Chapter 6: The Quidditch World Cup Part 2

Braxton bounced Nicole up and down on his knee as she giggled. Her wide eyes watched the game going on in front of them while she was sucking on the pacifier in her mouth. They had box office seats so they had a bloody spectacular view, but Braxton really wasn't intrigued with the game. He was sitting on the very right side in the front row, sitting next to Jonathan. Jonathan wanted to sit in the front and Braxton didn't want to be annoyed by one of the Weasels, so he gave in and sat in the front.

Nicole was being fussy with James so Braxton had offered to take her and she immediately became quiet. James frowned as Braxton was better with Nicole, but didn't say anything. Lily was beyond delighted that Braxton was getting along with his little sister, but she had a fear in the back of her mind of Braxton apparating off with her daughter, but the ankle brace that stopped him from using magic gave her some peace of mind.

The Weasleys' were beyond startled that James just handed off Nicole to Braxton, since Nicole really didn't play well with people she just met, but they didn't say anything. They didn't want to cause a scene. Children, in general, just liked Braxton better, surprisingly since he was the next Dark Lord.

Braxton paid no attention to the game, he didn't even like Quidditch so why bother? He took moments like this to talk with Lycoris, but even then, his brother was interested in the game. Braxton and Lycoris had many things in common, Quidditch not being one of them.

'Why is Krum going for the snitch?! They're too behind for his team to win with the snitch.' Lycoris transmitted angrily to Braxton, which resulted in him rolling his eyes.

'Why is everyone so interested in this bloody game?' Braxton transmitted, obviously very annoyed by it. It would have been better if Lycoris was next to him, but no. The Black-Lupin Family had seats elsewhere, since the 3 families wouldn't all fit in the box office.

The scoreboard lit up brighter than before, causing Braxton to look up. There he saw the Scoreboard flashing Bulgaria: 160, Ireland: 170 across the crowd, who didn't seem to have realized what had happened. Then, slowly, as though a great jumbo jet were revving up, the rumbling from the Ireland supporters grew louder and louder and erupted into screams of delight. Everyone next to Braxton were on their feet, making Braxton and Nicole the odd ones out. Braxton stayed seated as Nicole raised her arms in the air, mimicking the movements of everyone else.

"IRELAND WINS!" Bagman shouted, who like the Irish, seemed to be taken aback by the sudden end of the match. "KRUM GETS THE SNITCH – BUT IRELAND WINS – good lord, I don't believe any of us were expecting that!"

'Finally, this Bloody game is over.' Braxton transmitted to Lycoris in a mutter. Lycoris replied in a scoff.

'Krum is an idiot.' Lycoris said, obviously mad that his team didn't win.

'Suck it up, Quidditch is just a mediocre sport for the dimwitted. I don't even see why you play it.' Braxton transmitted as he got up, picking Nicole up. He rested her on his hip. She laid her head on his shoulder and closed her eyes.

"Someone's sleepy huh?" He muttered softly as he supported his little sister in his arms.

'That's like me telling you studying is for people who don't have any social skills and can't score a date.' Lycoris shot back defensely, which made Braxton scoff.

"Whatever Lycoris." Braxton replied and rolled his eyes. He then looked over to the people around him, they were all talking about the game.

"Wasn't that bloody brilliant!?" Jonathan asked Braxton with a huge grin. Braxton put on a fake smile and nodded.

"Yeah it definitely was. Ireland's beaters were really scoring hard. No wonder why Krum wanted to end the game, he didn't want his team to get beaten so hard." Braxton replied, trying to put things together. Jonathan laughed at his remark and nodded.

"Most definitely." Jonathan said and then turned around to see that everyone was already starting to exit. Braxton followed behind everyone else, Jonathan kept talking about the game, Braxton not really paying attention to him, just giving him nods of acknowledgement to pretend he was listening. They made their way back to their tent, he heard them talking about a big dinner with everyone, including the Black-Lupin family since they hadn't seen them all day. Braxton was a little excited to see his twin, he would most likely wouldn't be sitting next to him, but it would be a comforting feeling of having his twin in the same room as him.

They walked down the dirt pathway since it was a campground. There were a bunch of other people doing the same thing, going back to their tents as well. If only they knew who he really was, he was the Dark Lord acting as a Light Wizard's child.

"Bubba." Braxton heard Nicole whisper faintly. This snapped him out of his daydreams. He looked down at Nicole's droopy eyes and smiled softly.

"Yes sweetheart?" Braxton whispered softly as he rubbed her back. He then saw that Nicole's face was red. He ran his hand over her forehead and discovered it was burning up. Braxton cursed softly, Nicole had been outside in the cold for too long. Braxton put his hand directly on her forehead and muttered a healing spell which instantly made Nicole's face turn back to its normal color.

