The Lost Cub

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Remus sat staring at a picture of a baby wrapped in a small pink blanket. The baby looked to be only a couple of hours old and had her father’s black hair and her Dad’s light blue eyes. Her dad’s eyes used to be light blue before a werewolf had bitten him at a young age. The baby had been his daughter who had been taken just after she was born. Her father never even knew she existed.

You see Remus had been dating Severus Snape when they were still in school. The only other person who knew of the relationship had been Remus’s best friend Sirius, who had covered for them when they snuck off to be together. Things had been great after they had gotten together; Severus had forgiven him for the joke played in fifth year when the two had gotten together in seventh.

They had moved in together after graduation and had even talked of bonding. Then one day that all changed when Remus walked in on Severus taking a shower and saw the dark mark. He had run that day and gone to stay with Sirius. A few weeks later he had been told he was pregnant and decided to keep it a secret from his love. Nine months later his daughter was born. He had named the little girl Elena Kathryn Lupin-Snape, Elena after Severus’s grandmother and Kathryn after his favorite aunt, they were the only people in each of their families who ever treated them kindly. Then at night while he slept someone came in and took her from him. He had woken to the sound of Albus Dumbledore actually pleading with the person to give the baby back, but the person portkeyed away with his child.

To make matters worse a law was passed a month later stating all werewolves had to be sterilized to prevent the passing of the gene. The thing that infuriated him was he knew the gene couldn’t be passed as if it could Elena would have had it and she didn’t.

He was brought out of his musings when someone walked up behind him and wrapped powerful arms around him. “Who is that a picture of?” he heard his now husband ask.

He and Severus had gotten back together during the year he taught and had been married now for a short time. Severus was very different when the two were in private; he loved and cared very deeply for Remus.

Severus had changed completely at the end of the term when Harry had defeated Voldemort in the graveyard. The two had married shortly after that, as Severus no longer had to worry about his position as a spy.

“This is Elena, she would have been 15 this year.” Remus said while running his thumb over the picture. He still missed his little girl.

“Elena who? I never knew anyone had a daughter by that name.” Severus said as he studied the picture. The baby was adorable and he found his heartbreak at the thought that he and his love would never get to have children.

“Elena Kathryn Lupin-Snape, she was our daughter, but was taken after she was born.” Remus said while watching his husband’s reaction.

Severus tore the picture out of his husband’s hands. The baby had his hair and skin tone, but the rest was Remus. How could Remus have been pregnant and not told him. Then another thought hit him. His daughter had been taken from her dad when she was a baby and was probably now dead, children didn’t come back during wars.

For the first time since he was a child Severus Snape cried while holding on to his husband as if his life depended on it.

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Albus Dumbledore was sitting in the kitchen of the house where he was hiding Sirius Black while talking with the man. Though Voldemort had been defeated they still hadn’t been able to catch Wormtail.

They were suddenly interrupted when a white owl flew through the window. The younger man got up and got the owl a drink while taking the letter from it.

“Excuse me headmaster, it is from Harry, I just want to make sure every think is ok.”

“Not at all Sirius.”

Albus began thinking back on Harry Potter. The Potters had actually adopted the boy. A member of the order had found him as a baby abandoned on night and brought him to Albus. At first Albus wanted to place the baby with Remus Lupin, but the man was so distraught over the loss of his own baby that he decided to place the boy with James and Lily Potter.

Thinking about Remus’s daughter, Elena always brought a tear to his eye. He had walked into the hospital wing when he sensed something might be wrong and saw what he thought was a deatheater leaving with the baby. He tried everything to get the person to hand the baby back over to him, but nothing worked and the person got away.

He had always blamed himself for Remus’s loss though he knew Remus did not blame him.

He looked up when Sirius started talking again.

“It seems Harry has some questions about his parents. I think it would be best I go to him just incase he has found out he was adopted.” Sirius told him.

“I think I will go with you just incase.” Albus said wanting to make sure one of his favorite students would be safe. And with that the two left.

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Harry Potter was looking at his reflection in the mirror, but instead of a boy it was a girl that looked back at him. The girl had waist length black hair and light blue eyes. This had been something new to him and frankly he was worried. This was why he had written to his godfather, to see if there might have been some magical creature blood that ran in his family as his eyesight had improved to the point where he didn’t need glasses anymore. He had wished he didn’t need them the last time he fought Voldemort.

