Chapter Six: Losing Control

The next time his friends saw him Harry was deep in thought, and they all watched as he simply sat down to breakfast and sipped his coffee absently. Dean glanced up at Tom who was watching Harry closely and Seamus and Neville began to fret over Harry's behavior. Finally Harry snapped out of his thoughts, and blinked at his friends in wonder as they had been trying to get his attention for a while.

"Did you guys say something?" Harry asked which got three dumbfounded looks.

"What happened last night? Where did you go? And why do you look so…deep in thought?" Neville asked carefully hoping to not send his friend back into the state he had just been in, "So?"

"Hmm, oh nothing really, just talked, gave me a lot to think about," Harry said before his eyes drifted again, his coffee was in his hands but he was not sipping it as he stared blankly at the black liquid as if it held the answers to what was wrong with his life.

He stayed in a thoughtful mood all through Potions, and Transfigurations, and when he met up with his friends for Dark Arts he still looked blank. Tom, who was teaching the class watched as Harry stared blankly at the wall still thinking. The class did not start for twenty minutes, but he had learned from Lucius and Severus that the group seemed to always show up really early.

"Hmm," Harry tilted his head back and suddenly jerked backwards and jumped to land on a desk as Dean shot a tickling charm in his direction, "What the … guys pranking me doesn't work just give up."

"Never, we'll figure out how to get you in a prank one of these days," Seamus declared as he shot a spell at the teen, which had Harry jumping onto another desk, and diving behind a few more as Dean also took aim. Tom watched as Harry darted around spells, desks and a charm to snatch both his friend's wands away, the teen truly was impressive.

"Not in the middle of a classroom!" Harry growled smacking them both in the head, "Sit down and be good little boys or I'll tell you nothing on what he teaches today."

"You'd withhold your notes?" Seamus asked looking horrified, getting a nod he pouted, "Evil."

"He's worse," Neville chuckled, "He's Harry."

"Same thing as Evil," Dean tried pointing out.

"Hey since when have I been classified under evil? And does that mean we can start calling everyone we think as evil by Harry cause that would get confusing? – Uh oh," Harry said, now that he let his mind wander away from what had kept him quiet all day the dozen cups of coffee were kicking in, "Guys I can't blink."

"How much coffee did you drink today?" Neville asked slightly concerned.

"About a dozen cups, you know the cups that hold a pot each, so a dozen pots of coffee," Harry said before watching his hands shake, "Oh Yay caffeine overdose, just what I need right now."

"Well class doesn't start for fifteen minutes, go run around the castle till then," Dean said pulling Harry towards the door, "Drink lots of water and eat bread."

"Or I'll just," Harry started but he passed out from too much caffeine in his system, when he woke up he was laying in an office he did not recognize with Tom watching him amused looking, "What?"

"The amount of coffee almost killed you, your body went into shock from so much caffeine," Tom said before handing the teen a glass of water, which Harry drank as he sat up, "You've been out of it for two days. It's Friday evening," that made Harry choke on the water.

"Seriously?" Harry asked, getting a nod he flopped back onto the couch he had been laying on, "Just great."

"I've told the school nothing, and only your friends know what happened, everyone else thinks you've been killed," Tom said as he stood up to move and grab the daily prophet, "People are even writing to the newspaper depressed over the news of your death," when Harry sat up and looked at the paper he saw his eyes widen a fraction, "Are you ready to come back from the dead?"

"Can I have a cup of coffee?" Harry asked after a long moment, getting a hard look he sighed, "Look I would not have drank so much if you had not put me in a thoughtful mood, so me almost dieing can not be labeled as a suicide attempt as I was actually thinking living could be worth something before everything went down hill."

"So you accept?" Tom asked, he had proposed a partnership with the teen, Harry would sway the teenagers to Tom's side and in return Harry would be equal to Tom in almost everyway.

"I've not decided that, I've just decided to think about it," Harry said and grinned when he was handed a cup of coffee. The two sat around in silence for a while as Harry drank down a cup of coffee and Tom graded some papers, after about half an hour Harry looked at the man across from him, "Alright."

Glancing up Tom chuckled, "Perfect, now lets get you caught up on your school work," and he began searching for the teens work, "Lucius should be back in…five minutes, he's been checking on you every hour because now your friends are acting like crazies."

"Well I'm not around to keep them in line," Harry said before choking on his coffee, "What have they been doing?"

"Ginny Weasley is currently bald, and Severus wants me to have the three killed as they seem to be causing trouble now that they don't have you around, quite a few of his cauldrons are ruined," Tom said before watching Harry stand up, yet the teen swayed he was not quite normal just yet. As he reached for Harry the blond man opened the door and caught the dizzy teen, "Hello Lucius."