Notes:(X) POV change and/or time jump

Warnings: SLASH SHONEN AI Harry is dating Tom Riddle

Thanks to: CaBuckeye

Chapter 25: Foretelling Dreams

The class went on without a hitch; everyone to Harry's relief seemed to be getting better. Aderes had even offered to pair up with Neville so Harry could walk around and check on the others without distraction.

'I'll make it up to you, I promise,' he mentally told Aderes truly grateful.

'Do you think I'd of done it otherwise,' he asked coyly. Harry didn't reply.

He walked around the room only having to make a few comments to one or two people. Before he could believe it their time was up and the D.A. meeting was over. Everyone else seemed to feel the same way, the class having gone by extremely fast.

"Well, I have to say that everyone's doing great," Harry said proudly to all of them after they'd all gathered back together. "I'm really surprised at how fast we got through all the spells we have…I really think you guys are doing great. You guys are going to do great on your OWLs." There was a loud cheer of enthusiasm.

"Aren't you forgetting something, Harry," Tom asked grinning.

"Oh right, Merry Christmas," he muttered a bit embarrassed he could of actually forgot to say that.

There was another sound of laughs and cheers and then in groups of twos and threes they all started leaving all of them saying there goodbyes and merry Christmas as they left. Harry and Aderes both started putting the cushions back up against the wall themselves, Ron, Draco, and Hermione having already left to do their perfect duties.

"It went pretty well," Aderes said off handedly dropping one of the cushions on top of Harry playfully. "Even that Neville kid is learning well, you're a good teacher."

"Aderes," Harry scolded grabbing the cushion and placing it on the stacked pile. It was about this time he noticed that Cho was still in the room with them while everyone else was leaving.

"Umm…"

"Is something wrong," Harry asked tilting his head a bit.

"Can I…I mean can I talk to you…alone," she asked nervously looking from Aderes to Harry and back again.

"Sure. Aderes, I'll meet you at the usual place." Aderes nodded silently and with one last glare towards Cho walked out of the room. "So what's….wrong?" his voice trailed off seeing the tears coming down Cho's face.

"I'm sorry," she uttered trying to wipe the tears away quickly, but it was no use. She was full fledged crying now and showed no signs of stopping.

"Eh…" Harry had no idea if he'd caused her to cry or not and felt extremely uncomfortable standing there like this.

"It's just…this class is so helpful…and I keep wondering…if he'd of lived had he known all this…" she choked back a few sobs.

Harry sighed closing his eyes wondering if he'd seem all too heartless for running out of the room at top speed. He really didn't feel like hearing about Cedric so close to the holidays, or at all for that matter.

"He did know all of this stuff Cho, if he hadn't he'd of never made it to the middle of the maze to begin with," He muttered hoping she'd just give an embarrassed answer, say merry Christmas and leave.

Of course Harry's luck was around no such high point and instead of leaving she took a step towards him tears still streaming down her face.

"I know…it's…I can't help it…"

"Help what?"

"….oh look a mistletoe," she said suddenly and Harry's heart began to race.

'If she kisses me, oh god Tom will murder her,' he thought to himself closing his eyes.

"Eh…yeah better watch out for the nargles, though."

"What in the world are nargles?"

"I have no idea, you'd have to ask Luna," he said quietly taking a small step back as she moved closer to him. She didn't seem to take the hint though, because she took an even bigger step as he had tried to move away and completely closed the distance between them.

'Tom's going to murder both of us…'

(X)

Scared to death of what might happen when he would walk into the common room, Harry remained outside of the Gryffindor tower for over a good thirty minutes. He knew Ron, Hermione, and Tom would all be in the common room just waiting for him to come in and then they'd start asking him questions.

They'd ask him where he'd been and why it'd taken so long and Tom would kill him on the spot and proceed to go after Cho. Eventually though more students were coming in and he had no choice, but to go along with them less he wanted to look even more suspicious.

Sighing he made his way into the common room and attempted to make it for the dorm, but Ron spotted him quickly and waved him over.

"Over here mate! We haven't gone to bed yet," he said grinning. Defeated Harry walked over and slumped down into the chair besides Hermione's.

"Harry you look awful," she said instantly when she'd looked up from her book. "What in the world happened?"