"Bubba makes better." Nicole replied with a huge grin on her face, like he was the center of her world. Braxton laughed softly as he saw the look on her face. Hopefully she would always be looking at him like this. Having a little sister wouldn't be too bad. He could get her blood adopted once he took her back with him, making her his full sister. She would be too young to fully remember everything about her Potter past, she was only 2.

"Let that be our little secret." Braxton whispered into her ear which just made giggles erupt from her mouth, which caused Lily to look back at them with a smile on her face.

"What's so funny?" Lily asked Braxton with a confused yet delighted look on her face.

"I don't know, she just started laughing out of know where. What's making you laugh little one?" Braxton replied and started to tickle her softly, which made more giggles erupt. Braxton stopped and rubbed her back soothingly as her giggles calmed down softly, just as they arrived at their not so little tent.

"Dinner will be ready in an hour at our tent, I'll go send a couple of my boys to go tell the Black-Lupins." Arthur Weasley said and James Potter nodded.

"Alright," James replied, not wanting to offer to send Braxton along with them, still not fully trusting him. He seemed like a fine gentleman, but he didn't want to let his guard down just in case something did happen. Braxton was probably just putting up an act anyway, so James would just play along with it. He also hated how Nicole was so comfortable with Braxton. It's probably because Braxton put a spell on her, yeah that's it. That's must of what he did.

James opened the tent and went inside followed by the rest of the Potters. Braxton took Nicole and went over to the couch with a bunch of baby toys scattered around. Jonathan went next to Braxton and took out a DSI, a muggle device that he was so fond of. It was Lily's idea to get him that for his birthday. Lily went over to the bookshelves and got herself an enjoyable book to read and James went over to the Newspaper and sat by Lily to read next to her.

For the next hour, they pretty much stayed in the same spot, except for Nicole. She was running around the place giggling. She had so much energy, if she had the same amount in the future she could come in handy.

"Anyone home?" Braxton heard from the tent door. It was unzipped a tiny bit so the voice could travel inside. Braxton quickly scooped up Nicole and stood up alert. He recognized this voice, put all it brought was adrenaline to his system.

"Calm down Braxton, it's just Uncle Sirius." Jonathan told him with confusion in his voice on the way Braxton was acting. Braxton sighed softly as he forced himself to calm down. He would be on high alert for the next couple of hours, but he would always be like that. He couldn't afford to let his guard down.

James quickly made his way to the front of the tent and unzipped it to show a man with a ruggedly beard and with poor dress test. Yep, this was Sirius Black. James quickly embraced the man with a grin and then did the same thing to the red head man behind Sirius, with the same scruffy look. Braxton assumed it was Sirius's husband, Remus Lupin.

"Where's the triplets?" James asked, standing in the doorway. Lily got up and motioned for them to get up as well. They both got up, Braxton holding onto Nicole protectively.

"They've already ran into the Weasley's tent." Lupin replied and James laughed and shook his head. Sirius got out of the way so James could exit followed by Lily, Jonathan, and lastly Braxton with Nicole. He saw that they weren't alone, there were 3 other figures next to Remus and Sirius. He looked up at the first person and his heart stopped.

He felt his breath leave him as he looked upon what he felt like was perfection. He had never felt this way before, certainly not towards anyone like this. He couldn't move, it was like he was awestruck.

'Braxton what's wrong.' He heard Lycoris instantly transmit to him, feeling his sudden mood switches. Lycoris couldn't tell what was happening, it was something he never felt Braxton feel. It was somewhat like what Lycoris felt for Lauren, but he didn't understand why Braxton was feeling that here, of all places.

'Who is that.' He replied in an almost whisper, Lycoris barley making out what Braxton said.

'Chris?' Lycoris asked back, absolutely confused. He didn't understand what was going on, did someone put a spell on him?

Braxton examined every detail on Chris, feeling like he was the most important person in the world. Braxton wanted-needed to find out more about him. Chris was holding a child, probably his own younger sister, just like Braxton was. The other girl looked like Chris, they're raven colored hair almost identical, just that the girls was longer but it was still as messy as Chris's. Braxton looked up to meet the boy's brown chocolate innocent eyes. It seemed that Chris was feeling the same way as Braxton, both boys looking at each other with wonder while the others talked not fully taking notice to the eldest.

"My name is Christopher Black-Lupin, I am the eldest child of Sirius Black and Remus Lupin." Braxton heard the deep silky voice of the male say.

