Chapter 7: You're in Trouble
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The devil has only one fear- no they are not their children. Just little kids that they saved off the streets. Shadow saved them and they look up to him as their protector. I dedicate this chap to you for giving me the idea to do a home scene with the boys and with Remus, Sirius, and James, as well as the rest of their makeshift family. Thank you.
Pulling out their schedule once again just to make sure, he nodded.
Sat. Breakfast, Muggle Studies, Lunch, Potions, Free Period, Dinner
Sun. Breakfast, Free Day, Lunch, Free Day, Dinner
Mon. Breakfast, Potions, DADA, COMC, Lunch, Herbology, Ancient Runes, Dinner
Tues. Breakfast, Double Transfiguration, Potions, Lunch, COMC, Dinner, Astronomy
Wed. Breakfast, Double Muggle Studies, Free Period, Lunch, COMC, Dinner, Astronomy
Thurs. Breakfast, Double Herbology, Free Period, Lunch, Double Ancient Runes, Dinner
Fri. Breakfast, Double DADA, Transfiguration, Lunch, Free Period, Dinner, Astronomy
Wednesday and Thursday went by relatively fast. They had apologized once again to the Muggle Studies teacher who waved it away with a smile. Their Wednesday COMC class went by unhindered and uninterrupted. Both Kai (ki as in kite) and Kari (car-ee) had been allowed to live with James, Sirius, and Remus, and so Shadow was quite happy. Shadow had said nothing bar answering the questions that were asked him in what she wanted to know language for Astronomy. And so it rolled around to Friday finally. It had been almost one whole seven day week. And they were still in the same place and had yet to be kicked out. It was a miracle.
"Albus, Albus. Look at this."
"What is it Minerva?"
"This is what the three Mr. Kuro's created out of a match turned into a needle."
"It is beautiful."
"This is way passed advanced transfiguration Albus, and, and they said it wasn't the first time they've created something. The first time was a butterknife into a dagger. He killed someone Albus, using transfiguration."
"They all say they have killed. One almost thirty, one almost forty, and one is almost at fifty. Its ludicrous Albus. About 110 people have died by their three hands."
"They did not have a well childhood Minerva. They had to fight to survive. I fear that is my fault to a degree but do not lose hope in them." Minerva sighed. It was like trying to shove a brick wall into the man's brain. "I am keeping an eye on them I assure you." She nodded and took her leave.
They went to DADA with no one the wiser as to the mayhem that was going to occur when the homework was finally checked. Shadow almost couldn't wait and wished the man would just read the work. He was almost glad he couldn't remember this class. The man was dumb, plain and simple, but then again a street life makes you cold to certain things. They suffered through the class and as soon as it was over fled along with the rest of the Slytherins.
They went to Transfiguration trying to regain what brain cells they had lost. After role had been called she gave them back the pendant. "I don't know what you did but I can't change it back and using three more needles, I can't duplicate it. Well done, most transfigured objects only last a certain amount of time before regaining their original form and shape." They smiled at her praise. It was not often they were given it. It meant more to them than she knew. She gave the class three buttons each and had them read the text on how to transfigure it. She had them perform the movements and how to say the incantation correctly. Then she left the class to their own devices though she kept an eye on the certain three Slytherins.
They changed the buttons into a pincushion and back again. Then they looked at the three buttons. Shadow smirked at them and held up three fingers, put one down, then another, and as soon as all were down they started concentrating on their buttons, willing them to do as they asked to create another object out of them. Shadow created a miniature wolf out of one of the buttons after he had turned it a sandy brown. Taking the red button he turned it into a rose petal before turning the final button green and making a stem. He willed the petal and the stem to mold together and was rewarded for his efforts. Then he decided to see if he could get the stem to curl around the wolf. It took effort and lots of concentration to get it where he wanted it but in the end it worked and he let out a small cheer. He set the end product on the desk and inspected it. It was quite beautiful really.
Darkness turned one of his buttons black before creating a panther out of it. It was a little flat so he put more concentration into it. He wanted it to represent the animal and to be able to stand on its own. He turned one of the buttons a pale translucent yellow to represent the moon and made it a little larger and round. This was the easy part. He took the last button and forced it to a sea blue. He made this one quite large, larger than the yellow one. He placed the blue large wave on the table and then placed the yellow moon diagonal to the center and willed them to mold together. He then placed the panther on top and molded that to the moon and the wave to hold it in place. He smiled at his finished product.
