After Aeron had gone to sleep and the Dark Room had been sealed up, Josh decided that maybe he should take his mate's advice and go look for Harry. Whatever it was, Aeron wouldn't ask him to make nice if it wasn't important..and he did stress it was important. It was dusk now, Josh doubted that the boy was asleep in this new place, so that would make a little trickier to find.

He'd get breakfast and then go look for the boy, or maybe he should go see if the savior was hungry and would want to join him. Josh didn't want to say he disliked or really hated Harry Potter, but him being bitten and not turned was putting his entire family at risk. Aeron lost control, which Josh still didn't understand how that happen, but mistakes do happen.

Rubbing his eyes, he decided he'd go ask around before he went down to the kitchens.

HPHPHPHPHP

"Harry! Mister Potter! Hey wait up!"

Turning around to the small voice calling him, Harry had pretty much in the clear walking around outside away from the Humens family. After that episode at dinner last night, Harry didn't think it would be wise to just walk back in while he probably pissed of the entire household. He had no wand, he had no use to defend himself while he was outnumbered. Not like there was a point, he made the vow he'd give this entire place a chance and he can't walk out of the place even if he did have a chance. "Tempest."

When the young blonde girl did catch up to him, he waited for her with his hands in his pockets from the clothes he wore yesterday. When he did get to him, she grinned, "Will you come sit with me at breakfast today? You left really mad at dinner. I didn't mean to make you angry."

Sighing and rubbing his eyes, Harry looked around as if the right answers were in the air, "No, that was everything to do with your dad. Nothing you said upset me…"

"Dad makes a lot of people mad sometimes. I don't think he means to. But they always forgive him. Dad gets mad a lot too though, and he forgives. You should have seen him when Josh and Aeron first got together...oh boy it was crazy. Papa says Aeron must have really liked Josh to stick around. But him and dad are really close now." Tempest said, started to pull on Harry's wrist to go back into the house.

"Tempest, why don't you go back inside? I think I-"

Tempest whipped around to him, "Are you crazy? You can't miss two meals!" Harry was a little taken back by how upset Tempest seemed to be when he didn't seem to agree to come with her. Letting out a sigh with a small smile, he held up his free hand in surrender, he didn't want to argue with the 5 year old. She was only a little only a little older than Teddy himself.

Grinning once again, Tempest moved her hand from Harry's wrist to his hand. Walking back up to the house, she started talking again. "Did you have lots of friends in Hogwarts? Papa and Dad said I'll make lots of friends. Josh says I'll be too picky to make a lot of friends."

Harry really didn't like Josh. Every time this kid's name got brought up, Harry only wanted to hex the kid all the more. He was pretty ticked off still from their last encounter. It was obvious that he didn't know about the vow, but it was more obvious he was just a kid trying to play grown up. "Josh is your brother right?"

"Sorta. But we're all family here."

This is not family, this is insanity.

Walking into the kitchen, Harry saw Casey and few others moving around the kitchen. He felt uneasy once again being around everyone, when the Beta looked up at him. He smiled while picking up his daughter and holding her on his hip, "Mr. Potter, hungry? We've got plenty to go around."

"I was just going to bring Tempest, she -"

"He said he'd sit next to me Papa. He's gonna tell me about Hogwarts and what's it's like being a Gryffindor." Tempest cut in, reaching for the pancakes that were set up on the counter. "Maybe I'll be the only Gryffindor."

Laughing, "Maybe. That would really be a kick to Alex wouldn't it?" Casey waved his hand over the plates on the counters and waved them towards the doorway to the table in the dining room. "We haven't really talked, I'm Casey Rosenfelt, Tempest's Papa." He held out his free hand to Harry, while the other balanced Tempest. Harry stared at Casey's hand and three different rings that were displayed on it. His eyes flickered to Tempest, and he took Casey's hand shaking it.

"Harry Potter, captive."

Snorting, "Captive. Alex has yet to tell me about this little deal the two of you had." Casey was leaving him an opening to confess it, but why would he? Harry knew that the older man could be lying or just trying to trick him, so Harry didn't even bother to offer any information. He just shrugged. "Well, alright then. Come -"

"Casey have you seen- Mmhm." Josh looked right at Harry, who just glared back. "Right. Harry could we talk? Elsewhere if you don't mind."

"Josh. Whatever it is, it can wait. You didn't show up to dinner and Harry still hasn't eaten."

"It's important." Josh countered, not wanting to postpone this conversation. As it wasn't something he was looking forward to begin with.

Casey raised an eyebrow at him, "Then it'll still be important after you both sit down and eat something right?"

"Oh fucking christ. What is with you people lately? Aeron is keeping secrets, I know Dad didn't tell you, and you want to push bloody pancakes?" Josh was irritated and confused, everyone's priorities were fucked up and Josh was the only person who seemed to understand that. "Aren't you even a little-"

Casey in just a second waved his hand out to Josh silencing him and set down Tempest, "You will not talk about it like this. You know, just as well as I do, if you needed to know what was going on, you'd know. Harry is not the person to take your anger out on, he knows even less about this place than you do. So shape up and handle the situation like the example you should be."