"It's a pleasure to meet you Christopher. I am Braxton Potter, nephew to James and Lily Potter." Braxton replied with ease.

"I've believe we've met before since you look so familiar. Probably just infants at the time." Christopher replied a soft smile was put on his face.

"I believe we have met, but it would have been too far back for me to remember. It is nice to meet you again, this time properly." Braxton replied softly and Christopher laughed, which made Braxton's heart do a flip. He cursed at himself for feeling this way, had he developed a crush on this boy? No that was absorb, impossible to think such a thing.

"Bubba! Destiny!" Nicole yelled out pointing to the child in Christopher's arms. The adults were talking away while Lycoris and Jonathan were talking. Braxton felt annoyance radiating from Lycoris, but it was normal since Lycoris was talking to a light families' child. Lycoris was always so prejudiced by blood. The only exception he made was for Braxton, and the reason why was because his blood was cleaned by the blood adoption the Dark Lord had put on him so many years ago.

"Is that your friend?" Braxton asked in a soft calming voice. Once Nicole went with him back to their manor she would never be seeing the Black daughter every again. Nicole would probably end up killing them when she's older, he would see to it. Braxton could picture it now, Nicole's first kill. The only daughter to the Black-Lupin legacy, killed by the former Potter daughter and the former best friend of her. He couldn't wait to set this up when she's older. It wouldn't be like Nicole wouldn't have any friends, she'll have her future brother-in-law, Trevor Snape, to play with. She would only be a little over a year older than him.

"Yuh!" Nicole said and started clapping her hands, which made white roses pop up around her, which resulted in them dancing. Braxton grinned, accidental magic at this young. Most children starting to show they had magic at the earliest of 3 or 4. The white roses started to go dark, turning black. Braxton instantly spelled them away, he couldn't let Christopher see this or he would think it was suspicious. White roses meant pure and innocent, but Black meant death was common. Something was going to happen tonight and Nicole's magic was somehow trying to warn him.

Meanwhile at Slytherin Manor

The sickening laughs of the dark lord filled the dirty cellar, enough to make anyone's stomach drop. Ryan Black, the boy that Lycoris was replacing, had chains on his ankles and wrists that bound him to the wall. He was on the floor spasming after undergoing yet another Crucio from the dark lord. The Dark Lord wasn't looking for any information from the boy, just getting the thrill from a light child's pain.

Ryan learned to stop begging knowing that the Dark Lord wasn't going to stop. He wanted his life to end, the pain to go away. He gave up hope of his parents saving him. He always shoved his consciousness to the back of his mind so he wouldn't feel any external pain. He was in the back of his mind, playing with his siblings and his best friend, Jonathan Potter. He would swing Destiny around in the air to make her giggle and chase around the rambunctious triplets. Chris would be popping out of hiding spots scaring the triplets, making them giggle and scream. His dads would be on the side sitting down just watching them play. This was Ryan's happy place, somewhere he could stay forever until he was released from the pain. His body still made the movements of being tortured, the spasming still happening, but his mind was elsewhere. It was a type of out of body experience.

The Dark Lord threw another Crucio at the boy who was not responding anymore. He was started to grow bored of him, maybe he should go and torture Mad-Eyed Moody. Yes, that was a clever idea. Barty Crouch Jr had the idea of locking him in a chest, but that wasn't going to work. He would be found eventually. Why not lock him up in the dungeon so the Dark Lord could torture him whenever he pleased. He had his arms snapped so even if he could get to a wand it he couldn't perform any magic with it.

'Winguardium Leviosa.' The Dark Lord nonverbally casts at the small boy. Ryan was forcefully thrust to the ceiling and the Dark Lord released from the spell, which caused Ryan to fall to the floor. A crunch of bones was heard, which pleased the dark lord.

The Dark Lord left the dark and dirty cellar to find a death eater rushing over to him. Once he came close he instantly fell to the feet of the Dark Lord. The Dark Lord recognized him as Regulus Black, one of his most faithful inner circle members. He had never married, but had managed to produce an offspring by accident. His daughter was almost 6 and was already started to learn the Dark Arts. She was a prodigy of the dark arts, which incredibly pleased the Dark Lord. He allowed his death eaters to have children on one condition, they would be taught the dark arts as they grew and would train hard to become part of his death eaters. His numbers would grow and be more powerful since they would start them very young.

Kyler Snape was a valuable asset since he was the Headboy at Hogwarts he had influence on the younger ones. Kyler was incredibly skilled as a potions master, just like his father so if his something did happen to his father, Kyler was able to take over.

"Rise Regulus." The Dark Lord said, his voice was very deep and powerful. Regulus quickly rises.

