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Summary : What would have happened if some things had been different? If someone had come to Surrey and taken the Boy-Who-Lived to an unknown place while Sirius Black and Remus Lupin simply disappeared from their houses never to return? And if said Boy-Who-Lived came back after twelve? years away to attend his classes at Hogwarts but with some surprises such as a supposed step-sister and a crazy family...
Note : Guess what, if you find an error in my text which seems for you just unbelievable (ahem), that's normal, I'm not completely done with my schooling, and being French, English is even worse...
Ash (friend of mine), snorting: So says the one who learns English, Spanish, Latin and Greek...
Lenya, glaring: I didn't ask for it! That's my mother's choice! Not mine! ... and... I let Latin down last year... X.X
Ash, absentmindedly: Yeah yeah, whatever you say, darling!
Note 2 : Oh and before I forget, because I'm French and quite patriotic too (or so incredibly weak in English that I HAD to add it) I made my OC French and some of the characters speak French, fluently or not! So they speak it but not always and there is the translation though... nyehehehehe...
Ash : You're not good in the "I'm the great, devil, I eat babies" kind of acting...
Lenya, glaring (you know, I think i do that a lot with that brat!::sigh::): 'Cause of course, you are good at it!
Ash, smiling proudly : Of course!
Note 3 : Please, someone, I REALLY need a beta reader! I can't see my own mistakes and that simply annoy me so much! X.X
Well, hope you'll enjoy this story! n.n -
Prologue
Somewhere in Hogsmeade Sirius swore loudly when little Harry , who he was carrying, decided it was funny to pee on him and, because what Harry wants, Harry gets, he simply peed on him out of the blue.
The swearing in fact made him giggle even more.
"Honestly, Padfoot!" Remus sniggered from not far away, "Behave yourself in front of the cub, would you!"
"That brat just peed all over me, Remus!" the supposedly grown-up man whined.
"What are you, 5?" The werewolf answered back before taking another look at his best friend and the way he acted with the little baby. "Oh, just drop it! NO, not Harry, you moron!" He cried when he saw the animagus pretending to let the baby fall and tightening his grip just seconds before he dropped, which of course made the child laugh harder.
"Gentlemen? Will you come now or will I have to drag you by your feet?" suggested a velveteen voice, clearly annoyed while Sirius was putting Harry in a new diaper.
"Sorry, Gab," Replied the two last Marauders, grinning madly, which only made the man sigh louder. "We won't do it again Gab!"
"Abrutis...(morons)" the younger sighed fondly , apparently named Gab. while he shook his head. Laugh all you want, from tomorrow and for ten years you'll be in my custody and I will enjoy the payback time!"
That statement only made the others grin wider as they were well aware that the young man was really a Master in the delicate and subtle art of pranking. The war would be declared as soon as they would reach his property and they clearly longed for it.
If one week ago someone had told them that they would drop their jobs, friends, and all that was familiar to them to follow a young man like Gabriel Alucard (I), they would have laughed at them! But the facts had changed since then. The fact that 2 days ago, Lily Evans Potter sacrificed herself to make sure her son would live and that James Henry Potter had done the same, dying from the Dark Lord's own hand, and that the only thing that stopped the evil bastard was the little child laughing in his godfather's arms was not distant from their minds when they made that decision.
The fact that Gabriel arrived just in time to prevent Sirius from doing such a crazy thing as trying to kill his former fellow marauder and friend Peter Pettigrew, having understood (it was time, really) that said person had betrayed his school friend which had lead him and his wife to their deaths had something to do with it too.
Moreover, Gabriel was the one who gave Pettigrew to the Minister's Aurors and who helped Remus and Sirius to cope with the loss of their two friends, Remus being the most grief stricken due to his lycanthropy and the fact that he considered the Marauders and co as his pack.
This very morning, while Sirius and Remus were staying at Gabriel's place, the young man left them pretending to have some business to do in the muggle side the house was in a quiet street of Hogsmeade. They were rather surprised when the younger came back, carrying something in purple and gold blankets in one arm, the other busy carrying a bag with some things that looked suspiciously like baby's stuff: milk bottle, diapers, clothes... They were even more surprised when they realised that his little charge (in the blankets you know giggled and reached out a cute little hand to grab for Gabriel's long white bangs.
"Sirius, Remus, say hello to Harry!" Gabriel called, shuffling in and smiling like a madman.
"But... we thought Albus said..." Stuttered Remus in disbelief.
