Sadly I own nothing, all rights go to our Queen JKR.

10th October 1984

"Hermione, Father is home, please instruct your friend and Draco to come and see me in the main Dining Room." Tom spoke up the stairs before walking back into the room and take his seat next to the large fireplace.

"Winky." Tom spoke for his elf.

A little elf appeared and bowed lowly. Wearing a pristine white suit carrying the Slytherin crest on the left breast.

"Prepare a tea tray for three adults and four children."

"Tom? What was that?" Harry asked from his seat next to Bellatrix. Bellatrix had taken his arm gently and sat him with her and Narcissa before Tom had the chance to introduce who the boy was.

"That Harry, was a House-elf, I need to purchase one for you and Hermione but for now, you will still mainly reside at Malfoy Manor until I know when it is safe for me to stop hiding, I need my strength back properly first. Then and only then will you and Hermione join me here at Riddle manor."

"I can help clean or cook to earn my keep." Harry offered.

"I also said none of that, you are to become my ward and I only expect age appropriate chores, no cooking or bleaching, that is all Winky's job, your jobs will be noted at a later date." Tom spoke gently but firmly to him.

"FATHER!" Hermione cried as she ran in and hugged him carefully. "I missed you so, where did you go?"

"My dear Hermione, what have I spoken to you about all the questions!" Tom chuckled to her.

"Sorry." Hermione smiled lightly at him.

Tom smiled back, he knew she couldn't help herself, just like her Mother.

"This is Harry Potter, I will rename him Harrison Riddle when I have enough energy to complete a blood and adoption bond." Tom gestured towards Harry

"I like Harrison." Luna dreamily played with a daisy chain that spun around her wrist she had previously made.

"You were right about her Bella." Tom raised an eyebrow her way.

Bellatrix only smiled in recognition.

"I prefer Harrison too." Harry spoke for the first time in front of the trio.

Draco, ever the gentleman walked up to Harry and held his hand out for him to shake.

"Draco Malfoy."

"Harrison Riddle." Harry spoke back with a shake of his hand. "Yes, it does have a nice ring to it."

"Why may I ask, If and why you have brought in a male Heir?" Hermione asked, dancing from one foot to another.

"No Hermione, Harrison is not to replace you but to join your side. I aim to be here forever but if for one day I am not, or not able to take affairs into hand it falls down to the two of you and whoever you trust to guide you. Harrison will take over the business of estates and will gain the Slytherin vaults, the Gaunt vaults remaining and the vaults left from his Mother and Father. He also will be Lord Potter-Riddle whereas you will gain the Riddle vaults, your Mother's vaults, the Ravenclaw vaults from your Mother and your own that has a trust fund for when you come of age, you also will be Lady Riddle. Do not ever think I will replace you, my dear, because I simply can not. The two of you will together control my business in an equal share role." For the first time since they met, Tom initiated the hug between himself and Hermione.

"We will do our best Father." Hermione spoke as she walked over to Harrison and hugged him lightly.

"Where did you come from?" Hermione asked whilst pouring tea for the children under Bellatrix's supervision.

"Erm... My Aunt and Uncle's house."

"Where are they now?"

"At home."

"When will they get here?"

"Never, I hope."

"Never, what an absurd answer, why?"

"Hermione, too many questions." Narcissa was the first to lightly scold her.

"Sorry Harrison." She looked down at her feet itching to know the answers, Draco and Luna too.

"It is ok Hermione. They were not nice people and Tom saved me from them."

This seemed to make an ok answer to Hermione for now. Nodding in understanding she finished pouring four cups of lukewarm tea and handed the cups with a saucer each to the children who had now sat at a miniature tea table. Luna helped plate the biscuits that Tink had very nicely brought from the Kitchens. Harry watched as everyone seemed to be oblivious to the fuzzy feeling he felt in his stomach, the same funny feeling he felt before 'Harry Bashing' would start by Dudley and his friends, the same feeling he would feel before a beating or starved from Uncle Vernon, the very same feeling he felt the night his parents died.

"Where are we staying tonight Hermione?" Draco asked putting his cup gently down onto the table.

"Here I believe." She looked at her Father who seemed to have left the room.

"Not tonight Hermione, some business has come up with your Father, tonight you shall stay at the manor." Narcissa stood quickly, casting a silencing charm on the adjoining room as locked the door.

"Come, children, let us convene this little tea party there." Bellatrix ushered them through the floo.

Harry stood hesitantly, Tom had made him feel so safe and now he wasn't here, was he ever coming back? Would it be his Aunt and Uncle through those doors, trying to take him back to their house again? Feet rooted to the floor his legs felt like lead, his eyes glaring at the door that Narcissa and previously locked. He could see flashes around him but no sounds of anything as he saw men and a few woman enter the room to leave the warded door, a familiar man with a long face and black hair picked him up and took him through the floo to Malfoy Manor.