Josh just glared at the wall behind Casey, pissed off for being scolded. When Casey gave him back his voice, the boy didn't even pause to breath before hissing out, "When this comes back to hurt Aeron and dad because of him,, don't jump in and say I didn't try. Enjoy your stupid pancakes." Harry watched as Josh left the kitchen, he looked back to Casey who seemed to have a lot of emotions going on. He didn't know what he should say or not say, so he just walked around the older man and left the kitchen as well.

Deciding he should probably go look for The Alpha to see what was in store for him for his stay here. He has to write Ginny and tell her he's okay, even if he won't be returning. Just to find an owl. He had already been gone five days, Ginny must be out of her mind. After him leaving like that, Ron and Hermione must be worried like hell too. Especially with the baby coming on, he didn't want them to keep worrying about him. They had their own family to worry about.

What Harry didn't want, was to find Josh again. Why was this boy everywhere? Turning back around the hallway he went to stay away from the boy, made nearly no difference when Josh came to a running skid halt in front of him. Harry narrowed his eyes taking a step back, "What?"

"Look..I'm sorry. But you got to understand, I want you here nearly as much as you want to be here. Your name is going to hurt my family and I can't just stand by and watch you..just you being here tearing everything apart." Josh was pretty expressive with his emotions on his face, he was angry, but there was a lot of fear going on there too.

"I didn't ask him to bite me." Harry came back with simply, because it was the truth. In fact, Harry had asked to go home with his wand, and well, it didn't come to that in the end.

"Yeah trust me, I didn't it either. You're...people are going to look for you. And you're here. I'm going to loose my family because you're here. I know you don't care about us and you don't know this place, for everyone you've seen here..this their home." Josh stressed to the older boy, "My dad and Aeron seem to have a lot of hope for you, but I don't. If you wanted to, everyone I love is going to be hurt."

Looking around the hallways, Harry pursed his lips, "Whatever happens to them after this, happens to them because they did it."

"Merlin's beard, you wizard are load of crap. Tempest is five, what does she deserve? Right, being an orphan is a hella better than being raised by a were right? Or the fifty other people here you see every day, when you leave here, aurors are going to burn this place to the ground. Did those fifty people hurt you too? You're right, they deserve to die." Josh fired back, "I told Aeron, I'd apologize. He gives a shit...But I don't. I don't want you here and I don't want you involved, I have nothing but your word...So, please, if I help you get your wand back, will you return the favor by never speaking a word about this place?"

"My wand." Harry nodded, Josh was just a scared kid trying to protect his family. Harry couldn't give Josh what he was asking for, he wasn't going to just let this person go around kidnapping people and hurting them just because he could. But he did want his wand back. "If I agree to leave your family alone once I leave here, you'll tell me where it is. Is that correct?"

"No." Josh answered, "I can't tell you where it is, but I can get it for you. If I get your wand back for you, can you agree to leaving my family alone? You can leave or do whatever it is you want after you have it back...but you have to agree to never talk about being here or the people in it. Can you do that? I'll help you out of here and you help me by keeping everyone here safe."

Harry regretted the vow more than he regretted anything else now, if he left he'd breaking his side of the vow. He'd die. "I..I can't leave."

"No you can. I'll help you. I know the ins and outs without anyone knowing you left. I can get you-"

Harry held up his hand, "I can't leave. I made a deal with your Alpha and I have to stay until it starts to show the venom is wearing on me...but if you get me my wand, I'll agree to go to the aurors or the ministry after I do leave here." Your dad is going to turn himself in.

Biting his bottom lip, Josh nodded, "Okay. Fine. But will you at least write to someone saying that you're alive and that you don't need to be looked for?"

Jumping on the chance to write to everyone, "Yes. I can do that. If you give me my wand."

Nodding, "Okay my room. I have an owl there, you can write whoever there." Josh lead the way to his own room, walking up the stairs to another hallway, leading down to his room. Harry followed close behind the boy. Looking around the room, it was very dim. All the windows were covered by thick deep purple curtains and was only lit up by charmed candles that floated around the room. Josh went over and pushed the shades open, letting the sun light from outside come inside the rooms. "Aeron stays in here sometimes. He likes his Dark Room better though. It's more sealed off."

Harry had been angry before, but now, it seemed like Josh was just a boy with a temper and was trying to help his family the best way he knew how. "I thought my dad knew how to reverse the affects..or I wouldn't have called him. You don't have to believe me, but it wasn't my goal to keep you here."

Snorting, Harry did believe that with the way Josh had been treating him since they met in the kitchens. "So you do understand this is wrong."

"I understand you are not the help my dad thinks you are." Josh resorted back, pulling out papers, ink, and a quill from his desk, laying it out on it for Harry to write to whoever he wished. "I understand that my dad and Aeron think they can help you..and they you can help them. I just don't understand why they think so. You're a survivor and you've lost people..but you never knew anyone longer than two years. You don't have what we have. You don't understand...but my dad thinks you can."

Uncapping the ink, Harry looked at Josh, studying him. "You don't know me as well as you think you do."

"You don't know you as well as you think you do. If you have to stay a year here, you will though." Josh sat down at his bed, looking around the room, before turning back to Harry. "I'll get you your wand tonight when my dad and Aeron go out on the courses."

"The courses?"

Smiling once again, with a hint of smugness, "You'll find that one out too."