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"Talking"
'Thinking'
{Talking on the fireplace/Two-way mirror}
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Chapter XXV
–The Notts–
Sunday, August 13 1995
HJP's POV
Harry arrived the present to his godfather, who smiled back soothingly. That didn't sound good.
"What happened?" He immediately demanded, looking around for Nagini or Tom.
"Harry, calm down."
"Don't tell me to calm down, Sirius Orion Black!" Harry snapped and then gasped as he realized what he just did.
When he turned towards his godfather to apologise, he saw that the other had an amused look.
"If it makes you feel any better, you are just like your mother was when she was pregnant with you." The older offered and Harry blushed shyly, but nodded thankfully. "Lord Lestrange and Lawyer Yaxley found what caused the Dementors' illegal attack. Your adoptive parents are right now at the Ministry of Magic dealing about it." Harry breathed relieved. "Healer Dolohov was called on an urgent call to St Mungo's Hospital. Apparently Minister Fudge himself was cursed." Harry's eyes grew. "According to the Daily Prophet it was Sirius Black." Sirius promptly offered, making the teenager scoff. "There was a portkey on your person that night." Sirius added, making Harry frown. "That's why you appeared before the Dementors. It wasn't an accident."
"Were people trying to kill me?"
"Yes." Sirius agreed.
Harry passed a hand through his face and long hair, before he frowned and looked up at Sirius.
"Tom went to make them pay, didn't he?"
"And he already caught one of the people who authorized the attack." Sirius agreed as Harry felt the older's magic restraining his from any decontrol.
Harry gasped as he realized why the Minister had been attacked.
"Did he leave because he doesn't have the balls to face me after what he did?" He snarled.
Sirius smiled amused.
"As hilarious as it is to picture You Know Who scared of my godson enough to go hide in another Death Eater's Manor, no. Lawyer Yaxley warned that there would be an unannounced visit from the Social Services today. A big snake and a known Dark Wizard is not exact family friendly."
Harry groaned but nodded.
"What about you?"
Sirius signalled a cord on his neck.
"Dark collar, I cannot be shifted into my human form like Peter was." He explained. "Although if I believe you need it, I will shift. Even if your lover hadn't ordered it out of me using his Lord Black's tone of voice, I'd still do it."
Harry scoffed. He had to have a talk with Present-time Tom over ordering people to do things against their wills.
"So you got babysitting duties?" He retorted and Sirius grinned back. "When I'll see his present-time-self, he is going to wish I'd curse him instead."
"My uncles, aunts and parent's cousins used to speak of Cousin Serpens' famous temper and how even You Know Who would back-off in fear. Amusing how that famous temper is actually inherited from a Muggleborn. Even your Dad knew better than to get your Mum riled up."
Harry smiled back shyly and Sirius signalled the bed.
"If Social Services arrive… my hair…"
"Hush. It's past your bedtime."
Blushing, Harry nodded and laid down. He woke up a few hours later to feel Sirius applying spells around him and knew that his Serpens' features were being undone. By the time his mind realized what it meant, Sirius had shifted and Harry sat up on the bed, putting on his glasses. The bedroom door opened unannounced but it wasn't Madam Bones this time. It was a short woman, slightly pump, dressed in pink robes and a toad-like face.
"Mr Potter, this amount of lies has gone long enough."
Harry narrowed his eyes as he saw the Witch go for her wand. Sirius growled, but Harry set a hand before his face, to stop the Animagus.
"I take it it was you who hexed me the other day in the Diagon Alley so I'd appear in the Dementors' raid, then?"
The woman walked inside the room, approaching him with her wand in hand. Harry made no move for his wand. He knew better than to do it. With one hand before Sirius' face in a sign at the Animagus to stay back and another behind his back, he snapped his fingers behind his back. Just as the Witch raised her arm with the wand a pop was heard and a House-elf appeared between Harry and the crazy woman. Dobby looked around as if confused at what was happening, but then he saw Harry and the woman with her wand raised, the woman hadn't even started to cast her spell and already Dobby had raised his arm, cursing the woman against the opposite wall, who fell in a heap unconscious.
