It was a few days later when they went to see Tom. They had the Police with them they were shutting down the Orphanage .
"Tom Riddle?" Harry asked the five year old, all the other kids were watching. The Boy nodded. " My name is Harry Potter. I adopted you but the mean lady wouldn't give you to me so I 'd like to take you home now. Do you think that'd be okay?"
Tom looked unsure but nodded. He took Harry's hand and noted the man didn't seem to notice. They began walking. Harry suddenly stopped to look to see if Tom was fallowing only to see him holding his hand.
"Oh." Harry said with no emotion. "I'm sorry I have nerve damage in my hands. "Harry hid his grimace as he forced his hand to close around Tom's hand. He could feel the pain but tilted his head at Tom and they kept walking, "Tom, I have a question. Can you do things you think others can't do?"
"Yes." Tom said quietly, " Are you going to take me back?"
"No because I can do it too." he took a deep breath. "Hold tight to my hand , don't let go, close your eyes and hold your breath."
Tom did and heard a loud crack. It felt like he was being turned inside out. Then suddenly he was whole again.
"Okay, we're home now." Tom opened his eyes and released his breath they were standing in a living room. A man was glaring at them. "What now?"
"How many times do i have to tell you the wards wont set if you keep Aperating right through them." He spotted Harry's hand. "What do you think you're doing? He gently made Harry unclench his hand. He gently released Tom's hand, "Harry you're hurting yourself . You're not supposed to force your hand past what you know you can do." He turned to Tom. "You are not in trouble and I am not mad at you. " Tom was shocked at that but nodded, "Harry should have known better. Welcome, Tom. My name is Severus. "
"Where's my new mom?" Tom asked looking around.
"Well, you see that's one thing we need to talk to you about." Severus sat them all down in the living room and set out coca and sandwiches. He began using the same balm he'd used the night before on Harry's hands." Harry and are lovers. We live together here... what I'm trying to say is..."
"You are both my new mom and new dad?" Tom asked head cocked to one side. "I met a man like that once. "
"Oh?" Harry asked, face still expressionless . "What was he doing talking to you?"
"Well, he was hiding in the play house and I went in there to hide because the older kids were being mean again. He told me about this person he loved. A boy, but the boy died one night. then he tried to touch me but I knew it was wrong so screamed as loud as I could and ran away."
"That was a good thing to do." Severus said, he and Tom noted that Harry seemed to have zoned out again. "You'll have to excuse him when he does that he has not had an easy life."
"Okay." Tom said , with a shrug. " So is this our house? It's big."
"It isn't really." Severus laughed, "I've seen bigger. Now we want to talk to you about Magic."
"You have magic." Harry said, finally coming back "and so do Sev and I. We are called Wizards. We are half bloods. We have one magical parent and one non magical or Muggle parent. As do you."
"I do?"
"You did." Harry corrected. "From what I found was that your mum was a Pureblood witch named Merope Gaunt and your father was a muggle named Tom Riddle."
"That's my name." Tom said. Then he frowned, "Did my dad not want me?"
"I don't think he knew about you." Harry replied. He reached over and pulled Tom into his lap and hugged him. "We want you, Tom. We'll love you and raise you. "
Tom smiled up at his new daddy and smiled shyly at him. Love him? Could they really love him?
Severus smiled at Harry and chuckled to himself. Harry was doing good so far.
"We bought you clothes." Harry explained. Standing with the boy in his arms. He didn't close his hands this time. He headed for the stairs. "You have your own room and we even got you some toys. We didn't know what kind you would like. We got you some toy cars, and toy planes and some stuffed animals and more."
Tom's eyes went wide when they entered the room. it was painted in soft blues. toys were all over the room books were on a book shelf.
"Oh, right we got you some books not many but we'll get you more once we teach you to read. "
"Not many?" Tom repeated incredulously. "The whole case is full. That's a lot of books!"
"Is it?" Harry asked, "I suppose so to someone whose never had books before. I remember when I was little I didn't have books either. I didn't have toys or anything just like you."
"Did you live in an orphanage too?" Tom asked, as Harry undressed him and got out better clothes to put on him. " Like me?"
"No." Harry replied, as Severus frowned at Harry's admission. " I lived with my Maternal aunt and her husband and son. They hated me because of my magic. My mom was a muggle born and my aunt had always been jealous of her because she didn't have magic herself. I got locked away and treated terribly. So I'm going to tell you now I don't know how to be a father but I'm going to try my best okay?" He once again hugged Tom and this time kissed Tom's brown hair. Severus thought Harry was doing a good job at being a father. "Darn it. Sev, can you help me? My hands..."
Severus chuckled and began getting Tom dressed.
"I also came from a bad home." Severus told the boy and kissing his head. " So I don't know how to be a father either. We'll learn to be a family together. "
"I'd like that!" Tom said, brightly. "Is all this for me?" he picked up a stuffed dog. "You must be really rich."
"Well, we are." Harry said, showing he was uncomfortable. "But most of it is family money. We'll start teaching you things about the Magic world soon because we want you to live in both worlds so you don't grow up hating either one. So we'll be taking you to the park tomorrow okay? There is one not far from here. " Tom was wide eyed again. " Now Sev is going to do some scans to see how healthy you are okay?"
Tom nodded.