Chapter Two: What's So Special about a Necklace?
WARNING: I don't own Harry Potter or Spartacus or their stories and characters. I only own my story and any character I might add.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: PLEASE READ: So I've had projects back-to-back none stop for the past couple months and it's been exhausting! Hopefully I still have a few fans but like I've been telling people my life is very busy with school and work. Though I do have a new job now so hopefully this one gives me a little bit more free time but I'm not too sure yet. Hopefully you guys understand being busy, which is why I stopped promising chapters by certain days, and are still reading it and enjoying it. ALSO because it's been like a minute and a half since I've updated I figured I'd make up for it and make this a super, super long chapter! Hopefully that makes me forgiven:) school is out for Christmas for me this week once it's over so I should get more free time, but I still make no promises.
"Talk"
'Thoughts'
Chapter Two: What's So Special about a Necklace?
Remus' POV:
"You want us to do what now?" Adam asked clearly not believing what he'd heard.
"You heard us brat! If you want our help you have to agree to help us once we've saved Potter and his husband!" Snape growled causing both me and Sirius to growl right back at him along with the rebel leaders.
"I would choose words more wisely when speaking with the boy." Crixus warned.
"I did." Snape returned.
Crixus stepped forward to attack but Albus stepped in between.
"Gentlemen please!" both men relaxed, though only slightly, and Albus sighed.
"I would love to just go and rescue Harry and his husband without asking for anything in return, it'd be the least we could do for Harry, yet our war is still on and only getting worse. We need the help as much as you need the help." He said gently to the men and women in front of us.
"Do none from this time offer aid without hidden agenda?" Agron asked.
"As I've said we can't just take much needed help in our war just to go back in time and not know just how long it will take. It's has you said, time works differently between our two time periods." Albus repeated.
Gannicus looked ready to say something but he was beaten to it.
"Deal."
Everyone looked to Adam in shock.
"Come again?" Sirius asked.
"Deal." Adam repeated.
"I do not believe you understand what it is you have agreed to little one." Crixus said only for Adam to glare.
"My parents are in the hands of Romans. At this point if they asked us to dance naked in the streets for three days straight I'd expect each of you to agree instantly. Especially since they agreed to help us." The rebels looked down in shame then.
"It saddens mind to know a mere child holds more sense than I." Crixus said fondly and pulled Adam to his side.
"So is that an official agreement?" I asked and they all nodded causing me and Sirius to sigh in relief.
"How are we to move forward?" Nasir asked.
"First we need to figure out just what it is that Harry did to get you lot here. If we can figure that out maybe we can turn it around and get us back to where, and when, we need to be." Sirius said.
"Yet how will such knowledge be found?" Laeta asked stepping forward.
"I already told Severus here to return to school and see if maybe there's a book on it in the Forbidden Section of the library. Ms. Granger also offered her assistance in looking through that section while Arthur has agreed to look through the Ministry records." Albus said.
"And if attempts bare no fruit?" Agron asked.
"I also plan on going to Gringotts and searching my vault. My family put plenty of forbidden books and parchments in there along with the extremely hard to find ones. With so many people looking in so many places we should be able to find something. Even if it's not exactly what Harry did to you, if we can find anything to get us back in time then we should use it." Sirius said and I nodded my agreement with my mate.
The rebels looked from one another before nodding.
"Gratitude is not a sufficient word for how we are feeling. Spartacus and Beauty have suffered long enough. They deserve to have kept their happiness. Not have it taken from them as it has." I looked to Gannicus and offered a small smile.
"Nothing we do can make up for what Harry felt he had no choice but to do because of how he was treated. But, hopefully this makes up for a little of it." I said and he nodded.
"So what should we do while we wait?" Adam asked.
I smiled at him. "Now, we just wait and get to know each other. I know I want to know the people who gave our Harry a family." I said and smiled brighter at Adam. "But we'd really like to get to know his son."
Adam blushed some but smiled and nodded before letting out a yawn. "Maybe getting to know each other can wait. You all must be tired from the week you've had much less the day you had today. I'll show you guys to your rooms. Feel free to stay here until we can solve this problem of ours." Sirius offered.
"Gratitude." Nasir said. Agron walked forward then and placed his hands on Adam's shoulders as I turned to lead them up the stairs.
I led them to the top floor to where three empty rooms were at the end of the hall.
"Kreacher!"
"Yes sir?"
I looked to the elf and offered a small smile. "Will you bring two spare cots for this room?"
"Yes sir." He said with a bow before apparating away.
I heard Sirius mumble something about house elves but I couldn't quite make it out so I just sent a glare his way before turning to the others. "Sorry about this, we weren't expecting to have these rooms be used much less not have enough beds." Sirius said.
