Harry looked over at his guardian questioningly. "Does it have anything to do with the voices I heard?"

"Yes. You see Harry, I did not want to talk to you about this until you are older than four, but what with what's going on, you need to know as soon as possible," Sev took a very deep breath and began. "Harry your family is alive all of it. Your mother, father, and twin sister are somewhere within a mile from our location. They have been here the entire time."

"Then why did they leave me? Don't they want me no more?" Harry's eyes started to water a bit.

"I'm afraid Harry that that is half the truth. Albus" here Harry scowled "may say otherwise, but that is more or less it. There could have been ways around this, so don't listen to anyone who says that it was the only way. The point is Harry, Dumbledore got it into his head that your twin Faylese is powerful. The amount of truth in this is unknown, but the headmaster was a Gryffindor, so, naturally, jumped to a conclusion. They had left you with me purely because they thought, or more Dumbledore thought, that you would just get in the way of Fay's training. They were planning to re enter your life the day that you started Hogwarts."

"Why though? Is Fay…my sister really that powerful?" Harry's eyes were unfocused.

"I don't have the answer to that. The choice of whether or not you will accept your parents when they come is yours. What we have to do now, is leave this place as soon as possible."

"I don't want to stay here more we have to. My parents didn't want me, and you did. That makes you my family, and not them."

I feel horrible. In truth I didn't want him either at first.

"The only way of getting back would be to use my emergency portkey, and that would only work in the place where your relations live, meaning that we would have to make it that far without being seen. Remember I told you about wards on Hogwarts that don't let anyone apperate of dissaperate? The same ones are here as well."

"So we can do that, I'm good at this stuff!" Harry was now bouncy as ever again.

Ah the joy of being a toddler.

"It's not this easy, the portkey takes five minutes to get ready, and the same amount would equal to over a day here. This is one of the reasons that Albus chose this place. For every minute that passes in the real world, six hours pass here. People still age according to normal time though. If they didn't, your sister would have been grown up by now."

"Great! This gives us time to train my dog, and plan what I can do when we get back! Fred and George are coming soon you know!"

Sev smirked, and tapped the small stone in his pocket with his wand. A blue light started to spread in slow motion. They had exactly thirty hours.

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"What are you going to name that dog Harry?" Sev asked as he surveyed the room.

"I think Kaden is a good name. It means warrior, and this guy sure looks like one don't you think so? It can be Kade for short."

"I think that it's a great name. Now, before we do something with this dog, we're going to have to clean up a bit. You can't even sit down in here."

With a flick of his wrist, the room enlarged a bit, though it was still small. The dust was gone, as were the bugs and spider webs. Half the floor was then covered with a thick green carpet, and the other was cleared of things. In a corner there stood an old stove. The thing was entirely black, and impossibly dirty. No matter what spell Sev tried, nothing worked. He gave up for the moment and levitated the table near by, extending it to fit more things. The broken chair was fixed and a copy of it was made. On the other side of the room stood two beds with green bedding. The sofa was transfigured into a large armchair, and the fireplace had a fire burning with in.

"I was never too good with food, so we might as well clean that stove and find something to cook," said Sev thoughtfully. "Why don't you pick up any odds and ends, and I'll start on the stove?"

"Alright. Then can we play with Kade?" asked Harry.

Sev eyed the puppy that was now chewing at the carpet, and did not answer. He chuckled for a moment at the thought of taming it, before continuing to attempt cleaning the stove. It looked more like he was waging a full-scale war against it and it seemed as if the stove were winning.

Harry looked over his shoulder. "Want some help?"

Severus shrugged kicking the stove once for good measure as it tried to bite him.

Harry chided gently giving a dirty glare to the uncooperative stove.

"You'd think it didn't want to be cleaned," he muttered under his breath and moved over to where Snape was standing practically cursing the stove now.

It wasn't all that late, but the stove was starting to irritate him. He had once again been attempting to get the stove to cooperate without much luck. Harry let out a small giggle when Sev threw his wand down in frustration.

"What's so funny?" Sev placed his hands on his hips, eyes narrowed suspiciously.

"You," the boy shrugged in return, clearly not intimidated by the imposing glint in the taller man's eyes.

"Me? How so?"

"You got beaten by a stove," Harry snickered again turning back to the table and began to wipe it between laughter attacks. With a final glare first at Harry and then at the stove, the Potions Master conjured up a plate of very bad sandwiches, grimacing at the taste when he took a bite. Harry ate his without complaint, he knew better than to criticize Snape's food when he was in a horrible mood as it was.

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"How are we going to teach him Sev?" Harry was sitting on the edge of one of the beds, looking at the exited Kade. Severus stopped pacing.

"I suppose we can always try the 'scold if they get it wrong, praise if they do it right' technique. Though I'm not sure that this one will take well to scolding," he added in an afterthought.

"Well what's the easiest thing?" asked Harry.

"Sit."

The dog looked at Severus for a very long moment. Then it shifted its eyes to Harry, and it's expression seemed to say 'Yeah, I'm just going to sit. How fun *cough cough*' Severus seemed to be thinking along the same lines, and took a shrunken pack of dog treats from his pocket. When he enlarged them, the dogs attitude changed instantly. (A/N this is not like the dog is talking, it's just that sometimes you can almost tell what the dog is saying by looking it in the eyes, so this is just that.) 'Food? Food for me?' it's eyes seemed to say. 'Please food. See, I'm a good doggy. I'll even obey your dumb commands. My food?' Kade sat down on the floor, sat for a moment, leaped up, and started to bang her tail against a wall. (A/N Kade is a girl.) Harry laughed, and grabbed a treat from the bag Sev was holding.

"Come," said Harry.

Please, the dog can't even manage to sit, and he want it to come to him.

Kade eyed the treat, then looked at Harry, and without a further though bounded right over to the child, nearly knocking him off of his feet in the process. After making sure that Harry was treat free, Kaden ran in circles around the small room, occasionally letting out a small bark at various items. When she reached the bed, Kade first sniffed the smaller one. She then ran back over to Harry and sniffed him. Next she went and smelled the other bed, finding no specific smell. (well duh, only Harry has sat or even touched his bed) Looking around again, Kade barked, and climbed on top of the bigger bed, ripping the covers to shreds in the process. Severus watched as his new roommate destroyed his bed.

She and Harry'll get along JUST fine.

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I'm REALLY REALLY SORRY FOR THE DELAY!!!!

There we go, another chapter. Not too big, but alright all the same. Keep reviewing, and I hope to get something interesting in the next chapter.

~Miki