Hello! Its finally the weekend so I am writing yay!!
Okay I am FINALLY going to answer some reviews.....or at least most of them that is, so if I accidentally miss you....sorry.
Reviewers of Chapter ten-
Coldflames04- Actually it was four years since Harry's second so I think that's right. Please, if you see any info that you think is wrong please tell me cause I don't have that much time to make sure everything is right! I wont get mad, I promise! Thanks for the review!
Ennui deMorte- Thanks! I'm glad that they are IC!
Shy3wolf- Thanks! Well I was going to name Harry Zack or Alex but those have been taken so Damien was my next choice....
Makalani Astral- Thanks for the review! I'm trying to make Draco as IC as possible to so tell me if he seems a bit OOC
Anarane Anwamane- Thanks!
Starangel2106- Thanks, I'm trying to make them closer slowly but I may be going a bit fast!
Catti- Thanks!
Leggylover03- Ya I think closer is better to.. Thanks for the review!
Gallandro-83- I don't really mean for Harry to refer Severus as 'his father' so quickly, I guess its better to type that instead of 'Severus' all the time. I know Harry may seem a little OOC and he and Severus may seem to be getting along rather well but they got a lot closer over the summer (well not A LOT but....closer) which will be seen at times in flashbacks and I may make the summer a companion story to this one later on. Also about Ginny and Harry well I've got a way for them to be together but its not going to happen until later chapters... Thanks for your reviews, they are really helpful cause I don't really have that much time to check over the chapters and please tell me if you think any of them are very OOC. I cant really promise that they will not be at least a little OOC but tell me if I'm going overboard here. Thanks!
Sarahamanda- Thanks for reviewing! I'm glad you like the chapters!
Okay for everyone else that has reviewed on the other chapters but not on this one, I'm really sorry that I cant answer them. I am going to try to answer reviewers from now on....
Well on with the chapter!
Chapter ten- Flashbacks, Schedules, and Annoying Ferrets!
Damien stepped into the Snake Pit and looked around. It really hadn't changed that much from his second year, all donned in green and silver.
All the conversation stopped almost instantly as every eye was fixed on him. Damien glared right back at them coldly. "Well are you just going to stand there or am I going to have to find my room myself?" he snapped.
The murmur started up once again, they obviously seemed to except him.....at least a little. Only one person approached him though (most were glancing at him cautiously). Draco Malfoy smirked and signed for Damien to follow him.
"And here I thought you didn't want to be seen with a half-blood such as myself....after all you are the ideal wizard and you wouldn't want to be seen with a half-breed like myself...."
Malfoy, however continued to smirk as he led the way up to the sixth year boys rooms. "Well some half-bloods are alright.....as long as they can prove their worth that is! Not that you need to or anything.....Well here we are Damien."
The two stopped at a circular room with several paintings on the walls. "This is yours....you can choose the password once you get inside, right now its 'serpent'" Malfoy gestured to the painting of two boys dueling.
"By the way..." the blonde said turning to Damien. "I know its not your fault that you're a half-breed....." "What do you mean?" Damien asked in an offended tone, arching an eyebrow at the blonde. Malfoy smirked once again and Damien suddenly wanted to smack the other boy. "Well I know you cant help that your father raped your mother......he was probably following the Dark Lord's orders so I cant really blame him...After all, its not as though he loved her or anything...."
Damien felt a well or anger beyond anything that he had ever felt before. The arrogant smirk was still on the Malfoy's face and he wanted to slam his fist into the pale boy's pointed face. He did too. He turned around and punched Malfoy in the nose as hard as he possibly could. Malfoy staggered and fell to the floor but Damien had already entered his rooms, he thought of the first word that came to mind and told the painting to change the password to, 'Sirius' before shutting the painting in the now standing boy's face.
Damien looked around the room, it was almost exactly like the room he had occupied over at the Snape Manor except it was smaller, there was no bathroom, and it was silver and green instead of gold.
Damien sighed and flung himself onto the velvet green covers, trying to prevent the tears from falling. Damien had never really thought of his conception as rape.....well maybe at first when he had been really angry at Severus he had, but hadn't his mother said that he, Damien should forgive Severus? It wasn't his fault after all. Well, Damien guessed that drugging someone like Severus had his mother and doing what he had done to her was considered as rape.......But it wasn't his fault! He was under the Imperious Curse! By Lucius Malfoy too! It was hard to imagine that he, Damien would have even existed if it hadn't of been for the man....
