I Am Dansmesyeux Riddle
Chapter 13
THIRTEEN: Eleanor Rose
Response To Reviews:
Marauder1prongs: In this fic Ruby is not Dan's mother.
Sure Falkenkralle: You hit it dead on. Dan' mother is a-. I'll refrain from finishing that.
Starrylibra: You're right about Dan's mother. Now about that site...only one word describes it…weird. Oh and I hope you update your story soon. Computers tend to break right after you start a new story or really are doing well on it. Now I have one question…in your profile you said you have a favorite bumper sticker…what may that be? Forgive me…I'm brain dead for all I did was talk to a few British friends and a few other random people…
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Previous Chapter: Only then did Dan catch the last words of Dumbledore as he snapped out of his trance. "Remus, please retrieve Severus."
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As he sat in the classroom and watched the children Severus couldn't help but worry about Dan. What if Dan got upset again? Or worse what if the Order reminded Dan of his mother?
Severus shook his head at the thought. He remembered when they first brought Dan back from his five week stay with his mother. Dan wouldn't talk to anyone and he stole food, thinking that that they weren't going to give him any. It had been hard to get him to remember his father but when he had it had helped them brake through the imaginary shield that Dan had put around his mind to survive his mother.
If Severus wasn't mistaken Dan still had a scar on the palm of his right hand from his mother. Dan had told him it was from when she had thrown an expense pottery vase at him and he had tried to block it from hitting his face with his hands.
Suddenly the door to the room flung open and Remus came in. He spotted Severus and rushed toward him. "Severus, the Headmaster needs you. It's Dan."
"Dan?" Severus said as he jumped to his feet. When he reached the door he stopped and said to the children, "Keep working. I expect this class room to be spotless when I get back."
"Yes, Uncle Sev," the children chorused and he left, Remus right behind him.
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Dan pulled his knees to his chest and held them in place firmly with his arms. He tried not to look up at the staring eyes of the Order as he waited for Uncle Sev to arrive. Dan felt a light ticking on his arm and he jumped, startling many people who were watching him. He calmed down, however, when he saw that it was just his bangs brushing against his arm.
"Woof!"
Dan looked up to see a big, black dog sitting calmly in front of him. Its gleaming, yellow eyes were fixed straight on him, something that a normal dog would have trouble accomplishing with their natural short attention span. When Dan failed to pet the bear-dog it whined and put its head down on a part of the chair that Dan wasn't sitting on, clearly begging to be pampered.
"Hi, doggy," Dan said, scratching the creatures ear.
"Get away from him, Black," came Severus voice as the office door opened and the ex-Death Eater made his way over to Dan. The dog growled and it back away so tat Severus could reach him.
"What happened, Headmaster?" he asked as he picked Dan up.
"We were trying to get a few questions on his mother answered but he went into a blank state of mind where he wasn't aware of where he was," answered Remus as he followed Severus inside. Severus, meanwhile, pulled up a chair and sat down in front of Dan, calmly waiting for the boy to acknowledge his presence. It didn't take long for Dan to jump at Severus, hugging him tightly.
"I tried to tell the truth," Dan pleaded, tears running down his face from behind his special-made glasses.
"Calm down," Severus said in a calm tone that didn't suit him at all. As he comforted Dan he scanned the faces of the people in the Order and saw that many held sympathetic looks for the child.
"Lupin, can you please retrieve Draco Malfoy?" Severus asked as he stood up.
"Yeah," Remus replied, nodding slightly.
Once he was out of the room Severus turned to Dumbledore. "I thought we agreed that you weren't going to ask Dan about his mother."
"It's either us first or the Ministry, Severus," replied Dumbledore. "Nevertheless I'm sorry if I upset Dan."
"Upset him?" Severus asked with burning rage. "How could upset him? You only reminded him of the very person-" the Potions Master stopped himself.
"What, Severus? Why is Dan afraid of his mother?"
Severus glanced at the black dog that was watching them with interest. "Go chase someone's cat, Black." Sirius growled at him and took a step toward Dan to show that he wasn't afraid. Even though he had no intention of hurting Dan, Severus watched him with unblinking eyes.
"Come here, doggie," Dan called Sirius. With a triumphant look Sirius trotted over to Dan and got his head scratched by the five year-old.