"Thanks, Dobby."
"Old-version Winky appear before Dobby. Old Winky send Dobby without warning."
Harry sighed, relieved.
"People know that Winky belongs to the You Know Who." Harry agreed. "She couldn't be seen saving Harry Potter."
Dobby nodded and then pops were heard as Winky popped in with a Wizard Harry had never met before. The man bowed his head at Harry while saying 'Sire' and then approached the fallen pink toad.
"Mind telling me what happened, Sire? I believe that Antonin told you not to use magic."
"She was about to curse me, after saying that my reign of lies had been enough. She was the one that cursed me from Diagon Alley into the Dementors' raid." The other nodded as he checked the pulse of the woman. "I snapped my fingers behind my back so she wouldn't realize it and Winky sent Dobby who at realizing that I'm Harry Potter immediately backed me up."
The stranger bowed his head at Dobby, before he straightened.
"Umbridge must have a Ward Breaker with her, because the Family Manor's Wards shouldn't have allowed her entrance. I'll deal with this, you need to get out of here, Sire."
"I can't travel though magic means." Harry argued. "And go where?"
The stranger looked back and his eyes narrowed, Harry stepped away when the other took hold of his wand, only for Harry to see a magic strike at the window of his bedroom.
"Wherever you chose to go, here isn't safe at the moment."
Harry looked at the two House-elves and Sirius looking back, before he run to his wardrobe and picked a robe to pull over his nightgown as well as a change of clothes that he pushed into his new backpack that Lord Lestrange had gifted him a fortnight ago.
"Can I use the floo connection?"
"Use it as Heir Lestrange." The Wizard agreed. "I'll contact Albert Runcorn to deal with it afterwards."
Harry took hold onto his invisibility cloak and then run out the room. The House-elves and Sirius running after him into the main office, where Harry threw floopowder into the fireplace.
{Heir Lestrange going through to Perthro with Familiar and Family House-elves.} He struggled to say without mispronouncing the words.
Sirius sat beside Harry and used his massive body to help with the being thrown around. Harry held onto the massive body and closed his eyes until eventually Sirius stood on all fours with Harry on his back. Harry blushed at realizing they'd arrived and he didn't realize. He looked around and, like he thought, they'd fallen on the wrong fireplace. He picked the invisibility cloak and pulled over the two and Sirius run out the unknown shop, which had to be in the Knockturn alley and down the Diagon Alley until they arrived the restaurant. Theodore Nott, Harry's Slytherin classmate, was by the frontdoors keeping them open as if looking for something. Harry touched his arm when they passed by him and the other 15-year-old male got the memo, immediately walking back inside and walking down the place and a room.
"He has arrived, Grandfather."
An old man that looked alike Theodore, looked back and Harry took out the invisibility cloak. The man breathed relieved.
"What happened?"
"I fell down the wrong fireplace." Harry retorted as Theodore helped him out the Animagus' back who was tall like a bear. "It happens all the time if I don't have someone to help me. And my 'dog' Sirius was more worried about me not falling on my belly than on the wrong fireplace."
The old Wizard nodded, approaching and doing a check-up spell.
"What about why you come here with only your Familiar and two House-elves as back-up?" The man amended himself.
"A Witch with a toad-like face, I believe her name is Umbridge?, attacked me and Winky called one of the Knights for back-up, who sent me out because the Wards had apparently been dismantled and there was a Ward Breaker striking at my bedroom window."
Sirius shifted.
"It was Lawyer Yaxley who sent us out to whoever would be safe. Harry chose your inn, Lord Nott."
The old man, Lord Nott, nodded.
"Corban must have decided that it was best he didn't know exact location for in case he was caught. Theo, bring Sire to the VIP room upstairs and stay with him. Have you eaten, Sire?"
