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The three of them landed in a rundown house, and they walked into Severus's room, you could only tell that by the crib. It looked like Harry's room at the Dursleys, nothing in there but a bed or in this case crib, and a dresser, there were nothing on the walls, and sitting inside the crib was Severus who looked about two years old and he was crying, there was something in his hands but Harry couldn't make it out

" Out NOW" Severus said

" No, we are going to figure this out" Harry said

" NO! None you biness" Severus said

" Yes, it is" Harry said

" Now Severus would you like to explain to Harry why you were crying?" Dumbledore asked

" No" Severus said

" I think we should go backwards earlier in the day" Dumbledore said

" Dumdore No Pwease" Severus pleaded

" Severus we must, it's for your own good" Dumbledore said

Severus crossed his arms and glared daggers at both Harry and Dumbledore

The three were walking into another memory, the same day but earlier

Severus's parents Tobias and Eileen were arguing

" I'm going to beat this freakiness out of both you and Severus" Tobias said enraged

" Tobias please, he doesn't know better, it's just accidental magic, all children do it once in a while" Eileen explained

" You both are a bunch of freaks, and I will not have freaks living in my house" Tobias said, " Boy!"

Severus didn't come at first, he was scared, he didn't like it when his daddy was mad

" SEVERUS TOBIAS SNAPE GET YOUR ASS OVER HERE" Tobias yelled

Severus toddled fearfully over to his daddy holding a teddy bear he got for his birthday

" Daddy why you mad?" Past Severus asked

" Why am I mad? You're asking me why I'm mad?" Tobias asked and his face turned a shade of purple, " I am mad because you're a freak"

" Tobias stop calling him that" Eileen said

" You stay out of this woman" Tobias yelled

" I not a freak" Past Severus said stubbornly

" Are you back talking to me boy?" Tobias asked warningly

" No daddy" Past Severus said fearfully

" Don't lie to me boy" Tobias said

" I'm sorry daddy" Severus said fearfully

" Not yet you're not" Tobias said and he picked up Severus by the hair and dragged him into Severus's room, Severus was struggling to be free of the man's grip but it didn't work and he was crying

" Tobias don't you dare hurt him" Eileen said but before she could accio her wand she was punched in the face

" Mummy" Past Severus and Severus said at the same time

The punch was so hard that it knocked Eileen out

" Yet me go you batard" Past Severus said enraged that his dad would do something like that to his mum

" What did you call me?" Tobias asked threatenly

Severus knew his mistake and tried to apologias but Tobias wasn't hearing it. He threw Severus onto the floor

" Shirt off, hands on the bars of your crib, NOW" Tobias ordered taking off his belt

" Daddy no, I'm sorry" Past Severus begged

" NOW" Tobias yelled again

Severus did as he was told, he didn't want to get in any more trouble, it wasn't the first time he got a whipping with the belt and it wouldn't be his last. When he put his hands on the bars of the crib, he barely had time to brace himself when the belt landed on his back

Severus cringed in Harry's arms after each hit with the belt, " Get out here now pwease" Severus pleaded desperately

" Not yet" Dumbledore said

" Why" Severus asked with fear in his eyes

" Because your nightmare slash memory isn't over" Dumbledore said

" ME DON'T CARE" Severus yelled

Harry was pale and clamy, " How can somebody beat a child like that?" He thought, " No wonder Sev didn't want me to see his memories"

Tobias whipped the poor two year old fifty times before he was done and then he took the teddy bear that Severus dropped on the floor and took his pocket knife and cut the head off

" TEDDY" Past Severus screamed through his tears

" Teddy is tainted with your freakishness" Tobias said and threw both the head and the body on the floor and walked out the door to deal with his wife

The crying two year old crawled over to his beheaded teddy, he was too weak to stand and he crawled into his crib where he felt safe, he didn't know why because anybody could get him in there but he just felt safe and he began to cry louder

" And here we are back where we started" Dumbledore said

Harry was still very pale

" Are you two ok?" Dumbledore asked

" No" Severus said for both of them, " Not ok"

" Please tell me this is it" Harry finally asked

Severus chuckled sarcastically, " Yah right, ony two Potter"

" Right, well this was just Severus's nightmare memory, next is the reason why he stopped crying" Dumbledore said

Severus groaned and they walked into another memory, they were in the same house but they were in Severus's room, this time instead of a crib there was a bed, otherwise it was exactly the same

" I believe Severus is three" Dumbledore said

Past Severus was on his bed reading what looked like a potions journal

" You could read at age three?" Harry asked

" Yes" Severus said and he was pasty white, he remembered what came next

Tobias barged in

" What are you reading boy?" Tobias asked threatenly

Past Severus tried to hide it behind his back, " Um nothing daddy" Past Severus looked scared, " Why are you back early?"

