Snape Spawn iv
Sirius Black x Snape!reader
part one, part two, part three
Highkey don't remember how different the Battle in the Department of Mysteries is in the movies vs books so... enjoy part iv ❤︎
3.2k words
cw: age gap!, Y/N, angst, fluff
You don’t heal overnight. That’d be a miracle. At least by the end of the week, standing up doesn’t hurt as much and you’re able to walk. You had a few visitors here and there as news got around. Molly stayed to take care of you until that first week was over; then she left and Remus and Sirius took over.
After the second week, Severus came back to check on you, bringing another bottle of potion for you. He seemed disappointed that you were still at Grimmauld Place. Except he didn’t express that directly to you.
“She’ll only be here a few more days. Then she’ll move back to her flat and Bill or Tonks can check on her,” Severus told Remus, and technically Sirius as he was in the kitchen with Remus.
“Y/N is welcome to stay as long as she likes,” Sirius said.
“I assure you she’ll be going home.”
Remus sent Sirius a warning glance, silently begging him not to start something.
“And if she doesn’t? What if… she wants to stay?”
Severus scoffed. “No one wants to stay here.” He paused. “Especially with you.”
Sirius’ chair scraped loudly against the floor as he stood up. He fully intended on crossing the room to tell Severus some of the things you and him did. But then you appeared in the doorway.
“Dad, you can leave now. And I’ll leave when I feel like it,” you said, calm yet firm.
“You’ll leave when you finish that potion.”
“No. I’ll leave when I want to. And that’s not something you will choose for me.” You took a few steps into the kitchen as you spoke. “There is no need for you to play the role of protective father. Not now, not ever.” You shook your head and let a bitterness lace your voice. “You barely played the role of father. Go back to Hogwarts and I’ll be wherever I want to be with whomever I want to be with.” And then a softness as you glanced over at Sirius. “Mind you, that’s Sirius. Just to be clear.”
Severus took a sharp breath. “I did the best I could for you.”
“You turned away from me.”
“That was-”
“I’m sure it wasn’t once. Just get out.” Severus didn’t move. “Leave!”
Severus glared at Sirius and spat, “Look at what you did.”
Then he moved past you to leave out the front door. You scoffed and shook your head before moving to put the kettle on the stove. You could feel Remus and Sirius watching you. Sirius had a look of admiration. Remus was worrying that you were destroying whatever relationship you had with your father for one with Sirius. He had seen how happy you apparently make each other, but he wasn’t sure if it was worth it in the long run. Clearly, Severus was one for holding grudges and he doubted that would be any different for his daughter, even what just happened.
“Either of you want a cup?” you asked.
“Might as well,” Sirius said, his smile audible in his voice.
Remus sighed. “I’m alright.”
As expected, you didn’t go back to your flat after you finished the potion your father brought you. You opted for sleeping in Sirius’ bed and keeping him company. You were pretty sure that the two of you were driving Remus crazy, not that you were going to do anything about it.
You had written to your friends at some point. You told them you had a mishap with a potion you were tinkering with, something to imply that you were injured but not enough to warrant visits. You read your letters out loud to Sirius and told him about each friend. You recounted your Hogwarts adventures. Sometimes you felt like your time being an unsanctioned potions dealer paled in comparison to Sirius’ time sneaking into Honeydukes and pranking his classmates in ways that outshined the Weasley twins. But Sirius listened with rapt attention to each story, taking in each and every detail of your life.
The letter that caught you by surprise was one from Fred and George. Yes, you had been discussing logistics and possible partnerships, but the most recent letter said that they left school. Sirius barked a loud laugh. Loud enough that Remus came up to the sitting room from the kitchen to see what that was about.
“The twins! Set of fireworks all through Hogwarts! And left on brooms!” he recounted to Remus through his laughter. “I knew I liked those two.”
“They said they stopped by my shop but saw it was closed,” you added.
“Remember you can’t tell them anything in a letter,” Remus said. “If they come here, fine. But you know the rules. Nothing in writing.”
“Yes, professor.”
