What to do?

by BEWD Sorcerer

Disclaimer: If I owned Harry Potter, do you think I'd be writing fanfiction? NO! I'd have lovely yaoi videos of all my ideas instead of these fics on FF .net!

AN: Tom's not in a good mood in this chapter, obviously, so there will be quite a bit of cussing and worried Voldemort. Poor Voldie! T-T

And there will be OOCness, but just a bit and there is a logical reason that is explained as to why it is in here.

:telepathic link speech:

"out loud speech, English"

'Parseltongue'

7. Worries of a Dark Lord

Those bastards! Those fucking bastards! They drugged him! Their precious Golden Boy! I resist charging in there and killing them all because Lucius talked me out of it. He'll be watching carefully over my mate. Why can I not be the one going to rescue him?

Oh, that's right. I'm a snake bastard and I'd have dementors on my ass before I could say 'Fuck you'.

Dumbledore will pay for hiring that psychopath and when I can call someone a psychopath, they're really fucked up.

Damn bumblebee. Damn grey wizards. Damn the Ministry. Damn, damn, damn, damn, DAMN! Fucking old goat with his fucking meddling friends and their fucking conniving ways of completely fucking up my plans. How dare they touch what is mine. Their deaths will be very painful indeed.

Severus should be Flooing me any moment now. Maybe they're giving him more trouble than Severus can handle? Hopefully those two friends will be there to assist and Draco took to Harry remarkably well, so maybe he will help protect my little kitten, too.

Dammit! Why did I let Lucius talk me into staying out of it!

No potions to turn me into Vincent Potter, right. Damn.

"My Lord?" Draco! What's going on! Tell meeeeee!

"Yes, what is it?" Draco looked a bit nervous, but then he smirks at me. Do I have 'Worried Dark Lord' tattooed on my forehead or something?

"Don't get your tail in a knot. Severus is watching over Harry, as is Madam Pomfrey. Dumbles and the DADA teacher have been booted from the Infirmary because Harry needs rest. Sev sent me down to his rooms to Floo you. He says that it might be best if you show up tomorrow as Vincent, saying you were aiming for the 1st, but were delayed a day. Come often to 'get to know' Harry and use that London flat as a base." Draco's face still has the 'I know what you were thinking before I popped up' look. I scowl at him just for good measure, but it only makes the blond's smirk widen. Damn Malfoys.

"I'll think about it." My reply is stiff and the Malfoy brat is still grinning.

"Alright. See you later then, my Lord." Draco's head disappears from the fire, which dies immediately.

A grey wizard for a DADA teacher, Dumbledore must have some sort of plan, but what could it be? Grey wizards stay out of all Dark vs. Light battles and confrontations because they tip the balance so far. There are hardly any of them because of their immense power often kills them before they reach their majority and no one can tell that they are grey wizards until right before their 17th birthday. In fact, Harry could be a grey wizard... I feel my eyes widen.

I'm going to Hogwarts tonight.

Panicky!Voldemort is so cuuuuuuute:3 Shifty Powers!

Draco's sitting at Harry's bedside; both are sleeping peacefully though I know that Draco won't be very happy come morning, sleeping sitting in a hard chair with his head pillowed on his arms resting on Harry's bed as he is. Harry won't be too happy either, being drugged like that and on his first day back no less.

The Dark Lord is no doubt plotting on making due with glamours and coming tonight if I know him as well as I think I do. I'll just have to see if Lucius can catch him before he barges in here.

Hopefully he will and Harry won't be found out. Draco has become so attached to him.

Since the first day Draco met him, he knew that Harry would be a good friend, but he also thought that Harry had been raised in luxury as did I. We know better now.

Draco has a sixth sense when it comes to people he needs to befriend, but sadly he went about it the wrong way with Harry. He acknowledged this and apologized when we were having that 'What if...' conversation in the Dark Lord's home. A rather amusing conversation, if I do say so myself, but this is no time to be reminiscing.

The new DADA teacher is suspicious at best; he has an odd aura and scent about him. It turns my stomach. Before today I had never heard of an Archibald Graham. Sounds like one of those Grey Wizards, but what would a Grey Wizard want in Hogwarts? Surely not Harry? Actually that makes the most sense. Grey Wizards don't do anything unless there's a hefty profit. Dumbledore must have promised Harry to him if he did him a favor.

If it were just to teach the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, then the reward wouldn't be so precious. Does Dumbledore think that this Grey Wizard Archibald Graham can kill the Dark Lord Voldemort? That must be it. Foolish bumblebee introducing a hyena to the King Serpent's kitten?

It's so sad it's funny.

I'll have to warn Harry when he wakes... if he wakes. I'm still not sure what he was drugged with exactly. It made him faint, he has a fever and nightmares, and he is most likely in some sort of magical coma. This could be any number of things. It could be a poison to make him sick, a potion to weaken his body and mind, an inverted jobberknoll feather, a Dark Arts brew to sap him of his courage and confidence, or even some abstract Grey creation to do who knows what. We can't assess the damage until he wakes up which could be any minute, tomorrow morning, or even several months from now. I hope he'll be alright. Tom has found his mate, Draco finally has a good friend, Lucius is being shocked and disturbed at every new detail we find about Harry, and he's finally proven how much like his mother he really is. He may look nearly identical to his father, but he acts nothing like him unless the trait is also shared with Lily.

