Authors Note: Hey everyone. I know that lately I have been kind of ignoring my stories but all of that is going to change so have no fear! The author is here!

The glorious rays of dawn poured through the drapes into the room shared by Harry and Severus. Harry was the first to wake up. With fragments of his dream disappearing and leaving one thing of importance.

'I'm inlve with Severus Snape.' This didn't frighten Harry as much as one would think. He was actually giddy from this revelation. The only down side to this euphoria is that the teen knew that the potions master didn't return his feelings. The things that went on lat night was just to comfort *Harry* not in any way romantic.

"Unrequited love is a bitch" Harry yawned softly. The man above him shifted, pulling the youth closer to him.

'Oh my GOD. He knows about last night. He mustn't know. I'm suppose to be strong for everyone. I can't let this get out. Lets see.' Reaching for the wand on the other side of the bed sitting on the nightstand, Harry picked it up. It was Severus's. 'He won't know' Harry thought briefly. With a large breath Harry muttered the words "Obliviate" therefore erasing every trace of the abuse he had been through. Harry was pretty good at doing this spell mostly because any time someone got too close to find out the truth, he would cast it. He wanted no one to know or find out how weak he was.

Harry's eyes wandered looking for a clock, and found one by the door. The clock read 6:30 AM.

'Great,' Harry thought sarcastically, 'thirteen hours and 30 min's. before Uncle Vernon comes home and "beat the magic out of me" because the work is *done*. With one last warm look at "Severus", Harry fromunder his arm and made his way to the door. Thoughts of dressing, making breakfast, and finishing his chores on his mind.

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"Wake up!" screamed Petunia "Now!" she screeched even louder.

The irritating womans voice woke Severus up, and he definitely wasn't a morning person- unless he knew he would wake up to sex! Since this wasn't one of those days, Severus was pissed off. And who wouldn't with that infuriating womans screaming at?

"Get up freak, and make breakfast, or I'll stew that darn bird of yours!"

"Coming Aunt Petunia!" yelled a beautiful voice. Well, beautiful to Severus.

"Oh, *him*.' Severus thought dreamily. ' I'm getting too soft if I am going to get out of a bad mood just by hearing him. This erection is going to be hard to keep hidden from everyone when I go down to check up on the wards." thought Severus

"I wonder how I am going to get through the weekend?"

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'Well I made it without ravishing that sex-on-wheels male. Everything that he did was sensual. Washing the dishes, talking, breathing, sleeping, stretching, and even sneering at his so called family was a turn on. At least I can for get about him, and squash this perverted longing for a 14, going on 15, year old boy. It's not as if he wou8ld look at his greasy potions master with any type of lust in his eyes.' Severus thought with a sigh.

By now it was Monday night, and the over worked potions teacher was dragging his feet in deep thought through the halls of Hogwarts. That was the reason why he didn't hear the set of footsteps behind him and the gentle caring voice of Dumbledore ask him how was the weekend.

"Severus? Are you alright?" asked the headmaster.

"Oh, Albus! I'm quite alright- how are you?" said Severus who seemed to be lost in thought.

The older man narrowed his eyes at the young potions master.

"Severus is there something you would like to talk about?" he asked.

Snape, who was finally out of La-La Land, looked up into Dumbledore's annoyingly hypnotizing sparkling eyes and let everything spill from his mouth. How the Dursley's treat Harry, how he was falling inlove with the brat at a breakneck pace, and also how he knew that Harry wouldn't return his feelings.

Dumbledore listened to all of this with a sad look in his normally cheerful eyes.

"Oh, my child, this is going to be harder on you now. I just thought that you were going to tell me how you and Harry got over your differences and were going to have a more healthy relationship." Dumbledore stated to the befudled wizard.

Severus' eyes showed his curiosity and suspicion.

"What is going to be hard on me?" asked Severus cautiously after he calmed down.

"I think we should go to my office so that I can show you."

After the two men got to the office, Dumbledore began to rummage through the mess on his desk. He suddenly stopped with an "Aha!" and handed a black velvet book to Severus.

"Turn to page 74 under Soulmat Prophecies." Said Dumbledore.

Before turning to the page Severus looked at dumbledore one more time, but soon gave up trying to figure out the old man's thoughts.

This is what Severus read with wide eyes and a breaking heart:

//There is a prophecy that say's this world will have three sets of soul mates. The first pair being Salazar Slytherin and Godric Gryffindor. The second- Me (Merlin) and Morticia, and last but not least, thje heirs of the first set. The line of Gryuffindor and Slytherin has been so jumbled that the true heirs have been lost and can only be found with the Soul Oracle.
This magical item has been obtained by the head of the magical world since my time, so it shouldn't be hard to find. The only defects of this prophecy is that the heirs would be more than 5 years apart from each other in age. Secondly, that the heirs of Gryffindor and Slytherin would be unmasked, and have to fulfill their family duties. Lastly the heirs would be the most powerful of all the soul mates, for they are the last.
To continues the family line one of the two must become impregnated soon after their first joining.
I hope that this imformation will be found and used in the years that follow.//

After a lengthy pause Severus spoke.
"So Potter is to be with another." Said Snape, voice thick with remorse.

"There is a chance that you can still be together-"

"NO, no! there isn't. The slytherin heir, who we can tell is not Voldemort, will be bonded with Potter and I will go on with my life as if nothing has changed."

"Severus-" Dumbledore started, but was cut off by Snape once again.

"When will be able to do the ritual?"

"On Harry's birthday which is sometime at the end of the summer. Soul mates have the same birthdays, so it must be done then." Answered Dumbledore.

"Well when is his birthday?" asked Severus.

"In July-"

"I'll fetch him in a week so that you can ready the items needed." Snapped Snape

The olden Headmaster sighed. "Very well. Where will you be during the ritual?"

"I'll be as far away from here as possible." Severus replied quietly.

"Very well." Dumbledore sighed again.