Title: Of Silver and Green
Author: FairyTails13
Disclaimer: I own nothing…but the plot.
Rating: M
Summery: It is the Marauders' fifth year at Hogwarts and there is a new Head of Slytherin and life is about to get interesting for the Hogwarts Pranksters. What is it about this man that is so interesting? If only they could know what Cedric Potter knows, the deadly truth that is held in the future, his past. For Cedric Potter is Harry Potter, and few others know the true sadness that fallows the rise of Lord Voldemort.
Warnings: Marauders Period (time travel), SLASH, Dark Harry, Slytherin Harry. Older, powerful Harry. Vampire Harry.
Parings: Salazar Slytherin/ Cedric (Harry) Potter
Spoilers: I have not read the seventh book and will not include that info or the info from the sixth book, which I despise.
Key:
"Talking"
'Thoughts'
"Parseltongue"
'Dream/memory'
A/n: this was harder to write that I thought it would be. I really don't want to explain everything that happens before school starts but I must….
Chapter: Sal
Cedric woke slowly, from a peaceful sleep. In groggy disorder he moved into his morning routine, nothing else really registering as he threw the covers off and slipped his feet onto the cold stone floor of his bedroom. With a jaw cracking yawn he starts walking to the bathroom, not really looking where he is going, just trudging along by instinct.
"I believe that if you are heading for the bathroom, you are going the wrong direction." Cedric turned to the voice wand out, ready to attack only to find his mate sitting lounging around on the other side of the bed in black pants that hung low enough on his hips to show off purple silk boxers, smirking at him, "It's funny how you are so unaware of your surroundings that you would be heading for the wall now instead of the bathroom, yet at the first sign of danger you are completely awake. Honestly I didn't even see you grab your wand."
Cedric blinked at the man, giving it a moment to completely settle in what was said before glaring in his tired haze, "I was not going to the wall."
Salazar let his dark-blue eyes grow larger, "Really now, then continue walking. I was only trying to help."
The sarcastically playful tone of the founder's voice did not escape Cedric's sleepy mind and he turned from said founder to look where he had previously been walking and frowned at the brick wall in front of him, "I could have sworn that there was a door way there…."
He turned back to the bed when he heard it creak, "There is," He paused when his mate glared at him with green eyes that promised death, "In our room in Romania. I appears you are not used to Hogwarts are you luv?"
Cedric leaned his forehead on firm muscle as Salazar came up to him and draped his arms around his shoulders and gave a whiny, "No…"
Light hearted laughs make the older vampire's chest vibrate, "Lets get you into the showers, and your friends are waiting for you."
Cedric stood his ground when Salazar went you move him towards the bathroom and gave him a look with a whine, "You already met them?"
"No, of course not; I would not deprive you of their reactions Harry," he rolled his blue eyes at him, "Now lets go wake you up before you try to walk into another wall."
Cedric growled at him, "I didn't do that on purpose, snake jerk."
Again a chuckle left the older man's throat, "There we go, now that's the Harry I know and fell in love with."
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Al leaned back in his chair, a smile plastered on his face, "Can you believe it? They're on their way here, now!"
Benji continued to suckle his coffee, ignoring the morning person across the table from him, needing the caffeine like a vampire needs blood. They sat in the dinning area of Cedric's rooms, Al having woken up much earlier than his friends, had been the one to find the letter House elves had left for them to get on the table they now sit at. After reading it he could not keep his excitement from his roommate of the last five years.
Of course, Benji couldn't care less at the moment; he wasn't even sure why his friend was so excited. Nothing registered with his tired mind, and nothing would until two cups of black coffee had been drained from his mug. He never did understand why all Al needed was some green tea, or how he managed to stay alive after waking him.
Having lived with this for the past five years, Al was used to it, knowing when to dodge his friend's curses –both magical or not- and when it was safe to talk. So at this point he started to read the letter. He had already read it before, but knowing his friend, what was read was not understood or even heard.
"We heard that Ricky is the new Potion's Master at Hogwarts through the chain of information. Ruddy and I will be there at noon.
See ya there,
Freddie"
Under Freddie's loopy cursive signature is the Lestrange's family crest, which had also been engraved into the seal of the envelope the letter had come in.
Still in his morning trance, it was not Benji who answered, "So I guess we are being reunited."
Al's head jerked to face Cedric who was approaching them from the bedroom dressed in black dress pants and a Chinese designed green silk top with black swirled thread work along the trim. In his excitement he hadn't heard the door open, and almost didn't notice the new man walking behind his friend. Any thoughts of Freddie and Ruddy left his mind at the new person, and across the table from him, Benji was finally coming to and was glaring at Al, "What did you wake me up for this time!?"
