Kiss From a Rose
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Chapter 4 – Sire
Darkness fell short after Mrs. Weasley had left the ice cream parlor; Harry told Ron and Hermione that he would be there soon after he took a walk through town. The night had been calling him for a reason unknown to Harry, it felt right tonight as he muttered under his breath. The moon was full and brightly shining down upon Diagon alley, many people were still out some at a new place next to Ollivanders wand shop it was a café style which was open only during the night time.
"It's beautiful out here isn't it?" a strange yet familiar voice said from the darkness of knock-turn alley. Harry turned to see the man behind the voice, Romulus stood there dressed in his finest it seemed. He wore all black leather with a darkest green cape draped around his shoulders.
"Yes, it is." Harry said softly. Romulus moved to Harry and took him by the shoulders, looking at him directly in his eyes.
"I've made a good choice to pass on my knowledge" Romulus said as he let go of Harry and started to walk to the café. Harry didn't move but watch Romulus walking, "Well aren't you coming or you going to stare at me all night?" Harry chuckled before following Romulus.
"Can I ask you something" Harry said.
"Of course, but I can tell you the answer already. I turned you because your life was going to end anyways Harry; you were suicidal even if you didn't think you were." Romulus said. Harry opened his mouth to speak but nothing came out Romulus was right on the nose about his question. "Harry if you keep broadcasting your thoughts everyone will hear them soon enough." Romulus smiled as he entered the café and looked around as if he was waiting for someone. Then he walked over to the outside tables and took a darken corner that only had one candle in the middle of the table. Harry took his seat across from Romulus who spoke to the waiter in French then turned his attention back to Harry as the waiter left.
"Why did I choose this night of all nights to come and talk to you?" Romulus said as a grin appeared on his face and he pointed to the full moon. "Cause my brother isn't around to catch me talking to you." Harry nodded then looked in front of him were two glasses filled to the brim with blood appeared. "Don't worry its chicken blood and no one knows that your Harry Potter here." Romulus said quietly as he drank meticulously from his cup. Harry did the same thing but unlike Romulus he gulped his down. "No so talkative are we?" asked Romulus.
"No, I am you just haven't given me a chance to talk." Harry said sitting back in his chair and looking up at the stars. "Is your book true?" asked Harry.
"Part of it, most of it is made up since our laws don't allow us to completely tell of our community." Romulus said.
"What parts of it isn't true" inquisitively Harry asked.
"Well for one, we are not wizards and we are only part human, the other part well I call it more or less like a god." Romulus said as he looked around the café as more people arrived. "The ministry wants nothing to do with us they just want us away from public viewing. Other then that we do what we like, just like gods." Harry looked almost in disgust at Romulus but he knew he was right, they were the ultimate predators to all living things. Romulus smiled as he picked a fly out of mid flight and crushed it with his finger tips. "Come, walk with me" Romulus jumped up and walked back down Diagon Alley towards the leaky cauldron. Harry followed closely looking around, most of the shops were closed and re-stocking for tomorrow's opening.
"So why do you only come out at night? I mean, we can walk during the day so why not be out during the day." Harry asked.
"Oh just my choice, never knew why." Romulus said as he turned a right down Knockturn Alley. Harry stopped immediately at the steps that led into the alley. Romulus turned back to look at Harry, "Something wrong?"
"This is Knock Turn Alley, not a place for students." Responded Harry.
"Harry, don't you remember anything? We vampires are gods not much is going to mess with us, plus there some real human blood we can get down here." Romulus said as Harry took another step into Knockturn Alley and followed Romulus through the winding pathways. "Although don't ever under-estimate wizards, there are still some spells that can do us damage. Though never kill us it can stun us just for them to kill us." He said with a serious tone in his voice as they arrived at large wooden house similar to Sirius's house. Romulus knocked three times on the door and a small slit opened revealing the most beautiful eyes Harry had ever seen they were amber.
"May I help you gentlemen?" the woman asked.
