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Summary: Madness is not a state of mind. Madness is a place. What happens when Harry stumbles into it and gets trapped there? A Harry Potter version of Alice in Wonderland but a thousand shades darker.
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Harry woke up feeling wonderfully warm and well rested. He couldn't recall having any dreams and that made him feel positively ecstatic. He hadn't gone sleepwalking again. A hand on his forehead made him open his eyes and he realized that it belonged to Bella. She smiled down at him,
"You're awake. How do you feel?"
Harry smiled back and his gaze was drawn to his restrained wrists. The ropes uncoiled from them by themselves and retreated underneath the bed. Harry watched them slither away in fascination and sat up straight,
"I'm feeling good."
Bella's smile disappeared,
"What happened last night?"
Harry frowned,
"Last night?"
Bella sighed,
"Yes, Harry. When the Dark Lord dragged you away from the blood cellars."
Harry sat up straight and leaned back against the headboard. Bella gently perched his glasses over his nose and everything came into clearer focus. He stared at the wall,
"Nothing happened. He just restrained me and put me to sleep."
But that wasn't what had happened though. Voldemort had been rough with him in the start but then…his roughness had turned into something different. He had cried on his shoulder last night and Voldemort had been gentle with him. Bella rested her hand on his shoulder and made him face her,
"You're lying."
Harry met her gaze and she traced his cheek with her finger,
"He struck you."
Harry lowered his gaze. Bella removed his finger from his cheek and touched his neck gently which was decorated with fingertip sized bruises,
"And attempted to strangle you."
Harry closed his eyes and spoke,
"Yeah that happened…but it didn't…he didn't hurt me…"
He knew he probably sounded pathetic right now. He had told himself that he wouldn't read too much into Voldemort's behaviour last night. Voldemort hated him…he would always hate him. And Harry was supposed to hate him more because that man was his parent's murderer…he didn't though. He didn't hate him as much as he should. Bella wrapped an arm around his shoulder and pulled him into her embrace. He allowed it. She pressed a kiss to his bruised cheek and Harry exhaled as the bliss cleared his thoughts and made him relax. Her lips moved to his neck and a soft moan escaped Harry's lips. Harry was dimly aware that his head was now resting in Bella's lap and she was bent over his neck,
"You can…you can feed from me if you want."
Bella removed her lips from his neck and threaded her fingers through his hair,
"Not today, Sugar. It's nearly dawn. I have to go."
Harry looked up at her,
"Really? How long have I been asleep?"
Bella pressed a kiss to his cheek,
"More than twenty-four hours. But you needed the rest."
Harry sat up straight and Bella rose to her feet,
"Don't go looking for trouble, Sugar."
Harry laughed softly,
"And what if trouble comes looking for me?"
Bella smiled sweetly and patted his head,
"It won't come looking for you if you don't wish it."
She brushed his hair away from his face and kissed his forehead,
"Just take care of yourself. I'll see you tomorrow night."
Harry rose to his feet as well and Bella hugged him one last time before leaving. Harry stared around the room. The room looked clean but the trail of bloody footprints was still there. It unnerved him and he decided to do something about it. Harry grabbed a bucket of water, a brush and a wash cloth from the bathroom and set to work.
He set the bucket down beside him, knelt down and began scrubbing the blood stains from the floor. It was more difficult than he imagined because the blood stains were more stubborn than he had initially thought. Nevertheless, he continued to scrub the stone floor until it seemed acceptable enough. This should feel familiar to him because had scrubbed the floor at his relative's house as well but it didn't. Maybe because he had felt obligated to work there but here…here he wasn't obligated to do anything. He was doing this because he wanted to.
He followed the trail and continued scrubbing until a voice made him pause,
"I bet the human tastes delicious…juicy…tender…"
Harry dropped the brush and the wash cloth in the bucket and turned around to see a large, green snake, roughly twelve feet long and very thick. Its yellow eyes were focused on him and it reminded him of the snake he usually saw wrapped around Voldemort's throat. For a moment, he thought he was hallucinating and that his mind had conjured this up. But this didn't feel like a hallucination and the snake seemed solid enough. It wasn't made out of darkness. It was real. But if it was real then he was supposed to be terrified. Any normal person would most probably be terrified. Right, but he wasn't normal and he wasn't terrified. He'd seen far worse things in this castle and a snake failed to instil terror into his soul. The snake probably thought he couldn't hear it…to be fair…it sounded like a she…Okay, he was definitely insane. Hearing snakes and talking in their language was bad enough but now he could tell their gender by their voice. This was getting out of hand,
"Why don't you find out exactly what I taste like?"
The snake cocked its head and Harry could have sworn its yellow eyes widened in shock. Harry held back a snicker as the snake spoke again,
"You can understand me and talk to me?"
Harry nodded and smiled,
"I can understand you quite clearly but you haven't answered my question."
He crossed his legs and settled down on the stone floor. The snake slithered closer to him and then spoke,
"Master has forbidden me."
Harry laughed,
"Master…you mean Voldemort?"
The snake moved its head in what suspiciously seemed like a nod and hissed dangerously,
"Do not say his name with your unworthy lips."
Harry laughed again and Nagini sprang at him. He landed on his back with the snake on his chest. The wind was knocked out of him by the weight of the snake. The snake flitted its forked tongue close to his neck and spoke,
"Is it still funny, human?"
Harry drew in a deep breath and smiled,
"My name is not human…it's Harry."
It was difficult to breathe because of the weight of the snake on his chest and he spoke,
"You're heavy and I can barely breathe. Your master won't appreciate it if you suffocate me."
The snake slithered off his chest reluctantly and Harry sat up straight again. Once he had caught his breath, he asked,
"Do you have a name?"
The snake wasn't looking at him and Harry realized it was ignoring him. Harry shrugged, pulled out the brush from the bucket and got back to work but the snake made no move to leave and Harry surmised that it would talk to him again. His assumption was proved correct when the snake spoke,
"Nagini. My name is Nagini."
Harry looked up at her, met her yellow reptilian gaze and smiled warmly,
"Pleased to meet you, Nagini."
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