So this is Love

Severus sat on the bed glaring at the mediwitch. “Poppy, I’m fine let me go. I need to get back to Harry.” He all but whined. “I need to stay close to him.”



Poppy glared right back at the feared potions master “Severus, you were hit with a couple of nasty hexes and you will sit right here till I say you can move. Harry is less than ten feet away from you and know that he is perfectly fine in the infirmary, now stop acting so childish.”



If Severus wasn’t a grown man and a master of potions and defense against the dark arts he would be tempted to pout. But since he was a grown man he decided to sulk instead. He was caught in between glaring at the mediwitch and staring at Harry watching for anything.



Lucius and Draco were both by now in stitches Draco giggling loudly and Lucius trying to turn his laughter into coughing. This was truly entertaining; Lucius had plans for this moment, that including a pensieve. He hadn’t seen Severus this worked up since Lily told him she was pregnant, for nine months he was shooting glares at James. Come to think of it that’s probably why he got so good.



The infirmary doors opened to admit a shaggy looking Remus and a tired looking Narcissa. Both looked concerned, tired, and out of breath like they ran the whole way here. Albus and Minerva entered a short time later.



Narcissa was wearing blue silk robes covering a dress of the same material. She looked around and saw Lucius and Draco and ran to them. She threw her arms around Draco kissing him and then did the same to Lucius. “Are you ok? What happened? Why are you here? Did he find out? How did you get here? Don’t just sit there tell me what happened.” Narcissa said all in one breathe.



Lucius looked at his wife, he loved her with all his heart. He was lucky, even though it had been an arranged marriage, they loved each other completely. She started tapping her foot on the ground to show she was impatiently waiting for the answer. Lucius had to stifle a smile. “Actually I would like to know that too. Yes, he found out. No, I don’t know how. We where hit with a couple of curcios and some other nasty hexes and thrown in the dungeon. Next thing I know Severus is waking us up and port-keying us here. So Severus, how did you know we needed help?”



Remus had stopped to catch his breath and then saw Harry. He rushed over to the bed and tears sprang to his eyes as he looked at the boy he considered his cub. He bent over and pushed the fringe out of his eyes and noticed bruise marks on his neck he growled low in his throat. Looking in between Poppy and Albus he asked in a deadly calm voice “What happened?”



Narcissa looked over at Harry on hearing her friend growl and gasped. Lily was her best friend in school and they had always tried to take care of one another. And this was her child; this battered little innocent creature was her child. She looked at Severus and noted concern, anger, and …jealousy in his eyes. She knew that who ever did this would have hell to pay. Her family may have been forced into joining the death eaters but she did learn a couple of nasty hexes while she was there.



Severus was staring at Remus, he wanted to rip his arm off for touching his mate, but knew Harry considered him a father figure. And Remus considered him his cub, but he still wanted to rip his arm off. Right as Severus was about to start telling them what happened Harry started mumbling in his sleep. Severus got off the bed and rushed over before Poppy could catch him. Remus and Severus leaned in close to hear what he was saying “Siri not dead.” Severus looked to Remus and knew it hurt a little, the mutt was his mate and both knew that he feel into the veil.



Remus just gave a small smile grabbed Harry’s hand and sat back into a chair beside his bed. Severus did the same and told everyone about what happened that day right up till he got pushed into the bed by Poppy. That’s when Draco and Lucius took up the story telling them of the emotional and entertaining show put on by Poppy and Severus. Poppy then told Remus and Narcissa of all the injuries Harry had obtained. By the end of story time Remus was growling and Narcissa was having a hard time controlling her rage.



Remus turned to Poppy “He is going to be asleep for a while right? He won’t wake up with in the next hour or so?”



“No, the healing coma I put him in is advanced and is going to heal all the bruising and broken bones. With the extent to his injuries I saw, he’ll be out for a couple of days at the least, a week at the most.” Poppy was trying to put back her anger on hearing where Severus found Harry, so her reply sounded dry. Any one who knew the witch knew how much she cared for Harry.



