"speech"
'thoughts'
"parseltongue"
A/N: Darn muse. It would not let go of this no matter how hard I tried, so the story is now HP/LV/LM…..stupid muse….
Chapter 9Lucius stood in front of the door absolutely stunned. The very person hailed as the one who had defeated his Lord, even temporarily, and was expected to save the supposed "Light" side was abandoned by the muggles, raised by a basilisk, and was so Slytherin Lucius would almost swear that he was the reincarnation of Salazar himself. Draco shifted beside him, drawing his attention back to the here and now. He threw the boy a reassuring smile before knocking on the door. A soft "Come in" drifted through. Lucius opened the door, ushering his son inside.
Seth had obviously been making himself at home. He had undone several buttons on his new robes leaving what most would consider an indecent amount of skin showing. Currently, he was stretched out on the couch, looking like an invitation to sin. Even knowing that the gorgeous young man in front of him was not only the same age as his son, and Harry Potter on top of that, he could not help the surge of lust that shot through him when he saw Seth in such a disheveled state.
Flicking his tongue out a tiny bit, Seth's attention was caught by the scent of lust coming from Lucius. He turned and gave Lucius an intense look, watching as the blonde tried not to squirm under the blazing yellow eyes that were focused on him. A contemplative look crossed Seth's face before he wiped off all emotion and turned his attention to Draco. Lucius breathed out in relief, then put aside the thoughts and feelings that the past few minutes had brought out in him for later contemplation and stepped into his role as host.
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After he had settled in to wait, Seth thought about something that had been unsettling him all day. Lucius' scent. The first time that he had gotten a hint of the scent, his instincts had perked up, urging him to trust the human. Not only that, but his body was reacting in unexpected and embarrassing ways to the beautiful blonde. This was extremely disconcerting to Seth, as he had sworn to never truly trust a human again, and now his own instincts were betraying him. It had also been one of the reasons that he had been unable to kill the two men when they had cornered him in the first place.
Seth was jolted out of his thoughts by a knock on the door. "Come in."
The door opened, revealing the object of Seth's thoughts, as well as a miniature version of him, who simply had to be the son that Lucius had mentioned bringing over earlier. He flicked his tongue out to catch the scent of the newest human of his acquaintance. The boy's scent was pleasant enough, but it was the addition to Lucius' scent that sent a jolt through his and had all of his blood rushing south. It was the scent of his mate, yet at the same time, it seemed incomplete, almost like it was only half there. A memory came to mind suddenly, one of the children's lessons he had overheard a few months back.
flashback
Salriss was coiled in front of the children for their lesson. "I know that I have told you about what to expect if and when you meet your mate, however I feel that you should know about something that rarely happens. Every once in a great while, a basilisk will have two mates instead of only one. There have only been a handful of times when this was the case, but each time that it has happened, there were great changes among the basilisks, and I cannot help but feel that you three being born the way you are is a herald for even greater changes to come. Now, the way to tell if you have more than one mate is actually quite simple. The scent of the first one you meet will scream mate to you, as usual, but it will also feel like there is something missing. That feeling will only stop when you meet with you third mate. Also, the heat will not occur in any females until all three are together. Other than that, the relationship is basically the same as any other, only with an extra person. Do you have any questions?" The children shook there heads as Seth headed outside.
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'Well,' Seth thought to himself, 'I guess that answers the question of whether or not I will have a mate.' Not only would he have a mate, he would be one of the handful ever to have two! When he realized that he had one of his mates right there in the room with him, Seth studied Lucius more intently than ever. The lust that he had scented earlier increased even more as the two stared at one another. Satisfied that there was noting that he could find to indicate any weaknesses, Seth's thoughts turned to more carnal things. There was no doubt in his mind that the sex would be fantastic. Now he just had to discover who their third mate was. Seth pondered that for a moment before deciding that he would worry about it when the time came. He turned his attention back to Draco, waiting for an introduction.
Lucius visibly drew himself together and made the introductions. "Seth, this is my son Draco. Draco, this is our guest Seth."
"Pleasssed to meet you, Draco," Seth greeted.
Though he was visibly startled by the hissing quality of Seth's voice, Draco recovered quickly and replied, "I am pleased to meet you as well." As with all children, Draco was insatiably curious, and Seth could almost see the question the boy had welling up inside of him.
"I sssee that you have quessstionsss, Draco. I do not have much time to anssswer them all tonight, but I would be willing to anssswer at leassst a few of them."
