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Xander was up and out of bed within seconds of the first scream and walking towards Harry room, every scream coming from that room, only made him increase his pace.

Several people were gathered around Harry's door, looking worried, they all know this was no ordinary nightmare, no normal nightmare would cause a person to scream loud enough to be heard on the other side of a Manor as large as this.

He know Harry had nightmares, who didn't, but he never thought that Harry would have such powerful nightmares at such a young age, when the only thing that should scare him was the Potter family and the Killing curse being flung his way.

When the servants surrounding the door saw him, they parted, his wand was safely tucked away in his robe as he opened the door and closed it behind him, a distress Drabble and a thrashing, sleeping Harry was what awaited him.

"Master" Drabble said, looking very relieved to see him, he had tried to wake up the little master but the little master wouldn't wake up. "I can't wake up him up"

He had tried everything but the little master wouldn't wake up, he felt so hopeless and useless seeing how the Little master was clearly suffering and he could do nothing about it.

Just than Harry, released another scream, more terrible than the last.

And Xander was by his side in a flash and tried to gently wake Harry up.

"Harry? Harry, wake up." He said, but after a couple of minutes it became clear that Harry wasn't going to wake up by normal means.

What kind of nightmare could prevent somebody from waking up on their own when it got too scary for the mind?

"Drabble, make sure nobody comes in" He said.

"Yes, Master, sir" The house elf said.

Whatever this was, he was doing to find out, he took out his wand and pointed it at Harry's forehead and whispered.

"Legilimens"

And everything went black.

Ch 4: The Darkness of the mind.

It would be a lie if Xander said, he wasn't worried with how easy it was to enter Harry mind, the boy should have inherited the Felix family, natural talent in Occlumency, and yet he felt only a little resistance as he entered the boy's mind.

Once he came to, he realised exactly why this was, he found himself in a mental image of the inside of the Potter's Manor, but what alarmed him was the many cracks along the wall he could see.

This was the result of somebody repeated barraged into the young boy's mind, over and over again, giving the mind no time to heal itself.

And Xander was willing to bet, he know actually who that person is.

Only, now, did the walls look like they had a chance to heal themselves, fueled by the magic that came with the blood adoption and having time to rest, some places understandably looked worst then other's, which showed improvement, but what irked him was how this shouldn't be the case at all.

He estimated, that it would take a full two months to undo the damage done to Harry mind and be back at full strength.

With all this damage, it was a wonder that Harry was still sane.

That's when he heard.

"PLEASE STOP!"

That was Harry voice!

"SHUT UP, BRAT! NOBODY IS COMING FOR YOU!"

That was James Potter's voice, he realised with alarm.

The sound of something hard hitting the floor echoed through the mind scape.

"Nobody is here to hear you scream, nobody cares about you, nobody will come and rescue so shut and take your punishment, brat."

That was Lily Potter's voice!

It wasn't hard for Xander to follow the noise and hurried to the other room, he poked his head around the corner, and was horrified at what he saw.

There was Harry, but he looked to be no more than three years old, he was curled up in a defense position and he was sitting in his own blood.

The looming figures of Lily Potter, James Potter were standing tall over him, behind them was the form of a smirking Jamus Potter, his expression was one of pure malice and glee.

James Potter kicked Harry in the gut.

The boy managed not to cry out even when he received a punch to his already battered and bruised face.

"I know, you would come back, you ungrateful brat." Dream Lily snared, "Your daddy, realised how useless you were and paid us to take you in"

"T-That's not true!" The tiny, seemly, three year old, Harry said, his daddy loved him, he know that.

They all sneered before showing smirks on their faces and parted to show another Xander!

Xander stared at dream Xander.

"I really did pay the Potter's to take you back, brat" Dream Xander sneered much to both of their shock. "I don't know what I ever saw in you, you ungrateful brat. I should have taken Jamus, at least than I know, the future of Felix household will be given to somebody worthwhile." with each word Harry cried even harder.

And Xander had a enough.

All of this was a dream and that meant anything was possible in a dream, he wouldn't allow anybody to torture his own child, even if it came from his subconscious mind and used wordless magic to send all four dream people off their feet and smashing into the wall behind them.

