Chapter 36: Time of Healing Time of Thought

Notes: Hello lovelies I am very sorry for taking so long! I was going to have it ready on time before I noticed a mistake in writing and had to discard the whole chapter. So it took an extra week to get everything fixed, but here it is the final chapter to part one of the boy and the snake series. I have no idea when part two will be coming out, I do hope to have time this up coming break to sit down and write the first ten chapters, so I do have a buffer when it comes to posting. I will also start up other projects such as those mentioned at the bottom of last chapter and again in this chapter. I want to give a moment to thank every single one of you for giving this a chance for giving this Favs, follows, and comments, it has really made writing this so much fun, and I am happy that you guys enjoyed this adventure. I also give lots of thanks and love to my beta for coming in and helping me out a lot with all the mistakes I've made as well as all the wired posting times I have had lately. I love you guys every much 3 and I do hope to see you guys again here in the near future!

Harry let out a moan, his everything hurt, not as bad as a trashing from Uncle Vernon, but everything felt like it had been dragged into different directions. He opened his eyes to a blinding light, making him instantly regret even trying, he tried to move and hide his head into the pillow that was underneath his head; but he ended up a whimpering mess as the muscles pulled and tighten.

"Shh little one," said a deep voice beside him, who was this, he knew this voice but he was so tired to try to place it, "Harry can you take something for me?" He felt cool glass be pressed against his lips; Harry opened his mouth and felt the contents pool into his mouth. A foul taste followed and he almost spit it back out when he felt a hand clamp around his mouth and his head tip back; leaving him with no choice but to swallow.

"You're fine Harry, I've got you, I'm sorry little one," The voice said as he released his grip, whatever the man gave him helped with the pain instantaneously, making the deep, aching pain in his body disappear. Harry felt a hand settle on top of his head, he tensed thinking that a blow was to follow, fingers slowly threading through my hair. He slowly relaxed, his body and brain catching up on thoughts swirling around in his head. Harry slowly opened my eyes, the light that was blinding when he first opened them, but nowhere as bright as when the fingers where taken away from my head. Harry let out a small whimper, missing the comfort of touch; he heard a chuckle and turned to face a blur of the man that was taking care of him. He saw the hand coming closer to his face, and then cold metal was placed on his nose and everything started to come into focus. There sitting in the chair beside him was a man with brown hair, his skin was pale as if he never seen the sun, and his eyes where pools of crimson. Harry's eyebrows furrowed together, he never met this man in his life, and this was not someone he knew.

"Severus wanted to be the one here when you awoke, but he needed much rest after spending three days sitting in this chair. It took both myself and Lucius to put that man into bed," the man said with a smile.

"W-", Harry tried to talk but his voice cracked and his throat was so dry that he ended up in a coughing fit. The man helped Harry sit up patting his back until the fit passed. He then held a glass to his lips. "Drink a little bit, that should help." Harry did as he was told, the liquid, he found out, was just some ice water, and greedily guzzled it down, to sooth his dry. angry throat. The glass was empty and removed before Harry once again turned his attention back to the man that has been helping him, "W-who are you?" His voice was scratchy from the lack of use, but the water had helped in allowing him to speak.

"Oh!" The man exclaimed in excitement, "I guess you never seen me like this, I am the Lord Voldemort," Harry's eyes widened in fear, but if what happened down in the belly of the school was anything to go by, he could not trust this man! He tried to move away from the man, leading him to scoot too far and tumbled out of the bed on to the floor.

"Harry!" The Dark Lord yelped, getting up from his seat to check up on the youth that had spilled out on the floor. Harry scrambled backwards and away from the man, not wanting to be too close, just in case. The Dark lord stop moving, "Oh Harry, there is nothing to be afraid of. I promise I am not going to hurt you," the man kneeled on the floor showing his hands to the frightened youth, showing that he did not have a wand on him. As if he needed one, but the younger didn't need to know that just yet. Harry eyed the open hands apprehensively, his body still tensed ready for anything but slowly unfolded himself. "I will explain everything, but why don't you get back into bed? Severus would have my head if I let you stay on the floor a moment longer."

"That's right Tom," said another voice who sounded upset at this "Tom". Harry's head swung into the direction of the voice to see his Father standing at the threshold of the room. Without thinking Harry flung himself up and ran (more like stumbled) over to Severus, "PAPA!" he said without thinking throwing his tiny arms around Severus' waist burying his head into the man's clothed stomach. Severus froze, this was the first time that Harry called him anything of the sorts, of course he had said Father occasionally, but it was awkwardly put on at the end of a sentence. It took a moment before a smile graced Severus' face and his arms wrapped around the small boy.

"Yes, I am here there is no need to worry my little one." Severus picked up the small boy carrying him back to bed and tucking Harry in, he smiled when he saw those big green eyes looking on at him in wonderment.

