Chapter Twenty-Five: Who are you?
The next day Narcissa had a surprise for everyone, she had left a small charm on the coloring book that Damon was fond of and she made Lucius, Draco, Bella, and Tom gather in the parlor. At exactly two Sirius and Damon tumbled in it looked like they were trying to kill each other, the coloring book gripped in Sirius's hand, "Ahem," she cleared her throat and got looked at by both, "Damon why are you trying to murder him?" the teen had Sirius's by the collar of his shirt and his other hand raised in a fist.
"He ruined my coloring book," Damon said as if that was perfect reason for murder, "Dad said to kill him for such an offense."
"You need to stop taking him so seriously!" Sirius said before poking the teen in the chest, "I'll buy you a new book!"
"Dragons?" Damon asked getting a nod he stood and dusted himself off before helping Sirius up and turning to Narcissa, "Why did you charm my book?"
"Well I was hoping you would be alone so we could get these idiots to talk with you," Narcissa confessed before seeing Sirius looking at his ankle which was beeping, "Oh yes that may be a bad thing."
"Hmm," Damon looked down before dropping to the floor and pulling Sirius's foot out from under him, they watched as he did something and Sirius got a mild shock but the beeping stopped, "There now it registers you went two feet outside the perimeter but stepped back in once the beeping started."
"Ow," Sirius lay there on the floor a minute, "It's going to shock me when you reset it when we get home isn't it?"
"Well of course I can't control the shocking, you're just lucky I figured out how those blasted things work," Damon said before turning and seeing Draco covering laughter, Lucius looked cold and detached, Bellatrix was a mix of amusement and annoyance, yet Tom he was blank, "Um…hello?"
"So why did you stop being Potter?" Draco asked after his giggles left him.
"Well I got asked if I wanted a different life and told to lay my trust in a man who not even five minutes before had threatened to kill me," Damon said calmly, "So I did the logical thing and obviously gave him my complete trust and came out better for it I believe anyways-Ow!" he turned and kicked Sirius in the side, "Papa no biting!"
"You bruised my pretty face!" Sirius argued before seeing Lucius glare at them, he knew it was hurting his son to have that look aimed at him and he suddenly did something that made everyone in the room gawk, that is except Damon. Standing he walked over and stopped a few feet from Lucius, "Lord Malfoy I suggest you stop your ice filled glares aimed at my son or I will be forced to ruin you, he has done nothing against your name or family thus you have no reason to act as if he is beneath you."
"And Lord Black is back," Damon sighed dropping to the floor, yet before he got there Sirius had charmed a proper seat beneath him, "Yes I know a Black never sits below the rest it is not proper."
"Good, don't slouch," Sirius said and watched as his son straightened out, before turning back to Lucius who was now glaring at him, "I have done nothing to warrant such a look either so desist."
Bellatrix slipped over to Damon and asked, "When did he get such a personality and vocabulary for that matter?" she was impressed that her cousin was acting as he should have been his whole life but was also shocked since it went against everything he tried to become.
"The day Dad outed my little secret Papa became like this, it's all Dumbledore's fault really he's much too bothersome. Tried keeping Papa's home and forced him to become a proper Black to remove the annoyances from our home," Damon said calmly as if not gossiping about his Papa, "Grandmother couldn't be more proud, his record of existence is only twenty eight and a half minutes."
"Hey," Sirius turned and pouted, "I've not been uppity for so long have I?' he was acting like a child again thus proving what Damon meant by existence.
"Wow," Damon checked his watch, "Four minutes, that's the shortest time for Lord Black to be on the surface," he asked suddenly, "Does this mean I have to be the adult now?"
"No Damon honey," Narcissa said smiling some, "You just be you we'll all have lunch and Sirius can be whoever he pleases as well, but I must admit you looked remarkably like Grandfather when you went all proper."
"Grandmother says the same thing," Damon chuckled lightly before blinking as Tom held a hand out to him, taking it as the group started for the dining room they hung back walking a bit slower than the rest and he looked down before asking, "How pissed are you really?"
"I'm just a bit annoyed with you," Tom said stopping completely which made the teen stop since he still held his hand securely in his own, "What does this mean?"
"Mean?" Damon asked confused before getting a sigh, "Oh you mean for the war?" getting a nod he sighed as well, "I told you're followers a few weeks ago to stop acting like children over me and which side I may or may not be on, do you remember what I said?"
"You claimed to be on neither side, that the war was worthless in your eyes," Tom summed up getting a smile he traced the teen's cheek, the very cheek he had slapped so long ago, "I once swore to see you dead at my feet, believed you were the worst thing on this planet besides Dumbledore…then I came to see a childlike innocence shine from inside a crazed mind where everything was so naïve and yet somehow wise," he tilted his head up and finished with, "Which one are you?"