FIC: Reclaim ~ 10 ~ R ~ Tom(Voldemort)/Harry

[batsutousai]

Title: Reclaim
Author: batsutousai
Beta: magickmaker17
Pairings: Harry/Tom(Voldemort), Salazar/Godric, Rowena/Helga, Sirius/Remus, Gin/Ted, Herm/???
Warnings: This will have graphic slash, not-so-graphic femslash, and not-so-graphic het, war, Ron torture
Summary: Sequel to Abandon!
In love with the man he’s expected to kill and member of the esteemed Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter must fight in a war in which he is divided. Can he lead his world to peace?
Disclaim Her: *bouncy, bouncy*

Key:
Mind-speak
:Parseltongue:
’Written thoughts’
°°Phoenix speech°°

A/N: Sorry if this chapter is fragmented. I wanted to give you an idea of what was happening all around the Wizarding world.
I've misplaced my notes about what month this fic is in right now and I haven't worked on it in so long that I've gone and bloody forgotten, myself. So, end of October is where I'm thinking we are right now.

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Chapter 10

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"Third Auror Tonks, you have a visitor," one of the junior aurors reported, poking his head into Tonks' office.

Tonks looked up tiredly from a desk covered in paperwork. Ever since Mad-Eye had been voted in as stand-in Minister there had been a lot of changing around in the Ministry and Tonks, among others, had been promoted – or perhaps demoted was a better word for it – to desk work. "Who is it?"

"He says he's a brother-in-arms, madam."

Tonks frowned. A 'brother-in-arms'?

"He's got spiky red hair," the junior added, hoping that would help.

Tonks' eyes widened and she looked over at her calendar. It was eight days ago, now, that she'd gone with Mad-Eye to visit Harry. He said he'd find her if they hadn't spoken in a week, and she'd totally forgotten. "Send him in, then," she sighed to the junior, then rubbed at her forehead. How could she have forgotten?!

A man with spiked red hair and mischievous gold eyes stepped into the room. He frowned, though, when he saw Tonks' desk. "At least now I know why I haven't heard from you," he commented, closing the door behind him and throwing up wards. "Did you break something in the Head Auror's office and get demoted?"

"No, though that's what it feels like sometimes," Tonks sighed, reaching forward and uncovering her name plaque. "I got promoted, to Third Auror."

Harry whistled. "I'm impressed. I never would have made it that high."

Tonks looked amused. "Harry, if you'd made it into the auror program, you'd have been Head Auror by the end of your first week."

"You flatter me," Harry laughed.

Tonks shook her head. "It's true. You're on par with Mad-Eye and he'd still be Head Auror if he wasn't Minister."

"Moving on, have you thought much about what we discussed last time?" Harry changed the topic with practised ease.

Tonks sighed. "Not since that night. I got here Monday morning to find that Mad-Eye had spent the whole night moving people around."

Harry nodded in understanding. "I can give you more time to think–"

"No, no." Tonks waved a hand at him, then quickly dove for the pile of papers that she'd knocked off her desk.

Harry quietly levitated the papers back onto the desk, tossing the sheepish Tonks a kind smile. "I know a spell that will keep your papers on your desk and in their proper piles, even if you run into them. Do you want me to cast it?"

"Please," Tonks breathed, flopping back into her chair. Harry cast the spell, then made to knock another pile of papers off the desk. When the paper stack merely swayed a little, Tonks said, "Thanks, Harry. You're a life saver."

Harry shrugged. "No problem. I have to use it on my own desk, since I offered to do all the paperwork Voldemort could possibly throw at me. It's not quite as bad as this, but we're not a government office, either."

Tonks nodded. "Yeah."

"So, I take it you've made up your mind?"

"I pretty much have, yes. I'm leaning towards you, though I agree with Mad-Eye when it comes to You-Know-Who," Tonks admitted.

Harry smiled. "Great. Since I'm wary of giving you one of my marks – you are Third Auror now – I won't. If you'd like, though, my group wears charm bracelets and you could have one. They've proven invaluable a number of times."

Tonks nodded in understanding. "The poisoning from Ron."

"Among other things," Harry agreed, holding out one of the bracelets.

"Thank you," Tonks murmured, putting it on.

"Of course." Harry grinned. "Now, I was wondering if you knew whether the Minister was in or not."

"I think he's at Hogwarts, actually..." Tonks rubbed at her chin.

"Perfect." Harry stood. "If I need to talk to you about anything, I'll come find you or pass word through Arthur or Mad-Eye. If you need me for anything, talk to Arthur – I see him more often."

Tonks nodded. "Sure thing. Have fun, Harry."

