Ner words in this chapter: 1,803

"Talking"

'Thinking'

–Parseltongue–

{Mind-talking through Horcrux}

Thinking in 3rd person POV/Dream/Memory/Flashback/Others

Letter/Journal/Book/Newspaper

Time change/Date of time

Change of POV

Chapter XIV

–Fake–

Thursday, 4 November 1993

HJP's POV

Harry raised his head and looked at the bedroom door as it opened. Putting on his glasses, as he was fast to realize that it wasn't Tom, only to frown at actually seeing Tom.

–Voldemort?– 'Tom''s lack of reaction to the Parseltongue was Harry's freak-out point and Tom's Boa Constrictor raised it's head from where it had nested beside the door of the bathroom, looking back at Harry at sensing his worry. Harry immediately focused on the connection he had with Voldemort that usually caused him pain. {Help!}

{Harry?} Voldemort's voice and mental presence was fast to appear on his head. {Hide in the bathroom, quick!} The man added as he most likely realized what was wrong.

Harry stood and before the fake!Tom could react he fled to the bathroom and hid in there with the door locked the Boa following him inside. He could hear the stranger knocking on the door and asking what was wrong. Almost caringly!

Harry hid inside the bathtub in between the snake's coils that did his best to sooth him down, holding his ears as he tried to stop the sound that wasn't but sounded, yet not, like his Alpha. Finally, he heard a body fall and then the bathroom's door opened. He looked up to find Voldemort entering and raised his hand as if he had a wand in hand ready for strike in fear while the Boa got ready to strike because of Harry's reaction.

–It's me.– Voldemort said as he made sure to slip to Parseltongue, to which Harry run out the tub and the Boa's coils and into the other's arms.

–Tom?– He asked afraid as Voldemort summoned a robe to pull over Harry's naked body.

–I do not know.– Voldemort argued and Harry nodded, winning tears. –Your Heat?–

–It stopped a while ago. Tom had gone to warn Lord Lestrange when the fake one entered… it didn't even remember that Tom's a Parselmouth like me!– Harry replied as the Boa Constrictor climbed his body and did his best to calm him down, even licking his tears from his cheek.

Voldemort chuckled.

"It? The fake isn't even a He or She?"

"IT!" Harry argued.

Voldemort looked over his own shoulder.

"Did you hear it, Metamorphmagus? Harry considers you a thing. Harry hates to use It to any living being, yet you are a It."

"What is a meta-thingy?"

"In Muggle terms: a shapeshifter." Voldemort replied. "I'm portkeying you two to Malfoy Manor." –Naga, you need to watch over your Master's Mate.– Harry looked up in the man's arms scared, as the Boa Constrictor Naga hissed in agreement. "Your brother Ronald is there."

"I…"

"You want me to find Salazar, do you not?" Voldemort retorted and Harry lowered his head, hiding it in the other's chest somehow. It being a hard thing to accomplish with the massive snake surrounding him. "Harry!"

–I don't want to lose two Alphas in one go.–

Voldemort massaged his eyebrows and held Harry.

"Grab your wand and stay behind me." –Naga, do not let any spell hit him, understood?–

–Understood.– Naga agreed.

Harry summoned his wand and stayed behind Voldemort, who looked back with dark eyes… the type that Tom would send him when turned-on. He blushed, realizing what it meant and looked away as Voldemort regained control of his features. Naga somehow snickering on Harry's ear and making Harry have to hiss him to shut it. Magically, Voldemort grabbed the metathingy and walked out of Harry's and Tom's quarters, with Harry following with the massive snake somehow still around him in an embrace. They went into the Manor's main office, to find Tom and Lord Lestrange being held captivity by a black man.

–Auror: Wizardry Police.– Voldemort put in as they leaned against the side of the corridor.

Immediately, Tom (inside the room) leaned his head forward and down.

–Order Members.– Tom hissed quietly. –I've seen five, but there are only three inside.–

–There's one missing then. We have a Metamorphmagus who forgot we are Parselmouths. Granted Harry a freak-out and your Familiar is even in protective mode because of that.–

–When I get out of these ropes, I'll knock some reason into your thick skull, Harry!–

Voldemort gave Harry a warning look before he entered the office. Harry glanced at the fake!Tom and then entered with it, using a levitation spell. Already inside Voldemort had defeated the three Order Members. Harry levitated the fake towards where Voldemort had deposited the other three.

"What did I do wrong that you knew on the very first second?"

Harry stopped, as he moved towards the being freed Tom, and turned towards the Order Members. Naga not even once left his position around Harry's body to protect him from any stray spell with his massive body.

