Severus Snape and the Next Great Adventure

By Misty Fortner

Chapter 2: And Then Their Were Two

Severus and Roselyn sat beneath the big oak tree. Roselyn was sitting with her legs crossed leaning against the trunk of the tree. Severus was laying out on the grass with his head in her lap. She looked down into his face, and could see the tears in his eyes. "She will never forgive me, Rose. I've lost Lily forever."

Roselyn sighed. Severus had been repeating the same story to her for the past week. She was tired of hearing about it. Severus had screwed up and he knew it. He had allowed James to goad him into calling Lily a mudblood. Not that James had expected Severus to do this. From what Roselyn had heard, James had been as surprised as Lily and Severus had been at his words, because everyone but Lily knew of the dark haired Slytherin's feelings for Lily. Roselyn just stroked his hair with her right hand, and wiped away the tears with her left. "It will be okay, Severus. She'll come around. The words you used stung, so you got to give her time to realize you didn't mean it."

As if on queue a group of Gryffindor's strolled down the lawn. Roselyn spotted Lily immediately. She swallowed hard, because she noticed that Lily was walking hand in hand with James Potter. Severus followed her stare and noticed the pair too. He started to rise. Roselyn put her hand on his shoulder. "Let me handle this Severus, you don't need another confrontation with Potter." Severus had a defeated look on his face as he sat back against the tree and observed as Roselyn approached Lily and James.

"Lily, can I speak with you please."

James started to refuse, when Lily shook her head at him. "It will be okay James, Rose won't hurt me. Go on, I will catch up with you in a bit." Lily turned to look at Roselyn. "You're not going change my mind. I can't handle the drama anymore."

"You have to know he didn't mean it, Lily. Severus was speaking out because he was embarrassed. He was hanging upside down with his underpants showing."

"He called me a mudblood, Rose. It really stung. He is supposed to be my best friend."

"It was because you were there to see his embarrassment. There's an old muggle expression that sums up what happened. You've probably heard it Lily, 'You hurt the one's you love the most' and that's the truth. He loves you more than anyone…"

Realization crossed over Lily's face as she listened to Roselyn's words. Their eyes met and the both looked towards the tree where Severus was sitting. Finally the girl's returned to look at each other. Finally Lily spoke, "I'm sorry, I never realized. I only thought we were friends…."

"Lily, I just want him to he happy. He's torturing himself. He thinks you hate him."

"I don't hate him, I just don't like who he's becoming. I can't save him. A war is coming Rose, and sides will have to be chosen. Another muggle saying that's true is that its easier to pull someone down than to pull them up to higher ground. I will not let him pull me down with him. I've tried to pull him up and help him become a better person but he won't do it. You need to figure out where your siding Rose, before its too late."

"My place is with Severus, but that doesn't mean I'm choosing evil."

"I hope you can save him Rose, but I can't. I don't hate him and I'm not even mad at him. Its just what he said, that shows me that his life is on the wrong road. I hope he finds happiness. I hope you both find happiness. If he turns from the path he's on, I will work on repairing the friendship we once had, but not until then." The two girls said goodbye, and they began to walk away from each other when Lily called out to Roselyn and ran back to her. "When he wises up and makes you his girl, I better get invited to the wedding." They hugged and Lily returned to James. Roselyn returned to Severus.

"Did you convince her to forgive me?" Severus asked in a hopeful voice.

"It's not that simple, Sev. She's not mad at you." Roselyn sat down and Severus put his head back in her lap. "She's hurt. She also thinks that she needs to save you and that she can't save you."

Severus looked confuses. "Save me from what?"

"Voldemort."

Severus turned his head and watched as Lily walked off with James. They appeared to be happy. She didn't seem bothered at all to lose her best friend. Roselyn knew this wasn't true, but Severus' broken heart refused to let him see that. He turned and looked back to Roselyn. He spotted something on her robes; it was a red hair. He reached up and plucked the hair off her shoulder and placed it in the pocket of his pants."

"What was that?" Roselyn asked.

"Just something I need for a potion I've been working on."

Roselyn shrugged her shoulders and went back to stroking Severus' hair.

"Did you convince Lily to meet us tomorrow when we celebrate your birthday?"

Roselyn sighed, "No, Severus. She won't be joining us. We don't have to do anything special." It had been two years since Lily had quit hanging out with the two Slytherins. Roselyn and Lily still associated with each other on occasion, but never Lily and Severus.

Severus looked at Roselyn. She was not smiling. Her eyes looked watery, as if she wanted to cry but was stopping herself. He was confused and couldn't figure out why she had that look on her face. He dismissed it, guessing it was a female hormonal issue. "We will celebrate your birthday, I just hoped Lily would be there. I wanted to see her reaction to the birthday present I made you."

