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To Become Whole Again	By : TibbytheWitchy Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Draco Views: 48104 -:- Recommendations : 4 -:- Currently Reading : 20
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling does, and I am getting no profit from this writing.

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Ch. 7: A Stranger Revealed.

“Now according to this, if you are Aos Si then when your blood touches the cloth it will spread out into Runes and such,” Severus said a few hours later. Harry stood across the old wooden table of the potions lab that was now cauldron free and draped from end to end with an ivory cloth that fell to the floor where it pooled. Draco has his arms wrapped around him possessively, not liking what this ritual entailed, if it was up to him Harry would never be harmed again.

“And if I’m not?” Harry asked hopefully.

“Then the blood will simply burst into flame,” Severus replied, motioning for Harry to hover his hand above the cloth. Draco’s followed his and elongated claws gently pressed down into Harry’s wrist, cutting like a knife to butter. Quickly Harry’s bleeding wrist was brought to Draco’s mouth where it was laved clean and healed. The bright blood that had welled up and spilled, falling quickly to the ivory cloth where it pooled in the middle.

For one tense, heart stopping moment nothing happened, then with a speed unparalleled, it spread out. Swirling lattice work waves and jagged zig zags spreading out across the entire cloth. In the end all of the ivory cloth was covered with archaic runes, the last remnants of a lost and forgotten race, older than time itself.

Once again the Order of the Phoenix met in the Headmaster’s cluttered office. Unlike last time however the sky was a sweet bright blue with only the occasional puffy white clouds to obscure it.

As with before two unknown, even to each other, people waited and watched as the Order met. A red head on the swirly stairs only undetectable thanks to a few charms found in the Restricted section of the library, courtesy of being on Madame Pince’s good side by always staying quiet in the library and helping with keeping all the books in their place and the whole of the room looking good. Having helped save one of her most favorite books from certain ruin by a group of first year pranksters didn’t hurt either.

In the same corner a stranger stood and chatted amicably with the two male founders of Hogwarts as they waited for this session to get into full swing. It didn’t take long for the old fool to get down to the nitty gritty, and highly unwelcome, news that had brought them all here.

“Severus Snape is a traitor and spy!” Dumbledore spit out angrily, barely containing the urge to hit something. His anger wasn’t fully at the fact that Severus was spy, but that he himself hadn’t seen it and had been played for a fool.

“But you said that was impossible!” Ron yelled in between stuffing his face with the various sweets on Dumbledore’s desk. Hermoine sneered at him, racking her brain for anything that could explain how Snape had managed to be a spy for so long without any of them –Dumbledore especially- noticing.

“So… He must be a Vampire then,” She finally said slowly.

“Unfortunately it would appear so,” Minerva McGonagall said, the same stern expression she always wore in place.

Off in the corner Salazar snorted, “No shit!” with a roll of his eyes.

“Shh,” The stranger snapped all her concentration on the meeting at hand. This wasn’t good, not at all. The stranger had been hoping for more time for the bond between Draco and Harry to strengthen and become more stable before this was discovered.

“So what are we going to do Albus?” Molly asked, a hand to her heart.

“Hush woman!” Mad eye snapped. Something was off, but he couldn’t for the life of him figure out how. His magic eye kept rolling around and searching but it was still coming up with nothing, and none of the portraits were paying too much attention. As always they just looked bored, many were out visiting their other frames instead of being forced to deal with the Order.

He snarled.

“Why don’t we call an emergency teachers meeting, Albus?” McGonagall asked curiously, “After all he can’t know that we know about him…”

“So he comes and we capture him,” Albus said, mind running a million miles a second working everything out with precision. He refused to let that slimy snake get away, not after what he’d done.

“And since he’s been true to the Dark Lord all this time he’s bound to know tons of stuff that we can use,” Hermoine said with a savage glee that no one outside the room had ever seen on the normally calm girl, “We may not be able to use Veritaserum on him, but with enough torture he’ll tell everything, anybody would,”

“Then it’s settled,” Dumbledore said.

Just as everyone was starting to leave the stranger caught a glimmer from under the door, after a moment it happened again and the stranger snarled. Things were bad enough as it was, the last thing that was needed was someone finding out about all this shit and going to the press, or worse. The stranger left suddenly, without even a word to Salazar who sputtered with outrage and pouted, making Godric wrap his arms around him and kiss the look away.

