AN: I own nothing. Caution hinting at child abuse.
'Thought'
;'shared thought'
Tinkerbell and Claws
Once everyone is settled, Storm took the helm.
"Cub I want you behind me."
"Why?"
"If you fall asleep and have a nightmare, what would happen?"
"Oh. My claws. Got it." Harry said quickly and shifted behind Logan. "But wouldn't you get hurt?"
"Where do you think your healing comes from?" Logan chuckled at Harry, who had an omg was I just that stupid look on his face.
Hermione giggled at the father and son. It was easy to see where Harry had gotten some of his character from. She curled her legs up underneath herself and tried to get comfortable. She quickly drifted off to sleep. Harry smiled at his Tinkerbell, and settled in to get some sleep.
Harry himself was trying to get comfortable, when Logan caught his attention.
"Why don't you tell me about the guy at the front of the bank?"
"Oh, that was Remus Lupin. He is one of the last of my parent's friends. Sirius is gone, Peter *snarl* went with the dark lord, he is the one that betrayed my parents, then there is Remus with his furry little problem *laugh*."
"That does not tell me why you were scared of him."
"Oh. Ummmm...His furry little problem, makes him sort of like us. If someone was going to spot me, it would have been him."
"Claws, what is this "Furry little problem" you keep referring to?" Charles asked quietly
"It's not my secret to tell." Harry said looking down at the floor of the jet.
"Is he a danger to you, Cub?" Logan growl, his eyes were starting to bleed gold. Harry looked up and let out a small whine. Logan sighed. "I am not mad at you."
"No he would not intentionally hurt me or Tink."
;'Logan ask him about his years at this school, we may be able to get a better gauge on what the Headmaster is like.'
"So why did you end up running a defense class? Where was the teacher?"
"Oh well. I don't really know where to start on that."
"Try the beginning."
"If I did that I would have to start with how my parents died."
"Did anything interesting happen between then and when you started at school?"
"No."
"Then start with your first year."
"Ok. Well I found out on my eleventh birthday, that I was a wizard. A stone was the thing for the dark lord to get; he wanted to have a body back. He was piggybacking on the DADA Professor. I found a mirror that would show you your hearts dearest wish. The three of us, me, Tink, and Ron *growl*, ran into to Fluffy, which is a three headed dog. Ron and I saved Tink from a mountain troll. We then had to rescue the stone from the corrupted Professor. Passed a bunch of puzzles the teachers had placed there for protection." Harry paused to look at the older mutants..
"Hold that though, got to change my clothes." Logan ducked into the back and changed out of his jacket and shirt. Once he had his favorite flannel on, he resumed his seat.
"Ok. So that was your first year?"
"No, once we got passed the puzzles. I had to stall the professor; I ended up getting the stone out of hiding. The possessed professor then attacked me; he ended up destroying himself trying to kill me." Storm gasped, while Logan growled deep in his chest.
"Then second year, we got a new DADA teacher, a bit of a celebrity, totally useless. Would steal others achievement and wipe the witch or wizards memory. Then he would write books, getting all the glory and fame. At this time a chamber was opened that held a basilisk, yes they are real and very rare. I can speak to snakes."
Logan looked at Claws a little funny. "I never heard of anyone being able to do that. Other animals but never snakes." *humph* "Go on."
"A student got taken, and I went in after her with her brother, and the stupid git. Oh word of warning if you find a broken wand, never use it. The girl's brother broke his and the "Professor" used it and wiped his own memories. *giggle* but there was a cave in and it was me on the one side with the basilisk and them on the other." Claws pushed up his sleeve and showed Logan the place where the basilisk fang went through his arm. Logan gave a low whistle. "We didn't know till then that it was a piece of the dark lord. So needless to say I ended up getting rid of the basilisk and that piece of the dark lord. If it had not been for Fawkes, the Headmasters Phoenix, I would have died. Basilisk poison is like acid. Phoenix tears cure a lot of illnesses and poisons. Oh, yah Tink got petrified forgot about that. So everyone lived." Harry again paused to take a breath.
