Scarred Souls
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Harry Potter › Slash - Male/Male › Harry/Snape
Rating:
Adult +
Chapters:
48
Views:
69,285
Reviews:
251
Recommended:
1
Currently Reading:
2
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Bonded for Life
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Title: Scarred Souls
Author: Misty Moonlight/Co-author: QueenBoadicea
Pairings: Severus/Harry
Published: 12/10/2008
Summary: A widowed Harry must bond with Snape in order to save his daughter’s life. Sev gains a family, for better or worse, and the hearts of two scarred souls will be changed forever.
Warnings: Romance, Drama, Angst, Alternate Universe, Sexual Situations, Hurt/Comfort, M/M, Slash, Anal, Language, Humor, possible MPreg, Bonding, Original Characters, Family, OOC-ness,
non-canon, WIP
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A/N: “Thank you” to everyone who has reviewed my story. I am
so happy you are enjoying it and following me on their journey.
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Chapter 5: Bonded for Life
Harry stared at Severus for several minutes without saying anything, just trying to gain control back of his conflicting emotions. He knew it was rude staring at the man, especially when he had always been subject to it himself and never liked it, but the jagged scars covering Snape’s face were grotesque and he couldn’t imagine how the rest of his body must look.
He felt sick to his stomach. Closing his eyes, Harry took a deep calming breath and opened them again. When he did, he noticed that Snape had moved his position away from the window and was now standing back by Lily’s crib.
“What...Potter?” Snape frowned at him, “Are you remembering your unprovoked attack on my Godson, Draco Malfoy, back in your sixth year? Well, it may have escaped your simple addled brain but dittany didn’t work in my case,” he paused for a moment, “now did it?”
“Snape, I ......” Harry tried to think of something to say, to even apologize, but before he could say another word Snape beat him to it.
“We will need a Bonder,” Snape said and noticing the confused look on Harry’s face went on with a snide reply, “Perhaps Miss Granger....oh no.... forgive me for my sudden lapse of memory...it’s Mrs. Weasley now, isn’t it?” Snape stopped for a moment and went on, “Perhaps she will consent to be our Bonder to assist us in completing the Unbreakable Vow.”
“I won’t agree to this, Snape, not until you help Lily.” Harry demanded in a cold voice. “I don’t give a damn about what I promised you a moment ago, only that my daughter doesn’t die because your too much of an arrogant jackass to save her life.”
When Snape said nothing and only continued to look down his large nose at him with a smug look on his face, Harry lost control and lunged at him. He grabbed Snape by the front of his robes and started shaking him.
“You son of a bitch! Do you think this is a game we are playing? This is my daughter’s life you are so callously tempting fate with. Her life, damn you! She is the single most precious thing in the world to me next to my sons and you have the nerve to treat this like she is some sort of pawn being played in a wizarding version of Russian Roulette!”
Harry was suddenly stopped when Snape’s larger hands grabbed his and pulled them off, holding them in one hand. He yanked Harry around so that he was facing the crib where Lily was still sleeping unaware of the turmoil she was causing her father.
“Look at her, you little fool,” Snape hissed in his ear.
Harry looked down into the crib and saw that Lily was sleeping peacefully now on her back with an arm wrapped around a stuffed dragon and sucking her thumb. Her hair was no longer matted down and skin tone was back to normal, he reached in and felt her forehead only to find there was no fever.
“Does she look like she’s dying to you?”
“You’ve already given her the potions then, to save her, haven’t you, Snape?”
“Healer Carlson and I already worked together and performed the necessary potions to brew and gave them to Lily before he went to speak with you the last time. I asked him not to tell you for the obvious reasons.”
Letting go of Harry, he stepped back and away from the crib. “She is healed and will only have to stay in hospital another few days just to be sure there are no lasting side effects to her illness.”
Harry started to reach down to hold her but Snape spoke warning him and he stopped in mid motion, “I wouldn’t hold her, Potter, not yet. She needs her rest.”
Harry turned around to face Snape. Tears were in his eyes and he furiously wiped them away, “Why, then?” he asked in a scathing tone, “Revenge? Hate? Because of my father and Sirius’s schoolboy bullying of you? Why, Snape? Did you get some perverse pleasure out of this by putting me through hell and letting me think you were going to let her die if I didn’t agree to bond with you? She’s an innocent child, for Merlin’s sake. How could you?”
Snape said nothing and just stood there watching Harry’s face.
“I hate you, Snape.”
“The feeling is mutual, Potter, I can assure you of that.”
“Then why make up a condition to bond?”
