"HOW DARE HE!?" Severus Snape smashed a glass on the floor into piece  furiously, while Remus Lupin let out an angry sigh as he finished telling the black cloaked man about what happened.

"I know, just– just bring her back now, she is at Malfoy Manor" Remus said calmly controlling his tone which was still furious and hoarse.

"You will not tell me Lupin, she is coming back this instant, and I promise to you no one of you will get to see her face ever again" Sev said in a low dangerous tone.

"If you are forgetting, she is my goddaughter too, and if I were there last night, I wouldnt have let any of this happen, And you know that" Remus said in a slightly raised voice.

"I am bringing her. Now. Make something good if you can, or leave" Severus said grabbing a handful of  floo powder and quickly flooing away to the Malfoy Manor.

"Where's Amelia?" Not even a milisecond passed as the flames landed him in another fireplace and he stepped out demanding for his niece startling the members of the house.

"Oh Severus– She is in the room at the end of the corridor–" Narcissa breathed our startled but indicated the direcrion and was cut by Severus already storming off from the room.

He reached the room Narcissa told and it did not took him more than three second despite the length of the corridor at the manor, he saw the door was kept open and their new house elf, Olaf, standing guarding the room, Severus quietely made his way inside letting out a shuddering breath because he already knew Amelia must be really hurt and will not be able to bear the sight of that.

He stepped in slowly, seeing a figure laying on the bed, black hair sprawled all over the pillow, and a large blanket covering her from head to toe. Inhaling sharply he scurried closer to his niece to get a little sight of her face, and his heart broke instantly on seeing large bags under her eyes, she was sleeping, mouth slightly parted, a tray full of potions and medicines kept on the side table.

He quietely accioed a small chair to sit in front of her without making any sound, he stretched his hand to brush of her hair falling on her face, but his finger tips were collided with immense heat, she was burning. He widened his eyes in fury, in no way 'that man' is living another day.

"Amelia.." He softly breathed out with a sad look, but she didnt even stir, a little frown never left her face she looked extremely weak.

"Amelia, I am here, Sev" He called softly again and saw the breathing quicken of his niece, she whimpered in sleep on hearing the name, maybe she was going to wake up.

"Yes, Amelia, wake up, I am here" Sev cooed, The only living being to hear that tone of Severus snape was Amelia, that too not in her senses right now.

"Sev.." She croaked as her lips quivered, he rubbed her hand encouraging her to open her eyes slowly, and she saw with a blurry vision her uncle sitting in front of her.

Tears formed again in her eyes making her vision more blurry, Sev put on a really small but sad comforting smile, only for her to break into tears again. Tears seeped out mercilessly from her eyes, she didnt care if her uncle is going to scold her later like always for crying, he never let her cry, saying its what weak people do, but the real reason was never told to her by her uncle, he didnt know how to comfort people, he couldnt watch her cry, so instead he banned it for her in a way, but its not like she never cried her whole life, thats something only Remus witnessed because he knew how to make her stop crying, but right Remus was not there.

"Amelia, you want to go home? Stop crying firstly" Very comforting words Sev. He picked up the vial of the potion he recognised easily which was placed on the bed side table, draught of peace. He slipped the blue liquid slowly in het mouth gently lifting her head up, and it took her a few moments to calm down.

"Amelia are you alright now?" Sev tried again, she just kept focussing on her shuddering breath, and gave a stiff nod with tightly shut eyes.

"Very well, we are going home now, Spinner's end" Sev said firmly wiping her damp cheeks, Amelia stayed quite, eyes closed, Sev knew she was not asleep, this was her way of saying yes to him.

"I will send Narcissa, she will ready you, okay?" Sev asked gently caressing her forehead. Amelia let out a breath saying, Okay. Sev smiled, but she had her eyes closed, and missed the chance to see one of rarest things of the world. He stood up and left.

"I saw she had that necklace, thats Sierra's– that means she can..." Severus halted outside the room on hearing Lucius Malfoy trail of talking to his wife, his tone sounded pure evil.

"Yes. She can." Narcissa confirmed with a heavy sigh. Sev heard Lucius Malfoy let out a dark chuckle.

"That means–"

"That doesnt mean anything, I already told you Lucius, children are not to be the part of all this" Narcissa hissed to her husband.

"Dont you care about you own son, defending that wretched child of your wretched disowned cousin, Narcissa think about it, we can offer her to him, and Draco will be saved" Lucius said in a hushed eager voice.

"I care about her as much as I care about Draco and in no way I will let this happen to either of them, and you can also watch me go against you" Narcissa hissed hotly.

"Are you out of your mind!?–"

"You are out of your mind Lucius" Severus sneered entering the room startling both husband and wife.

"Narcissa please ready Amelia, she is leaving for Spinner's end with me, now" Sev said monotone, his cold gaze trained on the white haired man.

"She can stay here–"

"You are well aware, its not safe for her here" Sev sharply interrupted her glaring at Lucius, who held a bitter smirk.

"Fine" Narcissa huffed agreeing with him, and after sparing ine last bitter glance to her husband, left.

"Do you think so highly of yourself, that you can offer my niece to him and I will let it happen" Severus hissed dangerously.

"I thought you had some brains in you unlike my dear wife, if you calm that fury in your mind and think about it Severus–"

"My. Niece. Will. Not. Join" Sev said dismissively trying not to hex the shit out of the man.

"I know, right now, she is not well, but we will train her, I have heard from Draco about her, she is already perfect just needs a little training–"

"What language do you speak? Donkeys? Dont you get it, NO" Severus snarled on his face.

"Fine. But always remember Severus you tried to keep Sierra away from it too, but what happened, in the end you couldnt do anything– Amelia is no different– you'll watch the history repeat itself" Lucius said evily turning on his heels with chin raised high proudly.