The stranger followed in the shadows behind the red-headed girl, not oblivious to the tears that sparkled on her freckled cheeks. When they reached one of the many abandoned hallways that Hogwarts had, and student used for much needed shortcuts through the ancient sprawling castle, the stranger made its move. Within a second Ginny found herself pinned to a stone wall, unable to see her attacker behind the hood of the black fur cloak around its head. All of her blood seemed to leave her body in an icy rush, but somehow her heart was still pumping in a hard and hurried tribal beat.

“Who are you and why were you spying on that meeting,” The voice was melodic and low, and Ginny could figure out if it was coming from a man or a woman.

Unable to resist the allure in that voice she whispered, “G-Ginevra Weasley-”

The stranger snarled, tightening the hand around Ginny’s shoulder and pushing her harder into the wall, “Why shouldn’t I kill you here and now?”

“Because! I didn’t know what they were doing, I swear! I just want to help Harry but I don’t know how!”

The stranger smirked; this was an unpredicted but definitely welcome turn of events. With Severus no longer able to spy for the Dark they would need a new one, and from the sheer truth and desperation dripping from Ginny’s mouth the stranger knew just who it would be. Ginny felt catharsis spread through her when the hands holding her left and the hood dipped down and up in a nod.

“Here is what you’re going to do, you are going to act like you always do and not give them any chance of thinking that you’re not on their side. When the time comes for you to act on it, you’ll know, until then keep playing Ms. Oblivious,” And just like that the stranger was gone, moving in a flash of darkness through the shadows and out into the sunny day outside.

Shaking Ginny went on to the Gryffindor girls’ dorms. Not for the first time hoping that she would wake up and this would all just be a giant nightmare.

“This keeps getting more complicated by the day,” Tom sighed, sitting in his room with his mates, “we’re going to have to move our plans up, seriously up,”

Just then the alarms for the Manor wards sounded and he pushed both of his mates behind him. The alarms had nearly deafened them, so whoever it was had to have been very close to their own room. After a moment the door opened and a figure, cloaked in black fur, came through with precise and deliberate steps. Leather gloved hands raised to the hood and pulled it off, showing off a fair skinned… uh…

“Are you a boy or a girl?” Lucius asked, eyes wide. The figure was slight and just this side of short with high cheek bones on an androgynous face littered with scars, some old and faded and some still showing the pink of newly formed skin, one such slashed perfectly though the middle of one eye vertically.

“I am Altari,” The figure said simply, “and I am here to warn you,”

“Why should we believe anything you say,” Tom asked with a snarl, eyes glowing red and the pupil shifting to a thin vertical line identical to a snakes.

“I am sagitta heres (the arrow of the heir),” Altari said, forgetting for a moment that they wouldn’t know oldenspeak, to her surprise a voice behind said

“Man carel le?(What are you doing?)” Altari turned and in one graceful movement was on one knee, her left hand palm up on her knee and her other hand crossed in a fist over her chest.

“Le suilon, regem, heniach nin?(I greet thee, my king, do you understand me?)”

“Harry,” Draco said, eyes wide at what was happening. With a start he remembered the only other time he had seen Harry do something very much like this. Second year with that damned snake! Only this time the lost language that he was speaking was parseltongue.

“I… I think it’s ok guys,” Harry finally said, trying to come out from behind Draco but found his way trapped by an arm.

“I mean your mate no harm, in fact, I am here to protect him and his,” Altari said, getting up, “your ruse is over Severus Snape, they know where your true loyalties lay and are about to spring a trap, I fear that you are not safe even here since they know of this place,”

As the day faded from the sky leaving behind streaks of deep blues among pastel pinks and vivid oranges the group talked, no one but Harry fully trusting this Altari person, but all of them trusted Harry. In the end they all agreed to move early to Riddle Manor. As everything was getting moved and such, Lucius and Tom planned something far more personal. Unknown to them the key point in their plan was beginning to weigh heavily in Serverus’s mind as well, and as he personally packed up his lab he couldn’t help throwing one vial of pale grey potion against the wall, hoping he would never have to use it against his will again.

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Hehehehehe *evil giggle* finally the plot is beginning to thicken!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

A big thanks to the bunnie feeders of last chapter!

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