Chapter 1 Found

Thirteen-year-old Harry Potter was in the middle of a work day. He had been working ever since he and his best friends Logan and Aaron ran away when they were ten.

Harry Potter and Logan lupin had very good reasons to run away. Harry wasn't wanted in his family. He was an extra, someone to think about after everyone else had been cared for. Logan's mother was cruel to him, and his father was forever being called away for work. Logan once confided to Harry and Aaron that he sometimes wondered whether his father even knew he had a son. Harry's father was gone just as often as Logan's and Harry replied that he sometimes wondered the same thing.

Aaron Black was their best friend, and had received his father's blessing to go along with his friends. Uncle Sirius hadn't been too pleased with the whole plan, but he thought it was all for the best.

The three of them were the closest of friends. They did everything together; they cried together when they were babies, they laughed together when they got older, and they eventually ran away together. They even had the same birthday down to the same millisecond!

When they were six they had preformed a complicated bit of magic called Nexus Fratrum or Bond of the Brothers. The magic made it so that they were brothers in blood. Harry and Logan had never bothered to tell their parents about this unique bond, but Aaron felt that his father had the right to know. Uncle Sirius had not been happy because Bond of the Brothers could have some serious consequences if it went wrong. The three boys had to endure a very long and boring lecture from Uncle Sirius, but he never told anyone about it.

The bond did have some unforeseen side affects, but that was just because the boy's magic was so powerful. All together there was almost nothing they couldn't do.

Harry sighed. He still had three hours of work left, and he was rather tired. He, Logan, and Aaron had all recently mastered the Animagus transformation, and it was a very exhausting process.

"Harry?" Mr. Hodges asked. Mr. Hodges was Harry's boss.

"Yes?" Harry replied.

"Your father called to say he's back from his business trip. Your baby-sitter left already, I know how much you hate her. Why don't you take the rest of the day off?" he suggested softly.

Harry's face lit up with pleasure. That was the lie he had concocted. He told his boss that his father was hardly ever home because he was forever being called away for work (it was rather close to the truth about Harry's real dad anyway). Harry and his brothers (Logan and Aaron) were left with a baby-sitter while their father was away, and the baby sitter wasn't kind. For one thing she made them get jobs; hence, the perfect excuse to need a job so desperately.

"Thanks Mr. Hodges! " Harry cried. "I'll go now, I'll make sure I'm on time tomorrow!"

"Don't you worry about that," Mr. Hodges chuckled. "You're a good boy Harry. Have a great time with your father."

"Thank you sir. I will," Harry said as he headed out the door. Sirius visited the trio as often as he could. It wasn't very often because he was still pretending to be friends with Lily and Rachel (Remus' wife). He didn't mind James and Remus; he just thought they were horrible fathers. Sirius kept a watch on the two families, and was supposed to warn the trio if their families came anywhere close to finding them.

As soon as Harry was out of the shop he ducked into an alley. He changed his appearance back to his original one. One of the side effects of the brother bond was that they could take on each other's appearances. As Aaron was a metamorphaguis that included any appearance they wanted, but they decided to stick with their parents looks. Most of the time they went around looking mostly like Sirius, but with dashes of Remus and James in them too, along with their original eye color.

Sirius didn't know about the whole appearance switching thing, so they always made sure to look like their original selves when he was around. Harry had messy black hair and emerald green eyes. Logan had brown eyes and hair. Aaron looked like a mini Sirius; shoulder length, wavy black hair and sparkling sapphire eyes. There was no doubt that if they went to Hogwarts they would be the heart throbs of all the girls. They didn't go to Hogwarts because their families would have been easily able to find them then.

The three boys had been to Hogwarts before though. When they were eleven they snuck in to steal library books, and take a look around. They heard Harry's brother Herbert telling his friends (some guy called Ron, and Harry's sister Opal) a whole lot about a sorcerer's stone. They decided to sneak down there and see if it was true. They heard Herbert say that he was going to try to get down there (being one of the ones-who-were-prophesied and all) but Harry knew he would get caught. Herbert thought Professor Snape was the one who was trying to steal the stone, but Harry thought that Snape would make a perfect decoy. The defenses to keep the stone safe were ridiculously easy. A giant chess set? Really? And a logic riddle? I mean honestly if an eleven year old could solve it anyone could solve it! They had saved the sorcerers' stone quite easily, and all the credit had gone to Herbert, Ron, and Opal.

When Harry, Logan, and Aaron were twelve they had snuck back into Hogwarts to return the books to the library, and had ended up killing a basilisk. It wasn't the most fun they had ever had, but at least no one would ever get hurt by the thing again.

Once Harry was done fixing his appearance he apperated to the alleyway closest to their house, and hurtled through the front door. Sirius was there right in front of him.

"Dad!" Harry cried happily, flinging himself onto Sirius. They hadn't seen Sirius in almost a year and a half, because he hadn't been able to sneak away. He had visited them about five times in the three years they had been on their own. He was here now, but what Harry failed to realize was that he wasn't alone.