"Just looking for some lovely young ladies to pleasure our souls." Romulus said and that's when Harry knew what this place was a brothel. The door opened revealing three young vibrant ladies all dressed in little to almost no clothing. Each of them had dark brown hair; two of them had brown eyes while the one who was at the door had amber eyes. Romulus walked in followed by Harry into a greeting room as the girls lined up like trophies.
"Hello gentlemen this is Miss Penny, (She pointed tone of the brown haired women), Miss Kim (pointing to the other dark haired woman), Miss Amber (she pointed to the amber eyed woman), and I am Ashley." Ashley giggled while looking at Harry. Penny had her eyes set upon Romulus. Harry set his eyes upon Amber and at that moment a strange new sensation came over his body something that he never knew could happen. He wanted to kill her but not just bite and drain her of the essences of life, but to play with her emotions toy with her body. He for the first time wanted liked the control that he was now given to him by right.
"Well Harry choose who you want, I'll pay for it tonight." Romulus said as he took Penny by the arms leading her upstairs. Harry smiled with delight as he followed Romulus's motion and took Amber upstairs looking for an empty room. Which didn't' take long since it was quite empty that night, they found that the first room was empty and Harry entered first quickly followed by Amber who shut the door behind them and pushed Harry into a chair.
"Now young boy, I'm going to make this night a night you'll never forget for the rest of your life." She said walking over to Harry stripping herself of her clothing and pushing Harry down into a seat. She took a seat on Harry's lap grinding her pelvis into Harry's while sucking softly on his ear lobe and moving her hands down his sides. Harry smiled but did not moan in her attempt t pleasure him, he took this chance to take control of the situation and started to nibble on her neck softly while moving his finger tips softly up the sides of her body making her shiver in pleasure. "I see someone is already skilled in the arts of pleasuring a woman" she giggled as she kissed Harry fully on the lips. Harry smirked and then continued to kiss her on the lips before kissing towards her neck. He looked at her veins, they were calling him in there strange way, each vein pumped life which Harry watched before his eyes. It was new to him, like a baby who was getting fed of the first time in his life.
Harry finally gave into the temptation and kissed along the veins, she moaned in such delight she would have never known what had happened. And that's when he had done it with a swift prick of his fully enlarged fangs teeth that sunk deeply into her neck. She only gave a soft whimper and moan before she tightened her grip around Harry's neck. Harry drank her blood leisurely and with pleasure, it was sweet and savory, it was different from the cup at the café, it tasted like everything a perfect candy would taste like. Sweet as honey yet had a taste of spice, Harry only wanted more of it but new that she was gone. Her body fell cold and limp making Harry stop drinking and wonder about the life he had just taken. There was a clap from the door way as Harry saw Romulus there his eyes shining brightly like a father watching his son make the first touchdown of his life.
"I didn't think you had it in you, but I was wrong." He said as he pulled off the girl's limp body off of Harry and set it on the ground. He raised his hand over the girl's body and muttered something under his breath making it burst into flames and turn rapidly into ash. Harry jumped back from his chair and looked at Romulus. "There's something that you must understand Harry, now that you're a vampire you aren't confined to using you wand, you think what you want to do and that is what is going to happen. Just remember there are some limits to our powers, like you can't blow up the earth, sun, or moon." He chuckled and grabbed Harry by the shoulders and led him back down the stairs.
Ashley was sitting at the counter, filing her nails then looked up at them. "Where's Amber and Penny?" she asked. Romulus looked at Harry with a devilish smirk on his face.
