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Hi everyone. This is another of my drabbles that may or may not be expanded.

Let me know what you think.

Chapter 1

Fourteen years old Adam Potter ran into the clearing, seeing the TriWizard's cup. He couldn't believe it. He had arrived first. Adam smirked and ran, not noticing the acromantula in the shadows that spit a web against his legs. With a shout, Adam fell face first on the floor, turning himself in a quick movement and seeing a eight legged giant horror running against him. Adam rose his wand against it but before he could say the incantation, the back half of the acromantula was blasted to pieces and the front half fell in front of Adam Potter, who in turn cast a reducto, blasting it as well. The teen turned in the direction the spell had come and saw none other than his older brother, seventeen years old Harry Potter.

- Fancy meeting you here, bro. - Harry said with a grin, lowering his wand. Harry and Adam looked to each other and Adam grinned too, waving his wand and vanishing the acromantula's web, raising to his feet. Never for a moment his eyes left his brother's, both emerald green, inherited from their mother.

- Yeah, you know, I love creepy maze centers crawling with dangerous creatures. - Adam answer back, closing his hand in the handle of his wand. He breathed slowly.

- Are you ready? - Harry asked, losing the smile, adopting a very serious posture, mirrored by his brother.

- I am. - Adam replied, turning to the cup.

- Keep your wand ready. - Harry said, joining his brother, both walking towards the cup - Keep your defenses up and pay attention to your surroundings. If anything happens that you can't handle, run. Understand?

Adam nodded, clearly not enough for Harry.

- Adam...

- I do. - Adam replied nervously, looking towards his brother - I know what to do. Be careful too, all right?

Harry nodded and smirked to his brother.

- What did you tell her? - asked Harry with a teasing grin.

- That I was uneasy with the task and expected trouble. I also told her that I am completely in love with her and that I'd be waiting for a victory snog upon my return. - Adam said, not able to avoid the blushing while Harry chuckled - She laughed and gave me a motivational snog. What about you?

- I told her everything when I proposed, remember? - asked Harry with a smile - I had a hard time to convince her that we should be fine but in case of anything happened, I told her that I love her completely and that nothing would keep me from coming back for our wedding.

- Maybe I should have told her everything? - asked Adam - I didn't want her to...

- To late now, Adam.

- Rosey was too nervous. - Adam said in a serious tone after chuckling - And so was mum.

- Can you blame them? - asked Harry while they reached the cup - Even the old guys were off today.

- A day when the marauders are that stiff and silent can not bode anything good. - Adam agreed, looking to his brother.

Harry had closed his eyes focused himself and so did his brother. It was a battle magic technique, focusing their magic into protection.

- Whatever happens, I'm proud of you, Eyes. - Harry said, turning to his brother.

- No more than I am of you, Claws. - replied Adam. Both brothers disillusioned themselves and after disappearing completely, they both counted to three, reaching the cup and squeezing the handles. They felt the unmistakable feeling of the portkey and left the quidditch pitch of Hogwarts behind, reappearing in what seemed to be an old graveyard. The two brothers made no sound and waited.

- Where is the brat? - asked a rough man voice, after a couple of moments.

- Silence, you fool. - replied another voice.

The two brothers, still disillusioned, turned to the place where they had heard the voices, seeing two shapes hidden behind gravestones.

- There's no one here! - shouted the rough voiced man, revealing himself to be fat one, hidden behind a black robe with a white skull mask. A deatheater.

- Shut up, Goyle! - ordered another voice. Adam rolled his eyes. How stupid could these guys be? There were at least three and apparently none had much of a brain.

- It was a trap and the portkey charm is gone. - Harry whispered to Adam - Use your portkey.

Adam did it but nothing happened.

- Shit, they placed anti-portkey wards?! - whispered Adam in an angry tone.

- Move quietly. - Harry ordered - Let's leave this...

He never finished his sentence because by then, a new voice made itself be heard:

- They are here! They are disillusioned! Find them for the master, damn you! The brat and his brother are here!

Harry and Adam stopped after recognizing the voice. A couple of moments later, they saw the figure of Mad-Eye Moody appear near them, followed by at least ten more deatheaters.