Harry smirked. "Me?" Then he stepped from Tonks' office.

-~/\~-

When Mad-Eye got back to his office from his meeting with Albus – the man was impossible – he sat in his chair, then stood quickly with a yelp.

Aurors ran into the room and found Mad-Eye smiling down at his chair. Scrawled across the seat was a message from Harry: 'I would have thought you'd take care to un-hex everything in sight, Minister. Be more careful next time, lest I kill you.'

"Sir?" his secretary asked worriedly.

Mad-Eye chuckled. "That brat is near impossible," he informed his staff before casting a range of spells to un-hex anything else Harry might have played with. Then he sat back down and motioned his team out. "It's all fine in here, but keep an eye out for an attack. I don't trust Potter to give us even a second's breath.

Once everyone had filed out, a dark form appeared from the shadows, grinning wildly. "I got you."

Mad-Eye rolled his eyes at his ex-student. "So you did. And I see you've found a spell I can't see through."

"Shadow Arts," Harry replied, taking the seat in front of the Minister's desk. "Tom had a book on it that he lent me."

"Interesting. I'll have to read up on it."

"Feel free to try and find a book on it. Most of them were burned, and the one I got from Tom's in Parsel," Harry replied seriously.

Mad-Eye frowned. "I'm sure I'll find something. Now, what brings you through here?"

Harry leaned back in his seat. "I was just visiting Tonks."

A smirk touched the Minister's lips. "How is she?"

Harry let out and amused snort and shot his mentor a slightly annoyed look. "Did you have to make it so hard for her to think?"

"I figured she was safer in an environment where she wasn't out on the streets and getting caught up in raids all the time," Mad-Eye allowed.

"Also, her higher position allows us access to a greater amount of information," Harry replied understandingly. "Still. She could use a break from all that work. Her desk looks worse than mine."

Mad-Eye rubbed at his chin. "I'll see what I can do."

"Wonderful." Harry passed a folded slip of paper across the desk, then stood. "Be on your guard, Alastor. The next note from me won't be as kind as a simple prank."

The Minister nodded coolly and slipped the paper from sight. "Good day, Potter."

"Good day, Minister," Harry agreed before fading away into the room's shadows.

-~/\~-

Harry rubbed at his eyes tiredly as he finished decoding the latest message from Curtis Killinger – a Death Eater who was working in Italy to gather allies. The news was, simply put, not good. It appeared that the Order was one step ahead of them in this – as they often seemed to be in many things and had already gathered an impossibly large part of the boot-shaped piece of land.

Harry leaned back in his chair and looked over at the map of the world that he had tacked up to his wall. With an aggravated look, he sent a flash of magic towards Italy, slashing the parchment diagonally across the country. Then he pulled out a quill and a piece of parchment. A quick note was dashed out to Killinger, which he then attached to the portkey that was keyed to the Death Eater's Mark. With a tap of his wand, the sheet and portkey was gone and Harry was left with still more messages from their people who were spread around the globe or under cover in the Ministry.

A flash of fire caught Harry's attention and he looked up to find Fawkes preening on a chair across from him. The young leader allowed a wry smile. "What sort of bad news do you bring me this time, you infernal bird?" he asked, referring to the other day when Fawkes brought him an emergency letter from Minerva. The letter was cleverly disguised as a pleasant letter to her brother, but an anti-glamour spell later proved it to be a quickly written letter from the Deputy that informed Harry that Severus, Hermione, and Poppy were under watch by Albus and would be unable to pass any word to him.

°°It's only bad news if you want it to be,°° Fawkes informed the green-eyed young man.

Harry shot the phoenix a cold look. "Your philosophy isn't making me feel any better. What did you come here to tell me?"

Fawkes ruffled his feathers with a slightly agitated sound, but spoke anyway, °°I overheard something while I was taking a nap–°°

"Were you really," Harry sneered.

Fawkes shot him an annoyed look. °°I don't have to relay information to you, you know.°°

"I can still kill you, you know," Harry shot back evenly.

"What are you two arguing about this time?" Lucius asked with a groan as he poked his head into the open office.

Harry waved the message from Killinger towards the Death Eaters' second. "Read that, then pass it on to Tom. I already sent word that they need to pull out before the Order catches them."

Lucius scowled at the parchment. "Will do, my lord." Then he bowed and stalked away.

Harry looked back to Fawkes tiredly. "Look, I still have a lot of work to do. Please do me a favour and make this brief?"

Fawkes clicked his beak in disapproval at Harry's desk, but didn't comment. °°I was napping when the Hat asked Albus – I think the Hat is siding with you, honestly – why he never did anything about the mistreatment you received at the hands of the Dursleys.°°

Harry nodded. "That's just confirmation of one of my suspicions."

