AN sorry for those who have this story on their alerts this isn't a new chapter. a guest pointed out a flaw so bad that I had to go back and fix it. lmao I fell like an moron now so to that guest thank you for the correction to everyone else sorry for wasting your time.
Sorry about the delay in updating. Things have been crazy I've been working on starting my own business and between getting all the licenses California says I need, and getting contracts I barley have time to sleep let alone write. So to everyone who has reviewed, favorite, and followed thank you for your support and patience. So until things calm down I don't know that I'll be able to promise updates every 2 weeks.
Chapter 3
After more than 2 hours Michelle Greengrass was growing concerned, while she knew it would take some time to convince whoever had Harry that they were supposed to have him, she didn't think it would take 2 hours. Not without some form of update even if it was just a Patronus saying they didn't want to give him up. So when after close to 3 hours the wards around the mansion alerted her to someone entering the property, Michelle quickly walked into the foyer in time to see the front door opened by the head of the DMLE Amelia Boans, who was carrying a box, followed by her husband, who had a unconscious, bandaged Harry potter.
"Father is that Harry? What happened to him?" Michelle turned to see her daughter at the top of the stairs looking at the unconscious boy. "Daphne, Michelle prepare a guessed bed for Harry." Charles said walking toward the stairs. Both of them moved quickly to do as they were told.
As Charles was setting Harry down on the bed he told both his wife and daughter to back away from the bed, which confused both of them but did as they were told. As soon as Harry was settled Amelia set the box down on the foot of the bed and took the lid off and the snake within slid out onto Harry. Seeing the large snake caused Michelle to scream "What the hell are you doing." She started to move forward to try and get it away from the boy when the snake turned to her, her yelling catching its attention, and seeing its eyes it clicked in her mind just WHAT it was.
She looked to her husband with terror in her eyes "A basilisk? Are you out of your mind Charles." Before she could continue Charles raised his hand signaling her to be silent "I believe it is the reason we even found the boy. Based on how protective it is, and the way its acted sense I've seen it, I believe it is the boy's familiar. So long as no one causes harm to the boy there should be no danger." Daphne, upon hearing that there was a basilisk in the room, tried to become part of the wall she was standing against. However at the same time the fact that such a deadly animal was on her betrothed sparked a protective feeling in her chest, one that vanished when she heard it was his familiar. Charles said to everyone "Let's go to my office I'll explain there."
After a 30 minute retelling of what had happened and another 15 minutes of answering questions Daphne asked if she could be excused to go wait for Harry to wake up. Her mother replied "Just be careful Harry's familiar or not, that is a basilisk it can kill, especially if you anger it by stepping on it." Daphne nodded and replied "Yes mother." and walked out of the room.
Amelia looked to the elder Greengrasses and asked "Has she always been like that?" Charles shook his head and said "No she has been growing colder as she gets closer to going to Hogwarts it started last year when we attended a party the Malfoys were throwing and, at Draco's insistence, Lucius tried to convince me that a betrothal was in my family's best interest. I think she's trying to create an ice queen persona to try and frighten off Draco. I only hope she lets Harry in otherwise she will be destined for a very unhappy marriage."
Amelia nodded in response understanding the young girls desire to have nothing to do with the young Malfoy. Her thoughts then turned to Harry and the condition they had found him in. "I still can't believe the way they were treating him. Whether or not they hate magic is a moot point, to treat anyone let allown a family member in such a way is unforgivable."
Michelle nodded in agreement before turning to her husband "How long do you think it will be until he comes?
Charles shook his head and said "Not long. A day 2 at most." He looked to Amelia and continued "But with your support I doubt he will be able to do anything to take Harry away."
Amelia nodded "With the living conditions I witnessed I can't allow the boy to go back there. Additionaly I will be filing charges against him for kidnaping and child endangerment. There is no excuse for what has been done to young Harry."
Meanwhile Daphne was standing outside of the room Harry was in. She slowly opened the door and peered around the door, looking for the snake, not seeing it on the floor or the bed she carefully walked over to the bed watching where she stepped, and because of that she didn't see the head poke over the edge of the canopy over the bed. She sat down in a chair next to the bed and just watched over Harry until she felt a breath on the side of her head.
She froze and after a moment slowly turned her head to see the snake hanging down from the canopy's frame, its face inches from her own. It wasn't hissing or baring its fangs it was just there in her face, watching her every move. Until they heard a whimper and both turned to Harry. He opened his eyes and was looking around scared; after all he was in a strange place with a strange girl sitting next to him, until he saw Rena.
"Rena where am I?" he whimpered out not noticing Daphne's reaction to him talking to Rena.
"Your safe little one. Not long after you fell asleep a man came to see you, something to do with your parents." Despite the pain he was in Harry visibly perked up "My parents?"
