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Countdown Chapter 14


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I do not own Harry Potter. I only own the computer that this story is written on. No money is made from this story either so now affn can stop bitching.

A/N

Thank you all for the reviews. They mean a lot to me and my co-writer God of Mercy. We work really hard on this story. I also want to clear up the misunderstanding. This story is no longer co-written with the wonderful Shey92. I wish her the best of luck in her own stories. It just became to much for her to work on both stories at once. We are still friends and she still is one of my fav writers.


To say Harry was nervous was the biggest understatement of the year. He was going to be alone with both of his mates and they didn’t know he knew. He really wanted to be calm but he couldn’t keep himself from wondering if they hadn’t told him because they didn’t want him. I mean they both were gorgeous, rich, intelligent and very damn powerful. Well, he was rich too but still why either of them would really want him made his head spin. He was young, inexperienced and naïve at times, he was really nothing special. As he took the time to think about all the different reasons why no one could want him he missed the sound of someone appariting into the chamber.

Lucius arrived in the chamber to the sight of his little one looking sad and depressed. He wanted to go up to him and comfort him but he knew if he did it would cause more problems between Tom and Harry. He wanted his little one to love them both and not just want to be with him. He wanted Tom and Harry but he wouldn’t give up Tom so he had to be careful how he dealt with his little one. Walking further into the chamber, he noticed that there was no where for them to sit. Taking out his wand, he began to make the place a little more comfortable for this discussion. Conjuring a table and three chairs around it, he then conjured tea and pastries for them to snack on. He didn’t want to give either of his mates the wrong idea by conjuring one chair and a love seat. Besides it would start something he really didn’t want to deal with if Harry sat beside him instead of leaving that place for Tom. He was happy that he thought of the tea because he just knew he would need the tea to calm his nerves by the end of the night.

Harry finally hearing someone moving around the chamber spun around and found himself at the end of Lucius wand, he just knew all the blood had drained out of his face. Was Lucius going to kill him now!? Was the first thing that came to his mind. Closing his eyes so he didn’t have to see the man of his dreams kill him, he missed the smirk that plastered itself across the blonds face. Lucius couldn’t help the small chuckle that came from his mouth at Harry looking like a deer caught in headlights.

"Come on now Harry, why would I want to kill you now?" Walking over to one of the chairs and making himself a cup of tea, he waited for the young man to pull himself together. He really wanted to just push the feeling of being calm to him but knew that if he did the panic would be back as soon as him and Tom left. Not only would it be back but it would be worse than ever. So he sat there and watched as his little one pulled himself together.

Harry was stunned to say the least at Lucius laughing at him. He didn’t find anything funny. Of course he would think something like that. The man had tried to kill him more than once. He was only reacting to the past. Turning to face the blond, he then noticed that he was drinking tea and not paying him any mind. In fact he had his eyes closed with a content smile on his face. Looking around, he also noticed that Marvolo wasn’t with him. Walking to the chair closes to Lucius, he made himself as comfortable as he could all things considering.

"Lucius," Harry asked in a small voice. As if the man knew what he was going to say, he looked at Harry.

"Tom is in the library. He wanted to give you a chance to calm down before he came in the room. He knew that having you both in the same room would not be easy. You may now know that you were lied to about him but you have still done things to him in the past. He doesn’t hate you before you think that. He just doesn’t like that you are still willing to make him out to be a monster even though you know he isn’t. That and the last time we were all in the same room you spent most of your time giving him hateful looks and he didn’t like it. Not to Mention Tom is very how shall I say this, possessive over me and you giving me the same possessive looks angered him. He is a very dominant demon as you know and we are already mated so he is going to act that way sometimes." He calmly told his young mate.

Clenching his fist at the reminder of Lucius being taken and at the knowledge that his other mate was not happy with him made Harry want to run out of the chamber and just go back to Albus. It was easier when he didn’t know what was going on, it was easier when he had a clear goal, even if he would have died in the end. Lucius knowing what his little one was thinking and feeling sat his tea down and stood up walking over to Harry he knelt down in front of him and took his face in his hands.

"Harry, I know that you are scared but Tom is not going to hurt you." He soothingly spoke to help calm him. "He came here not because he had to but because he wanted to. He could have just left everything the way it was and let you fight him at the final battle. He could have let you be used by the headmaster only to find out at the end that it was all a lie. He could have let you find out at the end that your friends were only using you and didn’t care about you, he could have let you die for nothing. However he isn’t letting you be used like that. He doesn’t want you used like that and neither do I. The only one holding you back is you, Harry you really need to try to put the past behind you and move on from it or you will never be happy or free from others control. I can’t do this for you but we can postpone this meeting for another time if that is what you desire."