Draco's face lit up and he started firing questions at him. "What does it feel like to have scales? Are you cold-blooded like a snake? Is the rest of your family like you? How old are you? Do you know how to fly?" He opened his mouth to ask more questions, but Seth held up his hand.
"It hasss been ssso long sssincsse I did not have ssscalesss that I do not really remember what it isss like to not have them. Yesss, I am cold-blooded. The ressst of my family, well, let'sss jussst sssay that they are unique. I will tell you more about them when there isss more time. I am not cssertain how old I am, I lossst track of time sssincsse my human family left me in the foressst. Asss for flying, if that isss sssomething that humansss can do with their magic, no I cannot at the moment, but maybe you could teach me, Draco." That last answer brought an interesting look of amazement, pity, and joy to Draco's face.
Seth smiled at the boy indulgently. It took so little to please Draco. Hopefully he would get along with Seth's children, whom he would be bringing to the manor with him occasionally now that he knew that Lucius was one of his mates. "Thossse lessssssonsss will have to wait for a short while, though. Firssst I mussst learn a few other thingsss. Maybe we will be able to ssstart them in a few weeksss. In the meantime, I have sssome quessstionsss of my own for your father. Perhapsss we can ssspeak more tomorrow night and get to know one another better."
While Draco appeared less than pleased to have to leave so soon after meeting such an interesting person, he did not make any objections. He made his goodbyes and left the room.
After Draco left, the two men still in the room became acutely aware that they were now completely alone with nothing to interrupt them for the rest of the evening. While Lucius struggled against the lust raging through his body, convinced that he would scare away his young guest, Seth embraced it, intending to claim the first of his mates. Wearing what he hoped was a seductive look, Seth slithered off the couch and started stalking his mate.
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I cannot write sex scenes, so just assume they screwed each other into unconsciousness.
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After waking from a sated sleep, Lucius' mind finally started to work again, but he was extremely confused. He had had a similar reaction to only one other person in his life, and he had thought that it had meant that the other person who had gotten the reaction was his mate. While he was trying to figure out what had happened, Seth woke up next to him and could sense his turmoil, if not the cause of it.
"What troublesss you ssso Lucssiusss?"
Lucius sighed heavily. "I don't know what is happening and why I had such a strong physical reaction to you when I had thought that I had already found my mate. I dislike not knowing what is going on."
Seth was astonished by what Lucius had said. Here he had been thinking that it would take forever to find their second mate now that he had found the first one, but it appeared that he was actually the last one to be found. "You know who our other mate isss? Where isss he? When can we go sssee him?"
Unsure which surprised him more, the fact that they could possibly be a trio or the fact that Seth did not seem surprised by that fact, Lucius could only stare at Seth. By the time Seth had finished his questions, he had managed to pull himself together. "How can you be so sure that you are my mate, let alone that we have a third?"
Seth looked at Lucius, surprised once again "Are you humansss unable to tell when you meet your mate? Among the basssilisssksss, the ssscent of the other is the telling thing. Your ssscent ssscreams mate to me, but at the sssame time it isss missssssing sssomething. That isss how a basssilisssk knowsss that there isss ssstill another mate out there, though I mussst admit that there have only been a few timesss in hissstory where there were a trio of matesss. Isss it unusssual among humansss asss well?"
"Yes, though it sounds like it is not quite as rare among us as it is with basilisks. There is usually only one trio every three or four generations. As for our other mate, he is the one I also call Lord. His name is Voldemort. As to where he is…" Here Lucius trailed off as a new thought occurred to him. Everyone had been wondering exactly how it was that a mere baby could survive the killing cures, and here was the answer, staring him right in the face. Mates were unable to kill each other. It was such a simple, obvious answer, it was a wonder no one else had thought of it. Hoping that Seth would be understanding, Lucius started his explanation of what had happened to their other mate.
"To tell you about what happened to our mate, I will need to give you some background information on the wizarding world, so I beg your indulgence for the rather lengthy explanation. There are many different groups among the magical population. The main ones are the purebloods, those who can trace their family back through at least five generations of magical people, whether human or not, on both sides of the family. Muggleborns are magical people who were born to non-magical parents. We call the non-magical people muggles, hence the term. Finally there are the half-bloods. They are those that have a muggle or muggleborn in their family tree sometime in the last five generations. Within each group there are many subgroups, but these are the important ones for the moment.
