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I sat on the park bench ignoring the man beside me. Eden was playing in the children's playground and I sat there watching him play. He was carefree, happy and I wanted him to stay that way. I let my head fall back as I replayed the visit from Weasley and Granger. I was getting dragged back into a world I'd fought so hard to escape.
"I take it that you were visited by the other two members of the golden trio then," Snakeface sounded amused.
"This is your fault you smug git," I snap at him, angry, if he hadn't have found me then I probably would have been safe in my anonimity.
"How do you come to that conclusion, enlighten me," he quipped.
"Dumbles is obsessed with you, follows your goons here, finds me, not a hard deduction." I state not bothering to look at him.
"Sound logic," He turns to me and gives me a feral grin. I turn to him, run my hand over my face and sigh.
"What the bloody hell do you want Tom?" He makes a growl as I say his true name but does not interrupt. "I... you try to kill me for fourteen years and now suddenly you want to be friends? If you're going to do something to me then just do it. But ….but," I take a deep breath and point at Eden. "Don't involve my son Tom, he doesn't even know that magic is real,"
"I don't hurt children," At this is snort and point to my forehead where my hidden scar still resides. "Contrary to popular opinion I'm not an evil bastard hell bent on mass domination and murder. I didn't ….when I started I was doing it for the right reasons. There is a balance that has to be kept and when Albus Dumbledore defeated Gindlewald he upset that balance and it needs restoring. I needed to be more powerful so I created horcuxes," He looks at me as If waiting for a reply but I can't give him one. Nothing he has said makes any sense to me ….Grindlewald? Horcruxes?
At my blank look he gives at disbelieving laugh . "He never told you anything did he? Horcruxes Evan are objects in which a piece of soul is hidden, as long as the object in which the soul is hidden is safe and is not destroyed the wizard cannot die as his soul lives on. I needed to complete my task and being unable to die would give me a big advantage." He looks at me before continuing. "But this had only been done once and that was centuries ago so finding out anything about the process was hard and information on the repercussions was non existent. So I being the foolish sixteen year old I was decided that I would go ahead with it, thinking that I could deal with the side effects if and when they happened,"
"So there were side effects," I was curious now, nobody had ever been this open with me before.
"Yes, there were and they were worse than I could have imagined. A soul is a precious thing and it is to be valued and treasured. Splitting my soul was wrong, something that pure should never be damaged. Also when you split your soul you are literally splitting yourself, splitting your whole personality in two, and I didn't stop at one horcrux. I made six and it caused madness. Madness born out of an unstable personality. So when I say that I don't hurt children. I mean it. However I hurt you, I was lost to madness that night and never would have come after you if I was sane. Children are the only pure untainted things in this world and I am not a baby killer. Hence why I will not hurt your son." He looks at me, his eyes, they show me he speaks that truth but I carry on with my questions anyway,"
"As reassuring as that is to hear, how … how are you sane again," I query.
"The ritual that restored me," I rub my left arm where the scar where wormtail cut me still mares my skin. He glanced towards my arm before continuing.
"The ritual that restored me required a horcrux, it meant that instead of one piece of soul I would then have two. Then about three weeks later … I was …. experimenting. It seemed that the two soul pieces within me called out and the third, which was in my snake Nagini... for lack of a better expectation... it joined me. With it came a more human like appearance and an increase in my power. I took note of this and absorbed all the others... well the ones I could find,"
"What do you mean the ones that you could find?" I did not like where this convoation was going,"
"I had accidentally made a seventh," His eyes flickered towards my hidden scar once again.
"Are you..." He cuts me off.
"Yes," He looks at my face waiting for my reaction.
"I've got a piece of your dirty soul in me... this is ..." I fix him with a glare, "Take it out,
"Can't," He replies
"Can't or won't," I demand
"Both,"
"So this is it. This is why Dumbledore's been messing with my life. A freak accident leaves me with a fragment of your soul and I'm assuming that you are the only one who can remove it..," I look to him for an answer.
"Yes,"
"And you won't because," I make a wild gesture with my arms.
"It being in you grantees my immortality," I look at him and drop my head into my hands.
