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"Parseltongue"

"Normal Talk"

Thoughts/emphasis

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"Well?" McGonagall asked as she looked at Harry, Ron and Hermione. "Will they be alright? Where's Kiru?"

Madame Pomfrey shrugged. "I don't know. The headmaster said that it was something extremely important that they convict the real criminal. Who on earth is knocking at this hour?"

"Bombarta!" the prefect screamed. Her plan had failed – the girl had lived, and now she was in huge trouble since Veritaserum spilled one's secrets. Pettigrew would reveal that it was her who was letting him in and out of the castle and around the Slytherin common rooms.

"Expelliarmus!" a voice sounded, and the prefect wheeled to face an angry Kiru riding a very large werewolf. "Nice try. But now it's my turn. Sit your butt down before I let it loose."

"That's a werewolf," McGonagall stammered, knowing Remus was one, but not knowing this was him.

"Yup. I convinced him to help me via Parseltongue translated by a cat. It's amazing how many animals can understand each other," Kiru grinned evilly. "Especially with criminals harboring each other."

"Avada Kedavra!" the prefect screamed, and a green jet of light shot out of the wand.

"No!" a scream was heard, a white mist darting in front of the attack, but it still hit Kiru straight in the chest.

"Kiru!" McGonagall screamed, and Lupin snarled at the fifth year, lunging forward.

Myrtle screamed and surged downwards back into her toilet, lonely once more. She could faintly feel the girl's life force, but simply thought of it as a subconscious desire to haunt the school's prefects and ensure the safety of the first years.

"No!" the prefect screamed as the angry werewolf slashed her face harshly. She retreated down to the dungeons, right into the hands of a ministry official. "Kill it! it tried to kill me!"

"And you killed your own classmate," the auror growled, Mad-Eye Moody to be precise. He dragged her off, his eyes swiveling upwards. "Strike that – attempted murder. Her heart's still beatin, but just barely."

(Dreamstate Kiru POV)

I looked around. Everything was different, so open, and free. Everything I wanted, but could never have. I screamed as I saw a giant snake approach, a white one, and flinched as it shrank into a form I knew too well – my mother.

"Kiru," she smiled. "I'm so sorry. You know of the Imperius Curse, yes?"

"Yeah," I replied warily. Dad had taught me all the Unforgivable Curses, and even the Confundus charm. Tonight was the first time that my Patronus had come to fruitions.

"I was under it. After Voldemort – Aka, the Dark Lord, You-Know-Who, Tom Riddle, etc – found out you were born, but didn't know the father, he used it on me. He swore he'd take it off once I told him who the father was, but that until then, I would beat you and make your life a living hell. I'm so sorry, baby. I knew it would hurt you, but I had to – he'd kill you if I didn't," Sarabella sobbed. "Your father and I are half-bloods, believe it or not. I started dating your father after he was desperate enough and broken after Lily Potter's death."

"So, Harry's my cousin, in a way?" Kiru asked, and Sarabella shook her head.

"No, but Sirius Black is my cousin through my mom," she smiled softly. "Your father – well, his father was a drunkard, so at least you were safe from that."

"I'm…dead?" Kiru asked, looking around.

"No, pet. The Dark Lord tried to put the Imperius Curse on you, too," Sarabella explained. "I knew he would order you to kill your father, and I knew that he would most likely kill me if I got in the way, so I intervened. I knew full well what I was doing, and that was what protected you. I was part Slytherin, believe it or not – through one of Slytherin's descendants, albeit a very distraught and dangerous one. He'd been put in Azkaban and had been tricked into fathering a child – my grandmother. You are, in a sense, related to the dark lord. It was my protection spell that protected you."

"But what about that killing curse?" Kiru asked worriedly.

"It never hit you fully. It bounced off of a shield that a ghost was projecting. Moaning Myrtle, to be exact. You're free," Sarabella grinned. "Oh, you're a musiclancer, as I'm sure you can figure out, another trait from me, this one from my father. Musiclancers can project magic through musical instruments and perform certain tasks depending on the song and instrument. I see you've already mastered the Minuet of Woods and the Nocturne of Shadow – well done! Those two are the hardest ones! You may choose life with your father, or death with me. It's your choice. I'm just sorry I couldn't be the mother you wanted and needed when I was alive."

"I should ruddy well think so," Kiru yelled as she rejoined the world of the living, just as her mother whispered instructions of how to bring someone dead back to life into her ears. She could hear Lupin whining softly as he licked her face. (A/N: back to 3rd PoV)

"Remus?" she heard McGonagall finally realize, and the wolf nodded.

