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Sirius Black had never felt so utterly useless. Not even when he was in Azkaban had he felt this utterly useless. Harry had been missing for two weeks and no one had a single trace. It was obvious that Death Eaters had taken him. Harry's aunt, uncle and cousin had all been found dead by the Avada Kedavra curse. The problem was that no one knew where the Death Eaters had taken him or if he even was alive. Snape, the greasy git had claimed he had no idea where Harry was. Dumbledore seemed to trust him. Sirius didn't trust the man as far as he could throw him. On top of it all it seemed like Remus had gone missing as well. He was supposed to have checked in two days ago, but so far no one had heard from him. It could just be that he hadn't been able to get away from the werewolf pack he was staying with or he hadn't found a way so sent the message. Something everybody tried to tell him, but Sirius had a bad feeling about it and subsequently he felt utterly useless for sitting on his arse doing nothing in an empty house. He was sitting in the kitchen with a cup on now cold tea staring empty in front of him when suddenly the fireplace activated. He hoped that it was Remus or someone who had news on his godson, but at the same time he knew it wasn't. A second later Severus Snape came out of the fireplace and dusted ash of himself.
"Snivelus, what brings you here?" He said and was about to say something more when he noticed that the greasy git no longer was greasy. "What happened to you?"
"What do you mean?"
"You look – clean." For some reason Snape actually blushed. Sirius didn't think he had ever seen Snape blush like that. It wasn't the humiliated blush he had seen so many times when he and James had made fun of him back in school. It was a almost – cute, god help him – blush that gave Sirius the impression that Snape had either cleaned up to impress someone or someone had cleaned him up for him.
"That is none of your business Black."
"No I guess not. So what does bring you here?" He asked.
"Are there any other members of the order here?"
"Nope, no one here but me and Kreacher so if you have something to say you can either say in to me, wait or come back later. Your choice."
"I came to talk to you so I think I'll say it now."
"You came to talk to me?" Sirius said in disbelief. So far the only time Snape had been in the same room as Sirius had been during order meetings when he didn't have any choice. He even waited with eating until Sirius had left the kitchen. Which only had Sirius taking longer time during meals.
"Yes, it's about your godson and the wolf."
Sirius heart started to beat faster and he wanted to rush up and shake the black haired man to have him say everything he knew as fast as possible. Only he thought any such actions most likely would have the opposite effect. "What do you know?" He instead asked hurriedly.
"I know where they are and I can take you there."
"Where are they?"
"The Dark Lord has them as you most likely know. I can't tell you where they are due to a fidelus charm but I can take you there."
"Are you insane? You want me to come with you to You-Know-Who?"
"Yes, he will not harm you. He will however most likely try to persuade you to join him."
"I would never do that." Sirius said his blue eyes going dark with anger and his hand balling to fists. "I've already spent thirteen year with the world believing me to be in his service. There is no way I will lose the rest of my life to him as well."
"Your godson has already switched sides you should know." Snape's face was impassive as he said that and his eyes gave nothing away.
Sirius felt his insides going cold. Harry couldn't do that. He refused to believe it. "You're lying. Harry would never join the – thing that killed his parents."
"I'm not lying and there's a lot more to this then I will or can tell you. If you come with me you will be allowed to see your godson. You will get your wolf back and you will get all the answer you want. They will most likely try to get you to join the dark side, and I would recommend you to hear them out before turning them down."
Sirius shook his head in disbelief. This wasn't happening. He was not sitting in the kitchen of his childhood home listening to the man he had bullied as a boy – yes he was aware of how he had treated the other – and as a man, telling him his godson had joined Voldemort. His mate was being held captive by the same and he should hear him out before turning down joining his ranks. "How do we get there?" He asked trying to keep his vice steady with little success.
"Portkey." Snape said and stood up from the table. "We will have to go outside the wards for it to work."
Sirius nodded and followed the potions master up from the kitchen through the hall past his mothers portrait and out onto the front steps. A few more steps and they would be outside the wards and be able to use the portkey. A few more steps and there was no turning back. He took the last steps, held out his hand to the small dried rose that was the portkey and felt the tugging behind his navel.
