I Am Dansmesyeux Riddle

Chapter 3

THREE: Severus's True Identity

Response To Reviews:

radarPLO: It is a good idea but I'm gonna need some ideas later on. I hope I get inspired soon.

Byproduct of Evil: I love your author name! It rules. So you're from Britain? I wish (like I told my friend from there, Emma) I could live there! Oh and thnks for the compliment on Riddle's Dan's name. I got the idea from a song by Phil Collins and the movie Brother Bear, Look Through My Eyes.

Marauder1prongs: I'm not tellin' you anything about his parentage. You'll have to wait for a bit.

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Dan's eyes flickered open, but he saw nothing due to the fact that his room didn't have a window (much to his annoyance). His door slowly opened and moonlight poured in. Quickly someone tip toed in and shut the door behind them.

"Dan?" came Draco's voice as someone sat on his bed.

Dan sighed in relief and he sat up. "Draco! You scared me, you moron!"

"Sorry but I heard footsteps and I wanted to see if you heard them," Draco said. He looked wide awake and slightly out of breath.

"No…I didn't hear anything," Dan told him. Though the truth was, he had. Some sound from downstairs was what must have awoken him. "And even if I did it's probably just my dad. You know how he is. He loves to stay up and wonder the hallways, guarding the rooms."

"I suppose…" Draco agreed though he looked unconvinced. Then the sound of something shattering downstairs made the jump up into the air about a foot.

"What was that?" Dan whimpered. "I know that wasn't my dad!"

"I think it was one of the old vases my father gave yours," Draco replied, his heart pounding. "There is someone in the castle!"

"Don't worry my dad will take care of-" Dan stopped and his mouth hung open in horror. "His wand! Draco, he doesn't have his wand!" Dan leaped off of his bed and turned to Draco. "Come on we have to get it from your room!" Immediately Draco followed him to the door as Dan the listened to see if anyone was coming.

"We can't risk getting caught!" Draco hissed. "It's my duty to make sure you don't do anything dumb. You father said so."

"But we have to help him!" argued Dan.

"We can, but I'm going first," said Draco, pushing Dan aside so he could put his ear up to the oak door. "No one's coming. Let's go." Draco opened the door quietly and led the way into the dark hallway. Suddenly they stopped when they heard voices coming from both sides of them.

"Did you hear something, Sirius?" someone asked.

"Footsteps. I hope it was Pettigrew, the dirty Death Eater," came the growled reply.

Panicking, Draco and Dan looked back and forth for a place to hide but found nothing. Just as the two groups of people on both sides of them were about to turn the corner someone wrapped their hands around the two boys' mouths and pulled them into a small closet, shutting the door.

Dan pushed the hand away from his mouth and starred up at the young man with straw-colored hair. His crystal blue eyes glared at them, a smirk of amusement on his face.

"Barty!" the boys exclaimed. Barty threw his hands over their mouths again.

"Shhh!" he hissed at them.

"I know I heard something this time," said the voice outside the door.

"Did you check in there?" Dan's heart stopped and Barty pulled both of the children behind him. Just as the doorknob turned Barty kicked the door open and flung it shut.

"Weren't expecting me were you?" they heard Barty sneered at the intruders. "Better move fast you losers. I'm the most dangerous Death Eater there is." He took off in the blink of an eye, the people right on his trail. However one of the shadows outside the door didn't move.

Dan looked down at the floor and saw a wand; it was Barty's wand. "Draco, he left us his wand! He's gonna get caught!"

"There's no way that those morons are going to catch Barty. He is way too cool," Draco assured him. Just then the door opened and standing there was Severus Snape.

"Oh no," Severus said. He looked over his shoulder and back to the kids. "You have to stay quiet. I'll let you both go because I don't wanna see you both get killed by aurors." Draco gulped and Severus closed the door.

There were more footsteps outside the door, and then a kind, old voice said, "Severus, did you find anyone?"

"No, Headmaster," answered Severus.

"Very well. We did catch quit a few Death Eaters while they were asleep other with a fight." That's when Dan realized that Severus was a spy. He must have been who his father had been talking to the Death Eaters about. It had been their most trusted adult friend all along…

"What of Lucius Malfoy?"

