∞ Thirty-Six ∞
"You're threats, while acknowledged will go unheeded." Severus sniped toward the younger man as he held Luna close to him. She smiled and gave a soft nod.
"I'm afraid I cannot simply stop helping in your discovery. I know you don't understand but this isn't who you truly are. This isn't your future." She barely managed to pry her body from Severus' and kneel in the floor, her wide, open silvery eyes were pleading as she stared into the crimson of the young man before her. "Do you want to know what your future holds? You are not your father, you are not Tom Riddle." She exhaled.
His eyebrows furrowed as he stared down at her. She could feel Severus' confused gaze on the back of her head but kept her gaze firmly ahead.
Please, let me show you. She projected into his mind much to his surprise as Severus knelt down behind her, careful to stay close. She adored his protection, even knowing she did not require it. Still the comfort of his presence did something to soothe her and she appreciated it more than he could ever know. She would have to show him, if she ever woke up.
"Show me what?" He sneered and Luna shook her head, blonde locks flowed around her face and she stuck her hand back into her hair and pulled out her wand. The dream was becoming easier for her to manipulate the longer she remained inside.
"My little dreamer." Severus kissed the side of her head affectionately and watched as she pointed to the bare wall to their left. An image cast, like one of her paintings that moved quickly much like a muggle film.
There companion was there, with his normal colored eyes. He held a giggling girl in his arms, her own wrapped around his neck as she placed big, wet kisses against his cheek. There was a woman, a redhead with big bunchy curls and smiling brown eyes. She swung a little boy around in circles, his own red hair flying backwards and his eyes identical to those of his father. Luna smiled at the scene, one she'd seen when considering him many times.
"Don't you see, you have to fight him. Push him out, Ben. You are not Tom Riddle, you are not your father and you don't have to be. You could have the love that he never believed in." His eyes flashed for a moment before turning back to their disturbing red color.
Luna felt herself slump at the almost nonexistent change and pinched her eyes closed tightly. She cared too much, she was far too close to the situation and she only wanted to save him from a life of suffering. More than that however she wanted to save Severus, to save him from being forced to involve himself in yet another war.
She felt the prickle of tears at the edges of her eyes but forced them back. She was a strong witch. She'd survived the deaths of both of her parents, as well as the second wizarding war. She could survive Tom Benjamin Riddle III.
"You disgust me with all of this talk of love." The image shattered as if it were a mirror and fell crashing to the floor. Severus wrapped her up in his arms and shielded her from the young man's fury in a reflexive act that belied his time away from battle.
"Are you okay, love?" Severus pulled her face back from his chest and stared down into her eyes. She knew he could see every ounce of sadness there but she could do nothing to force it away as he stared down at her. She shook her head. "Let us leave this place, you have caused enough suffering this night." Severus stood, tall and looming over them both and Tom stood as well, as if he could match Snape's height.
He fell only slightly short but seemed dwarfed regardless under the sharp gaze of the elder wizard.
"I warn you, if you threaten her in any way," he stepped closer, his face mere inches from the younger man's. Riddle narrowed his eyes but said nothing as the elder wizard continued to speak, "I will not hesitate to use every resource in my considerable arsenal to bring you down. Innocent boy trapped with the soul of a madman or not. No one will ever lay so much as a finger on her ever again."
He spun in a dramatic twist of billowing black robes and came back to help Luna from the floor. She watched him, completely enraptured by his commanding tone as he held her close to him once more. It seemed to her he needed the comfort of proximity more than she.
"Be gone then." The room faded from them and both sat upright in Severus' bed.
"I love you." Luna reached over to crawl into her fiancé's lap. He grasped her around her waist immediately as she began to pepper little kisses all across his nose and cheeks. "You are the most amazing wizard…" She trailed, kissing his lips next and holding him there for several long moments before releasing him to pull back and stare into his face.
After they'd awoken from the dream Luna had pulled him in to Severus had coaxed her into going back to sleep and now they were officially and entirely awake. He couldn't describe his joy at the slight weight of her in his lap, the way her fingers twined through his hair that must have been grease slicked from sleep. It was naturally oily after all and no amount of washing would ever change that particular genetic predisposition.
Her deep breaths pressed her breasts against his chest and he sighed to himself before burying his fingers in her long, thick blonde hair. "I absolutely adore you, you know this." He smirked at her sweet smile and brought his lips to hers once more.
Playfully she nipped his bottom lip before working her way across his neck and down his bare chest. His mind seized inside him as she continued to inch her way further and further down his body until her cold little fingers were hooked in the waist band of his sleep pants.
Immediately he felt the stir in his groin and his fingers found purchase in her hair to pull her face up to look into his eyes.
"Luna..." His tone was pleading, though for what even he wasn't certain and she gave him a soft smile, her fingers wove through the trail of dark hair down his abdomen gently and his hold on her slackened. He could feel the stir in his groin when she eased the pants from his hips and down to his thighs to free his burgeoning erection.
She licked her lips and his head fell back with a groan. She was going to be the death of him.
Pressing on she lowered her mouth down and her wicked little red tongue flicked out to taste the drop of precum at the head of his cock. She moaned and he released a strangled groan as his hips pivoted upwards in an uncontrollable motion.
She blew and he saw stars to go right along with his little moon. She pressed her lips to him next it what was a foul mockery of a chaste kiss before taking his entire tip into the warm cavern of her mouth and making him groan his pleasure. Her slight fingers grasped his hips and she shifted to take more of him into her mouth and down her throat. Her legs straddled his and his hips rocked once more.
Suddenly there was an extreme application of suction and he gave a strangled cry at the sensation. His breathing coming ragged as she applied herself with interest to the task.
"My gods." His hips thrust once again and she almost choked on the length of him. She eased back some, applying that intense suction once more before pulling back and releasing him with an audible pop.
Her gaze was coy and her cheeks were flushed as she stared up at him from hooded lashes.
"Come here, you." He growled and tugged her up until she was against his chest. He rolled her then and with little effort pushed down her own sleep pants, she kicked them off the edge of the bed and he groaned when his cock found the warmth at the apex of her thighs.
Without penetrating the witch beneath him his length slipped between her labia and found the hot moisture there. He groaned, burying his face in her hair and thrust, rocking himself against her hardened clit and drawing deep moan from somewhere deep inside her.
She cried out and grasped him tightly as he rocked against her, the thick, hard flesh of his cock skimming across her needy clit faster and harder as he hovered over her. His eyes found hers, deep onyx locking with silver and he rocked against her once more, the friction caused her to cry out in completion, the orgasm rocking through her and leaving her panting. He pulled back, seed pouring from his body to coat her lower stomach and mons with its heat and she pulled him down one more time for a deep, languorous kiss.
"Circe, Merlin, and Nimue Severus, I love you." She panted, kissed the side of his head. His hand shot out to grasp his wand and cast a quick cleansing charm across her before he fell to her side and pulled her against his chest.
"I love you as well, my little moon."