AN: Hey. i hope that you all enjoy my story and that it's better than my first, FfS. I need to tell you that i'm in the middle of my exam year so if updates take a really long time, it's because of that. so an apology in advance. This is based on the first Clockwork book, clockwork angel. It is also based after the DH. not epilogue compliant. It is set in victorian times though, not the 1990s. there was no voldemort or war. And thomas isn't dead. Oh and sorry but this chapter is really short...

DISCLAIMER: i don't own Harry Potter or the Clockwork series. I am not making a profit through this story.

Chapter one

Finally. Finally i had found my brother. I had known that he had left to join the Nephilim but I had no idea when. He had left when I had just started at my boarding school. Just a month earlier I had recieved a letter claiming I was magical and was required to attend Hogwarts School of Withcraft and Wizardry. I, of course was exstatic. Will was far from it. He was angry that I was allowed to go to this school and he wasn't allowed to join the nephilim. I had been at the school but a fortnight before a letter detailing his departure reached me.

I had stayed on at the school for the rest of the seven years, made friends and enemies. I achieved decent grades at O.W.L. and N.E.W.T. levels. But even while at school, I searched. Ever since he left us, i had looked for him. I tried everything. But then, I found him. I had used a point me charm, adapted by my best friend Hermione Granger. She was a talented woman of her age and had developed many a spell. This was one. When amied a map, you would recite the spell and the name of your target. It would then mark the quickest route to them. It would direct you to the place the person most commonly visited, most likely their home. It was thanks to this that i found him. Luckily it wasn't too far. I was,in fact, suprised I had missed him.

"Are you sure that you don't want us to come with you?" This came from a tall, gangly red head in scruffy robes.

"I'm sure, Ron. After all, Hermione is pregnant, she'll need you more than I will. You know how frustrated she will be getting not being able to do magic." She already was.

"Yeah, i suppose so. If that's that then i best be saying goodbye"

"Bye. Oh and write to me when the baby is born. I'll have to come and visit!"

I walked onto the train hastily upon realising there were several others also wishing to board. I found a cabin to sit in, blissfully empty and thought about what was happening. I was finally going to see him after seven years. I had missed having him around. Will had always given me support, but after my parents had allowed me to go to Hogwarts, he had started to resent me. I was well aware that you had to remove all ties to family when you joined the nephilim unless they joined too. But i had a reason to go to him. The Authorities wanted me there and i'd like to think that Will does as well. While i am an adult in the wizarding world, i am not in the muggle so i need a guardian. My parents had died in a house fire just after christmas. Will was the closest living relative I have that is old enough to look after me.

But me, being the soppy and foolish person I am, hopes he will love me anyway. A recipe for hurt.