- THERE! - shouted Moody, seeing Adam through their charm, thanks to his magical eye and casting a stupefy at him. By casting a protego shield, Adam's disillusionment spell fell and the younger Potter revealed himself.

- Capture him! - Moody shouted again. The deatheaters started to cast stupefy against Adam who rolled from his position and replied immediately with piercing hexes and reducto curses. For his part, Harry dropped the disillusionment spell and cast a strong cutting curse against a deatheater's throat and a reducto against his knee caps.

First blood was spilled when said deatheater fell to the floor with blood flowing from his throat. Luckily for the two brothers, the deatheaters came all from the same side, giving them a free route to run.

- Bombarda! - shouted Harry, casting the explosive curse against two deatheaters who were too close from each other. Adam cast a chain with a reducto, confringo and an expulso. While the reducto was focused on a deatheater, the confringo was used to create a small blast in the ground near another deatheater and the expulso to blast a gravestone to shards, creating more colateral damage between the deatheaters who cast incarcerous and stunners against the two brothers. Finally someone snapped and a reducto was casted against Harry, followed by someone casting the killing curse against them. None of the spells hit their marks and Harry cast an overpowered freezing charm on a deatheater chest, freezing her lungs and suffocating her to death.

The two brothers were quick and deadly and those deatheaters were no match for them. A fourteen years old boy and his seventeen years old brother were more than a match for fifteen deatheaters. Adam cast a cutting curse and cut one man's knee, causing him to fall. However, the deatheater was in the process of casting an expulso against Adam and the spell hit a gravestone near the younger Potter, making him fall on the floor. Harry noticed and after casting a successfully lancea fulgor that pierced another deatheater, cast a shield on his brother, continuing the battle.

With Adam on the ground and with only four death eaters remaining, Harry Potter never noticed that Mad-Eye Moody had flanked the two brothers, accompanied by a fat bald man who carried something on his arms, who stayed behind.

- Avada Kedava! - shouted Moody. Harry turned around and saw the green light going against him. He ducked and replied with a black light, not noticing the killing curse hitting a deatheater behind him. Harry and Moody engaged in a duel of their own while Adam rose again to his feet. Adam neutralized the deatheaters behind his brother and turned back, seeing his brother fighting five deatheaters at once. Harry was winning against Moody and his ilk but before Adam could do anything, three more deatheaters shouted the killing curse at the same time as four of the five Harry was fighting. Adam couldn't do anything as he saw Harry overpowering Moody and being hit by seven green lights.

- NNNNNOOOOOO! HARRY! - Adam shouted, casting the black light spell against the deatheaters. Unfortunatly, Adam missed his target and Moody stunned him from behind. The last thing Adam saw was his brother's corpse, and felt tears in his eyes.

Adam woke up at a gruesome sight. In front of him was someone with strong similarities to Mad-Eye Moody. However, it seemed that his skin was melting and that he was getting younger.

- Hello, halfblood. So nice of you to join us. - said the Moody lookalike. Adam saw him and remembered what had happened. He looked around him and didn't see his brother.

- No... No... HARRY! - Adam shouted for his brother, tears coming to his eyes, remembering what he saw - I'm going to kill you, bastard. I'm going to flay you alive you filthy son of a bitch. I'll make you pay for what you have done! - to say that Moody was chocked was an understatement - I can see you're not Moody and I can smell polyjuice. Who are you? ANSWER ME, YOU SON OF A BITCH!

The death eater impersonator laughed and bowed to Adam.

- Bartemius Crouch Junior, at your service. A loyal servant of the dark lord.

- I'll kill you Crouch, mark my words! - shouted Adam in tears, to angry to notice the death eater shared the name with the ministry official that had disappeared some months before.

- After my lord rise again, Potter, you won't do anything. - mocked Crouch, whose face changed even more, becoming younger and with dark hair - I have to say I am curious why my lord wanted you and your brother competing instead of the Longbottom boy but it's not my place to ask my lord's designs.

Adam flinched at Crouch words and looked coldly at him.

- But for now, we are ready for my lord's rebirth and I can say my lord has waited for this moment for fourteen years, isn't that right, Wormtail?

Adam's head turned immediately to the fat bald man that had appeared next to Crouch.

- YOU FUCKING TRAITOR! IT WAS YOU WHO KILLED HARRY! - shouted Adam. Wormtail didn't even flinch.

