Warning: slash, detail sex scenes, strong language.

Chapter one

Harry Potter was being hugged by everyone after he killed Voldemort and slapping his back or like some girls, kissed him, the yelling and cheering was still loud in the ruined great hall. Harry glanced around trying to see where Hermione and Ron were, then he spotted them with Ginny and the other Weasley's. Harry thought a few of them looked angry, some looked upset about something, he could tell by their body language and hand gestures he just had no idea why. He finally believed it was because of Fred.

As Harry smiled at people who were thanking him, he made it look like he was staring at them but actually watching his friends. At one time he read the name Harry on Bill's lips then something about dying on Ron's lips. Harry had no idea what they were talking about but after the last couple of years, he had become to be cautious and suspicious of everyone, to the point he was a little paranoid. But he never thought he would end up suspicious of his friends or the Weasley's. For now though, he'd just act like he didn't see anything suspicious in the way they were behaving, because there could be a logical explanation, he'd have to wait and see.

Harry with the help of Luna, he got out of the great hall with Hermione and Ron, he thought his friends seemed to be fine, not angry like they did before, but something nagged deep inside him. So after finishing with Dumbledore's portrait they left the large round office, Harry turned to his friends.

'Hermione, can I have those books, I want to check a few things. Oh and the destroyed horcruxes,' Harry said sounding casual but tired.

'Yes, of course,' Hermione dug into her small beaded bag and pulled out three large books and the horcruxes, 'Do you want your books or wait until later?'

'Give me those as well, I like having those books with me since Sirius gave them to me,' she put the other books in his arms, 'Okay, thanks, now I'm going to sleep, I can barely stand.'

'Dad said we're all going to Muriel's, mum will expect you to as well. You know how she is, you just can't argue with her. So you might as well just come down with us Harry,' Ron said casually shrugging at the same time.

'Well, I'm going to argue, I'm not going to Muriel's or back to the Burrow. He's dead, it's time I got my own place now I don't need to stay under guard or in hiding. If your mum want's to argue I will explain she is not my mother. So tell everyone I'll see them in a few days, maybe, I want to rest, I'm absolutely knackered,' Harry didn't wait for them to answer, he just turned and walked away. Ron looked worried and Hermione also looked like she couldn't believe it was Harry. When Harry was out of their sight, he put the books in a secluded corner, charmed them then pulled the cloak over him and very quietly snuck back and listened.

'He was supposed to die Ron, Dumbledore said he had to, that's when we put together the rest of the plans but nothing seemed to go right. I wonder if Dumbledore suspected us so he never told us something, or someone found out about our plans and told him.'

'No, we pretended to be his friend and follow him no matter what. I even had that fight with him just to make it look good and you could have that time alone with him. Maybe I shouldn't have saved him from drowning, but we expected him to die, so I had to, that blasted sword was still needed. I still have no idea who put it there, someone else was helping him without us knowing. But nothing seems to be going right, not now. Mum and dad are furious, Bill said there's no way he can talk the goblins into allowing him to enter the vaults now he's alive. His hope is that since everyone knows Harry stays at the Burrow with us and he doesn't want to go out in public that he's going to let Bill go into his vault, they might allow him to, since he was able to once before. It's good that Harry never got around to making a will otherwise we'd never get anything,' Ron runs his fingers through his hair in frustration. 'Damn I wanted that wand, but I'll never get it now. Since he didn't die for me to take it off him, I figured he'd come back with us. I was going to trick the wand from him while he was exhausted. Have you any idea who that doe patronus belonged too?'

'No, the last doe patronus I could find was Lily Potter's. There's no one she was close to left, and going through the registry found nothing. I know you don't have to register your patronus like you do with an animagus, but most do. I have no idea Ron, but I'm beat, we'll have to work on some other plans because I can't think straight at the moment. Maybe we could make it look like a death eater caught up with him and killed him in his sleep.'

'Let's talk it over with the family, see what they say. We were expecting Bill to get into the vaults, now we've got nothing, no money at all and we need to go to blasted Muriel's. Oh, I meant to tell you how good you were Hermione, Harry really believed Snape died and you distracted him at the right time. I knew that greasy haired git was up to something, but I still don't know what it was. Why would he give Harry anything, he hated him?'

'I have no idea, but you're right, Snape was up to something, the way he looked at Harry and the way he said his name, but what was the thing about his mother. Anyway, it's been a while since we left the shack so hopefully he has bled to death by now. But Harry said something to Voldemort about Snape, I was just too shocked to listen, did you take any notice?'

'No, I was like you, we all were, we thought he was dead, so I wasn't listening. I was hoping maybe that time it would happen. How in the bloody hell did he beat Voldemort? He's not that powerful, something's not quite right, we must have missed something.'