"Ashley dear, Amber and Penny never existed, they were just figments of your subconscious" Romulus said as he put down about twelve gallons. "Thank you for our experience tonight Ashley, you were good enough that we might return." He said as he left with Harry back to Diagon Alley. They reached the intersection where Diagon meets Knockturn as Romulus stopped and grabbed Harry by the shoulders. "This is where I leave you young one, you impressed me tonight, and usually one can not take the life of a mortal until he fully understands what he is. But you, you're far more mature then I thought you would be. But that's beside the point, now it's time for us to depart and for you to get some rest it's dawn already and if anyone ask you were out walking the town." Romulus kissed Harry on the forehead just like Mrs. Weasley before turning back around and walking back into Knockturn Alley whistling, 'What a Wonderful World'. Harry knew that he wasn't going to get much sleep since there wasn't much time left anyways so he just decided that it would be best just to crash on one of the couches that were in the leaky cauldron.
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"'arry, 'lo 'arry is that you" a grunt like voice spoke through Harry's peaceful dream of him killing Amber. He gradually open his eyes to see a bearded man with deep brown eyes and was standing over him at least by five feet.
"Hagrid!" Harry said while retracting his fangs into his mouth and sitting up looking at everyone around staring at him.
"Aye, it's good ta see ya again 'arry" Hagrid quickly wrapped his big arms around Harry crushing his wind pipes.
"It's good to see you again Hagrid" Harry choked out. Hagrid let him go as he took a seat next to Harry and looked at him.
"So is it true wha' the quibble said 'bout you getting bit by a vampire?" Hagrid asked a bit too loud making everyone look to Harry's direction.
"No Hagrid, see" Harry tilted his neck showing no fang marks or nothing of the sort.
"Well tha's always good ta hear" said Hagrid before getting up and looking around, "Oy! 'ermione! Over here!" Hagrid roared over the people. Hermione smiled with glee as she made her way around the people and embraced Hagrid in a hug.
"How you been Hagrid?" Hermione asked as her eyes wandered to Harry who was tired but didn't show any signs of it.
"Oh, the same, finally Grawp is understanding 'ow ta live, so tha' quest is ou' of the way" Hagrid said with a laughter in his voice.
"That's good to hear, so Harry, what did you do last night? I noticed that you weren't in your room with Ron." Hermione asked. Hagrid looked at Harry as if he was seeing not the child Harry but the adult Harry.
"Oh, I was just walking, couldn't sleep, didn't want to sleep, to much on my mind lately" Harry responded, giving a wide yawn.
"Oh…" Hermione looked as if she wanted to know more but all the same knew that was about as much she was going to get out of Harry. Hagrid looked over to the stair well and noticed that everyone else was waking, first it was Ginny who since they left the train last year hadn't seen until now, quickly followed by Ron and Mrs. Weasley.
"Good morning all, Harry, Hermione, and… Oh! Hagrid! It's so nice to see you around." Mrs. Weasley said. Hagrid only nodded as he turned to pick up his mug and started to drink up.
"Ginny, I haven't' seen you lately where have you been?" Harry asked.
"Oh, I was at the house just didn't want to go out of my room, was busy to say the least." Ginny said calmly.
"So Harry, what were you doing last night with that man?" Ron questioned Harry while moving over to Hermione who looked at Harry with an inquisition eye. There was no point in denying that fact he had bee with Romulus, but for both his and Romulus's sake he wouldn't mention Romulus's name.
"Just walking around, talking, and visiting a new café down near Ollivanders." Harry said. Hermione, Ron and Ginny looked at him as if he was joking or something, Hagrid a shocked expression on his face while Mrs. Weasley looked at him with the mother's stare which immediately told Harry to stop talking now, which he did.
"Harry there isn't a café by Ollivanders" Hermione said.
"Well kids, let's go get some ice cream and then you guys go walk around Diagon Alley for the rest of the day before you have to come back and pack up your stuff for tomorrow's journey." Mrs. Weasley quickly interrupted while pushing Hermione, Ron, and Ginny out to the brick wall before they could say another word.
"Molly, I jus' wan' a word with 'arry." Hagrid called to Mrs. Weasley who nodded tapping the bricks opening the door.
"'arry, tha' café, you do know it's a vampire café and only appears at nigh'?" Hagrid asked. Harry looked at Hagrid before nodding. "Is there somethin' you wan' ta tell me, 'arry?"'
