Harry arrived at Hogwarts and Albus sent him to Severus' quarters. I was on the couch talking with Remus and Sirius was on the kitchen fetching our lunch. He looked at me shyly and I could see he was sorry about his reaction so I run into his arms. Bad luck, he put his hands on my mark and I yelped.

"Mione, are you ok?" he asked leading me to the couch.

"Remus, can you look, please? It's hurt too much," I said panting

"Open your shirt and I will check," Remus said and he started to check trying not to hurt me.

"Hermione, what happened?" Harry asked

"Is her mark Harry, it opened and she needs some healing," Sirius said putting the food on the coffee table.

"Sirius!" Harry yelled, "What are you doing here?"

"I wanted to go to the house and talk with you but my alpha told me to stay here until he comes back and I couldn't leave," Sirius answered.

"Your alpha? What are you talking about?" Harry asked

Sirius looked at us and we nodded. He opened his shirt and showed Harry his mark. Remus did the same thing and Harry was staring at us unbelief on his eyes.

"Are you telling me that Severus marked you all?" Harry asked, "Sirius, you let him bit you?"

"Well, he is a little bigger and a lot stronger than me and he was already the alpha," Sirius said

"But why your marks are different? Yours is bigger than Remus and Hermione's is deeper." Harry asked.

" When he bit me he was still angry with me so he just put a little more force than usual," Sirius said.

"And Hermione, why her mark is different and black?" Harry asked and I blushed.

"The mark you see on Hermione is not the pack one, is a claim," Remus said blushing.

"A claim? Does it mean that he is your mate? Like some soul mate?" Harry asked

"Yes and no, he is my mate but he chose me to be his," Hermione said

"Harry, the chances of finding a person with your same animagus form is very slim and this is what I failed to see on the meeting. You will see today that he is good for her." Sirius said, "I know, me telling something good about Severus and I'm using his first name, I'm growing up I think"

"It was time; now tell me how this is going to work?" Harry asked

"We do not know anything, Severus did not tell us because he was summoned with Draco and we are waiting for them to come back. Let's eat now." Remus said.

We ate and talked while waiting for some news. I was happy to have them with me but I was wincing from the pain. Remus stopped the bleeding but the potions did not help with the pain. After some minutes, Remus looked at me and frowned.

"Hermione, why did you not tell me that you were suffering? I thought the potions worked." Remus said

"I didn't want to worry you with this," I said tears falling freely now.

"What happened?" Sirius asked.

" I touch her mark and I opened, I didn't mean it," Harry said

"I know, only her mate can deal with this and he will be angry with you. We will try to calm him down before he sees it." Sirius said.

The door opened and Severus and Draco entered carrying Lucius; he was unconscious.

"Sirius help Draco to put him on the spare room. Potter, I need you to go fetch Albus and Poppy. Remus, can you heal my back?" Severus barked before collapsing into a coach.

Everybody did as he asked without question; it was amazing; he was commanding us. He was the best alpha we could get. I sat next to him and he looked at me wincing when Remus healed him. He caressed my cheek and tried to touch my mark and I yelped.

"Hermione? What is going on?" he asked me

"Hmm, I, I don't know how to tell you this. I need you to stay calm because it was an accident." I said

"Tell me now," he said slowly.

"When Harry arrived he was so happy because I forgave him that he hugged me. As he did not know about the mark, he put his hand and opened the mark, so it started to bleed. Remus helped me but the potion did not help with the pain. Please, do not be angry with Harry." I said

"I will try but after the meeting, I will heal you ok?" Severus said. "I will go to see Lucius now"

I saw him standing up and leave the room. I did not know what to say and Remus sat near me hugging me.

"Give him a few minutes, he just arrived from a difficult meeting with Riddle, his best friend is hurt and he found his mate hurt. He needs to cool down before he can take care of you. He is trying to protect you from himself." Remus said.

"What?" I asked

"Alpha males can be possessive and protective of their mates, I would bet that he wants to put you in your room and not letting you out until the war is over so he put some distance from you to calm down and heal you. He loves you." Remus said and Harry entered the room with Albus and Poppy.

"Where are they?" Poppy asked

"The spare room, second door on the right," Remus said and Poppy went to the room.

"We will wait to see what happened on the meeting," Albus said, "here they come."

They came back and Severus stood next to the hearth, Draco sat near Remus and Lucius sat next to me.