The shock and rage on their faces when they were flown back, he didn't pay attention to, as he ran to Harry who was too busy sobbing to notice what was happening around him.

Xander, bent down to the crying child and said softly. "Harry"

Harry immediately backed away in fear and Xander felt something squeeze inside him, the child was clearly afraid of him, he was almost tempted to take a step back.

But nothing got resolved, if he shied away when things got tough, and approached Harry once again and this time he placed Harry in his arms before the boy could realize anything and said.

"Harry, Son, don't listen to them. I will always love you"

And Harry was too stunned to struggle, this was the first time his daddy had called him 'son' it was always 'Harry'.

"I will never say those things, I will never abandon you and I will never take you back to the Potter's." He said, "You and me, we share the same blood, so were family. I will never allow harm to come to you and anybody who says so, is lying."

Just than dream Lily, James, Jamus and Xander got up and made their way to them, it was cleary, they were out for blood.

Harry looked shocked, as he noticed dream Xander and the one holding him, why were there two of them, which one was the real daddy!?

"Harry, you're having a nightmare." Xander said, much to Harry shock, to find out this was all a dream and that meant he wasn't really at the Potter mansion. And the daddy who said all those mean things to him wasn't real. But why did his body hurt all over, if this was a dream?

Just than dream James reached them and sent a punch to Xander, who's eyes widened in shock as he felt the pain in his side from the punch.

He know the difference between phantom pain and real pain, and this was definitely real pain.

But that was impossible, wasn't this supposed to be a dream? So how can mere illusion hurt him...

Unless...

And for the first time, Xander took note of omniums glow around each dream person.

Was the Horcrux making them stranger than mere illusion, was that why Harry wasn't waking up was it because of Horcrux power, keeping him here?

This was not good.

Harry mind, was already in shambles because of constant intruding but add that, to the problem that the Horcrux had become strong enough to turn Harry's dream into a nightmare whenever it wanted to, in attempt to devour Harry mind whole, things weren't looking good for Harry.

How Harry had lived this long was beyond him, and if things kept on going like this, he feared that Harry wouldn't live long enough to get his acceptance letter to a wizarding school, or he would have long gone insane before then.

So with a mere thought, he said.

"Aparecium"

The dream people, lost their form's to reveal, they were really masses of dark energy in the form of shadows making Harry see what had truly been hunting him all this time, each of them had the face of what, he could only call a monster.

The shadows looked enraged at the intruder, that revealed what they were to Harry.

How were they supposed to inflict emotional pain when they couldn't look like the people Harry had emotional attachments too?

They were going to make this intruder pay.

But Xander was no were near done, seeing they were about to attack, he muttered in Parseltongue, in which Harry understood like he was speaking English.

"Arresto Momentum"

The frightening speed in which the dark shadows moved, was greatly reduced, until they looked like they weren't moving at all.

Xander, know this would buy them some much needed time. He supposed this was a good enough time for Harry to have his first lesson in Occlumency, even though he was hoping to wait a year or two to do so.

Harry was still looking at the scary looking shadows that were now as slow as a snail, in some kind of shock, no doubt wondering what the hell those shadows were and why they were in his dream, when Xander came over to him and said.

"Son, I want to you to picture a brick wall and try to push those shadows behind that brick wall."

"But I" Harry began, he wasn't strong enough and he was just Harry, he was scared.

"Harry, this your mind, and in here, you can be whoever you want to be and nobody can tell you otherwise." Xander said, bending down to Harry eye level and saying. "I can never be disappointed in you even if you're scared. I'm actually extremely proud of you and that's all that matters. If you lack courage, I'll give you courage just by being by your side. I can't make sure these shadows won't harm you again, if you don't stand up for yourself. I'm not strong enough, in this mindscape, to send the darkness back, I need your help"

And Harry was shocked, his daddy, who looked so strong and had done all this, wasn't strong enough to send the darkness away?

His daddy was asking for his help?

Nobody had asked for his help, he was always the one asking for help and then shutting up afterwards.

A warm feeling washed over him as he looked into those steel gray eyes, usually they looked so cold but in that moment, Harry thought, he had never seen such a warm pair of eyes before.

