Chapter 4! This one was by far one of the more interesting chapters to write. I hope you like it. I'd love if you tell me what you thought of it in a review.

Lightning loved Severus' visits. He learned so much from the man. The man had even offered to teach him to read when he visited the castle. Lightning had no plans of ever going there but it was a kind offer. His family had made it clear that he would never be smart enough to learn to read or write. He didn't want to upset Severus his only human friend when the man realized how stupid he was.

Severus visited him every seven days and Lightning was excited to see him. It had snowed and he wanted to show his friend how his home changed to prepare for snow. That morning however reports from one of the snakes told him that the Wyvern was coming to attack. The wyvern attacked that morning and it was an exhausting battle.

The Wyvern had used his intelligence to plan out an attack and the dragon was putting up a strong front. Lightning didn't notice as time passed and focused only on removing the threat to his domain. Something strange happened when Snape popped in the middle of the battle. His friend was thrown to the side by the Wyvern and Lightning had heard a crack as the man had hit a tree.

He suddenly felt furious. His magic came to his hands so hot it stung and he jumped onto the dragon. The magic blasted out of him and the dragon exploded. The magic blast went through the forest pushing trees back like a strong wind. Pieces of the Wyvern flew everywhere. The snakes began to hiss in joy but Lightning did not hear. He ran towards his friend calling out his name.

"Sevrus." Lightning ran right up to the man and grabbed his head.

The man was unconscious and bleeding from wounds on his side. Lightning knew instantly he could not heal the man here.

"GLADE!"

"What is it hatchling? Is the two legs injured?"

"Yes I must go to the castle to get him help or he will perish. Send Slicer to the castle if you need me. You are in charge while I am gone mother."

"Be safe Youngling."

Ignoring his fatigue Lightning grabbed the man and used his magic to pop as close to the castle as possible. He was only a half a mile from the castle when he appeared. He fought with himself to keep from passing out and began the trek. He used a levitation charm he had seen Severus use to make the man follow him and he began to run.

He ran up to the castle feeling the edges of his vision begin to turn black as he fought to remain awake. He saw the large wooden doors and pushed his magic forward to open them. They swung open and nearly fell off their hinges from the blast. Following something within him, an urge telling him where to go, he ran towards some place he did not recognize. He ran upstairs and through hallways. At this point he was only running on adrenaline. He used the last of his magic to open some doors and came upon a white room full of beds. A woman shrieked at the sight of him.

"Help." Was all he could say before he fell down and lost consciousness.

The next time he was aware of himself he was lying in a bed. A soft blanket was covering him and he felt strange. He opened his eyes and sat up. His looked at himself and saw that his magic levels were pretty low not dangerously low but lower than normal. Not surprising considering the amount of magic he had had to use to get to the castle. He looked around and saw that the room was empty. Had Severus died? Tears threatened to come out of his eyes when he thought about that possibility. Then he heard talking.

The training from his years with his family ensured he knew what to do. He ran towards the cupboard on the other side of the room. He closed the doors in on himself so that he would be able to hide. The door to the room opened and Lightning held his breath. Hoping they wouldn't find him.

"Severus. I promise the boy won't wake up for a long time." A woman said.

"Lightning has the particular ability to do what is least expected. I did not want to leave the room at all so that I would be here when he awoke."

"His core is still very low." The woman said before gasping. "Where is he? He shouldn't be out of that bed."

"He most likely hasn't left the room. Start searching." Severus commanded.

Lightning held his breath as Severus walked by. He was glad the man was okay and seemed healed but he wouldn't come out while there were strangers. Ma'am had always been much meaner than Sir anyway. The woman walked by next and knelt down in front of his hiding place. He used some magic to lock the door right before she tried to open it.

He watched through the crack as the woman removed her wand and waved it to try and use magic. It didn't work and she frowned.

"Severus I found him. He has used magic to lock the door of my potions cabinet."

"Move away from there." Severus said while getting into position in front of the cabinet.

"Sevrus." Lightning whispered. "Are you okay? I thought Drake killed you. You wouldn't wake up."

"I'm fine. You got me to the castle in time for there to be very little problems. Are you okay? You used a lot of magic."

"I'm tired but okay. I am scared Sevrus."

