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Promises of Forever	By : Ravenheart Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Snape/James Views: 18939 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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A/N: A bit earlier than
usual, because I'm not at home =) Laptop's here all right, but since
I'm at the beach... well you all can probably guess that I will not
be here on the computer for long... so enjoy and until next week!!

Tittle: Promises
of forever

Chapter: 16
– Gossip

Pairing: James
Potter & Severus Snape

Summary: James
survived that fated Halloween night, now with an infant by his side
he has to face adulthood and a world that demands his son. Thank
goodness he has Severus Snape on his side.

Warning:
Character Death, OOCness, cuteness, AU, Harry's three months old
instead of 15 months. Manipulative!Dumbledore, Evil!Tom Riddle

Disclaimer: This
is a work of fiction, written to win the NaNoWriMo challenge. No
money is being made from this and no copyright infringement is
intended.

Previously: The
reporter could only nod before she made herself and her companion
scarce, the overall mood in the room taking a turn for the worse.

Gossip
and News

“Now James...
it's not polite to make guests leave, specially when they're not your
guests...” Dumbledore said, peeking at James above his half
moon spectacles.

“It's not polite
to trick your guests either Headmaster.”

“Can you blame an
old man for doing what he thought was necessary to bring one of his
boys out of his self-imposed shell?”

“Self-imposed
shell?” James asked, a frown on his features. “I've been
busy trying to rebuilt my family's vault I didn't exactly had time to
keep up with friends, specially ones who refuse to accept my new
reality.” He said with a meaningful glance at Sirius.

“Well if you'll
excuse me professor, I'm going to pick up my son.” he didn't
wait for an answer before flooing to the Longbottom State.

When he got there, he
saw both Harry and Neville sitting on the playpen and playing ball,
throwing it at the other.

“Harry...”
James called, causing his child to turn his face this way and that
until he spotted his father, a smile lighting up his baby face.

“Come on kitten,
come to daddy” He urged staying just out of reach of the
babies. “Come on love, you can do it!” he smiled, patting
his lap.

But Harry just scowled
at him before angrily patting the plush carpet they were in. Soon
enough Neville joined him, both of them creating a racket.

“Demanding little
squirt aren't you?” he grinned, plucking Harry out of the floor
and onto his lap as he sat on the floor, nuzzling the baby cheek and
getting a sloppy kiss in return, Harry opening his mouth and latching
on James' chin and his 5 o'clock shadow. It was hard to believe that
less than two hours ago he was shouting at Snape only for them to
have angry sex...

“I know, I
know... I need to shave!” he laughed, picking up the baby and
lifting him in his arms, far above the head and looking into the
bright green eyes of his son. Soon he had to try and swallow his
tears without much success, but he didn't care, only the babies were
there. They wouldn't remember his tears.

“And to think
they want to take you away from me. I didn't want to believe it at
first but I've seen how Albus looked at me today, I've no doubt he
wants to do it for the greater good but...” and he paused,
closing his eyes, letting the tears fall as he nuzzled the soft
tummy, Harry yanking at his hair.

“How can it be
for the greater good to separate a parent from their child?” He
asked, not really expecting an answer. “I think Severus is
right, this is just a different type of evil.” He gave Harry a
bitter smile, wiping the tears from his face, too much going on, too
much to swallow all at once and, frankly, he just needed some peace.
He needed to think and sort everything out.

Too bad he didn't have
time for that.

“You know Harry,
we can't travel this year kitten, you're too young, but next year...
when we're all a bit older, I'll take you somewhere nice where we can
relax, maybe the beach, maybe the mountains... I'll take you and
Severus if he'll let me.” He smiled slightly, eyes still damp,
before putting Harry on the ground next to Neville.

“And you little
lion cub, what are we going to do with you?” He grinned,
picking up his wand and conjuring two soft plushies for them, along
with colour changing balls and bright red plush dice. His eyes
brightened as his son immediately latched on the bright green dragon
plush, Neville taking the griffin. He saw his... nephew perhaps...
frowning at the griffin, before closing his eyes tight.

“What is it Nev?
Something wrong little lion?” He asked. He was surprised a
moment later when, with a soft pop, the griffin changed from it's
usual yellowish colour to a bright blue. James' eyes widened before
he clapped, delighted. Harry following soon after with baby claps and
some words in baby speech that James was simply unable to understand.

“Well done little
lion, well done!” he grinned, content to just watch the
children, but still getting ideas.

