Part 2
Last Time
"He had no one to go to. No one to comfort him, so he never finished his third year." he whispered. Remus's eyes widen and he let out a strangled sobbed, not wanting to believe such a fate on his cub. A cub he had sworn to protect. Sirius looked at the two in confusion.
"What happened Prongs?" he asked softly and James just shook his head with tears freely running down his face, unable to answer so Remus did and James confirmed it, much to the dog animagus's horror.
"Harry committed suicide."
Now
Sirius looked at his best friend in horror and shock. Harry? Their Harry was gone? Well he knew he wasn't gone now, but...
"The hell..." was all he muttered, not believing it.
"W-What happened after that?" Remus asked quietly.
"Everyone felt bad. It was all over the papers and we were targeted pretty badly, especially Nathan. Lily never cared and a lot of people were suspicious about her behavior. It all changed when Nathan and I found Harry's journal when we were going through his stuff...Padfoot, Mooney, the things she made him believe..." he shook his head, trying not to remember.
"Fucking bitch!" Sirius swore, kicking over the stand, but no one cared. They were all angry.
"I had her tried in a trial and she confessed to everything through the truth serum. She never cared about any of us, just the fame of being the 'Mother of the Boy-Who-Lived.' I divorced her, but the damage was already done." he rubbed his face, clearly tried of it all. He called a house-elf to bring them some Firewhiskey.
"How were you?" Remus asked, trying to conceal his anger at the woman.
"I-I shut down. My son was dead because I listened to the lies of a bitch, because I was hardly home, always at work. I mean I didn't even need to work, but I did...I pushed everyone out. Blamed everyone too. Merlin I was a mess."
"You had ever right to." Sirius agreed.
"I didn't even want to look at Nathan. When I heard how he treated his twin. Apparently he was the one who began the 'blaming things on Harry' thing and then everyone did. I started destroying people with the Potter name. Businesses went down, some students couldn't even go to school because I started calling back all the debts people owed the Potter family. Heck, the scholarship funding that we gave to Hogwarts, that provided for almost 53% of everything that was paid for there? I took it out and even the school began failing."
He had his revenge. Oh people started begging him, begging him for mercy, but he never let it up. He had destroyed lives he knew and he didn't care. They had killed his son, his precious boy, so he'd given them a taste of their own medicine.
"They'd deserved it. I would have done the same thing." Sirius said and then grinned at the look his friend gave him. "I did, didn't I?"
"Damn straight you did. We practically owned Magical Britain after what we did and no one would want to go against us. But then the war came." he sighed, knowing he had to tell his friends.
"War?" the both asked and he nodded.
"Yeah. Voldemort is pretty much alive right now and he was resurrected during Nathan's fourth year. There are a lot of things I need to tell you guys. Want to know now, or latter?" since it was a lot and he didn't want the war to happen again this time.
"I think it would be best if we know everything now." Remus said, finishing the bottle he was drinking.
"Well for starters, remember how four days ago the Lestranges attacked the Longbottoms? If we didn't interfere, they were to be tortured to insanity-"
"Frank and Alice? Bloody hell!" Sirius exclaimed and he could tell Remus was shocked too.
"Yeah, anyways when Voldemort was resurrected, the Ministry didn't want to acknowledge it, and they spent the entire time during Nathan's fifth year ignoring the problem. Some tried to discredit him and bully him, but they were dealt with. After that, it was war really for the next ten years." he said, further shocking them.
"No side won? I mean, what about Nathan and that damn prophecy?" Sirius exclaimed.
"The damn thing wasn't talking about just Nathan, but Harry too, remember 'the power he knows not'? That was the bond he and Harry have." he explained and they knew which bond he was talking about.
"Speaking of, why did Nathan bully Harry? Shouldn't the bond have acted up? I've never heard a soul-bond allowing either mates to harm the other." Remus said and James ran his hand through his hair. That was something he questioned his son on and blamed on himself.