"Worry not, everything that has happened as of late has been without warning." Naevia said finally calming down around us.
We both nodded at them and looked into the room when a popping sound came from it and two new cots were in the third room. "We'll leave you to settle yourselves in. Dinner won't be until later so get as much rest as you guys need. I'm sure it'll be nice to not have to be on guard and get the proper rest."
"Yes, it will be nice to not have to stay alert for once." Crixus said looking down at Adam.
I nodded then in understanding and turned and took Sirius' hand to lead him away.
"Think we'll be able to save our pup?" he asked in a rushed voice.
I sighed then. "I don't know love. There's a good chance we'll never be able to find them."
"But, Adam said-."
"He may be able to tell his parents are alive, but that doesn't mean it'll be able to-." I started after stopping Sirius' sentence only to stop myself in thought.
"What is it?" he asked but I just pulled him faster behind me until I found Albus, Snape, Arthur, Minerva, and Molly all standing in the kitchen.
"Albus, before they leave something just came to me." They all looked to us then.
"And what would that be dear boy?"
"Do you remember them saying that Harry was able to save Crixus from dying because he placed a tracker on him?" Albus nodded then and the twinkle that's always there seemed to only brighten. "Do you think Adam's necklace could get us to both Harry and Spartacus?"
"That, my boy, may be just what we're looking for." He said and I could feel hope entering the room. "The only question is will it work from our time or do we need to get back in time?"
"We could try once Adam wakes up." Minerva said.
"Or we could wake the boy up and try now." I growled then.
"Snape, the boy is in a time period he's only ever heard of while his parents are going through Merlin only knows what! To top it off he's had to be on guard for a week until we got there because he and the leaders have no idea what to expect in this time! We need to let him rest!" I growled.
"And the longer we take the less of a chance we have finding one or both of them alive! If we can get to Potter and his husband faster then our war won't be without important wands for a long time!" he growled right back.
"Now you listen here Severus Snape! That child up there is only eight years old and if I see you even attempting to go up to those rooms I will personally kick you out of this house and make sure you are never allowed back in it!" Molly said stepping forward for the first time and I smirked at her.
Snape just glared but finally shut up and Albus sighed.
"We will let them rest, then we will try the necklace out after dinner. Adam must know if it will work from this time period or not."
"Then why would he need our help getting to his parents if the child knows how to work the necklace?" Snape sneered.
"Maybe because he's, again, only eight years old and scared? I think he's earned the right to forget something only a fully grown person would remember." Sirius said.
"The child has already shown intelligence far surpassing a typical eight year old would have. Forgetting something that his mother felt the need to do does not seem would likely happen." He remarked.
"I hate to admit it, but Severus has a point." Minerva said causing Snape to stand a little straighter.
"Don't give him something else to be cocky about." Sirius said causing both him and Snape to growl at each other.
"Can you two please put this petty rivalry aside until we get this figured out?! You're grown men for goodness sakes!" Molly yelled causing both men to back off and look down then.
"Now then," Albus said getting our attention, "let's still go in search of more information. There's a chance the necklace won't work in this time so we will still need to figure out either how Harry brought them here or another way to get back to where we need to be." We all nodded then.
"Minerva I would like you to go to Flourish and Blotts. See if there's something there and place it on the Hogwarts account should you find something worth buying." She nodded at Albus and headed for the fireplace.
"Do make sure to be back for dinner!" Molly yelled after her. "Arthur why don't you go on to the Ministry. See if you can find something there, but make sure to be home for dinner as well."
"Sure thing darling." With a kiss on her cheek Arthur followed right behind Minerva.
"I will go and find Ms. Granger and head back to the school. The faster we all get to searching the faster this can be done with." Snape said and headed out the back door where Hermione and the others were most likely at.
"Snape you better make sure that girl is back for dinner or I will come to that school myself!" Molly rushed to the back door just to yell out.
I smirked at her and shook my head at how she could still be mothering everybody even with the situation we were in.
"I guess we should get to your vault and look around love." I said and Sirius nodded. "And yes I will make sure we're back for dinner." I laughed before Molly could speak.
"Good! You lot are all skin and bones! It's a wonder none of you faint!" she said then turned to prepare dinner.
I just laughed again before looking at Albus. "What're you going to do?" I asked and he just smiled.
"I'm heading to my office." With that he too headed for the fireplace.
"What do you think he's gonna do there?" Sirius asked and I just shrugged before wrapping an arm around his waist and headed for the fireplace too.
Gannicus' POV:
I watched Adam lay upon his bed looking as peaceful as a boy his age should look even when awake.