Was he a bastard? After all he was the product of rape.... He suddenly felt anger well up in him once again as he thought about Snape...the snarky potion's master raping his mother.... He felt sickened by the thought and buried his head into his pillow as he felt the familiar hot tears fall down his cheeks......
He shouldn't be mad at Severus..... Damien knew the man would never do something like that........especially to his friend. Over the summer Damien had actually discovered a human part of Severus....he smiled slightly at the thought amongst the tears....
##################### FLASHBACK
"Legilimens!!" Severus roared once again.
Harry gasped but braced himself as he felt the spell hit him. Once again he was plunged into memories of his horrible childhood.
He was eight and running from Dudley's gang, his lungs were burning from the lack of air, his legs aching horribly as he made for an alleyway. He felt the bruises that already littered his back, courtesy of Dudley, ach making it much harder to escape the clutches of his demented cousin. He finally collapsed and looked up in horror as Dudley and his gang surrounded him, all smirking jeering at him. Harry squeezed his eyes shut as his cousin threw the first punch..............
Suddenly the memory faded away and they were back in the living room, Harry was panting, his cheeks wet as he shook violently. Severus looked at him for a couple minutes, having ended the spell early.
"Did they often chase you?" he asked, his voice strangely free of emotion. Harry swallowed heavily and nodded, "That was a........lucky day..." he murmured. "It was usually..........worse." Harry didn't know why he was telling Severus this but it somehow made him feel better.......
Severus nodded slowly, "That's enough for today" he said quietly, his intense gaze fixed on Harry, never leaving him. Harry looked at him in confusion, the last spell had only been the second time this evening! Usually they did it around ten or fifteen times or until Harry finally collapsed but two was just......nothing!
"Are you sure sir" he asked slowly. "I mean, you don't want me to come back tomorrow or anything do you?"
Severus shook his head slowly, "No I would have told you now wouldn't I of?" he said with a bit of impatience in his voice. Harry flinched involuntarily, the memory of Dudley and the other boys playing in his mind.
Severus sighed and said, "Unfortunately we are going to be spending more time together thanks to certain people....." Severus scowled at the last part. "It is after all holidays so.....just call me....Severus...." Harry openly gawked at the man.
"Call me Sev, Sevvy, Dad, or anything remotely similar then I'll rip you limb from limb though got it?!"
Usually Harry would have been terrified of a statement such as that one coming from his rabid potion's master but right now he felt......amused slightly.
"Alright....then call me Harry since Potter isn't really my name........." Harry frowned at the last part but put in a threat to for good measure. "Call me Mr. Snape though and I'll....." he paused as Severus raised his eyebrows at the last part. ".....or else I'll...I'll....do something really bad!!" Harry finished with feigned intimidation.
The man laughed at the sad threat and it was Harry's turn to raise his eyebrows. He had never...NEVER heard the man laugh! He didn't even know Severus could! Harry had to smile at the difference it made on the man. He actually looked........human and almost happy too.
Severus smirked at Harry and eyed him up and down as if sizing him up. His smirk widened and he nodded as if in satisfaction before whirling around and striding to his potion lab, his black robes billowing dramatically.....
END FLASHBACK #####################
Damien smiled at the memory and wiped away his tears stubbornly. The headmaster's words suddenly popped into his head, "It does not do well to dwell on the past and forget to live......"
Damien straightened and got into his bed, fully clothed. He was suddenly very tired.....
Next day
"Hey look...look over there!"
"Where!"
"Over there! That boy sitting next to Malfoy!"
"Did you hear who he is?"
"Did you hear who his father is?"
Whispers followed Damien and Malfoy (who insisted on sticking with him, saying that they punch in the nose had just been a misunderstanding.......his father's orders no doubt....) the next day and Damien had a flashback of his first day in his first year when everyone had been whispering and following him....But this was different.....way different. Some of them were just curious but most were rather cruel instead of awed and flattered. Though Ginny had been right, many more girls were staring at him then boys.... But then again when a boy stared at Damien, they sneered and scowled at him but when a girl did, she completely stared open mouthed at him for a moment before blushing and hurrying away.