Severus just stared back at him, his black eyes unfathomable, and then answered, “Why, not?” Snape spat. “Oh, don’t think that I haven’t read all the articles about you through the years. Glorifying the great Harry Potter and his defeat of the Dark Lord. Seeing your ugly four-eyed face splattered all over the newspapers and magazines at every turn. All the celebrations and fanfare-it made me sick. Oh, let’s not forget, your friends were there by your side too, receiving recognition for their role in helping exterminate the former Lord Voldemort, also known as Tom Riddle, from existence. I almost threw up when they went so far as to plaster your revolting wedding photos all over the place.”
Harry saw Snape shrug his neck back and forth as if he were in pain.
“But, not even once, during all these years was the name Severus Tobias Snape ever mentioned.”
Snape stopped talking and glared back at him with such hate that Harry took a step back and bumped into the crib.
He spoke venomously. “Do you have any idea what it was like for me? Do you, Potter?”
Harry didn’t answer.
“Did you ever tell anyone the role I played in helping you defeat the Dark Lord? Did you ever share the memories I gave you? Did you explain why I had to murder my mentor?”
“Of course I did... What makes you think I wouldn’t have?”
“Tell me, Potter, did you ever re-live the events that happened at the Shrieking Shack? Did you ever wonder what happened to my so-called ‘dead body’? Did you and your so-called friends even once think to inquire about it? No. Of course not, why should you? You were to busy enjoying the limelight, weren’t you? Living your new lives free from the torment of Voldemort. Do you have any idea of the suffering I have endured since that day? No. You were only thinking of yourself and your family. Oh, never mind about what happened to the greasy git, Snivellus, Hogwarts hated Potions Professor. He didn’t matter. He was no one important. How many times did you get a good laugh with your friends over my gruesome ‘death’?”
Harry had heard enough, “I don’t know where you came up with these accusations, Snape, but none of it is true. I am not going to stand here and explain myself or my actions to you. I did what was right and have no regrets.”
Snape snorted, “Of course not. Why should you?”
Harry looked up at him and tried to read the expression in his cold dark eyes.
“Was this just a trick then, Snape? Your sick way to humble me? The conceited and arrogant Boy Who Lived. Show him once and for all what it means to be made a fool of.”
“Oh no, Potter, I expect you to carry through with your promise and become my bond mate for life.”
Swallowing and trying hard not to be sick all over the floor, Harry said, “I’ll go get Mione.”
Before he left the room to get Hermione, Harry turned back one last time to face Snape.
“I hope you know what you’re in for, Snape, because your life as you now know it is about to change forever. For better or worse, my family will become yours and I won’t allow you to bully them.”
Severus watched as the door shut an unreadable expression on his face.
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“Oh, Harry!” Hermione cried with tears flowing down her cheeks and throwing her arms around his neck, nearly choking him in the process. “I am so sorry.”
Harry had just finished telling her all that had transpired in Lily’s room with Snape since he had left earlier with Healer Carlson. Of course, she was happy that Lily was alright but to know how he was coerced into bonding with the man whom they all thought was dead made her angry beyond all reason. Her mind was already working in overdrive, thinking of a way to get her friend out of this mess. She knew there was nothing that could have been done but planned on finding a resolution later. There was no way her former Professor was going to get away with this no matter how much he had been through. They all had suffered tremendous losses and, though she felt remorse for what happened to him, this wasn’t right.
“Let’s get this over with, Mione, before I do something stupid.”
“Don’t worry Harry, I will find a way out of this mess if it’s the last thing I ever do.”
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Harry and Snape were kneeling down on the floor in the middle of the room with Hermione standing over them holding her wand.
“Give me your hands, Potter.”
Harry reached out and Snape roughly grabbed them nearly pulling him over face first onto the floor.
Hermione placed the tip of her wand on their linked hands and Snape spoke. “Do you, Harry James Potter, agree to be my bond mate for life?”
“I do,” Harry responded.
Harry watched entranced as a red flame came from her wand and wound itself around both their hands.
“Do you, Harry James Potter, agree to never leave me for another or give yourself to another for as long as you shall live?”
I do,” Harry responded.
Another flame shot from her wand and linked with the first one making a fiery chain.
“Do you, Harry James Potter, agree to care for and unconditionally love any children we may have from this bond?”
Hermione gasped and Harry’s startled eyes flew from looking at their hands to Snape’s stony face.
“I do,” Harry whispered.
A final flame shot from Hermione’s wand and joined the previous two lighting up their faces in a red glow as it wrapped around both their joined hands.
TBC
I hope you enjoyed this chapter.
Coming up, Snape meets his new family and the sparks begin to fly. Watch out Severus, you’re in trouble. The Weasley clan makes an appearance and Molly isn’t happy with Snape.
