A/N: thank you for you reviews, The Dark Lady Voldemort666 did point out that I had gone to fast, the whole point I did that is because I didn't want to bore anyone. But then I reread it and saw that I had gone really fast so I apologize. Please let me know what you think of this chapter. I'm not the best writer I know that so Sorry if there's any mistakes. X thanks for reading X
A little boy, with black long tangled, dirty hair and wearing old dirty clothes with no shoes on, walked on a pavement with his arms crossed in an effort to keep warm from the chilly breeze. The boy had been walking for nearly an hour , when he started to get tired. He sat down on the edge of the pavement and looked around, all was silent and somewhat eerie, but the little boy was not scared, people say there scared of death but the boy knew that there were worse things in life then dying. A few minutes later he found himself drifting of to sleep. A little while later, the boy jolted awake from someone shaking him, when he looked up he saw a man, wearing a kind smile and wearing black trousers with a big black cloak. The boy was so focused on the mans appearance that he nearly missed the mans question.
"what are you doing sleeping on a pavement child?, your parents must be worried"
When the boy gave no reply and instead just stared at the man with dead cold eyes, which the boy knew scared people of, so was surprised when the man didn't even flinch. When the man saw a big bruise on the boys face, he asked.
"what's your name, child?"
"eclipse. sir" the boy said quietly. The man nodded his head and said.
"I'm Drusus, nice to meet you eclipse,- you have any where to sleep?"
Eclipse shook his head at the man.
"Ok,- come on then, follow me." the man turned around and started to walk of. Eclipse weighed his options in his head and decided that this man couldn't cause him more pain than James Potter did. The boy got up and followed after Drusus, always keeping about five foot between them.
Drusus walked into his small yet cosy house, with eclipse slowing following on behind him. He shook of his cloak and turned to the small boy who was looking around the room. When Drusus turned the light on, he was shocked when he came face to face with not just bruises on the boys face, but scars and words carved into his pale arms and neck. The man quickly hid his shock and asked.
"who did that to you?"
"my darling step daddy, if you must know" eclipse said calmly. The man noticed the boy eyeing a beautiful pendant of his late mothers on the kitchen table. Druses walked over to it and held it out to eclipse to take. When he took it the older man told him.
"it was my mother's. she wasn't around much when I was a child, I held a lot of hate for her for it,- what about your mother?"
"she's a mud blood slut, and I'm her biggest bastard mistake" eclipse said quietly, finishing of with a slight hysterical laugh.
"your father,- your real father,?"
The younger boy looked up from inspecting the pendant, to look at the man, with no emotion on his little face.
"he's dead" eclipse said emotionless. As the boy looked back at the pendant, he got a haunted look in his eyes, the small boy suddenly remember the day he found out about his real father.
*flashback*
A small boy of three was thrown roughly into the small cold dark room, his bedroom. He thought that his mother would leave like she always did, and let her husband deal with him later. But instead the boy gave a small whimper, when she kicked him in the ribs twice and once in the back. Eclipse lay on his side, tying to keep the tears in his eyes from falling, as his mother started to scream at him. Things he really didn't understand.
"you are just like your fucking father- I should have drowned you at birth, Haha, you want to know who your father is, eh EH?- answer me you disrespectful little bastard!"
"yes" the boy whimpered. Trying to understand what his mother was going on about, his young mind not understand his mother's hatred of him.
"yes" she said mockingly. "your father's dead, just like you should be, he hated you, that's why he killed himself because he couldn't stand looking at you. Knowing what he made. The biggest bastard mistake, piece of SHIT!- don't worry I'll send your daddy down hear when he gets home, so you two can have some fun together. Eh won't that be fun?"
She turned around and left the cold tamp room, after a finally kick to the small boys back and head while saying, "you should just die" "nobody wants you!" that was the finally thing the boy heard before he fell unconscious.
*end of flashback*
Eclipse was bought out of his past by Drusus, calling his name and sounding worried. He looked up and found the man kneeling in front of him. The man had some suspicious about the boy, but decided to keep it to himself, just in case the boy ran away from him.
The man softly ran a hand over the boys dirty hair, only getting a slight flinch from the boy. Drusus showed him to the bathroom and handed him a towel as well as a big black Tee that nearly went down to his ankles. The older man left eclipse in the bathroom to get clean and went to cook some food for the seven year old.
An hour later Eclipse made his way out the bathroom, with the big tee on. He took a seat at the kitchen table after being told to by Drusus. After the man had put a plate of food in front of Eclipse he sat down across from the boy and started to eat his dinner. The black haired boy eyed the knife in front of him, a little voice in his head kept telling him to grab it and slash the mans throat with it. unaware that the older man had put the knife there on purpose. The man was not shocked when a blade was put to his throat. Which confused the boy more then his so called family did, as with his family he knew where he stood, but with this man he did not. Drusus smiled warmly at the boys confused expression.
"I'm not going to hurt you eclipse,- you can trust me. How about we start with a simple question, OK?, when did you run away?"
"I don't know, I don't remember" the small boy said quietly. He pulled the knife away from the mans neck, but kept it tightly held in his hand.
"what do you remember of that day?" he asked gently, so not to scare him.
"it was sunny, really hot. Couldn't take it no more, couldn't take it, so much pain, so much pain, so much pain" Eclipse said with distress. Drusus looked thoughtful at the boy, and then like a light bulb had just gone of inside his head. He grabbed his wand and told Eclipse.
"this won't hurt, I promise," after getting a small nod from Eclipse. Drusus put his wand to the boys head and muttered something that Eclipse didn't understand. Horror was sketched on drusus slightly wrinkled face when he looked at the tip of his wand, he slumped back onto his chair and looked at the boy with sympathy. The older man looked back down at the two words that were floating in green above his wand, the reason for Eclipse's confusion 'cruciatus curse'. Drusus looked at the distressed child who was now rocking back and forward in his chair; still with the knife in his little abused hand. He swore to himself that he will protect the child and make him sane again.
