Disclaimer: J.K Rowling owns everyone in this story 
except of Morrigan Snape and Cassiopeia Black.

Pairing: SS/SB
 
Rating: PG-13. Warning: implied incest

Summary: When Dumbledore asked Black and Snape to shake 
hands in GoF, I thought, they are behaving like two 
little boys, and Dumbledore like their impatient father. 
Plotbunnies sprang out of the wilderness...


Family Ties, Chapter One: The Family
By Ratwoman
ratwoman02@yahoo.de

Albus Dumbledore waited patiently until the last student 
left Hogwart grounds for the summer vacation. 

"Have a nice holiday, Minerva," he said, turning to her 
with a smile.

"You too, Albus," Minerva answered. "You're going to 
spend all the vacation with your family?"

His smile brightened: "Yes, Minerva, all the vacation at 
home in the madhouse."

Minerva chuckled. "If your two brats get too exhausting, 
you know you can visit me and Richard."

Minerva knew, as much as he kept moaning to her about his 
sons, he would enjoy every single minute at home. She was 
the only of his staff who knew of his peculiar family 
situation; for once, most people would not approve of him 
living together with two women. Even more, two much 
younger women. He could imagine the people's questions: 
‚Isn't that illegal?' ‚Two women? Can't get enough, you 
old sex maniac, can you?' ‚Isn't that unfair for the 
women? Mustn't they be jealous of each other?'

If there was someone who had a reason to be jealous, it 
was Albus; Morrigan and Cassiopeia were bisexual and very 
much in love with each other. 

Since polygamy was illegal even in the wizarding world, 
they were not officially married to one another, and his 
sons, Severus and Sirius, bore their mothers' names. 
Furthermore, they tried to keep it secret that the two 
women and their sons were in any way related to Albus; it 
was saver for the boys, for a powerful wizard like Albus  
had powerful enemies. Lord Voldemort was getting more and 
more aggressive over the years; it was likely that he 
would attack his family if he knew about them. Since they 
lived quite isolated on one of the Orkney Islands it was 
easy to keep his regular visits undiscovered. 

Whistling, Dumbledore went to his quarters and gathered 
up his baggage. He loved his family.

*

Noise greeted him when he apparated in the hallway of 
their house. He distinctively could hear Severus' and 
Sirius's thin voices shouting and screaming, then Cassie 
joining in. A slapping noise, Severus crying. 

Albus sighed happily and went into the living room. 
Cassie was bending protectively over Sirius, tending some 
festering boils on his face. 

Severus was holding a hand to his face and was looking in 
search for help towards Morrigan, who, all her composed 
self, was standing calmly at the window.

"Cassie hit me!" Severus called accusatory.

Morrigan just shrugged. "She had a good reason."

Albus cleared his throat. "Hello family," he said 
cheerfully when everyone was looking at him. 

"Dad!" Severus called. "Cassie hit me!"

"Look what he's done to poor Sirius!" Cassie said, 
pointing at the already diminishing boils. "An ulcer 
sanies hex!" 

"He hid my books!" Severus called. 

"You mean, the Dark Arts book you stole from the 
forbidden part of Morrigan's library!" Sirius replied.

"How did you get past the charms protecting the forbidden 
section?" Morrigan asked sharply. 

Severus stubbornly folded his arms over his chest.

Albus sighed. "I thought we had talked about the Dark 
Arts. You shouldn't learn them before you're old enough 
to take on responsibility." 

"And who decides when I'm old enough? You, I guess." Sev 
hissed. 

"Severus," Morrigan started, but was interrupted by her 
son.

"But HE may do anything he wants." he pointed at his 
half-brother. "You always favour him! I hate you, all of 
you!"

With these words he run out of the living room and up the 
stairs. Albus heard him slamming the door to his room.

Morrigan smiled resignedly. "Who of us shall talk to 
him?"

"I will." Albus promised. Then he crouched down beside 
Cassie and Sirius. 

"Are you ok?"

"It hurts," Sirius sniffled. But Albus knew, Cassie was a 
good healer; which was useful, having two bad-tempered, 
ten years old boys in the house. 

Cassie smiled at him: "Welcome home, Albus."

*

A short while later Albus gently knocked at Severus's 
door. He repeated it, but the stubborn boy ignored him. 
Sighing, Albus opened the door.

With a sinister look on his face, Severus was sitting on 
the bed, legs drawn to his chest. "Get away!" he hissed. 

"Severus," Albus said patiently, "we all love you as much 
as Sirius, you know that?"

Severus frowned. 

Albus sat down on a chair next to Severus's bed. "Did you 
really just hex him because he hid your book, or was 
there more to it?"

"He's always doing things like that." Severus replied. 
"All his so-called pranks, when all I want is being left 
alone. And then he always tells Morrigan and Cassie if I 
do something they have forbidden." 