When he had been taken to the graveyard during the final task of the tri-wizard tournament he thought he wouldn’t be coming back. It had been a shock to him when the bead of light had touched Voldemort’s wand and drained him of his power and soul. The Deatheaters seeing their master defeated had all fled, all but two that is. It turns out Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy had been spies for Dumbledore along with Snape. He had drained his magic while defeating Voldemort and so had no energy left to get himself away from there. He was shocked when Mr. Malfoy had picked him up and carried him to where Mrs. Malfoy was waiting with Cedric’s body and the portkey to take them back to Hogwarts. He had been told that day that he would never regain the amount of power he had, but would have a more normal level, and he was thankful that was the case, he hated being seen as special.

He was startled from his thoughts when his godfather and headmaster appeared in his room. He smiled when he saw Sirius and ran to hug his godfather.

Sirius wrapped his arms around the small boy and wondered why it was Harry never seemed to grow. Most of the boys Harry’s age were at least 5ft 8in and Harry only stood 5ft 4in. He released his godson when he heard the headmaster clear his throat.

They sat on the bed while Albus sat at the chair at the desk. “Now Harry, why don’t you tell us what it is that has you so concerned?”

“Well you see headmaster it all started the other day when I was cleaning the bathroom. I was washing the mirror, glanced at myself, and thought I saw a girl staring back at me. I looked away and when I looked back it was just my own reflection staring back. I thought I was going insane until it happened again and again and now I don’t see my old reflection anymore.” When he said that both the older men looked into the mirror and were stunned to see the reflection of a girl staring back at them where Harry should be.

Now both men were stumped and Dumbledore decided to try something. “Harry it is possible that there is a charm on you altering your appearance. It could mean that it was placed to make you look like a boy, or to make your reflection look like that of a girl. There is a spell that will remove it if there is, however it may mean that you will be a girl permanently.”

Harry just stared at the headmaster in shock, “Why would anyone place that charm on me in the first place?” he asked.

“You knew you were adopted didn’t you Harry?” at the nod he continued, “It is possible someone wanted to hide you from someone or something. Back at the time you were born we were at war. People’s children were stolen all the time and never seen again. It is possible that you were one of those children.”

“Does than mean I might have parents who are still alive?” Harry asked and the other two could hear the hope in his voice. Albus just nodded his head and smiled at the boy.

“Ok headmaster, remove the charm.” No sooner had Harry said that then he felt a tingle against his skin. When it stopped he looked down and found he no longer had the body of a male, but one of a female.

He didn’t actually think he would change that much, but was surprised to find this body felt more, I don’t know, real. Like this was who he, or she now, was supposed to be. Then he realized that since he was really a girl he was not gay, but straight. He, or she now, had figured out that she liked guys last year and was afraid of how people would take that.

Albus couldn’t believe his eyes when he looked at the young girl sitting in front of him. He would bet everything he had that he knew just who her parents were, and from the look on Sirius’s face he knew as well.

“Well I think we should all return to Hogwarts where I will have professor Snape brew a potion to see if it can tell us who you biological parents are.” Albus said his eyes twinkling. “Take anything you want with you my dear as we will not be returning.”

When she had all her things together the headmaster held out a portkey and soon the three of them were gone.

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Severus had been shocked when he received the letter asking him to bring some paternus potion to his office if had had some brewed. It was already past midnight and he was just glad he had some on hand. He grabbed it, told his husband where he was going, and set off toward the headmaster’s office.

He was surprised to see Sirius and a teenaged girl in the office with the headmaster when he arrived. He glanced at the girl and handed the potion to the headmaster.

Dumbledore took the potion and then asked Harry to prick her finger and let a drop of blood settle into the potion, which she did. Dumbledore then poured the potion onto a piece of parchment and watched as writing began to appear showing off the girl’s family tree. He smiled when it wrote who her parents are and showed that both were still alive. Then it was handed to the girl for her to read.

Harry couldn’t believe her eyes as she read. Both of her parents were still alive and male. She didn’t even know it was possible for men to have children, of for these two in particular to like each other. Her mind slowly comprehending what she was reading she looked at Snape wondering how he would take to news when he found out.

Severus had had enough; he wanted to know who that girl was and why she was here. “Headmaster, who is she?”

“Severus, this is Harry Potter. It seems young Harry had some charms placed on him as a baby and they have finally been removed. The young girl you see before you is who Harry really is.”