" None of your business, you show me what you're reading" Tobias commanded

" J-just a b-book" Past Severus said innocently

" I'll be the judge of that, give it here now" Tobias commanded and extended his hand for the book

Past Severus knew he was in trouble and he gloomily handed over the book and automatically took his shirt off, and knelt by his bed knowing what was to come

" POTIONS JOURNAL" Tobias yelled and he automatically took off his belt and belted his son very very hard, " I am going to beat this freakishness out of you one way or another, mark my words boy"

Past Severus wasn't listening he was too focused on the pain and crying

" You stop your crying Severus or I'll give you something to cry about" Tobias said

" Well what does he think that is" Harry asked

" Beating fweakiness out of me" Severus said wanting to be anywhere but inside his memories

" I said stop crying boy" Tobias said and whipped even harder

" I'm s-sorry d-daddy" Past Severus said through sobs trying but failing to stop

They went through more of Severus's memories and each time his dad was whipping him and Severus was crying but he was trying his hardest not to, and finally it got to the point where Severus wasn't crying when his father abused him because he knew that crying made his father hit harder. Finally he got his Hogwarts letter

" We be in nouf memies" Severus said, " Time to go, byebye"

" Not quite" Dumbledore said

" Now what?" Severus asked

" Your memory will answer one of the questions Harry has been wondering" Dumbledore said

" How?" Severus asked

" You'll see" Dumbledore said

" Oh thank Merlin" Eileen said, " You will be away from your father for nine months out of the year, he cannot hurt you at Hogwarts

" I don't want to leave you mother" Past Severus said

" Oh don't worry about me Sevy, I'll be fine, just worry about yourself" Eileen said

" Mother come with me, then father can't hurt you either" Past Severus said

" I can't I have to take care of your father" Eileen said

" Why can't we just leave him?" Past Severus asked, " All he does is abuse us and we have to make up excuses on why we have bruises and welts"

" I can't leave your father" Eileen said

" Why?" Past Severus asked

" Because, he's the only one who brings income in" Eileen said

" So, why can't we move into the wizarding world and you can get a job somewhere and we never have to see father again" Past Severus said

" I haven't been in the wizarding world since I met your father" Eileen said, " I wonder how it's changed"

" Mother please come with me" Past Severus begged

" I can't Sevy, now drop it, you don't want your father to hear us talking about the wizarding world do you?" Eileen asked

" Uh... no, my back is still trying to heal from the last whipping, why does he hate us so?" Past Severus asked

" He doesn't hate you, he just hates magic" Eileen said

" Well he's been beating me ever since I could remember, if that is what a parent is supposed to do then who needs enemies" Severus said

" I believe the term is with a friend like you who needs enemies" Tobias said coming into the kitchen with a glare on his face

" F-Father, I-I didn't hear you come in" Past Severus stammered

" Obviously" Tobias said with a glare, " You two talking about me behind my back?"

" Uh... n-no father" Past Severus stammered

" You lie" Tobias spat then he saw the letter, " Where did that letter come from?"

Past Severus looked fearful and he looked at his mother for help

" I-It's nothing dear, just a boarding school letter" Eileen said

" For freaks?" Tobias asked

Eileen was quiet

" He's not going" Tobias said firmly and walked into the living room yelling, " I SPENT NINE YEARS OF HIS LIFE TRYING TO BEAT OUT THE FREAKISHNESS IN HIM AND YET HE STILL GETS A BLOODY LETTER TO A FREAK SCHOOL. I DID NOT DO MY JOB RIGHT"

" Um... Sevy, maybe you should go out and play, maybe play with Lily Evans" Eileen suggested

" Yes mother" Severus said, he was relieved that he had permission to get out of the house, he didn't like his father mad, it always ended bad

" You knew my mum before school?" Harry asked

" Me told her she witch" Severus explained with a smirk, " Tuny Jeyus"

" Tuny? Oh aunt Petunia right?" Harry asked

Severus nodded

" Aunt Petunia was Jellous that mum is a witch and she isn't? Well that explains a lot" Harry said

