Title: Opacre
Author: Shades
Rating: PG – 13 with maybe some R
Summary: Harry Potter had no friends until Hogwarts…or so he thought. Darkness engulfs Harry at age 5…but not evil. This is the past, and of a secret Harry held close without knowing it…SLASH
Disclaimers: Do I need to tell you that I do not own Harry Potter or any of its characters? I do? Well, it belongs to J.K. Rowling, a wonderful author. I only own Lest Opacre, his family, and anything related to him. The rest belong to her.
Author's Notes: This will be slash. Between two boys. Not the shagging kind, all sex but feeling. Harry will be 10 when feelings of that sort come around, but nothing before that. NO NO NO! No pedophile!! No shagging in this story! Clear? No flames against that, OK? Flames against plot maybe but none of pedophile because I don't endorse that, constructive criticism and reviews welcome.
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Chapter 5
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Harry was just snuggling into bed, thankful he would finally have some sleep with no looming danger of a boy vampire coming to suck his blood, when the soft knock at his cupboard door came.
Harry blinked and sighed. 'It always happens to me,' he thought irritably as he reluctantly left his bed and crawled over to his door to open it. 'I finally get some peace and quiet and fate decides I don't need it. Why me?'
"Oh, are we going to continue with the 'why me' conversation again?" a familiar voice asked, amused, from behind the door.
Harry froze. 'Oh no…he just came yesterday…what's he doing back?' was his first thought as he looked shocked at his door.
His second thought was, 'WHAT??'
"Oh come on, don't make me talk through the door again," Lest said, sounding a bit annoyed. "And what was the 'what' for?"
Harry trembled slightly before unlocking the door and stepping back, and grabbing the crude stake where he had last left it. Might not help, but it would give him some comfort at least.
The boy vampire smoothly entered the cupboard and closed the door soundlessly before settling down.
Lest once again raised an eyebrow at the stake and merely looked at Harry, eyes amused.
'What's he doing back so early??' Harry thought frantically, looking with wide eyes at the vampire. 'He just came yesterday! I was expecting to get some sleep tonight…'
"Would you mind terribly calming yourself?" Lest said lazily. "Those thoughts are as frantic as a rabbit's heartbeat. And I promised you yesterday I would be coming back tonight."
All at once, Harry's thoughts stopped. 'He did…' he thought numbly. 'He promised he would come back tonight and he did. He kept his promise…?' Harry's mind was in a whirlwind. Yes, he remembered Lest promising him he would come back but he didn't actually expect him to.
"You didn't think I would come back?" Lest asked, surprised and interrupting Harry's train on though.
Harry blinked and looked back at Lest. "Well, of course not," Harry said, confused as to why the vampire sounded so surprised. "You promised…but promises are cheap. I didn't think you would actually come back."
"Not all promises are…would you rather I leave?" Lest said quietly, looking at Harry.
"NO!" Harry was surprised by the intensity in his voice. 'Don't I want him to go?' he thought to himself. 'I did…but I guess I'm just interested in what he has to say about vampires…yeah…'
Lest looked at Harry and he could have sworn the boy vampire's lips twitched. 'Is he laughing at me?' he thought furiously. 'Ugh…that arrogant little…'
"Watch your language," Lest said, his blue eyes twinkling with suppressed laughter. "And don't yell, I wouldn't have gone even if you had wanted me to."
"Then why did you ask?" Harry grumbled, still annoyed by the other boy's amused tone.
Lest shrugged and looked at Harry. "Something called manners," he said airily. "I would have thought you would have known some but apparently not."
Harry glared. "God, you are so annoying…" he muttered under his breath.
The vampire merely smirked. "Thanks. Moving on…are there any more questions you have on vampires that your little mind wants answered?"
He blinked. "Excuse me?"
"Well, it does seem you have manners," Lest snickered. "And I'm asking if you have any more questions about vampires or any assumptions that need clearing up."
Harry glared a bit at the other boys answer before answering. "Why?" he said suspiciously.
"Because if we don't clear the air, there is absolutely no way I'm going to get the conversations that I want."
"Of course," Harry muttered darkly. "Whatever good a person seems to be doing, there's always something in it for them."
Lest visibly perked up. "See?" he said cheerfully. "Those are the conversations I want but we're never going to get to them if I don't soothe that child mind of yours."
'Don't glare, don't glare, don't glare,' Harry chanted in his mind. 'Glaring will annoy vampire and you don't want that.'
"Oh, don't worry about glaring," Lest commented merrily. "Something that simple won't annoy me. But yes, you don't want to annoy a vampire."
Harry stared. And stared. 'How are you doing that?' he thought, stunned.
"What?" Lest replied, a confused expression on his face.
Harry waved his hands wildly, tossing the stake aside absently. "THAT! You're reading my mind because I'm not saying anything and just thinking and how in all the holy names of god ARE YOU DOING THAT??"
The vampire just looked at him with his amused eyes. 'I swear,' Harry thought deadly, 'if he keeps looking amused, I don't care how strong he is, I'll shove this 'stick' up his bloody arse…'
"Such a violent mind," Lest grinned. Harry just glared and Lest sighed, rolling his eyes. "I said not all things humans write about vampires are correct but some are. Telepathy, for instance, which is how I'm reading your mind."