Professor Snape was passing around the schedules for everyone. He handed Damien his schedule and nodded at him, "Mr. Snape" he greeted evenly. Damien nodded back, "Sir" he said his voice equally even.
The sixth year schedules were different from the schedules before. They had fewer classes, that was one thing but they also had the same classes more times a week then before.
Damien looked at his schedule with little interest:
Monday:
9:00AM- Transfiguration
11:00AM- Lunch
12:30PM- Herbology
2:30PM- Double Potions
6:30PM- Dinner
Tuesday:
9:00AM- Ancient Runes
11:00AM- Lunch
12:30PM- Double Defense Against the Dark Arts
4:30PM- Double Charms
6:30PM- Dinner
Wednesday:
9:00AM- Charms
11:00AM- Lunch
12:30PM- Double Herbology
4:30PM- Double Transfiguration
6:30PM- Dinner
Thursday:
9:00AM- Potions
11:00AM- Lunch
12:30PM- Double Ancient Runes
4:30PM- Defense Against the Dark Arts
6:30PM- Dinner
Friday:
9:00AM- Ancient Runes
10:00AM- Potions
11:00AM- Lunch
12:30PM- Charms
2:30PM- Herbology
3:30PM- Transfiguration
4:30PM- Potions
5:30PM- Defense Against the Dark Arts
6:30PM- Dinner
Please note that you are now in Academic classes of each subject due to your OWL results and that you will be taking this class with any other sixth year that has also achieved the required results on the OWL's.
"Well that's certainly different" Malfoy murmured as he stared at his schedule, which was exactly like Damien's. He turned toward Damien, "You are in sixth year aren't you?" he asked the Snape.
Damien nodded, "What don't I look like one? I'm taller then you are!" he said coolly not quite forgiving Malfoy for his comment the other night.
"No, just wondering....hey our schedules are exactly the same....except the Ancient Runes class!" Malfoy said in an excited voice.
"Oh joy" Damien murmured sarcastically as he rubbed his eyes tiredly. This year was going to definitely SUCK......
() Okay I don't know if I did the schedule right or not and if I did, I'm sorry because I kind of like the way I did it.
Well review please!
See ya!
Okay I am FINALLY going to answer some reviews.....or at least most of them that is, so if I accidentally miss you....sorry.
Reviewers of Chapter ten-
Coldflames04- Actually it was four years since Harry's second so I think that's right. Please, if you see any info that you think is wrong please tell me cause I don't have that much time to make sure everything is right! I wont get mad, I promise! Thanks for the review!
Ennui deMorte- Thanks! I'm glad that they are IC!
Shy3wolf- Thanks! Well I was going to name Harry Zack or Alex but those have been taken so Damien was my next choice....
Makalani Astral- Thanks for the review! I'm trying to make Draco as IC as possible to so tell me if he seems a bit OOC
Anarane Anwamane- Thanks!
Starangel2106- Thanks, I'm trying to make them closer slowly but I may be going a bit fast!
Catti- Thanks!
Leggylover03- Ya I think closer is better to.. Thanks for the review!
Gallandro-83- I don't really mean for Harry to refer Severus as 'his father' so quickly, I guess its better to type that instead of 'Severus' all the time. I know Harry may seem a little OOC and he and Severus may seem to be getting along rather well but they got a lot closer over the summer (well not A LOT but....closer) which will be seen at times in flashbacks and I may make the summer a companion story to this one later on. Also about Ginny and Harry well I've got a way for them to be together but its not going to happen until later chapters... Thanks for your reviews, they are really helpful cause I don't really have that much time to check over the chapters and please tell me if you think any of them are very OOC. I cant really promise that they will not be at least a little OOC but tell me if I'm going overboard here. Thanks!
Sarahamanda- Thanks for reviewing! I'm glad you like the chapters!
Okay for everyone else that has reviewed on the other chapters but not on this one, I'm really sorry that I cant answer them. I am going to try to answer reviewers from now on....
Well on with the chapter!
Chapter ten- Flashbacks, Schedules, and Annoying Ferrets!
Damien stepped into the Snake Pit and looked around. It really hadn't changed that much from his second year, all donned in green and silver.
All the conversation stopped almost instantly as every eye was fixed on him. Damien glared right back at them coldly. "Well are you just going to stand there or am I going to have to find my room myself?" he snapped.
