Guys I'm not dead. My internet wasn't working for ages, so I couldn't update, or even write any chapters. As soon as it started I literally scared the crap out of my family by sprinting through the house with my laptop screaming "MUST UPDATE!"
And thanks to SiriuslyR.A.B for the review! Glad to know what you think!
Anyway here it is. Chapter five. Yay!
Side Note: I've misspelt Kingsley's name in previous chapters. Sorry.
Chapter Five
Despite the obvious joy that came with hearing about Harry, disgust was evident on everyone's faces. They felt disgusted by what Voldemort had done to the previously innocent boy. And now, with horror, they realised that Harry was about to kill again on his 'father's' orders. Along with these emotions, was the strong feeling of guilt that everyone felt, even Snape and the children who knew not of Harry's existence. They believed that maybe, just maybe, if they had of focused on finding Harry more, if they hadn't given up when they found a body, if they had just believed... they felt that they could have given Harry a real childhood. The only comfort that they had was the knowledge that Harry was never harmed while under Voldemort's care. A small comfort, but a comfort all the same.
Clearing his throat, Ron opened his mouth to speak. "Can I read?" He said in a small voice. Kingsley nodded, and Ron walked over and took the book from his hands. Walking back, he sat down in the middle of Damien and Fred, and began reading.
A Revelation
These two words produced hopeful looks. 'A Revelation', maybe Harry's identity would be discovered?
James looked around the empty building. Why would anyone opt to live in an empty warehouse was beyond him.
"Maybe because they're hiding from something...?" Damien looked questioningly at his dad, who sank down in his seat, embarrassed by his thoughts.
He moved silently forward before nonverbally giving the signal to two Aurors to check the back of the building.
They had received information that a Death Eater was hiding out here. Exactly why this Death Eater had chosen a run down, freezing warehouse for a home was a mystery.
Lily raised her eyebrows at James as everyone slowly turned to look at the embarrassed Auror. "Well, I know the reason now, don't I?" James muttered, burying his scarlet face in his hands. Lily laughed, comforting her husband by rubbing her hand in circles on his back. He sighed, face clearing of it's previous bright red colour. He refused to look up though, as he could practically feel Sirius' mocking grin.
James and a team of Aurors were sent to investigate and capture the Death Eater.
James had come with a team of four Aurors.
"I better be one of them!" Sirius declared. Remus raised an eyebrow at him.
"When was the last time James did something dangerous, or stupid, and you weren't there?" He questioned. Sirius looked down in thought, brow furrowing as he muttered things to himself. He looked up, then down again, shaking his head in distress as he struggled to find an answer. Suddenly he shot up, looking triumphant.
"When James went on his honeymoon with Lily!" He cried, oblivious to the James frantically shaking his head at him and Lily's dangerous glare. Many shivered at the look on Lily's face, picturing it on Harry's. Remus placed a hand on Sirius' shoulder, forcing him to sit down again.
"Are you implying that I'm dangerous, Sirius?" Lily questioned in a sickly sweet voice. Sirius earnestly nodded his head.
"Terrifyingly so." Lily smiled.
"Good." Damien sat shocked, having never seen his mum look quite so terrifying before. James sighed in relief. 'Thank Merlin, Lily and Remus don't know that Sirius stayed in the suite next door to us.'
His best friend, Sirius
"YES!" Sirius' joy was followed by exsparated looks from his fellow Order members. As if those two would ever be separated.
was accompanied by a fellow Order member, Kingsley Shacklebolt. The other two Aurors were not from the Order but James knew them fairly well.
Sirius and Kingsley stayed at James' side while the other two Aurors silently crept to the back of the building. So far there was no sign of this Death Eater.
James suddenly caught sight of a short, blond haired man, sitting with his back pressed up against the wall. His face was hidden behind his hands and he seemed to be shivering. Whether it was from cold of fear, James couldn't tell.
"Harry's there..." Breathed Tonks. No one heard her except for Moody and Kingsley, who exchanged glances. This should be interesting. If Remus, Sirius and James hadn't been so distracted by the previous chapter, they may have made the connection as well.
