I Am Dansmesyeux Riddle

Chapter 8

EIGHT: Death Eaters Talk

WARNING: THIS CHAPTER WILL CONTAIN STRONG LANGUAGE AND SWEAR WORDS SINCE DEATH EATERS DON'T ACTUALLY PLAY NICE WHILE TALKING.

Response To Reviews:

SliverKnight7: Did you mean to type Harry?

Sue Falkenkralle: I re-read what I wrote and I realized that I forgot to put the description of James's face…sorry! About the Death Eaters children, I believe that because in this story Voldemort never met his downfall he would have lots of different followers not to mention orphaned wizard children that would prove worthy to him. I'm still not sure how many kids I want to torture Sevvie with…

Nadia Greenleaf: It's confusing? Hmm…how? What part?

Marauder1prongs: Rock on!

Starrrylibra: I hope I can let Dan meet his father soon. Please keep reading and reviewing! It makes me exceptionally happy.

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Previous Chapter: "I remember that," Aaron said almost stupidly. Severus rolled his eyes and Barty pushed his way into the conversation. Little did Severus know that he would have to deal with more than nine children soon.

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Barty leaned back in his chair so the front legs weren't touching the ground as the conversation turned boring. He was eyeing the other three people in the room with little interest and he put his arms behind his head so he could relax more.

"You're telling me that the Dark Lord wants another kid?" Severus repeated skeptically. 

"Crazy, right? But I heard Lucius talking to Bellatrix about it. She said it was none of his business but Lucius didn't give a damn about what she had to say," Aaron replied, lighting a cigar with a muggle lighter. Severus raised an eyebrow at him and Aaron said, "Don't ask."

"It's a nasty habit," remarked Severus, glancing at the cigar in his hand.

"Yeah well one learns to live with it," Aaron said with a roll of his eyes. "At least I'm not doing drugs, dad."

"Shut the hell up," said Severus, throwing his empty glass of butterbeer at him (and missing badly). Nick, whom was almost completely out from having more than just butterbeer, jumped up at the sound of shattering glass.

"Whaappened?" he asked idiotically. Severus, Aaron, and Barty laughed at his moronic display and Severus made an attempted to save one of the forgotten conversations after a short sip of Nick's butterbeer.

"So, Aaron, you said the Dark Lord wants another kid," said Severus.

The orange haired teen blew smoke out of his mouth and said, "Yeah?"

"Let me ask you guys something," Barty whispered, making his chair stand flat as he leaned forward. He motioned for the others to come close. "Who is he gonna fuck to get another one or better yet who did he fuck to get the first?"

"Sick," muttered Aaron, ruffling his hair in a mock-James Potter way. "That was strange, twisted, and sick, B.C." Barty smiled at his childhood nickname and laughed as Aaron shook his head in an attempt to forget a few nasty mental images. Nick jumped up as if he just realized that where he was.

"What time is it?" asked Nick in a panicking tone.

"Ummm…" came Barty's reply.

"No idea," answered Sev.

"Ten past midnight," Aaron said, checking his golden pocket watch.

"Shit!" cursed the seventeen year old as he rushed to get his cloak over his head. "I have to go pick up my brother from his friend's before his parents get home at one!"

Barty waved a hand at Nick in sheer boredom. "I'll go get him so don't worry you dumb blonde head about it."

"But his friend lives far away!" exclaimed Nick.

"Don't worry," repeated Barty. "I'll be back in a sec." Barty took off his cloak to reveal jeans and a muggle t-shirt, his round, blue medallion hanging from his neck. "Where does this kid live?" Nick blinked in confusion and took out a piece of paper with the address on it. Barty took it from him and had gone through the door in the blink of an eye.

"Damn him and his stupid special medallion," Aaron said, shoving the cigar's burning end into his palm to put it out. Severus decided not to comment as Aaron hissed in pain and threw the cigar to the floor near Nick's feet.

"So…Severus," started Aaron. "Did B.C. tell you our other reason for meeting with you tonight?"

"Should he have?" Severus asked in response.