"I just woke up." Harry argued and showed his backpack. "And I need a change I'm still in sleeping wear."
"I'll bring him to my room so he can take a shower and change before I bring him to the VIP room, Grandfather."
Lord Nott nodded at Theo, and Harry went to store the invisibility cloak, when a woman entered the room they were in. Harry tensed, because Sirius was still in human form, but the old woman didn't even bat an eye.
"I'm glad you were found, Sire." She offered. "Theodore, there's Aurors at the frontdoor. Known members of the Order among them."
Lord Nott nodded and signalled towards Harry, before he left the room. Sirius shifted and they were walked out the room and into the private area.
"You don't need to follow us, Grandmother. I know better than to be disrespectful." Theo argued to the woman.
Looked like Harry's classmate had been named after Tom's classmate.
"That's not why I'm following you, Theo. Sire, anything in special you want to eat for lunch?"
"Breakfast." Harry argued embarrassed. "I spend the nights in the past." He explained and the woman's eyes grew before she nodded. "And anything that won't make my stomach turn around."
"Any allergies? I do not remember the Dark Lord say anything about it nor you mention it when you visited with the Dark Lord in the 70s."
"Pregnancy." Harry argued.
Theo turned to stare at Harry wide-eyed, while the old woman's eyes grew before she smiled.
"The best of the allergies, then." She agreed. "Congratulations." Harry nodded thankfully. "I'll have your meal ready by the time you have finished." Lady Nott offered and left the private quarters.
Harry looked at Theo with a raised eyebrow.
"Then… can I use your shower?" He added when the other teenager only stared back open-mouthed.
"Do you have any idea how hard it is for someone to get pregnant without outside help?" Theo managed to ask.
"When you love someone unconditionally and trust each other no matter what, magic grants you a gift." Harry retorted.
Theo seemed to snap out of it.
"But he is…"
"You think I don't know that?"
Embarrassment showed on the brunet teen, who then showed Harry to a private bathroom of his bedroom. Harry accepted the towel and then took a shower. By the time he was drying himself and dressing he heard a knock on the door.
"Who is it?" He asked as he struggled to do something out of his hair before the mirror that kept insulting his just got shagged look.
–It's me, Serpens.– Voldemort's voice stated.
Harry opened the door and let the older inside, who entered and took hold of the tower, starting to dry Harry's hair.
–Before you argue, I thought that if anyone would get to the Floo Connection before your people it would call less attention if Heir Lestrange had gone to a restaurant than another Manor.–
Voldemort sighed.
–You are right. It calls less attention.– He agreed, took out the towel and passed a hand through Harry's hair only for Harry to feel it grow back to it's real-size. "Corban's safe and it wasn't the Order who did the attack. They wouldn't attack Harry Potter. They went to this place because you had left the Manor and it was a chance to get close and to try to make you see reason. It was an illegal raid and they knew it, so they left. Come, Leanore made you her special."
Harry turned around to clean the mess he made, but already Winky and Dobby had popped in and fixed it up for him, making him blush. They left the room and Theo was by his bedroom's door, waiting.
"Should we put the invisibility cloak?" Harry wondered and Theo nodded.
Harry took hold onto it and pulled it over the two of them, before Harry and Tom followed hand-in-hand after the other teenager out the private area and upstairs into the VIP room. As promised Harry's breakfast had already been set up, as well as Theo's, Tom's and Sirius' lunch. Sirius who was on a chair in his human-form eating. They entered and Voldemort took out the invisibility cloak, before he guided Harry to his seat and pulled the chair for him.
"How much did you sleep?" Tom wondered.
"I don't know… Sirius, what time was it when the pink-toad showed up?"
"Midday."
"Barely four hours then." Voldemort agreed as he thought. "What about your Magical Core's levels?"
"I've had worse." Harry retorted with a shrug and started eating. "I believe that my belongings have trackers."