'A child his age should not be separated from his parents as he has.' I thought and moved to sit upon his bed and pushed hair from his face.
He held so much of Beauty within him. Everyone says the child looks more of Spartacus, but I can see his mother more than Spartacus.
His gentle nature, the way he can make all in his presence feel at ease, those emeralds he is blessed to call eyes, and his strength are all gifts Beauty blessed him with.
Adam moved closer at my touch and I smiled down at him and looked over to where Laeta was within her dreams upon the bed beside mine.
I sighed looked down once more. "I swear to you child, I and the others will do all we can to reunite you with your mother and father. Even if it asks for our lives." I quietly vowed and placed a gentle kiss upon his head then laid down upon my bed between the two people within the room and tried to go to my dreams.
FEW HOURS LATER
Adam's POV:
I woke up and looked around and noticed I was the only one awake.
Sighing I sat up quietly and looked to the window noticing it had gotten a little darker.
'Night is beginning to fall.' I thought and moved my head to look around the room in awe.
'To think mother spent a summer here just a few years….or I guess just a year in this time….before he met father.' I thought feeling excited and curious about the thought.
Feeling the sudden urge to get out of bed and explore I quietly moved the blankets and slowly stood from the bed and crept to the door. I opened it, stopping when it creaked to make sure my aunt and uncle remained in their dreams, and rushed through the door and gently shut it behind me.
Once it was shut I looked down both ways of the hall I was in and decided I'd go downstairs and explore first so I wouldn't risk waking my family.
Looking around at heads of strange little creatures mounted in glass looking vases and just as strange looking, and even scary looking, portraits of people made me wonder just what mother was thinking living here even for a summer!
Still, the short time mother spent here he was happy, more angry then anything, but he was happy. If his memories he allowed me to see showed anything.
And anything that made mother happy I needed to know about.
With that thought I followed the stairs down only to stop at a very big covered….something hanging on the wall.
Curious, I walked over and reached up to just peak behind it.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you!" I jumped at the voice and turned to see one of those funny looking creatures, I think it's the one Remus asked to bring more beds for us, glaring up at me.
"I'm sorry I just wanted to-."
"You will disturb mistress!" it growled and I backed up some from it.
Suddenly a memory mother showed me jumped into my mind and I smiled brightly at the creature and knelt down in front of it.
"You're a house elf!" I said happily startling the elf in front of me.
"Of course I am child what else would I be?" he growled suddenly angry again.
I just smiled and poked at his ears only to yelp softly and jump up when he hissed.
The elf looked down quickly then. "Too many blood traitors in the noble house of Black!" he mumbled and moved to clean a plaque under the covered thing.
I quickly moved passed the elf and down the stairs to try and get as far from him as possible.
The memory mother showed me of a cute looking elf excited about something mother called a sock came to mind and I was very confused then.
'I thought house elves were supposed to be nice and love those sock things?' I thought and told myself I would ask mother when I saw him again.
With that I smiled and began to look around some more.
My exploring lead me to a room that had a huge tree on the wall with faces on all the branches.
Though some of them looked to have been marked out or something.
Not really liking this room all that much I moved out of the room and back into the living area and sat on the couch and curled up.
'I thought this house would be something that really showed the magical world mother came from. Instead all I've seen is a boring room and a mean house elf and dead ones on the wall. Scary portraits too.' I thought feeling a little let down and confused as to what exactly made mother happy here.
Suddenly something that smelled really good hit me and I closed my eyes at the smell.
An image of mother cooking in the kitchen came to my mind and I opened my eyes, smiling brightly and in hope, I rushed down the stairs the smell was coming from only to stop and feel sad at seeing that red haired woman cooking and not mother.
She must've heard me coming down because she turned suddenly and stared at me with wide eyes.
"I thought you and the others were resting dear?" I just looked down then.
"The others are, I'm the only one awake."
It was quiet for a moment until the red haired, I think her name was Molly, spoke.
"What's the matter dearie?" I just looked up at her. "You look like you're upset about something, is something the matter?" I just looked down again.
"I….smelt something cooking." I hesitantly answered.
"Does it not smell good dear?" she asked sounding more worried then upset at the thought of her cooking not smelling good.
I just shook my head. "Then why do you look upset because of my cooking?"
I just looked up at her for a moment before looking out the tiny window. "Because….ithoughtyouweremymotherforamoment."
"What was that dearie?" I sighed and looked back at her.
"I was exploring the house and I smelt the food. When I closed my eyes….for a moment I saw my mother cooking…." Understanding entered her eyes then and she looked ready to cry then.
