Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters. They all belong except for Damien, belong to Rowling. The plot and Damien belongs to the author, Kurinoone of this story, 'The Darkness Within'.

And the story was inspired by 'A Shattered Prohecy' written by 'Project Dark Overlord"

Reading The Darkness Within

Lily walked in the kitchen that is big enough to fit in the whole Order members, following behind her were James, Sirius, Remus and young Damien. Thanks to Dumbledore, 12 Grimmauld Place, Siriu's former home, became the headquarters, is no longer dark and dirty. Of course, the home is still dark itself, but the kitchen looks a little more lively and lighter than any other rooms in the house. Startled at the sight in the front of them, the room looks a lot bigger with rounded tables and five chairs per table. Usually there is a long table with the chairs presented; Dumbledore would be at the end of the table running the meetings, but not this time.

On the tables were the glasses of butterbeers, mugs filled with hot water, along with a bowl of tea bags. Lily looked around, looking for the familiar faces other than her family.

"Whoa!" Sirius said. "What just happened?"

Lily looked over her shoulder, looking at Sirus, and back to the room in wonder.

"Damien, look over here!" Hermione called over, sitting with Ron, Ginny and the Weasley twins who grinned widely at him. Damien grinned back at them, making his way to his friends. Once Damien sat down, they leaned closer, whispering furiously, no doubt about why they are invited to the headquarters.

"I take it that Dumbledore told you to invite Damien, didn't he?" Molly came over to them, leaving from one of the tables where Arthur, Bill, Kingsley are. She did not look happy.

"Yes, he did." James replied, frowning.

Shaking her head, Molly looked over at the children with a worried look, then placed her eyes on the family. "I hope Dumbeldore has a reason! Children are too young for this! What is it that is so important that the children must be brought over to the meeting?" Molly asked, not hiding a little anger in her voice.

"He always does, Molly. You know that. If he said it is important then it is important," Lily said, smiling. She can understand where Molly comes from. She doesn't want her son to come to the meeting as well because he's underage, and she fears for his safely. If it were up to her, Damien would not have stepped a foot in this room.

Mentally, she thought, this better be important, Dumbledore!

James happened to share the same thought because he said, "Well, it better be. I don't want my son involved."

"Obviously it is important," Remus started. "Otherwise he wouldn't have asked you to bring them over," Remus said, with a gentle smile on his face.

"Ladies, and gentlemen, I think children should join in the war and fight our battles," Sirius spoke, imitating Dumbledore. He spread his arms widely, his voice high, carrying his words over around the room. Everyone, including the teens stopped talking. "They need to understand how important it is to fight and defeat Voldemort." Sirius smiled at the reactions he was getting as he walked around with his arms around him, hands clasped together. His smile vanished as he spoke once again, but if you looked closer, and hard, his eyes shows mirth and amusement.

"You see, Voldemort is getting stronger. His Death Eaters are out torturing and killing the muggles. Do you think –" Whatever Sirius was about to say, everyone had no idea because Lily slapped him on the arm and started yelling at him about joking around and revealing some important information with the teens presented.

"This is not funny, Sirius! NOT with the kids HERE!" Lily shouted at him. Sirius winced at her shout, clapping his hands over his ears. This only made Lily shout some more at Sirius until James took pity on him and put his hand on her shoulder.

"Lils, love. Calm down," James turned her around gently, sliding his arm around her neck, kissing her on the head. "You can continue to yell at him later, when they are not around," he whispered quietly to her, so only Lily can hear him.

Lily huffed, and crossed her arms. There were more Order members entering, reacting the same like they had to the kitchen. And finally, Dumbledore came in. Narcissa and young Draco Malfoy behind him.

Of course, every Order member, except Lily, and Snape started shouting at him, questioning him why the Malfoys are here. Molly started shouting at him as well, but not because of the Malfoys. She wanted to know why the children are invited to the meeting when they are underage.

"Dumbeldore! You have to explain yourself! You said so yourself that the meetings are not for children! And as their mother, I don't want them here. You have to explain why and I'll take them back ho-," Molly went silent, eye widen.

Dumbeldore did not say anything, except that he raised his left hand up causing everyone to stop talking. He pointed his arm at the rounded tables, smiling warmly. Everyone took the hint that Dumbledore refused to explain until they sit down at their tables.

Every single eyes were on Dumbledore, and then on the Malfoys. They better be here for a good reason.

Dumbledore still smiled warmly, then his eyes laid on James and Lily, his smile vanished. He knew the news he had just found out before he alerted everyone, was going to hit the Potters hard. He opened his mouth to explain, but no words came out.

"Dumbledore, please. Allow me." Narcissa stepped forward, looking at the Potters. Dumbledore did not show whether he was surprised or not. He nodded at her.

Narcissa took a long breath, preparing herself to tell the Potters. The Potters looked a little surprised at this, wondering whatever she wanted to tell them. James looked at her with his distrustful eyes, while Lily smiled a little. Her emerald eyes reminded her strongly of someone she knows.

"I was not supposed to tell you, but," Narcissa stopped, looking at Lily, her emerald eyes encouraged her to say what she has to say.

"Harry is alive. He's alive! He's living with V-v, I mean, the Dark Lord!" Narcissa blurted out, trying to hold back her tears."He was never dead. Instead, he was raised by him." Draco's head shot up at this, and looked at her angrily.

"Mother, what are you doing?!" Draco asked angrily.

"They have the right to know about Harry, Draco! I'm sorry, I know he's your best friend. But you... you have no idea what he's been through," Narcissa said, her voice breaking a little.

Draco stared at there, his mouth gaping open. His mother does not show her emotions in the public. Unless she's alone with him, or her family. However, Harry is his best friend, and he doesn't want his mother killed for revealing Harry at the hands of Voldemort. He opened his mother to speak.

