Chapter 21: Harry's Breakdown

Regulus had just walked into his boss's office where the other department heads were meeting a two weeks after the death of Scott Wilson. "Why was I summoned here? The last time I checked I wasn't a department head…"

Nicholas raised his eyebrow at Sirius's brother with a slight smile, but quickly went into a frown. "I brought all of you here to report on the situation of nearly three hours ago. The Horcrux possessed agent, Scott Wilson situation has been terminated…"

The other department heads were shocked and slightly outraged for not being told right away. Selene was unusually quiet compared to the others. "Dragon, where is your wife? Shouldn't she be here with us?"

"She should, but I told her to stay with the person who ended Wilson's life since last night. Now keep your questions to yourself for the next few minutes while I explain. Perenelle, 'Cerberus', and Shadow were following the lead that we had on our target. Beatrice, would you tell your point of view of what happened?"

She wobbly got to her feet with the use of a muggle cane. "While I was working on brewing a potion in the Research department I blew it up on accident a few times, and Scott came over to me trying to be sympathetic. We went walking out to have a drink, he lead us to an empty room, and put me under the Cruciatus curse until someone's voice came into the room. The wand that was in his hand exploded and the person kept taunting him into getting distracted. They began their duel, and I found myself falling through a pool of darkness until I found myself in the medical ward."

"You were sucked into a pool of darkness?" One of the Department heads asked.

"Yes, I can't explain how it happened but it did. If you don't believe me then take the memory out of my head and put it into a pensive for your viewing pleasure." She hissed at him.

Mr. Flamel sighed heavily to calm her down. "Please calm yourself Beatrice…" He was interrupted when his wife came in his office looking very pale. "Perenelle, are you alright? How is Shadow doing?"

"I'm fine Nicholas, but he is currently asleep from the dreamless sleep potion I gave him."

Selene finally decided to talk among them. "What happened to him that he needed to be sedated by potions?"

"He was the one that took the possessed Wilson's life, and it was his first kill. However, there was something else that is disturbing…the color of his eyes turned completely black and spoke in a voice that was not his own." She said as she wiped her brow.

Erika Sorin's eyes went incredibly wide after hearing this. "What was his emotional state when he killed him?"

"Anger, Hate, and Revenge were written all over his face." Regulus informed them. "However, he quickly broke down afterwards."

"This is bad…very bad. I've heard of a case happening like this before. When a powerful witch or wizard's emotional level is at a very critical state…his or her magic can turn a person down the dark path. The last person that this happened to was the previous Dark Lord Grindelwald." Erika spoke.

Perenelle sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose. 'She could be right, but I don't think that he's turning down that path. I'm going to need some help to snap him out of this. I need to find Tonks…'

Nicholas put his hands up to calm down his employees. "For now, my wife and I will be watching over him for any further developments. However, I want those of you in this room to keep this quiet, and I want more experienced people working on these Horcruxes. No more will we be sacrificing another person to destroy these things, understood?"

"Yes sir." They all said in unison, and got up to head out of the room.

Mr. Flamel looked at his wife with a slight smile before turning serious. "How is Harry really doing?"

She sighed once again. "He's taking it really hard. I assured him that he did the right thing in a certain point of view, but he thinks that he's nothing more then a murderer and a monster. I was forced to give him calming draughts and dreamless sleep potions. Nicholas, I need Tonks here so she can talk to her 'little brother'."

"I'll see what I can do, but do what you can with him ok?"

"Don't worry I will do my best." She assured him and gave him a kiss before their house elf appeared beside them.

"Mistress Perenelle, I came to tell you that mister Potter has woken up." Benson, the house elf said while bowing before his masters.

"Thank you Benson, I'll see you later Nicholas." She said as she port keyed back to the Flamel manor.

Mr. Flamel sighed heavily and pinched the bridge of his nose. "You can come back in Regulus."

Sirius's brother walked back into the office. "I'm not going to ask how you knew I was waiting outside. What do you want me to do, sir?"

"Find Tonks immediately and find her a suitable replacement. Tell her that it is imperative that she returns here immediately. After that I want the two remaining Horcruxes placed into a secured room with limited access except for Harry, my wife, you, and myself." He informed his senior agent.

"Harry Potter, sir?"

The head unspeakable groaned at his slip up. "I am referring to your brother's godson/son; Harry Black-Potter is 'shadow'. He is going to need his sister with him."

