Darkened Lust

Darkened Lust
Part Twenty-nine

References to KoRn in this chapter. They belong to themselves. Duh.

By Ami E. Bowen and Rebecca (Becca) Middleton

“So why are we sitting here? Let’s go!” Harry urged.

“Right now, Harry?” asked Hermione worridly. “Shouldn’t we discuss it more first?” She looked at Snape for support, but he remained silent. Ami spoke up instead.

“Isn’t there a way to get the ring without having to…you know…disturb Mrs. Potter? Like the way you summoned Becca’s books, Severus?”

“Harry would have to do it, since he is the one with the strongest connection to Lily, and it’s a difficult spell. It may take some time. It will certainly take the utmost concentration. Can you manage that, Potter?”

“I…yes, I think so,” the young man replied. “But, how do you know about horcruxes in the first place?” he asked suspiciously.

Snape gave him a look of contempt. “Do you think you were the only one in Dumbledore’s confidence? He told me about them years ago. I was the one who helped him find out what a horcrux is, and due to my knowledge of the Dark Lord, what his particular horcruxes were apt to be.”

Harry seemed to accept this, for he changed subjects. “How can I get my mother’s ring without disturbing her?”

Snape sighed. “I will teach you the spell. It’s a wordless spell, however. Do you still have trouble with those?”

Harry seemed to debate with himself for a moment, but decided to answer honestly. “Sometimes. But I have to learn. I can’t let Voldemort get my mother’s ring, even if it’s not a horcrux.”

“Do you have a picture of Lily with you?”

“Always. Her and dad.”

“Then study it. Study her ring so you know what it looks like. You will need to be able to recall its image perfectly.” As Harry reached inside his robes, Snape stopped him. “Not just yet, however. We will practice first.”

“How are you gonna do that?” Ron asked, speaking for the first time.

“I noticed some jewelry in the bedroom,” Severus said to Becca. “Please, go get a ring for Potter to practice with. Something that won’t be missed much, just in case.” Becca nodded and quickly went to the bedroom, returning with a small gold band.

“It’s not real, it’s costume jewelry. Will this be all right?” she asked. Snape nodded, taking the ring from her and handing it to Harry.

“Study it, become familiar with it. Take as long as you need. Then leave it here, go outside, and summon it. The process is a bit like apparition, only with an object instead of yourself.”

Harry sat staring at the ring as if it were the most fascinating object in the world.

“So, after Harry learns the spell, we’re going?” Becca asked.

Snape glared at her. “Who said the two of you are going anywhere? No, you are staying right here where it is safe!”

He was instantly overwhelmed by protests from both women. “Enough!” he roared, causing everyone but Harry to jump, startled. He rose to his feet. “I am not putting the two of you in danger, and that is final!” he spat.

Becca rose to face him. “But when Lucius took Ami, you took me with you. You told him that you were afraid to leave me behind in case another Death Eater decided to take me!”

“You know very well why I told him that, Becca. It was to explain your precense without letting him know what you mean to me.”

“Then why did you take me?” she demanded.

“Because I knew you would never forgive me if I didn’t!”

“Then I’ll never forgive you if you don’t take us this time!” she smirked.

“Then you won’t forgive me!” he roared. “I will not put the two of you in any more danger! You are staying here, I order it!”

Ami jumped to her feet. “No, we won’t!”

Ron and Hermione looked on in amazement as the three shouted at each other, and a bit of amusement. “Looks like Snape is having woman trouble,” Ron murmured to Hermione, and she smothered a laugh.

“You can’t order us to do anything!” Becca yelled. “You told me that you were only our master during sex, and, wow, we aren’t having sex right now.”

“That is not what I meant. Woman, you will stop twisting my words to suit your purpose!” Snape was so angry he was snarling.

“That was your general meaning, though, wasn’t it, Severus?” Ami asked. The look of self-satisfaction on her face incensed Severus even more.

“In that case,” he said in a deceptively calm voice, “perhaps I should drag you both into the bedroom and order you to stay…while fucking you so the proprieties will be observed.”

Ron and Hermione blushed crimson at his words, then gasped as Becca actually shoved the Potions Master back. “Jist try it!” she hissed. “If ye wanna lose yer balls!”

Snape looked at in utter fury with his teeth bared. With eerie speed, he reached out and caught hold of her shoulders, pulling her close, putting his face only a breath away from hers. The two younger wizards forgot to breathe, sure that he was going to hurt her. Instead he only whispered, “I don’t want you and Ami in danger. I promised to protect you.”

