How do these things happen?

Ch.1

Author: PIXYfairy120

Disclaimer: I own the plot and NOTHING else. The rest is owned by the wonderful J.K. Rowling!!!

"I can't take this anymore," Harry was completely frustrated. He hadn't got much sleep over the holidays so far due to the fact that every time he went to sleep he started having another dream about the third task it was unnerving. He was getting sick due to lack of sleep. He had large, dark circles under his eyes and he was having trouble functioning because he could barely move due to lack of sleep but every time he fell asleep he would just have another dream of the third task. "What I wouldn't give for a nice dreamless sleep potion right now."

It was mid July and he had only gotten about an hour to two hours of sleep a night since he left Hogwarts. There were even some nights he didn't get any sleep at all. He was really hoping to be able to go to the Weasley's but he hadn't got any news about that from the headmaster yet. He was sitting in his room-if you can call it that-thinking about the events of last year. It was only about 3 a.m. and he didn't feel as though he was going to be getting anymore sleep that night.

When it was about 5:30 an owl came and dropped an owl in his lap. "Who would be sending me a letter this early?" He looked at it and saw an extremely small note.

iHarry,

There's not much that I can say. What I can tell you is 1) I'm your brother, 2) At least one of our parents are alive, 3) The potters adopted you, 4) We both have charms on our appearance, 5) Our real parents both cared about us very much 6) You will find out more later./i

There was no signature. "I have a brother? How can this be? I was adopted?" Harry was confused and he wanted answers. He wanted to know who sent this and he wanted reassurance that it wasn't some kind of sick joke. There were people who cared about him? Why wasn't he told before that he was adopted? Who were his real parents? Now he had even more on his mind then before. In about five minutes if you would have walked in that room you would see a boy getting more then his usual hour and a half of sleep a night for the first time in almost a month.

****Mid morning the next day****

"Boy!!!" Harry was awoken from his sleep. He ran as quickly as he could down stairs to where his uncle was standing.

"Y-yes Uncle Vernon?" Harry said a little out of breath.

"Where were you?"

"I'm sorry Uncle Vernon. I must have slept longer then I meant to."

"Longer then you meant to, LONGER THEN YOU MEANT TO? THAT'S YOUR EXCUSE FOR US NOT HAVING OUR BREAKFAST? YOUR GOING TO REGRET THAT BOY!!!" Harry looked at his Uncle.

"No Uncle Vernon, please."

"PLEASE? YOU THINK PLEASE WORKS WITH ME? I'M GOING TO MAKE YOU REGRET THOSE WORDS BOY!!!" Harry saw his uncles fist heading straight towards his face because the next thing he knew he awoke in his bedroom surrounded with a pool of his own blood.

He reached for a piece of paper he wrote,

i HELP HP/i

He wrote it in his own blood, attached it to Hedwig's leg, and then he fell back into darkness.

***Snapes POV***

I was sitting in my office preparing for my lessons for the next school year. You see I'm not one to procrastinate I like getting everything done as soon as possible. You see while I was in there an owl which appeared to be Harry's land on my desk. There was a not attached to its leg.

I took it off and what I saw made me feel as though I was going to pass out. It was a note written in blood. My SON'S blood that I had to give up due to me being a death eater and a spy. Of coarse he had no idea. Due to the charm on him. No one knows I was ever married and had children, but I actually had twin sons. As I stated earlier I am not one to procrastinate so once I got to the point where I wasn't going to pass out I was off to see what had happened to him.

***Privet Drive***

As soon as I arrived at Privet drive I practically ran to number 4. I wanted to get to him as soon as possible. I didn't even bother knocking on the door.

"Where's Harry?" There were the three muggles called Harry's 'family'. They all just pointed upstairs. I opened the door and what I saw made me throw up I just couldn't hold it in. I was a weak man at that moment having seen any child let alone my own would have made me react badly. Seeing HIM this way was too much. I knew I needed to get him back to Hogwarts so he could get help as soon as possible.

When I was back at Hogwarts I ran with him in my arms both of us drenched in his blood, I knew I needed to get him to the hospital wing as fast as possible. I felt as though I was going to burst into tears at any second.

Yeah that would be a sight for the students of Hogwarts to see, their least favorite teacher crying over the state of the student he treated the worst even though he cared most about him. I hated how this all worked out I was able to show my other son a little more affection then Harry because of his house but because I couldn't openly show affection for Harry made me want him to know how much I cared about him even more.

As soon as I was in the hospital wing I yelled for pomphrey she was at his side immediately giving him the care he needed. I was finally able to have my breakdown because I couldn't show my son the affection I had for him.