"You poor little boy." She whispered then suddenly smiled. "Did you ever help your mother cook?" I looked to her and nodded. "Then why don't you help me cook hm? Help relax us both." I thought for a moment before smiling and nodding at her.
Molly's smile grew and she motioned for me to come over and began telling me what I could do and how to use half the weird looking things in front of me.
"Do you not use any of these back home?" I shook my head at her question.
"Mother never really even let me see a lot of things from this time. Sure I got to see some of how he grew up and some of his friends, but mother never once used anything from this time."
"Why not? Surely he could've transfigured something into, well, anything from this time."
I looked to her then and shrugged. "Mother said these things didn't have a place in the world yet. It wasn't their time to exist. So we lived by what we had around us." Molly looked shocked before nodding and picking something up.
"Why don't you help me get this casserole into the oven to cook while we prepare the rest of it hm?" I looked at the thing she called an oven in caution but still nodded and took the pan thing, or that's what she called it, and followed her to the oven.
As soon as she opened the door to it I backed up with wide eyes.
"It's hot! Like, really really hot!" she laughed then and nodded.
"It's supposed to be so it cooks the food properly."
"Fire does the same thing! Can we not use a fire instead? Fire doesn't make me feel like I'll fall in and not be able to get out. This thing does. Or how about a big cauldron of boiling water?" Molly just laughed and shook her head as she moved behind me and gently pushed me back to the oven thing.
"I promise you dearie, you will not fall in as long as you don't go in too far."
"But those metal things are giving off heat! Won't they burn me?" she just smiled and shook her head.
"Trust me dear, you're perfectly safe." She said and pointed to the open oven thing. "Now then, just gently set the pan on the top shelf and shut the door." She said and I just stood there for a second before taking in a big breath and walked over to the oven thing. Slowly, I set the pan thing on the top metal bars Molly called a shelf, though it wasn't made of wood or on a wall so I don't see how it's a shelf, before pushing it more in then quickly shut the door and backed away from the thing.
"Good job! I told you you wouldn't get trapped inside!" Molly said happily and I smiled at her and relaxed.
"Now that I think about it it wasn't that bad putting that pan thing in there."
Molly just smiled and turned back to the counter. "Now then, let's prepare the rest of the meal while the food cooks." I nodded and moved back beside her.
ABOUT AN HOUR LATER
Molly's POV:
I watched Adam stand in front of the open oven trying to get the courage to pick up the pan and smiled softly at him.
He was a good boy. Good manners, well behaved, great personality, Harry is raising a truly amazing child.
I laughed when Adam reached in and pulled back just before touching the pan. "Are you sure these glove things will protect me?" I smiled and nodded.
"I promise you dearie, they will protect you from the heat. Now go on and try them out!" I said and he just looked to the oven cautiously.
Adam took a deep breath and quickly reached into the oven and pulled out the casserole. Setting it on the counter where I told him to.
"Excellent job!" I said offering him a smile after he closed the door. Adam just stared at the oven mits in shock.
"They truly did protect me from the heat!" I laughed and nodded.
"What do you guys have to use in your time?"
"Mother and father never let me get the food from the pot or fire because all we have are rags that, while they do protect from major damage, still make it possible to feel the heat. Mother's gotten his hands burnt a couple of times getting because of it." I just stared at the boy and felt a little sad then.
'From what the boy has told me it was like Harry had completely turned his back on the time period he was born in. To give up something like that he must've really grown to love the time period.' I looked to the boy once more who was now lifting the pan over and over to see if he'd get burned if he held it for too long and smiled. 'Or maybe it was certain people he gave it up for.'
I went to ask Adam something else when rushing footsteps could be heard coming down the stairs.
"Finally I have found you!" Gannicus breathed out causing Adam to giggle. "I do not see a reason for laughter! I awoke to find your bed empty and you nowhere in sight!" Adam just kept giggling and rushed over to the man.
"Uncle look! These glove things protect you from heat!" Gannicus looked from Adam to the oven mits.
"Such a thing does not exist little one." He said but Adam just shook his head.
"They do to! Here come try!" he said and pulled Gannicus to the pan and showed him how to put the mits on, which just barely covered his hands, and told him to pick it up.
Gannicus did so and stared at the pan in shock.
"How is this possible?!" I just laughed then causing him to look at me.
"I'm not sure who came up with them, but I'm certainly glad they did." I said and Gannicus sat the pan down and looked back to Adam.
"Apologies for not believing you little one." Adam just smiled and took the mits back.
"Adam dear will you go wake the others? Dinner will be ready in five minutes."
"Sure." He nodded and ran up the stairs with the mits still on his hands.