When the world stopped spinning he was standing in a large room decorated in white, gold and silver with one wall practically covered in large floor to ceiling windows. It looked nothing like a place where a Dark Lord would live that was for certain.
"Wait here and he will be with you soon." Snape said and started walking towards the doors.
"Snape?" Sirius called.
"What is it Black?"
"Which side are you really on?"
"The one Dumbledore is not." He said and left the room.
Sirius thought about what Snape had said. What did he mean by that? Wasn't Dumbledore the good guy? Was this why he was supposed to listen to Voldemort before making his decision? Was this the reason Harry had changed sides? Too many questions and no one to answer them before the Dark Lord showed up. There was no idea to think about it for know so he tried to push the thoughts to the side which turned out to be easier said than done. A few minutes passed before he heard someone outside the door. It opened and Remus was led in by two Death Eaters, one on each side with a firm grip on his arms.
"Sirius?" Remus said and stopped dead in his tracks. "What are you doing here?"
"Came for you, and Harry." He took a few steps closer. The Death Eaters let go of their prisoner and walked back out the door locking it behind them. "How are you Remi?" Sirius asked and took his lover and mate into his arms.
"I'm fine. They've been treating me surprisingly well. Do you have any idea why that is?"
"I have a theory. Let's sit down." They sat down on of the large sofas that were with dragons in gold and silver on them.
"What's going on Sirius?" Sirius could hear Remus was worried. In truth he was too but tried to hide it.
"Snape showed up at Grimmauld Place and told me You-Know-Who had you and Harry."
"Harry's here?" Remus asked with a hint of panic in his voice.
"Yes, I believe so. Anyway he showed up and said you and Harry was here and basically if I wanted you back I would have to come. He also told me something else."
"What?"
"He said Harry had gone over to Voldemort's side."
"That is impossible Sirius, Harry would never do that. The man killed his parents."
"There is something with Dumbledore as well. I don't know what though. I asked Snape which side he was on and he said the one Dumbledore is not one. He wants up to here the Dark Lord out before deciding where we stand."
"Are you going to?"
"Yes. If Harry has really changed sides there must be a really good reason."
"Yes Sirius. A really good reason like an imperious charm!" Remus almost yelled.
"Harry can throw the imperious charm off."
"Still Sirius there has to be a reason."
"Exactly that is why I intend to listen. Only listen."
They sat a while in silence Sirius could tell Remus wasn't happy with him but he too had agreed to listen. After not too long the door opened and a man in their age came into the room. There was something familiar about him, but it wasn't until he was close enough for Sirius to see his dark red eyes he could place him as Tom Riddle the man Voldemort had once been and apparently was again.
"Welcome to my home." Voldemort said and sat down on the sofa opposite the two other men. "Would you like some tea or anything else?"
"No thank you. Could you please just tell us what is going on? Why are we here and why have Harry changed sides."
"Yes certainly. Maybe I should start with asking if you know how Lily Evans and your friend James Potter came to be together."
"What do you mean?" Remus asked. "There had been an attraction between them since school. So maybe Lily thought James was a bit annoying at times. He grew up everybody does. A couple of years after school they got together. I don't see why this is relevant."
"Did they show any real attraction towards each other before they got together?"
"Not, really. Still I don't see the point with this." Remus insisted.
"There never was any attraction between Lily Evans and James Potter that is the point. The whole thing was staged by no other than Albus Dumbledore."
"Why the hell would he do that?" Sirius asked.
"Because Lily Evans was expecting my child."
"What?" Sirius asked while Remus only stared at the man sitting in front of them.
"Lily and I were in a relationship. No one except for the Malfoys knew of this. Dumbledore found out and when Lily became pregnant he had the rouse with Potter set up. I'm sorry to have to tell you that your friend was killed because Dumbledore had changed his memory thinking he was in love and married to Lily Evans."
"They were married." Sirius said. "I was there. I was James's best man."
"Were you? Think about it. Think really deeply about it."
Sirius did, he tried to call up any memories besides those he had seen on pictures but it was all blank. There was like everything in between the pictures had been erased – or never had been there in the first place. Remus seemed to have come to the same conclusion. "There was no wedding." HE said in an empty voice.
"There was no wedding." Voldemort confirmed.
