Thanks for all of the reviews!!! I just have a quick poll for everyone, should I make this a slash story or completely lose that aspect of the story, which really hasn't been introduced yet, but will be later. So, in your review just put slash or no slash at the bottom of the review! Thanks a lot!

Here are a couple quotes that go along with the story—maybe not in this chapter per se, but in others before and to come.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." – Albert Pike

"Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone." – Laurence J. Peter

Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter." – Friedrich Nietzsche

"To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet." -Charles Caleb Colton

"Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream." – Roger Rosenblatt

"The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough." - Bede Jarrett

"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." - Naguib Mahfouz

"Through me you pass into the city of woe:

Through me you pass into eternal pain:

Through me among the people lost for aye.

Justice the founder of my fabric moved:

To rear me was the task of power divine,

Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.

Before me things create were none, save things

Eternal, and eternal I shall endure.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here."

- Dante Alighireri

"Because I could not stop for Death --

He kindly stopped for me --

The carriage held but just ourselves

And immortality."

-Emily Dickinson

Okay there ya go some quotes to hold you over for a while. : D

Harry slept restlessly for the remaining night; currently he lay on his back in the same spot he was in from before. A thin ray of early morning light came in through the small window at the top of their cell, Harry watched at the dust particles floated in and out of the light. Snape was across from him, his eyes were closed and he was silent, but Harry could tell from the way he was breathing that Snape wasn't asleep. He doubted that he had slept at all that night.

McGonagall and Dumbledore were leaning against each other still sleeping, it wasn't in any way romantic how they interacted with each other, but the way old friends would. Remus and Tonks were also still asleep; he couldn't see any of the others but by the lack of sound he figured that they were sleeping, or mulling over their current predicament. There was a light tapping noise from the front of his cell, Harry frowned and looked up, but he saw nothing. The noise continued, but Harry saw nothing. He glanced at Snape, who hadn't moved, and moved closer to the front of his cell.

"Potter," a gruff voice whispered. Harry moved closer to the left wall of his cell. Harry could see Moodys' scared face poking out from the bars looking directly at him.

Again Harry glanced at Snape, who was now only a few feet from him, and looked back at moody.

"How are you holding up Potter?" Moodys voice was raspy and low, but it was evident that he was concerned about Harry.

Harry eyed his old Professor, this wasn't the sort of question Moody had ever asked him before. "I'm fine." Harry replied, still trying to figure this man out. Moody was the sort to go about shouting, 'Constant Vigilance!' not asking others if they were okay.

"That's not what I meant," Moody positioned himself so he could see better.

Harry gave Moody a quizzical look, "I don't know what you mean."

"The most of us in here knows what happened to you; Severus, Albus, Lupin, Tonks, Minerva and I were siting behind that glass panel in the wall. You must have known that someone was behind there by the way you kept talking to it. You did an impressive job of evading Fudges questions, and held out against his atrocious form of getting you to talk." Moody looked seriously at Harry, "you did a great deed in getting many of us out, but in turn you agreed to tell Fudge everything. We know that you aren't going to give him the real truth, but he will use extreme force to get you to talk.

"The one thing that has been nagging at me, besides the obvious fact that we're all here, is that Fudge has only spoken to you. Elphias," Moody made a vague motion towards the other person in his cell, "told me that they were all put into a large room together and left there. No body was taken and none of them were questioned. Not knowing that your friends weren't being treated the same as you were must have effected you Potter. You got most of us out, but still you must have some sort of feeling towards the matter. How are you handling that fact that you're stuck with us here while your friends have the freedom that you had before?"

Harry looked at Moody for a while, he had said a lot to explain a simple question, but he had in fact told him more than any of the others might have. "You want the truth Moody, I never really had freedom before, this is just another form of the same thing. I got everyone I could out for now, but I plan on getting the rest of you out soon enough." Harry pressed closer to his bars and whispered lowly to Moody, "What everyone really needs to do is forget about me, once you leave just forget that I ever met you, that way nobody else will get hurt."

"We couldn't do that Potter, everybody knows who you are, you could never escape from it." Harry shook his head and started to move away, but he stopped when in a whisper that no one else could hear Snape spoke to him.

"When you stop feeling sorry for yourself Potter, we'll be starting Occlumency again."

Harrys face was of pure shock, "what? How are we going to do that in here, we don't have our wands?"

Again Snape spoke in a quite, calm voice, "It can be done without wands Potter, strength of mind is the power behind this, wands just simplifies it. We probably don't have a lot of time before we get pulled off again, so I'd get over your pity problems quickly."