The memory changed to Severus going outside and walking to the Evan's house

" Hi Sev, did you get your Hogwarts letter" Lily said after she opened her door

" Yah, my mother really wants me to go but my father does not" Past Severus said

" So what are you going to do?" Lily asked

" Well my mother is talking to him right now, I hope I can go" Past Severus said

" Yes, me too, I wonder what Hogwarts is like" Lily said

" Well from what my mother says, it's a big castle with a lot of secret passageways, the students are divided into four houses, Slytherin, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Gryffindor" Past Severus explained

" Ooh I hope we are in the same house" Lily said excitedly

" Yah that will be great" Past Severus said with a smile

" So you want to play with Petunia and me?" Lily asked

" Sure, what do you want to play?" Past Severus asked

" I DON'T WANT TO PLAY ANYTHING WITH YOU TWO FREAKS" Petunia screamed from her bedroom

Lily sighed and whispered to Severus, " Petunia is jellous that I got a Hogwarts letter and she didn't"

Severus nodded in understanding

" Well I guess it's just you and me, come on lets go to the park" Lily said with a smile

Past Severus nodded and they walked side by side to the park

Severus sighed with a smile, he loved this memory, well this part of the memory

" I take it you and Mum were best friends growing up?" Harry asked

Severus nodded with a smile

The memory shifted into later that night when Past Severus came home

" Boy where have you been?" Tobias asked glaring

" I was with Lily Evans, Mother said I could" Past Severus said

" You leave that poor girl alone, you might taint her with your freakishness" Tobias said

" I'm not tainting her with anything" Past Severus protested

" Are you talking back to me boy?" Tobias asked getting up from his chair

Past Severus thought for a moment and then glared at his father, " Yes I am"

" Severus" Eileen gasped

" Well there's no point in lying to him, he's going to whip me anyway" Past Severus said

" Upstairs, now boy" Tobias said glaring

" No" Past Severus said

" I SAID NOW" Tobias yelled

" And I said no" Past Severus said

" Why you disobedient brat" Tobias spat and he punched Past Severus hard in the nose and a crack was heard

" TOBIAS" Eileen shrieked

" YOU STAY OUT OF THIS WOMAN" Tobias yelled

" NO" Eileen yelled and accioed her wand from it's hiding place

" What are you going to do with that?" Tobias asked threatenly

" What I should have done a long time ago" Eileen said, " STUPIFY"

Tobias was now knocked out unconcious

Eileen ran to her son who was holding his nose

" Come on Sevy let me see it" Eileen said

" No, it's fine" Past Severus said

" Severus let me see it" Eileen said a little firmer

Past Severus groaned but let his mother see his nose and Eileen cringed

" I'll do my best to fix that, this one is worse then all the others" Eileen said, " Why did you disobey him?"

" Cuz I'm sick of all of it, we should leave mother, leave and never come back" Past Severus said grabbing a cloth to help stop his bloody nose

Eileen sighed, " Maybe you're right"

" Thank you" Past Severus sighed with relief

" But where would we go?" Eileen asked

" The Wizarding world of course" Past Severus said

" The Wizarding world" Eileen said, " Ok I know of a place"

" Where?" Past Severus asked

" Spinners End" Eileen said, " It's where my parents live"

" Will the take us in?" Past Severus asked

" They will" Eileen said, " Now hurry and pack your things, we're leaving tonight, I can keep your father stunned for a while"

Past Severus nodded

" Let me fix that first" Eileen said and she waved her wand and aimed at Past Severus's nose and fixed the break, it wasn't perfect and now there was a hook in his nose

Eileen sighed, " I'm sorry Sevy, it's been broken way too many times"

" It's ok Mother, appearence isn't everything" Past Severus said then he ran up to his room to pack his belongings

" Huh, I always thought that the hooked nose was just a Snape trait" Harry said

Severus glared at Harry and rolled his eyes, " Now we get out of here?"

" Yes, now we can get out" Dumbledore said and a minute later they were out of the pensieve

" What point with last memie?" Severus asked

" Harry needed a better understanding on how to take care of you" Dumbledore explained

Severus huffed and pouted

Harry was really quiet, he didn't really know what to say, he couldn't believe that Sev's life was like his own, except his uncle didn't beat him like Sev's dad did. Harry sat down with Sev on his lap just thinking about everything he has witnessed

" Please tell me that bastard is in jail or something" Harry finally said

" He dead, thank Meryin" Severus said glaring down at his Hissy

" Well now I know why Professor why you chose me to look after him" Harry said

Dumbledore nodded sadly

" But you knew, all along" Harry accused

" Not all along, just... recently actually" Dumbledore said, " And I'm sorry, both of you

