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Chapter 5: Revenge

Bellatrix bowed before her lord. The call had been sudden and extremely unexpected, but when she arrived the most surprising turn of events was the absolutely gorgeous child upon her lords hip. When the other Death Eaters began to arrive she took her place at the base of the throne.

"My Death Eaters. My friends. I would like to introduce you to someone very precious to me. More precious than anything I have ever owned before." The gathered death eaters felt their faces pale and the fear started to creep up their spines. If the dark lord was this calm and controlled it meant someone would die tonight.

"I would like to formally introduce you to my son Dalen Hadrian Riddle. He is very important to me, but he has been tortured for my past mistakes by a "light' wizard" Voldemort spoke with such utter contempt for whoever had done this that the gathered death eaters shrank back. Voldemort carefully lowered the child to the ground, but kept a careful grip on the young ones hand. The boy struggled to stand, his tiny legs trembled beneath, then sank to his knees, his brown flickering to red and back in fear.

"Unfortunately, due to the treatment he was forced to endure he must rebuild the muscle in his legs, so he has difficulty supporting himself, we are teaching him to walk again essentially." Voldemort informed the gathered crowd. Then his soft eyes turned ice cold,

"Severus, Lucius bring out the prisoner." Lucius smirked maliciously, but Severus was looking worriedly at the child,

"My lord, wouldn't it be prudent to take Dalen to see Draco before we proceed?" He asked softly, fear coating his voice slightly.

"I believe that would be prudent, yes." The little boy on the floor suddenly reached out desperately, his boney hand grasping tightly onto his fathers sleeve. The fear in his eyes was unmistakable.

"It seems that Dalen does not want to leave us today. Go get the prisoner, but keep him silenced." Severus still looked uncertain but followed Lucius without protest.

~~~~~Into the Light~~~~~

James lay against the bars of his cell, his stomach rumbled in hunger and his muscles spasmed uncontrollably due to the destruction of his nerves courtesy of the cruciatus curse. He heard the footsteps approaching and hurdled to the other side of the cell.

"Lucy, Lucy Lucy luciusssss." James cackled, "come to curse me again? Come to 'punish me for my actions'?" Severus stared at his school rival with cold indifference, he hated James Potter before his sadistic tendency's were discovered, now his insanity only made Severus hate him more.

"No, we have come to bring you before the Dark Lord." James hissed like the snakes he so hated. Severus roughly grabbed him and forced him to his feet and pushed him from the cell. Severus took great pleasure in tormenting his schoolyard nemesis in the privacy of he dungeons, he hit him with another stinging hex as they climbed the stairs. Lucius raised an eyebrow with a mental seriously? Severus only shrugged with a wide Cheshire grin on his face.

Severus was nearly skipping when they reentered the gathering hall. James was almost sobbing in pain from the hexes. Lucius was most unimpressed, but he allowed his friend his personal revenge.

"Severus. What is the meaning of this?" Voldemort asked softly, but Severus wasn't fooled. His lord didn't care in the slightest. The Potions Master looked around the room at the gathered Death Eaters, the grunts were craning their necks, trying to get a look at the Light Wizard while the Elite kept their eyes respectfully towards their lord. Not staring him in the eye, but enough for him to know they were anticipating their next orders.

~~~~~Into the Light~~~~~

Dalen sat behind his ... Father(?), protectively perched on the chair at the front of the gathering. He didn't know what was happening, but his severe man had shot him a concerned look before he had left the room. His protector had spoken passionately to the gathered people before them, his soft, soothing voice just washed over him and lulled him almost to sleep.

Then Master Potter had been brought in. Dalen paled and his eyes shifted rapidly from brown to red. They were sending him back with Master Potter. He had been too much of a burden, too much of a freak. Now the severe man and his protector would be rid of him. He wanted to curl up in fear and forget the world outside his dark room existed. Perhaps it didn't. Perhaps he had never left his dark room at all, he might finally be dying and the devil was coming to take him away. His angel had brought the devil to them after all.

Dalen wanted to whimper, but kept quiet. Master Potter would punish him horribly. He didn't want to go back to his horrible dark room in pain. No matter how familiar that pain was.

