Chapter 11: Secret reveled and explanations
When James woke he felt like he'd been beaten with a baseball bat repeatedly and he felt really hot. He groaned as he tried to sit up and push some of the blankets off him but had to lie back down. That drew the attention of who ever was in the room with him. A second later he felt a cool rag on his head.
"James, your system went into magical shock last night. You need to rest and stay warm," said a voice that James barley recognized a Snape. He groaned, the last place he wanted to be was near Snape, especially if he had heard the conversation between himself and Voldemort the pervious night. James decided not to think on that and go back to sleep.
When James woke again it was to the sound of arguing between Snape and Triss. "I WANT TO SEE MY FRIEND!" yelled Triss.
"He needs his rest. What part of 'he nearly died last night' don't you understand?" asked Snape in a deadly calm voice.
James kicked off the blankets covering him and walked to where the voices were coming from. As he made his way to what looked like a kitchen he looked around. The small apartment was decorated in blue, silver, and bronze. He walked into the room where the voices were coming from. It was definitely a kitchen.
Snape and Triss both looked very angry and James knew if he didn't intervene they would really start to fight. "Do you two have to argue so loud?" asked James. Snape looked over shocked that James was up and moving and Triss pounced on him.
James knew that was coming and managed not to fall to the floor when she jumped on him. "We were all so worried Shadow. I wasn't able to reach you threw our link and Dray said you weren't answering to he and Kat either," she said in a rush.
"I'm fine Triss. If I were anywhere close to dieing last night you would have known. I was just low on energy and having Ol' snake face head butt me didn't help," said James rubbing his stomach.
Triss chuckled. Triss, do you know if Snape heard any of my conversation with Riddle? James asked in Elven. Snape's jaw dropped.
Yeah, he did. I did as well; he looked as if he would cry when he heard that you were his son. And all of those things Riddle said, I thought he was going to run threw that fire and kill Riddle himself. By the way, a very pissed off and over protective snake is looking for you, Triss said smirking.
JAMES SHADOW CAGE!!!! Jewel hissed slithering into the room.
Snape was looking on in astonishment as James picked up the hissing, deadly and very angry snake. He was even more surprised when James hissed back.
Jewel, Chill out. It's not like I died or anything, said James trying to stop the snake's rant.
NOT LIKE YOU DIED!!! YOU DAMN NEAR DID. YOU WERE COMPLETELY MAGICALLY EXHASTED WHEN YOU GOT HERE. DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW EASILY VOLDEMORT COULD HAVE KILLED YOU HAD YOUR FATHER NOT BEEN THERE? Jewel yelled/hissed.
Jewel had I been completely magically exhausted I would still be a sleep, said James calmly.
Jewel hissed in defeat, knowing she wouldn't win that argument. She crawled up James's arm and into his shirt, poking her head out of his collar.
I think you should have a talk with your dad. He's probably really confused by now, said Triss pointing to the stunned potions master. James nodded and hugged his friend goodbye.
When Triss was gone James motioned for the potions master to follow him. James walked out of the kitchen and into the living room where he had woken up. James avoided the sofa that was covered in blankets and sat down in an over stuffed armchair. Snape waved his wand at the blankets and they disappeared and he sat down.
"What do you want to know?" James asked, knowing the potions master probably had a list of them.
"What language were you speaking to Ms. Summers?" Snape asked.
"First I need your word that none of what I tell you will be reveled to anyone, even, no, especially the headmaster," said James.
"I swear on my honor as a wizard," said Snape.
"Good. I was speaking a high form of Elven. I'm a little more than half Elven, Triss's grandfather was an Elf, so she is about ¼ Elven. You are ¾ Elven and my mother is ½ but she doesn't know that. Only someone who is at least 1/8 Elven can learn speak the language. In this plain only maybe 30 people have the ability to speak the language," said James.
"Where did you get the snake?" Snape asked.
"Her name is Jewel and I bought her. She has grown a bit over protective," said James patting the snake's head fondly.
"How did you get the ability to speak parseltongue?" asked Snape.
"Runs in the family. The Snape line is the direct descendent of the Slytherin and Hufflepuff lines. Tom Riddle is an indirect descendent of Slytherin. The Evans line is a direct descendent of the Gryffindor and Ravenclaw lines," said James.
Once again Snape's jaw dropped. "You mean to say that you are a direct heir of the four founders. Does the headmaster know?" asked Snape.
