This chapter was EDITED ON: January 6, 2015

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Chapter 1

Rose ran home after the Auror mission, well technically not home. She had to go pick up her daughter from daycare, and then she had to go to the small apartment that they lived in, make dinner, clean, play with her daughter, give her daughter a bath, and then put the baby to bed. This was her routine... Monday through Fridays was hectic, same thing everyday. Saturdays she would get up when the baby got up, but then bring the baby into her bed and the two would sleep for another hour. Most times Saturdays involved spending time with her baby, food shopping, and trying to just stay sane. She had been so grateful when she had found a very specific person two months after her daughter was born. She had asked him to help her keep her and her baby hidden in exchange for her cleaning his place two to three times a week.

"Hello, Miss Snape." The young woman smiled upon seeing Rose enter the daycare, late... again.

"I'm so sorry! I-" Rose tried to explain.

"It's alright, Eleanor fell asleep so we just let her sleep." The young woman smiled.

"Thank you." Rose sighed and then picked up her daughter after signing the papers. She then headed to go to her cleaning job at the man's house. She knocked on his door and he opened it. She smiled curtly and entered. "Hello, Sir." She smiled.

"Rose, you need to explain why the Daily Prophet is announcing you dead." The tall man with shoulder length hair, coal black eyes, crooked nose, and all black clothing spoke.

"I've explained that to you before, Uncle Sev." She smiled. She had explained everything to him. From what happened after the war to how her and her cousins have always considered him their Uncle along with many who were either protecting Harry Potter or helping secretly. But she had also explained how they all thought he was dead. He had explained to her how he had survived and decided to leave England while everyone thought he was dead. So they had formed a Uncle and Niece relationship over the months.

"Give me Eleanor, Rose." She handed Eleanor over and then asked what needed to be cleaned. It was mostly the same things, dusting shelves, and making sure the windows were clean. Once done, only about a half hour later, she found Severus Snape asleep in his chair with Eleanor asleep in his arms. She smiled and flicked her wand, and the blanket from the couch went over Severus and Eleanor ever so gently.

She headed over to the kitchen to see if Severus had started Dinner or if she should make dinner. Upon entering the kitchen it was clear he had already started dinner. A pot was being stirred by a spoon and by the smell of it, it was chicken noodle soup. She pulled out two regular bowls and one plastic kid's bowl. She put the pasta into the soup, so the taste would mix in.

She sat at the Kitchen table for a while. Just thinking. She had made it to America, kept her name as Rose Weasley... until she found out that she was pregnant the next month when she was late. She had cursed under her breath but had decided to keep the baby. It was Scorpius and Rose's baby... but Scorpius would never know. Rose often wondered how he would have reacted to the news. She loved to think about seeing him when the baby was born and him holding Eleanor in his arms for the first time. She had loved Scorpius... and still did. But she hated the fact that she left him, and knew that if she went back... for all she knew he could have had another girlfriend within the nine months she was gone. Besides he wouldn't want her with the baby... it was harder on a relationship. It could have destroyed them.

The only way she would believe herself was when she told herself that they would have fallen apart due to the stress of having a baby and being complete opposites. They never would have made it. They would have crashed and crumbled just like everyone wanted them to. They would have made the rift between Gryffindor and Slytherin far worse than it had been. They would have recreated the Rivalry between their families. They never would have made it.

She opened her rucksack and pulled out her papers for tomorrow's mission. She was supposed to have a British Auror in to aide her in finding an escaped Death-Eater by the name of Silas. The Auror, it didn't tell her who it was or anything. She only hoped it wasn't someone who could see through her disguise. She had gotten her hair colored brown, her eyes were still blue, freckles across her nose... but she didn't think she looked like a Weasley anymore. She was known as Auror Rose Snape. She had worked with a British Auror a month ago, who had asked if she knew Severus Snape. She had lied and asked who he was talking about. She knew if the Auror had been good at Occlumency he could have peered through the lie.

She ate dinner with Severus and then took Eleanor home. Before she left Severus told her, "I blocked your Magical Signature from those who could find it. Rose, if something happens on that mission tomorrow... Just know that Eleanor needs a mother. I can protect her if something does happen... but I would prefer it if I was not needed to raise her."

"Understood, Uncle Sev." She nodded and then left for home. She bathed Eleanor and put her to bed before going to bed herself.

"Rose, meet your partner who is going to help you track your next escapee." Her Head Auror, Pugsley Addams, spoke. "This is Auror James Potter from the British Ministry of Magic."

"Pleasure." She said with a smile and shook the man's hand like she didn't know who he was. She knew exactly who he was. In fact she knew every detail to his life right up to the past year. He smiled and shook her hand. She then picked up the file from Pugsley's desk and walked out. She was wearing khakis, red blouse, nice brown boots, and a black pleather jacket.

"So, Miss Snape..." She heard James's try to start a conversation as they were heading out into the street of New York City.

"Mr. Potter, or James, whichever you prefer. If you are going to ask me if I know a Severus Snape, I have only ever heard stories of the man from other British Aurors I have had to work with." She said and then headed towards Central Park at a brisk walk.

"Call me James, if I may call you Rose. Why are we walking? We could get a cab. We could have-" She cut him off.

"James, we are walking because we are in a city of over a 8 million people. Take a cab and you are likely to get stuck in traffic if you don't know the way around the streets. And we can't just poof there. So walking is the option." She replied as they briskly made it towards Central Park, apparently one of their person's favorite places to be. They sat on a bench watching people pass them.

