The Girl Who lived through it All Part 2 Chapter 1

By ShadowDemon14

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters but Sarah. I claim my rights to owning her (God… do you have any idea how wrong that sounds?)

A.N.- Yeah I decided to continue on with this story. I was in the middle of World history class when I zoned out and then the idea popped into my head (and I have an A in that and I'm recommended for Honors to) so I just went with the idea and now I'm adding to a story I thought I was done with -.

So here you go…

A week passed since Sarah woke up. She had met Dumbledore, but it seemed it would take a while for her to get used to being around other people. She was healing fast thanks to the potions and medicine, but those could only help the physical injuries. The mental and emotional ones seemed like they were still bleeding to her.

Snape had convinced Harry to go and stay with the Weaselys till school started up. He wanted to talk to his son, but knew that it would be best for Harry to get away from the school just for a while and see his friends. Though it took an "its alright, go ahead," from Sarah.

The nurse from a witch hospital had said that Sarah should be able to begin the school year along with all the other students. She would just have to take things easy for a couple of months.

Sarah rolled her eyes when the nurse told her that, she wasn't one to listen to orders… well at least from some people.

Right now Sarah was lying in the hospital bed; drowsy from the medicine she had been given an hour ago. It had just started to affect, and it was strong. Her eyes were closed, so it looked as if she were sleeping, but, truthfully, she was thinking of the upcoming school year.

'I don't think I belong here, I don't have any magic. I'm dreading the upcoming school year; this school is so big… so there ought to be many students. I'm not so sure I can handle it.'

Snape walked into the room where his daughter was and saw that she was sleeping, or at least appeared to be.

He had gone earlier to Diagon Alley, and bought all the school supplies he could for her. He wasn't able to get a wand or robes since Sarah had to get those personally. He set the things that he could on a table that was beside the bed. He stayed by the side of the bed and looked down at his daughter, he still felt guilty about what happened to her. He gently touched her cheek before walking out, not wanting to disturb her.

After walking out Sarah opened her eyes, a few silent tears fell.

'No matter how hard I try I still can't trust him; I'm trying to do what mother made me promise. I don't think I can do it.'

Trying to for get about that she looked at the table and saw a stack of books. Grabbing the first one, it took her a few minutes to read the title. Not having to gone to school since second grade, and having the strong medicine didn't help either. Finally she noted that it dealt with the history of Witches and Wizards.

Looking at the other books, they were about potions, transfiguration, omens, defense against the dark arts, and a few other things.

Sarah opened up the book that she had already picked up, and began to try and read it. It took her a while to improve on her reading, but she was a quick learner and was soon able to read like a normal kid her age.

Snape was walking through the hallways, off in his own little world. He didn't notice when the nurse, who was taking care of his daughter, walked up to him.

"Excuse me- Professor Snape?" hearing his name called startled Snape from his little world.

"Oh, yes, sorry. What is it you wanted?"

"I only wanted to give you an update on how young Sarah is doing," getting a nod from Snape she continued, "Well, Sarah's physical injuries are healing up fine, though I'm sorry I can't help the scarring. She should be able to get out of bed this weekend. But it is her mental and emotional scars that I am worried about. Those will take time to heal, some of them may never heal."

After letting the new information sink in, Snape just stood there till he found something to say, "Is there any way that we can help her heal faster?"

"No, I'm sorry that part is all up to her. She won't talk to anyone. And most likely will not open up to anyone for a while. Good day Professor, I have to go and give young Sarah her medicine."

"Oh wait. I have been rather impolite, I've never asked your name."

"Lynn Stretford."

"Thank You."

"My pleasure, though I would have rather not have to do this stuff, if you know what I mean."

Snape nodded and walked off, most likely to his office. While Ms. Stretford walked to the hospital wing, to tend to Sarah.

Upon nearing Sarah's room, she thought she heard a book close and the bed creak, as if someone was hurriedly lying down. When she entered the room Sarah was on her side "sleeping" with a pile of books for school next to her.

'She was reading, and was scared when she heard footsteps so she stopped. Man, it is going to take a long time to get her to open up to people.'

Ms. Stretford decided to play along with Sarah, and act like she really thought she was sleeping.

"Sarah, wake up," she toughed Sarah's shoulder lightly with her hand.

Having someone that didn't recognize at first touch her freaked Sarah out. She sat up and scurried to the end of the bed in a ball. With eyes wide. She was breathing heavily and was slightly shaking, but soon stopped.

Ms. Stretford jumped back startled of the reaction since she knew that Sarah had not been really sleeping.

Sarah started to calm down some more. She looked up towards Ms. Stretford, "I-I'm sorry Ms. Stretford. You startled me."