Harry moved to in front of Snape, "You don't understand, I'm trying to get people away from me for their protection. I'm not wallowing in self pity, or anything like that!" He whispered furiously, "what everyone else doesn't understand is that every where I go I bring trouble, maybe you know a hint about that, but the truth is I don't want to be alone, I need to be alone."

"Why?" Snape said opening his eyes and looking directly into Harrys.

"I just told you! I don't want anyone else getting hurt or put in danger because of me!"

"They're using that." Snape said bluntly.

"Who is?"

"The Ministry, they know that you are protecting the rest of us, and they are using it against you. The only reason they stopped interrogating you this last time was because of Tonks." Harry glanced at her cell then back at Snape. "They ask you their questions and hurt you for two reasons. One is that they think you are the weakest and will break sooner than the rest, and two is the more they hurt you, the more they break some of us, they are waiting for us to talk so that they wont hurt you anymore."

"What?" Harry asked aghast. "That can't happen."

"We know that Potter, but Tonks yelled out for them to stop and the Minister sensed us weakening, so they sent us back here figuring that it would create an even strong bond and make us break faster."

Harry stopped listening to Snape and quickly pressed himself against the bars, he slapped his hand against the ground, "EVERYONE GET UP! GET UP! GET UP!" a few woke with shouts of question, but everyone quickly got to the front of their cells. "IF ANY OF YOU TELL THE MINISTRY ABOUT THE ORDER, BECAUSE THEY ARE ATTACKING ME TO MAKE YOU BREAK, I WILL PERSONALLY SEE TO IT THAT I DESTROY ANY INTELLIGENCE YOU GIVE THEM!" Harry furiously looked at everyone he could see, "DON'T TELL THEM A SINGLE THING! LET THEM HURT ME OR DO WHATEVER THEY WANT, BUT DON'T SPEAK, DON'T LET THEM MAKE YOU WEAK!" Without looking at another person Harry got up and went back to 'his' corner. Everyone else was taken aback. Harry could hear them quietly conversing together, but he blocked them out.

Snapes low baritone voice floated over to Harry, "well that was a bit rash Potter, but you always were one to act before you think."

"You know nothing about me Snape." Harry replied.

"I know that you're acting like a foolish child!" Snape said forcefully. By now, everyone was listening intently to their conversation.

"I am NOT a child! I have practically never been a child, you're just too thick to see that!" Harry was getting angry, why did Snape always have to be so infuriating?

"Don't forget who you're talking to Potter!"

"Where have I heard that before?!" Harry said sarcastically. "Next to Fudge I'd say you're almost as self absorbent as he is!"'

Snapes face was slightly flushed, and his eyes were narrowed fiercely, "Do not presume to have an inkling of knowledge as to who I am."

"Practice what you preach, Professor." Harry glared at his Professor, "All I've ever done to you was sit in your class and try and learn, but you however are holding a grudge against me for something I didn't even do!" Mentally Harry reminded himself that he was trying to make everyone feel nothing for him, well Snape already hated him so it didn't matter. "Yes I went behind your back and looked into your pensive, but did I ever once mock you for what I saw? No! Did I ever spread it around to my friends? No! Did you give away Remus' secret about being a werewolf? Yes! Do you continuously criticize, mock, and hate me? Yes! You, Snape, are just as bad as my father was when he was in school, and you're a grown man!!" The end of Harrys little rant left Snape breathing heavily and his eyes were narrowed into slits that vaguely reminded Harry of Voldemort.

You could tell that Snape was barley restraining himself, but doing it nonetheless. He gracefully rose from his sitting position as Harry scrambled to his feet. "Severus! Harry!" Dumbledore said warningly. "Stop, this is no time for us to be fighting!"

Harry didn't listen to the Headmaster, and it seemed that Snape only minimally registered it. "Potter—"

McGonagalls voice interrupted Snape, "Harry, sit down! Gryfindors don't behave this way!"

"Yes Potter, this is very un-gryfindorish of you, being foolish and insolent!" Snape said sarcastically.

Harry knew this one would his the target. "At least I'm not a filthy Death Eater like you, Snivilus!" Harry instantly regretted saying that but he had let him emotions get the best of him. In the next moment, three things happened in quick succession. Snape lunged towards Harry, McGonagall and Lupin shouted 'NO!" at the same time and Harrys head hit the stone wall behind him.

