Ties of Blood
Summery: AU Starting after Fourth year. Harry is down about Cedric but Sirius has been helping him through it. Secrets are revealed and a family is gained. Vampires, Werewolves, and other things to come.
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter. This story is all out of my head and if it happens to be like another story I'm sorry. I myself have not read any other story quite like this. Vanessa and Others are most definitely Mine. Hehehe. Enjoy the story.
It was the summer after Harry's fourth year. It had been a hard year but things were getting better. He still thought about Cedric from time to time, but he wasn't feeling as guilty. Sirius had helped a lot with that.
They had been corresponding regularly this summer. It was nice for Harry to have some one to talk to about his problems. Some one who was there just for him. Some one who was family. All he really had left now were Sirius and Remus. Petunia, though a blood relative, was definitely not family.
Harry was currently walking through the park. He was pretty far towards the back where the deep woods started. It was the first of August and Harry had just turned fifteen.
Suddenly Harry was grabbed by two sets of hands and another, balled into a fist slammed into his stomach. He tried to ball up to protect himself but the two sets of hands holding on to his arms and keeping him upright.
Harry looked up to see who was beating on him as he got another fist in the stomach. He wasn't surprised to see that it was his whale of a cosine Dudley, other wise known as Big D to his gang. Which Harry was quite sure were the ones holding him and around him jeering their leader on.
Dudley himself was taunting Harry about his 'freakish nature' as the Dursley's called his magic. The young wizard did his best to ignore the words and worked to protect himself from the fists and feet, which, now that Harry had been released from the arm hold, were hitting him all over as he lay on the ground.
Dudley was no longer the only one beating on Harry. The rest of the gang decided to get in on the fun of tormenting the 'Freak' of the neighborhood. A few lucky shots caught his right arm and broke it in two places. This left an opening for his face and Dudley took it.
His massive foot caught Harry in the side of his face and quickly broke his jaw. Dudley laughed at this. "Well he won't be complaining now, will he." The rest of the gang laughed as well, conveniently forgetting that Harry had barley made a sound since they started.
Soon it got to be too much for the last Potter and he passed out from the pain.
Harry woke up some time later and found himself tied roughly to a tree. Looking around he could see no one but from the growth of the trees he figured that he was deep in the woods off of the park.
It had been early evening when he had been caught unprepared by Dudley's gang and it was now midday so Harry figured that he had been out all night and most of this morning. He tried moving but found that it caused excruciating pain in his broken right arm. He couldn't move his jaw ether so calling for help was out of the question.
Harry tried to relax as much as possible against the tree he was tied too. He decided he had better get a good look around. It was difficult as, though he still had his glasses, the lenses were broken in varying degrees on both the left and right.
He was in a small clearing with a ring of stones in the center. Harry figured it was a crude fire pit and passes by it in his overview. On his right a couple of tents were set up and on the left was a cooler and a pile of wood. Every thing else was bare. Harry remained by himself for four hours as far as he could tell. Then Dudley and his gang returned.
"Well, well, well. The Freak is up. How was your night?" Dudley asked in a disgustingly sweet voice. Harry just glared at him. "What? Nothing to say?" The rest of the gang laughed at Harry when he didn't respond. "Oh yea, I almost forgot that I broke your jaw last night. Ah well. It just means we have to suffer the loss of you voice." Dudley snickered, "Yea right."
After this little one-sided conversation the gang went on to fix up what would seem to be their dinner. "Yea so I told my parents that we were going on a camping trip for the weekend. I figure its close enough. Though with the girls it will be much better than any thing they could think of." The guys all laughed.
Harry took this time to look them all over. There were three other guys besides Dudley. Piers Porkins, Greffory Gobbins, and Stanly Sarrins. They were all sitting on some logs around the fire pit, working on the fire to get it roaring hot it seemed.
Over near the cooler and a large water jug that Harry hadn't seen before were the girls. There were four of them. He really didn't know them too well besides their names. And at the moment he really didn't care to either. Jenn Junati, Britney Belcone, and Kimmy and Karri Cornt were, from what he remembered and could see of them from a distance, the biggest snobs and bitches in the area. They sure fit well with the guys by the fire.
Though now that Harry though of it there seemed to be a couple people missing. Two to be exact, another set of twins like Kimmy and Karri, but a boy and girl. Doug and Diane Dufeck.
