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Severus had seen Lily Evans many times. What he had not, and refused to see, was Lily Potter, nor the spawn of his most hated of enemies, which now rested against his mother’s heaving bosom, his little head covered with dark, unruly hair, and his little eyes shut as he slept, as uncaring about his mother’s anguish as his father was, most likely.

“Dumbledore’s having us go into hiding soon, but I needed to talk to someone,” Lily said, sniffling a little as she dabbed at her eyes with a handkerchief, her other arm carefully supporting her week-old son.

“But why come to me?” Severus drawled as he flicked his wand, conjuring a modest tea tray as he spoke. “I am hardly upon the side of light that is good and whole, and indeed you have not spoken to me since our schooldays, Mrs Potter.”

Lily winced at the title, and her arm tensed protectively around her child.

“I know what people say about you,” she said, her voice hardened, but still slightly choked with tears. “I don’t believe it. I know you, Sev, and you’re not evil, you just want people to think you are.”

“And I work for a man who wants you dead,” Severus filled in, and Lily giggled, her voice almost hysterical as she sat there, making it clear that she did not believe at all that Severus shared the Dark Lord’s sentiment.

And she would be right.

Not that the Dark Lord was to know that—no one, save Albus, knew that.

“What do you want, Lily?” Severus finally asked after an extended silence, and levelled his dark gaze with her, but she was not intimidated.

“When Harry was born, they did some sort of…of test on him,” Lily began, fresh tears flooding her vibrant eyes, and Severus cursed inwardly. He knew the test she spoke of, and based on her reaction, he could guess what the little brat had tested as.

“The Alpha, Beta, and Omega verification procedure, correct?” Severus asked, and she nodded.

“I’d never heard of it before,” Lily continued, “apparently only people with magical blood can test as alpha or omega, and then…”

She blinked, and tears streaked her cheeks, dripping from her chin and onto the checked blanket that the child was wrapped so snugly in.

“Lily,” Severus said, keeping his voice hard as he regarded her. “Did Harry test as omega?”

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From The Hollow Alpha, coming soon to AO3.

…Well??? IS HE??

(How DARE you make me wait to find out…!)

*squeals and obsessively checks emails for the notification that @JBankai89 has posted this on Ao3*