SHADOW CHILD

Written by: Night Fury

Summary: Slash. Harry has led an abusive life at the hands of the Dursleys. Then he's thrown into a world which wants perfection from him, yet condones him for his power. It's his nature to fade into the shadows. Severitus.

Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.

Warnings: Homosexual pairings, Heterosexual pairings, Alternative Universe, non-canon, Out of Character, Original Characters, SEXUAL CONTENT, explicit language, violence, some blood and gore, changes to appearance and lineage, creature inheritances, super powerful characters, original creatures, child abuse…

Author's Note: The first chapter recounts his deceptions in detail from year one at Hogwarts to after year five. It then starts the summer after year five. There are a lot of flashbacks in this chapter. Also please note, Harry is not evil, he's calculative and intelligent with harsh views, but he's not evil He will be very independent in this. This also a Severitus.

Pairings: VOTE – Bill Weasley/Harry Potter, Remus Lupin/Harry Potter, Sirius Black/Harry Potter or Charlie Weasley/Harry Potter

Types of Relationships:

1. Bill Weasley/Harry Potter – Bill will see Harry as an equal in intelligence and power. It will begin with sexual tension on part of Bill and when he finally acts on it. Harry will examine his relationships with Bill and discover he loves Bill not as a friend or a family, but as a life partner.

2. Remus Lupin/Harry Potter – Remus will be possessive and overly protective of Harry when he realizes they're equals and mates by werewolf decree. Their first sexual act will be provoked by Remus when the wolf temporarily takes over his mind. Remus will be horrified by his actions, but Harry reassures him. This pairing will include MPREG. Not taking votes against MPREG for this pairing.

3. Sirius Black/Harry Potter – At first Sirius sees Harry as James, but when Harry differs at first Sirius is resentful, but soon realizes he's only resentful because there is nothing left from seeing Harry as a different person and loving him. But his affections might be too late when another is courting Harry. VOTE on both MPREG and who his competition is.

4. Charlie Weasley/Harry Potter – Charlie is gentle, but extremely protective. He enjoys Harry's company above all. He's slightly possessive, but he's no drama queen. He appreciates Harry. And when Charlie shows his love interest he approaches Harry with gentleness, indulgence and understanding.

PROLOGUE

The young lovers and the fateful deception

Once upon a time, not so very long ago, there was a beautiful young woman and, while not particularly handsome young man, a charismatic one. If this were a fairy tale the young woman would be kidnapped by a dark sorcerer. The young man would go rescue his damsel in distress on his trusty white stead. He would battle the dark sorcerer using a magic shield and defeat him. He would kiss his damsel waking her from everlasting sleep. Finally they would live happily ever after.

But this s no fairy tale. It is a tale of a grandfather who took away his granddaughter's happiness. It is a tale of a broken young man, who lost his lover. It is a tale of a child conceived out of wedlock. It is a tale of a vengeful husband who made his wife choose between her own life and the life of her lover's unborn babe that grew with in her rounded belly.

It is a tale of deception, hope and love. Where the lover has lost his purpose. Where the child he never knew grew up into a young man with a dreadful destiny. A young man of deception and shadows. The shadow child.

June 1979

A young man with silky raven hair and mesmerizing doe colored eyes led a young woman with copper hair and amazing almond shaped green eyes framed by long dark eyelashes through the small Ivy garden. The woman's luscious cherry colored lips curved into a smile as she repeated a lewd joke she'd heard. The male blushed and several chuckles escaped his mouth. Before he knew it, tears were pouring from his eyes as he laughed uproariously. The woman looked triumphant. The man inside the house could just hear from the garden the woman's scream "I win Sev! I made you laugh!"

The elderly man moved away from the curtained window, letting the curtain fall and turned to the man in front of his desk. The man behind the desk was quite stout and slightly toddy, his features were dull and had a cruel and greedy air about them. "You can see the benefits Lord Rosen, your son dragged your name through dirt when he divorced his pure blood wife and married a muggle. It is lucky your granddaughter was bred from his first marriage or you'd of lost all pure blood support. Now will you take up my offer to have my son marry Madeline? Or should I abandon you to the wolves? I can guarantee you'll return to your place as the proper Raven Lord if this marriage were to happen." The man said.

"She looks so happy with Severus." He muttered quietly, "I'd hate to take that away."

