Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter

Warning: Slash, mention of rape violence, some parts of sadism.

I'm back I know that I'm exceptionally late, but this chapter was meant to be special, I just wanted to put a lot in this chapter, not only revealing a lot about Scarlet but also another piece of their past! But it took a long longer then expected though, I just went into one writers block after the other, even though I knew what I wanted I just couldn't type it out.

My beta reader has also disappeared then my temp also vanished so I kinda gave up on that all...yea this is unbeated...

Either way enjoy this chapter!

Chapter 21: Betrayal

Harry had finally managed to get his horny mate off him, and was now getting dressed; Draco was still sleeping since his lessons would only start in the afternoon, while Harry had already missed the first two. He picked up his robe put it on, grabbed his book-bag draping it over his shoulder, and found his wand which he pocketed.

He opened the portrait hole and stepped outside, he was already slightly late for potions, not that he missed not spending enough 'quality' time with Snape. Then again would Snape be as mean to him now? After all he was in a relationship with his Godson...

Harry felt himself blushing, whenever he thought about Draco and him together; it made him feel so giddy!

"Harry!"

Harry quickly turned around in surprise, and breathed out a sigh in relief when he saw that it was only Ron standing behind him. He didn't particularly want to be questioned by Remus or Sirius. He quickly hid his surprise and went to greet his best friend.

"Harry I haven't seen you in ages, all the teachers kept on saying that you managed to get ill! Are you alright now mate?" Ron was happy to see Harry but he was sceptical about the whole thing. He knew that Harry wasn't ill with bad case of Dragon pox, well he there when their was something wrong with him, but it had nothing to do with the lies that the teachers were spreading.

"I'm fine Ron."

"Really? I heard that both you and Malfoy got sick together..." he noticed how Harry's body tensed up.

"Really?" Harry managed to croak out. "We must have been kept in separate rooms then, 'cause I haven't seen him."

Ron's eyes narrowed, why was Harry lying to him? What was he hiding?

"Harry, I kn-"

But he was cut off when he heard footsteps behind him, both boys turned around to see Hermione walking towards them.

"Harry!" she said. "Harry I have to talk to you."

"Er..."Harry looked from Ron to Hermione, unsure as to what to do, but Hermione grabbed his arm and started dragging him away.

Ron raised his eyebrows in suspicion. What was going on now? Hermione had been unconcerned about Harry the whole time he was missing, and now all of the sudden she wanted to talk to him?

Just what was going on here?

"Hermione, would you stop pulling?!" Harry had been dragged all over the place, and lost all sense of direction, in fact he didn't think he had ever been in this par of the school before. "'Mione what is this you want to talk to me about."

"I know what really happened to you."

"What?!"

"I know you weren't sick, like all the teachers were saying."

Harry was surprised at how she found it out, but wait he couldn't be sure that she actually knew what had happened to him. She might just have her own theory that might be completely different from what actually happened. So he tried to keep telling himself to stay calm, there was no reason to panic. For now at least.

"I don't know what your talking bout Hermione." He said nervously.

She snapped at him. "Don't lie Harry!"

"I really don't know-"

He heard her laughing it sounded almost malicious, and made him shiver. Something wasn't right about all of this. Hermione had always been an intelligent person, curios about finding answers, but now she was acting almost cold and harsh. Her grip on his arm was like a vice, he looked up at her with a frown.

"What is going on Hermione?"

"Heh, heh, heh, you shouldn't keep secrets Harry, it's not very nice."

"..."

"I know what you are Harry, I know what happened between you and Draco, and I must admit I'm very disappointed."

Harry was scared now, this wasn't how Hermione acted, this person was almost sinister, he tried get his had free, but she wouldn't let go at all. "Let go off me Hermione." He tried tugging his hand away again, but go response.

"Hermione let go off me will you?!"

"Tu, tu, tu, now that wouldn't make master happy if I just let you go." She said laughing again.

"Master...?" Harry frowned. "What are you talking about, who this is master?!"

She slowly turned her head to look at him, a malicious grin dancing on her lips and her brown eyes cold and blank. "You should know him after all you ruined his life." Harry gasped, this wasn't Hermione anymore.

"Who are..." but Harry didn't finish his sentence; because he finally noticed that they were outside, expect on a closer look Harry could tell that they were still in school, it seemed like the forest had managed to invade this part of the school, veins and foliage growing through the cracks, and the roof and fallen in to reveal a star filled sky.

They finally came to a stop in the middle of the ruins, he shivered as the cold wind crawled down his neck, where was he? What was he doing here?