- It's time. - the former marauder turned traitor said, drawing a knife and cutting Adam's arm with it, wetting the blade of the knife with Adam's blood and dripping it into a small vial. The Potter boy screamed in pain and focused that pain in anger and the anger into his magic, as his brother has instructed him, intending to free himself. Wormtail went back to a massive black cauldron and started to chant:

- Bone of the father, unknowingly given, you will renew your son. - Wormtail said, throwing a bone from a skeleton into the cauldron. Then he hesitated.

- Proceed, Wormtail. - shouted Crouch in an angry tone and Wormtail did so.

- Flesh of the servant, willingly given, you-you w-will r-revive your master. - Adam could only saw in disgust as Wormtail cut his own hand, throwing it to the cauldron. The traitor screamed in pain and whimpered but was forced to proceed after a quick cauterizing spell by Crouch. After that, Wormtail pick up the vial with Adam's blood and chanted again:

- Blood of the enemy... forcibly taken... you will re-resurrect your foe.

The cauldron shone with a green light, forcing both death eaters to step back. The contents bubbled and flames erupted from it. Eventually, the flames died and the light disappeared, only to reveal a grotesque spectacle of an homunculus to grow into a man shape.

The creature ended up becoming a pale man, with two slits passing for a nose and red eyes. His entire body was thin and lithe, resembling more of a serpent than a man. Adam had seen those eyes to many times in his nightmares. That was Lord Voldemort.

- My robes. - he ordered with a silky voice - And my wand.

Crouch robed his master and Wormtail handed him his wand. Adam payed no attention to the dark lord while he greeted his loyal servants and rewarded the traitor with a new hand. He was too busy trying to release himself from his magical bonds.

- And what do we have here? Adam Potter, the boy who lived. - announced Voldemort in a mocking voice, directed to Adam. Only then the teen turned to him with cold and fearless eyes.

- Voldemort... You truly are an ugly bastard. - Adam taunted. It was his Gryffindor nature. He knew that except for a miracle, he would die there so he taunted his nemesis, if not only to mock him. Which could be complete insanity too. Voldemort scowled and crucio'd Adam.

- You should respect your betters, boy, especially me, the greatest wizard in the world, who has even beaten death. - Voldemort announced, noticing his servants, who he had summoned moments before were arriving.

- You are not the greatest Wizard in the world! - shouted Adam loud and clear.

- Oh? - chuckled Voldemort - And I suppose that you consider Dumbledore to be the greatest wizard alive?

- Dumbledore is an old coot with delusions of grandeur, too attached to his own past and with a false sense of importance stuck up is ass. - came the reply of Adam Potter. The dark lord was amused by then, even curious while the rest of the deatheaters were confused on why the brat would have that opinion.

- Then tell me, Adam Potter, who is the greatest wizard alive? - laughed Voldemort.

- HARRY POTTER! - shouted Adam, with renewed tears in his eyes. He refused to accept his brother was dead, something Voldemort was keen to remember him:

- Your brother is dead, Adam Potter and this time, no one will save you. - Voldemort said with a smirk, addressing his inner circle servants.

With tears in his eyes, Adam focused his anger and wandless summoned his wand, which happened to be in the table next to the remains of the skeleton. By then, after crucio a couple of the inner circle deatheaters, Voldemort was telling them what had happened in the dreadful night of Halloween 1980. He told him how he went after the two children and how he decided it had to be Adam Potter. While his deatheaters fought the defenders, Voldemort killed old Longbottom widow, the last between him and the boys or so he thought. Before he could kill the Potter baby first, a young boy, who he came to learn later to be three year old Harry Potter, picked the old woman's wand and attempt to curse the dark lord with the killing curse. Of course, being a child, he said Abracadabra instead. However, a green light was produced and the dark lord evaded it, disarming Harry and pinning it to the wall by magic, promising to kill him after he killed the babies. The rest they knew. He cast the killing curse and somehow, Adam Potter, not Neville Longbottom, survived, destroying his body. It was a surprise to learn that Dumbledore had made such a mistake but since it made the dark lord's life easier, he didn't care at all.

The deatheaters heard in awe of their master and smirked at Dumbledore's failure.

