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Chapter 28
It took Hermione five full minutes to see the very amused Harry Potter sitting on the couch next to her, she did a double take before calmly putting her book, down turning to face him, offered a friend smile too a deep breath and…
"HARRY JAMES POTTER WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU WERE DOING?!" Startled by the yelling Ron dropped the chess set causing all the pieces to break. He stared at her and then saw Harry cringing into the sofa; Ron recovered and repaired the chess set putting it away while the pieces made derogatory noises about his parentage. Harry pulled his knees into his chest and stared at Hermione
"Sorry I couldn't help myself" Hermione opened her mouth to retort but Ron beat her to it
"Hey you talked! You said something, sod the class Hermione he's talking again!"
"Language Ron" she chastised lightly never taking her eyes off Harry, she smiled again he was making progress but he still looked like a first year caught in potions class with out a cauldron.
"Harry, how are you feeling" I was like watching the shutters coming down on a shop window, he closed off his voice took a monotonous tone
"I'm fine" he said, she sighed well there was no point in trying anything else he wasn't going to let them in. Ron came over and dragged a chair with him so he could sit next to Harry.
"Alright mate been a while since you were last in here" Harry sighed and turned to Ron thankful for the distraction
"Yeah it has" he paused as if trying to find the right words "Look Ron you're not mad are you? I mean about me not being in the dorm it's just that I…" he stopped trying to find a way to articulate what he was trying to express, Ron just nodded
"It's ok mate honestly if I'd been what you had I wouldn't want to share a room with a bunch of blokes either" Harry winced Hermione hit Ron on the are
"Oh way to go Mr. I'm as tactful as a brick wall" Ron looked hurt and puzzled and then looked at Harry, who had curled up tight and was resting a cheek on his knees, Ron's eyes went wide
"Oh mate I'm sorry I didn't mean like that don't do that" Ron moved to pull Harry out of the ball he was in, Harry was lost in thought and didn't notice until he felt Ron touching him, he jumped, trying to move out the way and fell over the arm of the couch landing in a heap on the floor. Hermione rolled her eyes and looked up prying to which ever deity that would answer to give her strength when dealing with insensitive males and fragile boys. She got up and knelt next to Harry who was scrambling to get up.
"Calm down Harry, it's only Ron being an idiot" Harry looked from her to Ron, his eyes darting about all over the place, after a few minutes he managed to gain some semblance of control and nodded at her
"Sorry" he muttered under his breath, Ron looked down at him from the couch guiltily. Harry sighed:
"Ron don't look at me like, it's not your fault normal people don't do that" Harry
offered his best friend his hand, Ron took it and shook it before pulling Harry to his feet and hugging him quickly.
"No worries, tell you what I'll let 'Mione tell me what to do if you stop apologising for everything" Harry rolled his eyes Why does everyone tell him not to apologise? Hermione had calmed down a little and was returning to the sofa for them, Harry slid in beside her and Ron beside him, Sandwiched between his two best friends his emotions swirled, he was uneasy and claustrophobic but at the same time felt like this was were he belonged, he'd just forgotten it for a bit. After an uncomfortable few moments in silence with the rest of the Gryffindor's watching them Hermione spoke
"Want to go up to my room?"
"Sure" the boys replied in unison and bolted for the stares, Hermione cast a scathing glare at her housemates who had been acting like Harry was a zoo exhibit before following them.
Outkast was still standing where Harry had last seen her.
"Look I don't care if he wouldn't do that, there is something wrong with the werewolf, he's not acting like himself and he may pose a threat to the boy" She paused waiting for a response from the mirror that was situated on one of the leaves on the plant, she made a mental note to store it somewhere more sensible, but then mentally screwed up the note and threw it in the mental trash can. The voice on the other end was stressed beyond belief
"Look he's fine, Lupin loves him, the world a happy place don't rock the boat Outkast"
"Rock the boat ROCK THE BOAT" she hissed menacingly
"The boat don't need rocking it's got a bloody big hole in the middles and is going down like the Titanic I am telling you there is a leak and it's putting Harry at risk" the mirror went blank indicating that the other person had put the mirror down severing the contact. Outkast took a step back and plant a spinning back kick on the plan sending it soaring through the hall colliding with the wall at the other end.
