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Chapter five. Same warning as before |
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Chapter Five: The Snake
James looked at his brother with a mixture of shock and anger, “You didn’t tell me right after you dreamt it?” he hissed at his brother after Albus had finished explaining, “That Gale kid could be a really big problem!”
Albus hushed James with a quick shush still looking scared and worried, “I have a feeling that he’s looking for us. Like he’s had it given to him as a job.”
“Well if he tries to be friends with you, let him but don’t let him get too close. Pushing him away will cause him to get angry if what you suspect is true and getting him too close can get you killed.” James pauses, “Maybe we should tell Dad.”
“No!” Albus nearly yelled causing James to hush his younger brother.
“Al, calm down! You’re causing scene which is another bad thing! Now just calm down and go back over there and eat ok?” James turned back to his food forcing Albus to do the same.
Albus sat back down next to Scorpius, “We need to talk later.” He muttered so that only Scorpius heard before starting in on the food. He had less time to eat the juicy looking turkey than he had thought and was only halfway done with his plate when it was wiped clean and the deserts appeared. He groaned.
“Well on the bright side, at least you can have pudding and ice cream.” Scorpius said before starting in on his food once more.
“Yeah.” Albus stared at his plate, “Well Dad always says don’t be stingy about a meal.”
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“So you have these dreams that are real?” Scorpius asked in the darkness of the boy’s dorm an hour or so later as they lay there looking at the painted silver ceiling.
“Yeah,” Albus said back as he flicked his wand to test out a spell Rose had told him about, “The first time I had one Dad flipped out and had me stay awake for hours retelling it to him.”
“So it has to be important right? Father used to say that your dad had dreams that turned out to be true. Maybe that’s why?” Scorpius suggested then jumped as light flooded Albus’s bed, “Merlin’s beard what the bloody hell was that?”
“The light spell that Rose taught me.” Albus replied back after putting it out, “But Dad never said anything about having those kinds of dreams when he was younger.”
“Wait…you didn’t know?” Scorpius sat up, “You mean your father never told you anything about when he was our age?”
“Well what could he have done? Mum said that I’m just like how Dad used to be and I’m nothing special.” Albus flicked his wand again, “Lumos.” The room filled with light and he looked over at Scorpius, “So what did he do?”
“Well Father used to tell me stories when I was little about the ‘chosen one’ and his two friends. He said he was giving me a history lesson so I could be prepared for Hogwarts but they were always full of action and stuff.” Scorpius looked over at Albus, “You know what? We’re going to have History of Magic as one of our classes so why don’t we ask Professor Binns when we get there?”
“Yeah, I’m tired anyways.” Albus put his hand up to his mouth to stifle a yawn then took off his glasses and set them on the side table before falling back into his pillow and letting the darkness of sleep take him.
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“Gale I want you to be careful while you watch them. Those Potter children seem to have something beyond what we’d be able to handle. The late Vincent Crabbe seems to have claimed the little girl caused that eclipse August 21st.” Artemis was saying as Gale was packing his trunk for school, “Once you’ve found their weakness, write me and we’ll get the potters finally off the map.”
“Mother, what if I really can’t do it?” Gale raised his almost electric blue eyes to her dark ones in worry, “What if they really are that strong?”
Artemis seemed to soften for a moment and ran her sharpened nailed hand down his cheek then abruptly smacked it and narrowed her eyes, “What have I told you about thinking that way?”
Gale lowered his eyes again then started to throw his books into the cauldron in his trunk, “Sorry mum.” He muttered then picked up his wand, twirled it like a professional, and slipped it into a hidden pocket up his sleeve.
Artemis shook her heavily braided head then look towards a shadow in the corner of the room hissing at it like a snake and causing her dark eyes to glow almost white and catlike before a python slithered away hissing almost angrily back. She glared at the animal as her eyes lost their flare and she turned back to her son.
“You didn’t have to yell at her you know.” Gale said reaching down to pick up the shiny copper colored snake and hissing at her calmly. The snake quieted slightly as it listened to its young master speak its language then seemed to relax entirely before wrapping itself across his shoulders like a rather scale covered scarf.
