Severus' Daughter: Year One

Chapter 5: Albus Enters the Picture

Albus sat in his office silently for a while after Severus left it. He had to admit that he was sorry for leaving Rosalie where he knew she would not be treated well, but she needed to be protected by the blood wards. He didn't know they would physically abuse her. And he was sorry about not returning their memories either, but it had to be done. If she was raised by Severus then she wouldn't have been easy to mould into the Chosen One, the girl he needed to fight and destroy Voldemort. That was why he let the Ministry send Sirius to Azkaban without a trial as well, had he raised her she wouldn't have been easy to manipulate.

But he did, truly, care for his son and granddaughter. He had to admit that at first he only adopted Severus in the hopes of gaining a spy at some point, and that worked out when he took his memories from the man. But he did come to care for him as well.

He would try to stop manipulating his family, he decided. He wanted to be part of their lives, and maybe if they came to care for him they would help him in other ways. He would still need Rosalie to fight Voldemort after all, it was Prophecy, if he was her doting grandfather then maybe she would do it for him anyway.

He realised that classed as manipulating his granddaughter as well, but he needed her to fight, no matter how much he cared about her.

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The next morning he floo'd to Moon Cottage to find Minerva sitting on the large sofa in the living room, reading a book. She looked at him when she heard the floo go off and glared at him.

"What are you doing here, Albus?" Minerva asked as she closed her book and put it in her lap.

"I'm here to apologise. Where are Severus, Remus and Rosalie?" He said sincerely, his eyes twinkling.

"Remus is washing the dishes. Severus is bathing Rosalie, then he'll be massaging her legs with the healing salve whilst helping her with her exercises. You realise you are going to need to do a whole lot more than just apologise, don't you? Because of you Rosalie, our granddaughter, was severely abused. That isn't worth a simple apology." She sneered.

"I know, Minerva. I am truly sorry, and I will do anything to show you all that." He replied guiltily.

"You better, that girl has been through hell and back because of you. And Severus, you know how bad he has been these past ten years, yet you didn't give him his memories back. The memories that would have made him at least slightly happy again. He's your son Albus, whether you adopted him because you cared about him or not, he's your son, and you hurt him."

"I know, but I'll make it up to both of them, I promise."

That was when Remus entered the room, he growled as soon as he saw Albus standing in the room. He walked back out of the room and up the stairs, stopping by Rosalie's bedroom door and knocking on it gently.

"Come in." Severus said, and Remus entered, closing the door behind him.

"What's the matter, Remus?" Severus asked, looking up at his friend, still massaging his daughters' legs though, and noticing his angry eyes.

"Albus is here. In the living room." Remus replied calmly, not wanting to scare his goddaughter.

Severus' eyes held anger in them for a second before he managed to get a hold of himself and turn his attention back to his daughter. "Do you know why he is here?"

"No, I walked out almost as soon as I saw him." Severus gave his friend a knowing look before finishing the massage and exercises.

Severus walked into the en-suite to wash his hands before entering the bedroom again. "Remus, can you stay with Rosie whilst I go and see what he wants, please?" Remus nodded and Severus kissed his daughters' forehead before heading to the living room.

When he saw Albus sitting in an armchair in the living room his anger rose, but he tried not to let it flare, not wanting to scare his daughter.

"What do you want, old man?" Severus asked, relatively calmly.

"Severus, I have come to apologise. You were right, I was trying to use you, but I promise I will stop. I will make it up to you. You don't have to spy anymore, and I won't use Rosalie, I promise. Although, we will have to help her when the time comes. She is still the child of the Prophecy, but only when she is older will we start her training. And I won't do anything without your permission. And I will make everything up to her as well. I'm sorry I didn't give you all your memories back, I honestly thought she would be safe with the Dursleys, and I knew Voldemort would be back one day. I'm sorry." Albus said sincerely.

"I still don't trust you. And my daughter has been told to not trust you fully either. When she starts school you will act like a Headmaster should act towards her. You won't train her in anything until I say so. You will not put her in any unnecassary danger. You will not care about what House she is sorted into. You will not show your blatant favouritism towards Gryffindor. You will stop giving me Gryffindors and Slytherins together, because even if i change my attitude, they won't change theirs and there is going to be issues, as always. You will help her if she needs help. You will not withold information she should know from her, or information I should know from me. You will not use her friends to get any information about her. You will stop using children in your war. And you will make everything you have ever done wrong right again. And I mean everything. Because you know that I will find out everything eventually, and if I find out that you have not sorted everything out then you will be in trouble, and I will take my daughter to another country so you won't be able to use her in any of your schemes. Do you understand me, Albus?" Albus nodded. "Good… What is the first thing you are going to put right?" Severus asked, eyes narrowed.

Albus gulped. He knew what he should start with but that didn't mean he wanted to.

"I am going to get Sirius out of Azkaban." He stated nervously.

"What? Why on Earth would you do that?" Severus glared at the man.

"Because he's innocent."

"If he was innocent they would have found out at his trial, then they wouldn't have put him in Azkaban." Severus growled.

"He didn't have a trial. As Chief Warlock I could have given him one, but I didn't want to, knowing that he would have been deemed innocent and gotten custody of Rosalie. Peter Pettigrew was their Secret Keeper, not Sirius. He was the one that gave their location to Voldemort."

"That doesn't mean that Sirius isn't a murderer."

"He isn't. A few years ago I found Peter alive and well, I got him to tell me what happened with some Veritaserum. Peter killed those muggles, cut his finger off, and transformed into his Animagus form of a rat before fleeing."

"You left an innocent man in Azkaban? Just so you could place Rosalie with her abusive relatives?" Minerva asked, shocked.

"I needed to keep her in the Blood Wards, where she was safe from anyone who wanted to hurt her."

"Anyone but her relatives, you mean? You better work on getting Sirius out of Azkaban, old man. And if you don't stick to those conditions, or get my friend out of Azkaban, then we will all leave and you can deal with the Dark Lord on your own." Severus growled.

Albus nodded and left through the floo.

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Later that night, whilst Rosalie was in bed, Severus and Minerva were in the kitchen with Remus; all of them sitting at the table, trying to explain what Albus had done to Sirius, and to console the man who Sirius had been married to, still was married too.

Remus was crying at the thought of his husband being in Azkaban, all alone. His innocent husband. Remus had been questioning why Sirius would have done what he supposedly did ever since that night, not understanding why. But now he knew that his husband was innocent, he didn't deserve to be in Azkaban.

Severus held his friend in his arms, comforting him. Not knowing what else to do. But hoping that Albus would be able to get Sirius out of Azkaban soon, so that Remus wouldn't be in such a state, and Sirius wouldn't be around the Dementors anymore when he didn't deserve it. Because if he didn't then he would have a lot of trouble on his hands.

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