"It is ok Sarah, you are safe and have nothing to worry about here."

Ms. Stretford walked closer to Sarah with her medicine; Sarah just curled into a tighter ball. Backing away, Ms. Stretford wasn't really sure how to handle this, so she just set the medicine down.

"Sarah, your medicine is on the table, it will help you to sleep much better," Ms. Stretford walked away.

Sarah stayed in her curled position at the end of the bed for awhile till she finally figured that no one was going to be coming back. Sarah slowly moved from the end of the bed to where her pillows were.

Looking around to make sure that no one was around again, Sarah picked up the book she had been previously reading and started at the place where she had stopped. She continued reading through out the night, gradually becoming better with her reading. As each book was finished, another was started till they were all read by early morning.

Sarah's medicine was left on the table untouched.

It was early morning yet everyone in the house was waking up. Harry and Ron were sharing a room, while Hermione was sharing with Ginny. Everyone got up and took the bathroom one at a time to get ready.

After a breakfast of eggs and toast, Harry, Ron, and Hermione went up to Ron's room to talk with each other.

Once inside Hermione jumped to question Harry, "Where did you have to go Harry? We planned to meet a few days earlier, yet Mr. Weasley said that you had to be somewhere important. That is all that he said."

Harry stood there facing his friends, considering either telling them the truth, or lying. They may be able to help him with something's, he couldn't think of any problem that would come with telling them.

"Alright, I'll tell you," Harry told Ron and Hermione about his dreams, his real parents, and about what happened to her.

When he was done Harry looked up from the spot on the floor that he had taken a liking to, and was met with wide eyes and open mouths.

"You mean, to tell us, that Snape… is your father! And yet he treated you like trash? God Harry!"

Unlike Ron, Hermione kept cool and the tone of her voice down, "Did you forgive him Harry?"

"Yeah, I did,"

"What! You're kidding me! After everything that he has done to you, you just forgive him," Ron had stood up and was throwing a fit. Harry jumped to try and make Ron understand why he had done what he had.

"Ron, put into fact my dreams. They have been showing me the truth for a while. I have seen what Snape did and why. I have to admit that, if it weren't for him I would be dead. He is really the only family I have, I haven't heard from Sirius for a while."

Ron and Hermione couldn't say anything, they understood now why Harry had forgiven Snape so fast, he was just looking for an actual family that he really belonged to.

"Well how is your sister doing? How old is she? And what exactly happened to her?" Hermione couldn't help but be curious about Sarah; Harry hadn't said much about her, except that she had been abused while living with a part time guardian but was safe now. Plus the fact that there was someone else that had defeated Voldemort as a mere child and had lived to this day.

"Well um, she has a scar, like me but it is cross shape and on the right side of her face. Snape couldn't leave her with the Dursleys, so she was left with a man that Dumbledore recommended. Though he started to abuse her not so long after she was left there. Snape said that he found her in a very small closet beaten and bleeding to death. She was brought to Hogwarts. The weird thing is that she died… but when I woke up she was alive. She said that she talked to our mother. Now she is healing fast and that's all I know about it."

"Is she starting school this year?" Hermione wanted to meet her.

"Yeah she is 11 now, and soon to be 12. I found out her birthday is Christmas Eve."

Ron suddenly was smacked in the head with a thought about Harry's sister, "Would she be in Slytherin or Gryffindor? You said Snape is your father and he was in Slytherin and your mum was a Gryffindor."

"Ron that was really random, but you may be right. I remember reading somewhere that some Slytherins are put into that house because of what happened to them in the past. Considering what she has been through, she will most likely be put into that house."

With that said, a realization struck Harry, if Sarah was in Slytherin, than he would not be able to look out for her like he had been planning on doing.

A week had passed and school would be starting in a few days. Sarah had been able to get out of bed within a few days of waking, thanks to all the medicine and magic. Though she had all her scars, those would never be able to be removed.

Sarah spent her time in the library, reading anything. She never liked reading before, but when she was reading she got lost in the world that was created by the book in front of her. She didn't care about not knowing spells and other things, she figured that she would never be able to make use of them anyway, so why worry or learn it?

Sarah was reading a book about the Dark Arts, she was sitting in a far corner of the library in an old chair that she had found. She suddenly was jerked out her world, sitting straight up, there was someone else in the library, and they were calling her name.

Sarah stood up, causing the book to fall to slam on the ground, it was a rather large book, echoing through the library.

"Sarah?" The voice was getting closer, following where the echo came from. Sarah's eyes were wide and her breathing was increasing with each passing second. Frozen still, she did not know what to do, either answer to the call, or run and hide.

"Sarah? It's just me, Dad."

"Dad?"