Ami lifted her hand, placed it on his where he clutched Becca’s shoulder. “We know that. But Becca and I are adults. We make our own decisions, and we have decided to go with you.”

Severus closed his eyes wearily, dropping his hands. He knew when he was beaten.

Harry had left the ring inside and had gone out back to try out the spell...

Harry headed outside to try the spell, after a few moments Ron gasped, grabbing their attention. His eyes were on the peice of costume jewelry set upon the kitchen table. It had begun to shimmer slightly and fade out. Hermione chewed her bottom lip and Becca spared a glance at Ami.

Disappointment seemed to wash over the group as the ring became solid once more and lay there like a lump on the table. \"It\'s only his first try,\" Hermione shrugged, \"He\'ll get it.\"

\"Yeah, Give him a little more time,\" Ron nodded, placing his arm around Hermione\'s waist. She gave him a little; \'boys!\' look before moving away and heading towards the back door, \"I\'ll go see if I can help...\"

\"He has to learn to do this himself, Miss Granger,\" Snape said, causing his former best student to pause in her tracks, \"He can\'t have you slipping him the answers all his life, now can he?\"

\"We\'re all in this together,\" Ami said, \"I think all the help we can give each other, the better!\"

\"I second that!\" Becca said, crossing her arms over her breasts, giving Snape her best raised-eye-brow-you-know-you-don\'t-wanna-fuck-with-us look. Of course, he gave her his own in return and Ami couldn\'t help covering her mouth before she burst into laughter. Hermione and Ron took the moment to slip outside and around to where Harry was.

Severus shook his head, sighed and decided that the best course of action would be to allow the Granger girl to attempt to aid Potter. Who knows, he thought, as he told Becca and Ami they\'d best change into something durable and warm if they planned on joining them when the time came to leave to fetch the wedding ring, maybe it will do some good.

Ami headed into the bathroom. She decided to braid it back into a long braid down her back in order to keep it out of her face after taking a short shower and washing it. Upon entering Becca\'s parent\'s room, she glanced around for Becca and saw her and noticed that she had changed into a pair of jeans and a black t-shirt with KoRn scrawled across the front.

Which was, Ami knew, her friend\'s favourite band. Becca was seated crossed-legged upon the bed, a pair of headphones placed over her ears. Her head thrown back with her eyes closed. Ami recoginzed the look. Becca had worn that exact same expression while Ami and Severus had been making love to her.

Not wanting to disturb her, Ami slipped around her, swathed in a terryclothe bathtowel, towards her duffle bag and selected a pair of faded blue jeans and another long-sleeved t-shirt. Dark blue. Nothing fancy. She found her bra on the floor near the bed and put it on the way that everyone who saw her do it thought was weird. Basically, she didn\'t unsnap it but stepped into it and pulled it up over her legs, hips, waist, until it was in place and then merely turned it around and adjusted herself accordingly.

Sitting down on the bed next to Becca, Ami carefully slipped the right headphone from Becca\'s ear, (she could hear strains of rock music pouring through), and leaned over to nibble on her friend\'s earlobe.

Of course, Becca felt the bed move when Ami had sat down upon it next to her, but had pretended not to and she jumped for Ami\'s benifit when she\'d felt the soft lips and wet tongue upon her ear. Turning slightly, she wrapped her arms about Ami the two came together.

Becca thought Ami tasted like peppermint and realized it was probably the toothpaste and Ami thought Becca tasted like Becca. Which was nice. Very nice. She realized that they really should be getting ready to go and doing something to help out.

But, as she pressed against her friend and felt her body fit perfectly against her own, Ami thought that it might be a while before they could do this again. Sometime between kissing her mouth and nibbling upon her throat, Becca had placed one of the headphones into one of Ami\'s ears, so that the sounds they both heard was a mixture of their own kisses, sighs and moans accompanied by her KoRn\'s Greatest Hits CD.

\"We\'d better stop,\" Ami whispered, her actions telling Becca that she hardly wanted to, \"Severus is waiting...\"

\"I don\'t want to stop...\" Becca said, \"It\'s gonna take Harry awhile...\"

\"Yeah...\" Ami sighed, against Becca\'s ear, \"Besides it\'s probably gonna be while before...\"

\"...we can do this again...\" Becca said and silenced whatever Ami was about to reply with with another earth-shattering kiss.

To Be Continued...