Chapter Eleven: Midnight Walks

A/N I do not own harry potter nor do I get paid to write this also I adopting this story from Severus Addicted with their permission so the first 12 chapters are from Severus Addicted.

Harry sighed as he stared at his ceiling of his room. It has been two hours since everyone hadleft the house and he still couldn't sleep. His thoughts were keeping him up.

His door slowly creaked open and Eli slipped in, "Are you awake, Harry?"

"Yea..." Harry whispered as he moved over to make room for his brother.

Once Eli was comfortable he said, "I couldn't sleep..."

Harry nodded his head in agreement, "Me neither."

Eli sighed and laid his head on Harry's shoulder, "So, tell me the truth; what do you think of our family?"

Harry smiled softly at the thought of having an actual family to call his own, "It's huge..."

This made Eli giggle softly and nod his head in agreement, "Oh yea... Well then, let's go one at a time and you can give me your opinion on them."

Harry stared at him like he was crazy, "This is going to take forever, Eli."

Eli shrugged his shoulders in response, "So? It's not like we're going to be able to sleep anyway."

Harry nodded his head, "You've got a point."

Eli gave him a wicked smirk as he said, "I know. Okay then let's get this started. What do you think of Uncle Matthew?"

Harry sat in thought for a minute until he asked, "He's Amanda and Ethan's dad right?"

Eli nodded his head, "Yea he is."

Harry smiled proudly at his memory, "He's pretty nice."

Eli nodded in agreement, "Yea he is nice, especially if you're nice to him first. Okay, so... What do you think of Uncle Zach?"

"I liked him, I think he's my favorite so far; him and his wife... Um what's her name?... Oh wait, don't tell me; is her name Aunt Bell?"

"Very good. You've got a good memory, Harry. I know if I were you I couldn't have remembered their names the first time meeting them. Anyway, what do you think of Uncle Jimmie?"

Harry wrinkled his nose in thought of the man, "He's scary..."

"Agreed." Eli smiled softly at his younger brother, "What do you think of-"

"Eli." Harry cut Eli off from his sentence, "They're all pretty cool, can we stop this? It's getting boring... No offense."

Eli gave Harry a playful glare as he said, "Well then... What do you want to do, Mr. Bore-A-Lot?"

"I don't know.." Harry muttered softly.

Eli suddenly jumped up from his spot with a mischievous smile on his face, "I have an idea!"

Harry smiled softly at him, "Are we going to make silly nick names for everyone?"

Eli stuck his tongue out at him in response, "No, actually we're not. Let's go for a walk!"

Harry glanced at the clock on his bedside table, "Eli, it's almost one in the morning..."

"So? We can't sleep anyway; we miaswell get some exercise." Eli whispered trying to get Harry to agree.

Harry glanced at the clock then back at Eli then back to the clock once again, "Won't dad get angry?"

Eli shrugged his shoulders as if it didn't matter, "Not if we don't get caught."

Reluctantly Harry nodded his head, "Alright, let's go."

Eli smiled in excitement and jumped out of Harry's bed, "Let's go!" He quickly made his way over to Harry's bedroom door and waited for Harry to catch up. "Now we have to be really quiet because I'm not sure if Dad is asleep or not." Slowly Eli pushed open the door and stepped out of the room then began to make his way down the hallway, "Come on, Slowpoke!" Eli whispered to him as he began to descend the stairs.

Harry narrowed his eyes at Eli but hurried his pace anyway so he wouldn't lose him.

Soon they were outside in the cool breeze. An owl hooted from somewhere in the distance making chills run up and down Harry's spine.

Eli smiled at Harry and pointed towards the woods, "Let's go treasure hunting!"

Harry sighed as he stared at the shadowed area, "I don't know if we should go in there, Eli. It doesn't look safe..."

Eli rolled his eyes to the sky and grumbled, "It's just trees, Harry. We'll be fine, come on." Eli began heading towards the woods figuring Harry would follow behind.

Harry glanced up at the moon and rubbed his goose bumps, "I'm coming..." Slowly Harry began to follow his older brother into the mysterious woods.

After a while, Eli and Harry came to a stop.

"Eli?" Harry whispered as he looked at the trees that were surrounding them.

"I think we should go back..." Eli said softly as he stared wide-eyed at the shadowy trees with claw like arms.

Harry stared at his brother in shock, "Why? I thought you wanted to go treasure hunting, Eli?"

Eli nodded his head, "I do... But... I-I don't know where we are anymore.."

Harry's eyes went wide in fear at his brother's words, "What do you mean?"

Eli shook his head as panic began to rise inside of him, "I don't know where we are! I don't know where we came from or how to get back to the house!"

Chills ran up and down Harry's spine as he stared around himself, "Let's just turn around and go straight..."

Eli rubbed his arms as chills attacked him, "I-I don't think we went straight into the woods..."

"But-" Suddenly the sound of a branch breaking made both Harry and Eli jump and turn to face the sound; Eli gripped onto Harry's hand as if it were his last hope of survival.

"W-who is there?" Harry timidly called out into the darkness.

