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Caleb roared with laughter. "You are priceless little one!" |
After Natasha sobered as well, she continued with the reason for the conversation."Sirius. What you ask is possible. However, it has been a while since we have done this on someone who is completely human. And even longer since we have done this on someone so young. Since there rarely is a need. Who the fuck brutalizes... |
Natasha would have been happy to continue having words with herself in her head, but then the still less than murderous part of her mind realized that she was in Caleb’s presence. The raven haired leader actually chuckled at her abrupt return to the present conversation. It was well known that female vamps were far dea... |
"Forgive me Caleb. That was was uncalled for." Natasha went to bow her head in submission to Caleb, but quick as a flash, he was there in front of her. He tilted her head up and looked straight into her eyes. |
"No need for forgiveness cousin. I understand your anger. He has far too much responsibility on his young shoulders. I would like to torture the monster who is recognized as the uncle into oblivion then drain him dry. But apparently our Sirius has a plan in the works to deal with the worthless son of a bitch." |
Sirius nodded in agreement. "I will of course pay what is required to make this hap..." Sirius was unable to finish that sentence. The air in the room pulsed with magic and something that could only be described as anger. Then the temperature in the room became cold enough to cause Sirius to have goosebumps. He watched... |
"Did I say something wrong?" |
"Yes. Although I do not believe for a second you intended to. It is just that you men are so easy to upset. He probably went to the gym next door to hit the bag for a bit." |
"What did I say that offended him?" |
"You offered to pay." And now Sirius was really confused and it showed on his face. |
"Do you know how old Caleb is?" asked Natasha as she sat with her back rod straight in her chair. She was waiting for her cousin to blow off steam and return. She knew why he was not happy at the moment |
"Over 400 years old I believe. Why?" |
"He will be 415 years old, come this November. He has seen a lot. He has lost a lot in various wars or challenges to his governance. He was forced to watch his mother tortured and raped by humans who look upon us demons. Humans who think our lives mean nothing. He and his father built this village as a refuge from huma... |
"Incredibly insulting, and uncalled for." Sirius finished. Fuck. It would appear he had some more things to learn about his friend. His British upbringing left a lot to be desired from his point of view. Said friend came back in the room and sat down in his chair at his desk and released a sigh. |
Sirius stood and walked over to his brother and placed a tentative hand on his shoulder."Forgive me my friend. I made an incorrect assumption. You see. Where I come from, things are bought and paid for among friends and even family. There are no free rides as the muggles say. To not offer something in return for a favo... |
"You humans are quite strange. Wait forget that. You Brits are strange as hell. In all my travels, even to the most remote human villages in the east, I have never heard of such insane rules for a society." Caleb let out a small laugh. Sirius did as well. |
"Forgive me Caleb?" asked SiriusCaleb placed a hand on Sirius’ shoulder and said "Nothing to forgive my friend. Simple misunderstanding. Which I am sure that Natasha has attributed to my being a male by now knowing her." Caleb looked at Natasha with a raised eyebrow. A glint of humor in his eyes. |
"Oh don’t look at me like that cousin, you overreacted as usual when your feelings are involved. I cannot wait until my dinner tonight with your wife." Natasha chuckled. |
"Sirius. Take my advice. Stay single!" Caleb gritted out. |
"Please Caleb. You love that woman with every fiber of your soul. Don’t try to dissuade the man." Natasha said. |
Sirius barked a laugh. "Don’t worry about me Caleb. I am loving the bachelor lifestyle too much!" |
"Back to the topic at hand Gentlemen." Natasha said with a roll of her eyes. "When do you want this to happen?" |
"Would three days be too soon? As much as I want to hide my godson away from the world, his responsibilities will haunt him forever. He is also a child. He needs to also learn what being a teenager means. Well. Along with being able to kill someone at the right time. Make any sense?" Sirius finished. |
"Sadly it does." Said Caleb. He himself having seen far too many "dark lords’ in his many years. |
"Very well. But we should consult with the children. It will begin in three days. And what will you be doing while he is healing and training my friend?" Caleb asked. |
"I will be doing the same as my godson. As much as I hate to admit it, I am almost in as bad of shape as him. Not only from the Dementors, but the human guards as well. My long term plan is to throw the British wizarding world on it’s ass. They allowed this to happen. Maybe not on purpose for the most part, but it happ... |
"Am I to assume that this was part of your plan little brother?" |
"Yes. While dismembering his uncle may give satisfaction in the short term, I want to change the society at large. But don’t worry brother, his uncle will get his dues. I want him and that bitch of a wife to suffer slowly and painfully. To fear their own shadow everyday." Sirius smirked. |