- Voldemort! - shouted Adam, causing the dark lord and all deatheaters to look at him. In a swift movement, Adam casted a Bombarda, which the dark lord blocked and ducked from a Lightning spell before casting a crucio at the boy. Adam evaded it and cast an expeliarmus and a cutting spell pointing to the dark lord's legs. The dark lord dodge those too, although a deatheater behind him didn't.

- Aquamenti Maximus! - shouted Adam, wetting the dark lord and his surroundings. Not familiar with that technique, the dark lord was baffled and angry, sending an avada kedava against Adam Potter for the disrespect. Adam dodge and cast another spell:

- Glacius Totalis! - Voldemort realized what the teen intended and cast a quick drying charm on himself, least he would be freezing and his movements reduced. Angry, the dark lord cast a blood boiling curse and an expulso against a gravestone, sending Adam to the ground.

- And now, Adam Potter, the real boy who lived will finally die... - Voldemort announced. Adam didn't listen him.

- Mum, Dad, Rosey, Sirius, Remus, Harry... Hermione... I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry for failing you. - Adam mumbled, listened by the dark lord - I was weak.

- Fear not, Potter, I will send you your family and your mudblood girlfriend into afterlife. Ava...

He never finished because his deatheaters behind him started to scream in pain and agony. The dark lord turned around and saw several cut in half while others were simply pale and pointing to the sky, where the flaming whip had come. Adam heard a shriek. The shriek from an eagle.

- Who is there? - shouted the dark lord into the night, clearly not happy.

- I AM! - Adam recognized Harry's voice from his left and saw his older brother casting a depulso charm against the dark lord, who was so distraught by Harry's appearance that he was caught by it and thrown back some meters against a gravestone.

Adam could only witness in awe as his brother stood against the dark lord and his minions who were clearly afraid of Harry. Clearly someone who stood against the dark lord was not someone to be trifled with. However, some tried their luck and cast an Avada Kedava at Harry who casted his black light spells and lightning spells.

- Enough with the self pitting, Adam, get up and fight. I can't take them on my own! - Harry shouted, standing between his brother and their enemies.

Adam could only disagree at his brother's words.

- YES YOU CAN and I am standing with you nonetheless! - replied Adam, casting a black light spell against a blond deatheater, followed by a cutting curse knee high wide enough to catch two others. The two brothers moved as fast as they could, cursing all around of them, causing screams of pain, rage and desperation all among them. As Adam promised, he hit Wormtail with the flaying curse and Crouch was hit with a boneless curse in his chest and a lancea fulgor between his eyes. Not that the caster was pointing. Moments later, none but Voldemort and the two Potter brothers were left standing and for the first time in many years, Voldemort was afraid of the two teens.

- Surrender now, lord of worms. - ordered Harry, mocking the dark lord with a serious face. The dark lord snarled.

- You two could join me. - Voldemort said with his silkier voice - You are powerful, much more than my servants and under my tutelage, we could rule the world.

Adam rolled his eyes, pointing his wand to the dark lord.

- Is he really that stupid? - asked the fourteen years old Potter.

- My guess is that he is desperate. - replied his brother, ignoring the dark lord as if they hadn't their wands at him. The dark lord snarled.

- Don't ignore me! Serpensortia! - a black mamba jumped from his wand and Harry and Adam quickly step back.

- Kill them! - ordered the dark lord in parseltongue.

- Serpensortia! - hissed the two brothers in parseltongue, shocking the dark lord who widened his eyes as he saw two cobras materializing before the brothers.

- Help us against them! - asked Adam, not ordering but a genuine request.

The cobras hissed in acknowledgement and while one attacked the black mamba the other attacked Voldemort, who waved his wand against it. His own pet Nagini jumped the cobra and both start fighting and in moments, the two cobras had engaged Nagini.

The battle resumed, no words exchanged between the combatants. Blood boilers, skin melters, killing curses, lightning lances, trip jinxes, glacius, stunners, everything was used between the three. The Potters knew by then that Voldemort was more powerful than they believed, even more powerful than Dumbledore if their information was any good but they were two, they were Potters and more important than that, they were a team. By the corner of the eye, Harry noticed that Nagini was killing the last cobra and with a flick of his left wrist, drew his second wand a cast fiendfyre against the snake. It never had a chance and as soon as the flames hit her, the giant snake hissed in pain and tossed around only to stop, immobile, silent and engulfed by blue flames. A green cloud and a scream came from the snake but none paid it attention. With two wands, Harry redouble his effort in a barrage of curses and Voldemort had to defend himself from three wands. Just as he cursed the two Potters, Adam to drew a second wand. The two Potters seemed to dance with their wands, their movements were fluid, light and their spells packed quite a punch.