Harry took a deep breath and opened his eyes. He was really surprised to see the concern in the blonds’ eyes. Then he remembered that both Lucius and Tom already knew that he was their mate. They were just waiting for him to grow the hell up and act his age. Clearing his throat he began.

"I don’t want to put this off, it is just so hard to forget everything I have been raised on. From the moment I came into the wizarding world I was told that Tom was evil and out to kill me. I was also told that he killed my parents and was the reason I had to stay with my so called family. I was made to believe that it was my job to stop him from taking over the wizarding world. I know now that isn’t true but it is going to take time, you just don’t forget everything you have been taught in years in a few months. As for me giving you possessive looks I really cant help it. Yes, I understand that you and him are mates but I cant help it. Something in me makes me react that way to you." Lucius leaned up and kissed the top of his head.

"I know this is hard Harry but please try not to annoy or antagonize him, please try to give him a chance." Harry felt his heart flutter when his mate kissed his head and he couldn’t think. He wanted to curl up in his arms and never leave. Lucius then stood up and made his way back over to his chair. Sitting down he felt his mate coming closer and he knew there was no turning back from here.

Tom walked out of the library and was just in time to see Lucius consoling their submissive mate. It made him feel good to see that side of his blond. Though, he didn’t like the reason Lucius was having to comfort him. He really wished he could just go up stairs and kill the old man. He hated how Albus was able to turn his submissive against him without even knowing it.

Feeling Tom enter the room, Lucius took a deep breath. He could feel that Tom was going to do something that would make this discussion more complicated then it needed to be. He was not disappointed either. As soon as Tom entered the room, he walked over to Lucius’s side and waved his wand turning their chairs into a love seat. Giving Lucius a pointed look that said 'you should have known better then to think that was going to work'. Lucius just sighed and leaned over to make Tom a cup of tea.

Harry wanted to glare at the man for sitting next to his Lucius but he also wanted to glare at Lucius for sitting next to his Tom. He settled for putting his face in his hands. He was so confused, his emotions were all over the place. One minute he was mad at Lucius for being near Tom and the next minute he was mad at Tom for being near Lucius. He didn’t know what to do to get control of his emotions, he didn’t even know how to start this damn conversation. He didn’t have to worry because it seemed that Tom was going to start it for him.

"Harry, do you mind if I call you by your first name?" Looking up at the man he gave a small shrug of his shoulders. Then feeling like that was a bit disrespectful he cleared his throat.

"It's fine. May I call you by yours?" Tom gave him a small smile and told him it was okay.

"Now Harry I know that we have gotten off on the wrong foot in the past but I would like to put that behind us. I would really like to get to know you better, if that is okay with you? I feel that the best way for us to move on is for me to clear up any misconceptions about me that you may have. I am giving you free range to ask me any questions you like. However, I do have the right to refuse to answer them if I or Lucius feel it is too personal of a question. Is this arrangement agreeable to you?" Harry took a second to go over the information he had been given and feeling like this was the best option he nodded. Sipping his tea Tom took a chance to prepare himself for this talk. He wanted his little one to trust him and join their side but he wouldn’t pressure him into it.

"So what is your first question Harry? I think we should have different topics and stick to questions under that topic. For example, questions about the war or questions about me personally. When we are talking about the war you stick to those questions and so on. I think it will make it easier on us both if we do it this way." Harry had to agree that it would make it easier to set limits like that, but he didn’t know where to start and he didn’t want to start off with any really hard to handle information. So he thought carefully about what to ask. Though, before he could open his mouth Lucius spoke.

"Harry would you feel more comfortable if I cast a truth spell over the room so that way you know we are not lying to you?" Harry gave Lucius a small smile.

"Thank you. I would really appreciate it if you would cast that spell before we begin." After Lucius cast the spell he sat back in the chair, for some reason he felt like this talk would bring their mate closer in some ways and push him away in others. He didn’t know why but he really hoped that he could prevent the latter.

"Before we begin, what topic do you want to talk about first?" Tom asked while refilling his cup of tea.

Harry paused before asking, “Our past history, and why I should trust you now?”

“I’m not asking you to trust me,” Tom said gazing at the teen over his tea cup.

“But trusting him might be a good thing, he is trustworthy,” Lucius said hoping to keep Tom from pushing Harry away.

Harry looked at his tea, “Okay so first question about the past, why did you try to kill me in my first year?”

Tom sat his tea cup down and spoke in a calm voice. “Who told you that I tried to kill you?”

Harry wanted to scream, he wanted to yell that he wasn’t stupid and he was never going to join their side if they were going to play stupid little childish games with him.

Lucius feeling his little ones magic spike tried to stop this from turning nasty with the first question. “Harry, what I think Tom means is how do you figure it was him trying to kill you?”

