Loving Lily: A Snily Story

Chapter 56 - Severed Ties

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Lily rolled over in bed early one morning and sighed as she realized she had once again woken alone.

She silently stood from the bed and yawned while she shuffled over, grabbed her robe, and pulled it on.

Slowly, she staggered out of the bedroom, across the hallway, and down the stairs only to find her husband in the kitchen, working furiously on yet another batch of protective potions.

"Sev, love, it's still very early." Lily called to him in a quiet voice as she crossed her arms and blinked her heavy eyelids with a frown, "Won't you come back to bed?"

"It's nearly finished." Severus murmured as he narrowed his eyes to slits while he added the last of the necessary ingredients to his cauldron, "Go on, my love, lie down and I'll join you there shortly."

"That's what you told me last night." She frowned, "Have you been to sleep at all?"

"Werewolves do not sleep." He quipped, "Werewolves are heartless, mindless predators.....I must do everything in my power to ensure my family does not become their prey."

Lily sighed again as she spoke, "Sev, sweetheart, I can't imagine the terror you lived through, but Remus is at the castle. He's not going to find us all the way out here, not even if he did transform and-"

"-Lupin is not the entirety of my worry." Severus interrupted.

"..........What?" Lily frowned.

"The Dark Lord has a new recruit." Severus explained as he turned up the heat on the burner beneath his cauldron, "A beast of a man named Fenrir Greyback, does that name sound familiar to you?"

"No......." Lily admitted as she pursed her lips.

"A werewolf, indeed.....Mr. Greyback is a murderous brute with or without his transformation. I had the great displeasure of meeting him just last night. He's more monster than man, your former friend should know that quite well." Severus snapped.

Lily's eyes widened as he gazed at her and revealed, "Lupin has him to thank for his......condition."

She gasped as she held a hand over her mouth and exclaimed, "W-What does he want with Voldemort?!.......Isn't Voldemort against the werewolves?"

"The Dark Lord is against everyone besides himself." Severus wisely replied, "However, he's not quite strong enough to take on the entire world, that's why he continues to recruit with his lies. Lies and more lies........it's how he wins his followers. We do not have a direct quarrel with Mr. Greyback...yet.....and I'm aware Lupin is for now confined to the castle, by proximity, duty, or both, but our children are there too, Lily.....My mind is anything but at ease with all of these.......creatures......so very close to us."

Lily yawned again as she walked over, pecked Severus's lips, and asked, "So what are you making now?"

"Wolf Bite Tonic." Severus purred as he reluctantly pulled back from his wife's affection, "A derivative of Wolfsbane Potion, it protects the drinker from a werewolf's bite and has been shown through various research studies to reduce the fatalities and transmission of the disease from such wounds."

Lily forced her own drowsiness away as she nodded, gazed into her husband's eyes, and asked, "Alright then, how can I help, Sev?"

His wife's thoughtful gesture made his heart glow as he stared down at her.

Severus's tiring task seemed a little more pleasant as he spent the next hour completing his work with his beloved as his loyal assistant.

He couldn't help but be awed by Lily's beauty every time he glanced over at her.