Before he could get too excited Rena cut him off "Calm down little one. You can talk to him later. What he wanted to talk to you about was that your parents arranged a betrothal between you and the girl sitting next to you." At his confused look Rena explained "A betrothal is an arranged marriage. The girl next to you will one day be your wife."
At that Harry turned to Daphne looking even more shocked. Daphne was looking back and forth between Harry and Rena feeling very confused and left out, considering the 2 in front of her were talking by hissing at each other, when she noticed Harry looking at her with a shocked expression.
"What?" she asked confused as to why I was looking at her the way he was
"Uh did you already know?"
Daphne replied "About what? If you mean something it told you I don't speak snake so I have no idea what was said." She then heard the Basilisk start hissing very loudly, she was about to move away when
Harry blushed and replied "Sorry I'm still getting used to talking to snakes." He then turned to Rena and said in English "Oh come on it wasn't that funny." At that Rena hissed even louder and rolled over on her back causing the rest of her 7 foot length to fall to the bed. Harry sighed and turned his attention back to Daphne.
"Sorry about her. Her name is Rena by the way. Rena said that we are betrothed. And…" Daphne nodded and replied "We are, we are to be married before my 15th birthday."
"But we don't even know each other how are we supposed to marry each other."
Daphne sighed and called "mip." A moment later there was a pop and a small creature was standing in front of Daphne it bowed to her and asked "yous be calling for mip?" Daphne nodded and said "Tell my father Harry is awake." When the elf had poped away she said to Harry "My father can explain better than I can. All I can say for certain is we weren't supposed to be separated."
By the time the adults got to the room Rena had calmed down and was quietly laying with her head on Harry's lap. After a quick explanation about where he was and what had happened, Harry asked Charles "What did Daphne mean when she said we weren't supposed to be separated?"
Charles nodded and said "Harry you were never supposed to live with your aunt. Your parents will said that if anything happened to them you are to be raised by your godfather if for whatever reason he is unable to care for you, you are to be raised by us."
Before he could continue Harry said "Then why was I left with them. Why did I have to suffer?"
"I'm sorry Harry if we had any idea where you were we would have come to get you. But we didn't know. Before anyone could get to you someone took you and sealed your parents wills so no one knew where you were and because of who he is most people believed him when he said your parents wanted you to be raised by your aunt and refused to tell anyone where you were, he said it was for the "greater good" that no one know where you were but him. You and Daphne were supposed to grow up together."
Harry lowered his head and after a few minutes asked "Who is he." Charles, Amelia and Michelle shared a look before Daphne beat them to it "Dumbledore, Albus Dumbledore." Harry looked to her before turning to the adults for confirmation, which he got when they all nodded. "I'll make him pay."
High above the Atlantic on a private jet the Delacour family was quietly enjoying the novelty of international travel muggle style, when they noticed their family's new body guard's skin started to bubble and move until Mark was no longer siting with them in his place was one of the female soldiers mark had spoken with before they left. Said woman glanced at her watch and shrugged "That's about right."
She then looked at the Delacours, the elders of which had their wands on her, and smiled "Sergeant Sanchez at your service, the LT will meet you at the American embassy in France. He wanted to handle the trap personally." The elder Delacours slowly lowered their wands
About 6 hours later their plane landed at Charles de Gaulle (fairly certain that's the right airport correct me if I'm wrong) as they got off the plane they found a car waiting to take them to the American embassy. Upon arriving they found no small amount of chaos. Sanchez stopped a pacing guard and asked what happened. "Both teams were ambushed 6 wounded 4 critically, one they don't think will make it thru the night."
By that time Mark had made his appearance, his face, arms, and shirt all covered with blood. "Holy Shit Lt. what the hell happened." He shook his head "Team one took an international flew it exploded after the 4th person came thru my team took a port-key, it was supposed to take us to the French ministry… it didn't, obviously. Instead it dropped us in a hole where we then had curses shot at us from above." Apolline cut in at this point "Mon dieu are you not 'urt as well?"
Mark quickly replied "The bloods not mine." He then turned back to Sanchez "We brought in 3 from our ambush we have them siting in an interrogation room in the basement I was getting ready to head down there." Jean looked at him as thou he was crazy "You believe an interrogation will get you any information." Before Jean could continue his tirade Mark cut him off.
"We call it an interrogation room only because the United States government doesn't officially condone torture. Now if you'll excuse me I need to find out who is trying to kill your family." With that mark walked away leaving the Delacour family in the hands of Sanchez.
When he got to the "interrogation" room he found the captured assassins where he left them chained to chairs and positioned in such a way that they were facing each other and could see what was being done to the others. Mark walked into the center of the room and said to the 3 men "Ok who wants to sell out their employer?"
