Albus Severus Potter (Harry Potter fanfiction)

Chapter 11: I'm alive

Chapter 11

When everyone sits and stares at me, my first impulse is to run away instead, but my legs do not obey my will. They refuse to cooperate. Within seconds, I hear a scream. Which turns out to come from the father.

"Albus!"

Then I'm squeezed in between his chest and arms. "Albus, Albus, Albus," he whispers. "Oh my little boy."

Mom comes up to us both as well.

"Albus, Albus, baby where have you been?"

Then I'm squeezed in between both mom and dad. Both are crying.

"Mom ... Dad ... I'm alive, you don't have to choke me," I say, trying to joke, but once I look at them it's not something to joke over. "Sorry, sorry that I disappeared."

Lily and James had also arrived. In stead of mom and dad, I am now squeezed between them. Lily is so cute in tufts as Rose did in her hair. James haven't combed his hair and that suprises me because his  hair is the most important thing for him. "The hair is everything, the whole personality, unless your hair is neat I'm not good-looking," he would always say. Then I would always think of my hair, which is so unruly, there is so much of it, it grows all over the head and standing up in the back, though it looks swell not ugly, because James had definitely stated that, though perhaps not, it would be just like to say that my dad's hair is ugly.

I glance at Rose. She looks at me with a knowing look. She is right. It's hard to see my family like this.

Dad has finally pulled himself together.

"Albus, where have you been?" He asks.

I swallow hard.

Everyone is staring at me.

"Here," I whisper.

"Here?" Dad ask and looks at Uncle Ron and Aunt Hermione.

They look shocked.

"Harry, we knew nothing, he can't have been here," Uncle Ron says to defend himself.

"Yeaahh he's been here all along," Rose says. "He came to me in the middle of the night and has been in my room all the time."

"But he must have been hungry," Aunt Hermione states.

"Yeah he was, but Winky give me sandwiches and pumpkin juice that I gave him, I said I was hungry."

"But when I was in your room then?" Uncle Ron asks, starting to get angry with Rose.

"He was hiding in the closet," Rose answer her now angry father.

"But it wasn't her fault, please Uncle don't get mad at Rose," I say quickly. "She wanted to tell when I woke up, she told me to go home so everyone wouldn't be so worried, but I said no and asked her not to tell anyone and she is such a wonderfully good cousin so she let me stay without telling anyone and then Weston with James letter and then you came and then she was angry at me, so it's not her fault, please don't be angry with her."

"No it's okay Albus, I did the wrong thing and lied to him and mom and to Uncle Harry and Aunt Ginny", Rose says.

Uncle Ron sighs and shrugs.

"No I can't be angry with you Rose, you just tried to help your cousin which you thought was the right thing to do at the time, I would've done the same thing for Harry anytime, and I still will of it's needed", he says and smile sly to his sister.

Mom shots lightning bolts at Uncle Ron, and I try so freaking hard not to start laughing. Our parents are so silly, but I kind of like that.

"But I think then that Albus has a right to be angry if I should be completely honest, which mom have thaught me to be, that was why he left, you know," Rose says, looking at the adults.

"I knew your honestly-lessons with our kids would come back to bite us in the ass someday Hermione", dad mutters.

Aunt Hermione smacks with her lips loudly and Uncle Ron laughs.

But then they see what I have in hand and everyone swallows hard. Dad sees the newspaper clipping and his face becomes white.

"Albus, I know what you think about me or about us right now, but you do not know everything," dad says.

"And whose fault is it then?" I ask and frown. "I have been sneaking around and try to find answers all by myself because you refuse to tell me anything."

"How did you find out?"

"Well, it started at Hogwarts," I say. "Headmaster McGonagall said something that we should come back to Hogwarts with 'new knowledge of life'. At first I didn't think much of it, she starts to get really old, I thought. But then when we get home and Teddy begins to hesitate at Remus again as I looked at you that you told me less than you wanted, and mom was about to say something that you did not want her to say. And you always talk about how it was 'worse-before' and that was why you all could marry young, even though you didn't want Teddy and Victorie to marry yet, but you would not tell me why. It was what made me pay more attantion to everything. But then when we visited grandma and grandpa, you and grandpa started talking in riddles, you started sentences and the just out of nowhere you started on new without finishing those you started and only grandpa could understand you. And another thing is that I can clearly hear when you're lying, it sounds so rehearsed, and then when you are not lying, you tell us right from the heart, like when you told us how headmaster McGonagall would help you become an auror, so then I started to snoop around a little, I'm not proud over it, but I wanted answers, and since you were not going to give me any, I took the matter in my own hands".

I thought dad would be angry, but he actually looks impressed. 

"You must have done a really good job," dad says and smiles, then he gets something in his eyes, he must have remembered something. "You remind me about myself all too much Albus".

"Which is not always good", Aunt Hermione snaps.

"Talk for yourself", Uncle Ron says.

"But what are you talking about?" James asks, who does not understand anything of what we're talking about. 

"Yeah dad, maybe it's time to tell you now," I say. "What are we really talking about, James, do not know and Lily don't either, Rose and I are the only one who knows." 

Rose looks accusingly at her parents. 

"We didn't tell you because that's what Harry wanted," Aunt Hermione defends herself. 

"Honey," mom says to dad.

"Huh?" 

They exchange glances. 

"You're right Albus," dad says. 

"What?" I ask. 

I am right? Okay I wasn't expecting that one.

"It's time to tell." 

Dad sits down, but I stand up, refuses to sit down. Lily sits in Rose's lap, but James is standing next to me. 

Now he will also be told what I already kind of know.

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