"Can I ask you a couple questions?" He asked.

"Fine."

"Have you ever been to the UK? You look oddly familiar."

"No." She lied, and forced herself not to cry and not to tear up. She had never once lied to James, he had been the first to know about Scorpius and her... and she had begged him not to tell anyone. He had kept the promise until she told the rest of the family. Albus was the second to know, but it hurt more to lie to her older cousin who had been one of the only ones who had supported Rose and Scorpius while they were dating. He had defended them countless times against their families and even against the press when it was first found out. He had fought for them in the halls of Hogwarts when they had become friends. He didn't see Scorpius as a Malfoy. He saw Scorpius as Scorpius, a regular Slytherin who had a bad family past. She felt her heart break when she lied to James for the first time.

"Have you ever heard of Hogwarts?"

"Yes."

"Did you hear the story about a Gryffindor and Slytherin dating?"

"Yes." James nodded and they continued to watch people, waiting for the Convict to show up. "How'd you do it?" He asked suddenly.

"Do what?"

"How did you leave, knowing you would break everyone's heart and still leave?"

"What are you talking about?" How the hell did he figure it out!? She cursed herself inwardly as she kept a cool look on the outside.

"You know what I am talking about, Rose Snape." He emphasized her last name as he looked over at her, searching her eyes.

He was her one cousin that she had never lied to. He had been the first to know that she and Scorpius had been friends, and then had been the first to know that she and Scorpius were dating. He had protected them in Hogwarts. He had protected them from the families, press, and other students. She had never lied to him. And here she was lying to him.

"I honestly don't know what you are talking about." She said looking at him.

"Don't lie to me, Rosie. You left Scorpius, the Pride, and even his Family. You left because you were terrified and felt as though everyone was against you two. Why?" She ignored him, so he continued, "He loved you. He was going to ask you to marry him the day you left. The day you gave up even though he had been fighting for the two of you ever since you gave him that chance. He had finally gotten the blessing from your parents and you left. You father gave him the blessing because he fought to be with you. He fought the families, traditions, and everything and everyone who question the two of you just to be by your side. You left him. He was so broken when you left."

She glared at him. "What I do is not your business."

"It is when the man you love, who loves you back, was so broken that he only after a year of searching for you did he give up. He gave up, Rose. You got what you wanted. You shattered the heart that loved you beyond repair. He refuses to date anyone else, for fear of having the same thing happen. You think by leaving it would have only affected you and Scorpius. Let me tell you something, Rose. The Pride was broken, we barely trust each other. We were ripped apart and fighting for weeks and months. We only just started healing the wounds that we caused once you left. Your parents are heartbroken thinking it was something they did to make you leave. Rose, come home." That broke her.

"Don't tell them you found me, James." She replied.

"Just tell me why you left... please." She saw the pain in his eyes. He was one of her best friends, cousins, and her protector. She gave in.

"I was tired of living in their shadow, James. I was tired of everyone judging Scorp and I." She replied barely loud enough that he could hear her, but she knew he heard. She hesitated before saying, "We would have broken and fell apart after the baby anyway."

She saw the shock on James' face. Then heard him ask, "You were pregnant?" She nodded her head at his words. "... you left and you were pregnant... did Scorpius know?" She shook her head 'no'.

"I didn't know I was pregnant until the following month, the month after I left." Rose replied sadly.

"Why didn't you come home?" James asked, she heard the anger, frustration, pain, and sadness in his voice.

"Because... even though I was sad, I convinced myself that Scorpius and I would have fallen apart after the baby." She said watching the surrounding area for their wanted man.

"What does the baby look like? How old is it?" James asked. It had been one year since she left... it would be one year tomorrow to be exact.

"Three Months at the end of the month. She is beautiful, James. She has blonde hair like Scorpius and the other Malfoys, but she has bright blue eyes like me and some of the other Weasleys." She replied.

"I promise I won't tell..." James replied quietly. She saw the sadness in his eyes at his words.

"There is our guy." Rose changed the subject when she saw the Convict walk past them she got up and followed at a distance. Only to approach the man by tapping his shoulder. "Hi, sir. I was wondering if I could ask you a few questions..." She showed her badge and the stunned him before he could do anything. She arrested him, reading him his rights before hauling him to his feet. She looked at James and said, "All yours."

"You need to learn to work with the partners, Rose!" Pugsley scolded, it was after James had taken the Convict back to England and Puglsey figured out she had once again took control of the partnership.

"Sir, I just think it is fair that you keep pairing me with people from my past." Rose argued. Pugsley was probably the only person she worked with that knew of her entire past.

"You need to figure it out, Rose. You are one my best Aurors but you need to learnt to work with others. So until you learn to work well with others you have two options. One you work with someone I have out in Portland, Oregon. Two you are on desk duty."

"Sir, please. You can't put me on desk duty, and you know I don't have the money to go out to Portland. Please." She begged.

"Those are your options, Rose. I can't put you with anyone else."

"Fine. I'll go help the person in Oregon." She sighed. "But what do I do about Eleanor?"

"I'll have arrangements made and she can go with you." Rose nodded as his words, "Oh and you leave tonight. You work tomorrow morning."

"Sir, what does this person do?" Rose asked.

"He is Captain of the Portland Police, the Muggle ones. So I suggest you play nice. I want a good report back." Rose nodded and hurried off to go get Eleanor, then go to Severus's to explain what was going on. Only to leave within the two hours so she had time to get some sleep.