Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Harry Potter characters. All I own is my original characters and settings that will come up later is the story.

I am rewriting/adding parts of this story to improve it and get rid of inconsistencies. If you see any let me know. Tell me if it's improved if you've read it before. And if you're a 'virgin', so to speak, just drop a line and tell me how it's going.

I'm going to make a calendar and post it on my website to explain the time duration of all this. There are days in between some of the chapters that explain Harry's changing behavior. As time goes by he's adjusting to his environment. I'll post a note when it's up. It might take some time.

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Severus walked down the hallways that were crowded with students.

Biara stepped out of a classroom, greeting students on her way. "Severus. What are you doing here?" She guided him into an empty classroom.

He peered out the glass panel in the door. "There are a lot more people here then before."

Biara tapped her finger against the eraser sitting on the chalkboard. "Yes, well. The students arrived yesterday. It's so refreshing for the halls to be full again."

He turned and walked toward her. He leaned against a desk in the front row. "You haven't been in contact."

She tapped her fingernails and shook out her hair. "There was nothing to report."

And the subterfuge begins. He sighed and rubbed his forehead. I have neither the time nor the energy to do this today. "How about the arrangements for his return?"

Biara kept her gazed fixed on her hands. "Return?"

Coyness isn't going to help her now. "To Hogwarts."

Biara twisted her ring around her finger. "Yes. There are some complications with that."

Severus stood and glared at the back of her head as she moved toward the windows. Automobiles of every color were strewn along the road. Children were lugging covers, pillows, clothes, chairs, and all sorts of strange items into the buildings. It's chaos. And why would they have need of all of those things? Hogwarts students get by brining only what they can fit in their trunks. What is so different here? "What kind of complications?"

Biara leaned her forehead against the window, took a deep breath, turned, and met his eyes. "He doesn't want to go back."

Severus fixed his eyes on a middle distance to avoid her glare. "Well then I suppose it's a good thing that he doesn't have a choice." He smirked. I have won this round Biara. Give him up.

Biara dropped her head and pushed her hair back. "You can't force him to go back Severus.

He strode forward and stopped inches from her. "I can and I will. I have better things to so with my time then take some insolent schoolboy shopping for his school supplies. But that is what I have been instructed to do. You will tell him I will return tomorrow. We will buy his school supplies and put him on the train." He turned and walked out of the room.

"This sucks." Harry threw another dart. It stuck in the ceiling with the other four.

"Yep." Cali's head rested on his stomach, her fingers idly flipping through the pages of her potions text.

"They said I could choose where I wanted to be. The second I make a definitive choice, that I want to stay here, they yank everything away from me." A sixth dart joined the circle.

She ran her fingers down the ingredients for 'Invisibility in an instant' before flipping the page. "I think they'll regret it. They probably won't change their minds, but they'll either regret letting you stay here at all or making you leave."

The seventh dart completed the circle. "Why?"

Cali shut the book and let her arms fall into her lap. "Can you put this book on the table for me?"

The book lifted out of her hand and settled on the coffee table. "Are you going to answer the question?"

Cali smacked his chest. "Harry, your magic! No wand. Am I jogging your memory here?"

Harry chewed on his lip. "Oh."

She shook her head. "Yeah, plus your accent. It's faded almost entirely into an American accent."

He scowled. "Crap."

Cali laughed and stretched her arms back over her head. "Not to mention your new American vocabulary. Add to that the serious muscles you built up here, the glamour over your scar, and let's not forget the tattoo and the piercings."

Harry raised his eyebrow. "And what exactly are you implying?"

Cali stood and walked to the bookshelf, changing the CD. "I'm implying that you have become the stereotypical American muggle and Uncle Severus is going to have an aneurysm when he sees you."

Someone had given up and was dragging their stuff down the hall. "What did you say?"

Cali glanced back and then turned to fiddle with the CD player. "He's going to have an- -"

Harry took a deep breath. I'm wrong. She's talking about someone else. "UNCLE Severus?"

Cali lowered the CD case to the shelf. "Crap."

I did hear wrong. I had to have heard wrong. "Uncle?"