Harry took a deep breath and let it out, he was really trying not to snap. “When I came down to stop professor Snape from getting the stone to give to Tom, I found professor Quirrell instead. I told him that I thought it was Snape after the stone and I thought it was Snape that tried to throw me from my broom. He then told me that it was him and who would ever believe that stuttering professor Quirrell was after the stone. He then told me that he was loyal to Tom. Then he pushed me in front of a mirror and told me to tell him what I saw. I lied and then Tom spoke and told him that I was lying. I tried to run but Quirrell stopped me. Tom then told Quirrell to show me his face and then Quirrell removed his turban and that was the first time I met Lord Voldemort face to face.”

Tom put up his hand to stop him from going on. “First let me tell you that I do remember that happening. You are forgetting that I didn’t try anything. I didn’t have my powers or a body at the time so you can't blame me for that. Quirrell tried to kill you and it wasn’t on my orders, you can't blame me for things that others do. Second, do to the fact that I did not have my powers, how could I take over your broom. Again that was not my doing. My followers have minds of their own and they do things that I don’t approve of to find favor with me. Quirrell is no different from the many others that want to prove that they are more loyal and are better then the next. I will say at that point I would have killed you to get my body back. I had spent eleven years as nothing but a spirit and I wanted to come back more then anything. I missed so much time with my family because of Albus and I would have killed anyone to get back to them. I am going to say this and I am going to say this one time only, I am sorry for your first year. On the other hand, I will not take the blame for going after the stone. It was a way for me to come back to my family and that is why I went after it. Now you have to take blame for this as much as anyone. You could have went to a teacher instead of coming down there, you should have never gotten involved. You can't blame me for you getting involved in that situation because I never made you do anything."

Harry gripped the sides of the chair tighter between his fist. He wanted to just hit the man. Mostly because he was right and mostly because he was just to damn smug about it.

Lucius reached up and squeezed the bridge of his nose. Then he turned to his mate. "Did you have to say it like that?"

Tom turned to his submissive and gave him a flat look. "How did you want me to say it. I have had it up to here with people always blaming me for shit I didn’t do. It is not you that is always made the bad guy for everything. If I didn’t care about magic I would just take you and Draco and go to the demon world and let the rest of them suffer for their stupidity. You and I both know that as much as I love magic I would leave this world to suffer alone. This is the main reason that Salazar and his mates left this world." Lucius seeing his lovers eyes start to glow tried to calm him down before he lost control of his temper.

"Then how do you explain my second year? You tried to have a sixty foot snake kill me." Harry blurted out barely holding on to his own temper. "In fact your sixteen year old self told me that I would be no match for the great Salazar’s powerful monster."

Tom took a deep breath pulling himself back under control. It would not do for him to lose his temper with their little one at a time like this. He was really trying to convince him that he wasn’t the monster that everyone thought him as and losing his temper wouldn’t help him prove that. "First of all, I have no clue what you are talking about. I didn’t see you in your second year."

Harry snapped his head up at those words with disbelief written all over his face. "What do you mean? Lucius slipped a diary that once belonged to you in to my former friend Ginny's cauldron that possessed her and had her open the chamber. Your sixteen year old self then told me that she would die to bring you back to life."

Before Harry could go on Lucius cut him off, "First of all I never put anything in Ginny's cauldron. I do remember seeing you all at the book store but the only thing I did was belittle the quality of her books and her other second hand equipment."

Tom raised his hand to stop Lucius from going on. "The only diary I have ever kept was lost in my seventh year. There is no way that Lucius could have ever seen it let alone been able to give it to someone else. In fact the diary only held my memories of my childhood that I couldn't keep from coming back up. I haven’t seen it in years, nor do I want to. Some of the memories in that diary were way to painful for me to deal with so Salazar told me to remove them."

Harry scrunched up his face at that and started to try to remember what he saw when he wrote in the diary. "I saw you frame Hagrid for killing Myrtle in that diary! You told the headmaster that Hagrid had let his spider kill her even when it was you when you let out the basilisk."

"Oh Harry how you have been lied too. First of all the basilisk killed Myrtle on accident. She felt my pain and wanted to come to me. She was the guardian of the Slytherin line and she could feel the pain of those she was set to protect. No one knew Myrtle was in the bathroom that she would come out of. Salazar had to put her back to sleep after that. She didn’t care who she killed as long as she could get to me to protect me. I am sure you know how things were for me in school and that was one of those days. She felt my pain and was coming to help me." Tom explained to him truthfully wanting his little mate to understand at the time what had happened. Harry looked confused about it and asked him about it.

"So you didn’t let her out to kill all muggle borns and half bloods?" Harry asked starting to feel bad for accusing Tom for that with out knowing the whole story.

