Author's Note: to Jan-AQ This is the final chapter of the supposed introduction of Severus and Harry. I had meant to do that, because my story is inspired by Harry Potter and the Alternate Life by I'll read pure hinny fics only. I recommend reading this, because my story is inspired by this. This will be my longest chapter and a switch of POV of James and Severus, but mainly Severus, because we still have the kidnapped girls subplot which will decide Severus' fate to the death eaters and if he is indeed trustworthy and such, also the beginning of the battle of Voldemort and the Potters, also I had changed the death of Lord Potter's death to be early, in the main canon, Fleamont and Euphemia Potter had died from dragon pox in 1979, so in this chapter, expect a lot of angst, anger, rage, sadness, character death, and all of the above, also the pinnacle point of James Potter in which I will elaborate further in the story, so get ready for a roller coaster. Also this will be mainly Severus fic, James and Lily serves as second main role, only Severus and Harry are the center figure of the story. Harry will have his POV in Chapter 9, Chapters six will be bunch of time-skips, and Chapter Seven will be Halloween 1981 and the beginning of Severus and Harry's relationship as father and son, so without further a do, here is chapter 5.
Chapter 5
Morning May 8th 1979
Potter Manor
James Potter woke up very early with no dream, usually his dreams were mostly happy dreams with Lily and how they will get to spend their honeymoon if they manage to survive this hellish nightmare.
Groaning, he stood up to head for the bathroom for a quick shower, and shave his annoying patches of beard and moustache.
After making it clean shaven, he stared at the quiet look of Lily Evans and he sighs happily to see her sleeping peacefully.
She looked like a goddess, with that long, dark auburn hair that drives him crazy, and the voluptuously body of her that marks of a true goddess, she has filled alright, and it made him ache that he will not see her for the whole day if it turns out sideways.
Sighing in a defeat, he called upon Mickey, the House Elf, and the happy house elf bowed to his master,
"Good morning, Master James, the usual breakfast is?" Mickey asks
"The usual Mickey" James chuckles.
"Oh, and Mickey, my mother Lady Euphemia Potter will come for a visit, only cast more protections on the manor, she will bring Cassandra, along" James said.
"I is will do it Master James" Mickey bowed.
James chuckles for the high pitch sound of Mickey. He really liked the Elf, he was his best friend before he met Sirius, the only confidant when he use to make mischievous trouble on the manor.
The sun shines through the glistening windows of the manor, thus more owls to bring newspaper from the Daily Prophet.
He picked up a new copy and frowned on the photo of Minister Bagnold stating a press conference on the muggle registration program, alongside Abraxas Malfoy and his son Lucius whom both lift their heads, and smirk as in victory.
He shreds the paper and threw it to the fireplace.
Turning to see Mickey already settled Eggs and Bacon with hash browns and French toast, James favorite breakfast meal.
He sat on the table and the sound of a 'good morning' but more of a soft moan from Lily.
She came forward with her disheveled hair and she sat on the table, and began to dive in, giving James chuckle and grin
Normally she was the early riser, but with this Wizengamot meeting attention, and the potential battle to happen, James had to be alert and sleep early for that.
Lily looked at him, and she gives that angelic smile that would make him melt.
"Good morning to you Lily flower." James grinned.
"Looks like someone is in a happy mood, for once" Lily smirks.
"Should I be offended?" James grins.
"It is cool that you get to wake up before me, but I recall earlier that you were always whining on waking up early" Lily's smirk widens.
"Well I happen to mature fast and realize that waking up early does have benefits" James smirks
"Brat, you are a good liar, but you look sexy right now" Lily purrs
"Well I only have 20 minutes till I reach the meeting, so maybe we can spend the 10 minutes in bedroom" James wiggles his eyebrows
"James Fleamont Potter! Well it is an enticing offer and good 10 minutes of fun" Lily smirks.
With a flick of a wrist, they ended up on the bed, and James began to unzip his pants, only to find Lily already naked, and waiting for him
After 10 minutes of euphoric making love, James sees the watch and it was 9:50 AM, the meeting starts at 10 sharp
He makes the last soft kiss on Lily's lips and she nods, she grabbed his wrist and spoke softly "Promise me to come home safe" Lily said.
Looking into her mesmerizing emerald eyes "I promise" James spoke softly.
He went outside of the Potter Manor, and apparates into the alley of London.
Ministry of Magic
James really hates the entrance to the ministry of magic, because he had to enter the cramped telephone line, and types the certain numbers which they clearly change every day, and he finds himself getting sucked into the ministry.
He was checked by the guard, examining his wand too, in case of recent spells being used, and the guard had handed him a yellow note stating Auror in training.
He nods and was instructed to head on the lift which is on the first right.
He went as instructed and clicked on the lift, waiting.
A rough hands pats his back and James lets out a wide grin to give his best friend a hug
"Nervous Prongs?" Sirius' signature smile fades.
