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A Godfather\'s duty	By : KusanoSaku Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Snape/Remus Views: 26565 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 4
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Title: A Godfather's duty

Pairing: Eventual SeverusxRemus?, parental snarry

Fandom: Harry Potter

Summary: Lily's dead. Harry's missing. Severus' Magical bond to Harry as a godfather is screaming at him to protect him. Severus is in mourning. How does Severus mourn Lily and follow her wishes when everything is against him? He contemplates what to do with the rest of his life when fate takes a hand. Good Malfoys, Good Snape. Dumbles-bashing.

Warning: This chapter is dark and there are references to child abuse. I do not support Abuse in in form I merely show the affect it has on persons. So please don't scream at me because of this chapter.

Chapter 8

Remus wasn’t Beta of his pack for no reason, he didn’t like authority and he wasn’t much of a leader but he did well as an adjunct.

While he had sold his family home to the pack to settle his father’s debts enough to have them cancelled Remus knew every inch of the place. He knew where each pack member and their mate preferred to be. Damocles felt like he was in his lab, no doubt working on his potion to make full moons more bearable. Damocles was determined to make a working potion; he had broken with his family out of love for Corey.

A pureblood heir defying the Head of their Family was almost unheard of, there were supposed to be preventative measures and magic to prevent that. Lucius was strong willed but he couldn’t defy his father until Abraxus was dead and buried or so he thought. Sirius’ case was different; his mother was the true power in the family. For that reason he firmly believed Sirius could tell her where to get off. They rubbed each other the wrong way; he believed that Sirius was sorted into Gryffindor by choice. He was determined to be different. A Black in Ravenclaw was forgivable to a point. A Black in Hufflepuff better go drink poison but a Black in Gryffindor rankled.

That was a topic for another time; right now he had to find Corey. He had no idea what methods Corey had for communicating with Ian and Jayme. He hadn’t saw fit to ask in their brief conversation earlier before Lucius Malfoy arrived and threw so much information at it about Severus that he had a migraine brewing.

Then he sensed Corey’s magic, of course…

Corey was on the lawn behind the house where they held meetings. So were quite a few of the pack, not Ian and if Ian wasn’t there neither was Jayme.

“I discussed this briefly the other day, Cora’s brother is missing. Ian and Jayme said his aunt had him put in an orphanage. Some of you were eager to help. For that I am eternally grateful. This is a choice. I am not going to insist you help. We need names of orphanages. That will require going into the Muggle World, some of you know it better than others. Some have never interacted with Muggles and they will seem strange. They aren’t like us, that is true, they don’t have magic. They don’t understand it and it can frighten them. They also have a worse perception of us than the Wizarding World. Muggles see us all as we see Fenrir Greyback. You will have to control yourself if you go, no snapping, no snarling, you have to be polite. If you travel with a mate who is a wizard you must travel as friends. Muggles are not welcoming of same gender couples. We can pity them but they have caused us injury in the past. We must be better then they are in the sense that we do not attack them out of fear. We need names and locations of every orphanage in Britain. Harry was last smelt in Surrey. Jayme and Ian are starting there. Pick a place, comb it and find any orphanage. Imprint Harry’s scent into your mind like we all did Cora’s. He is pack. Remember that. We must find him.”

David spotted him and nudged his mate.

That movement caught Corey’s attention.

Their alpha turned to him and then stiffened at Remus’ rigid posture.

“What’s wrong Remy?”

“Severus saw into Harry’s mind through the bond.” Remus snarled.

Corey growled, “Remus!.”

Remus was cowed immediately by his Alpha’s displeasure. He pouted, “He had impressions of what he saw, smelt and heard through the bond. I came to tell you…”

Corey patted the grass, “Speak.”

Remus swallowed, resisting the order a little, “Not in front of David and Niles…”

Corey frowned at him, “Why?”

“It’s distasteful and upsetting. I don’t want.”

“We can handle it.” Niles said quietly.

”No.” Remus snarled.

“David perhaps you should take Niles for a run.” Corey sighed.

David nodded, nudging his mate and leading him off.

Remus spoke low, his voice trembling with rage. “He’s confined in a stone room, the air smelt like salt and damp. Harry doesn’t have adequate blankets or care. He’s got a diaper rash from the sounds of it. They are keeping him in a room with a dead baby.”

The growls of the other lycan were deafening.

“What?”

“That’s despicable!”

“And they call us monsters?”

“Nasty Muggles!”