"Harry?" Sirius asked.
"Harry Potter is no more." Sirius first thought was that he had killed Harry, but that didn't make since.
"What do you mean?"
"My son is know by the name Samael Riddle, though he will most likely insist on you calling him Sam."
"He's your son." Remus said.
"He is."
"Liliy was pregnant with your son. Dumbledore found out and made it look like it was James's son. No doubt he used a blood glamour to make Harry look like James, but why I don't get is why." Remus said.
"Why was it so important that your child was taken from you? Why place him with James? And why did you kill them?"
"Why he was taken from me? At first I didn't know why that was so important, but it has to do with why he was placed with your friend. Dumbledore wanted to bring on my downfall he thought my son could do that."
"Why would he think that?" Sirius asked.
"There was a prophesy. It started with that the one with the power to bring down the dark lord approaches, and went on saying he would be born to parents who had thrice defied him. Which Lily and your friend had done together at three separate occasions. On her own Lily had defied me many more times than that. Anyways, the last part of the prophecy that I have heard is that he would be born as the seventh month dies. I knew Lily never really agreed with all my beautiful ideas but after having heard the prophecy and also having been told she had married and had a child with another man I – well I snapped. I'm a very jealous man you see." Sirius and Remus nodded mutely. "I believed she no longer loved me that she had gone to Potter to bring about my demise."
"So you killed them." Sirius said.
"I only wanted to kill the man and the boy. I didn't want to kill her. I loved her, I still love her, but I was angry. More angry than I had ever been."
"How come you found out what had happened?" Remus asked.
"You know how I got my body back earlier in the summer and that I used Samael's blood." Two silent nods followed. "I started to feel something was – not wrong but different. Severus had also overheard Dumbledore talking to the school nurse about the boy and his ancestry. He never really got what that ancestry was but both he and I got curious and started slipping pitons into his tea. I'm sure you know how that man is with his damn tea. Like I was saying Severus made and slipped potion into the headmasters tea, making him talk and explain. Severus himself was under the influence of Felix Felicis at this time. You can never have too much luck when dealing with that man. So that's how I found out and the blood bound between me and my son was what I used to get through the wards of his relatives house. I brought him here and explained everything to him like I have to you."
"And he just accepted it?" Sirius asked.
"Strangely enough he did. He said he just knew." A crease appeared between Voldemort's eyebrows but it soon diapered again. "I did prove our blood relation to him anyway, and I have also removed the blood glamour. I was impressed you figured that out on your own Mr. Lupin."
"Will we even recognize him?" Remus asked.
"Oh yes, I think you will. He looks more like his mother now, but he still has black hair after me as well as a few other features, but if for nothing else you only have to look at his eyes to recognize them."
"He still has his mother eyes." Sirius said.
Harry had been called to the eastern sitting room. It was one of Harry's favorite rooms in the castle, the light coloring and the many large windows. He couldn't wait to see Tom, to just look at him. The change was so amazing that the first time he had seen it he had stared too stunned to say anything for several minutes. The funniest about it though had been that it was obvious Snape had a crush on his father. Lucky for Snape both he and Draco were too afraid of him to tease him about it to his face.
Harry reached the door and knocked on it. "Come in." Was called from the inside and Harry slowly pushed the door open. At first he thought he was hallucinating. No way, Sirius and Remus would both be there. "Samael, I thought you wanted to be informed your godfathers were here." Harry didn't point out that only Sirius was his godfather, Remus was close enough anyway.
"Harry?" Sirius asked and stood up from the sofa. Harry nodded and walked over to his godfather. As soon as he was close enough he jumped at Sirius giving him a tight hug before doing the same to Remus.
"Why are you guys here?" He asked, he quickly blinked away the tears that had formed in his eyes.
"Came to see you of course." Sirius said. "Now let me take a good look at you." Harry took a step back to make it easier for Sirius and Remus to really look at him. "You're looking good – Sam is it?" Harry nodded.
"Yes, I would like to just forget about Harry Potter at least for now. Not everything about him was bad, but so little was good and just want to get the chance to start over."
"I understand Sammie."
"Not you too." Harry – Sam wailed. "Isn't it enough Dray calls me Sammie. It makes me feel like a girl."