"No, I won't let you. What if you will be killed? What if they killed Harry and it is all because of you?" Draco replied, raising his voice. Narcissa's tears swelled up at him, her hand on her chest trembling. She shook her head at her son.

"Draco, this is the price I am willing to pay. No child should ever go through what Harry has. NO CHILD! I have witnessed it all. With my own eyes, Draco. You don't want to know. What he must do to rem-" Narcissa broke down. She fell down on her knees, sobbing hard.

Draco did not know what to say to that except that he stood there gaping his mouth at her. Then he realized he was doing, and ran to his mother, trying to comfort her. He wasn't the only one comforting her. Lily ran over to her quickly once she broke down, and wrapped her arm around her neck.

Lily wanted to ask her so many questions. So many questions racing in her head. She wanted to know what Narcissa meant by everything she said to Draco about her son. Her son was alive. But not with her, that's pretty much she got. But with Voldemort? She can't understand everything, but she will if Narcissa explained.

"Narcissa, please. What do you mean, Harry is alive? He can't be. He was kidnapped by Wormtail, a-and to be brought over to Voldemort to be killed. How can he be alive?" Lily asked once she noticed Narcissa stopped crying, but still rubbed her back gently.

Narcissa shook her head at Lily. With her sad eyes looking at Lily, she replied, "No, he is pretty much alive. He lives with the Dark Lord."

Lily gasped, and shook her head at this new information.

Dumbledore cleared his throat, looking at Lily sadly. "It is true, Lily. I am sorry. However, the good news is, we received the book that is from the future and it is about Harry's life. This way we can find out what happened with him and we can change everything. That's why Narcissa is here. She has the book with her." Narcissa nodded, remaining silent.

"But, Dumbledore, how do we know the book is not under the dark spell. Or that it's harmless?" James piped in questioning Dumbledore. It is not that he doesn't want his son to remain dead. He didn't want to keep his hopes up only to find out that he was tricked in thinking his son is alive, and then he is still dead. Even though, he suddenly has a surge of hope that he is truly alive. He just wanted evidences and Dumbledore had better provide them.

Narcissa got back on her own feet with the help of Lily and her son. She pulled out the thick book out of her small handbag. Before she came to the headquarters with Dumbledore, he had cast all the spells on it to make sure it's not harmless. She handed the book to Dumbledore's stretched hand.

"I made sure that this book is harmless. I went over all the spells and casted them all on the book and the result is still the same. Harmless. But I can do the spells again so you all can be rest assured," Dumbledore told them, ignoring the skeptical looks sent to him from the aurors, especially Mad-Eye Moody. And yet they remained silent.

For a long, five minutes, everyone watched as Dumbledore casted every spell he knows ensuring that the book is harmless. As he went over the last spell, he looked up at the audience and smiled. "Harmless." Everyone except Mad-Eye Moody let out a sigh of relief.

Of course, Mad-Eye Moody voiced his suspicions about the book and how they're going to be tricked by the book, and kept pointing out that Harry is still dead. At that, the glares coming from Lily, James, Narcissa, Draco, Remus and Sirius were at Moody.

"Mom, Dad, who is this Harry person? Why do you know him?" Damien asked quietly.

Lily and James looked at each other and then at Damien. They walked over to Damien with everyone in the room watching them. Lily placed her arm on Damien's shoulder, looking sadly at him. Sirius and Remus followed them, and decided silently that they would be there to support the parents if needed.

"Damien, we never wanted you to know who he is, but," Lily stopped, clearing her throat. Telling her young son who he is is harder than she thought it would be.

"He is your brother, Damien, " James took over. "He is our long lost son. Before you were born, he was with us, and then got kidnapped by Wormtail." The Marauders' faces turned a little dark at the mention of Wormtail. Lily wiped a few tears that were rolling down her cheeks.

"He was only a year old when he was kidnapped." Lily added. Hermione gasped at this, covered her mouth with her hands, and shook her head.

"No," Hermione whispered behind her hands. The Weasleys stared at the Potters, said nothing. Ron's mouth was gaping a little. Ginny had her hand placed on her chest, her mouth gaping as well. The Twins looked at the Potters with their blank face, but behind their eyes were sadness and surprise at this news.

Damien stared at his parents and didn't say anything. His parents looked at him with sad looks, fearing what was about to come, but nothing happened yet.

"Damien, I'm sorry we didn't tell-" Lily was interrupted by Damien.

"Dumbledore, can we start reading? I will start if you do not mind. I want to know more about my brother," Damien asked Dumbledore in excitement. All his life, he had always wanted a brother and now he found out he has one. With that new discovery, he wanted to know and learn everything there is about his older brother.

"Of course, Mr. Potter," Dumbledore answered and levitated the book over to Damien's stretched hand, his eyes twinkling merrily because Damien took the news well and wants to know more about his brother.

Damien turned to his parents with a smile. Lifting the book, he pointed at the cover.

"I should be mad at you guys, but I think this book will reveal everything we need to know about Harry. Hopefully we can do something about it." Damien told them. Lily and James beamed at him. They were so proud of how he handled the news.

The Potters sat down with Sirius and Remus, their eyes still on Damien. Everyone in the room did the same and once they sat down comfortably, their tea made, they looked at Damien expectantly. Draco and his mother, Narcissa sat at one table next to the Potters. Draco looked at Damien looking bored, but on the insides, he was scared for his mother and Harry.

Damien smiled at everyone, and sat down on the chair in the front of everyone. He dropped his eyes down to the opening book, reading the title of the first chapter. Clearing his throat, he opened his mouth and spoke.

"The Betrayal."