In Need

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Severus ran up the stairs to Megan’s tower and pounded on her door. “Megan!” he shouted, “Are you alright? Open the door!” When he heard no response, he pounded harder. “Megan, please! I need to know if you are alright!” Still no response. He tried her door and it let him in - the wards being able to tell that he meant no harm -


-but she was not there.


He was suddenly struck cold with the thought that maybe she really *had* been under the influence of the curse…which would mean that he *would* find her in his bed. Torn between dreading the possibility and hoping she was there so he could just know where she was and help her if need be, he hurried down to his rooms.


And there she was. He felt sick when he saw her asleep in his bed, fearing that the worst had happened after all.


Megan heard him come in and opened her eyes and smiled at him. “There you are,” she said. “I was beginning to wonder if they were ever going to let you get out of there.”


He didn’t know what he had been expecting, but it wasn’t that. All of the fear and worry and confusion that he had been holding at bay for hours since she had somehow tracked him down in that seedy hellhole imploded within him.


“MEGAN! What… Why… Are you… What…,” he stammered, thoroughly agitated and disconcerted. “What in God’s name *HAPPENED* back there? Are you alright? Why are you in *here*?”


“You told me to wait for you in your bed.” Her eyes twinkled mischievously.


Flooded with relief that she was obviously not under the influence of the imperius curse after all, but feeling his temper rise at the incomprehensibility of the situation, he said, “This is *not* a joking matter, Megan. I was SICK with worry back there! Whatever could have possessed you to even look for me in a place like *that*? It put you in extreme danger and forced me to risk your safety! Not to mention risking a life sentence in Azkaban for myself for using an unforgivable curse on you.”


“Oh, love,” she said soothingly, all traces of teasing set aside, “I\'m *so* sorry to have worried you like that. But it had to be done that way so your reaction would be real surprise.”


Once again, he didn’t know what answer he had been expecting, but that was definitely not it.


“WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT, WOMAN?” he bellowed. He was starting to sound like a very bad person to irritate.


Ignoring his tone, Megan said, “You know that nternterest in you - especially that rather unconventional trip I made to Durmstrang - raised suspicions about your loyalties. That’s why you got called to that meeting tonight in the first place. Our cause can\'t afford to have you outside of their confidence, so a special committee of the Order came up with what we figured would be the most convincing way to set things right. I couldn\'t warn you about it because even if you didn\'t try and stop me, they might have sensed your cooperation, which would have made things worse, see? This way you were just as surprised as everybody else. It was the best plan we could come up with to protect you and your standing with them, and it worked exactly as we hoped it would.”


He was taken aback.


“You... you did that for me? The Order planned for *my* protection? That was a terrible risk,” he said frowning. “It was dangerous for you to be there and to expose yourself to the magic that was and that could have been used against you. Not to mention your part - how you had to… to show yourself like that.”


“You responded exactly as we expected you to, love, and I was prepared for it. As far as the magic is concerned, I’ve been training with you exactly *for* situations like that. *You* know that I can shield against that curse fairly easily - but the rest of your group didn’t. I just had to make it look like it was working - I even used an eye irritant charm to make it look like I was fighting it. You are worth the risk. Your position with them is too important to our cause to compromise. Plus, now you won’t have to answer any more questions about spending time with me - the dance number was a little something I cooked up myself when they mentioned that sexual domination was such a big part of the revels.”


He had to admit - although grudgingly so - that the plan, now that he knew about it, *had* actually worked. He was grateful for the Order’s support and knew that it would definitely make his spying more feasible to accomplish if he was welcomed into the death eaters’ circle without suspicion. He almost had to laugh now, knowing the whole story, at the absurdity of the whole situation. Spells being faked, proper and sweet Megan playing the part of exhibitionist, and it had somehow managed to get him off the hook.


Severus exhaled loudly and relaxed. It was the end of a long and difficult week and he didn\'t want to think about it anymore. His immediate questions had been put to rest, and any others could wait until later.


He had been waiting two days to see Megan, and here they finally were together. Knowing she was safe had eased his mind, and now he just wanted to enjoy being with her.


Megan was happy to see him calm down. Sitting up in his bed now, the covers had fallen to her lap. She was wearing a soft pink nightgown of gauzy organza that was knee length and held up by narrow straps. Its soft fabric draped gently over her curves and swirled around her legs as she stood up and walked over to him. He drank her in as she moved toward him, and he wrapped his arms around her and kissed her passionately.


As he moved his hands to cup her bottom, he couldn’t help grinning, noticing that her panties were completely covered with tiny pink silk rosebuds. “e a e a precious little outfit, my sweet,” he said with a chuckle, “but you aren’t fooling anyone. That was quite a show you put on back there - where the hell did you learn to move like that?”


“Oh that?” she said with a wicked grin. “You haven’t seen anything yet, Professor.”


The arousal that had been forgotten in his worry came back full-force now. Starting with their first kiss at Durmstrang, the need to make love to her had been nearly overwhelming, but had bee been possible to satisfy. As he drew her to him again in another deep kiss, she moaned and hooked a bare foot around the back of one of his legs. They were both so turned on already that he didn’t know how he was going to be able to take it slowly and make it special, since all he wanted to do was thrust into her and relieve the pressure.


