Back in the Bones Mansion

Amelia Bones stretched her self from behind the desk. Every day she come into work, thinking she will leave early to spend some time with her niece and everyday she ends up working till 9-10pm. At times, it can even drag to midnight or she might not even be able to go home. If it was just about dealing with dark wizards and illegal cases, Amelia would not have such a hard time. It's just that all the pureblood bollock and mind game of certain family is giving her massive headache.

Thankfully, Poppy the house elf is there the take care of the matters at home, while Susan, her niece, get tutored with basic magical knowledge at home. Then there is also those Abbotts near their house, their daughter Hanna who is at the same age as Susan gets along with each other quiet well.

On the other hand, she had no news from Kenneth whom she had left a letter in the cave. She hoped that K.B. is Kenneth, at the same time she did not know what to do with him even if she finds him. His monstrous look isn't really easy to hide. 'Maybe he used some sort of potion or transfiguration to turn him self into that? then again, the dark lord only cares for power, not the appearance.' is what she thought to her self. 'Its nearly a month, maybe I go take a look in the cave again'

Pushing the thought of her nephew to the back of her head, she got up to leave. Amelia was in a good mood today as it was still 7pm and she was going to get off. Although she had a personal fireplace inside her office, she never uses or has it connected to her home. She knows too many cases where the floo network was compromised. She made her way out of the ministry and apparated to the front of the Bones Mansion.

The moment she appeared in front of the house, with almost inhuman reflexes she pointed her wand at the stranger that was standing at the side of the gate.

"You..?" Amelia was surprised, with her occlumency, she remembered the man in front of her. It was only today she got the report from the ex-Auror Theodore. Tall, pitch black hair, grey eyes, top student in NEWTs that was currently the Auror who took the shortest time to complete the training.

Kenneth was really surprised at the reflexes of her aunt. She had just apparated, not only she shook off the uncomfortable feeling, she also reorientated her self while also knowing that there was a stranger in the vicinity.

Amelia frowned, not many people knew where her home is, "Jason is it? Not many know where I live, care to enlighten me?"

'typical aunt Amelia, always suspicions of everyone. I wonder if she got it from Moody' smiled Kenneth, it was good to see her again.

"You asked me to come here, Madam Bones" said Kenneth.

"When did ...?"

"You left a letter in a certain cave in Albania. So here I am."

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Amelia's emotion was so hectic that sparks spat out of her wand.

"Kenneth?" she spoke while being slightly breathless.

"Long time no see, aunt Amelia" smiled Kenneth.

Amelia still did not drop her wand, she continued, "Kenneth was only a baby when that incident happened, the fact that Kenneth knew his name is K.B. is hard to believe. Can you prove you are who you say you are?"

Kenneth thought for a moment before replying, "Once dad thought it would be very funny to make you go to work in one of your night gowns, so he transfigured it into your work cloths so it changes back when you are at the office. When you found out, you struck him with a hair loss hex and broke his favorite broom."

Amelia still did not lower the wand.

"not enough? fine, no one knows this. but you become a really love to sing in the showers, after shower you tend to walk aroun...."

"Stop stop, I believe you!!" Amelia looked around to see of there was anyone near. Now that she was sure this is her nephew, she wanted to hug him but it was very awkward, he did not have even a little resemblance to her brother Edgar or her sister in law.

None the less, Amelia said excitedly, "Come with me, we have a lot to talk about!"

Kenneth walked behind his aunt, looking around nostalgically. The damage to the mansion had been restored, though it carries a gloomy feeling since there are not many lights in the garden, you could see that inside the mansion was brightly lit with everlasting candles through the windows. Its exterior and interior looked a very much like old Victorian architecture.

The moment Amelia and Kenneth entered the mansion, he heard, "Welcome back Mistress! ohh we have guests?!" It was poppy the house elf.

"He will be staying for dinner, Poppy"

"I will arrange extra utensils then Mistress," said Poppy then snapped her fingers and disappeared.

Then a little girl of 7 years old rush down the stair, screaming, "Aunt Amelia! Aunt Amelia! you are home early! Guess what me and Hanna did today!? Her dad had brought a toy broom for her! it was soo much fun! Can I also get one, pleaaasse?"