"Why?"

"I'm in the castle. I didn't want to come here. I don't know where I am and I don't know who that woman is. Mother isn't here to tell me if she is nice or not."

"The room you are in is called the infirmary, it is where people in the castle go when they are injured." Severus explained. "The woman over there is called Poppy Pomphrey. She is what is known a medi-witch. A medi-witch is a person who uses magic to help heal people."

"How long have I been here?"

"You arrived with me yesterday and have been asleep since."

"Has Slicer been by to see me? He was going to come to the castle if there were problems."

"No one has seen any snakes, blue or otherwise."

Lightning nodded and leaned back now he just had to figure out how to leave the castle and get back to his home. Severus had always been pushing him to come visit the castle he seemed to think that Lightning would want to stay. He had just defeated a great enemy and needed to be home.

"Why are you in the cabinet Lightning?"

"That's where freaks belong. Sir and Ma'am always put me in here." Lightning explained as if it was the simplest thing in the world.

"Lightning. You are a king with a large domain and a lot of snake followers." Severus said with a sigh. "Do you think those snakes would pledge themselves to you if they thought you were a freak and belonged in a small cabinet?"

This made Lightning pause. His subjects weren't stupid. None of them had ever called him a freak. They didn't fear him despite his power so they could easily tell him if he was a freak. Besides when snakes were first determining whether or not to pledge themselves they could have said something.

"No. Not now especially after what I did to the Wyvern."

"I would like to hear about your conquest." Severus said with a smile. "Would you come out and tell me? It is hard to hear you through the wood."

Lightning considered this. It probably wouldn't be too bad to leave. Severus was his friend and wouldn't lie to him right?

"Do you promise the woman won't come near me?"

"I promise I will keep her from getting close to you."

Lightning waved his hand and the door unlocked and popped open. He waited for Severus to move out of the way and he crawled out. Severus smiled and led him over to the bed he had been occupying. Lightning stared at it.

"Would you like to get into the bed?"

"Can I?"

"Of course. You have every right to use this bed."

Lightning had a hard time believing that but at his friend's pleading look he nodded and got into the bed. Severus was instantly there putting the blanket over him. Lightning stiffened and waited for him to move away. Severus did after a moment.

"What did you do that for?"

"I don't want you to get cold. The infirmary is always rather cold even when you are wearing thick teaching robes." Severus answered. "Now can you tell me what happened?"

"Yesterday morning Lyla came by and told me that the Wyvern was planning on attacking. I prepared by moving all the snakes to a safe place and being ready to face Drake." Lightning began. "He came prepared, he was ready to kill me. Before you showed up I had been fighting all morning. I was really tired. When you popped in the Wyvern hit you and sent you flying right into a tree. I heard something crack, like a bone or something."

"I broke a few rib bones here" Severus said pointing to certain areas on his chest. "and here."

"I got so angry. No one hurts my Sevrus." Lightning said furiously. "My magic responded and I called so much magic into my hands it hurt. I hit the Wyvern with so much magic that it exploded everywhere. It was really gross. There was so much magic it pushed the trees back like a strong wind. I felt so tired but you were hurt so I ran to you. You wouldn't wake up and you were bleeding. I don't know how to heal people. You told me that the castle had people who knew how to heal with magic."

"I did. You did the right thing by taking me here."

"It would've taken forever to walk and I wouldn't have been able to carry you with magic very far so I popped. I popped as close to the castle as I could and then I made you fly by me and ran into the castle." Lightning said. "I didn't know where I was going but I just kept running until I came here and collapsed. Then I woke up in this bed."

"You expended a lot of magic getting me here in a timely manner. You could've hurt yourself." Severus chided.

"I didn't want you to die."

"Thank you but next time be smarter about it. Instead of popping as far as you can using all of your magic you could've popped halfway waited for a few minutes and then popped the rest of the way. You would've used less magic that way."

"I've never tried it that way. Next time I'll be more careful. I don't know much about popping."

"Would you like something to eat?" Severus asked changing the conversation.

"Do you have any cake?"

Lightning may want to leave but he certainly wouldn't say no to cake. Severus smiled at him.

"I've got something better. If you would come with me I can show you where we eat."