"And how often did you tell your mothers about Sirius 
stealing sweets and planning tricks on them?" Albus said 
slightly amused. 

"I wouldn't do that if he left me alone. I have to pay 
him back somehow."

"And to the Dark Arts" Albus sighed, "you are very clever 
and mature for your age, Severus, but the Dark Arts, in 
fact all magic, requires a certain amount of 
responsibility. That's why in the first years at Hogwarts 
you will only be taught magic with which you cannot cause 
much harm. The Dark Arts should only be learned when 
you're old and wise enough to decide how far you can go, 
and when you learned not to use magic out of a fit of 
anger."

Severus looked up. "Cassie and Morrigan already alluded 
to Sirius and me being send to Hogwarts in the autumn."

Albus smiled. "Yes. But I must ask you and Sirius not to 
tell anyone that I'm your father, or that you are 
brothers." 

Severus snorted. "I'd prefer nothing to forgetting that 
he is my brother!"

Albus laughed. "He's not that bad, is he?" 

Stubborn as Severus was he did not reply to that.

*

Later that day, Albus was sitting in the garden with his 
beautiful women. Sirius was climbing a tree and Severus 
was sulking in his room. 

Morrigan and Cassie both were looking forward to taking 
up their jobs as Aurors again when the boys were at 
Hogwarts. Morrigan and Cassie had fallen in love at work; 
they had already been a couple when Albus' old friend 
Alastor Moody had introduced them to him. It still was a 
small miracle to him that two wonderful woman had fallen 
in love with a man twice as old as them. 

Morrigan Snape was a tall slim woman with shortish, red 
hair and deep black eyes. Her calm temperament was in 
constant contrast to Cassie's, who was always buzzing 
around, unable to sit still for a second. Her long ash
blonde hair was always dishevelled.

Dumbledore's hair had been auburn when he was younger, 
but his sons had the same raven black hair as their 
grandfather, Albus' father. Fortunately for Sirius, he 
had inherited Cassiopeia Black's refined features and 
Albus' bright blue eyes. Severus' eyes were the same as 
Morrigan's intelligent black depths. Each member of 
Albus's family was adorable in their own way, he thought.

At the moment, Albus and the women were talking about 
their sons' constant fights.

"It's quite typical, Sirius is an Aries, and Severus a 
Scorpio." Morrigan said. "Both are strong willed 
personalities, both stubborn, but with interests that 
couldn't be more different."

Cassie laughed and said: "I don't know as much about 
astrology as you, but everyone can see that Sirius is 
more interested in climbing trees and Sev more in his 
books. I'd bet, Sirius will be sorted into Gryffindor and 
Sev in Ravenclaw."

Albus smiled. If so, his sons would be sorted into the 
same houses as their mothers. 

Morrigan smirked. "Maybe. Anyway, Sirius is very 
impulsive, like most Aries' he instantly does whatever 
comes to his mind without thinking about the 
consequences. And what comes to his mind usually is 
pranks, adventures, all the things we love and at times 
hate him for." 

Albus knew how she meant it; a prankster, by that one who 
was intelligent enough to think up the most complicated 
tricks, but never thought about the consequences of what 
he was doing, was quite difficult to raise. Of course, 
one also could not be angry with Sirius for long, because 
one knew he meant no evil.

"Don't get me wrong, I love Sirius like my own son," 
Morrigan continued, "but Severus has more depth. He 
thinks a lot about life, the universe, and, quite typical 
for a Scorpio, also the darker aspects. And both of them 
are way too stubborn to see that there are other ways 
than their own, that everyone has their own way, and that 
other ways are not necessarily wrong. And of course, 
there's also the typical rivalry between siblings." she 
concluded.

"I'm worried that our Severus might be lead astray if he 
indulges too much in his fascination with the Dark Arts." 
Cassie said.

"All three of us know a lot about the Dark Arts, yet we 
aren't Black Wizards." Albus threw in. "We fight them."

"We already agreed that he may learn them when he is old 
enough." Morrigan said. "He's clearly not yet, so remind 
me on replacing the protective charms on the forbidden 
part of the library." She smiled proudly. "I wouldn't 
have thought a boy of his age could ever get past them."

*

Albus very much enjoyed the summer, the time he could 
spend with his women and his ever-fighting boys. It never 
was boring, not for one second. 

At the end of summer he had to say good-bye to Morrigan 
and Cassie, but with his boys enrolled at Hogwarts he 
could keep a closer watch over them. He was quite looking 
forward to constantly having them around. 

To make sure that not one of his enemies found out that 
Severus and Sirius were his sons, they travelled 
separate; he flew to Hogwarts, his sons went by train, 
brought to the station by their mothers. Albus was 
confident that his sons were silent about their secret; 
they were intelligent, they understood the reasons.


TBC