Susan face was still full of baby fat, giving it a bit of a round face, she had light brownish red hair that reached to her back and had light freckles on her face. She held Amelia's had and swung it back and forth. The moment she saw Kenneth she hugged Amelia's leg and hid behind her and peeked out.

"Susan this is Kenneth, a close friend of your Aunt, from now on, other than me, you are allowed to trust him," said Amelia.

"Reaally?" Susan asked with round eyes. She was surprised, her aunt told her what happened to their family and to keep her safe, she has always told her not to trust people.

"Now what have I taught you before?" said Amelia

"It's nice to meet you, Uncle Kenneth," greeted Susan, while doing a lady like bow while holding the her dress with both her hand.

'Aunt hasn't changed, still teaching about etiquette to kids' thought Kenneth.

"Its nice to meet you young lady, I think we are fated to meet, because before coming here I got you a gift, but after hearing what you just said, I think it will suit you well!" said Kenneth while beaming. With that he flipped his had and a flying toy broom appeared on it. The toy brooms are designed the stay about 1 meter off the ground.

Kenneth could swear he could see stars in Susan's eyes while she subconsciously walked towards Kenneth and took the broom.

*cough* "are you just going to take it?" said Amelia.

Susan snapped out of her day dream and beamed at Kenneth saying, "Thank you, Uncle Ken!" She has decided to already give him a nick name and label him a goof person in her heart.

"Go play until dinner time then, me and uncle Kenneth have some things to talk about" said Amelia.

Susan immediately got on the toy broom and zoomed out of site. But once in a while, you could see a little witch zooming around the mansion appearing here and there while laughing.

Amelia and Kenneth lead Kenneth to the study room. while passing the living room, Kenneth paused, it was like there was a film replaying everything that happened in the room with his dad and the death eaters. Amelia noticed Kenneth's pause but did not stop. soon they were both in the study. The moment they got seated, two hot cups of tea appeared in front of them while Amelia thanked poppy who was not even in the room.

"So, you are married?" asked Amelia with a poker face while sipping her tea.

"Yes", answered Kenneth with a poker face while sipping his tea too.

Amelia's eyebrow twitched, although she tried to be calm, it really bothered her. "What do you mean "yes", you are 7 years old!!"

"Seven and a half to be precise, beside, if you know the full story, then you would know that mentally I'm actually older than you Aunt Amelia" explained Kenneth.

"well go on then!!"

"I wont bore you with what happened while I was being experimented on, but when Voldemort thought the experiment was successful, the entire lab exploded, or should I say I exploded. oh don't look at me like that Aunt, it was actually a blessing, Voldemort thought he failed so he left the clean up to his goons. It took me a while for my new body form, after I came around, 6 years had already passed, I was already in a adult body and it was Nagini who found me and took care of me while I was unconscious... now the interesting thing is what happened when I was unconscious, I was in a world full of souls, not human, but souls of creatures, magical and non-magical. A world where the survival of the fittest was the only rule, where I spend 60 years trying to dominate the world." Kenneth paused and took a sip of his tea.

"I think what happened was that Voldemort tried to create a stronger magical body for him self, so he tried compressing all the bloodlines of all creatures together, and that soul world was just a place where all the souls was fighting for dominance. Luckily, since I was the medium used to create the body, every time a soul died there, my own soul got stronger. After 60 years of constant fighting, I was strong enough kill even a soul of a ordinary dragon." finished Kenneth.

"You expect me to believe that?!" exclaimed Amelia as soon as he finished.

"I know, but that's what happened," said Kenneth. Actually, Kenneth want to teach her and Susan about the killing curse being a soul strengthening magic, but he did not want to overload her with so many new things. He would probably also use the Maledictus "blessing" on them as well, so he know he had to take things slowly.

Silence fell between the two, Kenneth did not talk but let his aunt absorb everything he just said. After a while Amelia asked, "Why did you become an auror?"

"To train in combat, for intelligence and for revenge," replied Kenneth straight forwardly.

"All that is fine, but I hope that you remember, you are not a killer and you shouldn't even think about it."

"You train auror to use the killing curse. no?"