Careful to not startle
them, he called one of the Longbottom's house elves, asking for
Frank, and just getting a meek response that he would be with then
shortly.

As he waited for Frank
to show up, he prodded one of the balls with his wand, changing it to
bright purple before sending it to Neville. Neville, in turn, just
watched the ball, frowning at it, and then at James before the ball
also turned to Blue, rolling gently towards James again.

“Unbelievable,
simply unbelievable.” He grinned, directing the ball towards
Harry.

“Come on squirt,
you can do it too.”

Harry looked at the
ball as well, picking it up with chubby hands before throwing it at
his father. The ball changing to a bright green in the middle of it's
course.

“Genius!”
The former auror murmured. “Absolute genius! Both of you.”
He grinned, before continuing the game.

Five minutes later,
when Frank and Augusta stepped into the nursery, they found two
giggling and babbling infants and one former auror.

James immediately
looked at them, putting his finger on his mouth to ask for silence as
Neville threw the ball at Harry, James indirectly slowing it down to
a gentle impact. Harry changed the ball's colour again before
throwing at James, getting delighted claps both from Neville and his
own father as Frank stepped within site to see what was really going
on.

James swiftly changed
the colour to red before gently throwing to Neville, who changed the
colour to blue again before throwing it at Harry and giving a
toothless grin to James...

Frank grabbed onto his
mother's arms as he stared. The Healers had told him it would take a
long time for his boy to get his magic back but this! He didn't
expect it to happen until his lion was one. To see him manipulating
his magic like that...

When James and Harry
clapped for Neville, Frank joined them, absolutely delighted to have
witnessed that. He mouthed a silent 'thank you' to James before
sitting on the floor with them. They spent part of the afternoon
playing with their sons before the ones still wearing nappies started
to whine and were promptly bathed, fed and put to sleep.

“How did you do
it?” He whispered as they left the room.

“I did nothing, I
just gave him a stuffed griffin and he changed it to blue, just like
that.” James said, snapping his fingers, a delighted grin on
his face.

“The balls?”

“Colour changing
balls, easier to focus and get them to work.” He grinned.

“So Neville
wasn't...”

“Oh he most
definitely was... they need magic to change it, not thought.”

“I'm not sure how
to thank you James... I thought his magic had suffered and the rest
of the family was starting to think he was a squib.”

“What's wrong
with squibs?”

“Nothing...
unless they're born in the Longbottom family.”

James frowned in
confusion for a moment before he understood. The Longbottoms killed
their squibs, no matter the age. Of course it was easier to just kill
an infant than a child or a teen but still...

“My uncle...
well, one of them, already wanted to throw Neville in the pond to
test his magic. You interrupted us just as I was about to castrate
him for the suggestion.” He grinned weakly, leading the former
marauder to his quarters.

“Seriously?”

“Seriously what?
The magical test or the castration?”

“Both.”

“Yes and...
yes... he was threatening my child. I don't take threats to Neville
easily, specially after that happened.”

James could only nod,
he also didn't take threats to Harry well... and the fact that his
former mentor was the one doing it now...

“Speaking of
threats, Sirius talked to you?” James turned to him suddenly, a
frown marring his features in that expression that Frank new was his
'I'm looking at you innocently but I suspect you of something and
I'll find it out.'

Frank just gave James
an odd look before nodding.

“He said he was
on official Auror business.”

“Official Auror
business? Official Auror business my arse! He practically dragged me
from Spinner's End to Dumbledore so I could have an unplanned
interview with the Daily Prophet.”

“Did you kill
him?” He asked with a dark look. To lie about something like
that... Frank would need to have a serious conversation with Moody
about Sirius.

“We were in front
of Dumbledore, so no. But I was tempted, he said he'd be coming by
later so we could talk, but since we just moved and I don't have a
proper floo network, it's likely that he'll show up here.”
Frank just gave him a tight nod. He knew of the possibility and if he
did... Frank had a bit of a surprise for him.

“And Severus???”
He asked, attempting neutrality.

“We fucked.”

“You... oh come
on! You went there to talk, not fuck!” Frank cried, throwing
his hand skyward as he threw himself on the bed.

“And we did
talk... mostly about why he joined the DEs and I let him know that I
wouldn't be able to forgive him. At least not now...” He
shrugged.

“And then...”

