A/N: Hey, so, a note before you begin reading. I've had a couple people request that Harry does watch those DVDs he found but, as I've already said, he won't. It wasn't meant to be an important thing, just a small, filling detail for the chapter. And, no, I can't just put it in somewhere that he watches them because this is a completed story. I finished writing it a year or two ago. Everything is done, completed, set in stone. Nothing can be changed nor do I want to. I love the way this story ended up. Anyways, that's all. On with Chapter 15. Hope you like it. Don't forget to review. :]
"Ron, look out!" Harry shouted and pushed Ron aside who fell to the floor.
"Harry!" Ron and Hermione cried as Harry fell back as the snake lunged at him.
"Expelliarmus!" Harry yelled. The spell hit the large snake, making it fly off him. It hissed and slithered down the stairs and out of the house.
"Harry? Oh my God," Hermione and Ron knelt beside him. Harry's leg was covered in blood and his pant leg was ripped. "He's been bitten."
"Oh no. What do we do?" Ron asked.
"He only has minutes. We need an antidote," Hermione answered. Harry muttered something through his clenched teeth. "What?"
"Small green pouch. Front pocket," he repeated, his teeth still clenched.
"Stay with him. I'll be right back," Hermione told Ron and ran downstairs to the living room.
"Hold on, mate. Hermione will be right back," Ron said. Harry's eyes were shut, he was sweating, and his teeth were still clenched together. "Hermione! Hurry up!"
"I'm coming!" she called back. She ran up and into the bedroom. "Harry, is this it?"
"Yes. Three drops on bite. Hurry," Harry nodded. Hermione took off the lid of the small vial. She tipped it over Harry's bite and let three drops of the clear liquid fall.
"What is that?" Ron whispered. A couple seconds after the liquid hit Harry's wound, it disappeared, leaving only the blood that had flowed from the bite. Harry's breathing slowed, he stopped sweating, and he unclenched his teeth.
"I dunno, but I think he'll be okay," Hermione smiled at Ron and they looked back to Harry. "Harry?" she said softly, holding her friend's hand.
Harry's eyes slowly slid open. "Thanks, guys."
"Oh, thank God," Hermione breathed, still holding his hand.
"You almost died, mate," Ron stated.
"Yeah, that may happen among us during this," Harry grinned.
"This is the second time you've almost died of snake venom in your life. Being a Parselmouth doesn't make the snakes like you any better," Ron raised an eyebrow.
"I could have told you that," Harry sat up. He felt weak and very light-headed.
"Maybe you should rest, Harry. You shouldn't be moving. You were just poisoned," Hermione suggested.
"We have to find the locket though," Harry said.
"Ron and I will look for a half hour to an hour," Hermione answered.
"But we don't have much time. For all we know, Death Eaters could be outside right now waiting for us," Harry replied.
"For all we know, we could be perfectly safe here for days. Come on, Harry. You've been poisoned for like the fourth time in your entire life. You know you have to rest," Hermione said.
Harry stared at his friends and sighed. "Fine, but only a half hour. After the half hour is up, Hermione, you switch with me. You never got to finish resting."
"Deal. Help him, Ron," Hermione smiled. Ron grabbed one of Harry's arms and helped him stand. He helped his best friend to the bed and Harry lay down. Hermione was already heading back to the secret room.
"Thanks, Ron," Harry took a deep breath, repositioning himself to get comfortable. Suddenly, Ron punched Harry in the arm. "OW! What the hell was that?"
"Why did you push me out of the way and let that snake attack you?" Ron cried.
"I didn't want you to get hurt," Harry shrugged, still massaging his arm where his friend had hit him.
"You're an idiot. You almost died."
"Almost. Didn't. I came prepared for everything. I brought that an antidote because I knew there was a chance one of us could get poisoned. I knew Voldemort would have Nagini watch and follow us. Attack us when the time was right."
"You're an idiot," Ron repeated.
"You're not making things better, mate. Shouldn't you be happy? I saved you from being the one in my position," Harry answered.
"How could I be happy? You almost died, Harry," Ron said. He sighed, stood, and walked from the room, leaving Harry to stare after him.
Remus groaned and ran his fingers through his sandy hair.
"You need to sleep, Moony," Sirius said. He had been in Remus' office helping him read through the hospital records for an hour.
"And you need to go back to your department and work the Malfoy case," Remus replied, opening yet another file.