"He fled and there is no trace of his family. I have yet to run into the Dark Lord." Draco and Dan listened closely at hearing their father's names.

"Some let's have one last look around before we leave."

"Professor Dumbledore!" someone else yelled, running toward Severus and the other man.

"What is it, Arthur?" asked Dumbledore.

"We found a room that was heavily locked and when we tried to walk the room we were met by Voldemort. He fought us off and by the time we were able to find out that behind the door was where the Death Eater's children were hiding he ha d somehow reached them and fled. We don't know if he will return or not." The man sounded slightly out of breath.

Draco and Dan stepped backward and to their surprise fell straight through the floor. They cried out as they hit the floor. Draco got to his feet shakily and helped Dan up. Both of them couldn't walk and they knew this was as far as they would go.

Dan stumbled backwards and knocked into Draco who was pushed into an old grandfather clock. The next thing happened so fast that all Dan knew what something fell and then burned his eyes. He fell to the ground screaming and pulled Draco down with him…

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Unaware why, Draco heard Dan scream next to him and he was pulled down. "What-" but Draco didn't even get to ask what had happened as he turned to the black hair boy. Dan was on the floor unconscious, a candle that had been resting on a golden stand lay beside him.

"Oh man! What am I supposed to do?" Draco looked around, panicking. "Uncle Sev!" he suddenly exclaimed. He knew that Uncle Sev was obviously on the intruders' side but he was the person who had taught him what morals were. That had to mean something, didn't it? He somehow managed to pick Dan up and lay him across the bed then he (after he was sure no one was coming) opened the door only enough to slip out.

Closing it behind him, he glanced left and right then slowly crept down the hallway. Sure he was frightened and tired but he had to carry on with the Dark Lord's orders even if he wasn't in the castle. Draco wondered if he even noticed that his son wasn't with him.

Then his stomach leaped because he heard the voice of the very mentor he had been looking for, "Barty Crouch got away, Headmaster. There's no one left-" but before he could finish talking Draco turned the corner and ran straight into Severus's arms, hoping that the men surrounding him would find his act cute if the Potions Master wouldn't.

"Put your wands down!" Severus hissed at the aurors. The men reluctantly did as they were told, forgetting temporarily that they all disliked Severus Snape. "Headmaster, I'd like for you to meet Draco Malfoy." Before Severus forced Draco to look at the old man Draco managed to put on quite a show by clinging to Severus's side and crying. Even though Severus knew that Draco was faking he said nothing.

Draco looked up at Dumbledore with wide eyes, almost tearful. When Dumbledore smiled at him he felt relieve but did nothing to show it. Severus picked Draco up and asked, "Where's Dan at? You two never separate."

"He got hurt and he didn't get up," Draco said.

"What room is he in? Did you leave him alone?"

Draco nodded and the answered, "I think it was Violet's."

"Now wait a minute. This little twerp seems to know more about who stays here than we do," growled a black hair man. Draco raised an eyebrow at him, the fake tears forgotten, and snorted.

"Father said that not too many people who associate with Dumbledore can remain sane for longer than Uncle Sev has and you've proven me right," drawled Draco.

"Even a seven year old can take a shot at you, Black," Severus sneered. "You must be losing your image."

Dumbledore flashed Severus and Black a warning look. Both men glared at each other before looking away in disgust. Draco looked between them, not sure whether to laugh or not. Severus broke the silence.

"Lead me to Dan, Draco." Draco nodded and, cautiously tiptoed past the men with wands, not daring to take his eyes off of them. Severus pushed him along gentle, secretly assuring him that no harm was meant to come to him and Dan. Dumbledore followed and so did the man called Black, Arthur, and a different man that was warring a pair of robes that his father would never approve of; they were torn in one place and obviously a bit too small for him.

Severus glanced back at them to make sure that they weren't to close for his liking. Once they reached Violet's door Severus told Draco to stand outside while he retrieved Dan. He came back carrying a young boy and to Dumbledore's surprise he looked much like the Tom Riddle he once taught.