Chapter 7 : Enter! Felix

April 1. 1986

Narrator/Third POV

In a white white space with no visible end or beginning, young boy was waking up.

"Ugh my head" groaned the boy before, before going back to sleep? But then he realised that he doesn't feel any pain from before and sharply sat up. He looked like he was going to ask some cliche questions like 'where am I' or 'what happened' but was abruptly interrupted.

"Hey, you alright, you was out for pretty long time" a voice said.

"Who are you, where are you?" demanded boy.

"I'm right in front of you" said the voice patiently.

When the boy looked in front of him, he saw exact replica of himself, watching him with visible amusement.

"Why do you look like me?"

"Because I'm Antares Malfoy"

"You are?"

"Yes, I am"

"Huh, okay then."

"...That's it, just okay, no questions about 'how' or anything?" asked bewildered voice-Antares.

"I thought you would tell me" admited sheepishly protagonist-Antares.

*sigh* "Of course I will"

"You see, I am the original owner of this body. I was supposed to die when I was seven years old, but then your soul entered my body. Your soul was older then my, my was of the new born. So while you took control of the body, I took control of emotions, feelings and memories. I suppressed your memories and feelings and heightened your emotions so you didn't wallow in grief of loosing your previous life, family and friends. The heightened emotions were of a new born, they helped you to act more like a baby then an adult. My soul was too weak to be noticed by you, but when you started your meditation you were coming closer and closer. You remember the nagging feeling? That was me. The more you meditated the more our souls were assimilitating. You or me alone could not survive our seventh birthday, but together we could. Thankfully you've gotten the message to meditate more. When you passed out of pain I pulled you here. It's not our mindscape, it's uhhh soul chamber? Yeah, let's go with soul chamber. I pulled you to our soul chamber and decided to introduce myself and if you would have some questions then answer them to the best of my abilities." explained voice-Antares.

"Any questions?"

"Yeah I have a lot of them actually"

"How did you suppressed my memories if you were a new born soul, are you something like the horcrux in Harry's scar, what else did you did without me noticing, how else did having you influenced me-?" impatiently questioned protagonist-Antares.

"Slow down,we are not in a hurry. You were reincarnated to this body when we were both still in the womb, from there you unknowingly shared your knowledge and experience with me. You know the saying 'push someone's button's'? Because that's what I literally did. Imagine the inside of your head like from the movie Inside Out, instead of the emotions there was only me. So I really did push your buttons.

I wouldn't say I'm like a horcrux, I would say that I'm like a second personality.

Without you noticing I have heightened your sensitivity to magic, but that kind of backfired."

"...How exactly it backfired?"

"The 'magic sense' was supposed to show when, that's if we survived, after our seventh birthday. But it affected you passively. It didn't help that you didn't know about it, that worsened it. You felt The Dark Mark on Lucius's shoulder and you thought it was him. What I really don't know how happened is that you somehow 'shared' your sensing with Lucius. Both of you sensed The Dark Mark but thought it was the other one. ( AN : Not another mark but person )

"So that's why we hate each other!"

"Yeah, sorry"

"I had few more questions before you interrupted me"

"Shoot"

"Why were we supposed to die, what should I refer to you as. We can't both be Antares"

"Hmmm, I guess you can refer to me as Felix."

"Fine, Felix it is then" grinned Antares.

"As for your next questions they are actually connected."

"How?"

"Our body was suffering from a rare condition. Our magic core was supposed to 'leave' our body when we were seven years old. Usually when this happens the child dies. If they're lucky then they will become squibs. But that's only five percent chance."

"Is that how squibs came to be?"

"No, there are two types of squibs. Naturals and Survivors. The first one is more frequent. Naturals are born without a magical core and Survivors are the ones who obviously survived the 'leaving' of their magical core".

"You remember the pain that felt like something splitting inside you?" inquired Felix.

"That was my core leaving?!" shouted Antares.

"Yeah, instead it splitted inside you. When your core splitted, it was a grey core by the way, one half attached itself on me and half stayed with you. I have the dark half and you have the light half. And you can't access the dark part of your core because it 'bonded' itself with me, only I can now use it".

"You're telling me, that now I will be only half as strong as I would be in the future?" asked exasperated Antares.

"Unfortunately, but look at the bright side. You can still use magic"

*sigh* "At least there is that"

"Wait, how did you know about the condition or the squibs, I never had that kind of knowledge!"

"When you're asleep I'm still awake, so I overheard our parents talking about it"

"That makes sense"

"We will need a cover story".

"Why?"

"How do you want to explain that you still have your core, aren't dead or a squib?"

"Good point".

After a hour and about fifty ridiculous ideas later, they finally found the one.

"Tell me the plan again"

"Whyyyyy?"

"Because I don't trust you to not mess up" deadpanned Felix.

"But why would you think that" whined Antares.

"I saw your whole previous life, I think I know you fairly well".

*sigh* "Fine, I tell them I don't have any idea what happened, then act like a half of me is missing, then I ask what happened. Satisfied?"

"No, you forgot the part where you ask why does Lucius's arm feels weird."

"Sure, sure. Can I go now?" restless Antares asked.

"Fine! Get out and don't you dare mess up!" shouted annoyed Felix.

".....How do I leave again?"