"Great…so now this means that I'm going to get my arse kicked by him as well." Regulus complained as he rubbed his face where she hit him about a few weeks ago and headed off to do his task.

Harry was sitting up in bed in a daze from the lingering effects of the dreamless sleep potions still in his system. 'I…I killed someone…' He immediately ran to the bathroom to vomit and then started scrubbing his hands in the sink. 'Why won't the blood come off?!'

He looked into the mirror and saw something he didn't want to see…he saw Riddle's reflection grinning right back at him. "What's the matter Potter? Don't like what you've become?"

"Oh yes I'm so sure that I love seeing your face in the mirror. It just makes me want to develop a spell that makes sunshine come out of my arse."

Tom Riddle laughed at his adversary's statement. "You've taken your first step into descending into the darkness like I have. You will be joining my side Harry Potter!"

His eyes narrowed at the reflection and didn't see his eyes starting to grow darker by the moment. "I am nothing like you!"

"Sooner or later you will come to understand that you cannot fight the darkness in your heart! You are a murderer just like me!" Voldemort laughed menacingly. "You will kill your loved ones for power and I will always be the one in the background laughing my little puppet!"

"NOOOOOOOOOO!!!" He roared and slammed his balled up fist into the mirror.

Perenelle heard glass shattering and immediately took off for her 'nephew's' room. When she got there she saw him bleeding into the sink with mirror fragments sticking out of his fist and forearm. She immediately went to healing his injury and gently made him look into her eyes. "Kiddo, tell me what happened."

Anger and Hate were the only emotions in his emerald eyes. "I saw Voldemort's reflection in the mirror telling me that I'm starting to go down the dark path…I'm becoming a murderer just like him."

She pulled him into a motherly embrace and started to rock him in her arms. "Kiddo, you are not a murderer or a monster. Sometimes when we are faced in a situation that involves someone's life at stake you have to take action to preserve life. I myself have been placed in the same situation as you were."

"But you didn't feel the rage that I did when I cut his head off…" He said as two silent tears fell from his eyes and splashed onto her shoulder.

"Shh…it will be alright." She whispered into his ear and kissed the top of his head. 'I better write to Blaise to let her know what's going on after he goes back to sleep. There's no doubt that she wants to see him immediately.'

Benson popped back into the room with some potions that Harry needed to take. "Thank you, kiddo I need you to take these two potions again so you can rest. Can you do that for me?"

He lifted his head from her shoulder and downed the vile tasting liquid. "They still taste awful."

She laughed and kissed his forehead as she tucked him into bed. She stayed with him until he fell asleep, and tucked some of his long silvery hair behind his ear. "Don't worry kiddo; you'll come through this alright." She kissed his forehead again before leaving the room. She let out a very shaky breath because she was very worried about him and was very scared that she didn't know if she could truly help him.

Blaise was in the middle of a very boring ancient runes class when her enchanted notebook illuminated. Quickly she opened it to see Mrs. Flamel's fancy handwriting appearing on the page. 'Blaise, I want to thank you again for assisting us in finding the Horcrux but I'm afraid that something has happened to Harry. Come up to the Room of Requirement when you're out of your class. I'll be waiting for you there.'

'Oh Merlin…he is going to give me early wrinkles and even more gray hair then I have already!' She thought as she wrote down a response.

'He is fine physically, but mentally is another issue. Two weeks ago, he was forced to end a possessed agent's life to save another life. He thinks that he is a monster and turning evil for his actions. I need you here to help me snap him out of it. I'll introduce you to his sister later on.'

'Wait he's an only child how can he have a sister…unless she came from the Black family. The only women on the Black side are the three sisters…that's it! The person that was with him just before he got on the Hogwarts express was his sister!'

"Miss Zabini, are you actually taking notes or are you writing out your fantasies in your notebook?" Professor Vector asked from his desk.

"I apologize Professor for not paying attention." She said while trying to ignore her best friend's giggling at her.

"Be sure that it doesn't happen again, and I want from each of you twelve inches of parchment on Celtic runes and their special uses. Class dismissed."

Daphne looked at her best friend with a raised eyebrow. "What's bothering you? Missing your boyfriend that much? I don't get why he hasn't returned since he's free of all the charges that were against him."

"I don't know, but I hope that he does soon. It's too quiet here without him, but I'm going to head back to the common room. Enjoy your time in Transfiguration Daph." She sighed.