Snape was gripping Harrys' shoulders so hard that his knuckles were white, and Harrys back was pressed against the wall. Pain erupted in the back of Harrys' head and the front, his head rolled forward and dizzily came back up, but not until he locked eyes with Snape did his scar flare up. Onyx locked with emerald, and Harry screamed, again he saw flashes of tortures, they came by quickly with the most vulgar parts until everything stopped and he was with Voldemort.

Something was defiantly different about this vision, it seemed that something besides Harrys own will was keeping him out of Voldemorts mind. The scene in front of him was paused, Voldemort stood before three kneeled figures, but he wasn't doing anything. The pull on Harrys' mind was finally too strong and he was again forced into the Dark Lords mind. As soon as he was connected with Voldemort, everything started to play. Intense pleasure filled Harry as he stood in front of his victims. Words flowed out of his mouth, but to Harrys ears they were warped and garbled together. Slowly he walked up to the first man, then a new thing happened. He moved with Voldemort quickly, like someone was fast-forwarding a movie, and cut up the man. First one gash to his stomach expelling his insides, then he moved outwards until everything was cut up except his face. Harry and Voldemort sent the killing curse at the man and he fell forward.

Harry felt a tug on his mind, but Voldemort was stronger and they stayed connected. They moved to the second man who hadn't flinched throughout the first mans 'punishment', more words came out of his mouth, but they again were understandable. Time moved faster and a curse came flying out of his wand. The second man, Keiji, cried out in pain and angry red marks appeared on his clothes, blood had quickly soaked through his heavy cloak. With a final swish, Voldemort killed him off.

Snape, Harry knew in a distant part of his mind, was the third man; again, he felt himself trying to be pulled out of Voldemorts mind, but something else gripped tighter and they stayed. Voldemort knelt down close to Snape and smiled. Inside Harry felt the most pleasure of all, but this was hinted with a bit of sadness. Only one word was said to Snape, but to Harry it sounded like a drowning goat calling for help. Against his will he leaned forward with Voldemort, placed his hands on either side of Snapes head, and kissed Snapes temple. Then pulling back and in a fierce motion, he whipped Snapes head around quickly snapping his neck. They paused for a moment and stood up, carefully, almost as if they were his prized possessions, picked up each of their masks reveling who they were.

Again Harrys' vision changed from the rest, there was a loud shout, and a curse was sent flying at him. Just before the light reached them Harry awoke and found himself on the stone floor. Snape wasn't far from him, but his face was ghost white and his eyes were unblinking. Harrys' stomach churned and he fell forward with his hand and knees on the floor. Harry retched and all the contents of his stomach came forth onto the stone. There wasn't anything for Harry to really churn up, only acid and water smelling like rotten eggs and old meat. A couple more dry heaves left Harry more drained than anytime before, the cell swirled around him and Harry tried to moved away from his mess. When he placed his right hand over his left to move, it accidentally hit the edge of his bile and slipped out from under him.

In his weakened state Harrys' whole body fell forward landing him halfway in the stomach acid and his head to contact harshly with the stone floor. Harry had totally passed out on the floor, and his hand was pushed out of the bars in his cell.

McGonagall, who had witnessed the whole thing, was in a frantic state for her student, but her hawk like eyes caught something strange on Harry's hand sticking out of the bars. "Severus," She called the Potions Master, who was fairly better off than Harry, but looked entirely off balance. "Severus!" She called to him again.

Snape shook his head once and looked to Minerva.

"What is on Harrys hand, look, that has never been there before."

Snape moved towards the boy, not caring about the mess he was currently lying in, and pulled Harrys hand towards him. "I must not tell lies." Snape read out loud. Snape quirked an eyebrow in Minervas direction.

Her mouth was pressed into a tight thin line, she looked to Dumbledore for the answer, but he had none to give. "Severus," Dumbledore said in his more commanding, but gentle voice, "please move Harry away from that, and check his head. It has been hit more than once against the stone today." Dumbledore gave Snape a, one-of-those-hits-was-because-of-you, look.

Snape lifted Harry from under his armpits and started to pull him away when a strange wave of lightheadedness came over him. Snape fell back in a dead faint, Harry coincidentally fell part way on top of him, the two men fully passed out.

A/N McGonagall, Dumbledore, Snape, Remus, Tonks, Moody, Fletcher, Shacklebolt, Elphias Doge, Emmeline Vance ( the ten people who stayed behind and Harry of course.

Sorry this chapter took longer to get out, but I felt that this chapter seemed forced, and I still don't know if it is completely right. Feedback would be wonderful, and don't forget to say if you want this to be slash or not. For those of you who don't know what slash is, it is male/male pairings or female/female pairing, in this case it m/m and with Snape/Harry.

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