Chapter eleven

Kingsley decided to cook dinner while he was waiting for Harry and Ron to finish their argument. So Joseph and Hermione sat at the table, but no one spoke just kept listening to the shouting coming from the office.

Twenty minutes later Harry and Ron walked out, but Kingsley, Hermione and Joseph all saw Harry and Ron both had red chins and knew what had happened between the two friends.

'Everything's fine, we worked it all out,' Harry stepped over to Kingsley, giving a kiss, 'I thought we were going out to eat?'

'We didn't know how long you two were going to be, so I decided to cook. I figured since I'm going to be living here I'll make myself at home.'

Harry laughed, 'You should, but I need a drink, who wants one and Joseph you're off duty, so what do you say?'

'I'm in,' Joseph said.

'I'll have one love, thanks,' Kingsley said.

'Hermione, Ron.'

'I will Harry,' Ron said.

'I'll just have juice if you've got it.'

Harry nodded, got a drink for Hermione, handing it to her, then poured four glasses of Firewhiskey, one for himself and the other men before he sat down.

'I have to say, the language that came out of you two, it surprised me.' Joseph said.

'Well I know Harry's got a wicked mouth, but even I was surprised,' Kingsley smirked at Harry.

Harry laughed, 'Smart arse, but yeah, we really had a go at each other.'

'You said I had a cute arse not a smart arse,' Kingsley smirked.

'You do love, a cute and lovable arse, but as I was saying, we did have a go at each other.'

'Not to mention some muggle fighting,' Hermione said as she gently touched Ron's chin before she squeezed Ron's hand.

'Well Ron decided to belt me, so I hit him back. But he knows now we never fucked, I was a virgin before Kingsley fucked me, then I fucked him.'

'Okay, enough about that Harry, I don't need to hear you say it,' Ron said but he was smiling.

'Oh but he does it so well Ron,' Kingsley grinned, then finished getting dinner ready.

'He's as bad as you Harry. Was he always like that, or did you make him that way?'

'That's Kingsley, which is another thing I love about him.'

Kingsley floated plates in front of everyone then sat down next to Harry, 'You have to explain about what you and Hermione were talking about.'

'Yeah, what's this worst fear Voldemort makes you see?' Joseph asked.

'Is it okay to tell them Ron?'

'Yeah, well as long as Hermione tells hers. But what about you, we never heard anything about what you saw back in the chamber of secrets.'

'Okay, we'll all tell what we saw. So I'll start I suppose.'

'Let's eat first, or it'll go cold,' Kingsley said.

'Yeah, good idea love.'

The five of them sat around the table eating, but kept talking until they all finished. Then Harry and Kingsley cleaned up before sitting back down.

'Well, this happened when I was twelve down in the chamber of secrets. Ginny was dying, he was laughing, I was panicking wondering how I was going to help Ginny but also get out of there when he had my wand. Fawkes, Dumbledore's phoenix flew down and dropped the diary on my lap. I still don't know what made me do it, but I took the fang that I'd taken out of my arm and right before I stabbed the diary I saw me. I was frozen, I couldn't move. A sort of smoky image of myself, I was older, about forty I suppose, but I had a bald head, a large dark mark on my chest and death eaters all kneeling in front of me, calling me their lord and master,' Harry shuddered as he looked down at his drink.

Kingsley pulled Harry onto his lap, then wrapped his arms around Harry, holding him tight.

'So you thought you were going to become the next Voldemort?' Ron asked quietly.

Harry lifted his head, 'Yeah, because I kept getting angry all the time, I thought I was going to turn into him. But it was something he said as well. He said we were a lot alike, so with that and realising I was a parselmouth, it was my worst fear that I could turn into him.'

'You could never be anything like him for a lot of reasons Harry. First you were willing to die, he did everything he could so he wouldn't die. You care for all your friends, we've all seen that, he cared for no one but himself. There's so much about you that he couldn't touch.'

'Kingsley's right Harry, remember what Dumbledore told you,' Hermione smiled at her friend, 'You have more love inside you than anyone he'd ever known.'

'I know Hermione, but I still felt it, that's why I never told either of you, I was scared. But anyway, which one of you is next?'

'Well you and Hermione already know, so I'll go. Okay, when Harry spoke parseltongue to open the locket, I saw Hermione and Harry saying things like, my mother preferred Harry as a son, that she always wanted her daughter and didn't want me. Then the image of Hermione said who could love me over Harry Potter. The imagine changed, Harry and Hermione were both naked, arms wrapped around each other, snogging, touching, really going at it. I was frozen in place staring at the image, but I could just hear Harry's voice telling me not to listen and to stab it, finally I did. Right before that was when I came back, I'd been gone for weeks. Harry and I had this huge fight, I took off, left them alone and I had no idea if anything happened between them.'

'We took turns wearing the horcrux and we all felt it, the anger, the evil I suppose you could say. Sometimes we had no food and it was one of those times when Ron was wearing the locket, so that's what caused the fight. But he came back and that was when he saw me following the doe and I jumped into the frozen pond to get the sword, he saved me that night.'

'How often did you go without food?' Kingsley asked.

'A lot, or sometimes all we had was some berries, or fish, sometimes mushrooms. We had some good meals at times, not a lot, but we did okay.'

'You did okay Harry, because you had been starved for years, so you were used to it. I think that's why I was so bad, I was so used to having mum's cooking, then Hogwarts, it was the first time I never had regular meals. Hermione, well she's such a small eater anyway, she ended up doing better than me.'

'What did Ron mean by that, you'd been starved for years?' Kingsley asked.