"Well I guess he's leaving me to do it then," Aaron mumbled to himself as he resituated so he could get comfortable in the wooden chair. "Since you're already running a kid sitting thing over there at Hogwarts-" 

"I command you to refrain from finishing that sentence," Severus ordered, pointing a finger at Aaron.

"-we were wondering if you could do us a favor."

"No," answered Severus. "no, no, and umm…no."

"Please, Sev!" pleaded Aaron. "I have a date tomorrow and I really need you to so this!"

"Why can't Barty watch after them than? He's better with kids than me!" Severus argued.

"Because the Master said if one of us has to do it all of us have to! Please I promise we'll be back for them in two days!" Aaron begged with the best baby face he could manage. 

"Two?" groaned Severus. Aaron gave another pleading look and Severus sighed. "Fine. When do I get them?"

Aaron grinned. "Bella, Rodolphus, and Rabastan are dropping them off sometime tonight…or should I say this morning."

"You knew I'd say yes, didn't you?" accused Severus.

The door flew open and Barty stood in front of them with Jamie, Nick's little brother. "Well we do know how much you understand children," he said, placing Jamie down. The blonde's face caught his attention for some reason and then Severus realized that the right side of the boys face looked as if it was terribly burnt. A long thin scar ran across his right, light aqua colored eye and Severus remembered Nick saying something about him being blind in one of his eyes.

Jamie placed his bag on the floor and sat down on the chair closest to his brother. Severus looked at Nick and saw that he wasn't paying the slightest attention to him or anyone for that matter.

Barty crumbled up the paper with the directions on it and tossed it to the floor before sitting down in his chair. He motioned to Jamie and with an evil smile he wrapped one of his feet around one of the chair's legs and he tugged on it in a jerking motion. Jamie was thrown from the chair and he landed on his stomach with a thud. Aaron couldn't help but snort and Nick didn't dare speak up to a higher person in the Death Eaters' ranks.

"Leave him alone," Severus said in a tone that he hoped held no real importance.

"Someone talking about me?" came Rabastan's deep voice as the small room's door opened again.

"Sure," Barty replied sarcastically with a roll of his eyes.

Bellatrix came in behind him and Severus noted that her thick, black hair was tied back in a bun. She raised an eyebrow disdainfully at Jamie who hadn't bothered to get up from the floor before setting two little girls down that looked like they were twins turning two. One of the twins clapped for no reason and the other looked absolutely gleeful. Bella noticed that Severus was looking at the twins in horror and she quickly said, "Don't worry. These two are coming with me. Heaven forbid a man take care of two little girls."

"No, it's just that I would have had one hell of a time getting their names straight," Severus said with a shake of his head. "So who am I looking after?"

Out from behind Rodolphus (who had just forced himself through the doorway and closed the door behind him) stepped a small, undersized even, red hair boy. He was nervously biting his nails and he looked up at Severus with big eyes that he swore were some shade of red.

"His name is Placido Travers pronounced p-la-sigh-dough but he likes to be called Play. He's five. And his brother, Blake, is nine and is trying to steal from your pocket," said Bella. Severus looked down and saw the evilest looking child he had even laid eyes on. Blake had deep blue eyes and disorderly dark hair and a grin that reminded him of Sirius Black.

"By the way they both have a sister, Kristen, who is seven and drinking your butterbeer, Aaron," added Rodolphus. Aaron glared at the girl who had the same eye and hair color as Blake and in return she smiled with a mouth full of butterbeer.

 Rabastan threw a small container that held strange pills within it. "Make sure she takes one of those each day otherwise we found that she goes a bit nutters."

"A bit?" Severus repeated.

"Yeah, as in she will destroy everything in sight," replied Rodolphus with a smirk.

"Oh I love you guys," Severus growled. "Anything else I should know?"

Bella tossed him a bag full of things. "The only other important thing it that Play will kill anyone who touches his teddy bear. It's in the bag and so is everything else you will need." 

"Am I going to regret this?" Severus asked as he picked up the bag full of children's items.

"Most likely," Barty said with a grin.