A/N: Alright so it took SO MUCH longer than I thought to put another chapter up, but forgive me please, for my awful college and work life prevent me from updating too often. However, now that school and finals are over, I'll be able to focus A LOT MORE. Again, so sorry for the sudden disappearance but I have NOT given up on this story so I hope you guys haven't either! Wow, 9 months…

And now, for Ruthless. Thank you for your patience everyone! I would like to give a word of thanks to ceres51892, who I notice pretty much frequently reviews and lets me know what she thinks. I just thought I'd give a shout out to her. And a shout out to EVERYONE ELSE who is reading this, I never thought I'd have this many reviews at all, so I'm happy people enjoy my story!

Also, keep in mind that although Polyjuice Potion doesn't exactly work the way I present it in this chapter, that I thought it would be interesting to the storyline, so I do hope no one is bothered by it.

Anyway, enough of my blabbering, I give you chapter six! :D

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Chapter Six-Memory

"Your names Harry then?" The brunette woman smiled politely. "Well you're doing a wonderful job Harry and your accent is lovely."

"Thank you." He gave the woman another smile before gathering up the empty plates and headed back to the kitchens. Only twice did he need to call upon Sookie for help when it came to alcohol. It was silly really; at least to him. In England, it was perfectly legal to drink at sixteen in a household and seventeen in the wizarding world freely. Yet until he was twenty-one here, he couldn't touch a drink. Not that he drank much anyway, he preferred butterbeer over Firewhisky any day. As it was his first day, his shift ended at 11:00pm so he found himself waiting an hour or so before Sookie got off.

"You ready?" She asked, pulling down her hair from it's ponytail. He watched as it fell like a fair waterfall down her shoulders.

"Yes."

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"They're back." Pam's full cherry lips pursed in annoyance.

"Who?" Eric looked up from his table.

"Three guesses." Eric whiffed the scent in the air; and wrinkled his nose in disgust.

"No need."

The two wizards in the odd skull masks shuffled rather hurriedly past the crowd of vampires, wands in their robes. "Eric Northman."

"So-back again?"

"Have you changed your mind on joining our Lord?"

"No. I have no interest in your affairs, I thought I made that clear before."

Only the bottom half of their faces were visible, but it was clearly they were sneering.

"Are you positive?" Came the raspy death eaters voice from the left.

"Oh, I couldn't be more sure."

"Pity, we could have used you." The one on the right replied.

"That-right there, is the problem. I'm not up for use."

"Hapless pride." The two left the scene as quickly as they'd come, though something about their exit had finality in it, leaving Eric with a sense of guardedness he hadn't experienced since the last Witch War.

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They arrived in Shreveport a little less than an hour later. Harry was the last out the car, and he scanned the area as though looking for rogue vampires. "There's nothing to worry about, Pam's over there. She's certainly not going to let any vampire drain you on their property."

"Yeah, thanks I feel much better." He replied sarcastically. The two made their way up toward the bars front where Pam stood, skin glowing in the midnight. "Ah, the witch is back."

Pam shook her head a bit. "Third one today."

Harry's eyes widened. "Third?"

Pam shrugged. "Yeah, those masked ones came back-"

Harry jolted. "When?" He demanded and Pam raised a brow.

"A little over an hour ago." Harry's heart raced. He imagined having arrived when they'd been there. A dangerous coincidence.

"What did they want?" He asked them, trying to keep calm.

"Do you want in or not?" Pam said, raising a brow.

Harry sighed. "Just-is Eric here?"

Pam smiled. "Come back to see him; did you miss him after all?"

Harry snorted. Not bloody likely.

"Well then, go on in. Eric will be at the table in the far back, mingling with the blood bags."

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Harry and Sookie headed toward the back. "Do you know these masked people she was talking about?"

"You should know, you saw them." Harry responded curtly. Sookie seemed lost in thought for a few moments before it apparently came to her: "Those-Death Eaters?" Harry nodded quickly. "But-what-" Harry tuned her out the moment they reached Eric's table. The tall vampire glanced up at them.

"Sookie, what a wonderful surprise." He then noted Harry's presence. "Missed me already?"

Harry scowled.

"He's looking for employment here Eric." Sookie spoke up.

"Could we maybe discuss this somewhere else?" Harry said, looking pointedly at the muggles eying them curiously. Eric stood, but not before politely excusing himself, much to the obvious annoyance of the muggle girls in general, who openly glared at both him and Sookie. Eric led the two of them toward the back room.

"Now, what is this about employment? You do realize I haven't forgotten our little conversation the previous night?"

"I do, but-"

"But, he could really use a job all the same Eric. With him being new at Merlotte's there's no way he's gonna get enough hours to live here for too long. Two jobs would be ideal."

"Does he have an ideal plan on how to get from Bon Temps to Shreveport every day?"

Harry smacked himself mentally. Of course! He didn't have transportation.

"I-can find a way." He responded.

"I could bring him the first day if-"

"Sookie-no." Harry cut her off. "I don't want you to constantly be taking me everywhere. I am capable of doing things by myself."