That is of course when they walked in to the clearing, dragging a struggling girl between them. It was easy for them, and Harry assumed that it had been they who held him last night. For you see Doug was big in the muscles and Diane was just big. Not nearly as large as Dudley but close.
The guys around the fire stood as the others came in and the two siblings roughly pulled the girl, who was facing the opposite direction, upright and turned her around.
"Let me go! What do you think your doing? You'll get so much shit for this. Let me go God Damit!" She screamed at them. Her eyes were wide but calculating. She was looking at all of those around her for a way out. That is till she spotted Harry tied to a tree.
That is when she let loose her mouth again, and it was that which got her a ticket to stay the night with him. "What did you DO!" She screamed. "God he's a bleeding mess. Let me go Damit. What do you want with me? You going to do the same to him 'cus I tell you know you won't like the consequences. When I don't get home my family will come looking for me and God Damit you won't know what hit you when they get you!"
The whole time she was screaming she was trying to get out of the grasp of the Big Twins. It wasn't working unfortunately for her. Harry watched all this, wanting to get free himself but still unable to really move from all the pain in his arm. He saw what happened next it seemed in slow motion. Karri pulled back her arm and swung her fist at the struggling girl. She hit just right and the girl was knocked out from the force of the blow.
"Where did you find her? And why did you bring her here?" Dudley asked the Big Twins. "She was in the woods, quite close to here, catching rabbits. She was getting close to the Freak and we weren't sure if she had seen him yet." Diane said. Doug continued, "Yea but the way she acted when she did see him must mean that she didn't know. She's here now though."
"Well what are we going to do with them?" Jenn asked. "We'll figure it out later. Let me think for a while." Dudley replied. He walked over to the tree with Harry and the unknown girl and pulled out a band of cloth. He used this to gag the girl so that when she woke up he wouldn't have to worry about it. Harry glared at him and Dudley smirked.
"Sleep well freak. Mum and Dad don't even give a fuck that you're missing. No one does and I may just leave you here to die though you wouldn't be lonely with her here too." He laughed some more as he walked away.
The girl started to wake up after about an hour, and Harry turned his head to look at her. She was taller than he was but seemed to be about his age, somewhere around fifteen. Her hair was shoulder length and black with some waves. Light skin and soft red lips parted around the gag in her mouth.
Another grown was heard and she opened her eyes. They were a light gray in color and her eyes were a soft almond shape. 'Hello Harry Potter. You know bruised and bloody is not a good look for you.' Harry startled and he heard a soft laughter. 'Its a blood gift, and I know you because your famous, for one, and we're family for another. Well some what family anyways.'
'What? Can you hear me?' Harry said in his mind.
'Yes. Like I said it's a blood gift. I'll tell you more later if you want to know, but I really don't want to get into it now.' She replied in his mind. 'My name is Vanessa by the way.'
'Oh, um, Hi. So did you mean it when you said that your family would come looking for you? I could really use some help getting out of here. And I don't think any one is looking for me.' Harry told her feeling down.
Vanessa's eyes went vacant for a moment then came back. 'They are looking for us, you included. Ever since last night when you didn't get the letter Uncle Sirius sent you.' She responded.
'You went vacant for a moment, you ok? What a minute did you say UNCLE SIRIUS?' Harry asked with wide eyes.
'I go vacant as you put it when I'm talking to anyone who is not in eyesight. Yes I did say Uncle. My mother is his twin sister. They removed her from the family when they found she had been bitten by a vampire and turned. It's not so bad though to be a vampire. I am. So is Uncle Sirius. Though he was never found out so got to go to Hogwarts. I have been learning all my magic through my mom and my dad's side of the family.' She replied to him.
Harry was speechless; all he could reply with was a quiet 'Oh.'
Vanessa continued, 'Yea Dad was the vampire that bit mom, he was born that way. I don't know how Uncle Sirius was turned but it wasn't long after. He'll have to tell you. You don't hate him because of it do you. Wizards are really wrong about vampires. We're not evil you know.'
'Yea I can see that really. I do understand, and trust you and Sirius. I guess that is why he had no problems with Remus.'
'Yup. Werewolves and vampires get along quite well actually.'