“So you plan on taking her with you? What do you think the head mistress will say when some of the school owls have disappeared?” Artemis sat down in her chair seeming to not care in the slightest.
“Am I supposed to care what she thinks?” Gale returned before throwing his cloak on over the snake and himself, “My snake does have to eat you know.”
Artemis chuckled to herself and picked up a picture on a side table near her chair. The moving picture showed a heavily lidded woman with dark eyes, darker hair, and a presence that rang darker than the others. Artemis smiled at the picture of Bellatrix Lestrange then flipped it so that the glass cracked against the dark wood table top.
Gale muttered something to himself to which Artemis chuckled again, “Your grandmother doesn’t deserve my respect.”
Gale rolled his eyes as he double checked everything and threw away the garbage from the stuff he didn’t need, “Is Azkaban really that bad mother?”
“For the first ten years, yes, for the next four after that, not really. At fourteen everything is always worse than it seems.” Artemis smiled sarcastically and flicked her wand towards the fire causing the once emerald flames to turn black, “Though, I will say this much, knowing them from that little, the dementors taught me a few things.”
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“Al?”
Albus swatted at the light that was trying to break through his eyelids as though it would make it go away. His hand connected with something much more solid instead.
“OW!” a stream of curse words followed the cry which made the now blushing Albus open his eyes and sit up.
“Oh! Scorpius I’m sorry! I didn’t mean to!” Albus smiled weakly, “I thought you were the sun.”
Scorpius stopped his stream of curse words long enough to stare at Albus like he’d just seen him for the first time, “The sun?”
Albus nodded weakly.
Scorpius started laughing, “Well Father always said I was bright but this is insane.” He wiped a tear out of his eye while chuckling then looked at the skinny boy watching him with a strange mixed look of fear and embarrassment, “Alright fine. It’s fine. Come on we’re going to be late for class. I woke you up so you’d have time to eat something.”
Albus smiled regularly and hopped out of bed to change as fast as magically possible. As he pulled his emerald sweater over his untidy mop of hair and pulled on his glasses, he noticed Scorpius running a comb through his slicked back hair, “and I thought I had seen a perfectionist before.”
Scorpius paused and looked over at him, “Oh do shut up.” He shot back with only a slight tint of anger and annoyance in his voice.
Albus smirked and shook his head as they headed down the stairs for the common room, “What fun would I be if I never talked?”
“Less annoying fun?” Scorpius suggested hopefully only to get swatted in the back of the head by Albus, “Ow! Ok I get the point.”
As the boys came closer to the wall heading to the outer dungeons, Albus stopped noticing a snake slither past hissing softly to someone who was hissing back. Scorpius looked back, “Alright Al?”
The snake stopped at Scorpius’s voice then rose up and bared its long fangs at both of them while the light around it caused it to shimmer iridescently. The other hissing flared up louder causing the snake to lower its head and slither off to someone’s feet who picked her up.
“Sorry about her.” The boy said coming over and holding out his hand that didn’t have the five foot long python in it, “Gale Smith.”
Albus remembered what James had said the night before and shook Gale’s hand making sure to stray away from the snake, “Albus Potter.”
“She’s not used to all these people and white-lipped pythons aren’t normally people snakes.” Gale smiled and brushed his black hair out of his eyes, “Well I better go find her something to eat and get something myself before class starts.”
Albus nodded and watched Gale leave before turning back to Scorpius, “That snake creeps me out.”
Scorpius chuckled, “Scared of a little snake?” he smirked and pulled Albus out of the wall and up towards the Great Hall, “You’re a Slytherin, get over it.”
Albus smiled then frowned, “That’s not why it creeps me out. That thing has to be like fifty feet long!”
“You’re over exaggerating. That snake was only, like, six feet at most.” They sat down at the table and Scorpius did the liberty of filling both of their plates.
“It was in my dream last night too.” Albus muttered as he helped himself to some bacon and eggs.
“Really? Think we should tell your brother?” Scorpius raised his silver eyes to meet Albus’s emerald ones and they both nodded, “Next chance we get then.”
 Kasen_Kurama · Wed Aug 01, 2007 @ 06:00am · 1 Comments |
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