Summary: Magic herself senses Harry's desire for a family when he is a very young age. And so she does something that surprises even herself. AU where Harry is sent back in time and adopted by Lily's family. Slash. SB/HP because Sirius is lovely. Repost of a story I took down, reedited and rewritten.

Notes: Reminder that this is a reedited repost of my old fic Sage. I don't own Harry Potter.

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"Regular speech"

Prologue

Mr. and Mrs. Evans had always thought themselves to be very respectable people. They tried very hard to be considerate to everyone they met, and they could only hope their daughters would learn from their example and do the same.

They had everything they wanted and then some, they always had room for another person at their table, and they almost always had money to spare for those in need.

And today, the person in need was right in front of them. A small child, maybe about 3, with messy black hair, a missing front tooth, green eyes exactly like Lily's, and a thumb in his mouth.

He looked at them pensively, or as pensively as a child could look, especially with a thumb in its mouth.

Mrs. Evans brushed the tangled black hair out of his round face. She started slightly at the lightning bolt scar on his forehead.

"He hasn't spoken a word?" She asked, for the fourth time.

The social worker shook her head as the boy's hand flew up, smoothing the hair back over his forehead stubbornly. "Not a single word."

"What do you think?" Mrs. Evans asked her husband anxiously.

Mr. Evans smoothed his moustache. "I think he needs a proper name if he's going to come home with us."

Mrs. Evans breathed a sigh of relief and hid her delighted smile behind her hand. "No sign of any parents?"

"We've done our best ma'am. There's no one. All that's left is for you to sign these papers and he's yours." The woman's mouth settled into a stern line and she smoothed her hair, which was pulled back into a tight black bun. She straightened her emerald green suitcoat.

"Are you sure it's that simple?"

"Quite." The woman said, her lips nearly disappearing. The couple needed no more convincing as the social worker produced the papers from thin air. "Sign here and here."

And so the newly named Sage Harrison Evans went home to meet his new family.