By: Shadow-Demon14
Disclaimer- I don't own any characters except one, so don't sue.
A.N.- this story is rated PG-13 for some language and abuse, if you don't like these kind of stories than what the hell are you doing with mine? I'm going to do this thing in one fell swope cause I had all ready written it in class and finished it, so here I go.
"Come here you brat! You're just a stupid little wench. You shouldn't even be alive you piece of shit!" A drunken man was stumbling through his house going after his 12-year-old daughter. She was just as frightened as she had been yesterday, the day before yesterday, and so on. Sometimes she was lucky to have a fearful free day, and to day wasn't one of those days. She had always loved those days, which were very rare, and had been wishing for that kind of day everyday for the past 8 years.
"Professor McGonagall, can you please send Severus to my office."
"Certainly Albus, what should I tell him you need him for?"
"We need to discuss something about his daughter," with that said McGonagall went to find Professor Snape as quickly as possible because it had been a few years since he last heard about his daughter.
She was sent to live with muggles for her safety because she would be in danger being the daughter the daughter of a Death Eater and.. . ( not telling yet)
"Severus, Albus wishes to see you in his office," Severus just got up, still in thought, " It is about your daughter." With that said his head snapped up and then he bolted out the door. Leaving McGonald just shaking her head, ' And to think that Severus would do anything for his son and daughter.'
A few minutes later Snape was charging into Dumbledor's office. "What is it! Did something happen! Tell me!"
"Calm down Severus. Nothing is wrong, just thought that I should bring it to your attention that since your daughter is 12, she should start attending here." Professor Snape sighed when he that he was down here because something had happened to her.
"Now I know you are already having trouble with your son, with him not knowing that you are his father, but soon her powers will start to be uncontrollable for her if she doesn't come here."
"Yes, I know. But what about her cross shape scare on her cheek. It doesn't look like it would have been caused by one of those vehicle accidents, but more like what Harry has. People here will notice and start to talk."
"Let them talk Severus, they don't know anything. You need to tell both your son and daughter the truth, the longer you wait the more they won't believe you when the time comes."
"You still won't learn your lesson now will you!" The drunken man kept on kicking the 12-year-old girl. He stopped for a minute to get a butcher knife that he came to love, and the girl hate.
"No. . . please don't. I'll be good! I didn't mean to be bad. . . please," she paused to coughing, coughing up blood. She already had multiple severe cuts and bruises and what felt like some broken bones, recently he started to use the knife. Starting with cuts to slashes to stabbing, "don't, I'll be good."
"Why should I believe a piece of shit like you?" He came up to her with the knife and started to do what he loved with the knife. When he finished he picked up the unconscious girl and dragged her by the arm to the coat closet, which was her room and threw her in.
"Are you going to go and see her Professor?"
"Yes. I don't even know how she is doing. I should have told them a while ago. I just didn't want anything to happen to them. I'm leaving now to go and see her."
"Very well Severus, that is a wise decision . Do you want me to call your son to be here 2 weeks before school starts?"
Albus walked over to his desk to get a piece of parchment to send, "Sure Albus, you might as well." Professor Snape said leaving and mumbled to himself. "It's not like they're going to believe ma."
When Snape was out of sight Albus just stood there for a minute smiling to himself, "They will Severus, just be patient, they will."
It had been 5 hours since her father beat her and she was still bleeding, curled up in a tight ball in the corner of the closet muttering to herself, "Please don't, I'll be good, I didn't mean to."
Her father had left 2 hours ago after locking and blocking the closet door she was in with a couch.
"Hello Professor Dumbledor. What is it that you wanted to see me about?" Mr. Weasley said stepping in front of Dumbledor's desk.
I need you to bring someone here early."
"Yes, who is it? And may I ask why?"
"Harry Potter is going to have a little family reunion."
Mr.Weasley was surprised, "Are you sure? Do you think that he will except the truth?"
"I assure you Mr.Weasley, he will except it."
"What about Sarah? Do we even know how she is?"
"Severus has gone to go and get her, and no, we have not kept a close eye on her. Hardly any witches or wizards know who she is. This way she is safer."
"Yes sir. I shall go and get Harry."
"You may use a quicker way," Dumbledor waved towards a fireplace with floo powder. Mr.Weasley just nodded.
Professor Snape made it to Sarah's house and was surprised at the location. It was a big house in a regular sized neighborhood. He knocked on the door instead of barging in. After a few knocks he didn't get an answer. He tried to open the door and was sure that it would be locked, but it wasn't so he just walked right on in.
"Sarah! Hello!" Professor Snape walked through the house checking everywhere, he started to become nervous. He hadn't found any room that looked like it would belong to a 12-year-old girl.