Harry just looked at him with a horrified expression. "You're reading my mind?" he finally managed to squeak out. "For how long???"
"Hmm…since I arrived," Lest said nonchalantly. "What's the problem?"
Harry gaped at him. "What's the problem?" he said shrilly. "What's the problem?? Does 'invasion of privacy' mean anything to you?"
The vampire boy rolled his eyes again and looked at Harry with a very patient expression. "Yes," he said slowly as though speaking to a dim-witted person. "It does. I don't read your mind all the time, though, just sometimes. I just checked when I walked in and since you were thinking about me, I don't think it's that bad."
"How would you like it if someone read your mind without your consent?" Harry growled.
"Oh," Lest grimaced. "I know how it feels. My sister does it to me loads of times."
"Then shouldn't you learn from her example?" Harry snapped.
Lest just shrugged.
'Bleeding hell,' Harry thought darkly as he glared at the boy, 'I can't even tell if my thoughts are safe.'
A silence passed between the two boys for a while with Harry glaring at the vampire and Lest just smirking.
"Well?" Lest asked after the pause.
"Well what?" Harry replied irritably, still glaring.
Lest sighed and rubbed his temples. "Well, do you have any questions about vampires or not?" he said, his voice finally showing some of his frustration.
Harry stayed silent but he finally stopped glaring, instead studying the wall behind Lest with new interest.
"You do," Lest smirked. "Well, out with them."
Harry remained quiet for a while before answering. "How…how were you born?" he asked, still not looking at Lest.
"Eh? I said vampire questions, not where babies come from."
Harry finally turned his attention away from the wall and glared at Lest.
"You do that a lot," the vampire boy commented.
"Maybe if you didn't give me reason to, I wouldn't," Harry replied waspishly. 'Is this boy purposely trying to annoy me?' Harry thought as he glared. He finally sighed and continued his question. "I mean, were you born human and turned vampire or were you born a vampire?"
"Ah…" Lest said. "I was wondering when you were going to ask that. Humans get confused a lot with logics of a vampire birth. I was born vampire by the way."
"How?" Harry repeated his question. "I mean…aren't vampires supposed to be the 'undead'?"
"There you go with your assumptions again," Lest sighed. "My mother was a human – she's a vampire now – and gave birth to me and my sister when she was human. My father, a vampire, impregnated her. And no, I'm not going to say how. Just know that vampire males can…impregnate…women and vampire women cannot give birth, which would explain my mother giving birth while she was human. I said I would answer vampire questions, not the birds and the bees."
Harry refrained from glaring and settled for merely rolling his eyes before continuing on to his next question. "So, you were born a vampire. Does that mean you've never seen the sun?"
"Assumptions…" Lest drawled. "Just because I'm a vampire doesn't mean I've never seen the sun. And before you ask, I do not sleep in a coffin. I sleep in a nice bed, just like…" Lest stopped, glanced at Harry's pad and stayed quiet.
'Yeah,' Harry thought bitterly. 'I don't live a nice life like you…' He shook his head and continued. "So that whole sun and bursting into flame story is fake?"
"Partially," Lest replied carefully. "It's true that vampires don't burst into flames if they get hit by sunlight but the sun does harm all vampires." Seeing Harry's confused look, he explained. "If we stay in the sunlight for a short period of time, nothing happens. But if we stay for more than an hour, our skin will begin to burn and we'll need to get out of it. Since we're the undead, our bodies will sort of decompose in the sunlight."
Harry nodded. 'Wow,' he mused. 'Guess I should really get first hand facts…'
"So, what other abilities do vampires have?" he asked eagerly, and leaned forward unconsciously.
"Abilities?" Lest slowly repeated. "You mean, like telepathy?" Harry nodded eagerly. "Well…all vampires have the ability of telekinesis and telepathy. Depends how strong a vampire is to use the ability though. Some can only use it when really emotional and others, like me, can use it at will. We also have some strength and a bit of mind control."
"Mind control?" Harry repeated.
"Yeah, we can lull people into a dreamlike state and some other things. We can't actually control people, like making them do things they don't want to do."
Harry relaxed a little. 'Well,' he thought sarcastically, 'that's good to know.'
Lest seemed to have noticed Harry's tension because when he continued, his voice was calm. "But there are a lot of limitations on mind control. Strict rules and vampires aren't allowed to be taught mind control until they come of age. Any mind control without authorization…well, let's just say a vampire won't do it twice."
Harry nodded slowly. 'Guess I'm safe…for now' he mused. He was quiet for a few minutes before asking his next question. "So…how do you kill a vampire?" he asked casually. "And what happens when they die?"
Harry was a bit apprehensive that these questions would anger Lest. But what the boy vampire did next shocked Harry.
Lest threw back his head and laughed.
'What in the world…' Harry thought nervously as he watched the vampire laugh. 'He better not wake the Dursleys…'
Lest's laughter finally died down a bit after a few minutes. Still snickering, Lest replied. "I really don't know if I should answer those questions. With the way you've been acting towards me…I certainly want to live past 12." Lest just grinned at Harry's wide eyes.