'The Dursleys, at times they wouldn't give me anything to eat. I'd be locked up for days sometimes, they only allowed me out in the morning and night and that was to use the bathroom. One thing even Ron and Hermione doesn't know though. That room you saw me in Ron, I only got that after the letters from Hogwarts started to arrive.'

'So where was your room then?'

'I never had one, they made me live in the cupboard under the stairs.'

'They made you sleep in there, lock you in that small space. Why didn't you tell us Harry?' Hermione asked looking shocked.

'I thought it was my fault the way they treated me, then I went to the burrow and everyone treated me as if they liked me, so I was ashamed to tell you.'

'They should be locked up and if we could punish muggles, I would be going after that lot,' Kingsley said angrily, then too Harry's face in his hands, 'I know you though Harry, what else did they do to you?'

'Look, it's over, I don't ever have to go back there.'

'Give it up Harry, Kingsley will just keep asking until you tell him. Why do you think he was made head auror, he can get information out of anyone,' Joseph said.

Harry looked into Kingsley's eyes, 'Well, my uncle beat me a lot, broke a few things, and I also had stitches quite a lot. One time I had a punctured lung. He hit me so hard with the mop it busted and stabbed me.'

'He needs to be locked up for doing that to a kid and since I'm minister, I'm going to find a way to make him pay. Because I know a lot of those scars you've got must have come from him, I won't let him get away with that.'

'Please Kingsley, let it go. I just want to put the last eighteen years behind me and never think of any of it again,' Harry stared into Kingsley's eyes, 'Please love, that part of my life was hard, now it's over and I want to forget it, let it go.'

'Kingsley, you might be able to get information out of anyone, but I have never known anyone to be as stubborn as Harry. He'll keep asking you to let it go until you do.' Ron said staring at his friend, but even though he looked stubborn, you could see the pain on his face.

'Alright, I'll let it go, but I wish I could go and curse him.'

'My hero,' Harry smiled, then kissed Kingsley very tenderly, before he looked at Hermione, 'You're turn now.'

'Okay, Ron remembered how you opened the locket, so he copied it and got us into the chamber of secrets. Ron pulled some fangs out of the dead basilisk skeleton, but he handed one to me and told me to destroy the cup. At first I didn't want to, but Ron said Harry made him do the locket, so he thought I should do the cup. I didn't know about the things I'd see, but I still felt the evil from it and it frightened me. So Ron squeezed my hand and I was just about to stab it when I saw an image of me, finding my parents dead, Ron dead, Harry dead, then everyone else. There was no one left but Voldemort and his death eaters. Finally I heard Ron telling me to ignore it and destroy it, so I stabbed it.'

'So was that your worst fear Hermione, seeing everyone you care about dead?'

'Yes, I was always frightened that Harry was going to be killed because of Voldemort, but with Ron, I knew he would try to help me because I'm a muggleborn.'

'You said Dumbledore destroyed the ring, do you know if he saw something?' Joseph asked.

'I did consider asking him when we used to meet in his office, but the night he died, he had to drink this potion to get the locket. It made him weak, and it made him see and hear things. His greatest fear was that he had been the one to kill Arianna.'

'None of us saw anything when Neville killed the snake.' Kingsley said.

'Maybe because it was a living thing, might have made it work differently. I have no idea if any of the death eaters saw anything when Voldemort killed me because we were both knocked out cold.'

'Please don't say that Harry, especially since you never died.' Kingsley said.

'Well I did die babe, for a few minutes at least.'

'You mentioned Dumbledore said you could have gone on, you were in the nether world. But they say it looks different to everyone, what did you see Harry?' Joseph asked.

'Kings Cross station, but it was brighter, cleaning and it didn't have any trains. Dumbledore was waiting for me, but I saw what was left of Voldemort.'

'You mean he went there, even with how evil he was?' Ron asked.

'What was left of him, yeah. But it was this small, human type figure, the size of a small child, but it was disgusting and groaning in pain. I couldn't even look at it, but enough about him and all that, it's the past.'

'Harry, I need to ask this before we get on to the auror stuff, how come you signed those autographs, you always said you wouldn't do that?' Ron asked.

'The two little kids, at first I saw how bad their cloths were, I just couldn't say no to them. But the main reason was they reminded me of those two kids Voldemort killed. I was trying to get that image out of my head by talking to those kids and even though I don't like to think of myself as famous, I thought those kids just might be able to sell it and make themselves some money. I did consider offering the mother money, but I knew she wouldn't take it.'

Joseph smiled, then laughed, 'You're just a big softy Harry.'

Hermione and Ron laughed loudly, but Kingsley slipped his hand down and ran it over Harry's groin making Harry groan.

'No he's not,' Kingsley smirked.

'Oh, you are not doing what I think you're doing, are you Kingsley?' Ron asked.

'Yep, I'm feeling Harry up and he's really getting up, so I'll let Joseph tell you what you need Ron,' Kingsley stood up with Harry and they raced up stairs, leaving Joseph, Hermione and Ron looking stunned, then they laughed.

'So your boss leaves it up to you while he shags Harry,' Ron shook his head in amusement.

'It's not like I can argue with the minister Ron, so let sit in the living room. What about you Hermione, interested in being an auror?'

'I don't think so, but I'm not sure what I want to do,' just then the three downstairs heard the loud groans from upstairs, 'That sounds like Harry.'

'I'd say Kingsley's giving him a piece of his...mind,' Ron chuckled, then Hermione and Joseph laughed.

'Or explaining what he expects from someone that will be under him,' Joseph said making the three laugh loudly.

Upstairs in the bedroom, Kingsley and Harry were snogging and touching everywhere. They were showing each other how much they loved each other and wanted each other. But from that moment on, they didn't care who knew they were gay or together.