Chapter Ten
Severus groaned as he slowly began to wake up. He had told Albus not to disturb him or his mates until after lunch. What he had forgot to take into account was that one or both of his mates could or would wake him up before that. Which is exactly what happened, as Isis seemed to be hyper she decided not to let Severus sleep through lunch. After all, the three of them did have to eat still. Severus attempted to roll over and fall asleep again.
"Oh, no, Sev, you are not going back to sleep." Isis purred as she pounced on Severus, which had caused Harry to laugh.
"And why not?" Severus growled. "I still have an hour or two left to sleep."
"Silly man." Isis cooed as she dodged the pillow Severus threw at her. "Since we slept through breakfast we need to have some lunch. Come on, Sev, get up. We do have to eat still." Isis smirked slightly when he didn't move. "If you do not get up then Harry and I will have to tickle you, dear." She threatened light-heartedly.
"Fine. I'm up, I'm up!" Severus grumbled as he finally got up.
"Wow, she finally got you up." Harry laughed. It felt good to laugh, since before that he hadn't laughed in weeks.
"Indeed." Severus sighed as he half-heartedly glared at them and Kasha. "Why does the furball get to sleep in?" He pouted.
"She's still only a kitten, sir." Harry replied fondly of his pet." I guess she tends to sleep a lot."
"Harry, you are allowed to call me Severus now, you do know that, right?" Severus asked gently.
"Yeah , I know." Harry said. "It's just that I'm so used to calling you 'Sir' or 'Professor' all the time that it might take me a while to call you anything else."
"That is understandable." Severus ceded. He then turned suspicious eyes onto the bouncing Isis. "You did not have any kind of sugary substance or caffeine yet to make you this hyper, have you?" 'Oh. Time to provide a little entertainment to cheer our young one up.' The thought was to Isis.
'Yes, it is time for some fun.' Isis thought back. "Who, me?" She asked innocently.
"Yes, you, dear. Now answer my question." Severus demanded.
"Hm… Sorry, Sevie, but I have no idea what you are talking about." Isis giggled as she skipped to the other side of the room. "I think you are imagining things, dearest."
"Oh, I think not." Severus growled as he stalked after Isis. "You know exactly what I'm talking about. Now where is the Pepsi that I know you've had hidden in this room since early this morning."
"What Pepsi? I still do not know what you are talking about." Isis said sweetly as she continued to walk around the rather large room.
"The Pepsi that I smell on your breath." Severus stated as he continued to follow Isis. "You know that you're not supposed to have Pepsi this early in the day, Isis."
"Oh, darn! I guess you caught me there." Isis muttered.
"Why isn't she supposed to have Pepsi this early?" Harry asked as he tried not to laugh at the situation.
"She tends to get extremely hyper when she drinks it and ends up bouncing off the walls for hours on end. She is also difficult to deal with when she's had Pepsi." Severus answered off-handedly. "Now where is it, Isis? Hand it over before it's too late and you end up having too much of it."
"No, Never! It is mine and you cannot have any of it." Isis said so definitely that Harry burst out laughing.
"Damn it, Isis! I mean it! Hand it over now!" Severus snarled.
"Never!" Isis said stubbornly.
"Fine, be that way!" Severus snapped. He then smirked as he said, "Accio Pepsi!"
"No! Damn you, Sev!" Isis snapped back as she dived in the way and grabbed the bottle of Pepsi before it could get to Severus. "This is the last time I will say this, Severus, so listen well: This Pepsi is all mine and you cannot have any of it. So keep your hands off my soda."
Harry couldn't help it, he just had to laugh. The whole situation was just so odd and funny. It got even more funny when Severus began to run around the room chasing Isis to get the soda away from her. Kasha woke up as Harry slowly and carefully sat up on the bed. Kasha crawled up the bed until she was next to Harry and she rubbed her head against his arm until he pet her as he watched Severus chasing Isis. The chase lasted between five and ten minutes with Harry laughing through most of the duration. Then Severus tackled Isis and pinned her to the bed.
"It seems that I have caught you, my dear." Severus said in a husky voice as he held Isis's wrists above her head. "Now the question is what should I do with you now that I have you trapped?"
"You do not play fair, Sev." Isis replied as Severus took the Pepsi from her and handed it to Harry. "I guess you have won anyway, though."
Harry was still laughing a little bit at the whole situation, but took the soda anyway when Severus handed it to him. He was a little intrigued to see what would happen next between the two older vampires. Harry settled down more as Severus eased himself down onto Isis fully. He still held her wrists above her head with one hand and with his other hand he tilted her chin until her face was where he wanted it. Severus then leaned down and captured Isis's mouth with his. Harry watched in bit of a daze as Severus moved his hands over Isis and Isis wrapped her arms around Severus's neck. The kiss between Isis and Severus was getting pretty heated when Isis wrapped one of her legs around one of Severus's legs. It probably would have gotten even more heated if it hadn't been for the fact that Albus came into the room.
