A/N: I am getting closer to completeing the first part of Secrets and Lies. I'm not exactly sure on how many more chapters that will be though. Anyway, here is chapter 8.(You'll soon learn why I gave it the name I did.)
Chapter 8 : Look Who's Talking Now
Harry/Klyde sat in the common room that day during lunch deciding whether or not to open the shoe box. Finaly, he opened the top. Inside there was an envelope and a snake. For a while, Klyde just stared at it. He could hear Harry's voice saying, "Drop the box and go! Give me control back while your at it!" Klyde tried his best to ignore the voice. He was bussy trying to figure out what the snake was saying. He tried to decide whether it was Harry or the snake saying something.
"I want my body back!"
"Give it to him!"
"KLYDE!"
"My name is Mercy."
"I don't feel so good."
"Take care of me."
"Klyde...don't trust her."
"Trust me."
"I can lead you to power, Harry."
"SHUT UP!" Klyde shouted. "Mercy? Right? You can lead me to power?"
"I can lead Harry to power, Klyde." Mercy said.
"Ugh!" Klyde said. "Fine! I'll get other help."
"Oh no. I'm getting the help." Mercy said. She slid out of the box, across the room, and out of the common room. Klyde decided now was not the time he needed to worry about things.
-teal eyes flashed green-
Harry was back, and it had taken alot.
"Mercy!" Harry shouted. "Wait!" Harry ran out and followed the snake. He finaly caught up to her when she was about to slither into Severus's office. "What are you doing here?" Harry asked.
WHAM!
Harry fell unconcious. Erica and Sarah stood behind Severus who had hit him over the head with a chair. The three then looked down to see Mercy. She slid over to them and into the room looking for something. Finaly, she found an open book. Her tail pointed to one sentence which read : And it was actually Harry. It was the book that magically changed to English once the events happened. Heads turned to the spot where Harry lay unconcious.
"We need Madam Pomfrey." Severus said.
Ten minutes later, Madam Pomfrey burst into the room with a bag full of potions and chocolate. She first fussed at Severus for not looking after him more carfully, then asked what happened. Sarah and Erica launched into a story they had thought up about Harry "accidentally" running into a wall. Madam Pomfrey left behind a purple pain potion and some chocolate before leaving to take care of Cho Chang and Ginny Weaskey who had both fallen out of a window.
"Well, we'll have to wait until he wakes up." Sarah said, sitting down beside her unconsious brother.
"If he wakes up." Erica added to herself. Both Sarah and Severus stared at her, then their eyes fell upon Harry who looked like he was having a terrible nightmare. But that was only because he was having yet another battle for total control.
IN HARRY'S MIND
Harry and Klyde faced eachother in one dark room. The walls were black, there was an empty fireplace sat against one wall. Candles surrounded the room and were lit with tiny flickering flames. There was one portrit opposite the wall with the fireplace. The painting was of the four Hogwarts founders: Godric Gryffindor, Salazar Slytherin, Helga Huffelpuf, and Rowena Ravenclaw. This painting didn't move, only the eyes followed every movement. A couch, three chairs, a tble, and a rug sat in the middle of the room. There was no escaping the place. There were no doors, no windows, no holes, no escape. The only truly useful thing in the room was the bookcase placed by where a door should have been. It held many books written in many different languages. Most languages only Harry and Klyde could read.
Harry sat in one chair that was in front of the painting. KLyde sat in the one opposite him, in freont of the fireplace. They merely glared at eachother. Klyde looked almost exactly the same as Harry with the exceptions of the absence of glasses, blonde hair, and teal eyes. Other than that, their features were exactly the same.
"What do you want? Why are you taking over me?" Harry finaly asked, intuurupting the cold silence.
"Harry, Harry, Harry." Klyde said shaking his head. "I am you."
"What do you mean?" Harry asked. He was very anxious to hear this explination as well as many others Klyde could not give.
"I'm the side of you you never let out. I'm the bad side. The evil side. The part of you you only let out in your most desparate, angry times. Like last year at Grimmauld Place when you yelled at Ron and Hermione. That was me. You just weren't aware of it."