"Not here, come up stairs to my room." Harry walked over to the stairwell and up to room twelve. He opened the door to see that it had a perfect view of the streets of Diagon Alley all the way up to the café spot which Harry noticed that it wasn't there any more. Hagrid followed and shut the door behind them.
"'arry, why were you ou' there last nigh' and at Lestat's Café?" Hagrid asked as he took a seat in the corner chair.
"I don't think Dumbledore has told you yet, but I was bitten and turned by Romulus, Remus's brother." Harry said as he watched Hermione and Ron walk hand and hand into the ice cream parlor. This was surprising news to Hagrid who at first didn't say anything, then understood why Remus and Dumbledore had been acting so weird lately.
"I guess there isn' much that's changed excep' tha' you drink blood and don' age." Hagrid spoke.
"I understand that you are not comfortable with me being like this but I didn't invite it, not intentionally of course, but for the first time I do feel as if things can be left without worry." Harry said choosing his words wisely. Hagrid looked at Harry in a different light now, no longer was he the kid that had been living with the muggles that beat him and treated him like dirt, no he was a grown man, well vampire, who now understood more then most teens his age. Hagrid got up from his seat and took Harry in a bone crushing hug which at first surprised Harry but it was something that Harry liked to feel that he was still loved by many.
"Well I guess I'll have to change my class work, need ta help you ou'. (Hagrid smiled at Harry who smiled back). "You best ge' on ta the ice cream parlor before your friends start ta think of something crazy." Hagrid cheerfully said pushing Harry out of the room and down to the brick wall where he opened it and let Harry go to the parlor.
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"Hermione are you feeling what I'm feeling, Harry's been acting weird lately or not telling us something you think it has to do with the vampire bite?" Ron asked Hermione who sat next to Ginny who was next to Mrs. Weasley who kept her ear out.
"Yes, I've been wondering why he had been acting so weird but then I did a bit a research, he's just going through some stress like normal." Hermione said with confidence in her voice.
"We shouldn't be too worried. Harry can take care of himself." Ginny said picking at her ice cream.
"Well you three, I'm going to go see if I can find Remus, you be safe now." Mrs. Weasley said as she took off out of the parlor.
"I don't know Hermione, I just get this feeling that he's hiding something, I mean he didn't even tell us where he went last night." Said Ron.
"I guess Weasel and the Mud-Blood are finally together, poor potty seems to be all alone." A voice which was all too familiar with the group that sat at the table. "Where is Potter anyways? I need to talk to him." Draco said with a sneer.
"Aren't you a little too old to be making kid jokes at us?" Hermione said as she held back Ron from jumping at Draco. Draco looked at Hermione and winked which made Hermione roll her eyes at him.
"So potty can't stand to be around the love birds?" asked Draco.
"No actually I was doing something at the cauldron." Harry said from behind Draco who spun around and stood eye to eye in front of Harry. "What do you want, Draco?" Harry asked nicely which surprised Ron and Hermione.
"I need to talk to you about something… privately even though I know you won't keep it private." Draco said walking outside and into an alley way, Harry followed closely behind not noticing the faces that Ron gave him.
"What is it?" Harry asked as if he had little time to dabble on with such non-sense.
"I ask for an alliance against something we both need to fight against." Draco said spitefully. Harry raised a brow and looked Draco in the eye seeing if this was true or not.
"This won't mean we're friends but, I don't see why not to have more allies against the greater evil." Harry said. "Though, I would like to state that it is more proper for one to be called by their first names rather then made up last names."
"Potter, when did you get all zealous and old?" Draco asked.
"When I started to understand the meaning of life and if that's all you want, then I must have some fun with my friends." Harry said turning around and leaving Draco there in the alley way who watched Harry's steps.
"What did he want, Harry?" asked Hermione as Harry took a seat across from the couple and next to Ginny.