Albus coughed and said, "I hope I'm not interrupting too much. Oh! I'm sorry, I didn't realize you were still preoccupied. I just wanted to check to see how you were all doing."
"We're fine, Albus." Severus grumbled as he rolled off of Isis and they both sat up. "We were about to have some lunch in a few minutes. Would you mind giving us about another hour to eat before everyone comes to see Harry?"
"Yes, that'll be fine, my boy. I was about to ask when we could all visit with him. Well, I'll see you three in an hour." Albus said and then turned and walked back out of the room and closed the door behind him.
"Well that was a little weird." Harry stated with a slight blush.
Isis burst out laughing. "It was also kind of funny."
"That man has horrible timing, damn it!" Severus growled. "and that damn twinkle in his eyes was back again." That caused Harry to join in laughing with Isis.
"Looks like this could be a long day." Kasha said as she stretched. She turned and looked to Harry. "Master Harry, you're blushing!"
"No, I'm not!" Harry argued at once.
"Oh, but you are, Master!" Kasha purred as she bounced around the bed.
"Oh shut up!" Harry grumbled as he threw a pillow at Kasha.
Severus and Isis both laughed at the cute display. Kasha was right about Harry blushing, but the two older vampires were wise enough to not mention it. After a few moments Isis and Severus calmed down and had stopped laughing. A short time after that their lunches appeared in the room and they al quietly ate. It seemed like Albus had told the house elves that they were awake and ready to have lunch. Severus and Isis both were watching as Harry only ate about a little less than half of his lunch and then just moved the food around the plate.
"Harry, it is alright if you cannot eat all of it just yet." Isis said gently.
"It could be a while before you are able to eat as much as you want again. Try not to worry about it too much, you'll get there in time." Severus added.
"I know." Harry sighed. "I'm just kind of tired of not being able to eat as much as I'm suppose to."
"It will get better." Severus said soothingly as he moved closer to the teen and took him into his arms. Harry allowed the contact and leaned into Severus because he trusted him for some reason that he couldn't understand at that time. "It may take some time, but I promise you that it will get better."
"Thank you." Harry murmured. He then moved until he was sitting comfortably in Severus's lap with Severus's arms still around him.
"Are you up to talking to your aunt and seeing the others?" Isis asked as she crawled up the bed to sit next to the two males. She rested her head in Harry's lap and he began to lightly play with her hair. "We will all understand if you are not up for it yet."
Harry sighed softly. "I guess I'm up for it. I just want to get it over and done with." As Harry had been talking Severus had began to gently run his fingers through Harry's hair in a soothing way. Harry shuddered very slightly for a moment.
"What's wrong Harry?" Severus asked as he held the teen a little tighter.
A very light shiver made its way through Harry's body. "You-you won't let them touch me- will you?" Harry murmured nervously.
"Of course not. We would never let something you are uncomfortable with happen." Isis replied. "Do you want us to stay with you during your talk with your aunt and the others?"
"Yes, please stay. I don't think I'm ready to face any of them by myself just yet." Harry softly said. "I guess I'm ready to face them. Well, at least as ready as I'll ever be right now."
"Shall I have someone inform them that you are ready to see the others?" Isis inquired. At Harry's nod Isis sent a mental thought to Jasmine and Erika. 'Inform the Headmaster and our other guests that they can now come in and see young Harry.'
'Yes, Mistress.' The twins answered together.
"This is going to be difficult." Harry grumbled after a couple of minutes of silence.
"It may not be as difficult as you think it will be." Severus said.
Harry just shrugged briefly. They waited in silence for a couple of minutes before the other house guests came into Harry's room. Harry stiffened when his aunt came into the room followed by Mrs. Figg and Professors Dumbledore and McGonagall. Harry hadn't realized that there were that many people waiting to see him and check up on him, he had thought that there would only be one or two people and not four. He knew that they cared about him, but he was still a little surprised that they had waited the whole time to make sure he was alright.
"Oh, Harry! Are you okay?" Petunia asked in concern. She had to restrain herself from rushing to her nephew.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Harry replied a little weakly because he still thought that it was odd that his aunt was there too. "I hear that you have a lot to tell me, Aunt Petunia"
"Yes, there is a lot for me to tell you about, Harry. That is if you are willing to listen to me." Petunia said.
"I'm willing to hear you out." Harry stated.
"Thank you, Harry." Petunia said in relief.
"It's the least that I can do since you got help to stop him." Harry murmured. No one had to ask as to who he was referring to because they already knew.
"Harry, there are a lot of things that you do not know about me and some things that you don't know about yourself." Petunia started.
"Why don't we all sit down, relax, and listen to what we each have to say." Albus suggested. "Minerva, would you please conjure some chairs for us to recline in."
"Of course, Albus." Minerva replied and conjured four chairs for them to sit in and the four of them sat down.
Harry sat quietly in Severus's lap while he waited for the others to sit down and get comfortable. His head was resting lightly on the older man's shoulder as he looked to his aunt to continue. Isis moved until she could rest her head on Severus's other shoulder that way she could observe the others in the room better. Severus wrapped an arm around each of his mates and held both of them to him and Kasha curled up at their feet.