Harry laughed at her telepathically and she smiled around the gag in her mouth. 'Ugh this thing tastes awful.' She said while trying to remove the gag with her tongue. To her disgust and Harry's amusement it didn't work that well.
'So I can see how we would be somewhat family as your Uncle is my Godfather. You said you talked to him, does that mean that you know he is innocent?' Harry asked.
'Yep, I've always known. Mom told me as they talked to each other while he was in Azkaban. She tried really hard to get him out but as she is known as a 'Dark Creature' they never listened to her. Uncle Sirius told her to stop trying or they would put here in there as well and then I wouldn't have anyone. I really love him. It was great to finally meet him and I know that we will get his named cleared.' Vanessa said to him.
Harry nodded. 'Yea. I know we will.' The two captives continued to talk to each other getting to know the one next to them. Harry learned quite a lot about vampires and their ways. They didn't feed off of humans. Well the good ones didn't any ways, and most of the vampires were technically good.
They were usually born as vampires and only the ones who really wanted to be turned or were, or were going to marry a vampire were turned. No one was ever forced. There were also those who knew vampires but were turned to save their lives. From what Vanessa told him they never really regretted it either.
Harry found out that though they did have to drink blood to survive they usually drank animal blood and they didn't have to kill the animal. A few mouthfuls would suffice for two to three days before they needed more. The saliva of a vampire would also heal the wounds.
Vampires could also go out in the daytime and many were present in the wizard and muggle world. They just drank blood as well as ate normal food. They had all the normal senses heightened and had a sixth sense as well; they could feel magic and auras. They also tended to heal faster than normal humans. As many believed, they did like the night, but that was due to their sensitive eyes and the better hunting.
It was just starting to get dark, about 9:30-10:00 pm at night. Dudley came over to the two of them and was followed by the rest of the gang. "Well as we don't know any thing about you girl why don't you tell us your name?" He said as he pulled the gag away from her mouth.
"Fuck off." She replied to them. Dudley slapped her, at which point Harry again tried to struggle out of his bonds. He couldn't move much though because of the strain on his broken arm.
He did accomplish what he was trying to do, get Dudley's attention off of Vanessa. It was now turned to him. "You don't like that?" Dudley asked him. The rest of the gang snickered.
Big D pointed at Harry's bonds, "Someone undo him." Kimmy untied the ropes holding him to the tree, making sure not to get the ones that kept Vanessa there. When this was done Doug and Diane pulled Harry up off the ground and held him up for the leader of the gang to have some fun with his cousin.
By this time it was fully dark and the only light was coming from the crescent moon, stars, and the blazing fire in the crude pit at the center of the clearing. Dudley smiled sadistically and started in on his fun of beating Harry. Not long after he let his friends in on the game and had the Big Twins drop the 'toy'.
The beating of the famous Boy-Who-Lived continued for an hour. Harry had passed out half way through it from the amount of pain, and Vanessa was yelling the whole time for them to stop, as they had not replaced the gag.
She again contacted her Uncle who had been lay-wayed by others. They didn't believe he could know where Harry was. They didn't know he was a vampire. He had been trying to get them to come with him when Vanessa called again to tell him they were hurting Harry. It was at this point that Sirius got fed up.
Sirius had been in the hall of Grimauld Place when Remus walked into the house. "I know where he is Moony. You have to come with me. Please. He is in trouble. Help me." Sirius said to the werewolf.
"How do you know Padfoot. He could be anywhere." Remus replied. "I just do. I promise I will explain it to you later. But we must go now." Sirius was begging. He knew it. Remus nodded his head.
"Great. We're headed to Little Whining Park." Sirius said. Remus nodded again and followed Sirius when he disappeared.
They arrived in the middle of the dark park and Sirius immediately changed into the grim of a dog, Padfoot. When done he turned and whined to Remus then ran off into the woods. Remus followed him as quickly as his werewolf assets would let him.
It took them a half hour to get to the clearing to see a large group of guys and girls kicking at an unmoving form. Padfoot growled and attacked the largest one there, which just happened to be Harry's cousin.
Remus too went after one of the larger guys, but Doug was strong and fought back. By this point most of the girls had run off, only Diane staying to help her brother, who was losing to the superior strength and knowledge of the werewolf.
