AN:// I just wanted to thank you all who reviewed my chapeters. They were insperational to read. :)

"Taking in this kind of responsibility, should not be taken lightly Sirius Black." Dumbledore paused watching carefully on how Sirius reacted. "You are correct. You, Harry and everyone else had been enemies with Severus at one point or another. This is not forgotten so easy... not even by you."

"I told you that it will not be like that, he-" Sirius's desire could be detected in his voice.

"He is nothing more then a teenager now." Dumbledore's voice was rather sharp for being him. "His wounds are fresher than any of us. He has been set back, and if you do indeed take him in my boy; you must remember this. He never had a father." Dumbledore raised a hand silencing whatever Sirius was about to say. "This is an experience that will be nothing like what he was used to. You have to keep this close, and forget everything that happened all those years ago. You need to see him as if you never met him, do you understand the responsibility you are taking?"

Sirius thought carefully before answering-choosing his words extremely carefully. "I am absolutely positive."

"You best be, Severus is fragile. I know that is not how you would perceive him; we all made the mistake once. Let's not repeated the past."

"I completely understand." Sirius nodded he knew that wasn't going to be easy, but it was to be done.

"Very well..." With that the Headmaster snapped his fingers and with a poof a letter appeared out of thin air. "This is the adoption papers. They have been signed, everything but the guardian signature." Dumbledore paused. "You sign this, and there is no going back."

Sirius stared at the floating paper with caution. He must be bloody mad to be doing this, yet here he is.

"How did you get this signed already..." Sirius feeling the sudden stupidity rush in; he closed his eyes. "Forget it, I don't want to know." Even though he knew that the old coot planned it from the moment he found out; which was probably before anyone else.

Finding his courage his picked up the quill and signed his name wondrously in the dotted line. The moment he finished signing, the paper vanished.

"So it is done." Dumbledore's eyes twinkled with deep pleasure. "You have a new ward waiting for you, my boy. I better get to Minerva before she gets to explains things to the order."

Before Dumbledore could get too far Sirius caught his attention. "Headmaster? One more thing. You said that he never had a father. Of course he had one? I mean-"

"Yes, yes I know. Severus had a man that impregnated his mother-" Sirius cut Dumbledore off before he could finish.

"Wait, I saw his father once before though. He was waiting to pick Snape up from the train satiation. I know it was him because Lilly told me who it was. That had to be him-it even looked like Snape."

Dumbledore took a moment to respond. "Sirius, there is something you must learn. To be a father or to bore the name you must first act upon what you truly deserve." Dumbledore felt rather amused at Sirius's puzzled look. "Now, as I said I must be going. Good luck, Sirius."

Sirius watched the headmaster turn around a corner disappearing; leaving him alone in the hallway. "What you truly deserve? What the bloody hell is he talking about?" Shaking his head he quickly moved toward the door.

Now he had Snape to deal with.

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Severus stayed quite in the room, for one moment he could hear them talking outside the wood door and the next he could not hear anything at all.

What was going on?

Almost instantly he jumped to his feet and moved toward the door. He still didn't hear anything. Slumping next the door he held his breath, hoping for a least something to be heard. But nothing came.

Not a signal word.

Bringing his knees to his chest he felt alone. Dumbledore just wanted to drop him off wherever he could. With whoever was willing to take him-which at this point Snape felt was no one. Sure, everyone wanted the bloody prat who lived but not an ex-spy.

Course not.

After a while he started to nod off. Something did bring him out of it when he thought he heard foot steps, but decided that that wasn't what he heard. He figured maybe it was just a rat or something scurrying around behind the door. He hadn't heard anyone for a while now, so that had to be the case.

Not even 30-seconds later the door burst open with an extremely peppy looking Sirius.

Sirius stood still for a brief moment, looking around the room. Severus knew that Sirius was looking for him, and also knew that he hadn't been spotted just yet, but where was Dumbledore? Why hadn't he come with? Sirius shut the door behind him, still not noticing Snape.

Snape held still, but finally couldn't help it. He flinched when the door shut; which is what seemed to catch Sirius attention.