"crucio" Dalen screamed.

~~~~~Into the Light~~~~~

Marvolo watched in morbid fascination as his Death Eaters tore into Potter. His screams were horrific, he was about to throw his own curse when he realized that James Potter wasn't the only one screaming. Severus was already moving.

Dalen shrunk away from Severus, his screams quieting to whimpers as he cowered before him.

"Hahahaha! The little beast remembers it then. Come on little beast, show them your tricks!" James hissed, his order had the gathered death eaters turning to him.

"Go on then! Do it! DO IT!" Dalen shook with silent sobs as he climbed down from the Dark Lords throne. His tiny legs collapsed on him forcing him to crawl across the floor until he came to a death eaters cloak. His tiny, bony hands grasped it as tightly as they could as his body began to convulse and shake, his eyes rolled back into his head and tiny gasping, raspy noises came out of his throat. Finally Lucius couldn't stand it anymore he pulled Dalen away from the cloak, however the convulsions did not cease, James potter began to laugh. His laughter escalated into shrieks of manic laughter. Dalens cries were horrific and pain filled as they continued, but still James shrieked in amusement.

"SHUT UP!" One of the Death Eaters shouted, the noise had become too much. Suddenly Dalen went silent, his convulsions ceased and his breaths were raspy as he tried to rest.

"Tell me pet. Tell me about them. What did you see pet?" James crooned, almost lovingly.

"Raid... 3 days... Weasley's ... The Burrow... Little Hanglington." Dalen choked out.

Voldemort's eyes widened and the death eaters shuffled uncomfortably. Understanding registering in all of them. Voldemort's son was clairvoyant. Voldemort's son was the one who had betrayed them and ended their raids before they had ever happened.

"We should kill him. Kill him now before he can do anymore damage to your rule, my lord." One of the Death Eaters hissed. Voldemort looked over at him sharply.

"He is my son Dawlish. Do you think that I would allow my son, that I though dead, to be killed? Just because he was tortured and abused his entire life and he knows no better? Do you really think I would murder my own son?" Voldemort asked calmly. Dawlish grimaced, but backed down with a "no my lord".

~~~A Light is Born~~~

Severus shook. The pain that his godson had gone through shook him to the core. He wanted to hate what Dalen had done against his side, he wanted to hate that his own godson had given the enemy information on their movements. But he couldn't, all he could do was destroy James Potter for destroying Dalen so thoroughly that he couldn't function without orders anymore.

"My pet. You have betrayed your father, did you know that. You betrayed your family. You betrayed your parents. You are a failure! A FREAK! A traitor. They are going to send you away. Send you back to me, so I can teach you your place freak." James ranted, oblivious to his captors rage.

"Tell me freak... Do you deserve to be punished?"

"Yes Master Potter." Dalens tiny voice surprised everyone by the sureness in it. He believed that he was a failure and that he deserved to be punished for obeying orders. For betraying his masters enemy.

"Severus. Please take Dalen to his room. Lucius please escort the prisoner to the chamber." Severus picked up the limp, trembling body of the broken child and left the room. He didn't want to see Dalen become the catatonic body that he had been for the first few days in Malfoy Manor. He would do anything to protect his godson, but that might mean enlisting the help of someone who had shunned him and pushed him to his master. He may have to go to Albus and Lilly. He shuddered, but he knew that Lilly would never have condoned what James had done, unless she had changed so much since school.

~~~A Light is Born~~~

Lucius hadn't believed Severus when he had told him that Potter had conditioned Dalen so thoroughly that he no longer believed that freedom was a possibility. Now he did. He did. Dalen had been shattered into thousands of pieces and put back together in the way James Potter wanted. He had thrown the struggling Potter Lord into Fear Room as it was called. The dementors would guard him carefully until he was due to be executed. He needed to seek out his Lord. Marvolo's face when true understanding hit him had been utterly heartbreaking. His lord would need the comfort.

~~~A Light is Born~~~

Dalen was confused. He hadn't been sent back to Master Potter. In fact his severe man had taken him away from Master Potter. It baffled him. The pain that usually covered him for weeks after a vision had been dulled and had faded away with the help of severe mans potions. Things were different and he did not understand.

"Why? I don't... Understand...why are... You helping... Me... Master?" The halting speech made Severe Man wince as if he remembered something unpleasant. Dalen didn't understand why he hadn't been at least punished for screaming. This strange behaviour baffled him and made it seem like his entire world was upside down and spinning sideways. However he was hit with a wave of dizziness and he felt his eyes drooping shut. The last thing he saw was his angels face and the severe man staring at him with something that looked like... Was that shock? No it couldn't be, no one could be concerned about what happens to freaky creatures like him.

~~~A Light is Born~~~

Lilly combed her fingers through Nicholas' hair. His sleep had been effected deeply by what he had remembered about his adopted brother. The sound of the Floo flaring roused her from her stupor.

"Severus? What are you doing here?" She asked, suprised by her ex-best friend in her fireplace.

"We need Potter to understand that what he did was wrong, and that he needs to be punished. We were hoping that perhaps you would talk to him." He explained. She looked at him in shock. Surprise written all over her features. Then they were filled with the familiar fiery rage that Severus remembered so fondly.

"Speak to him?! Oh I'll do more than SPEAK to James Potter! I will tear his head from his shoulders and his arms from his body for what he did to Harry! Laying a finger on him in violence was something he never should have done! And I am going to make him regret it!" Lilly shrieked in rage. Her fury made Severus step back unsurely, worry visible on his face. However, inside, he was cackling in triumph. He had won. After all these years he had finally beaten James Potter.

TBC

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