Chapter 3, I did say Thursday :D

Disclaimer: As if I would own Harry Potter. It's JKR's work I'm taking creative liberty for non-profit.

Warnings: Slash, half epilogue half not

Summary: Harry and Ginny got divorced and Harry moved with the kids to the United States. A few years later, who happens to move around the block? No other than the supposed dead Severus Snape.

Pairings: Severus/Harry

Rating: T

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Recap Severus' POV:

"Well Potter I'm sure your children are expecting you to continue trick-or-treating with them. Feel free to stop by any time." I wasn't even joking. It might be nice to have company every now and then.

Harry's POV:

I watch as Lily walks up to Snape. "Mister Severus?" The tiny red head says pulling on Snape's pants leg.

"Yes child?" He says. I'm shock he is able to tolerate my children., It must be a miracle.

"Can you come trick-or-treating with us?" She opened up her big green eyes and stuck out her bottom lip ever so slightly.

"Yea Mr. Severus, I'd like to get to know you better." Albus says, looking up with a puppy dog pout. Oh I think they're going to do the three way pout. It's nearly impossible to resist, but Snape might be able to I mean he is heartless.

"Yea please it would be so much better." James says also looking up at Snape. James is in the middle of Al and Lily, and all three of them are doing their best faces to get him to join us in our endeavor.

Snape looks up at me and asks "How often do they do this?"

"At least three times a week, but if I say no the first time, they'll try again and again until I say yes." I then jokingly put on a pout as well. "Please Snape? Come for the children? So I don't get harassed to bring them back tomorrow, unless you wish to see us again so soon." My kids were smirking slightly now because when all four of us had pouts on Ginny always caved. What can I say? I'm adorable.

Severus' POV:

Bloody brats looking so adorable and bloody Potter for having an adorable face. Bloody holiday for making them able to make me do this. I wish Potter would get the bloody smug smile off his face. I walk down the block with Potter by my side as his kids run from house to house.

"Have you worked on any potions lately?" He asks, trying to make small talk.

"Yes, maybe you've heard of the Unified potion?" I ask, skeptical that he's heard of it.

"Yes actually, I've used it before. It's very good for closing all wounds while expelling toxins. You created it?"

"Indeed. What is it you do exactly?" I ask, I wonder what he actually ended up doing.

"I'm an auror. Like I always wanted to be. After the divorce they transferred me here. My kids like have British accents because they say the kids think it's weird but really cool."

"Well, I figured you and your do-good-er complex would end up an auror." He smiles at me.

Lily walks up to us and hands Harry a Mounds and I receive an Almond Joy. "Here you go." She chirps. "You guys don't get any candy, so asked that lady for a piece for each of you."

"Thank you." Potter says patting her on the head.

"I appreciate your kindness." I tell her. She beams a smile at us and runs after James and Albus.

Harry's POV:

Severus walks us to our house and gives each of the children a pat on the head before turning on his heel, his sweeping bat like robe fluttering behind him.

"Daddy?" Albus calls, he still calls me daddy when he's tired. I walk to his room, everything is blue. "I really like Mr. Severus. He seems to be really nice. Do you like him dad?"

"Yea, He's not as bad as I remember. I guess he just didn't like incompetent children."

"What does 'incompetent' mean?"

"He didn't like kids who didn't make potions right even though there were instructions written clearly on the board. I was on of those incompetent children. But shh, don't tell James and Lily it's our little secret okay?" I kiss his fore head. "Good night my little ninja."

He yawns loudly. "Night daddy." Why do they have to grow up. I'm going to miss this.

I go to James' room and I kiss his forehead. "Dad when are you going to stop tucking me in, I'm a big boy now."

"I only do it because I love you." I tell him. "If you want me to stop I will."

"That's okay dad you can still tuck me in. Night."

I chuckle at him slightly "Good night my little pirate."

I walk in to Lily's room. "Night princess." I say as I kiss her forehead.

"Night daddy."

