Summary: Lily forgives Severus for calling her a "mud blood" in their fifth year. Lily and Severus get together and soon she finds herself pregnant. What will happen to her and her child? And what do Lily's older brothers have to do with her and her children? Severus not Harry's father. Vampire Severus
Chapter 3: Diagon Alley
On the twentieth of August, ten weeks after Lily's parents' death, Lily found herself awake and wanting to get out, maybe even to go buy her school things. Lily got out of bed, grabbed some clothes, walked down the deserted hallway to the bathroom, and took a shower. After thirty minutes of being in the shower, she finally go out, dried off, and dressed. She then went back to her room and after cleaning up and styling her hair, she headed downstairs.
"Morning Evans. Sleep well?"
"Morning. Yes, I slept well. Thanks again for letting my brothers and me stay here until they can find a place Remus. This means a lot to me, and I hope so far my brothers too," Lily said.
"Hey, it the least I could do after finding out about the Death Eater attack on your house. You couldn't live there with that nasty, old, slime ball's sign hovering above your house. Do you really not care that I'm a lycan? I mean, you still want to be my friend even though I'm a monster?" Remus said.
"Remus, you are not a monster. I'm sure Potter, Black, and Pettigrew have said the same thing. They're still your friends, why do you still doubt people? I'll always be your friend. If I learn how to be an animagus, I'll join you on your full moon prowls!"
"You don't have to do that Evans. James, Sirius, and Peter already did so. They actually learned the art of being an animagus. They can change into an animal. I don't want you to do the same."
"Remus, how many times will I have to tell you again to call me Lily? And Potter, Black, and Pettigrew are animagi?! Wow! What are they?"
"Don't tell Dumbledore. He made me swear not to tell anyone or to let anyone know about it, okay?" Remus requested. Lily nodded her silence of the secret. "Well, James is a stag, Sirius a huge black dog, like that of the "Grim", and Peter's a rat. Don't tell that I told you what they are please. Thanks, Lily." With that, Remus's parents appeared in the kitchen.
"You two want some breakfast?" asked Mr. Lupin.
"I see where Remus gets his good looks now," Lily said upon finally getting to see Remus's dad as he was always gone to the Ministry by the time she got up.
"Oh, I think he looks more like his mother than me, but thanks. I guess I am good looking, though." Mrs. Lupin playfully slapped Mr. Lupin on his arm.
"Don't be so self-absorbed, hun, it's not attractive," Mrs. Lupin said with a teasing smile upon her face.
"Mom! Not in front of Lily, or me, for that matter. Oh, could we go to Diagon Alley today? I want to get my books for a slight head start on my reading," Remus said, a disgusted look on his face.
"Sure, honey. Lily, your brothers can come too if they want. We can leave when everyone is ready, though breakfast first. How about pancakes?" Mrs. Lupin said.
"That'd be great. Sausage, eggs, bacon, and ham too?" Remus questioned.
"Sure. Lily, want to wake your brothers?" Mr. Lupin said.
"They'll wake up to the smell of food. They always do," Lily said.
"Did I hear someone say pancakes?" Ray had appeared at the doorway still rubbing sleep out of his eyes.
"Ray, you and Jack up to going to Diagon Alley with us?" Lily asked.
"Let me go get him. We'll be ready within a few minutes.
"We're eating breakfast first!" Lily hollered up the stairs.
Ray headed back upstairs to the room he and his brother were sharing. Upon hitting the second floor landing, Ray turned left down the hallway. At the end, he opened the door to his right to find Jack starting to stir.
Jack slept on the right side of the room on the futon. His pillow had been thrown on the floor during the night, his covers wrapped around him like a cocoon, laying in a fetal position with his head barely sticking out.
Ray walked out of the room halfway down the hallway to the bathroom. He grabbed a cup that sat on the counter by the sink. After he filled the cup with cold water, he walked back to the bedroom. Seeing Jack's head sticking out farther, he poured the cold cup of water on Jack's head and face. Jack jumped nearly shouting murder, but soon saw the look of amused laughter on Ray's face.
"Ramond Gary Evans! Don't ever do that again!" Jack told his older brother, still knowing it would do no good to scold him.
"Ah, Jacky, have some fun. No one got hurt. Come on, time to get up. The Lupins are taking Lily to Diagon Alley and want us to come. And I think I heard something about breakfast being sausage, eggs, ham, bacon, and, oh, what was the main dish again? Oh, yeah, pancakes."
