It had been a slow and drawn out walk down to the dungeons. Every step was agonising for Y/N as his brain struggled to realise the immense pain and torture he had been subjected to was over and was, in fact, just in Y/N's head. It had felt real.

Y/N finally arrived at the Potions classroom, physically supported by Snape and a struggling and sweating Harry- Y/N's solid mass was much more than Harry could handle.

Hermione opened the classroom door and the pair helped Y/N sit on a chair at a Potions workstation. Y/N instantly slumped down, his head resting on his crossed arms as Hermione sat next to him and rubbed his back, tears still running down her face.

"Are you ok love?" She asked worried. Hermione had never seen Y/N like this. She was beyond scared.

"I just, I just need a minute love. It was... it was bad" Y/N replied with a struggle, trying his best to reassure Hermione, even as he was still wracked with pain across his abdomen and throat.

"Baby...." Hermione whimpered before breaking down even further. Y/N forced himself off the desk and wrapped his arms around her, she hugged him back as she sobbed.

"You were talking in your sleep, Y/N" Harry said mournfully. "Sort of. It was mostly... screams."

Y/N didn't answer Harry, instead he whispered sweet nothings into Hermione's ear as he rubbed her back, trying to console her. It was at that moment Dumbledore and McGonagall, still in her dressing gown, came bursting into the classroom with Ron and Lavender. They looked at the expression on Y/N's face, at his posture and at a sobbing Hermione.

"Are you ok, Y/N?" Minerva asked with concern. Snape though spoke over her to the Headmaster.

"The students heard Y/N say he was an Archon. They need to be obliviated"

Dumbledore nodded before leaving the room. He returned only a minute later and said:

"It's done. They remember nothing of this morning's events. Only the five of you here will. Ms Brown, Mr's Weasley and Potter, what is spoken cannot leave this room."

The three students nodded, obviously filled with apprehension at the unfolding events. Hermione began to slowly calm as Y/N kissed her on the head.

"What happened, Y/N?" Dumbledore asked warily. He was met with a furious glare from Y/N who snapped:

"I'm an Archon, Albus, I'm guessing that's what you and the council discovered when you drugged me last year?"

Dumbledore ignored the looks he got from the rest of the room as he answered simply "Yes."

Y/N snarled, the lights flickering as he snapped:

"And you didn't think that was pertinent information for me to know? I'd expect this  shit from Jacob and Moody, but fuck, at least they are cunts to my face, you two faced snake."

Everyone, especially Albus, was caught off guard by Y/N's vitriol.

"I thought it was best you not know, Y/N. It's a matter of great imp-"

"And you think that was your decision to make?" Y/N roared suddenly. He was in pain, he was furious, he was betrayed. He had trusted Albus, despite everything. That trust was now gone. Y/N instantly turned to his godfather and his Head of House and said:

"I have to say you two don't look surprised either."

"We were informed at a meeting. We were sworn to secrecy" Snape said sadly, worried Y/N would no longer trust him. No longer wish to be his godson. That he would lose the only relationship that made his life worth living.

Y/N though turned back to his Headmaster with hatred in his eyes as he said coolly:

"Yeah, sounds like something you'd do"

"Y/N you have to understand-"

Albus was cut off mid sentence as Y/N exploded:

"NO YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND!"

Y/N shot to his feet, pushing through the pain as his eyes flickered black, the rest of the room jumping as one of the high windows exploded outwards. Y/N continued:

"All my fucking life I've have secrets kept from me, by people who told me I had to trust them. Something this big, you don't think I had a right to know? A bit of a heads up before the fucker came for me?"

Hermione was on her feet in a moment, hugging her lover tight, squeezing his midsection as Y/N lovingly held her back before looking at the Headmaster again:

"I've been having nightmares for weeks. All the things I've been hunting coming after me. I'd fight and fight and when I finally got overrun I'd wake up. Well you putting me under last night- I had no where to go, Albus!"

Y/N stared down Dumbledore before continuing.

"I was trapped, in here..." Y/N pointed at his temple "I had my throat torn out, my stomach ripped open. Then it appeared. It had been sending them after me every night. Weakening me until it could approach me. When it did it asked me to submit to it. It wanted to take control of me, burn this world to a husk. It needs my permission. I refused.... So it ripped my intestines out."

McGonagall, Hermione and Lavender covered their mouths.

"That's why your screams were..." Harry started before Y/N continued.

"Yeah. Even though it was in here" he pointed to his head "it was real. Do you want me to share with you the agony of having someone shove their hand into your abdomen and tear your intestines out?"

Y/N's face turned into even more of a snarl, almost animalistic as he returned to a cold tone and finished with:

"So yeah, a fucking heads up could have helped, Dumbledore."

Albus stared at Y/N in shock following his outburst. The rest of the room looked mostly at the floor. There was a prolonged awkward silence before Albus said gently:

"Y/N I... I didn't know th-"

"No you didn't!" Y/N roared, interrupting Albus again: "But you thought it best to once again keep something like this from me. I swear you want me to be your champion. Your Voldemort slayer. Your Prophesied One! You better start being on the level with me or I just might take 'Mione and Harry and fucking walk. Let you sort this mess out instead of being chessmaster for once!"

The room fell into silence again before Ron spoke up, asking:

"What the bloody hell is an archon?"

Lavender and Harry looked at Y/N, both pondering the same question. Hermione looked up, she'd read about them in books with Y/N where they were treated as allegorical. Y/N stared at the Headmaster as he spoke, not breaking eye contact:

"They're primordial destructive forces Ron, like demons on steroids. They were more common in the ancient world where they were worshipped as Gods when they arose. Up until this morning everything I read said they didn't exist, that they were mythological, until I came face to face with the black eyed bastard!"