"Wanker" She spat before storming away, fine if they won't help she'll do it herself, there was no way in hell she was going to let the boy she was beginning to feel maternal towards get hurt again. She stormed up to the room of requirement and passed the door three times and entered. Meanwhile at Grimmauld Place Moody put the mirror down and smirked the stupid little girl didn't know what she was talking about.
Harry collapsed onto Hermione's bed and breathed deeply before turning to his friends, he was grinning. Ron smirked back;
"I know that look you're up to something aren't you?" Harry's grin broadened,
"Come on it's share time" Ron pushed
"It's nothing really, it's just that being stared at like a monster got me thinking, it was like being a monster and then I thought of Frankenstein's monster and ended up at Franken Furter" Hermione giggled
"You ended at what?" Ron's non muggle side was showing
"Dr. Franken Furter, a character from a cult 70's movie and play"
"What" Hermione rolled her eyes
"I quit you explain" Harry grinned I'll do better then explain and with that bounded out the door Hermione shrugged and followed him,
"I know I'm going to regret this" Ron muttered under his breath before chasing after them.
Moments later they were outside the room of requirement, it was in use That's odd Harry thought, not many people knew about the room and eve fewer knew how to get in. Harry opened the door and went in Hermione and Ron on his heels. The room was set up like the dojo in Outkast's apartment. At that precise moment she seemed to be taking her aggression out on an impressive size punch bag. The kicks and punches landed with a resounding crack each time, she moved so fast that Harry was sure he could hear the wind off her knuckles. After a few more strikes she kicked two scythes off the ground catching them in her hands, she took three paces away from the bag and threw the weapons, the first one struck true the second missed by miles and was inline for the trio, Hermione squeaked as it travelled toward Harry's neck in a straight line. Harry waited until the last moment bringing his hands up and catching the blade between his palms. Outkast grinned at him, Hermione and Ron looked stunned.
"Where did you learn that?" Harry smirked
"What did you think I just lounged around at her place?" Harry threw the Scythe back and it impaled on the other side of the punch bag, Outkast nodded her approval.
"Do you guys want the room?" Harry nodded
"Sorry we were going to introduce Ron here to The Rocky Horror Picture Show" Outkast smiled and laughed
"Are you sure his fragile pureblood mind will take it" Ron opened his mouth to see if he had just be insulted, Hermione put a hand on his chin and shut it again.
"He'll be fine, would you care to join us?" Hermione ever the diplomat smiled, she may not have been sure of this…. Women to start with but she was obviously important to Harry so she would make the effort. Outkast noticed, hmm the girls got class she thought before shrugging,
"Sounds like a good idea" Outkast closed her eyes and the room was suddenly transformed into a cosy living room with a huge plasma screen on one side a couch big enough for all of them and a table with snacks and drinks on. Hermione eyed the table reprovingly.
"I don't think alcohol is a good idea" she said picking up the bottle of cognac Outkast sighed
"Fine don't drink it, Harry and I like our Cognac and coke and besides he can take it he's a heavy weight" Hermione and Ron's head shot round
"How do you know that?" Outkast smirked
"What did you think I just let him lounge around at my place?" With that she flopped on the couch and wandlessly poured the drinks and gestured to the others
"Well sit then" Harry sat beside Outkast and the arm, Ron on the other side of her and Hermione on the other end, it was a bit of a squeeze, but before anyone could say anything Outkast floated Harry up and lay him across all three of them so his head ended up in Outkast's lap she winked at him
"This way Ron can't escape" and with that the light's dimmed and a big red mouth appeared on the screen…
Around two hours later the film had finished Harry, Hermione and Outkast were grinning
"I forgot how much I liked that film" Outkast said to no one in particular
"Yeah me too" said a rather tipsy Hermione, Outkast smirked during the film the girl had taken to holding Ron's hand in one of hers while rubbing Harry's legs with the other, Harry was the most content Outkast had seen him since they left her place. She looked at Ron who was a tad pale
"Well Mr. Weasley what do you think?"