Voldemort narrowed his eyes and accepted them from Theo (it was easier to call him that considering his grandfather was Lord Theodore Nott), before he started to magically check everything. Even Lord Lestrange's new backpack gift. Eventually Harry took out his glasses and wand, giving it towards the older who checked both. Only for Harry's new glasses to act up.
Voldemort obviously groaned, picked the invisibility cloak and disappeared, only for the room's door to open and close again. There's a long moment and then blindly Harry re-started to eat.
"Those glasses…?" Sirius started.
"New ones that Voldemort made Healer Dolohov set up for me so my old ones stay in the past. I guess this means that whoever Healer Dolohov went-to: put a tracker on them." Harry explained. "That or during my birthday Auror and known Member of the Order, Nymphadora Tonks, had them cursed without anyone's knowledge."
"That's more likely." Theo put in from Harry's side on the dining table. "Healer Dolohov would have put the glasses under Serpens Black. If Order of the Phoenix' Members would put trackers on it it would be to know your counterpart's location and not Harry Potter's."
Harry hummed, but kept his attention on his plate since he couldn't even see the vultures of the other two already his own plate was hard. Eventually the door opened, Harry felt Tom's Magical Aura re-enter and approach him, only for the older to put something on Harry's face. Sight was fast to come into view.
"Augustus is looking into your new glasses to see what happened to it. You are lucky that I still have the backpack with your belongings although this year I won't need to any longer."
Harry blushed and smiled back thankfully.
"Thanks… don't think this saves you from an argument later over ordering people what to do instead of just asking."
Tom smirked amused and nodded.
–SYiaS–
Saturday, August 13 1977
HJP's POV
Harry arrived his own time and funny enough… he was still in the restaurant. He went for his two-way-mirror when he remembered that past-Tom didn't have one. Why hadn't they left the restaurant?
"Winky." He called and the house-elf popped in. He sent her an apologetic look. "I need to get back to Tom and no one else can know that I was here in the first place."
Winky nodded and went to magic travel him, when Harry stopped her.
"Master Serpens Black Sir?"
"Tom cannot find out yet but I'm pregnant. No magic teleportation allowed, except floo travel and maybe flying. I already got a scolding from my Healer because of you traveling me around England last time."
Winky frowned and the female house-elf obviously thought on what to do. Suddenly the door opened and before any of the two could react Lady Nott entered. The Witch took one good look at Winky, at Harry's hair and then bowed low, not daring to look at him.
"My apologies, Sire Serpens, I didn't know you would be visiting."
"It was not my intention." Harry argued. "My long distance portkey took me into the wrong location. I called Winky but after the long distance travel I cannot teleport with house-elf magic nor apparation or portkey towards wherever Tom is."
The woman nodded.
"Follow me." Harry looked at Winky, who nodded. So Harry followed the woman towards the room where he had met Lord Nott in the future. Apparently it was the floo room. The Witch approached the fireplace and threw floo powder into it, Harry approached her and let her take hold onto him. {Lady Nott travelling into Malfoy Manor with VIP guest.} How the woman managed to say that without mispronouncing it he didn't know.
They were thrown into the fireplace and only the woman's quick thinking kept him from falling on his face. If Harry expected Lucius Malfoy to be the one to greet him he was fairly mistaken. Instead he was met with a blonde woman.
"Leanore, what iz the meaning of thiz?" A french accent woman's voice demanded.
"Don't look, Genevieve." Lady Nott retorted. A cloak was pulled over Harry's head. "Go on, Sire Serpens, our Lord's house-elf will guide you to his quarters."
Harry bowed his head thankfully as obviously Draco Malfoy's grandmother's gasped as she realized who Harry was. Winky took hold of Harry's hand and pulled him out the guest floo room. As soon as the two left he could hear the two women start to gossip over him falling from the wrong location with a portkey. As if it was floo. As if said thing was even possible. As the two approached Tom's quarters, the doorway – which was a massive portrait – opened on its own.
"Mind your step." Winky put in and Harry jumped the step inside the quarters just like in the Fat Lady's portrait.