"What is it?"

"Not telling, you will have to wait till tomorrow."

"Please tell me!"

"Nope, you get to wait." Roselyn gave a Severus a puppy face trying to urge him into telling her what the present was. He wouldn't budge. Roselyn was so excited that night; she wondered how she would sleep.

"Roselyn," said the deep voice of her best friend as he held out two potion vials. "Happy Birthday."

Roselyn smiled at the dark haired boy in front of her. "Thank you," she said. She took the vials and examined them. "I've never seen a potion that look's like this; is it another one of your inventions?"

"Yes," and he pulled out a vial containing a red hair from his pocket.

"What's in there?"

"Just something I need for the potion.

Roselyn looked at the boy sitting beside her. She was very confused. "Are you going to tell me what these do?"

"Yes, I was about to explain. Do you remember last month when I asked you what you wanted for your birthday? You said anything would be fine. You once told me you just wished you could find out whom your real parents were. Well, I've done it Roselyn. This potion will verify family relations. All we need is hair samples, and we can find out who your parent's are."

Roselyn looked at Severus with big eyes. She had no doubt that his potion would do what it was supposed to and she was thrilled at the idea that the potion he had been trying to work out the past month had been for her birthday present. She wondered whose hair it was. "Whose hair is that, if I didn't know better I would think it was Lily's. Its her hair color.

Severus Snape looked into the attractive blonde's eyes. How could he explain that every time he looked at her, he saw Lily's eyes? They were identical. He knew when he she was related to Lily, he just couldn't explain how he knew. Severus was quiet for a long while. Finally, he looked at her and smiled. "It is. My instincts tell me you are related to her. Don't ask me to explain, I just want to test a theory. Lily and Petunia wouldn't know they have a sister, all they remember is there mom going away when they were little to take care of their grandma." Severus reached up and gently pulled two hairs from Roselyn's head. He placed one on the table and held the other one in his hand. He took the hair of Lily's and placed it beside Roselyn's in between his fingers. Then he dipped the two hairs into the milky purple substance.

"If the potion turns red it represents a mother child relationship, blue for a father child relationship. I think we know not to expect these colors. Yellow represents a full sibling relationship. Orange represents two people who have the same mother and green represents two people who share the same father. If the deep purple hue lightens into a lavender tone, it means they are related but in a fashion not specified. If the hue does not change, they are not related."

They placed the vial on the table, and talked for 15 minutes before returning there glare upon the vial. Roselyn fully expected to return to the vial and still see a deep purple hue, while Severus anticipated an orange hue.

A small gasp arose from Roselyn's lips as she saw the orange liquid that still had two hairs sticking out from it. Severus had been right; she was Lily's half sister. A single tear slipped from her eye. Severus had mistaken the tear of one of joy that she was no longer alone in the world. Unfortunately, Roselyn had been very sad at that moment. She was in love with a man who would always see her as a kid sister to the woman he loved. She saw being Lily's sister as the death of any hope of a romantic relationship with her beloved Severus. She would always be like a baby sister.

"I was right! How wonderful for you isn't it. You have a sister. I wonder how Lily's going to react. I'm sure she's going to be very excited. I know she really misses the close relationship she had with your other sister Petunia. I guess Petunia isn't happy about Lily's being a witch. Now she has you."

Roselyn just stared at Severus. She didn't know what to say or how to feel. For once in her life, she wanted him to shut up so she could clear her head. Usually, she loved hearing his voice, but not right now. She felt like the news that Lily was suffocating her. If Lily knew that Roselyn was her sister, she might try to stop Roselyn from seeing Severus or she might start hanging out with the two of them again. Roselyn liked having Severus to herself. She closed her eyes and hugged Severus tight. She needed to be in his arms right now, even if he mistook it for her being thankful to him for this revelation.

Finally after about 10 minutes of burying herself in Severus's robes so he couldn't see her tears, she was able to compose herself. She knew how to get her out of the pickle she was in. She looked into Severus's eyes and gave a small smile. "I don't think we should tell Lily. I think it would be best for my sister to not know about me though. Obviously, our mother didn't want me. I'm pretty sure Lily doesn't know she has a second sister, and I don't want anything to do with a mother who didn't give a damn about me. She raised twos daughters, but wouldn't keep me. I'm probably the love child of some affair. It would be bad for my existence to be known.

Severus looked at Roselyn for a moment before nodding his head. "You may be right about not going public with this knowledge. I don't think Lily's mom was having an affair. If my second theory is correct, then knowing she had a sister would be a lot more difficult on Lily that I had even considered."

