Runaway Mate

“What’s going to happen to me?”

It was later that day, Sirius and Remus had stayed in the mansion and the group was having dinner when Harry asked his question.

“Do you want to go back to Hogwarts?” Lucius asked, slowly brining a glass of wine to his lips.

“Maybe... I wonder if I can be resorted?”

“What do you mean?” Tom asked.

“The hat wanted to put me in Slytherin, but because of Dumbledore I wanted to go into Gryffindor.”

Lucius seemed to be lost in thought for a few seconds. “Your going to be fourth year... yes you can request to be resorted. We mail a letter to Dumbledore and after the first years are sorted you’ll go up and put the hat on your head.”

“Then yes. I’d like to go back to Hogwarts.” Harry sighed and rested his head in his hand. “Remus? Are you teaching again?”

“Yes.” Severus answered for Remus, who currently had his mouth full. “Remus and I are going back to teach.”

“So they’ll be able to keep an eye on you... especially if your resorted into Slytherin.” Tom noted.

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The Wizarding Community had been calmed by the fact that, only a day after the return of Harry Potter’s Hogwarts Letter, a letter had been sent from the boy, confirming that he was okay, the owl just must have gotten confused.

However, when Harry didn’t talk to either Heromine or Ron for the rest of Summer Break... well rumors began to fly. Harry’s return to Hogwarts was eagerly looked forward to by the majority of the Wizarding World.

Meanwhile, Harry just spent time getting to know Lucius and Draco better... but mostly Lucius. By the end of the Summer they were, for lack of a better word, boyfriends. Lucius would kiss Harry, not deeply, but still a kiss and Harry was a typical teenager...

The rest of the summer passed normally... or at least as normally as was possible for Harry Potter.

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On the train back to Hogwarts, Harry road with Draco, not seeing Hermione and Ron until it was time to enter the Grand Hall and Harry had to go to the Gryffindor table. The two had sat down next to Harry, and just thought that Harry was extremely focused on the First Years Sorting... so much so that he didn’t hear them trying to ask what had happened that summer.

The last student was sorted (Zamàrra, Avril - Ravenclaw) and the hat seemed to stretch before it started speaking again. “Em... A very little know rule of Hogwarts is that a student who feels unsatisfied with his or her house may... well ask for another chance.” The hat seemed to stare at each table in turn before it continued. “So...will Harry Potter come here?”

Harry stood and walked past the faces of surprised Gryffindors, each one staring at him, trying to figure out why he would do such a thing. Finally reaching the hat, Harry smiled at it and nodded slightly before setting it on his head.

I was wondering how long you would make me wait. The hat seemed to grumble into Harry’s mind.

Well, I’m ready... drop me among the snakes already.

The hat straightened up and seemed to smile as it yelled out: “SLYTHERIN!”

There was dead silence in the room for a few seconds before Draco stood up and started clapping... and he was quickly followed by the rest of the Slytherin table. Harry smiled as his ornaments on his school robes quickly changed to Slytherin and he walked to sit in the space that Draco had reserved for him.

One thing Slytherin had above Gryffindor was two students to one room vs four or five. Meaning that Draco and Harry had a room all to their own. This room, thanks to Severus, had a floo connection with Malfoy Manner, so that Draco could speak to his father and Harry to his mate. Not even Dumbledore knew that they had this connection.

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Harry’s first trouble came in double potions which, like always, was with the Gryffindors. Although Draco and Harry were assigned as partners and they were surrounded by Slytherins, Ron still managed to give Harry hell... basically by refusing to shut up and yelling things across the class room... finally it was Hermione who seemed to preform some sort of silencing spell on Ron in order to stop him from making Gryffindor go into negative points.

After that class Harry had been heading back to the Slytherin dorm when he noticed that several Gryffindors were following him... he doubled back and found Severus in the corridors, which scared the stalkers off. From then on, Harry made sure he was always with someone else.

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Christmas came and Harry went with Draco and Severus back to the Malfoy Residence. Severus had explained that, although Tom had his own house, the two mates often stayed at Lucius’ house.

Harry and Draco also had the rare pleasure of seeing Severus Snape blush when Draco asked him who was dominant in his relationship... and the two had been even more surprised when Severus admitted that he was the sub.

It was thinking of Severus and Tom’s realtionship that pushed Harry onto the subject of himself and Lucius.

“Severus?” he asked as the three entered the Malfoy Residence. “Tom’s power overruled your link... so why didn’t my power do that?”

“Tom shut down the link because he was powerful and the natural dom in our relationship.” Severus explained. “All mates are dom or sub by nature and their mate is always the opposite of them... you must be the natural submissive in the relationship. That gives Lucius control over you and made it so you couldn’t shut down the link.”

“But Harry seems like he’d be a dom... it’s more closely matched to his personality...” Draco mused as they reached the library, where Tom and Lucius were sitting, going over some sort of text.

“What are you talking about?” Lucius asked, looking up at his son, friend, and mate.

“We were talking about mates... especially doms and subs.” Severus explained, going over to Tom and kissing him deeply, brining a joking ‘eww’ from Draco and Harry.