Her friend mock glared at her before smiling. "I'll see you later, but please put up silence charms around your bed tonight…we're really starting to get annoyed with you moaning Potter's name over and over again."

She narrowed her eyes at her and sent a spell that changed her dark red hair to bright pink. 'Let's see how long it takes her to find out about her new hair color. I better get to the Room of Requirement.'

"BLAISE ZABINI!" Her friend roared from down the hallway. She laughed and walked up the staircase to the seventh floor to meet Mrs. Flamel.

Tonks was bored out of her mind while she was waiting in the infirmary for her friend to be checked out by the medi-witches. 'I'm so going to get in trouble for this one…but why do I have the sudden feeling that something bad just happened?'

Her thoughts came true as Regulus came into the ward to find her. "I've been looking for you, and you're needed in the boss's office immediately."

"Why? Whatever happened I had nothing to do with it." She blurted out without thinking.

He smirked because she sounded like his brother with that excuse. "Don't worry you're not in trouble, however he wants to speak to you about your 'little brother'."

"What happened to him?"

"Just come with me to his office and he'll inform you on what happened." He said as he headed to the door.

She sighed heavily and walked out with him lost in her thoughts. 'Merlin, I hope nothing bad has happened to him…'

As they turned the corner to walk down another corridor they bumped into Selene. "Why do you look so down? Couldn't find anyone to torture yet?" Regulus asked with a smirk on his face.

"Bite me."

Tonks watched as he walked away from her and gently bit the Head of Tactical Operations neck. She was clearly shocked when she saw the couple kiss out in the open. 'Wow…I never would've thought that they would've hooked up. I think I'll skip this and go straight to the old guy's office.'

Meanwhile Nicholas was pouring himself some of his favorite muggle alcohol and grabbed the muggle golf putter. "Now let's see if I've gotten the handle of this fascination called 'golf.'" Just as he hit the golf ball the door opened and knocked it off the green outdoor carpet. "Do you mind!?"

"You're playing with your golf set again? What is wrong with my little brother?" Tonks asked as she sat down in one of the chairs.

He took out his wand and turned his putter into a portkey. "I'll explain more when we arrive at the Flamel manor. Try to keep your emotions in check when you meet his girlfriend. 3…2…1…" They both vanished into a swirling vortex of colors as the portkey activated.

Blaise and Mrs. Flamel arrived in Harry's bedroom using her special travel ability and the younger witch felt sick to her stomach. "Please don't do that again…" She said as she shivered from the ice that was still in her hair.

The older witch laughed and gave her a piece of chocolate. "If you think that was bad then just wait until Harry uses his technique."

She walked over to her boyfriend and stroked his hair. "Why is Harry trembling so badly at my touch? He's never done that before…"

Perenelle sighed as she began informing her about what happened. "As I told you earlier, he feels like a monster that doesn't deserve to be loved, and turning down the dark path from ending someone's life."

She smiled at her love and kissed him on his lips. "He's just afraid like any of us would be if we were in the same situation. I know I certainly would be. So where is his sister that you were telling me about?"

Before the older witch could say anything they both heard a loud thud outside of the bedroom and a few cuss words being yelled. "That would be her and my husband."

Tonks continued to cuss under hear breath when she entered Harry's bedroom with her boss. Immediately she ran over to her younger brother's bed. "What happened to him?" Nicholas told her everything that happened and her jaw dropped. "So that's why I was summoned to your office to ruin your little muggle golf game."

Mr. Flamel winced from the glare that his wife was giving him. "Now Penny, please don't give me that look…"

She walked over to him, grabbed his ear with authority, and started dragging him from the room. "Excuse us girls, but we are going to have a little conversation that needs to be addressed."

Both females broke into fits of laughter before Tonks took her hood off to reveal her face. "So you're the girlfriend in my brother's life?"

Blaise looked incredibly confused because the person in front of her looked nothing like Harry. "Yes I am, but how are you his sister? You look nothing like him!"

She grinned before using her special abilities to resemble him. "Before you ask I'm a metamorphmagus and so is he to a certain extent. Something is off about you because by rights he should be going after a redhead since it's the Potter curse…"

"That has been broken since we were made official on the night that he was arrested. Also before you start grilling me about our relationship…no I'm not pregnant or shallow to know how much gold is in his Gringott's account. I love him for who he is and not who he was presented to be."