" Now that I know what Sev's nightmare is about, it will be easier to talk to him and get it off his chest" Harry said

Severus groaned

" Sev you'll feel better" Harry said, " You'll also feel better if you cry"

Severus shook his head

" Severus nobody is going to punish you when you cry, you have to get everything off your chest, it's not healthy to keep it inside" Dumbledore said, " Now I want you to bring down all of your shields"

Severus's eyes went wide and he shook his head no

" Come on Sev, you'll feel better" Harry said and he started rubbing cirlces on Severus's back

Severus shook his head no again

" Severus think of everything and everyone that has hurt you" Dumbledore said, " You need to get it off your chest"

Severus shook his head no but he was starting to look like he was about to cry

" Thats it, come on you're almost there" Dumbledore said

Severus tried not thinking about the sad things but Harry was rubbing his back and it felt so good that he was having a hard time keeping his shields up, everything that he occluded was coming to the surface, his disappointment that he and Lily were not in the same house, disappointed he and Lily drifted apart, sad that his father would abuse him because he was different, hated how everybody called him Snivelous, mad at himself because he called Lily a mudblood in anger and what friendship they had went down the drain and before he could even say sorry she died, mad at the mauraders for always teasing him because he got good grades and they didn't, sad that his mother died from cancer the list can go on and on and it was very overwelming for the fifteen month old and he started to bawl

" Thats it, Severus just let it out" Dumbledore said

Severus was bawling with his face in Hissy which later transfered to Harry's shoulder, Harry did not stop rubbing Severus's back

Severus bawling became loud sobs which became quiet sobs which became hiccups and then just silent tears which soon just became a tear here and there, it lasted for more than a half hour and Harry still didn't stop rubbing Severus's back

Severus was greatful that Harry didn't stop rubbing his back, he was also hugging him which made Severus feel safe

" Good boy Sev" Harry said, " You feel better now?"

Severus nodded and sighed with relief and content

Dumbledore smiled with a twinkle in his eye

" I think my work here is done" Dumbledore said with a smile

Severus yawned and closed his eyes

" I think it's somebody's bedtime" Harry said

Severus nodded in agreement and hugged Hissy closer to himself

" Well then, I'll let you two at it and I bid you both good night" Dumbledore said

" Good night professor" Harry said

" Night night" Severus said sleepily not opening his eyes or raising his head from Harry's shoulder

Dumbledore chuckled and walked the two out the door

Harry didn't even put Severus in the bathtub, the little boy was so wiped out that he was asleep before they even got inside the rooms. All that Harry did was change his nappy and change his clothes into pajamas and put him to bed

After that night in Dumbledore's office every time Severus got a nightmare he would wake Harry up by crying and then tell Harry about it, Harry and Dumbledore were right, it helped him talk about it and every time he cried it was like a great big weight was off his shoulders. Every day Harry was helping Severus with his walking but Severus still had to hang onto furniture when he wanted to walk by himself and it frustrated him to no end, he couldn't wait until he was back to normal

" I need to make a potion that will get me back to normal, nobody else can do it" Severus thought to himself while Harry was giving him a bath

" Sev, yoohoo Sev you there" Harry asked, he was trying to get Severus's attention for five minutes to ask him which pajamas he wanted to wear, Harry finally waved his hand in Severus's face

" What?" Severus asked

" I asked what pajamas you wanted to wear" Harry said

" Gween Cauldrons" Severus said distractedly

" What's wrong Sev?" Harry asked taking Severus out of the tub and started drying him off

" Notin" Severus said

Harry gave him a look

" What? Notins wong, just thinking of pwoperties of woofbane potion" Severus explained

Harry chuckled and rolled his eyes

" What?" Severus asked

" Take the kid out of potions , can't take the potions out of the kid" Harry said

Severus looked at Harry and rolled his eyes

" So I used different words, you get the point" Harry said, " So what book do you want to read?"

