Black glanced back as he was led away from Hogwarts. He couldn't believe it. He should have listened to Remus. He glanced to Radu and the others, he wasn't sure what his future would hold but he didn't want to be a slave to anyone, but thanks to Dumbledore he now had no choice. "You have a choice, you could have refused, let the Ministry deal with you."

"That wasn't a choice that was death." Black snarled.

"You should have heeded your friend's advice and-" Before the vampire who was holding his leash could finish they froze. "-werewolf."

"No, that is Remus, please he won't do anything." They were still on Hogwarts land and he was hoping Lupin could help him.

"Sirius!" Lupin was coming toward them. He knew he was heading toward a group of vampires. He wasn't thrilled with what Dumbledore had tried to do. He knew Dumbledore had to have called them here to see if they would take charge of Potter. He got close to the council members. "I won't come any closer, but I need to talk to you about Sirius."

"You may speak." Radu wondered what this werewolf would say. He had heard the name in the Forest and knew the man knew the truth.

"He is my friend, yes, an idiot for listening to the Headmaster, but he is my friend. Is there anything I can do to stop you from taking him?"

"You are a dark creature; you know what will happen to him if he is caught. You are safe as they don't kill werewolves unless they are violent." Radu thought the United Kingdom's policy on dark creatures was barbaric.

"I am aware, but he is only 1/2 vampire, can that help?" Lupin wanted to spike Dumbledore's lemon drops with a potion that he wanted Snape to make.

"Not with your Ministry. He is not protected by our council unless he is with us either as a mate or slave."

"Can I take him? I don't want him as a slave, but we have together for over 15 years, as friends."

Radu looked to his brother Vlad, the group started speaking in Romanian and after a few minutes it was decided. "You can take him, but I would recommend that you leave the country."

"We won't have the funds for that. I know we have passports, but leaving would be an expense neither of us can afford nor do I think we will want to, Harry is our godson." Lupin knew Black lost everything by seeing the collar and leash on him. He knew Vampire Laws.

Vlad spoke to Radu quickly and Radu nodded. "We will talk to his Highness for you, you will come tomorrow night and meet with us, we will reach a decision after the meeting."

"I will see you tomorrow and thank you." Lupin began to leave and stopped. "May I speak to Harry and Snape about this before we meet?"

"You can tell his Highness. We will owl them tomorrow to see what he wants to be done. However, I wouldn't do it tonight if I was you. The Headmaster had some others try to capture him and used us in another confrontation that didn't happen the way the Headmaster wanted it to go."

"Basically you mean he lied, and tried to get you do something about Harry." Lupin said.

"Yes, also some people will be looking for you to back up Snape's story. He told them to talk to you Vampire hearing is better than werewolves." Radu knew things were going to continue not going the way the Headmaster wanted.

Lupin smirked. "I will let select people know the truth, though there are others who also can back up Snape."

"There are many who are willing to help them." Radu smiled, flashing some fang. "Til tomorrow night."

"Thank you." Black and Remus hoped things would improve.

Snape got Potter back to their quarters and felt the wards go up. He sat down and pulled out his mirror. "Dark Lord, Lucius," The mirror flared to live with both of them appearing in a 1/2 screen mode. "He tried again. You might want to come through, he is highly agitated and I am not sure how long it will take him to calm down."

"Has he feed?" The Dark Lord wanted to kill Dumbledore.

"Not since the Bank. I don't think it will work, he has been around blood all night. I can see it all over him."

"I will be there in a few minutes, my floo isn't activated in this room." Lucius knew that if Potter saw Dumbledore in this state, Dumbledore might not come out of it alive.

"I can step through now." The Dark Lord informed them, everyone closed their mirrors.

"Potter, your father is coming with Lucius."

"Potter didn't seem to hear him but he knew he did. He was pacing around Snape. Potter wasn't speaking and Snape wasn't sure what that meant exactly. The Dark Lord stepped through and saw his son.

"That doesn't look good." His son was worse than he had ever seen him. Potter's emotions were all over the place.

"He isn't speaking, I can usually get one-word answers out of him, but I can't right now." Snape didn't want to admit it, but he was worried. Potter had always responded to him in some way.

