Harry Potter and the Vampiric Inheritance

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Ok so here's the deal i owe an 'I'm SO sorry' because i spelt Slytherdor's name wrong in the last update. (How stupid am I!!)

Well no authors notes babbling on today just...

...On with the story...

It was only teenage instinct that got them apart before the door swung open, having been done so because of the amount of magic radiating off the intruder.

The room became quite dark and deathly cold and even though they had jumped apart they were now edging closer to each other for protection. Alucard’s mind racing with names of enemies that could have found them, Draco’s with how to explain this.

“Draco Lucius Malfoy get off that bed right now and into mine and your mothers room!”

Draco gulped audibly and slunk off the bed, passing his father with a bowed head knowing he had some explaining to do.

“Alucard I suggest you follow suit or explain to your father what was going on.”

Alucard felt the need to blush but something was keeping him from doing so. He felt the need to apologise but again the voice inside him told him to stand tall and follow the mans orders respectfully.

When they entered the older Malfoy chambers they saw Jessica sat in her mothers arms crying, which worsened as she saw the two teens walking in. Narcissa smiled sadly and took the child to her own room just off the parental room.

“Sit there.” Was all Lucius said and it still sent a shiver of fear down Draco’s back.

“Sir, could I ask the meaning of this kind of attitude to this manors young master?” Inside Alucard was reeling, what had he just said; he had just rather bluntly reminded Lucius who he was talking to, he had basically just told Lucius to watch what he was saying because in this manor he had the advantage due to the Malfoy being the guests.

Lucius seemed to deflate slightly, though to what Alucard wasn’t sure and straightened himself out.

“Draco during your time with…Alucard this year, how much have you told him?” Draco looked into his lap and shook his head.

“Nothing about what you’re about to tell him.”

“I see…Alucard, normally I would turn a blind eye to this sort of behaviour; your teenagers after all but I will not stand for it when the two of you are in the positions your are in and the state Draco is in.

Now since Draco failed to bring it up I will inform you.

Draco is a host…it is not allowed for the vampire and their host to be together. There simple aren’t enough families for you to take a host family away. If you take Draco then any children he would have would be Vampiric and there for can not carry on being Malfoy hosts. You would have to find a new family and there simple isn’t enough trust worthy families left. Even the Weasley family used to host but went their Vampiric family was killed off by rebels they began to follow Dumbledore and there for not trust worthy enough.”

“W-Wait the Weasley family used to be hosts? For who? Why didn’t they take on a new family, I read they are usually expected to do that?” Alucard said temporarily forgetting the issues at hand.

“Yes they did, for the Rivers family and they had felt that since they didn’t have a Vampiric family to protect from Voldemort them they joined with the first thing to offer protection which was Dumbledore. Arthur was born just after the Vampiric family were killed and had started to be prepped for hosting in case a family needed them but after a few years his father got scared and stopped training him for that and begun steering his son towards Dumbledore’s favourite students and they just lost touch with us.”

“Ok so back to the point; If Draco and I decided we would like to pursue a relationship, why couldn’t we? Jessica is being prepped for a family isn’t she, she could host for the family.”

“Harry, er…Alucard, it doesn’t work that way, if we got together, then the Malfoy would become actual family with the Prince family so Jessica would host for a different family and we would have to find a separate host family to start ours with. It’s confusing but vital we follow rules.” Draco tried to explain; he had had trouble getting the concept.

“Wait so what if I had fallen for a different host, we still couldn’t be together?”

“Precisely.” Lucius said with a nod of finality.

“So I can never be with the one I love because of some stupid rule though up by those wrinkles in the council?”

“Alucard it is written in the book of lore. It protects your blood line and status.” Draco interjected again, feeling the magic radiate off the teen again.

“It can’t be love anyway; you hated each other before this. He provoked you and you retaliated.” Lucius said mocking their feelings.

Alucard was up in an instant and had Lucius backed against the wall holding him with one hand about three inches off the floor.

“I never hated Draco, I was angry that some one so cute scowled at me for the most of the year but never hated him and he only provoked because you and my father where too scared to say anything or stupid enough to plan anything more. I retaliated because it was expected that the leader of Gryffindor fight the leader of Slytherin.”

“Alucard don’t hurt him! Look just calm down……Your power is trying to find the right paths and it’s making you a little extreme with your emotions. Just…look I’ll go get Severus and we can just chill out ok?” Draco said standing and trying to calm the master vampire down.