"Aderes is going to murder me," he said quietly hoping the boy was not in shadow form and behind him.

"What?"

"She kissed me…I tried to stop her and keep her away, but she cornered me against the wall and she…she….he's going to kill us both," he yelped throwing his arms up in defeat. "I won't have to worry about Voldemort coming to get me; my own boyfriend is going to due me in!"

"Cho kissed you," Ron asked sitting up a grin on his face. "How was it," he asked eagerly. Hermione shot a glare at him and he instantly looked less excited about it. "Umm…right so did you run?"

"….Ron I should hit you right now," Harry muttered closing his eyes. "I can't believe this happened. I tried to step back and she came closer and then I told her I had homework I had to go and she cornered me against the wall…I don't know why she was so desperate," he groaned rubbing his temples.

"It was a girl mate, a girl. That's the gender you're supposed to be dating for one," Ron said approvingly with a nod. "I bet it was better than any kind of kiss Aderes has given you."

"How would you know, you haven't kissed either of them," Harry hissed glaring at him. "And I'd much rather kiss Aderes than Cho any day," he went on and then turned red realizing the words that had just came out of his mouth.

"Got you!"

"Ron! Oh for crying out loud, listen Harry. Cho's been really upset since Cedric died. She's worried about being kicked off the Quidditch team and she's terrified if anyone finds out that she has a crush on you they'll think she's the reason Cedric is dead-"

"What!"

"I know that's stupid Harry, but I've heard everything that's been going on. She thinks her feelings for you betray Cedric's memory and-"

"Well she can keep them to herself, I actually prefer Aderes to anyone," he said cutting her off. They all went silent at that. Harry realized it was the first time he'd ever chosen anyone over Cho. Even when he'd first started this odd relationship with the shadow, he'd still gotten odd feelings when he was around Cho. Now though, now the thought of being near her and ignoring Aderes felt like some kind of sin.

"Well Harry, I'm sure that's…great," Hermione started and then went quiet. The Shadow had shown up and attached itself to Harry's arm.

'Hey,' he said quickly hoping the Shadow wouldn't notice anything wrong. 'And where have you been?'

'Making out with Draco since you abandoned me,' he said jokingly before spreading out across Harry and the chair.

"Wonderful," Harry muttered rolling his eyes. "He cheated on me with Draco." Hermione started snickering a bit hoping Ron would catch on to also drop the entire subject about Cho. "So Hermione, where are you going again for Christmas?"

"Eh…they wouldn't tell me where actually," Hermione replied setting her letter to the side. "Just that we're going skiing and well, that it'll be fun."

"I still don't get why you people can think strapping wooden strips to your feet and going down a mountain side could be fun. What if you run into giants," Ron asked throwing his own bit of homework to the side.

"Ron, most mountains don't have giants," she said scolding him. "And if we're going anywhere near where Hagrid went, I'll be sure to tell my parents we need to book a new hotel…" she went on her voice trailing off nervously.

"No kidding," Harry snickered. "What's Christmas like at your house Ron?"

"Huh? Oh Mum usually…well she…" his voice trailed off. Harry instantly felt guilty for having brought it up.

"Sorry-"

"Hey, who do you think could have done it," he asked all of a sudden. Both Harry and Hermione sat up at this.

"Huh?"

"You know what I'm talking about Harry, who do you think could of hurt my mum…I was…I mean all our wands were checked and they didn't do it…and when I was…Aderes said he hadn't," he said the last few words a bit quietly.

"You thought Aderes had killed your mom? What reason would he have to do that," Harry asked in shock. It was true he remembered the entire Order wanting to blame Harry or the Shadow that had been trailing him, but he'd never actually gotten a proper explanation for it.

"I don't know, I just thought maybe that shadow had attacked my mum and then you, but then I found out it was Aderes," he said sighing. "I really wish I knew…they need to pay."

"Ron…"

"Forget it," Ron said quickly and looked to the long letter by Hermione's side. "Who are you writing that thing for anyway," he asked curiously.

"Eh, Viktor," she said innocently and quickly went back to writing.

"Krum," he asked in an annoyed tone.

"How many other Viktor's do we know," Harry asked raising an eyebrow.

Ron scowled and went back to his homework.