"But would a common half blood with meager holdings be able to support her. Would she be happy fraternizing with commoners and sweeping the coal out of the hearth? Would she enjoy being in bed round with child after child? After all that's what all half-bloods want, nothing, but her dowry and breed like the pests they are. I've seen it before, they marry for the money and title, but then they're wives and wife's family pays." The man said with a pompous air. "Do you want your daughter to have a life, a marriage like that?"

"You're probably right Lord Avery. For her happiness." The Lord Rosen said signing the parchment.

September 1979

"Sev… we can't…. the wedding is only a week away."

"Please Maddie, just this once. I want you in my arms. I don't know how I can live without you… I'm so lost." Said the broken man, his silky hair curtaining his hollow onyx eyes. His eyes had darkened with remorse.

"OH SEV!" She said, pressing their bodies together. They kissed, their lips pressing furiously together. Knowing tonight would be the last night for them to be together. Sev nibbled on her neck making her gasp. He peeled off her shirt and she pulled down his trousers. They made passionate love. Their union was desperate as they sought to mesmerize flesh and taste. Smell and moans. His seed shot into her warm channel as she rode him. He bit her flesh, leaving love marks. Possessive love marks. And then when their orgasms ended she collapsed on him and both drifted off into a deep slumber.

But unbeknownst to the lovers, his seed took root and new life began to grow within her belly.

July 31 1980

"Please, cousin. Please! Avery may have forced me into this decision, but it is my decision to make. The baby lives! I have seen enough in my life. Please Lilly I want my son to live. Please Lily…" She asked trailing off her breathing harsh as the contractions hit again.

"Alright, Maddie. It is your choice… who is the baby's real father?"

"Severus Snape… he must never know Lily. Please keep Gabriel safe. The baby's name is Gabriel Harrison Snape… give him a home Lily. Please! And make sure Avery never knows or he'll strangle the baby. Don't let Gabriel die. Please Cousin. I know we are only cousins by marriage, but please Lily… please love him and show him the tenderness I wish I could." Maddie screamed as with one final push the baby was born and her soul was ripped out of her body by her husband's curse.

"We will Maddie, Lily and I will give Gabriel a home." James Potter whispered, "We'll call him Harry James Potter."

1986 to June first 1996

The boy had always lived there. In that cramped little cupboard under the stairs with the cleaning supplies on the pitiful broken mattress with loose springs. He had lived there only coming out to clean, cook and be beaten and in later years for school. Petunia and Vernon always told him to be normal. 'Don't stand out. Don't be freakish.' And he tried, he really did try hard. But things happened like turning his math teacher's hair blue or appearing on the roof of the school. And then he'd get it, boy would he get it. He would be beaten within an inch of his life and starved.

It was during his sixth year of life that he first discovered 'magic' - or as he called it 'energy' - and most importantly several highly unusual abilities even for a wizard or witch.

FLASHBACK

His shattered glasses lay just out of his reach, as he slowly dragged his battered and bloody body across the cupboard floor. Sweat ran down his face as he dragged his dislocated leg across the floor behind him. It was super sensitive to the grit on, and friction of, the floor. His lip bled where he had bitten deeply into it to keep from screaming. I wish I didn't need glasses, he wished fervently. Suddenly there was a tingling behind his eyes, he closed them momentarily. When he opened them again, everything came into focus. Oh shit. They're so going to kill me… maybe if I just wished my glasses didn't work.. Harry reached out for his glasses, when with a spark of blue electricity jumped into his hand. Harry looked in wonder at his newly mended glasses with simple glass instead of lenses. Taking a piece of tape, he taped up the unbroken bridge to hide the difference and shoved them onto his face.

END OF FLASHBACK

That was the time he realized he could control his 'accidents'. If he could control them… maybe my controlling them he could prevent them. With that in mind, he started his secret training in both wandless and silent magic.

Harry soon discovered he the ability to connect his 'energy' to other living objects to monitor their moods, health and spy through their eyes and ears. He had yet to attempt to influence their thoughts, but he could feel them just outside of his grasp. These techniques helped Harry monitor Uncle Vernon's disposition and prepare himself for a beating or, if he was lucky enough, redirect it. He also learned to morph his physical features, like changing his hair colour from auburn with both gold and copper highlights into black, or hiding the bruises that made their home on his golden skin.

Unfortunately, his uncle found out about this ability and after particularly brutal beatings, he had his nephew hide his bruises. When his uncle found out, he immediately told his aunt, and she began to scheme. The only unfortunate thing in Petunia's mind was that he could only change his eye color for so long. She hated that her nephew had her sister's hair, slight figure and haunting eyes. She dug up an old picture of James Potter and made Harry imitate almost every feature of his. After awhile, this 'disguise' became almost permanent, as Petunia would not allow him to look like her sister anymore than he had to.