The book lasted a half hour and then Harry put Severus to bed

" I don't have the ingredients for the potion, I know what I'll need, this will be like the antidote to the shrinking solution" Severus thought to himself, " How in the world am I supposed to get to the apothecary in Diagon Alley? The floo is child proof and I can't ask anybody because they'll say no... wait a minute... Dervish and Banges might have what I'm looking for, they sell everything, and that's just in Hogsmeade... now if I had my wand then I can accio a boat and travel by black lake, get to Dervish and Banges, get the ingredients, go back to the boat, travel back to Hogwarts, return my wand, sneak back inside and crawl back in bed before Harry wakes up tomorrow"

It took a while for Severus to think all of that through and he finished thinking it when Harry came and and got himself ready for bed and climbed in bed, Severus was pretending to be asleep and then actually fell asleep

When Severus woke up at 2:30 in the morning and his eyes were wide

" I wasn't supposed to fall asleep" Severus thought then cast a wandless tempest, " Only 2:30, if I hurry I can make it before Harry gets up, it's Saturday so he sleeps in until nine"

Severus stood up and climbed over his crib and dropped down from the other side with a soft thump, he waited to see if Harry woke up but he didn't, then he crawled over to his shoes and put them on and then crawled to the bedroom door which was thankfully open, he crawled towards the portrait and waited for that to open which it did

" Ha, not baby proof" Severus thought with a smirk

He stood up with the help from the wall and wandlessly accioed his wand, he didn't know if that was going to work but luckily for him it did and he then accioed his traveling cloak and then put his wand in the pocket of that and made sure it was safe. After that Severus accioed Harry's pouch of pocket money he had and figured he'd be paid back later, then after he thought he had everything he left the room and crawled towards the steps

Severus was a little worried about the steps, he never tried them as a baby yet, he turned around and started climbing down the steps nice and slowly and very close to the rail just in case

Slowly but surely Severus made it down all the stairs and crawled to the Great Hall, it was 3:00 at the time

" Oh great, the door" Severus thought and sighed

All of a sudden he heard somebody coming, most likely a prefect

Severus crawled to the hourglasses where the house points were kept and hid behind them so nobody would see him and he waited until the prefect opened the front door and walked out, Severus hurriedly crawled after the prefect before the door shut

" That's going to be a problem when I get back" Severus thought but decided to worry about that later and he started crawling over to the black lake which took him another half hour since the grass was all dewy and he slipped a few times

When Severus got to the black lake he took out his wand and conjured a big branch into a small boat just the right size for Severus

" Latin words are hard for babies to say" Severus thought after his boat was conjured and then he climbed in and with his wand made the boat go

While Severus was on his little adventure Harry woke up at 4:30 having to go use the restroom, he had one to many butterbeers while doing his homework, when he was finished, he decided to check on Severus

When Harry peered down and didn't see Severus, he thought it was just the trick of the light from his wand and from him being tired, he rubbed his eyes and lit up the whole room prepared to say sorry if he woke Severus up, but when he looked down again Severus wasn't in his crib

" SEVERUS" Harry yelled expecting an answer but there was none

Harry took out his wand and tried accioing Severus to him but that didn't work either

" SEVERUS TOBIAS SNAPE WHERE ARE YOU?" Harry yelled out in frustration and worry, Harry grabbed his robe and put his shoes on and he headed out of the rooms, he was going to notify Dumbledore that Severus was missing, no matter how much trouble he would be in

Harry got up the stairs to the office and knocked

" Come in Harry" Dumbledore said

Harry burst in and automatically blurted, " I can't find Severus"

Dumbledore's twinkle faded, " What do you mean?"

" I mean he isn't in the room, I tried accioing him, his cloak and shoes are gone and I don't know where he could be" Harry said

Dumbledore thought for a moment and checked the area where he put Severus's wand in and to his shock it was gone

" I believe our little Severus still knows wandless magic" Dumbledore said, " Do you still have that map of Hogwarts?"

Harry's eyes widened

Dumbledore nodded, " Yes I know about that map, and yes you may keep it"

" It's in my trunk, I updated it to Hogsmeade as well" Harry said

" Well, go get it" Dumbledore said

Harry nodded and ran back down to his rooms and to his trunk, rummaged through his trunk until he found the map and ran back up to Dumbledore's office panting but determined

Dumbledore cleared his desk and motioned for Harry to spread the map out over his desk

Harry did so and they started searching for Severus's name

Five minutes later they found Severus's name at the black lake heading towards Hogsmeade, he was almost on the train tracks

" Oh sweet Merlin" Harry gasped, " How in the world?"