"No, I didn’t let her out to kill all mudbloods and half bloods. That would have been stupid of me in a school that all knew that I was a parselmouth."

Harry took some time to really think about his next question before asking it. "Okay I understand the other years but you did try to kill me in my fourth year."

Tom gave a small smile, "I will not try to excuse myself in that year. I did try to kill you, I will admit that you had pissed me off and I lost control of my temper. You were keeping me from getting to my family and Lucius was there and I couldn’t get to him. I am sorry about that as well. Before you even bring up last year let me tell you what happened on our side." Tom shifted in his seat next to Lucius to get more comfortable, looking at Harry to retell the events that had happened.

"Severus Snape had come to me and told me that Lucius was being held in the department of mysteries by the Order of the Phoenix. You already know that Lucius is my mate, however this means that my demon side was outraged and without thinking I went to get him from the order. I didn’t know that you or your friends would be there, in fact I was just as shocked as you were to see me. Do to the Order, Lucius and a few others were put in prison and had to suffer for nothing. So once again, I was pulled away from my mate. I am sorry about your godfather but I don’t know why they didn’t just pull him out." Harry's eyes locked on to Tom's and shined with hope.

"You mean that Sirius can be brought from the veil?" Tom shifted in his chair again.

"He could have been brought back from the veil. But it is to late now, if you bring a person back before two months then they will be fine. Therefore, any longer and they can never come back." Harry felt his last hope to have his godfather back vanish with those words.

Then he took on a thoughtful look, "Did the headmaster know this!?"

Tom seeing the pain in his little ones eyes tried to change the subject. "Did you have any more questions for me?"

Harry knowing what the older man was doing let it go for now. He would get his answers maybe not now but soon. Harry looked at the Dark Lord and asked the question that was on his mind the most. "Why do you even care about magic, if it is so much work then why even try to save this world instead of just going to the demon world?"

Tom turned back to him with his temper firmly under his control. "You do know that if it wasn’t for demons like Salazar, Merlin and myself the magical world would have been destroyed over two thousand plus years ago. We have all used a great deal of magic to keep the wizarding world from being discovered. Hell, Merlin gave up his immortality to make sure that we couldn’t be discovered. If it wasn’t for our sacrifice you would never have been born because magic would no longer exist and your parents would have never met. Most of the other different kinds of magical creatures only work in this world but live in another. Take the goblins and the Naga for example, they only work in this world but live in the demon world. But to answer your question I was born in this world and I have lived in this world all of my life. This is home for me and many others like me. Why wouldn’t we fight to protect our home? When you thought I wanted to destroy the world you were willing to do anything to stop me so what is different? Let me tell you the difference, I have history and facts to support me and you only have what someone told you. All you have to do is read up on the history of the witch trials and think about all the people that were killed for having magic. Hell, some of the people weren’t even witches and wizards, they were just different. You can go to the library in the muggle world and find out everything I just told you for yourself. Think about this, how do you think muggles will handle Lucius and I being demons, how do you think they would handle us being together and able to have children? They kill there own that are in this kind of relationship even though they can't have children between the two men. Think what they would do to young Blaise if they found out he has two Dads and no mother?"

Harry blinked at that, Blaise has two fathers? His mind snapped back as Tom went on. "However there is more to the answer then this being my home. Another part of it is because I grew up during a time when people were killed for something as stupid as skin color and eye color. Muggles go to war over some of the stupidest things and children suffer for it. I grew up in a orphanage as I am sure you know. I was the only magical child there and because of my magic I was almost killed on many different occasions. When I was growing up all I wanted was to be around people that were just like me and would understand and not call or think of me as a freak. I found people like me when I came to the wizarding world and it was the first time I felt like I belonged. I have spent most of my life learning about magic and how it works and how it can best be used to better our world. I have seen how muggles destroy plants and other wild life, how they kill different creatures that we use in some of the potions that have kept you and many others alive. Some of the injuries that we can cure with magic cant be cured by any other way. They don’t care about anything but the easiest way to do things. Yes we could adapt their technology to our magic but why change something that doesn’t need to be changed. The reasons we don’t use cars that haven’t been charmed to run off magic is because it is harmful to the environment. Wizards honor the earth and muggles destroy it. Even the clothes we wear are better for the environment. Our clothing can change with growth or be charmed into something else but theirs is just thrown away and left to dissolve over time into the ground. We teach our children how to take care of nature and respect what it can give you. However they teach their children how to get over on one another. We protect and cherish our children and only have them when we can take care of them."

"Then how come Lucius only has one child. He can afford to raise more then just one." Tom looked at Lucius and leaned over to ask in a quiet voice so only he could hear. "Do you want me to answer that question or do you want to answer it?"

