Chapter Twenty-Three: Disappearing into darkness

A/N: Hey everyone sorry for the long wait!

Enjoy!

~S.A

A second later and they were standing (well Severus was anyway, Harry was on the floor) in Severus' office at the school.

Harry quickly jumped up and brushed himself off.

Severus smirked at him and shook his head, "Klutz."

Harry gave him a playful glare and replied, "Aren't you too old for name calling?"

Severus returned the glare evenly and said in a smooth voice, "I am not old."

Harry smirked and started walking towards the chair, "Yes you are."

Severus rolled his eyes and walked towards his desk to start grading some of the papers he still had to finish, "If you think I am old what do you think Headmaster Dumbledore is?"

"He is a prehistoric fossil." Harry said in a knowing tone of voice.

This got a chuckle out of Severus, "Oh really? What do you think he would say if I told him you said that?"

Harry shrugged his shoulders, "I don't know but it would probably be something dealing with Lemon Drops…"

Severus smiled softly and shook his head, "Alright, child, I believe it is time for you to go clean your room."

Harry wrinkled his nose at the thought, "It is clean…"

Severus raised his eyebrows, "Have you been in there for a while? It looks as if a tornado went through it!"

Harry rolled his eyes, "No it doesn't, don't exaggerate."

Severus pointed to the door and said in a dangerous tone, "Go clean your room, now!"

With a huff Harry grumbled, "Why can't I do it tomorrow?"

Severus narrowed his eyes at him, "Because I said so, that's why!"

Harry glared at him, "That's not a reason!"

"Oh it isn't?" Severus asked with a dangerous glint in his eyes.

"No, it's not a reason!" Harry snapped.

Slowly, Severus stood from his desk chair, "It is too a reason, young man. It is a reason because I am the adult and what I say you must obey."

Harry rolled his eyes dramatically towards the ceiling, "That's stupid."

Anger flashed through Severus' dark eyes, "Fine. Go to your room and go to bed. I do not want to see you out of that room until tomorrow morning!"

Harry huffed angrily and forced himself not to stomp his feet as he yelled, "Fine! I'll go clean my fucking room!"

In a blink of an eye Severus had a hold of Harry's arm and was pulling him towards the desk, "Young man I have had enough of your mouth!" Severus bellowed as he forced him to bend over the desk and gave him a firm smack.

With a yelp Harry tried to get off the desk, once he realized there was no way he was going to get off the desk, because his guardian had his hand on his back to keep him down, Harry gave up. Tears started to stream down his face as he openly cried, "I'm sorry! Please let me go…"

Severus gave a firm nod of his head then removed his hand from Harry's back and waited for him to straighten up before he said, "Your fit was not necessary, young man."

Harry stared at the floor as he whispered, "I'm sorry."

"Obviously washing your mouth out with soap did nothing with your disgusting choice of words." Severus said with a shake of his head.

Harry sighed sadly, "I'm sorry! I'll try not to swear ever again!"

"You better try or else you'll be finding yourself with a sore backside and a mouth full of soap." Severus threatened.

Harry paled at the thought, "Are you going to wash my mouth out with soap?"

Severus slowly shook his head in denial as he said, "Not this time, child. I want you to go clean your room now."

Slowly, Harry nodded his head, "Alright…"

"Good. I will come and check in a half an hour." Severus told him as he sat back down in his desk chair to start grading more papers.

With a sigh Harry nodded his head and began turned to leave.

"Oh and Harry," Severus looked up from his paper he finished grading.

Harry turned to look at him, "Yes?"

"I enjoyed speaking with Jane and Tom." Severus said with a small smile.

Harry nodded with a small smile playing at his lips, "Me too…" With that said he turned and left to go clean his room.

Severus sighed softly as he watched him go. Once the door shut the entire way he returned his attention back to the essays.

Harry's jaw dropped as he opened his bedroom door, "Damn…" Harry stepped over a pile of clothes that were in front of the door, "He expects me to be done in a half an hour? I don't even know where to start…" Harry slowly made his way to his CD player and turned it on; a little music might help the torture go by faster. The song Headstrong by Linkin Park started to blast through the speakers.

With a sigh Harry bent down and picked up the pile of clothes. Once he had them all folded he placed them in the dresser drawers.

"Back off, I'll take you on. Headstrong, can take on anyone. I know that you are wrong, Headstrong, Headstrong. Back off, I'll take you on. Headstrong can take on anyone. I know that you are wrong and this is not where you belong. I can't give everything away... And I won't give everything away!" Harry sang as he picked up more clothes to fold and put away.

Soon all of the clothes that were lying on the floor were folded and put away leaving only little knickknacks lying about. It didn't take long for him to pick all them up and soon he was sitting on his bed looking at his now clean room, "That didn't take as long as I thought it would." Harry said with a smile. Harry reached over and pressed the stop button on the CD player making the song Bleed It Out by Linkin Park stop, the sudden silence of the room slowly devoured him, forcing his thoughts to run wild.

"Nice room." A voice said softly in his head.

Harry's eyes grew big at the sound, "Go away." Harry muttered as he grabbed his blanket tightly in an attempt not to cry out in frustration.

"You've sent me away once, but this time if I were you I would not send me away again." The voice said in a taunting tone.

"And why not?" Harry asked. He was afraid of what the voice's answer might be but he refused to show it in his voice.

"Because I have something of importance to tell you." The voice whispered darkly.

Harry's breath got caught in his throat at the thought, "W-what's that?"

"Sei voleva da parta Il Signore Oscuro." The voice whispered as if he were leaning towards his ear to tell him a secret.

Before Harry could figure out what the voice said he felt something tugging at his stomach as if he were being sucked into a vortex. Not seconds later Harry landed on a cold cement floor. Harry hissed as he felt blood slowly roll down his face, Harry touched where the stinging was coming from and could tell there was a small cut on the top of his head; probably from landing on the cement.

Harry pushed himself up on his elbows and tried to look around but wherever he was was completely dark except for a single candle hanging on the wall.

"Where the hell am I?" Harry whispered to himself. 'What does 'Sei Voleva da parta Il Signore Oscuro' mean?' Harry thought curiously, "It's Latin, I know that…" Suddenly it clicked and Harry figured out what the foreign sentence meant, "You are wanted by The Dark Lord." Harry whispered as he began to feel lightheaded.

The candle began to spin and fade out as Harry lost consciousness.

Severus' office door slammed open to reveal a highly worried Albus Dumbledore, "Where's Harry?"

Severus jumped to his feet in confusion, "What do you mean? He's cleaning his room… What's going on? What's wrong, Albus?"

Albus' eyes grew wide as he said in a hoarse voice, "The protection walls surrounding Hogwarts were destroyed. I have some of the teachers outside fixing them now."

Severus didn't let him finished before he grabbed a pile of Floo Powder into the fireplace and disappeared to his private rooms to check on Harry. As soon as he landed he ran to Harry's room and threw the door open, but to his horror the room was empty.

A/N: Okay so I know it's not long what-so-ever but I wanted to end it here :p haha sorry. But no worries I will be starting the next chapter as soon as I post this for you all :) I hope you enjoyed it even though it was EXTREMELY short!

I do not own any of the songs that were in this chapter, they all belong to the amazing Linkin Park crew and their music writers.

~Severus Addicted

Oh and just so you know: I do NOT know Latin and used a word translator so if it's messed up I'm sorry and if it's not yay for me lol.