Snape was the one in the library looking for her. Hearing his daughter's voice, Severus followed it and found her standing in a corner. What was surprising was that she looked as if she were a ghost with wide eyes and heavy breathing.

Severus walked up to her and kneeled in front of her. Touching her head, Sarah flinched and began shaking. She seemed to be holding back from running and hiding.

"Sarah… You're okay, I'm not going to hurt you."

Sarah calmed and tried to smile, even though she was still ghostly white, at least she wasn't shaking anymore, "Sarah? Can I pick you up? We are just going to go back to my rooms, alright?"

"Y-Yes, but why would you carry me?" It wasn't a shock that she asked this question, it just fueled the anger that Severus held for the man who she had stayed with, "Well, you're my daughter and I figured that it would be less tiring for you if you didn't have to walk… that is if you don't want to."

Sarah shook her head no and slowly put her arms around her father's neck. Severus wrapped his arms around his daughter and slowly picked her up. Sarah just wrapped her legs around his waist and tightened her grip, burying her head into the crook of his neck.

Snape walked out of the library with Sarah in his arms, the book left forgotten on the floor. Severus was hoping the he wouldn't run into anyone so he could avoid having to talk to anyone.

Unfortunately he wasn't so lucky… Professor McGonagall was walking right towards them, "Severus, how is Sarah doing?"

Sarah looked up at hearing her name called, " She is fine Minerva." When seeing that Sarah was awake, Minerva noticed how pale she was, ' God that child must have been through hell to look that beaten.' Minerva also noted on the two dark bruises on the child's face that were slowly healing. Ms. Stretford was unable to help those heal, figuring that it had something to do Sarah actually dieing. One of the bruises was on Sarah's right temple, and the other and her right cheek.

"Hello Sarah, I thought that you were sleeping. Will you be starting school this year?"

Sarah hugged Severus tighter and buried her head back into the crook of Severus's neck. 'Is she trying to hide away from Minerva?' Snape looked down at her head, tightening his hold on her while attempting to comfort her. Looking back up he met with McGonagall's worried look mixed with confusion.

Whispering to Sarah to calm down, Severus said that she was ok and that he had her. In response Sarah nodded her head in the crook of his neck.

"I'm sorry Minerva, she isn't used to being around other people. And yes, she will be starting school this year. Now if you would excuse us, we have to be somewhere." Severus walked away with Sarah to his rooms.

Saying the password "Freedom", Snape and Sarah went into his living quarters. They were in what was like a living room, it had a couch (one that looked quite comfortable) and a few chairs. There was also a fireplace that wasn't lit at the moment. To their left, it led to a kitchen that had a table for two. Directly in front of them was a hallway that led to the bedrooms, there were two.

Snape went to the couch and sat Sarah on it, well he would have if Sarah would let go, "Sarah, let go. I'm not going anywhere," Sarah hesitantly let him go, and then curiously looked around the room, she noticed that all the colors were deep rich colors.

"I wanted to ask you earlier if you would like to go to Diagon Alley today to get you your own robes and wand. Those are the only things left that you need for school."

Sarah looked uncomfortable with the mention of getting a wand because she truly didn't believe that she should be here.

"What is the matter? Please tell me if something is wrong." When Severus said that, something her mother told her popped into her head.

Flashback

"Please let them into your heart and never be scared to love."

Flashback

"D-do I belong here?"

Sarah's voice was somewhat shaky, many due to not really ever talking, but also because she was nervous of the outcome for the answer. She saw the look of surprise on her father's face.

"Why would you not belong here? Have you been worrying about that the whole time you have been here?"

Sarah nodded her head yes, "I don't have any magic," she answered in a whisper.

"Of course you do. You are so much like your mother, and she was a very powerful witch… now you may not have done any magic yet, but that might have something to do with what has happened to you so far. I'm sure that it id just building up inside of you, and when you finally do do magic, and I'm sure that it will be pretty soon, that you will be just as powerful as your brother. And Harry is one of the most powerful wizards that have existed, and he is still just a teenager."

"Do you really think so Dad? Do you really think that I belong?" Sarah's eyes were brightening up, something that they haven't done in a long while, and an actual smile was beginning to show.

"Yes. You belong with your family anyway, anywhere I am you belong. You're home," Severus's mind was going crazy with excitement, he had just gotten the first smile on his daughter's face since he could remember. Sarah was starting to warm up to her father. She had given him her trust in exchange for his.

"So do you feel up to going to get your wand and robes?"

Sarah nodded her head yeas, "You also know that there will be people there, it may be crowded." That statement alone almost seemed to waver her decision.

"You will be with me, … right?"

"Yes of course, you don't have to worry."

"Then I want to go." Severus nodded his head in approval, ' I will not allow her to leave my sight and into danger's harm.'