°°The Hat also asked why Albus cast the Imperius Curse on Vernon.°°

Harry felt his blood freeze and he took a gulp of water from a glass balancing on the edge of his desk before asking as calmly as he could manage, "And did Albus reply?"

°°He said it was so you would know your true worth to the world, or something to that effect...Harry?!°°

Harry had gone as white as a sheet and was staring dumbly at his glass of water. "It was... He planned... That..."

°°Harry?°° Fawkes was getting worried. He'd never seen the young man act like this, not even when he'd faced down that basilisk in his second year.

"Harry?" the echo came from the doorway of the young lord's office, where Voldemort and Lucius stood – neither looking like the cruel men that they acted like on the battlefield. The sight of the kindness and concern in the eyes of the two men Fawkes had once dedicated his existence to destroying assured the phoenix, once again, that standing with Harry had been the best choice he'd ever made.

Harry looked away from his glass of water at the sound of his lover's voice. "It was all Albus' fault."

The Dark Lord stepped into the room, slowly morphing back into his Tom Riddle form. "What was, love?" he asked, sparing only a quick glare for the phoenix.

"Uncle Vernon."

Tom shot Lucius a quick look and the blond man nodded before leaving the office, pulling the door closed behind him. "What about your uncle, Harry?" Tom enquired gently as he came to stand next to his young lover.

Harry jumped up and buried himself in willing arms. "Albus had him under Imperious, Tom. Fawkes says he'd done it to show me my true worth to the world," Harry explained, voice shaking with tears.

The Dark Lord tightened his grip around Harry. "I'm going to enjoy ripping that old bastard limb from limb."

Fawkes cocked his head at the two men. °°I'm missing something here.°°

Tom looked up in surprise. "I can understand you now..." Harry glanced over at the phoenix as well, tears trailing silently down his face.

°°Of course you can,°° Fawkes said, puffing his chest out. °°A phoenix can allow anyone to understand them that they like and it can be for however long they like. Albus only thinks my available choices have to do with being a member of the Order.°°

"Harry, have you, by any chance, found a good spell for cursing arrogance out of phoenixes?" Tom growled, narrowing his eyes at Fawkes.

Harry let out a weak laugh. "I don't recall one, but I'll certainly check that book again."

Fawkes let out an amused trill, then shot the lovers a serious look. °°Really. What am I missing?°°

"How much do you know of my childhood?" Harry asked by way of response.

If Fawkes had been human, he would have furrowed his brow. °°Little things that I've overheard: you lived in a cupboard for many years and you were forced to do all the chores around the house, your cousin liked beating you up and once he and his friends....caught you with your pants down, I suppose?°°

Laughter danced in Harry's eyes even as he wiped at his tear-stained face with a handkerchief. "That's a rather different way of putting it, I suppose," the young man offered. Tom – who stood behind his lover, arms wrapped around Harry's waist possessively – was giving the phoenix a calculating look.

Fawkes eyed the Dark Lord for a moment before glancing back down at Harry. °°I know that a prank you pulled got Vernon killed and that Dudley 'ran away' during Christmas.°°

Tom smirked. "I doubt he'll be seen anywhere again."

Fawkes fluffed his feathers. °°How did I know you had a hand in his disappearance?°°

"Because you're a smart little feather-brain like that," Tom replied matter-of-factly.

Harry rolled his eyes. "You can finally understand him and all you do is insult him. Really, Tom."

"Don't knock it until you've tried it."

Harry choked on a laugh, then shoved his elbow into Tom's side. "Bastard."

Tom allowed a wince, then kissed Harry's head. "That hurt, you imp."

Fawkes let out an annoyed trill. °°I'm still waiting, you know.°°

"I didn’t know phoenixes were so impatient," Tom growled, shooting the fire-bird a chilled look.

Harry waved his lover's words away, then met Fawkes' gaze calmly. "Vernon used to – how did you put it? Yes – 'catch me with my pants down' on a regular basis."

Fawkes reared back, then let out an angry trill. °°That old bastard!°°

Tom leaned down and placed his lips next to Harry's ear, smirking. :I think I might just be able to put up with him after all.:

:You're horrible,: Harry assured his lover.

:I know.: Tom straightened and offered the phoenix – who was giving them a strange look – an amused smirk. "We're actually working on a plan to take down the coot right now. Would you care to help, you infernal beast?" The usual insult was spoken with fondness, for once, and both Harry and Fawkes gave the Dark Lord surprised looks. "What?"

Harry smiled. "Nothing." He pulled away from Tom's embrace. "I need to get back to work, at any rate."