Tom leaned back as Lucius turned to Harry and spoke in a quiet voice. "Do to the fact that I am not a submissive demon I can't have children of my own. Yes I am submissive to Tom but I am not submissive to anyone else. If I was a submissive type of demon then yes we could have our own children without our other mate and we may not even need him. No our other mate is not just there for us to use to have our children but we do need him in order for us to have them. Mates are like your other half and they mean more to you then anything, it is an honor to be the mate of someone that will love and protect you with their own life." Harry looked at Lucius.

"Then how come Tom has two mates instead of one?" He asked curious as he looked from Lucius to Tom and back.

"He is to powerful and Dominant to not have more then one mate. It will take them both to balance him and keep him grounded. Merlin knows one can't do it alone." Lucius said while giving Tom a small smile. Tom just rolled his eyes and hit him playfully on the arm.

"Ha bloody ha, I need two mates because Lucius is the girl in the relationship. Hell, he stays in the bathroom longer then any female I know." Harry put his hand over his mouth to cover his smile at the two older men bickering back and forth.

Tom seeing Harry trying to cover his smile asked. "How come you haven’t asked me why I am not trying to kill you now?"

Harry looked at him. "That is because Salazar told me that you don’t kill children."

Tom looked toward the way where Salazar’s mirror was and frowned. "What else has that old man told you about me?"

"He told me a few things about your childhood and how things were for you in school. He told me that we had a lot in common and I didn’t believe him so that is why he told me about you. I really wanted to believe you were evil because it made things easier for me. I never thought you could be like me in so many ways, I never thought you had any good in you. Now I know different and it is hard for me to except it all. I am also learning that I can't trust everyone that smiles in my face and claims to be my friend." Tom looked closely at the young man and had to smile, he would be fine, he was stronger then people gave him credit for.

Harry then took a chance to process everything he had been told. He thought about the different wars he had read about when he was in muggle school and he had to agree that muggles fought for some of the stupidest reasons, like religion and race. He also thought about how muggles destroyed forests and other natural habitats, remembering that some of the plants used in some of the most powerful potions came from those forests. He then remembered how many people were killed during the witch trials and it made him cringe.

He then looked up at Lucius and Tom. "So is that why you want to kill all of the muggles?"

Tom shook his head. "Harry I don’t want to kill all of the muggles. I don’t even want to kill all of the muggle borns and half bloods. It is just they don’t belong in the magical world. Think about it like this. If you have a glass of milk and you keep adding water, it weakens the milk. It is the same with magical blood. Muggle borns and half bloods weaken magic and soon there will be more and more squibs in the magical world. They also bring more and more disease and infections that we have no cures for. So not only are they making magic weaker but they are the cause of witches and wizards dieing before there time. They have shortened the life span of witches and wizards and cause birth defects in magical children. This is another reason why most witches and wizards are not willing to have more children. It is because they are being born with problems that we have no cure for. Hell, not even the muggle world has a cure for them. Why would you want to bring a child into the world only to suffer and die?" Before Harry could open his mouth to respond, Tom went on.

"Do you know why people think Merlin was one of the most powerful wizards in the magical world?" Harry shook his head and said no in a quiet voice.

Tom cleared his throat. "It is because he was a master in elemental magic, wandless magic, wordless magic, and the mind magics. Only demons and other magical creatures still have these abilities. Normal witches and wizards have diluted their magic so much that it will take hundreds of years for them to even get back half of the magic they have lost. It is only do to some of the purebloods like the Blacks, the Malfoys and the Potters mating with other magical creatures that make them so powerful. On the other hand, The Malfoys and the Blacks aren’t even human any more and neither are the Potters. Yet, it has kept their family line around for as long as it has. Let me tell you why mudbloods are born with magic. It is because do to the fact that pure bloods are so scared to produce children, magic herself is trying to keep magic alive. We are like filters for magic and when there are not enough filters magic tries to create them. Once you remove the impure blood and start to repopulate, magic will not need to create those filters any more. Even other countries have already taken steps to make changes to keep this from happening. France, Italy, Japan and Columbia for example don’t allow Mudbloods or half bloods in their magical worlds. You have to have your blood tested before you can even enter their society."

"I don’t understand everything but I do understand some of were you are coming from." Harry said quietly. "I want to have more time to think about this if this is okay. I also want to do some of my own research. I am willing to join your side however under a few conditions, of course this is after I do my own research."

Lucius wanting to know what circumstances would his little one request from them he just had to ask. "What conditions do we have to meet to get you on our side?"

Harry eyes went directly to the blond to see if he was making fun of him. Seeing only curiosity in the blonds eyes he took a deep breath and began. "First, I will not be marked like an ordinary death eater. Second, I refuse to become a killer, I may agree with some of your goals from what I know, but I will not be a murderer. Next under no circumstance will anyone on your side hurt my friends. This includes Luna Lovegood, Fred, George and Charlie Wesely. I also refuse to be treated like I am beneath either of you."