"The problem comes in with muggleborns and quite a few of the half-bloods as well. The magical strength of the average muggleborn is far lower than that of the average pureblood. Most half-bloods are stronger than a muggleborn, though still not as strong as the average pureblood. There are usually only one or two half-bloods every generation that are as strong as a pureblood. While this is somewhat alarming, it would not be too large of a problem in and of itself. The main problem that is causing a great deal of friction is the fact that there are so many muggleborns and half-bloods in the magical community that are bringing in many of the muggle prejudices. They have been known to have problems with couples of the same sex, or even trios like us. They limit some of their people based on what sex they are, what color their skin is, and just about anything else that makes a person different than they are. When they entered the wizarding world, new prejudices were created against existing creatures here as well. In the past one hundred years, there have been more and more problems cropping up from these prejudices brought into our world.
"Into this volatile situation came a young half-blood named Tom Riddle. He had been raised at a muggle orphanage where he was treated horribly due to being different. After he had entered the wizarding world, had had to watch as the prejudices that he had thought he had left behind in the muggle world crept into his beloved new home. After watching for several years, he decided that he would do whatever it took to keep us from becoming as much of a travesty as the muggle world was. He proposed many radical changes that were not well received, as they were rather anti-muggle, especially since a new icon of the light side in the form of the muggle loving old coot known more commonly as Dumbledore had emerged. Finally getting frustrated with the resistance to his ideas, he took off some time to attempt to gain immortality, as it had become obvious to him that the changes he wanted would not happen in his natural lifetime. He used many dark rituals and eventually gained at least a measure of the immortality he so desperately wanted.
"He then started to gather together the people that he found that agreed with his ideas, who he called Death Eaters in honor of his immortality. They were all willing to do whatever was necessary to save their way of life, up to and including killing. Now, this terrified many of the people of the wizarding world, and eventually another group was formed from the people who followed Dumbledore's beliefs called the Order of the Phoenix. This action brought about the war. The fighting went on for over ten years when news leaked that there was a prophecy. The one that Voldemort heard stated that one of two children who were going to be born at the end of July would be able to defeat him. Having heard this, he made plans that went into effect a bit over a year later. While he was not very happy with the idea of killing off babies, he would not let anything stand in his way. He thought it better that a few died rather than be raised in a world similar to the muggle world. On October 31, 1981 he went after the first of the two boys and that is where everything went wrong.
"The baby's parents refused to give him up, as any real parent would. They believed that Dumbledore's idea of the world would be better, so Voldemort killed them first, then went to the child to finish him off. What he did not know then, and still likely does not know is that the prophecy was a fake and the boy was in fact his mate. My guess is that Dumbledore either heard a different prophecy or somehow managed to figure out ahead of time that one of the boys was Voldemort's mate and used it against him, as not only can one mate not kill the other, but also if they try their magic backfires on them and kill the one who tried. Thankfully, in his efforts to gain immortality Voldemort had found a way around it, however it rendered him a mere spirit without a body. He came to me that very night and told me what had happened.
"I was told to remain behind while he went in search of a way to gain back his body, as the only way he knew would require another parselmouth. Since then he has been wandering the world with an occasional visit back here. The length of time between visits can vary anywhere from one to two years, and I do not have any way of contacting his while he is gone. As he was here only a couple of months ago, we will have to wait to speak with him until he returns. This brings me to a question. Will you help Voldemort get his body back, even though his is the one who killed your parents?"
Lucius waited for Seth's reaction as he finished the story and asked his question. He was ready for just about any reaction, after all, it was not every day that you found out that your mate had tried to kill you and did kill your parents. Yet in spite of that, he was almost certain that Seth would accept it as any true Slytherin would.
Seth was thinking through everything that he had been told. In the end, he decided it was hard to get angry at his mate for trying to protect himself and his ideals. Also, if he had not done so, Seth would have likely been raised by muggle loving parents to despise his mates and everything that they stood for. No, the person he was most angry with was Dumbledore, who had set up the whole mess. "While I dissslike the fact that one of my matesss came after me in sssuch a way, I find that I cannot blame him, either. I am jussst thankful that I wasss not raisssed to hate my matesss, asss I sssurely would have been otherwissse. I would be mossst willing to help him gain hisss body back."
Lucius breathed a sigh of relief. "I am certain that once Voldemort learns of the trickery, he will be more than happy to have you join us, especially once he knows that you are also a parselmouth." He stifled a yawn. "For now, though, I believe that it is time to turn in for the night. Do you want me to stay with you?"
"Yesss, pleassse, ssstay," Seth mumbled as he drifted off. Lucius looked down at his young mate affectionately before he too closed his eyes and succumbed to Morpheus.