Remus had a question he needed answered but was afraid to ask. It was laying to heavily on his mind to ignore. “Poppy was he raped?” he all but whispered.



Severus started growling at the thought of someone touching his mate in such a way if Poppy answered in a negative way he was going to suck them dry, screw the consequences.



Poppy looked aghast she forgot to check for that. She prayed to whatever deity out there that he hadn’t been. She waved her wand and a white light surrounded Harry both her and Narcissa sighed in relief. She shook her head no. Every one in the room seemed to breathe in relief.



Remus turned to Albus and Severus but knew that at least Narcissa would want to come too. “Are you two busy at the moment? I fancy a trip to Surrey.” No amount of wolfs bane could suppress the look in the wolf’s eyes.



Severus gave a small smirk “You know now that you mention it I seem to remember putting a man in a body bind earlier today and should probably go remove it.”

Albus and Narcissa were already waiting by the door their faces set in anger. He looked a little surprised at Minerva.



When he gave her a question look she gave a smirk worthy of a slytherin “I love that boy like a grandson and seeing him like that had me thinking of a game I haven’t got to play in a while.” Severus smirked and nodded, knowing exactly what game she was thinking of.



Lucius was strolling towards the door and Poppy was about to stop him but looked at Harry and gave it a second thought. “Lucius, I don’t care what you do to those… creatures, but afterwards I want you back in that bed lying down. If you’re not so help me I’ll hunt you down and stupefy you like I did when you were in school. Understand?”



Lucius blanched and looked at his feet feeling like a twelve year old child being reprimanded for eating a cookie before dinner. “Yes mam...” He mumbled. It was too much for Draco a started laughing until tears were rolling down his face, clutching his sides. The rest of the room was chuckling as well so Lucius did the only thing he could think off he stuck out his tongue, which sent everyone back into peels of laughter.



Right before Lucius was out the door Draco called him, he turned to look at his son who looked at him and looked at Harry and back at him “Give them Hell.” Lucius smirked and nodded and headed off with the rest of the group to run their little “errand”.







******** HP/SS******



At twilight that evening four men and two women made their way down to number 4 Privet Dr. The neighborhood was quiet and calm, which gave it a deserted feeling. As they reached the door they could hear the frantic screams of a woman. Her high pitched screeching poured through the doors



“When I get my hands on that freak I’ll make sure he knows pain worse that the stove cooker. We should have let those men taken him at least we wouldn’t have to deal with him anymore. My precious Dudders shouldn’t have to hang out with a freak like him.”



That was enough for Albus he blew the door of the hinges and stalked into the house Minerva had put up a silencing and notice-me-not charm and walked in following every one.



Petunia whirled around to look at the intruders; she saw Albus and glared at him. “That’s it we took in that little freak and now look at what he has done to my Vernon. He is not welcome here anymore. Keep him away from my family.” She would have continued had Remus not placed a silencing charm on her. Petunia continued to glare at them. Dudley was now hiding behind the couch with his hands trying desperately to cover his large bottom.



Severus stalked forward and circled the two Vernon had went from red to chalk white in a matter of moments. Petunia continued to glare. “Actually, I put this lovely little spell on” he shuddered “your Vernon.” Severus released Vernon with a flick of his wrist and walked back towards the group.



Vernon stood up and tried to gain his wits, which is truly saying something. “YOU FREAKS GET OUT OF MY HOUSE! WE TOOK CARE OF THAT BOY FOR 16 YEARS HE IS NO LONGER WELCOME HERE! NOW THE REST OF YOU FREAKS GET OUT!” Vernon was screaming and his face had turned purple either from rage or the effort no one was sure.