I collapse on to my bed it's been a long day. I fall straight to sleep. My alarm clock goes off and I wake up in the middle of a strange dream involving Snape. I shake it out of my head and get my kids ready for school.

After work I went to pick the children up from wizard school. The US actually has a much better system. They have the wizarding children go to muggle school, and after school they are picked up as though they are going to 'daycare', but it's actually a school for young wizards. "Daddy can we go see Mr. Snape again? He did say we could stop by anytime." Lily is to young to read between the lines to know that means 'I don't want to see you for at least a week'. She's so innocent and naïve.

"Yea dad please?" James asks.

"I'd really like to get to know him better. I mean you always tell stories about Grandpa, Sirius and Remus when they were is school and Aunt Luna is Lily's godmother, but I never really hear anything about who I'm named after. Please?" Al's pleas are what made me head for Snape's house, because he is right, he hasn't herd enough about Snape. The worst part is that out of all my kids he is definitely the most Slytherin one I have.

"Okay we'll go visit Snape."

"YEA!"

Severus' POV:

I sit down on my couch with a mix of fire whiskey and tea, my favorite. I place it on the end table next to me and pull out an old potions text Draco had sent me. I could stop my thoughts from wandering to Potter and his children. I quickly squash any thoughts of Potter and turn to my book ready for a nice quite evening in my home. I take another sip of tea and go on reading about how Evergrove is can be used in healing potions even though it's poisonous. A knock interrupts my musings.

I open the door and I am shocked to find Potter and his kids. "May I help you?" I ask with a slight bite to my voice that only Potter picks up on.

"The kids begged me to let them see you. Al wants to know more about his namesake and I had trouble denying him that." I look down at the youngest Potter male, he really is a spitting image of his father. He's looking up at me with big eyes, filled with wonderment.

"Come in, come in." They take off their coats and shoes and go sit in the living room. "What would you like to know, Albus?"

"Dad says you were friends with grandma Lily, I want to know about you and her. Like how you met and stayed friends." I went in to the memory of us meeting the one I showed Potter when I gave him my memories.

"And that's how I met your grandma. Any thing else?" Why do I get the odd feeling I should not have said the last part?

"What were you like in school?"

Do I give them the truth? That I was bullied by James' namesake, their grandfather? Or do I dumb it down. "Well I'm a half blood, my father was a muggle and my mother was a witch. In Slytherin being a half blood isn't accepted that well, so I didn't fit in with my house. Then because I was Slytherin and friends with your grandma I was teased a lot by other houses. I was the smartest male in our year, the only one smarter was your grandma. She was a lot like your aunt Hermione."

"Really?" Potter asks surprised. I suppose it's because I was so harsh on her in school.

"Yes, almost exactly the same. She never like breaking the rules although later on your father's influence changed that, like how being with you and Weasley, Granger's rule following went down the drain." Potter had the decency to blush. "Yes Lily was extraordinary bright and kind. One of my worst mistakes was getting mad and insulting her. After I did that my years were less than tolerable, I joined a group of bad kids and did a lot of bad things. Year later we spoke once and for the last time. She told me she loved me like a brother and she was sorry about our fight, but by then we were on two different sides of the war. I told her I was an idiot and I was sorry. She didn't say anything. She gave me a kiss on the cheek and left. She never voiced her forgiveness and to this day I wonder if she ever forgave me. Not like I deserve it, but I always wonder."

I guess you could hear the sadness in my voice because Potter told the children to go put their coats on because they had bothered me enough. "For what it's worth." He told me. "I think you've earned forgiveness." I smile slightly. He then leans down and gave me a small kiss on the cheek. I was stunned. He hurried out of the house, leaving me in confusion. What the hell?

That's all for now. This story appears to be getting better reviews than SLNE, so I may make this my priority depends on how this chapter does and the next one for SLNE. If you want this to become my priority then REVIEW! Question of the week is WHAT BOOK DO YOU RECOMMEND FOR ME TO READ? I recommend the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and What's a Ghol to Do? By Victoria Laurie.