"Why were you acting relatively nice toward me this summer when before you acted like I was vermin or something vile?" Harry asked after about five minutes of silence.
"I'm so sorry for that, Harry. I had to act like that other wise Vernon would have been beating me like he used to do before and after we had first got married. But knowing that you're going to be sixteen soon I couldn't bring myself to keep up the act."
"He used to beat you? Why?" Harry asked.
Petunia took a shuddering breath. "Before I married Vernon your mother and I discovered that I had very weak magic and that I could sometimes use it, but it wasn't strong enough for me to need to get a wand. I was scared at the time because I had already started to date Vernon and I had no idea how he would react to the news of me being a witch. Lily and I tried to hide the fact that I could occasionally do magic, she thought that it would be safer for me that way. A month before we got married Vernon found out about the occasional magic use and he ended up raping me and he forced me to go through with the wedding even though I had been having second thoughts about it. He was determined to 'beat' the magic out of me. He only stopped the abuse when I got pregnant with Dudley."
"Why didn't you ever leave him? I saw how he treated you most of the time, it was the same way that he had been treating me."
"Lily had asked me the same thing once." Petunia sighed. "She said that I would be able to disappear into the wizarding world and Vernon would never be able to find me. She even offered to help me leave him and to disappear. I couldn't bring myself to leave him. I was partly afraid to leave him because despite his mistreatment I still loved him. Another reason I didn't leave him sooner is because of Dudley. That is until Vernon started to treat you the same way that he had treated me. I had sworn to myself that if I ever caught him trying to rape you then I would take you and leave him and go into the wizarding world."
"He had started to rape me the first night that I got back from Hogwarts." Harry growled. "He just always made sure that you never knew. He mostly waited for you to either to go to sleep or to leave the house."
"My god!" Petunia gasped. "Oh, Harry, I'm so sorry. I had no idea that that was going on the whole time that you were back from school. Had I known earlier I would have gotten help to get us out of there sooner."
"Don't worry about it, Aunt Petunia." Harry sighed. "I just want to put that, all of it, behind me because I know that I can't forget about it no matter how hard I might try to. Now, you said that there was also some stuff that I don't know about myself? What kind of stuff would that be?"
"It's about you heritage and how it will affect you true nature after your sixteenth birthday. You see in the Evans family lineage there is angel blood that surfaces every so often in certain generations. The angel blood in our family history is over all rare, but it does surface every so often. The angel blood fully surfaced in your mother making her completely an angel on earth. In you father's blood line, on the other hand, every so often there is a full blooded vampire born and it just happened that your father was born as the first full blooded vampire in about six or seven centuries." Petunia explained.
"So, namely I'm half angel and half vampire? That's kind of an odd combination."
"Well, now you are a full vampire, but you will always have the blood of an angel flowing through your veins. It's part of your heritage and that will never change even if you do."
"I see. How come you never said anything about this before now and did anyone else know about this besides you?" Harry glared in the direction of the headmaster as if asking if he had known and had kept it from him on purpose, like he had done with other things and information.
"No, no one besides your parents and myself knew about it until all of this had happened. I never said anything to you about it until now because your mother asked me to wait until your sixteenth birthday before explaining everything to you. Your parents thought it would be best that way in order to protect you. They feared that you would be treated like a freak in the wizarding world if it was known that you were half angel and half vampire. Another thing about the Evans blood line is that magic seems to skip many generations, so Lily wasn't muggle born like all of you thought that she was. She didn't want anyone to know until it was time to tell Harry about his heritage." Petunia stated.
"Merlin! This is a lot to take in." Harry grumbled. He turned his head and hid his face in Severus's shoulder. "I hate it when things are kept from me, but I guess I understand why this was so important to keep from me until I could understand it." 'But that doesn't mean I have to like it.' Harry thought to himself.
"I-I contacted a lawyer this morning and filed for divorce." Petunia said softly. "I want nothing to do with Vernon and Dudley after everything that they have done to you, Harry."
Harry turned his head quickly back toward his aunt and stared at her. "You're getting a divorce? Just because of what he did to me?"
"Yes, there's that and I have other reasons that I don't want to talk about, at least not right now anyway. I'm tired of the way both of them treat me and I want nothing to do with either one of them anymore after everything that they did to both of us."
"Wow, I never expected this from you. I guess there is quite a bit that I don't know about you." Harry was stunned.
"How are you adjusting to being turned, Harry?" Mrs. Figg asked. She thought it would do some good to change the subject for now.
"I don't really feel all that different, to be honest." Harry replied. Harry turned again and buried his face in Severus's shoulder again, but this time it was to gather his thoughts together.
"Severus," Albus started in order to draw some of the attention away from Harry, "I believe that you were summoned last night?"
"I was, yes." Severus stated, catching on that the change of subject was for Harry's benefit. "I guess now would be a good time to give you my report."
To be continued…