Chapter Ten-The Nightmare
He slowly lifted himself off the ground, it was quiet, too quiet. Getting to his feet he looked around, bodies lay all around him, blood seeping into the ground. His feet didn't want to work, slowly he began to move forward, pain bursting through every part of his body. Something was running down his face, he guessed blood. He could feel pain in his left leg, and assumed that was probably why his feet weren't working so well.
Pushing himself forward, he didn't dare look down at the bodies, in fear of who he might find. Every where he looked there were dead bodies, some he could tell were the bad guys, others were the good guys. He tried to keep his mind off of the people he cared about most and that they were now probably dead.
He tilted his head back, getting a look at the sky, which was dark black, and cloudy. Rain falling hard on everyone around them, causing the temperature to drop, and the blood to mix. He hadn't realized how hard it was raining, as he felt himself becoming soaked with the rain, or was it blood. He didn't know, and didn't want to know.
Not paying attention to where he was walking, he tripped and feel over something, a body, falling head forward onto a dead body, the dead body of his father. The man's face was frozen in fear, his eyes wide, his mouth contorted in a cry of pain. He jumped back from his father slightly, as he felt stinging behind his eyes and began scooting back. Suddenly his hand connected with another body. Turning he looked at the figure of his son, also dead, his face also frozen in pain and horror. He jumped again, he got up and began to limp away quickly, then run as fast as he could, suddenly he bumped into something, falling onto another body, turning over he looked at the face…his face, bloodied and held only fear.
"No!" He yelled, suddenly he looked up again when he felt a drop hit his head, blood, blood was falling from the sky. Looking around he realized he was suddenly surrounded by forms of all his dead friends.
"NO!!!!!!!!!!" Harry screamed loudly as he sat up in bed. Sweat covering his face and body. Shaking with fear, he looked for some message telling him that he was awake. The warm hand that landed on his shoulder a moment later reassured him of that, as he jumped and turned to face his very living wife.
"Harry?" He shook his head.
"I have to go," he whispered in a shaky frightened voice. He got out of bed and soon was out of the chambers heading down towards his father's chambers.
He ran towards the door and began to pound on it, hoping that his father would answer.
Severus rolled over in bed as he heard a faint pounding on their door and groaned. Lea looked at him. He sighed and slowly got out of bed, pulling his robe on he walked out into the living room and towards the door.
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Harry continued pounding, as soon as he saw his father's living breathing face he collapsed into his arms and began to sob.
"Harry, what in the world?" Severus asked. Harry hadn't really cried since the twins were born. He slid down the door frame and carefully pulled his son into his arms.
"I'm here, I'm here," Severus whispered as the younger man continued to cry in his father's arms. Lea came to the door and sighed.
"I'll go make a drink," she whispered. Severus nodded and continued holding his child.
"What happened, Harry?" Severus asked gently as he began to help his son stand up so they could get out of the hallway and into the room. Severus maneuvered the younger man onto the couch.
"Sev," Lea said handing him a goblet. He looked at it.
"Calming Potion?" He asked.
"Yeah, you had some extra," she said. He nodded and slowly took his son's chin in his hand and helped him take a sip.
The calming potion didn't take long at all to start working, within moments Harry's shaking had lessened, his breathing was a little more even, and he wasn't crying as hard.
"Harry," Lea said softly coming to sit down beside her son. She began to rub his back and could feel his heart pounding harshly.
"Lea?" A soft voice called from the door. Looking over the couch they saw a bedraggled Hermione standing there.
"Come here honey, try and talk to him, get him calmed down, I'll go get Dumbledore," she said softly. Hermione took Lea's place as the older woman got a pair of pants on and headed upstairs to find her father.
Hermione sighed as her husband continued to sob on her shoulder slightly, both her and Severus were rubbing his back and trying to calm him down.
"Sometimes I wish I could get inside his head," Hermione whispered as she pushed back a stray lock of his hair.
"From the sound of it, I don't think you'd want to be in there at the moment."