"Nothing, just to talk, that's all." Harry quickly said folding his hands on the table. "So what's on the agenda for today?" Ron, Hermione, and Ginny looked at Harry.
"Well me and Hermione were going to go take a walk, (Hermione looked at Harry. Her eyes told him a different story.) And Ginny is going to go back to the cauldron and study. You my friend will have to find something to do." Ron said while kissing Hermione's cheek.
"Well then, I best get going since the lovebirds need sometime alone." Harry smirked and winked at Hermione who gave a warming smile back at Harry before he left the ice cream parlor.
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The night was just settling down as Harry took a long stroll along the empty shops of Diagon Alley, everyone was at the Leaky Cauldron getting ready for tomorrow's journey. He had already finished since he had the day to do it.
"Lovely night tonight isn't it Harry?" Romulus came out from the shadows and by Harry's side.
"It always is." Harry stated as they both walked down to Lestat's café.
"I heard this is a vampire café only." Harry said right as they entered the café seeing that it was not as packed as the day before but still had a few customers.
"Ah yes, it is the only one in London since we are not really welcomed in most parts of the world." Romulus said as he took a seat near the fire followed by Harry who took a seat across.
"ROMULUS!" a high pitched voice screeched over the room making everyone jump.
"Oh great, this is why I don't like coming here, to many people know me." Romulus said as his fingers moved to his temple in agony. Harry looked over to the door to see a young woman looking about twenty years of age with dark blondish hair and sliver eyes her skin just as pale as Harry's.
"Romulus Lupin! I couldn't believe my ears when my friend told me that you were back in town." The woman stood at the side of the table, Romulus who looked more then enthusiastic about her being there got up and hugged her before pulling out a seat of her then sitting back in his.
"Harry this is Ari, Ari this is Harry." Romulus said, Harry and Ari looked at each other and shook hands with a smile on their faces before turning there attention back to Romulus.
"So Romy, what have you been up to lately?" Harry looked at Romulus with a brow raised, Romulus looked back, 'Don't even think about it' Harry heard in his head.
"Oh the usual, you know cleaning out some of the brothels here and with the help of my new fledgling here." Romulus smiled while gulping down a glass of the blood that appeared before them.
"Oh," She looked at Harry then back to Romulus dismissing that Harry was a new vampire.
"Well, if you want to know, I've been traveling the world, Japan is a nice place but people are too superstitious there. It makes me feel uncomfortable." Harry chuckled before taking a drink blood from his glass.
"Well I told you not to go there didn't I?" Romulus spoke just as he finished up his drink.
"I know, but you know me, curious like a cat." She smiled as she finished her blood in a matter of seconds.
"Yes and just like a cat your going to get into some trouble not with just the ministry but with other vampires." Harry noticed that while she was there sitting in front of Romulus, he was just a ghost to them both.
"Well Ari, we must chat later. Tonight is mine and Harry's night, got to teach him the ropes." Romulus said getting up from his seat.
"Awwww, but Romy we have so much we need to catch up on like where have you been for the past twenty years. ---"
"Later, we have lots of time, remember." Romulus smiled to her as he interrupted, he motion for Harry to get up and follow him out into the night. They left Ari there who seemed a bit disappointed but never the less in a happy mood.
"So what's the history on you two?" Harry asked cautiously.
"We were once lovers, then because she wanted to travel and I just wanted to stay in one place we broke up." Romulus stated quickly as he walked down to the corner where Knockturn and Diagon met. "And if you say Romy to me I'm going to strangle your little throat ok." Romulus laughed as he walked down through the narrow alley steps passing the brothel they were at last night and ending up in a small square pavilion.
"What are we doing here?" asked Harry.
"Well I think it's time for you to see some of the highlights of the night. Like the Taurus fighting." Romulus knocked on the door as a man big as Hagrid let them in revealing a crowd of at least a thousand all sitting around a ring were a man and a overly large golden red eye bull were fighting each other.
"This looks like bull fighting" Harry said over the crowds cheers.