"I am Padfoot, but I am positive this barbaric act will end today" James frowns.
The lift opens, James and Sirius went inside and a running Marlene dashed forward, which the two men chuckled to see her disheveled hair.
"Ha ha, when the damn alarm clock did not went off, I was lucky that I managed to apparate" Marlene scowls.
"I know baby, which is why seeing your disheveled hair, turns me on" Sirius licks his lips.
"Prat! not in public!" Marlene grins but manages to hit Sirius' arms.
They both kissed, leaving James chuckle "Oh get a room you two, btw, look in front, there will be people coming, so look respectable" James grins.
"Oh I will behave if git here behaves also" Marlene smirks.
"Guilty as charged" Sirius smirks also
James shook his head and sighs loudly, 'oh this is gonna be a long day'
The lift ended in level 2, 'the Wizengamot' the sound of a lady echoes, and James read the signs' saying that the Wizengamot is on the first left.
He finally found the room, only to be met by his father, and his father embraced him a hug, which made him cringe a bit, but deep down he likes the embrace.
"Ready son?" Lord Fleamont Potter asks
"Ready as be Da" James smiles.
the door opens and they walked through the well-bright room filled with ministry officials, Death Eaters, and surprisingly Lord Voldemort
James manages not to stare at the tall, dark-haired, clad in black robes, the man's gleaming red eyes is enough to make him feel uneasy.
James stood up on the Potter chair, which his father sat, except Sirius sat on his chair, since he had inherited the Black fortune because of his father's untimely death and his mother too.
The aurors as Dumbledore stated follow pursuit and sat, guarding of any anomalies, James sees Frank stood up, guarding his mother, Augusta Longbottom, and he sees Fabian and Gideon Prewett guarding also.
James sighs, and feels his hand pulled by his father with a whisper "Look sharp, I have an uneasy feeling this will end bloody" Lord Fleamont said
James nods and kept his mind clear of Lily for a moment.
The sound of footsteps of his former headmaster Albus Dumbledore echoes through the room, and James turns to see the silent man flinch a bit
James knew that Lord Voldemort is afraid of Dumbledore, heck everyone are, including himself, but the sense of hate really blinded the silent man, James really doesn't understand what goes on the dark-haired man's head.
The members stood up, showing the respect of Minister Bagnold and the short, plump man walked like he owned this room, with such arrogance. heh ironic James thought.
And so the moment begins.
"Gentlemen, members of Wizengamot, Lord Voldemort, and Albus" Minister Bagnold courtesies all but spoke bitterly on Albus
"I came here to tell you that today is the day to make our world pure. The bill has been ratified and agreed by majority. With this there are still objections, and with the laws of ministry of magic, I have to obey, so I will call upon the objector of a glorious bill. Albus Dumbledore, Chief Warlock of Wizengamot and a headmaster of Hogwarts school of witchcraft and Wizardry to stand up and give his say on this." Minister Bagnold waves his hand
James watches his headmaster, standing up and nods over the minister, and thus he began speaking.
"Thank you minster Bagnold, the members of Wizengamot, I have call upon to reason that this bill will cause division and civil war in muggle terms. I have watched, and witnessed what the muggles had done in 1945, with their great war or World War II, and it was messy. It had caused death by millions only because of a certain individual does not believe what other thinks" Dumbledore said, staring at the smirking Lord Voldemort.
"I see this is barbaric, and we should learn the mistakes of what the muggles had done. I am not saying we are superior and should already cause what they had suffered already from the great war" Albus said.
"That's blasphemy! you want us to be 'integrated' with the filthy mudbloods!" Lord Mulciber senior stood up and spat, giving the members snicker at that. James almost gag with disgust.
"I agree with Lord Mulciber. Why should we learn from them, when we can enslave them" Lord Abraxas said smugly
The sound of accepting what the noble man of Malfoy had deafened the room until Minister Bagnold interfered them to be quiet
"Thank you minister, as I was saying, they had suffered enough because of the losses they endure, to make this plan enforced not only will damage them, it will also shows us how barbaric we are, and they will never trust us. My dear friend Nicholas Flamel had witnessed the witch burnings in Salem, and the burnings of Wizards and witches in Britain, The muggles did not understand us, neither had appreciated that we are the same, it is only our genes that separates us from them" Albus said.
"Then what do you suggest Albus?" Lord Orphelius Greengrass asks.
James turns to see the tall brown-haired man, and he can tell that the nobleman of Greengrass sounds neutral as if they have no part of it, but it might be an act
"Blah! the old man is a fool Orphelius, he still does not realize that mudbloods must be enslaved, just like house elves and undesirables" Lord Nott spat.
James watches the heated conversation between them had pertained but was interrupted by a loud cough from Voldemort which speaks clearly that they need to calm down or else.
"With this, I see fit to remove the Muggle registration act to be abolished, because we need to learn from them, help them, and ensure them safety" Albus concludes.
