Hello there, this is my first fanfic ever! I have always just been one to read other people fanfics but I got frustrated waiting on updates so I just decided to make one myself. Because why not?

I'm sorry if I have no talent at all to be writing up a fanfic but just bear with me!

Chapter 21

Any misspellings or weird phrasing of words is all my fault and I apologize in advanced.

Everything is owned by J . K . Rowling and anything besides that is mine.

So enjoy!

".…" - dialogues

'.…' - thoughts

(.…) - telepathically communicating

Arian's Mansion, The Neutral Land

Autre Realm, Creature World.

They snuggled on the bed together. Harry laid his head on Arian's chest, listening to his steady heart beat. Tonight's dinner with Gaige spurred a lot of things in his head. After that confession, they had a silent dinner, each and every one of them deep in thought. But after the dinner ended, Harry gave Gaige a hug. Promising him that he would meet Gaige again soon and he apologized if his question had made Gaige went through a painful memory. Gaige only smiled and hugged him back saying that everything is okay with life and he loved to meet them again.

"Arian.."

"Yes love?" Arian was slowly caressing Harry's hair.

"The question I asked Gaige, about what love is to him."

"Yes.."

"I really don't know the definition of love myself…because no one has ever showed me what love really is. I was too young to feel my parent's love, and my aunt's family hates me. But a few years ago, I met an old man at the park near my house in Privet Drive, he was watching the fathers and mothers that was playing with their kids, and I sat next to him, then he told me what love is , he said that love is felt, when one embrace his/her lover, when they hold their hands. He also said that it is to be heard, in the rustle of the leaves, in the cool breeze." Harry chuckled at his last sentence.

"He said love is to be seen in the beauty of the world, in the depth of their lover's eyes, love is to be tasted, like the sweet candy that melts in their mouth, or the way one melt when their lips met.

I don't know what the definition of love is, but does love mean sacrifices and pain?"

Harry went quiet for a while, seemingly trying to gather his thoughts. He raise his head and looked Arian in the eye.

" I really do not know. But what I know is that when you hug me, when you hold my hand, when you kiss me, when we spent the hours before dinner everyday sitting together appreciating life, whenever I look you in the eye, I know that I would do anything for you to be happy and be happy together with me beside you. And I know that you feel the same thing for me."

"Love has no reason, no meaning and no explanation. But for me, love is giving you the power to destroy me, and trusting you not to do so. For as long as I remember, I have always known that I would be an Alpha, the leader of the House. I spent the majority of my life watching my Father. I always secretly watch him stay up late doing tons of paperwork in his study, he was so busy that he would never notice me peeking by the door and I will always be ready at the door to see him coming back home from work, looking tired and watch him stressed over my mother and my other father and us children whenever he thought no one is watching him just to have the satisfaction of seeing his face light up with happiness and contentment, all of his worries and tiredness gone when he sees his mates. All of that stress as the leader was worth it. And I knew since then that I would grow up to be one. I spent 7 years in training, because I want to be able to do my best for my House. And I opened my own academy because I want others that share the same perspective as me to succeed. To be able to have the chance to achieve that satisfaction. All for you love."

The next day, Harry found himself getting ready for another day of hunting. But this time, Arian had someone for him to meet. Harry was quiet intrigued on meeting people that has known Arian a longer time than he has. Today Harry wore a black shirt with a grey cardigan and slim fit black jeans. Arian wore similar colours ,he chose to wear a grey sweater with black jeans.

After feeding Hedwig and making sure her food bowls were full, they went out a couple of hours before lunch.

"I want you to meet one of the instructor in my academy and his House. He has a male submissive mate too, so I think that it would be a new experience for you to meet him."

"Really! That would be fun!"

"When he heard that I got mated with a male submissive, he was eager asking me either we could meet up and talk. So here we are."

Just as they entered the entrance of the bazaar, a group of people approached them.

"Arian! Glad that you could make it!"

The man that spoke up came over and shook hand with Arian.

"Harry this is Seth Tate, one of the instructor."

The man, Seth, was an Angel, his hair was a pale brown, his skin was light and he stood at around 6ft6, the same height as Arian, but his eyes, a solid pearly white was very weird to look at.