James, Sirius and Kingsley were just about to approach him, their wands were drawn and pointed at him before a sight stopped them and forced them to hide behind the wall.
The Aurors watched as a boy, dressed all in black, except for the silver mask which covered the whole of his face walked over to the Death Eater.
"Harry, oh Merlin." Lily covered her mouth with shaky hands as tension filled the room.
"I hope none of you hurt him, my goodness, five Aurors versing one child." McGonagall's voice was shaky as she announced this to the room. Snape sneered, 'really' he thought, 'they should be worrying about the Aurors.'
He moved swiftly but without making any noise. It was almost as if he had cast a silencing charm on himself. If James didn't see him, he would never have known that he was here.
The Death Eater looked up and as his blue eyes met with the boy dressed in black. He let out a stifled sound that was half a sob and half a cry.
"I knew you would find me." croaked the man in a voice that almost trembled.
"Where else would I look for a rat!" the boy whispered in a deadly voice.
"Oh Harry." Hermione looked sad. To think that this boy would have been her friend if he wasn't kidnapped...
James was taken aback. He could tell straight away that the boy was young. But there was something else about the kid's voice that unsettled him.
"James!" "Dad" "Mr Potter" "Prongs" Variations of James' name were called out as he was pinned to his seat with hopeful looks. Lily grabbed his arm. "James you know, I know you do! James, somehow you must know." She pleaded, desperation prominent in her voice as she shook with excitement.
He pushed it to the back of his mind. Now wasn't the time to think about that.
"NO!" Moans of despair filled the room. Anxious, everyone waited for the inventible. Now that James wasn't going to help the boy, he would surely be injured before his defeat.
He gestured to Sirius and Kingsley to move at his signal. Both Aurors signalled that they understood.
"I haven't done anything! It was all Riley! He was the one who was trying to blackmail the Dark Lord! I would never dream of doing something like that! I swear I wouldn't!" the man began sobbing.
James was certain he had never seen anything as pathetic as him.
"I dunno," George trailed off at a sharp look from his mother, but not before glancing at Snape so everyone knew what he meant. James and Sirius sniggered, looking pleased with George.
"If you hadn't done anything, then why did you run, Hunt? Why didn't you return to him?" the boy asked in menace.
"Please, Dark Prince! Please have mercy?" the man, Hunt, said looking up at the boy with a pleading expression.
James shared a look with Sirius, who was smirking as well. 'Dark Prince?' that was a rather unusual name.
"Its not funny James!" Lily snapped. James looked at her, his thoughts clear on his face. He didn't think it was funny either. Lily sighed, promising to try really hard not to have a go at anyone for what they might do in the future.
James looked back at the boy and watched as the boy didn't give in to the grown man's pleas.
James couldn't understand why the man was so afraid of a mere boy. He didn't even have a wand. He was standing before the Death Eater with no visible weapons in his hands.
"Get your damn wand out boy." No one looked surprised to see Mad-Eye once again admonishing Harry. Lily couldn't help but wonder if maybe Moody would be a mentor to Harry. The thought brought a smile to her face.
"You are going to kill me without even giving me a chance to fully explain my side of the story?" asked a truly terrified Hunt.
"You have no story to tell and I have wasted enough time on you already."
The boy said this while simultaneously bringing his wand out of his robes. His voice betrayed no emotion but James felt the anger course through the boy's words. The boy certainly hated Hunt.
"And he doesn't even know him." Charlie looked and sounded disgusted, his words causing a great deal of hurt to Lily and James. Damien felt defensive of his brother, but before he could give Charlie a piece of his mind Molly stepped in.
"The boy doesn't know any differently! He was raised that way!" She accompanied this with a slap around the head. Charlie looked sorry, but was seething on the inside. He refused to believe that anyone would do what the Dark Prince does without being evil themselves, no matter how they were raised.
"Why are you going to kill me? What have I done to hurt you?" Hunt asked.
"You betrayed my father therefore you betrayed me, He doesn't forget and I don't forgive."