"You want me to leave?" Sirius raised an eyebrow.
"That's not what I said."
"It's what you implied."
"I appreciate the help, you know that, but you have your own case to work on too. I've been working this case alone since I started working here," Remus looked into Sirius' blue eyes.
"You've had Seth. And Simon and Kevin."
"Simon and Kevin are dead. Seth just got moved up to the position beneath me a year ago," Remus replied, turning back to the file.
"Remus, Simon and Kevin were killed helping you on this case-"
"Are you trying to make me feel better or what? You're not doing a very good job," Remus turned to face his friend.
"I'm not trying to do anything, Moony," Sirius stated. "I'll talk to you later," he tossed the record he was holding onto the desk and walked out.
"Remus?" Seth knocked on the door.
"Yeah?"
"Are you all right?"
"I'm fine. Just-" Remus sighed, "just looking for the right record."
"Okay. See you later,." Seth took one last worried glance at his boss then left.
"This is ridiculous. There's no one with the last name Lovegood or Greyback. Maybe this was just a stupid long shot," Remus muttered to himself.
Just then, the voice in his head that sounded like Harry spoke. What about just Grey? Or maybe just Love?
Remus furrowed his eyebrows at himself. Grey or Love? He begun searching in the pile frantically until he found what he wanted. There were two files for Love and four files for Grey. He opened the Love records.
Love, Kate
Date of Birth: December 2, 1986
Mother: Leah Love nee Curtis
Father: Chase Love
He opened the second one.
Love, Curtis
Date of Birth: May 12, 1986
Mother: Dominique Love nee Masters
Father: Edward Love
"Maybe Grey," he mumbled.
Grey, Simon
Date of Birth: January 28, 1986
Mother: Claire Grey nee Simpson
Father: Daniel Grey
Grey, Stephanie
Date of Birth: September 1, 1986
Mother: Sally Grey nee Fields
Father: Rick Grey
Grey, Spencer
Date of Birth: April 5, 1986
Mother: Lainie Grey nee Carlson
Father: Will Grey
"Last one. This has to be him. It has to be," Remus opened the last file.
Grey, Tyler
Date of Birth: April 15, 1979
Mother: Lexi Love
Father: Fenrir Grey
"Got'cha. Tyler Grey. The nineteen year old son of Lexi Grey, a.k.a. Lexi Lovegood, and Fenrir Grey, a.k.a. Fenrir Greyback," Remus read the file over and over again. Suddenly a thought hit him and he retrieved the file on Lexi Lovegood. He read.
After one year, the boy disappeared. Lexi swore her son was all right and with the father.
"He was raised by Greyback. Lexi gave up her son. She became a Lovegood instead. Tyler's still with his father. Not because he has to be. He's nineteen. He's with Greyback because he's a werewolf. Greyback bit him when he was a baby," Remus said quickly. "Seth!" he yelled.
"Yeah?"
"I need a list of all the registered werewolves."
"Give me ten minutes. I'll pull them up on the computer thingy," Seth took off.
What if Tyler's not registered? the Harry-voice said.
"He has to be registered. We would have known if a werewolf didn't register last month. Greyback wouldn't do that. It's too risky. He and/or Tyler would be found," Remus shook his head.
"Remus. I've got it," Seth said and Remus followed him.
"Can you type in a name and have it search for that specific person?"
"You mean like a search engine?"
"Yes. A search engine."
"It's right here. Type in a name and it'll find it," Seth nodded.
"Type 'Fenrir Greyback'," Remus said and Seth stared at him.
"Fenrir Greyback? Are you serious?"
"Yes, now do it or I will," Remus demanded.
Seth shook his head and typed in the name, hitting enter. "One match."
"Now type 'Tyler Grey'."
Seth shook his head again. Remus was acting weird. "One match. Here's a picture," he clicked on a picture and enlarged it.
The picture was of a nineteen year old, blonde boy. He was quite muscular, green eyes. He looked just like Greyback. "Tyler Grey," Remus muttered.
"One question. What's so important about this Tyler Grey?" Seth wondered.
"Print this page," Remus replied. "Seth, Tyler Grey…Tyler Grey is Fenrir Greyback's nineteen year old werewolf son," Remus grinned as he grabbed the printed page. Seth was gaping at him.
"Did you really have to do that, Ron?" Hermione said.
"Do what?"
"Say those things to Harry. He didn't need that."