"Sensei…" Kiru muttered, and they all audibly gasped. Myrtle stopped crying, sensing Kiru's spirit return, and zoomed back up to the hospital wing.

"Kiru? Are you hurt?" McGonagall asked, confused as to what was going on.

"Myrtle…Where's Myrtle?" Kiru asked, and they gasped as she floated through the floor. "Thanks, Myrtle. You saved my life back there – I owe you one."

"Kiru!" Myrtle squealed, immediately spinning round and round over the first year's head. She stopped short, however, when the Hospital wing doors burst open. Kiru immediately closed her eyes and began to breathe shallowly, her mother's training for playing possum coming into play.

"Is it true?" a short man asked, and the ghost snapped to attention. "Did the prefect I've been hearing so much about from Lucius really attack the first year again?"

"Yes," McGonagall confirmed. "The killing curse. If our Myrtle hadn't got in the way, young Miss Snape would be dead. As of right now, I'm not sure what will happen to her. All I know is that she survived."

"Impossible," the man murmured, putting his fingers on the side of her throat. "I don't believe it – she's alive, but how?"

"I'm not sure," McGonagall said warily, eyeing Myrtle.

"It's my doing, sir," Myrtle flew up happily. "I willed there to be a protection shield, the strongest ever, and I wanted the prefect to die instead, and – I don't know how, but it saved Kiru-chan's life."

"And the werewolf?" Fudge asked warily.

"I have no idea. Kiru rode it in as the prefect attacked us," Harry spoke up finally.

"Daddy…" Kiru breathed quietly, letting them know she was still alive.

"I don't believe it," Fudge shook his head. "Minerva, fetch Severus and Sirius. I'm sure they'll be interested in this. Oh, and well done on catching Pettigrew children. You should be proud for freeing an innocent man and catching a criminal in one night."

"We had help," Ron said warily, and Snape and Sirius barged in right as Fudge lowered Kiru onto a bed via wand.

"Kiru!" Snape cried out, panicking. "No, no no, stay with me! Kiru, don't you dare leave me alone with these useless gaki-teme*! No, no, I can't lose you! Not after I just got you back…Kiru…"

"Wow, Severus, I didn't know you could cry," Black grinned, then stopped cold when he saw who was lying on the bed. "Oh, no. Not the girl. Not the one who protected me this whole time, who fed me! No!"

"Kiru," Snape sobbed, tears flowing down his face. He didn't care that his least favorite students were watching, or that Black was either. He was losing the only family he had left! "Baby, I'm so sorry. I should have expelled her when she tried to use the Imperius curse on you, but I thought she would change. I'm so sorry… I love you…"

"Love you too," she rasped out, opening an eye with a grin. "Mom says 'hi' and that she's sorry, too."

"Oh, baby, I thought I'd lost you!" Snape gasped as he pulled her into a tight hug. He kissed the side of her head, and went back to holding her close. "You will never do that to me again, you hear me?"

"Not my fault," she grunted. "But I'll try, dad. I promise. Dad?"

"Yes?" Snape asked gently as he pulled up a chair next to her bed.

"Can we make that potion now?" Kiru asked, and Snape smiled as he let her relax onto the bed.

"When Madame Pomfrey says you can, I promise you we will. Even if I have to cancel class," he smiled gently. "Who let the werewolf in?"

"I did for Minuet of Woods practice and protection," Kiru blushed, and saw Draco Malfoy pad up to the wing. "Draco!"

"Kiru? Kiru, you're alive!" Malfoy rejoiced, racing over and leaping over her bed to hug her tightly. "Holy crap, I told Professor Snape as soon as I saw her use that killing curse! How did you survive?"

"Myrtle jumped in the way," Kiru explained, and Snape's eyes widened. "Yes, Moaning Myrtle."

"Pimply! Pimply! Pimply!" they heard Peeves screaming as Myrtle came zooming back in with him hot on her heels.

"Peeves!" Kiru screeched, and the Poltergeist stopped cold. Kiru grinned, cracking her knuckles dangerously.

"Sorry, your majesty, necromancer, ma'am," he grinned sheepishly before zooming out of sight.

"Speaking of which," Snape said dangerously. "You never said that you could do so. Your mother didn't either."

"I didn't know until in the forbidden forest," Kiru cowered. "And summon two bodies." Alongside controlling Remus.

