Bond length

Month: 6

Week: 3

Day: 1

Stage: Desire

"You killed dumbledore?!" Lily exclaimed from the opposite room, her feminine voice radiating through the resistance headquarters... it was in this radiation that Harry smiled, for the first time Harry realized just how much Lily was like Molly. The maternal comparisons warmed Harry's heart - for the first time, he no longer felt like an orphan.

"Wait... what?... how?" Lucius expressed, his pauses between words becoming less obvious.

"Just like that?" Narcissia asked.

"You absolute imbeciles!" Mad eye exclaimed "if you believed that, then you fucking give me little hope in the success of this rebellion"

"So... he's not dead?" Harry asked

"No, my boy. He is not dead. i know i am brilliant, but even I dont process that type of skill"

"So... how did you get the ring?" Lily asked

"I told him that the ministry is preforming raids on all family heirlooms. White or dark. The old man, handed his ring over himself. He seemed to think that I knew someone who wouldn't remove the family trace"

"You lied to Albus Dumbledore? And he believed you?" Harry asked surprised

"You'll find Harry; that all ministry trained aurours are proficient in occulamy" this was followed by nods of agreement from the most senior members of the rebellion. ''So...Claudia, do you mind?'' Moody asked again, waving his hand to the ring. Only to have the senior female Malfoy, click her tongue. Claudia waved her wand wordlessly producing two identical rings. Moody scooped up the duplicate, pocketed it before he ended the conversation with an automation nod.

A few tense minutes had passed before the sun officially set, being replaced by a high shining full moon. It was as if time stood still as Harry watched his lover transform into a palm sized bat - Draco's grey eyes still shinning protectively.

"No observation. No vigilance." mad eye muttered to himself "first you believe an improbable story... then you fail to keep track of the Lunar cycles"

"Alastor!" Lucius barked, as a bigger bat landed on his left shoulder and begun to nudge his neck - demanding affection, which Lucius responded to by patting the Snape bat under this tiny ears.

The bigger bat nipped the little one and together they flew off into the moonlight.

"So... does that mean I'm staying here tonight?" Harry asked

"Spending some time with your mother... must be awful" Lily replied, re- adjusting one of her sons curls back behind his ear, before she made her way into the kitchen.

That night Harry dined on his mothers fried chicken; eating much more then his stomach could handle. There was something about the emotional tries and comfort of a meal cooked by your mother - especially since you grew up think you'll never taste that pleasure.

By Saturday morning, Harry was emotionally and physically satisfied. A satisfaction that ended when his mother called him down for breakfast. Only for Harry to be mid mouthful of buttermilk pancakes when she mentioned it. Something that Harry has desperately been trying to put out of his mind for the last few weeks. "Are you ready for the omega plan this weekend?"

"As in am I ready to be used as a living vessel to hopefully die in order to destroy a tainted piece of soul that lives in me?"

"Not in so many words" Lily replied, tossing a pancake into the air, catching it flawlessly back into the pan.

"I haven't given it much thought"

"And nor is he going too" Snape interjected from the dinning room, his grey pj bottom ruffled from a restless nights sleep. "Harry will be fine"

"Not if you don't find a way to destroy these horcruxes beforehand dad" Draco added, kissing his mate on the cheek as distraction to steal one of his many pancakes.

"Who said I havent gotten a way?" Snape added. Pouring himself a black cup of coffee; skulling it without the slightest hint of milk and sugar.

"Do you?" Lily asked

The smirk that Snape interjected was both horrifying and comforting.

"Potter, I need to borrow your snake"

"My what?"

"Your snake... I believed you call him Zues?"

"Why do you need my snake?"

"I, Potter. Have obtained the dairy Alexandra Prince."

"That doesn't answer my question"

"Legend has it that Alexandra Prince was the founder of horcrux production"

"So...?"

"So... the dairy only opens to snake venom"

"... I left Zues at Hogwarts"

"I am aware Potter, never the less I require his presence tomorrow night"

By midday Saturday Harry, Draco and Snape was back at Hogwarts. Their absence gone some what unnoticed.

Harry found Zues napping quite happily on Harry and Draco's bed, his parseltounge sleep talking humoring Harry; it seems the snake was mimicking the threats snake was sending an unfourtante mouse he saw and failed to catch the morning before, it was the empty and rather over-simplified plan to obtain wizarding word domination; that made Harry smirk.

"Despite the fact that Zues is a venomous snake, who could kill a man in 10 seconds... I have to admit he absolutely adorable when he's sleeping" Harry mentioned, patting the snake on his head, causing his whispering to increase.

"Somehow I don't imagine calling Zues adorable will go down too well " Draco replied

"Oh no... he will kill me."

Draco's Slythren automatic response to Harry's smart arse reply was simply to smirk. Harry would never admit it, but it's Draco's innate Slythren persona was what Drove Harry's desire. It was the cunning aspects that came to Draco naturally - not the ones he had to force. Harry leaned over and peaked his mate on the cheek. "Never stop"

"Stop what?"

"Just... never stop being a Slythren" Harry's head nesseled into the crock of Draco's neck, as the blonde placed an arm around Harry.

"I couldn't if I tried"

It took 3 days for Zues to return from Snape's office. Completely ecstatic hissing about his joy of unlocking an ancient and noble book - a book, that Zues had heard about endlessly in the reptile world. A book, unbeknownst to both Harry and Draco to be legendary.

Draco and Harry knew what Snape was plotting, when on Thursday he was mysteriously absence. Rumors quickly spread that the Slythren potion master was slipped a WWW product by the youngest male Weasley - which apparently lead to the potion master exchanging bodily fluids at a fast and uncontrollable rate... the rumor was obviously false, but that didn't stop Ron from claiming credit, spraying details about how his twin brothers was constantly sending products that needed "testing" to him - allocating specific products for specific people. This, hilariously lead to Ron excitedly exclaiming a rather unfortunate product the twins supposedly sent him to try on the youngest Malfoy heir... a product that Ron seemed to exclaim louder every time Draco was within sight.

It was Thursday night, while enjoying a casserole selection in Draco's dorm that Harry felt it. His physical and psychological strength completely drain him. Occulmaly Shields shot straight up, blocking even Harry from him very own thoughts, feelings, senses & surroundings. Before Harry knew it, he was saw nothing, he felt nothing and he was nothing. After magically cleaning the curried lamb casserole off his mates face, Draco levitated Harry into bed, stripped him and redressed him- before sending an elf to fetch his dad the second he returned. The hours that followed was daunting. Harry's fever increased causing his body convulse. It was the sleepy whispering in parstletounge that caused Draco's heart to race and his hand to twitch. Draco watched as his hand moved before his brain comprehended what was happening, within a matter a milliseconds Draco was recording his mates parseltounge whispers.

Snape arrived in the early hours of Friday morning, took a single look at Harry and nodded in reply

"Just as I suspected, the horcruxes has gone into a defensive stance."

"So, he's stuck like this?"

"Perhaps for the next few hours while the news passes to Voldemort, but not permanently"

Draco hand glided gently into Harry's black locks, shifting his hair away from his sleeping eyes. "Oh, love".

"How... did you destroy the horcruxes anyway Dad" Draco asked, with out looking up from his mate.

"Simple, once I found out the department of mysteries had a vail between life and death, I simply ... forced ... the horcruxes into it".

"Forced?"

"I may have destroyed the entire department doing it... but it's done" it was as Snape was glancing back over to his son, seeing the pure desire in Draco's grey eyes that he finally asked

"Is Harry ready to die tomorrow night?"