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A/N: Mint-n-Chip ice cream! This chapter is kind of short but if I didn't cut it off where I did you guys would all have fallen asleep by now.
Chapter 11
Draco shivered as he felt the bed dip when Viper put her weight on it.
"Do not be afraid." Her voiced soothed his frazzled nerves as he was unchained and his blindfold lifted from his eyes. Draco had to blink a couple times to help his eyes make the transition from pitch black to light. He stared in amazement at the woman in front of him.
"I have never seen anyone like you before." He whispered barely able to control the urge to be enveloped in her arms. Viper chuckled and handed him a pair of pants.
"I figured that he wouldn't give you time to get dressed." She got off of the bed and went to stand over the body.
"Where am I?"
"I am not sure I do not know the names of your lands. You are only a couple hundred miles from Hogwarts." Draco watched as she drew the cloth that had been on the bed over the corpse.
"Postatem obscuri lateris nescitis." She gently covered Uasi's face and rose from her kneeling position.
"Was that some sort of burial rite?" Draco stood and finished buttoning the pants. Viper snorted softly and shook her head.
"We must be going. The sun will rise soon." Draco took Viper's hand and allowed her to lead him from his prison into the grey light before dawn.
"Hold on." Draco barely had enough time to wrap his arms around her before she plunged them both down the cliff. Viper formed her wings in mid drop and strained her shoulder blades until she found a high thermal wind that would take her and her precious cargo to Hogwarts.
Uasi popped back into his real body with an aching chest. He shook his head trying to get rid of his grogginess. A shadow passed over him.
"I couldn't find her." The High Deagron grabbed his chin and forced him to meet his cold brown eyes.
"You better not be lying to me." He growled.
"I told you that I would need my real body to find her. She is more powerful and devious than you imagine." The Deagron let Uasi go, pushing his frame to the floor.
"The portal will be ready in fifteen minutes." He stalked out the door and closed it with a resounding slam.
Draco had fallen asleep by the time Viper landed on the roof of Gryffindor tower. Not surprising since it took her all day to find her way back. She shifted his body onto one arm and opened up the trapdoor to let her self into the hallway between the dorms.
Silently she placed Draco in Harry's bed, smiling as Harry automatically rolled towards Draco taking him in his arms. Viper lightly tousled both boy's hair until the brown and the silver blonde blended perfectly. She would find a different bed for tonight.
She sneaked into the bathroom and locked the door. Viper turned on the shower water as hot as possible and stripped off her clothes. She dipped her head into the scalding stream and let the water slosh off the blood from her friend's heart. Her salty tears mingled with the purifying water and were washed down the drain.
Viper ran her hands down her body, feeling the rough edges of her scars. She paused. The spiral on her hip was gone. She quickly took inventory of all her markings and noticed that one of the deeper ones on her left shin was also gone.
Harry snuggled closer to Viper's warm body. He jerked awake. 'Draco Malfoy is half naked and in my bed.' Harry cautiously moved away from Draco and was surprised when he was roughly drawn back into the circle of the other boy's arms.
"Draco, wake up." Harry hated having to wake the sleeping blonde but he knew that if he didn't he might regret it later. Draco's eyelids fluttered and opened leaving Harry with a breathtaking view of silver.
"Morning." Harry managed, desperately hoping that Draco wouldn't feel his erection against him. Draco just stared at Harry for a couple seconds before laying his head down on Harry's chest and promptly going back to sleep.
Lucius Malfoy woke up in a bed that was no where near comfortable enough. His cloudy silver eyes took in the room he was in. He was obviously in the hospital wing. Madame Pomfrey bustled in with a tray full of colorful potions.
"Hello there, Mister Malfoy." She chirped in her perpetually happy voice. "Beautiful midnight, it is. Here you go." Before he could react she had tilted his head back and poured a neon purple potion into his mouth.
He gagged and tried to spit the awful tasting stuff out, but Madame Pomfrey clamped her hand over his lips. "I can stand here all day holding this in your mouth, but I believe you will find it more to your liking just to swallow it."
Lucius glared at her and choked the stuff down. "You will be right as rain in a couple minutes." With that parting comment she walked out of the room cleaning as she went.
Draco never felt so comfortable in his life. He was in a cushy bed with a very comfortable body in it. Though he knew that it was Harry Potter he was holding on to for some reason it didn't bug him in the least.
Draco wrapped his arms more firmly against Harry's chest, feeling the boy's awakening erection and shifted slightly to disguise his own with his hip before sliding back into oblivion hoping that the boy wouldn't wake up again for a couple more hours.
"Goddess Elrosi. Hear my plea. I need your assistance." Viper waited. Slowly on top of one of the stone benches a glowing blue form coalesced. The form solidified and became a beautiful woman all in shades of blue. Her sky colored skin shimmered in the moonlight, perfectly complimenting her navy blue hair. Cobalt eyes burned into Viper's kneeling form.
"You have the audacity to call upon me after what you have done?" Elrosi's words cut through Viper straight to her heart; well they would have cut her if she actually followed Elrosi. Viper made a dramatic pose her face overflowing with guilt.
"Do not play with me Necromancer. I do not have the time for your games." Elrosi's tone would have most on their knees begging for mercy.
"You know the crimes I did were for your greater good." Viper stood no longer able to bow down before the goddess. Her face took on a cold sneer that Draco would have loved to mimic.
"You asked me to do those things just because you did not specify how I should have accomplished what you asked does not mean you can judge me for my actions. I saved your prince. I saved your people. I saved the people's faith in you! You would have been forgotten just like all the other legends left to dust and cobwebs."
"I would have survived."
"Yes, with a kingdom of long lost kings and old tombs. You needed an evil to pit your goodness against. Do not even try to say different. Do not forget Goddess, you are the one who woke me. You brought me out." Viper sneered in her distaste. "It is time you repaid my favor."
Severus woke with a start. He was drenched in sweat, but he knew it wasn't from a nightmare. 'I need to get her out of my system.' He thought to himself while making his way to the bathroom mirror. As he looked upon his features, ragged from loss of sleep, the mirror began to show him the shape of his obsession.
'If only those scars did something to disfigure her, instead of simply enhancing her beauty.' Severus sighed and ran his hands through his long black hair.
"Stop tormenting me!" He fell to his knees and wished that there was some being that would show him mercy.
"What is it you want Viper. The bonds you used to call me here are starting to hurt."
"They are supposed to." Elrosi looked at Viper in surprise.
"Are you going to attempt a god slaying?" Her voice held only a tint of fear but it was more than Viper needed.
"No, I have no need of you dead. I want to be able to teleport to the different worlds without a portal."
"No!"
"How brave you sound Goddess of Love, yet since my desire for the power is rooted in the very emotion that you represent you have no cause to deny me.
Reluctantly Elrosi put her hands onto Viper's head. There was a brilliant blue-white light and Elrosi disappeared. Viper smiled. Now the Deagron had no where to hide.
A/N: I happen to be infatuated with the actor who was chosen to play Snape in the movies so he isn't disgusting! Alan Rickman is adorable! And thank you all for reviewing! I know Viper is absolutely awesome! A little cranky at times...but hey.