"Where was the Headmaster in all of this, Claws?" Charles asked quietly
"Dealing with all of the other problems that all this caused. He would try and help us and even encouraged us on the sly."
"What! He should have sent someone, an adult to deal with the problems." Logan was seething
"Oh I agree but, no one else was doing anything directly. Of course being kids we could do quite a bit more then the adult with few consequences. Also the major adult players could pass off assisting us as 'we were helping the kids when we found out what they were doing'. "Harry just shrugged.
"Ok. Go on."
"So third year, Sirius broke out of prison. Let's see, played tag with the Dementors. Met Remus, he was the new DADA professor for the year. Learned most of what I know from him. Found out that Peter was ...Tink, Tink, wake up please tell me you thought of this already?"
"Hummm, what Claws?"
"Ron, Peter. Too convenient?"
"Ok, cub you lost me." Logan looked at Harry for an answer. Harry held up a hand for Logan to wait a minute. Logan arched a brow at his cub, with a small growl.
"Tink yes or no?"
"Yes, Claws, and no you thought of it first." Hermione sapped at Harry before falling back asleep.
"Damn I was hoping you had thought of it first."
"Ok, cub spill."
"Peter is an Animagus; it's a wizard that can change into an animal. Peter was hiding himself as Ron's rat."
"You mean that kid that was taking money from you?"
"Yah."
"Why was he hiding to begin with?" The Professor asked with his hands folded in front of him.
"He faked his death and got Sirius tossed into Azkaban. He killed thirteen muggles, and blew up a whole section of the road. The coward cut off his own finger to make it look like he was killed by Sirius. He got away, and went back to the dark lord. Sirius went on the run." Harry sighed and looked at the two mutants in front of him. He was having trouble gauging their reactions to his tale.
Logan sighed "So what happened your fourth year?"
"Well fourth year, I really wish I could forget ever happened. A tournament that was stopped sometime ago, due to the high body count, was restarted, with the provision that only students seventeen and older could participate. Well, if you have noticed by now my luck is for sh**. So guess who got stuck in the tournament?" Harry asked with sarcasm in every syllable.
Logan grunted and shook his head. "Cub if it weren't for bad luck, well do I have to finish what statement."
Harry laughed sadly at Logan. "So where was I. Oh, we got another new DADA professor. It was supposed to be "Mad Eye" Moody a retired Auror."
"Auror? What is that?"
"It's was what I wanted to be one day. Think police officer only for wizards."
"You don't want to be one anymore?" Logan asked quietly. 'God it would suck if my cub became a cop. I don't think I would ever live it down.'
"No. I don't want to have anything to do with British wizard society anymore." Harry said sadly
"Good. I would never have a Cub that was a cop, even a wizard cop." Logan said flatly. He looked over at Harry with his lips twitching just a bit. Harry snorted in return.
"Ahh. You don't like following the rules either. I was wondering where I got that from." Harry smiled at Logan, who gave him a half smile in return.
"So the tournament was called the Tri-Wizard Tournament, and is held between the three wizard schools of Europe. Well there was a lot of fuss over me being picked; there was only suppose to be three. There were three tasks that happened throughout the school year. The first was to get a golden egg from a nesting dragon; my belt is made out the hide of the type I went up against." Harry pulled his wand sheath from the belt and hand it to Logan to look at. "I have to break in Tink's sheath as well. She couldn't pull her wand out of it earlier."
Logan sniffed the hide. "Smells like Bill. Hay is he related to that family?"
"Works for the bank? Red head?"
"Yah." Logan said as he handed back the sheath. Harry quickly got it back into position before answering
"Yes he is but, he is actually an ok guy." Harry shrugged.