(X)

"HARRY!"

Harry sat bolt right his eyes seeing nothing, but white. He could feel the figures around him, people he'd known before, knew well, but at the moment they seemed like the enemy.

"Harry!"

He leaned over and threw up. There was an odd squeaking noise from one of the figures near his bed and then the sound of them running off.

"Oh man, he's really sick," another one of them muttered and suddenly there were hands on his shoulders, steaming, hot hands that were scorching him to his bones. Growling Harry instantly shoved the hands off of him and pulled away towards the corner of his bed.

"Harry…"

His vision began to focus a bit, but the pain was still horrible. It was at that moment that the dreams images came running through his mind. A snake, no he had been the snake and the victim…

"Ron you're dad…" he muttered closing his eyes trying to shove the pain away. "Your dad and Cho…they've…some kind of…they've been attacked," he finally managed to get out.

"What," Ron asked alarmed.

"They've been attacked," he said again through gritted teeth. Another rush of pain went through his entire body and he felt like puking again.

'Harry calm down.'

It was Tom's voice, beautiful, wonderful Aderes, the only person in the world who mattered to him right now. The only one who could possibly understand. His voice had somehow gotten through to him even though his brain felt like it was going to explode.

'Come on, it's not that bad, you don't even know if these things happened to begin with,' he tried to assure Harry, but he didn't believe it. Two dreams he had, had two awful dreams and in both of them people he didn't want to be hurt were covered in blood and dying.

"I'm sorry," he muttered loudly and then groaned. He felt Aderes's arms go around him and felt a bit better, but it still wasn't ebbing the pain away.

'Shhh,' he whispered gently not caring if anyone else in the room noticed his shadow form. 'Calm down, close your eyes, relax.'

A few minutes later the pain was beginning to fade and Harry could finally think straight. He looked from Aderes to Ron trying to get his voice under control.

"Ron, you have to listen, your dad-"

"Mate, look you're sick…just stay there and you'll-"

"No," he screamed. Ron, Dean, and Seamus backed away quickly. "I saw him attacked! I was the one who attacked him as the snake…or…" his voice trailed off and Aderes kissed him gently on the neck.

'You're scaring them, that's not what you want right now,' he soothed his own hand dropping onto Harry's.

"Potter, what's wrong?"

Harry turned away from the students and finally took notice of Professor McGonagall's presence.

"Ron's dad…and Cho, they've been attacked!"

"What?"

"I saw it…I was dreaming and then-"

"You dreamt this Mr. Potter?"

"It wasn't a dream," he screamed again rage going through him. "I was dreaming, it cut off…some kind of big snake attacked Ron's dad and then some…I don't know what it was, but it attacked Cho! You have to believe me!"

"I believe you Mr. Potter," she said quietly. "Get your gown on, we're going to see the headmaster." Harry nodded quickly and grabbed his gown. "Bring that shadow with too," she said as though an afterthought.

(X)

"Perhaps you should come as well," Harry heard McGonagall say as he was trying to find his glasses. Aderes ended up handing them to him and they all made their way down the dorm stair case.

'Are you feeling better,' Aderes asked as they walked down the halls of the school. The colder temperature was in fact calming Harry down a great deal and he didn't feel like throwing up as much.

'Yeah.'

'Good.'

It was the only thing they said to each other as they walked towards Dumbledore's office. The only noise besides the shuffling of their feet was Mrs. Norris hissing at them at one point and Professor McGonagall telling her to shoo. They eventually did make it to the headmaster's office without any problems.

"Fizzing Whizbee," McGonagall said and suddenly the gargoyle statue began moving to show the stone steps that led up to Dumbledore's office. "Come along."

Both of them followed her up the stairs quietly until they reached the top of them. There was a large door standing in front of them with a Griffin knocker on it which McGonagall pulled back and knocked three times. The voices inside of the room died down quickly and there was a small "come in" heard from within the office.

Aderes dropped his shadow form into his physical one as they walked into the room. At this McGonagall let out a small yelp as she had, had no idea that Aderes and the Shadow was the same thing.

"Aderes," Harry hissed at him angrily.

"There are a few more important things here than hiding that," Aderes replied calmly.