His answer was the 3 of them laughing at him. "They send a child to ask us who's paying us" thru the overwhelming laughter, that could be heard outside making the Delacours wonder just what kind of torture was being used, mark just stood there with a grin on his face that slowly became more and more sadistic. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a zippo and a pack of cigarettes and walked to the man, we shall now call unlucky bastard number 1, while lighting one. Once it had a good ember on it he took the lit cigarette and shoved it into the man's left ear the resulting scream caused the laughter to stop, mark continued to twist the cigarette into the man's ear until he was convinced he had put it out, as he was relighting it he said to the 3 men, one of which was still whimpering in pain, "Interesting fact most magic users are so convinced that a wand is the answer to all their problems, that they never train their body's physically. And there for have very little pain tolerance or physical strength. Now I'll ask again anyone want to sell out their employers?"
This time instead of laughter he got defiant looks, challenging Mark to try and make them talk. In response mark shrugged and said "Your choice." He then put the cigarette back into man number 1's ear this time just putting it in the ear canal instead of pressing it deep into the ear, and walked to man number 2 and pulled a throwing knife out of nowhere and rammed it under then man's knee-cap, his screams easily drowned out man 1's yelling. Mark then walked to a tool box and pulled out a pair of wire cutters and walked to man 3. Mark grabbed his hand and was about to cut off the tip of one of his fingers when the man started yelling "OK OK I'LL TALK."
Mark grinned and motioned for man 3 to stay quiet he put a knife in the man's mouth and pulled out a piece of paper with a list of names "Now this is how it works you point to a name on this list with that knife, then I'll ask one of those poor SOBs if they point to a different name, you become the new chew toy for my country's attack dog aka me." The man nodded quickly and pointed to a name on the list. Mark nodded and walked back to the tool box and returned with a car battery and some jumper cables. And proceeded to electrocute the man "You think I'm that fucking stupid asshole?" Mark yelled, "I know every name on that list both the real and the fake names. I gave you a warning now you're my bitch." He then turned to the other 2 and asked "Any other takers?" both nodded he walked up to man 2 and said "Same rules" then put the knife in his mouth after he got the name he repeated the process with man 1.
"Enjoy the pain boys I'll tell the docs to come check on you when they're done treating our people." He then paused and added "And just in case this turns out to be bullshit," he pulled his 1911 and put a round thru each of their right knee-caps.
As he left the room the uninjured members of both teams were waiting mark looked at the Delacours. "Send an owl to Gringotts this job will be finished before the end of the day." He then said to the surrounding soldiers "Someone send a medic in there to keep those morons from dying. Everyone else lets role."
3 hours later found Markus Chentel running for his life. It all started when one of his head of security, and longtime friend, walked into his office and said with a dead tone "We know you are attempting to kill the Delacours. Turn yourself in or this will happen to you." And then the window behind him shattered and his loyal body guards head was reduced to a fine red mist and the bloody pulp that used to be his friend's head splattered the walls. For the next hour and a half Chentel's guards ran around his property looking for the assassins every time Chentel could see one of the guards they were killed. They tried running, Apperating, using the flew, each move bought them a few minutes of peace before it started again. After more than 3 hours Mr. Chentel was running out of guards and time. So he ran to the French ministry and confessed to the Aurors in hopes they could protect him. That would be the last time Markus Chentel, Jean Delacour's opponent in the coming election for Minister of Magic, ever saw the light of day. Strangely when Aurors investigated Chentel's claims of someone killing his body guards they not only found no bodies they found no evidence of any crime being committed. It was concluded that if he was telling the truth his tormentors were good at cleaning up the evidence.
(AN)
Me. Well there is chapter 3 I hope you liked it if you have any comments please leave a review. Also this will be the last time Mark appears until year 4.
Mumbles can be heard in the back ground
Me. Oh ya I almost forgot about Muse
Walks to locked closet and opens it to revel a bound and gagged Muse
Me. So has my therapy session helped you get over your problems with chickens?
Muse. Mumbles incoherently.
Me. Oh sorry let me get that gag for you.
Muse. What's wrong with you, while I've been trapped in here evil chickens have slowly been planning to take over the world. (Looks behind me and starts to worm over to my desk while yelling) I WILL TEAR OUT YOUR THROAT WITH MY TEETH.
Me. Well I guess its back in the loony room (grabs a tranquilizer made for elephants) are you going to go quietly or do I have to use this.
Muse. (starts worming back into the closet)
Me. Sorry about that I have no idea what the hell he was yelling at.
Muse. one of these things is not like the other, ONE OF THESE THINGS JUST DOESN'T BELONG.
ME. GOD DAMN IT MUSE THESE THINGS ARE EXPENSIVE (grabs tranquilizer gun and shoots Muse)
Muse starts drooling while mumbling about evil chickens
Me. whelp see ya next time, muse say good bye to the nice readers
Muse. bye bye birdie bye bye… apple pudding is yummy
Me. … I may have given him too much