Chapter 5

Jaci looked up at her Prince of Darkness as he moved to her, took her into his arms, whispered the words he always did to her.

He sounds so familiar.

Jaci cried out as he bit into her neck. She was shocked when he pulled back and began to kiss around where he bit.

Jaci sat up, it was March now, and she was having the same dream every night, but now she thought of something. She hurried out of bed and ran to her 'office.' She tore open a book and scanned a few lines.

Oh my God, he's a vampire, that's who I'm dreaming about! A vampire! But why? Why am I dreaming about him?

Severus looked up as he walked by some stands, he quickly spotted Jaci's grandmother's stand. He walked over to her. She glared at him, but didn't usher him away, so he walked up to her.

"Excuse me," he muttered. Coty glared at him. "May I speak with you for a while?" Coty raised her left eyebrow, but nodded.

"What do you wish to speak to me about?" Coty asked. Severus took a deep breath.

"About my dreams—"

Jaci smiled as Kristie walked into the shop, but Kristie was not smiling. In fact, Kristie looked down right worried and mad. Jaci looked at her curiously.

"What's wrong Kristie?" Jaci asked.

"YOU! Jaci, that—that man, Severus, is that his name? Jaci, it just clicked to me, you told me two days ago that he's from LONDON, HOW THE HELL IS HE GETTING HERE AND THERE IF HE'S FROM EUROPE? I mean, he came for Christmas, he came for your birthday, one time you told me he came in the morning but forgot his money at his house which has to be in London, so the man comes back in the afternoon!"

Jaci continued to stare at her, before it clicked.  "Oh my God, Kristie you're right, I never, never really thought about it."

"And he dresses in all black, just like the man in your dreams, and he's got a deep voice, just like the man in your dreams!" Jaci gasped. She ran to the book that she had opened that morning and looked at a picture of a vampire, pale, pale skin, black long hair, and dressed in all black, with a black cloak.

"Kristie, it's him, Severus, Severus is my Prince of Darkness, and he's—he's a vampire!"

Coty looked at Severus shocked, she couldn't believe what he had just told her, she shook her head and looked away.

"What? Is it that bad?" Severus asked, worriedly. Coty shook her head again.

"You—you need to go and speak with Jaci about this," Coty said, "she's the one." Severus looked at her curiously, but nodded.

"Thank you," he muttered and walked away, he began to make his way to the shop.

"Kristie, what am I going to do?" Jaci asked, worriedly. Kristie shook her head.

"I don't know, has—has he seen the sign of the cross? I mean, do you have one? Or, or some garlic, or—" they looked up as the door opened and Severus walked in. Jaci shut the book and gave it to Kristie underneath the counter. Kristie took it to the office. Severus grinned and walked up to Jaci. 

"Hello," he said into her ear. Jaci smiled weakly.

"Hello," she pulled back. Severus kissed her cheek.  "How have you been?"

"Just fine."

"That's good, uh, I have your stuff here, there you go, and you don't have to pay me until next week."

Severus looked at Jaci curiously, if he wasn't mistaken, she was hurrying him along. He couldn't understand why.

"Would you like to go out to eat?" Severus asked.

"Uh, I already ate with Kristie," Jaci said.

"Oh, all right. Well then I'll see you next month I suppose, unless you want me to—"

"Get back, get back!" Kristie came running out of the office with a cross in her hand, she held it up in front of herself, and tried to move Severus out the door. He looked at Kristie.

"What?"

"Get back, get out of here!" Kristie yelled. Severus looked up at Jaci.

"Jaci-what's…" he tired to say, but Kristie poked him with the cross. "Ow! Get away from me!" Severus roared.

"Kristie, be careful!" Jaci yelled.

"Don't worry about me Jaci, it's you he wants, I wont let him hurt you!" Kristie said.

"What? What are you two talking about?"

"Oh give it up, you're a fucking vampire!" Kristie said. Severus looked at her shocked.

"What? No I'm not!" 

"Come off it Severus, we know the truth. You're the one who's been giving Jaci all those damn dreams of her and you," Kristie said. She had pushed Severus up against a wall. Severus looked at Jaci shocked.

"What?"

