A/N: It's been quite some time since I've been able to update due to various situations in life. I appreciate everyone who has stuck around. This story is one those that tends to write itself. With that in mind, I feel I need to tell you that it will be completed. Someday... Sorry it's taken a year to update... Happy reading!
Tempest of Time Chapter Two
Gabriel just managed to catch the chaos that was Harry as he jumped at him. You would think it wouldn't have been much trouble with him being a Blood Elf and Harry only a human. But, that was where we would all have been wrong. Gabe noticed there was something different about Harry, but was unable to quite figure it out with his arms full.
"Oh, I was so worried when I didn't see you yesterday!" Harry exclaimed between the many butterfly kisses he was pressing all over the vampire's face.
"I have missed you Little One," Gabe chuckled as his arms wrapped tighter around Harry. Even though he knew most would consider it wrong, he couldn't quite stop his hands from wandering down to that perfectly heart shaped arse that was just begging to be groped.
"Oi!" Tom shouted from the head table causing everyone's attention to shift from Gabe and Harry to him. Many of the students tittered at 'Dumbledore's' outburst. Harry laughed as he unwound himself from Tom's mate. He knew what the other man was protesting.
"Perhaps you would like to join us instead of groping random men in the Great Hall, Gabriel?" Tom said icily. Gabe and Harry grinned up at him as they approached the teacher's table. They both could see through Tom's cold tone.
"Oh, so now I'm just some random man?" Harry pouted as he made his way around the table and waited for Gabe to take his seat next to Tom.
"My dear boy, of course not. But, surely you understand. There are very impressionable minds and big ears all around. It wouldn't do to create rumors. You know how the Hogwarts gossip mill works." Tom affected his Dumbledore persona simply because he knew how much it irritated Harry. What he didn't expect was the response.
"Oh, really?" Harry purred softly as he leaned in towards Tom as if he were whispering to him. When Tom unintentionally responded by tilting his head toward Harry, he heard him say, "I don't care about relations. I don't care about rumors. All I care about is getting you both back to my room. You out of that disgusting glamour, and Gabe out of his clothes." Tom shivered and turned his head to fully look at Harry. Just as he was about to reach out and pull him closer, Harry turned away and plopped himself gracefully into Gabe's lap.
"Let them gossip," Harry said with a smirk. "Their opinions no longer matter."
Severus' eyebrow twitched as he saw his son, he was still trying to figure that one out, sit on the vampire's lap. There was another very long story coming. He just knew it. Getting Harry to be serious long enough to tell it, well, that was a story in itself. He scowled as he continued with his meal.
Sirius was torn between amusement and lust at the scene he had just witnessed. He had always been awed by the vampire's power and beauty. To see him so casually grope his supposed son was somewhat strange. He did find Harry's responses rather funny though. If he was honest with himself, the boy really was a lot like him. He shook his head slightly trying to chase away those thoughts. There was no way in all the nine levels of Hades that he, Sirius, was a father. For fuck's sake, he couldn't even remember the last time he'd had sex. Let alone getting someone pregnant. It seemed to him that that should be something he would cherish and treasure. He would let the vampire tell his part of the story before making a final decision on where he stood with the whole situation. Rather grown of me, he thought.
James was surprised by Gabe's entrance. The last he'd seen him was several years ago. They had left on rather unpleasant terms when the vampire had tried to insinuate that James had a son. Well, I guess I do, James thought in dismay. It was just now hitting him. He had a heir. "HOLY MOTHER OF MAGIC! I have a son!" James shouted as he suddenly jumped to his feet. He stood there in stunned disbelief before turning to Harry and dropping to his knees. The students had still been watching the head table and many laughed loudly at James' exclamation.
"Harry," James breathed, "How could I have forgotten? I remember the first time I held you. You reached out and grabbed my finger. When I tried to give you back to the nurse, you held on as tight as your chubby fist could grab."
Harry blushed beet red at the baby story being told in front of the entire school. "I was not chubby!" he huffed.
"Oh, yes you were! You had so many fat rolls that we had a hard time finding your neck!" Sirius chuckled. Then he froze. He suddenly remembered a rolly polly little boy who they could have named dough boy if they'd chosen. He could see in his mind all the times he'd changed to Padfoot for Harry to ride. Then he remembered it was all suddenly gone. From the time Harry was fifteen months old, there was nothing. It was all a blank.
"You remembered?" Harry gasped as he jumped from Gabe's lap and pushed James out of the way. It wasn't that he loved James any less than Sirius, but he'd actually KNOWN Sirius from the previous timeline. He crashed into his prankster father and hugged him for all he was worth.
"Um," Sirius eloquently responded as he stood rigid with his arms held out to the side as his stuffings were hugged out of him by the formerly fat baby.
"Oh, for the love of everything that's magic!" was shouted across the hall. It seems magicals were quite fond of shouting across large rooms. When the somewhat disjointed family turned to see who had interrupted them, they were all a bit surprised. There was Draco Malfoy standing in the middle of the hall, hands on hips, and eyes lit with an inner fire. "Would you just tell me why the fuck you look different! It's only been a few months! No one can change so drastically in that time frame! There is absolutely no fucking way!"
"It seems Malfoy has finally lost his last marble," Harry whispered to Sirius who chuckled loudly.
"Potter! I demand you tell me what's happened this summer!" Draco commanded in his best 'you better give me what I want before I throw a major tantrum' voice.
"Mr. Malfoy!" Tom interrupted, thankfully, the beginning of a full blown pureblood temper tantrum. "You will come to my office immediately after you are done eating. If you are already done, you may go wait there until I arrive."
"Yes, sir," Draco muttered as he turned to leave the hall all the while muttering about how he wasn't crazy.
"If everyone is done with their meal, you are dismissed to your dorms. No loitering. Our guest will be here for quite some time, I believe. So, you will all get a chance at some point to interrogate him. Now hurry along to your dorms." Tom left no room for discussion from the students, and they all began to exit the hall.
"Now that that's done with." Lily said as she clapped her hands together to get her men's attention. "Gabriel, you have a story to tell. Harry, you have a Slytherin prince to appease. Sirius, you have a son to finish remembering. And Severus, my love, we have some unfinished, um, business from this morning." There was no denying Lily when she spoke like that. Especially for Severus as he never could contain his desire for his fiery redheaded mate.
No one said another word as they all stood to tend to their separate issues. Gabriel sighed deeply knowing this was going to be one hell of an explanation to give. He wasn't even sure he believed it and he was there...