He passed a door that he hadn't noticed due to the couch in front of it. Remembering that Harry was made to stay in a cub board he became even more nervous. He moved the couch. Tried to open it but found it was locked, using his wand he unlocked it. Then finally was able to open it. Turning the handle . . .
"Harry, clean up the table now."
"Yes Aunt Pet-"
All of a sudden there was a loud noise from the family room, everyone ran in there to find a stranger stepping out of the fireplace.
"Mr.Weasley, what are you doing here?"
Vernon, Petunia, and Dudley all backed away from the wizard finding out that Harry knew him.
"I am here to take you to Hogwarts early by Professor Dumbledor's request, so I suggest that you go and gather your things."
"Ok, but why?"
"Sorr'e Harry. I can't give out that information."
Vernon stepped up, "No . . . h-he is staying here!"
"Oh. I'm sorry. Professor Dumbledor requires the company of your NEPHEW. I'm sure you can get along just find without him, or are you mad that you will have to clean the house?" Harry came down with his stuff ready to go.
Snape had opened the door and the first thing that he noticed was blood, lots of it, and the shaking form of his daughter who he hadn't seen for years. She was mumbling stuff about being sorry, that it wasn't her fault, and that she would be a good girl.
Fear and guilt suddenly rushed through him , realizing what he had suddenly put both his son and daughter through. He carefully bent down and started to pick her up. When his fingers touched her she curled up in an even more fetal position whimpering.
"Shhh. It's ok Sarah, I'm not gonna hurt you, I'm taking you away from here, ok?" Professor Snape tried to comfort her the best that he could. She responded hesitatively to his kind words by relaxing some what, he was finally able to pick her up. Her skin was cold and when he accidentally touched one of the gashes she didn't even flinch. She understood why he stopped all of a sudden, " U-use to the . . . pain," she started breathing heavily as if saying a few words took a lot of energy.
Professor Snape quickly apparated as close as he could to Hogwarts and rushed her into the infirmary.
"Professor, why am I here?"
"Harry, I believe that have be gone to suspect that James Potter is not your real father, am I correct?"
Harry looked at the Professor surprised that he knew, "Yeah, I've had dreams a few dreams but I couldn't make out much. All I could was a tall man with very black messy hair that was hugging my mum and what I guessed to be me."
"Yes you are correct. More news is that you have a sister. . . "
"A sister! Why wasn't I told about her? Is she okay! How old is she? What is her name?" Harry asked frantically, shocked that no one bothered to tell him that he had a sister, and he still didn't know who his father was.
"Her name is Sarah and she is 12 years old, we do not know how she is doing on account that we have not kept a close eye on her. We already have someone gone to get her."
Professor Snape brought Sarah to the hospital wing and Madame Pomfrey had done all that she could for her.
Flashback
"I'm sorry Severus, I've done all that I could for the child, but you may need someone who is more advanced to come here quickly, or Sarah may not make it to the morning. Here, I have a letter to a very good doctor that I know of, if you could give it to my owl in my office she will know what to do with it."
End Flashback
He was heading to Professor Dumbledor's office with a blank face.
'It is my fault, my fault at what I put them through, Harry, being treated as a slave and a freak. Sarah, abused and almost killed. God, what have I done?'
Professor Snape made it to the statue, "butter beer" and went up the stairs into the office.
Ah, Severus, what news of Sarah?" asked Professor Dumbledor.
Harry turned to see Professor Snape with a look he never expected to see on his face, the look of sadness, fear and guilt. It got stronger as he noticed him look towards him.
"Hello Harry. . . Headmaster. We should have kept a closer eye on her. God, it is all my fault!"
"What is your fault Severus?" Dumbledor had a worried look on his face as Harry was scared and confused.
"It seems as if she has been beaten and abused ever since we left her with them." Harry went off running to the hospital wing, wanting to see his sister.
"Harry, wait!" Professor Snape called after him.
"Let him go Severus. You know you should go as well, stop blaming yourself. You know, Harry had an idea that James was not his real father, he will want to know before tomorrow.
Professor Snape nodded his head and left not sure if he was ready to tell his secret to the ones he was trying to protect it from.
He made his way to the hospital wing trying to come up with something to say, for once he was completely speechless.
Harry made his way to the wing his sister was. When he got there, there was an area that closed off, when he walked into the area there was his sister, covered in bandages and surrounded by healing potions. She was also hooked up to what looked like a muggle hospital machines to help breath, listen to her heart beet and other things.
"Hi Sarah, I guess I'm your brother." Harry said quietly walking up to her, "I fell somewhat responsible for what happened to you. I'm your older brother and should have protected you, but I didn't." Harry had felt like he should protect her when he first saw her. " You have been through so much, you don't have to go through anything anymore, I won't let it."
