Living in the shadows

Title: Ties of Friendship, bonds of Fate

Pairings: Future JamesxLily and RemusxSeverus

Rating: K to start but future M.

Summary: snupin prequel to Bound to You set pre-Harry Potter Era Hogwarts in a Marauder era AR/AU. Traces the bonds between snupin and jily as well as the falling out/distancing of Peter from the others.

A/N: This chapter is for mandancie for gave me some great ideas and being a muse of sorts. Apologies for the shortness but I couldn't think of anything else...

Chapter 35- Blood and water

Severus was fuming, he could sense that Lily was distressed yet she would say nothing.

Her behaviour was out of character and they’d been friends since they were six…

He was still sulking when a frowning Remus and worried James arrived in the private apartment that Severus shared with his bonded.

“What’s the matter Sev?” Remus asked kissing the top of his head.

“It’s Lily, She’s been acting weird for weeks…”

“Since summer Severus.” James corrected.

Severus frowned, “How so?”

“She’s been watching you with different eyes since then, its only since January that she’s become shadowed as if she’s seen something terrible.”

“She’s supposed to be a member of the House of Prince and yet, she received a magical inheritance on my birthday.” Severus fumed.

“Is it possible that you’re not distant cousins but twins?” Remus asked quietly, “Wouldn’t that explain your psionic bond? We’re soulmates and yet you two also had a physic bond that allowed her to sense you were in trouble…”

“Twins?” Severus blinked; the idea of being that closely related to his best friend never had crossed his mind. “We look nothing alike…”

“That’s what blood adoption is for.” James said in that ‘are you stupid’ tone he never quite grew out of.

Remus glared at him, he was not helping…

“Why wouldn’t she say anything?” Severus paced, “Why would us being so intimately related be a problem?”

“Her inheritance is as a seer, maybe it has something to do with that…” James shrugged.

“If she’s a seer and we’re twins, what’s my inheritance?” Severus asked petulantly.

“Magic, you’re one of the strongest, most adept wizards I’ve ever met.” Remus said proudly.

“I would have to brew to be sure…” Severus muttered.

“I trust you to brew the potion and to know what to do with the revelations.” James said absently before distracting Severus with their potions homework.

XoooooX

It took a month to brew the parentis divenus potion…

Luckily, the apartment that Severus shared with Remus had a lab of sorts attached off the parlour.

Severus saw Snape as married to his mother but not listed as his sire.

His sire was someone that he’d never heard of: a Riddle…

However, Gaunt was a vaguely familiar name with ancestry that seemed to trace back to both Peverell and Slytherin.

He was tied to a sister who was seemingly blood adopted: Elaine Honoria.

Was Elaine really Lily?

When he saw the golden threads linking this Elaine to James Seff Potter, then Severus knew that Elaine was Lily.

Severus wondered, why would Lily want to hide their blood relationship? Hugh and Rose Evans had been good to them both even if Petunia was troublesome. Was lily worried about breaking their hearts if she revealed she wasn’t their daughter by blood? Severus doubted that they would care either way since they had opened their hearts up to him as well. Anyway, he felt a little better about himself knowing that Snape wasn’t related to him by blood.

For whatever reason, Lily was keeping their parentage a secret, Severus would respect it even if he didn’t see the point. He owed her that much, besides despite Lily’s birthday being celebrated at the end of January she was the elder twin by a full seven minutes and he at least would respect her wishes on that note.

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