"Well you are just as pretty as a girl." Sirius said and ruffled Sam's hair with a laugh. Both Remus and Tom as well failed with fully holding back their smiles.
"You do know Tom is teaching me the dark arts right? If I was you I could be careful with what you're saying." Sam said and mock glared at his godfather.
"Now, now Sammie no need to get defensive." Sirius said clearly getting the message that Sam wouldn't harm him in any way.
"The dark art, huh?" Remus asked and looked curiously at Tom. "What are you teaching him exactly?"
"A little bit of everything. Mainly defensive and offensive curses and not everything is dark." Tom said with a small wave of his hand.
"More like shady." Sam said with a small laugh.
"Shady can be good." Remus said and Sam lifted an eyebrow in question. "I personally believe the dividing of light and dark spells is stupid. If you're good enough with Wingardium Leviosa you can use it to drop a piano on someone's head. There are spells that are clearly dark but some that are considered dark could just as well do a lot of good." Remus explained.
"I agree fully with Mr. Lupin." Tom said.
"This is weird." Sam said and looked at the three men. "Don't you hate each other? Why aren't you trying to kill each other?"
"Would you be happy if we did?" Tom asked.
"No! Of course not, but it's –weird. To see you all standing here like you were friends. My old life and my new life. I love it but I never thought it would actually happen and especially not this fast."
"Your – father explained the situation to us and while we haven't really had the time to digest it all we're willing to at least for now try and get along for your sake, we have all decided to not talk about politics for now as that is a subject where we may had slightly different views." Sirius explained.
Sam threw himself at his godfather again and gave him another tight hug. "Thank you Siri." He whispered.
"You welcome Sammie."
"I will have to get back to work so I'll leave you to it. Mr. Black, Mr. Lupin when you are finished just call for Tips and she will show you to your room." Tom left and Sam turned to Remus and Sirius.
"You're sharing room?" He asked with a raised eyebrow. "Why haven't you told me you're together?"
"Ehm," Sirius said and looked at Remus. Sam stood in front of the two men in the sofa with his hands on his hips. "We didn't know how you would react and there was so much else going on in your life."
"So you decided to keep to only piece of good news from me because there were so many bad news?"
"We didn't know if you would see it as good news Harry – Sam." Remus said. "We didn't know how much the muggles had influenced you. We're sorry we didn't tell you."
Sam sat down on the table in front of the two men, he was disappointed they hadn't told him but at the same time he understood. "How long have you been together?"
"Since our fifth year at Hogwarts." Sirius said and grabbed Remus's hand in his. "We're mates."
"Mates?"
"I know it's a horrible word." Remus said and interlocked his fingers with Sirius's. "But it has the most correct meaning. Wolves, werewolves included only have one mate one partner in their life. It's not like with the veela where they have one predetermined mate they have to find, but once a werewolf mates they stick to that person for the rest of their life."
"And you decided this at fifteen?" Harry was a bit surprised at how early his godfather and – godfather? Had committed themselves to each other.
"Yes, we knew what we wanted, but we didn't tell anyone. Those who knew Remi was a werewolf didn't know the rules for mating and those who did didn't know Remi was a werewolf." Sirius explained.
"What about when you were in Azkaban?" Harry could see the pain crossing over the two men's features even before they answered.
"It was a hard time." Remus said softly. "The transformation was a lot more painful, the time in between was painful."
"To be separated is much harder on the werewolf then it is on the mate but I felt it to, mostly during full moons."
"I'm gonna kill that rat." Sam said between clenched teeth.
"He's here." A murderous light had ignited in Sirius eyes.
"Not at the moment, but when he comes back we can all torture him together, it'll be fun. Dray and I have looked up all sorts of curses we'd like to try out."
"You'd really like to do that?" Remus asked. "Torture him I mean."
"Yes I would he destroyed my family. He and Dumbledore are the once the continuously destroys my family and they will pay for that."
Both men nodded their acceptance and understanding.