'Let's go speak with the family, see what they want to do about my idea of killing Harry in his sleep, it might be the only way.' Hermione sighed.

'We'll talk it over, like we do with everything. Aren't we fortunate that Harry seemed to like to spend time alone, gave us all time to be ourselves instead of his simpering friends we had to pretend to be. Come on baby, at least we don't have to hide the fact we've been fucking each other for more than a year. You made me wait, now I just don't want to.'

'We had to keep up the pretence of liking each other but not telling each other. If Harry suspected we've been together for years, he would not have trusted me as much as he did. I'm glad he never got around to talking to my parents. Their good but not that good, they might have let something slip, or he might have overheard them talking with your dad and mum. I hope there's some Firewhiskey at Muriel's, I could do with a drink.'

Harry watched his so called friends walk away. He was furious, but also hurt, deeply hurt, he was also in shock at what he'd been hearing. The worst was they actually wanted him dead so they could have his money and the wand. Even though he knew he would have to deal with this, he didn't have time to worry about them, Snape might be alive. Harry hurried through the castle, trying to stay quiet. Even though there was still a lot of noise, but after hearing what he did, he had to make sure no one saw him. He took the cloak off, then got through the tunnel into the shrieking shack and saw Snape sitting against the wall, exactly where Harry had left him, but he was alive.

'Professor,' Harry knelt down, 'Sorry, I thought you died, I didn't have time to check.'

'I'm fine Potter and I think you were a bit busy to worry about a man you didn't like. I suspected Voldemort would try to kill me sooner or later, so I was prepared. He always kills everyone then starts with fresh followers, except for the Lestrange's and a few others. I've been trying to hear what has been going on. He said you were dead then I heard the fighting start again, then cheering.'

'Well,' Harry shrugged, 'he's dead, Bellatrix is dead, almost all of his are dead, a few knew they were losing and ran away. The few aurors that were here were able to capture some, but I'm not sure how many escaped.'

'Albus told me there was a chance you might survive but only if you allowed Voldemort to kill you, it seemed to have worked.'

'So you knew?'

'Yes, he filled me in on everything. I have been trying to find you for months. It was luck that I did, Finius Nigelus Black heard Granger say the Forest of Dean.'

'I was wondering who it was until I saw your memory. But I need to speak with you about something serious. See, I'm not sure who to trust anymore, but you promised my mother, you were doing things that were very dangerous just to protect her son, me. That shows me that you are someone I can trust, because right now you're in danger if they figure out your alive and I'm in danger, they want to kill me when I fall asleep.'

'Then help me into the other room, we can rest together and talk. Because you are right, I would do anything to protect the son of a woman that was my best friend.'

Harry got a smile from Snape, something he had never had before. But now was not the time to think about anything except keeping them both alive as well as hidden, at least for now.

'So Ron suspected me, which is not really surprising if his sister told him I stopped any server punishment. If I really was a death eater then I would have allowed the Carrow's to do whatever they wished. So now we have to figure out what they are up to, what do they want, why would they want to kill you?'

'They said something about Bill, the goblins won't allow him into the vaults now I'm alive but something about a will and that everyone knows I stay at the Burrow so they might let Bill into the vault. Do you think they mean my parents vault? It has some money in it, but not that much. I have no idea what's in Sirius vault that he left me.'

'From what Albus has told me Harry, the Blacks were very wealthy. But you probably wouldn't know since you were in hiding before you turned seventeen. Albus had the information ready for you but left it in my possession hoping I could give it to you. But you have another two vaults, one from your father and one from your mother. You're father came from an old pure-blood family that always had money, I'm just not sure how much. Your mother was left a lot when her parents died and she also got some from an uncle when he died. I remember Lily telling me that she loved her uncle Stanley, they were close, very close. He had no children, he never married, so Lily became his child in a way. Albus said she changed everything over to wizard money after they died because she didn't want anything to do with the muggle world again. Bill Weasley worked for Gringotts and got Fleur a job there as well, so either of them would have been able to find out exactly what you're worth.'

'Then why was I only told about the Potter vault, the one I go too?'

'From what Albus said, Lily was concerned that if her and your father died but you survived, then her sister would take your money. So they set up a smaller vault for you to use during your Hogwarts years. I remember Albus mentioned something about taking custody of you if that happened, you would always be safe then. But he told me about the blood spell he found, he figured it was the safest and best protection you could have, staying with your mother's blood. Okay, we have a lot of investigating to do without raising their suspicions. You need to let them think you're still their friend and we need more information Harry, because right now nothing is making sense. You became friends with them right from the moment you stepped onto the Hogwarts express.'

'Okay, well, we can talk about all the times I've been with them, from the moment I met them. I can act like their friends, but I already told them I'm not going with them, I'm getting my own place.'