"You do know that it isn't your fault Harry?"
Professor Snape said coming up beside Harry, Harry looked up at the professor confused.
"You didn't say Potter, why is that?" Harry didn't get a response, then realization struck him and he put the clues together, "Dad?"
Professor Snape looked down on his son, surprised that he had figured it out so quickly, all he could do was shake his head yes, "I can understand if you don't want to have anything to do with me."
"Why? You must have had a good reason, I don't know why I'm not mad, for some reason I understand what you did without really knowing anything about it."
"What do you mean?"
"Well I've had a few dreams of what seemed like the past but you were in it and not James Potter, hey what is my real name anyway?"
Professor Snape was really surprised with the calmness of his son and how accepting he was of the situation.
"Your name is Severus James Snape, your mother called you Sev so there wouldn't be any confusion. Your sister's name is Sarah Lily Snape."
"How is she doing?"
". . . it looks like she has been stabbed, cut, beat. . . it is all my fault too, if I just kept both of you with me you both wouldn't have had to gone through what you did." Professor Snape was feeling very guilty, he turned around and walked away from the only family he had left, turning his back to them once again and not even offering comfort to them.
Harry took a chair next to the bed and ended up falling asleep.
A very drunk man stumbled into his house and slipped on something red on the floor, what he couldn't tell was that there was blood leading from the closet almost to the door. He crawled to the closet to find it open.
"W-where did that little bitch go!" he yelled, he reached into his coat and took out a large knife and rammed it into the closet wall.
It was morning and Harry was awakened by some sort of noise, he looked up from his chair and looked around, he was in the hospital wing.
Finally Harry spotted where the noise was coming from, it caused him to jump out of the chair and grab Sarah's hand.
"NO! Sarah don't go! Hang in there! Don't leave me."
The noise that woke him up was from the machine that listened to her heart, there were no longer the constant beeps.
Walking down the hall was Professor Snape, he heard yelling and remembered that Harry was staying with Sarah, and broke into a run.
When he got there he was met with Harry yelling for Sarah to wake up and not to leave. The doctor that Madame Pomfrey suggested came in with a saddened face.
"I'm sorry Professor Snape, I did all that I could, and the rest was up to her and her will to live."
Professor Snape went up to his daughter, trying to urge her to wake and saying promises and caring things to her.
"No Sarah, don't leave, I never even got to introduce myself." Harry had finally broken down crying over sister's dead body. Severus was holding her in his lap crying.
'It's my entire fault, if I kept her with me and protected her, she would have never died. Harry wouldn't have had to basically be a slave to those muggles and we would have been a family.'
Another minute had gone by and the dead body of Sarah Lily Snape didn't seem like it was going to be let go of any time soon.
"Where am I?" Sarah had woken up to find herself by a stream in a forest, "How did I get here?"
"Do not be afraid Sarah, you are safe here."
Sarah turned around to find a woman that was wearing jeans and a navy blue turtleneck. She had red hair and greenish eyes.
"Who are you! Why am I- what the heck is going on here?"
"Sarah, you have died and are stuck her between the real world and the after life. My name is Lily Evans and I'm your real mother."
Sarah looked at her like she was crazy, "You expect me to believe that? My mother has been dead for 12 years, and you expect me to believe you that you are her? My name is Sarah Ann Taylor not Evans or anything like that."
"No, your name is Sarah Lily Snape, my married name is Lily Snape. And I have only been dead for 8 years, you were 4 when I died."
"What proof do you have ?"
Sarah was beginning to hope that what this woman said was true, she really wanted to meet her mother.
"What proof do you have!"
"This," the woman that claimed to be her dead mother lifted her hands out and a white orb grew. It then flew to Sarah and was absorbed into her.
Sarah had closed her eyes, and when she reopened them it looked like she was in hospital room.
In front of her were 3 people, a woman who was in the bed with a tired face holding something while smiling. There was a man sitting on one side of her smiling and looking very proud. There was also a boy who was on the other side of the bed, curiously looking at the bundle in the woman's arms, who was probably hi mother and the man his father, arms.
Sarah walked up to the side the boy was on, not being noticed. 'That woman looks like the one claiming to be my mother." She finally saw that the woman was holding a baby.
"Look Harry. This is your little sister. You have to look out for her now. Severus, what should we name her?"
"How about Sarah Lily, Sarah Lily Snape."
"What do you think Harry? Should we call her Sarah?"
He looked from the baby to his mother, "It a pretty name mama. Am I a big brofer?"