Another sound of a branch breaking was all that replied.

"H-Harry?" Eli whispered in fright.

"Yea?" Harry asked softly as he stared wide-eyed in the direction of the breaking branches.

"D-do you s-see that?" Eli slowly pointed his finger in the direction of where the horrifying sound was coming from.

Harry squinted his eyes and stared intently at the area. Suddenly a figure came into Harry's view; "What is that thing?"

Suddenly the strange creature slowly came from behind the branches to face the boys. The creature looked like a young wolf, but it didn't look like any wolf Harry was used to.

Eli's breath hitched at the sight, "It's a werewolf, Harry!" Eli whispered under his breath in fear the said creature would hear him.

The young werewolf took a few more steps closer to the boys then abruptly turned into a boy, "Hello, my name is Damian."

Eli and Harry exchanged glances then began to scream and slowly back up away from the boy.

Damian sighed and glanced at the forest floor, "Why do I always get that reaction?"

Harry tilted his head and stared at the boy. Damian appeared to be around the same age as himself and Eli. Slowly Harry pulled his hand from Eli's deathly grip, "I'm sorry, Damian... It's just, I've never seen a w-werewolf before." Harry slowly took a few steps towards the boy. "My name is Harry, and this here is my brother, Eli."

"Harry! What are you doing? Get back here!" Eli practically screamed at his brother in fear.

"H-he just wants a friend..." Harry whispered and slowly reached out his hand to shake Damian's, "I-I know all too well how that feels..."

Slowly Damian reached out and shook Harry's hand, "It's nice to meet you, Harry. How old are you?"

Eli slowly emerged from behind the tree to stand beside his brother, "We're eight... You?"

Damian smiled happily and said, "I'm eight as well!"

Eli slowly grabbed his brother's hand again. Harry gave it a small squeeze as if to reassure him that it was alright.

Harry smiled at Damian, "That's cool! So... What are you doing in these woods?"

Damian smiled happily, "Well, it is my property I should be asking you the same thing."

Eli's eyes went wide, "You mean we left our property line?"

Damian nodded his head, "Yea, you're about a mile or two into our property."

Eli shook his head in fear and said, "Dad's going to kill us!"

Harry felt a shiver run up his spine at the thought, "We have to get back to our house!"

Damian nodded his head, "Come on, I'll see if my dad will let you use our floo."

Reluctantly Eli nodded his head and began to follow Damian through the woods, still clutching onto Harry's hand. After almost fifteen minutes went by the trees began to dim and they entered a field with a big house in the middle of it.

Damian lead the way into the house and stopped in the living room, "I'll be right back."

Harry and Eli looked around themselves.

Suddenly footsteps could be heard hurrying down a wooden staircase. Not a minute after a man appeared in the living room doorway, "Well hello, children. May I ask who you are?"

Eli stared at his feet and said, "My name is Eli Snape."

The man gave a small smile and nodded his head, "I thought you looked like a Snape..."

Eli gave the man a confused look and asked, "Do you know my father, sir?"

The man gave a nod and entered the room, "I know him very well, Eli. You may call me Remus, if you like." Remus said with a smile.

Suddenly a woman entered the room and stared at the boys in front of her fireplace. Damian came up behind her and entered the room.

Remus smiled at his wife and introduced Eli, "Darling this is Eli Snape, Severus Snape's son. Eli this is my wife, Nymphadora."

The lady gave Eli a brilliant smile and suddenly her black hair turned a light pink color, "It's a pleasure to meet you, Eli. And who may I ask is this?"

Remus nodded his head and for the first time looked at the other boy in the room. Suddenly a gasp escaped his mouth and his eyes went wide, "A-are you Harry Potter?"

Harry slowly shook his head, "No sir, my name is Harry Snape now. I use to be Harry Potter though..."

Understanding suddenly flashed through the man's chocolate brown eyes as he nodded his light brown hair, "Oh, okay. My mistake Harry, I am sorry."

Harry shrugged his shoulder and smiled softly at the kind man, "It's alright, sir."

Remus gave him a small smile and said, "You look so much like James..."

Harry tilted his head to the side and asked in a small voice, "My blood father?"

Remus nodded his head in response.

"How did you know him?" Harry asked softly.

"He was one of my best friends, Harry. Now, we better get you two home before poor Severus has a heart attack because you two are missing. We can continue this conversation some other time, Harry." Remus slowly stepped towards the fireplace and grabbed a hand full of floo powder.

Damian stepped towards the fireplace as well and asked, "Can I go as well, Dad?"

Remus shook his head in denial, "No, son. It's time for you to go to bed anyway, child. I will be home shortly."

Suddenly Damian's light brown hair turned a bright shade of red and he spun around to stomp off.

Remus sighed and looked at his wife. Nymphadora slowly nodded her head and said goodbye to the boys and her husband then left to go speak to her son.

Remus stepped into the fireplace patiently waited for Harry and Eli to join him. Once they were all in he threw the floo powder down and shouted out "Snape Manor!" With that they were gone.