Midnight studied his buttons. What did he want to make? Ah, he knew. No one else would catch the symbolism. They would just think them a trio of wolves but Shadow and Darkness would know better. He turned one of the buttons black with two emerald spots on it, and then three tips on the corner of it. He made it into a miniature black wolf and the two dots were made out to be the eyes. The tips were the end of the tail and the tips of the ears. The button was made to stand on its own and when he finished one he smiled. Two more. He turned one of them a sandy brown black color that was interesting before making amber spots and then golden tips. The golden was the eyes and the amber for the ears and tail again. He formed this one more to the shape of a werewolf and had it still stand on its four feet but it was a bit taller than the other. He made the next one black with ebony, even deeper black spots and tips. They would know it was there, others would think he had left it plain. He made it into a regular miniature wolf but a bit bigger than the other. Once he was finished he placed each of the three figures next to one another. He molded the smaller wolf to the left of the werewolf so that it would be part of the figure and then molded the larger to the right. When he was done, he sat back satisfied with his work. There was no need to inspect it. They would do that for him.
Shadow made a whistling sound and they whistled back. He smiled and turned to them. He gasped when he caught sight of the figures. "They're beautiful." McGonagall had heard them and came to inspect. She gasped. "Oh my. This, this is. Its beautiful." They smiled at her. "I take it you wish to inspect." She nodded dumbly. "Once again, thirty points to Slytherin." She let them show them to each other before she gently carried them to her desk to look at after class and lunch were she would have time to do so properly. By the end of class, Slytherin had 80 points and Gryffindor 40. She gave in increments of ten to everyone that completed her lesson. After her class they had lunch and then a free period. They had no homework for their classes today and so planned to spend the time sparring in their room or on the pitch if it was empty.
Once they had finished lunch and had gone to leave the headmaster had stood. "Mr. Kuro's, you are needed to speak in my office. If you will please." They looked to each other and then shrugged. The headmaster called Severus and Quirrell with him. Shadow smirked before wiping his face blank. The headmaster offered chairs to everyone. As usual Severus declined and leaned against the wall, while the other three also stood with their backs to the wall. The headmaster sighed. What was it with these children, Severus included. He had only managed to get him to sit in a chair twice in his long lifetime. Anyway, to business. He passed Severus a piece of parchment. "Mr. Kuro, Shadow's DADA homework."
"And why would there be a need for his head of house to read it?" Albus waved his hand and Severus obliged him and read it. By the end, he was trying hard not to laugh at the serious nature in which the headmaster was holding this. "Do you wish for me to read it aloud this time?"
"No, I was hoping Mr. Kuro would do so," he replied. Severus had to carefully hold his mask. He handed the paper over to Shadow and he knew Shadow could see the mirth in his eyes. Shadow took it and looked at the headmaster. "If you would please read it with the emphasis you meant it to carry." Shadow nodded and did so.
"Let's see, how do you kill a vampire, well Professor, I do actually have an answer for that. Let's say you are the vampire and I am the one trying to kill you, figuratively speaking of course, you are my Professor after all. There are a number of ways in which you could go about doing so. One is to simply set them on fire, you would scream terribly so Professor until you turned to ashes, but to make sure you were gone, I would then burn your ashes. A simple 'Incendio' would take care of that. Another way is to stab you and then rip your stomach open and pull out your insides. There is a spell to do this as well but a knife hurts much much worse I assure you. You would die slowly of blood loss or of shock because of the pain. Another is to leave deep gashes that cannot be healed by your consummation of blood leaving you to slowly die of blood loss, or to kill yourself to die somewhat honorably. A stab to the heart would also do the trick I guess but that's no fun, there would be little blood in the end. Though I guess the easiest way to kill a vampire, dear Professor, is to decapitate them, though that can be quite hard tempting as you have to catch them first. But then again to do any of this you must first catch them, and that, is the hardest part of how to kill a vampire."
Shadow Kuro"Mr. Kuro, is this a disguised threat to one of your Professors?" Shadow laughed. "No sir. If I was going to threaten him I would do so and make it public, that's how I am. This was done because I was bored and it is the truth. You never said what tone of voice we had to write in."
"I would ask that in the future then that you do not 'write in such a tone.'"
"I shall try Professor, but it goes along with the ludicrous questions we are asked, that he get the same type of response."
Ignoring that comment for the moment, he instead asked, "And how would you know such gruesome ways in which to kill a vampire?"
Shadow looked at him and then turned and looked at Darkness and Midnight. "He did not just ask me that did he?"
"Afraid so," answered Midnight.
