Can't Catch Me Now / Severus Snape

92 Invitation

"Are you sure?"

"I'm sure..."

Lilith hesitated looking to draco and Harry playing chess. Harry didnt know what they had planned. She didn't know how to tell him that the dark lord had a hold on him. Harry waved back at them from the couch in their chambers.

"And it's the right dose? Should we weigh him?" Lilith questioned.

"He is not a cat that needs to be weighed for flea and tick prevention." Severus corrected. "Who is the potions master here?"

"I wish it was my life sev. It would be easier."

"It would be equally as challenging." Severus corrected. "The spell itself-"

"You know what i mean," lilith grumbled

"I do and lilith my love putting you under such spell would be equally as challenging on my heart." Severus assured turning the vial in his hands.

"Lilith i found the next one!" Lucius declared running forward Severus narrowly dropped the vial . "The next horcrux! It's his snake. Nagini."

"His snake? Are you sure?"

"He is staying at my house." Draco whispered. "All of them. Its awful."

"What is he after?"

"You harry he wants to finish off the job." Draco answered

"Me?"

"I heard him saying one cant live without the other. Or one must die for the other to live. I wasn't supposed to be listening in." Draco admitted.

"And you think that means me? My parents havent told me anything." Harry corrected.

" they probably don't want you to worry." Draco shrugged glancing back at his own father.

Voldemort and Nagini met in the forests of Albania. Nagini allowed Voldemort to possess her occasionally, to have a physical connection to the Wizarding World.

During their stay there, Bertha Jorkins, who worked at the Ministry of Magic, went to Albania for a holiday. This was in 1994. She accidentally ran into Peter Pettigrew in an inn and recognized him. Now, Peter was at this point presumed dead, killed by Sirius Black. Which of course we know of false the damn rat. Those weasleys are idiots lucius has went on.

Bertha was alarmed by this as any one would be. The dead rising or never dead at all, but anyways Peter persuaded her not to report him immediately but to come with him into the woods. He overpowered her and brought her to Voldemort. The Dark Lord performed various memory charms and tortures to extract whatever information about the ministry he could.

This severely damaged Bertha's mind and body, beyond any repair, after which Voldemort finally killed her with Avada Kedavra. Nagini was present there and Voldemort used this murder to sever a part of his soul and bind it to Nagini, making her his Horcrux.

"How did you find this out?" Lilith questioned

"It got me thinking- you- got me thinking about what he holds precious. He knows he is down to two right? So he keeps her under close eye. Locked her in a magical cage. No one gets near her." Lucius remarked. "She has to be it."

" how do we lure him out?" Severus questioned.

" You know as well as I do with the final horcrux is." Lucius countered low in his throat. His gaze shifting to harry.

" I will not intentionally put a target on my son's back." Lilith hissed under her breath.

" it's the only way I see him coming and releasing nagini. Thinking You are vulnerable." Lucius answered.

" vulnerable?"

" how were you planning to...? You cannot kill him without defeating all the final-"

"I know." Lilith barked. " we have a plan for that."

" one that will work?"

" it has to." Severus begged as aria came running up yawning. She leaned into severus.

"Cookie before bed daddy?" Aria whispered staring up at him. Severus picked her up holding her close she snuggled into him looking at the counter for the cookies she couldnt reach a moment ago.

"We set a trap. We get him here. We do the potion." Lilith listed off. "We kill the snake. We kill him for good. His followers will fall off the face of the earth again."

"We should call upon the guards of azkaban. Let them round up his supporters." Severus added.

"Daddy cookies." Aria mumbled.

"Good idea." Lucius agreed. "I will arrange it. How will you lure him here?"

"He wants to take me down." Lilith answered "He just needs an invitation."

"The boy is sick." Lucius remarked. "I delivered the poultice as instructed. Death shall soon fall upon harry snape."

"They are destroying my horcruxes nagin." He purred. Lucius heistated. "Once the boy is gone... There is only one... my sweet Nagini." Voldemort hissed locking eyesnwith lucius. He looked to his precious nagini. he put Nagini in an enchanted cage for her own protection.

"He will die and lilith will be vulnerable." Lucius assured. "She will be weakened. Not expecting you. The time to strike is now."

Once he thought he had killed Harry Snape for good, he would release Nagini, so she could be by his side during the Battle.

"I understand." Harry assured. "I trust you."

"Baby you are going to be fine. Just fine. Once that part of you...." Dies. "Your father brings you right back. He will be right here. Right here my love."

"Im ready." Harry agreed as thunder and lightning cracked across the sky.

"Hes here." Severus realized.

"I will handle him. I want him alive and breathing and Voldemort free when i return." Lilith commanded.

"Lilith," severus grabbed her arm spinning her back to him. "I love you."

"I love you." She echoed kissing him.

"Lilith!" Voldemort declared. "How good it is so see you again." She strut towards him. "Did you bring the boy?" Lilith clenched her fists. "I want to see his corpse. The boy that took me down dead at my feet."

"You are never going to touch him again." Lilith corrected. Voldemort gasped as she severed naginis head with a single swish of her wand. He felt a part of him die.

"Just you and me now Voldy." Lilith declared.

"So be it."