Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, I do not have any rights to Harry Potter and I do not make any money from writing these fic's.

A/N 1: Just to stop the confusion I live in the UK and I know the UK way of crocheting so I am using the UK method of crocheting so to me a Single Crochet in patterns mean a double crochet.

Chapter Twenty-Five

"No Kitten, you see because of the fact we are both magical and the Dursley's most likely know about magic as they to-allowed you to live in this house it means that things will be quicker and easier for us all," Epemetheus said only for a playful grin to appear on his face as he held up the social services copy of the paperwork, "Watch and learn kitten, I love doing this with paperwork!"

Blinking in confusion Harry watched as his new dad held the paperwork up in the air above the bed, away from anything else too, and gave him a playful knowing smile. Suddenly the next thing Harry knew was that the paperwork was being consumed by a large flame only for it to grow smaller and smaller with each passing second and after 10 seconds had passed the flame and paperwork was totally gone from Epemetheus hand.

"Man I love setting fire to my paperwork, and Matsuo can't tell me off about it either!" Epemetheus said with a large grin on his face as he gave the wide eyed open mouthed Harry a playful wink, "So...you approve? By now the paperwork should be on the desk ready to be looked at and have a few stamps put on it and filed away."

"That was amazing!" Harry cried out before he could stop himself, "Can I learn how to do that?"

"You sure can," Epemetheus replied as he took the Dursley's copy of the paperwork, "But I think you are going to have to wait a bit first before I teach you, we do not want you making everything going up in flames now do we?"

"No," Harry answered, he was disoppointed but at the same time he understood what his new dad meant.

"That's a good kitten," Epemetheus said with a grin as he placed the Dursley's copy of the paperwork on top of the pillows where both Vernon and Petunia could easily spot them, "Right kitten, if you would just put our copy of the paperwork in your bag until we get to the manor we can get going. Do you mind if I carried you again?"

"I don't mind, it is the quickest way anyway," Harry replied as he carefully folded up the paperwork and put it into his bag with his crochet items, "Will it take us a long time to get to the manor? How are we going to get to the manor? Will we be going by some sort of magical way?"

"Slow down kitten, if you keep asking questions without pausing I won't be able to answer," Epemetheus said with a kind smile on his face causing Harry to blush madly, "And well...if we were to go to the manor the muggle way it would take us about three days of solid travelling but as we are going to be using a Portkey, nasty things, to get to the manor."

"A portkey?" Harry asked as he leant closer to his father with wide eyes, "What is a Portkey?"

"Portkey's are nasty bits of work, horrible they are, makes you feel ill for the first few times you use them," Epemetheus explained with a look of disgust on his face, "And don't get me started about trying to land on your feet when landing! I mean I am a tiger demon, basically of the feline family, so I should be able to land on my feet but nooooo! I always end up falling down and landing on my butt for some reason."

"I guess I won't have to worry about landing on my feet," Harry said with a depressed sigh as he looked down at his motionless legs.

Frowning at his new son's depressed look Epemetheus did the first thing that came to his mind, without thinking, which acordding to Matsuo was a common thing for Epemetheus, he reached out and pulled his kitten into his lap while ignoring the adorable surprised yelp and gave his little one a tight loving hug and ignored the flinch.

"Your right kitten, you won't have to worry about landing on your feet," Epemetheus said causing Harry's body to go as stiff as a board in his arms, "Because if I have my way you will be with me all the time so I can spoil you rotten and as I hate using Portkey's you won't have to worry about landing on your feet!"

"There are other ways to travel?" Harry asked shyly as he began to feel better at his father's comforting words.

"Well there are the wand wavers methods of transport like floo, broomstick and apparition, through all of them are horrible," Epemetheus explained as he stuck his tongue out causing Harry to giggle, "The best way to travel is by flash viaggio fiamma."

"Flash...veg flame?" Harry asked with a confused expression on his face as he tried to say the word.

"No kitten, nice try but its flash viaggio fiamma," Epemetheus said with a soft smile causing Harry to blush, "It's Italian for Flash Flame Travel through most people call it Flash Travel as it can be a bit tricky at first to say correctly."

