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Chapter 14: The truth is so much easier to handle

Severus sat there quietly and watched as an expression of disbelief flashed across Lucius's face. He thought for a second about how Albus didn't want Lucius to know the truth but suddenly he didn't want to hide the truth from Lucius.

After all they were in the same boat together.

The Dark Lord was after them and their sons.

" That is at least what we are going to tell everyone at the press conference and that is was I was to tell you. But I think that you will understand the reason after I tell you what happened on the night that we brought Harry back from his own personal Hell." Severus stopped talking long enough to make sure that Lucius was listening.

"After I had taken Harry to the infirmary I went down to my quarters and sat and waited for Albus to come and check on me and to find out what had happened. I didn't have to wait long; he came down about twenty minutes later. When he came in he asked me to brew a potion for him, The Paternity Potion. At the time I thought nothing of it but when I asked for the samples of blood he pulled out a single vial of blood and handed it to me.

I added it to the potion and asked for the other sample. That was when he told me that I was the other sample.

Needless to say I was shocked and angry, I had only been with one woman and that had been over sixteen years ago. I reluctantly let him take a sample of my blood and when we added it to the potion at first nothing happened but then the two blood samples joined and blended together." Severus stopped talking when he saw that Lucius was sitting there completely entranced by the story. Taking a drink of tea he continued talking and dropped the proverbial mother of all bombs.

"That was the night that I found out that I had a son and that my son was Harry Potter. After that happened I was in shock to say the least and sat in my living room on the floor for most of the night thinking back over my past mistakes." Seeing the confused expression on Lucius's normally stoic face made him realize that he needed to go back on a little of his personal past.

"You see when we were getting ready to graduate I asked Lily Evans to marry me and she said yes. The only person that knew that was Albus Dumbledore. It was two weeks before we were to get married when I took the Mark. Later that evening Lily had come over unexpectedly with something important to tell me. Before she could tell me what it was she saw the Dark Mark and without giving me a chance to explain she said it was over and walked out the door. I just realized a couple of days ago that she had been coming to tell me that we were going to have a baby. Albus told me the other night that shortly after she had left she had appeared in his office and told him that she had broken our engagement because she was really in love with James Potter and then she ran out of the office in tears.

Albus suspected that there was more to it than just what she had been saying but he didn't do anything to find out what had really happened.

The only person besides Lily that knew that Harry was mine was Remus Lupin and the only reason that he knew was that his acute senses picked up Harry's scent as a combination of mine and Lily's instead of her and James's. When he confronted Lily she made him swear that he would never tell another person."

At this time Lucian walked back through the door and grabbed two apples off of the counter and walked back toward his room with out saying anything or even a backwards glance at the two occupants of the kitchen.

"As you can see all of the charms have worn off and he is defiantly my son." Severus said smiling slightly at the closed kitchen door.

Lucius sat there absolutely flabbergasted. He sat there not moving for several minutes as he let every thing that Severus had told him sink in.

Severus had a son,

Severus's son was Harry Potter,

Harry Potter was now Lucian Snape,

Lucian was dating his son,

and the whole Wizarding world was going to be in an uproar because Harry Potter was dead.

"Why did you change his name?" that was the only question that he managed to get out in a coherent sentence.

" So that he could be safe and I wanted to give him something that he hasn't had. A family and a chance to be normal." Severus said quietly his voice thick with emotion.

Lucius nodded he could understand that. " So is he still going to be in Gryffindor when the term starts back up and what about his two sidekicks?" He asked wondering how they had planned on doing this.

"Well his two "sidekicks" as you so elegantly labeled them haven't really been there for Lucian for the past two years. Albus told Remus that when he had talked to Arthur about letting Ron and Hermione come up for the conference he said that after telling them that Harry had died and they were allowed to go to the conference, they said that they had already made plans to go and visit Hermione's grandmother. I swear if I could get my hands on them I would throttle the both of them. As for going back into Gryffindor I really don't know. He is going to being enrolling as a transfer student from Griffin Academy and is going to be sorted after the first years." Severus said
proudly. He tried without much luck to keep from laughing at the look on Lucius's face.

"Ah such loyal and noble Gryffindors." He sneered, " Griffin Academy, surely someone from the Ministry will check the records to see if he ever attended there, and I know that not even Dumbledore could forge papers for that school." Lucius said incredulously not quite believing what Severus was telling him.

Severus grinned, "That's not really a problem since he has been taking the curriculum for Griffin as well as for Hogwarts since his first year. Evidently he was supposed to attend there instead of here. But Albus needed to have the boy close to protect him from Voldemort so Lucian came here instead but decided to take the classes from Griffin anyway. The records have already been corrected on the name change." He couldn't help but laugh at Lucius's expression.

Lucius didn't know how many more shocks he could handle today. First he is told that Harry Potter died then he finds out that he didn't die and is one of his closest friends son, then he finds out that Lucian had been attending Griffin and Hogwarts at the same time. It is no wonder that Voldemort wanted the boy dead, he would probably be more powerful than Albus and Voldemort put together once he was trained. Then he remembered that he
and Draco where together.

" So, how long have Lucian and Draco been together?" he asked with a grin on his face.

Severus started laughing as soon as he heard this question, "I was wondering if you would figure it out anytime soon. I just found out last night for sure when I asked Lucian in a round about way. I had been trying to get Draco to tell me what was going on between them since last year when I saw the two of them down by the lake in a slightly intimate embrace. But he expertly dodged the questions about anything pertaining to him and Lucian."

Lucius laughed, "Oh yes he is quite good at that." He looked Severus in the eye and grinned madly. "So is there any certain someone in your life at the moment or do I get to play matchmaker again, my oh my I haven't done that since I tried to set you up with that Ravenclaw bloke in our sixth year. I daresay that I am a bit out of practice."

Severus could feel himself blushing profusely and just as he was about to deny that he had anyone in mind he heard the outside door to his quarters open and when he looked up he looked directly into the tired blue gray eyes of Remus Lupin, the one man that he was trying to get out of his mind.