AN: This started out as a drabble, but there were so many requests to turn it into a story that I caved. I've written a few chapters for FB but I have now decided to share it with my FanFiction readers. The chapters are going to be short. It's a lot easier to get out short chapters than make everyone wait for longer ones. I don't completely know where this story is head, but I guess we'll all be going on that journey together.
I hope you all enjoy. please let me know what you think.
Harry was in the potions classroom waiting for Professor Snape; tonight they were to have yet another occlumency lesson. No matter what Hermione thought, Harry was convinced that the more he tried, the worse he got.
He had seen the Pensive when he entered the room, but had tried his best to resist the urge to take a peek.
After several minutes of waiting for Snape to show, Harry finally gave in to temptation. He leaned over the Pensive and was sucked into the cloudy memory.
He was standing by a lake, seemingly alone. That is, until he heard two voices nearby.
"Severus, I can't do this, there is a war and you've landed on the wrong side of it."
"Lily, I can switch sides. I swear I will do anything I need to be with you."
Harry recognized the second voice. It belonged to Professor Snape. A moment later two people emerged from behind a cluster of trees. The first was Snape; though this was a much younger version of him. The second person, following close behind him, was Harry's mother, Lily. She looked just like she did in the pictures he had seen of her. Young, beautiful, dark red hair, and bright green eyes. Harry felt the need to run to her, but quickly remembered that she couldn't see him.
"Sev, it's not that easy, Voldemort knows you. If he ever found out about this, he would use it against you." Harry hadn't noticed at first, but she had been crying.
Professor Snape reached his arms out and wrapped Lily in a tight embrace. "Lily I cannot not be in your life, both of your lives. I cannot give up my opportunity to be a father."
Lily shook her head, the tears flowing down her cheeks at a greater rate. "I can't Severus, I just…I can't worry that our child will be in danger because of your association with Voldemort."
Severus's hold tightened around Lily. "So then, what do we do?"
Lily took a step back and looked into Severus's eyes. "We do the only thing we can. We make everyone believe the baby belongs to someone else."
"You mean James Potter, don't you?" Snape's voice hardened. He released Lily and turned to face away from her.
Lily maneuvered to stand back in front of him and rested her hands on either side of his face. "James knows I love you, and he knows that I wish to only be with you. He's willing to help because he cares about me, but he knows there will never be a romantic relationship between us." She tilted his face until he was looking at her. "This will only be until Voldemort is killed. Once he is gone we can be together."
Snape took Lily's hands into his own and pulled her back into his arms. "I swear to you Lily I will do everything in my power to bring us back together as a family." He placed a hand upon her abdomen, "You, me, and Harry."
Harry felt a yank on his body and found he was being pulled out of the memory. When he caught his balance he looked up and came face-to-face with Professor Severus Snape, his…father.