"Good answers, but why is it that I can sense a bond between you two?" She asked with a raised eyebrow and crossed her arms over her chest.

"My father married a Veela which makes me half-Veela, and we bonded the night that he ran away from Mrs. Flamel." Blaise said before giggling.

She smirked at her. "I heard about that little endeavor and she was pissed that night. I know I should be drilling you for what your intentions are with him, but I'm feeling lazy right now. I think it's weird that my brother is dating a Slytherin girl, and he's a Gryffindor."

"Not true because he is in Merlin's house and his symbol is a Dragon."

"That's because he is the magical and blood heir of Merlin and Morgana Le Fay. Not to mention that he is the Head of the Black and Potter families. He brought my mother and I back into the family so that's how I became his sister." Tonks said but quickly turned her attention to her brother when he started clutching his fists tightly, shaking violently, silently screaming, and sweating heavily.

She grabbed his hand in worry. "What's wrong with him?"

"He's having bad nightmares again. Stay with him while I get the Flamel's."

Slowly he opened his eyes to see his girlfriend standing over him with a worried smile. Immediately he untangled himself from the bed and glared at her through his tunnel vision. "Why are you here!? Come to spit in my face to call me a monster?!" He growled at her when he saw one of the Order spies posing as his girlfriend.

Blaise's smile turned into complete shock because his words slapped her in the face. "Why would I be calling you a monster?"

"Why not call me a murderer? Is it so shocking to see the fate-whipped golden boy take someone's life before?" He spat at her as his eyes became ice cold emerald with vertical slits. "Or is it too much that I'm carving my own path in history then being the light savior that everyone in the world believes that sunshine shines out of my arse?!"

She walked up to him with a hurt look on her features. "Harry, look at me please…you were having a nightmare…you're here at the Flamel manor. Come sit down with me…"

He turned his cold uncaring stare back at her and took his hand back from her grasp. "No I don't think I will. Let me guess you're here to take me back to the manipulative bastard where I'll be thrown back into the 'greater good design' that I've mucked up for you so many times?! ANSWER ME BEFORE I DO SOMETHING I ALREADY REGRET!"

Hearing her boyfriend screaming at her with clear hate in his voice was making her cry silent tears because this wasn't the same playful and flirty person she knew before. "I'm not here to take you back to Dumbledore…please believe me."

He sneered at her words, but his high fever was clouding his judgment. "Why should I believe anyone who has too much blind devotion to the act of the kind and gentle grandfatherly figure who imprisoned his one time friend inside a necromancy book for all eternity?! You people disgust me with the way you've all become sacrificial lambs to be slaughtered! Let me guess you were paid off by that old man to pose as Blaise! WEREN'T YOU! ANSWER ME NOW!"

"Harry please stop this…I am your girlfriend! I love you!" She cried into his chest.

He moved away from her and bellowed, "LIAR!" He held his hand out infront of him, and slowly started to squeeze his hand closed.

Nicholas, Tonks, and Perenelle came into the room to see him using unfocused wandless magic to cut off the Half-Veela's air supply. "Let her go Harry!" The old alchemist yelled at his surrogate nephew with his wand in hand. "LET HER GO!"

She grabbed her throat hoping to breathe some air into her lungs as more tears fell from her eyes. "Harry…please…"

"I…I'm…sorry." He whispered as his cold emerald eyes clouded over and collapsed to the floor.

Tonks ran to the younger witch's side to find out if she was alright her brother's girlfriend started coughing and sobbing at the same time. "Sorry about this but I think its time for us to go."

"No! I'm…not leaving him." She cried out before she was hit in the back with a sleeping spell. The former Auror caught her and conjured a bed for her to sleep in until she calmed down.

Meanwhile Nicholas levitated the young lord to the bed and magically strapped him down. "This has to be done Penny, because we cannot afford for him to attack someone like this again."

She began medically scanning him and found something she didn't expect at all. "He has a very high fever of 106.5 degrees and has been hallucinating because of it. We have to force his mental barriers back up or else the link he has with the dark idiot will open back up."

"Maybe we made a mistake by bringing him to our side Perenelle. He's too young to deal with the stress of what we are trying to do…"

His wife grabbed his beard and yanked on it hard. "Don't be a fool Nicholas! We did it for a reason and all the sudden because he was forced to kill someone to save another's life that you're giving up on him?! That is unacceptable!"

