Chapter 6

"There's no shame in having to fight every day, but fighting every day, and presumably, if you are still alive to hear these words or read this interview, then you are winning your war. You're here." -Jared Padalecki

Jamie smiled as Dean argued with Sam about pie. John, his father, had run to the nearby store, and Bobby was in the library doing research on magic schools in America. Jamie was also doing some research on magical places in America to go find a branch or Gringotts.

"I found a magical area that is decently close," Bobby stated, looking up from the book he was reading.

"Where?" Dean asked, lightly shoving Sam, and coming to stand behind Jamie, so he was looking at Bobby, who was sitting across from Jamie at the desk in the study.

"Stillwater Minnesota, it is about a four-and-a-half-hour drive from here," Bobby responded, betting up from his chair to grab a beer. That was one thing that Jamie had gotten used to, the adults having one or two beers a day. Dean drank less now, then before Jamie came back.

"Maybe I can take Jamie tomorrow," Dean stated.

"There is also a Magical community in Houston, Texas," Jamie stated. "Which is a two-hour drive from Waco." Dean patted Jamie on the shoulders and went to the kitchen to grab something for Jamie to eat. One thing that Dean was making Jamie do is, Dean was making Jamie eat every couple hours. Dean insisted that Jamie ate to keep his energy up, so that he could continue to heal from the Dursley's terrible treatment of him. The small family had decided not to go outside of five hours of a drive within Bobby's house while Jamie was healing, but Dean was going to look at the stitches today and see if Jamie was healed enough for him to take out the stitches.

"Jamie, will you please let me see the stitches?" Dean asked, and Jamie just took his shirt off, and Dean looked at the stitches. It has been seven days since Dean had stitched up Jamie's chest, and because Jamie had been eating well over the past few days, he was healing pretty quickly. The skin around the stitches was not red or inflamed, which was a good sign that Dean could start cutting the thread.

Taking some small sterile scissors and some tiny tweezers, Dean started to take the stitches out. He would clip one side of the knots that he had tied, then pull out the stitch with the tweezers. Going down Jamie's chest, Dean had put forty-two stitches in. Dean was just chatting with Jamie as he pulled out the sutures. So far, the wound was staying closed, but Dean was only about a fourth of the way through. Taking the sutures out was a lot less time consuming then stitching Jamie up.

Jamie sat still for the entire time Dean worked on pulling the stitches out and Sam was softly talking to Bobby about the magical societies. Thanks to Bobby being in the hunting business for so long, he had a couple of contacts in the wizarding world. Once Dean had finished taking out the stitches, he put some ointment on it, and wrapped it with some sterile bandages.

"You healed up pretty nicely, kiddo," Dean stated, as Jamie pulled down his shirt. Jamie smiled, and grabbed an apple.

"I always heal pretty quickly, thanks to my magic," He responded and thought that he was going to have to prepare Dean for what he was going to hear if he was the one that was going to take Jamie to the magical area. "By the way, if you are the one taking me to a magical shopping area, you will hear a lot of different things, especially about me, because in the magical world, I am famous. My name in the Wizarding World is Harry James Potter, who is the Boy-Who-Lived. So in the magical world, I will most likely be recognized, based on the scar on my forehead. I hate having to be a famous person, I prefer to be Jamie Winchester."

"We prefer Jamie as well, but we will call you Harry in the Wizarding World. How are you going to introduce me?" Dean asked.

"I am going to say that you are my distant cousin, on my mother's side, she was a muggle-born. Also if they ask why I am in America, I can say that I am staying with you while my guardians are doing work in Africa, and didn't want to worry about me," Jamie responded, and Dean nodded.

"So do I need an alias?" Dean asked. Jamie nodded and thought for a minute.

"How about the name 'Dean Evans'?" Jamie asked. Dean nodded. "It is the woman who I thought was my mother's maiden name."

"That is pretty good, and the name connects me to that woman," Dean stated.

"Does it make you feel a little better that she and James were going to tell me my true parentage before I went to Hogwarts, so that I could choose if I even wanted to go to the school they went to. Lily and James were not a part of the plot to take me away from you guys," Jamie assured Dean.

"That does make me feel a little bit better," Dean commented, and Jamie smiled and hugged his older brother.

"I'm back," John called as he walked into the house and put the bags that he was carrying on the table, and he handed one of the bigger bags to Jamie. I got you some new clothes, if they don't fit then we can take them back and get some clothes that do fit."

"Thank you," Jamie replied, and left the room to go try on the clothes. From the look of the bag it seemed like his father got him five shirts and five pairs of trousers, along with a pack of underwear, a pack of socks, and two flannel shirts. Jamie carefully tried on a shirt and a pair of jeans. The clothing fit Jamie pretty well, and at the bottom of the bag was a new pair of shoes. Besides his school shoes, Jamie had never had a new pair of shoes, and these ones were nice. They were like hiking boots, or work boots. Jamie could honestly say that this outfit, once he put on one of the flannels, was one of the most comfortable outfits that he had ever put on. He walked out of the bathroom that he had used to change, and the first person to notice him was Dean.

"Hey, looks good on you," He stated, and Jamie smiled at his brother. He moved closer to his father, when he was close enough, Jamie surprised John with a hug.

"Thank you, Dad," Jamie murmured.

"You are welcome, Son," John replied. "It is good to have you home."