The murmur started up once again, they obviously seemed to except him.....at least a little. Only one person approached him though (most were glancing at him cautiously). Draco Malfoy smirked and signed for Damien to follow him.
"And here I thought you didn't want to be seen with a half-blood such as myself....after all you are the ideal wizard and you wouldn't want to be seen with a half-breed like myself...."
Malfoy, however continued to smirk as he led the way up to the sixth year boys rooms. "Well some half-bloods are alright.....as long as they can prove their worth that is! Not that you need to or anything.....Well here we are Damien."
The two stopped at a circular room with several paintings on the walls. "This is yours....you can choose the password once you get inside, right now its 'serpent'" Malfoy gestured to the painting of two boys dueling.
"By the way..." the blonde said turning to Damien. "I know its not your fault that you're a half-breed....." "What do you mean?" Damien asked in an offended tone, arching an eyebrow at the blonde. Malfoy smirked once again and Damien suddenly wanted to smack the other boy. "Well I know you cant help that your father raped your mother......he was probably following the Dark Lord's orders so I cant really blame him...After all, its not as though he loved her or anything...."
Damien felt a well or anger beyond anything that he had ever felt before. The arrogant smirk was still on the Malfoy's face and he wanted to slam his fist into the pale boy's pointed face. He did too. He turned around and punched Malfoy in the nose as hard as he possibly could. Malfoy staggered and fell to the floor but Damien had already entered his rooms, he thought of the first word that came to mind and told the painting to change the password to, 'Sirius' before shutting the painting in the now standing boy's face.
Damien looked around the room, it was almost exactly like the room he had occupied over at the Snape Manor except it was smaller, there was no bathroom, and it was silver and green instead of gold.
Damien sighed and flung himself onto the velvet green covers, trying to prevent the tears from falling. Damien had never really thought of his conception as rape.....well maybe at first when he had been really angry at Severus he had, but hadn't his mother said that he, Damien should forgive Severus? It wasn't his fault after all. Well, Damien guessed that drugging someone like Severus had his mother and doing what he had done to her was considered as rape.......But it wasn't his fault! He was under the Imperious Curse! By Lucius Malfoy too! It was hard to imagine that he, Damien would have even existed if it hadn't of been for the man....
Was he a bastard? After all he was the product of rape.... He suddenly felt anger well up in him once again as he thought about Snape...the snarky potion's master raping his mother.... He felt sickened by the thought and buried his head into his pillow as he felt the familiar hot tears fall down his cheeks......
He shouldn't be mad at Severus..... Damien knew the man would never do something like that........especially to his friend. Over the summer Damien had actually discovered a human part of Severus....he smiled slightly at the thought amongst the tears....
##################### FLASHBACK
"Legilimens!!" Severus roared once again.
Harry gasped but braced himself as he felt the spell hit him. Once again he was plunged into memories of his horrible childhood.
He was eight and running from Dudley's gang, his lungs were burning from the lack of air, his legs aching horribly as he made for an alleyway. He felt the bruises that already littered his back, courtesy of Dudley, ach making it much harder to escape the clutches of his demented cousin. He finally collapsed and looked up in horror as Dudley and his gang surrounded him, all smirking jeering at him. Harry squeezed his eyes shut as his cousin threw the first punch..............
Suddenly the memory faded away and they were back in the living room, Harry was panting, his cheeks wet as he shook violently. Severus looked at him for a couple minutes, having ended the spell early.
"Did they often chase you?" he asked, his voice strangely free of emotion. Harry swallowed heavily and nodded, "That was a........lucky day..." he murmured. "It was usually..........worse." Harry didn't know why he was telling Severus this but it somehow made him feel better.......
Severus nodded slowly, "That's enough for today" he said quietly, his intense gaze fixed on Harry, never leaving him. Harry looked at him in confusion, the last spell had only been the second time this evening! Usually they did it around ten or fifteen times or until Harry finally collapsed but two was just......nothing!
"Are you sure sir" he asked slowly. "I mean, you don't want me to come back tomorrow or anything do you?"
Severus shook his head slowly, "No I would have told you now wouldn't I of?" he said with a bit of impatience in his voice. Harry flinched involuntarily, the memory of Dudley and the other boys playing in his mind.