Remus rolled his eyes and left you alone again.
“You know he hates-”
“If he’s going act like one, I’m going to call him professor.”
When you wrote back, you told the boys that your shop was closed for the time being as you recovered from an injury. You didn’t need to say from a “potions incident.” They were at least Order-adjacent and could put two and two together.
And they did, being that they showed up to headquarters the next day. They got the short and sweet version of what happened to you. Went on a mission with Tonks and ran into unexpected Death Eaters. Got hit with a nasty spell and I’ve had to stay here to heal up. No mention of where you actually went with Tonks, no mention of Marcus Flint – although his presence there might have been just sheer coincidence – no mention of how you weren’t conscious when Tonks brought you back. And the obvious leaving out that at this point you were actively choosing to stay at Grimmauld Place.
“Sounds like you’ve been having as horrible of a spring as we have,” George muttered before going into a rant about Umbridge.
Then they talked about how things were going with moving into the flat above the storefront they secured for their joke shop. They had started setting up a layout for the store and ordering products. They even had an estimate for when they’d be able to open. Nothing was set in stone – too many things could set them back. But they were excited and you shared in it.
Within the week, you did go back to your flat. It was nice to shower in your home shower again. It was nice to have full choice of your wardrobe again; you had Tonks grab you some clothes not long after the mission. You started opening your shop again a few days a week and brewing regularly to keep stock up. You still spent a lot of time at Grimmauld Place with Sirius. It was just now you had to return to the you had before you got hurt.
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You were in the sitting room, curled up on a chair with a book, when the fireplace crackled. It spurted. You nearly jumped out of your skin.
“Sirius!” a voice called.
You scrunched your face with confusion as you closed your book and set it down. You cautiously got out of your chair.
“Sirius?”
“Hello? Harry?” you asked, now crouching down next to the hearth. “Are you okay?”
“Y/N? Where’s Sirius?” Harry asked, rather than answering your question. His face was a bit jarring to see in the ashes.
“Upstairs. Harry, he’s just upstairs. With that hippogriff,” you said, feeling his urgency.
“Are you sure? Are you sure that You-Know-Who doesn’t have him?”
“You-Know-Who? Harry, what are you talking about?”
“I saw him torturing Sirius somewhere with prophecies.”
“Unless the attic got a drastic makeover…”
“Y/N, can you go get him? I need to see him. I need to know that he’s not in danger.”
“I’ll be right back. Don’t worry, Harry. He’s okay.”
You stood up and left the room. You take the steps multiple at a time until you reach the attic where the hippogriff was kept. You didn’t know about it for a while, which you found so odd given how much time you ended up spending in the house. Sirius was standing up from the hippogriff when he saw you standing in the doorway.
“What’s wrong?”
“Harry’s-”
“Harry?” Sirius practically ran into you at the mention of his godson. “What’s wrong with Harry?”
“He’s in the sitting room, needs to see you.”
“He’s here?” he asked, hurrying down the stairs with you following close behind.
“No. Talking through the floo network.”
Sirius burst into the sitting room and sprinted to the fireplace.
“Harry?” he gasped.
No response. Harry wasn’t there anymore.
“I swear he was there,” you said.
“What did he say?”
“He thought You-Know-Who had you. That he was torturing you. Something about prophecies?”
“We need to tell the Order,” Sirius said firmly.
You and Sirius talked to Remus, telling him what little information Harry told you. Remus figured out that Harry must’ve snuck into Umbridge’s office to use the floo network, given that all the other fireplaces were being watched. He communicated with other members of the Order that there might be activity at the Ministry of Magic, specifically the Department of Mysteries. Remus went with the other after ordering you and Sirius to stay put. Grimmauld Place was safe.
It’s a long evening. You and Sirius returned to the sitting room, except rather than sitting with Sirius or with a book, you started brewing. Healing potions and numbing potions and sleeping draughts. Anything you thought might be helpful when the Order members returned. Sirius watched you with careful eyes as you stirred, chopped and mixed. He knew you needed to be doing something. He wished he could be doing something helpful too, rather than just sitting and watching.
