Albus: Pure Slytherin

"What do you mean, you don't feel anything strange when he looks at you?" Albus asked James as arrived at the Burrow for the family reunion a few days after Edward (who had insisted on not coming) had arrived.

James shrugged. "I just don't." The only thing he felt when he looked at von Koenig was physical attraction.

Albus sighed. "At least it's not as bad as a few days ago. I can actually stand to look at him when he's talking. He talks about some pretty interesting stuff, doesn't he?"

James didn't get to answer as the family had arrived at the front door and were promptly greeted by their grandparents. Teddy, Harry and Grandpa Arthur immediately went out to Arthur's garage to see some sort of Muggle contraption that Arthur had been working on. Lily and Ginny went to help Mrs. Weasley with last minute preparations in then kitchen, so it was up to James and Albus to take theirs and Lily's bags to where they would be spending the night (they decided to let Teddy and their parents deal with their own bags).

The boy threw Lily's bag into the room she would be sharing with some of the girls and then went up one more floor to the small room they would be sharing with Fred, Louis and Hugo. Instead of there being several beds in the room, there was a single bed large enough to hold the five rambunctious sleepers. They shared every time there was a reunion, and when they were younger the fact that they all tossed and turned all night hadn't really done much. But when they had all started puberty, they had eventually started ending up either on top of each other or on the floor. They didn't really mind much, as they were all close. Well, the only time it had gotten awkward was when Louis had a wet dream at the reunion over Christmas, and that was because nobody wanted to think about their relatives doing that sort of thing. According to Lily, she thought of all of them as eunuchs.

The two lay on the bed, not wanting to go back down stairs and get assigned some chores before the reunion actually started.

"So I'm thinking that when we get back home, Edward will have destroyed the house with some sort of weird, forbidden ritual," Albus said.

"It'll most likely be sacrificial," James agreed as they both grinned widely. "Blood will be splattered everywhere, gore stuck to everything. It will be disgustingly awesome, like something out of those Muggle horror films."

There was some noise outside and then Fred, Hugo and Louis all came in, with Louis closing and locking the door behind them and then casting a silencing charm on the room (with some many adult wizards in the house, they doubted that they would get in trouble with the Ministry).

"What's the precaution for?" Albus asked.

"I don't know," Fred said. "We all got here about the same time, and Louis called an Emergency Meeting."

Teddy had started the Emergency Meetings between the boys of their generation when they were younger as a way to relieve their stresses. He reasoned that it was a better alternative to ill-natured roughhousing. It was also easier for them to talk to each other than their parents, and if the six of them couldn't solve the problem, then they had backup when they tried to explain it to their parents. Teddy hadn't come to one in a while, as the younger boys agreed when he became of age that he was too old and they banned him from any meetings.

The five of them sat in a circle on the bed and all of them looked at Louis. He was probably the prettiest of them, because of the Veela blood he inherited from his mother. His father had left his mark though, since he had the solid body of a well-muscled Quidditch player liked the rest of the boys.

"So this may have been obvious to the rest of you, but I only just figured it out a little while ago," Louis stated. "I'm homosexual."

"That's awesome!" James said and Albus nodded vigorously in agreement.

"Really?" Louis asked.

"Why wouldn't it be?" Fred asked, coming into his senses a little later than the Potter brothers. "I mean, look at our glorious leader Teddy!"

"Yeah, and the two of us!" James added, gesturing to himself and Albus.

Everybody looked at him in surprise.

"Oh, yeah," the ginger muttered, "we haven't told you yet, but…"

"James and I are also gay," Albus finished.

The five boys looked between each other.

"Hugo…" Fred began, "please tell me you're attracted to girls."

The smaller ginger nodded.

Fred gave a sigh of relief and then the signature Weasley grin appeared. "Man, what has Uncle Harry been feeding you guys? If Lily turns out to be a lesbian…"

"No!" James and Albus said in unison.

The other three boys laughed. They all knew that once Lily got a boyfriend, her older brothers would put him through hell if he broke up with her. They wouldn't be able to do that if Lily broke up with a girl.