"..."

"You are still thinking of me as a 7 year old, aunt. Beside I haven't killed yet, no? I did take away their magic, a fitting punishment I think."

"But with what I saw in that memory, you were more than capable to immobilize them and hand them to the ministry, just like the Corrow Siblings"

"If the ministry was so fool proof I would have, you know more than me how infested it has become. Even your prison, Azkaban is guarded by things that helps the dark lord. If he ever makes a return, all he have to do is walk in and the core of his force would be complete. With me taking out their magic, he would disdain to have them in his ranks because it goes against the very thing he believes in."

"But.."

"Aunt, don't worry. I know how to take care of it. I will not lose my self in revenge. But you cant expect me not do anything. Not after what I had to watch all those years ago."

"Your parents wouldn't want you to live consumed in revenge, Kenneth."

"It was dad that killed by sister, Aunt. Sometime, we have to do dirty things to keep the people we love safe."

Amelia stopped wanting to dissuade Kenneth the moment when he said that it was Edgar that killed Cynthia, she had witnessed it in the memories of the Corrow Siblings. She knew Kenneth was right, but it was still sad to watch him live to kill. She will just have to help him and take the burden off him as much as possible. To her it didn't matter if he was mentally mature or not, he was still her nephew.

"Is there anything I can do to help you?" asked Amelia.

"I only hope that you will be able to protect your memories from others, other than that I have no other requests," said Kenneth.

"It almost seems like you have readied your answers before you came here. I wonder if we ever be able to meet openly" stated Amelia sadly

This time it was Kenneth who fell silent. It not like he did not think about it, but no matter how much he thought it always had a negative outcome.

He sighed and said, "Aunt Amelia.... Kenneth Bones... he died seven and a half years ago. He will only continue to live in the form of K.B., that is only if someone figures it out. I intend to use that name to strike fear into dark wizards, to draw their blood just as they have done to so many innocents. The name Kenneth Bones will stand to be a symbol to the dark wizards, just like how Voldemort's name mean something to the innocents. I am Jason Kenneth Webb, and I will continue to build a life on that name, if the war against Voldemort end in our favor, then Kenneth Bones will fade into history. While Jason Webb will live on a normal life. But just because I won't be named as Kenneth Bones, does not mean I am not your nephew, nor does it mean I love you and Susan any less"

In the end he smiled at his Aunt, while Amelia bit her lip and then took a deep breath. As if it was fate, Poppy appeared in front of them and said, "Mistress, the dinner is ready."

"Thank you Poppy, we will be there soon."

Poppy stared deeply at Kenneth before he bowed to him deeply before leaving. Just like Kenneth remembered, not many things in the house escaped from Poppy's notice. He smiled at her because he knew, Poppy would probably kill her self before she expose anything that was said in the room.

"Why wasn't Poppy there that night? with the magic of the house elfs, I'm sure she would have been able to get few people out even with the wards" asked Kenneth.

"I was very busy those days, there was too much to do with too little time so I have always had asked her to deliver things for me. That particular evening, she had sent her to France to deliver a few things for me." explain Amelia sadly. Kenneth did not want to poke at her wound or blame her, after all, he already knew how things would ended up before it even happened. he couldn't blame his Aunt who had no clue as to what would have happened.

The one he really want to chat with later is with Dumbledore, although Snape had not turned to Dumbledore's side at the time, Kenneth was sure the old headmaster had someway of getting intel on Voldemort's operations. Otherwise he would not be able to make such a name for him for being the greatest obstacle to the dark lord.

'I really hope you had no clue about it and that you are different from the canon Dumbledore, if you tell me one of those "it's for the greater good" bullshit, Ill make you feel sorry old man'

Pushing these thought into the back of his head, he sat down with Amelia who was quietly eating her dinner and Susan who had forgotten all her manners and kept going on about how great her new toy broom, Kenneth quietly enjoyed his food while commenting on Susan's stories from time to time.

When Kenneth left the mansion that night, he left with a satisfied stomach and even more so, a satisfied heart.

(A/N: Thanks Haider_Alkefaji for the idea of explain Kenneth's situation to his Aunt. this one is your credit :) )