Tom scowled, then waved his wand sharply at the desk piled with papers, which all vanished. "Lucius and I will deal with them. You're going to spend a couple hours helping us plan the coot's demise, then you, Remus, and your mutt-of-a-godfather will go out for dinner so Black is out of my hair."

Harry was torn between amusement and annoyance. In the end, he settled for letting his lover have his way. "Very well, then."

"Good. Come along, feather-brain, Harry. We have work to do!" Tom called, then swept from the office.

Harry smiled as Fawkes settled on his shoulder, then followed his lover. "Isn't he ridiculous?"

°°Impossibly so,°° Fawkes agreed.

"Oh well."

-~/\~-

Albus smiled down at the letter he'd just collected from the now-dead brown owl that belonged to Miss Weasley.

'We found the last room. Sis says she wants you here before we open it.
'Please come quickly. Things aren't going well.
'Gin'

So, he'd finally found his spy.

-~/\~-

-~\/~-

Abandon & Reclaim Series:
Abandon the Prequel: Sixth Year
Abandon Chapters:
01 || 02 || 03 || 04 || 05 || 06 || 07 || 08 || 09 || 10
11 || 12 || 13 || 14 || 15 || 16 || 17 || 18 || 19 || 20
21 || 22 || 23 || 24 || 25 || 26 || 27 || 28 || 29 || 30
31 || 32 || 33 || 34 || 35 || 36 || 37 || 38 || 39 || 40
41 || 42 || 43 || 44 || 45 || 46 || 47
Reclaim Chapters:
One || Two || Three || Four || Five || Six || Seven || Eight || Nine || Ten
Eleven || Twelve || Thirteen || Fourteen || Fifteen
Epilogue
Side Stories:
Ginevra Weasley & Theodore Nott
Minerva McGonagall || Minerva McGonagall (again)

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Comments

[yangchencen.livejournal.com]

Yes it's short but impossibly shocking!

Dumbles just went from an annoying old coot to a right bastard who deserves every kinds of hell!

Luckily Harry has Tom.

[dairygirl.livejournal.com]

You claim it's a short chapter; I love the intrigue, planning and countering of everyone here. I did not know you were going to make Albus's role so very naughty. Imperius? I did not expect that. Nor did I expect Fawkes to play such a role. You know how to play with your characters, make a story fun and I cannot wait to see what is in store especially with this ominous ending!

[flosspyromaniac.livejournal.com]

I want to KILL Dumbles... grrr...
It was short but soooo worth it. No killing... bribery work better? *smirks* Glad about Tonks and restraining from ranting about cliffie, cos I do the same damn thing...
Update whenever, just don't forget about your poor suffering fans...
Merry Christmas!
Floss

[yume-no-yuki.livejournal.com]

*laughing* I love your icon thingie..XP

[flosspyromaniac.livejournal.com]

go to laurel_tx's journal, she has many, many pervy icons ;P

[(Anonymous)]

It was great, not choppy at all. A bit short maybe, but I'm not going to mention that. I'm glad you updated.
It' great that Fawkes is now firmly on Harry's side, but I'm not sure it was worth Dubledore getting so evil. It's a good thing the other scenes kept the morale up a bit.

Thanks for the chapter, and happy holidays to you!

cloe

[shadowed-seraph.livejournal.com]

Ooooooooooooooooo I hate Dumbledore even more now damn him!

But love Voldie :)

Then chapter is choppy, but not horribly so, it explains an awful lot in a short space of time, and does it well.

SS

[runtling.livejournal.com]

-glomp- yaaaay! :D
you made my morning absolutely awesome. thank you so much. ^_^ now i don't feel nearly as bad for having to go into work. :)

the chapter really wasn't that choppy. you did an excellent job showing everything that needed to be shown.

and i want to destroy dumbledore. -twitch- geh.

-cling- thanks for the update, bats. :3 update when you can. :)

-.-

[devil-kaos.livejournal.com]

You're evil! (I know you like to hear it, but I still have to say it)

Woah... I hope that Gin will still be okay o.o And I don't like her -.-

I like Fawkes btw... And Albus... I think he should be shot or something like that... tortured to death... old bastard -.-

So, hope to see an update from you soon ^.^

Kaos ^^

[diamond-385.livejournal.com]

I like the part Fawkes is playing in this story. Love the suspense also...

[macabre31.livejournal.com]

Oh crap. So not good. But hey, it's an update for my birthday! I just can't wait for the next chapter, that cliffie is rather mean. Thanks!