"Why did you feel the need to show the boy how things of this time work?" I looked to Gannicus as he turned back to me. "Beauty did not wish us to know a lot of this time period. His reasoning was accurate too, they do not have a place within our time, or minds, yet."
I just sighed and nodded. "Yes the boy did mention how his mother didn't want him knowing a lot about the time he grew up in," I looked to Gannicus then as he walked over to help me set the food on the table. "but when he came down he looked so sad that I just wanted to help him smile anyway I could. When he said Harry let him help in the kitchen I figured I'd do the same." Gannicus sighed then and rubbed his face.
"The boy may show intelligence far surpassing those of his age, but in the end he is but a boy. And no boy his age should be without his parents. My brothers, sisters, and I have found it a difficult task to have Adam remain happy." I hesitated for a second before slowly setting a hand on his back.
Gannicus tensed and looked to me but did not shake my hand off.
I took it as a sign of trust and offered him a smile. "I may have only met Adam and you lot a few hours ago, but I can tell you that Adam loves all of you. I think I learned more of you alone in the past hour than I would've had I been talking to you for three." Gannicus smiled then and laughed.
"Adam means the world to us. He is Spartacus' and Beauty's child. A child we all feared we would never be able to meet as we neared the end of the war." Gannicus picked up the pile of plates and sat them on the table before coming back and taking the salad to the table.
"Beauty?" I finally asked making him stop and look to me confused. "Sometimes when you talk about Harry you call him beauty, why?" Gannicus blinked then laughed.
"Apologies. I have called Harry by that name for so long it leaves tongue before it enters mind." He laughed again as he walked over and took the plate of bread I handed him.
"Do you love him?"
"Of course." He said without missing a beat.
Before I had the chance to explain what I really meant Adam's voice could be heard from the stairs.
"I'm telling they really work uncle Crixus!"
"Child gloves that protect from heat do not exist. From cold maybe, but not heat." Agron said as they entered the room and Crixus nodded his agreement.
"They do though!" Adam said causing me and Gannicus to smile at each other before Gannicus moved to join his family.
"The boy speaks the truth. I tried them myself. I did not feel the heat when I wore them." The others stared at Gannicus in shock before looking to Adam.
"Perhaps later you could show us how they work young one." Adam nodded at Crixus and turned to sit at the table. Crixus and Gannicus sat on either side of him while Naevia sat beside Crixus, after he helped her into the chair, and Laeta beside her. Agron sat down beside Gannicus after helping Nasir into his seat beside him.
The way they sat it was almost as if they were finding the best way to protect the boy between them all.
I smiled at them all then looked back at Gannicus and vowed I'd get the man alone again and finish the conversation we'd started.
For now, though, I had to get the rest of the kids and prepare for when the rest of my family arrived.
'Hopefully this lot comes to see us as family as well.' I silently hoped and walked outside to get the kids.
Ron sat down diagonal from Laeta while the twins sat across from Gannicus and Agron. Neville sat down beside Ron and Luna sat down beside him. Ginny sat down in the empty seat beside Neville leaving the other empty seat for when Hermione arrived back to sit beside Ron.
I smiled at them and turned to finish getting the rest of dinner on the table.
Ron's POV:
"So," I said and leaned forward some to see Adam, "you're my best mate's kid?" Adam looked to me and nodded. "How's he like now? As a mother I mean." I corrected myself. It was still weird to think of Harry liking blokes much less being a mother.
Not that I hate him now or anything, if he's happy then so am I, it's just hard to wrap your head around it when you've spent almost two years thinking he was dead.
Adam's smile answered any question I had about Harry. "He's the best mother to ever walk. He's kind and gentle and knows just what to say and when to say it. He loves to play a game he calls hide and seek with me and he loves my father with all his heart." Adam said and his smile seemed to grow if it were possible. "He's always saying that all he has to do his hold me and father and he's the happiest person alive."
"And it doesn't bother you that your mother is a male?" Neville asked. His question seemed to confuse Adam.
"No. I mean, he did give birth to me, it'd be weird to call him anything else." Adam said as if it was the most obvious thing ever.
"Yes, but, usually a woman is called mum and a man dad." Neville countered.
"And that's because the woman gave birth. Should the man give birth instead then he'd be a mother."
"You sure you're eight?" I asked and Adam nodded as he looked from Neville to me. "Because you sounded much older just then while talking to Nev."
"I've always been told I hold more intelligence than a normal kid my age. Mother said that's on grandmother's side for sure." I looked at him confused. "Grandmother, you know, mother's parents." I blinked then smiled.
"I'm glad he told you about them." I said.
"Well, I know a bad man killed them because of a few words that were spoken about mother, but all I know is the bad man's name, I don't really know why he hates mother." Adam said then went quiet for a second. "I don't really understand how anyone could hate mother." He finally added and I looked to his aunts and uncles to explain.