"I didn't say that I was giving up on him, but at the particular moment I don't want him around the department until he comes to terms to this." He sighed heavily. "He has to apologize for what he was about to do to his girlfriend, however I'm not sure if she would forgive him just yet."

She snorted at his comment. "Obviously you don't know women too much in your old age. Blaise and this knucklehead are bonded together, and the fact that she loves him for him not for his fame."

Nearly eight hours had passed since the hectic situation took place when Blaise opened her eyes. She put her hand to her throat and looked sadly at her boyfriend. She got up from the bed and walked hesitantly to him. Listening to him whimper in his sleep was breaking her heart as she ran her fingers through his soft silvery colored hair.

Tonks walked into the room to see her sitting at her brother's side. "Are you alright?"

"No, I'm not alright. Why does everything bad happen to him? Why can't people just leave him alone so he can't suffer anymore?" She said through the tears falling down her face.

His sister pulled up a chair beside the distraught Half-Veela. "I understand and I don't think it's fair either, but to be honest I thought you would've left him after he attacked you."

She looked up at Tonks with a sad smile. "I should've, but I can't. He wasn't himself when he did that, but he kept saying that I was going to take him back to Dumbledore like I was one of his order members…"

"It's very possible since he was betrayed by that manipulative old man. He played us all like sacrificial pawns on a chessboard to bring him new allies to conquer the rest of the British Isles under his dictatorship."

As the two females talked Harry opened up his eyes and immediately his guilt was eating away at him for what he did to his girlfriend. He saw her holding his hand, and he accidently squeezed her hand gently to let her know he was awake. She stopped her conversation with his sister and looked into his guilt-ridden emerald eyes. "Blaise…I…I'm."

She put her finger to his lips before embracing him. "You don't have to say anything Harry because I know you didn't mean to attack me. You weren't in your right frame of mind because of your high fever and it was making you hallucinate."

He pulled her back at arms length, but he couldn't look into her eyes. "That's no excuse for how I acted to you…"

"Harry, as much as I appreciate you staring at my breasts or my other feminine parts…" She said with a smirk at seeing him blush a little. "I want you to look in my eyes because I will never call you a monster or a murderer for having to do with taking that one man's life. You need to stop beating yourself up with guilt because you are stronger then this. What would you have done if it was me or your precious people were in your agent's situation? Would you let them die or would you stop the attacker permanently so it doesn't happen again?"

His eyes widened at her words because it made sense. "I…would've done anything possible to protect those who are precious to me."

Tonks ruffled his hair and smiled at him. "Kiddo, I made my first kill when I was in the Auror Academy during one of our field exams. It took me nearly three weeks before I gathered the courage to talk about how I killed Cameron Brady to save my friend's life. So you're not the only one who had to face this alone."

"I killed the person Voldemort's Horcrux possessed when he drank the metallic substance in Hufflepuff's chalice. I fought him until I got cocky and then I was overcome with anger when I separated his head from his body. Since that day I've been haunted with seeing him in my reflection in the mirror. He kept saying that I'm following down the same path that he did, and that I'll sacrifice my loved ones for power." He said as he wiped the remaining sweat from his forehead.

Blaise held his hand and saw the small faint scars on his arm. "You punched the mirror didn't you?"

He smirked when he saw his girlfriend glaring at him. "Did I ever tell you that you look cute when you're angry?"

"What am I going to do with you?" She sighed heavily as Tonks walked out of the room. "Harry, promise me that you won't do anything more rash from now on. I have enough gray hair and I don't need to have anymore."

He wrapped his arms around her and held her tight. "I promise that I won't do anything rash again, but I won't promise about the gray hair. I think it's a turn on actually, but can you forgive me for what I did earlier today?"

She kissed him on his lips and hugged him to her. "I already told you that there's nothing to forgive, but don't let it happen again."

"It won't, but sometimes I just wish that we didn't have to part of this civil war. Besides look at what it's done to me over the last few years at Hogwarts…and you're complaining about gray hair." He smirked.

"I already have enough from you mister. I don't want to leave you right now I have to return to school before someone finds out that I'm missing."

He kissed her forehead and got out of bed. "I'll take you there myself after I get dressed."

Perenelle was drinking tea with her husband in the study before he went down to his lab when Tonks walked in. "They're having a private moment so I figured I'd come by and visit the old folk. So where's the old man?"