“Don’t try to belittle me you insignificant little ferret! I will have the respect that my title demand and you shall give it…agh!!!”

Alucard dropped his charge and fell to the floor holding his head and screaming out; a searing pain cracking his skull, he pulled at his hair as though ripping it out would make it better.

The other two occupants edged towards Alucard, not wanting to anger him in such a state. With all the screaming though it wasn’t soon before Narcissa, Jessica, Padfoot, Remus and Severus where joining them on the floor trying to see what was wrong.

All Alucard could do was rock on his knees while holding his head. After a few minute of people shouting at the teen to see if he was ok the younger vampire looked up and searched the room.

Suddenly his eyes landed on something and he began to crawl towards it, with one hand holding his head as the other was outstretched in front of him as though guiding him towards what ever he had found.

“D…agh!…co…nooooo!” Suddenly he held his head with both hands again and with one final scream he fell to the floor in a dead faint.


A few hours later Harry woke up to find most of his new family around, Jessica was sat on her mothers knees while her mother was sat on a chair by the bed. Draco was sat on the bed near him holding a bandage round his wrist. Lucius, Severus and Remus weren’t there, but Sirius was actually in human form stood at the foot f the bed.

“My boy, how are you?” Sirius asked walking behind Draco and putting a hand on his shoulder.

“Mm…my head hurts but…ok I guess…What happened?” Harry asked while rubbing his neck.

“Last I remember your dad had just come barging through our door.”

Draco shifted a little and looked between the adults in the room before speaking.

“You don’t remember holding my dad three inches off the floor or calling me a ferret.”

Harry frowned and shook his head, looking from person to person. Narcissa paled slightly at the nod and put Jessica down as she carefully got up and left the room.

After a minute or two of worried glances passing from person to person Severus, Remus and Lucius came back with the blonde, pregnant woman.

“Harry are you alright?” Remus didn’t wait for an answer to his question; he flung his arms around Harry and held him close.

“Alucard?” Severus asked from behind the werewolf. Harry looked a little uncomfortable at the name.

“Do I really have to change my name? I mean I get the respect thing and the offence but I’m not Harold, I’m Harry.”

Severus seemed to relax his posture a bit and sighed turning to Lucius behind him. They both moved over to a far corner of the room and began talking his whispers, obviously putting up silencing shields as he couldn’t tune into what they were saying like he had been able to in class over the last few weeks.

“I’ve upset him now haven’t I?” He asked Remus quietly while pulling away slightly. Remus gave Harry a watery smile and shook his head. Sirius, who had over heard Harry’s question, spoke up while moving to crouch near Harry.

“No my boy, he’s relieved. Things are going to be a little easier for him right now.”

Harry snorted and looked away, oddly finding a small fire boiling his nerves for the man he has to call father.

“Well good for him.” He said sarcastically. Remus and Sirius looked nervously between each other.

“And some things have probably gotten a little harder.” Remus added as he smelt the faint odour of anger.

“Look can one of you two at the back there please explain what’s going on because I’ve pretty much got bored of trying to see the differences between you and Dumbledore.”

Severus shook his head sadly at Lucius comment before dropping the shield and walking over to a group of chairs that had appeared at some point for the rest of the group.

“Harry…I am going to assume that there are parts of the days since you came to me that first night that you don’t understand. So I will explain them.” He at down on a chair closest to Harry’s bed and looked the boy in the eyes; knowing he felt better with eye contact.

“When you found out I was your father you did not pass judgement or show any further reaction past surprise. Did you feel something like a calm blanket wash over you?”

Harry thought back for a moment; he thought about all the things he had learnt so far and realised that he had just taken everything in.

Well lets face it, one doesn’t find out his father is actually a small minded wizard that hates an entire race and that his real father seems to hate him.

“Yeah actually…I was thinking that I needed to get my emotions under control while I let you explain and ever since then I have just pretty much been ok with everything. Like, only feeling easy to cope with emotions, like being angry because you gave another pop quiz with out telling Draco like you used to or happy because Draco blushed when he fell and I caught him round the waist. You know, easy stuff that doesn’t take any brain power.”

Severus, uncharacteristically, fidgeted in his seat and looked around at their audience. Coughing nervously he stood and faced everyone.

“This is a matter best discussed in private as there are many things that could become personal and I don’t think Harry would want you all knowing his business.”

