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Title: A Second Chance at Love
Rating: PG-13
Summary: After suffering at Death Eater's hands after Neville Longbottom defeat of Voldemort, Lily becomes responsible for James's care. In the aftermath, Severus Snape comes in as a good friend to help her in this trying time and that friendship grows. AU story.
Pairings: Lily/James; Lily/Snape
When Severus returned to Hogwarts he was excited at the prospect at seeing Lily and her new baby in hospital. The next morning he went to the florist in Dragon Alley before heading to the hospital to see Lily. He got a bouquet of lilies for Lily and an arrangement of flowers in a ceramic lamb for Jamie. Of course when he got to the hospital he asked the welcome witch in the front, which ward Lily Potter was in and went straight there. When he entered the ward he saw Lily nursing her new baby daughter and he immediately started to leave the room, until Lily motioned for him to come back in. “Don’t worry I won’t be too long, besides now you’ll have a good look at both of us,” she told him.
“Well, I got these for you and even something for the baby too,” Severus told her handing her the bouquet of lilies and the flower arrangement.
“Well, thank you for being so thoughtful and thinking of the new baby too,” Lily told him while he beamed at the compliment.
“Wow she’s a beautiful baby and she looks just like you,” Severus complimented Jamie. “I’m glad that you think so,” Lily told him while Severus looked nervous around her. “Well, I’ve got to get back to school, but I just wanted to see you and the new baby,” he told her sounding a little bit nervous.
“Well it was good seeing you and I hope that you plan on continuing to visit us, I’ve started to look forward to your visits,” Lily told him as Severus was leaving.
“I will, I’ve enjoyed spending these past few months with you and Harry, even with Black and Lupin,” he answered her as he went out the door, running into Sirius as he left. “Where’s he going?” Sirius asked before noticing the flowers by Lily’s bed.
“He had to go back to school, but here’s little Jamie and yes she’s doing fine. I assume that Remus will be bringing Harry by later on today to see his new baby sister,” Lily answered him.
“Yes since Harry would want to see his baby sister and I believe that he’s taking him to see James afterwards,” Sirius answered her sounding a bit sad at the last part of his statement.
“Of course knowing you, you’ll probably take Jamie to see him too. You do know that he may not realize who you or the kids are,” Lily reminded him.
“I don’t care, but he does have a right to see his kids. By the way who brought you those flowers, they look nice too bad I forgot to get you something,” Sirius replied to her sounding defiant.
“Severus did,” Lily answered him while Sirius tried to hide the look of jealousy from her.
“I don’t care what you think of him, but I think that it was sweet of him to think of both the baby and I by bringing us flowers,” Lily reprimanded him after noticing the scowl on Sirius’s face that he was trying to hide.
“Fine, but don’t come crying to me if he tries anything,” Sirius told her right before he left the ward. “I can’t believe that you’re overreacting about this, besides he’s happy about the new baby,” Lily told him.
“Well, I guess that I’m going to have to tell James that he’s got competition though I’m going to take Jamie up to see him,” Sirius informed her while trying to keep the sadness out of his voice.
“I’m sure that you will as soon as the Healer okays it, since the Healers don’t trust James in leaving his ward. If you tell him that Severus is interested in me, let me know how he reacts to the news. I hate to tell you but he probably wouldn’t understand what you’re trying to tell him,” Lily told Sirius sounding resigned at her husband’s condition.
“Great if you don’t believe me, but I’ll be back again after work to see how the two of you are doing and I might even swing by to see James too,” Sirius told her.
A couple of hours later Remus came in her room carrying Harry who immediately held out his arms for his mum to pick him up as soon as he saw her. Lily then motioned to Remus who sat him down beside his mum in her bed.
“Well, Harry you have a little sister now whom you’ll need to watch out for,” Harry looked at his mum curiously.
“Well is Jamie in the nursery?” Remus asked Lily wondering where she was.