"He's making the finishing touches to Harry's sword, and I appreciate it if you don't call me 'old folk'. You wish to look as good as I do when you're my age." She said and flung her red hair over her shoulder in an arrogant fashion.

"Yeah and I highly doubt that I'll be immortal like you. I wouldn't want to live forever because if this war doesn't end we'll become like the American Salem Witch Trials with the muggles. Granted Harry and I can fit in, but not everyone else."

Mrs. Flamel looked at her strange and poured another cup of tea. "You think that it will come to that?"

"I think it will because of all the muggles that Voldemort is killing off just for sport. Someone is going to want to retaliate for the loss of life, and you know the British muggle army is always ready to kill something." Tonks said with a sigh.

"Let's just hope it doesn't come to anything like that. We might as well go check up on those two before they start humping like rabbits."

"I so do not need that visual of him and his girlfriend going at it in my head."

When the two of them walked into the room…nobody was there. "I swear I'm really going to hurt him when I get my hands on him."

"Wait Mrs. Flamel I found a note on the bed addressed to you." Tonks said as she handed her the letter.

Blaise and Harry arrived via 'shadows' back into the Room of Requirement. He had to laugh because she wasn't feeling great. "Please don't do that again…"

"I can't help if it's a natural talent of mine. Besides at least when I brought you here you didn't throw up."

She put her hand on her hips and narrowed her eyes at him. "And who told you that I did?"

He smiled at her with mirth in his eyes. "You just did. I was out cold when you arrived before I was hallucinating."

She blinked a few times and she slapped his arm. "I can't believe I fell for that, but what are you going to do now?"

"I'm going to destroy the rest of those Horcruxes, and then come back for seventh year to be with you. I think after that I can convince your parents for me to impregnate you and create a legion of mini-Potters to take over the world."

She wrapped her arms around him and smiled at him. "Now there's my smartass boyfriend I love so much."

"I love you too, but I want you to be careful as well. I can imagine that the Death Eater children would like to use you to get at me to have their mudblood master to kill me. So you have to promise me that you won't do anything stupid."

"How can I not do that when I'm your girlfriend?" She said while smiling sweetly at him.

"Blaisey, thank you for helping me open my eyes. I know that the guilt won't go away in the blink of an eye…I'm thankful to have you with me."

"You don't have to thank me Harry, because it's my job to keep you on track." They kissed again before he disappeared into the shadows. 'HOW DO THEY KEEP DOING THAT!?' She scowled as she walked out of the room of requirement only to bump into the two traitors.

"And what are you doing here Zabini?"

"So sorry to burst your bubble, but I don't answer to those who betray others for a little bit of currency. Now stop drooling at me and get out of my way." She pushed past them to head down to the staircases.

Ron sneered and grabbed her arm. "You're not going anywhere you Slytherin slut!"

Ginny grinned when she pulled out her wand to curse her. "It's because of you that Harry wouldn't give me the time of day to become his wife!"

"Gee if you weren't trying to steal everything his family has worked hard for then you would've had a slim chance in hell with him. THIS IS FOR CALLING ME A SLUT YOU ASSHOLE!" She yelled as she delivered a hard knee strike to his groin and punched him hard in the jaw.

Blaise angrily stormed away with Ginny hot on her heals to make her pay for what she did to her brother, but she saw Professor Snape standing behind them with a deep scowl on his face. "Well, well if I didn't know any better I would say that the two of you were going to cause harm to my student for defending herself. Add yet another two weeks worth of detentions to your growing list, but if you get just one more week I will be writing to the Board of Governors to personally expel you both from this school! Get out of my sight and 70 points from Gryffindor…each."

The two Weasley's turned red in the face in anger. Ginny helped her brother to his feet and glared at her, however her idiot brother wasn't that smart. "This isn't over Zabini…I'd watch my back if I were you."

'Like you two morons scare me.' She thought as they walked past her. "Is there something you want to ask me sir?"

"We will talk in my office where privacy is preferred." He said in a hushed tone as he opened up one of the passageways that lead to the dungeons.

It took them a few minutes to reach the Potion master's office, and as soon as they stepped inside he cast multiple security spells on the walls and doors. "Miss Zabini, I know that you are going out with Mr. Potter-Black but I would like to know why you were missing for most of today."

"I was with Harry because he was forced to take someone's life, and he wasn't cooping too well with it. I'm not allowed to say anymore without betraying the magical oath I took." She said.