'You could, but they would expect to be allowed in. So I have a suggestion, why don't you stay at my place for a while? The excuse you could use is that since you now know I was really on your side and was close to your mother, then we decided to put out differences aside and I would tell you all about her now I can be myself. You do not know a lot about your parent's, so it would not seem suspicious for you to want to stay with someone that was friends, good friends, with your mother.'

'You wouldn't mind me staying with you?'

'No, I don't and just so you know Harry, the way I behaved over the years, it was all an act. First of course I had to make the death eaters believe I was really one of his when I haven't been since I overheard that prophecy. Second, they had to think I hated you, when I never did. Albus told me he would returned and that's when we began to talk over some plans. I know we spent time alone, but if I behaved any differently than you would have told your friends, things get overheard, they might have told others. If any of the Slytherin's heard that I treated you differently they would have informed their parent's. Word would have spread back to people like Lucius Malfoy. It always did, and the dark lord had spies everywhere. Just know that I do care for you and have for a long time. I do admit I don't like seeing your father when I look at you, that hatred between us was real. Children at school always have some they never like, your father and godfather were two I never liked, they felt the same about me and others.'

'I get that, Sirius and Remus explained more about that after I saw your memories that day. I was confused, I heard my father was a good bloke, then I saw what he did and I wasn't sure how to feel, about him or you. So I flooed them and explained. You would have gotten a visit from Remus asking to resume my occlumense lessons even if I didn't want to. Sirius didn't want you doing them, but he admitted I needed them. Anyway, we've got time to talk about that. Right now, everyone thinks you killed Dumbledore, I have to let McGonagall and Kingsley know. Oh, Kingsley was named interim minister, he'll believe me.'

'Show them my memory Harry, it will clear my name and it will show them exactly what I was doing for Albus and you. It's all the proof they will need.'

'What if their still there, they might try to get me to go with them?'

'Harry, you are a very strong assertive young man that just killed the worst dark wizard in history, which you will need to explain later. But now, stand up to them, use that assertive part of yourself and just tell them you are not going, that you want some time alone. Don't turn your back on them at all, not until we know what is going on.'

'Maybe I can just use my cloak again so they can't see me because right now I just don't want to deal with them, not until I know more. I'm just too tired to deal with them right now. Are you going to stay here?'

'Yes, it's safer, I can charm the place to make it look like it's empty.'

'What if they decide to check on your body? They said they saw you were still alive, but Hermione said you should have bled to death, they might want to be sure you died.'

'Do you have your cloak with you now?'

'Yes,' Harry pulled it from his jacket.

'Then we'll both go into the castle and I will stay hidden until you can explain to Minerva and the minister. I will use my old rooms, the door is enchanted so no one can enter without my permission as I was the last headmaster.'

'Are you sure you're up to getting through that tunnel?'

'It'll be slow and painful, but I will be fine.'

'Okay,' Harry stood then helped Snape to his feet, 'Tell me if I hold you too tight.'

'I will, but it's fine,' Severus gave Harry a reassuring smile so he kept his arm around him until they got to the tunnel, then Harry decided to follow in case Snape needed help, he would see it. The moment Snape stilled the whomping willow, Harry put the cloak over them, put his arm back around Snape and headed into the castle. They did see the Weasley's and Hermione looking around, they assumed they were looking for Harry. So even though it wasn't smart to move too fast, they did hurry. They got to the back room of the headmaster's office, Snape giving Harry permission to enter, then Harry helped him onto his sofa.

'I'll try not to be long, I just need to find McGonagall without them seeing me.'

'I will be fine here then we can go to my home, work out what is going on.'

'Um, if you want, I can get Kreacher here to bring you something. You look like you could use some food and something to drink.'

'Kreacher, that unpleasant house elf that belonged to your godfather?'

'He's different Snape, I gave him something and from then on, he treated me as his master, but I left him here.'

'Then yes, I could do with a cup of tea and something to eat.'

'Kreacher,' Harry waited and a minute later the old elf was bowing at him, 'Hi Kreacher, could you bring up some tea for two and sandwiches for both of us as well?'

'Kreacher will make Master Harry's favourite, I will return shortly,' the elf bowed and disapparated.

'Okay, he'll leave the stuff, I'll go find McGonagall.'

'Thank you for your assistance Harry, but I'm fine.'

'Alright,' Harry looked at the man he thought he knew, realising he didn't know him at all, but he realised he didn't know a lot of people he thought he did. He put the cloak over himself and made he's way back down the ruined castle in search of two people. One will be around somewhere, the other might not even be here anymore. But for now that didn't matter, Harry needed to speak with McGonagall first. He saw his so called friends still staring around everywhere so he knew they were still looking for him, but with the cloak, the cloak of invisibility, they will never see him. He still had no idea what was going on, apart from the fact they seemed to want his money, the want the wand and the want him dead.