"Are you done Albus?" Minister Bagnold asks with no emotions.
James watches the sadness from his former headmaster nods and sat.
"Ok, I will need to hear one last say before we conclude the meeting" Minister Bagnold said.
"Lord Voldemort" Minister Bagnold courtesies and then the smirking man rose up.
"Thank you for being hospitable minister Bagnold. Members of Wizengamot, I have to disagree Albus for this. Mudbloods don't need to be helped nor ensure safety, they were meant to be enslaved. I don't care about some grand war they had been through, I only care about the future, and ensuring the world of pure. We are meant to be purebloods. We are meant to be powerful, superior to them. Just like the noble Salazar Slytherin had implied, the mudbloods are inferior, because they have no control on us, so why should we listen to them or even worse 'mate' with them, with this the muggle registration should be enforced, because we must separate the purebloods who poses filth and thus enlighten them with truth and just. Which is why I am with the favor with our esteemed minister that the act is glorious. With that I conclude my speech" Voldemort sat
The sounds of the claps made his stomach churn, because despite the hate filled with Voldemort. James couldn't deny of how he delivers the message in a calm way.
"Is there anyone who wishes to speak? then come forth" Minister Bagnold asks
The silence implies that the meeting is going to end until James knew this will be the turning point.
"If I may minister, I want to reassure something if you would let me" Albus said.
James understood what his former headmaster is implying, one last card to play.
James watches his headmaster shooting yellow light to the shocked minister, and he was thrashed away from the chair with such force
The sound of the minister falling had caused an uproar to the members of the Wizengamot and then Dumbledore continues speaking.
"I knew something was off, the moment I see this being enforced. You see members of Wizengamot, you had been fooled and by this man" Albus said, pointing to the angry looking Voldemort.
"He speaks high and mighty, but when he does the dirty work, he doesn't care if the world is pure or not, he just wants to satiate his hunger on proving himself that he is the greatest sorcerer. Unlike Grindelwald, Tom is always impulsive on one thing, and it is expecting the unexpecte..." The jet of faded blue hex made a gash on the headmaster, and thus the battle begins.
"You may have won on this Dumbledore, but rest assured, I will not leave this building empty handed, kill them, all" Voldemort sneered
James stares at Abraxas, Mulciber, other Death Eaters stood up and starts shooting killing curses here and there.
It was a horror show. The members were getting slaughtered, and the room was locked as soon as the maniac had ordered to kill.
James manages to dodge several killing curse, and then the swarm of Aurors, dashing through the door, bringing more reinforcements, but it was too late, because more Death Eaters joins in
James fires several hexes, and dodges the torture curse, only to have a small gash on some nasty curse that was shot by one Death Eater.
Moaning slightly, he manages to transfigure the pen into a bucket filled with water, and uses the levitation charm onto the Death Eater, knocking the man down.
He chances a glance to see his father, holding himself, and the old man locks eyes to James, signaling him that everything will be fine, he has to protect his fellow friends.
James nods and ducks under, but was cornered by Mulciber senior, and so they began dueling.
The broad shouldered Death Eater was quick on firing curses, but James was quicker to forestall, and transfigure the rest of chairs into jello that makes the Death Eater fall down.
He fired a strong hex, but the Death Eater conjured a shield. absorbing the intensity of the hex. The rough-looking man sneered at James and uttered Levicorpus.
James finds himself upside down, his wand fell down. and then the Death Eater almost uttered the torture curse, but was knocked out by none other than Sirius, James falls down with a soft thud, but groaning a bit.
"Looks like I had just saved your ass" Sirius smirks.
James rubs his bruised elbow a bit and manages to grin over Sirius, uttering an inflated nose prank onto the screaming Death Eaters, saving Sirius to be cursed.
"That makes the two of us" James smirks.
Sirius lets out a barking laugh and held his best friend to make him stable and spoke. "Prat" Sirius smirks.
"Let's save the others, you watch my back" James said and Sirius nods.
They headed to the lift, and with a split second a loud boom, and it made the whole building shake. James instantly thought about his father, but he knows how stubborn his father can be, so he shows no worries about that.
The lift stopped into the main hall and the managed to push through. It was a spiraling chaos. Curses thrown all over the place, and papers, flying. It was like the time he and Sirius pranked Filch's room a long time ago, but this one felt like someone really hated this place and starts throwing tantrums all over the place.
"Merlin's beard" Sirius whispers.
"I know Padfoot, we have a mission to stick, follow me, we need to find Marlene" James said.
It took them quite some time to find Marlene, they were cornered by other Death Eaters, and it was a close match, these two were very good duelists, but they weren't no match with Sirius genius mind on stalling them, and James exceptional offense.
They saw Marlene, holding herself quite well, and she looked onto them with a smile and then a jet of purple spell hits on her stomach, knocking herself out.
It felt like a flash of seconds for James, but the echo yell from Sirius had brought him back to life, and James follows him.