Lucius arrived as Snape was speaking. He looked at Potter, watched him for a few minutes. "My Lord, sit down in that chair, close to Severus." Lucius moved away from them. "Now, cut yourself and call Harry to you."

"He is covered in blood, do you think that will work?" The Dark Lord hoped it would work.

"Yes."

The Dark Lord sat down next to the chair closest to Snape and cut his neck. "Harry."

Potter turned at the smell and tilted his head and looked closely at them and slowly moved toward the Dark Lord, he began to back off for a minute and pace glanced back toward the Dark Lord.

"Harry." The Dark Lord tried again.

Potter stopped and turned and before anyone knew what happened he was biting the Dark Lord's neck. "Harry, it's fine, you are safe. Severus is safe." The Dark Lord ran his hand down Potter's back. "I wasn't expecting him to be that quick."

"Neither was I." Lucius was relieved that it worked.

"What happened tonight?" The Dark Lord need information to plan his next move if Dumbledore didn't back off.

Snape began to tell him what happened, well what he knew. He informed them about the members of the Order and the Vampire Council. "We will be meeting them tomorrow night." During this time, Potter had started to purr again.

"He is purring again, that is still the strangest thing I have ever heard." Snape had never heard of vampires purring.

"He will most likely start doing it with you sooner rather than later. I was doing some research today, and that was one of the things mentioned, the purring. It also covered how to calm him down at times, not all the time, but most of the time it will be either Severus or our Lord's blood that will do it, my blood won't do it unless we develop a deeper relationship, other times it will just be time and him feeling secure, or actually killing whoever caused him to be annoyed in the first place. I have a feeling that Dumbledore is heading in the direction."

"Can we prevent it? I mean I want the man out of my hair, but if he dies by Harry's hand or fangs, it will cause a problem." The Dark Lord knew the Ministry couldn't do anything legally, but didn't mean they wouldn't try.

"I don't think it will. The way Dumbledore is going, he is alienating a lot of his key supporters in this quest of his to separate them." Lucius had been hearing the rumors at the Ministry.

"I have to agree, after talking to Tonks, Mad-Eye, Bill and Charlie Weasley, they weren't very happy with what they learned. Minerva, Poppy, and Lupin also support us. That is the kind of support we couldn't buy." Snape hoped that Dumbledore kept burying himself with all the attempts.

"That is true. Mad-Eye is the one that is surprising me." The Dark Lord knew Mad-Eye wouldn't support anything he would support, but having him as his son's supporter made a lot of things easier.

"The Centaurs too, Bane made it clear they would support Potter." Snape reminded them.

"Bane? The Centaur who believes all wizards are useless? I find this strange. Harry gets turned into a Royal Living Vampire and now we have Order member, the Centaurs and the Vampire Council supporting him." The Dark Lord knew this was the kind of support you couldn't buy, bribe, or even barter for.

"Don't forget the Ministry." Lucius knew Fudge was eating up the fact that Potter didn't support Dumbledore.

"Potions" Potter muttered into his father's neck.

"I will get the ingredients from you afterward; just remain there for a bit longer." Snape wanted Potter back to normal, well, as normal as he could be.

"You knew what he meant?" Lucius asked.

"Yes, I am used to his short one-word speech patterns."

"That will make it handy." Lucius smirked, at their questioning looked he explained. "When Harry goes into the agitated mode, Severus can understand him, now think how well he is going to understand him when Harry decides to plan an attack in a few seconds or if he decides to go hunting. Harry is fast, deadly and he is accurate. We knew he was accurate with his spells; now add his vampire speed, grace, agility and his sense of protection. We are also learning his movements, his tells as it were."

Snape eyes went wide. "No one will be able to tell what he is going to do but me and eventually both of you."

"Exactly."

Potter selected that moment to open his eyes and notice how close the Dark Lord was to Snape and let out a small growl. "Relax he isn't going to hurt me and you know it." Snape earned a louder growl. Potter got up from the Dark Lord's lap and began to move toward Snape, Snape got up and moved the chair away and stood and waited for Potter to sit down and sat in his lap.

"What?"