"We know most of the details of this man named Voldemort," I flinched just like the others from this time at the name, "but Harry begged us to never give a lot of it to Adam. So, while I and the others know of the story, as I said when we arrived, Adam knows only what Harry deemed he should know." Crixus said looking from Adam to me.
"So he only knows enough to run if he ever saw the You-Know-Who?" I asked and Crixus nodded.
"Though, when knowledge was given, he did not except us to be within the time period of this Voldemort." Crixus just sighed as we all flinched again.
"If you lived within our time for but a day you would not live to see the sun rise on the next day." That had everyone confused as Gannicus spoke. "We have men who are just as evil as this Voldemort. If we showed fear in even speaking their names then the bonds of slavery would still be upon my brothers." That had me thinking some but then I thought back to his words.
"Weren't you a slave?"
"Gannicus is the only gladiator to ever win his freedom." Laeta said and Gannicus shrugged.
"A simple task should one truly reach for it."
"Your ass was nearly beaten upon the sands when freedom was won!" Crixus laughed and Gannicus glared at him. "Remember brother I shared the sands with you that day. It is how I became the new Champion of the House of Batiatus." He said then held up a necklace.
"Ah yes I remember that day. I believe you were knocked from the circle first."
"Asher was the first!" Gannicus laughed at Crixus.
"No matter, you still got knocked from the circle! From your angle it probably looked as if I would see defeat and not victory!" Gannicus laughed.
Crixus just huffed and rolled his eyes.
I laughed with them and smiled. Happy Harry was able to find such friendly and fun people to spend his life with.
A noise came from upstairs followed by a few more and the rest of the group arrived.
"Oh thank goodness you all made it back in time! Dinner's just about to start!" Mum said as everyone took an open seat.
Hermione sat beside me and took my hand under the table and smiled at me before turning to Albus as he spoke.
"I know you would like to know if we were able to gain even a little bit of information as to how to fix this problem we now face," Albus said as the rebels and Adam looked to him in hope, "yet I would see us have a peaceful dinner before we go back to the matter at hand."
All the rebels and Adam looked a little disappointed then, I don't blame them honestly, but nodded and began to look at all the food.
Dinner was, surprisingly, calm. One would think that people that lived like the ones in front of me did would be horrid to be at a dinner table with. These guys weren't though.
They had manners, asked for food instead of reaching for it, and all chewed with their mouths closed and not a one stuffed their faces.
The conversations ranged from what the rebels thought of this time period so far to them telling of times they found fun in the war.
Most sounded terrifying, not fun.
Once everyone had finished everyone pushed them to the middle of the table and looked to Professor Dumbledore.
"Now then," he said looking around, "was anyone successful in finding a way back in time?"
"Professor Snape and I weren't able to find anything in the library." Hermione said looking a little sad. "We found spells and charms that could send us back in time, but none that would take us that far."
"Flourish and Blotts wasn't much help either." Professor McGonagall said.
Professor Dumbledore nodded before sighing and looking to dad.
"The Minister wouldn't let me get near most of the spells and charms and all things magical we have locked away. The ones I was able to get near only took you back at most three days." Dad huffed annoyed causing mum to rub his back.
"Siri and I may have found something." Everyone looked to Professor Lupin in shock. "But before we mention what we've found," Professor Lupin paused and looked to Adam, "we want to make sure another option isn't already available to us."
"What do you mean Professor?" Hermione asked.
"Hermione I am no longer your professor. Please, call me Remus." Hermione blushed some but nodded and profess- Remus continued.
'Merlin that will take some time.' I thought then went back to listening.
"I got to thinking of something that Crixus had mentioned to us in the tour." At that Crixus looked confused. "Remember when you mentioned that Harry was able to find you because he placed a tracker on you when you split up the army?" Crixus nodded and I saw Adam sit a little straighter some in the corner of my eye.
"Well, didn't Adam say Harry placed trackers on his necklace so that he could always feel his parents close?" everyone looked to Adam then. "What if we used his necklace to take us to Harry and Spartacus?"
Everyone was silent for a moment before Crixus spoke up.
"I do not know if such a thing is possible."
Sirius' POV:
"I do not know if such a thing is possible." Crixus said and I nodded.
"We know none of you would know if it would work or not." I said and looked from Crixus to Adam. "Adam?"
Everyone looked to Adam who was just staring at his necklace not saying a word. "Adam?" I asked again and Adam looked to me. "Do you remember your mother saying anything about the trackers on the necklace?" I asked and Adam looked back at the necklace. "What about maybe teaching you how to follow a tracker?" I tried.