Sirius held Marlene tightly and the tears had dropped onto her shining blonde hair.
James felt soft tears, leaking from his eyes, his worst fear is about losing Lily and his friends, now this is a reality, and it generates him an untapped rage on the Death Eaters.
Before James turns to hurry, he heard the sound of Marlene calling his name, and his eyes widens.
"You think I would be gone do you? I am still kicking though, but I do need to be treated, so Jimmy go, you too Sirius" Marlene said.
"But Marlene" Sirius argues.
"No, go. Jimmy can you conjure any object into a portkey, I want to go to Saint Mungos safely, I would appreciate that" Marlene said.
James nods and flushes a bit from how his other childhood friend calling his nickname.
He took out his battered glove, due to the hefty spells he sees, and transforms it into a portkey. He hands to Marlene and then spoke "Here, you should be arriving in any moment, Sirius and I will come back as soon we finish this mess" James said.
Marlene smiles and then, she vanishes.
James held his silent friend for a brotherly embrace, and then he felt the softly sobbing man spoke with pure rage. "I'll kill them, I will kill them all!" Sirius barks.
"I know Padfoot, but we are not going to do that, we are no different than them if we do that, we can teach them a lesson. I promise you that" James said.
Sirius nods, and they ran to go for the lift, but a stinging curse latched through James' wand hand, and he flinches in pain. It was a familiar sensation, but he couldn't recall from where.
He turns to see two Death Eaters standing, wands ready to fire, and in stance.
They both wear silver masks, but both did not make a move.
James begins to yell "COME ON YOU FUCKING COWARDS! SHOW ME WHAT YOU MADE OF" James yells.
"With pleasure" a very familiar sound said.
James sees the man who said that begins to levitate the rocks that were blasted by others who were still fighting for their lives.
James notices his eyes widens that the rocks were transfigured into sharp knives, and the Death Eater flicks his wrist, letting the knives aiming at him as fast as the killing curse does.
James had to act, and fast, so he conjures a shield, only to absorb some of the knives that got disappeared, but there were many knives, and it somehow broke the shield's defense, which one stabbed his hand, the other his nose, and the latter created a long gash on his chest.
James finds himself falling on the ground and the swarming knives had stopped.
Warm blood oozed on the ground, and the two Death Eaters came close to gloat
Sirius manages to cast Aguamenti, and the water spell manages to buy their time
He grabbed James and pulled him away to the lift, and then the lift closes.
"I could've had them!" James spat.
"Yeah, and you could've died Prongs. I know you can do it, but for now, focus on the remaining strength you have." Sirius said, wiping the sweat from his forehead.
"You know Padfoot, something about them feels familiar, did you see how one of them had managed to transfigure a rock into a knife. The last time I remembered, Professor McGonagal had marked a test when we were in fifth year, and it was me the first and Snivelis the second.
"Oh yeah, I recall the way they man said with pleasure, it does ring a reminiscence. Do you think it was he under the mask" Sirius ponders.
"Could be, I am not surprised at all that our buddy Snivelis to be sinking deep into the darkness. Poor Lily, she will be in absolute broken for that" James frowns.
"You care about Snivelis?" Sirius asks in a shocking tone.
"No, but I care about how Lily thinks, for now, let's just head to the main hall, and find Dumbledore, with that, I know there would be more fun, so I will manage to heal myself with basic spells. I will be fine Padfoot" James chuckles.
"One can wonder Prongs" Sirius smirks.
They both laughed for a moment and the lift stopped, screaming main hall and the hell broke loose, it got worse a minute by minute, and James nods to his best friend which he returns the nod.
Together they will end this tonight.
40 minutes before the Ministry battle massacre.
Snape Flat, London
Severus felt his mark burn with such intent and the whispers of Lord Voldemort had commanded them to be apparating outside the ministry walls and gather around in a circle, but wait until he tells them to begin raiding
A loud knock had woke from Severus' trance and he opens it. It was Mulciber and he was grinning
"Ready for the glorious day Severus?" Mulciber grins.
Severus tried to be courteous with his once best friend.
He still remembers what happened to the girls last night
Still remember how the blonde was raped, tortured, and then the mesmerizing violet eyes of a dark-haired woman, begging him to save her.
He finds himself in a trap, because part of him wanted to save them, but it will always come with a cost of course.
They get to find out and hunt him down or worse, hunt down Lily, which makes no difference to the monsters of his friends.
Regardless, Severus had to give Mulciber some credit of the blonde man defending him in his younger days, but it still felt painful to see once a very good friend and a confidant, turns out to be a rapist and a monster.
The Blonde man expects an answer from Severus and then he masks a fake smile. Luckily the blonde man bought it.
"Good, now we must be ready for any attacks. I have contacted Evan Rosier, Antonin Dolohov, and Rabastan Lestrange. We also had recruited a new member, Regulus Black. A fresh newbie, but will be assigned on a mission with us." Mulciber smiles.