Voldemort was hit with a bludgeoning hex, a reducto in the shoulder that crushed his bones but didn't destroyed it totally, an expeliarmus that took his wand from him, quickly destroyed by another reducto and a flaming incarcerous, binding the dark lord.

It was over. Adam was sweating and panting but Harry only had an accelerated breathing.

- Curse you, Potters! You will never be able to kill me! Lord Voldemort is immortal! - the dark lord shouted - It doesn't matter that the brat is the boy who lived, you'll never be able to kill me.

- Is that so? - asked Adam in a cold voice, pointing his wand at the dark lord - Why don't I give it a try?

- Adam, wait. - ordered Harry, at which his brother turned to him.

- What? Are you believing him?

- Think for a moment, will you? - replied Harry in a cold tone - The killing curse rebound on you and hit him and still he didn't die. Why? Was it because the curse lost power? Was it because the killing curse can't be casted against ourselves? Or was it because that son of a bitch really did something to assure his immortality?

Adam breathed, calming himself, something that proved to be difficult with the dark lord laughing and speaking against them, not that they were listening, something that only infuriated the dark lord more, trying to unbind himself.

- If we deliver him to the DMLE, he will most certainly escape. - continued Harry - courtesy of his servants in the ministry. If we deliver him to the Department of Mysteries, I'd risk on the same assumption...

- What if we gave him a draught of living death and put him somewhere under fidelius? - asked Adam. It wasn't a bad idea and even Voldemort shut up to listen to the two boys, speaking of his demise as if he was nothing more than a nuisance. Who were these two?

- We would have to be sure that the place was safe and even those under the draught need to be given nutrient potions. Magic only keeps us so far...

- Good point. - replied Adam - We don't need him do die of thirst and hunger and escape...

- I have an idea... - said Harry, his eyes flashing - It is dangerous but won't kill him and in the worst case scenario he'll be trapped for all eternity.

Both Adam and Voldemort widened their eyes.

- None can trap me, Potter. Release me and I shall give you and yours a quick death.

- Silencio. - whispered Adam, wand pointing to Voldemort. No sound came from the dark lord and he was quite angry.

- What is it? - asked Adam.

- Get behind me and look away. Whatever you do, don't look. - ordered Harry in a serious tone. Whenever he did that, things were really serious and he was to be listened. Adam nodded and went back to back with Harry, protecting his back.

- Gorgon! - said Harry and a bright light and a sound that seemed to be rocks clashing in each other was heard.

- It's done. - said Harry - You can look now.

Adam looked back to Voldemort and was in shock as he saw a stone statue instead of the dark lord.

- Wow! How did you...? . asked Adam, to which his brother merely grinned.

- It's an old greek spell, used by a paselmouth witch called Medusa. You know the myth.

- Oh yeah, the monster that turned people to stone.

- That's the one. There is a counter curse but it can only be performed by the same who casted the curse and while like that, he is immortal and requires no sustenance.

- So, you could have done that in the battle? - asked Adam, not really understanding why his brother hadn't do it. Harry whispered something and blushed.

- What was that? - asked Adam.

- I said it was the first time I did it. - replied Harry, making Adam laugh - And I wouldn't use it risking you.

Hearing risking, Adam snapped.

- What the hell was that back there? How could you be so careless and let them hit you with seven killing curses? - Adam eyes were teary and he quickly hugged his brother, sobbing - You could have died... you should be dead...

Adam let go of his brother embrace.

- How?

- Magic and a lot of luck. - replied Harry, revealing a medallion inside his robes, a medallion given to him by his bethroded, Daphne Greengrass, seventh year like him - I studied the AK and was able to create a prototype shield with the medallion that could block it. Or it was supposed to block it. It took a lot of magic but apparently the seven AKs were too much because it turned them into stunners, I believe, I am not really sure. I woke up because my magic fought the stunners. - Adam was wide eyed. His big brother was awesome. No doubt why his father and uncles always joked he was Merlin's second coming - To why I was hit... bad luck? Distraction? I don't know...