"Who'd you summon? Surely not Myrtle," Ron snorted. Kiru grinned, pullet out the contract, and began writing.

Lily and James Potter, died Halloween 1981 to protect Harry James Potter from Tom Marvolo "Voldemort" Riddle. You are to be summoned when I call out your names and also yell, "I summon you" or "come forth". Kiru Snape

"Kiru," Snape said warily, and she grinned. "Oh, I understand. You can only summon them if you've summoned them before. And if you haven't, it must be a time of dire need for you to summon them."

"Exactly," the first year grinned. "Lily and James Potter, I summon you!"

The students and faculty, except the Snape duo, jumped out of their skins whenever two skeletal hands appeared from the floor. The rest of the skeletons appeared, followed by robes, and in a swirl of cloth and dust, the rest of them formed.

"And you were saying getting summoned was a bad thing," James smirked. "Sirius!"

"Severus!" Lily squealed, hugging the startled Potions master. "I never thought I'd say this, but you were right, we should have trusted Remus or Sirius more than Wormtail!"

"Speaking of which," Kiru smirked. "Before you two do anything else, look behind you."

The two looked, and stared at their son, who sat and stared in shock at them right back. Lily squealed and pulled him into a tight hug, her eyes pouring over him. Hermione and Ron looked away, the former having tears in her eyes, and James ruffled Harry's hair.

"Thanks, Kiru-chan," they said in unison. "We owe you one."

"Bull. This is my way of saying thanks for saving me," she shrugged. "Which reminds me – Myrtle, get over here. I've got an idea. I learned something while I was unconscious – I can bring you back to life, but it requires a human sacrifice. Any ideas?"

"I'd say 'Malfoy', but he's in the room," Ron grumbled.

"I'm disagreeing there, Ron," Harry shook his head. "He's Kiru's friend, and she's a friend of mine. I still hate him, but if she wants to hang out with him, then so be it. No, I was thinking Wormtail, or better yet, one of the other death Eater's that's got a life sentence in Azkaban. It'd put them out of their misery, at least, and we don't have to worry about them rejoining you-know-who."

"Harry/Potter's right," Hermione and Malfoy nodded. They glared at each other, then looked opposite ways. "What do you think, Professor?"

"I despise the idea," McGonagall snapped.

"I love it," Snape grinned. "Kill off a few enemies, I say bring on the payback. Not intended on you two, although it's quite tempting…"

"Oh, call off it, I knew you were better off with Sarabella anyways," Lily grinned and she punched him on the shoulder. "So, when did you two get married?"

"We didn't," Snape scowled. "I ditched her to protect her, and she ended up under the Imperius Curse. In the end, she killed herself because of what Wormtail thought of 'Redeeming himself' for turning you in."

"Yeah, right! He tried to-!" Kiru yelled, stopping short at Snape's harsh scolding glare. She shivered violently in remembrance of what had happened, and he put his arms around her protectively. "Just saying."

"We know, little one," James sighed. "We fought him off, remember? Besides, you're back with your dad, and out of your mom's house till the summer's back."

"Sarabella's dead, Potter," Snape said coldly. "She'll be coming back with me to Spinner's end. I am her father after all."

"I knew it!" Lily shrieked, smacking him upside the head. "You liar! You said you never lost your virginity!"

"That was before you were killed," Snape retorted. "Your son is in his third year. My daughter is in her first. Three minus one equals two years later."

"Oh," Lily realized. "Sorry."

"You never listened when I apologized," Snape retorted with a snort.

"Yeah, cause you called her a mudblood," James Potter snapped. The two whipped out their wands, preparing to duel, but a sudden agonized howl got in the way.

"Oops," Kiru smiled sheepishly. "Crookshanks, can you tell him that he can go out to the forest now? I don't want anything happening. I completely forgot, wow, I'm an idiot."

"Wait, back up," Harry said shaking his head, focusing. "You speak it?"

"You speak it, too? Wow!" Kiru grinned childishly. "Dad, you could have said that!"

"I assumed you put two and two together. I told you that Potter opened the chamber of secrets, and you opened it with Parseltongue."

"Harry," Lily said at last. "Is there something you'd like to tell us?"

"I love you," he grinned sheepishly, his parents looking down at him for an explanation. "Oh, I'm in for a long night."

"Oh yes you are, young man. Start explaining," Lily scolded pulling up a chair as he started explaining what he'd lived through after their deaths.

*gaki - brat; Teme - bastard; both are Japanese.

Snape can speak a little Japanese because of what Sarabella taught him.

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