The cries of horror and murmurs of disgust rose on the air.

“So this shrinks our list to orphanages made with stone and near the sea?” Corey asked, his disgust plain.

Remus nodded.

“I’ll contact Ian. Jayme has a two-way mirror. She left me with one when they went to speak with Petunia Dursley. Ian mentioned that her scent was honest when she said he was taken to an orphanage at her orders. Ian wanted to talk to her husband so Jayme promised to contact me,”

“Corey?”

Corey pulled a mirror our of his pocket, “Yes Jayme?”

“We tracked down Vernon Dursley. I flirted with him during his lunch hour and then tricked him into joining me in a private place. we questioned him. Dursley said he did take his useless nephew to the more under-funded orphanage he could find. It had a reputation of sorts. He refused to give us a name but claims we’ll have a hard time finding it.”

“Sea? It’s near the sea.” Remus growled.

“Is that Remus?”

Corey glared at Remus, “Yes. Cora’s uncle had some contact through the bond with her brother. Remus brought the information.”

“Sea? We’ll concentrate on that. The double verification is important. We’ll keep looking. Don’t know when we’ll be back” Jayme said via the mirror.

“Some of the other pack members will be looking up names of Orphanages via Muggle libraries or telephone directories.” Corey nodded.

“I’ll bring anything I get from Severus.” Remus offered, still radiating almost palatable anger

“I’ll contact you later. Ian’s annoyed so I’ll contact you again when we learn something new.”

Then the mirror was dark.

Corey pocketed it again, “So who is willing to find orphanage names and addresses? It shouldn’t be hard to get names only of those near the sea.”

Remus nodded to Corey and left, he was angry still. It would be sometime before he calmed down.

Remus flooed back to Merrivale…

To his surprise, he found Severus holding Coraline.

The sight chased away his anger away.

XoooooX

Severus ‘ eyes snapped the floo when it came to life.

When Remus emerged he flushed, “Sorry. Loll gave her to me. Lolly said Cora was upset because she missed you. Cora was unsure of her.”

Remus stared at him and then smiled, “You don’t have to apologize. It’s your house and she is your niece.”

“She’s your daughter, I should have asked.” Severus protested weakly.

“How exactly could you care for Harry if you don’t spend time with Cora?” Remus asked raising an eyebrow.

Severus mumbled, “You sound like Narcissa.”

Remus frowned, “Narcissa? Lucius mentioned that he’d have her invite us for dinner.”

Severus groaned, “Merlin I hope not. The last thing I want is the two of us at a dinner table with her.”

Remus glared, “Are embarrassed that I live here or that I am Cora’s blood father?”

Severus flushed and shook his head, “No!” he said sharply.

Cora started crying immediately.

Remus swept her up into his arms and rocked her, “Uncle Sev didn’t mean to scare you. It’s alright.”

Severus muttered, “Of course not. It’s complicated.”

“Would it have something to with Lucius mentioning that she would have to stop trying to find you a woman because you have no need for one.”

Severus hid his face in his hands, “Merlin. Lucius! I told you to lay off. Nothing will come of it. Thank god he’s clearly too Slytherin for a Gryffindor.”

Remus’ frown was audible, “Why would you tell him to lay off? He is the head of the Malfoy family and you have Malfoy blood.”

“Was there anything he didn’t tell you?”

“He mentioned that you knew as little about babies as he did because Lily and Narcissa didn’t let you in the nursery.”

Severus swallowed, “At least he didn’t spell it out. That means I can continue to do nothing.”

Remus frowned, “What do you mean?”

“Nothing. Absolutely nothing. We will not be going to Malfoy Manor for dinner. I won’t go. We’ll refuse. I was thrilled to get out of there and way from Narcissa’s tongue.” Severus stood and paced.

“Is there something going on that I should know about? It seems like there are secrets going around that I should be party to.”

Severus shook his head, “No. of course not. It’s nothing important. I just feel that it is better off forgotten.”

XoooooX

Remus stared at the former Slytherin, what in the world was going on with him?

Severus was so defensive, was he really as mentally unstable as Lucius was implying earlier?

Remus decided it was best to keep his own counsel and observe.

What do you think? Outstanding? Exceeds Expectations? Acceptable? Poor? Dreadful? Troll?

A/N:

ChaosLady - Severus has moments where he has more control. Anger and disgust are familiar emotions and he clings to them like a drowning man. Glad you didn't mind the plot twist.
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