Giving the two older men a chance to think and talk over his request, not that any of them were negotiable. Harry then took some time to really look at Tom for the first time. He had to admit that he was incredibly sexy and the power coming off of him only made him more attractive. Tom had to be about six foot two with broad shoulders and a nicely muscled body from what he could make out. He had long shoulder length black hair that was very wavy. His eyes were still the vibrant red but for some reason they didn’t scare him any more and he had to admit they fit his aristocratic looks. He had the fullest red lips on a man that he had ever seen but again they fit for him. Don’t even get him started on the mans voice, he had to say that it made his body's lower regions tighten in very pleasant ways. In a word Tom was very sexy and he had no problem seeing himself with the man as lovers or mates. Lucius gave a small smile at how Harry was checking Tom out, he almost fell on the floor laughing when he saw Harry lick his lips. Tom and Harry both looked at him like he lost his mind and he just fell out laughing more.
"Ah, Harry do you know what is wrong with him?" Tom asked while looking at Lucius with concern in his eyes. Harry gave a long look at Lucius and shook his head.

"I have no clue." Lucius pulled himself together and gave Harry a look that said 'you don’t really want me to tell Tom why I was laughing'.

"So what did you find so funny?" Harry asked not understanding the look. Lucius cleared his throat.

"Well I just found it funny how you were checking out Tom, you even licked your lips and had a look of lust in your eyes." Harry hid his head to hide the blush that was taking over his face.

“Lucius leave the boy alone, he is aloud to look if he wants to.” Tom said giving Harry a small smirk. "Besides we need to talk about the conditions that he has given us."

Harry looked at Tom. "I didn’t give those conditions to Lucius I gave them to you."

"Oh but yes you did give them to Lucius because he runs the death eaters just as much as I do. He is my equal and his word is law just like mine is." Harry turned to Lucius with a question in his eyes.

"Yes Harry, that is right. Tom and I are a team, I will punish someone just as quick as he will. I don’t tolerate disrespect any more then Tom does." Harry shook his head to clear it of what he just found out. He couldn’t blame all the things that went on in the death eater meetings on Tom any more. This was going to be something that he would have to get use to. He just couldn’t see Lucius doing half of the things that Tom did. For some reason he couldn’t think of Lucius as a killer, he knew rationally that Lucius had killed before but for some reason he just couldn’t see it. He looked at Tom and changed the subject, he would deal with that Lucius thing later.

"Like I said, I won't be treated like I am beneath either of you and I don’t want my friends hurt either." Lucius then spoke for the two of them.

"We agree to some of your terms and just for the record not all of the death eaters go on raids or have anything to do with that side of the world. Though, you have to understand we are not by any means going to change the way we do things to make you happy. If you think we are going to cater to you then you have another thing coming. You are new to the truth of what we are trying to accomplish and that gives you some leeway, but not much. You are not our equal and you will not be treated like one. I am sorry if you don’t like what I am telling you but it is the truth. We are not dealing with childish fits and we will not change a system that has worked for us for years to make you join. We won't go after your friends but if they attack one of our people then they are no longer protected. If you can't deal with that then you should stay out of the war all together." Harry stood up to leave, anger boiling up in him. He couldn’t believe Lucius was talking to him that way. However before he even took his first step he found himself looking at the backs of Lucius and Tom and it broke something deep inside.

Tom stopped him with a cold voice nearly hissing. "You need to grow up Harry, do you think Albus will give you the things you are asking me and Lucius for? Or have you forgotten how he has used you all this time?"

"We do not have time to deal with this childish shit." Was the butted in reply that came from Lucius. He was sick of trying to cater to the boy, he wouldn’t change for the child to please him. It was not going to happen, no matter what the boy was suppose to be to them.

"Lucius calm down!" Tom said in a firm voice.

Lucius turned to him. "I am not going to cater to this child. He knows what is at risk and he thinks we are suppose to just change everything to please him. It is my friends and family that is fighting this damn war and you don’t see me asking Albus to not hurt them. His friends are not children. Hell, Charlie has killed people on our side and he thinks that we are just suppose to let him attack our people and do nothing?"

Tom walked over to his submissive and pulled him into a tight hug, calm down love. "We are going home soon and I will take you to the training room so you can blow of some steam."

Lucius hugged Tom to him tighter, breathing in his scent he tried to calm down. He was just so angry with Harry for acting like a child. Toms and his demon side would never except Harry as long as he acted like that. Tom leaned back and looked at his submissive, Lucius never lost control of his temper so he was really worried.

