A/N ok here's the next chapter—I'm sorry that this took so long for some reason my computer hasn't been letting me update lately so if the next chapter takes a while as well I'm also sorry. This next chapter was difficult to write so I'm sorry if it's kind of badly written but well hey.
Disclaimer—I don't know why we have to put this in I mean if I actually owned and really made up all this do you really think that I would put it up on this I mean come on I could be rich I wouldn't put it up on some web page so I mean come on I am obviously not rich and swimming in money so as you can tell J.K. Rowling the nice rich British woman owns this and not me. Hey, why are you reading this I mean come on there must be something better to do then read my rantings come on now go to the story. Stop reading this God.
Summery—you all know that it was in the first chapter so go back if you need it that bad okay.
Rating—PG – 13 as always.
Chapter 7 (yay)
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Sirius and Remus each sat quietly at the ends of their respected side of the table; they were both in Severus' personal chambers.
Severus, having been called out early that morning to Egypt to pick up some extremely rare potions ingredients, needed someone to keep an eye on his son in case he awoke in the time which he was gone. Seeing no other option, he asked Lupin to do the job and much to Severus' dismay, he brought along his 'mutt'.
But of course, looking at all other options, he hadn't much choice to the matter. So that leaves us where we are presently: back in the dungeons. We see Remus Lupin entwine his fingers around a small crystal pawn, as if about to make a move with it, but pause with uncertainty.
Sirius Black sits across from his friend and in between them sits a checkered black and white board atop a small oak table. Sirius just simply stared meaningfully at the said board, looking and examining the pieces in great concentration and in deep thought.
The two of them had been sitting down a chess game, the Muggle unmoving type much to Sirius' displeasure.
Him, Sirius, with his greatly poor strategic skills was made to rely on what ever help the talking king gave to him, especially when he was playing a, to him, 'evil master mind' like Remus. Remus turned his eyes from the pawn, to the board, setting the said pawn back to its before position on the board, he then moved to pick up the right sided rook. Slowly, but none the less confidently, he moved the rook up two and over one. Looking back up to his long time friend, he drew in a short breath and sighed tiredly.
"Checkmate."
Sirius looked at him in disbelief, refusing to admit defeat,
"No."
"No....?"
"No..... That was only your sixth move in this game; no one can beat me none the less that fast, not with my cunning and brilliant mind." Here Sirius paused and pointed proudly to his head and the vacant spot where a brain should have been in most cases. Not here though it seems.
"I demand a rematch. You cheated, didn't you? Didn't you!" Remus just looked at him. But Sirius took his silence as an answer. "Ha I thought so, rematch I'll show you just how good I really am and this time no cheating, no one can beat me."
The middle-aged werewolf looked on amusingly but decided, even though knowing it was not the smartest thing to do, to respond. "I've beaten you the last seventeen times in a row, each time you get angry and then ask for a rematch, so are you quite finished. And as it was in school, I'm thinking that your brilliant mind may be taking an exceedingly long vacation." Remus gave him a pointed look, though his golden eyes were dancing.
But Sirius wouldn't let it go,
"No...no you cheated so it doesn't count in the least. You must have one of the horsey things or one of the pointy guys up one of your sleeves and when ever I turned around you snuck one on the board to give your self extra points." Sirius now looked extremely happy, all the while looking like a mad man. But Remus just stared at his friend wondering if he had ever really learned how to play chess.
But still Remus being well Remus found the thing entreatingly amusing and began to laugh...well actually it came out as a cough as he chocked on his tea.
"Horsey things? What are you five?" Black simply glared. "Oh right I forgot that's a soft spot isn't it?" Remus was still laughing as he said this.
Sirius' gray eyes glowered even more so. "Don't make light of the situation, you're in big trouble Mister. Turn your pockets out but keep your hands where I can see them." Remus stared incredulously at his old friend across from himself.
"What? What else am I being busted for? Possession? Oh dear, are you gonna get back at me for that test I cheated on in 3rd year, Oh dear me I'm shacking down don't bring me down to the big house." Sirius looked at him questioningly.
"Huh? Big house? Possession? What the hell?" By now Remus was just sitting quietly sipping at his tea, Sirius quickly sat down very stiffly. Remus looked extremely pleased at himself and made sure that his friend saw that. Black did to which he responded by starting to rant,
"Well...you...you...you're a big butthead. Yeah I said it." He looked really proud for a moment like he had just conquered the world or something, but he wasn't done.
"And yeah...yeah you know what......" He stiffly stood straight up and threw the chess board up in the air and walked a few feet, very, very stiffly, then walked back. Smoothing out his robes and hair Sirius sat back down and silently sipped his tea along side Remus.
Remus looked up to his friend and said calmly, "Rematch?"
"Of course I was itching for a good game of chess any ways."
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Sirius stood over the small, petit form of his godson, watching his small chest rise up and down with his breathing. He was absently wondering when the raven child would wake again, the last time he woke was not the way they all would have had it happen. Severus told him and Remus before he left, that he had given Harry a small sleeping drought, and it should be wearing off soon if not now.
Looking up at the clock he saw that it was 5:24 in the after noon Severus had been gone almost six hours and wouldn't be returning till tomorrow. (Due to the fact that he had to learn the properties of the ingredients and other such important things.)
Realizing that he had been staring at the boy for half and hour already, he sat himself on a plush chair next to the bed, and then pulled out a small, but thick none the less, book. Nearly half an hour later at six o'clock he looked at the bed to see young Harry looking up at him with wide, fearful eyes.