"The Death Eaters are ready to leave at your command to raid the Quidditch World Cup." Regulus said in a steady tone. The Dark Lord grinned at his information. The Dark didn't say anything and simply went up the stairs of the dungeon with Regulus right behind him. Today he had all his death eaters here ready for the attack. He hadn't led a raid in a while since he had always trusted his boys to do it, but his boys were on a mission of upmost importance. This raid was going to help his sons. The Dark Lord knew that Braxton wouldn't come with them, he would stay under his cover and protect the other children there. He always had a soft spot for children and he hated to see them hurt, but he knew it was necessary for some of them to get hurt or killed even. Braxton understood that they were at war and there were casualties.

The Dark Lord went in front of rank, his face as quite pale, his eyes a devilish red, and his nose of a snake. He didn't present himself to his death eaters any other way. The new recruits were in the front, then the outer circle, and then the inner circle in the back. He had a couple Hogwarts students in the mix that helped him spy. Draco Malfoy was a part of the new recruits.

"All of you understand tasks that Lucius explained to you for the raid?" The Dark Lord called out to his death eaters.

"Yes, my lord." All of all of them replied instantly, which made a sickening grin appear on the Dark Lords face. All of them were in their dark cloaks with a snake on the front. They also had their silver masks on, which made everyone uniform. The only differences were the heights of everyone.

"Good. If you see my youngest son, the one with the dark green eyes, you will engage contact. You will aggravate him and make him challenge you. Do you understand?" The Dark lord instructed, making everyone feel uneasy at the request. They didn't understand what one of the Dark Princes did that caused his father's reaction. They didn't question it, mostly out of fear.

"Yes, my lord." They all instantly replied again. The Dark Lord nodded and put on a mask just like them. He wanted to be able to strike out of surprise, nobody knowing where the Dark Lord was among the Light Wizards.

The Dark Lord apparated out, which signaled everyone else to do the same.

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The dinner was almost over, which gave Braxton mixed feelings. He hated being surrounded by all the blood traitors, but at the same time he felt comfort being around his twin and surprisingly Christopher Black-Lupin. He spent the whole dinner just talking with him. They had similar interests and had the same views on everything they had discussed. Braxton had the feeling they were made for each other, but he shoved the feeling into a cage and locked it up tight with his mind boarders.

Lycoris spent the whole night complaining about the manors of the light wizards. Braxton almost sniggered he heard Lycoris say that Cissy would give all the light wizards a hiding for their manors. Braxton missed the Malfoy and Snape family, but he knew he would be seeing them at Hogwarts soon. The Dark Lord probably explained something to Lucius and Severus to tell their children the reason of the Dark Prince's absences. The first night of school Lycoris would probably sneak off to go snog Lauren somewhere, but he didn't seem repulsed from the idea of him and Christopher snogging. This made Braxton's pants go tight and he immediately tried to repress the thoughts right when they came up.

Braxton mentally cursed at himself, he shouldn't be thinking these things. He had just met the guy! If Chris knew what he was thinking he would think that Braxton was a perv, or was Chris having the same thoughts? Braxton shook the thoughts away, now wasn't the time for this. He needed to succeed at the mission, but maybe having Chris as a significant other could prove to everyone that he was adjusting more and more to the light. Yeah, maybe snogging Chris a few times wouldn't be that bad of an idea.

Screams from outside instantly made him stand up, reaching for his wand but then realizing that he didn't have it. It was confiscated when he first got here, but it didn't mean that he didn't have a habit of reaching for it. He could hear screams, and the sound of people running.

"Everyone outside, quickly!" James Potter yelled as he was one of the first ones out to discover what was happening. Braxton glanced Lycoris in confusion.

'Is this a raid?' Braxton asked not knowing why their father would have planned one tonight especially since they were here. Nicole started crying and Braxton picked her up rocking her gently and she calmed down a little. The other toddler, Destiny, was taken by Remus Lupin. Everyone quickly went outside, Braxton staying by Chris and Lycoris staying by Jonathan.

Everyone did as they were told and hurried out of the tent. By the light of the few fires that were still burning, he could see people running away into the woods, fleeing something that was moving across the field toward them, something that was emitting odd flashes of light and noises like gunfire. Loud jeering, roars of laughter, and drunken yells were drifting toward them; then came a burst of strong green light, which illuminated the scene.

A crowd of wizards, tightly packed and moving together with wands pointing straight upward, was marching across the field. Braxton instantly recognized them as some inner circle death eaters. He could feel the magical signatures of Lucius, Severus, and Kyler in the bunch. He needed to get Nicole and Chris out of here.

