Severus Snape and the Siren: A Snily Tale

Chapter 2 - We'll Always Be Us

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Severus and Lily quickly became best friends.

After their initial meeting, they spent nearly every day playing outside together.

Lily felt relieved to have finally met someone who shared her incredible talents.

Severus felt relieved to have finally met her.

Lily's arguments continued with Petunia over the next year and by the end of the following summer, she lay on the riverbank next to Severus while they chatted one warm afternoon.

Severus listened to the peaceful sound of the flowing water while Lily lay beside him with her red hair spread out in a crimson circle behind her head.

"She's jealous, you know." Severus said quietly.

Lily looked over at him as he glanced at her and added, "......Because she's ordinary and you're special."

"That's a bit of a conceited thing to say, isn't it?" Lily frowned.

"No." Severus blinked as he gazed at her, "It's the truth."

Lily laid her head back against the grass with a sigh.

While they lay there, their fingers found each other as they clasped hands, not in a romantic display, but in a tender gesture of fond affection that only childhood innocence could allow.

"I'm glad you're my best friend, Sev." Lily confessed as they lay there in the tranquil, summer stillness.

"I'm glad you're my best friend too, Lily." Severus answered.

She took a deep breath as he asked, "Do you think your Mum will be home soon?"

"In a couple of weeks." Lily shrugged, "She goes on holiday with her girl friends every year. Remember last summer? She was gone for two months."

"You must miss her terribly." Severus frowned as he considered what it would be like at his home if Eileen left him alone with his father for that length of time.

"No......" Lily said as she gazed at what she could see of the water, "Actually, I feel like she's with me even when she's not.....That's odd, isn't it?"

"I don't think so." Severus answered supportively.

He and Lily continued to hold hands when a voice screeched at them suddenly from the top of the hill, "Lily! LILY! Get up, lazy! Dad said you have to stop playing with that awful boy and come inside! NOW!"

Severus's heart clenched, but Lily scowled as she sat up, turned around, and looked at her sister, who stood under a large oak tree.

Lily didn't fall for Petunia's lies as she answered, "Tuney, if Dad wants me to come inside so badly, then he can tell me himself."

Lily glanced over as Severus sat up and turned around to aid her in her battle against Petunia.

When Petunia saw the smirk that crossed Severus's pale face at Lily's fiery refusal, she narrowed her eyes at him and snapped, "Oh, what are you smiling at?! You're dressed like a ragamuffin, look at you! I've seen better clothes in rubbish bins!"

Severus's smirk melted into a dangerous scowl.

Too young to control his magic, his anger caused one of the branches from the tree above Petunia to snap, fall, and crash down on top of her.

Lily gasped for a moment when her sister cried out, but Petunia quickly shoved the branch off herself to prove she was unhurt.

Severus smiled at the way that Lily giggled when she saw her irritable sibling's hair full of leaves.