“Er...Who died and made you ruler of my life. I thought that was what Dumbledore wanted. I say Remus and Sirius can stay.” Harry said as he sat up further on the bed. He tried to ignore the look of hurt from Draco at being ignored like that and focused on why Snape was angering him without really trying.

“Er, Harry, host here, should really stay so I know what’s going on.”

“Draco this is family matters and we are not. You should know by now your place in this family. Now take Jessica out side and find some flowers for your mother or something.”

With a protesting Draco dawdling behind the group of blonds, the Malfoy family left. Remus sat next to Harry in a protective manner as Sirius took a deep breath and leaned on the wall at the side of Harry’s bed.

Severus suddenly got a bad feeling. This was going to destroy the already weak bond between him and his son. He’d be lucky if Harry even acknowledged him from now on.

“Harry, within you there is another.” When Harry went to interrupt, Remus put a hand on the teens shoulder, trying to calm the boy down without saying anything.

“Right,” Severus thanked his lucky stars for Lupin’s patience in these matters and took a deep breath, starting again.

“There are many things we need to discuss, but before I explain what is going on, let me tell you how it all happened.

Alucard was the name your mother wanted to give you because of who Alucard was. He was a shining example of what a Vampire should aspire to be.

At one point in the family history he was actually the patriarch and used his powers to
protect his family and the hosts during the rebellion. After the threat of the rebellion was over he travelled the four earths in search for new spells, potions and curses that would relieve the pressure the rebellion brought and help rebuild a new life for the people left behind.

He travelled across each continent in search for the hidden tribes of liork; a race of people who were said to be in direct contact with the gods themselves and share there enlightenment, living in each realm simultaneously .

His journey took him to Siwa in Egypt which was where the hidden gates of Liork reside. Here he learnt to master his elemental powers and expand his knowledge of the earths and their ways.

He was the most powerful vampire of his age and to an extent became obsessed with the village spending months on end, in Egypt and becoming a recluse to the family and his friends.” Severus began to look unsure of how to continue and looks towards the window seemingly looking for the courage to continue. turning back to the small group he sighed.

“He only told the few he could truly trust of his reasoning for his extended visits and this knowledge was passed down to each leader of the legion of shadows in order to keep each generation safe.

While in Liork learning the ways of the tribe he was told of a destiny that was not his own but he would play a part in. The destiny was to be of a family member who would face a great evil with three others, he was to guide the fledgling into master and depart his knowledge of the earths and the elementals to the fledgling.

Alucard then became consumed in the Liorken blood rituals and found a way to preserve his mind in the likely hood that he would die before the destiny was fulfilled.

This all comes down to you being the vessel for Alucard’s mind and due to your coming of age and magic growing you have opened up the link between you and him.”

The room was deathly quite as each Gryffindor took in what had been explained. Harry began to frown and then glared at Severus and stood up.

“You're trying to fucking tell me that I have some dead guy living in me and said dead guy has been controlling my body for the last few weeks?! You didn’t think to tell me this before or try to bloody well try and get it out?! How can you let this happen to your own son?!

For fuck sake, my life was doomed from the start anyway if you’re my dad, if you are my dad that is because it’s pretty hard to believe since we are fucking worlds different! It must have definitely been someone else taking over me because there is no way I would have followed you of all people let alone the Malfoys into something as dangerous as my master right!

Why did you have to get involved in my life anyway, could you see it was fucked up enough?!”

Harry didn’t give Severus a chance to answer and stormed out the room slamming the door behind him.

Sirius was the next to react and stood from the wall unfolding his arms and walked towards the door that Harry had gone through. Before he left he turned to Severus.

“I suggest you leave him a lone for a while.” The voice he used was calm but Severus was not fooled, he could hear the threat behind the words.

As the door closed Remus stood and walked to the window, looking out over the gardens and simply stood there for a moment.

Severus begins to leave, giving Remus the space he seemed to need, when the werewolf begins to speak quietly.

“Before the end of summer you said you were going to explain everything about Harry so I could be there for him with the answers, because you knew he would need someone familiar to reassure him.

But you never told me this; don’t you think that would have been important?”

“We didn’t know if Harry was strong enough for Alucard to come through, so it would have been pointless to worry you.”

Remus swivelled in his heels to face Severus.