Lily supressed a sob. Her poor baby, evil was filling his heart. He had darkness within him, and she worried that they couldn't wipe it out.
The boy said this and pointed his wand directly between Hunt's eyes. James quietly prepared to launch himself onto the boy. He wasn't going to let Hunt die. He was here to apprehend Hunt, not to watch him get killed. He hated Voldemort and his Death Eaters with vigour but he knew that if this Death Eater was on the run from Voldemort, then he could be very useful. He would probably give information willingly to them, information that could be very useful to get to Voldemort.
Moody nodded at this, pleased that James was thinking about the advantages that this Hunt fellow could bring to the light side.
Through his fear, Hunt managed to scoff at the boy's words.
"Yes, well, I never thought Lord Voldemort and his son would be the kind to forgive and forget!"
At these words James froze. What did he just say? This boy was Voldemort's son?
"No." James said quietly, yet everyone could hear him. "No, he's my son."
James looked around at the equally shocked looking Sirius and Kingsley. They both had gone rather pale. Voldemort had a son? The revelation made cold shivers run down their spines.
James turned around to look at the boy and suddenly saw him in a different light altogether. All of a sudden the young boy looked a lot more dangerous than before.
Laughter rang around the room. Sure, Harry had killed people, skilled people, but he couldn't be dangerous, could he?
"If you're done talking nonsense, Hunt, take your last breath!" the boy said with cruelty as he took aim.
James had to stop him, now was as good a time as any. James and the other two Aurors rushed to rescue Hunt.
James and the other two Aurors, Kingsley and Sirius, dove at the boy at the same time. Three sets of red lights sped there way toward the young boy, as the three Aurors yelled 'Stupefy', but the boy turned around and brought up a shield that just deflected the spells. He didn't even look surprised at the attack but rather like he was expecting it all long.
"What?" James gaped, seeing similar expressions on everyone around the room.
Before James and Sirius could even reach him the boy spun around and delivered a fantastic kick, straight into Kingsley's chest, as he was the first one to get near him. James gasped as the impact sent Kingsley flying in the other direction.
Damien couldn't help the laugh that escaped him. He looked at Kingsley frantically, an apology on the tip of his tongue, but stopped when he saw Kingsley's expression. He, and everyone else, had a look of awe on his face, looking at the book with rapt attention. It was unbelievable, but it looked like Harry had a chance to win here.
"If this boy can beat some of our best Aurors," Moody grunted, "Then we may have a chance against Voldemort after all, with him on our side." Lily didn't even bother to tell him that her son wouldn't be fighting, as it was obvious that he would be.
He quickly recovered from the shock and fired a spell at the boy.
"STUPEFY" he yelled but the boy just side stepped it as if it was the easiest thing in the world. James was utterly shocked. The boy was a wonder. He was facing three fully grown Aurors and had not even broken out in a sweat yet.
"That's my brother!" Damien yelled in excitement. 'He's a badass!' He thought, pleased by how cool his older brother was.
"INCENDIO" the boy yelled aiming straight for an oncoming Sirius. James watched in horror as the hem of Sirius' robes caught fire.
"Sirius!" he yelled but Sirius had calmly put out the fire with a flick of his wand.
Sirius gave James a look as if to say, 'I'm a wizard, you idiot.' James smiled back sheepishly.
The other two Aurors that James had sent to the other side of the warehouse made their move. They rushed towards the boy, shouting out curses. The Dark Prince blocked the oncoming curses with relative ease and moved to face Sirius and the two other Aurors while James moved toward Hunt who was rooted to the spot in fear and confusion.
"MOVE IDIOT!" Damien yelled, not wanting to hear about his brother killing Hunt.
"Damien!" Lily snapped, appalled. She gave him a sharp look, causing him to shrink back in his seat.
"Maybe whisper any swear words, huh mate?" Ron whispered in Damien's ear.
"STUPEFY, PERTIFICUS TOTALUS" the boy yelled at the two Aurors, one fell immediately.