At the mention of pancakes, Jack jumped out of bed, only to fall flat on his face due to still being trapped in his covers.
"Okay, okay, I'm up. When we leaving?" Jack said as he unwrapped himself from the covers. Ray went over to his bed and grabbed some clothes.
"As soon as everyone is ready after breakfast. I'll be out of the shower in five minutes." Ray then walked out of the bedroom and to the bathroom. Ten minutes later, Jack, too, walked out of the bathroom having showered and freshened up. They both headed downstairs for some breakfast.
"Morning Lupins, Flicka. How's the food? Good?" Jack said upon entering the dining room and sitting down at the table next to his sister.
Lily had her three pancakes dressed with butter and syrup, her sausage and bacon also dripping with syrup and her ham was cut up into bite size pieces.
"Great. Mrs. Lupin, you are an amazing cook. Thank you for the delicious breakfast," Lily complimented.
"You are very welcome. I love cooking, especially when there are guests. Morning boys. Please help yourselves to the food, there's more where that came from," Mrs. Lupin replied.
An hour later, breakfast done, they all walked over to the fireplace, grabbed a handful of Floo Powder, threw it into the fire and called out "Diagon Alley". Once everyone had reached the Leaky Cauldron, they headed to the back of the pub where the entrance to Diagon Alley laid.
"Gringotts first since we need to get more for the supplies," said Remus.
After retrieving the money needed for the day, they started with Flourish and Blotts bookstore.
"Hey Lily, what you taking this year?" Remus asked as they shopped around.
"I think I'll take Charms, Potions, DA, Herbology, and Transfiguration. You?" Lily said bringing out her O.W.L. results she had received.
"Same I think. Maybe add Astronomy."
"How may I help you two?" asked the store owner.
"We would like to have the sixth year book for Charms, Potions, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Herbology and Transfiguration please," Remus said to the gentleman.
"Right this way please. Just two copies each?"
"Yes sir."
Once they had gotten all their books they headed to the potion store to restock on ingredients. With these gathered too, they then went to Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions as they needed to get their robes lengthened. While finishing their looking around, they ran into Severus.
"Oh, hello Snape," said Remus. "Hope you have had a pleasant time shopping."
"Hello Lupin," Severus said with a sneer on his face, which barely softened when he saw Lily.
"Anyway, we need to start heading out. See you 'round school," Remus continued.
Remus and Lily then walked over to Madam Malkin with the new set of robes that they each had found and also asking for a lengthening of their current school robes.
"Thanks for keeping me out of the awkwardness there Remus. I don't know what I might have done if you hadn't been there," Lily said when they reached the ice cream parlor where they were to meet up with Remus's parents and Lily's brothers.
"What are friends for Lily? To keep each other out of awkward situations, or trouble when it comes down to it at times. Hey, you mind if James and Sirius join us? Cause they're heading over here right now," Remus said upon seeing his best friends.
"Sure, they're at least a little better company than Snivellus."
"Hey Moony, what up?" Sirius said when he reached the table that Lily and Remus were sitting at.
"Hey Padfoot, Prongs. How you two been this summer?" Remus said as he scooted over so that James and Sirius could sit.
"Great. Sirius finally left "home" and is living with my family and me now. Hey Evans. How you doing? I'm sorry to hear about your parents' death and sister's abduction. I don't know what to say or how to express how truly sorry I am about it," said James sitting next to Sirius at the end of the booth.
"How'd you know about that?"
"My dad's an Auror and my mum works in the Department of Magical Creature Secrecy. If my dad hadn't been on another assignment at the time, I bet he would've gone to your house," James explained.
"Oh, wow. What kind of Magical Creatures need so much secrecy?"
"Vampires, werewolves, things of that sort. Those that have human bodies but also are supposedly dangerous. I don't think that werewolves are all that dangerous, mostly when humans are around are they really dangerous, and it's only once a month. Vampires, they can be just like other people. The only difference with them is the blood that they need to keep strong and all. And then their children need to be protected so they aren't ridiculed about their parent or parents being some kind of "monster". You know what I mean?"
"Yeah, I get it. Oh, Ray, Jack, this is James Potter and Sirius Black, some of Remus's friends."
"Ah, so you're the famous James Potter Lily's always complaining about. Nice to meet you. Well, Lily, Remus, I think we're heading back to the house, so it's time to go."
Lily and Remus got up from the booth and followed Ray and Jack back to the Leaky Cauldron and Flooed back to the Lupin house.