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"speech"

'thoughts'

"parseltongue"

A/N: Sorry it took so long to get this chapter out and that it is so short, but my muse has gone on a long vacation without me. Hopefully I will be able to get more out shortly, though.

Chapter 10

Seth drifted awake slowly. He was surrounded by an unusual feeling of warmth die to the fact that he was currently wrapped tightly in Lucius' embrace. While he would have liked to stay there, nature was calling, so he slipped out of Lucius' arms and headed into the bathroom. When he was done, Seth decided that since he was already up and in the bathroom anyway, he might as well get into the shower. The hot water relaxed him, and he let his mind drift while standing under the spray. Eventually his thoughts turned to everything that he had learned about his second mate the previous night. To him, it sounded like Voldemort was one of those people who would only take advice when it came from behind closed doors, though it seemed that he had good reason. No on followed an indecisive leader, let alone such a ruthless group. Seth only hoped that Voldemort would be as quick to overlook their mutual past as he had been.

The sudden press of a body against his back jerked Seth from his thoughts. "Mmmm. Good morning, Lucssiusss. What isss the plan for the day?"

"Well, first I'm going to pound into you until you scream. Then I though we could go down to breakfast. I know that you said you don't eat like a human anymore, but I would enjoy the company. After that, we'll start teaching you how to apparate. Hopefully it will not take you more that a couple of days to learn how to do so. Once Severus arrives, I will have him work with you while I get a hold of my contacts to get you that birth certificate. The rest of the day depends on if you learn how to apparate or not."

"Oncsse I manage to learn to apparate, I would like to get back to sssee my children and check up on them asss sssoon asss possssssible. I will alssso be ssspeaking with their father about letting them at leassst come to visssit with me occasssionally."

"That will be acceptable." That was the last bit of intelligent conversation heard from either of them for quite some time as Lucius carried out the first part of his plan for the day.

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When Lucius and Seth finally entered the dining room, Draco was already there and had started in on his own breakfast. He looked up when he heard the two entering and offered a smile. "Good morning Father, Seth. How are you doing today?"

Lucius smiled back at his son. Good morning to you as well, Draco. I am quite well, thank you."

Seth offered his own greeting as he and Lucius joined Draco at the table. "How wasss you night, Draco? Did you sssleep well?"

"It was great! I dreamt I was flying and playing quidditch. I was the captain of the Slytherin team at Hogwarts, and everybody loved how good I could fly." Draco went on describing his dream, while Seth smiled at his softly. He was already growing to love Draco as a son. He already thought of him as such, since he was mated with the boy's father. He only hoped that Lucius would love Seth's own children as much as he loved Draco.

That led Seth to another thought. How would his children react to him having two mates? Not only that, but how would Salriss react? Would they be accepting of the two humans in their lives? Where would they all live, and would they live together or separately? There were so many questions running through Seth's mind, but no answers were readily available. He would just have to wait until he could get over to see Salriss and the children so that they could discuss the matter.

Breakfast passed quickly for the three, and before they knew it, it was time for Draco to go to his daily lessons, and Lucius and Seth headed outside to start teaching Seth how to apparate.

Lucius led Seth to a large open area. "This should do," he stated. "To apparate, first you must know where it is that you are apparating to. In this case, we will set a location just a few feet away from you. Next, visualize yourself there. Finally, you draw on your magic and will your body to be there instead of where you currently are. Given what you have learned to do on your own already, I don't foresee this taking you more than a day or two at most to get it. One word of warning, though. You should not attempt to learn to apparate while you are alone. There is something known as splinching where you accidentally leave a part of you body behind while the rest of you goes to the new location. It is reversible, but until it is taken care of, it is quite painful. Any questions?"

Seth shook his head in answer, trying not to think about splinching himself. Lucius made a white circle on the grass and they settled in for a long day of training.

After a couple of hours of practice, Severus arrived to help teach Seth. Once Lucius spotted him, he approached Severus to speak with him for a moment. "Severus, if you would take over for a little while by yourself, I need to get in contact with a few people about getting the birth certificate set up. So far there has not been much progress, but I did not want to leave him on his own in case of a splinching accident."

Severus agreed and headed over to watch Seth's attempts to apparate while Lucius headed back into the house. While Lucius may have figured out that Seth was actually Harry Potter, Severus had not yet made the connection. He had been thinking about it all night, and he still could not figure out who the boy was, and it was driving him insane. Of course, it never crossed his mind that the boy could possibly be Potter since the Headmaster at his school, the old fool Dumbledore, he not been panicking about his precious "savior" being missing. The idea that he might not know if anything happened to Harry had never crossed his mind, since the boy was supposed to be so very important. After all, if it had been anyone on Voldemort's side of the war, they would never have let the boy out of their sight, and he would have been guarded zealously. The fact that he had not worked out that Seth was actually so much younger than his appearance suggested did not help any.

The rest of the day passed swiftly as Lucius worked on getting the birth certificate while Severus watched over Seth in his attempt to learn how to apparate. Lucius rejoined the other two toward the end of the afternoon, happy that he had completed his task and had the forged birth certificate in his hand. Now all that was left was for Seth to actually apparate.

Severus was about to call it a day when Seth finally managed to apparate to the circle. His face lit up and he whirled around to face Lucius and Severus. They both smiled at him proudly. It was not often that someone could learn to apparate in a single day. Seth quickly made his way over to the two men.

"Thank you for your assssssissstancsse. I fell that I need to return home for the night to ssspeak with my children and Sssalrissssss. You both may know about them, but I feel I ssshould tell them asss sssoon asss possssssible ssso we may dissscussssss how we will work thingsss out from here." After giving Severus a nod and Lucius a quick peck on the lips, Seth disappeared.

Noticing the look that Severus was giving him, Lucius said, "Let me tell you what happened last night, my friend…"

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