Father

What have I done?

AN: §Parseltongue§

Harry trembled as what seemed to be millions of compulsions and other mind controlling spells shattered the moment the killing curse hit him and once again rebound, killing Voldemort. Harry's eyes flickered red as the memory of his father holding him when he was young flashed through his mind.

'No! FATHER!' He cried inwardly as he stood frozen at the sight of his father's corpse. 'What have I done?' He fell to his knees trembling, unable to take his eyes away from the lifeless body before him.

He forced himself to hold in the tears acutely aware of the celebrating order members behind him while the people he thought of as friends and family fled unaware of the fact their lord's son was being left behind. Only one noticed their supposed enemy crouched next to their lord, eyes flashing crimson as he trembled in despair. Their eyes widened as they disapparated, unable to comprehend what they saw.

"Harry, you did it!" Ginny barreled into his back with the force of a small truck, snapping him out of his despair. Pure unadulterated rage flashed in his red eyes before he closed them forcing himself to calm down. He knew that if he wanted his father back he would have to play along, hiding behind his controlled self like a mask, which until a moment before was his true self.

"Yeah." No emotion was heard in his voice contrary to the relief he was supposed to convey. He cursed himself for his slip up hating to make a mistake no matter how little. Luckily the order members didn't notice as they gathered around congratulating him.

He kept his eyes closed knowing full well they were red as Remus lifted him to take him to the medical tent. He buried his face in his shoulder trying to cover his eyes the best he could while peeking out to see Auror's taking his father's body away. He suppressed another spike of rage before trying to take comfort in the weak but dark aura of the werewolf holding him.

He passed out the moment Remus set him down on the medical bed. He was absolutely exhausted from the sudden revelations he had and the emotions he was forcibly repressing.

~Time Skip~

"Why hasn't he woke up, it's been three days?" Ginny asked rousing Harry to wakefulness though he didn't move, wanting those watching him to leave.

"It's just stress and shock I'm sure he'll wake up soon the medical scans show that he is perfectly healthy." Pomfrey reassured. Harry scoffed inwardly, fully aware he was far from healthy from all the abuse he's gotten from well... Everybody. He knew that he hadn't woken due to the fact he was sorting through his memories and what he found made him wish he could bring Dumbledore back from the dead just to brutally torture and kill him again. Though that would be counterproductive to his true goal of reviving his father, the light was very foolish to think that the magical world could survive without his father, he is the true magic lord after all.

"Let us know when he wakes up." Hermione said, startling Harry from his thoughts. He waited until he couldn't hear their footsteps before flaring his magic to disable the alarm Pomfrey put on him to alert her when he woke.

He opened his eyes to glare angrily at the ceiling before drawing his wand to cover his red eyes with a glamour that was identical to the blood glamour that had been ripped off by the killing curse. This also changed his facial structure and he hoped no one had noticed the change while he was asleep, especially Ginny as he looked identical to his father without the glamour.

"§Goddamn Dumbledore. Goddamn Mudbloods. Goddamn blood traitors.§" He hissed his anger out into the world but it wasn't nearly enough to soothe the absolute agony from his neglected dark core. He felt like he was burning from the inside out from the overabundance of light magic Dumbledore had forced him to do, trying to unsuccessfully change his core. What Dumbledore didn't know was that light magic was like poison to a parseltongue slowly killing them the more they practice, for that reason all of Slytherin's heirs refused to go to Hogwarts the moment dark magic was stricken from the curriculum except his father who was unaware at the time and himself whom was forced.

Harry let out a pained sob at the thought of his father and the pain in his core that had grown ten times worse now that he was aware of it.

"§Let the darkness in, little serpent. Let it grow, little serpent. Let it comfort you little serpent. Let it in, little serpent. For you know it will always be there for you. Oh father I'm so sorry!§" Harry cried as he recited what his father told him in his first year of life before he was cruelly snatched away. The darkness in his core grew to ease the pain slightly, but it wasn't nearly as much as a curse would do to heal himself. The little relief was enough to face the order so he pulled his magic in tightly despite the twinges of pain from light infection and let the alarm go off.

Pomfrey practically rushed in to take diagnostics while he looked at her sleepily without his usual complaint.

"Harry!" Ginny pounced on him the moment he was given the clear and instant murderous thoughts accompanied her. He pushed them to the side reluctantly and gave her a small smile which made her beam and look into his eyes.

Without hesitation he Legilimized her and the murderous thoughts were back the moment he saw her several instances of giving him love potions. Thankfully that was the first thing that his father made him immune to and thus did absolutely nothing to him but it still pissed him off.

"Could I have some time alone? I still feel pretty bad." He stated managing a weak tone despite his absolute fury. Pomfrey shooed Ginny away and left the moment he pretended to lay back down.

With a growl he got up and took off his shirt. He silenced the talking mirror in the bathroom and inspected his back. He flinched momentarily at the sight of many scars before placing his thumb on one specific one on the back of the bottom of his neck. He dragged his nail across the seam making it bleed and spread the blood in a circle around the scar.

"§Awaken Dark Mark!§" He hissed and shook as the dark mark that was hidden showed itself and sent out a pulse of dark magic that forced the majority of the light magic poison out. With a groan of relief he let a demented smile grace his lips before blanking out his face. Since his father was not alive he received the emotional feedback of his father's death eaters, many were feeling joy at seeing the dark mark emblazoned on their flesh again. He was saddened once again by the thought of his father and rubbed at the mark to comfort himself.

"§Great serpent send message stating that 'The lost heir has reawoken and will strive to return our Lord to life no matter what. Signed Xander Salazar Slytherin.'§" H-Xander hissed with a determined gleam in his red eyes.

"§The Light will regret what they've done to my father and I.§"

AN: I've decided to try something a little new in my Harry Potter fics and this is the result, hope you enjoyed. Next Chapter will be Flashbacks pt1.