“Yes, but they’ll bring her back in here later on today,” Lily answered Remus’s question. “Good, come on Harry let’s go meet your new sister,” Remus told him as he picked up Harry to take him to the nursery.
“Look Harry see that baby over there that’s your sister,” Remus told him pointing out Jamie to him. Harry just looked bored just being there and looking at the babies.
“Too bad that they won’t let you go in there, but we’ll come back later on when they’ll bring her to your mum’s room and then you’ll be able to see her close up,” Remus told Harry thinking that he looked bored because he couldn’t see his new sister close up and touch her.
He then left the hospital with Harry to visit the shops in Dragon Alley in order for him to pick out a present for his sister. As soon as they went into the toy store Harry started to grab for one of the toy broomsticks that the store had on display, while Remus immediately tried to put his attention elsewhere. As soon as the two of them saw the soft toy display Harry was drawn to the stuffed snitch that they had, while Remus saw a stag that would hopefully remind Jamie that her daddy used to be something other than that guy who now lived in hospital. Of course Remus got Harry the toy snitch as a big brother present and Jamie got the stag as a birthday present. Harry was very happy with his gift and couldn’t wait until he was home to play with it. As soon as he got home Remus gave him his new toy, while he decided to try to wrap Jamie’s gift. Harry soon walked to where Remus was to see what he was doing and he happened to take the toy stag too and start playing with it. When Remus saw what Harry did he took it back from him and Harry started to cry.
“Harry that other toy was for your new sister who was just born not for you. From now on you’re not going to be only child around here, you’re going to have to share with your sister,” Remus tried to explain to Harry that he would now need to share with his new sister.
Harry just looked at him looking disappointed that he didn’t get to play with all of the new toys.
“Here you can play with the snitch that I bought you this afternoon,” Remus told him trying to redirect his attention to another toy that he could play with.
Harry looked at him for a minute and then at the snitch, finally reaching for the snitch and started to play with it. Remus, meanwhile was wrapping up the toy stag for Jamie.
Meanwhile after Sirius got off from work he went straight to the florist in Dragon Alley ordering two dozen lilies for Lily and a floral arrangement for Jamie to be delivered to St. Mungo’s. When Sirius went over to Lily’s later on that day he picked up Remus and Harry and dropped by St. Mungo’s to see Lily and Jamie. Of course when they got to her ward, they were greeted by several floral bouquets in the room.
“Isn’t this great, I’m sure that this is more than what Snivellus bought for you,” Sirius remarked to Lily.
“This isn’t a contest to see who loves me and Jamie the best, so you better not treat it as such,” Lily reminded him since she had a suspicion for his motives in buying her and Jamie all of those flowers.
Remus then handed her his present that he had purchased in the toy store earlier that day. “Thanks, Remus this will help me in telling Jamie about her daddy before his accident,” Lily thanked Remus after she unwrapped the toy stag for Jamie, while Sirius looked at it, wondering if he should get Jamie a toy stuffed dog that looked like his animagius form. When the Healer brought Jamie back into the room to spend time with her family, Harry started to crawl out of the stroller that he was in and reached his arms up for his mummy to pick him up. When she didn’t immediately pick him up, he started crying which Sirius picked him up and tried to cheer him up. He continued crying for his mummy, while Lily frantically tried to reassure him that she still loved him, even though she needed to spend some time with Jamie now. Harry didn’t look too happy at the prospect of sharing his mum with anyone else. Right before she fed Jamie, she showed Jamie to Harry and told him about all of the big brother things that he can show her in the future and that he was to look out for her now.
After Remus left with Harry, Sirius stayed behind to wait after Lily had fed Jamie to take her up to visit James with the Healer’s permission of course. When Sirius entered James’s bed on the ward he brought Jamie to his old friend to show him his new daughter and James just looked straight at him without any expression on his face. When he saw that James didn’t even react to the birth of his daughter, even showing her to him, Sirius vowed that he would be a father figure to James’s kids since it wasn’t the kids’ fault that their own father couldn’t show them love.
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