" Worry about that later, go get him Harry and bring him back here" Dumbledore said, " I'll have a carriage waiting for you"

Harry nodded and left the map with Dumbledore and he headed out of the office and ran down the winding staircase and headed towards the Great Hall

The boat ride took a long time and Severus wasn't happy about that, now he had to hurry even more before everybody was up, he quickly made it towards the train tracks and then he crawled very carefully and slowly over them, then he quickly crawled towards Hogsmeade

" Why does Dervish and Banges have to be on the other side of Hogsmeade?" Severus thought grumpy as he crawled, " When can I walk on my own? This is so humiliating"

Harry got to the Great Hall and went outside, he was stopped by a prefect but Harry explained the situation and saw the carriage waiting for him, he got in and the Thestral was heading towards Hogsmeade

It was 5:15 by the time the carriage made it to Hogsmeade station and Harry got out, people were already walking around the village and walking around

" Oh great, how am I supposed to find Sev now?" Harry asked himself and started walking and searching

Harry searched for fifteen minutes and even more people came out making it harder for him, but finally Harry found Severus walking by secretly hanging on to the witches and wizards robes for a minute and heading past Honeydukes

" Smart kid" Harry thought then got rid of the thought and thought about whas Severus has done

Harry hurried up to Severus and the witch who he was next to

" SEVERUS TOBIAS SNAPE" Harry yelled angrily when he was close enough that only a few other people heard and most definatly Severus

Severus didn't like crawling so he decided to walk, he knew he couldn't walk on his own yet so he thought of a plan, he would touch everybody he came in contact with close enough to where it looked like they were holding his hand, it also looked like he wasn't alone here

Severus was doing that for five minutes until he touched a witch who was startled and turned to Severus

" Now what on earth are you doing out here little one?" The witch asked, " Where are you supposed to be at?"

" Oh great" Severus thought gloomy, then he thought of a skeam, he can trick her into taking him to Dervish and Banges

" Dervi and Bane" Severus said

" Dervish and Banges?" The witch asked

Severus nodded

" You want me to take you there?" The witch asked

Severus nodded

" Ok" The witch said and was about to pick him up

" Me walk" Severus said

" Ok, I'll help you all right?" The witch asked

Severus nodded with a smile

They walked for five minutes until to Severus's horror he heard Harry's angry voice yelling, " SEVERUS TOBIAS SNAPE"

Severus and the witch turned around and looked at Harry

" Young man don't go yelling like that, it's 5:30 in the morning" The witch said

" Sorry, I've been looking for Severus for a while now, I've been worried sick" Harry explained

" You called him Severus Tobias Snape right?" The witch asked

" Yes" Harry said

" Isn't he the potions professor?" The witch asked

" He is, but he was deaged into a baby, and right now he is a very naughty baby" Harry said and glared at Severus then turned his attention back on the witch, " I'm sorry for your trouble, I'll just be taking him back to Hogwarts"

" Not so fast young man, how do I know you're not going to kidnap him or something?" The witch asked with a raised eyebrow

" Because I'm Harry Potter" Harry said

" Prove it" The witch said, " And not with the scar, anybody can use polyjuice potion"

" How about my patronus?" Harry asked

" That'll work, everybody knows that" The witch said

" Expecto Patronum" Harry said and a silver stag came out of his wand

" Oh Merlin, you are Harry Potter, and this is Severus Snape the potions professor?" The witch asked

Harry nodded, " And like I said he has been a naughty boy and we must be returning back to Hogwarts"

" Yes of course, sorry" The witch said letting go of Severus's hand gently

Harry picked Severus up and was holding him very firmly

Severus crossed his arms and pouted, he didn't like being called naughty

" He was heading towards Dervish and Banges, I don't know why" The witch said

Harry thought for a moment and looked at Severus then figured it out, " I think I know why, he wanted to make a potion"

The witch nodded in understanding

" Well thank you for finding him and keeping him safe, but it's very early and we're both in our pajamas and he feels wet, in both sense of the words" Harry said

Severus's face turned red

The witch nodded in understanding and left

" Spwed it to the wold why don't you" Severus hissed

" After what you just pulled, just be lucky I'm not punishing you here this very minute" Harry snapped and readjusted Severus in his arms

Severus gasped and was quiet

Harry walked back to the carriage and on the seat was the diaper bag with nappies

Harry smirked at Dumbledore's cleverness

" Well Sev, you're in luck, we can fix one of your problems right now" Harry said

Severus groaned, " Too cold"

" Nah, it's warm in the carriage" Harry said and sat Severus down on the seat and took off his cloak and out fell Severus's wand and Harry's bag of pocket money

Harry picked up both and glared at Severus

Severus looked away, he didn't like the anger in Harry's eyes

" Lay down" was all Harry said in anger and Severus did as he was told

After Harry changed Severus's nappy and threw it away, Harry sat Severus on his lap and the thestral was on it's way back to Hogwarts