"I'm well aware of knowing about your 'Unspeakable' boyfriend. He visited me not too long ago for some information. There are certain someone's who are on his side in this civil war. However, you must be very careful from now on because the Headmaster will be informed about your relationship with the former Gryffindor."

"I'm not afraid of the Weasley's…" She started to say but she was interrupted by her head of house.

"That is not the point you stupid girl! You do not realize the situation you could be in when he hears of this. He may not be in power in the Wizengamot, but he still holds enough political power to make your lives miserable. You would not last very long in the presence of the Headmaster since he is a master of the mind arts, and that is why I will personally teach you Occlumency to keep him from getting into your mind to access your memories. Come back here after you've come back from dinner, but for now do not make eye contact with Dumbledore. Do I make myself clear?"

"Crystal clear sir and I would like to thank you for instructing me about this art. However, there is one other student who knows about my relationship and about the Unspeakables. Would you be willing to instruct her about shielding her mind as well?" She asked.

He got up from his chair and poured himself another glass of alcohol. "Who is this student that you are referring to?"

"Hermione Granger sir and I know that you don't the 'insufferable know-it-all'. She was with us when we retrieved the Horcrux from the Room of Requirement. It would be valuable for her to learn this because of the former connection to Dumbledore."

He raised his eyebrow at her and sighed. "Very well now get your assignments from the classes you missed."

"Yes sir."

Harry arrived back into his bedroom to see a stern looking Perenelle and Tonks. "Before you yell at me I took Blaise back to school and I apologized to her for how I acted while I was under the hallucination. It will take a while to get over taking someone's life, but after being with her I feel that the weight has been lifted from my shoulders. I'm sorry if I offended the both of you and Nicholas in anyway…"

He was silenced when his 'aunt' embraced him. "I got your note so I'm not upset with you, and I couldn't be more proud of you. Besides it's good to have my annoying surrogate nephew back to normal, but you will still be scrubbing Nicolas's potion lab with a muggle toothbrush."

He smiled at her and returned her hug. "Tonksie, I'm sorry if I offended you, and thank you for helping me. I couldn't have asked for a better older sister."

She smiled and hugged her little brother. "Great…you take all the fun of yelling at you away with sappy speeches like that. Oh and Harry I have some news that you might not want to hear, but I have to say it anyway. Remember how we originally thought that Sirius's brother was dead? Well his death was a fake and he is alive."

Perenelle was ready to choke her until all the air left her lungs. 'You idiot! You weren't supposed to say anything about that!'

Nicholas walked into the bedroom to overhear the secret that was never supposed to leave her mouth. He saw Harry's fists clenched and shaking with anger. "I guess this is a bad time to inform you that your sword is completed."

"Would it be possible to speak with him immediately?" Harry asked through clenched teeth.

He sighed heavily. "I want your sword oath that you will not kill him with this sword or by any means." Once the oath went into effect he handed the sword to his 'nephew'. "You will need to unsheathe your blade to bond it to you so nobody else can touch your weapon. Also I had an accident with your old sheathe so I created an iron replacement."

"Wow…it's kind of heavy."

The old Alchemist looked at him with a blank look on his face. "But you're so big."

Harry narrowed his eyes at the old man before going through the bonding process. He grunted in pain when the runes stopped glowing. "WHY DOES THAT ALWAYS HAVE TO BLOODY HURT!?"

Perenelle slapped him upside his head. "You watch your language!"

Tonks started laughing at him for getting into trouble, but Nicholas bopped her on her head. "Stop laughing at his misfortune."

The younger Unspeakable agents started cussing at their two superiors under their breaths which caused them to be smacked upside their heads again. Harry grabbed his sister and vanished into the shadows. "Hopefully they won't be plotting revenge against us."

"Trust me my darling wife…we'll be lucky if they didn't prank our offices in retaliation, but I'm more worried about Regulus at the moment." He said as they used a portkey back to the Unspeakable office.

A/N: First of All, I would like to apologize for the long wait for the chapter to be finished. It took me many...many times to come up with the requested ideas for a little Harry and Blaise action. You'll probably know about some situations that I stole from certain movies, but it seemed good at the time when I wrote it. So I don't own anything dealing with those unnamed sources, and I won't name them either. Don't worry I won't be doing that again and I'm not giving up on this story. I'll be starting chapter 22 soon.