The name of the idiot Sirius Black's brother grew alarms on Severus.
The boy is younger than him in one year, but he was gifted on dark arts.
Somehow Severus feels that the boy, well a man, is not yet ready to be recruited and assigned on a potential dangerous task, but Severus laughs internally about that, because he was inducted at the same age as Regulus is being inducted, so speaking of double standards.
Ever since the incident, Severus begins to wonder if this is just a game, and he is being a pawn for the game.
He asks Mulciber if the blonde man wants tea and his teammate replies yes. They were waiting for the command, since the Dark Lord had commanded them to be on hold.
They drank silently and they had some small talks about how's Severus is doing and such, other than that, just brief silence.
The mark burns, and a loud whisper confirming from the Dark Lord implying that they are needed and now.
Severus and Mulciber nods and then they both apparated to the Ministry of Magic.
Ministry of Magic
Severus arrives and his eyes widen in disbelief that the phone booth was blasted. They met one of the wounded Death Eater, and Severus manages to grab a dingy amulet. It was a portkey, and they were transported inside the ministry walls.
Severus couldn't believe what he is seeing. He was once in a mission here a long time ago, but he was ordered only to wound, not kill. This time it is a massacre.
Many ministry officials were slaughtered.
The smell of blood, dirt, and all the above had almost made him gag.
The mixture of aurors, ministry officials, and Death Eaters was too much to bare.
He was yanked by Mulciber and Severus can sense a fear from the blonde man, telling him to follow him.
They ran ahead and picked up a lift and Severus sees Mulciber tapping the button repeatedly and the lift begins to close.
The silence in the lift is making the already tense man nervous, and then when the sound of 'Wizengamot' flashes. They heard a loud bang that made the whole building shook and Severus sees Mulciber running as fast as he can and Severus follows pursuit.
The look on the Wizengamot is like a horror show. Less intense than the hall, but the bodies of dead ministry officials, and few Death Eaters but this room had stones all over the place. It must be someone casting some powerful spell and the room was shaking, hence the stone.
Severus sees the man holding a dead body, and Mulciber looks at him with tearful eyes. Severus gives some room for the sobbing man, managing to scout any possible intruder to battle.
It was too quiet, and there was no sound, until the quiet footsteps intervened the moment.
Severus aims his wand to the intruder, and there was Potter, but that is not Potter Severus knows and loathes.
He looks older, but still has that rats nest of hair. Something about this man seems normal, no cockiness, no smirks, just hollow face. Is this man related to the arrogant James Potter? Severus wonders.
The old man lifts his arms in a surrender position, but Severus still maintains aiming his wand.
"I come here with no harm my child, I was the only one who survived when the explosion had detonated." The Potter Senior said,
"How should I believe you? You may have done it by yourself" Severus spat under his mask.
"Do I look like I have the ability to set this place shake young man?" Potter senior quips.
He is his father alright. Severus shook his head, but still maintains putting his wand onto the calm man.
"Put your wand down, I know you are a Death Eater, but your master bailed you." Potter senior said.
Somehow that made Mulciber snap and Severus felt his teammate stood up to see the commotion.
With a split second his friend uttered the torture curse onto a wandless old man
Severus watches Potter's father writhe in pain. The legs were bent in odd shape, and he was screaming loudly.
Severus heard bits of words that were left in Mulciber's mouth about blood traitor, killing his father, and go rot in hell.
After the curse lifted, Severus watches the old man catching his breath for a bit, and then they locked eyes, well him looking into Severus eyes under the mask.
"I know there's good in you, You are just af..." Potter Senior said.
"Avada Kedavra!" Mulciber screams.
The jet of green light went into the old man's chest, and the thoughtful eyes of the old man, turned lifeless. The old man dropped into the floor, dead.
This made Severus snap.
"You idiot! he didn't kill your father!" Severus yells.
"And you somehow believed that traitor? I thought you are better than this, but for now punishing you would wait. I killed Potter's father, I will find Potter and threaten to kill his bitch mudblood Lily for what they did to my Da! I will kill them all!" Mulciber yells.
It was going too fast, Severus felt his head spinning, he cannot help it, this would make it harder for the arrogant fool of Potter to believe that Severus had no hand of death of his father, but he is still writhing in rage about how the arrogant toe rag had made his life hell, only deep down, he shares a bit of sympathy on later days to come.
"Are you coming or not?" Mulciber barks.
Severus remembers that he has to keep on playing his part. After this, he will visit Dumbledore himself. After this, he will make things right. Severus makes a weak nod, and he sees Mulciber changed his anger into a smile and so they left the room.
There was no sign of the Dark Lord, could that Potter senior be right? is the Dark Lord bailing him out? Severus ponders.
He and Mulciber were running very fast and Mulciber kept on shooting killing curses here and there, Severus manages to fire curses, but wouldn't dare to utter killing curse not because of how his views had slowly changed.