Severus knelt down so that he was eye level with Dan and he said in a gentle tone, "Dan, why don't you take the doggie and go wait outside the office? Don't leave though."
"OK, Uncle Sev," Dan agreed, leading Black out of the Headmaster's office with a smile on his face again. Severus looked at the Headmaster, and a few of the Order of the Phoenix members watched them intensely. When nobody spoke for a few minutes Severus decided to.
"Dan's mother wasn't exactly like Mrs. Weasley is with her children. Of course Dan was an only child and he still is…" the ex-Death Eater trailed off before attempting to continue. "She was someone who could be kind to you one moment and furious with you the next. Well…the Dark Lord had a one night stand (Severus couldn't help but smile), as you call it, with her and a few months later she tracked him down and told him about…hmmm…their little situation that they later named Dan."
"They worked out a schedule so that Dan was to live with the Dark Lord and only visit his mother every other weekend and, if I may add, it worked out fairly nice for a while. Well when Dan was four years old his mother, Eleanor Rose, asked if she could take him for Christmas and the Dark Lord agreed since he had no reason not to trust her. I'm not sure how long it took for us to realize that something was wrong. We should have suspected it sooner… It took us four weeks to track her down, and when we did Dan was too afraid to look his father in the eyes, eat a good meal, or even sleep when someone was around."
Severus shook his head at the memories. "I had to work with Dan for months on end just to get him to trust again. It wasn't an easy process but eventually Dan began to talk about his feelings instead of hiding them as, no doubt, his mother told him to. Even now it's hard to get Dan to be open with people or to even talk about that woman."
"Which is exactly why you wanted Dan to be able to have a book handy?" came Remus's voice from behind him. "He likes to read when he is nervous, doesn't he?"
"Yes, Lupin, he does," replied Severus as Remus took a seat a few meters away from him.
Before he could ask about Draco Remus said, "I left Mr. Malfoy outside with Dan and Sirius." Severus nodded. It wasn't going to be too hard for Draco to answer a few questions so he wasn't at all worried about that but he was worried about Dan. Either he, Severus, was going to have to tell the Order of what Eleanor had done to him or Dan was going to have to.
Dumbledore watched him patiently, and the Potions Maters couldn't help but sigh. This was going to take a while...
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"There are things
In life you're learning
Only in time you'll see
It's out there somewhere
It's our way in if you keep believing
So don't run, don't hide
It will be all right, you'll see
Trust me, I'll be there
Watching over you
Just take a look through my eyes (Look through my eyes)
There's a better place somewhere out there
Oh, look, just take a look through my eyes (Look through my eyes)
Everything changes, you'll be amazed what you'll find
(There's a better place)
If you look through my eyes
There will be times on this journey
When all you see is darkness
But out there somewhere
Daylight finds you if you keep believing
So don't run, don't hide
It will be all right, you'll see
Trust me, I'll be there
Watching over you
Just take a look through my eyes (Take a look through my eyes)
There's a better place somewhere out there
Oh, just take a look through my eyes (Take a look through my eyes)
Everything changes, you'll be amazed what you'll find
(There's a better place)
If you look through my eyes
All the things that you can change
There's a meaning in everything
And you will find all you'll need
There's so much to understand
Take a look through my eyes (Take a look through my eyes)
There's a better place somewhere out there
Oh, just take a look through my eyes (Just take a look through my eyes)
Everything changes, you'll be amazed what you'll find
(You'll be amazed what you'll find)
Oh, just take a good look through my eyes (Take a look through my eyes)
There's a better place somewhere out there
Just take a look through my eyes (Take a look through my eyes)
Everything changes, you'll be amazed what you'll find
(You'll find a better place)
Look through my eyes
You'll find a better place
Just take a look through my eyes
You'll find a better place
If you look through my eyes
Just take a look through my eyes..."
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A/N: The song "Look Through My Eyes" is by Phil Collins and is also from the Disney movie soundtrack: Brother Bear. Before I post this I should say that I'm sorry for being lazy but a lot of things in my life are screwing me over (parents, friend's parents...) and I really am not in the mood to type up my stories. I'm very sorry that this chapter was short…oh an could you all please name what type of animal you want one of the Death Eater children to own.
Thank you,
~Marauder3Moony~