“They should be back by now,” you said with a frown after a while.
“They’ll get back when they get back,” Sirius said, trying to sound comforting despite his own worry. “Maybe they returned to the Weasleys’ or somewhere else.”
You shook your head. “They’d come here. Headquarters. … What if Remus-”
“Remus will be fine. Everyone will be fine.”
Sirius had to say that. If he didn’t, he’d start to believe otherwise and he refused to lose Remus to some mission. You finished your last batch of healing potions and then you went to sit with Sirius, curling into his side and wrapping your arm around him.
“At least Harry’s safe,” you mumbled and Sirius hummed in agreement.
Time took its sweet time passing and it was well into the morning by the time the front door opened and voices carried up the stairs. You had fallen asleep on Sirius. He gently propped you up against a pillow and went downstairs to see what had all happened.
Remus recounted what happened. Without Harry there, the prophecy couldn’t be moved, but when the Death Eaters realized that the plan failed and that they were facing Order members rather than a mere teenager, all hell broke loose. Someone got pushed into a shelf and they fell like dominoes, causing hundreds of prophecies to be destroyed and never heard again. But that wasn’t the kicker. No. Voldemort actually showed up in what Remus called a desperate attempt to maybe find his prophecy among the wreckage, but Dumbledore made an appearance. Dumbledore was able to hold Voldmort at bay for a while and then Fudge arrived with other members of the ministry. Somewhere in all of the commotion, the Death Eaters and Voldemort disappeared. The point was that Fudge saw. Fudge knew that Harry and Dumbledore weren’t lying.
You’d be told all of this in the morning, although Sirius made the smart choice to preface the story with “No one was gravely injured and no one died.”
As the end of the school year approached, Sirius seemed to vibrate with excitement. His name still hadn’t been cleared with the ministry so he was still supposed to be hidden within Grimmauld Place, but his offer to Harry about maybe having the boy move in stood. Dumbledore didn’t seem too pleased with it, but Sirius would not drop it. Not until the old man compromised. If Harry could start the summer at the Dursleys and then spend most of it with the Weasleys, then Harry could start with his aunt and uncle and then move in with his godfather.
“We’ll tell him after he moves in and gets settled, yeah? Oh, this is going to be brilliant! Then we’ll get my name cleared and I can get a motorbike again and then we can travel or something!” Sirius ranted as he marked off a day on a calendar counting down until Harry’s arrival.
“The summer is only so long, Sirius. He is going back to school in September,” you said smiling.
Sirius waved his hand dismissively. “I know that. But there’s Christmas and next summer and the rest of our lives!”
“Rest of our lives, huh?”
“Rest of our lives.”
The day that Harry arrives, you hang back. To your relief, Remus and a few others were around to ensure that the move went smoothly. It wasn’t just you and the two boys. Sirius showed Harry to the room that would be his, a different one than he’d lived in last summer. This one Sirius insisted that Harry decorate and make his. Watching Sirius with his godson brought a joy to you that you couldn’t quite place. Sirius just lit up around him and you knew part of it was making up for lost time.
Dinner was a big ordeal with everyone around and then slowly, the house emptied out. You had discussed with Sirius that it was probably better if you weren’t spending the night right away when Harry got there. Let him get used to living with Sirius before adding you into the picture. So, you left with the Weasley twins, being that you were both going back to Diagon Alley.
“Have you always hugged Sirius?” George asked as the three of you walked down the front steps and turned down the street.
“Hm?” you hummed.
“I saw you hug Sirius before we left,” George said. “Have you always done that?”
You didn’t answer right away. You were going to tell people about you and Sirius. This could be your first time telling someone, being that Sirius told your father.
“I mean, not always, but I s’pose it’s been a while?”
The boys exchanged a glance.
“You don’t hug Professor Lupin,” Fred stated.
There it was. They had a feeling and you knew they had a feeling.
“He prefers it if you call him Remus.”
“Fine, Remus. You don’t hug Remus, but you hug Sirius?” Fred asked with a roll of his eyes.