[(Anonymous)]

fawkes can be right sneaky when he wants to cant he! and i love that all around him albus is lossing people and he thinks his spy is gin? as if he needed to find the ONE. do hope she is ok, well i mean how much could he do to her though... hmmmm

love that harry can just waltz into the auror office to see tonks and no one knows who he is, man i want that skill.

whoop for the update, yay for breaks from school, even with work be it a real job or watching your six year old cousin, which should be listed as a full time job, sheesh!

have fun overseas... lucky thats where i wanted to go... stupid babysitting cousin.....

lanna

[severusslave.livejournal.com]

*less than three*

[sakitokun.livejournal.com]

Holy mother of moses. I knew old dumbles got something to do with it. I'm glad though, mostly because now Harry and Tom can rip him apart.

Hehe, yay, Fawkes is there.

Dumbledore better die!

PS I hope you got my christmas card!

[sandrasolaria.livejournal.com]

Die dumbledore! Die!

Woot. Update. Hoorah!!!!!!! Yay for Fawkes. I'm sooo happy. Sooo soo happy. Updates are the shit. Woot.

Loved it as usual. I like the interaction between Mad-Eye and Harry.

kill dumbledore. o.0

[aethrin.livejournal.com]

Because you're a smart little feather-brain like that Eh, does that make sense?

I can see Albus doing that, but the statement from Fawkes seems to be a bit detached. Brilliant as always, dear. Please don't torture your sister too much. ♥

[slyth-enigma.livejournal.com]

AVADA KEDEVERA. *Dumbledore falls dead.*

You know, I think I might hate the headmaster...

Thank you so much for updating. Happy holidays!

[yume-no-yuki.livejournal.com]

*hates Albus* Tonks and Moody were interesting.

Well..Can't wait for the next update. ^^ Thank you! And have a have a Merry Hanukkah!

Ramblings From Me!!

[mystical-maiden.livejournal.com]

Why that little... and he was using... *takes a deep breath then grins in amusement* You just LIVE to give us heart attacks don't you? I swear my heart stopped when the truth of Dumbles little escapades came to light... then i had to refrain myself from attempting to throttle him through the computer...

Haven't heard from me in a while :D, i've been working heaps so haven't been able to get on here. But with christmas here (this was a great gift! ^_^) i have a few days off! And this just made those days brighter! YAY!

I love the part Fawkes is playing and as i quite like Tonks and adore Mad Eye... not in THAT way of course! *ew*, i love how their characters are playing into the story!

So glad to have an update! I do LOVE this story! Even more-so now that one of my lesser favourite stories has taken a turn i REALLY don't like... i was really dissappointed, but this makes it all better!

~Duana

[raginwaterz.livejournal.com]

Why oh why did Gin have to be caught? I hope Dumbles' death is filled with indescribable pain, the bastard. Man I hate him.

You say this is a short chapter, I call it a christmas treat. I'm glad Fawkes, Tonks and Minerva are all siding with Harry. Dumbles won't know what hit him. He thinks it's only Gin...idiot.

Happy Holidays!

[eaivalefay.livejournal.com]

Another excellent chapter! DUMBLEDORE MUST DIE! ...I mean--- wot? XD

OMG. Is this letter Albus has intercepted from Ginny really intercepted, or did Gin, Harry, and the others want him to get it? Who will capture whom? *bounces excitedly*

[merry1978.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much!

Dumbles sucks!
I hope everything will be OK...

And I also hope not to die of waiting ;-)

[juststoptime.livejournal.com]

omg you wrote this on the twenty-third?! ldfks;lkaf; how is it possible that I completely missed your update T0T dude, I have you on story alet sd;fk;sakl wtf ><; ): i'm so late omg

But, it was a worthwhile wait (: I loved the chapter haha although the ending irked me because now I'm wondering what kind of shit Dumbledore's going to pull next. I can't believe he killed the owl ): That evil, evil bastard T0T;; ANIMAL CRUELTY! :x haha

However I am most definitely anxious on seeing Harry kick the old fool's ass :D And he is going, too, right? ): You can't possibly write this story without having some Dumbledore ass kicking, especially after the Imperius Curse on Uncle Vernon T_T; "True worth to the world" wow that made me go wtf haha stupid old bastard >O

Lovely chapter as always :D haha now I'm going to go read Chapter 11 .. Hope you have fun overseas<3

[juststoptime.livejournal.com]

alert*

rofl first 2006 comment on this chapter :D

[darkprincess767.livejournal.com]

huh!!! evil dumbledore i hope you kill him slow and painfully as possible and poor ginny!!!

*DUMB-OLD-WHORE*

[(Anonymous)]

fucking dumbles i could kill him right now *growls in anger*