Sirius noticed a movement in the corner of his eye and looked to find Severus crunched in a tight ball.

"Snape? What do you think you are doing? Were, where you trying to eavesdrop?" Sirius folded his arms across his robes. "Come on, get up-" Sirius had extended a hand at Snape, who quickly flew backwards as if the Sirius's hand was a venomous snake. Snape felt the embarrassment set in; he now saw that Sirius was only trying to help him up. Blushing-unfortunately he found his way up to a standing position.

Sirius watched Snape intently. Something was not right with the boy. He backed away so quick Sirius hardly got a chance to see what happened, he could also tell that Snape was feeling really stupid because he was actually blushing. What the hell was going on with the kid?

"W-Where is he?" Snape stumbled with finding the right words.

"Where is who?" Sirius asked watching as Snape shook lightly.

"Where is Dumbledore, Black!" He didn't really want to be with Dumbledore either but it would be better then being alone with Sirius, and he was already growing tired with his games.

"Do not raise your voice at me." Sirius scolded.

Snape's eyes widened and his gaze fell on to the cold stones of the floor. Oh, this wasn't happening, Snape was sure. Sirius, trying to take charge? He did know that they used to be in the same grade right? Sirius used to be only a few months older. He couldn't possibly be aloud to boss him around. Yet... here he was acting if he where a mere child. He would have screamed at him but he knew that Sirius was much bigger now, and whatever painful thing that he could do back then; he could inflict a lot more now.

"Go sit down, Snape." Sirius asked with a softer tone.

That seemed to be enough to push Snape over the edge. "Why do I have to listen to you? Where is Dumbledore? What have you done to him?!" Snape couldn't calm himself down. He didn't want to be bossed around like a four year old. He was almost forty!

"I haven't done a thing to him, Snape. Now you will calm yourself down this instant and sit your bum down or you will find yourself in a very uncomfortable position." Sirius felt the anger really start to boil inside him, but he knew he had to stay calm or Snape wouldn't listen to him, or be to terrified to even look at him.

"No!" Snape clenching his teeth and balled his fist at his side.

Sirius, seeing Severus's anger; crossed the room to grab his arm, Severus on the other hand wasn't having any of it. He wouldn't go through this again. No man would lay a hand on him, ever. He quickly dodged Sirius and fled out the door, leaving Sirius alone once again.

Not only did he not succeed in telling Severus that he was his parent, but now he had no idea to where he was going. Finding his way out of Dumbledore's office and down the hall to Remus's chambers he entered without knocking. He found the room empty as he expected as Remus was probably down in the kitchen writing his DADA teaching plan. Without hesitating he took what he had been searching for.

Which would hopefully soon lead him to Snape.

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Snape was running as fast as his body would allow him. He was going to the farthest tower in the castle. Nobody would find him there, and when he got there he would be safe, alone and start to plan for where he would go from there.

However as he ran through the hallways he ran into some unexpected people.

The Potter's little gang of friends were all huddled in one group. They broke apart when hearing Snape's rushed footsteps.

"Is that him? It can't be could it?" Hermione whispered as Snape turned the corner into their hallway.

"Bloody hell. It is him from earlier-it's Snape." Ron answered back.

"Of course it is. I told you." Harry sneered as Snape flew past them.

"Wait? Where is he going?" Hermione asked as if she was going to take off after him.

"Don't matter. Let him go." Harry rudely stated.

Not even five minutes later did a running Sirius come down the same hall. Harry's eyebrow's seemed to pinch in the middle of his face. Why was Sirius running after Snape? Sirius seemed to recognize Harry and stopped for a brief moment. "Harry I need to talk to you, alone."

Harry waited a moment before waving off his friends. Hermione gave Harry an irritated look before pulling Ron out with her. Once they were out of sight Harry turned back towards Sirius. "What is it?"

AN://well.. i wrote, and re-wrote this chapter; so it took me a little longer, but i hope it was good... maybe helping with some of the confusion? I realize that my story's tend to begin that way; its just the way i like to write. Hopefully, and maybe not... it gets better and easier to read. :]