"Sorry," he snickered. "I should have guessed you would have asked those questions." Still grinning, Lest leaned back against the wall and just watched Harry for a moment, his eyes dancing with laughter.
'I said I would shove the stake up his arse if he kept looking amused,' Harry thought while eyeing the vampire boy, 'but at the moment, I'm questioning his sanity.'
"Oh, I'm perfectly sane," Lest said cheerfully.
Harry decided that vampire was already insane and he was probably already in danger so he glared. "Don't do that."
Lest grinned. "Alright." Lest shook his head, still looking amused. "In answer to your questions…there a lot of ways to kill vampires. Chopping off head, tearing limb from limb. But if you want it easy and simple, then just get a stake like the one you have and jab it through the vampire's throat. It has to be copper though, not wood."
"Would the same thing happen if you went for the heart?"
"Sort of," Lest replied slowly. "The wound would be fatal for the vampire…but if the vampire can manage to drink enough human blood, they could regenerate and would be good as new."
"I thought you said a stake through the heart could kill anyone!" Harry cried out indigently.
"Well, it would," Lest protested. "If you stake a vampire through the heart and make sure there's no human blood source around, the vampire WILL die. I wasn't lying."
Harry glared. Lest glared.
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…still glaring…
…
"ALRIGHT!" Lest cried out, throwing his hands up in his air. "Maybe I twisted the truth a little…" he muttered.
Harry smirked. Lest scowled.
"You still haven't answered my other question," Harry said, still smirking.
"What?" Lest said irritably, still scowling.
"What happens to vampires after they die?"
"Oh, that," Lest said dismissively. "Well, all the blood in their bodies drain from the wound that killed them before they dissolve into ashes. Nothing too dramatic. We don't burst into flame and shriek. We just…die…"
"Oh…"
Silence reigned for a few moments before Lest glanced at his watch. The vampire boy once again smoothly stood up and began to unlock the door.
"You're leaving again?" Harry said, unable to keep the disappointment out of his voice. "But you just got here a little while ago…"
'Gods,' Harry thought 'I sound like a whiny little kid.'
"Actually, I got here around 2 hours ago," Lest smirked. "I arrived around midnight and it's already 2:05 am." Lest held out his watch and Harry peered curiously at it.
He blinked. 2:05 am winked merrily at him in bright silver.
"Oh…" he muttered softly, feeling a slight blush going over his face.
Lest once again looked at him. "I'll be back tomorrow," the vampire boy said after a moment. Harry perked up slightly and then frowned.
'Why am I happy he's coming back tomorrow?' he wondered.
Lest smiled slightly and patted Harry on the head before sliding out of the cupboard and closing the door quietly.
Harry sat there in the dark, straining his ears to hear Lest's leaving footsteps but he heard nothing but Dudley and Uncle Vernon's snores.
'Well,' he mused as he settled back into his bed. 'That was…odd…in a pleasant sort of way…'
He lay there for a while, thinking about this new encounter with the boy vampire when he remembered something.
Harry jerked upright. 'HEY!' He thought furiously. ' He patted me!!'
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AN: Heh, poor Harry. I pat people too and it annoys them. Anyway, glad I put this chapter up. Only 16 more to go…I think. I wrote the entire story out yesterday, YAY! Something I hadn't done before and now very happy because all I have to do is write the chapter out. Woo hoo! Anyway, onto reviews.
Reviews: Aw, only 7? Oh well, I love everyone who reviewed! *smiles*
Glow: *blankly* Lest has a soul? *converses with muses* Uh…lemme get back to you on that…no, I won't answer that in THIS story. Wait for sequel. *smiles sweetly*
callas-and-ivy: I got another reader! *cheers* THANK YOU! Really, haven't seen it? Cool! Was worried might have been clichéd….and thank you for saying Harry is fine!
corruptedhellster: *muses glare sullenly at hellster while rubbing heads* Mallets were VERY helpful, thank you. And I'm sorry that was short, had no idea where I was going. Promise chapters WILL be longer. Was this satisfactory? PS Thanks for quote! *writes in HP journal with other quotes*
Ru Av Natten - *looks at clean clothes* Thanks. *grins* And you ARE a great writer. So keep writing! *joyful that kept Harry in character*
Hallow SHADOWS – Lol, sorry bout J/S comment, just something for Kura's story Candidus. *gets shoved by Harry* (Harry) _ I am not chibi! And I'll curse whenever I…*Shades comes in with Marylin* o_O *runs screaming* Noooooo! (Shades) K, that taken care of…thanks for parent tip! *beams at being put on faves* Awww…*suddenly jerks forward and claps hand on mouth* Hey, shhhhhh….. no telly. (Lest) -_-;;; gee, thanks…
tima - *looks at running* Deranged huh? *whispers* Lest, get security…D Was this quick enough?
hermionegranger – Don't die! Here it is!
That's it I think…Keep reading! Making it my goal to be done before year out! *crosses fingers*