"No and no one will be telling him. Let me tell you this up front, I don't like Dumbledore. He has a lot to do with all of the bullshit that is in my life as well as Triss's. He will know nothing of me or how I defeated Riddle, as far as anyone is concerned my mothers son was murdered at the hands of Voldemort for being who he was, if they knew about him in the first place," said James in a very strong tone.
Snape nodded. "Why do you hate the headmaster so much?" asked Snape with a slight pain in his voice.
"You know how I said Triss's grandfather was an Elf." Snape nodded. "Her grandfather is Albus Dumbledore. His son was born a squib and left the wizarding world as soon as he could. When Triss was born you could almost feel her magic and her mother died giving birth. Her father beat her and Dumbledore knew and let it happen, Triss would be dead or worse had I not found her," said James putting his head in his hands trying not to remember what kind of tortures Triss had been threw.
Snape looked even more flabbergasted at the news that Triss was Dumbledore's granddaughter. "Why isn't she living with him then?" Snape asked.
"You don't listen do you? He sat and let his son damn near kill his granddaughter and did nothing. You have no idea what Triss went threw. Dumbledore shouldn't have the right to even look at her much less try and assume care for her," said James as pulses of magic rolled off of him in waves.
"What if Dumbledore tries to take her?" asked Snape pushing a very sensitive subject.
"I have a lot of friends in the Ministry of Magic. If he got passed them he still couldn't touch her because of the bond she has to me, and the fact Triss would probably kill him herself," said James laughing at the thought of Triss transforming into Tigress and mauling Dumbledore.
"How does Dumbledore tie into your life?" Snape continued.
"He is the one who 'persuaded' Evans to give me up. He said that everyone would eventually find out that her son was a bastard so it was in her best interest to put me up for adoption and then tell everyone that her son was stillborn. He never bothered to tell her who her rapist was," said James.
Snape looked ready to kill at the final comment. Dumbledore had told him that Lily knew full well who had raped her. Had he known she was going to give his son up he'd have taken him in an instant. He knew he could still have that chance to get to know his son but didn't know how to accomplish that with such a closed off person.
"How did you find this out?" Snape asked looking at the blank faced James.
"When I got sorted the hat said that not everything was as it seemed. I decided to have a look into Dumbledore's head to see what the hat meant and I saw what it was talking about. Dumbledore sees himself as some sort of chest master and everyone around him is a pawn. I think he is working to some prophecy or another but I haven't had time to research them," said James, face still blank but you could tell from his body movement that he was trying not to curse something.
"Manipulative old bastard," hissed Snape.
"And to think I've been telling everyone this for years," said James with a hint of humor.
Snape smiled a bit to and decided to ask the question he'd been wondering about since the previous night. "I was wondering, could we get to know one another a bit better?" Snape asked a bit shyly.
"As what?" asked James putting his blank face back on.
"Father and Son. I've wanted a child for as long as I can remember but-" Snape stopped there obviously remembering something bad that happened.
James thought about the question for a few minutes. Snape obviously wanted to be at least a small part of his life and the look on his face alone almost made James say yes. "We'll see. Right now I have a lot of work to do before school ends. However I'm not sure about the summer holidays so we'll see," said James trying to avoid giving a direct answer.
"Now for my questions. Does anyone know about what happened in that room with Quirrell?" James asked.
"No, as far as anyone knows you told me that Quirrell was acting strange and went to the third floor corridor. From there on I followed him and killed him when he wasn't looking," said Snape.
"Alright, I'll be going then," said James standing from the chair and walking out of the room changing back into his other form and leaving a dumb struck Snape behind.
Finally it was the last day of school. Most students were running around trying to get packed. James, Triss, Kat, and Dray were the exceptions. They were all packed up and ready to leave.
In the days after Snape and James's conversation they had talked a few more times but as expected James's work and prank load started to get heavy. All of the professors piled on essay after essay, all due by the end of the summer. Plus the fact that Black and Weasley were picking on Kat again. James had a special prank just for them and Bole, for pelting all of those Bludgers at him.
"Are you guys ready to go down to the feast?" asked Triss from her spot on James's lap.
"Any time you are," said Dray.
"Let's go then. It's 7 o'clock anyway," said James letting Triss jump up before hopping up himself. Dray and Kat followed. The feast had already started when they entered the hall. They were the only ones that had yet to arrive.
