Marriage Bliss?

A/n Here is the next chapter. I'm sorry for the slow updates. Real life keeps getting in the way of posting. I hope you all like it. Well on with the story.

Chapter 23

Harry was sitting on the back pouch at Malfoy Manor. He had brought Sarah over for a play date.

Not only was there Sarah and Scorpius but Zabini's daughter as well. It was a small play date, just the three of them. The three seem to be great friends.

Harry couldn't help but smile when he thought back to when Sarah came into their lives.

~flashback~

It was very early in the morning. Severus had just left to and by some supplies for a potion he was working on. Normally Harry would sleep in until about nine in the morning.

But on this morning Harry couldn't go back to sleep once Severus left the house. Something was keeping him up. A feeling was.

As he got up he slipped on his robe and slippers. It might be summer but the early hours of the morning could still be cool.

Harry slowly made his way to the door. It was here the feeling got the strongest. Pulling out his wand he slowly opens the door and looked around. At first he saw nothing and was about to close it but stopped at a sound.

Looking down Harry saw a baby had been left on their doorstep with a letter. Just like when he had been left on his relatives' doorstep at the age of one.

Picking the baby and letter up he carried them in and closed the door. Harry just stood there looking at the baby as said baby smiled at Harry.

Harry couldn't help but smile back as he then carried the baby into the living room. Once he sat down, put his wand in his pocket and placed the baby beside him on the couch He open the letter.

When he looked at the front of the envelope, in nice handwriting, it simply said Mr. and Mr. Severus and Harry Snape. Nothing else was on the front. When he turned it over he also noticed that the seal wax was blank. No family crest or family emblem on it. It was just a blank red wax seal.

Giving a shrug at this Harry broke the seal and pulled the letter out. Unfolding it he started to read it.

Misters Severus and Harry Snape

I had noticed that the two of you have yet to be blessed with a child while I have been. But I cannot care for her. That is why I had to leave her on your doorstep this morning.

You do not know me, nor do I know the two of you. Not beyond what everyone knows of the two of you. Not beyond what is written in the papers about the two of you. Yet this stranger asks that the two of you to raise my child.

I ask that you two take her into your home and raise her as if she was your own. All that I ask is that you don't look for me or tell her that she was left on your doorstep.

She will know she was adopted, when she's older, because of her difference from the two of you. A difference you will see tonight. I just hope you don't send her away because of this.

I have enclosed a copy of her birth certificate but my name was removed from it. It has everything else filled out including the name I picked out for her. I do hope you keep it the same.

She is only a six month old baby. I figured that she was young enough that any memories she might have of me would fade with time and rather quickly.

I do wish I could have kept her but fate would not allow this. I will not explain why I cannot but I'm sure you'll understand why later tonight. It would be too hard to raise my sweet baby girl.

Please love her as I have for the short amount of time that I had her. I'm sure she'll fill your lives with love and joy like she did mine.

Harry blinked that the abrupt end of the letter. It did come with a copy of the birth certificate. Harry did notice that the mother's name had been removed from it and no father was named as well. He did see where the baby's name was filled in. The little girl was named Sarah Elizabeth but no last name.

Harry spent the rest of the day getting to know Sarah and taking care of her. He had the house elves buy a few things that Sarah would need. Things like bottles and diapers. Other things could wait until him and Severus went out to buy them.

Because Severus spent his day in his lab, it wasn't hard to forget to tell Severus about the baby. Harry had really forgotten to tell him while he was in his lab. At least that was were Harry thought he had spent his day, or at least part of his day. Harry really wouldn't have gone looking for him if he had thought of him. His mind had being on Sarah and taking care of her.

When Severus came in to their room, Harry's back was to him. After all the baby had just shown why she was different. It was shocker to Harry but a pleasant one. After all he had a friend that was similar to her and could answer any question he might have on how to raise her.

When Severus came out of the bathroom and was about to head into bed that when Harry spoke up. "I want you to meet our baby daughter Severus." Harry said softly.

"What?" Severus asked. Harry hears, as he was slowly turning around, Severus growling at him.

"How?" Severus then asked with shock and confusion at what was in Harry's arms.

Severus was seeing not a human baby but a wolf cub. A very young wolf cub.

"How can that wolf be…?" Severus started to ask before he realized what Harry was holding. "A werewolf cub?" Severus then asked, shock in his voice.