Peirs and Greffory had also stayed to help Dudley fight of the huge dog. They too were losing. It was done in ten minutes. Peirs and Greffory had run off but Dudley was pined to the ground by Padfoot. Diane and Doug where knocked out cold a minute later.
That was when Padfoot changed into Sirius and shocked Dudley to unconsciousness with the show of magic. Remus conjured some ropes to contain the three kids while Sirius ran over to his unconscious godson.
"Oh Merlin, Remus. He's not breathing." Sirius nearly screamed.
Remus ran over and checked Harry over. As a werewolf, he had a quite extensive knowledge of healing charms. He wasn't as good as Pomfrey but it worked.
"Sirius, go help the girl." He said as he started to cast healing charms, getting more and more advanced as he went along.
Sirius when over to the tree and untied his niece. "What took so long! I told you where we were hours ago!" Vanessa yelled at him, she had tears in her eyes as she turned her attention to Remus and Harry.
"I know Hun, I did my best." Sirius too looked over to Harry. "Dumbledore was keeping me locked in. Danm him, if he had just listened to me we wouldn't be in this mess." He helped Vanessa up off the ground and the two of them moved over to Harry and Remus.
"Is he ok?" Vanessa asked. "No. I'm doing the best I can but if I stop he'll die." Remus said nearly in tears himself. "I don't think there is any thing I can do and there isn't enough time to get Poppy even if she could save him." That was when the tears finally started as he continued to cast spells on the young man who was the cub of his pack.
"Do it Uncle Sirius. He knows and has no problem with it. We talked about it the whole time. Please, don't let him die." She was sobbing uncontrollably now as she sank back to the ground near Harry and watched as Remus' spells kept him alive.
Sirius nodded. "May Merlin strike me down if he hates me after this."
"Padfoot what are you on about." Remus asked ignoring the new information of Sirius having a niece.
"Remus, I have been a vampire since I was 10. No one ever knew but other vampires, and James. He was the only one to figure it out." He said with a soft smile and tears in his eyes. He knelt down next to Harry's stomach. "Stop Remus. Let me do this. May he forgive me."
When Remus stopped the spells Sirius liftedHarryinto a sitting position. He tilted his head to the side so his neck was exposed and opened his mouth to let his fangs grow out.
He bent over his godson and as gently as he could bit into the artery in his neck. It took five minutes for Harry to be ready. Once Sirius closed the puncture holes and pulled back, he opened Harry's mouth. He then brought his wrist to his mouth and slit it upon his fangs. Said wrist was then placed in Harry's mouth and Sirius closed his godson's lips upon the wound.
It took only a few seconds for Sirius to feel blood being pulled through the wound and into Harry. Ten minutes after that Sirius weakly pulled his wrist from his godson and licked the wound shut. That done he passed out on the ground besides the new vampire, praying that he would not be condemned because of his actions.
Remus looked over at the girl next to him. "He's your Uncle? Does that mean that you are a vampire too?" He asked.
"Yes to both. My name is Vanessa by the way. I take it your Remus from what he was saying. My mum is Uncle Sirius' twin sister. She was turned when they were ten and Uncle Sirius wouldn't go with out her so he asked to be turned as well. We should get them out of the open they will likely be out for a while. It takes longer when turning someone on the edge of death." Vanessa told him.
Remus nodded. Walking over to the three kids he had tied up, he woke up Dudley. "You ever try something like this again and I will let Harry's Godfather rip you to shreds." Dudley looked at him, quaking in fear. Remus knocked him back out then took the ropes off of all three of them. He would leave them to fend for themselves.
Remus moved back to the three vampires and pulled out a quill. He took Harry's hand while Vanessa took Sirius' and all four hands were placed on the quill. Remus said the password and they all disappeared to Headquarters.
When they reappeared it was in the middle of the living room and a congregation of those who had been looking for Harry. It caused mass panic. "Stop!" Remus yelled. Every one present looked at him in shock. "Now since none of you would listen to Sirius, the two of them were hurt." He said pointing to Harry and Vanessa. Harry was quite bloody and bruised all over his body, Vanessa has a few bruises that had formed on her face.
"Now I've healed Harry as much as can be. He and Sirius are both exhausted, so if some one would help me take them upstairs to some rooms...?" Remus left the end open and Mr. Weasley came over to help carry Sirius while Vanessa and Ron picked up Harry.