"You have some nerve considering the fact that it is more partly your fault that I know these things in the first place, but I digress, you only care about manipulating people for it to suit your purposes. You don't care about one of these students that trusts you and that's sickening." Darkness wrapped his arms around Shadow's waist.
"Ease. No matter what you say, he will not change. One person cannot change the way another thinks or acts."
"I know. Let's go." Severus followed them out the door without so much as a glance back. Once Shadow was calm again, he burst out laughing. "Kali, his face. I think he was going to die of a heart attack. (Kali- reference to vampire god.) But I did mean what I told him." Severus nodded.
"You have every right to be angry. Come to my quarters. You will get to actually speak with Draconis for a while as well as return home afterwards. He may come with us." They nodded. "He's part of your family to. Just because we come in doesn't change that. He is more your family than we are." Severus looked at them and searched their faces and then he smiled. "Yes, but that does not change the fact that you to are family. I believe that once you talk without all the Hogwarts hubbub that you will enjoy each others company." They smiled and went in before closing the door and waiting for Draco to show up.
When Draco arrived the three were sitting on the floor. Shadow was sprawled across Darkness's lap and Midnight was lying across Darkness's leg. Draco and Severus were sitting on the settee's looking down at them and Draco asked them why they were sitting on the floor. Midnight replied that they never had any furniture and that the floor was a mutual place and so it was the best place for them. Draco realized that they thought that he was above them. Taking the initiative to show them that they were on the same level he sat on the floor in front of the couch. The way Shadow's eyes lit up showed him that he was very thankful for this. Midnight gave him a small smile of thanks, and he saw Darkness barely nod but he could see in his eyes that the respect for him went up, if just a bit.
Draco gossiped with them and told them about all the rules that he had to follow while he was there. Something he knew the others wouldn't have told them but in their eyes, he knew they needed to know. They needed to know where they stood and the standards that their parents held for children. He told them about the fun times that he had had with Jam, Siri, Rem, and Sev, but he watched their eyes to make sure that he wasn't upsetting them. He could tell they wanted this information. Something to give them an insight into their parents lives. They hadn't known them or been raised by them that they could remember and so were only able to learn by observing. They needed to know how they would respond to situations in which weren't everyday commonplace. It was an adjustment for all of them Draco knew.
Draco told them about the open door rule. Unless 'otherwise occupied' or they wanted to be alone, all the doors stayed open unless you weren't supposed to go in them in the first place or they were empty. He told them that if someone wanted to enter they would knock and wait for the acknowledgement before they entered. They weren't going to infringe on their privacy, but it was a good way to know if someone was somewhere. By the end Midnight was smirking and Shadow was pointedly ignoring them both. Draco wanted to laugh. Sev just sat there and read a book listening in but letting them talk as they wanted to. Once dinner came around Sev sent them both on their separate ways with a reminder to return after dinner.
Dinner that night seemed to take a lifetime to them all. They sat where they had been previously sitting. No need to get the headmaster interested in them at the moment. As usual though the headmaster kept an eye on them and Severus kept an eye on the headmaster. It was an arrangement that had been made since Severus first started teaching even if the headmaster was unaware of it. Midnight served them dinner and they all dug in at once. They weren't going to mess up their chances of getting to go home for the night. They knew Severus wouldn't do that but it was ingrained in them that they had to work for the reward and do as told. Towards the end they finally made their break and left. Now they just had to wait for Draco and Sev before they could leave.
Once they were all inside Severus locked his door with the most advanced wards he knew and was surprised when Midnight added more of his own werewolf magic. He nodded a thanks and then they left by floo. As soon as they stumbled, or in Midnight and Shadow's case, out they were caught in a hug by James. "I think those things have a grudge against me. I'm so not graceful with those things." They laughed at Midnight. "There is a reason I typically go first."
"Don't worry. I'm starting to think its hereditary, not just a grudge. James can't floo either. You just got lucky Darkness."
"Thanks," he replied in dry humor to his own father. Sirius chuckled. Shadow and Midnight stuck out their tongues at him and Darkness kissed one than the other.
"I'm going to buy six roles of duck tape and then stay away from you," Shadow glared and growled. All the others laughed at him knowing it was totally an empty threat. James walked over to him and hugged him. "Thank you. I'm not the only one." They all retired to the couches and then they watched as Shadow was tackled.
"Alpha. Master."
"Hello little ones. Have you been behaving for them?" They nodded and he turned to Remus.
"They've been very well behaved, except we've had one problem." They flinched and he gave them a hard look. They looked down and refused to meet his eyes. Shadow turned back to Remus and he turned his arm palm up. Shadow sighed.