"I never said you weren't." She replied, a determined look in her eyes. "But I want to help you alright? It's not a problem really. I'll ask Sam for the day off, I'm sure he wouldn't mind. Gives me time to take you here and sleep later on."

He wasn't thrilled about the idea. He figured if he took a driving test as Hermione had suggested, he could buy a car around town somewhere.

"Does he have the job Eric? I do believe you need a few extra humans anyhow."

"What's in it for me?" Eric replied.

"The knowledge that you helped someone in need of a hand." She responded with a small frown.

"Is that ever good enough for me Sookie?"

"It's gonna have to be Eric. Besides, all the favors I've done for you in the past, you can't just do this one free?"

"Nothing's free in this life."

"Fine-how about…the next mission you decide to send me on, I'll do for free."

"I was kind of hoping for something more-physical, but I suppose saving money can be just as good." He smirked.

Harry honestly didn't feel comfortable with the vampires less than subtle flirting, and Sookie's obvious embarrassment and aversion to his comment. He cleared his throat a bit, and the two glanced back over to him.

"So when does he start?"

"Today's Thursday so let's say…next Thursday morning. His shifts will start off with four hours. I'll have Ginger teach you the basics and you can learn from there."

"Thanks so much for this Eric, you won't regret it."

"Oh I'm sure I will." With that, the Viking swept past them, and without a glance, headed out the door.

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"You really didn't have to offer to take me you know."

"I wanted to. Besides, you don't have any other way. I have an old drivers manual in the house somewhere. I can lend it to you and teach you to drive myself. That way you won't have to waste too much time on classes."

Harry's mouth dropped a bit. "Sookie, no-"

"Why not? I'm not that bad a driver I'm sure."

"No, I just-"

"I know…you're probably not too keen on me much now, but I am trying to help you."

"Why? You made a clear point you weren't trying to help me the other night. You told me before you like the quiet. I know that means you don't particularly like being able to hear people in your head all the time. You didn't have to look. You knew it wasn't right to force me, and after you said you believed I wasn't a danger-"

"Vampires aren't exactly like us Harry." Sookie came in. "I wanted to believe they were once, but I've been through too much to think that anymore. It doesn't matter what I believe, it's what I can prove."

"But you didn't tell him anything. You looked, and then said nothing. What did you prove? Only that I can't trust you."

"I didn't know what I saw-"

"Liar."

"Can we not talk about this anymore?"

"Why the hell not? You're so determined to help me-"

"I'm trying to make amends."

"I don't want to make amends."

"Harry, just-"

"Look, I don't think I would have gotten the job at Fangtasia if it weren't for you, so I thank you for that, but I just don't think we should talk anymore."

For Harry, he'd always based his relationships on trust and loyalty. In his eyes, she'd broken that. Perhaps she was never truly loyal with him as they'd only just met not too long ago, but he'd certainly trusted her enough anyhow.

"I'm sure I can find a way on my own."

They were pulling into his driveway now.

"Harry, please just let me-"

He'd unbuckled his seat-belt as she parked. "Thanks for the ride." He opened the car door, and stepped out.

Sookie's yellow Volvo sat in the driveway for a moment longer. As though she were pondering on whether or not to get out and speak to him. Finally, as he stood on his porch, he could see the bright headlights of the car slowly fade, and she was gone.

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"Look at him, he's growing like a weed isn't he?" Andromeda smiled brightly at the green haired toddler in her lap. Harry found himself beaming as Teddy Lupin squeezed his little fists and bounced in his grandmothers lap, his silver eyes on his godfather. "Harry?" The emerald eyed man grasped the tiny hands in his own, and gave them a gentle squeeze.

"So you'll need a hair growing tonic then?" Andromeda asked, her eyes still haven't left her grandsons.

"Yes. As Teddy's the only Metamorphagus I know now since Tonks…"

The two sat in silence for a moment. The only sound that could be heard was Teddy's incoherent babbles as he stared up at Harry.

"Teddy, do you want to help your godfather?"

Teddy only gave a wide smile, showing several baby teeth.

"I'll take that as a yes." Harry grinned.

Andromeda pulled out a vial which he could only believe was the hair tonic.

"He's very young so only a bit on the ends will do." She ran the bright colored tonic across Teddy's edges until they were very damp. Harry watched with inquisitiveness as his godsons forest green locks quickly began to grow from a headful of hair, to a full grown mane, down to his waist and past his feet. Only when Andromeda removed another bottle from her pocket and rubbed it upon his head did the hair finally stop growing. With a pair of scissors, Harry carefully cut Teddy's hair until it reached just above his ear.

"I'll be giving him a proper haircut later on." She announced.

Harry wrapped the fine green locks around his wrist until it was neatly folded. He then wrapped a black band around it to keep it neat.

"So you're going to use this in order to disguise yourself then?"

"I think, when it's necessary, I should do so yes. I'll be taking it with me to America."

"Be safe Harry."

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A/N: Let me make this clear. That last part was a memory. It's already happened. Also, sorry if the cutoff kind of seems choppy. I'm really trying to get back into the groove of this story so I hope it's not too bad. Hopefully, I'll have more updates soon. X3