Adam's answer came by a fist into Harry's nose.

- Then pay attention to your surroundings next time. - Adam shouted, much like Harry had done with him before, except the punch - Do you know what I felt seeing you being hit? Do you know what the family would feel? What about Daphne?

The anger of the younger Potter quickly faded and he hugged his brother again, to which he replied in the same way.

- We won, kid. - Harry whispered softly.

- And we have a very ugly garden ornament to prove it. - Adam replied, making Harry laugh - What are we doing with it?

- Gringotts? - suggested Harry? We placed him in the family vault while we coordinate with our allies to find an answer to his immortality.

- Fine by me but how are we supposed to take it there if... - a raised eyebrow from Harry replied Adam's question - Vindy?

At once, a house elf appeared before the two boys and she was angry.

- Do young masters know what they made master, mistress, young mistress, dog man, dog man family and wolf man and wolf man family, miss Greenie and miss Mione suffer by their foolishness?

Harry and Adam rose their eyebrows and looked to each other.

- What are you talking about, Vindy? - asked Harry, being immediately assaulted by the house elf, hugging him, passing after a long moment to Adam.

- The monitoring spell is still active. - revealed the house elf, shocking them - We at Hoggywarts saw everything yous have done.

- What?! - the two brothers shouted at the same time, with a mix of fear and dread - Daphne/Hermione is going to kill me.

Vindy grinned. The boys had just defeated the dark lord and his minions, fighting fearlessly and were terrified of their misses reactions.

- Mistress Lily and mistress Rosey too. - added the elf. They deserved it, for making her suffer like that.

- And I suppose you'll have something to say to, won't you? - asked Harry, more in fear than anything else.

- I changed your nappies, master, you can be sure Vindy has something to say. - the defiance was clear and both Harry and Adam gulped.

- We're so screwed. - Adam started to blabber - So but so screwed...

Harry simply hid his face in his hands and Vindy grinned before snapping her fingers.

- Mistress Lily sends potions for yous. - the elf announced, handing them a vial each. Adam drank it immediately while Harry took his time.

- I love you Hermione! - shouted Adam, after gaining a bit more of courage. Harry and Vindy looked at him as if he was mad.

- What the hell was that for? - asked Harry, not hiding a grin - You really think Hermione won't curse you just because of that?

- No, but at least she may consider it and curse me less. - confessed Adam - She's scary when she's mad at me, you know?

Harry snorted.

- Potter Men luck. - he said. Adam looked at him, not understanding and so did Vindy. Harry noticed and smirked - It's a theory of mine concerning all Potter males. I have no idea if it is suitable for Potter born females too. OK, let's start with good luck. A Potter male always falls for the smartest, brightest and most beautiful woman. Consider your relation with Hermione. She is beautiful and considered as the smartest witch of her age, right? - At Adam's nod, he continued - Daphne is the most beautiful witch in Hogwarts, and yes I'm also counting Fleur, and is considered by all as the smartest witch of her age. - Adam was beginning to see a pattern - Let's consider mum, she is quite a looker herself and she was...

- The brightest witch of her age, ok, I am definitively seeing the patter here.

- Even grandmother Dorea. - finished Harry with a grin.

- Ok, and the rest? - asked Adam quite curious.

- They all have a short temper concerning the Potter men. - revealed Harry. Adam snorted before starting to laugh and Harry chuckled. Even Vindy hid a laughter.

- By the way, speaking of Fleur, did you ever noticed her using her allure on you for the past months? - asked Adam, truly curious.

- She did? - asked Harry innocently while Adam rolled his eyes, mumbling something about ten galleons.

- Maybe we should just face the music. - Turning to Vindy, Harry started to speak but the elf stopped him.

- It will take only a moment and then Vindy take yous back to Hoggywarts. - Vindy popped away, taking with her Voldemort, to place inside the Potter's Vault for safekeeping. As promised, Vindy popped back in just a few moments, enough for Adam grow pale and Harry get nervous.

- We're so screwed. - were Adam's last words before popping into Hogwarts quidditch pitch, where the third task had taken place a couple of hours before.