"So do you guys want to come out to the family while we're here?" Hugo asked, not one who usually likes to stray off a subject.

"Hopefully," Louis said and he looked at the Potter brother. "It would be nice if all three of us told our parents at the same time."

Albus and James looked at each other and they both felt their hearts start to beat faster. It was one thing to tell their cousins, it was a completely different thing to tell their parents. While they both knew that they were perfectly accepting of Teddy, Teddy wasn't supposed to carry on the Potter name. While they were sure that they would be accepting, Harry and Ginny were still their parents.

James sighed. "Well, men, it is time we found our Gryffindor courage."

"But I'm a Slytherin!"

"Yes, well, Albus, you're also a Weasley, so you must have some courage inside of you," James said. "Even if it is hidden underneath all the snark."

zZz

When someone knock on the door of 12 Grimmauld Place, three hours after the Potters left, Edward grimaced at the fact that people always came around when he had his head in the middle of his favorite Muggle contraption: the refrigerator. As he walked up the stairs to get the door, he tried to think of how he was going to get rid of whoever decided to come around while he was alone in a home of a family he barely knew in a country he had been in for less than a week.

As he was about to open the door, he decided on fire, but then remember that he wasn't in Russia anymore and probably couldn't get away with murder in London.

Edward opened the door to a boy about his age with sandy blond hair and deep blue eyes.

"What can I do to make you go away?" Edward asked.

"Umm…" the boy started. "Is James here?"

"No," Edward said flatly and he started to close the door, but the boy caught it.

"Can you just tell him that his friend Conall came by," the boy, Conall, said.

"He'll be back day after tomorrow, come back and tell him then." Edward closed the door completely this time. Before he moved away, though, he paused and thought of how Conall, who looked under aged, had gotten to Grimmauld Place. He hadn't see anyone else in the square.

He opened the door again (it had only been about seven seconds), to see Conall sitting on the steps.

"What are you doing?" Edward asked. "You do realize that this is a Muggle community and that they don't know this house is here. You could be messing up some sort of weird magical thingy that I don't really care about."

"My dad doesn't get back for another two hours," Conall answered.

The two boys started at each other for a few seconds.

Edward sighed. "I normally wouldn't do this, but you might as well come in."

Stupid muggles and stupid International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy, Edward thought.

zZz

As Conall passed the young man, he noticed a red eyebrow rise.

"Do you realize that you have a fantastic butt?" the boy asked.

Conall gave a wry grin. "Yes, I do realize that."

"Well then," the boy muttered, then the two walked further into the home.

"Who exactly…" Conall began to ask.

"You only need to know that my name is Edward and I will murder you in your sleep if you ever mention more of this conversation than is required," Edward murmured.

zZz

Dinner was always loud at these reunions, and knowing that it got louder as the evening went on and the adults got drunker, so James knew that if they didn't do it now, bad things might happen.

So, James loudly cleared his throat. "I have an announcement to make."

"You didn't get a girl pregnant, did you James?" Teddy asked with a mischievous grin.

That silenced everyone in the room.

"You know quite well, Teddy, that I have done no such thing," James replied. This rose more than a few eyebrows, since it was rare that James would talk this way in such a serious fashion.

Teddy decided to continue: "You didn't loose a-"

"I'm gay!" Albus suddenly shouted. Everybody looked at him in shock and the black haired boy's eyes widened, and a look of horror spread across his face. James gave him a weak grin and pulled his younger brother into a hug. The boys' parents came and did the same.

"I'm sorry," Albus muttered, "sorry for springing this on you like this."

"Sweetie," Ginny said, patting Albus's hair. "You know we'll always love you."

Suddenly Albus had a large grin on his face, as though he had suddenly thought of something sneaky…

"Don't you dare!" James said and he backed away from his family.

"You know," Albus said loud enough for everyone in the room to hear. "I do believe we should have a toast!"

The Slytherin suddenly grabbed a glass full of Butterbeer. He raised it to his ginger brother. "Let's have a toast: to the end of the Potter name."

If James still had any doubts that his brother was a Snake, they would have left then. Albus was pure evil.