Bottled Fate

Title: Bottled Fate
Author: Juno
Email: Juno_skywalker@yahoo.com
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Severus/ Harry &Draco /OFC
Summery: Hogwarts has a new substitute teacher. Snape has taken it upon himself to watch him like a hawk but can't figure this mysterious man out and if there is one thing Severus really hates it's an unsolved mystery. Harry returns to the COS & finally discovers it's hidden treasures. It would seem Salazar Slytherin still has one last trick up his sleeve even in death.


Prologue


"Godric, you have to listen to me damn it!" the handsome raven haired man with green eyes growled for what felt like the hundredth time that hour.


The blond haired, blue eyed, male sighed and replied "No, Salazar. I will never support that kind of attitude in our school."


"Your a fool if you think you can have these type of students here and not have to cater to them because of their differences. I know that they can't be taught the same way the others can be." Salazar spat.


Feeling his half veela blood boil Godric lost his patience, "I will treat all the students EXACTLY the same way. NO EXCEPTIONS! This is the last I will say to you on this subject." and stormed out of the room.


Sighing to himself, Salazar Slytherin, came to the same conclusion he'd been dreading all along. The others would not listen and had stopped him at every turn. It was time to go and try to save what little pride he had left. He just had one last thing to do and it broke his heart to do so. This school meant the world to him but the future generations that would walk through its doors would never know the truth unless he took drastic measures. Walking out of the dungeons up to the second floor he looked about him and stepped into the girls lavatory one last time.


"I take it he still refuses to hear you out?" whispered a woman from the shadows.


Glaring at the woman he ignored her to put on a mask made out of sandstone and spoke to the sink before him. "Sssscciiiaaasssss sssssseeeeyyyyyyaaatthhhh"


Soft popping sounds issued forth from the sink with a serpent on the side of the faucet, as it slid back and down, the other sinks slid outward revealing a large dark hole. Not even looking to see if his companion was following him Salazar stepped off into the hole and slide all the way down to the bottom the tunnel landing gracefully on his feet. Walking on ahead, he heard the thud of feet hitting the ground behind him and knew she was with him.


Neither said a word to the other as they entered the already opened chamber and climbed down the small ladder to stand within the room that would soon hold the fate of the world within it.


The wizard took one last look at this Chamber of Secrets and shivered. Praying that there was another way and knowing there isn't one broke his heart just a little more. Salazar slipped his hand into his companions and guided her past the statues up to the end of the chamber. Before them was a pool of water and beyond that was a carving of Mehen , the serpent god, in the side of the chamber. Its' mouth was open as if commanding them forward and forward they traveled, across a plank Salazar had left from the time before.


Entering through the mouth and into a hidden chamber, the two came to their destination with heavy hearts.


"This is goodbye isn't it." it wasn't a question the woman spoke with a slight tremble to her words.


Nodding Salazar swallowed hard. The dark haired man squeezed his eyes shut and pulled the female to him wrapping her in a fierce embrace. "We have no choice. This is the only way the we can make sure our hard work is not for nothing."


"I will not fail you." Pulling back from the embrace, she stepped back and stood in the center awaiting her fate.


Slytherin looked at his companion one last time committing to memory exactly what she looked like. Midnight hair like his own with two white streaks that she had received while fighting the banshee three years ago. Green eyes like a snake's scale set within a face of breath taking beauty. Tan skin from her Asian heritage could be seen where flesh was exposed from an outfit that announced her djinni enslavement.


With a shaking hand he removed the bottle he had hidden within his robes and uncorked it. Watching in amazed horror as the woman's form blurred and changed into green colored smoke that was sucked into the bottle. Corking it, the wizard moved to place the bottle on the self amongst all his journals, books, and special items he was leaving behind. He stepped back from the wall and sealed it with a wave of his wand.


Heart completely shattered now, numb inside, Salazar removed a serpent from his robes and carefully set it at his feet. Moving back a bit he removed the stun spell he'd placed on baby basilisk and left the room. Turning to face Mehen , the wizard spoke the spell that would close the carving's mouth. He destroyed the plank and moved away to the exit, letting the cold from the chamber was seep into the place where his heart had once been.


Levitating himself up the shaft into the girls bathroom, Salazar stood back and watched as the hole was hidden once more looking for all the world like a group of sinks and nothing more.


It was done.


Nothing could stop what was to happen now and he knew this. Still, in order to protect Hogwarts from what was surely to come, he'd given up the only person he had left in this world that meant anything to him. He removed the egyptian sandstone mask as tears rolled down his cheeks.


* Selene. *

AN/ Ok, I know this is in need of a beta. I'm writting on the job again so all mistakes are here due to: (write and post first / check and correct later) theory. As always review are welcome.