"I think that I will use the Flash Travel name for it...if that is okay?" Harry asked as he nervously looked up at his dad, he did not want to upset his new father figure.

"No kitten, it's fine," Epemetheus said with an easy expression on his face making Harry relax slightly, "I use it myself most of the time when I can get away with it but because of my role in the manor I had to learn how to say it properly."

"Your role in the manor?" Harry asked as he chewed his lower lip, "You...you sound important..."

"You could call me that but I say I'm no better than anyone else," Epemetheus replied with a shrug of his shoulders, "My mother is an elder and the leader of the Black Tiger Demon Clan and one day I will take over her roles through I won't become a proper elder until I start training someone to take over my role as Leader of the Black Tiger Demon Clan through you don't have to worry about that as it won't matter much for a good many years."

"S-Shouldn't you have...a child that is yours and not one you adopted then?" Harry asked as he tried to hide his emotional pain, "I mean what would your clan and the elders say? And what about-"

"Kitten all that the elders are there for at the end of the day is to make sure that the leader doesn't do anything they shouldn't do and not become too power mad, at the end of the day I have the last say in the matter, if they don't like it then tough," Epemetheus said as he looked Harry in the eye with nothing but truth and honesty shining in his bright blue eyes, "And just so you know you have the choice of becoming my successor or not, it is all up to you. If you don't want to be that's fine kitten, it will not be the first time it has happened and it won't be the last. We will just hold a contest to see who will be the next leader and depending on how things go the next second in command. I won't have your whole life already mapped out for you kitten, it is your life and you are going to live it how you want to live it."

Shocked and surprised at his father's passion filled words Harry could only stare at Epemetheus with wide eyes and an open mouth. Epemetheus chuckled at seeing the state his new kitten was in, he meant the words he had just said, his kitten was precious to him and even though he was adopted Epemetheus still felt like he was one of his own blood children and nothing would change that.

"Now then how about we forget about all of this heavy talk for now so we can finally get a move on? I don't know about you but I want to be long gone by the time those...muggle animals come back here," Epemetheus said as he offered Harry a hand, "So how about it? Through with the Flash Travelling we will have to go outside as I still make things go up in flames even after a several years at this sort of travel."

With a large grin on his face and feeling better about everything Harry happily took Epemetheus' hand only to let out a happy and surprised cry as he suddenly found himself being pulled up onto his dad's shoulders. Unable to use his legs to balance himself Harry nervously wrapped his arms around Epemetheus' head and shoulder's trying to hold on for dear life while his bag full of crochet items and the adoption paperwork was hanging around his arms.

"Ready to go? All set?" Epemetheus asked his son as his lifted his arms up and placed them on Harry's legs to steady his kitten and to keep him safe and in place.

"Yes, just...can we please go slow?" Harry asked nervously, even though he was scared about falling off of his dad's shoulders he also felt strangely safe and happy at the same time, he knew his dad would not let him fall especially by the look of the grip around his legs was anything to go by.

"Not a problem kitten," Epemetheus replied understanding his kitten's worries, "I won't let you fall and besides you have an important job to do for me while you are up so high!"

"An important job?" Harry asked as he tightened his arms around his father as Epemetheus slowly carefully stood up, secretly he was enjoying these 'jobs' his dad gave him, it made him feel useful, needed and wanted.

"Yup, knowing my friend Matsuo he will be on his way here as he has all sorts of contacts and will most likely know about the adoption, I need you to give me a heads up when you spot him so I have time to either run for it or think up something really good to tell him."

"Does this...Mat person has yellow eyes like a cat and black hair and wears a suit?" Harry asked as he looked out of the window and down into the street below.

"Yes...how did you know that kitten?" Epemetheus asked as a knowing feeling suddenly hit him, Matsuo couldn't be...could he?

"I can see him already dad...his standing right outside in the street looking up at us," Harry replied as he looked carefully at Matsuo, "He looks strict but nice...for some reason he keeps giving me kind looks but you...his looking at you as if he wants to kill you."

"Shit."

To Be Continued...

Flash viaggio fiamma means flash flame travel in Italian, I found it on a translation website so if it doesn't I'm sorry, I don't speak Italian.