"Then if there is nothing else we need to do here gentlemen, I would like to get started on getting everything ready for the upcoming ritual. I will need at least seven qualified females to assist me." Natasha stood with a slight bow to both men. |
Sirius was confused, and before she left he asked a question. "Why do you need seven females?" |
"Seven is a powerful number in magic as you know I am sure. To increase the power behind the ritual that is healing an abused child, seven females would be the strongest. Ever had the urge to stare down a mama bear protecting her cubs?" She arched a brow at Sirius. |
Sirius gulped and shook his head. |
"Exactly." Natasha turned and left the room. |
"Do not worry my friend. She is the best you will find. Either in the human or vampire worlds." Caleb remarked. |
"I have faith in you all. I want to get to Harry and the twins and explain what is going to happen. I want to get things moving along as quickly as possible. He is going to spend this summer training, as well as when he gets back to school."Sirius stood, shook Caleb’s hand and made his way to the infirmary. |
He saw Harry lying on a table with a twin on each side. He briefly gave Harry a rundown about what he had planned. Harry’s eyes became huge."How much time are we talking about? I can’t ask Fred and George to take that much time away from their summer plans." Harry wanted to do this, but he would not have the two men in... |
"Harry. I want to hear more about what will happen before a decision is made. Either way, we love you and we want this to work for you no matter what." George said. |
"George is right. Nothing is more important than getting you healed, healthy and trained. There is a war going on, we need all the help that we can get." Fred said. |
Sirius turned to the Dr. "Natasha if you will please explain." |
" My people have a house in Parque Nacional do Jaú. It sits near where Rio Negro and Rio Unini meet, but is mainly along Rio Unini. It sits alone in a secluded area. It is warded and unplottable. The house is mainly used for healing from injuries that may take longer to heal than one wants if the injuries are extensive... |
"Two months!!" The men chorused together |
"Two months." Natasha said calmly with a raised eyebrow at their explosion. "Maybe longer. You have to understand Harry you are damaged. Heavily. Your magical core is suffering greatly. It does not help that part of your core is blocked somehow. Not to mention the horcrux. The be..." |
"Hang on. What do you mean? Blocks to my magic" harry asked. |
"I am not sure how it works in your world. But we have on occasion had parents of wizard/vampire hybrid children put blocks on their offspring’s magic to keep it from being out of control. Especially if that child is very powerful, as their magic could be dangerous. These blocks may be benign or malevolent. I can not s... |
"How much time will pass outside of the property?" George asked |
"For every week that that passes by in "real time’ 3 months would have gone by for you. I will not lie to you gentlemen, It will be a change for you. But I do feel that this is your best option. Right now Harry, you are so weak you could not fight a teddy bear." Natasha deadpanned. |
"Oh gee. Thanks."groaned Harry |
"It was not meant as a true insult Harry. Merely a statement of fact. I know of the dangers you face. I have been in three wars. Vampire and human. You need all the resources you can use at your disposal." Natasha stated plainly. "I am going to speak to Caleb. Please discuss this amongst yourselves." with that Natasha ... |
"Well" Sirius started. "What do you guys think?" |
"It’s up to you love. While you’re healing we can put the time to good..." George began"...use as well. Imagine all of the..."...pranks that we could..."come up with." |
Everyone turned to Harry. "Harry?" Sirius hedged"Let’s do it. I need it. I feel like Dumbledore is keeping me in the dark about my own life and I am tired of the games. How the hell am I supposed to face Tom Riddle, the craziest evil wizard of the past century, with the standard book of spells year 5 as my guide. Defen... |
"Right then. I will go back to England for a couple of days. I will pick up whatever I think will be useful for our training. And then I am going to put the Order on notice. They are going to know what you went through. I also want to get your accounts and properties in order. If you don’t mind, I would like to assign ... |
"Absolutely. And make sure he takes a generous salary. Knowing him he would refuse." Harry then gave Sirius a calculating look. "You still owe me an explanation of these properties and vaults. |
"I know I do. We will discuss it as part of your training. I am trusting Frik and Frak here to help keep you occupied while I’m gone. In addition to training for combat, I also want you to study your school subjects...hard. How have your marks been so far?" Sirius asked. |
Harry shrugged. "Average I suppose. I get by I guess." |
"That will not do anymore. From now on you will try your hardest. The Marauders were known as jokesters, pranksters, and sadly bullies at times. But one thing that could not be said was that we were poor students. We were all very highly ranked at school. Your mother especially."Sirius placed his hand on Harry’s should... |
