Chapter Twelve; Snape's Promise
Just a couple more chapters guys and then I'll be posting a Very Scary Harry Halloween at some point today followed by the sequel; Harry, Snape, and The Prisoner of Azkaban. You guys continue to rock and thanks again for all the support!
Peter continued dragging Harry into a graveyard while he kept his hand covered on the top of his mouth. "Alright you little monster you!" he spat. "Tonight the dark lord is going to finish what he started four years ago, and there isn't anything that you're precious mudblood mother can do to stop it. You will no longer be known as the boy who lived but the boy who died!" he snapped.
"No, but I might be able to." Peter quickly spun around and saw Snape standing there behind him. "Let the boy go." He hissed while he withdrew his wand and pointed it at him. "I came here just like you asked. You got what you wanted, now let him go if you want to live." He said coldly.
"Fine, take him! You're both going to die soon anyway!" Peter exclaimed before he shoved Harry away and Snape bent down as he quickly ran over to him and embraced him tightly. A few moments later Snape pulled away and Harry realized that there were tears rolling down his cheeks.
"I thought I lost you." He told him as he pulled a strand of hair away from his face and tucked it around his ear.
"I'm sorry Sevie," Harry began before he placed his tiny hand upon his cheek and rested it there. "why are you crying?" he asked him.
"I'm just so glad that you're alright, I was worried sick about you." Snape began. "If something ever happened to you I don't know what I'd do. I love you Harry, I love you just as if you were my own little boy." He told him while the tears continued flowing down his cheeks.
"You do?" Harry asked him eagerly now blinking away his own tears.
"Yes. Very much so." Snape told him with a nod while he gently rubbed away his tears with his thumb and continued holding onto his cheek while gazing inside his eyes. "And I love your mother. I want to marry her and adopt you, we can be a family if you want to. Would you like that?" he asked him as Harry nodded and sniffed before wiping his nose on the back of his hand.
"Very much thank you," he began before another tear rolled down his cheek as he smiled at him. "I'd like that more than anything,.. Daddy." He told him before Snape breathed another sigh of relief while they both threw their arms around each other and hugged each other tightly. Snape kissed his cheek before he lifted him up inside his arms.
"Come on Harry, let's get you back to your mother." He told him before he turned around and realized that they were now in the center of a death eater circle.
"Well, well, well,.. isn't that sweet." A cold voice hissed when all of a sudden Lucius Malfoy stepped out of the shadows. "How very touching indeed, little Harry Potter finally gets a father at last. Too bad that he won't live too long to enjoy it." He said with a sly grin.
"You stay away from him," Snape began as he started backing away from him while Harry hid his face inside his chest. "I mean it." He growled.
"I'm sorry Severus but I can't do that. You see in order for the dark lord to return he has to have Harry's blood to do so." Lucius explained.
"I don't care, he can go to Hell for all I care! I don't want anything more to do with him!" Snape yelled angrily.
"Get the boy." Lucius said as he turned to look at Peter.
"With pleasure." He responded with a proud grin.
"Daddy help me!" Harry cried. "They're coming after me! They're going to kill me!" he sobbed.
"It's alright Harry, I'm not going to let anything happen to you. I promise you that. Now grab onto me and hold tight. Don't let go no matter what? Do you understand?" Snape questioned him as Harry nodded and tightly closed his eyes before grabbing ahold of his shoulder and squeezing his tiny little body tightly against his chest. Snape closed his own eyes and within a few moments later they disappeared and reappeared in front of the castle.
That's when all of a sudden Harry looked up and saw his mother rushing out of the castle doors and headed straight towards him. "Mummy!" he cried excitedly while reaching his little arms out at her.
"Oh my God, Harry! My baby!" she exclaimed before she scooped him up inside her arms and hugged him tightly. "I'm so glad you're alright." She told him breathing a sigh of relief as she gently rocked him back and forth. Then she glanced up at Snape. "Thank you for saving him Severus." She told him.
"For the time being." He responded.
"What do you mean?" Lily asked him anxiously.
"Well I don't think that will be Pettigrew's last attempt to bring Harry over to Voldemort. But I'll never stop protecting him from that monster. Right now, I think it's best for you and Harry if you both go back home to the Dursleys." He explained.
"But, but, I don't want to go back!" Harry cried suddenly bursting into tears again. "I want to stay with you!" he sobbed.
"Listen child_" Snape began but Harry wasn't listening.
"I thought that you said that you loved me and my mother!" he wailed.
"That's because I did and I do, I want to protect_" Snape continued but Harry interrupted once again.
"No you don't! It's not fair! If you really loved us you wouldn't make us go back there! They hate us!" he yelled now choking over his own tears.
"Harry please darling, calm down and listen to him." Lily told him soothingly.
"Harry, Harry look at me." Snape began as Harry reluctantly looked over at him with a sniff. "Harry you were right about everything. If I would have told your mother how I felt about her in the first place then maybe you wouldn't be where you are right now. I mean after all, how should I expect her to know if I didn't tell her first myself. And I do love you both so much Harry, and that's why it's breaking my heart that I have to do this but I want you to understand that this isn't forever." He told him with a shake of his head.
"Really? You really mean it this time?" Harry questioned him.
"With every breath that I take and everything that I am. I intend to keep my promise and become the father,.." he began before glancing up at Lily. "and the husband that I said that I would be. That is, if you'll have me." He said.
"Oh Severus," Lily began as she took a deep breath and sighed while a tear rolled down her cheek. "I wouldn't have it any other way." She told him softly.
"That settles it then. I'll alert Professor Dumbledore and tell him that you two will be on the train home tomorrow." He told them before he turned around and walked away. Harry gave another sniff as he watched him go along with his mother who still had silent tears falling down her cheeks.