James was kneeling down Harry's grave, which was where all the other Potters were buried. He could be found here all the time now. If he wasn't destroying the lives that those that destroyed his son's, and avoiding everyone, he simply sat here, telling his lost son about the different things he had done in his life; things he realized he never got to tell him before. With each realization, he would break down at his failure and his hatred for Lily Evans would increase.
"D-Dad?"
He didn't have to turn around to know Nathan was scared out of his wits. He never spoke with his son for a couple weeks now and the last time they had spoken, he was so close to blast him into oblivion when he heard of his part of destroying his brother's life.
"Why?" he simply asked.
Because he really wanted to know why his son had treated his brother, his twin with distaste. He had taught Nathan over the years the importance of family, the same why his parents told him and he really didn't know what went wrong. Of course everything really just came to that damn bitch. What he ever saw in her, he'll never know.
"I-I...its something I've been hiding-something I-I..."
James turned around and looked at his son. Nathan had red hair and his brown eyes. He was well built and tall for his age. Playing quiditch did help, he suppose, but the once confident Nathan was a mess.
"Well?" he really didn't mean to snap, but he really wanted to know his reasons. Nathan for his part just let tears fall from his eyes as he looked at the gravestone that was besides him. His eyes soften, because he really couldn't hate his son and brought him into a hug. The boy cried a bit harder, mumbling sorry, over and over.
"Why Nathan? Harry was never mean to you was he?" he bit his lip, trying not to cry. Nathan shook his head. "Then tell me."
"You'll hate me." he whispered and James kissed the top of his head.
"Never. I might be angry with you, but I could never hate you Nathan." he smiled as his son nodded.
"I..." he mumbled off.
"What did you say?" James asked.
"I liked him." His voice was so small and if he didn't know any better, he would have never thought that would have been his confident son.
"You liked him? Well, yeah, he's your brother, yo-"
"No!" he was cut off with an angry cry. "I liked liked him. I liked him more than just a brother okay!" he snapped and then covered his mouth.
James, for his part just looked at him in confusion.
"You like him more...than just a brother. Like...a lover, or boyfriend would?" Nathan flushed as he nodded slowly and James just gave him a blank stare.
"So?"
Out of all the things his son was waiting for, he knew that wasn't it.
"'So?' That's all you're going to say?" he almost yelled. James really didn't know what the problem was.
"Well, yeah. I mean, you were both twins. Most magical twins are usually soul-mates. Haven't you seen the Weasley twins together?" his son was gaping at him like some fish, tempting him to laugh.
"Y-You mean...its normal?" he whispered.
"For magical twins? Yeah. I thought I already told you." then it dawn onto him. "You didn't know?" He more liked stated it.
"I-I thought it wasn't normal...I didn't want to hurt him...Merlin it hurt each time...but I just..."
"Damn that is messed up." Sirius covered his face with his hands.
"Yeah, something else I messed up." James said bitterly.
"Hey, we're going to fix this alright? You've already began and that's more than anything." Remus placed a comforting hand on his shoulder and he smiled in thanks.
"How the hell did you come back Prongs?" Sirius asked the question on his mind.
"Honestly, I don't know. One minute we were in the middle of war next minute we were hit by something and we found each other here." he shook his head.
"'We'?" both his friends said.
"Yeah, Nathan's back too. Came back the same time I did. We've been keeping an eye out for Lily and I've got enough evidence to use against here to call in a restraining order."
"Good. Bitch deserves to die." Sirius nodded, getting a nod of agreement from the other two. They stayed silent for a couple moments, trying to think about the problem at hand.
"So, what now?" Sirius broke the silence.
"Now, the three of us, the two upstairs and the Longbottoms are getting the hell out of here. I was thinking Australia, or the Carrabians." James shrugged.
Out of the things their friend was going to say, that wasn't one of them.
"What?!" they yelled.