"Yeah. OK. I know you’re right. It just never seemed that important before. Between what has happened at school, and life with the Dursley’s it seemed that all I was trying to do was not die." |
"Well unfortunately Harry, I will have to teach you how to do both. We will get through this together pup. I will be at your side the whole way." He pulled Harry into a hug. He pulled away and stood to make his way out. |
"I will speak to Caleb and see if I can’t get you someone to help teach you fighting. Both magical and physical. It is best to have a handle on both. I could teach you what I know, but it never hurts to multiple things under your belt. The stronger you are physically, the more magically powerful you are. Which means ki... |
"We all will." the twins chimed in. |
Harry felt surrounded by love and protection. It made him even more determined to win this fight. Old Voldy won’t know what the hell hit his slimy ass. |
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Natasha left the men to themselves, and quietly closed the door. The Fem nature of her vampire blood wanted to make itself known. How dare someone mistreat a child like that! What she wouldn’t give to take a trip to England and pay the bastard a little visit. She sighed. Yet another dark lord. What is it with the human... |
The first time she came home from a conflict, in the Congo, she vowed never to return. She had nightmares for months. The blood. The dismembered body of a mother attempting to shield her child was so hard to get out of her head. It had actually sent Natasha into a rage, and she wound up taking out a group of 10 soldier... |
Natasha brought herself back to the present. She approached Caleb’s office door and knocked softly. She heard him say a short "enter". She walked in and closed the door behind her.Caleb was standing at the window, arms folded across his broad chest, staring out at the jungle that he loved so much. It was a moment befor... |
"Are you well cousin?" Natasha asked softly. With a hand on his arm. |
"No Natasha. I am not. And at the moment I am having trouble controlling my anger. How is the young one?" Caleb asked. |
"He will heal with time. Such a huge burden to be placed on someone so young. And no advanced training to speak of. What the hell are those idiots thinking?!" Natasha practically growled. |
"I know Natasha, but The Council has decreed that we do not get directly involved until such a time as our individual territories are threatened. They are hoping that it will be contained within the UK, but we both know that rarely happens. I want to give them the best chance to make it out alive. Combat skills, vampir... |
"I will see to it. I will speak with Sirius and see what they think they will need to assist them in their mission. |
"You always seem to know what to say cousin. I Knew I kept you around for some reason." He winked at her. |
Natasha rolled her eyes. "Go meditate. Then I want you to go to your woman for the comfort she can give you. You need the rest." |
"Doctor’s orders?" Caleb said with a raised brow |
"Doctor’s orders. And you do know what will happen if you don’t listen to me right?" Natasha copied Caleb and raised an eyebrow. |
"Yeah yeah yeah you will tell Ayala." Caleb smirked, kissed Natasha’s forehead and walked to a side room in his office that he used for meditation. He walked in put the lights to dim, and began the process of clearing his mind. |
The men began to plan all that needed to be done while they were in the "time bubble" as Fred refereed to it as.. They were able to get a make shift potions lab put into the house so that they could study potions more in depth. They were assigned a house elf named Rose who would be able to come in and out of the house ... |
It was agreed they would spend three weeks at the property. It would give them a solid foundation to start with their training. They could have stayed longer, but Harry wanted to get back to "real time’ as soon as possible. There would need to be arrangements made to continue training throughout the school year. He als... |
Harry sent a letter for Ron and Hermione with Sirius. He explained what was going on. He did not tell them specific details. Only that he was healing and learning. He told them that since they were his best friends they would have a target on their backs as well. He wanted them to learn all that they could to protect t... |
Harry looked and felt a great deal better since this whole summer began. He was still a bit haggard, but his spirits were soaring. Not only were the twins by his side showing how much they loved him, but with Natasha’s almost obsessive mothering and doctoring, he was beginning to truly believe that maybe his life meant... |
With Harry, Fred, and George stocked with food, clothing, potion ingredients, books on just about every subject including dark arts, the house was ready. Sirius also wanted Harry to begin training in hand held weapons as well. They had two more days until they had to activate the time distortion, so they were exploring... |
Sirius arrived back in England via the two Gringotts branches. He made sure to express his gratitude to all within the Goblin Nation for their quick and expert emergency healing of his godson, as well as his safe passage out of the country. Sirius decided to apparate to number twelve, instead of arriving by floo. |