"Let me see your arms little one's." They trembled and mumbled 'I'm sorry.' "I am not angry but you know that you are not allowed to do this." They nodded and slowly held out their left arms. He pulled their sleeves up and could see the thin lines that had already begun healing. "You will be punished for them." They nodded and then he pulled them in his lap. "I am not angry." They nodded but kept their heads lowered. It was worse. He wasn't angry but he was disappointed. They hated for him to be disappointed in them.
Once that melodrama was over with, conversation turned easy once more. Draco realized a bit more about them then. That was commonplace for all of them but more so for Shadow and the little one's that he took care of. Vampires already had a clinical depression but with the childhood they must have had; he didn't know how they had survived. It was hard enough for him to hide the only two he had.
A little later the floo activated once more and Lucius and Tom came through. James was quick to calm his children down and tell them that they were invited. Draco was across the room in a flash and was wrapped around Lucius's neck. Lucius had his arms wrapped around his back as well. "It's good to see you again Papa." "And you my little one." They heard chuckling and them Draco let go long enough to wrap his arms around his fathers' neck and hug him. They all sat on the sofa that Draco had previously vacated. Shadow grumbled and they all turned to him. "We're still outnumbered here." They all laughed. James was happy that they had seemed to accept them as part of the family as well. This was all of them. They were all together. Then again, missing one.
"Not if you count the two of them," Draco replied with a grumble, pointing at the little ones. "That is if they're both subs." They laughed again. "As far as we know," replied Midnight.
"Not if you add in your Dom little one." "I give up," he replied with a huff. Shadow nodded. "We never seem to get ahead do we?" Draco shook his head. "How is Blaise anyway," Lucius asked. "Fine. He's actually sneaking off tonight to. His mother's bored so he's going to try to keep her occupied for a bit." "Yes, that is not a woman you want to anger. Mortal or no." The other men nodded and Darkness got the notion that he actually wanted to meet her. "Sounds like an interesting person." "Interesting doesn't even do her justice. Highly volatile and kick ass is more like it." Tom smacked Lucius in the back of the head. "Don't make me zap you." "What is it with you people and zapping us?" "Actually I'd like to know that to," said Shadow turning to Midnight.
Severus was the one however to answer. "It keeps you from cursing and misbehaving doesn't it?" They nodded. "There's your answer." They pouted and Draco crossed his arms. "Still not fair." "All's fair in love and war, and." Shadow put his hand over Darkness's mouth quickly and glared at him. "I still never got to finish from the first night. Sex." Shadow groaned. "I give up." He threw up his hands. The floo flared to live and Blaise came tumbling out and rolled as the connection was cut.
"Help! She's trying to kill me."
"What did you do now?"
"Now. Now I didn't do anything."
"I highly doubt that."
"Not this time," he grumbled.
The floo flared to live and he went and hid in the kitchen. "Sorry to interrupt your family conversations but is Blaise here." Draco pointed to the kitchen and stuck out his tongue. She went to the door. "Oh Blaise, I know you're here. Do come out my son. I won't hurt you too bad." They heard an eep and then she went into the kitchen and they all watched as Blaise came backing out at wandpoint. Shadow, Midnight, and Darkness understood that this was all in play so relaxed and just watched. She threw a stunner at him and he ducked.
"That would have hurt you know."
"That's what should have hit you and you deserved. You jumped six flights of stairs and free fell. What happened if you would have broke your neck. You're lucky I don't kill you myself." Draco glared at Blaise. His mother smirked. "I'll let your sub deal with you." Blaise cringed.
Draco stood up and glared at him. "I'm perfectly fine. If I had thought I couldn't do it then I wouldn't have. Its not the first time, just the only I've been caught at it." Draco sighed. "No more than five then." "Deal." He would take what he could get.
"I believe the saying, 'Hell hath no fury like a submissive scorned' still applies." Blaise nodded and then Draco wrapped his arms around his neck and he carried him back to the couch. His mother grumbled. "So much for entertainment." Blaise stuck his tongue out at her.
A.N. Sorry this is so not how I had planned this but it seems to have worked. The next chapter will start with all the good Hogwarts bits. However I am going to have a mixture of first and second year because I've always wanted to try it. You wouldn't believe how many times I've lost this chapter. I think my computer has a grudge against the number seven or something. This little tidbit underneath is for me to keep track. Next chap deals with the war talk (hopefully).
Sub- Jam, Shade, Luc, Drac
2 3 1 4
Dom- Sev, Siri, Rem, Dark, Mid, Tom, Bla
2 4 3 5 6 1 7
#- 1 is most dominant.