It seemed to him that Harry posed him as no threat, but was still scared. Of course he could have realized that if he had wanted to get away he wouldn't stand much of a chance so he stood his ground. Placing the book softly back onto the floor, Sirius folded his hands slightly and gazed at Harry with a calm soothing expression.
"Hello, Harry. Are you feeling at all any better?" Nice and calm, that was Sirius motive, don't scare him this early.
Harry just looked at him, but quickly looked around the room, searching for something. "Does my uncle know that I'm here? He may not like it. He usually doesn't." The small boy's voice was really innocent although still extremely fearful. Not wanting to frighten the child Sirius nodded and told him that his uncle knew of his whereabouts.
The boy, after hearing this seemed to look extremely reveled. Again he looked around, but not in fear, this time in curiosity.
"Um.... Mr... Where am I?"
"Well you're in a safe place, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry." Seeing Harry was about to dispute he quickly intervened.
"And don't give me any of that magic doesn't exist cause trust me it does. But you fath— I, um, mean, Severus will explain that in more detail later." Sirius mentally cursed him self he had almost given away that Severus was his father. He didn't know if Snape would like that so he decided to let Snape tell him himself.
"And don't call me Mr." he added as an after thought. "My name is Sirius, Sirius Black." He gave a little bow, "But you can call me Padfoot, every one does."
Harry looked a lot more comfortable now seeing the playful nature of the man in front of him. But he still had an unanswered question. He was about to ask it, but then he remembered how the Dursleys punished him for every question that he asked, and he quickly stopped himself. Sirius saw the boy stopping him self right as he was about to ask a question.
"What did you have something to ask? It's okay go ahead."
"What happened to the vampire?" (A/N .) he said in a small voice. Sirius blinked, and gave a small "huh?"
"The tall vampire with the greasy black hair." This too was said extremely quietly. Sirius was still a little confused, then it hit him, black greasy hair, tall, vampire like = Snape.
He couldn't help himself he burst out laughing, frightening the poor boy next to him, but hell he couldn't help it Snape a bloody vampire that was great.
Remus ran into the room after hearing the noise, looking around he took it the extremely frightened Harry and the madly laughing Sirius.
Sirius by now was on the floor, but was quickly jolted up when he was kicked sharply in the shins. Jumping up he looked up at Remus who was pointing to the bed where little Harry was cowering under the covers and shaking slightly. Sirius stopped laughing and went up to the bed softly slowly taking the blanket off Harry's head he began to reassure the boy that every thing was ok.
That nothing would happen to him, he was safe.
"Harry, we would never hit you. Don't you understand you're a wonderful boy?" Harry looked up at him unconvinced.
"No, no I'm just an fr-freak, a waste of space, my uncle always says so and he's always right." Right now the poor little boy looked downcast, but both Remus and Sirius saw the little boy actually thought that what he just told them was the truth. Each shared a dark look.
"No! No Harry what your 'family' –"
He said family with an evil voice.
"—said wasn't true in the slightest. Trust me your wonderful, smart...um, Remus help."
He saw how Harry didn't believe any of this so he turned it over to Remus.
"Harry, you see your family wasn't even human, what they did to you is unforgivable. You have many people who love you, don't let their hatred get to you, your more then any one could ask for." Remus was now rubbing Harry's back slowly trying to comfort him, it seemed to work, and Harry was now silent and was contemplating what was just told to him.
"Hey, are you hungry Harry?" Sirius wanted to change the subject, and well as he always was he was hungry.
"I haven't done my chores yet though...." Sirius sighed, picked up Harry in his arms gently and began walking to the kitchen, with Remus following behind.
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Tell me what you can
tell me not to worry,
tell me not to cry.
tell me joy wont go away,
promise dreams don't die.
tell me that I'm pretty,
tell me not to frown.
tell me I'm not ugly,
promise I can stand my ground.
tell me that I can,
tell me that I should.
tell me to always stand,
promise you knew I could.
tell me death wont live,
tell me life wont die.
tell me to take what i give,
promise you'll teach me to try.
tell me where my future ends,
tell me of later plans.
tell me where the road may bend,
promise to tell me what you can.
I wish that I could take credit for this but it was written by Shannon mclinden and well her poems are an inspiration. So I hope that you like it.
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Athenakitty—I love you questions, Severus will have some thoughts in the next chapter not in this one though, he's not even in this one. All teachers have their own room's cause they don't all sleep together that would be kind of awkward. In this chapter he began to trust Sirius and Remus as for Severus Harry learns to trust him easily although he will probably not understand him sometimes. Harry might get his eyes fixed I never thought of that thanks for the idea.
O r i n i a l1—good ideas I want to make Harry friends with Draco earlier then school cause well Severus is his godfather so they'll meet earlier on. But thanks for the other ideas.
BadBugz—thanks for the review and no worrys I wouldn't ever EVER dream of putting him in Hufflepuff
Serpent of Light—yay I made Sirius find out about the whole vampire thing .. Thanks for the ideas I never wanted to make Ron his friend or well a good friend cause I just don't like him, not Hermione much either but I'm thinking that I'll have her play at least a small part.
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A/N—thank you every one now review its that little button on the bottom there see it? There ya go. Hope ya liked the whole chess thing that's there since I wanted to quickly get a chapter up so I had to come up with something and I wanted to show the Remus/Sirius relation ship (friend wise.) Severus will talk to Harry in the next chapter and I hope that I can get them to go to Diagon Alley so that Harry can get some new clothes. And sorry but I had to put in the whole vampire idea in at least one more time. (thinks hard) maybe I'll put it in the next chapter as well .. As always those who haven't put in your reviews for what house Harry should be in and what friends Harry should have. Sorry this was so short and sorry it took so long to update.
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