If there was one thing that he remembered from the older men in the family, it was to always show respect to the ones who hold your money. His family may have been pureblood dogma fanatics, but when it came to the managing of the finances, they weren’t completely insane. |
When Albus had requested to use the house at Number Twelve Grimmauld Place to be the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix, his first instinct was to say no. He had been so blindingly loyal to the cause of the "Light’. So eager to put his name behind him. But what did that get him in the end? He was thrown into a th... |
And he could not even begin to think about how Harry was left at the tender mercies of his loving relatives. But another part of him realized that they would need all of the help they could get, and since it was his house, he would have an ear out for what’s going and how best to help Harry. |
He sent a message to select Order members who knew Harry best from school, to meet at Number 12 in one hour. He hoped that the youngest Weasley male would be there, as he was Harry’s best friend. He knew that the boy’s parents were also in the Order. |
What Sirius never understood, was the insane idea to keep the children completely out of the loop when it came to the current happenings in the wizarding world. |
Sirius was of the mind that they needed to be prepared for what was coming for them. He didn’t want to scare them of course, but he believed that the more information they had, the less likely they were to come to disastrous conclusions and make even more disastrous mistakes based on the wrong information. |
Albus and some of the others in The Order believed otherwise of course. They were of the notion that they were just kids...which they were in the technical sense. |
But these children had seen more adventure and dare he say violence, that would break the most stout of an adult’s spirit on the best of days. Harry had been marked by Voldyshorts. There was no way around that. It was a very cold truth that many people wanted Harry dead, and being a child did not matter to them. For Ha... |
His biggest problem outside of Dumbledore was going to be Molly Weasley. In some of his letters, Harry described how Molly made subtle hints to Harry about listening to the Headmaster to know what was best for him. That Sirius may not be appropriate for his guardianship. It had hurt Harry, because he felt like he was b... |
A very large part of Sirius knew that the lack of training, the lack of knowledge of his heritage, the lack of love from a parent all of the years since the Potter’s death, the lack of many things fell upon his shoulders. |
Sirius knew he had always been brash and reckless. But James and Lilly had counted on him to be there for their son and he had failed them. He took off after the rat after handing over his godson to Hagrid, instead of making sure that Harry was alright. He should have kept his head, but all that he saw was blind rage a... |
Before Sirius made it into the house, he stopped outside of the front door. He placed his hand over his heart and bowed his head on the silver knocker on the door. "James. Lillybean. I know I haven’t been off to the best start as Harry’s godfather, but I swear to you on my magic that I will do my best to teach him all ... |
"Someone to care about all of the things that are happening to him. I want him to enjoy the rest of his teenage years as best as he can. I love him as my own flesh, but I’m sure that you know that. Just give me a chance, once again, to prove myself to you both." Sirius felt a rush of wind against his face that reminded... |
Sirius walked into the Black family home in London. He felt the familiar pull of the wards acknowledging his blood connection to the house of his family. He wrinkled his nose at the smell. He was able to directly access the master bedroom as he had hoped. Sirius was still not entirely sold on taking up the full mantle ... |
A pop signaled the elf’s arrival."Disgraced blood traitor Master called for Kreacher?" the old wrinkled elf said it with so much hate and loathing that Sirius almost killed him on the spot. |
It did however confirm what he had hoped. He was Lord Apparent of the House of Black. Old Grandsire Arcturus did not get rid of him as the Heir of the House of Black as he had supposed. Sirius was still hesitant. |
There were too many memories of a terrible childhood with his "family’ to want to continue the primary line. But was it worth it to give it all up, and hand it to Lucius Malfoy? Because he was 100 percent sure that there were plans in the works to get Draco Malfoy to claim the title of Heir to the House of Black; a tho... |
"Kreacher. I am recognized as Master of this house now. You will obey my commands, or you will be released from your duties to the House of Black. You will die a quick, but dishonored death among your kin. Decide now." Sirius said with a firm glare at the old elf. The same elf who took great pleasure in torturing him a... |
Kreacher was of the mind to just let himself be killed. But he wanted his death to be honorable in the service of the House of Black."Kreacher wishes to serve the House of Black. Kreacher will do as the new Lord Black commands." The old elf bowed low to Sirius. |
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