Before Braxton could utter a yell of run, the crowd of death eaters instantly gained speed towards them as if they were targeting Braxton. Lycoris and Ryan were right next to Chris while the others were lost in the panic. Braxton quickly passed Nicole to Chris, who took her without question. He nonverbally cast a protection spell on her.

"Little boy, what are you doing so far from home?" Braxton heard Lucius Malfoy taunt from behind his mask. His father had to of put them up to this, but he didn't know why.

"Leave me alone!" Braxton shouted back, playing along. Maybe this was to prove himself to the light side, to prove that he was willing to 'change', but really, he was blind sighting them. "I've learned of all the awful things that you've done and it's sickening!"

"Why Braxy, how you gone weak?" Severus Snape said from the crowd of death eaters. Braxton played along and pretended to get angry.

"No, I've just learned the truth." Braxton spit back, his accidental magic levels rising. "Leave, you're not welcome here." Braxton yelled. A curse was sent to Braxton and he easily deflected it. He was glad that the anklet wasn't restricting him from defending himself. Hopefully he could also cast small offensive spells.

"Stupefy." Braxton muttered putting his palm facing the death eaters as he mustered up some energy inside of him, knowing if he showed to much the anklet would break and he didn't want them to upgrade it. One of the death eaters in the bunch fell to the ground and more spells were shot back, which Braxton deflected each one. Chris was helping as he shot spells back and forth, while Braxton deflected everything.

"Take Nicole and run." Braxton shouted to Ryan(Lycoris) and Jonathan. Jonathan scooped up Nicole and they both ran off into the forest, Braxton defecting any spells sent their way.

As the spells flew in all directions, Braxton kept on deflecting them as best as he could. It wasn't a fair fight, 15 highly skilled death eaters against two boys, one of which had a magic restraining anklet on.

A white spell flew by him, barely missing Braxton but hitting Chris straight in the chest. Chris started gasping as he collapsed to the floor. His shirt was started to get soaked with blood. Braxton exploded with anger. His magic bursting over the top as he saw how much Chris was hurting.

It was like a fire was lit in Braxton and he couldn't control it. He yelled out in anger and his magic went everywhere, throwing everyone (except for Chris) 10 feet away from them. They couldn't get up, they were immobilized. Braxton couldn't control any of it, this was inner core magic that he was trying to get control of but hadn't has something to trigger it. He didn't understand why Chris getting hurt was triggering his magic in this way.

Braxton's felt extremely powerful and out of control. It was his adrenaline that was doing it, not his thoughts controlling it. Braxton raised all the Death Eaters into the air, he felt the panic inside of them.

"Do not mess with me or Chris every again. You will pay a heavy price if you do." Braxton said in a dark voice he didn't recognize himself. Braxton dropped the Death Eaters and then kneeled down next to Chris. He closed his eyes and put his hand on Chris's chest. Chris was breathing heavily, his eyes closed. He was trying to suppress his cries of pain. Braxton felt his energy drift from him into Chris. Instantly he felt a connection between him. He also felt the skin knitting together underneath his hand. Braxton was healing him. Braxton felt the energy drain from him as he collapsed onto the floor.

Braxton woke up in a cold sweat. He was on a bed in the room he first woke up in when the light side had captured him. It looked to be the Hogwarts infirmary. Next to his bed he saw Chris sleeping as well. Instantly Braxton remembered everything that had happened. He went deep into his mind and saw that a link had been formed between their minds, probably because of him healing him in that type of stage of magic. Braxton was also confused on why his magic had acted like that.

Braxton noticed that it was probably the middle of the night but there was no way he could go back to sleep. He swung his legs to the ground and pushed off the bed. He saw that his anklet wasn't there. It probably came off when his magical core was released. Braxton felt weak and deflated, probably because all the magic that he felt was probably safely sealed back in his core. Braxton stood up and took a couple wobbly steps to the bed next to him. He reached the bed and sat down in the chair next to the bed.

He looked down on Chris's sleeping figure and smiled softly. He was so peaceful while he slept. Braxton didn't know why Chris calmed him so much, but he didn't try to repress it anymore. He wanted, no needed, this type of peace in his life and Chris somehow granted that for him. Braxton brushed the hair from Chris's face and smiled. He set his hand down on the bed and he felt Chris stur.

"It's alright, go back to sleep." Braxton whispered softly which made Chris smile as he muttered something that Braxton couldn't hear. He then felt Chris take his hand and hold it in his. Braxton felt the warmth of Chris and it was calming. He could feel Chris's steady pulse. Braxton smiled and felt his eyes close, drifting him back off to sleep.