“We fucked. You
know, I think... Lily might have been the only woman for me. I think
after her, love of my life and all, I'll just have to change
preferences to men. No other woman will ever be able to be what she
was... I'll just have to change sexual preferences.”

Frank just snorted,
throwing a cushion at his friend.

“That's all well
and good, but you keep your sexual preferences away from me you
pervert.”

“As if I'd
ever... you're so far from my apparent type that we can consider you
a whole new species!”

“So you go for
tall, dark, skinny, pale like a vampire, with greasy hair and a knack
for the dark arts?” He teased good naturally.

“Yeah well... at
least no one can accuse me of being shallow now!” James
grinned.

Outside Augusta
Longbottom was listening carefully to the conversation and she gave a
heavy sigh. She was just as relieved as Frank with Neville's display
of magic even if it was with a simple colour changing ball. Now James
on the other hand... it looked like Albus was right after all, the
former auror was slowly loosing himself, first the refusal to talk
about that night then leaving Harry with a Death Eater and then...
sleeping with said Death Eater, getting into a relationship with
him?!

Hastily she called the
auror department, asking for Sirius and relaying everything she knew.
James Potter would not turn away from the light side, he would not
start a... a relationship with a Death Eater! He would not! Not if
she had anything to say about it.

In the auror department
Sirius was seething, he considered what James was doing a betrayal,
of the worst kind even... well... maybe not a Wormtail like betrayal
but it was still pretty bad.

First he left the auror
department to work with Goblins, Goblins! Who left the auror
department to work with the bank?!

And then he refused to
show up anywhere, who refused to show up in the news when there was
something to be gained? Women, money, status... One of the other
aurors had said that was a Slytherin mindset, but was it really? Was
it wrong to procure an advantage in life? Was it wrong to try and get
everything you ever wanted life to be? Sirius didn't think so.

And the third offence,
the one he really resented, was the new buddy-buddy relationship
(could it even be called a relationship?) with the greasy git
himself. What was James thinking he knew not, he had left his future
godson with the greasy git! And rumour was he was sleeping with him.

Sirius didn't know if
that was true or not – even if he fervently hoped for a
negative answer when he asked – but it was still an offence.
His mind kept telling him that it was possible, James was half-naked
when they were in Snivellus' house and he smelled faintly of sex.

But could he have
forgotten Lily already? Lily had never been an easy woman to forget.
He knew, by the gods, how he knew that.

He often refused to
think about it but this time it seemed unavoidable. Lily had been one
of the only ones to ever reject him and his attentions.

At the heart of it, it
all came to changes. Sirius never accepted changes as easily as James
did, he often became resentful because of something petty or other.
He was fully aware of that. On that first day of school, back when he
was eleven and changing environments the outlet for that change had
been Lily and Snivellus. Lily because she refused to make friends
with them, and Snivellus because he was the personification of
everything his family wanted him to be.

It only became worse
when Regulus had made friends with the little shit.

“Oi! Sirius!
Someone's asking for you!” came the shout down by the
department doors.

“Coming!”
he shouted back, getting up and tiding up the James Evidence Folder
with a wave of his wand.

If he was in any way
startled that Augusta was the one calling him, he didn't show.

“What can I do
for you Mrs. Longbottom?” He asked, perfectly polite.

“Well... let me
explain myself first auror. You see... I often have tea with Albus on
Wednesdays and somehow or other we came to the subject of James and
Harry. And I told him they had been living with me and my son and
grandson... Albus just told me that... that James had a friend in the
department and that... oh dear, I feel like I'm spelling the beans to
someone...” she muttered, clearly ashamed.

“Don't be sorry
Mrs. Longbottom,” he smiled, even as his mind reeled at the
information, “If James is in trouble I'd like to help.”

“Well... I'm not
sure it's trouble exactly... but I heard my son and James talking
and... apparently, James begun a... a sexual relationship with a
Death Eater.” she pinked, and Sirius thought it had more to do
with the word 'sexual' than with anything else.

“Severus Snape?”

“Yes yes... I
think that's the name he gave my Frank.”

He smiled again and
thanked her, before closing the floo and adding some information to
James' file. He would give it to Albus to give it to the Wizengamot
so they could open a case against his friend. And he couldn't help
but think of Peter's words.

“We're all
selfish beings Mr. Padfoot and we would all rather that the world
screw with our best friend than have it screw with us. That's why I
did it, and that's why you'll do it someday.” And he
couldn't help but think he was right.
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