"I agree," Dumbledore said happily as they made their way into his room. "And what do I owe to this unexpected visit?"

"…Potter has seemed to have a…well a nightmare," she began, but Harry instantly cut her off angerily.

"It was not a nightmare."

"Alright fine, perhaps you should tell him," McGonagall snapped.

It was obvious to Harry his teacher did not like being cut off, he couldn't blame her, but now wasn't the time to worry about such things and so Harry agreed instantly taking a step foreword.

"I was asleep and then my dream changed to this…I don't know what you'd call it. It was like before, but this time I saw Ron's dad and he was attacked, badly. I don't know where he was, but he's covered in blood, he needs help," he said quickly very annoyed at the fact Dumbledore wouldn't even look at him. "And then Cho…I don't know what even attacked her, but it was…something…and she's hurt…"

"I see…and do you know where this was?"

"I already said-"

"The position you were in," he said quietly before Harry could go off again.

"Oh right…" All of Harry's anger suddenly seemed gone and he felt himself swaying back towards Aderes. "I was the snake…I was the one that attacked him," he said swallowing hard.

Dumbledore nodded and without a word stood up walking towards the portraits of old sleeping headmasters. He walked over to two particular people, a wizard with short gray hair and a witch with long curly gray hair.

"Everard and Dilys? Could you please go and check the other areas to try and find this man? He has red hair and glasses, I doubt he'll be too hard to find…"

"Of course." and with that both ex-headmasters left their frames as quickly as they could.

"We shall see then within a few moments what there is to be learned," he said and picked up one of his instruments that he always had about in his room. He set it down on his desk and tapped it with his wand gently. "Fawkes, please do us a favor and give us warning should we need it." The bird vanished.

"Oh I get it," Aderes said rolling his eyes and wrapping an arm around Harry's shoulder.

"Get what?"

"It's nothing," he said to Harry quietly. "Just keep yourself calm."

Harry wanted to hit him for that, but decided he'd rather not have his scar hurting again and did as he was told. A green snake came out from within the thing and began to open its mouth until it could do so no more.

"Well naturally, yes," Dumbledore muttered to himself more than anyone. "But in essence divided?"

Aderes rolled his eyes at that, but Harry had no idea what was going on and was feeling extremely left out.

'Damn it even the guy Dumbledore barely knows, knows more about this crap,' he thought to himself growling.

"It's because I'm smarter than you love," Aderes said to him without removing his eyes from the snake. It began splitting into two halves and then vanished.

"Love hmm," Dumbledore asked without looking up. He set the trinket down where he'd gotten it from and grabbed a black kettle. He tapped it with his wand quickly; it began glowing blue and shaking then suddenly stopped. "Minerva, please go wake the other Weasley children and bring them here."

"Of course," she said quickly and left to go get them.

"Quick question," Aderes said eyeing the black kettle before looking back up at Dumbledore.

"Yes Aderes?"

"Why didn't you end this the first time," he asked seriously. Dumbledore stared at him for a few moments and then shrugged slightly.

"Perhaps I thought things would come out differently," he said honestly before standing up and walking back over to the portraits again. "Phineas," he said loudly trying to wake the man in Slytherin robes. "Phineas wake up."

Silence.

"Phineas!"

"…." Smirking evilly Aderes removed his arm from Harry's shoulder and moved towards the portrait. He stopped a few inches from it, which Dumbledore quickly moved away from and let the boy have his way. "Hey death eater, wake up or I'll stick you with a knife."

That got the old Hogwarts teacher's attention. He instantly stirred awake and looked down seeing Aderes standing in front of him. His glare went instantly to a look of pure shock followed by paleness as he stared at him.

"Good boy." That said Aderes walked back over to Harry rewrapping his arm around him.

"You're…"

"Phineas go to your other frame and tell him that Arthur Weasley was hurt while on duty, we're sending all the Weasley children to him and Harry Potter."

"Yeah yeah," he muttered leaving as quickly as he could. After he did Dumbledore looked to Aderes a curious expression on his face.

"Was he really a death eater?"

"Well, no, but he almost became one, not to mention his brother was," Aderes said innocently as he pulled Harry into a closer embrace.

"I'll have to keep that in mind," Dumbledore mumbled quietly.

TBC