HAVEN

Author: The Copper Key and Cajai

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter

Rated: Mature for sexual content, violence, cursing, and other dark material

Summary: SLASH. SSHP. Creature Harry! Dhampir Severus, Bill and OFC! Manipulative Dumbledore! It has been sad that every three thousand years a new species of evolution takes its first breath. Romance. Action. Mystery. Possible Female SLASH.

Have you ever dealt with people who have lost everything in just an hour? In the morning you leave the house, where your wife, your children, your parents live. You return and find a smoking pit. Then something happens to you--to a certain extent you stop being human. You do not need any glory, money anymore; revenge becomes your only joy. And because you no longer cling to life, death avoids you, the bullets fly past. You becomes a wolf.

- Russian General Aleksander Lebed veteran of Afghanistan

(Found in 'Book 1 of Vampire Earth: Way of the Wolf' by E. E. Knight)

But what do you become when you have never been human?

CHAPTETR ONE

"Paddy Cake, Paddy Cake, Baker man, bake me cake as fast as you can…" the boy sung in a haunted broken voice, hoarse from screaming. He rocked back and forth in his corner trying to focus on reality and avoid thinking about what his Uncle had done. He was somewhat sane, sane enough to know if he kept this up they'd lock him up in Saint Mungos. But right now it didn't matter. All that mattered was hiding, hiding from IT. The many brutal wounds on his body reflected the wounds on in his soul. The room was dark and humid and as he sung he gasped for breath and sweat stung his wounds.

"Paddy cake, Paddy cake, Bakers man…" He sung. His Aunt cracked the door open and peered in. A single tear rolled down her face. 'What had Vernon done?' Tomorrow she'd be leaving from this wretched house, leaving behind Vernon. Sadly she couldn't take Harry… the boy was too far gone. Better let some one put him down.

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Severus Snape was angry. Of all things horrible Dumbledore had him do this one toped it! Checking on Harry Bloody-Potter was really pushing it! The moronic golden boy! The Self-serving spoilt boy hadn't answered his friends' letters and when he did it was illegible scribbles about something 'paddy cake'.

Sighing Severus straightened the collar of his cloak and strode up to the door. About to knock, he caught sight of something strange. The house was a trash pit. Garbage was strewn about the floors, empty bottles of liquor, hamburger wrappers, and newspapers clippings and so on. He watched in shock and in disgust as a naked fat man with seven rolls of fat that jiggled as he walked headed upstairs. Faintly through the window he heard locks turning and suddenly an animalistic scream of a child. Severus's super hearing differentiated the voices and with growing horror he realized it was Harry's voice. Without any more thought on the manner, he spelled the door open and ran up the steps to the second floor.

What met him was the most disturbing sight he had ever seen. The man was raping the bloody boy-who-lived before Severus's very eyes. Silent tears trailed down the boy's face and the boy was murmuring under his breath "Paddy cake, paddy cake, bakers man, bake me a cake as fast as you can…" Snape's blood boiled.

No, this can't be happening. His mind screamed. He couldn't allow this to happen any longer! Without thinking Snape turned his wand on the fat man and cast a spell. The man screamed as his body fell into large chunks of fat. Harry lay on the bed unmoving. The boy seemed catatonic starring out at nothing. Gently Snape eased forward and touched Harry. Harry flinched before blacking out. Severus just then realized he was crying. He hesitantly lifted Harry into his arms and apparated now that blood wards were gone.

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It was a week later, the evening before his birthday that Harry woke from his catatonic state. The majority of his wounds healed. His mind slowly processed everything. He was in the Hogwarts infirmary, someone was sitting next to him, their hand on his head. It felt strange. This person's touch that is. He felt pleasurable shivers go down his body. Unlike the revulsion of his Uncle's touch, this man's touch was so different. It made him feel safe.

He sighed leaning into the touch. The man began to stir and almost withdrew his hand, but Harry latched onto his hand before he could move it. "Please," Harry whispered, "Please don't go!" Harry looked up into the eyes of his potions professor, finding no need to uphold his golden boy façade, he let tears gather in his eyes. "Please don't leave me alone."

"Alright, alright Harry. I won't go." Snape promised in a gentle voice. He did know what he was doing. He was at a complete loss as to what was happening… yet it felt so right. He stroked the boy's forehead mechanically as he looked into those beautiful emerald eyes that were filed with tears. "I won't leave you alone."

"Good!" Said a voice behind Snape. Both Harry and Snape jumped and Harry drew back huddling into a small ball and began to shiver. Snape turned to glare at Dumbledore.

"Why?" Was all Snape said.

"Poppy and I discovered something about Harry's blood… that I feel only you'd be able to deal with best. The problem will most likely surface tonight and certain attributes to your species," Snape flinched and sent Dumbledore a smoldering glare, "will help you deal with it where Madam Pomfrey and I can not. Evolution, Severus, Harry has evolution in his blood and sixteen is that lucky age." Severus shot Harry a surprised look. The boy was huddled in his corner crying. "See you later my Boy."

TO BE CONTINUED…

There will be likely more tonight… but this is all for now.

- Cajai and the Copper Key