The Next Generation

“Both of us are part of a rare race called Inheri, and well Sterling marked you as a potential mate. When he saw the vampire feeding off you, a very intimate action, his instincts took over.” He explained shortly. Rave simply stared at him in shock.

“Bloody hell.” He said finally looking back at his papa who seemed to agree.

Chapter 6

There had to be more to this potential mate thing, Rave thought looking between everyone. His papa wouldn’t practically be hyperventilating if that were the only thing; he himself had a mate so that couldn’t just be it. Sterling was looking miserably at his lap while Itzal watched Rave’s face curiously.

“Would you tell me more about the Inheri?” Rave asked the older boy specifically although Sterling looked at him too. Harry sighed for a moment,

“Rave go back to the dorms and I’ll give Itzal a temporary pass for the first year dorms so you can get accurate information after whatever Ione tells you.” Harry said blandly raising a hand as his son tried to protest. “I need to talk with them privately, it won’t take long.” He said with a stern look and Rave sulkily left the office.

“How do you intend to handle this?” Harry demanded looking at the two brothers.

“Sterling has the prior claim, when Raveal turns twelve he can legally court him under our laws. Courting takes about two years in our society, unless Rave denies the courting though he has to accept at least two months to give Sterling a chance.” Itzal paused looking at his little brother with a slightly apologetic glance.

“If Raveal were to reject my brother I admit that I would make an offer myself. Your son has the single most amazing aura I’ve ever encountered. Though Inheri never broach other’s mates, were Raveal to accept either of us or turn out to be another creatures mate he would be off limits. And we would never co-court him.” He continued looking slightly off put at the thought of loosing Rave to anyone. Harry sighed that was only a slight relief. Rave in the mean time had located His sister and Ione in the common room, they had found the other boys in the dorm and they were on their way to Harry’s office.

“Are you alright Rave?” Vera asked immediately looking a little twitchy; he belatedly realized that he’d closed the link off absently. He nodded turning to Ione.

“Tell me everything you know about Inheri.” He demanded the lack of knowledge was driving him crazy. She looked startled,

“Which one marked you?” She asked, Vera looking on confused.

“Sterling, but Itzal seems to have a thing for me too. Now please tell me what you know?” he asked sitting heavily in a chair, Vera and Ione miming the motion.

“Inheri are a rare race, there are only three families that can claim true blood, there are a few other sub families but their tendency to have male children keeps the bloodline in their families.” She paused looking a little uncomfortable she knew what she found in books that were clearly not for the young. “They are often called the sex vampires, because they have a harem of mates. Inheri almost never only have one mate because while they take nourishment off ‘human’ food they also feed off of feelings and auras.” She blushed a bright red, a trait taken from Ron’s side of the family. Itzal and Sterling entered the younger looking at the floor.

“We feed off of the feelings and imperceptible aura spikes during the more physical pursuits of life.” Itzal said dryly and seeing the semi-blank looks he sighed,

“Sex,” he said, “The different feelings and spikes in various forms of sex. I’m not getting into that further with any of you.” He clarified. Rave was blushing now too.

“Although you emit a constant sense that I’ve never encountered before that is well amazing, and would be addicting to an Inheri who mated to you.” He said looking directly at the younger boy, “Only mated though you needn’t worry about us getting addicted to you through casual involvement.” He said as an after thought. The older brother looked down at Sterling,

“You know Silver you should say something otherwise your going to start off on a bad note.” He said and gray-white eyes met gray.

“Why would you care?” he hissed, “You admitted that if I fail at courting him you’d jump on the opportunity.” He continued muttering and looking at the floor. It was clear that the younger felt that he stood no chance if his brother decided to oppose him.

“And you know that I am forbidden to interfere with you unless after the two month courtesy period, Raveal rejects you!” He sneered right back, looking over at Rave.

“Because of our feeding tendencies we have had ah, issues with age in the far past so no Inheri is allowed under our laws to court any human under twelve years old,” he explained with a little half smile, “So before we scare you with all this you have six months to get to know us and more about the Inheri.” Rave nodded slowly, that was a bit of a relief, though he still felt as if his head were going to explode.