“Yes. I’m… closer with with Sirius.”
“Closer how?” Fred pressed.
“I’m seeing him,” you said quickly, keeping your gaze straight ahead. You didn’t really want to see the twins’ reactions.
“You’re seeing him?” George repeated.
“Yes.” You paused as you walked. “Been seeing him since September.”
“That’s why you spent the night in his room after Christmas!” Fred exclaimed. “I knew there was something bogus with that!”
“I was trashed, thank you very much. But, erm, he may have been lying when he said he slept on the floor.”
George laughed. “Damn, Snape, you’re really dating one of the ‘most dangerous’ men according to wizardkind.”
“You both know he’s innocent!”
“Not of cradle robbing,” Fred said.
“It’s… it’s not like that.”
“Oh? So he’s not the same age as your father? The same age as Remus who also taught you?”
“No, he is. It’s just… Different.”
“I’m sure he is,” George said. “Because you’re letting him put his-”
“And we are changing the subject!” you said firmly, feeling yourself turn pink. “But, um, we haven’t told many people. Namely, Harry. So don’t bring it up around him, yeah? Not until we have a chance to talk to him.”
“Yeah, you can deal with that dumpster fire.”
You’re not over at Grimmauld Place every day. But it does return to the point where you’re there multiple times a week. Days that you have your shop open are the ones you tried to stay fully at home, but sometimes you still stopped by for dinner or to drop off a new book for Sirius. Two weeks pass before you spend the night with Sirius again. You and Sirius talked about Harry and how he didn’t seem to mind you being around. Sirius assured you that the boy would take it in stride when he told him.
In the morning, you left a sleeping Sirius in bed to make your morning tea. You sipped it slowly as you skimmed the Daily Prophet. You didn’t look up when Harry entered the kitchen; out of habit, you had thought it was Sirius.
“No offense, but why are you here?” he asked, making you jump.
You set the paper down. Straight to business and no good morning. So much for him not minding you being around. His green eyes stared at you, waiting for your answer.
“Can’t you have tea at your own flat? Or with the twins or something?” he continued when you didn’t have an answer right away.
“I mean, I can have tea at mine, but I like to have it right when I get up. You know, I don’t like going somewhere for it when it’s right here?”
“But you came here?”
“I came downstairs, yes.”
“No, you came here. To Grimmauld Place.”
“Harry, uh, I came here yesterday. You remember that, right?” He nodded. “I never left. So that’s why I’m here, I guess.”
“You spent the night? Why?” Harry was remembering when you were too drunk to leave around Christmas, but last night, you hadn’t been drinking at all.
“I’m in a relationship with Sirius?” you said, hating how your voice lifted at the end, making it sound more like a question than a statement.
Harry stared at you wordlessly for what felt like five minutes. You brought your cup to your lips to take a sip. Anything would be better than him staring at you like that, but it also felt wrong to pick up the paper to continue reading.
“What?” he finally asked.
“I’m dating Sirius. Uh, have been for a few months.” Few. Right, you could correct the timeline later.
“You’re… but you were in school with me, right? Few years ago?”
You nodded, knowing exactly where Harry was going. It was the same place the twins went.
“And you’re aware… Snape and Sirius… they hate each other.”
You laughed. “I’m very aware of that.”
“And they went to school together. With my dad.”
“Yes.”
Harry watched you for a second before saying, “Gross.”
Without taking anything from the kitchen, he walked out and you heard him go back upstairs. You assumed he was going to his room. You sighed and picked up your paper again. It could’ve gone worse. He could’ve spat in your face like Severus did to Sirius. Also like with your dad, it probably would’ve gone better if the other half of the relationship broke the news.
“I told him,” you said quietly when you looked from the paper to see Sirius entering the kitchen and making a beeline for the kettle.
He hummed. “And?”
“He said gross.”
Sirius barked a laugh as he poured himself a cup of tea. Then he took the seat next to you and kissed your forehead.
“Now the big three know, yeah? And guess what, I still love you.”
You smiled. “I love you too.”
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