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Coppery Temptation	By : IsysSkeeter Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Tom Views: 24470 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 5
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, nor any of the characters from the books or movies. I also do not make any money from the writing of this story.

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Pairings in this chapter: LP/JP

Warnings in this chapter: AU fanfiction, Creature fanfiction, OC, mentions of attacks, mentions of experiments on humans/vampires, panic attacks

Nr words in this chapter: 2,126

"Talking"

'Thinking'

–Parseltongue–

Dream/Memory/Letter/Book

Time change/date of time

Chapter IX

–Ophidiophobia–

Tuesday, September 03, 1991

The next day Harry was one of the first to wake up. He stood, dressed and went to the Great Hall. Something didn't feel right. Something felt…

"Early riser, Dursley?" Harry looked up, fighting to contain his laughter. Professor Marvy had just entered the Great Hall and had stopped by him.

"Couldn't sleep, Professor Ross."

The man nodded and then, looking at the table, he smirked. "Aren't you sitting at the wrong table?" Harry frowned, looking around. He was sitting at the Gryffindor table so… "10 points from Hufflepuff, Mister Dursley." And Marvy moved away.

Harry eyes widened in sudden realization and he had to fight his laugh that was desperately trying to escape.

–CT–

Tuomas sat in his chair at the head table, looking at the boy who was shaking in contained laughter. He let a small, true smile get to his face, but when he realized it he took it off at once, scowling at himself.

That boy had brought Him back and as much as he had told his father that he wouldn't watch over the brat, he had to. He remembered the attack on the brat, the attack that a snake had used on him… some serpent's poison that had almost killed him. That should have killed him according to Severus. The poison had become one with the brat's DNA. Could it not be a poison but an experiment?

He himself knew that he could douse Nagini's venom with whatever he wanted. He had tried it when he came back from Him, but why would he try it on a random human?

This was not the 60's in the Netherlands, attacks on a wizard meant war.

The boy was fast, he had seen it. Not as fast as a vampire but fast enough. And he remembered that the boy's hand and sleeve had been wet as if it had been inside his…

Tuomas' eyes grew wide and he looked towards the boy, while he put an entire piece of toast inside his mouth and swallowed it without chewing on it.

The velocity of a vampire!

The elasticity of a snake!

Tuomas knew what He was trying to do, after all these years he was still trying to make a Parselmouth.

Tuomas picked his diary and wrote in it.

Father. I need Nagini to speak with young Potter. I think that the boy may be a Parselmouth.

There was no response.

–CT–

Harry went outside looking at the sky. It was good to be back outside, the glass under his feet, the wind on his hair, the sibling of a huge serpent… wait… WHAT?

Harry looked around and found a serpent nearly as huge as the one he had been bitten by, but brighter than the other. It looked at him, letting its tongue get out of its huge mouth and taste the air in front of it, and Harry turned so he could run, but before he could gain speed the serpent's coils were around him and he was on the floor. Harry remembered the feeling from when he was a child, of the other serpent doing exactly the same and biting his neck. He felt the snake put her head against his neck and he shivered. He had never been so scared.

–I won't bite you hatchling.–

–Are you gonna kill me?– Harry could feel tears falling down his cheeks. –Are you gonna eat me?–

–Eat you?– the snake gave a sound that sounded like a laugh and its tongue left its mouth, cleaning Harry's face of its tears. –I wouldn't eat a speaker, hatchling. You are important to my kind. You are to be protected. Never eaten.– Harry nodded, his tears still falling like rivers. –Who tried to kill you hatchling?–

–A serpent like you, it's bigger, but not by much and it's darker…–

The snake hummed. –A male then.–

Harry nodded, deciding not to fight with it, still crying and shivering like mad. –And he bit me in the same position you are now. I almost died and… he reappeared two days ago. He was with a vampire.– Harry bit back a sob.

–I know him. Did he try to kill you again?–

–No, but his vampire said he wanted me to come with him. He said we were going to be great friends.–

The serpent hummed and uncoiled from Harry.

–I'm gonna stay on the grounds and smell if Gandr appears. If he does, I'll make him pay for scaring a hatchling.–

Harry nodded and the serpent disappeared into the forest. Harry stayed in the same position, still shivering like mad.

–CT–

Tuomas stayed hidden between the trees, while Nagini approached and climbed to his shoulders.

–He can understand me, just like you suspected Tom.–

Tuomas nodded, looking at the shivering mass that was the young Potter. The pureblood mask long forgotten.

–He's going to come back.–

–And why do you think that, my friend?–

–He told the hatchling. He told him that they would be great friends.–

–He wasn't expecting the stag's hatchling to survive the poison… he needs to inspect the hatchling's blood to know what went right this time.– Tuomas mused more to himself than to his friend.

–Gandr scared the hatchling to death, he doesn't understand that being a speaker is a gift. He sees it as punishment. When I'll see Gandr I'm going to kill him! Doing this to a speaker, honestly…–

Tuomas moved his eyes from the boy to his hissing friend on his shoulder, amazed.

–You do know that it was he who made the hatchling a speaker, right?–

She shut up looking at Tuomas, outraged. –As the hatchling's hatcher he should have taught him everything. He should have taught him how to be a speaker hatchling. He neglected his own hatch for so long… and now he came back? Who does he think he is? And he even tried to court me again, if I knew I would have shown him what I think of hatchers who don't follow their responsibilities as hatchers.–

Tuomas had to contain his laughter at his rambling friend. –Are you jealous that he had a hatchling, that wasn't yours?–

If a snake could gape and stutter, Nagini did a good job at it.

–CT–

Lord Black put his hand on his arm and looked at his friend at his side at the head's table, who nodded and the two stood, leaving the Great Hall and going to the grounds. The two walked towards the Forbidden Forest, when suddenly Severus gasped.

