily walked over to Harry and kneeled down to his eye level.
"Hello." He said politely.
"Harry!" the woman exclaimed hugged her child and kissed his forehead.
Severus saw Harry tense up and flinch, but Lily was oblivious. She was home, she didn't have to hide anymore, she had her husband back and had both of her children, she was now very carefree and she wanted to keep it that way!
"Lily. you should know one thing about Harry." Severus said slowly, walking up to his wife.
Hali let go of Harry's hand and just looked around at the huge room. She walked around and Dumbledore picked up the little girl and noticed that everyone was watching Lily as if she'd risen from the dead. (Which, some people really think she did.) Hali started to squirm, so he put the little girl back on the floor and she walked back to Severus, Lily, and Harry.
"What is it?" Lily asked Severus.
"He's been abused all these years." Severus said.
Lily seemed not to have heard this statement, but Severus didn't want to spoil this moment so he watched the mother and son.
Hali was watching this scene and walked over to the man that had hugged her mother.
When he didn't notice her, she tugged on the man's robes. "Lo! Lo!" She yelled. Hali just barely reached the man's knee and it was all she could to get the man's attention.
Severus looked shocked to see the little girl but picked her up anyway.
"Hello. I'm Severus. What's your name?" Severus asked.
"Hali Jade." The little girl said with a smile.
#Lily's smile.# Severus thought.
Remus walked over to Lily.
"Lils, I think Harry here needs to breathe." Remus joked.
"Remus!" Lily exclaimed. Harry squeezed out from his mother's hold just in time to not get squished because Remus was now Lily's captive.
Harry walked over to his dad to see him holding Hali.
"Dad!" Harry said with annoyance.
"Hey, cub." Severus said as he picked up Harry with his free arm.
"Dis your daddy?" Hali asked Harry.
"Yep." Harry said. He hugged Severus around the neck and watched his mother greet everyone in the room with a hug.
"She likes hugs, don't she?" Harry asked.
"Looks like it, pup." Remus said walking over, massaging his neck. "That woman still has a death grip, huh?" Remus looked at Hali. "Hello, Hali." He said, holding out his arms to the little girl.
"Hello." Hali held her arms out to Remus and he took her from Severus and held her on his side.
"I'm Remus." He said.
"Wee..Wee.muss." She tried to pronounce his name but couldn't. She had heard the name many times when her mother would talk about her past as they drove around in the United States, but had never actually tried to say the name and was very hard to pronounce for a three-year-old.
"I call him Papa Moony." Harry said.
"Can I calls you Papa Moony too?" Hali asked, giving Remus a sweet smile.
"Well, sure!" Remus laughed.
A light tapping of a spoon on glass was heard and everyone went quiet.
"I think this party should be cancelled due to the surprise visit we have just received." Albus said. Some people nodded and most were still to shocked to do anything but stare.
"I agree." Remus said loudly.
Lily walked back over to Severus and her children with tears spilling down her face.
"Will Miss Evans, Mr. Lupin, Miss Evans, Mr. Snape, and Mr. Snape please come to my office?" Albus asked. Everyone walked out of the room and the little group started for the Headmaster's office.
"Lily? How did you get here?" Severus asked. Lily held Harry and walked with Severus' arm around her waist while Remus listened to Hali talk about Mississippi, where she used to live.
"I used the Knight Bus, apparation, and floo." Lily said softly.
"When did you get here?" Severus asked with concern.
"Can we wait till we get in the headmaster's office?" Lily asked as they neared the Gargoyle.
"Okay. Pixie Styx." Severus said and the large Gargoyle sprang to the side. They all started to walk up the spiraling staircase, Hali's voice echoeing off of the stone walls as they reached the door.
"Dad. is that mum?" Harry asked Severus.
"Yes, Harry. This is your mum." Sev said.
"Really? Why didn't anyone tell me?" Harry asked as he hugged his mother.
"Lily. It's so good to see you after all these years." Albus said as the group walked into his office. Harry wondered how the old guy got there before he did, but Harry didn't worry about it too long.
"It feels wonderful to be here again." Lily responded as she sat down on the large leather sofa in front of Albus' desk.
"You know we have many questions for you, Miss Snape." Albus said, looking over his half-moon glasses with his eyes twinkling.
"Yes, I know. Would you like for me to start at the beginning?" Lily asked.
"That's the best place to start." Remus said. Severus took the right side of the couch with Harry on his lap. Lily said next to him with Sev's arm around her and Remus sat on the left side with Hali sleeping in his arms.
"Well. okay. James and I of course went into hiding with Harry. Contrary to popular belief, we did not use Sirius as out secret keeper. Please, no questions until I finish." Lily warned as Remus' mouth opened to say something. "We used Peter as our secret keeper because we thought Sirius was too obvious and at that point we thought Remus was the spy. I'm truly sorry Remus."