Severus sighed and said, "Unfortunately we are going to be spending more time together thanks to certain people....." Severus scowled at the last part. "It is after all holidays so.....just call me....Severus...." Harry openly gawked at the man.
"Call me Sev, Sevvy, Dad, or anything remotely similar then I'll rip you limb from limb though got it?!"
Usually Harry would have been terrified of a statement such as that one coming from his rabid potion's master but right now he felt......amused slightly.
"Alright....then call me Harry since Potter isn't really my name........." Harry frowned at the last part but put in a threat to for good measure. "Call me Mr. Snape though and I'll....." he paused as Severus raised his eyebrows at the last part. ".....or else I'll...I'll....do something really bad!!" Harry finished with feigned intimidation.
The man laughed at the sad threat and it was Harry's turn to raise his eyebrows. He had never...NEVER heard the man laugh! He didn't even know Severus could! Harry had to smile at the difference it made on the man. He actually looked........human and almost happy too.
Severus smirked at Harry and eyed him up and down as if sizing him up. His smirk widened and he nodded as if in satisfaction before whirling around and striding to his potion lab, his black robes billowing dramatically.....
END FLASHBACK #####################
Damien smiled at the memory and wiped away his tears stubbornly. The headmaster's words suddenly popped into his head, "It does not do well to dwell on the past and forget to live......"
Damien straightened and got into his bed, fully clothed. He was suddenly very tired.....
Next day
"Hey look...look over there!"
"Where!"
"Over there! That boy sitting next to Malfoy!"
"Did you hear who he is?"
"Did you hear who his father is?"
Whispers followed Damien and Malfoy (who insisted on sticking with him, saying that they punch in the nose had just been a misunderstanding.......his father's orders no doubt....) the next day and Damien had a flashback of his first day in his first year when everyone had been whispering and following him....But this was different.....way different. Some of them were just curious but most were rather cruel instead of awed and flattered. Though Ginny had been right, many more girls were staring at him then boys.... But then again when a boy stared at Damien, they sneered and scowled at him but when a girl did, she completely stared open mouthed at him for a moment before blushing and hurrying away.
Professor Snape was passing around the schedules for everyone. He handed Damien his schedule and nodded at him, "Mr. Snape" he greeted evenly. Damien nodded back, "Sir" he said his voice equally even.
The sixth year schedules were different from the schedules before. They had fewer classes, that was one thing but they also had the same classes more times a week then before.
Damien looked at his schedule with little interest:
Monday:
9:00AM- Transfiguration
11:00AM- Lunch
12:30PM- Herbology
2:30PM- Double Potions
6:30PM- Dinner
Tuesday:
9:00AM- Ancient Runes
11:00AM- Lunch
12:30PM- Double Defense Against the Dark Arts
4:30PM- Double Charms
6:30PM- Dinner
Wednesday:
9:00AM- Charms
11:00AM- Lunch
12:30PM- Double Herbology
4:30PM- Double Transfiguration
6:30PM- Dinner
Thursday:
9:00AM- Potions
11:00AM- Lunch
12:30PM- Double Ancient Runes
4:30PM- Defense Against the Dark Arts
6:30PM- Dinner
Friday:
9:00AM- Ancient Runes
10:00AM- Potions
11:00AM- Lunch
12:30PM- Charms
2:30PM- Herbology
3:30PM- Transfiguration
4:30PM- Potions
5:30PM- Defense Against the Dark Arts
6:30PM- Dinner
Please note that you are now in Academic classes of each subject due to your OWL results and that you will be taking this class with any other sixth year that has also achieved the required results on the OWL's.
"Well that's certainly different" Malfoy murmured as he stared at his schedule, which was exactly like Damien's. He turned toward Damien, "You are in sixth year aren't you?" he asked the Snape.
Damien nodded, "What don't I look like one? I'm taller then you are!" he said coolly not quite forgiving Malfoy for his comment the other night.
"No, just wondering....hey our schedules are exactly the same....except the Ancient Runes class!" Malfoy said in an excited voice.
"Oh joy" Damien murmured sarcastically as he rubbed his eyes tiredly. This year was going to definitely SUCK......
() Okay I don't know if I did the schedule right or not and if I did, I'm sorry because I kind of like the way I did it.
Well review please!
See ya!