Tsyilna Llyria: Yeah, I just thought that Sybil and Snowy Holly would like one another. And I really like Icon for Hire. Their music is so good.

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Reaper7: To hopefully even it all out, the last chapters are over a thousand words a piece, closer to two. And I only ask for reviews so I know that people are actually reading what I write. Hopefully, your confusion will begin to lessen soon.

Thank you for those reviews, and please forgive me for harping but I refuse to put my attention upon something that no one's reading.

Love, Keta

Chapter 4: Forever and Ever
I don't like pain but I bring it to life.

I don't like scars but I'm good with a knife.

I don't like tears but I'm starting to cry

When I realize I'm destroying my life

-Iodine (Icon for Hire)

"Did you hear?" Snowy Holly keeps his head bowed over his divination textbook in the library, trying to ignore that chatter that's been annoying him all day.

"No, what?"

"Sirius Black was sighted in Hogsmeade yesterday!"

Cedric who's been studying with the whitette looks up at him with interest. "Do you know anything about it?"

"About what?"

"About Sirius Black's escape."

"No."

"Are you sure?" The sixth year asks incredulously, finally making the boy look up.

"Yes. Why?" Snowy Holly merely quirks an eyebrow at the look he's getting.

His question earns a shrug. "I just thought that since you're from Azkaban, you'd know something."

"Yes, but I don't work in the prison, Cedric."

"So? You still live in Azkaban."

Mismatched eyes roll. "That doesn't mean that I know everything that goes on in my homeland. Why are humans so dumb?"

"You were human once too."

Snowy Holly sighs. "Yes I was, but I was a child then." Yet another sigh escaped his lips. 'We were both children then.'

"If you were trapped in someone else's body while they were still inhabiting it, how would you react?"

Aurora blinks and raises an eyebrow questioningly. "What brought this on?"

"I just want someone's opinion other then my own."

"That doesn't answer my question."

Mismatched eyes lower. "His human name is Markalis Verkehren Tyler, and he lives inside of me. In a way, I'm his reincarnation; unfortunately, he doesn't want me around."

"Why?!" she cries. "Why would anyone want to get rid of you? Wait... human name?"

He tries to smile reassuringly at Aurora, but it seems to fail. "Markalis was once human many, many years ago, but he- he eventually became like me."

"He was a dementor?!" Her jaw drops, obviously not believing that one of the kit's own kind would dare harm him. "Why would he want to hurt you?!"

"I don't really know."

"Have you asked?"

"No. I want to, but I am afraid of the answer. After all, he was apparently a very determined dementor, especially when it came to the dark side's cause."

"He was dark? I thought dementors were neutral."

"We generally are, but he was in love with Tom. He was Tom's best friend and eventual lover, Rainbow Adder." Aurora stares shell-shocked at Snowy Holly, incapable of speaking. "You don't hate me for it, do you?"

"What?! No!" she cries. "No. I would never hate you, Snowy Holly."

He gives her a sad smile. "Thanks."

"You're welcome." Silence reigns for a few moments. "Do your friends know?"

"Well..." He looks down. "Not exactly..."

"What do you mean 'not exactly'?"

"They know about him, but they have no clue that he was a dementor."

"Then you need to tell them."

"But-"

"Tell them!" she shouts.

"Okay! Okay!"

'I wanna see Tom.'

'Go away, Markalis.'

'No! Let me see my Tom!'

'Shut up!' Snowy Holly screams and flops onto his bed. 'Why are you still here?! You're dead! You should've stayed dead! What the hell made you come back?!'

The once-Rainbow Adder makes a whimpering noise and does his version of a flinch. 'I just...'

'You just what?!'

'I just want to be... with him again. I want to make them pay. I want to kill the wizards that will harm us all...'

'And what does that have to do with me?! Why did you pick me?!

'I didn't. Devourer of Suns did.'

'What?' The shock eliminates all semblance of hatred and fury in his voice.

'He gave you my cloak. That's what gave you me.'

'He- he would let me be trapped with you...'

'He's my brother, Snowy Holly. He misses me. This is why he picked you. He knew that you would eventually accept me.' Markalis sighs. 'He knew that you'd be our species only hope.'

'What do you mean?'

'It will happen again. The wizards will try to kill us again. That's why I need your help.'

Realization dawns on the kit. 'He picked me because I was the boy-who-lived. That's the only reason, isn't it?'

'Not the entire one.'

'Then what is the entire reason?'

'You were small, and innocent. You were an orphan, just like me. He adopted you, just like his mother did me. You and I are very much alike.'

Snowy Holly pulls his Shikra closer as he thinks about what's he's learned. "What if Markalis is right?" he asks himself. "Could Devourer of Suns really not care about me? Could everything have been just to save our species?" As he passes the Whomping Willow, he finds himself at a loss, more so than ever before. "How could he not tell me? I mean, I knew that the humans would one day try to kill us off again, but..." He tilts his head up to the sky and thinks of his once-human adoptive mother. "Did Wandering Moon take me in for the same reason?"

"I doubt it." Without him noticing, Sirius had crept up beside him. "She loves you very much. I can tell."

"Sirius! What the hell are you doing out here?!"

"Partially checking up on you."

"Partially?" Sirius nods. "What's the other part?"

"Peter Petigrew is here."

"The wizard that killed my parents?"

"Yeah."

"You've got to be shiting me."

"No."

"Where is he?!" The venom in Snowy Holly's voice shocks his godfather.

"He's pretending to be Ronald Weasley's rat." At the following growl, the animagus asks, "what are you going to do?"

"Kill him."