Chapter 5

Severus Snape was currently waiting to leave for his daughters house, he was sat in the lounge thinking about his life. Snape was a good man at heart, he loved the twins to pieces and generally would do anything for them. When his wife Lily left him he was heartbroken, he didn't get out of bed for a week. But his girls were there by his side throughout the whole thing, they never left him. They also haven't questioned him about what happened because they know how upsetting it is for him. It had been a young romance, the pair had met when they were just 8 years old. The pair went to Hogwarts together, it was them against the world until James Potter came into their life. Lily and Snape had been put into the two rival houses of Gryffindor and Slytherin, that did not stop them being friends. They tried their relationship when in the last year at the school, it seemed to work for them. Snape had always doubted Lily in some way she seemed to be more friendly with James than what friends should be. However Lily did get pregnant when she was with Snape, he doubted for a while whether the twins actually were his. But as soon as he saw them he knew Emily being a lot like Lily and Rachel a spitting image of her Father just the girl version. After a year of bringing up the twins together the relationship had gotten worst, and Lily came out with the news during a argument that they were having. She was hardly ever had home, but blamed her job, whilst arguing she admitted that she had been seeing James Potter back. So she left him, to raise the two girls on his own. When they asked about their mother he would tell them that she died whilst having them. It caused less questions, but of course he wanted to tell them the truth it just hurt so much and he knew that it would hurt them. He did however feel like today was going to be that day. He had the opportunity to do so now that Rachel was back, after deciding that today he was going to tell his daughters everything it was time for him to evaportate to his daughters house.

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"Ron, any sign of my dad yet?" Emily didn't particularly like calling him Father so she called him Dad when he wasn't around. She was however getting worried he was never late for anything, however he seemed to be late today.

"No don't think so…oh wait yes he's walking up the path now! Wearing the same bloody thing, can you please get him to wear something else?"

"Thank God! And don't be rude, he likes what he wears!" She ran to the door and answered it, she hugged her father and invited him in. Snape sat down in the lounge with Emily and Ron, waiting for dinner to be ready.

"Where is Rachel?" Although Rachel and her Father were not really on speaking terms he did still worry for her, and worried about why she wasn't there.

"Urm…." Emily looked at her husband for support, however he didn't say anything he simply nodded at her. "I don't know we had a fight last night and she stormed out, she didn't exactly come back last night"

"I see, and what was this fight about?"

"Her going away, you, just that. Really Father I am sorry! All of her stuff is here so she will have to come back at some point, I'll talk to her then make her stay!"

"Don't loose sleep over it Emily, she doesn't care about family!"

"Oh really?" Everyone in the room jumped, they hadn't heard Rachel come in, but their ears were not deceiving them as they turned around Rachel was stood there with Draco.

"Hi" Rachel didn't know what to say really, she was very annoyed at her Father for saying what he did but she couldn't be bothered to comment on it. "Draco is joining us today, is that okay?"

"Yes if you want" Emily was still confused as to why he was here but she agreed as she liked spending time with him.

"You actually came back then Rachel?" Snape commented sarcastically.

She was going to say something sarcastic and whitty like she normally would, but she could see that her sister didn't want that. She had that look in her eye. "Yes I did, I would like to spend time with my sister" hopefully she would get away with that comment and her sister wouldn't be too mad at her for it.

"So who's ready to eat?" Ron thought that he would change the subject to something else which is not family related.

"Yes I defiantly am! Are you sure that there is going to be enough for me Em?" Draco did feel guilty that he had just turned up and was demanding food so he just wanted to double check that it was okay for him to be there.

"Yes Draco, its fine honestly!" Emily wasn't at all worried about Draco being there, she was just worried about the reason for him being there, and how he got there. Why was he with her sister? Exactly what where they doing together last night?

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Everyone sat down at the table, Snape at the top with Emily and Ron on his right side, then Draco and Rachel on the left. Draco had sat next to Snape because Rachel didn't want to, not this time she couldn't handle it. She had gotten used to her Dad having a go at her on these dinners, but this week it was different she didn't want to fight. She wanted everything to be good again, she wanted her Father to love her, him to be proud of her like he was of Emily. But he was stubborn and so was she.