“Not strong enough! Were you not there for the past five years, I mean, I know you went to extremes to ignore him but still…..! You must have seen the shit he’s had to pull over the years! And you’re stupid enough to think he could be safe form letting this Alucard out!!”

Severus held his head in his hands and breathed a sighed in exasperation; this was not going well.

“Remus, with what Alucard knows, he would be stronger than Dumbledore and Voldemort put together. It would take something as big as an already magically skilled vampire coming into their inheritance to release Alucard, I didn’t know Harry would become that powerful that fast.”

“You knew all along! You fucking knew and didn’t say anything or find a way to stop this from happening!” Remus exclaimed whilst storming towards the potions professor.

“It needs to happen! It’s the only way he’s going to fucking survive!” Severus stood, slightly towering over the werewolf

“He’s going to go insane you mean! You’re treating him like some fucking vessel rather than your own son; I can’t believe you are acting like that insane fool Dumbledore!”

Suddenly Lupin slapped Severus, giving the man one final glare before leaving the room. Severus was stood frozen on the spot, shocked at the amount of contempt in the other man’s eyes.

He knew from the beginning when he took over the legion of shadows that this was not going to be easy and that there would be a good chance his son would hate him after this, he had even prepared to lose Remus as well.

He imagined that the pain of his son’s rejection would be devastating and topped with the loss of his love would be unbearable, yet he thought he would be able to carry on just as before; after all he had built the cold sneering mask up for years to help with the loss.
Sinking into the chair he had been seated in, he began to rein in his emotions and steel himself for the shadows meeting; he must carry on and be strong for the others, too many lives rely on him to lead them.


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Harry raced through corridor after corridor, not really knowing where he was going. He only stopped when he felt the wind on his face.

He had somehow found his way into the gardens and was currently in what seemed to be a maze. He looked around and found that he must have turned a few corners as well since he couldn’t see the entrance.

The maze seemed different though, like the one from the tri-wizard thing; it easily passed six foot but instead of being a bush of some sort it was wall after wall of roses, all red and with sharp thorns. He felt trapped and if he listened carefully he could here disjointed whispers.

“Shit. Where the fuck am I now?” Harry looked around him for any indication of which way to turn.

## You are in the troubled mind ##

“Huh?” Harry turned in a complete circle; looking for the owner of the voice.

## It’s a maze of sorts. It can only be seen by those who are troubled and need guidance. ##
. . .

“Who. The. Fuck. Are you?”

## Ah! Let me introduce myself I am Lord Alucard Seth Prince the first. Guardian of the guard…and all round nice guy ##

“Alucard?”

## Yes. ##

“The old guy from Egypt?”

## Well, I’m not from Egypt but…yes, that would be me. ##

“The spirit guy who took over me?”

## Quite. ##

Harry stood there for a moment staring ahead. Then everything set in.

“YOU’RE THE ONE WHO’S FUCKING UP MY LIFE AGAIN! GET OUT OF MY HEAD YOU SHRIVLED UP DUSTY CREEP, WHO THE FUCK INTIVED YOU ANYWAY! THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT! WHY CAN’T YOU ALL KEEP YOUR DAMNED PROPHESIES TO YOURSELF! YOUR ALL BLOODY AMAZING AT MAKEING THEM, SO FUCKING FULFIL SOME OF THEM YOURSELF!!” Harry grabbed his hair whilst screaming at the voice in his head.

## Calm down Harry, this is for your own good. ##

“So everyone keeps telling me.” Harry grumbled whilst flopping to the floor.

## Now stop being melodramatic ##

“Why? Do you have someone living in your head?”

## No, that would be stupid since I don’t have one as such. Look the only way we’re going to get out of this is if you come to terms with your lot in life. Just except that this is the affect of a series of very unfortunate events that happen in your life time and deal with it. Then it will be easy to get out of here. ##

“Bloody stupid know-it-all-voice-in-my-head. Fine, but how did you get in my head anyway?”

## So you didn’t let Severus finish everything…Look, stop asking stupid questions. There’s no way that knowing how I got here is going to solve all your problems. Grow up and look at the problem at hand; you are stuck in a maze that no one else can see with only one way out and a whole load of troubles.##

“Look don’t think that I don’t find this all a little convenient that I just happened to run into this thing when I have some major things to work out. I know this is your fault I am in here so you can get us out, oh wise one.”