She turned around. Chewing on her lip. "You know, I managed not to say it all summer and then the night before you leave--"

"Uncle?" Harry stood.

Cali threw up her hands. "Yes Harry. Uncle. My mother's brother. Man I've only met when he came to get you."

Harry sat back down. She's scary when she's angry. "You've never really met him?" She can't know how horrible he is. She's never met him. So of course she would call him something so familiar. That's the normal thing. If she called him anything else it would mean that they are actually close.

"No." She crossed her arms over her chest.

Harry chewed on his thumb. That's how Snape knew about this place. Biara is his sister. Jeez. Biara is a Snape. He shook his head. How scary is that?

Cali bit her lip. "Does this mean you won't be my secret English lover anymore?"

Nothing's changed. I just know more now. She saw it. It was in my head and she saw it. How does it have to feel to see someone you're related to--Okay. I can do this. Everything is just how it was only now I have more information. Harry walked over and dropped his arms over her shoulders. "Well, you are related to the most horrible man I've ever met, but take a look at my uncle. And who knows, maybe it'll really piss Uncle Severus off."

Cali giggled. She rested her head on his shoulder. "I'm going to miss you Harry."

The darts didn't look like they were moving, but he should probably remove them. The last thing he needed was for them to fall on someone. "Me too."

"We should probably reverse the glamour."

He pouted his lips and whined in his best little kid voice. "Do we have to do it now?"

She brushed her fingers over his forehead, smiling. "No, but before you leave. It would lead to questions you don't want to answer."

"Which I'll get enough of because of all the extra muggle and magical knowledge I have all of a sudden and the holes in my ear and my eyebrow."

Cali brushed his eyebrow ring. "But you do look so cute. I can't believe Mom actually screamed when she found out."

He smirked and rotated it through the hole. "Makes me kind of glad we didn't mention the tattoo."

She pushed up his sleeve and kissed the black symbols on his shoulder. "I made you something."

Presents! Harry smiled. "Really? What?"

She pulled the trunk out of the corner. She plopped down in front of it, unlocking it with the key around her neck. She opened the lid and pulled out a black case.

He slid to the floor next to her. He ran his fingers over the rough fabric. "What is it?"

She pushed it into his lap. "Open it!"

He undid the buckles and pulled it out. "A laptop?"

Cali shifted off her knees and slipped onto the green, fuzzy carpet. "It runs on magic. Plus, I put it together in the building so it's resistant to the effects of magic. It should work at Hogwarts." She shrugged. "It will depend on the level of magical interference which I couldn't calculate without being there. But I pumped it pretty high so it's probable that it will work. I also installed all your favorite programs on it. Plus--" She opened one of the pockets in the case, "a web cam. It hooks to the side of the screen. I hooked everything up to work across continents without Internet access."

"You knew they would make me go back to Hogwarts."

Cali crept over and pressed against his side, laying her head on his shoulder. "I was prepared for it." She opened another pocket and pulled out a jewelry box. "Plus this. I made two. Or charmed two as the case may be. If we're both wearing them we should be able to feel what the other is feeling. In diluted form of course, so it doesn't overwhelm us and drive both of us insane."

He took the box out of her hand and opened it. The silver cross reflected the light. "It's gorgeous. You're gorgeous." He kissed the top of her head. "I'm going to miss you so much."

She smiled as she locked the trunk and pushed it back into the corner. "Me too. Now I think for the sake of everyone's sanity we should go to bed. He'll be here in a few hours."

"They're going to wonder how I learned so much in so short a period of time. What am I supposed to tell them?" The darts wiggled free of the ceiling and dropped to the table.

Cali shrugged. "You could tell them how many laws you managed to break for improper use of a time turner. That should open the conversation right up." She smacked his chest. "You're lucky Dad decided you weren't in your right frame of mind. Though I'm sure if he hadn't he'd have found another way to get you out of it."

"People always manage to get me out of whatever mess I get myself into. It's getting kind of old." He pulled her into a hug. "Stay with me?"

She relaxed against his chest. "Always."

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