"That was wired" Outkast smiled
"That is was but it has given me and idea" Harry turned so he was lying on his back looking up at her
"What idea?"
"Have you guys thought about the Halloween ball yet?"
"No it's months away"
"Good don't bother" she had that mischievous grin again, Harry rolled his eyes sometime in the not so distant future either him, his friends of his father were going to be embarrassed horribly… possibly all three.
On Monday night after 'the incident' in the DADA classroom Harry found himself waiting apprehensively outside the door waiting to be admitted to his detention, he had shown up around half an hour before the scheduled time in the hope to be done early and be able to get his homework done.
"Enter" a familiar voice said, Harry took a deep breath and opened the door to the
office. Remus looked up form his desk and smiled
"Ah Harry you're early"
"Yes professor I hope you don't mind but I was hoping we could start and finish a little earlier today so I can finish my homework"
"That's fine Harry take a seat" Harry sat in the chair opposite the desk. Remus put down his pen
"First things first I would like to know how you are feeling?"
"Better thank you" Harry said with a genuine smile, this was the Remus Lupin he knew concerned mentor and his father's friend. Remus nodded
"That's good; could you tell me what possessed you to destroy the classroom?" Harry
cringed at the memory, but had made a vow to himself that he wouldn't lie to a Marauder.
"I was just so upset, everyone was pitying me and I couldn't take it." Remus nodded understandingly.
"Well it was a very bad thing you did"
"I know"
"Good, well then you will understand that bad boys need discipline" Harry looked wide eyes at his professor
"Pardon" Harry heard the door slam behind him, he tried to get up and found he was bound to the chair, he tried everything he knew, and every trick Outkast had taught him but he couldn't get out. He should be able to but then he sensed it, it was so fine but there, over the top of Remus's own magic, at least one other magical signature – someone was influencing his friends actions.
"R Reamus what are you doing?" He stuttered, the professor rose and stood behind Harry, he started to massage his shoulders slowly
"Shh Harry this will be easier if you relax, you'll enjoy it. I know you want it after all" he bent down so his mouth was by Harry's ear
"After all sweet Harry you let that muggle do it to you" in a smooth movement Harry found himself on the couch, his wrists bound above his head and his feet to the other end he screamed out
"That won't help no one will hear you" Remus uttered something under his breath and Harry's clothes disappeared.
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Outkast sat at the dinner table getting concerned, Harry had detention tonight and she would be damned if she left him alone with that man. She glanced across the Gryffindor table and felt a rock hit her stomach, Hermione and Ron were chatting avidly as they had been for the past ten minutes but there was no sign of Harry, she got up and approached them
"Hey guys where's the other third?" Ron looked confused Hermione rolled her eyes
"He decided to attend detention earlier so he could get some homework done after. Outkast's eyes went wide
"He did WHAT?!" she shrieked, she glanced at the head table in time to see Severus yelp and claw at something on his hand, she bolted for the door Oh shit oh shit she repeated all way to the defence office, somewhere she changed into her animagus form, Eagles had an advantage getting around Hogwarts and it was faster. She got to the door to find it locked…
Remus was on top of Harry when the door was blown away leaving a gaping hole, Outkast was livid, she threw he hand palm upward toward Lupin and a blue energy ball erupted from her hand pinning him against the wall, she stormed in and glanced at Harry who was crying quietly still bound and naked. She clicked her fingers and his clothes were back on. Severus appeared at the whole where the door and most of the wall once stood before he could utter a word Outkast acknowledge him without taking her eyes off the pinned professor
"Take your son to the infirmary I don't know if I was in time" Severus didn't like that tone of voice he'd heard once before and on that occasion 100 Death Eaters had met their doom. He tried to release the bounds but they were too strong, Outkast clicked her fingers again and the bound disintegrated, Harry curled into a ball wrapping his arms around himself and shushing himself, Severus scooped him up in his arms and without a backwards glance left. Outkast hadn't moved while Severus took Harry away, and now Dumbledore and McGonagall were standing behind her, she sensed them rather then hearing them and to be honest as long at they kept their mouths shut she didn't give a shit.