It is about this sense, the intent to cast the killing curse. Right now Mulciber is in a pure fit of rage, so Severus couldn't blame that his friend had a better hand of casting a spell.
They had slowed down, and heard the distinguably familiar voices of Potter and Black. Mulciber pats Severus on the back and whispered 'Show time'
Before Severus retorts of wait and see what they are up to, his friend seems to do the unthinkable, casting a stinging hex onto Potter's hand.
Severus sees Potter cringes in pain, and he turns to see him staring at each other.
Severus sees James yell in anger "COME ON YOU FUCKING COWARDS! SHOW ME WHAT YOU MADE OF"
It was Mulciber who responds "With pleasure"
His friend had casted the levitating charm on lifting the stones, and what he did next caught Severus off guard.
'Mulciber seems to know transfiguration also' Severus ponders.
And it did, the stones turns into sharp knives, and his friend waved his wand, making the motion very fast like a jet.
Severus watches Potter conjuring a shield, he had to give the arrogant toe rag some credit of thinking in a situation like that even though Severus will never admit that.
The shield slowly breaks, and the intensity of the knives were very strong, until one knife dashes through the shield, and a swarm of knives starting conjuring gashes and injury which Potter fell down, shivering as blood leaks on the floor.
Severus watches his friend casting the killing curse in his friend's mouth, but was stopped by Black and Black casts a water charm to drown both he and Mulciber. Clever thinking also, Severus thought.
They both left, and the water slowly disappears and then Mulciber yells to Severus
"Why didn't you do something? shouldn't you wanting to kill Potter? I remember that vow Severus" Mulciber sneers.
"First of all fool, you are too angry and broken to even think straight, second of all, the Dark Lord would curse you. You already killed his last asset of recruiting a powerful asset, and third of all, your actions had made it too obvious to Potter and Black recognize us, and once they do recognize us, don't you even think on your small pea brain that they would now know our moves? Stealth and think Mulciber, we will find them and for now, you listen to me" Severus snaps.
"And why should I listen to a coward" Mulciber yells.
Severus could curse this fool that no one calls him a coward, his impulsive behavior is gone, after witnessing what he had seen yesterday, the old impulsive Severus is dead, he buried it. Now comes the stealth Severus, something he knows the Dark Lord would appreciate.
"Because I know Potter fool, I know when he feels down or defeated, he will make a special interest on anyone who does that to him, and only Merlin needs to save you if he is interested on taking you down, no shut up and follow me, I know a way to find him" Severus said.
"You really are a sneaky little cunt eh mate, I like you, I was doubting you because of your behavior, but once a Slytherin, always a Slytherin, now let's find the asshole, so he can pay for what he did" Mulciber stood up and smiles.
Severus sighs internally, he really begins to regret all of his actions by now.
Ministry Halls.
James and Sirius had managed to keep the hall in tact, the Death Eaters were very brutal, somehow this is what Voldemort had planned, he really begins to appreciate what his headmaster is implying about the maniac fool of not thinking the unexpected.
He, Sirius, and Frank took a turn on maiming the Death Eaters, and they look onto each other with such pride. A cloud of water rains the remaining Death Eaters, thanks to Alastor Moody.
There was one sneaky Death Eaters, who somehow recognizes all the moves he and Sirius does, He was short, very fast, and knows how to do extreme Dark Arts, he almost disarmed James, but James reacted fast by yelling Disarming charm, and the mask flew because of the intensity of the charm.
The Death Eater fell and the long black hair confirms James that this is Sirius brother Regulus. He felt Sirius running to hold his best friend's brother. Sirius turns to stare at him and James nods, conjuring a portkey and throws it to Sirius for them to transport to Saint Mungos.
The Death toll on the halls is slowly rising, and it has to end, James sees his headmaster battling fiercely against Voldemort. He begins to join the fight, but felt a strong repulsive force, stopping him. Maybe his headmaster wanted to have a 'private match' with the maniac. If only James wished to join.
He re-joins with Frank and they were defending the halls as Death Eaters are casting strong curses to make this building crumble.
He then sees two familiar Death Eaters, one who had made him severely wounded.
Grinning, He has to show this asshole that he needs to finish what they started.
He follows their trail and suddenly the door locks, it was the publication of Daily Prophet.
One of the Death Eaters cast a bone-saw hex
James deflected it with ease.
This must have made the man irritated, so he begins to conjure blood boiling hex
James reacted instantly and deflected the hex by ducking under the table.
He kept on firing curses over curses and James had managed to transfigure what he sees and hopes to make the raging man slow down.
The man suddenly slows down and James grinned.
He steps forward for the defeated man. "Not so tough with your tricks eh Snivelis? I knew it was you, to actually conjure such powerful curses and hex shows your pure hate over me. I only hexed you because you were fun to pick with, but you know that I would never harm you. I may be a bully in the past, but I would never harm any one. I will remove this mask and look into your cold dark eyes. I am ashamed from you Snivelis, Lily will be very broken" James said coldly.
