Adventure Into Diagon Alley
Hades sighed as they went shopping for Damien’s supplies with Viktor, Xavien, Draco, Fluer, Gabrielle, Ambrose, and Lucian. He had yet to receive his letter but his parents promised they’d find his familiar here as retribution. He smiled when Damien ran up to him, showing off his new familiars.
“Hades, I have two familiars!! This has now become the best day ever!!”
“I see, Dame, although I don’t think Pere or Dad approve of your behavior.”
Damien turned around and gave a small smile to his parents. Severus smiled back, while Tom just frowned.
“Damien, love, while I’m happy that you’re excited, you don’t act like this in public. Understand?”
“Yep.”
“Alright then, let’s finish shopping now. We need to get robes and books before we can spend the last 25 minutes here freely.”
“Okay.”
Damien rushed to walk with his twin. Since their birthday, they were closer than ever before, mainly because the only parent Damien trusted still was Severus. Hadrian grabbed his hand and pulled him into Madam Malkin's robe shop where a certain young blonde was being fitted as well.
“Hey, Drake.”
“Hades! Ow!”
Madam Malkin sighed once more, “Mr. Malfoy, if you’d stopped fidgeting, you’d have already been done.”
Damien snickered from his place behind Hadrian and yelped when Severus pushed him up on the platform to get measured. Draco smirked at him and he blushed. Hadrian saw this and glared at one of his best friends.
“Draco, eyes forward, not on my brother.”
Severus rose an eyebrow as Draco blushed and nodded, looking away from Damien. Tom and James snickered at the display of the beginning of a relationship. Hadrian nodded once and continued to discuss Quidditch, potions, and Damien’s familiars with his little brother. Damien glared at Hadrian during the entire conversation.
“Draco, are you done yet?”
“Not yet, Father.”
Lucius watched Madam Malkin continue to fit his son into his robes before he was hugged from behind. He turned around and sighed as he came face to face with James Potter-Riddle-Snape.
“Yes, James?”
“What crawled up your arse and died?”
Severus sighed and shook his head at his more playfully cruel husband, while Tom sighed and grabbed James away from Lucius. Damien giggled at the sight of his parents being playful and open again. Everyone paused when they heard the giggle. Damien stopped giggling when he realized everyone was looking at him. He rushed to his twin and hid in his taller frame with a small whine.
Tom smirked at his boys and nudged James, “Want to embarrass our youngest some more?”
James smirked and chuckled, “Of course, he is the son of a Marauder.”
They snuck up on Hadrian and Damien. Tom is behind Hades and James is behind Damien. Severus and Lucius watched amused as the two pulled the twins apart and started a tickle war.
Damien was giggling like mad with a giant grin across his face. Hadrian had joined forces with their mother and father in getting Damien to laugh as much as possible. Draco and Madam Malkin looked from the other podium, amused at the display of familial affection.
Damien screamed in laughter, “S-stop, I surrender!!”
Tom and James looked at each other and backed off while Hadrian pulled Damien up off the ground. Draco had finally finished being fitted and hopped off the stool to talk to Hadrian.
Damien smirked and snuck around the back of Draco and leaped onto his back.
“Ah! Dame, don’t do that! What if I’d dropped you?!”
“You wouldn’t have. I knew what I was doing.”
Damien smiled as Draco adjusted him in his arms. Hadrian smirked and pulled Damien out of Draco’s arms. He pushed Damien back on the stool and pulled Draco out of the store and down an alley.
“Draco, you know you’re my best friend, right?
“Yeah, and?”
“So, you know that I’ll protect my little brother til our death, then.”
“Yes….your point, Hadrian?”
“Fine. Hurt my brother or use him until he’s no longer valuable, I hurt you. Got it?”
“Yeah, Hades. You know I wouldn’t do that to him.”
“I know, but I felt the need to warn you off.”
They smiled and walked back toward their respective parents. Until they were intercepted by two very irate red-headed women. The older woman looked Draco up and down, and sniffed. When she turned her head and laid her eyes upon Hadrian, she shrieked with poorly disguised glee and grabbed him into a bear hug.
“Hadrian!! Oh, look at how you’ve grown. Maybe your father was right. You were meant to be male and I was wrong. Oh, wait. Do you know who I am?”
Hadrian sneered at the woman, “Look, Miss…?”
“Evans, Lillian Evans.”
“Well, Miss Evans, I would greatly appreciate it if you removed yourself from my person and my personal space. Second of all, I do not need to know who you may or may not be. If you were not relevant to the lives of my parents, then I do not see the reason to try to know you or your child. Lastly, I am Hadrian Riddle-Snape-Potter. I am not any of your concern and if you were present for my birth, then you must’ve done something most displeasing to not be within my life. So, pardon me, but I need to return to my twin, parents, and godparents. Good day, Ms. Evans.”
