Okay I know I said 10 reviews but I changed it to five because of the wonderful reviews I have already received! This chapter is fairly short I know but it will have to do. Sorry if the spelling is not up to scratch as I do not as of yet have a beta for this story. If you wish to beta it send me an email telling which story you wish to beta and PLEASE put down your email address as I can't contact you if I don't have it, Thanks! If any spelling mistakes jump out and bite you give them a good kick then add the to your review!
IMPORTANT: Most of the events of the fifth book along with the sixth book never happened as they don't fit with my story line though I may use some parts of the books. What happened in there place will be explained later. Thanks!
This chapter is dedicated to PantherGuide for being the first to review the last chapter.
Chapter 2
A night time scare
Emrys woke with a start sweat dripping off him and his breath coming in short sharp gasps. Looking around him he sighed it hadn't been a dream he really was in an Alternative Universe, he still wasn't sure if this was a very, very good thing or an exceptionally bad thing yet. He also noticed he had opened some of his wounds again and that it was that it was pretty late at night.
He had a couple of chooses of what he could do: Lie there and hope the wound clogs before he dies of blood loss, try and find some fresh bandages and/or blood clotting potion, or he could try and get some help which would prove extremely difficult as the silent screaming he'd done while he was asleep made it so he was once again talking in a hoarse whisper. He had decided on the second one when he remembered something that would make getting help much easier 'Wake beautiful. Wake from your slumber. Did you sleep well Home of my Heart?' Emrys asked the castle through a telepathic connection he had with the castle from being her heir. If anyone had of been awake at the time they would have been in for a sight as Hogwarts castle woke.
'Who wakes me and speaks to me?' the castle asked curiously
'I Harry James Potter of an Alternative Universe, known here as Emrys Potter, wakes you my beautiful.' Emrys replied
'Ah, so the prophesies are correct' the castle said excitedly
'Prophesies?' Emrys asked truly beginning to hate them. 'What prophesies?'
'I'm afraid I can't tell you but I can tell you, you are the true heir of the four on this world even if your not the last of some of the lines, and that you where destined to come here'
'Great! Just great!'
'You are hurt!' the castle exclaimed
'Oh yeah' Emrys thought remembering why he woke the castle, he was beginning to fell rather light headed 'Could you wake Poppy the school nurse and get her in here preferably without letting anyone know that I'm the heir of the four or that I can speak to you?'
'Of course Emrys' the castle said happy to be helping her true owner though still slightly worried about him.
A few minutes later he heard 'she's on her way' before the door opened to revile Poppy muttering to herself about strange feelings of having to check the hospital wing and such.
"Madam Pomfrey" Emrys said as loud as he could that wasn't very loud but in the near silent hospital-wing it was loud enough to get Poppy's attention.
"Yes?" she asked as she made her way over to him "Is everything ok dear? I didn't wake you did I?"
Emrys shock his head before gesturing to his chest "I think I reopened it in my sleep" he said as he began to get even more light headed
Hearing that she quickly rushed over and seeing the blood soaked bandages and bed quickly summoned a blood replenishing potion only to find that Emrys had blacked out so he couldn't drink the potion and she couldn't use a spell to make him drink it as it would disturb the healing going on inside him.
She quickly used a blood clotting potion on the wound and wrapped it in new bandages before pulling up a chair to wait until he woke so she could give him the potion strait away only hoping it wasn't too late.
As the next morning dawned Lily and James decided to stop by the hospital wing before going down to breakfast, just to make sure their new son was ok. As they entered they found a very tired looking Poppy sitting by Emrys' bed.
"What's going on?" Lily asked the tired nurse
"Woke up in the middle of the night with the strangest feeling, so I came out here and it's a good thing I did as it seems Emrys reopened his wounds and if I had of gotten here any later he would have died from blood loss. As it is he blacked out before I could give him a blood replenishing potion" Poppy said tiredly "I've been waiting for him to wake so I can give it to him but…" Poppy trailed off with a sigh as she brushed some hair out off Emrys' eyes
Lily and James gasped as they found out how close to death their new son had come.
"Is there anything we can do to help?"
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The next time Harry woke he found himself to be incredibly weak and still very tired but before he was able to slip back into blissful sleep he found some foul potion shoved down his throat.
"Gah!" Harry cried weakly "What was that for?" he demanded
"Perhaps that was to save your life!" Madam Pomfrey said
"More like shorten it! I swear those foul tasting potion must shorten ones life expectancy!" Harry said
Madam Pomfrey huffed at that "Sleep now Emrys you lost a lot of blood last night and you're body needs time to restore it and heal."
She didn't need to tell him twice, by the time she finished speaking Emrys was already drifting off into the sweet world of oblivion.
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"How is he Poppy?" Lily asked later that day as she stopped by the hospital wing
"He woke earlier and I was able to give him the potion," Madam Pomfrey said, "but he has very extensive injuries and it doesn't help that he is severely malnourished and has been for a long time…" she sighed "I truly wonder what this boy has been through…he has had a hard life that's for sure" Madam Pomfrey said sadly as she looked at the small sleeping boy, who had had so much bad happen to him, she couldn't help but let a small tear escape.
