(A/N I love you guys so much! I can't believe I got 204 views! I love all of you guys and hope you enjoy this chapter. Don't be scared to tell me if my story doesn't make sense or if I misspelled something. Ok I'm done talking you can read now.)
3𝓻𝓭 𝓟𝓞𝓥~
On the outside, Lyra looked completely poised. Hell, some would say she had a resting bitch face on. But that was natural for her. She couldn't show the Durselys any weaknesses so she had perfected her R.B.F. But on this inside, she was the complete opposite. The people who kept staring at her weren't making it even better causing her hand to slightly shake.
Severus peeked down at her. He could see was nervous and offered his hand. Lyra was stunned that he held his hand out for her. She looked at his face but he was staring straight ahead like nothing was happening. She looked forward and held his hand squeezing it to tell him to thank you.
Severus watched satisfied as her hand stopped shaking. He almost didn't want her to come after what happened earlier but she was from on coming.
𝓕𝓵𝓪𝓼𝓱𝓫𝓪𝓬𝓴~
Today was Sirius's trial. The good news was that it wasn't till 2. When Severus had told Lyra her only thought was 'Yay more time to panic and overthink everything'
The whole morning Lyra was feeling queasy. She tried distracting herself by reading or practicing potions but her mind kept wandering back to the trail.
'What if dumbledore somehow kidnapped her and she had to go back to the Durselys?
'What if Severus suddenly didn't want her anymore?'
'What if Sirius wasn't freed?'
'What if she wakes up and this was all just some messed up dream?'
'What if Severus was also using her and in reality wanted nothing to do with her?'
At the last thought, she suddenly found herself gripping the chair she was in. She heard someone talking but it came out muffled. She felt her throat starting to ache and could hear herself hyperventilating.
She felt her eyes watering up but she'll be damned if she was caught crying. It made her feel weak. She could feel her face twisting up to stop the crying. She felt someone gently grab her face and saw Severus. (Mr.Snape made him feel old.)
Severus was fucking terrified but he would never admit it. He had called Lyras name several times but she seemed to zone out. She was clutching the chair, almost breaking it somehow. Now realizing she was having a panic attack he got in front of her showing her it was him.
After a couple of minutes of him telling her to breathe in and out, she calmed down. She felt embarrassed. She had a panic attack in front of Severus. She felt stupid. Living with her 'relatives' showing weakness was a HUGE no-no. She wasn't used to letting other people see her upset or crying. As if reading her thoughts Severus started talking.
"Don't be embarrassed about having a panic attack. It's understandable to be nervous. I'm also nervous. We can be nervous together."
Severus felt satisfied hearing her giggle.
"Okay. Thank you Severus I feel much better."
Lyra hugged him and changed her clothes. Once she was ready she grabbed his arm and popped away.
𝓑𝓪𝓬𝓴 𝓪𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓜𝓲𝓷𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓻𝔂~
It wasn't until the trial started that Lyra realized she was going to see her parents there. That made her freak out a little more. She already had to deal with Dumbledore but now her parents were going to be here?
She hadn't realized it but she was pretty much squeezing Severus' hand right now. Suddenly she felt goosebumps on her back.
'Calm down mistress, don't let these people get to you'
Lyra smiled realizing Mortem came back. Even if it was only for a second.
'Thank you' She thought
Lyra felt better. Thanks to Severus and Mortem she felt like she could go through this. She wasn't nervous anymore. She didn't have time to be nervous right now. How can she be nervous when she needed to beat Dumbledores ass? Then James and Lily Potter walked in. They looked around the room but were surprised to see Severus there. But when they saw Lyra it was a different story.
Lyra ignored them and looked straight ahead. Soon the trail started and they were bringing out Sirius.
It was upsetting seeing Sirius in the state he was in Two people were holding him up. Two. His hair was matted together and his clothes looked like they hadn't been washed in all the time he had been there. But that's wasn't close to his face. His eyes were so broken and he looked so lost. This pissed Lyra off. She didn't know why he was even in Azkaban in the first place. What did he do?
"We are here for the trial of Sirius Orion Black. Sirius, you are here for helping Peter Pettigrew betray the Potters, how do you plead?"
"Not guilty"
𝓛𝔂𝓻𝓪'𝓼 𝓟𝓞𝓥~
I was shocked, no- appalled. That's what they locked him up for!? Do people actually believe this bullshit? No one thought to look into it further? No, they just accept everything like they always do. Well, then they better accept that Dumbledore won't be in power for long then. I suppressed a smirk. But then frowned again remembering what he was locked up for.
It's obviously not true. Why didn't James, Lily, or Remus do anything? That made Lyra feel even worse. Imagine being locked up by your own friends.
'No friends wouldn't do that they must have been fake or something. Or maybe Dumbledore pushed them in that direction. They probably never would actually lock him up. But what if someone brought up and suggested they should? But no! That's still not a Goodenough reason!'But people change'
'But wait, what about Remus? He didn't actually believe that Sirius was guilty, did he??'
I looked up to see that Amelia gave Sirius veritaserum and was testing it out. I watched as Sirius's eyes glossed over. That meant he was under the influence of the potion. To make sure he wasn't faking it, they asked him some simple questions like his name and his birthday. Seeing it was working they asked him about that night.
"Did you help Peter Pettigrew that fateful night?"
"No."
Several whispers were heard. I could practically feel Dumbledore's anger. I smirked.
'What are you going to Dumbledore? Throw a tantrum?' (Whatcha gonna do Rem?)
"What did you do that day?"
"I had been out helping with the Order and working. I came home to find the house in shambles. Inside Dumbledore was reviving James and Lily. He then told them Henry was the 'boy who lived' and that Lyra was a squib."
I heard people gasp out.
' Wonder if they caught the part that there was another kid.'
"The Potters have another child!?" Yelled some random person.
'Hm seems not all of them are stupid.'
Sirius still under the influence said,
"Yes."
All. Hell. Broke. Loose.
"You have another child!?"
"Why would you give away your baby!?"
"You know how many people can't have children? And you can but you give her up?"
"Because she was a squib!? Sounds like you just didn't want anyone to know about her!"
"I looked up to you guys!"
"I thought you were better than this."
"For all we know Henry is not even the boy-who-lived."
Severus squeezed my hand to stop me from laughing. But I could see the corner of his mouth was slightly up. The person didn't know how right they were.
"SILENCE!"
I turned to see Amelia was the one who yelled out.
"I think I've seen enough. Raise your hand if you think Sirius Orion Black is NOT guilty"
Everyone but three people raised their hand. I bet you guess who it is.
Amelia gave him the counter potion.
"Sirius Orion Black, we apologize for falsely prisoning you. The Ministry will give you 1 million gallons each year for 5 years."
"Thank you. Can I ask who gave me this trial?"
"Severus Snape."
(A/N hope you guys enjoy! The beginning was slightly hard for me to write as this actually happened to me before. Hope you enjoy it! 😁)
~𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓻𝓮𝔀𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓷 𝓫𝔂 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓼 𝓽𝓻𝓾𝓵𝔂 𝓪𝓽 6/22/21~