"I was telling him what I was thinking. It was true," Ron replied.
"It may have been true but he didn't need to hear it. He was just poisoned. We're at his first home. Where his parents were murdered in front of him. Hasn't he been through enough and have enough to deal with?"
"He almost died because he was stupid and pushed me out of the way," Ron threw a box aside and moved onto another.
"He almost died because he didn't want to lose his best friend," Hermione told him.
"So he pretty much died so I wouldn't? Who does that?" Ron frowned.
"Harry does! You know that!" Hermione cried. "He doesn't care what'll happen to him as long as it protects everyone he loves. Example, his sixteenth birthday. When he was kidnapped. In the Chamber of Secrets. Down the trapdoor with the Stone and Quirrell."
"Okay, I get it. He was still an idiot for doing it," Ron sighed.
"If you and Harry switched places, you would have done the same thing he did and you know it."
"I just don't want him to die protecting me," Ron shrugged.
"Whether you want him to or not, Ronald, he's always going to. You were his very first friend. He's not going to just stand by and watch you get hurt," Hermione answered. Ron stared into her eyes. "Are you all right?"
"Yeah, fine. Still a little shaken up, I guess," he nodded. Hermione crawled over to him and kissed him softly.
"There's nothing wrong with how much you care for Harry," she smiled, kissed him again, then sat back to continue looking through boxes.
"What's this?" Ron frowned as his fingers locked around something small and cold. He pulled it out of the box and examined it. It was a small bronze chest with glimmering emeralds decorating it. The latch was a red snake with small emerald stones for eyes.
"Do you think this is it?" Hermione lightly ran her finger tips over the lid.
"Could be. Should we open it or let Harry?" Ron asked.
"Let Harry," Hermione said and they climbed out. They entered the bedroom to see Harry had his back to them and was asleep.
"Should we wake him?" Ron wondered.
"No, we should leave him. He hasn't slept and he's still recovering from the poisoning," Hermione shook her head. "Let's go to the living room. We'll have a snack." She walked down the stairs with Ron and they sat in the living room with the bags. They placed the chest on the table in the middle of the room.
"Here's an orange," Ron handed her an orange and got an apple for himself.
"Doesn't it seem too easy?" Hermione stated suddenly.
"What do you mean?" Ron asked.
"I mean we find the locket and we're just supposed to walk out of here without a challenge? It seems too easy," she explained.
"Maybe Nagini was the challenge," Ron guessed.
"I don't know, maybe. We just have to be careful when we open this and leave," Hermione sighed, eating another piece of the orange.
"Hermione? Ron?" Harry called.
"Downstairs, mate!" Ron called back. They listened to Harry's footsteps on the stairs and watched as he sat down.
"Hey, guys," Harry said.
"Hey. Have an orange," Ron tossed his friend the fruit.
"Thanks. What're you doing down here anyways?" Harry asked, peeling the orange.
"We think we found the chest Regulus hid the locket in," Hermione pointed at the chest on the table.
"Wow. Is it safe to open?" Harry wondered, looking mostly at Hermione.
"We don't know. We haven't tried. I can't even do any spells to check," Hermione shrugged.
"So we'll be opening it on chance?" Harry raised an eyebrow.
"Pretty much," Ron and Hermione nodded.
"Perfect," Harry groaned.
"Either we take the chance and open it here or we bring it to Remus and Sirius so they can check it to make sure it's safe," Hermione said.
"No, I'm not bringing a Horcrux near them and going to the Ministry is too dangerous. We'll have to take our chances," Harry replied.
"Okay, so let's open it," Ron sighed.
"Let's do it," Harry nodded and they all knelt on the floor around the table. He reached for the chest and placed it in front of himself.
"Harry, are you sure about this?" Hermione put her free hand on Harry's, her other hand link with Ron's, stopping Harry from opening the lid.
"No, I'm not but we don't have much choice or much time," Harry shook his head. Hermione removed her hand, watching her friend closely. Harry drew in a deep breath and slowly opened the lid.
"You found him? You found Greyback's son?" Seth said. He had said the same thi ng at least four times and Remus rolled his eyes.
"Yes, Tyler Grey is Greyback's son. Which means I found Greyback's son," Remus smiled as Seth shook his head in disbelief.
"And the mother is definitely Lexi Lovegood?"
"Yes," Remus grinned again as the response shocked Seth again.