"Are you okay now love?" Lucius looked into his loves eyes and felt his demon relax more.

"I will be fine now, I just want to get out of here. We are wasting our time with this conversation. We still have a war to win, we don’t need him holding us back. True he is powerful but so are many other people on our side. If he goes back to Albus then you will have to kill him at the final battle. He is not a child any more. We also have to inform Salazar of what is going on. He will need to know so he can stop his training. If he wants to act like a damn child then let him find his own way to learn how to protect himself. You should also tell Salazar to change the password to the chamber. If he is going to be on the enemy side then he shouldn’t be aloud in the chamber." Harry was speechless, how could they take everything he said like that, he was only trying to protect his friends. Lucius pulled all the way out of Toms arms.

"I will go talk to Salazar right now. When I get back I want to go home. I really don’t want to spend any more of my time having this damn discussion." With that he turned and walked toward the library. Tom reached up and squeezed the bridge of his nose. Then he turned back to Harry.

"I am not going to try to kill you now but if you get in my way or if you try to stop my people from completing there goals then I will remove you from the face of this earth. Trust me, I could kill you and have no problem with it. I am not nice by any means and I have tried to keep my temper under control all night with you. Even when you have been very disrespectful to me. I have still talked to you with respect. Just know from now on that you can not expect help from my family, they will not stand with you against me." Harry took a step forward and fell to the ground hitting his knees, he felt like someone was tearing his heart from his chest and he didn’t know how to make it stop. Tom feeling the pain his little one was in took one step toward him when Harry let out a blood curdling scream dropping down to the stone floor.

Then he saw his submissive start to convulse violently, kneeling down he laid his hand over on Harrys forehead and pushed his magic into the boy. No matter what he was feeling about Harry right now, he couldn’t let his submissive suffer when he could stop the pain. When Harrys body finally stopped convulsing, he pulled his hand back and stood up to leave. Feeling someone behind him he turned to se Salazar watching him.

"Lucius told me what is going on, I am so sorry, Marvolo. Does he know that you and Lucius are his mates yet?" Salazar asked so only Marvolo could hear him. Tom looked at the boy one more time before shaking his head.

"No, we were going to tell him tonight but we never got a chance to. With what happened, I am happy we never told him. He wouldn’t understand. That and I don’t want to be mated to someone that acts like a child. He is damn near an adult and I couldn’t see myself with him like this. My demon side would never except him this way. I am not asking him to be anything that he doesn’t want to be. Hell, I didn’t even ask him to kill. He still is holding on to his notions of me and it would never work as long as he does. I have more reasons to hate him then he has to hate me and I have more reasons to want to kill him but I still talked to him with the respect you would give anyone. Yet, he has been nothing but disrespectful from the moment I walked in the room." Unknown to Salazar or Marvolo, Harry was listening to every word they were saying and feeling like he was dieing with the truth in his older mates words.

"Can you deal with just having one of your mates, Marvolo?" Salazar asked quietly.

"I have no choice, I will not mate a childish little boy that wants to blame me for things that I didn’t do to make things easier for himself. I will also not mate someone that wants me to change everything to make him feel better. Do you know he told me and Lucius he wanted to be treated like our equal? Like he has worked for that position or earned it. I can not deal with someone like that and Lucius has basicly said forget it." Salazar sadly hung his head.

"I thought he would have been perfect for you and Lucius. I thought he would love to have a family for once. It seems I was mistaken and it has hurt you instead. I am truly sorry for even letting him get this close to you. He knows to much about your family and he can no longer be trusted not to betray us to the headmaster." Not being able to take any more Harry opened his eyes and sat up slowly. He wanted to just run and never stop running. Instead he spoke for the first time since Salazar had come in the room.

"Can I go or are you going to kill me now?" He asked in a small and dejected voice. He really didn’t care any more which one they chose no matter what he was going to be alone and miserable, he couldn’t believe he had found a way to make both of his mates hate him now. He couldn’t believe that he had lost everything in one night. He would never have his own family now and it was all his fault. He couldn’t blame anyone for this but himself. Luna had told him to have an open mind or he would lose everything and instead of taking her advice he ignored it. Now he would suffer alone for the rest of his life. No matter what Tom or Salazar chose he would be alone.

Salazar looked at Marvolo and told him in a firm voice. "It is your choice. I am going to get both of my mates and then we are going home. I have nothing else to do with this."

Tom turned to Harry and spoke. "What did you hear?"

"I heard that you and Lucius are my mates but I already knew that. I heard Draco and Salazar talking about it last night when I had went to speak to Salazar about something." Harry let his head drop back down after telling Tom what he knew.