And even though he was scared, he found the courage because his daddy was right beside him and a determined gleam began to form in his eyes, seeing this Xander smiled and turned to the slowly approaching shadows with determination and said.

"Alright Harry, just picture a wall in your mind"

A large wall appeared in front Harry, as soon as he finished speaking, much to his shock.

Xander, resisted the urge to stare at the six year old, he was pretty sure, this wasn't normal for a child Harry age to form a wall so quickly in his mind and without understanding the basics behind what he had to do and going through the exercises.

If the Potter's and Dumbledore could see Harry now, they would be shocked at his progress with just instructions along.

He, truly had gotten had gotten the stronger twin...

"Good, now I want you to make it as hard as you possibly can." He said, while erected his own wall, Harry thought hard and began to solidify it, making it harder and harder. "And once your satisfied that it's hard enough, push it with all you might, focus on getting the shadows, behind that wall."

Harry stood up and with a look of concertation on his face, he imagined holding the shadows in place and pushing the wall towards them, Xander wall was right behind Harry own, to fortify Harry own defenses, they both ignored the shadows screaming and struggles as they tried to escape, realising what was happening to them and they were being blocked out.

Xander, held Harry hand to show his support, and Harry connection to the wall got stronger.

They both gave one final large push and the shadows, were thrust firmly behind the two layers of wall, neither of them could hear any sound coming from the other side.

"Daddy, I did it!" Harry said, smiling.

"You sure, did" Xander said, picking him and hugging him while Harry grinned from ear to ear and said. "Now, don't you think it's about time to get some proper sleep, son?"

Back in the real world, Xander was in Harry bed, his arms wrapped around Harry frame, the boy had stopped thrashing and screaming seconds ago, and instead developed a smile on his lips as he drifted off to the land of Ice cream and food based animals with a much kinder dream daddy there.

Harry, was finally getting the much needed rest, his brain hadn't had in years, the adoption only forced his brain to go on standby to get used to the changes taking place in the body, it had nothing to do with getting some actually rest.

The evil energy leaking into Harry mind had been blocked out and Harry body, could now properly grow without the high levels of stress pulling it down and the constant interference of the Horcrux that was out to kill him.

Xander, eyes were a calculating one, remembering what he had just seen.

He know that Harry frequently had nightmares, before the adoption, but...this, was his first time that he experienced such a thing, even his dreams of watching his parents die over and over again, was nothing compared to what he just experienced.

He had never experienced such a realistic dream before where he could touch, feel and hear everything as if it was real life.

None of his nightmares were like that, he always know when he was dreaming because he couldn't feel the pain only the horror but in Harry dream, it included the pain and the horror.

He also know that usually when Harry began to have a nightmare, a silence charm would be placed over him by a Potter house elf, so that he wouldn't disturb the rest of the family, after a few times of waking up to Harry screaming, James and Lily Potter had cracked and were determined to shut Harry up.

Instead of rushing to Harry aid, they had told him to shut up and or they would make him shut up, but if it was Jamus who had a nightmare, they would hurry to his aid and made sure he was okay by coddling him and giving him some chocolate to eat.

And Harry had dreams like that all the time, with nobody there to get him through it!?

Clearly, somebody was trying to kill this child!

Did Albus not care about the fact, Harry potter was slowly sub coming to insanity because of the Horcrux inside of him and may not be able to live to his eleventh birthday?

Of course, he didn't.

All that man seemed to care about was looking good beside Jamus Potter, the boy, who out of pure guess work and not actual fact, had dubbed 'The-Boy-Who-Live'.

Well, he wasn't going to let Harry grow up and kill himself, so that, there would one less Horcrux in the world, anchoring Voldemort to the earth.

He was going to do what Albus, sat on his ass and refused to do for the past six years.

He was going to get rid of that Horcrux inside Harry scar and he will make sure, Harry lived through it.

Because, if all the adults in Harry life had failed him, wasn't it about time somebody didn't?

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Next chapter, a couple of days have passed and Xander searches for a way to remove the Horcrux in Harry scar without alerting Dumbledore, salvation comes in the form of the French Ministry who have a safe way of removing it without resulting in death. Review/ fav and follow!