## Listen here fledge, I’m not the one who ran blindly into a seven foot entrance to a maze. If you had been looking you would have known that this is the first thing you come to in the garden and like I said only if you’re troubled can you see or enter it. Stop being such a preteen and think for yourself. ##

“STOP RIGHT THERE I AM A MASTER VAMPIRE, I AM NOT ACTING LIKE A PRETEEN AND IF YOU GIVE ME ANY MORE FUCKING SNIDE REMARKS I WILL CUT YOU OUT OF MY HEAD!”

## . . . ##

“Alucard…Alucard? ...Good, finally have my head back then. Right lets think, I obviously need to turn around and go back that way” realising that Alucard had left him alone Harry turned and started his way back.

After a few, what must have been, wrong turns and a few nasty encounters with the thorns off the roses, Harry decided to try and find his way back to the spot he had left before.

## Oh! My! God! Stupid fledge, you call yourself a master vampire. I leave you alone so you can work this out for yourself and you head back the way you came…In a maze that is made to help you move forward in life! What good could possible come from going backwards? ##

“Well thanks for those words of wisdom but words aren’t going to help I need direction so, great one of the maze, what is your bright idea, I am open to suggestions.”

## I’ve told you once already the only way out is to deal with the troubles that got you stuck in here. So if one was stuck in a maze that you had to walk through to get out, one would presume that you would keep walking while keeping your mouth shut and thinking about the troubles that got them in here. Hence I left you alone. ##

“ Well, what is the purpose of having an alter ego that can't help you out of a situation that ONES put himself in. So let me get this straight, I have to waste time aimlessly walking around here while working through troubles that I want locked up, not worked out, with you in my head and seriously no other way out?

You know what my main problem is right now? Why I’m stuck with you. I mean…there must have been plenty of people before me who could have defeated Voldemort the first time, why didn’t you come out then?”

## Harry, you must remember that it had to take a lot of power to release me from the family blood; you are the first ever since I did this to have that much power that has the bloodlink needed. I have watched through the eyes of our family the sorrow this…Voldemort, has brought to everyone and I can feel the pain he must have put you through.

I know having me as a sort of conscience must be annoying after everything else that has been thrust upon you but…some people are born great and other have greatness thrust upon them…*chuckles*…you on the other hand seem to have both. ##

Harry sighed and stood up.

“I guess as long as you’re here to help; that’s what the prophecy said right? That you’re here to guide me. Just…stop taking over, ok…my body my rules, I’m in control. We’ll get through this one step at a time then shall we?”

Turning around he notices that, what was once a wall of thickly weaved roses was now a gravel path way surround by lily covered arch ways. Harry smirked to himself and shook his head.

“If I hear an ‘I told you so’ about his whole accepting my problems I may still have to cut you out.”

##...*laughs out-right.* Wouldn’t dream of it Harry. So why Lilies and archways? ##

“What do you mean?” Harry asked as he ambled down the long gravel path, looking up at the different coloured lilies.

## Well this maze is to help you. So it guides you through the problems, such as before; you must have felt trapped and overwhelmed with the news of me being here; hence the thickly woven roses blocking your every turn. They where red because it’s a Vampiric colour, the thorns would have been because you felt that if you didn’t go through with this, shown by you staying in the maze, it would cause pain and suffering, like if you tried to climb out or something.

…So Lilies and archways? ##

“Well…I guess they’re for my mother and the archway is like…protecting me. I don’t think I ever really got over what she did for me…and then finding out that she was going through so much more than I thought…all because of me…I guess I just decided that now wasn’t the time to start dealing with that and I feel guilty for putting her on hold.” Harry kept his head down, he didn’t want to see the flowers, it hurt too much and he was already close to crying now.

## My boy none of this is your fault…##

“I know, I know but…everyone kept telling me I look like her…looked like her. I’ve changed a lot since then, when a male vampire comes into their inheritance they become more like their father in their looks; ensuring that the family traits carry on, or something like that…so I’ve lost the one thing I had with my mother.”

## Harry, you have just lost the look of your mother. You don’t lose the powers that she would have passed down to you. You mother was an Evans correct?...Well they are known for their caring insight and from what Severus knew she was quite the little healer too. You will have these traits to Harry; all you have to do is learn to master them. I can help you but you will have to fine someone better at that sort of thing. ##


They carried on walking and Alucard knew there must be another issue to deal with that included Harry’s mother since the lilies and archways where still surrounding them.
“…I read in one of the Vampiric book Severus gave me, that there is a power that could be tapped into using extreme elemental powers, that would bring the dead back…could I ever see her again?”