Bill whistled, impressed. Charlie glowered at his brother. 'Can't they see how dangerous he is?' He thought. 'I won't be fooled by him.'
The other one had time to draw up a shield but was knocked to the ground when the boy delivered another kick this time in his stomach and, using the side of his hand, he smashed the Auror to the ground by hitting him in the back of the neck.
"Strange, that is." Commented Remus.
"What is?" Lily fretted, thinking something was wrong with Harry.
"That the so called 'son' of Voldemort knows, and excels, at muggle fighting." Dumbledore pondered what Remus said before smiling.
"I know that Tom would never encourage Harry to learn from muggles, which can only mean one thing." He looked at James and Lily's hopeful faces. "Harry isn't totally obedient. He appears to be a…Rebel." Thrilled by this news, the room's occupants grinned. Harry disobeying Voldemort was a joyous occasion.
Now it was only Sirius and Kingsley left facing the teenager while James moved quickly towards Hunt. James grabbed a hold of the Death Eater who seemed too afraid to move.
"Good, good. Get him out of there. Don't let our son kill him." Nobody commented on the desperation in Lily's voice, as they all felt the same way.
"If you want to live, I suggest you come with me!" James said to him.
Hunt's eyes moved over to see the fight happening between the Dark Prince and the Aurors. He numbly turned to face James.
"Idiot." Damien muttered with glance towards his mother to make sure she didn't hear him. To his relief, she was focused on the book. Ron grinned down at him, proud that Damien had listened to his earlier advice.
"We want to arrest you. He wants to kill you. Choose!" James said icily.
"Nice one, James." Sirius guffawed. Severus winced, that statement brining back bad memories of his time at Hogwarts.
That seemed to snap him out of his fear induced daze and he quickly got to his feet.
"Finally doing something useful!" Damien exclaimed. James grinned at him, while Lily looked disapproving. Damien chose to focus on his father's pride rather than his mother's scorn.
James grabbed a hold of him from the collar of his robes and ran across to the exit. He knew that the warehouse had anti-apparation wards as he had tested that before entering the building. Hunt was probably trying to protect himself.
"Nicely done Potter, always remain vigilant to your surroundings." Moody grumbled. James shot a smug look at Sirius, who sneered playfully back. They had a running competition of who could get the most praise from Alastor, and that comment pushed James to the lead.
James had almost made it to the door when he heard a spell he was not familiar with and then a terrible pain filled scream. He turned around to see Kingsley on the ground supporting what looked like a broken arm and leg.
"Adflicto Corpis." Arthur murmured in remembrance. "You have to focus on causing pain." As soon as the words left his mouth he realised how they must make Harry's family feel, and looked at them all guiltily. They wore grim faces, grudgingly accepting that it would be difficult to change Harry's mindset from his current one of causing pain to one of helping those in need, but they were determined to succeed.
Sirius was physically fighting with the boy now. Sirius was a fair bit taller than the boy and for a moment had easily held onto him.
"Alright!" Sirius rubbed his hands together, leaning forward eagerly. "I got this." He was overjoyed at the prospect of being the one to capture Harry and bring him home.
James smiled happily, relieved that it was Sirius grappling with Harry, and not someone else. 'Sirius won't hurt him.' He thought, grinning at his best mate.
He had grabbed a hold of his wand arm and with his other hand he had grabbed him around the neck. Sirius then twisted him around so that he was holding the boy in front of him almost like a shield. He wrapped his arm around the boy's neck as if attempting to suffocate him.
"Don't hurt him!" Lily cried, momentarily forgetting that they were reading about future events. Sirius caught her gaze, before giving the book a pointed look and raising an eyebrow. Lily sank back in her seat, embarrassed, giving Sirius a sheepish apologetic smile. Sirius rolled his eyes, accepting her unspoken apology.
The boy wasn't even struggling much with Sirius.