"I will tell you what happened today and we need to see how to go on after this," Severus said. "After we arrived at the manor, Riddle was ranting about how soft we were on the revels and that he needed to show us again how to do this. He said Lucius did not bring a muggle as he asked and that Narcisa would do her part."

"He wanted her for months and she did not know what to say and we were helpless to do anything. I was incapacitated and Severus was holding Draco. He wanted us to see this." Lucius said tears on his eyes.

I looked at Severus and he nodded so I took Lucius on my arms. He just sobbed harder.

"I did not love her, we had a arrange marriage but she was the mother of my heir," Lucius said

"He just took her in every way possible and after that, he asked some of them to do the same thing. Even Bellatrix rapped her, she was rather vicious with her own sister and I think she was the one who actually killed her." Severus said

Draco was sobbing in Remus' arms and Lucius was holding me hard.

"After she died, Riddle tossed her to the side and told us his new plan. He wants to convert to the dark the brains of the order." Severus said, "He wants Hermione and Remus to become death eaters."

"So, what can we do about this? Do you have a plan, Severus?" Albus asked

"Yes, I told him that this has to be done carefully and that between me and the Malfoy we could do it," Severus said

"How?" I asked

"I told him that I will try to seduce you, Lucius will help me with that and that Draco will play with Remus feelings also. We are supposed to do this in three months. Until then, we can think something to prevent you from taking the mark at least." Severus said

"It could work, we will need to be careful about this," Sirius said shocking everybody. "I would say to have a ball, mixing the teachers and the students, no couple required and that could give an opportunity to show the death eater sons that you are making progress."

"Are you sure you want to be public about us?" Remus asked Draco

"Yes, Remus it will be ok," Draco said

"And you Hermione? How do you feel about this?" Severus asked me

"I was not thinking about hiding this so what's the problem?" I said and I kissed him.

I felt Lucius moving and I took his hand. He smiled at me and pressed my hand.

"Now, we need to rest, tonight we will meet at the clearing after dinner," Severus said and the rest leave the room.

"Lucius, go rest, tonight will be difficult for you," Severus said and Lucius nodded. "Little one, let's go take a nap"

He woke me up again with kisses and we met the team for dinner before leaving to the clearing. Lucius told us he wanted to come with us and we left the room.

Severus told us to change and he sat near Lucius while Sirius and Draco run and played with Remus looking at them

"Lucius, how do you feel about your son's mate?" Severus asked

"I always thought he would never give me an heir. I will have to resign to see my line die with me." Lucius said

"You are young Mr. Malfoy and you can marry again," Harry said

"No, after Draco was born I made a change and I can only bear an heir with my mate." Lucius said, "I'm an animagus too."

"Can you show us?" I said, he nodded, and two seconds after I was standing near a white panther. "Lucius, there is something we need to show you"

Severus smirked and I nodded. He changed first circling Lucius and growling. Lucius was smaller than Severus and leaned down not looking at Severus. He was submitting to his alpha. Severus growled and bit his nape softly. Lucius stood and looked at me. I sighed and I changed.

"Actually Hermione, what are you going to do now?" Harry asked.

I looked at Severus and Lucius and they were looking at each other before staring at me. I felt their lust and I run away trying to think what to do.

'Snow, wait, we need to talk with you!' Shadow told me

'Snow, nice one. Snow, please wait, don't run.' Lucius said

'Just be gentle with me please' I said stopping and looking at them.

They sat next to me and they licked my ears. It felt so right and I was confused.

'Do you remember what we said about the animagus?' Severus asked

'Yes, but how this could work with the pack?' I asked

'Severus will be the alpha and I will be his second. Please, dear, say yes.' Lucius said

'But you hated me, how can you want me now? It's only because I'm a panther, like you? Is because I can give you an heir?' I said sadly

'No, I never hated you but I have a role to play. After the end of the first war, I was working for Albus getting information. I made a big mistake giving Miss Weasley the book and I will apologize for that as soon as I can.' Lucius said

'So, now I will have you both?' I asked

'Always' they said together pinning me down and placing their heads on my back.

'How do you call you animagus form?' I asked

"Silver and you Severus?" Silver asked

"I'm Shadow' Severus said

"FUCK! This is getting weird!' Harry yelled

I looked at him and he pointed near the pound where Remus was petting Draco while Sirius was licking Draco's back. I was laughing and I could see the amusement on Severus and Lucius faces.

Severus growled and we changed back.

"As our Mr. Potter said, we need to talk about this," Severus said and we followed him.