As if reading his mind, Megan also felt the urgency. “Please Severus,” Megan gasped as she pressed into him, “I don’t think I can wait any more. I want to make love to you all night, but right now I really need for you to just fuck me. I just need you in me. Please.”


He nearly lost it right then. This gorgeous woman was begging *him* to take *her*, as if he would even consider turning her down. Every bit of blood had now left his brain and traveled to more urgent areas of his anatomy, and his aching erection was pleading for release. He threw off his cloak and robe and led her back over to the bed, where they fell back together, still kissing and writhing, her landing on top of him. “Get rid of your boots,” she said, pausing in the kisses she had been covering his neck with. She unfastened his shirt, leaving it on him but open down the middle, exposing his flat stomach. She drew up her nightgown and tossed it over her shoulder onto the floor. He drew his breath in sharply at the sight of her full breasts, her nipples erect. She stood up to take her panties off as he quickly unfastened his trousers and freed his throbbing erection, and she climbed back onto the bed, straddling him.


Her wanton desire for him was driving him crazy. He was making desperate sounds deep in his throat urging her on and pushing his hips up toward her. She took his manhood and placed the head at her entrance. She felt his heat as she held his hard length in her hand and stroked it - it was like steel covered with silk. She rubbed the head against her a little bit to get it wet, and pushed the tip into her.


“Oh, Severus - I want you so much,” she ed ied into his mouth, leaning forward and kissing him, her bare breasts pushing against his chest.


He cried out her name as she suddenly impaled herself on him, her warm wetness letting him slide all the way into her tight opening. The urgency of his need pressed him forward in the movements they were sharing that were older than time, but a part of him was also memorizing every sensation, thought, and curve because he wanted, at least in memory, to be able to have this moment forever. He loved her and in their embrace his soul claimed her as his own. Their joining was both primal and profound. As he felt his length slide into her tight wet warmth he lost his mind with the sensation.


Megan moaned as she felt him inside her, filling her completely, and she moved smoothly up and down, bringing herself down hard with each thrust and matching the movement of his hips pushing up toward her. Her body and soul were on fire for him, and even with him inside her, she felt an urgent need to feel as much of him as she could. His fathomless black eyes let her look straight into his heart, and she felt a wave of love wash over her, fueling her already heated desire.


Severus leaned up toward her and took one of her nipples into his mouth, sucking on it and running his tongue around it, while he teased her other one between his fingers. She cried out and increased her pace as she rode him. He urged her on in his silken voice as he saw the look of ecstasy growing on her face. She closed her eyes and bit her lip, her breath coming in quick rasps. With the new angle, her swollen clit rubbed against his pelvis and drove her over the edge.


“Oh yeah… Mmmm… Oh Severus,” she gasped, “yes, love! Ohhhh! Yessss!”


In just a few more strokes, the pressure of desire that had been building up over the last few days came crashing on her like a wave, and she screamed as she came hard on him, contracting sharply around him, her nails digging into his shoulders. When Megan came, Severus felt his balls tightening with the need for release and nearly lost it himself right then as she cried out and ground furiously against him, but he had waited so long to feel her that he forced himself to hold back.


Without taking himself out of her, he flipped them neatly over so she was on her back, and she looked up at him with burning eyes. “Yes,” she moaned to him, “more, please, love. I want you to get off on me.”


With a growl, he thrust hard into her, burying himself as deep as he could, and said, “Woman, you have no idea what you are doing to me…”


Locks of his black hair fell forward across his face as he leaned forward and braced his hands on either side of her. He began to thrust into her harder, and she pushed her hips up to meet his strokes. He looked at her beautiful body lying naked and open to him, lost in pleasure and still begging him to make love to her. It was just more fuel on his fire, and the pressure was becoming unbearable. She reached one of her hands down to fondle his balls as he thrust into her with increasing pace, and she reached her other hand between her legs and rubbed her clit. Megan’s eyes closed and bit her lip and drew her breath in sharply and cried out his name as she felt another orgasm racking her body. As she came again, her body trembled and bucked up against Severus.


It was too much. As he felt her contracting around him again, a shockwave coursed through every nerve in his body that made his eyes squeeze shut and tears prick at the corners of his lids.


“Oh, Megan… Oh God, yes… ” And his release came crashing over him - he came hard, throwing his head back and crying out sharply with the intensity of it, and emptied himself in strong pulses into her.


He rested on his elbows so he wouldn’t crush her, his head dropped ard.ard. They both were quiet for a moment as they caught their breath.


“That was so good, Severus,” she said to him. “You are absolutely amazing...”


He gave her a wicked smile and quoted her. “Oh that? You haven’t seen anything yet, Professor…” he said, throwing his shirt off, kicking his disheveled trousers to the floor, and kissing lavishly down her flat belly…


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The sun was up before they finally fell asleep, their long arms and legs tangled together, their sweat and love mingled together, and his bed was very, very untidy. Both were quite grateful that it was Saturday.

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