"You know it's true," Jaci said. "At first I didn't know it was you, until Kristie pointed it out. In the dream you were always dressed in a black cloak, wearing black clothing, I'd wear a black dress with my hair down, then you'd ask me to dance, and then you'd tell me that you can show me things I've never seen before, and of course you can, 'cause you're a damn vampire!" 

Severus looked at her shocked. "You're—you're the woman in my dreams?" he asked. "You're the woman in the black dress?" Jaci looked at him curiously, hadn't he known? Hadn't he known she was the one, because he was the one who was trying to get to him?

"Don't buy it Jaci, don't buy it for one second," Kristie said, still holding the cross. Severus had to think of something, he had to convince them, convince Jaci. He thought of something.

"Jaci! Jaci how can I be a vampire if your grandmother threw holy water on me, and it didn't burn? I was fine, you know I was ok!" Severus yelled. Jaci's eyes went wide with realization. She remembered that day.

"No, he's trying to trick you," Kristie said. Severus sighed and shook his head. He reached out and held the cross in his hand. Kristie's eyes went wide. "Oh my God."

"See, I'm telling you!" he stepped closer to Kristie, who stepped back. He placed the cross on the table and looked over at Jaci, then to Kristie. "I have to speak to Jaci personally, so please leave," Severus said quietly. Kristie nodded and took off running through the back door.

Jaci gulped, Severus looked down right scary right now, he looked half pissed, half trying to understand what was going on. She stepped back as he stepped closer to her. Severus growled and ran to her, he backed her up against a wall. Jaci's eyes went wide with fear and Severus cursed. He loosened his grip on her and stepped back a bit.

"We need to talk Jaci," Severus said softly. Jaci shook her head.

"I don't want to talk to you right now," Jaci crossed her arms in front of herself, a gesture of insecurity.

"But we need to talk, you have to know what's going on with me."

"So you're not a vampire, and you're not the man in my dreams, so I made a mistake, now leave." Severus shook his head, he looked down, unable to put his thoughts into words.

"I—I think I am the man in your dreams Jaci," he finally managed to say. Jaci looked up at him confused.

"What makes you think that?"

"Because, for as long as I could remember I'd have a dream about a woman, dressed in black, with a long slit going down her left leg, she wore black shoes, but I could never see her face, and it pissed me off. I would have the dream once a month, then I met you, and it happened twice a month, I was scared, but what could I do? Then after our third meeting I began having it twice a week, and it kept adding up until I began to have the dream every damn night, and I would speak to this woman. I told her that I could…"

"Show her things she'd never seen before." Severus nodded. He sighed.

"I did it because I knew she wasn't like me, and then I became frightened, what if she didn't want to see the things that I could show her? So I asked her if wanted to see them. As the dreams went on, she began to kiss me at my neck, she bit me once," Severus ran a hand over his neck, as if trying to feel a mark, but Jaci knew that there wouldn't be one there. "I was scared and I remembered once that you told me that you told your grandmother your dreams and she would try and figure them out. So I went to her today and she told me to see you, she said—she said that you were the one." Jaci looked at Severus shocked, she couldn't believe what she had just heard. She swooned.

"What—what are you then? What did you want to show me, why were you afraid that I wouldn't want to see them?" Jaci asked, looking up at him. Severus gulped, here it was—the moment of truth. Trembling, he reached into his coat and took out a piece of wood. Jaci looked at her. "It's a stick Severus." Severus shook his head.

He pointed the 'stick' to the chair nearby. "Wingardium Leviosa," he muttered. Jaci gasped as the chair floated up and landed near her, Severus sat her in it. He sighed. "It's not just a stick, it's my wand."

"You're—you're wand? But—a wand means that you have to be a witch!" Severus winced.

"A wizard, I told you I was a Professor, and it's true, I'm the Potions Professor at a wizarding school, well actually I'm the Potions Master. That's why I came here in the first place, I needed special herbs that they didn't have in London, I was lucky to find you. Really lucky."

Jaci couldn't do anything but gap at him. He was—a wizard, a real wizard! How could this be? She shook her head, she had to clear her thoughts.

"Do you want a glass of water?" Severus asked her, Jaci nodded. He waved his wand again and a glass of water appeared in her hand. Shocked, and out of reaction, Jaci let the glass fall with a gasp.  The water splashed everywhere, and soaked their pants.  Severus sighed. He took out his wand again and muttered "Reparo," and the glass became whole again, he muttered a few other words and the mess was cleaned up, and their pants were dried. "Ok, let me do this the other way." He got up and grabbed another glass and poured her some water. He handed it to her. After about five minutes of silence, Jaci put her glass down and looked at him.