I can't seem to focus... how odd. Why do I keep drifting off like that? ... no. I've been charmed. Focus! Harry sleeping fitfully with nightmares and my little boy sleeping soundly half on, half off the bed with him. They're so cute.

Harry should wear more green; it brings out his eyes so nicely. Maybe when he wakes up I can convince him to let me dress him up. His new clothes are nice and all, but maybe something a bit more... a bit shorter. I might even be able to dress him up in a Slytherin girl's uniform if I mention that Tom will like it and I'm sure he will.

What was that? Is someone there?

"Who-"

Charmed!Severus... eep. Yes, he was charmed hence the OOCness. Archibald rhymes with Grindelwald! That has nothing to do with this story, but... yeah.

Finally! I sigh. Tom really needs Harry here, but we have to conquer the world first and that requires sleep. First I have to make sure Tom is asleep and not faking it. Sneak, sneak. Lights off, check. Dark Lord sleeping peacefully in bed, check. Not just pretending to sleep peacefully -

"Harry says you need to thrust harder next time." No reaction. Either he is asleep or he was expecting something like that. What else could get a rise? Something really nasty...

"Dumbledore gets off on Harry playing Quidditch." I resist my gag reflex and there is still no reaction from the bed. Good, he's asleep. Tiptoe from the Dark Lord's room and into mine. I doubt I'll be able to sleep, so where is it? Not in the bookcase or by my bed nor on my bed or on my desk; where could it be? Under the bed? No... Under my pillow? No... Under Sev's pillow? There it is! The Lord of the Rings is one of my favorite Muggle novels and I blame Tom for introducing me to Tolkien.

My precious...

LOTR fans unite! XP They're such good books that even Lucius has to agree. So, was Voldemort really asleep? Let's find out...

I'm waiting patiently as only I can. I waited over a decade to regain a body; I can wait twenty more minutes until Lucius is so deep in The Lord of the Rings that he won't be paying attention to anything else. I was right in introducing Lucius and Severus to LOTR.

Harry's panicking, but I have to wait. I send warm and good feelings of love and calm, but they don't seem to be helping. I need to test how strong our bond is. Please, oh, please, oh, please let it work!

:Harry: There is a shift, the panic isn't all-consuming.

:Tom: The voice is so weak.

:Are you alright? What's going on over there? Are you hurt? Is Sev taking good care of you? Is - : I hear him sob.

:He did something. The new DADA teacher and Dumbledore put something in my food.: I growl. Even after hearing Severus report on his theories I still want to rip open the bastard who did this and any accomplices will join him in this fate.

:Harry, love, you know what I'm going to do when I get my hands on those little shits, right: He curls up against me, taking shelter in my mind from what must be happening in his, and nods. I curl around him protectively, gladly welcoming his shuddering soul into my body. The missing pieces of my soul allow us plenty of room, though that's not something I would ever want with Harry and, currently, neither does Harry since he is flush up against me.

:Don't make me go back, Tom. It's too horrible; I'll die if I do. I had thought that the Dursleys were bad and back when I saw some of the things you did... It's worse. Let me stay here, Tom, please: He asks so brokenly, imploring me to give a positive answer; and who am I to deny anything to my mate? My Love?

:You're welcome in here any time, kitten.: He looks up at me, green eyes so haunted, but there is a flash of something. What was it?

:Kitten: His voice is so small as if it were coming from a child less than half his age. I smirk at him.

:Well, you are rather tiny, not some huge lion, so 'kitten' because you aren't my cub. Unless you'd prefer snakeling: He giggles, pressing a chaste kiss to my lips before pouting.

:Even now you're teasing me.: I grin broadly as Harry snuggles further into my embrace. :I don't mind kitten or snakeling, but cub is what Moony calls me.: I kiss him softly on the forehead.

:You're the werewolf's cub? I should be extra nice to you; wouldn't want and enraged werewolf after my blood because I was rude to his cub.: He perks up when I tease him, nuzzling him. I seem to becoming very sleepy and Harry seems tired, too. :We'll talk in the morning, love, but until then stay here. You'll be much safer. Severus and Draco are no doubt guarding your body on their lives.: Harry nods again, yawning widely, and settles down to sleep. I allow myself a small smile at how damn cute he is and relax. Harry's here, safe.

AN: What has happened to Harry? Can anyone guess? Maybe I had Severus mention it or maybe I just mentioned that to throw you for a loop. Muffins to those who guess right and if the review is Anon. then I'll have to post it in the next chapter of Wtd?

Will Severus be alright in his charmed state or will something go wrong? Is Harry's body really safe at Hogwarts with the Grey Wizard and the bumblebee? Is the Grey Wizard really going to be the antagonist or will I have it be Dumbles? Will I ever get around to writing certain quotes that I came up for this story in? T-T No one knows! Not even I! Hope you enjoy the update!

Note: Archibald means bold and Graham means grey something-or-other.