Simple fluff, mostly. Features a nice Snape and Baby Harry! AU where there's no betrayal, no Dark Lord, just a nice Snape and a reconciled Jily.
Severus was walking with the boy slowly.
He had no bloody idea in hell why Lily would just hand him her child and say, "Sev, can you occupy Harry for a little? Take him to a muggle zoo or something, he's your godson after all!"
He had told her, firmly, he might add, "I want nothing to do with a sniveling child that is most likely to piss itself on me. Send it to Black or Lupin."
"Remus and Sirius are busy. So Harry is all yours!" Lily had cheerfully told him to take Harry and get out with an underlying threat of telling his students about his secret candy stash.
And so here he was, at a muggle zoo, holding his three-year-old godson while desperately trying to block out the boy's annoying griping!
"Unky Sevvy, I wan' see Dyons!" Harry poked his godfather's nose with a mischievous smile.
"Do not call me that, child, I am quite aware you know how to say my name and you are not amusing me in the slightest." Severus told him crossly. He tightened his grip on the child and held him closer to his chest. In retaliation, the boy squirmed, his teeny feet kicking Severus' chest. "Stop that!" Severus scolded.
"Aww Sevvy, don' be so mad!" Harry pouted, his big green eyes welling with tears.
"Fine, child, cease your incessant whining and we will see the ugly felines that represent the House of stupidity." Severus sighed, wishing Lily a horrible death.
"Sevvy ugly stupy-dy!" The boy yelled cheerfully.
Why, why, why?!
"Silence, child! Your mother saddled me with you and I am in charge. Let's see the snakes first for your impudence." Severus figured this was a fitting punishment for a lion.
He was quite wrong.
"YAY! Snaky Sevvy show me REAL snaky!" Harry cheered, putting his tiny hands in the air.
"Come along," Severus sighed. He had a few moments of peace before Harry decided he was "uncoffy".
"Sevvy, I uncoffy. I wanna sit on your sholer." He demanded.
"You may not sit on my shoulder, child, regardless of your feelings on the matter."
"Me tell Mommy you no lemme on your sholer!" Harry threatened.
"Like mother like son." Severus groaned as he hoisted the child onto his shoulder.
When they reached the snakes exhibit Severus would've been happy to sit down and let Harry make googly eyes at the snakes but no, the silly boy had to run up to the snake and start his endless nattering. "Hi snaky! I Harry, that my Unky Sevvy! Who you?"
And then, to Severus' surprise, the snake started talking back.
And Harry seemed to understand it. "I calling you Gassy now!"
Then Harry began hissing.
Hissing?
No, that could only mean...
A Parseltongue?!
"Come out, Gassy!" Harry whined.
The glass fell. Disappeared.
Gassy the python came slithering out with a hiss. It was far away by the time any of the Muggles noticed.
Severus gathered Harry in his arms and carried him away, ignoring the boy's cries. "But I wanna see Gassy!"
It came as no surprise to Severus when James and Lily called him in the middle of the night, frantic because a python was sleeping in their toddler's bed.
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