"That the boy would have to stay far away from the Wizarding World, uh huh.." The French boy finished calmly. "MAIS (but) ! I never intended to do it another way... He will leave the Wizarding World behind and live in the Muggle World... just not as the Big Man wanted him to... If you had seen this horse-looking excuse for a woman! She was just disgusting! cooing for her "little Duddikins" and not even sparing a glance for Harry! Filthy bitch..."
"Where did you find him!" Smiled Sirius, not having listened to a word of what Gabriel was saying, taking the little child in his own arms.
" At his relatives' home, you know, Mrs Potter's sister has a child too..." The white haired man answered with a silence before adding. "I didn't know one could seem so much like a baby whale actually... If I hadn't had Harry to take care of, it would have been a real pleasure to see how much of a wail the young boy had, other than his physique... though his yell seemed more like a pig's cry..."
The two others made no comment about this sentence, simply exchanging a meaningful glance while cooing to the baby. Since they had known Gabriel, he had seemed perfectly well-balanced, always polite, courteous, well as much as a 17 year-old teenager can be when he really wants to, and really, strongly, attached to the Light Side. But there was some times, like this one, when he took off the mask and let them see a much more dark side of him, a sarcastic, sneering, even a bit Slytherin part of him, reminding them with unease of Severus Snape. Despite that, and even though they had known him for such a short time, they had the strong feeling that he would, could, never betray them. That eased things between the three of them as Gabriel had insisted for them to live in his house for some time before moving on.
"Now as I say, I won't go against Dumbles way so the lad will live in the Muggle World," Gabriel ended.
"But..." Began Remus, taken aback before shutting his mouth, seeing the younger man's broad smile.
"So... What are you waiting for? My Portkey will only last one hour! Hurry up! Pick up your stuff and get here! The white haired man exclaimed happily. Pf... vrais gosses... (reals brats)
Sirius was already running to his room, baby Harry giggling against him.
"Oh and SIRIUS, DON'T DROP HARRY ON THE FLOOR!"
Remus and Gabriel yelled in unison, as a second thought, after a minute of silence. Some messy noise from the dog's room and more laughter answered them. And now, 4 hours after those events, the four of them were there, standing in the living room. Gabriel summoned a picture of a young girl, no older than Harry, with chocolate brown skin and big ebony eyes, waving at them. They all touched it, Harry still in Sirius' arms, and soon found themselves dragged off to an unknown place.
"Bienvenus dans ma maison!" Welcome to my house! Gabriel exclaimed with a smile even wider.
The two others nodded while little Harry clapped his hands, exceptionally pleased. The first day they met Gabriel he had cast a translation charm on them , telling them that he had the bad habit of speak in his own language (French) when he didn't think or when he was under a strong emotion such as anger or surprise.
"Are we in France? You never told us where we would head to!" Remus asked, a bit accusingly.
"Not in France, no." Gabriel answered with a shrug. We are, my friends, in my house, in New Caledonia in the South Pacific! C'est bon d'être de retour!" (It's good to be back!)
"WHAT??" they shrieked, making the baby in the animagus' arms jump and cry a little.
Frowning, the white haired man abruptly took Harry from his godfather's arms and began to rock him, humming a soft lullaby in french, calming him quickly before putting him in Remus' arms.
"Don't worry so much!" The young man soothed. "Here no one will ever find you if you don't want them to."
Suddenly, a cry from another room made them realize that they were in a house ('bout damn time! XD) and in fact, in the living room.
- Monsieur est arrivé, elle pleure depuis qu'elle s'est réveillée il y a une heure! Sir has arrived, she's been crying since she woke up an hour ago Said a butler, carrying the baby they saw in the photograph.
"Merci Jean, pourrais-tu s'il te plaît préparer les chambres de ces deux messieurs et un deuxième berceau dans celle de la demoiselle?" Thanks Jean, could you please prepare rooms for those two gentlemen and a second cradle in the room of the young lady?... The young man answered, taking the baby, who stopped crying, and began to speak to her in a language only she knew. "Oui mon bébé, je t'amène de la compagnie" Yes, my baby, I bring you company
"Bien sûr, monsieur" of course, sir The old butler said obediently, bowing slightly before leaving the room at a surprising speed for his age.
"Gentlemen, this is my baby sister Eleanor," Gabriel Introduced smiling when Remus got nearer and let Harry see Eleanor.
The children soon began to remake the world in their own way and language.