“What did you mean by the two month courtesy period?” he asked after a moment of absorbing everything and analyzing it. Itzal smiled,

“After two months you can reject our advances but I have to warn you it’s not just a verbal rejection. There would need to be another Inheri, not me because I have secondary claim, to clarify that you are no longer compatible with your Inheri suitor.” He said, “If you’re still compatible then we get a second chance completing out the first year and then you get another chance to deny us. If you’re still compatible then we get another half a year, after all that if at the end of the two years you really still can’t stand us but your aura is compatible it goes to the Inheri court, but often if their mate is that discontent the Inheri will abandon the attempts long before it gets that far.” He continued. Rave nodded, he felt marginally better knowing that if this didn’t work out that he wasn’t trapped for life.

“Any life altering questions?” Itzal asked with a cherry smile nudging his little brother again. The later glared at him looking embarrassed.

“What’s with the wings and why did you call Sterling, Sliver?” Rave asked with a yawn, it was getting late and this was getting rather weird.

“The wings are part of our true forms, though ever our true forms are watered down from the ancients. Perhaps one day I’ll show you.” Itzal replied with a wink.

“Now off to bed with you younglings it’s late and you’ve got classes to deal with!” He continued shooing them with a smile as he left the dorm.

Harry’s Office:

During his son’s conversations with the Inheri Harry found himself dealing with the three other boys from Raveal’s dorm. None of them were coping to switching the young vampire’s herbs, and it was beginning to annoy the typically stoic headmaster.

“Either inform me which of you switched Damien’s herbs or I’m expelling all three of you.” He threatened finally, feeling a bit ashamed of his actions but it was late and the day had been beyond stressful. The boys started at him wide eyed, one Hayden Abel looked as if her were about to cry.

“I…I figured out what Damien was but I didn’t do anything to him Sir!” said Manson Rowe, a Ravenclaw, Harry thought absently.

“Did you tell any of your dorm mates?” he asked coolly, the nervous and shocked glance that Manson gave the final boy was evidence enough. Kyler Ikin, a Gryffindor and a member of a rather powerful family.

“You two may go,” Harry said looking at the other two with a smile, once they left he turned to the boy. There was arrogance that Harry didn’t like in the boys stubborn eyes. This boy obviously felt he hadn’t done anything wrong.

“Detention, for three months with me, you are also banned from participating in club activities and if I even hear a whisper of you trying something so blatantly stupid and endangering another student again I will suspend you.” Harry stated finally, taking away points would mean nothing to this boy but the humiliation that others would know his punishment caused color to rise in his face.

“This school is going to the dogs!” the boy shouted, “Vampires, Inheri, Sirens what next werewolves? Soon no parent will even let their human children attend Hogwarts it’ll be over run by your dear half-breeds!” the boy continued expressing many doubts that Harry had heard in several forms, yet despite his allowance of ‘dark’ creatures to attend Hogwarts this year had the highest record of human students so clearly these doubts were unfounded.

“Another month Mr. Ikin, should you ever speak to me like that again I’ll make sure the detention is served with Hagrid while he goes hunting in the forbidden forest for the unique diets of our menagerie occupants.” Harry stated coolly and calmly gesturing for the boy to leave. He did looking properly abashed and Harry buried his head in his hands. What had made him tae on the boy’s detention? That was going to be hell.


AN: Sorry for the short chapter but I couldn’t really tack any more on for this part. So! I got flamed I think. =P Though this person sort of complained yet read all the chapters I have up so whatever. They did point out something to me though; I hadn’t realized when I uploaded the chapter with all the kids at the bottom that the formatting got all weird, it worked fine on AFF so I didn’t even bother to check on FF my bad. (And to my flamer, if you would go so far to call complaining that, you don’t have to suffer through my lack of character building and troublesome threesomes. =D) To everyone else thank you for the love! I hope you continue to enjoy the story.
(I feel like a bit of a perv for sticking poor Rave in this situation…XD)