About halfway threw the feast James decided to start his prank. With a small wave of his hand Bole, Weasley, and Black were standing in front of the teacher's table. With another wave Weasley, Bole, and Black were dressed as TJ, Baby bop, and Barney sing "I LOVE YOU, YOU LOVE ME, WERE'RE ONE HAPPY FAMILY…" The great hall roared as the three of them started to dance in a circle, holding hands while singing.
They finally stopped singing 5 minutes later when the spell wore off. A big sign appeared over them that said 'Curtsey of the Hunters' in flashing blue paint. "Since when did you start signing your pranks Shadow?" Triss asked in his ear when she was finally able to stop laughing.
"When the Weasley twins started taking credit for my work," said James while dispelling the sign. It disappeared with a small crack.
"We'll I'm going to get to bed. Who knows what Dragon will have waiting for us when we get home tomorrow," said Triss walking from the great hall. Dray soon followed and James was left to walk Kat back to her dorm.
The next morning James was woken by a big wet slippery kiss from Tigress. "Ewwwww, Tigress. That's nasty, you don't see me waking you up by licking you," said James casting a cleansing charm on his face.
Triss transformed back into human form and broke into fits of laughter. "Well I had to wake you up some how," said Triss when she was finally able to stop laughing.
"Watch it or I'll have to throw you in the lake," said James smirking a very Slytherin smirk.
"You do and I'll have you neutered," said Triss smirking evilly as James lost a few shades of color in his face.
"That's not even something to joke about Triss. That's my manhood you're talking about," said James cupping his hands over his family jewels. That just made Triss burst out laughing.
"Come on, we have to get our stuff out to the platform so get dressed," said Triss threw her giggles. James followed her orders and hopped out of bed and took his normal morning shower and got dressed. Jewel wrapped herself loosely around his arm loving the extra warmth.
James shrunk his trunk into the size of a matchbox and dropped it in his pocket. He went down stairs and saw Triss levitating her trunk. "Let me see it," he said. Triss put it down on the ground and like his trunk James shrunk it down to the size of a matchbox and handed it to her. "Ready to go home?" James asked.
"Very. I'm starting to miss the peacefulness of the forest," said Triss pocketing her trunk.
"Yeah, I can't wait to go for a run," said James with a dreamy look on his face.
The two headed down to the Great Hall and sat down by Dray and Kat. "Where are your trunks?" asked Dray.
"In our pockets," said Triss.
"Oh," said Dray smacking himself in the head for his stupidity. "Are you ready for the summer holidays?" asked Dray.
"Yes," said James and Triss simultaneously.
"Not really," said Kat.
"You know your welcome to come stay with us for the summer, right?" asked James.
"Yeah, but I want to go visit some of my friends at home," said Kat smiling a bit.
'Kat, promise me that if they so much as look at you funny you will call for me,' James telepathed to her.
'I promise Jimmy,' Kat thought back.
Soon they quartet was boarding the train home. James had said goodbye to Evans and Snape, the former asked for James to come back and visit some time during the summer and James said he would if he had time. "Kind of clingy don't ya think?" asked Triss.
"A bit but how would you feel if you were denied access to your son or daughter for 11 years of there life. Frankly I would have blown Dumbledore up myself," said James.
"That's only because you don't like Dumbledore anyway you look at it and I have first dibs on the ol' Bastard anyway," said Triss imagining all of the things she could do to torture her Grandfather.
"You take to much joy in this," said James at the dreamy look in Triss's eyes.
"Damn strait," said Triss as Dray and Kat entered their compartment.
After many hours the train finally stopped at Platform 9 ¾ and started to unload. James hauled Kat's trunk out of the compartment and onto the Muggle platform its self. "Where are your parents?" asked James.
Kat pointed to a boy of about 16 or 17 wearing baggie jeans and a plain baggie t-shirt. "That's my older brother," said Kat a bit uneasily.
"Okay," said James carrying the large trunk over to where her brother stood. He set it down at the older brothers feet and stuck out his hand. "James Cage," said James.
"Justin Granger," said the teen. "Ready to go sis?" Justin asked a bit to sweetly.
"Yes Justin," said Kat a bit uneasily.
"Bye Kat," said James giving her a hug. 'If anything happens or you just want to talk to me just call. By the way, I put a featherweight charm on you trunk. It's permanent unless someone removes it,' James thought to her.
Kat hugged him back. "Thanks Jimmy," said Kat releasing him.
"See you later," said James walking back to where Triss was waiting. Once they freed themselves from the mop of people running around the platform James ported them to their home.
[A/N: The story will continue on this storyboard because I'm too lazy to start another one. ]
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