The room again fell into silence before Albus replied in almost a plea for understanding:

"Which is precisely why I thought it best you didn't know, Y/N."

"It wasn't your call!" Y/N snapped back. "Just like the prophecy, just like my Grandfather. What else haven't I been told? What other secrets are there about me?"

"Y/N you have to understand..."

"No. I don't think I do Albus. I need some time alone!" Y/N growled before leaning down to gently kiss Hermione on the lips. He said to her gently:

"I'll be back in a minute. I really need to go right now before something bad happens."

Hermione leant up and kissed him again before nodding.

Y/N stood up straight and glared at the Headmaster before apparating away.

The room was filled with an awkward silence for a few moments before Ron again spoke up:

"So Y/N is a god?"

"No he's not a god you foolish boy" Snape snapped. "The power within him was worshipped by simpleminded fools who couldn't understand the destructive force in front of them."

"So the ancient gods of mythology were all Archons?" Hermione asked. Severus turned to her with gentle eyes and a softened tone of voice as he replied:

"Yes, Hermione, many of them were- Odin, Zeus, Thoth, Osiris, Anubis, Kali, Quetzalcoatl, Gozer, Anu, Baba Yaga... there were many throughout history. The last known Archon was the half sister of Merlin, Morgana La Fey. It took Merlin himself, the most powerful wizard since the first age, to defeat her. And that was at his peak."

"So Y/N will become like them?" Lavender asked, terrified for her friend.

"No." Snape snapped suddenly, fear present in his voice.

"At least it isn't certain" McGonagall added quickly: "Many heroes of the ancient world- Hercules, Achilles, Thor, Hermes, Gilgamesh, Buddha- they also had Archons, but were able to subdue them. Absorb their power for their own. Y/N can do it too. If anyone can he can" McGonagall smiled.

"Thanks for the vote of confidence, Professor" Y/N said from a darkened corner of the room.

"Baby" Hermione smiled, rushing over before stopping in her tracks looking at her boyfriend stunned.

"Baby?" She asked, looking at the familiar, but different, figure in front of her.

Y/N stood about an inch taller than he had been moments earlier, and was wearing a tight hugging shirt which showed off significantly more muscle on his chest, arms and seriously defined abs. He was also sporting a full but trimmed black beard.

A/N: Obviously not Affleck, but my man can grow a seriously good beard. Imagine this on Y/N.

"It's me, Hermione love. I've just been gone a while" Y/N said with a smile. He sent her an image of their intimate time together through legilimency, Hermione realising it was definitely Y/N as she rushed up and hugged him before the pair kissed passionately.

"Yeah, it's you alright" Hermione giggled as the two separated from the kiss.

"Can't tell you how much I've missed that."    Y/N said back at her with a smile.

"How long were you gone?" Snape asked, drawing the couple's attention. Hermione gasped and hid her face into Y/N's chest- she had completely forgotten her teachers presence in the room prior to their public display of affection.

"Four months" Y/N replied to Snape as his arm wrapped around Hermione, shielding her embarrassment from the rest of the room.

The three teachers, all aware of Y/N's Time Turner, didn't react. Harry, Ron and Lavender though stared blankly before Ron squeaked out: "how?"

"Magic" Y/N replied with a chuckle.

"Where were you love?" Hermione asked as she hugged Y/N tight and looked up in his eyes.

"All over. Went to see Grandad first. He helped me come to terms with the Archon. Then I went to Lord Dhalsim. He helped me and recommended for me to study with magi, shamans and wise men all over the world- Egypt, Iraq, the Congo, Tibet, the Amazon."

"What were you learning?" Lavender asked stunned by everything that had happened.

"How to beat this sucker inside me" Y/N replied.

"So can you do it?" Hermione asked with hope.

"No, not yet at least. But I've learnt enough to keep it at bay."

"How?" Snape asked, still stunned at his Godson's appearance.

"Dual occlumency matrixing. I'm not just guarding against outward threats but inward ones as well."

"You're guarding against yourself? How do you even do that?" Hermione asked perplexed.

Y/N chuckled at his girlfriend before she gave him a please explain look.

"Sorry babe I've just missed your voice so much. Think of my mind as a donut now. External threats being blocked on one side, internal threats on the other, my thoughts circling in the middle."

Hermione looked blankly before muttering "wow". Y/N kissed her again.

"Alright if you'll excuse me I've spent the last three weeks in the Amazon and I'm starving. You don't wanna know what they eat for breakfast."

He held Hermione's hand and started walking out the room, the pair smiling at each other.

"Wait L/N, your beard, your appearance. Ten minutes ago you didn't have...this" McGonagall signalled to his physique.

"I'll project a glamour Professor, don't stress" Y/N replied without emotion, still angered by the withholding of information about the Archon.

Y/N did stop next to Snape on the way out though, pausing and placing a hand on his shoulder. He said quietly:

"We're good Sev. We're good."

Snape nodded in relief.

The students left the Potions office and Lavender asked Y/N "So the others really won't see what we see?"

Y/N chuckled. "No. It's easy to manipulate the simple minded".

"Wow Y/N where's your beard gone? Oh there it is. What happened?" Ron asked.

"See what I mean" Y/N winked as Lavender chuckled.

"So what do you think?" Y/N asked his girlfriend.

She ran her hand through his beard before kissing him.

"I love it. Do you have to go to Ghoul Studies today?"

"No" Y/N answered. "Sam and I are still finishing off in Wales right now".

"Good" Hermione smiled. "Let have some breakfast then go to our special place. I want to see what else has changed."

Y/N smirked before kissed her as Harry and Ron pulled a disgusted face. Lavender rolled her eyes at the pair, muttering:

"Boys!"