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"REMEMBER PHEOBE, DON'T be scared. I'm right here with you", snape whispered as lily just nodded.

last time lily was here at malfoy manor, she had briefly seen narcissa and lucius before snape had came to retrieve her.

lily just nodded as she walked into a dark murky room that had a fireplace burning behind some of the death eaters that were calmly sitting at a long rectangular table.

and of course, voldemort sat at the head of the table, with nagini slithering around the intricately designed carpet.

"ah severus! I was beginning to think you've lost your way here. come, I've saved you a seat", the dark lord motioned.

snape hesitantly walked over, nearly about to sit down until voldemort had spoke again.

"and where's she?"

snape lifted up his cape, revealing a seven year-old girl clutching onto his leg for dear life.

"lily is it? come, I don't bite", voldemort softly commanded.

lily felt her legs turn into jelly as she wobbled over to the man that she wouldn't exactly even consider him a man.

he was bald and she could visibly see his veins spreading like tree branches on the back of his head. voldemort's nose looked as if it had been flattened by a hammer, though it wasn't smushed, it just resembled that of a snake's.

draco's breath hitched as he saw little lily walking over to the dark lord, wondering why in merlin's beard would snape bring his beloved child to such an uncanny place.

"nagini, come hither", voldemort commanded, to which the snake had slithered over to his side without another moment.

lily felt her skin crawl as the venomous snake approached her, hissing every so often.

"talk to her", voldemort commanded, making lily extremely confused.

lily glanced back at snape, who just slightly nodded his head, as if telling her to follow the dark lord's command.

"i-it's nice to meet you nagini. m-my name's lily. lily phoebe s-snape", lily uttered out, making voldemort grin widely.

the entire table of men and women started whispering as lily looked up at them confused.

draco's face paled even more as he had just witnessed the little girl speaking parseltongue, a language only the heirs and heiresses of salazar slytherin could speak (unless you're harry potter).

"very well", voldemort praised, making the frightened lily sign a breath of relief.

"everyone! I'd like you to meet my daughter, lily phoebe...snape", voldemort introduced, making all the death eaters either gasp in surprise or whisper in confusion.

lily stood there frozen.

her? voldemort's child? but it couldn't be. he had no dark hair nor human nose that lily had. it was impossible to be his real child.

lily hesitantly looked over at snape, who had kept on a straight face but held the guilt and sorrow in his coffee brown eyes.

it was real.

"don't be all shy now lily, I'm sure you've already met quite a few of my loyal followers", voldemort smiled, clearly indicating to the malfoys and bellatrix.

lily glanced up as she covered her mouth from screaming at the woman's body that was levitating above the table.

voldemort seemed to noticed the girl's unease as he let out a low chuckle.

"ah, that's our special guest, charity burbage! ms. burbage over here was a muggles studies professor at hogwarts: school of witchcraft and wizardry", voldemort grinned, making lily shudder.

"she believes that muggles aren't an abomination, saying how we should even mate with them, as she sees nothing wrong with it", voldemort said, making all the death eaters laugh except a few.

lily wondered what was so hilarious. if voldemort was truly her father, she already disliked him since his humor made no sense to her.

"anyways, it turns out that harry potter and I share a wand with the same core...", voldemort started, making lily perk up at the mention of harry.

"which means in order to kill him...I need to use someone else's".

lily immediately whipped her head towards snape, who had refused to look in lily's direction.

harry's life was literally in danger and she can't do anything about it!

"so who would do the honors?", voldemort asked, walking around the table until he had reached the malfoys.

"hmm...what do you think lily? perhaps you could pick someone", voldemort said, putting little lily on the spot.

"u-umm...I-I'm good. I don't know much about wands", lily admitted, to which voldemort just boomed with laughter.

"very modest I see. how about you lucius?"

"o-of course, m-my lord", lucius whimpered out, even after he had cleared his throat.

the man shakily revealed his wand, handing it to voldemort who had snapped the metal snake off the bottom of the wand.

"what's the core?", questioned the dark lord.

"d-dragon heartstring...my lord".

lily heavily breathed out as she awaited voldemort's next instructions.

"hm..I need someone to educate lily on magic...specifically the dark arts", voldemort casually mentioned, waiting for someone to offer their help willingly.

"m-my lord", bellatrix smiled. "I can step in as her mothe—I mean instructor!"

voldemort was about to answer before snape interrupted.

"my lord, perhaps you can leave phoebe with me, as I've been with her the longest", snape suggested.

"you're overworking yourself, severus. lily needs some diversity in her life. you're now hogwarts' new headmaster, leave it to bellatrix to handle her", voldemort smirked.

lily's eyes started watering as she thought about leaving snape. she didn't want to stay at the malfoy manor alone.

"p-papa won't stay with me??", lily whimpered out, making voldemort walk over and bend down eye level to the girl.

voldemort's hand hovered over lily's head, making the girl slightly flinch. he patted her head as he calmly and softly talked to her.

"I'm your father now aren't I? I'll be here to monitor your progress as a young witch. don't you desire to be the next powerful witch?"

lily wanted to say no. she didn't really care about being the best, she just wanted to stay with snape.

"mm", she weakly hummed out.

"bellatrix will take good care of you, won't she now", voldemort said as a statement rather than a question.

bellatrix immediately nodded. to say that she respected voldemort was an understatement. she was infatuated.

"and plus, I heard you and draco are plenty close. he'll be here too", voldemort said, making lily feel a little more at ease.

voldemort then glanced at draco, signaling him to take little lily out the room.

draco immediately stood up but just before lily walked out with the boy, she ran towards snape and gave him a tight hug.

"take care papa", the little girl whispered as she grabbed onto draco's shaking hand, waving goodbye.

as soon as the girl had left, voldemort's expression turned back to neutral.

"my lord, you don't actually plan on training her do you?", one spoke up.

"silence! she's one of my most important pieces and if any of you make her upset or hurt her, you'll be the next one I hex after this muggle-loving woman!", voldemort threatened as charity burbage's body fell onto the table with a loud thump.

"y-yes my lord", the death eater meekly squeaked out.

voldemort closed his eyes as he heavily breathed in, smirking to himself as his plan was all coming together now.

"nagini, dinner".

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