Please review and let me know what you think.
Please also feel free to give me advice on how to improve it.
Title: Scarred Souls
Author: Misty Moonlight/Co-author: QueenBoadicea
Pairings: Severus/Harry
Published: 12/10/2008
Summary: A widowed Harry must bond with Snape in order to save his daughter’s life. Sev gains a family, for better or worse, and the hearts of two scarred souls will be changed forever.
Warnings: Romance, Drama, Angst, Alternate Universe, Sexual Situations, Hurt/Comfort, M/M, Slash, Anal, Language, Humor, possible MPreg, Bonding, Original Characters, Family, OOC-ness,
non-canon, WIP
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A/N: “Thank you” to everyone who has reviewed my story. I am
so happy you are enjoying it and following me on their journey.
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Chapter 5: Bonded for Life
Harry stared at Severus for several minutes without saying anything, just trying to gain control back of his conflicting emotions. He knew it was rude staring at the man, especially when he had always been subject to it himself and never liked it, but the jagged scars covering Snape’s face were grotesque and he couldn’t imagine how the rest of his body must look.
He felt sick to his stomach. Closing his eyes, Harry took a deep calming breath and opened them again. When he did, he noticed that Snape had moved his position away from the window and was now standing back by Lily’s crib.
“What...Potter?” Snape frowned at him, “Are you remembering your unprovoked attack on my Godson, Draco Malfoy, back in your sixth year? Well, it may have escaped your simple addled brain but dittany didn’t work in my case,” he paused for a moment, “now did it?”
“Snape, I ......” Harry tried to think of something to say, to even apologize, but before he could say another word Snape beat him to it.
“We will need a Bonder,” Snape said and noticing the confused look on Harry’s face went on with a snide reply, “Perhaps Miss Granger....oh no.... forgive me for my sudden lapse of memory...it’s Mrs. Weasley now, isn’t it?” Snape stopped for a moment and went on, “Perhaps she will consent to be our Bonder to assist us in completing the Unbreakable Vow.”
“I won’t agree to this, Snape, not until you help Lily.” Harry demanded in a cold voice. “I don’t give a damn about what I promised you a moment ago, only that my daughter doesn’t die because your too much of an arrogant jackass to save her life.”
When Snape said nothing and only continued to look down his large nose at him with a smug look on his face, Harry lost control and lunged at him. He grabbed Snape by the front of his robes and started shaking him.
“You son of a bitch! Do you think this is a game we are playing? This is my daughter’s life you are so callously tempting fate with. Her life, damn you! She is the single most precious thing in the world to me next to my sons and you have the nerve to treat this like she is some sort of pawn being played in a wizarding version of Russian Roulette!”
Harry was suddenly stopped when Snape’s larger hands grabbed his and pulled them off, holding them in one hand. He yanked Harry around so that he was facing the crib where Lily was still sleeping unaware of the turmoil she was causing her father.
“Look at her, you little fool,” Snape hissed in his ear.
Harry looked down into the crib and saw that Lily was sleeping peacefully now on her back with an arm wrapped around a stuffed dragon and sucking her thumb. Her hair was no longer matted down and skin tone was back to normal, he reached in and felt her forehead only to find there was no fever.
“Does she look like she’s dying to you?”
“You’ve already given her the potions then, to save her, haven’t you, Snape?”
“Healer Carlson and I already worked together and performed the necessary potions to brew and gave them to Lily before he went to speak with you the last time. I asked him not to tell you for the obvious reasons.”
Letting go of Harry, he stepped back and away from the crib. “She is healed and will only have to stay in hospital another few days just to be sure there are no lasting side effects to her illness.”
Harry started to reach down to hold her but Snape spoke warning him and he stopped in mid motion, “I wouldn’t hold her, Potter, not yet. She needs her rest.”
Harry turned around to face Snape. Tears were in his eyes and he furiously wiped them away, “Why, then?” he asked in a scathing tone, “Revenge? Hate? Because of my father and Sirius’s schoolboy bullying of you? Why, Snape? Did you get some perverse pleasure out of this by putting me through hell and letting me think you were going to let her die if I didn’t agree to bond with you? She’s an innocent child, for Merlin’s sake. How could you?”
Snape said nothing and just stood there watching Harry’s face.
“I hate you, Snape.”
“The feeling is mutual, Potter, I can assure you of that.”
“Then why make up a condition to bond?”