He removes the mask, and it wasn't Severus, it was his best friend Mulciber.
He steps back a bit with shock and the blonde man spoke 'Got ya'
James turns to see Severus casting 'Crucio'
James fell down with an intense amount of pain, it felt like hot white knives stabbing around his body.
"The great James Potter, tricked by the mudblood term 'Possum trick'" Mulciber spat.
James could've made a remark but the pain made him a bit numb from the curse.
The curse had been lifted by Severus and James turns to stare at the still standing man with mixture of frown and hate.
"Unable to speak? Good, this should be quick, do it again Severus" Mulciber commands.
James felt that the greasy haired man under the mask hesitates a bit but he conjured the curse again
And James lets out an audible yell.
"I always wonder how do we let the chicken scream, by threatening taking away the dearest thing they hold. You took away my father with your petty father, and now I had taken away that traitor fool Potter Senior. Once you barely even walk because of the curse, I will personally visit your beautiful bitch mudblood Lily Evans, and I will strip her naked, tasting her delicious body. Once I am done fucking her, hard, I will kill her right under your eyes James. Severus finish him!" Mulciber commands.
James couldn't take it anymore, the pain, the numbness, and all of the above, but hearing the death of his father somehow made the pain go down, and the mentioning of Lily had made him shaken in full rage. He senses some ultimate power inside of him, such raw force that his eyes glows red, and a wave of untapped powers zaps through the Death Eaters.
It knocked them out with such immensity that one of them dropped on the floor unconscious, the latter had escaped.
James calms down and sees Severus on the floor, he ran to check on the unconscious man.
He removes the mask and attempts to hear anything breathing and it was shallow, very shallow.
'No, no, no, no, NO! Don't die on me Severus, I know we hate each other in the past, I know I hate you for what you've done in fifth and seventh year, but don't die on me. Not this time, Lily will never forgive for what I did. DON'T DIE!' James yells.
He remembers the muggle act Lily had taught him in such occasions, of all the people, he had to do it with Severus. In a long time ago, he would've liked doing it to a woman to make Lily jealous, but now with circumstances dire, and possibility of either saving or losing the life of someone is nothing to lose by.
He taps on the chest one, two, three, and attempts to give some air in the mouth.
He does it again, and again, and again, until he heard a very shallow breathing but it was there alright.
He yells "Oh Merlin, thank Merlin that you are alive." He never thought of saying that, let alone on a school grudge with this man.
Despite the animosity between them, he still does not deserve such fate like that.
He transfigures one of a rock into a small bed, and puts the unconscious man there, feeling happy that he had paid the debts he now owes to Lily.
He attempts to find Mulciber, but the blonde man wasn't there.
A wave of panic had engulfed James, and he dashes to find the dangerous man.
He couldn't find the man, and the battle begins to slow down, he sees the maniac Voldemort, commanding everyone to fall back.
The Death Eaters had followed the maniac, and he sees Dumbledore badly injured but he held himself quite well.
He was patted with Frank in a brotherly way and James nods.
His panic is now more than ever because he has to find and save Lily and fast.
He manages to grab one of the floos and yells 'Potter Manor!'
Potter Manor
James manages to arrive on time and with no thinking process, he yells Stupefy! with such power he had made earlier and it blew the blonde man who had been cursing his fiancée on the floor.
He checks the pulse of Mulciber and had sent a patronus to the order for arresting the asshole immediately, so he cast a rope spell, hanging the unconscious man, and waits for the Aurors to show up.
They had arrived shortly and took Mulciber away and the swarm of rage almost blinds James, but when he turns to look at the frantic shiver of his fiancée. He begins to calm down very quick. "Are you ok babe?" James asks.
He drops down to give her a very passionate hug
She embraced it also and then a quick sob from her, threatening to let tears roam freely on his eyes.
He had saved her, he had saved her from a possible death. At least he has her and his mother.
It will ache more that the fact that he had lost his father, and discovering that a cunt like Mulciber had did it.
Good thing he didn't act on impulse and it was love of Lily had made him to think right, hence the way he helped Severus.
It was enough James thought, enough to be in her arms, hugging her like her life depends on it, and that was enough in James book.
Hogsmead, Hogwarts May 10th, 1979
It was so fast, so swift that Severus did not even blink.
The raw power of Potter was unimaginable, and it knocked him out.
Now he is in a deep sleep, he keeps hearing mumbling frantic noises of a familiar sound of Potter.
He felt his breathing slowly coming back to life, and then total darkness.
Severus wakes up quickly and finds himself staring at the brown walls of an unfamiliar room.
He looks at his hand, and there were stitches there, he felt stitches also on his chest, and he flinches a bit for the pain he is enduring.
