My Parent's Mistake
Chapter 15
Draco arrived at Hogwarts just after eleven o'clock. He walked out of the floo and looked around the living room; no sign of Severus or even Aubrey. He called out for Aubrey but there was no answer or sign of her. He walked towards her bedroom door and knocked on the door.
'Aubrey? Are you in there?' He asked. 'I'm coming in.' He said giving her notice just encase she was getting dressed.
Draco opened the door and looked around; the room was empty. Draco walked further into the room and towards her bed. On the bed he found a crumbled letter. He picked it up and quickly read it and rushed to Severus's office.
Severus was sat at his desk going through files when Draco rushed into his office looking flustered.
'Aubrey! She's gone!' he said as he practically chucked the letter towards him.
'What do you mean gone?' he said as he grabbed the letter and read it.
Going somewhere where I'm wanted. A
'Bloody hell.' Severus swore. 'Where the hell has she gone?'
'What happened to make her want to go?' Draco asked knowing Aubrey wouldn't have stood him up for nothing.
'Potter came this morning, we had an argument, she heard us and well it went from bad to worse.' He said.
'You'll have to tell me in more detail Severus.' Draco said as he sat down.
'Potter wanted her to go home. He ordered her actually as he's her legal guardian and then she dropped the bombshell that she's actually seventeen due to using her mother's time turner.' Severus said glaring at Draco.
'So she's seventeen not sixteen?' he said.
'Yes and that doesn't mean you can now get your filthy hands on my daughter Draco. You may be my Godson and I may have vowed to protect you but she is my daughter, my baby girl and I will kill for her.' He said deadly.
'I know Uncle Severus.' He said softly. 'I can understand that. Now we need to find out where she is.'
'Do you have any idea? Has she mentioned going to see someone?' Severus said as he stood up and paced.
'She said something last night about going to see her Grandparents; Granger's parents.' He said.
'Then that's where she's gone.' Severus said. He summoned his robe and pulled it on quickly.
Draco stood as well. Both wizards stopped and looked at each other.
'Do you know where that is?' Draco asked.
'If they still live in the same house they did eighteen years ago then yes.' Severus said. 'I hope they haven't moved.'
'I'm coming.' Draco said.
'I doubt that would be a good idea Draco. Stay here just encase she comes home.' He said and he apperated.
Severus apperated to a sleepy village in the suburbs of London. He walked down the street quickly like he had done many years ago and stood outside of the Granger residence. He had been here once before. It was before the War started the night before Hermione had obliviated her parent's memories.
Hermione had stayed in her childhood bedroom and was writing to Severus through their diary. He could see she was crying as wet splotches were coming up through his diary, he tried at best to comfort her from afar but she needed him so Severus came. He snuck into the house without her parents knowing and spent the night in Hermione's single bed.
He had never met her parents; he had seen them but never met them. He walked slowly towards the front door and pressed the doorbell.
A tall grey man opened the door and looked at Severus.
'We were expecting you.' He said as he opened the door further and let Severus in.
'Aubrey's here?' he asked.
'She's in the living room with my wife.' He said as he closed the door and walked towards the living with Severus following him.
As Severus entered the living room with Mr. Granger he saw Aubrey sat on the sofa with Mrs. Granger who looked very much like his daughter and ex lover.
'You found me then.' She grumbled.
'I did.' He said as he looked down at his dark haired daughter. 'You should have told me where you were going. I was...worried.' he said.
'Why don't you take a seat Mr. Snape?' Mrs. Granger said as she stood up. 'Would you like a cup of tea?'
Severus nodded politely 'Tea would be lovely thank you Mrs Granger.' He said.
'Please call me Jane. We after all Family somehow.' She said as she walked into the kitchen pulling her husband with her.
'How did you know I was here?' she asked.
'Draco. He has his uses.' Severus said.
'Why do you hate him so much?' she asked.
'I don't hate him. He's my Godson, I think of him as a son but I know him and I know what he wants in life. I've watched him for thirty five years; I know what he's after.' Severus said. 'And I don't want you to give into him.'
'I'm not.' She said. 'I want you to trust me. I want Uncle Harry to trust me.'
'I do trust you. It's him I don't trust and I expect your Uncle Harry agrees with me.' He said softly. 'Draco is at Hogwarts now, he found your letter.'
