Severus reached up and touched Arwin's head she had remained quiet and he wanted to know what she was thinking. She was very insightful and perceptive at times.
"What are your thoughts Miss Ambrose?" Severus asked her.
"I feel like, I am missing a lot of information. Only one thing feels right about the scrying." Arwin said softly.
Severus turned his head and she moved so she was now sitting at his side.
"What is that?" Severus asked.
"I think the first one and the third one actually went together as a whole, it feels right. If there are supposed to be three, we are in the third one now. No one can really know the future, because it hasn't happened, we haven't made our choices."
Severus gave her a grin. He had thought maybe there was a forth choice, there wasn't. There were three, one of the scryings that Merlin couldn't see was the one they were in now. "I do believe you are right." Severus told her.
"All parties will now have time to question the accused." Guddrun said.
Severus looked at Guddrun.
"There are rules for questioning. Rule 1. No magic maybe used while questioning the accused. Rule 2. Any discovery of further evidence brought forth during the questioning can be used. Rule 3. The accused will not be allowed magic usage during the questioning. Now for a new rule since this is the first time so many fates are in the room to be decided. Rule 4. No questioner is allowed to use magic on any of the other parties in the room at any time, should this happen, death will be the fate of the questioner and that is the final."
Guddrun then wrote something down on a parchment. "The order of the questioners are as follows: Dumbledore the White Wizard, Riddle the Dark Wizard, then and last is Severus Snape because he holds four fates in his hands. White Wizard, you may leave your box now."
Severus watched as Dumbledore stood and walked out in the middle and looked at Merlin.
"Why did you send your child into the future?" Albus asked.
Merlin looked at the wizard. "Because I love Silvanus and wanted him back with me and the only way was I saw was through the child."
"Did you not speak with Silvanus about your love for him?" Albus asked.
"Yes, I did."
"What happened?"
Severus watched as Merlin looked at him with loathing. He knew exactly what that felt like too. It was the same way he looked at James Potter after he had won Lily Evans.
"He told me he loved me, but not in the same way that I loved him. He said his heart still belonged to another, that he felt the one he was destined to be with had still not been born." Merlin said as he snarled at Severus.
"So when you learned of this what did you do?" Albus asked.
Merlin turned toward Dumbledore. "I went and scryed the future with blood and water inside Silvanus's lair. I wished to see what his future held. I saw only the one future at that time, and the wizard in it and the their child. He was not powerful, he was not a leader in his time, he was not even born with pure blood. Silvanus is a Prince and worthy of more than what this wizard was."
Severus looked at Silvanus who still had his back on the proceedings. Severus knew Silvanus was a Half-Blood Prince, and then he almost snorted remembering he had called himself that at one time, even wrote in a potions book. He couldn't help but smirk at that, that was rather prophetic in a twisted and sadistic sort of way. Silvanus reached for his hand and Severus allowed him the contact as his Silvanus caressed his fingers over the top of it and over the palm of his hand.
"So you saw the future of your unrequited love and you then did what?" Albus asked.
Severus had to admit, that Dumbledore was very good at getting to the heart of the matter with things. He was glad Dumbledore had gone first. He wouldn't have to ask all of these question to the accused.
"I tried to reason with Silvanus, begged him, even tried to seduce him. Nothing worked, he still would not give himself to me in the manner I wanted and needed. So I went back to his lair and then scryed my future in the dragon pool and was shown the three separate scryings."
"So you saw the futures, and what did you do then?" Albus asked as he started pacing slowly back and forth in front of the accused.
"I had seen the child, my child with Silvanus. Arwin and what she could bring about, that I would have Silvanus and her back in my time with me. Silvanus had turned me down so often that he was leery of being around me then. He said I taxed him so I had gone off for awhile. I knew he wouldn't come to me, so I had to wait, and wait I did for the Summer Solstice. Silvanus becomes drunk, recklessly so during the Solstices and it is the only time he lets his guard down. I transfigured myself and laced heavy enchantments over me and seduced him while he was in his weakened state and I made sure with magic that I was able to conceive a child with him."
"And when the child was born you did what?" Albus asked.
"I hid with her for a time. A year to be precise. I scryed my cousin's future, who is a squib, our fathers were brothers and both from the line of Ambrose. Scrying squibs are little different, you not only see their future but also their blood lines. His lasted well unto the time that I needed to place Arwin in the future. I used diving magic to find precisely where their home would be and I placed Arwin there and wrote a letter to them, and instructed them on what do with her birth record with the potions I sent as well. My cousin's line ends with them, they would have been childless always, I had seen it. So I sent her to them a muggle family I had seen she would be welcome in their home and that she would be given the family name, they named her Arwin Emrys Ambrose. Her real name is Arwin Emrys Ambrosia Silvanus."
Severus watched as Albus paused, he could tell Albus was thinking as he listened to what Merlin had just done. Albus turned back to Merlin slowly.
"During the year she was with you, did you scry Miss Ambrose's future?" Albus asked.
Merlin sat back in the chair that had been made available to him as he cradled his broken wrist and held it closed to his chest. "No. Why would I have need of it if I had seen her coming back already."
"Are you that assured in your scrying that it is never wrong?" Albus asked.
Merlin snarled at Albus. "I can do parlor tricks in Kings courts that you would not be able to even accomplish. Do not judge my abilities. My scrying had always proven accurate until this one. So no, I have never been wrong until now."
"So this one time made you do what?" Albus asked with an icy glare at Merlin.
"I broke the law of time." Merlin admitted.
Albus turned to Guddrun. "The accused has admitted his guilt for what he has done."
Guddrun looked down at Albus. "Guilt is charged to Merlin for the law of breaking time. Dumbledore the White Wizard now your choice is to decide which future that you have seen would you choose?"
Severus stomach fell and he waited. He watched as Albus walked and paced about. This was usual stance on things when it came to thinking. Severus saw Albus pause and look up at him.
"Then in which Severus Snape is with Silvanus in the future."
Severus wasn't exactly expecting that. Albus wanted him to live, but he hadn't even questioned or given thought about the innocent child sitting right next to him that had no choice in all of this with what had been done.
Guddrun wrote everything down. "Dumbledore the White Wizard it is now time for you to be placed into an enchanted sleep while the rest of the proceedings are being held. You will not remember this court at all."
Guddrun swished his tail and Dumbledore's fell asleep where he stood. Severus watched as his body was moved back to the holding box to be held there till the very end of the trial. Severus felt a panic settle over him, above all that was happening, he didn't want to forget. He felt the soothing touch on his hand from Silvanus and Severus looked at him.
"Potion Master calm down, they will decide if remembering is best or not. For Dumbledore it is not best should he remember this. They take into account everything that is discovered. I have walked away from here with my memories intact." Silvanus told him.
Severus closed his eyes and took a deep breath. The Dark Lord would be next. He had to make sure he paid attention to everything, any little thing now. At least the real reason for why Merlin did it was discovered and how he did it was out there. Severus knew Merlin was guilty, he had even admitted it. It was going to be rather interesting to see what the Dark Lord would do now.