"And the next task Claws?" The Professor asked gently
"I had to find out what the egg's clue was. Ended up that I needed to find a way to be under water for an hour and find something that was taken. There was a Yule Ball, which was dreadful. The last task was pretty strait forward; find your way through the maze to the Tri-Wizard cup in the middle. I also had to pass traps in the maze as well. What no one knew was that the cup was a trap for me. *gulp*Cedric and I touched it at the same time." Harry stared out the window, lost in him memory of what had happened. "We ended up in a grave yard. Peter killed Cedric and I was captured." Harry pulled his sleeve up pasted the elbow and turned out his arm. He leaned forward showing Logan the three inch shiny scar from the ritual. "They used my blood to bring the dark lord back. We got into a dual, I was lucky to get away; I brought *gulp*Cedric's body back with me. I tried to tell everyone but they thought I was crazy and the Minister of Magic told everyone I was lying to get attention, which only made it worse. The Daily Prophet is a ... damn! Tink what was that term you used that summer, I can't remember it?"
"Ummmm...Oh Yellow Journalism. They only print what the Ministry wants the public to know."
"My that is very corrupt. They do not print any truth?"
"Only if you force them too." Harry told the Professor with a pointed look at Hermione and a wolfish grin.
"So Hermione care to tell us how you managed to get the paper to print the truth." Charles asked with a raised brow.
"Oh, well there was this dreadful female reporter. Rita Skeeter, horrible woman. She was an unregistered Animagus. I caught her like that and blackmailed the hell out of her." Hermione grin like the cat that ate the canary, while all the mutants on board howled with laughter.
"Tinkerbell remind me not to piss you off." Logan said after he stopped laughing.
"Brightest witch of her age." Harry state quietly, smiling at Hermione. He then chuckled "You're floating again, Tink."
Hermione epped and fell back into the seat.
"You and your fear of heights. Got to get you passed that."
"At least it not spiders." Hermione sing songed at Harry, who promptly burst out laughing again.
"Oh gods! You weren't there but I thought Ron was going to sh** himself, when we got captured by the giant spiders in the forbidden forest."
"Giant spiders? Forbidden Forrest?" Logan gave his cub a questioning look.
"Hagrid the groundskeeper at the school has a pension for trying to make dangerous monsters into pets. There was Fluffy, then the dragon, never a good idea, wild animals that breathes fire in a house, Skwerters, we think he illegally made them himself. Buckbeak the hippogriff, and the Thestrals, you can only see them if you have seen death. Also one very small spider that got monstrously gigantic." Harry gave Logan his best innocent smile. Logan narrowed his eyes at his cub. Harry gulped.
"Oh we also found out the night after I got back from the graveyard that "Mad Eye" was not himself but another Deatheater everyone thought was dead. So that was fun, and now we come to fifth year." Harry paused and looked anywhere but at the other occupants of the jet.
Hermione sat up, smiled at Harry and took up where he had left off.
"Need to backup a little after the tournament, the ministry of magic was telling everyone that Claws and the Headmaster were lying. So when school started everyone looked at Claws like he was crazy. This last year the ministry stepped in and appoint someone to teach the DADA class, as no one wanted the job. This by the way is when Claws starts teaching. The person they appointed was for lack of a better description a Pink cardigan wearing toad with a pink bow on her head. Deloris Umbridge."
Harry growled, and looked at Logan, his eyes gone completely gold. "You hate her that much cub?"
"Claws was out spoken in her class, gave him detention." Hermione was watching Harry rub the back of right hand. Logan followed her line of sight, and grabbed Harry's hand to look at it.
"I will not tell lies? What the hell is this?" Logan practically yelled at Claws, who was growling even louder. Wolverine growled back.
"He didn't do it to himself! She made him write lines and the quill she gave him did that. A lot of students ended up with the same punishment. She made sure Claws was in there so much that it scared." Hermione then burst into tears. Harry yanked his hand back out of Logan's grip and scooped up Hermione. He quickly got them seated again with the seat turned from the adults.
"It's alright Tink. Hush. It's ok. We don't have to deal with her again." Harry whispered to Hermione.
The Professor was watching Logan, who was having a war with the Wolverine to remain in control. Logan was panting and flexing his fists. 'He is not going back there! We will make sure they don't hurt the cub again!' Logan shouted at the Wolverine the only response Logan got was growls and roars. This went on for a while, and the Professor watched at Logan got calmer.
