Title: Past, Present, Future

Summary: The past will come back, the present will change them, now what will the future hold?

Disclaimer: I do not own them, sad but true

A/N: Yes this is an AU fic. Reviews are welcome, flames are shared with friends for amusement.

Chapter 6

Severus went straight to his room after his lovely chat with the Weasley child. Walking in, he flopped down on the couch and reached for a bottle of fire whiskey. Pouring himself a small glass, he sat back and dived into memories again. These were the memories of first hearing the news that Harry Potter was coming to Hogwarts.

"What do you mean Harry Potter is coming here, Albus?"

"I mean it has been ten years, Severus, and it is time he learned who, and what, he is."

"Albus, You know the bad blood between me and James. How can you expect me to teach his son, the son which should have been mine?"

"Severus, you will have to put your anger toward James aside and teach him. He is not only James' son, he is Lily's, as well. Can you not see past your hatred?"

Severus had stormed out of the headmaster's room and spent the night clutching a photo of Lily, lost in the past. When he had laid eyes on Harry all the hatred for James had welled inside him again, and he had taken it out on the boy, but even his loathing of James could not make him a total bastard. When Harry had almost fallen from his broom in the Quidditch match, he knew Lily would never forgive him for not saving her son, so he had muttered the counter curse and saved the boy, despite having been set on fire by the know-it-all Granger girl.

Severus was so lost in his thoughts that he did not heard the door to his chambers open, or Dumbledore walk in. "Severus, it is nearly six."

"Albus, I did not see you come in. Is there something you needed?"

"I said that it is six. How about you find your son and Mr. Weasley and bring them down for dinner?"

Severus sighed, but got up to locate his son and the insufferable redhead he called his friend.

"If I am not mistaken, they said they would be in the library," Dumbledore said before he swept from the room.

Muttering under his breath, Severus trudged up the west staircase and into the library. His eyes searched the chairs and did not see Harry or Ron. "Harry, it is time for dinner. Harry!" he yelled.

"You will please lower your voice, Severus. This is not your Potions' lab," Madame Pince said, coming from around one of the bookcases.

Severus flinched. He remembered her from his years at Hogwarts, and her stern looks still gave him the creeps. "I was looking for Mr. Potter and his red-headed friend."

"No one has been in here all day. Really, did you expect a child to willingly come here during the holidays?"

Severus swore under his breath and stormed out of the library, headed straight for the Gryfindor common room. Giving the very annoyed fat lady the password, he entered. He looked about the common room and, not finding them, headed straight for the boys dorm. Severus had checked every floor and found no trace of either of them. Back in the common room he had a thought. Standing at the bottom of the steps to the girls' dorm, he called up. "Harry, if you are up there, come down at once!" When he got no response he swore again.

"If I run into any wandering Gryfindor female while I am searching for you, you will pay dearly for it."

Twenty minutes later Severus was once again standing in the common room wondering where to search next, when the fat lady spoke to him.

"Why is there a Slytherin in the Gryfindor common room?"

"I would be Professor Snape, and I am looking for Mr. Potter," he said with disdain in his voice.

"Mr. Potter, why didn't you say so? He and the Weasley child left earlier. They were under some kind of cloak, but their voices I heard speaking of Hogsmeade."

"They went where?" Severus shouted.

"I said Hogsmeade. Are you a trifle deaf?"

Severus Snape stormed out of the common room. "When I get my hands on those two they will be serving detention with me forever," he muttered, heading out of the castle and onto the road to Hogsmeade.