## oh my boy…that is magic best left alone. Many have tried and it only brings heartbreak. The power you speak of isn’t as great as it is made out to be…the magic you use is far greater than the end result. She would never come back fully human, only corporal…she would be damned forever to roam the earths as a cold and unfeeling creature, she would never be accepted back into the land of free souls my boy. She would never be the person she used to be. ##

Harry stopped and took a deep breath. He had, had to ask; it would have plagued him until he tried it. He knew it was a bad idea in the first place but he needed to know before he could move on. As he looked up at the archways he smiled and could finally feel the afternoon sun as it streaked through the archway of lilies.

Suddenly they burst into flames and he was surrounded by wall after wall of fire. He began to panic and started to run as he felt the flames lick the air around him.

## Now fledge don’t panic, try to relax and think about what you need to deal with. ##

Harry slowed to a fast walk and tried to regulate his breathing.

## You’re obviously angry and very angry by the looks of those flames. ##

Harry though for a moment, what was he angry at… Being ignored, being rejected, having no one to blame, wasted years…

“Snape…I find out he’s my father and he doesn’t even show any compassion or remorse for what has happened. He still treats me like the worst student ever in class, he gives only minimal contact when absolutely necessary and he just does it all with this air of ‘I don’t give a shit either way’!”

Harry’s voice grew louder and he felt something ripple through him.

“How am supposed to accept this man is my father…I hate him for changing my life; I thought, ever since I was a kid in a cupboard, even through Voldemort’s taunts that…at least I was made and loved by two people who loved each other fully… and then I find out my father didn’t even want a child or my mother and that I wasn’t even wanted by her!

He just fucked up everything and it’s all James and the wars fault that I can’t even blame him for it!”

Harry crumpled to the floor, sobs racking his toned form as though he where a child, saying what he had thought since Snape told him his parentage hit harder than he thought it would.

He had felt so unloved for so long. The Weasleys were great but they all had each other, he wasn’t really apart of the family no matter how often they said he was. He was craving it so much that it was eating at him and had been covering it even before Alucard had been reawakened. How can he save a world he doesn’t really care for?

## …Harry…I…You…it’s…##

Alucard didn’t know what to say, Harry was being consumed by the darkness of this trouble. He was loosing control and his wings had started to come through, they were loose by his sides but in the small corridor of flames they had begun to set on fire.

“Harry! ... HARRY! … HARRY!!”

Severus crashed to the ground in front of Harry and wrapped his arms tightly round the teen, successfully pinning the wings to his back so they were out of the flames; the ones that were already burning or burnt falling away.

Suddenly Severus spread his own wings and with a cry of power surged up into the sky, reaching heights that the maze couldn’t keep up with, as it tried to chase them and effectively breaking the curse of it.

He glided to the green grass in another part of the garden and when he landed on his knees, still holding Harry, he patted away the flames leaving only charred and falling feathers of his son’s wings.

Harry still hadn’t noticed anything and was sobbing into his chest as he held the boy close. He kept his own wings out and around them for protection from the weather and retracted his fangs that had come through as he had released his magic to overpower the curse on the maze.

“Harry! Harry please…stop! Don’t let them win Harry! Look at me! Look at me! I’m,”
he had been sitting in his room in his own anguish when he had felt the link between him and Harry spike, signalling that the teen was either surprised or unsure of something. But he knew better than to go running after the boy, it would only anger the newest master more if he started following him.

But then he began to feel as though something thick and sticky was running over his link to his son and when he tried to find him through the link, he saw the black demons of trouble surrounding his son. He then broadened the link and saw the flames around him also and knew he had to go after him.

Suddenly the link spiked again and he then caught a flash of Harry’s thoughts.

“Harry, no I don’t hate you! Your mother loved you! I told you this before, I love you! I do Harry I swear to gods above. Please don’t leave me! Not now! Not after all you’ve been through! I’m sorry…I’m so sorry I didn’t help!”

Harry knew he should stop crying, wanted to get off this man and push him away. But he couldn’t find the will to move out of the comforting embrace. Severus was holding him. Actually embracing the boy and he was showing so much emotion that he could literally feel it rolling of the link and through out his body. The man had tears rolling down his own face now and clung to the teen in his arms. They were like that for a while until Severus had noticed the slow and steady breathing of his son.