"So—you wanted to show me that you were a witc—er—wizard, right? That's why you kept telling me that, right?" Severus nodded. Jaci sighed and stood. "Ok, I want you to show me, and if I don't like it, then—we can forget this whole thing ever happened and you'll go back to your life and I'll go back to mine." Severus nodded. He could make her forget, but heaven help him he didn't want her to.

"All right then, but we have to go somewhere if I'm to take you back to where I live." Jaci nodded. She went into her closet and put on some flip-flops. Then she locked up her house/store. She walked a step behind him, still trying to figure out what was going on and how much her life was about to change.

Severus led her to a little place that she would have never noticed before, inside there were people dressed in robes and in cloaks, she looked up at Severus and tried not to gasp as his clothes transformed into black robes and a black cloak. He looked at her.

"I have to change your clothing, or else they'll think you're a Muggle," he whispered. Jaci looked at him curiously.

"Muggle?" she whispered back. He nodded.

"A person with non-magical powers."

"Oh, ok. Will—will it hurt?" Severus shook his head. He lifted his wand and changed her into green robes and black dressy boots. Jaci awed at her new clothing and wished she could admire it, but Severus lead her to a fireplace, took some sort of weird powder from his pocket, threw it down and yelled out something, but Jaci couldn't hear, she was too busy being scared, and trying not to ingest the smoke. She gasped as green flames sprung out and then they were spinning, Severus had a firm grip on her arm, soon they landed in another fireplace. Severus walked out with her and Jaci looked around at the surrounding shocked. It was a dark, gloomy room, lit by a few candles; there was a desk on one side with a bunch of parchments, books, quills, and inkbottles. She looked back at the fireplace and saw that there were bookshelves going all around it, full of books and the mantle had even more books lined there. She saw a sofa to her left and a door to her right.

"Where are we?"

"In my quarters," Severus said gently.

"Quarters?" Severus nodded.

"I have a house, but this is where I live while school is going on."

"Oh."

"Come, I want to show you so much," Severus gently took her hand. But Jaci stepped back.

"Wait," she walked to the window and looked out. "Oh my God," she gasped. She saw a beautiful lake, it reflected the moon which was right over it, the grounds were visible thanks to the moon, she could see the forest with it's towering trees and birds flying over it. "It's so wonderful, like something out of a fairy tale." Jaci looked at it longingly. Severus came up behind her and wrapped his arms around her.

"Do you wish to see more?" he whispered into her ear. Jaci could feel the passion in his voice, and it stirred something within her. She turned around and looked at him and her breath caught.  His gaze, it was so intense, it bore through her and she felt he was looking into her soul. He looked down at her, and suddenly he couldn't help it anymore.

Jaci didn't know, maybe it was because the place had so much magic billowing around them, that it seemed so special, so unique, he moved to her quickly, kissing her softly at first, then harder. She gasped as he ran his hands through her hair and moved down to her back. Jaci put her arms around his neck, and felt something. She pulled back and reached under the material, she pulled out the necklace she'd given him on Christmas.

"I haven't taken it off," he whispered, and Jaci shuddered, that whisper.

"I know, neither have I," she pulled hers out and Severus smiled. He brought her closer and wrapped his arms around her waist. She put hers around his neck.

"Severus?" she asked, they were forehead to forehead now. 

"Hmm?"

"Do you—do you want me?" Jaci asked hesitantly.

"Yes," Severus responded immediately. Jaci smiled.

"Good," she kissed him, "because I want you to." She kissed him and squealed as he lifted her up into his arms and carried her off to a room that had a humongous canopy bed with black curtains. It had black silk sheets, and black silk pillows. Jaci's eyes widened. "It feels like a sin." She giggled and Severus laughed, yes he'd felt like that the first time he slept on this bed.

He climbed in with her and Jaci sighed, she wrapped her arms around him and brought him closer to her. Severus groaned and buried his face in her hair.

"Jaci—can I, I mean…" In response, Jaci kissed him and began to pull of his cloak and robes as he did the same to her.