Title:Uncle by blood, family by choice.

Author:Jaylynn

Pairing: None currently but will probably change in the future since my muse keeps flipfloping between two.

Disclaimer: Buffy stuff belongs to Joss, Harry Potter stuff belongs to J.K. Rowling.

A.N. A change to cannon I noticed while I was editing this, books 6 and probably 7 didn't happen. Mostly because Sev is still teaching potions and no creator of the Slug Club will be in the school ...which means I need to figure out who will be teaching DADA. So make some suggestions and who knows it might just make it in there.

Chapter 2
It was like any other fifth year potions class that Ginny Weasley had been to since the start of the school year and she didn't really expect anything to change that. Unless her brother and his friends were involved, there wasn't much excitement for her year, not counting her first year. She shivered at the thought of her first year and Tom Riddle's diary, causing Luna to send a worried glance her way. Giving her best friend a reassuring smile she tried to pay attention to what Snape was saying, not wanting to give him more of an excuse to be a jerk to her. Being a Griff and a Weasley was more than enough, not to mention friends with Harry.

She was writing down a few notes so she would remember them when they started brewing when several of her classmates let out terrified screams. Her eyes snapped up to see what was going on, her hand already clutching her wand just in case. The first thing she noticed was how pale Professor Snape had gotten, which was a feat in itself since he was so pale to start off with, but then her eyes found what had caused the screams. Somehow someone had got through the wards that protected the school from people trying to apperate and portkey in. Taking in his beaten and bloody form, Ginny didn't think it was an attack, especially since Snape was now crouched down next to the body and his face showed more emotion than most believed him capable of. There was general fear and worry on his face and Ginny's heart went out to her professor for the first time. He may be a bastard but whoever that was lying on the ground, it was someone he cared for.

Professor Snape still looked like he was in shock of some kind and Ginny could tell the person on the ground needed medical help badly so she did something that hopefully didn't backfire once he was back to himself. Pointing at her classmates, Ginny started ordering them to get Madame Pomphrey and Professor Dumbledore before kneeling on the opposite side of the broken figure, placing the back of her hand to his forehead Ginny frowned biting her lip in worry.

"Professor, we have to get him stabilized until Madame Popmhrey gets here, stop him from bleeding out too much. Can you cast a blood clotting charm on him while I get his body temperature up?"

Ginny's words seemed to snap him out of his trance and he nodded and started to apply the charms. Ginny gave a deep breath as she went over the medical spell she was learning to be prepared in case the war got worse. Finally she remembered the one she needed and quickly cast it, allowing the magic to regulate his body heat to normal. Within a few minutes color had returned to the boys cheeks, and he was a boy, she'd been a little surprised to see he looked about her age maybe a little older, but she put that at the back of her mind to go over when it wasn't an emergency and his breathing seemed a little easier.

His eyes fluttered and even though it looked to be painful to do so, the dark haired boy opened his eyes, his unfocused eyes landing on Professor Snape. Ginny noticed he seemed to relax once he recognized the Potions Master.

His voice was a little slurred, "Uncle Sev... It wor... so tired."

'Did he say Uncle?' Ginny was shocked but she didn't have much time to think about it since Pomphrey had just arrived, shouting orders and taking control of the situation. Ginny quickly got out of the way and watched helplessly from the side. Getting one last look at the Professor's face as the beaten boy was taken away, she knew one thing at least; whoever hurt him was going to be in a world of hurt if the Potions Master had any say in it.

A.N. So someone mentioned before that Snape is a spy and should be faster to act, but I am going with this time is different. Normally he is dealing with people he cares very little for and can easily push his emotions to the side but now he is dealing with someone he cares for more than anyone else alive and they showed up out of the blue and is severely hurt and it shocked him enough that his rather rusty emotions overwhelmed him.

Anyway, I just wanted to say thanks to GinaStar for reviewing and the 11 people who are following this, it means a lot that people like this enough to review or follow it.