"Dear Lord, he is worse than you Harry!"
Every head turned to the Salazar, who was looking at the blond Malfoy in utter awe with his mouth slightly open until Cedric elbowed him in the stomach, "What are you trying to say Sal!?"
The older vampire looked down at his shorter mate, trying to look a bit ashamed, "Nothing luv, but you are the one that didn't wake up at five in the morning to these two yelling at each other. You sleep like the living dead."
Cedric chose to ignore the blunt pun and looked to his friends, "I don't know. I guess you get used to it when you lived with them in the same dorm for seven years.
Benji, still in his odd morning mood squinted at his friend's mate, "Blamey Ricky, your mated to a bloody Salazar Slytherin look alike!"
Cedric stared at the blond for a moment before turning to his mate who he was sure was holding back some sarcastic comment, trying to hold back his own as well. As his eyes hit Salazar's face he jumped back a bit in acted shock with a gasp and widened eyes, "Bloody Hell! Sal you do look like him!"
Playing along Sal looked down at his body and patted his chest, "I do?" He looked back at his mate in mock surprise.
Before the act could go on any longer Al interrupted them, "Ricky, are you telling us that you are mated to the thousand-year-old Vampire, Salazar Slytherin?"
The thousand year old vampire smirked at him and looked to his mate, "He's a quick one, he is."
Cedric crossed his arms over his chest, "Give Benji an hour and he will be on the same level, he is not much of a morning person."
They both looked at the two humans and held back their laughter just barely. Al and Benji sat wide eyed, mouth gaping, and were getting ready to fall out of their chairs. As an added effect, Benji's left eye was twitching. Salazar grinned at them, "Yah, they almost beat your reaction."
Cedric snorted and walked around them to the kitchen part of his rooms, "I highly doubt that, Sal."
The founder fallowed his lover, also being a bit hungry, leaving the shell-shocked Slytherins to self recovery, "True, true. Not much can top a grown man fainting."
Cedric whipped around and jabbed his index finger into his mate's chest, "For the last time! I did not faint!"
Hand's raised, Salazar stepped back, "Yes sir!"
"Enough! Is this going to be as bad as you talking to all the snakes in the paintings?!"
The two speakers turned to a slightly annoyed burnet and an angry blond, the later having been the speaker. Cedric blinked for a moment, shaking memory lane, "Sorry Benji. It will most likely be worse; they didn't bribe me like Sal does."
The blond huffed and pouted in a very un-Malfoy like manner, "Great…"
Salazar moved his long black hair our of his face to it's normal position behind his pierced ears, blackened claws running through the rest of the length, "So when is the rest of the Slytherin five going to appear?"
Al looked dawn at the letter still clutched in his hand, "Noon it says. Do you think we should inform Dumbledore about their arrival?
Across the table, Benji put his mug down, the second refill having been drained, "Why, I highly doubt he knows the one of the founder's is here."
Cedric sat down at the small table, one piece of toast in his mouth, the other in his hand, next to him Salazar also sat, holding a plate with his toast and a jar of strawberry jam, placing that down on the table he spoke, "Yes, but they aren't suppose to be dead according to history books."
Benji gave him a look, "That's logical," he looked at his co and stood grabbing it, muttering "I need more coffee," before sulking off."
Salazar looked to Al with a somewhat unreadable expression, "Is he like that every morning?"
The Black leaned back in his chair with a grin, "Believe me, this is a good day for him. He usually sleeps till eight or ten." He shuddred a bit, "Those extra hours can truly make a difference."
Done with his first slice of toast, Cedric laughed to himself, "Sounds like has as gotten a lot worse then when we were in school. By the first week of first year, everyone knew not to bug him until after breakfast unless they wanted to be torn a new one."
"Stop talking about me in there!" Everyone glanced as the Malfoy as he glared at them from inside the kitchen area, "Let's talk about how Ricky met Salazar Slytherin. That seems a bit more interesting."
Cedric took a bite into his toast, letting his mate do the talking, which was getting ready to take a bite out of his own but paused, realizing he was expected to explain how they met. H glared at his mate who just smiled and munched on his bread, "You really are evil; you know that right?"
Cedric didn't reply, just smiled back and Sal rolled his eyes and sat down his jammed toast. We met at his celebration party his Master set for him gaining his mastery title. Being a master in the art myself I was requested to join."
