After his dive off the roof, a six year old Joe has to move with his family to Dallas, Texas to get away from the rumors concerning the incident. As the MacMillans adjust to their new life, Mrs. MacMillan hires a Mrs. Susan Fairchild as an experienced caretaker for her hurting son. Maybe the next two years of bed rest will go differently for young Joe in this almost-schoolyard AU.

In 2003 a new dark power begins to rise, is it really all that new though? Through ancient spells this Dark Lord has started to raise up Death Eaters who have long since passed, and the one known survivor of this spell has woken to quite a shock. Imagine going to sleep in 1981 when rock was in its prime, only to wake up to a world where your friends lost the war you died for.