A/N: So did everyone like the little bout of Ginny bitch? I hope you all did, because that's only the beginning, I found my little big bad in this story and it's going to be a lot of fun. A quick response though to SLK: no The Weasley's aren't under a spell…..it will be explained in this chapter actually, because some people are curious little buggers.

::::: Previously:

Analessia slumped back into the couch and sighed. "What a day. How about when the kids are all in bed we have a few rounds of Transylvanian Vodka to relax?"

Harry laughed, "I'm game."

Severus rolled his eyes. "I think I'll just stick to my firewhiskey and have a batch of hangover potions ready."

Analessia grinned. "Bring it on pup." She laughed linking arms with both men and walking out of the room to enjoy the rest of the day.

Chapter 13: Looking forward to the future

Severus and Harry stepped into the candy shop with Scorpius, Teddy, Albus, Analessia, and George. Severus shook his head at how crowded the place was and sighed. "I will never understand the appeal of such sweets."

Harry chuckled, "oh come on love, you can't tell me you don't have the occasional sweet tooth."

The elder male arched an eyebrow. "I have never had the desire to indulge in such a way."

"Not even in bed?" Harry stood on tiptoe to whisper in his lovers ear, "because I happen to enjoy having sweet treats eaten off of me. As well as I like to eat sweet treats off my bed mate." He purred, "Imagine Sev, tying me down to the bed, cockring around my aching prick, as you lick chocolate sauce and whipped cream off of any part of my body that you chose."

Severus bit back a moan at the images playing around in his head and cut a hard look at his young mate. "Using the life-mate link like that is very dangerous Mr. Potter…it could get you into trouble."

Harry gave a mock shiver, "are you planning on spanking me?" His eyes flashing more silver than green in his lust.

Severus's hand slid down Harry's back and he gripped the younger man's pert ass and gave a low growl. "Keep tempting me Mr. Potter and you will find out, I have no problem dealing out a punishment to you."

"Alright you two break it up." Analessia said as she pushed her way between them. "Here take these," she said handing them each a blood pop. "We've all been out in the sun so we need to be discreet about it," she muttered, the end of her own pop sticking out of her mouth.

The elder of the Strigoi quickly unwrapped the suckers and stuck them into their mouths before anyone could say anything. "How did you buy these without arousing suspicion?" Severus asked softly.

"Hello, 300 year old Strigoi here, I can do pretty much anything, yes I bought them but I just altered a few things in the store keeps memories. I've been doing this longer than you two have been alive."

"So, how goes wooing George?" Harry teased her, thinking it better to change the subject quickly.

She blushed hotly and tugged at Strigoi pendant. "Well, well I think…or at least I hope so. I still feel so nervous around him, but after the ritual he does seem happier."

Harry looked over to where George was browsing candies with the boys, "he does seem like himself…back when Fred was around. I don't know what you did Ana, but thank you. George is like a brother to me, seeing him so happy and relaxed now, it's nice. Before your dinner his eyes had this shadow to them, he looked so haunted, but now he looks and acts like himself."

"WHAT?!" George roared making the whole store look at him as Albus tried to calm him down. The irate redhead stormed over to Harry and took his arm. "You, me, outside, now." He growled out.

Severus felt a snarl in his throat at the way the other man handled his mate. "Mr. Weasley I suggest-"

"Severus, it's alright." Harry said softly, "keep your head." He fallowed George outside and led him to an awning that offered some protection from the sunlight. "What is wrong George?"

"Please tell me that what Albus just said didn't happen, that my little sister said those things." George pleaded.

Harry sighed, "no George, she said them…it was all recorded by Kingsley…I wish that Albus didn't hear them, but he did."

George ran his fingers through his hair and tugged at the ends. "But that's just not Gin…she's never once said that about any child, hers or otherwise. And what does she mean by she should have given him up? You were at the Hospital with her, she fell in love with that baby…yeah you two didn't stay together but she loved that little baby. Someone must have given her a potion or she's under a curse."