Snape was however saddened at the fact only one of his girls was sat next to him. He would do anything for them and wanted to see them happy, there was nothing that made him happier than seeing his daughters happy. All the children that he teachers at Hogwarts are scared if him and think that he is evil. But that is just the face that he puts on. At heart he is a loving Father, he wanted to clear the air with Rachel he did but he was scared that she would just simply leave again. He needed to make sure that she was back for good this time. Otherwise he was putting his heart out for nothing, he also needed to tell the girls about their Mother Lily, but today he decided just wasn't the day for it anymore.

No body spoke at dinner, usually there was at least small talk but this time nothing. Everyone was thinking, thinking about what life should be like wondering whether the family would even be complete. Thinking whether the truth is always a good thing and simply thinking what to do with their life, whether there is anything that they can do with it. After the dinner was done everyone went back into the lounge, well everyone except Emily she was in the kitchen washing up. She knew that it annoyed her husband when she washed up because it meant that she wasn't using magic like she could do but she preferred to do it herself. Ron grew up in a magical family his Mother, Molly used magic all the time, for things such as washing up, ironing and knitting. Although it amused Emily how magic could help with such things, she found washing up very relaxing so she did it all by hand. Rachel although she didn't particularly like cleaning up but she felt like she needed to go and help her sister, plus it gave them a chance to talk things over. So she went into the kitchen, picked up the dish cloth and started to dry up.

"Hi" Emily felt awkward so she had to say something to make a conversation, hi was the best option for it!

"I'm sorry!" Short and to the point thought Rachel.

Emily sighed. "It's okay, I was worried about you! You could have sent an owl at least!"

"I'm sorry, I was at Draco's so I wasn't like lying in a ditch!"

"Why did you go to Draco? If you think him and you will get together you've got another thing coming Rach. He has just lost his wife!"

"No! It's not like that, I went to the 3 broomsticks he was there I mentioned that I had nowhere to go. He said I could stay with him, in the spare bedroom! I swear!"

"Right okay sorry. I am sorry on Dads behalf, I'm sure he didn't mean to say what he did. He was just angry at the time!"

"Don't stick up for him, I know that he hates me. I'll get over it"

"I don't hate you Rachel" Both of the girls jumped at their Father's voice behind them. Rachel was secretly hoping that it wasn't him, and she had dreamt the whole thing. But sure enough when she turned around he was stood there in the kitchen.

"Hi, I was joking?" Rachel now felt awkward and wondered how long he had actually been there, not that it really mattered because they weren't exactly talking about him.

"Rachel I know that you were not in fact joking. I do not hate you, you are my daughter Rachel"

"I know I'm your daughter, but you haven't spoken to me since I came back! If you do talk to me we fight, I'm fed up with it all!"

"Cant you to just sort all of this, please? I know that you are both suborn! Its starting to take a toll on me as well. I want to be able to spend time with both of you without anyone fighting or talking about each other behind their backs! Its…."

"EMILY… Stay out of this! For once just stop it!"

"You have no right to talk to her like that Snape! She is trying to help!" Emily didn't even realise that Ron was in the room until he starting talking back to her Father. She was greatful that someone stuck up for her.

She is my daughter I can talk to her however I want!"

"No infact you cant! If you want respect from both of them, then you need to treat them better. Rachel would sort things out with you, if you treated her better Snape! You need to learn that they will treat you exactly how you treated them! If your not willing to do that, then you need to get out of my house!" Snape looked horrified at what Ron was saying to him, he could not believe it. He had no right to tell him what to do! He evaporated there and then, he no longer wanted to be around any of these people.

"NICE ONE EMILY!" Rachel was angry at her sister for talking and saying the things that she did.

"What are you talking about! I didn't do anything"

"Yes you did you went shouting your mouth off, we could have just talked normally but no! You've ruined this, I could have sorted it out myself I'm getting out of here!"

"Rachel you have nowhere to go!" Ron thought that he would slip that comment in to make sure that she might think leaving over again!

"I don't care, I'm getting out of here I can no longer be around my stupid sister not anymore!"

The rest was kind of a blur to Emily. She had to sit there and watch her sister pack her stuff up, Draco helped her. She tried to beg Rachel to stay, she didn't want to lose her sister again. Twins aren't meant to be spilt up it's not right. As much as she tried it didn't work Rachel still left with Draco as well. She just sat and cried in her husband's arms. Draco took Rachel back to his house so that he could talk to her.

"Draco what am I going to do? I have nowhere to go, this was such a stupid decision to do!"

"You can move in with me Rachel."