"But… doesn't he want to escape? I mean, he doesn't know Sirius, he thinks he's the enemy…" Ginny's timid voice shook with nerves. She was thrown by the fact that Harry wore a silver mask like her saviour, but didn't want to mention it in case she gave the Potter's false hope. No one commentated on her statement, but dread filled the room. Harry should be struggling. James had a horrible feeling that Sirius was going to be hurt by his son.
As James watched in awe the boy threw back his head and it smashed into Sirius' face.
"In awe?" Sirius turned to James with a betrayed look on his face. "In awe? That's my face James!"
"Sorry." James deadpanned. "I'm so sorry that your beloved face, your pride and joy, may be marred by my wayward son in the future. Please, forgive me for ever procreating." Sirius nodded seriously.
"Apology accepted." They stared at each other in silence for a moment before bursting into laughter. The underage students joined in, Tonks giving a snort that gave way to laughter as she too joined in on the fun. The tension in the room was momentarily relieved, before Ron managed to pick himself up from the floor he was rolling on, and cleared his throat to read. Tension filled silence followed.
The back of the boy's head has slammed hard in Sirius' face and had caused Sirius to let go of him. The boy swung around and smashed his fist into the side of his head. Sirius staggered to the side but tried to fight back.
Sirius rubbed his face, a mournful look on his face. He turned to Damien. "Remind me to never approach your brother unless his hands are otherwise occupied." Damien grinned and nodded his head.
He sent a stinging hex at the boy but he had his shield brought up so fast that Sirius took a step back in puzzlement.
"Damn!" Fred and George called. "Harry is badass!" They received a slap on the head from their mother for swearing, but they couldn't care less. Harry had their respect.
The boy then fired a hex at Sirius which he only just managed to dodge.
"Damn." Sirius whispered, worried for what Harry might do to him.
James has seen enough. He had to get Hunt out of here. If he didn't leave now Hunt could lose his life.
"Run, run, run." Damien and Ginny chanted under their breath.
James grabbed the shivering fool and headed out the door as fast as his legs could carry him. He only got a few paces away from the old factory when he heard the doors fly open behind him.
"Oh man"
He kept on running with Hunt, it was only a few more minutes, and then he would be outside the wards and he could apparate back with Hunt safe and sound. James hated Hunt but could not allow anything to happen to him while he was on duty. If he got Hunt back to the Ministry, they could possibly get important information out of him.
However James was just within the bounds of the ward when he felt a spell zoom past him and hit Hunt in the back.
"Oh crap"
Hunt fell heavily to the ground. James froze and turned to look at Hunt. He was still breathing. James saw the boy approach almost calmly and instantly James stood over Hunt blocking him from any spells.
"Oh shi-"
"Sirius enough!"
"Yes Lilyflower."
The boy stopped a few steps away from James. At a first glance, he looked completely at ease, but as James looked closely, he could see that there was something wrong. The boy was holding his wand loosely in his hand but the rest of his body seemed to be held tense. He gave James a cold glare.
"Out of the way, Potter! This doesn't concern you!"
"Does, does he, does he know who we are?" Lily's voice trembled.
"No, he can't." Remus rushed to reassure her. "Voldemort probably told him that James was a skilled Auror, nothing more. Harry can't know that you're his real parents, if he did, he wouldn't still be living with them."
"Don't be so sure." Sneered Snape.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Snapped Sirius. "Harry doesn't know he's related to James and Lily, he doesn't!" Snape merely sneered, choosing not to voice his thoughts.
Again James felt a rush of unease sweep over him. There was something about him that was making the hairs on the back of his neck stand.
"Fathers instinct." Arthur smiled at James. "I have it too. Very useful when you need to know if they're lying or not." The twins shifted nervously, glancing at their father warily.
James stood defiantly, protecting Hunt, with his wand pointing straight at the boy's heart.
"I think it does since you took down my entire team in there!"
Before James could do anything, the boy had sent him flying across the grounds. James landed with a painful thud on the hard concrete ground and was momentarily unable to move.
"Ouch." Tonks winced in sympathy.
James struggled to get up but managed to get to his feet quickly and spun around to see the Dark Prince bring his wand down on Hunt who was still on the ground and was now pleading for his life.