Harry sighed again, "no George, she's not. We kept a lot of things from you guys, those couple of months before I left the Burrow…before I ran back here to Hogwarts, we had a really bad fight." Harry ran his fingers through his hair, "at dinner that night…you weren't there, but I got a letter. It was from Kingsley letting me know that everything was in order; I gave half of all my assets including everything Sirius left me and half my own personal vault to be given to Hogwarts to be used in the rebuilding effort. I didn't tell Ginny, and she read the letter over my shoulder. She stormed up to our room and I fallowed her. She cast a stronger silencing charm than your mother could get through, in fact I don't think even your eaves dropping ears could get through. She was pissed, no pissed isn't even a good word for it. She was downright furious, she hated that I would give that much money to rebuild something. Not when it could have been used to buy us a large house. She admitted to always hating that I had money, but never used it."

"I never used that wealth because I kept forgetting I had it, I was happy with Ginny and with the rest of your family. I had a son that I loved with all my heart that I still love and would do anything for. But after that Ginny, she just became so bitter. She believed that being with me might give her what your family never could, she could have all the ball gowns and the high class things, she wanted to be one of those pure-blood families, wanted to be part of that life like the Blacks or the Malfoys. She envied how Lady Malfoy could just sweep into the room and everyone paid attention to her, Ginny wants that."

George slumped against the tree and shook his head, "so my little sister has turned into a money grubbing whore that was not what I had expected." He murmured, "I get that we didn't have much growing up…but mum and dad did the best for us. We had a family that loved us, more than what those pure-blood assholes can say. We didn't have duty or anything to our family, we had love. I thought Ginny knew that, I can understand my dad's view on Albus living with you and Severus, dads a little homophobic, which is kinda funny if you think about it. A homophobic wizard, what a stupid thing to be."

"I don't think it has to do with me being gay, it think it has everything to do with Severus being an ex-Death Eater, he was a spy for so long and no one trusted him, even with the memories that I showed at every trial."

"You might have a point there mate," George blew out a breath and looked up at the sky through the swaying leaves. "Does Albus know anything about why you left the Burrow?"

Harry nodded, "he asked me about it on one of our visits, when he came to my flat in Diagon Alley before I started teaching here. He's a bright kid…really bright, I have no idea where he got it from, probably my mum, it must have skipped a generation or something, but he asked me and I couldn't lie to him. Granted I did soften it up, pinned more of the blame on me and not on his mother, I didn't want him to think she drove me out. I left because I needed to George, but now, now I have my son…and I think that Ginny will be happier to forget about me."

"Oh, she's not going to forget you, you have to remember you are a dear friend of mine, you helped me and Fred open up the store, we don't let anyone forget about that, which reminds me, I have what you gave us to open the store plus 17 years of interest." George grinned and Harry shook his head.

"Don't bother George, keep it, I don't need it, half the Potter vault is still there, as well as it keeps growing from my paychecks as well as the mystery donations from the Ministry."

George shrugged. "Fine tell you what, I'll give you half, to put into an account for Albus, the rest I'll keep…but use it to…do something." His voice trailed off as his gaze found Analessia walking out of the sweets shop with everyone else.

"So use it on Analessia?" Harry smiled, "dunno George, it might take more than money to woo her."

George grinned, "Oh I know, but don't make it sound as if all I have to me is money, I am the King of Pranks now, since Fred is gone, but now I don't have to fight for her attention, I plan on making her mine Harry, I just have to figure out how."

"Here's some advice, just tell her you twit. Ana is a good woman but she knows when someone is worth something, hell look at what she did for Severus."

George gave him a mock horrified look. "Are you comparing me to Snape? The greasy bat of the dungeons? You wound me!" George cried dramatically wrapping his arms around the tree's trunk and sobbing into the wood.

Severus arched an eyebrow at the younger man, "I would think being compared to a brilliant Potions Master would be an honor, yet you still insist I am greasy."

Albus and Scorpius laughed. "Oh Uncle George Angie was looking for you, apparently you are wanted for an article for some magazine or another." Albus said.

George sighed as he let go of the tree and looked to Analessia and he held out his arm. "Would you care to accompany me m'lady?"

"Oh m'lady now? I think a girl could get used to being called that." She laughed winking at Harry before slipping her hand into his arm and walking off with him.

Albus turned to his dad holding out another blood pop, "here ya go dad, I picked up a few more of them just in case ya know?"