Finishing his toast, Cedric continued as Benji sat back down, coffee in hand, "I wasn't having a good time really. I wanted to invite you all, but Master Morley wouldn't let me. I was sitting in a corner after every thing was starting to slow when Sal sat next to me. I ignored him at first until I noticed his accent when he spoke." He paused to sip his own coffee, "After spending five years in Romania, the first sign of the home land was more than wonderful."
Finishing off his first slice Salazar took over, glancing at his lover with a smirk formed from watching the other two Slytherins, "When he finally spoke I asked him if he had gone to Hogwarts. I remember being excited when his eyes brightened at the mention of my School."
Al cut in, "Please don't tell me you two are going to get all mushy."
Cedric rolled his eyes, "No, nothing happened that night. The next time I saw him I was at work and he was there to collect some potions ingredients from my boss. My boss' 'second in command' said something stupid relating to the ingredients and potions and I snidely commented about it."
"The second in control getting ready to tear me a new one for embarrassing him in from of our boss when Sal recognized me from the party and," he glanced at his lover, "I really don't remember what happened next. I just know it was hilarious."
Sal snorted, "It was, and I remembered it for the rest of the day and I vowed to myself to make any excuse possible to talk to the person sorted into my house."
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Cedric, Al and Benji decided to wait for their friends outside, enjoying the currently nice weather, odd weather for late August. Cedric leans against the stone stair's rail, eyes closed. Unlike Vampire myth, they will not burst into flame when the sun's rays hit them, but it does weaken them into being in a slightly tired state. Luckily for him, his mate is a very powerful vampire, and so he is as well and the sun doesn't weaken him as much as it does other vampires.
Down a few steps Benji is talking to Al, now fully awake and his emotionless mask firmly in place as Dumbledore and McGonagall are at the top of the stairs, waiting for the Lestrange's with them. They had finally gotten to the Headmaster's office to tell him about eleven of the soon arrival of the rest of the Slytherin Five and he had insisted on waiting for them with the three young men. McGonagall had come with them to keep Dumbledore at ease the situation.
The Slytherins didn't mind the extra Gryffindor, knowing her presence would keep the lion from bugging them. Though, when Al and Benji got into heated argument over Transfiguration they didn't mind when the current Head of Gryffindor butted in. Or at least Al didn't mind, his former professor backing up his point of view.
So this left Cedric for the bored Headmaster to talk to, "Are you adjusting well to your rooms?"
Cedric opened his eyes to look at him, his head not moving, showing his disentrance him the other wizard, "Yes I am sir. Thank you for asking."
Encouraged by what was said, yet unsure of the body language, it took Dumbledore another moment to reply, "Well, that's good. Are you ready for the students?"
Knowing the man wouldn't give up Cedric lifted his head and turned his body to him ever so slightly, "Yes sir. Though I might have a problem with the current books they have."
Dumbledore was all too happy as the topic settled on the dark Potter's teaching ways. "Oh, can it be fixed?"
Cedric shook his head, ":No sir, it is too late, at least for the first half of the year, but next term I want to change books for years five and up. I found some better books while going through my apprenticeship that better explain the theory behind Potions for those that don't quite get it."
A smile drifted to Dumbledore's face, "Our last Head of Slytherin was a good friend of mine, but it appears you are the better choice."
Cedric let himself grin, where before he was still staying emotionless, "True, Professor Slughorn did have a way of ignoring anyone who wasn't in his group of star pupils."
Dumbledore raised his eye brows, "I heard that included you up until your fifth year."
Cedric inwardly signed, "I could no longer hide under the radar at the point, I couldn't hide my potion skills anymore if I wanted in the advanced class."
With a nod of understand the headmaster looked of down the path in front of his school when a pop informed him that someone had arrived outside the barrier. Next to him Cedric also looked and Albus swore he almost saw a hint of a smile appear on the emotionless man's face. Up the hill came four cloaked figures, two adults and two children dressed for winter.
Cedric found himself nearly running down the front stairs to his friends -his mind not really noticing their two sons- as they lowered their hoods. Behind him the Transfiguration argument was cut short as they also noticed the four figures. Happiness could easily be read on Rudolph and Winifred's faces as they spotted the friend they had not seen in years.
Cedric stopped in front of this with a wide grin he new he didn't have to hide from the Gryffindors far behind him, Al and Benji stopping next to him after the caught up. Winifred nearly leapt forward as she hugged Cedric with a overjoyed laugh, "Ricky! It's been so long!"
TBC
a/n: I'm sorry it's short, but I had to stop before it killed me…
Anyway, Thanks for reading,
Please excuse my grammar,
FT