Remus shook his head. "It's okay. It was the most obvious answer. I would have suspected me too."
Lily looked relieved and continued her story. "Severus and I kept meeting each other in secret. I know, we weren't really supposed to, but we did because we loved each other. We would sometimes spend the night over at his mansion, and James knew we were meeting so he didn't mind at all.
Well, I got pregnant with Hali a month before Voldemort decided he wanted us killed. Peter must have been the spy because Voldemort knew exactly where we were. I used a charm that I made myself that will deflect any curse, and put it over Harry and myself. When the Killing Curse deflected onto Voldemort and killed him, I transfigured my teapot into a perfect image of myself dead so people would think I really was dead." Lily paused for a moment.
"I'm truly sorry." She added. "When I heard Sirius come in through the door and yell, I left Harry there after I put that scar on his forehead to make people think he was the one that killed Voldemort. I left him because I knew he would take care of Harry and I ran to Albus to ask for help getting a new identity and place to stay."
Severus and Remus looked sharply at Dumbledore, but the man was choosing a lemon drop out of one of his many trinkets. He offered some to his company, but only Harry took one.
"The reason I wanted to do this was that I knew that people would come looking for me, Harry, and Hali if they knew that I was still alive and that I had killed Voldemort. We would've been in so much danger. I needed to absolutely know for a fact that Voldemort was dead before I could come back to my baby boy and my only love. I'm sounding like a storybook character but this is true. I have not had any contact with anyone here except an owl or two a year from Albus." Lily paused to wipe tears from her eyes.
"I heard from Albus that Harry was having troubles and that he was here now and I decided to come back and see exactly what troubles were being caused. I took the Knight Bus, Floo, and Apparation here and arrived about." Lily looked at her watch for a moment, "An hour ago. What was wrong with my little boy?" Lily took Harry in her arms and hugged him and just sat there holding him. "Any questions you would like answered?"
"Yes, is Hali mine?" Severus asked. The question had been bugging him ever since he saw the girl in Lily's arms and he desperately needed to know the truthful answer.
"Of course she's yours, Severus! I wouldn't see anyone but you!" Lily exclaimed.
Lily kissed Severus and Remus started to gag.
"Hey, Moony, at least I can get a girl!" Severus said, slapping Remus on the back of the head lightly.
"Hey, it's not my fault girls are scared of my looks, is it?" Remus said, running a hand through his hair and grinning.
"Of course it's not, Remus, of course it's not." Lily said sarcastically.
"Okay, Lily, do you wish to stay in England or go back to America?" Albus asked.
"I want to stay here if it is okay with everyone." Lily said softly.
By now Harry was asleep and happy that he had his parents back.
"Lily, I have been waiting for you to come back to us for years, I would like nothing more than you to stay here." Severus said truthfully, holding Lily's hand in his.
"Okay, where will Lily, Hali and Harry be staying?" Remus asked.
"They can come and stay at Snape Manor." Severus suggested.
"Okay, then it is settled. Severus, you can take your family back to Snape Manor and they can get settled in. When will you be going?" Albus said, folding his hands together happily.
"Hmm. how about tomorrow?" Severus asked Lily.
"Can Remus help? Where's Sirius?" Lily asked.
Remus looked down sadly at the three-year old girl in his arms.
"Remus, where is Sirius?" Lily asked again.
"In Azkaban." Remus replied in a whisper.
"AZKABAN!?" Lily exclaimed. "Why?"
"He killed 13 Muggers and Peter." Severus said.
"Peter was the Secret Keeper. Sirius thought James and I were dead." Lily started to cry. "Sirius was like, my brother, you know?"
Remus took Harry from Severus as Severus took Lily and started to comfort her.
"Peter's not dead." Lily suddenly said, bolting upright.
"What?" Albus asked.
"No. I saw him in the school when I was walking up here. He's an Animagus. A rat." Lily said, looking at the Headmaster.
"Well, we must find him quickly and get Sirius out of Azkaban then." Remus said snarling. "That rat will be given the Dementors Kiss if it is the last thing I do."
"Lily, will you please take Hali and Harry down to my rooms and let them sleep. We all know they need it and Peter may want to harm them if he saw you. No one or thing can get through the portrait hole. Severus, take Felaw around the school and look for Worm tail. Remus, you please have Moony help Felaw catch the rat. We will get Padfoot back. Alive if you will." Dumbledore said.
How was that? Hope you liked it, and tell me what you think in a Review! They tell me if I should continue so puh-lease review! Thanks for reading! I don't think Hali will be too much of a Mary-Sue, because she will be very important later on.
Katzy
((November 11, 2003: edited, spell checked, the whole sha-bang.))