Lily was shocked as she listened to the nurse and then saw the nurse shed a tear, she couldn't believe that her child, an alternative one but her child all the same, had suffered so much and felt so much pain. What of her alternative self? "Is the other, alternative, me such a bad mother?"
"No!" Emrys said, and Lily realized she must of spoken aloud "I don't deserve a mother like I had…" he trailed of head lowered so Lily couldn't see his face
"Why would you think such a thing?" Lily asked
"I killed her… she died because of me!" Emrys said and Lily gasped, this wasn't what she was expecting "She died saving me! It was my fault!"
"No!" Lily said, "Every parent has the right to sacrifice their life for their children! Would you take that right from her?"
"If it meant she could live? Yes, gladly"
Lily stared at the boy in front of her in shock "But who says she would live? If one of my children died when there was something I could have done to prevent it I would never forgive my-self, I could never live a proper life knowing that."
Emrys lifted his head his emerald eyes so familiar yet completely unlike anything she had ever seen, they where so hunted, so old yet young, they where filled with a pain that she couldn't understand, for it was so great, yet his eyes where empty, his eyes spoke of horrors seen, horrors lived, they where so full of emotions she couldn't understand that she almost despaired at the thought of even trying to help him; where would she start? How could she even think to help when she couldn't even understand? But then she saw something…something buried far within, a longing for a mothers love, a longing for any love, a longing for reassurance that things would be okay, that there was more to life then pain. There was a child hidden in there trapped alone in the dark and she wanted to free him, wanted to comfort him and let him know he was not alone anymore. He was afraid she could see that now, afraid of being hurt again, of loving then losing again, afraid of opening up, of showing whom he was in fear of rejection.
"You may not be from this world but you are my son and I will always be here for you," Lily said not taking her eyes from his
"No one is here forever…" Emrys said softly looking away from her as the shields he had built to cover his eyes finally fell
"They can be if you let them," Lily said equally as softly "as long as you hold them in your heart they will never truly leave"
A tear rolled down Emrys' face, oh how he wanted to believe that, he really did but he couldn't. They sat in silence for awhile; Emrys used this time to rebuild his shields over his eyes. When he looked up next Lily saw that his eyes where blank once more.
"If you ever need to talk come and find me... I'm always willing to listen" she said sighing, Emrys nodded though he never intended to take her up on the offer.
"Hey mum, Dad's looking for you!" Katherine Potter said as she entered the room Maria her twin, following; Katherine had Black long hair, hazel eyes and was eighteen years old. Her twin Maria Potter had Dark red hair, hazel eyes and had glasses.
"Hi Emrys" Maria said as there mother left "I find this whole Alternative Universe crossing so fascinating, don't you?" She said sitting in the chair her mother had just left.
"Don't mind her," Katherine said sitting at the end of the bed "she's a Ravenclaw" she finished as if that explained everything, which it did to a certain extent.
"And your?" Emrys asked
"A Gryffindor of course!"
"Hmm yes; do you mind me asking what your world was like?" Maria said after shooting a glare at her sister "Where we much different? What was Hogwarts like? Are there any spells you have that we don't? Or Potions?" she would have continued but was cut off by her sister who put her hand over her mouth.
"She talks way too much! But please do tell us of your world," Katherine said looking at him with a wide eyed curiosum.
"Well I don't know if we have any different spells or potions as I don't know what ones you have, in fact I don't know much about differences between the two worlds as I don't know much of your world."
"Oh yeah I hadn't really thought of that…" Katherine said slightly disappointed "So anyway, you're going to be our new brother so we need to get to know you," She said brightening all of a sudden
"Hey your not gonna' start the interrogation without us where you?" Leonardo said from the doorway where he and his twin Dashel stood; these twins where identical both had short black (not messy) hair, hazel eyes and where a medium hight.
"Are you going to go in or just stand in the doorway all day?" Oliver's voice came from behind the twins. The twins entered the room and Oliver and Harry followed.
"Okay now that all us Potter kids are here let the interrogation begin!" Leonardo said
"So Quidditch? Position? Team? School team?" Dashel asked
"Seeker, don't really follow a team, and yes I was on the school team." Emrys said
"When did you get on? And what house?"
"First year and Gryffindor"
"First year! How'd you manage that? First years can't try out! Or can they where you come from?"
"No they can't but during…." Emrys went on to explain how he had got on the team, though he left out any bit that would alert them to the fact that he hadn't lived with his parents or them, "so I was the youngest player in a century" he finished.
"That awesome!" Dashel said
"You have to try out for the team!" Leonardo exclaimed
"Yeah we need a new Seeker" Dashel continued
"Since Ginny left last year," Leonardo said
"And we never had a reserve Seeker" Dashel finished
The door to the Hospital wing opened again and in came Sirius, "Here you all are! I've been looking for you lot," he said
"Why were you looking for us Uncle Padfoot?" Katherine asked
"The Weasleys are here and your parents wish to talk to you,"
"Where are they?" Harry asked as they all stood, well save for Emrys.
"They would be in the great hall as it is dinner time,"
"Okay! See you Emrys!" Katherine said as she bounced out of the room
"Yeah catch you later!"
"Talk to you soon,"
The rest of the original Potter children said goodbye to Emrys promising to see him again soon.
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