"Serpens?" Tom's voice asked and approached at once, taking the female outing robe from Harry's face.
"Let's just say that stuff happened and whatever you do, the Notts deserve a raise."
Tom scoffed amused and pulled Harry close, kissing him hard. Harry could see out the corner of his eyes as Winky took the outing cloak away to wash it and then return it. Harry stepped back and looked at his Tom's red eyes who smiled back, when they suddenly heard a massive gasp. Harry turned to look back confused to see a late twenties blond, Draco-alike, outside the portrait staring back wide-eyed. Harry snorted and looked at his lover, who immediately raised his I am a Dark Lord to be feared persona. Harry rolled his eyes and let Tom go deal with the young Lucius Malfoy.
"My apologies, my Lord. It was not my intention to…"
"Be fast with it, will you?" Harry asked his lover, who raised an eyebrow back. "It's not like he saw my face. Besides it's our own fault for leaving the entrance wide-open. And, let's face it, we've done way worse than just kissing."
If looks could kill, Harry would be dead right now with the way his Tom glared back. Harry smirked back. Tom sneered and stored his wand.
"We'll talk tomorrow, Lucius." Tom retorted and Harry coughed pointedly. "Over how a proper Slytherin would move forward and pretend that nothing is happening and store it to later use." Tom added, before whispering: "I better go before your stunt gets me an argument and at the minimum an extra year of waiting to be able to bed my lover."
Harry smugly pretended not to hear it as Tom returned inside and the portrait closed. He could see Lucius raise his head at the last second and look back with a thankful look. They both knew very well that if Harry hadn't acted up when he did that the blond would have been tortured right there and then.
"Can we spend the night in bed?" Harry wondered when they were alone and Voldemort looked back confused.
"Something happened in your time, am I right?"
"You know I cannot answer you that. Besides, this way I'll have more stamina for whatever you'll want to throw at me."
"You aren't sleeping enough, are you?" Tom asked instead and Harry shook his head. "It's the constant time-travelling, isn't it?"
"I just can't get enough rest." Harry agreed. "Between the constant time-travel, the few hours of sleep and the magic receding I'm just so tired."
Tom nodded.
"I didn't have anything planed for tonight. Come, I promise I'll be gentle."
"That's what you said last time." Harry argued amused and followed the known You Know Who into his bedroom.
"When have I ever lied to you, Serpens?"
"Do you really want for me to answer that or was it a rhetorical question?"
Voldemort scoffed amused and once they entered the bedroom they undressed and went under the covers.
"I can't wait to be able to have you in my arms full-time without needing to wait a whole year."
Harry looked back and then took his glasses out putting them on the bedside table.
"My parents are starting their last school year this year. I guess that gives you an idea of how long you need to wait." He argued.
Tom hummed and pulled Harry down against the bed, before leaning over him and kissing him. The older male starting to lean his magic as they made out. Somehow through it, Harry could feel Winky's magic. When Tom gave Harry the space to breath, the teen finally understood why the House-elf was interfering. She was stopping Tom's magic from feeling the pregnancy. She couldn't tell him that he couldn't lean magic, so she was downright stopping him from doing anything that could lead him into knowing earlier than he should and would most likely stop him if he went too roughly with Harry. Harry should have told the House-elf sooner.
He was interrupted from his thoughts as Tom found that place inside him that made everything turn white.
"A whole year and I still know you outside and inside." Tommy smugly claimed, making Harry blush.
"Take that smug out, Tom-Tom, I still remember when you had to be taught how to stretch me." He retorted.
Even though their position, his lover laughed. In no time Harry had a massive member going deep inside.
"The good part of just being a day for you? Your body got used to having me inside."
"Not like you gave me a choice." Harry grumbled embarrassed.
(TBC)
Kudos to who recognised Genevieve Malfoy from my Pet's Trilogy, as well as the Portrait (that moves on its own) from my Family Doesn't End in Blood
~Isys