"But why are you taking control now?" Harry asked.
Klyde gave a small laugh that managed the echo in the cold room. "That's not obvious? The Dark Lord needs us. He can give us power. He wants us to join him and once you-or shall I say I- wake up, I will do so. He will give me power and I will help in conquer the world. You wont be able to stop me. You will become what I always was: a part deep inside no one ever sees. Waiting for a moment to strike, to come out...but failing helplessly."
"Don't you know why Voldemort wants us?" Harry asked.
"Shut up!" Klyde hissed. "You are not worthy to say his name. No one is!"
"Do-you-know-why-he-wants-us?" Harry repeated slowly.
"For power." Klyde replied. "He knows we can give it to him."
"Correction. I can-but wont-give it to him. It is my power."
"It will be mine." Klyde told him. "Soon."
"Are you so sure of that?" Harry asked.
"Yes." Klyde whispered, not sounding at all that he was.
Harry smiled. He had a plan to get his body back.
VOLDEMORT'S LAIR
In the basement of the little house he was using for his lair. It was cold and dark and just the perfect, evil atmosphere. Voldemort sat in a throne-like chair in front of a fire. Narcissa was on his left staring wide eyed at the snakes on the floor surrounding them; on his right stood Paige and David who were looking fondly at the Dark Lord's pets.
"Did you give Klyde his present?" Voldemort asked.
"Yes." Paige. "I did. Last night. He must have opened it by now. The letter told him to meet us. He must have found trouble."
"Or, " Voldemort said getting angry, "he is Harry again."
"Impossible!" David said. "He took Snape's potion!"
"Are you sure it worked?" he asked them, trying to calm his voice.
"Positive!" the teens answered.
"Well..." Voldemort said, "he must have found trouble."
"Would you like us to go help him, my lord?" Narcissa asked.
"We shall wait." Voldemort said. "We need to discuss plans first."
"Can't it wai-" Narcissa began.
"NO!" Voldemort shouted. The room became silent, even the snakes stopped. All eyes were fearfully upon him. "They can not, Narcissa! The only reason your not laying on the ground right now is bacuse I need you. You...I want you to be my queen."
"I'm married!" Narcissa shreiked.
"Is that a no?" Voldemort asked.
"Of course not." Narcissa replied. Actually, the thought of being a queen pleased her very much. "I shall tell my husband."
"Or we can kill him." Voldemort suggested.
"Isn't he-" Paige began.
"After." Voldemort cut in. "We will wait until after. When he is killed, we will make Narcissa my queen. We will kill Harry Potter, then conquer the world and murder all Muggles."
"That is a good plan, my lord." Narcissa, Paige, and David said, bowing their heads.
"Of course it is." Voldemort whispered. "Now, Paige, David, see what you can do for Klyde. Narcissa, start planning our wedding."
Narcissa, Paige, and David went to do as they were told. Voldemort turned to his pet snakes that were all sliding about on the ground.
"This will be great fun!" Voldemort told.
"If you live." said Pablo the snake said.
"What do you mean?" Voldemort hissed.
"Harry Potter has strength you will never know." said Ursula the snake.
"I will not be spoken to like that!" Voldemort screamed. "I can kill a snake."
"But will you?"asked Pablo.
"Not now." Voldemort said "Later, perhaps."
DUMBLDORE'S OFFICE
"What are we going to do about Harry Potter?" Professor McGonagal asked the headmaster. "There is something going on we don't know about."
"I will look into it." Dumbldore assured her. "Minerva, do try to keep a close eye on Severus. I cannot shake the feeling that he has something to do with it."
"I will, headmaster." McGonagall agreed. "And do be careful. They'll be after you, Dumbldore." With that, she walked out of the room and shut the door.
"But they've already come.' Dumbldore whispered, a mischevious look comming in his blue eyes. There was a knock on the door, and in walked Paige, David, and Draco.
"How's the plan going?" Paige asked.
Dumbldore smirked, and began changing form. Seconds thater, the man standing before the teenagers was not the old, kind man called Albus Dumbldore. There before them stood a used-to-be Azkaban prisoner, Lucius Malfoy.