Roselyn looked at Severus, she asked him to continue his thoughts only using her eyes. "I think your and Lily's mother may have been raped. We both know that the sorting hat put you in Slytherin for some other reason than your cunning. You are too kind hearted and caring to be a true Slytherin. I believe there is another reason you were placed in Slytherin. I think the man who raped your mother had a family reputation for being in Slytherin."

"So who do you think my father is?"

Severus strokes Roselyn's long blonde hair. His instinct told him that she was a Malfoy. Her looks also reminded him of his good friend Lucius. Severus thought they might be brother and sister. He hoped he was wrong on this account. He had managed to get a hair from Abraxas Malfoy while in Hogsmeade last week. "Well lets just see what color this hair turns the serum." At that point Severus took the Malfoy hair and Roselyn's other and dipped it. The pair sat in silence waiting for the results to be done. Finally after 15 minutes, they returned to the potion and saw it was a blue tone. Severus closed his eyes not knowing how to tell his best friend she was the daughter of a man she despised. Roselyn just stood looking from Severus to the potion. "So who's my daddy?"

Finally Severus let out a sigh, "Well it seems I was right on two accounts tonight. You, my Rose, are the child of Emily Evans and Abraxas Malfoy." Roselyn's eyes opened wide. She had thought things couldn't get any worse. It was bad enough being in competition with her own sister for the man she loved, but now she learns that her father is a man known for mistreating anyone who isn't a pure blood. In all the daydreams Roselyn had had about spending her 16th birthday with the Severus; she never expected to spend it crying from learning that her parents were Emily Evans and Abraxas Malfoy.

"I can't go back to the dorms tonight. I'm going to stay here and sleep tonight." She said with tears in her eyes. This was to much, and she couldn't keep them back.

"How do you expect not to get caught?"

"I don't know. Maybe we could convince the prefects to cover for me."

"The only way Janaile won't report you being missing from the dormitory is if she thinks your doing something naughty. You can't lie so I will have to be there to keep her from knowing." Severus' red flag was going off. He wasn't sure but something about the look on Roselyn's face was telling him that spending the night here alone with her would be trouble.

Roselyn smiled. Maybe she was going to get a better birthday after all. "I know what we can tell Janaile. Meet me back here tonight, and I will tell you all about it. I can handle it all, she won't suspect a thing."

Severus brushed his black hair away from his face. He had no idea what she was up to, but the gleam in her eyes intrigued him. He smiled, she may have soft spots, but she defiantly knew how to manipulate a situation when she needed too. He looked into the eyes that looked like Lily's and found he was unable to say no. "Alright, we will meet back here in about 2 hours. Is that enough time for you to put your plan into action?"

Roselyn smiled sweetly at him, "Yes. That should be sufficient."

Severus already knew she wasn't going to give them the details, but he was determined to try. He hoped he could at least get some hint of what she was up to. Trying to soften her defenses, he rubbed her shoulders. "So my little Rose, are you going to tell me what you're planning for tonight. I may be asked questions, so I think you should tell me the plan."

Roselyn laughed. She loved when he called her his rose, but she also knew that he used the nickname to manipulate her. He wasn't going to win tonight. Her plan relied on him not having the details or he wouldn't come.

"Sorry Sevy. I'm not falling for your sweet talking tonight."

"You know I hate it when you call me that!"

"What to you want me to call you then?"

"Call me Severus or Snape, hell even Sev. Just not Sevy."

"Sorry, I like Sevy. You'll have to deal," she said as she exited the door.

Roselyn had gotten the prefects to cover for them, and she met Severus back at the room of requirement. She arrived before he did to prepare the room. After inspecting the room, she changed into the black negligee that she had designed and had the room created for her. She laid herself on the bed to wait for him. The sheets were so soft; they were made of green satin. The room was dark, dimly lit with candlelight. It was like a fantasy. Roselyn hoped the room would blindfold Severus when he came in. She wanted him close to her before he saw her.

Severus came in, he began to rub at his eyes. "Roselyn, are you in here? Something's wrong I can't see."

Roselyn smiled as she got up and walked towards him. She could see him perfectly. She took his hand and led him to the bed. He was still rubbing his eyes so she knew that the room hadn't given him his sight back. They sat down and she kissed him. The kiss was a passionate kiss, which inspired sparks he felt as strongly as her, and he couldn't help but return the kiss. Finally, she pulled back a little. He looked at her and his eyes opened wide. She knew the kiss had returned his sight.

"I am going to give you my virginity tonight." She could see he was about ready to refuse, so she gently moved her hand up his inner thigh teasingly. "I have to do it, Janaile will report both of us if she can use her virgin detecting spell on us, and it shows I'm still pure."