Harry gave a small nod to this. "I found her on our doorstep this morning. She must have been placed there after you left." Harry said smiling at the sleeping cub.

When Harry didn't hearing anything from his husband he looked up. He saw Severus staring at the cub. Severus then said something very out of character. So out of character that it had shocked Harry.

"We'll blood adopt her in the morning. Let the press know before they find out and make up something stupid to put in their papers. We both know they'll found sooner or later and we might as well tell them so they can't try to say we were hiding her for Merlin knows why. Then we'll take her…"

"Sarah." Harry said interrupting Severus.

"Then we'll take Sarah shopping for everything she'll need." Severus said.

~end flashback~

And they did. The next morning the filled out the paper work and did the blood adoption of Sarah Elizabeth Snape.

The baby, when found on the doorstep, was pale with dark brown hair. Her eyes were blue but looked like they might have turned brown when she got a bit older.

After she was blood adopted she was still pale but her hair was darker now. Almost black like Severus and Harry's hair color. Her eyes now looked like they would turn green instead of brown but a darker green then Harry's. Any other changes would be more noticeable as she got older.

Then they went shopping for all the things she would need and to set up her nursery. But because of how small she was they did by a bassinet that was placed on Harry's side of the bed. She would sleep in their room until she could sleep through the night and was a bit older.

After that they stop by the Daily Prophet's main office. They gave Rita Skeeter a short interview and allowed only a few pictures of them as a family to be taken before they went home.

The following day they were happy with the article on them as a family. It had what they said in it and nothing more. Only a few of the pictures they took were used.

As for their home life it had improved since Sarah came into their lives.

Severus was still an asshole but not as big of one. He still abused harry but it was slowly becoming less and less. Severus made sure he never abused Harry in front of Sarah.

As far as Sarah went the two were great parents to her. They made sure all her needs were met and most of her wants were met as well. With each passing day they grew to love her more and more. She even helped Severus smile more and not take life so serious.

Yes Sarah had greatly improved the lives in the Snape household.

Harry then blinked when saw Pansy's hand waving in front of his face. "What?" He asked with a small blush.

"What were you thinking about?" She asked him with smile.

"Oh. Just remembering the day we got Sarah." Harry said as he looked to were Sarah was playing with the other two kids.

"I can't believe it's been two years since you adopted her. She is a sweet baby." Pansy said with her own smile.

While Harry was having fun talking with the ladies Draco was watching them. Watching them from the shadows.

Draco was watching Harry with a glared on his face. A hate was burning deep in his soul and it was aimed at Sarah.

No, he didn't hate the girl. Draco could never be that cruel to hate a baby for something they had no control over. And Sarah had no control over what she was causing.

It was because of her that Harry and Severus were slowly starting to get along. Starting to act like a loving family.

Granted they always acted this way to the public but the blond knew the truth. He knows how Severus treats Harry. He knows of the abuse.

Now the abuse was slowly stopping. Very slowly stopping but stopping none the less. And that's what Draco hated.

He hated it because Harry wasn't coming to him as much. Didn't need him as much.

That also means that trying to steal Harry from Severus was going to get harder. He was now going to have to change his plans.

As he stood there watching them an ideas was whispered to him. "Kill Severus."
"Kill Severus?" Draco whispered back. "Kill my own godfather?"

"It's the only way to get the man you want." The voice whispered again.

"True." Draco whispered with a small smile on his lips. "With him gone Harry would need a shoulder to cry on. A friend to lean on. A friend that would soon become his lover." Draco said seeing no flaw in his plan.

The voice smiled as he moved away from Draco. The voice had planted the seed and now all it had to do was sit back and watch it grow.

A/n There is the next chapter. I hope you all like it and it answers any questions you might have had from the last chapter.

As far as Sarah being a werewolf, I figured she was a full blood werewolf and that since birth she would change with the full moon.

I know that in some stories they have it were any baby or young child would stay in one form or another until they reach a certain age. But I'm throwing that idea out the window and saying that any pure blood werewolf will change at ever full moon no matter how small or how young. And yes I'm going with the idea that she will look like a wolf. Not the thing that Lupin transformed into in the Harry Potter movie. To me that wasn't a werewolf that was just some kind of ugly monster.

Anyways I hope you all like it and I'll see you all with the next chapter.