"Who are you?" Her voice was altered, sounding mechanical and disjointed,
"I'm Remus Lupin" the figure on the wall intoned, the voice, her gift was ten times more powerful then vertiaserum. She looked at his eyes,
"He's under imperio" she announced before using legilimens to break the connection she was careful but whoever was controlling him was using a conduit and was aware of her before she could trace them.
"Shit they got away" at that same moment Remus came round, he was initially confused and then he remembered everything and stared to cry.
"Oh my god Harry! Oh god I'm so sorry I couldn't get free what have I done?" Outkast released him and he crumpled to the floor. She knelt by him and put a hand on his back
"It's going to be ok, I know whoever it was used a chain to increase their power over you. I'm sorry but we need to know. Did you rape Harry?" Remus shook his head, relief washed over Outkast
"No you got here in time. Just." He croaked before passing out. She looked at the headmaster, her eye alive with fire
"Get that stupid wanker Moody here now, tell him what happened and then drag his sorry ass to me in the infirmary and if you value you're life Albus you won't interfere" she snarled and left dragging the unconscious professor behind her. Albus turned to Minerva the twinkle gone from his eye
"I have a fire call to make" he left for his office while Minerva left for the infirmary.
Severus burst through the door
"Poppy" he choked out, it was all he could do to keep hold of Harry who was in a full panic attack kicking and screaming, the nurse appeared and took one look at him and motioned to a bed. Between the two of them they managed to hold him down and feed him a dreamless sleep potion. It had just taken effect when the doors slammed open in front of Outkast with a unconscious Lupin behind her, she put him on a bed and turned to the nurse
"He's in shock and has been under the imperio curse for an extended period I would say months" Severus looked away form his son
"Imperio?" Outkast nodded and drew a slow breath
"Yeah, who ever did it is fairly powerful but not here they did by remote control via one of the Slytherin students, they used them like a conduit adding their abilities to the students as they could enforce their will. I don't know who though they broke the connection before I could find out." Severus nodded unsure whether to be relieved that the werewolf hadn't had a choice or not.
"Outkast, please I need to know did he say if he'd… if he had well…" she cut him off
"No Sev, he was close we got there in time, Remus did not rape your son" Severus swallowed and looked at her
"Thank God for small mercies" Outkast nodded
"It is a very small mercy, Sev he has assaulted him and Harry's still recovering from his relatives. Shit that kid needs a holiday" she said, Severus snorted in agreement a completely serious Outkast was a sure sign that the shit would hit the fan, even a small joke was better then nothing. At that moment Albus, Minerva and Moody entered. Outkast saw red
"THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT YUOU BASTARD WHY DIDN'T YOU BELIEVE ME?" Moody swallowed hard but refused to be intimated by this girl
"Don't yell at me I was doing this for years before you even knew how to speak" Outkast was close to pulling hair out, she saw the old aurour pull his wand and lost all control, she threw a blue sphere that hit him in the chest tearing his wand and catapulting into the ceiling, he hit it with a sickening thump, she dropped him and with her next shot threw him through the closed infirmary door and into the wall opposite, Madame Pormfrey tried to intervene
"Outkast I don't need another…" that was as far as she got before her voice was taken, she looked at the headmaster for support. Albus had also paled he had never seen this Riddle lose control so totally power radiated off her setting the air alight she stormed after the fallen and badly injured Order member she pulled him to standing with a simple spell and then landed a magically enhanced kick in his stomach sending him down the length of the 60ft hall at high speed. He hit the wall; the last thing he saw before he fell into unconsciousness was her face over him
"You stupid man I'm the twin of the Voldemort did you really think your powers would have any effect on me, I'm as powerful as he is" she leaned in close
"You have no idea who you're fucking with" then he knew no more.
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AN look nothing for so long and two chapters in one night go me! I hope you like! It you want the version with the missing scene email me or at some point (!) I will get round to uploading it on to adult ffn. Adieu for now!
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