"And if I die," He turns to me.
"You won't ...can't... that line in the prophecy," He turns to me and I nod, "So he did tell oyu something, any way the line in the prophesy about neither can live while the other survives should be neither can die while the other lives,"
"So I'm immortal,"
"Yes, to put it simply," He goes to continue but I see Eden fall out of the corner of my eye and I jump up without thinking and race towards m son. I jump the waist high fence that surrounds the children's playground. I get to him and he is sobbing clutching him arm. The ground is damp underfoot but I kneel down any was a pull a sobbing Eden onto my lap.
"Shh, shh its ok Eden Daddys here," I rock him gently back and forth "Can you tell me where it hurts?"
He burrows further into my chest but I still hear his little voice mumbling about his arm. His right arm is held across his body, in that instinctive way that all people do when they get hurt. I take it gently steeling myself to ignore the whimpers of pain that I know he will make.
I pull his arm away from his body and drawing on memories of broken bones from the Dursly's I remember how to eel for a break. Eden was whimpering at this point so I kept up a steady stream of nonsense to sooth him.
"Daddy! Daddy stop... please Daddy it hurts," Eden is sobbing against my shoulder.
"Its ok little man I'm done now," I lay his arm across his chest satisfied that there are no breaks.
"Excuse me?" I hear a nasally voice in my ear. It makes my skin crawl and reminds me slightly of Dolores Umbridge. Not exactly a good memory.
I turn and stand up lifting Eden gently until he is cradled against my chest again. "I'm sorry can I help you,"
"Is he yours?" She demands looking at my down her nose.
"Yes, forgive me but I don't feel that it is any concern of yours," She is haughty and aloof, I decide to treat her as I would any ministry official.
"I feel it is when a child is not being supervised properly," I gape at her. Unable to believe her accusations.
"I'm sorry but...what are you trying to say," My stance changes to a more defensive position and I hold Eden closer to my chest.
"That child was left alone to play without close supervision and has ended up harming himself, now if that is the way you look after him outside your home one must wonder," I rear up angrily.
"Excuse me," Voldy is standing just inside the park having walked in whist we weren't looking.
"Yes, do you know this man? Why are you here?" the woman barks, she reminds me of those small rat like dog that yap at you.
"I'm Evan's brother and we were sitting just over there talking about family issues that are... not suitable for … younger ears," he finished with a glance towards Eden.
The woman gives a hrumph and moves off clutching the hand of a little girl who looks to me her grandchild. I turn to snakeface.
"Snakeface? Really? Is that the best you can come up with … I mean I don't even look like a snake," He points to his admittedly attractive human form.
"So I'm attractive now?" He smirks.
"How are you..." I begin to ask.
"Were linked Ev and thats how I found you. I've always know where you were, wouldn't do to lose track of my horcrux now would it? Anyway the only reason I came was because I found out that Dumbles was about to visit you and I wanted to get here first." I look at him.
"As much as I would love to continue this conversation with you I need to get this one home," I say nodding my head at Eden, He moves out of the way and I stand shifting Eden onto my hip.
"Daddy my arm hurts... make it stop Daddy," I lays his head on my chest and whimpers.
"Shh its ok we'll be home soon then I can make it stop hurting, ok baby boy ?"
"Not a baby Daddy,"
"Nope you're getting big now, and really heavy," I lightly jab his stomach being careful of his arm and he giggles bringing a smile to my face. I notice Tom following me. I turn and raise my eyebrows.
"We haven't finished this conversation yet Evan," And he jogs to be able to walk at my side. I shake my head and follow him back to my apartment.
Well another chapter finally done! That took ages. I've lost count of the number f times I've re written this! Anyway sorry for not updating in ages but school exams Christmas procrastination... take your pick. I will attempt to keep the updates regular, but I can't promise anything. But I will not abandon this story! it will be finished!
Just to clarify Dudley is in prison for GBH which is Grievous Bodily Harm here in the UK
And this fic is about Harry/Evan and Tom building a relationship and how tom is not the evil he was portrayed to be !
Do you think that Evan was in character and what do you all think about Eden. Please leave feedback!
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