"Harry, honey talk to us, we're here. You're safe now," Hermione said softly.
"I was walking around in a giant field, and there were bodies everywhere. I tripped over Alex's dead body and found dad, I then found Jamie. I started running and ran headlong into something and fell onto my own corpse. It was raining blood, it was as though… it was the future," Harry cried.
"Hermione will you stay with him, I'll be right back," Severus said. She nodded and smiled as she continued to rub her husband's back. Severus went into his lab.
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Remus Lupin looked up at the house and sighed, Godric's Hallow, for awhile everyone had thought it had been destroyed, in truth he and Sirius had been protecting it, so that someday Harry could maybe see it. Nothing had changed, they hadn't allowed anyone to change anything about it.
"Here goes nothing," Remus said to himself as he walked into the house. He smiled as he smelled the familiar scents. Lily's old perfume, and somewhere Sirius.
Walking around into the living room he smiled when he saw pictures of baby Harry, and even pictures of Severus in some places. Suddenly he heard a thump, turning he was looking directly into Sirius Black's eyes.
"What the hell do you want?" Sirius asked as he transformed back into his human form.
"You. Albus needs you, so does Harry. Voldemort is back and Harry can't do this by himself anymore."
"Why doesn't Severus help him?" Sirius asked in a sarcastic tone as he walked back upstairs.
"He is, but we need everyone, the old Aurors, and you know," he said.
"Yeah, well there are at least seven others without me."
"That's not the point Sirius, your god-son needs you."
"Yeah well, why doesn't he come here and tell me that," Sirius said as he pulled out a duffle bag and began to pack.
"Because he wasn't sent, I was."
"Yeah well just go back and tell Dumbledore I don't want the damn job," Sirius said.
"Is that why you're packing?" Remus asked.
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Dumbledore sighed as he looked at Harry and Hermione. Harry had calmed down considerably after two more sips of the calming potion, and having Hermione wrap a blanket around his shoulders.
"Harry, that dream means something, but don't believe it just yet. At the moment we don't even know when the attack is going to be, however I would like to be told about these if you have anymore please?" Harry nodded.
"Harry why don't I give you some of the dreamless potion and you two can stay in our extra room," Severus said. Harry nodded slowly.
"Harry, none of us are going anywhere," Dumbledore said.
"We can't lose this fight," Harry whispered.
"We won't."
"What's going to happen to Jamie?" Hermione said.
"I'm going to speak with him tomorrow. Tell him what's going on."
"We're going to be talking about the Dark Lord tomorrow, why not save it," Harry said softly.
"You sure you want to teach tomorrow?" Hermione asked.
"Of course, I promised them we would talk about it, besides I'm not that frail," Harry said.
"I know, come on, let's get some rest," Hermione said as she and Harry kept their arms around one another's waists.
"Daddy," Lea said looking at Dumbledore after Harry, Hermione and Severus left the room.
"Yes?"
"What is going to happen?" She asked.
"I don't know yet honey, we just have to wait," Dumbledore said. He gently placed a kiss on her head and moved away.
"There has to be a way to watch him, doesn't there? I mean isn't there some way we can connect ourselves to each other?" She asked.
"Yes, but… well we'll talk about it Saturday night. I'd rather not talk here, at least in other places I know that the walls won't hear anything."
"Daddy, could we lose Jamie if he…" she stopped.
"I don't think your son is willing to lose the boy, and I have no intention of letting him be lost either. We're watching out for him, that's all I can say, it may not be a lot, but it's something," Dumbledore said.
"It's something, night dad," she said softly kissing his cheek.
"Good night my lover," he smiled at her as he left their chambers. Lea sighed, suddenly a pair of arms were wrapped around her, causing her to jump.
"Sorry honey," Severus said.
"Dammit it Sev, don't do that, how is Harry?"
"Sleeping, Hermione is obviously with him," Severus said.
"Good, let's get some sleep," he nodded and together the two headed towards their bedroom.