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Chapter 3 – We have a problem

They were all seated to the table, James still clinging to Snape's hand.

"Blaise, you survey us, you know the procedure in case of problem." That said the potions master of Hogwarts extended his hand and quickly swallowed three drops of veritaserum.

Seeing James' hand creeping towards the vial, Blaise shot him a pained look and told him gently "You don't have to..." he shut up fairly quickly as he saw James' determination in his eyes and let him take his drops.

Blaise began to establish that it really was veritaserum by asking simple questions, such as their names, age, professions and then moved on more personal questions whose answers would only be known by those in the room, such as their animagus forms, a stag for James and a black panther for Snape, and both unregistered, which Blaise confirmed.

With that done, Blaise moved on the trickier questions. He first addressed James "Who was your lover or lovers during your three last school years?"

James' smile was a little bit odd on his flaming red face, but he still answered "Severus, always;" in the monotone veritaserum induced tone.

Harry was fidgeting and couldn't stop his outburst "You're lying! Sirius and Remus would have known!"

Blaise put a restraining hand on his arm to catch his attention. "They can't" he murmured. He choose to direct his next question to James, after all he had always wondered how they had pulled that off without being caught by their friends, and now was a golden opportunity to satisfy his curiosity with both his fathers' permission, what more could a Slytherin dream of?

"So, how did you manage to hide your relationship from your Gryffondor friends?"

"I used my cat form and pulled a Slytherin trick. Each evening we were to spend the night together, I make them drink a sleeping draught. When it took effect, I transformed and left. Nobody notice a black cat in the shadows, and I always found some good soul to open the fat lady for me."

Harry interrupted "Why did Sirius sent professor Snape to the Whomping Willow?"

James winced a little. "Because Remus had smelled him on me. And they noticed me as a cat around them. He thought Severus was an Animagus because Remus had smell both of our scents on him once. He thought that put into danger, he would transform to escape."

Harry frowned. "Did Dumbledore know?"

"I never told him. Lily might have."

"Wait a minute!" Harry turned to Blaise. "You said they were your fathers, how is that possible?"

This time it was Severus who answered. "I found out I was pregnant a few months after our graduation. I gave birth to him."

Harry's eyes widened. " But how is that possible for males to be pregnant?"

Severus smirked. "The more commonly admitted theory is that wizards are the result of magical creature/ human breeding, and the ability to male pregnancy is just a dominant trait."

Harry squirmed on his chair. Blaise cleared his throat "Well, back to our little conversation, gentlemen? What about Lily Evans, how did she came into the picture? Why didn't you stay together?"

Severus sighed deeply. "We took all the precautions we could to ensure that our couple was a secret. So that when Dumbledore came with the a prophecy saying that James had to father a child with Lily, she jumped on the occasion, and James couldn't refuse."

Harry frowned. "Did she know about you and professor Snape?"

"Yes. She caught us kissing in the broomshed after Quidditch practice."

Blaise was stunned. "Why did she accept then?"

"She liked to think herself in love with James. She jumped on the occasion."

Several seconds of silence ticked away.

Harry voiced his next question in a little voice. "Was it true what professor Snape said? That she kept you chained and all that?"

James looked at the table top. "Yes"

Blaise was gobsmacked. " How did it happened? It doesn't look like the behaviour of a person in love..."

"When I received Sev's owl about Blaise's birth, telling me that they were both all right, I was so happy that I slipped in front of her."

"But she loved you!" interjected Harry in a last attempt to cling to his perfect family fantasy.

"No, she loved the image she had of me. And the feeling of being in love with that image. When I proved different, she took her deceptions on me. And it didn't help that she was eight month pregnant..."

"Did she really treated you like an animal?"

"Yes, I was not allowed to go outside without her. I slept on the floor. It may have been partly because she was jealous of my relationship with Severus and wanted to keep us apart... Or she wanted to be able to take her anger out on me."

"Why didn't you go to Dumbledore? He would have helped you!"

"I did. I told him that I was unhappy and wanted to divorce. I thought that now that I had fulfilled his damn prophecy and that Harry was born, he would grant me my wish."

"What happened?" both Harry and Blaise wanted to know, after all, they weren't cats for nothing.

"He told her that I had sneaked out. She beat me with a broom and chained me to a wall. She left me here without food or water for two days. She threatened to kill Harry."

"And Sirius and Remus never noticed?"

"We were not seeing each other as often as before, and whenever they came, she forced me to lie to them, she blackmailed me with Sev's and Blaise's lives."

"Why not with Harry's?" Blaise wondered.

"Because she didn't dare going against Dumbledore."

"But it would have been logical. If she hated you so much, she should have hated me too. She could have killed me and told Dumbledore that I suffocated in my sleep, or accuse you..."

"She didn't for two reasons. First, she didn't want to have to sleep with me ever again. She considered me an animal, and I disgusted her. And secondly, because I explained to her that the cat side did not necessarily show. My mother was part nekojin. She never developed the cat side."

"Professor, is that why you always picked on me? Not only because of this whole Voldie thing... But more importantly because I remind you of the one that had hurt my father..."

Severus Snape blushed fiercely and nodded, keeping his face sheltered by his hair.

"Professor, how did you know of the situation my father lived in?"

"We wrote to each other. When I received no answer to one of my messages, I wrote again, asking the owl to wait for an answer. It came back with the words 'no pencil' scratched with a burnt match on the back of my message. Next, I always made sure to sent a muggle pen with a sheet of parchment for the answer, sent my owls at night and instructed them not to come back without an answer and to give the messages to James only."

Blaise, who had been silent for a while, decided to pipe in. "You knew and you did nothing to help him?"

"He asked me not to. He was afraid they were going to kill us both."

"How did you reunited?"

"I became a spy for Dumbledore to have access to both sides. I asked Voldemort to be the one to kill James, arguing that I wanted revenge on him, because he left me pregnant to marry a mudblood. I was granted it."

"How did you manage it?"

"I warned James of our arrival, but I could not give him a date, or hour. I told him to transform mid curse. I only killed air and an illusion he projected with the wand I had sent him back. He had given it to me after graduation, to leave a little bit of him with me. Besides, Evans had his wand locked away..."

"All right, but..." Harry's next question was interrupted by a knock on the door.

"Severus, my boy, can I come in?"

Blaise jumped to his feet and whispered "transform" to Harry and James before doing it himself.