"Harry you are a big bother and have to look after her. Now come here squirt." The man, now identified as Severus picked up his son and put him in his lap.
"Daddy, I'm not a squirt anymore. Sarah de squirt now."
"Oh now is she? Does that make you a shrimp now?" Harry just looked at his father and gave him a big toothy grin.
Then everything became a blur and Sarah ended up in a house. She was in a baby's room, and the boy Harry was looking in a crib.
There was yelling and screaming coming from downstairs, "Go now Lily! Get Harry and Sarah and get out of here!"
Then suddenly the bedroom door was slammed open and the woman recognized as Lily, had a very scared look on her face. She ran to the crib and got the baby, then took the boy Harry's hand.
"Come on you two, we have to get out of here."
"But what about Daddy mom?"
"Don't worry Harry, Daddy is going to try and stop a bad man so we can get out of here."
Then things became a blur for Sarah again and then cleared up to show she was in the same room, but the baby was under the crib awake and was looking for her mother. The boy Harry looked like he had been thrown against the wall and was unconscious. The man named Severus came in all beat up and bloody. The first thing he noticed was his wife on the floor, dead.
"No Lily! Wake up," he ran over to her, urging her to wake. "You can't die on me, I need you." He kept on trying to wake till he finally gave it up, knowing she would never wake up again. He then noticed Harry and went to pick him up, afraid he had lost his as well. Carefully picking him up and noticing that he was still alive but would bear a scar for his life showing that he survived, "You are very strong my son I'm proud of you." Severus produced the smallest smile, all that he could muster, proud that his son had survived against Voledemort.
Severus then looked around for his daughter not having seen her when he first came into the room, he then spotted her under her crib, crawling out to come see him. He didn't see any indications that she was hurt with her smiling face, only the crossed shape scar on her cheek as proof that she lived through it.
"I'm sorry you two, because of me your mother is gone now, I'm sorry. I-I'm going to have to send you 2 away so you will be safe."
After he said that everything, again became blurry, and she was at the house that she never wanted to see again with the man that she never wanted to see again. He picked up a little baby that Sarah recognized at what was suppose to be her as a baby, the man then read a note looking at the baby grinning evilly.
Sarah suddenly appeared before her mother, and believed everything she said now. She ran to open arms and started crying heavily. "I'm sorry I didn't believe you. . . mom."
Lily smiled down at her daughter and squeezed her gently, loving being called mom from her daughter for the first time.
"Shhh, it's alright Sarah. You have had a hard life and you don't have any reason to immediately trust anyone. But I do know of someone that you can trust, 2 people in fact."
" Who?"
"Your father and brother."
"But how can I trust them? I was left with-with HIM for 8 years and no one came to help me."
"Your father didn't know what was happening and Harry has had a hard life as well, and he just found out that he had a sister. The day that I died Harry's memory was wiped clean, an affect of being cursed, but the curse wasn't able to happen on him completely. Same for you. That is how you got the cross shaped scar on your cheek. It can never come off, neither can Harry's lightning bolt shaped scar. Please trust them, I have to go now. Please let them into your heart and never be scared to love. Also, could you tell them I love them for me?"
"ummm. . . . sure."
"Thank you honey, squirt. I love you."
Lily disappeared and everything went black.
Harry and Severus had fallen asleep so they didn't notice the beeping of the machine that kept track of Sarah's heartbeat and breathing.
Sarah opened her eyes to find herself being cradled by the man she found out was Severus and her father, and Harry (just looking a lot older) beside her. She started to shift, being somewhat uncomfortable in being touched by someone, but she tried to keep in mind what her mother told her to do.
'Please let them into your heart and never be scared to love…"
Severus was woken up by something moving in his arms. When he opened his eyes he noticed that it was his daughter, who was dead earlier, that was moving.
"Sarah? Are you awake?"
"…dad?"
Hearing his daughter speak and knowing that she was alive made him want to jump around for joy.
"How do you feel Sarah?"
"Sore. Where's Harry?"
Severus looked at her confused, " How do you know about Harry?"
"Mom told me. We talked. She said I had died, but could go back if I wanted to. Oh! She wanted me to tell you and Harry that loves you both."
At that point Severus broke down in tears. Harry soon awoke and saw that Sarah was alive, "Sarah! You're awake! …but how? No. Don't answer that. I don't care, I'm just happy that your ok."
Harry, Severus, and Sarah were all reunited. Dumbledor walked in and saw the now happy family, making him smile.
Lily Snape was watching over her family that was together now, she was smiling a big smile looking down on them from heaven with one tear going down her cheek.
The End? If you want me to continue review and let me now, give me some suggestions on what you would to happen I you want me to continue. Remember this is my first Fanfic nothing can be perfect.