Lily watched as he walked towards three very recognizable men. She seethed as she watched James Potter and Severus Snape scan and interrogate her son, while Thomas Riddle smirked at his little group. She stormed up to the group and waited til they noticed her. Surprisingly, it was a smaller child that noticed her first.
“Momma, who’s she? Why’s she glaring at us?”
James raised an eyebrow at his son and stood fully. Who he saw standing there shocked him. Lily Evans and her entitled bitch of a child were watching their little family interaction.
“Lily.”
“James, Thomas, Severus.”
“What do you need, witch?”
“Access to Delilah’s Heir Vault.”
“She’s not the Potter heir, Hadrian is.”
Lily raged, ‘How dare he!!! He took everything from us and just expects me to take this lying down?!?!?’
“WHAT?!?!?!”
“You heard me. Hadrian’s my heir, not your disappointment.”
“She’s the eldest of the triplets! She deserves to be heiress!”
“No, Evans. You want to take the money for yourself. Well, I refuse and I disowned her when you refused to leave my boys as they are. She’s no Potter.”
“YOU DICK!! AFTER ALL, I WENT THROUGH FOR YOU!!!!! THIS IS HOW YOU REPAY ME FOR ALL THE SHIT I PUT UP WITH?!!?!?! WELL, FUCK YOU! NOW, GIVE US ACCESS TO HER VAULT!”
James stood stock still as she slapped him across the face. Tom growled at the mudblood in front of him. How dare she smack what isn’t hers to damage! Severus took the boys away from the group as a crowd started to gather around them, watching the former Lady Potter smack her ex-husband for disowning his daughter and making his eldest son his heir. The crowd sneered as Lily ranted and raved about how James wasn’t supposed to be able to disown Delilah. About how unfair and the injustice of it all is. Soon, the Aurors were called just as Lily shot off a borderline dark hex at James.
“ Fac Steriles !”
James froze. She just used the Barren spell. Tom pushed James out of the way of the spell. They all watched as it just narrowly missed Damien who was cuddling against Draco.
“You bitch! You almost made my son barren!”
“So, what? Men can’t get pregnant.”
James sneered, “You live in the Wizarding World, Evans. Men can be born with a womb without the whole being a female technicality. Believing otherwise shows why Muggle-borns need to be taught our ways.”
“Whatever, that’s not even a progressive way of thinking. Muggle-borns allow the Wizarding World to excel.”
James chuckled, “Sure, they do. Bringing in your religions, your holidays, and your beliefs into our community. And then forget that we all might wish to keep our traditions and ways the same. You make our world such a better place...Face it, Lillian. Your kind causes the divide between wizards. Not us.”
Tom smirked at his husband as he ranted at the bitch who called herself James’ wife. How James put up with her for as long as he did, who knows?
“-THAT’S WHY YOU HAVE A SLUT FOR A SON!!”
Tom sneered as he heard Lillian’s response to a comment James made. Why she needed to call one of their sons a slut, he didn’t understand.
“Evans, we used to be best friends. We might’ve been estranged for a while, but I still loved you like a little sister. What happened to the kind person I loved? Why are you such a bitch now? You had no reason to call either of my sons a slut. You were out of line and I believe the Aurors wish for us to break it up. We still have school shopping to do, so good day, Ms. Evans.”
James laughed as Lillian sneered at the group as they walked passed her.
Damien looked back to see Lily manhandling her daughter out of the crowd, “Momma? What’s going to happen to that lady’s daughter?”
James looked to where his son was watching the pair struggle, “I don’t know, kiddo, I don’t know.”
The family then continued on their way to Flourish & Blotts.
(I don’t like doing these, but TIME SKIP~~~~~)
Thirty minutes later, they made their way back to Fortescue's to sit for a few minutes. No sooner than them sitting down did the “esteemed” Headmaster of Hogwarts appear.
“James, my boy, what’s this I hear about Delilah not being your heiress?”
“Simple, Albus, she isn’t my heiress. I disowned her soon after I declared Lillian no longer my wife. Hadrian is my heir and that’s not changing ever .”
Albus Too Many Names Dumbledore sneered at the aforementioned child, “Delilah’s your eldest child, James. Your…son is not.”
“Actually, as I said before, Headmaster ,” James drawled, embracing his husband, Severus, “Hades is my heir as Delilah was disowned & disinherited . Whatever story Lillian came to you with is just that a story. Nothing more, nothing less. So, forget about me allowing Delilah access to the Potter vaults.”
Tom stood, “Alright, then. If that is all, Dumbledore, we must be going. You see, some families would like to spend their day uninterrupted and have quality time. Good day.”
And, with that, the Riddles left the dumbfounded Headmaster there.