Love Bites (REPOST)

Chapter 22 ~ Turning a Turning

Hermione followed Adam out into the infirmary and saw Severus bent over, poking at the floor with his finger. Adam ran in front of the wizard and motioned at Hermione to come join him. He stood her directly in front of Severus.

"Professor. Professor. Dr. Granger is here," he said to the wizard. "Stop counting."

Severus paid no attention. Adam whipped out his wand and scourgified all the seeds. The Potions Master halted a moment then straightened.

Hermione gasped as she saw the glow in his eyes. The wizard looked at her, his head cocked and eyes sweeping over her.

Vashti stood at the edge of the Forbidden Forest, Victor sullenly sitting on his haunches beside her in wolf form. The vampire was furious she was attempting to summon the wizard. He hoped the witch he had spared could find a way to stop him. If the wizard came to Vashti and was turned, Victor would kill the witch when she next came to the copse of trees. He would tear her into pieces.

"Severus, come to me, my king. Vashti commands you," the vampiress intoned, lifting her arms to the night sky and sending forth her power. "Come and be joined with me. Come to my pleasure."

Severus snarled and began to walk forward again, pushing Adam and nudging Hermione aside.

"Professor! Stop!" Hermione cried. The wizard kept walking.

"Get in front of him!" Adam cried, "Look alluring! Wriggle or something!"

Hermione stared at the wizard a moment, then ran in front of Severus and tried to strike a sexy pose, jutting out her breasts exaggeratedly.

Adam groaned. She looked like she was stuck in some painful position.

"Tell him you want him!" Adam coached. "Tell him you want to mate with him!"

"If I tell him that, he's going to want to do it!" Hermione called back at him, backing up as the wizard walked forward.

"Then you'll have to do it. He won't kill you, though I'm sure you'll feel like you've died and gone to muggle heaven," Adam shouted back. "Otherwise…"

Damn. Damn.

"Severus. Severus I want you. Don't go to Vashti, come to me," Hermione said, using his given name. The wizard paused, his red eyes leveled at her.

"I'm Dr. Granger. Hermione. Take me…not Vashti," she said again softly. "Remember…the shower…"

Adam's eyebrows went up. The shower? What shower? And what happened in it?

The wizard stopped fully.

"Hermione," he said in a low voice, his teeth baring slightly.

Outside, Vashti let out a shriek of rage.

"The mortal woman, she is pulling him back from me!" the Queen seethed.

Victor panted loudly beside her. Good witch. Good. Pull the bastard back. Tear him away.

Vashti redoubled her efforts.

"You are mine! Mine! Come to me, Severus! I command it!" she cried, her voice flowing across the grounds.

Severus quavered, and looked at Hermione.

"I must go. I must mate," he said to her…but he didn't move.

"With me, Severus. You must mate with me. Not Vashti. She will turn you. You will become a vampire," Hermione said, her stomach turning over and over as she realized that if she turned Severus, she would have to let him take her.

Severus looked like he was listening intently to something.

"Vashti," he sighed, starting to move again. He was almost at the doors. Hermione couldn't let him through the doors. Desperately she ran up and pressed her body against his. She could feel his erection beneath his robes. The Potions Master looked down at her.

"I'm here, now. Vashti is someplace else. Someplace far. Choose me, Severus. Stay with the living. Don't go to the undead. I want you to stay. I want you to be my first," the witch said.

Adam clasped his hand over his heart.

"I've never heard anyone beg for it so sweetly," he sighed, wiping at his eyes beneath his glasses. "She's so good at being a wanton."

Adam sniffed.

Something in the Potions Master's mind clicked when Hermione said this.

"Virgin," he breathed down at her, his arms slowly coming up to embrace her, and pull her tighter to him.

"Yes," Hermione said against his chest. "A virgin. You will be my first if you don't go to Vashti. I'm willing. Please don't go to her, Severus. Stay with me," the witch said, feeling as if her entire soul was just laid open.

The redness in the wizard's eyes flickered, then died as he scooped Hermione up in his arms and turned, walking with her back toward their rooms. The witch's heart was hammering in her chest. She had turned him…but at what cost?

Adam gave a little cheer, then followed close behind the couple…hoping they would leave the door open so he could watch the wizard in action. Hermione saw Adam following them and mouthed, "What do I do?"

Adam mouthed back, "Everything he wants you to."

Severus didn't say a word. He was too caught up in his lust for Hermione to speak. His teeth were slightly bared as he carried her, and Vashti's blood lust was still on him, though he chose the witch over the Queen.

An unearthly cry rang across the grounds of Hogwarts, rousing Hagrid who sat up in his bed, blinking.

"Wha' on earth was that?" he mumbled. Then he fell back heavily into the bed, which creaked horribly.

"Victor, you find that woman…and you KILL her!" Vashti seethed at the transformed vampire. Victor rolled on his back before his Queen, exposing his soft belly, his ears pressed flat to his head and whined in submission.

Vashti frowned down at him and hissed, then transformed into a bat and flapped strongly back to her lair. The minions were in for it.

Victor rolled back to his paws swiftly, stood and watched her go, his ears pricked forward, his muzzle pulled back in a perfectly wolfish smile. Vashti was still his, for the moment. He had done well to spare the witch. The wizard would fuck her, and take her virginity. Only another offer of sex would have turned him from Vashti. He would then be bound to the mortal strongly. Maybe he would come to love her and break Vashti's hold.

Victor howled his happiness to the night sky. Vashti's loss was his gain.

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Severus strode through the open rooms door with Hermione in his arms, Adam right behind him. He carried the witch into his rooms, Adam sidling in after them. The wizard set Hermione down in the middle of the floor, turned and snarled at Adam, baring his teeth.

"Well, I thought…since I helped her…that you'd let me watch…" Adam said, as Severus' eyes turned red again and he stalked toward the wizard. Adam quickly rushed out the door.

"You know, this isn't remotely fair…" Adam complained as Severus slammed the door in his face, locking it. He slowly turned toward Hermione, the redness in his eyes dulling again as he looked at the witch.

Severus toed off his boots and began to unbutton his robes, his short fangs partially visible. He still hadn't said a word to the trembling witch in front of him.

"Shit," Hermione thought as she watched his hands fly down the front of his robes deftly.

"Professor…" she began.

"Severus," he hissed at her as he stripped off his robes, his pale body tensed and ready.

"I'm…I'm scared," she said in a small voice.

The wizard lowered his lips, hiding his pointed teeth. His eyes lost some of their hardness. He was able to think again, though all he was thinking about was the witch finally in his bedroom. He strode over to her.

"You should be, witch" he said softly, pulling Hermione roughly against his body and rubbing his length against her, making her gasp.

She was.

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A/N: Short chapter. Kind of tired….hence the evil cliffie. Please review.