"No, Harry don't! James STOP HIM!" Lily shrieked, desperate.
"No…no…please…my lord…have mercy!" he stuttered while trying to crawl away.
The boy took aim and quietly uttered the cursed words.
"Avada Kedavra"
"No." Lily moaned, collapsing into James arms, tears streaming down both their faces. Hermione hugged Damien, who sat in shock. Silence filled the room, horror on everyone's faces. Many glanced at the photo of little Harry, if only to remind themselves of a time when he was innocent as they watched his giggle and point at them.
Disgust was the next emotion felt. Disgust at how Voldemort had twisted a once pure heart and filled it with darkness. Anger came next, as silent vows were made to get justice, and bring Harry home.
"We can stop this. We can." Molly tried to reassure not only Lily, James and Damien, but also herself.
"We may be able to stop this one, but what about all the others? He killed Riley just last… last night. And, and there are countless others before Riley. Har-Harry killed them." James chocked out, looking down at the floor as sadness filled him. Lily sobbed harder in his arms.
"We may not be able to take back what Harry has done." Sirius began in a quiet voice. "But we can bring him home, and stop him from doing it again. We can change the way he views us, tell him the truth. You can, and will, have your son back." He finished with conviction. James and Lily looked up to see many reassuring nods around the room. They gave watery smiles at the support they were receiving. Determination filled them, they were going to bring their son home, and no one could stop them. Ron allowed the Potters a moment to gather themselves, and as soon as Damien had removed his face from Hermione's shoulder and wiped his tears away, he began reading again.
James gasped as he saw the green light leave the boy's wand and hit Hunt squarely in the chest. Hunt collapsed on the ground and even at this distance there was no mistaking the fact that Hunt was dead. Anger coursed through James as he saw the boy walk away from the body as if nothing had happened. Within seconds James was blocking the boy's path, wand pointed at him.
"Don't hurt him. Bring him back, but don't hurt our baby." Lily whispered. James gave a reassuring smile, hesitant to remind her that it was in the future while she was in her current state.
James stepped closer to the boy. It was so difficult to make out anything about the boy with that awful mask. The only thing he could see was his eyes. But even that was difficult to make out since it was now dark and James vision was still blurry at hitting his head so hard on the ground.
"Mate you need to take it easy." Sirius warned. James felt no such hesitation with him, turning and punching him lightly on the arm.
"It's in the future, idiot." Laughter followed his comment, and Sirius gave him a wry smile. James realised that Sirius only made that comment in order to get that comment out of him and break the tension in the room. He gave his best mate a grateful smile, and received a smirk and nod in return.
"Out of my way, Potter, I really don't have time to deal with you today."
"Really! Well let's make an appointment shall we? How's Friday afternoon for ya?" James mocked feeling his temper rise.
"That's real mature dad." Damien scoffed.
This kid was really something. He had single-handedly wiped out five Aurors and killed one person, and he had not one single scratch on him.
"I guess we really underestimated him. To think we thought the Aurors would win." Kingsley shook his head in shame.
James still couldn't believe the force that had thrown him across the grounds had come from him. It was if a hammer had been used to punch him across the grounds.
"Woah." Damien felt conflicted. He was proud of his brother, and yet worried about his dad. He wondered how he would feel in the future when Harry was with them, and the inventible argument between Harry and his dad occurred. 'Wonder who I'll side with?' he thought.
"Move Potter!"
"Make me you little shit!"
Lily threw him a sharp look but refrained from commenting, knowing that James would never call Harry that if he knew who it was under the mask.
This seemed to light something in the boy's eyes. He pocketed his wand and took another step towards him. James was completely confused. 'Why did he pocket his wand, what was he playing at?' In his moment of confusion the boy made his move.
Sharp intakes of breath resonated throughout the room.
"As you wish."
As he said this emerald eyes locked with hazel ones. With a movement with his hand James was thrown violently into the air and he landed painfully on his back. James gritted his teeth as pain exploded in his back.