"Claws?"
"Yes, Professor?"
"He is not mad at you. Many mutants are abused before we can find them. I suspect you are no different than them." Harry nodded his understanding.
"So the reason I started is that evil toad would not teach us to defend ourselves. Just book learning, no practicals or sparing. So we" Harry gestured to himself and Hermione. "Gathered like minded students, found a place in the school where on one would find us. That evil b**ch would have done gods only know how much worse she would have done to us when she caught us. I started teaching everyone what I knew. While this was going on, I was having my dreams messed with, and the dark lord wanted that prophecy. So he made me think that my godfather was in danger." Harry took another deep breath and blinking back tears.
"They tricked him into going into the ministry and getting it for them. Some of us that studied with Claws went with, even though he really didn't want us to go with him. Needless to say we all ended up in a battle to try and get out. The Order of the phoenix came in finally with Sirius in tow." Hermione shifted so Harry's head was against her shoulder as he sobbed. "That is how Sirius died."
After a few minutes, Harry pulled himself together. Hermione fished out some travel tissues and handed him one.
"Thanks Tink."
"If you don't mind I would like to know about your mother's family."
"I would rather not talk about that right now. It will just make Logan angry."
Hermione started a new wave of tears and sobs, and tried to make Harry and herself one person by pushing into him.
"Tink it's ok. They can't hurt me anymore either. I got you, someone that wants to keep me," At this Harry glanced over at Logan, who nodded back. "A safe place to go. It's all good now."
"I know, but with all that has happened. How can you be happy?"
"Hermione I have been depressed for a while now. Let me be happy when I can. Ok?"
Hermione nodded vigorously at Claws. She settled herself on his lap with her head on his shoulder. Harry ran a finger across her cheek to get the newest tears. He smiled at her. Harry titled his head as he saw the light bulb go off in her head.
"Can I? It would make things easier. Or you could do it."
"After Snape I really don't like the idea."
"I could. You told me everything right?"
"Yah. But I don't think this is a good idea."
"They just want to help."
"And the path to hell is paved with good intentions." Harry stated.
The Professor and Logan exchanged surprised looks at the very jaded comment. Logan shook his head, reached into his jacket pocket and pulled his half smoke cigar. Logan sat looking at the pair, before he stuck the cigar in his mouth to chew on.
"Fine. Professor, how does you telepathy work?"
"It's an ability Claws. I am able to control when and where I use it. Why do you ask?"
"Tink had the idea that you could see into my memories. I want to know how much pain is involved."
"If you consent there should be no pain. Who is Snape and did this person force their way into your mind."
"Yes but, no. Ummmm...I had a connection to the dark lord. I was getting images, feelings through the link, and the dreams. So to counter act this Dumbledore had me take lessons in occlumency. Snape is the type of teacher if you asked him to show you how to swim; he would through you into a pool." He smiled sarcastically at the Professor.
"So you had to let him try to break into your mind, while you resisted?" Charles asked in shock.
"Uh. Yah. Why?" Getting nervous at the emotion showing on the Professor's face. Hermione shifted to be closer to Claws.
"That would most definitely cause you excruciating pain. There are better, less painful ways to teach someone to shield their mind."
"Would you be willing to teach me?"
"I would be delighted to teach you, Claws. Now back to your memories." Harry nodded grimly at the Professor. "I will need you to lean forward. Do try to relax. I will only go where you allow me to go." Harry nodded as he shifted Tink into his previous seat. He leaned forward sighed, glancing over at Hermione.
Hermione gave Harry her most encouraging smile. This came out as a small tight smile.
"You can show Logan later if you like." Harry said quietly
"I am sure Logan will appreciate any chance to get to know you better." Harry's head snapped up and looked the Professor right in the eye, then glanced over at Logan.
Logan was chewing the same cigar, he paused looked at Harry and gave a small nod. This for some reason made Harry feel very good, like an adult really cared about him.
An: Alright well that was long winded. Sorry guys. Review let me know if you think I should rewrite. Next chapter they arrive. :) and cookies.