"So you've brough my son?" Lucius said. "Ah, how thoughtful, you brainwashed him."
"Actually, that was Ronald Weasley." David admitted.
"Weasley?" Lucius asked suprised. "Ah, at least they came out with one smart kid."
"Yes." Paige agreed. "Now, we were just about to go check on Klyde. Have any idea where he might be?"
"Check Severus's office." Lucius advised. "Severus, i saw, hit him over the head with a chair and dragged him into his office."
Paige gasped. "Oh! I'll go get him! David, Draco, you distract them all. And I'll go in!"
Paige, David, and Draco all ran out of the office and headed toward Severus's office where Severus, Erica, and Sarah were whaching over the troubled Harry.
"What do we do?" Draco asked.
"I don't know, that's your job!" Paige snapped. "Think!"
"I got it." Davis whispered. "Follow me, Malfoy."
David and Draco took off fast runnig past the office door. Seconds later, Severus ran out after them. Paige, sure there was no one else in the office, walked right in.
"Paige?" Sarah asked. Erica spun around.
"What are you going here?" Erica asked.
"Hoping to visit my twin brother." Paige said, hiding shock well with a smirk.
"Go away!" Sarah told her.
"Now!" Erica added.
"Tsk tsk." muttered Paige.
The three witches pulled out their wands. They all had their wands pointed at their taget. Erica and Sarah's wands were pointed at Paige; Paige's was pointed right in between the two girls.
"Expelliarmus!" Erica and Sarah shouted together.
Unfortunatly, that was blacked by Paige's curse...
"Tellpium Magnetta!" Paige shouted. It shout out in between the two good girls and ended up getting them both. Paige smirked at stared at Erica who was unconcious, but sitting up by leaning against the wall. Sarah was unconcious, face down on the floor. Paige stepped over Sarah and walked to one of Severus's potion books. She flipped through the pages until she landed on a certain one. A complicated one. Paige put a locking charm on the door before starting to make the difficult potion.
HALLWAY
Severus had chased both boys down the hallway until theuy stopped at a dead end, out of breath. Severus even took time to breath before handing out punishments.
"Seventy points from Huffelpuff and a detention. One point from Slytherin and a detention!"
David and Draco grinned at eachother. Severus noticed this, realised Paige wasn't with them, and remembered who he had left alone in his office. Severus took off back to his office with David and Draco on his tail.
When they reached the office, Severus tried to open it. Unfortunatly, Paige's Locking Charm was working perfectly. The two boys and their teacher all knew, however, that she was makingf a potion.
"Paige, what are you doing?" Severus called.
SEVERUS'S OFFICE
Paige heard the potions master's shout, but did not reply. She pretened she wasn't there though she knew they knew she was in there making a potion.
"Are Erica and Sarah alright?" she heard Severus ask.
Paige ignored him once more. She was almost finished with her potion. She took a needle, drew some of Harry's blood, dropped it into the potion, stirred, then poured some into a vial. The potion was hot pink. Paige took it over to where Harry was and sat down beside him. She put her hand in his then drank the potioin.
She fell unconcious still clutching her brother's hand.
In a matter of seconds, Paige joined Harry and Klyde in the dark room in Harry's mind. She took a seat in the third chair and listened to their conversation.
END of Chapter 8
I know that the title for this chapter is realy stupid considerring there were only a few talking snakes (which is what I named the chapter for) but I could not think of another name for this chapter. I will start working on the next chapter ASAP and get it up as soon as I'm done. Right now, here's the preveiw...
Chapter 9 : Comprimise
What is going on with Harry, Klyde, and Paige in Harry's mind? Will they get out? Will Severus get in? Will Erica and Paige wake up? We'll find out another plan of Voldemort's and see how Mercy can help them. And what is going on with James? Everyone (good and bad) are suspicious with him. Which side is he on? To find out, read Chapter 9 : Comprimise.
Damn, this feels like a TV show but with cuss word they aren't allowed to put on TV. Anyway, I hope you're liking my story. If you do, please reply. If not, I don't mind your opinions.
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