"Can you tell us what that was about?" The Dark Lord wasn't sure how he felt about his son having Snape in his lap.

"He wasn't thrilled to learn how close you were to me and was letting me know. Fastest way to keep him calm was for me to move and let him do this." Snape glared at Lucius. "Don't you start."

"I didn't say a word."

"No, but you were thinking of a few."

Lucius just smirked. "So what are you going to do tomorrow before the Vampire Council meeting?"

"I am hoping to find out from Minerva if that defense club idea worked. I am not going to ask that old goat." Snape remarked. "If it did, we will be heading into Hogsmeade earlier."

"Do you think he went for the idea?" The Dark Lord began to think of others that might join their side now that they were learning the truth about Dumbledore.

"Yes, I think it would stroke his ego and make him believe he had a chance with Potter. I am not sure what he meant to accomplish tonight. If he went for the idea why go after Potter with Order members or the Vampire Council as the backup."

"It's about control. He wants control over Harry, so yes, he may have agreed to the club, but the sooner he gets control over Harry the better it will be for him. He knows the club won't give him control over him." The Dark Lord made a mental note to make some protection jewelry for his son.

"True, I am, however, getting tired of this game, I would like one night of good sleep."

That caused the Dark Lord and Lucius to laugh. "I take it that the old coot has been arriving at odd hours."

"That is an understatement. Last night it was after midnight, and this morning a house elf was watching us. Turns out it was watching us all night. Potter wasn't very impressed and pulled it through the wards. Hence the newer wards we have up now."

"He pulled it through the wards?" Lucius asked.

"Yes, his magical power is incredible. Can you feel the wards? He connected them directly into Hogwarts' wards and in parsel." Snape watched them feel for the wards and saw their surprise in their eyes.

"How did we get through?" Lucius asked.

"Allowed." Potter had his head resting on Snape's back.

Lucius and the Dark Lord looked surprised for a few seconds. "If he is this powerful now, I can't imagine what he will be like when he comes of age. I believe no one is going to want him as an enemy. He is one of the most powerful, if not most powerful wizard I have ever seen."

The Dark Lord looked at Potter. He seemed deep in thought. "I think he is the most powerful now. I am wondering how the Ministry will react to that."

"He hides it well, I don't think anyone but us will ever know just how powerful he is. I have been impressed with his acting skills, his Slytherin nature, and more importantly his control. He could have really killed the old goat and the Mutt a few different times and he restrained himself from doing it. I didn't realize that until Mad-Eye commented on it tonight. Potter not registering as a dark creature, I am wondering how that will work in the Ministry?"

"I am not sure. The registry is something for dark creatures, so if he is not showing up as one, he won't have to register, but how do we prove that beyond what Mad-Eye is saying?" Lucius knew there were a few who might give them a problem if Potter didn't register.

"The Unspeakables." The Dark Lord knew how exactly to assign the task to. "They can read his core and see that he isn't a dark creature."

"Yes, but he is a dark wizard." Lucius added that aspect to his research list.

"The spell used is for that is different. It would be easy to hear which one is cast, so we can prevent that one from being used. If we use Rookwood, who is an Unspeakable, we can make sure Harry doesn't get revealed as a dark wizard."

"I am wondering how Mad-Eye didn't see he was a dark wizard?" Snape wasn't sure how Mad-Eye's magical eye worked, but knew that Dumbledore relied in it to determine who had the dark mark.

"He can't, he can see the dark mark, but not the core, that is how he knows who is a Death Eater, of course, there are ways to cover it, usually involving applying a daily blood-based glamour." The Dark Lord knew the magical eye was created after the Death Eaters were formed and knew that aspect was added just for that reason.

"Can it be covered with a parsel spell?" Lucius had an idea.

"Yes."

"That might be a way to hide our members." Lucius knew it would drive Dumbledore crazy, as an added bonus.

Snape and the Dark Lord smirked. "That would work." The Dark Lord nodded his agreement. "We can start doing it next week. Hiding in plain sight."

"It will make recruitment easier."

"Maybe even move the mark to a different part of the body." Lucius wondered.

Potter glanced over to them. "Hungry."