"And this Lovegood is the same Lovegood as Xenophilius Lovegood?"
"The one and only. She had an affair with Greyback. When she checked into the hospital when she went into labour with Tyler, she used the name Lexi Grey. After a year, Tyler apparently disappeared. Lexi gave him up to Greyback, stayed with Xenophilius, and had Luna. She ended things with Greyback. She died when Tyler was four and Luna was two," Remus explained.
"Amazing," Seth said. "So where is the son now?"
"With Greyback. Tyler was turned into a werewolf by his father when he two."
"How do you know that?" Seth frowned.
"It says on here," Remus pointed at the printout.
First Transformed: 1981
"Oh," Seth replied. "So why did you go through all this trouble to find Tyler Grey?"
"It's the only family history he has. We don't have anything on his parents. No idea if he has siblings. This is the best family history we have and will probably ever get," Remus stated.
"Makes sense. What do we do now that we know about Tyler?" Seth asked.
"I haven't figured that part out yet," Remus sighed.
"Helpful," Seth answered sarcastically.
"Seth, you sound like Sirius and Harry," Remus raised an eyebrow.
"I have no idea if I should take that as an insult or a compliment," Seth crossed his arms.
"Frankly, neither do I," Remus sighed. Seth laughed.
"I can't believe Malfoy got away. Again," Sirius groaned. He was sitting in his office with Tonks and Kingsley.
"It wasn't your fault. We'll get him eventually," Tonks said.
"We've been after him for four years. Kingsley, you were after him even before I came back," Sirius pointed out.
"That doesn't mean anything, Sirius. Everyone's been after Voldemort for two decades," Kingsley stated.
"He's the most powerful dark wizard in the world. He doesn't count," Sirius answered.
"Okay, fine. Voldemort doesn't count. Sirius, some people are just harder to catch than others. Not all of the people we're after will be as easy to get as Rodolphus. Take Bellatrix, for instance. We've been after her for years too," Tonks replied.
"She was in Azkaban until the breakout."
"Would you stop contradicting everything we say?" Kingsley said irritably.
"Stop giving me things to contradict then," Sirius answered.
"Sirius, no matter what we say, you'll have a backup argument," Kingsley crossed his arms.
"We know you're stressing about everything going on. Try to sleep. You haven't slept in two days," Tonks added.
"It's too busy."
"You are going to drive me mental, Sirius," Kingsley groaned. "I'm your second-in-command. I'll handle things. If we need you, we'll come get you. Stop acting like fricken Superman and rest for a few hours. Being Head Auror doesn't mean you turn to metal and don't need the same things people do. You're really starting to piss me off," he quickly stood up and walked out of the office.
"You know he's right, Sirius. Act like a regular human and get some sleep," Tonks told him, using a softer tone than Kingsley had. She gave a small smile and sigh, then left, closing the door. Sirius stared at the door, absently fiddling with a quill.
"That is definitely the locket," Harry said. Ron and Hermione were still gaping at the golden chain and locket nestled on green and silver felt.
"Is it safe to touch?" Ron wondered.
"Another chance we'll have to take," Harry replied. His friends watched, worried, as Harry's hand advanced on the object. His fingers closed around the chain and pulled it off the felt, out of the chest. They all breathed in relief when nothing happened.
"This risk-taking is terrifying," Ron said.
"What fun would a risk be if it wasn't scary?" Harry grinned.
"I think that only counts for non-fatal risks, Harry," Hermione stated.
Harry shrugged. "Oh well."
"So, now what? We've got the locket," Ron wondered.
"We destroy it obviously," Hermione replied.
"Not here. We have to go somewhere where no one will find us," Harry told them.
"But where? Pretty much everywhere we go, Death Eaters can and will be waiting for us," Hermione said.
"I need to think," Harry sat back.
"Think fast," Ron suddenly said.
"Why?" Hermione and Harry asked.
"We've got a visitor," Ron answered. He was staring out a window.
"Who?" Harry and Hermione jumped up. Just as Ron was going to answer, the door flew open and a Death Eater walked in.
"Hello," the Death Eater said. The trio's eyes opened wide.
A/N: Hope you liked it. Yes, I realize that the fact that someone named Fenrir Grey going into the hospital should've been noticed and it should've been obvious who he really was. But, let's just say he used a glamour and he didn't look like him and the people in the hospital didn't pay too much attention. :P Don't forget to review. Thank you. :]