It was the second evening in Slytherin castle for Remus and Sirius. The last one and a half day had for Remus been spent trying to figure out what the dark side was all about. They seemed to be having fancy dinners every night where dress robes were a requirement. Harry – Sam had confirmed this. The whole Harry-Sam thing was also something he had to get used to and then he wasn't even mentioning Tom. Yes the Dark Lord had insisted that everyone in the family call him Tom. The family consisted of Tom, Harry, Sirius, Remus, the Malfoys, Severus Snape and the Lestranges. He had also insisted on that everybody in the family addressed each other by their given name. Much to Sirius and Severus's horror. That was how all of a sudden Remus was part of the Dark Lords family and was currently sitting in a large sofa between Narcissa Malfoy and Bellatrix Lestrange. Everybody in the room was watching as Tom tried to make Sirius and Severus get over their history together, without much success.
"If you two don't stop this childishness right this instance I will Crucio you in to next week." Tom was saying and waved his wand in front of them as a threat.
"Tom, please I don't want to be nice to him." Severus said and looked over at the man he was so clearly having it bad for.
"Sev, I know you think he treaded you wrongly in the past, but either you two get over this now or I will torture you both until you do." Remus wondered how someone could sound so sane and logical while threatening to use an unforgivable on someone.
"Severus, I am sorry for the way I treated you in school." Sirius suddenly said, then looked horrifies over what he had said. Everyone's heads turned when the two teenagers started to laugh where they were sitting.
"What did you do?" Tom asked.
"Only what you asked." Sam answered and smirked in a way that was worthy of the Malfoy sitting next to him.
"As impressing as it is that you can cast Imperio at the age of fifteen Sam I want them to say it on their own not with you help." Tom said and shook his head before turning back to the two men."
"I'm technically not fifteen yet." Sam informed his father.
Remus thought he heard a murmured. "Insolent child." But couldn't be sure. He was also quite fascinated how no one seemed to react to the fact that a boy had just cast an unforgivable in the sitting room while they were just sitting there socializing. These were the kind of things that separated the light from the dark. There were obvious classes. The family was at the top, then came the inner circle, then the middle circle and lastly the newly recruited. Also knows as drones. There was a structure to the dark side that with enough time would crush the light like and ant under a giants foot. Remus knew that he had started to turn in the one and a half day he had spent here, and it partially scared him and partially excited him.
"Now I want the both of you to apologize to each other and shake hand on it. Take the boys as an example. They too had their differences in the past but now they are close friends." Tom continued to try and make peace between the two old enemies. Remus looked over at Sam and Draco they definitely had become close and Remus suspected there was only a matter of time before they got even closer, at least if it was up to the young Malfoy.
"Tom…" Severus started, but was soon lying on the floor trying not to scream from the agonies the Crusiatus curse caused. Tom lifted the curse from Severus after only a few seconds only to turn it on to Sirius. Remus knew better then to interfere. It hurt to see his mate hurting, but the only thing his meddling would cause was more pain all around.
"I will hurt you more and more until you see reason and apologize."
"I'm sorry." Severus said through clenched teeth while climbing up from the floor.
"Yeah, I'm sorry too." Sirius said.
"See that wasn't so hard. Now you just have to shake hands and all will be forgotten." Remus suspected that the curse Tom had had thrown on his fourteen years ago had messed up his head. How the hell could two I'm sorry and a shake of the hand make everything fine? Grudgingly the two men stretched out there hands to shake them as soon as the two hands grasped a light appeared around them it died out after a few seconds and the two rivals looked at each other in bewilderment.
"Sirius Black." Sirius introduced himself.
"Severus Snape. Nice meeting you."
"Yes, you too." There was a short pause. "Do I know you from somewhere?"
"I don't think so."
The two boys at the other side of the room where once again laughing only this time so hard they were lying on the floor and seemed to have a hard time getting any air in their lungs. The other four adults also seemed to find the events highly amusing. Remus got up from the sofa and walked over to his lover.
"You ok Sirius?"
"Yeah I'm fine Remi, but I don't get what's so funny."
"You two don't remember each other at all?" He asked looking between Sirius and Severus, both men shook their heads. "But you remember everything else."
"I would say that's a bit hard to determine, Remus."
"Right, well I guess everything is forgotten then." Remus said and looked at Tom who looked highly satisfied. Maybe he wasn't crazy after all.