They started up the stairs and Dumbledore left to get Poppy Pomfrey. When Sirius had been placed into the master bedroom and Harry in the room next to it, Madam Pomfrey had arrived. She went and looked at Harry first.
He was in bad shape, but would live. Little did she know that just twenty minutes ago he had been all but dead till Sirius turned him. She healed the last of the cuts on his body and cleaned him up with a spell. That done she healed his bones as it would be easier on him while he was out. She could do nothing for the bruises at this time. That would take a topical potion.
Remus, Vanessa, Ron, Mr. Weasley and Dumbledore had all stayed in the room when she was checking Harry. Mrs. Weasley and Ginny were at the door looking in shock at Harry on the bed. When Madam Pomfrey finished she pushed every one out of the room. With out saying a word she went in to see Sirius. Only Vanessa and Remus followed this time.
It didn't take her long. She patched up the bruises and cuts he had received while fighting the kids and cleaned him up as well. When she pushed Remus and Vanessa out Dumbledore confronted the three of them, starting with his healer.
"What is their condition?" Dumbledore asked. "Oh they will be fine. Mr. Potter is in worse condition but nothing life threatening. It will take a topical potion for the mass of bruises though I'm afraid. Mr. Black is physically exhausted. He has been hit the head and has a slight concussion. Other that that and a few minor bruises he is fine." She replied. "Good, good. Thank you Poppy. I will speak with you later if anything comes up." She nodded and was on her way.
"Now let us get comfortable and you can introduce yourself my dear." Dumbledore said to Vanessa who gave him a tight smile in reply, but followed along with Remus to the study.
They sat down at three chairs that were arranged to be facing each other. Once comfortable Dumbledore gave Remus a pointed look.
Remus looked to Vanessa and back again. He started to relay what had happened. He left out every thing about Vanessa and Sirius. He also said not a word about vampires and how close Harry came to dieing. He was happy that one of the perks of being a 'Creature of the Dark' was that they were immune to having their brain picked. Dumbledore would be unable to get any information that they did not want him to know from himself or Vanessa.
When he was done Remus turned to Vanessa. She in turn began talking to the old Headmaster. "My name is Vanessa. I was in the woods and apparently too close for the gang members liking. They caught me, knocked me around a little and tied me to the tree that Harry was tied to. I am not a Muggle but I have not gone to a wizard school either so don't bother looking.
"My mother and my Father's side of the family taught me. I also have a special gift of telepathy. I know Sirius. I know he is innocent. Harry and I talked for hours after I first sent out a telepathic message to him on where we were. I didn't know if any one knew that Harry was missing but he was with me and we were both tied to a tree.
"In the hours it took for Sirius to help he get out and for some one to go with him, Harry and I got to know each other. He had his jaw broken so he couldn't talk and I had been gagged. So we talked telepathically.
"The gang the had us deiced to have some more fun and were going to start in on me but Harry made some movement and they decided to beat on him again. I sent out an urgent message to Sirius and he and Remus arrived twenty minutes later.
"Harry was already unconscious by that time I think. The two of them got after the gang and most ran off. You know the rest." With her piece said she left to go back to Harry's room. She wouldn't leave for the rest of the night. Neither would Ron or Ginny who she had found in there when she arrived.
The three of them talked and she told them the same version as she had told Dumbledore. She also told them a little about herself, though never about being Sirius' niece or a vampire. Nor did she or Remus tell anyone about Harry's turning. Remus, like Vanessa went and sat with Sirius. They had a lot to talk about when he woke up.
AN: Well I just had to start this story. The idea came to me during work today. I have been very happy and in such a good mood. I got a job I have always wanted, and before the interview had the idea for this form.
Since then my day has been spent typing up the first chapter of this story. I will hopefuly remain in this mood and be able to get another chapter up soon.
I have not left my other story, HarryPotter and the Old Mage. I do in fact have the next chapter nearly done. I need to finish some details before I post that but it should be up soon as well.
I am looking for some name ideas. I need a name for Sirius' sister. Something begining with and S and/or some constelation. I am also looking for good last names for different people.
I hope every one enjoys this. I don't have a deffinit place I am going with this but it should be fun on the way to getting there. Please review. They truly do help. Later all.