Severus was very worried about the punishment he had coming to him, he could tell that Harry was really really mad, it was coming off of him in waves, he knew that Dumbledore knew and if Dumbledore was mad then that wasn't a good sign because he rarely ever gets mad, right now he wished Harry would just say something, or loosen his grip on him because he couldn't even move

Harry was in his own thoughts while Severus was thinking about how mad everybody was, Harry was thinking how worried he was that Severus was hurt somewhere, he thought about how stupid he was for not child proofing the portrait, he was thinking about what could have happened to Severus, kidnappers, could have fallen into the lake and drowned, he was mad that Severus stole from him, of course he got it back, he was furious that Severus ran away and didn't think the plan through. Harry could tell that Severus was getting restless and was trying to wiggle to get out of the tight grip

" I'm not loosening my grip now just stay still" Harry said firmly and had anger in his voice

Severus gasped and jumped a little and looked up at Harry who was glaring down at him, Severus quickly turned away

" Is that what I look like when I glare at the students?" Severus thought to himself, " I don't like it anymore"

Nothing else was said on the way back to the castle, when they got back to the castle Harry stood up with Severus in his arms and readjusted Severus so he was on Harry's hip then Harry marched inside and headed towards Dumbledore's office

" Dumdore? No" Severus said trying to wiggle free

Harry ignored him and tightened his grip around Severus and kept walking up towards the winding staircase

" Chocolate Frogs" Harry spat and went up the winding staircase

" Ah Harry, I see you found Severus" Dumbledore said with no twinkle in his eye, he looked disappointed and Severus didn't like disappointing the headmaster

" Yes I have, he was heading towards Dervish and Banges, he not only took his wand but he stole from me as well" Harry said sitting down in one of the chairs with Severus tightly in his grasp

Harry handed over Severus's wand to Dumbledore who put it in a safe place

" I trust you got your money back?" Dumbledore asked returning

" Yes" Harry said

Dumbledore nodded, " So Severus is there anything you would like to say? Anything you care to explain?"

Severus shook his head no, if he looked up at the headmaster he knew he would cry and Harry is so mad that he will tell him not to cry and then since he wouldn't be able to stop he would get punished even harder then what he is going to get

" I see, well then Harry, I suggest you two go back to your rooms, there is much you two need to discuss" Dumbledore said disappointed

Harry nodded and took his map back and put it in his pocket then left the office with Severus still firmly in his arms

When Harry and Severus got back to the rooms Harry automatically placed Severus in his playpen and took out the toys

Severus hated the playpen anyway, but with no toys it was just awful

After Harry put Severus in the playpen Harry started child proofing his trunk, and the portrait, he then made sure that Severus couldn't get his wand and he child proofed everything else he could think of before facing Severus again

Harry walked over to Severus and picked him up again and walked over to the couch and sat down, he stood Severus up and trapped him between his legs facing him

" Now explain to me what in Merlin's name you were thinking" Harry said

Severus shook his head no with his head downcast

Harry grabbed Severus's chin and made him look at him, " Look at me Severus and explain" Harry said firmly

Severus looked like he was going to cry, he didn't like Harry being mad at him, and it's only been about a month since he's been deaged but he was starting to care for Harry and he didn't want to make Harry mad, and now he was very angry and so was Dumbledore

" S-so-sowy H-Hawy" Severus said feeling the tears come

" Sorry isn't an explanation" Harry said

Severus looked down again

" Don't look down at me" Harry said

Severus looked up and had tears in his eyes and he tried holding them back

" Don't hold back your tears Severus, you're feeling guilty and you're sad now let those tears come" Harry said finally letting go of Severus's chin

That was all it took, the tears came and Harry picked Severus up and sat him on his lap

" I sowy I runned away, I sowy I stole money, I sowy" Severus said

" Why did you do it?" Harry asked

" You know why" Severus said

" I have a feeling, but I want you to tell me" Harry said

" Wanna make ageing potion, yike antidote to swinking solutin" Severus said

Harry nodded in understanding, " And how would you brew it?"