When Adam still didn't say anything Snivellus decided to speak up. "The boy obviously knows something and is refusing to help us."
"Or maybe he's just thinking back to a time he possibly could've been told something!" I growled.
Snivellus glared at me. "It is more than obvious the child knows something but is keeping the knowledge to himself." Snivellus looked back to Adam then. "If the boy wishes to get our help then he needs to learn to work with us."
I glared and went to answer when Adam beat me to it.
"Mother did say something to me when he first gave me the necklace." Adam started and looked up at Snivellus. And it is because of what he said that I did not bring the necklace up to anyone."
"And what did Harry say Adam?" Remy asked making Adam look to him.
"Mother said, that if I was separated from them that I could take the necklace and say aloud one of their names and it will take me to the one I named."
"And why is that so bad? From what you just said Harry planned very far ahead in case of something like this. Just say one of their names, we save them, then you say the other and then both your parents are saved." Arthur said happily.
Though when Adam didn't smile or agree I knew something was up. "There's a catch isn't there Adam." I said and Adam nodded.
"I….didn't know about it until I went to try it just a few days before you found us," he said and looked back to the necklace, "my family all placed their hands on me and I kept saying mother's name over and over again, but it wouldn't take us to him."
"So the necklace doesn't work in this time." Remus said with a sigh.
He had a suspicion it wouldn't, but to hear that your theory is truly wrong is never easy.
"No it works." That's something I wasn't expecting.
"Come again?" Molly asked. Adam looked from the necklace to Molly then turned his gaze to Albus.
They stared at each other for a moment before Albus sighed.
"It appears our situation has gotten both harder and easier."
"And just how's that possible?" Neville asked.
Albus looked back to Adam and nodded at him. Adam sighed before addressing the whole table.
"When I kept calling mother's name, I could feel the tracker wanting to take me to mother. But, it was like something was keeping me in place." He said and looked back to the necklace. "Like, something was pushing back against the tracker."
"So then why not try your father?" Neville asked.
Adam looked to him but it was Hermione covering her mouth after gasping that got everyone's attention.
"The tracker's been set to only take him to Spartacus." That confused and shocked me and the whole table.
"Can something like that be done Albus?" Remus asked.
Albus sighed. "Unfortunately my boy it is quite possible."
"But how? And how'd Harry even know how to do it? I didn't even know about it until just now. And why would Harry even do it? Why stop his kid from being able to reach him?" I asked.
"You didn't know about it because it's not a charm on its own." Albus said causing everyone to look to him. When it was obvious no one was still getting it Albus sighed and continued.
"Take the situation we're in for example. Harry gave Adam a charmed necklace that has a tracker for both himself and his husband on it so Adam can know both his parents are at least alive when he's not with them. Same with his and Spartacus' wedding rings." Albus paused here to make sure everyone was still following.
"Now, when Harry placed the charms something scared Harry so much that he made sure the tracker wouldn't be able to do its natural ability to bring the one who said his name to him."
"But, why would he do it?" Luna asked.
"To keep his husband and son safe." Albus said but continued when we all looked confused. "Harry obviously felt that if they were all forced into a situation that separated them, that their ability to get to him would put them in danger."
Looks of understanding entered everyone face as Arthur spoke up.
"But what in Merlin's beard would make Harry so frightened?" he asked looking to the rebels.
Though they all looked to be in different forms of shock themselves.
"I do not know what mother would be so frightened of to keep me from him." Adam whispered clearly trying to keep himself together. "Mother would always say his biggest fear was not being able to get to me or me to him. His second fear was the same thing but for father. So why would mother do this?"
Crixus pulled Adam into him tightly as the others looked down, confused and a little sad.
"So, why not let the necklace take you to your father?" Hermione asked but that was obviously not the right question.
"I WILL NOT CHOOSE BETWEEN MY PARENTS!" all the glass on the table broke suddenly causing us all to jump from the table in shock. Apart from the rebels that it. They all looked more angry at us then shocked at what just happened in front of them.
Adam took in a deep breath and looked to the broken glass and suddenly everything was back to normal. Had none of us been at the table it wouldn't even look like he broke a thing.
"Apologies." Adam said as we all cautiously sat back down. "I will not choose between my parents. If the necklace won't take me to one of them, then I will believe that it cannot take me to either of them." Hermione quickly nodded at that.
"Right, of course, I'm sorry." She said and looked down then.
An awkward silence fell over the table before Albus cleared his throat gaining our attention. "Now then, back to what I was saying. I do not know what would scare Harry enough to do this, but that's not what matters at the moment. What does matter is that Adam's necklace is not an option and we must move on." He said and looked to me and Remus.