“Then how did he look so much like Potter?”

“That was because I had placed adoption charms on a baby boy I found abandoned in an ally. I never thought to check and make sure the baby didn’t already have charms placed on it.”

“Well sir, did the potions answer your questions?”

“Actually, yes here why don’t you have a look for your self.” As Dumbledore said that Harry handed over the piece of parchment.

Severus read it over then stared at the parent’s names of the girl in front of him. He then looked at the girl and studied her features. Same black hair and blue eyes of the baby in the picture. She did look a lot like his husband and thank Merlin had Remus’s nose. He wondered why the girl’s clothes seemed to be about 10 sizes to big though. He found he didn’t really care though.

There in front of him sat his daughter.

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Severus was too stunned to speak, all he could do was stare at the girl in front of him, the girl he had made life a living hell for the past four years. His heart sank when he realized he probably ruined all chances of a relationship with his daughter and the only child he would ever have.

Harry just stared at the man now revealed to be her father, the man who hated her with every ounce of his being. She had wanted parents, but now knew she would only have one who would truly love her, the other detested her.

“Well it is late and I think young Harry needs to go to bed. Severus, talk with Remus and you decide how you want to handle this. We will all discuss things in the morning.” Albus said to the three people in the room.

Sirius said goodnight to his goddaughter and then watched as Severus beckoned her to follow him from the room. He really worried whether or not the man would want her in his life.

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The two walked to the dungeons in absolute silence until Harry decided to ask something that had been troubling her. “Do you know, did I have a name before I was taken?” She was surprised to see the pain in Snape’s eyes when he turned to look at her.

“Yes, you da…Remus, named you Elena Kathryn Lupin-Snape.” He saw the lost look in his daughter’s eyes and wanted nothing more than to gather her in his arms and make the pain go away. He knew he couldn’t do that though as she would probably never let him touch her. He wanted her to call him father and Remus dad, but knew that wish would never come true. He wanted her, Remus, and him to be a family, but knew she would not want anything to do with him. She might want Remus in her life, but would never want him.

So, her real name was Elena, she could get used to that. It was a nice name after all. She looked at the man beside her and was saddened to see the pain in his eyes. She knew he didn’t want her ruining his life with Remus and knew he would do everything in his power to talk Remus into giving her away. Why would either of them want her in their lives anyways.

Both were brought from their musings when they reached the door to Snape’s personal rooms. Severus held the door open for his daughter and then led her to one of the rooms with a door closed. “This will be where you will sleep. Did you bring any cloths to change into?” When she shook her head he said, “I will bring you something to sleep in, and tomorrow we will all go to Diagon Alley and get you some proper cloths.” Was said as he left the room to get her one of his or Remus’s shirts to sleep in.

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He walked into his bedroom and opened the dresser drawer to get a t-shirt when he heard a voice behind him.

“What did the headmaster want?” His husband asked. He just wondered how he would tell Remus the news.

“He found a 15 year old girl and needed a potion to find out who her parents were.” He said not looking at Remus.

“Did you find the answers to his questions?” Remus asked.

“Yes, she is Elena, our Elena.” He said turning to his husband for the first time. He almost cried when he saw the tears running down his lover’s cheeks.

“That is not funny Severus, our daughter is gone. How could you be so cruel?” Remus asked not believing his husband. He knew the chances of his daughter still being alive were slim to none and it killed him to think of her being dead, but he had accepted that.

“I am not lying. The person who took her used charms on her to make her look fully like a boy and then abandoned her in an ally. Albus found the boy and placed adoption charms on him and gave him to the Potters. Harry is our Elena, and has had the charms removed. She is in the guest room if you want to check for yourself, I told her I would bring something for her to sleep in. But she is there.”

Without waiting for his husband to say anymore Remus left the bedroom and walked into the guest bedroom. He knew his husband was following him, but didn’t care, he had to see for himself. He was shocked to see a girl of 14 or 15 with black hair and his nose asleep on the bed. He heard his husband leave the room only to return a few minutes later. It was then he saw Severus had brought a blanket for their daughter and was covering her up. He ran a hand through her soft hair to see if she was real. It was then his husband handed him a piece of parchment. It was her family tree, it said plain and simple she was their’s.

He felt the wolf inside him become content for the first time since she was born; it had its cub back.