Harry heard the sound of approaching footsteps, but he didn't dare to turn around. "It's good to see you again." He froze; the voice was cold and familiar.

He slowly turned around to see a person that he had never met before; he was pale and tall with long brown hair, and golden yellow eyes. He smirked down at Harry and between his lips Harry could see two sharp canines pocking out. The man leaned forward, his pale hands reaching out towards him, Harry tried to step back; but Hermione kept him in place with her vice like grip.

His hands grasped onto Harry's chin and forced him to look into the strangers golden eyes. "You haven't changed at all Azur."

Harry's eyes widened, how did this guy know about Azur?

"I'm guessing by your facial expression that you don't recognise me, you should after all..." he said moving their faces closer and smirked.

"You're the one who killed me."

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Ron watched from a distance, he had followed Hermione and Harry all the way all the time his gut instincts telling him that something wasn't right, and it looked like his intuition had been correct. Ron was tempted to jump out and save Harry from who ever that guy was, but stopped himself when he heard him say that last line.

"You're the one who killed me."

Harry killed someone? The only person that Harry had ever killed was Voldemort. Unless... did that mean that, that guy was Voldemort?!

Ron gasped and took a tentative step back in fear, but stopped himself; Harry was still there and in danger, and Hermione...well he didn't know what to think about Hermione right now. He just hoped that she was under crucio or something, because he refused to accept that person as the real Hermione. Ron peaked out from behind the pillar and tried to listen into the conversation.

"Who are you?! What do you want fro me?!" he heard Harry shout. Maybe that wasn't Voldemort after all.

The man straightened himself out and gave a mock frown towards Harry. "Tut, tut, Azur no need to be like that. I just came to say hello after all." He laughed again.

"Oh please, there most be more to this then just saying 'hello' to me." Harry scowled, and tried to struggle under Hermione's grip. "Who the hell are you?!" he snarled out.

"Well I guess I can forgive you for not remembering after such a long time, it has been almost a century after all, I although it is slightly hurtful that you don't remember the person that you killed."

"I don't know what you're on about, I never killed anyone."

"Really? You really don't remember me at all?" he walked towards Harry again and grabbed onto his shirt forcing him to look up the stranger again.

"Scarlet, James Scarlet, do you remember that name?!" he snarled out roughly shaking Harry.

Harry's eyes widened, he lumped against Hermione as the information slowly seeped into him. "No..." he whispered out.

"Now do you know who I am?" he sneered, tucking his long brown hair behind him.

"You're dead..."

"I think what you're meant to say is used to be dead."

"But how?" Harry couldn't believe what was happening, in front of him stood a man that should have been dead, but wasn't dead. How the hell was this possible?!

"I guess I should explain what happened from that day, the day that changed everything..." James slowly reached his hand out and touched Harry's scar.

/'James waited out in an open field for his opponent, this may have been his first ever dual but he was no novice with a gun, and it will have been all worth it when he finally got what he wanted. He reached into his pocket and retrieved his gloves, and gracefully put them on. Then he reached into the inside of his vest pocket and took out his gold watch, 20 more minutes till the appointed time.

A grin spread across his face when he thought about the prospects of winning, young Mr Worsley's hand, although his grin turned into a scowl soon after when he though about who Marcus was with right now. It wasn't fair, he had met Marcus before that yank had, and he should have been the one who sneaked into Marcus' bedchambers and not that Azur. James wrung his hands in anger and went to check that the gun's where in working order. He wanted this dual to be fair.

James heard light footsteps behind him and turned around, he watched as his rival Azur Hawlet walked gracefully his way towards him. He hated how that foreigner looked, always with that air of superiority around him that made James feel sick. That man didn't deserve Marcus', who knew what a yank like him would do to sweet Marcus; most likely taint him with his foul ideas.

"I'm here Scarlet." Azur said.

"Not even a polite greeting? Then again I guess I can't expect much of you backwater people."

He watched as Azur grit his teeth together in anger, and glare towards him.

"I have no reason to greet the foolish man who wishes to dual me."

"Where is Marcus?"

"I rather not wish for him to see someone die..." he said slowly reaching into his own pockets to take out his gloves.

"How sweet that you don't want him to see your demise."

"Who said anything about it being my demise Mr Scarlet?" he said back cockily.

It was James' turn to glare now; he had enough of this foolish banter. "You're not worthy of him Azur!" he snarled out.

"And who are you to decide that?"