"Again?" Snape was going to have to make more Blood Replenishing Potions.

"He most likely used a lot of energy with fighting the spiders, and after everything today, it wouldn't be surprising." Lucius looked closely at Potter. "Not to mention that changes he is going through."

"Lucius."

"It's your turn." Snape wasn't sure how he felt about that. He knew he needed the break but he didn't want to have Potter feed from Lucius.

Potter stood up and put Snape in the chair. He began to stalk to Lucius. Lucius remained still and waited to see what Potter would do. Potter stopped as he got close, looked at the Dark Lord, turned his head to Snape, and back to Lucius. No one saw Potter move to the other side of the room, only when Lucius was suddenly moving toward Potter did they notice. Lucius was in Potter's arms and pulled close to him, and they watched as his fangs sank into Lucius' neck.

"I don't believe anyone would believe me if I was to tell someone what I thought I just saw. I really wasn't expecting that." The Dark Lord wondered what else his son was able to do.

"It's because this is his first time feeding on me, I don't count last's night blood donation from the wrist. He doesn't want you close, just like when he first feed on each of you." The pleasure was clear in Lucius' voice as he spoke.

Snape realized he wasn't the only one who felt the pleasure of the bite. He knew Lucius was feeling it. He suddenly felt jealous, he had no idea where that came from and banished that idea from his mind. No one spoke as Potter feed, Potter removed his fangs and they all saw a Blood-Replenishing Potion that was almost in Lucius' hand.

"I am amazed at his magic. How many of us can actually be in the middle of something like that and still use magic?" The Dark Lord knew many could master the skill if they worked at it, it took decades to usually master.

"He does it all the time." Snape was a bit surprised at the pride he heard in his own voice.

Lucius was released and took the potion. He walked back over to where he was originally sitting. Potter moved back to Snape, picked him up and sat down again, Snape sat in his lap again.

"It's getting late, let us know what happens tomorrow." The Dark Lord stood up and went to kiss Potter on his head when he heard a low growl and stopped. "I guess that wasn't a good idea."

"He won't feel safe for a while. If that man tries again tonight I might just wrap his beard around his throat and pull."

"Nice image." Lucius smirked, "I will keep that one."

"Go and good night. I would like to get to bed sometime before midnight."

They laughed and flooed home.

"Potter, let me go, so I can find out from Minerva if we need to go to Hogsmeade tomorrow afternoon." It took a few minutes but he was finally released and walked to the floo, tossed in the powder. "McGonagall's Office."

"Severus, I was wondering if I would hear from you tonight. Remus informed me what happened."

"So you know about the Mutt?"

"Yes, but I will tell you about that in person, it isn't something we should talk about over the floo network."

Snape looked over to Potter and wondered if he would be fine with Minerva in the room. Potter let out a low growl, he nixed that idea. "Did you talk to Albus?"

"Yes, and it is fine. Miss Granger expects to hear from you tomorrow. I am sure the extra work will help."

Snape caught on to what she was saying. The floo network was being listened to. "I will assign her the work tomorrow. I am sure we can agree on the terms."

"I believe you will find she is agreeable."

"Thank you. I will talk to you tomorrow at breakfast."

"Very good, good night, Severus." She disappeared.

"Well, Potter I don't know how we are going to work you and me being in a crowded pub tomorrow but it should be interesting." Potter stood up and emptied his robe pockets, Snape looked at the ingredients in surprise. "You know I think I am going to enjoy getting potion ingredients with you if this is what you bring me back."

"Spiders monthly."

Snape added his collection to the desktop. "You got them to donate monthly." Snape looked impressed. "I am taking it you had your fun with them." Potter just flashed him some fang and grinned. "I am impressed but let's actually go to bed, I am tired." None of the potion ingredients needed to be stored for freshness beyond what they had already stored them in.

Potter headed to the bedroom and tossed up more wards over their bedroom. Snape went to the bathroom and hoped nothing would happen tonight, it had already been a far more interesting night than he had bargained for.

"He was lying in bed when Potter finally joined him after he took a long shower. He was pulled into Potter's right arm again and just settled down and went to sleep. Tomorrow was going to be an interesting day he knew.