"Damn it! I can't just let you die, even though you are not on my side." With that he walked over and picked Harry up off of the ground, taking him to the love seat, he laid him down and placed his hand over the boy's forehead again. Harry felt warmth flood his body and wished with all his heart the feeling would never stop but as soon as that ran through his mind Tom pulled his hand away.

"Your demonic magic is coming in. If you don’t find a demon in the next few days that is more powerful then you or at least as powerful as you then you will die."

"I thought I could only have you and Lucius as mates?" Tom squeezed the bridge of his nose again.

"If both of your dominant mates reject you then you have three days before your body starts to shut down, in those three days your body will yearn for your dominant mates above anything else. However we will not be coming to you, Lucius and I are already mated and I am the dominant in our relationship and I won't let him protect you again. I won't let him get even closer to you then he already has. I refuse to let him get hurt! This means you are on your own from now on." He said aggraivately as Harry grimced at his tone.

"I’m sorry," Harry sadly apologized while letting the tears that he had been trying to hold back the whole time fall. "I never meant to make you both hate me."

Tom took in a deep breath. "We don’t hate you Harry. It is just we will not put up with your childish fits or your damn Gryffindor ways. This is a war and I can understand you wanting to save your friends but they are adults just like you are and they will make their own choices. This does not mean that we will go after them. And for you to demand for us to do anything is just not going to happen, and for you to tell us you will not join our side unless you are treated like an equal when you haven’t done anything to deserve that position not to mention you have tried to hinder us at every turn is also unacceptable. We are not obligated to do anything for you. We could have left you to die for nothing and went on like you never existed. You really don’t know how much you really hurt Lucius. He was the one that helped you after you were damn near killed and he was the one that went with you to the bank to keep people from taking your money." Harry lifted his eyes to Toms and spoke in a pained voice.

"I never meant to hurt him, I just want to keep the only family I have left alive. They are the only ones that have stood by me." Tom reached out and pulled Harry into his arms.

"Harry you can't protect everybody. We are not going to go after your family but we do have a right to protect ourselves from them as well. Also, I never asked you to be a killer or want you to be one, you have to stop looking at me like I am the one that has caused your life to end up the way it has. I didn’t kill your parents, neither set of your parents and I really wish you would stop acting like I did. I don’t hate you but you annoy me at times with your childish fits. I can feel all of your pain and so can Lucius as we are your dominant mates and before you ask why we didn’t tell you we were your mates, it is because you weren’t ready. We both knew that as long as you hold on to the past you would never be ready. You are holding back your own happiness and no one can change that but you." Harry felt his tears slow a little and he began to try to speak again.

"It doesn’t really matter because I have lost both of my mates now." Suddenly he felt another pair of arms wrap around him from behind.

"As mad as you made me Harry, I don’t want anything to happen to you. Tom and I both want you as our mate but only if you will grow up and stop acting like a child. We are not going to hand things to you just because you are our mate. That is not what being a mate is about. I did not become Tom's equal just because I was his mate, I became his equal because I worked my ass off to earn that place by his side. By you being our mate you will have some privileges that the others don’t have but that doesn’t mean we will tolerate disrespect from you either. Do you understand?" Harry nodded as Lucius had taken his chin in hand to make him look at him.

"So does this mean that you will give me a chance to prove that I can be someone that you both could be proud of?" Harry asked with a voice full of apprehension. Lucius let go as Tom took both of Harrys hands into his own.

"We don’t want you to do something that will change who you are. Don’t think we want you to change to make us happy. The only thing we need you to do is grow up and act your age and take care of yourself. You have had to learn the hard way what happens when you depend on others. Yes, it is true that slytherins take care of their own but we also have a self preservation instinct that comes first." Harry looked into Toms eyes and saw the truth in them, he knew that they wouldn’t settle for anything less from him. Lucius put his hand under Harrys chin once more and turned his head to look at him.

"Harry, we only want you to understand that no matter what we will protect you to the best of our ability but you also have to learn to protect yourself. We will not always be there to fight your battles for you. This is the major reason Draco and his friends have been trained from very young ages. Draco is a target just because of his name, if people knew how close he was to Tom, it would put a bigger target on his back. You have been around Draco long enough to know that the mask he shows the rest of the world is just that, a mask. He is very protective of the people he cares about, if you can get Draco to care about you then he will do anything in his power to protect you. He is not going to do the Gryffindor thing but he will protect you to the best of his ability." Harry leaned in closer to Tom and felt his body relax into the other mans.

Tom looked at Lucius and waved his hand over the chairs turning them into a bed that the three of them could fit on. He was not willing to leave his young mate just yet. That and he wanted to hold him a little longer. Lucius pulled out his wand and transfigured their clothes into night clothes and settled Harry between the two of them, they could continue the talk in the morning. Right now he wanted to feel both of his mates in his arms tonight as he drifted off to sleep.

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