"Harry."

Regulus looked to where Severus started running towards and found his brother's and friend's godson on his knees trembling. Immediately the dark mark stopped acting up. Regulus frowned, wondering why their lord had called them to watch over a kid, but approached the boy.

"Harry?" Severus asked while he cast various spells to check if the boy was alright.

"It's back!"

Regulus looked to the boy, while Severus stopped his movements all together. Young Potter, who never stopped trembling, looked at Severus.

"The red eyed man and the huge snake are back." Severus hugged the boy at once. Regulus frowned, remembering his brother's friend talking about it to their lord years ago. "Snakes… snakes everywhere… pain… venom… speaking…"

Regulus took his wand and pointed it at the kid, putting him to sleep. Severus stood and picked him up. The two looked towards the forest where they knew their lord was, but they couldn't see him. A snake appeared, Nagini, their master's familiar. It approached them, looked at the boy in Severus' arms and then touched Regulus' wand with her head.

The two shared a look and Regulus shrank the serpent which became of the length of an arm and the width of a finger. The serpent climbed Severus' body and moved to the boy's shoulders and stayed there in a protective manner, none of the two inquired why or tried to stop her and they took the boy to the infirmary. Madam Pomfrey became immediately alarmed.

"What happened?"

Regulus rolled his eyes, while Severus placed the boy on one of the beds. He never really had much patience with the lady, even when he was a student, he didn't know how his friend did it.

"Panic attack."

"Is that a snake?"

"Yes Poppy. If you manage to separate it from Harry, good job, otherwise let it be. It is in a motherly mood."

Regulus had to contain his snort, so he merely smirked at the gaping face of the serious Poppy Pomfrey.

–CT–

Tuomas knocked on his father's office and when the sound of admittance came he entered.

"Nagini?"

"Potter."

The vampire nodded waiting for Tuomas to sit, just then did he talk.

"Are you going to tell me what happened in the Netherlands all those years ago?"

Tuomas looked out of the window for a few minutes and then, suddenly, he looked at his father.

–Freek asked for my collaboration on a subject that he was testing. Parseltongue. When I left after five years nothing was working.– The man nodded, understanding. –When he came to the train I noticed one curious thing. Harry Potter could move a lot faster than humans and could hear sounds to low for human ears. Today at breakfast I remembered one more thing that he could do. When I was walking in the train, doing my rounds, I sensed Mr. Black suddenly standing and grabbing Mr. Potter arm. I thought it odd so I went to check it out. He had his spoon, hand and sleeves wet as if…– but Tuomas didn't need to finish it.

Salazar eyes widened slightly. –As if he had swallowed them.– Tuomas nodded. Salazar looked at Tuomas in silence for a while and then finally asked: –What was Nagini's perception?–

–The boy's a Parselmouth and she took him under her tail. She's already calling him a hatchling and she's pissed with Gandr for not taking care of the boy.–

–He did it. Abraham managed to do it.– Tuomas nodded. –Tuomas I need all your memories of all the tests he did when you were there and… we need to see what provoked this and what else has affected young Potter. And if there will be more changes in the upcoming future or if the poison will kill him in the long run.–

Tuomas nodded.

"I'm going to look for my diary of those years." He stood and was going to leave when he suddenly stopped and looked to his father. "What about the stone?"

The man growled. "Almost forgot about it. We need to take it before Abraham takes it."

Tuomas nodded. "Should I do it in secret, or should I call attention to my counterpart?"

"Avoid attention. I need you in Hogwarts to watch over the hatchling."

"So you know that this will take a while?"

"Yes, I'm aware. I only hope that we have enough time for protection and theft before he acts."

"Don't your wards protect against vampire and protect Parselmouths?"

"Heirs, not exactly Parselmouths."

"Then I'll need to understand the wards to upgrade them."

"I'll see what I can do, but it would be better if I would do it."

Tuomas nodded, left and went to his room.

–CT–

Salazar looked up when he noticed his son re-enter with a few journals in his hand. He had a light in his eyes that Salazar hadn't seen in decades.

"Why are you happy?"

Tuomas looked up from the line that he was reading while he walked, and looked at Salazar, his eyes confused.

"Your eyes… I can see the happiness in them." Not that Salazar wasn't happy; it had been decades since he had seen that look on his son.

Tuomas nodded, understanding and a smirk formed on the man's mouth, Salazar thought it funny. It had been decades since he had kind of died and now it looked like his son had finally returned to him.

"I was thinking of the brat." Salazar raised an eyebrow, amazed. Harry? "When he saw Nagini he froze for mere seconds and then turned and ran, when Nagini tackled him to the floor his mask fell. For the first time I could see the boy behind that mask. A scared little boy."

"Scared? Didn't he try to hide it or…"

"No. The brat became a shivering mess. The new speaker is ophidiophobic. Even after Nagini left he couldn't compose himself, I had to call Severus and Regulus to come and get him." Tuomas laughed. "Ironic. The first speaker that it's not Slytherin related has a phobia of snakes."

Salazar could see where he was going but he couldn't care about it now, in his eyes right now the only thing that mattered was his son laughing happily. And so Salazar did one thing that he himself didn't do in a while; he let a true smile appear on his lips.

(TBC)

Hi,

Until now I always showed a perfect image of Harry, but he also have down sides. With the attack that the snake did on him it would be odd if he didn't get scared to death of snakes.

Someone asked me the name that Tuomas uses at school, it is Caleb Alexander Ross. And in case you didn't understand it, the red eyed vampire's name is Freek Abraham Kadouch.

Don't forget to read and review Family Issues. the one-shots are a part of this story, so it should be read as a whole.

Hope you liked it, please review!

~Isys
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