Chapter 16: A flashback with Sirius

"You need to control your mind." Severus said against the young Harry Potter who after an attack turned out to be linked with Voldemort. "You don't want him to invade your mind."
"What do you mean?" Harry was still panicked, in between searching for Hermione's mother he had forgotten about the dreams and this one where he believed he was the snake was different from the first ones he had.
"How is mister Weasley?" Harry asked, but Snape refused to answer, like he was programed to do only what he needed to do. He was not programmed to give any answers.

"mister Potter, let's hope that the dark lord does not know of this connection yet." He turned away taking his wand. "It would be bad if he did. So let's hope he's unaware of the connection, that we have enough time to close it. So he can't use it against you, mister Potter. Trust me, mister Potter, even I wouldn't want to see anything bad happen to you. Your mother was a good person and she loved you, I owe her at least to try to protect her only son."
"My mother is alive."
"And you are not as bright as she was." Snape replied. "Or her little friend?"
"Little friend?"
"Leyla something." A smile appeared. "We were like a flame, if it had burned harder we would have still been together. I still know her mister Potter and her disappearance that has something to do with Peter Petegrew."
"What did he have to do with it?"

"That's none of your business Potter." He took his wand. "Leginimis."


"What did you find out?" Ron stared at Harry. "There has to be something the old men let go of his memory. What is it?"
"What we already knew…" Harry stared to his feet. "We know they know each other."
"Shit…" Hermione cursed. "So now what?"
"Now I need to stop lying." It was the voice of Sirius Black. "Yeah, everything I've been saying it a lie. I actually never seen Severus Snape and Leyla fight, they did the opposite. They were happy…"
"Happy…"

"With you Hermione." Sirius turned away. "I know I was the one to tell about the fact that I saw Snape with Leyla when she was alive, but I saw you with Leyla too when she was a live. In fact you were a family. Snape had…"
"Snape had what?" Harry stared at Sirius. "Why would you lie?"

"Because I was jealous." He replied. "It's that simple. I thought when she disappeared, I could get Snape to hate himself for stealing my girlfriend. Yet I was never able to admit how lousy boyfriend I was. If I had been a good boyfriend, I might have been your father."
"So you're saying…" Hermione opened her mouth wider. "Snape's my father."
"Yeah, who else?" Sirius shook his head. "Voldemort couldn't know about your existence, you were born from true power. You were something treasured in our world. Your parents were in love with you and they still are."
"Snape…"

"Tell us the whole story." Harry turned to Sirius.

"okay, it's simple." Sirius sat down. "After we bullied Snape, Leyla broke up with me. She got together with Snape a bit later and that's how it goes. Oh and somewhere around the way they got pregnant with you. You must have known Hermione, the way Snape talks to you."
"He's mean to her."
"He was mean to her, because it hurt to him he couldn't say he were your father."

"Why would he do that?" Hermione turned away. "For who?"

"Doesn't that all end at the same thing?" Sirius took a step away. "Find your mother, find the reason."


AN:

I'm taking a short winter break, I have the whole thing written down so I'll be able to update every few weeks. Please review, even if it's just to say how much you love the story.

TempeGeller