"Severus I don't think that boy should be leaving bed." Poppy said.

Lightning cringed. The woman had moved closer while they had been talking. She looked nothing like ma'am. Ma'am had had a long neck and pinched look in her face. Poppy was plump and had lines around her eyes and lines around her mouth that made it clear she smiled often. She was nothing like the woman who had tortured him when he was small. He relaxed a little when he saw that her magical core wasn't too large either.

"Poppy. Lightning wouldn't feel comfortable staying here where anyone could come near him. I just thought I would take him some place more private to recover."

Lightning felt something strange inside at the show of Severus thinking about him and what he wanted. He looked at the woman and felt something familiar about her. He began searching his mind for his memories of a long time ago. A foggy memory of being held in a room just like that came up. He gripped the blanket as the memory came back.

He was sitting on the lap of a woman who had long red hair. She was on a bed using her knees to lift him up and down causing him to giggle. Then Poppy came into view.

"Congratulations Lily your Harry is a very healthy one year old." Poppy said before facing Lightning himself. "Now who wants a chocolate frog from Auntie Poppy?"

"Me! Me! Me!" Lightning shouted in a childlike voice.

The memory faded out. It had been a violent thing. Taking away all of Lightning's sense of time and place. When he opened his eyes again he saw Severus looking at him worriedly. He looked past Severus and onto the woman who had known him once a long time ago. He opened his mouth and tried to form questions.

"Can I have a chocolate frog?" Was all that came out instead.

The woman started and Severus gasped. Lightning didn't understand that but he just waited to see what she would do. She moved closer to him instead of answering.

"Do you recognize me dear?" She asked in excitement.

"I think I do. Sometimes memories from long ago will just come up into my mind. You were there in this one. You asked me if I wanted a chocolate frog and congratulated my mum cause I was healthy."

"Did I say anything else?"

"You called me Harry. But that doesn't make sense cause I didn't have any extra hair at all."

Severus stiffened next to Lightning. He stood and looked Lightning right in the eyes. The black eyes stared at him intensely before his friend asked.

"Lightning. Why do the snakes call you lightning?"

"Cause I have this weird scar on my forehead that looks like a lightning bolt." Lightning answered easily pulling up his hair and pointing out the red scar.

Poppy cried out in excitement and had to sit down. Severus seemed relieved and sad at the same time. Lightning lowered his messy hair and gave his friend a questioning look. Severus stopped staring and kind of seem to collapse a little.

"Lightning do you remember when I told you the story of my best friend? How her child defeated the evil man after he killed his parents."

"Yes."

"Well after he defeated the evil wizard. The wizarding world didn't know where to put the little baby. They thought that his relatives were the best place to put him so one night they left that 15th month old baby at the house of his aunt and uncle. He lived there for three years before disappearing. We discovered that his aunt and uncle were being very cruel to him and that he had run away to escape their abuse. We searched everywhere for that boy but he hid very well." Severus explained.

"Did you ever find him?"
"Well you tell me. Harry Potter has bright green eyes, he has messy black eyes, and he has a special scar on his forehead in the shape of a lightning bolt."

Lightning lifted his hand and rubbed the scar. It tingled and he took a deep breath. Did he have a real name? Could he really be Harry Potter? Savior of the Wizarding World? Lauded for defeating the most recent dark wizard? Something clicked in him and he knew it was true. He was Harry Potter. He still had to ask.

"How common are lightning bolt scars?"

"There is only one known in the world."

"Oh. I think you found him then."

"I think I did as well. Welcome back to the Wizarding World Mr. Potter." Severus said with a grin.

"Mr.?" Lightning asked. "Never call me that again Sevrus. I might die."

"I call all of my students, Mr. or Miss." Snape argued back.

"I'm not a student." Lightning stated. "I am still too scared of this place besides my snakes need me."

"Ha! He sounds just like you Severus." Poppy said once she got her composure back.

"I disagree." Snape began.

"Oh no. think about all the times you've defended your slytherin's your little snakes." Poppy argued.

Lightning was now lost but apparently it was something funny because Severus paused and laughed. Once he calmed down he turned back to Lightning.

"Lightning. Would you like to get something to eat?"

"Okay Sevrus."