Another peculiar trait he discovered about himself was he could fade into the shadows. And soon he learned to manipulate the shadows into forms of protection, whether as a distraction or a trap. On his ninth birthday he discovered a particularly beneficial manipulation to 'his shadows' as he taken to calling them.

FLASHBACK

It was his traditional birthday gift, a beating. Dudley and his gang were chasing him again and he already had a broken nose curtsey of Pierce's fist. The one thing he was better at then them was he was fast, a lot faster than any of them or even he expected. Digging into his pocket he took out what appeared to be a small black marble. Clutching the black marble he whispered under his breath, "Trip." He then dropped the marble. The marble rolled on its own towards the lagging boys. As soon as neared Pierce who was in the lead it exploded outwards in dark energy that crackled and hissed. It seemed only Harry seemed to be able to detect this energy. The energy blasted two pursuers off their feet as if they had naturally tripped. The energy then condensed again and took off after Harry. It replaced itself in his pocket.

The boys were quickly back up on their feet. Harry ducked down a street only to find himself in a small parking lot surrounded by three walls and no way out, but the same way in. Jumping behind a parked car, he began to cry, clenching a marble in his hands and sobbing silently. Dudley and his group were drawing nearer. You're useless! Harry hissed mentally at a black marble, before, in his anger, chucking at the wall. The marble flattened and expanded quickly over the bricks. The 'shadow' then became transparent and Harry could see through the wall into a dingy pub.

Taking a step forward he raised his hand towards the image. It abruptly went through. "Hey, I think he's behinds that car!" Pierce called. Without a hesitation Harry stepped through the shadowy portal. The portal closed behind him and the black marble reappeared in his pocket. "Thank you." Harry muttered to his shadow-marble before sneaking through the shadows out the front door of the pub.

END OF FLASHBACK

He had found himself in the middle of London and while he did receive a beating when he returned home at 11 pm, he believed it had been beneficial. He had learned to Shadow-port (Shadow-port: to make portals through space with his shadows). It took some effort, but after a few mishaps Harry learned to control that as well.

On his eleventh birthday he received his Hogwarts letter. Hagrid came to collect him and brought him to Diagon Alley. With some persuasion Hagrid told Harry about Lord Voldemort and his powers.

FLASHBACK

"Voldemort…" Hagrid said quickly.

"This Voldemort—"

"Don't say his name." Hagrid said quickly clapping a hand over Harry's mouth. "Voldemort had powers; he could both see and hear from his minions' eyes and ears. They say he could melt into the shadows and disappear completely. He could speak to snakes. Those be dark and dangerous abilities. We never say his name." Hagrid said his eyes darting warily around the Leaky Cauldron. He didn't see Harry's eyes narrow or the calculative expression that crossed his face.

At Number Four Privet Drive, Harry skimmed the books Hagrid had selected looking for a mention of any of his abilities. He found barely any, so he decided something that would lead to events that we know so well. I will stick to the magic taught at Hogwarts… they do not need to know anymore… they would use me for their own purposes. An idol by all means. If the way people looked at me in Diagon Alley is any indication, they adore me… I will not let my power be abused. I'm not a weapon and that's what they see me as. The defeater of a monster, their knight in shining armor. I'd bet if another monster were to appear I would be sent off to slaughter it as well… with fame also comes controversy… I want nothing of it. I will be quite, but not studious, I will not give them reason to use me other than a figure head. I will not be a sacrificial lamb.

END OF FLASHBACK

And so events came to pass and his deception ad elaborate lies continued to grow.

TO BE CONTINUED

Author's Note: This story will be slightly twisted and I'm aiming to be original.

Please remember to vote for pairings and the following options:

1. Should Dumbledore be evil or just manipulative, but well meaning?

2. Should Harry start his own group, a 'grey resistance'?

3. Should Charlie and Bill's pairings also have the option of getting Harry pregnant?

4. Should I pair Snape with a OFC? Or No other character? Or a OMC? Or Lucius Malfoy/Severus Snape?

5. If it is a OMC or Lucius Malfoy/Severus Snape pairing should Snape become pregnant?

6. Should Harry get a younger sibling later?

7. Should WHEN Harry takes up his identity of Snape's son, he Madam Pomfrey's apprentice, Professor McGonagall's? Or something else? (Not a STUDENT!)