Harry smiled as he took the sucker and laid his arm over Albus's shoulder. "Thanks kiddo. You doing alright?"

Albus sighed, "yeah, I'm alright. I kinda figured that was kinda gonna be what was going to happen with mum…maybe if she just cools off she'll reconsider the whole not seeing me anymore thing. Not that it would really matter to me, she hardly saw me when I was living at the Burrow. Can I just not think about it for a while?"

"Sure, but you do know that Severus and I are here to talk when you need to don't you?"

"Corse dad, by the way, where will be living? Your flat is a little small."

"At Spinners End of course." Severus said smoothly.

"Spinner's End?" Albus and Harry asked in unison.

"Yes, my home when I am not at Hogwarts, granted it doesn't often get used, but it is still a home. I have been fixing it up over the past 10 years since I woke up. It was my childhood home, and while the current memories of it aren't the best, I want to make new memories there, I want to make it into the home that I never had. The town has changed much since I was last there, it's cleaned up and the houses look better. The river is cleaned up and the Factory has been turned into an art school and now there's even culture festivals there. I think we could be very happy there."

Harry slid his hand into his mates and smiled. "As long as you are there Severus, I will be happy anywhere."

Albus gaged but grinned. "We're going there for Christmas right?"

Severus nodded, "yes we are, it will be nice to have some life in that place." He pulled his mate closer and smiled, "turning Spinner's End into the home it deserves to be will make everything easier, especially when I tire of teaching bratty little first years like you two." He teased Scorpius and Albus.

Scorpius scowled, "I am not bratty."

"You take after your father Scor, of course you are bratty. Just not as much of a prat when he was your age." Harry laughed.

"Oh wait till I tell Draco you just said that dad, I am going to have to laugh if you get a howler at breakfast."

Severus chuckled and made shooing motions with his hands, "alright you two, you better go off and enjoy the rest of your day, we'll be around just walking and talking. Go have fun with your friends." He watched as the boys rushed off and he pulled Harry behind the tree and pushed him up against the tree trunk. "Are you alright love?" He asked softly, onyx eyes gazing into emerald, love and concern shimmering in their dark depths.

Harry sighed as he slid his fingers along Severus's chest. "Yes, I'm fine, I guess I shouldn't be shocked at how this morning went. But I got my son back, that's all that matters. Now I can watch him grow up…there was a period there that I was scared I would be what my father is to me."

Severus stroked his jaw lightly, "and what is that love?"

"Just a name of a face in a photograph."

Severus sighed and held him close, "that will never be the case, Albus knows and adores you. You are his hero and his father, thankfully he is not as insufferable as his grandfather, and I don't think I could handle three James Potters in my life."

Harry chuckled and kissed him lightly, "I bet you never thought you would end up mated to the son of the man that you despised."

"I never thought I would live long enough to even have a lover, or a family. I gave my life up when I went into the Dark Lords service; I never expected to come out with my life or my sanity."

"Who says you're sane? You are marrying me after all; imagine what the Tabloids will say."

Severus rolled his eyes. "Potter if you don't shut that mouth of yours and just accept that I love you and am happy I will be forced to do it for you."

Harry quirked an eyebrow in challenge. "Bring it on you old bat," he challenged.

Severus growled softly as he swooped down for a lengthy kiss, pressing his lover between himself and the tree enjoying the feel of him there. He reluctantly pulled back from the kiss and rested his forehead against his lovers. "I think it's time we stop looking at the past and set our eyes on the future, the one we can create together." His hand slid down to rest over Harry's abdomen. "And any new additions that we can hope to expect."

Harry smiled up at him placing his own hand over his. "Are you saying you want children with me Severus?"

"Of course I am. Can't let Albus grow up thinking he can be a spoiled prat because he doesn't have any younger siblings to compete with."

Harry laughed and pushed at his shoulder lightly. "We shall see about that, what are the laws about Strigoi having children?" He teased.

"One every 100 years, but Albus won't count because he is yours from your mortal life, and mortal to boot, we can still have our own children."

Harry laughed and shook his head. "You would point that out, c'mon lets go have a look around, I want to see what else is set up here." He laced his fingers with Severus's and gave him a small kiss before leading him off to the rest of the fair.

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