"Gaby!Gaby!" The little girl sung, giggling and clapping her hands in his arms.
The white-haired man rocked the girl in his arms a wide smile shining on his face. It was a cute picture actually, the tall, thin but clearly strong young man, his dark skin matching his dark clothes and, strangely, his long white wavy hair and his blue eyes, rocking a cute little baby with a skin as dark as his and big happy ebony eyes.
"That's my girl!" Gabriel said proudly, tickling the baby a little. "Oh, do you want some drinks or food? I don't even remember if you had any breakfast this morning!"
"Yeah, that would be great!" Sirius cheered, grinning.
His stomach agreed noisily, making him blush.
"Where is Harry's bag you brought with you? I think I'm going to make him take a bath while you eat, he doesn't seem to have had one for a long time,"
"damn woman!" Remus growled.
"Hmm, quite right... wait a sec... Isabelle, peux-tu amener cet homme jusqu'à la salle de bain des enfants et lui donner des vêtements pour le petit, s'il te plaît?" "Isabelle, can you bring this man to the children's bathroom and give him clothes for the little one, please?" asked Gabriel of a woman who was sitting reading in a chair.
"Oui, monsieur, voulez-vous que je demande à Emilie de préparer un brunch rapide?" Yes, sir, do you want me to ask Emily to prepare a quick brunch? Said the woman.
"Très bonne idée, fais cela, merci encore!" Very good idea, do it, thanks again The young man answered while the woman, the werewolf and the baby disappeared through the doorway.
"What if we go sit at the table, while we wait for that brunch, huh? "
I'm on it, mate!" Laughed Sirius, heading with him to the big table where Isabel had been sitting before. "You've got a lot of servants!" he commented.
"No, not really, they are more friends than servants. I asked them if they wanted to leave when I turned 15 and old enough for my kin, to live alone without help, but they all said no and so I'm not as strict as a real "master" would be with his servants. I grew up with them so I don't like it when people treat them or others like inferiors." Gabriel explained, rocking his little sister absently. "They know they can scream at me, accuse me, fight with me, even slap me If there's reason enough, they have already done it once or twice... We're just a big family!"
"And how many are you in this family? The animagus asked.
"Well, Jean, Isabelle, Emily, Catherine, Henry, Alexander, Julia, Suzan, Evrett, Isaac, Gustave, my little Eleanor and me Gabriel... which means... um... 13 people! But there are some others that come here once or twice a week too. Oh, by the way, only those I named know about the Wizarding World, the others think I'm just a crazy teenager who got lots of money and does strange things and who seems like an old-fashioned aristocrat."
"So we're in a Muggle town?" Sirius guessed.. "Uh huh... the main town of the island (New Caledonia is an island you know) Noumea, I warn you, we'll live in a complete muggle style, the kitchen, the food, though I can make an exception for the pumpkin juice but all this, the only rooms where you can use magic other than your animagus form are your bedroom and a special room where you can train your magic, I use it twice a week so you can use it the rest of the time... I think it's a carbon copy of that room you have in Hogwarts, where you just have to think about what you want while passing three times in front of the door... "
"Oh, Room of Requirement, sure I know of it. It's good we can practise our magic somewhere but such a shame... we will have only muggle ways to prank you!" The black haired man smiled slightly while Gabriel narrowed his eyes at him.
"Don't you think I didn't think about that?" The younger man snorted. "You'll be able to use magic for pranks only, out of those rooms, but don't get caught by someone who isn't one of us! Is that Clear?"
"Crystal clear, sir!" mocked Sirius.
"You'll explain that to Remus, won't you?" Gabriel asked, frowning when Sirius stared at him with his eyes open wide and started to laugh hysterically at him.
"What the hell?"
Then a bang of his hair got in front of his eyes and he discovered that his little sister had played with his hair again. His hair was no longer white but green with bright yellow polka dots. The baby in his arms giggled and clapped her hands clearly satisfied with her mischief.
"Oh boy, this will be the longest holidays I have ever had!" he groaned, only to make the other man laugh harder. "Et toi petite coquine, tu vas regretter ça quand tu auras 10 ans!" And you little brat you'll regret this when you turn 10! His only reply was a giggle while a chubby hand took one of his bangs and played with it.
And that's how a strange life began at Alucard's property, Sirius and Remus coping with the differences between magical and muggle worlds rather well while baby Harry and baby Eleanor were growing quietly and more close to each other every day to their tutors amusement.
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