"I dont repeat my mistakes Lucius" Sev said in a low cold tone. Both the men jerked their heads upin hearing a soft shuffling of feets, and saw a weak Amelia stood there supported by Narcissa. Sev swiftly approached his niece taking her from Narcissa.

"Goodbye Amelia, take care" Narcissa said softly caressing Amelia's head, while she leaned weakly on Sev for support.

"Really!?" Everyone turned on hearing an exclaimed Draco enter the room. He approached his cousin ignoring others with a sad and disappointed look.

"You are leaving!? This early! Why!?" Draco exclaimed way too loudly for her liking.

"She was not on a trip" Sev said lowly glaring at the junior malfoy.

"But she is not even fine! Look at her! How weak she looks–" Draco exclaimed again, but was interrupted by Amelia who launched herself on him buckling up all the strength she had in her fragile body.

"Stop shouting, or I might shave your head, goodbye, we will meet again in a few days, stop being a drama queen" Amelia whisper croaked in his ear, she was sure he rolled his eyes, but eventually hugged back warmly.

"Fine, take care, and write to me if you can, and if anyone from those bunch of idiots try something, tell me, I will take care of them" Draco whispered back, and felt her nod. Lucius Malfoy rolled his eyes, seeing his family members going insane in his opinion.

"Let's go" Sev said gently pulling Amelia away from her cousin, walking her to the fireplace and grabbed the floo powder supporting her against him. The last thing he saw before being engulfed in the flames was Lucius Malfoy's bitter challenging smirk.

Remus Lupin jerked his head up as the flames started growling and ran towards it before his goddaughter could arrive. He was soon greeted with the sight of his goddaughter who coughed her lungs out because of the dust in the gloomy house of Severus Snape, and passed a short glare to the black cloaked man before pulling his goddaughter out and swiftly taking her to the table setting her down handing her water.

"Amelia, would you like to rest or have lunch?" Remus asked worried seeing her condition, she didnt look up to keet his eyes, knowing she will breakdown again seeing the pity, sympathy and worry in them.

"Rest" She said in a small voice shortly. Remus nodded with a weak smile, supporting her on her feet, Sev from background watched his every movement, taking short notes. Remus led her to her room which was readied perfectly as ever, Sev's house might look like it clearly belonged to a ghost but Amelia's room was perfectly well maintained decent and light colors.

"How do feel now, cub?" Remus asked softly setting her on her bed. She hated that tone, it made her feel like someone pitied her. She hummed not meeting his eyes and heard him sigh.

"I heard what happened and if it make you feel any better, I broke his jaw, I am sure a few teeth might have fallen till now" Remus said chuckling hoping maybe it would lighten her mood, but it did worse, her lips quivered on the mention of him.

"I hate him Remus" Amelia croaked finally looking up meeting his sad eyes, her own pooling with tears. Remus inhaled sharply with a hurt look not knowing what to say to this.

"I know- I know what he did was clearly wrong and I wont defend him either, so lets just not talk about him–"

"Why would he do that to me Remus?" Amelia asked in cracked voice as a warm tear slipped out of her eyes. God she was tired of crying, but it didnt stop.

"Because he is an idiot" Remus said simply wiping the tear away but sighed as more tears slipped out.

"You k-know, he didnt even try to stop me when I said I will leave– I thought atleast he would do that– b-but instead he chose H-Harry over me– I am his own goddamn daughter Remus! I deserved to be in the first place! T-Then why did he put me second?" She sobbed desperately her voice going high and low momentarily, Remus couldnt help just watch his goddaughter hurt.

"I will never go back to him, you know Sev used to say right, when someone puts you second, its better you leave, actually whatever Sev used to say was right everytime, he told me that 'he' doesnt know how to take care of his family, and I was a fool to not believe Sev, but you know what now this is the end of my stupidity" Amelia said more like to herself wiping her tears harshly with a bitter look. Remus frowned what she was saying was clearly wrong, he didnt want her to live like Sev, cold and emotionless. But for now, he decided to let her be.

"You know Am, going cold is not the solution for everything but I am glad you have become mature enough to buckle yourself up, and always remember one thing too, I will never leave you like he did, Never" Remus said with a small smile placing a warm hand on her cheek, she smiled back seeing the generosity in her godfather's eyes.

"I wont let you go, even if you want to" Amelia retorted with a teary smile, Remus chuckled nodding, his eyes glistening.

"Now sleep, you look like a ghost, silly girl, Your uncle will eat me alive if I keep you up this long"  Remus said with a playful smile standing up to leave. 

"Remus, I wont let you go, even if you want to" Amelia repeated herself making him stop at the door and glance back at her with a smile.

"Sleep" He said with a smile and shut the door softly after getting a smile back.

"Were you reading her to sleep?" Remus heard Severus ask with utter confusion as he descended the stairs.

"Just talking" Remus replied with a small smile.

"About what? Global warming?" Sev asked a bit grumpily, not liking the fact that he was unable to have such long conversations with his niece. His conversations with her never more than five minutes.

"Its not my fault you talk like a robot, in just one sentence" Remus said picking his stuffs up.

"I keep it short and simple" Sev said montonously.

"Sure"

"I dont appreciate sarcasm"

"Whatever, I'll be back in an hour, if she wakes up and happens to talk to you, give her anything she wants and dont trouble her okay" Remus instructed, Severus bit his tongue to not say 'yes mum'.

Meanwhile Amelia, stared blankly at the ceiling, she hated to admit it to  herself that it hurt being neglected by her own father, even after giving herself a small pep talk. She sighed closing her eyes.

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