"That's gonna be annoying. Don't get me wrong, I'm proud, but I'm not looking forward to being thrown wandlessly and non-verbally around." James shook his head, but his eyes sparkled with pride at his sons achievements.
He ignored this and quickly got up and saw the boy move towards the edge of the anti-apparation wards. James pointed his wand at him. He couldn't let him get away.
"STUPEFY" James yelled but the boy had easily moved out of the way.
Groans of disappointment filled the room.
James took aim once more but something came flying towards him and struck his wand holding arm. James gasped in pain as his wand went clattering to the ground. He blinked in surprise at the sight of his blood, as it ran down from the ghastly cut on his forearm and trickled down to his hand. Something had sliced his arm open. He knew it wasn't a spell as he had actually felt something sharp cut his arm open.
"What the fu-"
"Sirius!"
"Sorry Molly."
James quickly picked his wand up from the ground and focused on the boy. He could figure out what had happened later, right now he had to capture the Dark Prince.
He painfully took aim and fired at him.
"SORUPTO" he hissed and a jet of yellow light left his wand and cut the boy on his arm. James watched as the boy gasped at the pain the cutting hex had caused.
Lily gasped, feeling hurt at hearing about Harry in pain.
James had his wand pointed at the boy's heart.
Before James could fire another curse at him he felt his words choke in his throat. James dropped his wand and grabbed at his neck as a searing pain had made his vision turn white momentarily.
"No."
James could feel his warm blood run through his fingers and down his robes. The entire left side of his neck throbbed in agony. James' breath hitched in his chest as he struggled to breathe.
"No dad-"
"James, oh Merlin-"
"Shit Prongs."
He fell to his knees and had both hands clutched around his neck, in an effort to stop the blood flow. Everything around him seemed to slow down as he fell to his front. He forced his eyes to stay open and tried to cry out for help, to call to Sirius but nothing came out. His eyes caught sight of a small metal object lying in the grass before him. It was something he had never seen before.
It was small and made of metal with four razor sharp points. It looked like a hand held blade. It was stained with blood. His blood.
James realised that this was what the Dark Prince had used to attack him. His arm and neck was sliced open using these blades. He had not even seen the boy throw them. He had seen the boy reach inside his robes but the rest had been a blur.
James could hear shouts in the distance, but he couldn't make sense of what was being said. His world was engulfed in darkness and then he knew no more.
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"DAD!"
"Oh no."
"James-"
"Prongs you better not-"
"James please, please don't' be-"
"Dad, please don't… don't leave us."
"You promised! You promised you would never leave me! YOU PROMISED!" Lily's shout silenced the room. "You promised." She sobbed. Damien sprinted across the room and jumped into his father's lap in a rare display of affection. He buried his face in James' neck and cried. James struggled to reassure them both, dealing with his own shock at the thought of his eldest son possible killing him. Dumbledore decided to bring reassurance to the distraught family.
"Please remember, this is the future. Events we read about can be changed, the future is never set in stone." He smiled as the rooms occupants gazed at him with hope. "Besides, it is as of yet unclear if Harry succeeded in killing James."
"But he did try to kill me." James despaired.
"He… he doesn't know you mate. He doesn't know you're his father." Sirius attempted to reassure him.
"I don't think he tried to kill you." Dumbledore once again captured the attention of many.
"He aimed at his throat Albus! If Mr Potter survives this then it is only due to Harry's misjudged aim. It's a miracle he only hit the side of his neck! That miracle may be the only thing that saves him!" McGonagall voiced.
"Did he miss?" Dumbledore's gaze turned intent. "Harry has impeccable aim, he hasn't missed yet. So, did he miss, or was he aiming at the side of James' neck?" James and Lily looked relieved that Harry hadn't meant to kill James, but Charlie remained quietly sceptical. Damien just hoped that his dad didn't die.
"Now." Dumbledore looked up. "Who wants to read next?"
So…. this is late. Very late. And I'm so sorry. Yeesh. I promised I wouldn't be one of those writers that updates super late and yet here I am. Sorry guys. Anyway, please review and let me know what you think!
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