Severus gasped, he didn't think that far ahead

" Flaw in your plan?" Harry asked

Severus nodded gloomy

" Sev as a baby you cannot do the things you can do as an adult, when are you going to learn that?" Harry asked, " It doesn't matter if you have your adult memories or not, you're still a baby"

Severus looked down

" I'm sorry Sev but the truth hurts" Harry said

Severus nodded

" And since you have been really naughty this morning, you must be punished" Harry said

Severus gasped and looked wide eyed at Harry but Harry didn't see the look, he stood up with Severus in his arms and he headed towards the bedroom

Harry sat Severus down on his bed and headed towards the bathroom to get the bath water ready

" After your punishment you're taking a bath" Harry explained from the bathroom

Severus didn't say anything, he just looked really sad and then crawled down from the bed, crawled towards his crib, took his shirt off and hung on to the bars of the crib and braced himself for the whipping he was going to get

Two minutes later Harry came out of the bathroom and looked at the bed where Severus was supposed to be but wasn't, then he saw him and Harry's face went pale, that looked like one of the memories from Sev's memory that Harry really didn't like

Harry walked over to Severus and the crib and saw Severus cringe

Harry made Severus let go of the bars and he picked him up and accioed a dining room table chair and conjured it into a rocking chair and sat down in that

" Severus what are you doing?" Harry asked

" Bwacing for punisment" Severus answered

Harry looked at Severus then at the spot he was just at and shook his head, " I am not going to whip you, that is abuse for children and for adults"

" You said punis" Severus said

" And you are going to get a punishment, but you're not going to be abused" Harry said

Severus looked confused

" You never had a spanking before?" Harry asked

Severus shook his head no

Harry sighed, " A spanking is when the naughty child is placed over the punishers lap face down and his bottom gets smacked a few times"

Severus gasped and looked scared

" It doesn't hurt as bad as getting whipped and there are no lasting marks and the sting will go away very soon" Harry explained

" Owy?" Severus asked

" Yes it will hurt, if it doesn't hurt then theres no point in the punishment, the punishment is to teach you a lesson that won't litteraly scar you for life" Harry explained

" Don't wanna get panked" Severus said

" I didn't want to have to come looking for you everywhere this early in the morning, I was worried sick, and when I knew where you were I was still very worried, Hogsmeade at 5:30 in the morning, who knows what could have happened to you, not only did you worry me half to death, you worried Dumbledore" Harry said

" I know, I sowy" Severus said

Harry sighed, " I know you are, but naughty boys must be punished so they learn not to do it again"

Severus sighed but nodded gloomy

Harry laid Severus over his knees face down and put his left arm over the boys back to keep him steady and then Harry swatted him

Severus yelped and began to whimper

" Running away is very naughty" Harry said and then landed another swat on Sev's bottom

" Owy" Severus said and then the tears came

" Stealing is also very naughty" Harry said and landed another swat

" Owy I so-sowy Hawy" Severus said and he was bawling

Harry adjusted Severus so he could get a better aim at Sev's sit spot and he landed another swat which made Severus cry harder

" I hope you learned your lesson" Harry said and started rubbing circles on Severus's back

It took Severus ten minutes to calm down and he snuck his hand back to rub his bottom

" All done?" Severus asked

" All done" Harry said

" Ony four?" Severus asked surprised

" Yes a well earned four swats to your bottom is enough" Harry said, " But you're not off the hook yet, for one week you are going to bed an hour early, and during that hour I want you to think about what you could have done instead of running off like that. Also for one week you do not get a story time before bed"

Severus's eyes widened and it looked like he was going to cry again but then he sighed and nodded sadly

" Come on it's time for your bath then you're going back to bed" Harry said

He picked the still teary eyed but yet very tired Severus and laid him on the changing table and undressed him then took him to the bathroom and gently sat him in the water

Severus hissed when his bottom hit the warm water

" Yes, your bottom is going to sting for a while but no real damage is done" Harry explained

Severus nodded in understanding

Once Severus's bath was done Harry put Severus in Gryffindor color pajamas with only a whine from Severus

" Not Gwiffindor" Severus whined

" Well according to what you would say if you were an adult, what you did was very Gryffindorish, AKA foolish, therefore you're getting the Gryffindor pajamas" Harry said, " And you remember the deal we made? Well we're sticking to it"

Severus groaned, he didn't like how his words backfired on him

Harry made a deal with Severus when he was teething, the deal was that Severus can wear whatever he wanted but when he was naughty then Harry got to pick out the clothes, and Harry always picked Gryffindor colors, it was a different kind of punishment

After Severus was dressed Harry carried him back to the rocking chair and sat down and started rubbing his back while rocking back and forth

Severus put his head down on Harry's shoulder, he felt very safe in Harry's arms and he felt really bad for what he did this morning

" I sowy" Severus whispered again with a single tear

" I know" Harry said and he kissed the top of Sev's head and just rocked back and forth until Severus fell asleep