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Chapter 5: The Voice
Harry strained to hear who was talking.

That voice sounds so familiar

Harry said to himself. He listened in the darkness desperately wanting to hear another person talking.

Severus for the first time in his life started talking without any inhibitions. He wasn't quiet sure of what to say at first but that annoying little voice seemed to give him the kick he needed.

" Well, I am not really sure where to start. I don't even know if you can hear me. Poppy fixed you up just like always. I think that she has treated you more than any other person. Well, except for me. You probably know that I have gone back to being a spy for Dumbledore. I guess that you are wondering why your greasy git of a professor is taking the time to talk to you. The only thing that I can say is that there has been sort of a revelation that concerns you and me. Before I try and tell you what that is there are some things that you need to know." He stopped there to decide where he should start.

Harry had heard every thing that Professor Snape had said and to say the least he was very confused.

What kind of revelation was it and why did it involve me? He asked himself.

The darkness around him seemed to get colder and he could feel himself slipping away from where ever he was.

No, I can't leave yet I want to hear what Snape has to say!

I wonder why he is talking to me now he thought to himself.

Probably thinks that I can't hear him.

What ever was trying to pull him away had stopped and he could hear Snape starting to talk again.

" I guess that the only way that you could possible understand is if I started from where is all began." He said as he started talking about the past and slowly slipping onto his memories.

"It all began on my first train ride to Hogwarts at the start of my first year. When I had gotten on the train I sat down in the last compartment where I could be alone. About half way to Hogwarts the door slid open and a small girl with long wild red hair and the most intense emerald green eyes ran in and slammed the door shut.

Flash Back

Severus looked up from his potions book to see a girl run into his compartment. "What are you doing in here?" he asked sneering at the girl.

The girl turned around and looked him straight in the eyes "I needed to get away from some pompous idiot who thinks that I should jump off the train because I don't deserve to go to Hogwarts." She huffed indignantly, seeing the indifferent look on his face she stood up and went and sat next to him.

"Are you like him too? Do you think that I shouldn't be allowed to come to school just because my parents are muggles?" She asked him her eyes shinning with pent up anger.

Severus sat there not really knowing what to say. Growing up he was always told that Muggleborns were not worthy and were below Purebloods. He never asked why this was he just accepted it. And now there was a fiery redhead that was making him question what had been drilled into his head from the day he was born.

" I don't know you so how could I judge you." And for the first time in his life he realized something.

" I think that if you can do magic then you have the right to go to school to learn more about it. It doesn't matter who your parents are." Severus knew that if his father ever found out what he just said he would probably disown him and then kill him. He just hoped that never happened.

The girl sat there watching him intently, " Well I am glad that you think for yourself." She held out her hand to him. " My name is Lily Evans, it is nice to meet you."

Severus cracked a small grin and shook her hand, " Severus Snape."

End Flashback

" That was the first time that I met your mom. She made me realize that what my parents had ingrained in my head was not right and that moment changed my life." Severus sighed he wondered if Harry could hear him. He remembered what Poppy had said about his injuries and he hoped with every grain in his body that Harry came out of the coma all right. He still had his whole life ahead of him and if he could help it, it would be a whole hell of a lot better. He wondered how long the abuse had been going on. The more that he thought about it the more instances that he remembered that occurred through the years that pointed to Harry's relatives abusing him.

As the saying goes 'hindsight is 20/20'.

"What a lot of people didn't realize was that your mom and I stayed friends all through Hogwarts, and we dated our last two years. I loved your mom more than anything and the week after graduation I asked her to marry me. She said yes and we started making plans. The only person that knew that we were together and was planning on getting married was Albus. We had to keep everything quiet so that my father wouldn't find out. He was in Voldemort's Inner circle of Deatheaters.

My mother on the other hand was just the opposite. She hated what my father had become but there was nothing that she could do to stop him, she was the only other person that knew of our engagement and she was so happy that I had found someone. But our happiness did not last long.

My father found out about Lily and threatened me. He told me that if I married her then he would personally hand her over to Voldemort for his own personal entertainment. The only way that I could save Lily was to renounce everything that I believed in and follow in his footsteps as Deatheater.

The night after I was marked Lily had came over to talk, I told her that I couldn't marry her and she grabbed my arm and saw the dark mark. She looked at me with tears in her eyes and turned and walked out the door.

I let her go.

I thought that I was doing the right thing; I thought that I was protecting her.

She married James two weeks later. Seven months later you were born and I figured that she had cheated on me with James. Of course if I hadn't been so crushed at her leaving me I would have realized then that something wasn't right, but I was too blinded by my hatred of James Potter. He done the one thing that I couldn't, he had married the one woman I loved. That was why it seemed like I hated you when you came to school. In my head you were the proof of her betrayal and what all I had lost.

I never found out what she had come to talk about that night. But I know what it was now.

She was coming to tell me that we were going to have a baby. You were that baby.

I didn't know until last night when the Headmaster came down and wanted me to make a potion for him. He had asked me to make the Paternity Potion.

After I saw the results I was shocked, after all these years I found out that I had a son. I promise as soon as you are better I will make it up to you for everything that I have put you through. I hope that we can try and be a family.

Harry was really glad that he was already unconscious because if he were awake he was sure that he would have fainted. He had no idea how he felt about this.

Everything in his life that he had ever been told was a lie.

For as long as he could remember he wished that he had some family somewhere that would come and take him away from the Dursley's and now he finds out that after all these years he finds out that he has a father. And then it hit at what Snape had said. He wanted to be a family; he wanted to be a father
toward him. That was when he realized that he was being given a chance at normal. He wished that he would wake up. Something was bugging him though.

If he was Snape's son then why did he look like James Potter?