"Hello there Harry, Arian told me a lot about you."

"Hullo, I hope he only talked good things about me."

"Well, one can't really talk bad things about their own mate! And he is head over heels for you to even think about anything bad! This are my mates, Alex is my submissive, Jase is our warrior, Auden the protector and Syril is our scholar."

Harry shook everyone's hand or in Alex's case, hugged him back when Alex ignored his hand for a hug instead. Alex was taller than Harry at 5ft7. He has a pair of cat ears on top of his head ,black hair, a black tail swishing around every few minutes and tanned skin.

"I heard about you from Seth, and seeing how you are new here, I thought it would be a good idea for us to hang out for a couple of hours? Spend some submissive to submissive quality time together."

Harry nodded vigorously "I would love that! Can I go Arian?" He turned to look at Arian.

Arian smiled and nodded. "Meet us back at the sitting area for lunch okay? And be careful!"

"You too Alex! Behave!" Seth chipped in.

Alex grinned and kissed Seth on the cheek, he turned around, took hold of Harry's hand and proceeded to run into the bazaar. They can hear Seth's voice telling them to have fun and the others laughing at their antics. Good thing Harry was used to running around and a bit athletic from all the training he had for quidditch.

Alex slowed down after a while and they walked hand in hand together.

"Oh yeah! I'm Alex and I'm a were-panther. And I know that your name is Harry and you are a Niluveras. So how's your hunting? It's your first time hunting right?"

"Well, its okay. I had dinner with one of the potential mate last night. It turned out okay I guess."

"Nahhh, you'll be just fine! I didn't even go hunt when I first turned 16. I met Seth off season. If it is meant to be then it is meant to be. Simple. I know you are stressing yourself out with all this hunting right?"

"How do you handle it? All that hope being sent to you through favours! I feel so guilty rejecting them but I can't just accept all of them!"

"At first I felt like that too, then I realised that its not about them. It's about you!" Alex poked him on the chest. "What mattered most is your feelings. What is the use of accepting all of that people out of guilt and not love? That's cruel!"

Harry was quiet for a while, thinking over what Alex just told him. Alex understood and they kept on walking through the bazaar while Harry mused on.

They walked towards the game section and they played a fishing game, but instead of fishes, they were fishing out ducks.

"Hey Alex.."

Alex hummed.

"How do you know? How do you know you found the right one?"

"That's hard to answer,but for me…I was one of the submissive that didn't let out a Cri, so it was harder for me to actually go out and hunt on my own ya know? That's why I didn't go hunt that time, but I found Seth when I was trying to go to the human realm. I wanted to have a break from all of this dominant/submissive thing. I want to feel normal, to be just Alex. He's an angel, and he was one of the angels that was on duty guarding the gate. They were concerned for me, an unmated submissive, wanting to go out to the human realm, alone. But I was having none of it, I wanted to go no matter what. So Seth decided to go with me, at first I hate him for that, made it look like I was weak or something. Then after some time, he treated me like I'm just Alex to him, not a submissive that is unmated and alone. He went with me because he didn't want the other angels making a fuss over me being alone and all."

Alex fished out a duck that has 5 point written on the bottom, he put it aside and continued to fish out more ducks.

"He stayed with me from the start to the end. And when he sent me home, I asked myself, do I want to let him go? Do I want to see him again? Will this be the end? Would I want to hear his laugh again? See his eyes crinkled from amusement, noticing the whiteness of his eyes shifting from his emotion even though from an outsider's view, they would never noticed anything different, and before I know it, I realised that I can't live without him. I spent 4 days with him in the human realm, and it took me a week after that to finally confessed to myself, to stop lying to myself that I actually already loved him from the first moment he said that he would accompany me to the human realm. So like I said before, if it is meant to be, then it is meant to be. Since then, I listen to my instinct. I never want to go through that agonizing 7 days of doubt and confusion , that 7 days without seeing his smile, hearing his voice, feeling his touch. There's no how, you'll just know when the time comes. Trust yourself Harry."

Alex got another duck and he picked a pair of cat ears as his prize and put it on Harry's head.

"For you."

They laughed and walked out of the game section, towards the sitting area, without them noticing, it was almost time for lunch.

TBC