'Oh my god! I was supposed to go shopping with him today.' She said standing up.
'Who dear?' Jane Granger said as she walked in with the tea.
'My...boyfriend.' she said as she sat back down and looked at her father.
'A boyfriend?' Her Grandfather said. 'I wasn't aware you were old enough for one of those Serena.'
'Papa I'm seventeen.' She said laughing. 'I'm not five anymore.'
'Seventeen? I was aware you were only sixteen.' Jane said as she poured some milk into the tea.
'I used a time turner.' She said. 'Like Mum did.'
'Blasted things.' Mr. Granger said as he sat in his arm chair. 'You're mother shouldn't have used one and neither should you. It got her in sorts of trouble.'
'By trouble you mean me.' She said as she looked at her Grandfather.
'I mean him.' Mr Granger said addressing Severus for the first time.
'David.' Jane warned. She knew that her husband was still angry that Hermione had gotten pregnant so young and when he finally discovered who the father was he wanted his arrested. He thought Severus was nothing but a pervert who preyed on school girls.
Hermione all those years ago tried to make her parents, her father especially, understand that her relationship with Severus was not because he was a pervert; she tried to explain to him but David Granger was having none of it.
'No Jane, I have held my tongue for many years; too many years and now he's sat in my house with my Granddaughter and you expect me to say nothing.' He said as he looked at his wife.
'I can understand your reservations about me Mr. Granger.' Severus began.
'My reservations? I would like very much to kill you Mr. Snape for what you did to my daughter. You used her, abused her and then got her pregnant and left her to raise a child on her own.' He said deadly.
'I neither used and abused Hermione. I loved her.' He said softly. 'I broke off our relationship because I knew she was too good for me and I did not want to hold her back. I didn't know that she was pregnant. She never told me. I never knew I had a daughter and if I did I would have supported them both.'
'You say that now but I doubt you would have.' David replied.
'Hermione meant everything to me, she still does. Aubrey is my daughter, my flesh and blood and I will always be in her life till the day I die.' He said as he looked at his daughter. 'My relationship with your daughter was not right, I admit that. She was my students but to me she was much more. Yes I was older and should have known better but even you must understand sometimes age means nothing.'
'Well of course but that's different. Jane was...' he stopped as he looked at his wife. 'Jane was my student but she was twenty when we met, Hermione was still a child.'
'She was not a child at seventeen. She was far more mature than most twenty five year olds.' He replied.
'It still doesn't change what you did. You broke her heart, broke her spirit and caused her upset.' He replied.
'I know and for that I apologise and I only wish she was here to hear me say that.' He said softly.
'We all would.' Aubrey said softly.
'Of course.' Jane said.
After having tea with the Grangers, Severus and Aubrey returned to Hogwarts. Aubrey promised her Grandparents she would spend one entire week with them in the summer holidays before she went off to Hogwarts. Jane and David kissed their granddaughter goodbye and looked forward to her next visit.
As they arrived in Severus office, Aubrey found herself pulled into Draco's chest and kisses pressed onto her head.
'Don't you ever do that again!' he said sounding worried. 'I was so worried.'
'I'm fine.' She said as she pushed away from him.
'Why didn't you tell me where you were going?' he said.
'Because I didn't want to be found.' She said as she stepped away from him. 'I need sometime alone.'
'That's fair enough Aubrey but I think Draco is trying to say that if you do need time alone please just tell us.' Severus said as he sat down.
'Okay.' She said as he leant up and kissed Draco's cheek. 'I'm sorry I stood you up today.'
'We can still go to dinner?' he said.
'Do you mind if I don't. I would like to spend the evening with Dad, just us.' She said as she looked at Severus who looked surprised.
'No, of course I don't mind.' He said smiling. 'I'll see you tomorrow for lunch anyway, you are coming aren't you?'
'We'll be there Draco.' Severus said.
'Alright. So I'll see you tomorrow then.' He said as he placed a kiss on her head. 'Have a good night.'
'We will.' She said softly as she watched him floo away.
'What would you like to do then?' Severus asked.
'I have some photo albums of mum's I thought we could go through it.' She said softly.
'Sounds like a good idea.' Severus said as he stood up.
AU: Another Chapter for you! I'm back to work today so this might be the only chapter for today. Enjoy and let me know what you think! xx