Minerva stepped forward she smirked at the family “Do you know that the only reason you are still alive is because that ‘boy’ lived here. I would like nothing more than to kill you right now in the most horrible way I can think of and I’m very imaginative.” She paused to watch her prey squirm. “But we won’t kill you, because we don’t think HARRY would like it. But that doesn’t mean we won’t punish you.” She paused to study him. “You know Vernon you look like you could loose a little weight I think I could help with that.” She flicked her wand and a large mouse appeared in his place. “I think I shall give you a head start, you have 5 seconds.” Minerva smirked as she turned into a cat and watched the mouse.



The mouse previously known as Vernon stood shocked as the woman transferred into a cat, his thoughts were interrupted when Severus smirked and said, “You know she doesn’t give head starts very often, I think you should take advantage.” That seemed to have an effect with a soft ‘eep’ Vernon started running for the couch. Minerva turned to the group and smiled as best a cat could and went to go play a game of one sided tag.



Albus was quite enjoying this and decided it would be best to watch for a moment or two. Severus on the other hand was still thinking of the best way to pay them back with out getting the ministry involved or upsetting Harry. Every one knew how he felt about family and like it or not these people were his. Suddenly a thought came to him turning to Narcissa who was having a grand time watching Minerva “Cissa do you remember that lovely little spell we found in our seventh year?”



Narcissa smiled, ‘This is going to be fun. I’ve always wanted to try that out but never had a chance to.’ She thought. Albus knew what spell they were talking about, after all he planted it for them to find. So he decided to go gather Harry’s things, walking up the stairs he quickly found all of Harry’s things and put it in his trunk. He looked around the room his grandson had lived in and was almost brought to tears with regret. He had allowed this; he had been so stricken with grief at the loss of his family that he had put his only remaining family here.



He knew he was going to have a long talk with Harry when he woke up and could only hope that he would forgive him.



Albus made his way down the stair to find Lucius and Narcissa playing with a beach ball, Minerva still with the mouse, and pig shaking under the table. Severus was walking around charming everything he could find. The T.V. would now only play Mexican soap operas; with the same episode would show everyday, the couch and all the chairs would bite or sting anyone trying to sit in them. The rugs will pull out from under the feet of anyone on them. The table and chairs would shrink so that you couldn’t get up from them for a least two hours, every piece dish or cup in the house would now bite back, and finally every time some one walked by a door it would swing open to smack them in the face or arse.



It looked like they were having a grand time but they needed to leave and get back to Hogwarts. “I’ve got all of Harry’s things, he sent Hedwig to the school a couple of days ago so, when ever you are ready we should be getting back.”



Narcissa and Lucius dropped the ball and kicked it a couple of times. Minerva changed back and headed toward the door and Severus finished with the charms. With the flick of his wand Albus changed the ball back into Petunia, the pig back into Dudley, and the mouse back into Vernon. Dudley had kept the tail, Petunia was still multi-striped covered in bruises, and Vernon still had whiskers, his nose was still twitching, and he had scatches all over. Narcissa and Severus turned back right before the got to the door in unison they turned and started



*** Credo esse

familia pecco

permitto ignosco

sentio piaculum dolor***



As they finished a light filled the room resting on the three people who stood shocked and rooted to the floor. Severus smirked and walked out of the house.



Albus turned to them “The spell they did is what people used to use in cases of child or spousal abuse. Every injury Harry has had that you caused, you will feel. Every time he has been hungry and you denied him, you will feel and no matter how much you eat will the hungry not leave. If he has been denied water the thirst will follow you. His discomfort that you caused will follow you to bed and stay with you through out the night. How ever long you abused him is how long you punishment will be. Be happy that I didn’t come hear right after seeing him you would all be dead.” With that Albus repaired and shut the door. As they walked off no one turned back to see the house shaking or the foundation crack. They all new that if blood wards were broken in such a manner the house would suffer the damage.



Severus felt better now that he had taken care of Harry’s family, now he only wanted to get back to mate and wait for him to wake up.



***Trust mistaken

Family gone astray

To allow forgiveness

Feel the victim’s pain***



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