"It's something like that, but the man can use magic if he chooses." Replied Romulus who took a seat in the far back of the crowd but the ring was still visible. Harry took a seat next to Romulus and looked at the man standing in the center, he was torn and bloody. The bull faired no better since it had at least three large gashes in the side. Though this blood did not look normal, it was green and silky looking.
"So what's the point of this?" Harry shouted just as the crowd roared when the man gored by the bull into the wall killing him instantly.
"Oh dang that was a good fighter too… oh well life goes on." Romulus chuckled before turning to Harry. "Don't get killed, we as the spectators bet on either the bull or the man, it's a fight to the death." Romulus raised his hand then motioned for a man with some tickets in his hands to come over.
"Place your bet" the ticket man said.
"Harry," Romulus looked over to Harry who had his eyes focused on the ring and the new man who had entered the ring.
"The bull, the man is too frail. If he even gets hit once he's a goner." The ticket man nodded and wrote something down with his wand before handing Romulus the ticket. Romulus then focused himself on watching the fight in the middle.
There was no formal announcement but just a bell that unleashed the beaten up bull at the frail wizard in the center of the ring. The crowd cheered as the first blow was struck by the man at the bull's legs who stumbled to the ground but soon got up in a fiery rage and charged at the man. He quickly dodged out of the way making the bull hitting the side of the ring which made some of the crowd fall down into the dirt. The fallen ones quickly ran to the side hoping that they wouldn't be caught in the way; a latter was set for them to climb back up into the stands.
Again the crowd roared and cheered. The bull charged at the man, its hooves could be felt even from where Harry had been standing, its monstrous weight hit the man who unleashed a green spell at the last moment. The crowd along with Harry inched closer trying to make there way through the dust that had been sent up into the air as the spell contacted itself with the bull. Finally like a lion the crowd roared as they saw the bull come out and march around parading itself like a celebrity.
"Wow!" Harry cheered and clapped for the bull that locked eyes with him for a second before going back to its victory lap. The ticket man came back over to hand Romulus his winnings; he split it up twenty galleons for him and twenty for Harry. After that they made there way out leaving the cheering crowd for the next victim. They walked on the lonely street together; Harry couldn't help but keep a smile on his face; he felt more alive then he had ever felt before. Romulus was treating him like an equal yet like a father, like Sirius who Harry quickly reminded himself was gone.
"Well Harry this is were we part our ways once more, Remember you are never lonely I will always be watching you. Have a good year at school that is still important you know, just because you are now a vampire doesn't mean that you can disobey learning." Romulus said as he kissed Harry's forehead and turned back around down Knockturn alley whistling, 'What a Wonderful World'. Harry started off back to the Leaky Cauldron but was interrupted by another man's voice, vaguely familiar to Harry.
"I see that you've met my brother." Remus said as he got up from his seat that was on the side walk.
"Yeah, he's pretty cool. Why didn't you tell me about him earlier?" Harry said as he and Remus walked down to the Leaky Cauldron.
"Because Harry he is a dangerous vampire, not the sort that you want to be hanging around with." Remus said matching his footsteps with Harry's.
"Well he doesn't seem dangerous, I've been haven't a good time with him" Harry said defensively.
"Harry he's the type that thinks that he's above everything because he's a vampire, and don't you go thinking that to now. Your not above everyone else, you might be the predators of our kind but you still have limits and boundaries." Remus said.
"No, Remus, (this shocked Remus for it was the first time he had ever heard Harry call him by his first name), we set our own boundaries, we are all limitless yet we can not see that. Your brother is showing me this, it's very comforting and fun." Said Harry just as they entered the bar room of the Leaky Cauldron.
"Harry I only want to see you safe. If my brother makes you feel that way there is nothing that I can do about it, but remember that you have to be yourself not yourself in his image. You still are Harry, the one that will be the only one that can save us all." Remus said before walking up the stairwell leaving Harry there with the crackling fire in the background.
Next Chapter – Hogwarts once more
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