"He and I are meant to be together it's written in the stars, and I know he feels the same way!"

Azur looked at him with disgust. "You're delusional Mr Scarlet, you always have been."

"Tsk, my mind hasn't been as clear as today, you know what we're here for so let's get to it!"

They both walked towards the man who came to witness their dual, he was holding a wooden case where two muskets where waiting for them. The man opened the case up nervously and watched as the two men grab a gun, before he took a few steps back to watch from a safe distance, he then cleared his throat and started shouting out the instructions.

"Alright, this is an official dual between the challenger James Scarlet, and Azur Hawlet. You all know the rules?" he questioned and both Azur and James nodded towards him. "Good, so please stand here, back to back." He said pointing at a spot in front of him.

"Now you must take ten steps each, anyone shooting before the ten steps are taken will be disqualified and the opposition will automatically win. First shot is the decider, if it doesn't hit the first time we will continue till it does, understood?" they both nodded towards him again.

"Alright you may start."

They both stood against each other and waited till the man counted down. "10, 9, 8, 7..." with each number they took a step forward.

"6, 5, 4..." tension was high; James could feel the hairs at the back of his neck standing up in anxiety. There was no turning back from this, he thought.

"3, 2..." he had to be ready.

"1." Now!

Two shots were fired the sound echoed off into the distance, and silence took over. It seemed to take an eternity as the two watched each other, waiting for either one of them to drop.

Suddenly Scarlet started to cough and heave, droplets of bloody spittle hit the grassy ground, and stained his hands as he tried to cover his mouth. That was when he felt the pain; it was sharp and went through his body like electricity. He looked down, brown eyes widened when he saw the gaping hole in his chest, he looked up to see Azur taking off his gloves and stare down at him in pity.

"Well you got what you wanted Scarlet." Azur said. "But I guess that the stars didn't agree with you at all..."

James watched as his rival and the witness walk away, while he collapsed to the ground under the strain, and blood loss, laying there in a heap.'/

The memory faded away, and Harry felt like he was taking his first breath of air after being underwater for a long time. He gasped and coughed, his body feeling suddenly so weak, he strained his neck to slowly look up at Scarlet.

"After you had gone, I got a little visit from a man with special powers; he said he would heal my wounds and give me the gift of life..." James turned around looking at a near by wall. "Of course I thought it was too good to be true, but I was going to die anyway, so what did any of that matter, so I took that gift without a second thought, and you know what...?" he said, golden eyes hardening.

"It was too good to be true!" he snarled out.

"The man turned out to be a Vampire, he drained me dry, and forced his blood down my throat, and I became one of them, a damned creature never allowed to see sun light again." He then turned around regarding Harry with a twisted grin.

"My first thought was just to find and kill you then claim Marcus for myself, but I was too late. It seemed like that by the time it took to recover from my transformation, and get used to the changes, you both had joined a suicide pack, and died."

Harry gasped again, he and Draco did what?! Suicide?! How did that happen?!

But James continued on, locked in his own track of mind. "I search an eternity for you both, trying to find you amongst so many humans was difficult, but I managed to kill three of your reincarnations; yet I forgot about the repercussions." He bared his teeth out in anger and gave out an almost animalistic growl.

"When ever you died, Marcus died as well, which made all of my efforts in vain!" he shouted out, punching Harry violently in the gut.

Harry stumbled back, but Hermione kept him upright, how did she get so strong all of the sudden he wondered.

"But now I have finally found a way to break the bond that connects you both, oh it was difficult to find out...yet it was so simple that I didn't believe it at first."

A sneer twisted on Scarlet's lips. "It's simple you see, all I have to do is lure Marcus down here, kill you and while Marcus is going through the same process as death bite and turn him. This will sever all bonds between you both, you will never reincarnate and I'll have finally what I've been waiting for."

"No, no, I won't let you!" Harry shouted out, once again trying in vain to tear himself out of Hermione's grip. "Don't you dare lay a finger on him you bastard! Draco wouldn't dare come to you, I won't let him!"

James chuckled and looked towards a pillar almost hidden in the shadows, golden eyes piercing into Ron's blue ones, Ron sucked his breath in he had been found out. "It's already too late for that Azur..." he said slowly.

"You may not call him down, but I bet your red haired friend over there will..."

Harry turned to follow his gaze and found a scared Ron in a poor attempt at hiding. Ron's eyes widened when Scarlet referred to him, and he ran away in fear. James sneered again and turned to look at Harry again.

"Now there is no turning back."

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Woha, that made me shiver...

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