Harry slowly moved over to Lucius and looked down at the paper. “What is this?” he asked, running a finger down the line of text.

“Forms.” Lucius answered, leaning back and looking up at Harry. “Making sure you can stay here over the summer... basically I’m asking to be made your legal guardian due to negligence of your relatives.”

Harry smiled and leaned his head against Lucius’ shoulder. “That’s good.” He smiled. “Won’t have to go back to the streets.”

Lucius motioned for Harry to sit down on his lap, which Harry did, Lucius’ arms going around his waist. “I will never let you go back to the streets.” Lucius whispered, his lips brushing against Harry’s neck. “My beautiful mate...”

Harry shivered and arched into the touch... until he and Lucius noticed that everyone else in the room was staring at them. Just as the blush started to creep over Harry’s face, Lucius smirked and apparenated them up to somewhere more private...

Harry blinked and found himself still sitting in Lucius’ lap, only now they were upstairs, in what appeared to be Lucius’ bedroom. He looked around, only to be drawn back to his mate when Lucius attacked his neck, giving him a very noticeable hickey. Harry whimpered, and leaned back into his mate’s arms, shivering slightly.

“Lucius...” Harry whimpered as Lucius pulled back before flipping Harry around so they were facing each other. Harry found himself breathing heavily for a few seconds as he stared at his mate, before Lucius captured his lip for a fierce kiss.

Harry’s hands grabbed at Lucius’ shoulders as one of Lucius’ hands tangled in his hair, which he’d started to grow out. His toes curled as Lucius’ other hand went down to cup his but, squeezing and bringing a moan from Harry.

Drawing back to breath Harry panted, staring at his mate. “Lucius...” he groaned, seeing that his mate was also panting heavily.

Lucius gently picked Harry up and lay him down on the bed before lying down next to his mate, who instantly nuzzled into his embrace, purring happily as Lucius’ hands ran down his back, pulling him closer.

It was in that position that they fell asleep.

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Harry woke hot... and found Lucius was pleasantly cold. Murmuring sleepily he moved closer to Lucius, trying to cool himself down.

“Harry?” Lucius asked sleepily, waking as he felt his mate trying to get closer to him. “Harry what’s wrong?”

“Hot...” Harry whimpered, pulling back for a second to pull off his shirt before diving back down, hissing in pleasure as cool air seemed to sweep over him.

Lucius blinked and felt his mate... his skin was normal, but Harry was feeling hot. “Crap.” Lucius felt like smacking himself on his head.

“What’s happening?” Harry whimpered, still trying to get closer to Lucius.

“Harry, the Potter Family never made it well known what sort of creature blood they had...” Lucius explained. “That’s what’s happening to you... your in heat.”

“Heat?” Harry panted, his fingers clutching at Lucius.

“The creature blood inside of you had figured out that you’ve found your mate and wants to cement the relationship.” Lucius explained as he pulled off his cloths and what was left to Harry’s. Harry whimpered in pleasure as his bare skin came in contact with his mate’s.

“Lucius!” Harry cried as Lucius began touch him gently. “Need... need you!”

“Hush.” Lucius whispered, looking down into the wide eyes of his mate. “You have me.”

Harry cried out in pleasure as Lucius’ fingers gently slipped inside of him, preparing him for their joining. His eyes slipped closed and his fingernails dug into Lucius’ shoulders as he whimpered.

Harry screamed to wake the dead when Lucius finally thrust inside of him. Harry’s body stiffened in pleasure before relaxing completely, his mind going blank and all thoughts being replaced with the driving need to claim his mate and be claimed by him.

Lucius growled softly as he sunk into his delicious mate, his mind also going blank as he leaned down to kiss Harry deeply, swallowing his delicious sounds as they rocked together.

A stamped of angry librarians could have run through the room yelling about overdue books and the two wizards wouldn’t have known, they were too caught up in the act of claiming each other.

Finally two could hold back no longer and, with a scream that probably had Draco, Severus and Tom listening in, Harry jerked back and came, his passage tightening around Lucius and bringing the older wizard to his peak.

Panting Harry fell back, Lucius still holding him close as they slowly returned to a normal state. Lucius smiled as he looked over at Harry, who was still slightly dazed. Slowly moving over to a bedside table Lucius reached in as Harry began to think once more. Harry blinked as Lucius turned back towards him.

“I told you I loved you.” Lucius whispered, giving Harry a small black velvet box. “And this is a promise that I’ll show the world that.”

Harry opened the box to reveal a beautiful gold claddagh ring with the heart made out of an emerald.. (Author’s Note: Here’s a link: http://www.claddaghringking.com/images/Products/CLAD6.jpg) He quickly looked back up at Lucius.

“Until your old enough, this is our engagement ring.” Lucius whispered, smiling at the look of shock on his mate’s face. “That is... if you’ll say yes.”

Harry opened his mouth but no sound came out. After gasping like a fish a few time Harry finally settled for nodding and holding out his hand so Lucius could slip the ring on and kiss his mate’s hand.

Harry stared at the ring, somehow not believing that it was there as tears of joy ran down his cheeks.

TBC