"Dumbledore will try to get into our lives, Nathan's life and try to control it like last time.I don't want that to happen. This time, we'll be everywhere around the world, that isn't Britain and only come back so they could start Hogwarts. Even then, I still don't want them near the old cot. If I find a better school they're going there.' he said fiercely. "Nathan won't mind, but Harry might and I really don't thing I can refuse him anything, but from the little I remember of Harry, he was always polite and kind, so he might be okay with it." he said.
"And the Longbottoms?" Sirius asked.
"Their son is the other child of prophecy that he'll probably use if Nathan isn't around. You're going to tell them right?" Remus asked and James nodded.
"Yeah. They deserve to know and Neville was a good kid. Real powerful too, but it came later on when Nathan befriended him after..." they nodded in understanding.
"Oh!" Jams suddenly exclaimed startling them, "I can't believe I almost forgot. You know the whole 'Voldemort came back thing'. Harry figured it out. We wouldn't have been close to ending the war if it weren't for him." he smiled fondly as he remember finding his notes.
"Why? What happened?" Remus asked.
"Have any of you guys heard of a horcrux?" he asked grimly. Sirius swore and Remus looked confused.
"What's that?" he asked.
"Its the worst kind of magic out there, heck not even my family deals with that stuff and they were pretty dark." Sirius snarled. "The son of a bastered did it, didn't he?" he yelled and James nodded.
"Mooney, a horcrux is when a person splits their soul, by killing a person. Its really dark magic and the guy split his up six times." he said gravely. Remus muttered curses and Sirius gulped down a bottle.
"Let me guess, Dumbledore knew." Remus said dryly.
"The guy knew alright, but he's so focus on the prophecy. We could have avoided the entire mess if he had told us. He didn't even know which objects the guy used." he shook his head at the old man's stupidity. He had lost respect for the man a long time ago.
"How does Harry fit into this?" Remus asked and he brightened up. His son was a genius and he was damn proud of him.
"You see in their second year, the youngest Weasley girl was possessed by one of the horcruxes, a diary. Harry managed to get it and from there, he was able to create a rune. The rune would tell us the location as well as the name of all those that had the Death Mark, or had a part of Voldemort's soul. Apparently he puts a piece of his soul in the Dark marks according to Harry's notes." he said proudly.
"Amazing." Remus sounded awe and he should be. From the sound of it, Harry hadn't even started learning runes or had a small study in them, since they began in third year.
"Damn, our pup is awesome. That sure made things easier huh?" Sirius grinned.
"Yeah, but we weren't able to get all of them since we were brought here-"
"Can you recreate it? The rune?" Remus cut in.
"No, but I know which objects have his horcrux and where to find them. One of the reasons why I brought the kids tot he goblins was because Nathan had one stuck in his scar." his friends made horrified noises and he didn't blame them.
"Dumbledore wanted Nathan to sacrifice himself, it was his plan from the beginning, but Harry pointed out in his notes that the goblins could easily remove it." he finished.
"Harry sure did a lot of research. How did he find that out?" Remus asked in disbelief.
"Believe it or not, Fawkes was helping him. Damn bird was his familiar actually, having broken his bond with Dumbledore. It didn't like me-and I didn't blame him-but he got us out of a lot of sticky situations. Even helped Harry charm Dumbledore's journal. It how we knew of his grand schemes."
"The guy wrote everything in a journal?" Sirius said in disbelief and he didn't blame him.
"I know, you had the same expression back then too." he deadpanned.
"So we broke away from the Order" Remus asked.
"Yeah. The three of us, Nathan, Andy's daughter, heck even Moody joined us after he told Dumbledore to go shove it." he grinned at that particular memory. This got a laugh from them both.
"We've got a lot of work to do, don't we?" Remus asked and Sirius groaned.
"Yeah, we'll start with the horcruxes and then everything else should be fine." James said.
He made a vow when he returned and he renewed that vow. He would not mess up this miracle. His son would have the best childhood-no the best life he'd ever have, if he had anything to say about, both of them.
Screw the old goat and his bitch!
