Severus was watching master Potter play with little master Teddy while he finished placing Potions on the shelves - high enough so that the child would not be able to reach them. Sometimes the slave thought his master enjoyed playing even more than the child did. He remembered what he’d heard once about Potter’s childhood ( Read more... )

Patronuses

Spring of 1999

Ginny Weasley lay on her bed in the dormitory.
It was the middle of the night and all her colleagues were long asleep. Darkness reigned supreme, dispersed only by two silhouettes in the
middle of the room.
Two Patronuses.
The slim, silvery mare whinnied softly and backed away a few steps. The stallion in front of her stepped ( Read more... )

Chapter 1

May 2000 
Severus rubbed his forehead with his hand. He tore his eyes away from the book he’d been studying. He reached for a glass and drank its entire contents in one gulp. Usually he eschewed alcohol - he had no desire to become a copy of his father - but this was an unusual situation. Those books just couldn’t be understood normally.
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Master Potter kept
true to his word, Severus thought - sitting on his bed and playing with
little Lupin. Mistress Potter had gone out for the next training, and
her husband was sorting out his papers before a mission - from what the
slave knew, his first.

'Severus!' his master peeked into the drawing room. 'Teddy should rest now, and I've got a request ( Read more... )

When Severus opened his eyes the first thing he saw was white. He no longer felt that awful pain. He could not move, but it was probably normal. He seemed to have died… as well he should. Nobody will be able to torment him more. He thought he would see Lily.
He felt someone touching his hand. He tried to turn around. He managed to move his eyes, ( Read more... )

Severus spent the first days of November like in a dream. He was taking care of little Lupin, that he did, but his thoughts were wandering somewhere far away. Sometimes he believed the year to be 1980, sometimes he thought he is back in the cell, and at yet other times he believed himself still a child ( Read more... )

Secret

Autumn of 1997

Severus Snape was patrolling the corridors of Hogwarts. His dark cloak was billowing in the rhythm of his steps. Ever since a group of brats had started trying to continue Potter's idea - the so-called Dumbledore's Army - he had begun personally keeping the order. One never knows what his two newest teachers will get up to ( Read more... )

Chapter 5

Severus was slowly getting used to being the Potters' slave. They treated him better than he could have expected - since two weeks they wanted him to eat with them. He had expected that master Potter would want to have his revenge on him - he certainly did remember that he was not his favorite teacher.

That did not happen, and his ( Read more... )

Chapter 4

A few days later Severus woke in the morning in an awful mood. The entire night he was haunted in his dream by a ghost of a redhaired woman with master Potter's green eyes. He remembered her name was Lily, but he didn't know what he had to do with her. What was worse, he woke up really aroused…

When he lay and tried to calm down, he ( Read more... )

Severus was sitting on a sofa, tossing a plushie snitch in the direction of young Lupin, when he heard the door opening. He stiffened - the child looked at him weirdly - but relaxed a bit, when Ginny Weasley's… pardon, Potter's… voice drifted to him. I have to get used at last, passed through his head.

Potter's wife walked into the room half a ( Read more... )