Severus's eyes opened wide. "No wonder you wouldn't tell me your plan, I wouldn't have agreed, and you knew it."

"Yes, I admit I knew it. You can consider it a thank you for all the work you did on my birthday present."

Severus glowered at her. It wasn't often that he got angry with Rose, but tonight he was defiantly angry. He felt he was stuck between a rock and a hard place. If he didn't have sex with Roselyn tonight, it would be all over the school tomorrow that he was impotent or something. He didn't feel like listening to the jokes the Marauders would make about that. On the other hand, if he did have sex with Roselyn then Lily would hear about it and think badly of him. He would lose any chance he had of regaining her trust.

There was a long awkward silence between the two and finally she spoke. She was half speaking how she felt, but half being manipulative at the same time. "Sorry, Severus. I didn't think you found me that repulsive that you couldn't have sex with me. Just brew up that potion you gave to the Ravenclaw girl who was picking on me last month. If we make my period come real heavy, then Janaile won't tell anyone about us not having sex tonight."

Severus stared at Rose for a long time, he saw the tears that came to her eyes and he felt sick at his stomach. She didn't understand that he didn't want to take advantage of her. He knew she had romantic ideas about the first time she made love to a man, and he they were just friends. She had been willing to give herself to him, because she didn't want to be alone tonight after learning she was the daughter of a man she despised. Instead of comforting her, he had just hurt her. Severus pulled Rose into his arms, and ran his fingers through her hair.

"Rose, you are beautiful. Seeing you in that outfit is enough to drive any man wild. Right now it is taking every bit of restraint I have not to lay you on this bed and make love to you." He looked into her eyes, searching to find if she believed him. He couldn't find the answer, so he took her hand and placed it over his pants that were barely restraining his enlarged member. She let out a soft gasp. He was very obviously very erect. "See, this is what you're doing to me right now. I just know you. This was not how you envisioned for your first time making love to a man. I don't want to you to eventually hate me for taking this from you. Especially because I'm not experienced enough to even know that you will even enjoy your first time. I've never been with a woman, Rose."

For some reason the fact that Severus was a virgin surprised Roselyn, but it made her want him all that much more. The idea that they would be each others first made her want him so much more than she already did.. She had to bite her tongue to not blurt out that she loved him, so this was everything she wanted to fulfill her first time dream. Finally she said, "Severus, you are my best friend. I have never been as close to any man as I am you. I have romantic ideas, yes. But, it's not like you're a complete stranger. We have a deep friendship, and the idea of sharing my body with you is very appealing. We both know that were only friends, but we both hope to find romantic love someday. When I truly make love to a man that I love, and who returns the feelings it would be nice to have some experience with what a man likes. Maybe we can give each other the experience to make us better lovers to the ones we love."

"Wow" Roselyn thought to herself. She had surprised herself at how well she had been able to pull together a fairly decent argument.

The two sat on the bed awkwardly for another few moments. Finally, Severus looked Roselyn in the eyes. "Are you sure this is what you want? After I start touching you and feel you touching me, I'm not sure if I will be able to stop."

"Severus, please…. I want you to make love to me tonight." He pulled her closer and began to kiss her. He ran his fingers down her back and over her legs. Roselyn, let out a soft sigh, as she intertwined one hand in his hair, and began to stroke his back with the other. When they loosened from their kiss, Roselyn began to unbutton his robes. When she was able to get all his clothes off, he undid her nightgown, and they slid under the covers. He gently began to cup her breasts, stroking them gently and drawing little circles with his fingers. He than began to kiss and suck on each one while his fingers slid down and caressed her stomach. She let out a soft moan as he nibbled her breast and slid her hands down to his hard member. She began to lightly stroke him, as his hand moved down to her hidden area. After caressing her with his hand there, he slowly entered her. Somewhere he had heard to be really slow during a woman's first time. He didn't want to hurt his little Rose, so he entered her extremely slowly and fought the urge to thrust. He could tell by the way she had grabbed him that she had been in pain for a brief time, but she loosed her grip and he began to slowly thrust. The two moved in a very harmonious rhythm; and eventually, she began to breathe harder and harder until she was moaning with pleasure. Severus kissed Roselyn unsure if the room would have made soundproof walls for their night together. With the realization that he had made her cum, he quickly came himself. As he came, he called out the name "Lily". He had never felt so relaxed in his life, he pulled Roselyn onto his chest and gently caressed her hair.