“You found me?” The question was barely audible and yet still held the crackle of a horse voice.

“Yes, I came after you when I felt the link and saw the trouble you where in. Harry…I will always be here for you…whenever you need me. But I’ll give you the space you need.”

Harry clung even closer to the potions master.

“I don’t want space…I haven’t had anyone to fully care for me for sixteen years. I-I need this.”

“Har- I’m so sorry. Please forgive me. You don’t know how many times I’ve wanted to tell you how much you mean to me, how many nights I’ve stayed up wondering if you were going to be ok…” Severus turned his head into his son’s hair and breathed deeply his scent. “How scared I got at what the dark lord announced he would do to you.”

Harry let go of Severus and looked him in the eyes. That was when he noticed that they were a blood red that seemed to glow. Severus saw the look of curiosity and gave a smile, if a little uneasily.

“You where hard to find in that damned maze and then getting you out wasn’t exactly a Hufflepuff party.”

Harry smirked, knowing it would have taken a lot of magic to break through all the layers the maze had and looked to his fathers wings; they looked so powerful. They looked different to his though. His fathers were larger and the wing span when they were outstretched must be bigger than his as well. They seemed to be black in one light but blue in another.

“Why do we have wings?” Harry asked as he watched his fathers recede back into his back. It was a random question but it had just occurred to the new vamp. He had used his own wings in the meeting with the elders, but that was more of Alucard had rather than him.

“I never really looked too far into it but…it was something to do with a gift from the Egyptian gods. If you like you can roam the small library before we go back to Hogwarts.”

They sat there for almost an hour, not specifically talking about important things but more of things they needed to know; mainly how they felt about events leading to now and feeling they have for said events. Before long Lucius and Sirius came running together down the garden entrance stairs.

“Harry, Severus. Are you alright?” Sirius asked as he came and crouched next to Harry, Lucius looking over Severus.

The potions master looked to Harry for an answer, giving more meaning to the question; were they alright with each other now?

“Yeah, yeah I think we will be.” Severus sighed and tightened his hold on his son before letting go as they all stood together.

“You bloody well had us all worried when you shot off like that.” Sirius explained ruffling Harry’s hair as the teen walked within his fathers grasp on his shoulder.

“And you bloody well nearly gave me a heart attack with all that power you used. The link went crazy for a moment and I actually felt dizzy from the amount of power you were drawing from the blood link.” Lucius admonished while hitting Severus on the arm.

They all looked up at the sound of tapping when they came to the flight of stairs and were cautious of the look on Narcissa’s face.

“Do you to realise how much time you’ve wasted? The ceremony will be in half an hour, you Severus are not even dressed, Harry needs to dress and be prepped on procedure and you, Lucius need to go and console you son who is still crying on the bed for Harry.”

Harry looked between Severus and Lucius, since they were more likely to know what was going on.

“The Legion of Shadow will, whether you decide to join or not ,still have to go on…All though I’d…rather have you at my side.” Severus explained, if a little uncomfortably.

“And Draco felt your despair earlier and wanted to help but I forbid it. He…also still has a fancy to you…and doesn’t want to see you hurt…but don’t think I’m giving you permission to date my son! I know what boys your age get up to and I won’t have it!” Lucius sped up at the end and looked indignant.

Harry thought it best just to stay quiet, he didn’t agree but it was simpler to be agreeable and disagree than be disagreeable. They carried on walking through the corridors and Harry saw the paintings he’d mist before; some where portraits of Matriarch’s and others of the Patriarch’s, there where also some family pictures and some of garden parties.

“Right, Lucius you go and make sure Draco is ready for the proceedings, and get him to stop sulking. Sirius, you must go and find Remus, I saw him wandering the halls and he will regret not being there for Harry tonight. Severus, Harry, you to will go and get ready, you need time to explain the proceedings and well as other thing Severus so go and get sorted. Yours and Harry’s things have been moved into the master suite in the west wing. Now…I hope to see you gentleman dressed and ready for tonight’s meeting on time.” Narcissa stated while walking through the corridors.

With a disgruntled look between the men, they split of again; Severus and Harry towards the west wing, Sirius up the stairs in front of them and Lucius back to his room where Draco would be. With a satisfied smirk Narcissa went to see if she could get her daughter to calm down enough to be left with the house elf during tonight’s proceedings.

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