Severus just stared back at him, his black eyes unfathomable, and then answered, “Why, not?” Snape spat. “Oh, don’t think that I haven’t read all the articles about you through the years. Glorifying the great Harry Potter and his defeat of the Dark Lord. Seeing your ugly four-eyed face splattered all over the newspapers and magazines at every turn. All the celebrations and fanfare-it made me sick. Oh, let’s not forget, your friends were there by your side too, receiving recognition for their role in helping exterminate the former Lord Voldemort, also known as Tom Riddle, from existence. I almost threw up when they went so far as to plaster your revolting wedding photos all over the place.”
Harry saw Snape shrug his neck back and forth as if he were in pain.
“But, not even once, during all these years was the name Severus Tobias Snape ever mentioned.”
Snape stopped talking and glared back at him with such hate that Harry took a step back and bumped into the crib.
He spoke venomously. “Do you have any idea what it was like for me? Do you, Potter?”
Harry didn’t answer.
“Did you ever tell anyone the role I played in helping you defeat the Dark Lord? Did you ever share the memories I gave you? Did you explain why I had to murder my mentor?”
“Of course I did... What makes you think I wouldn’t have?”
“Tell me, Potter, did you ever re-live the events that happened at the Shrieking Shack? Did you ever wonder what happened to my so-called ‘dead body’? Did you and your so-called friends even once think to inquire about it? No. Of course not, why should you? You were to busy enjoying the limelight, weren’t you? Living your new lives free from the torment of Voldemort. Do you have any idea of the suffering I have endured since that day? No. You were only thinking of yourself and your family. Oh, never mind about what happened to the greasy git, Snivellus, Hogwarts hated Potions Professor. He didn’t matter. He was no one important. How many times did you get a good laugh with your friends over my gruesome ‘death’?”
Harry had heard enough, “I don’t know where you came up with these accusations, Snape, but none of it is true. I am not going to stand here and explain myself or my actions to you. I did what was right and have no regrets.”
Snape snorted, “Of course not. Why should you?”
Harry looked up at him and tried to read the expression in his cold dark eyes.
“Was this just a trick then, Snape? Your sick way to humble me? The conceited and arrogant Boy Who Lived. Show him once and for all what it means to be made a fool of.”
“Oh no, Potter, I expect you to carry through with your promise and become my bond mate for life.”
Swallowing and trying hard not to be sick all over the floor, Harry said, “I’ll go get Mione.”
Before he left the room to get Hermione, Harry turned back one last time to face Snape.
“I hope you know what you’re in for, Snape, because your life as you now know it is about to change forever. For better or worse, my family will become yours and I won’t allow you to bully them.”
Severus watched as the door shut an unreadable expression on his face.
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“Oh, Harry!” Hermione cried with tears flowing down her cheeks and throwing her arms around his neck, nearly choking him in the process. “I am so sorry.”
Harry had just finished telling her all that had transpired in Lily’s room with Snape since he had left earlier with Healer Carlson. Of course, she was happy that Lily was alright but to know how he was coerced into bonding with the man whom they all thought was dead made her angry beyond all reason. Her mind was already working in overdrive, thinking of a way to get her friend out of this mess. She knew there was nothing that could have been done but planned on finding a resolution later. There was no way her former Professor was going to get away with this no matter how much he had been through. They all had suffered tremendous losses and, though she felt remorse for what happened to him, this wasn’t right.
“Let’s get this over with, Mione, before I do something stupid.”
“Don’t worry Harry, I will find a way out of this mess if it’s the last thing I ever do.”
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Harry and Snape were kneeling down on the floor in the middle of the room with Hermione standing over them holding her wand.
“Give me your hands, Potter.”
Harry reached out and Snape roughly grabbed them nearly pulling him over face first onto the floor.
Hermione placed the tip of her wand on their linked hands and Snape spoke. “Do you, Harry James Potter, agree to be my bond mate for life?”
“I do,” Harry responded.
Harry watched entranced as a red flame came from her wand and wound itself around both their hands.
“Do you, Harry James Potter, agree to never leave me for another or give yourself to another for as long as you shall live?”
I do,” Harry responded.
Another flame shot from her wand and linked with the first one making a fiery chain.
“Do you, Harry James Potter, agree to care for and unconditionally love any children we may have from this bond?”
Hermione gasped and Harry’s startled eyes flew from looking at their hands to Snape’s stony face.
“I do,” Harry whispered.
A final flame shot from Hermione’s wand and joined the previous two lighting up their faces in a red glow as it wrapped around both their joined hands.
TBC
I hope you enjoyed this chapter.
Coming up, Snape meets his new family and the sparks begin to fly. Watch out Severus, you’re in trouble. The Weasley clan makes an appearance and Molly isn’t happy with Snape.
Please review and let me know what you think.
Please also feel free to give me advice on how to improve it.