Roselyn fought tears. She had been enjoying everything till he called her Lily. That stung. She debated on confronting him, but decided to stay quiet. She wouldn't let Severus see her cry. Not after that. She held the tears back and lay in his arms trying to find a reason to justify him calling her Lily that didn't mean he had pretended she was Lily. The two drifted off to sleep, only to awaken twice more in the middle of the night to make love again. These times were much more enjoyable for Severus didn't call her Lily. The final time, he had even called out Rose in the throws of their passion.

Severus waited outside the hospital wing with Lily. The two of them hadn't spoke too much since the incident where he had called her mudblood. Roselyn and Lily had at Hogsmeade when Roselyn had started vomiting. She had finally convinced Roselyn to go to the hospital wing. Severus had been trying to convince her for the past 2 days, but she had hid the vomiting.

Finally Lily turned to Severus, "Is it true? Everyone says you two are dating."

Severus stumbled over his words. It was true, that was what everyone was saying. Janaile had told everyone that they were having sex so most students assumed they were dating. Severus was unsure what to say. He didn't want Lily to believe that he was dating Lily, but he didn't want her to think he had taken advantage of Rose.

Luckily he was saved by Madom Pomfry coming out. "Severus, you may come in now. Lily if you will wait a few more minutes, you can come in also."

Severus walked in and saw Roselyn sitting on a bed. She was eating some crackers and had some butterbeer. Roselyn didn't look at him, she just stared at the crackers. "Hi," she said.

He was confused and worried. "Hi," he returned. "So what's the diagnosis?"

"I think you better sit down first." Severus' eyes got large. He knew the news was never good when he was told to sit first. He sat on the bed beside her and put his hand under her chin forcing him to look at her. "What's wrong, Rose?"

"Severus, I…. um we…uh well…" She paused. This was making Severus very uncomfortable. He moved up and put his arms around her. She pulled away and looked at him. "Don't hate me please… I'm sorry Severus, I didn't think about consequences, I just didn't want to be alone."

Severus swallowed, he hadn't thought about it either. It all made fit together now. Her exhaustion the last few days, the vomiting, and everything made since. They were going to have a baby. He had just lost Lily forever; he knew that. He would do right by Roselyn though. He looked at her. "We should get married?"

"Why do you want to get married?"

"We're having a baby. It's what's right for him or her. Kids should have two parents."

A tear slipped from Roselyn's eye. She wouldn't marry him due to being pregnant. She would only get married for love. "I'm sorry Severus, I can't marry you."

"What do you mean? We should get married."

"No, Severus. I won't change my mind. You can be a part of his life. I want our child to know you, but I will not get married because I'm pregnant."

"Fine, whatever." Severus stormed out of the room. Lily was still there waiting.

"Severus, what's wrong?"

"Everything, everything I bloody do is wrong. Talk some since into her Lily, please." He walked away and she watched him go.

Finally, she turned her head and went into the room. She found Roselyn crying. Lily ran over to the bedside, "What's wrong?"

"Severus asked me to marry him." She cried.

Lily looked very confused, "You're only in your fifth year. Though why are you crying I thought you loved him."

"He only wants to marry me because I'm pregnant." Roselyn sobbed.

Lily looked at Roselyn with shock, she was unsure of what to say. Finally after the surprise calmed down "He obviously cares for you, I mean after all you two kinda had to um… well you are carrying his child."

"Yeah, well I manipulated that situation. He didn't want to, but I put him into a position where he would look bad if he didn't have sex with me because he loved me. I just didn't want to be out of my room the day I found out…." She cried harder.

"Roselyn, I'm really confused. Maybe you should explain and I'll see what I can do to help you."

Roselyn took a deep breath, and began "For my birthday Severus designed a potion to test hair strands to find out if you're related. He put my hair and your hair in one vial and found out we have the same mother. Then he put another of my hairs in a vial with Lucius' dad's hair. I'm his daughter."

"That makes no sense. How would you be their child."

"We think your mom was raped. She left when you were a little girl to give birth to me. She told you and Petunia that she went to take care of your grandma."

Lily was silent trying to think back. She started to cry herself. "You're my sister!" She hugged Roselyn. "I'm going to be an aunt! Why didn't you tell me?"

"I was unsure of how you would react with the whole rape scenario."

"It is kind or weird, and it makes me like the Malfoy's a lot less, but it's not your fault."

The two girls hugged and Roselyn told Lily the rest of the story about how she had gotten Severus to have sex with her and how much she loved him. Roselyn cried over the fact that he was in love with Lily and not with her. Finally, the girls separated for the night and Lily promised to write her parents to see if Roselyn could come stay with her during the summer. As her parting words to Roselyn, Lily said, "I think you should marry him. He does love you, He may not know it but he does."