"On one part:" Harry pointed at Naga "Parselmouth. But before I even spoke it, there's something about Salazar and his Aura. He enters the room and I don't even need to look to know." He put in. "Not to mention that Salazar and his father are a possessive and dominant type of Alphas. Salazar makes certain that I eat, makes certain to give me everything that I might need… he doesn't do sweet in love Alpha who is so worried about me. Salazar treats me like an equal and, even if he does pamper me because I was never pampered at my old place, wants me to become powerful and my own independent person enough to stand by his side on an equal level.

"The way you treated me? Was the acting of an Alpha who wants an Omega to be sweet and innocent."

Naga finally released Harry and the boy accepted Tom's hugging from behind instead, relishing in it.

"I was too kind?"

"You were too kind." Harry agreed. "And that was what freaked me out."

He glanced back at Tom and knew that he would still listen later for letting his emotions rule over instead of thinking straight.

"Why mate with such a monster then?"

"Magic chose him as my other half." Harry replied. "Besides, calling someone a Monster when you are a Freak yourself is really low."

The fake!Tom's eyes grew as it gaped back. Harry looked back to notice that Voldemort was returning with the last Order Member.

"Your wife and Mate needs medical attention, Jeremy." Voldemort put in and Lord Lestrange left at once. "Now I want to know what the Aurors will say when they arrive and notice fellow Aurors in the attacking squad."

Before Harry could tense up, Tom hugged him tighter.

"What I want to know is how Dumbledore managed to persuade them to attack us all the way from Azkaban… that is if he even arrived said prison." Tom argued.

"He didn't tell us anything. You Know Who and his freakish son…"

"Even if that was true…" Harry interrupted and the Order Members glanced back. "You seem to forget that mating is for life. Even if you killed Salazar, I couldn't re-mate. I'd be stuck."

"Don't be melodramatic, couples remarry all the time…"

"Betas and Alphas." Voldemort argued. "Even Alphas, only the ones not mated to Omegas. Sure, Thoroughbreds can mate two Omegas at once… but most Alphas and every Omega are stuck."

–Two Omegas?– Harry snarled.

Tom chuckled against Harry's neck.

–Don't worry, we are not interested in adding a fourth to the already complicated threesome that doesn't exist.– Tom argued against his neck soothingly as Naga laughed by their feet.

Harry glared at Voldemort who smiled, but besides that didn't react.

–A/B/O–

TMR's POV

Tom had to restrain his amusement as he gave his statement to the Auror about what happened, while by the side an obvious pouting Harry refused either Tom or Voldemort's touch being hugged around his legs instead by Tom's Familiar. A glance at Voldemort told him that they both were thinking that a jealous Harry looked endearing. Harry looked like a cat having a hissy fit.

"I've a feeling that if Harry would attempt Animagus he'd be a cat." Voldemort pointed out as the Order Members were transported away.

"Only thing missing right now is the ears and tail." Tom agreed.

"That can be arranged." Voldemort retorted and, as soon as they were left alone, a tail started growing from under the robe and Harry's ears shaping cat-like.

Like the two expected, both appendices were bristled and pointing high into the ceiling.

"I need to learn that one." Tom commented as Naga looked at the two new appendices confused and then looked back at Tom, only when the snake was sure it hadn't been a curse did it let it be. Not exactly a guard dog, but Tom was sure that if ever needed that his Familiar would take care of his Mate and possible future children. "I want to bring Naga to Hogwarts to protect Harry when we aren't there." He added to his older-self.

"I'll see what I can do." Voldemort agreed.

They heard the sound of steps and turned to find Lucius Malfoy and Ronald arriving. Ronald didn't even acknowledge them and run towards Harry, hugging him. The ginger Omega didn't even react to the massive snake by the black-haired Omega's feet.

"Sally has some strange kinks."

Tom snorted as Harry frowned, confused. Ronald signalled the ears while pulling the tail forward. Harry's hissy fit was completely worth it!

–A/B/O–

HJP's POV

Harry grumbled under his breath as he stomped down the corridor into Gryffindor Tower. An amused Fred and George following him after they'd been owled that Harry was back in school. Neither Tom nor Voldemort following him. Even the twins had been smart enough to stay quiet. He entered the common room and stomped up the stairwell into his dormitory, before throwing himself on the bed with a massive groan. Somehow Harry could hear a pet bed being popped in under the bed by the House-elves and Naga slithering inside and getting ready to guard the bed for him.

"Is this because of the Order's attack?" Ron asked by his side confused.

"Ron, don't get me wrong, Brother, but I really need to be alone!" Harry argued into the pillow.

He heard Ron sigh and then Harry's blanket was pulled over him, before the curtains were closed to give him privacy.

(TBC)

To who hasn't realized Harry's anger: he is nesting.

Pheromones both because of a loss of a pregnancy, because of the strike, because of the Heat and because Voldemort keeps refusing the mating

Next chapter: Harry gets the Knots

~Isys

Ps: Naga is the male version of Nagini, since she doesn't exist in this Alternate Universe, I thought that it would be fitting to call the Boa Constrictor that