Chapter Six; The Agreement
Yeah Harry was rather cute wasn't he? Anyway, thanks again for all the support and here is the next chapter!
The next morning Harry woke up and went down to the great hall to have breakfast with his mother. "Harry," she began while he continued staring at Snape who was eating in front of the room all by himself. "why aren't you eating anything?" she questioned him.
"Sorry, but I'll be right back." He told her before he leapt up from the table and hurried over to the professor's table. Snape suddenly stopped eating and peered down at the small child who was standing in front of him and staring up at him unblinkingly.
"May I help you?" he questioned him dryly.
"Sorry sir, I was just wondering if you'd like to come eat with me and mummy." Harry responded.
"No." Snape snapped. "I'm supposed to eat here with all the other professors, and you're supposed to sit with your mother and leave me alone." He told him.
"I'm sorry sir, I just thought that you could use some company." Harry said.
"I've got all the company I need, now,.. sit, down." He told him.
"Okay, okay grouch!" Harry yelled with a roll of his eyes before he turned around and started walking back over to his table mumbling under his breath and Snape arched an eyebrow.
"What did you just say to me Potter?' he questioned him as Harry stopped and turned back over to him.
"You heard me! I called you a grouch because that's what you are! You're nothing but a mean old Scrooge!" he yelled while he placed his hands upon his hips and pointed a finger at him. "And all I ever wanted to be was your friend because I felt sorry for you! But I don't blame my mummy for leaving you because you're mean, old, and ugly!" he shouted continuing to shake his finger at him.
Snape scowled and was about to start shouting insults back at him when all of a sudden Lily rushed over to her son with an astonished look of horror on her face. "Harry James Potter!" she shouted. "That is enough! If I ever catch you talking that way again then you're going straight to bed right after supper do you hear me!?" she hollered as Harry breathed a heavy and reluctant sigh.
"Yes Mummy, but I still say he deserved it." He said while turning his head back over and narrowed his eyebrows at Snape and glared at him.
"I knew that that boy was a swine the first time that I laid eyes on him. Just like his father." He said as he returned the evil look. "And you will do well to teach him some manners." He hissed.
"Now look Severus! Just because I feel sorry for you and feel appreciative that you're letting me and my son stay here, does not mean that I will allow you to treat either one of us with disrespect!" she told him before she swooped Harry up in her arms and stormed away.
"Lily," Snape began with a gasp. "Lily wait!" he cried as he quickly got up from the table and followed her.
"I'm done waiting Severus." She began before she slowly turned back to look at him. "I've been waiting for over ten years, but you never made a move." She explained.
"I'm sorry Lily, I didn't know that you wanted me to." He told her.
"I wanted you to change, and be the man that you used to be, I hoped you would prove me wrong when I saw you again. But then I realized that I was completely out of my mind, because that's never going to happen." She told him with a shake of her head.
"You don't care about me or Harry, you never have. And so now I have to do what's best for my son and find him a new father. Funny, I was sort of hoping that it would be you." She told him before she turned around and walked away carrying Harry inside her arms while he turned his head and glanced back over his shoulder at Snape who stood there silently frozen with his mouth gaped open at them.
"Lily." He whispered to himself while he watched her leave the room.
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Harry hurriedly walked down the hall and into Snape's office who was busy grading some papers. He stopped and looked up at him as the small boy entered the room. "What do you want? How did you find this place anyway?" he asked him curtly.
"Please sir, I just came here to apologize for my behavior. I didn't mean for you and my mummy to get into a fight because of me. It was all my fault." Harry said as he breathed a sad little sigh. "Please don't hate me for it, I don't blame you if you do though. You have every right to be angry." He told him as Snape took a deep breath.
"I'm sorry too." He said.
"Excuse me?" Harry questioned him with uncertainty and disbelief wondering if he had heard that right.
"I said that I'm sorry alright!?" he snapped. "Your mother was right, I may have hated your father but I had no right to take it out on you. Now, that being said,.. go away and leave me alone." He grouched before he started to go back to his work. Harry just made his way closer to his desk and grabbed ahold of it and hoisted himself up to get a better view of him.
"Please sir I have to ask you something." He said as Snape stopped writing again and glared down at him.
"Then ask me already and get it over with!" he exclaimed.
"Do you love my mummy?" he asked him.
"That isn't any of your concern." Snape spat coldly.
"Yes it is, she's my mummy. I love her and I want her to be happy. And I may only be a kid, but I'm not stupid. I know she likes you, she's always liked you. She wanted you to come back for her but you never did and that's why she married my daddy. She told me herself." Harry told him when suddenly he felt himself losing his grip and collapsed onto the floor.
"Really?" Snape questioned him while raising his eyebrows at him as he slowly made it back onto his feet.
"Yes sir." Harry told him with a nod. "It's true." He said.
"Well, are you quite sure that this has to do with your mother or the fact that you desperately want a father?" Snape asked him as Harry shrugged.
"I dunno." He began. "both I guess." He answered. "Please give her a second chance and I promise you'll never have to hear from me again." He assured him.
"Is that a promise?" Snape inquired as Harry spat inside the palm of his hand. "What are you doing?" he asked him.
"I thought we'd do a spit shake on it." Harry told him as Snape fell silent for a moment.
"I'll take your word for it. Now go away, I have a lot of work to do." He said before Harry started running back over towards the door before he stopped and turned back around to face him and smiled.
"Thanks sir, goodbye!" he exclaimed with a wave before he turned the doorknob and left the room.
"Goodbye and good riddance." Snape muttered to himself while he continued grading his papers.