Suddenly a sound of a door opening, and there he was Albus Dumbledore.
Severus wore his cloak very quickly and couldn't dare to stare at the man that he desperately wanting to apologize.
The old man senses the uneasiness and so he sat on the chair, waiting for Severus to speak.
Severus stares at the night for a moment, wondering why Mulciber left him? why none of the Death Eaters had found him and rescued him?
"You are wondering about it right Severus?" Dumbledore asks calmly.
Severus turns to see the silent man, but filled with bruises and gash.
"Why is it when I want to think privately, I keep hearing you or the Dark Lord whispering at me?" Severus ignores the question.
"You are avoiding my question Severus" Dumbledore said.
"I know what you are implying Dumbledore, I want to ask you, who healed me?" Severus asks.
"I don't know to be honest, but I remember seeing James following you and your friend, so he probably must have healed you" Dumbledore said.
Severus couldn't believe his enemy to be healing him, but he did not feel anything charm related, so it must be the muggle thing he had seen on TV one time.
"Looks like your 'enemy' once again saved your life" Dumbledore said.
"It doesn't pertain the excuse of what he did to make my life miserable" Severus sneers.
"Ah, the hope of redemption shatters. Such a pity, I almost felt bad for you" Dumbledore said.
"That's what I want to talk about Dumbledore" Severus drawls.
This must have caught his headmaster's attention. "I am listening"
"I...I am sorry for me bursting out to you, slander you, and did not believe you for a moment" Severus lets it all out.
"Interesting" Dumbledore thought out loud
"That's it?" Severus begins to lose his patience.
"It seems there is more to merely apologizing me Severus, I know there is something you are hiding from me" Albus said.
Severus is indeed hiding a dark secret from him, does he have to tell him? he will lose his life if word goes out, but he has to have a plan to save the girls, and he has to stop denying that Dumbledore is the perfect choice for that.
"Dumbledore, I have a very dangerous secret to tell you, but promise me that you will never ever tell a soul about it. My life is on a line, because I was there. and I also need your help on fixing it" Severus said.
"You have my word, with that I welcome you to the order" Dumbledore said.
This caught Severus off-guard.
"But Dumbledore, I am still bound in Death Eaters, if I left them, they will find me and kill me" Severus begins to panic.
"Not to worry Severus, I know Tom is scared from me, and also you still continue doing your role for the Death Eaters but you work as a spy" Dumbledore said.
This made a bit easier and harder for Severus. If he chooses to become a spy, it will be very awkward working alongside with Potter, and Merlin helps him if Potter realizes that he has nothing to do with the death of his father. On the other hand, he can still play a role as a spy, but to do it, he has to save the girls but he does not involve with it.
"Dumbledore, I need your help on saving the girls that were on dungeon. Mulciber and his cronies had kidnapped them, I saw one of them got raped and killed by Lord Nott. I couldn't bear seeing any of them to have a fate like that. I have to help save them, but I cannot do that, it would blow my cover, and if I get to be a spy as you per say, I have to play my cards right.
After letting all out, he sees Dumbledore rising up and smiles, in the past it would've made Severus cringe of seeing once an old fool to act like that, but now, it is weirdly soothing.
"You have wised up Severus, I am sure Ms. Evans would appreciate it. Ok I will help you, but it will take time. You see all of the Death Eaters got arrested" Dumbledore said.
Severus remembers who were there. "Even Rosier, Rodulphus, Nott Sr. and Mulciber Dumbledore?" Severus said.
"Ah so those were involved on the kidnapping raid. Interesting I see, yes, they got incarcerated, but I fear for not long. Abraxas is still out there, and he can release them in no time, so with that, I will speak to an old friend, and he will gladly help you and me to save the girls, but promise me to never leak our secrets from now on. I still sense there is a spy on us, and I want to play my card straight" Dumbledore said.
Severus suddenly remembers Wormtail quickly but dashed it. He will make a totally different game that involves the coward rat.
"I do" Severus spoke.
"Then welcome to the Order of Phoenix, For now you need some rest, and then do not come back to me until I make a meeting. You are still a wanted Death Eater, so we have to keep this way, you understand?" Dumbledore said.
Severus nods a bit.
"Good, now I will transport you back to your opponents, and if I know Tom correctly, he will summon you, and you must attend whatever he implies. After that report with me whatever he is saying do you understand?' Dumbledore asks.
"Yes Dumbledore, I will do such" Severus nods.
"Good, go now, until then we meet again Severus, goodbye" Dumbledore stood up and left.
Severus watches the old man leaving the room, and lets out an audible sigh of satisfaction, for now the cronies are in prison, but he has to keep an eye on them, and he has to save the girls, no matter the cost.
And so the ending of a long-awaited introduction. Chapter six will be time-skips of 1980 until Harry's birth at the end of the chapter, and Chapter seven will be Halloween 1981 and thus the beginning of Severus/Harry father/son relationship.