"I guess we have a lot to explain," Severus said, claiming the spot where "Tom" was sitting earlier. "As you know this is the Dark Lord," Severus pointed to "Tom", "but he is also known by his name birth name, Tom Riddle."

Tom rolled his eyes, "Yes, yes, my birth name, one I wish to forget, but I am stuck with forever." Harry looked over at Tom with a frown. "Do not worry about it young one, I might explain it to you one day, but as of right now it is fine to call me this." Harry just nodded before turning his attention back to Severus.

"So, what happened? I mean why is h-he here? Are we still at Hogwarts?" Harry stuttered a little, his eyes quickly moving to Tom and back. He knew he was being a little rude, but he wanted answers.

Severus sighed, "No, term ended about a day ago, but we brought you here as soon as we got you out of the chambers, claiming that you where ill. As for the rest, I guess we will start with Levi. After he left you, he went to Tom to tell him that everything was going according to plan, but when he arrived there was a slight problem. It seemed like our Headmaster noticed what was going on, and cornered Tom in his office, of course this led into a standoff between the two, some curses flew and Tom had to make a quick getaway. Since the Headmaster's plan fell through, he had to conjure up a fake and have it take Tom's place when you got to the mirror, hoping that you would come back to the light side if you saw the Dark Lord. So, when the fake turned to ash he set off a delay reaction to seem as if the Dark Lord left his body, and when it went through you left lots of magical residue, as well as some charms. Some included some sort of control charm, a leech charm to slowly drain your magic, and some others of that nature. This was in the hope that it would bring you to his side and under his control." Severus finished, "We are still in the process taking the charms off of you, but it's proving to be difficult. We were starting to get worried the longer you slept, in fear we missed something else, but it proves it was just you magic replenishing itself after the shock it received when all those spells hit you at once."

Harry sat there in silence, absorbing everything that they told him. How could the so called "leader of light" do something as place those types of spells on a child? What of "Tom"? Was he really trust worthy, he knew he could trust Sev, but the Dark Lord?

Harry felt fingers cascade through his hair, startling him from his thoughts. "I am sorry little one." Tom said, kneeling down to look at Harry's face. "I know this is a lot to take in, and I know it is really confusing. I know trusting me is going to take some time, but not to worry, we have this summer to get to know one another better." Tom said with a smile. Harry gave a small nod. "Now is there any questions you have, or would you rather take your potions and go back to sleep?"

"I-I do have one question." Harry said softly. Tom and Severus both looked at Harry, ready for anything. "H-How is it that you have a body?" Severus and Tom blinked, Tom started to laugh, thinking out of everything this child has been through, and this was his first question. Harry blushed ducking his head; he knew that was a stupid question.

"I'm sorry Harry, just out of everything you could have asked; this was a left field question. Well it was the stone we had received; we sent it back to the owners. They were so grateful that they offered an opportunity, letting me have anything, so I asked if it was possible for a body. Nick set to work, and had a type of potion ready in two days, he also said that Dumbledore is no longer access to his work or alchemist research and has lost privilege in that society. He is also in trouble with the papers since Nick has a lot of people looking into his work, and to have it stolen was not a good mark on the Headmaster's record. Nick also wanted me to inform you if you ever need anything, he will take his time and help you with what you need."

Harry just smiled, happy that Nicolas Flamel had his life's work back. Tom stood up, "Alright I'll leave you two alone, I will back here in about two days. Harry rest up, your friends will be here soon to see you." With that, Tom left.

"Alright Harry, take your potions." Severus said, handing him two different ones. "One is to help replenish your magic and the other one is simple sleeping draft. I will let you sleep before I lecture you on how dangerous things that you did were." Harry just gave Severus a small smile, he knew he worried the man, but knew he would not hurt him in anyway, just express how scared he was. Harry quickly drained the potions and slipped back into bed, he heard Severus get up and felt a kiss on his forehead.

"Goodnight little one, we have a few months of freedom, lets enjoy it while we can," Severus said before slipping out of the room. Harry just snuggled into his bed, happy to feel safe and he couldn't wait until he was better, so he could spend time with everyone before he had to go back to Hogwarts.

A/N: I hoped you liked the chapter! :D I live off of comments Please please leave them! I haven't posted on here (but I have on AO3) about this so here it is. I am thinking of other stories that I can do for you guys, but I would like some help. :) I am looking for a co-author to help me out. It would the first piece I would ever write with another person, but I would really love to give it a chance! My email is up in my profile, or at least last time I checked it was o.o so if you are intrested send me an email or PM me on here if you are willing to work with me.

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1. Sick!Harry such as cancer or something like that 0 votes
2. Creature fic. have Darry or Snarry with Harry as the sub maybe Mpreg 2votes
3. Severus adopts and raises Harry, as in he rescues Harry at an early age. Or that he is really Harry's father. 3 votes
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