I nodded and took a deep breath. "We may have found a spell that'll take us back. Luckily my psychotic family was interested in time travel and were nice enough to hide them in our vaults." I said and took out parchment from my robes and unrolled it on the table.
"It's called Disputationi, the timeless spell." I said as everyone leaned in to learn more. "It's very complicated and will require eight wands in all to even start making it work."
Snivellus huffed making us all glare at him. "So in order to save Potter, who clearly does not wish to be saved again, and his husband eight wands will need to be missing from our own war?"
"Do us all a favor a leave Snivellus!" I growled but stopped when both Molly and Remus glared at us.
"Eight wand won't cover it though," Remus said, "we need something called-."
"A Timekeeper." Albus finished for my mate holding up two jewel box looking items. They were made of Mahogany with beautiful carvings of different important things of different time periods on them and a ruby sitting in the middle of both lids.
"Where'd you-."
"As I said I was going to my office." Albus said interrupting me.
"Yes, but that means that-."
"I knew about the spell yes." This time he interrupted Remus.
"And you picked now to mention it to us?" I asked feeling a little angry at the man.
"I wanted to make sure Adam's necklace didn't work before I mentioned anything about it." Albus said then sighed. "I also went to see if I could learn what exactly it was Harry did."
"And did you learn?" Neville asked.
Albus looked to him before looking me and Remus. "I did, but for now let us focus on these." He said and placed the boxes on the table. "As I'm sure Remus and Sirius have read these boxes go along with the spell."
"How so?" Hermione asked.
"One box is set in the middle of the circle while the other is held by someone in the circle-."
"But didn't you say the spell takes eight people? How can someone do the spell if they're also holding the box?" Hermione asked interrupting Remus.
"Because it needs eight wands for it to work. The spell can transport as many people as a group wants as long as eight of them do the spell. The ones not doing the spell stand in the circle with so no one doing the spell has to worry about holding the box then. The other box, however, has to be sat exactly in the middle of the circle on the floor. Should only the eight people doing the spell be using it then the box just sits directly in the middle of the circle on the floor and I guess however the one holding the box wishes to make it easier on them to both hold the box and do the spell is up to them." Remus told her and she nodded.
"Anyways, the boxes themselves act like doors. The one of the floor pulls the circle of people in and the other box opens up to let them in their chosen time period. The spell is where it gets tricky. The eight saying the spell must say it four times as one and everyone in the circle, including those not doing the spell, have to be thinking of the exact same time period or else people could end up killed or separated." Remus explained causing many to look worried.
"And this spell will return us to our time?" Laeta asked and Remus nodded.
"All we need to know is the time period." I said.
Laeta looked ready to answer when the sound of rushing feet had us all looking to the stairs where two people could be seen panting at the bottom of them.
The younger of the two looked around the table and stopped when he saw the rebels, but he looked more focused on Adam.
"Oh Merlin it's true!" Draco gasped. Causing those of this time to tense.
"What's wrong Draco? You know it is a very high risk for you and your father to come near the Order ever since Severus' cover was blown." Albus said sitting straighter as he noticed the fear on Draco and Lucius' faces.
Lucius became a spy when Snivellus did only he gave his information to Arthur who gave it to Albus since they both worked in the Ministry. Making his cover easier to keep than Snivellus'. Draco became a spy, willingly, just last year when the kids were in the middle of their sixth year. He and Lucius came to Albus and explained how they'd talked about it and Draco wanted to become a spy. It made it easier since Voldemort wanted to give Draco the mark.
Anyways, Draco and Lucius seemed to be more focused on Adam than they were on anything else.
"Draco? Lucius?" Arthur tried. That snapped Lucius out of it enough to look at Albus.
"Voldemort knows about the child."
PLEASE READ: And there you go! The second chapter of Power They No Not! Hopefully you guys liked it! Now, to explain some things. First, the tracker is something I needed to do in order for the story to make since and for it to make even more since as to why Adam hasn't used it yet. Second, 'Disputationi' is actually Latin for timeless. I looked it up in order to be accurate with the name. Third, I'll have to do some research but I think I was pretty much accurate with how I had Adam handle being in a modernized kitchen. If I screwed up I apologies and please let me know so I can fix it later on, but I thought the scene really began to hit home with just how different these two groups of people live their lives. I think I hit everything I wanted to say here but if you're still confused about something do not be afraid to review or PM me. I'll answer any questions to the person themselves then re-answer it in the next chapter in case others were confused too. Again, thank you guys for understanding a busy and stressful life! I do hope I still have fans of this story out there and I do hope you're still liking the story! See you guys when I'm able to post again!
