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Chapter 22: Potions and Family
Severus sat back heavily against the creaky wooden chair with a satisfied smile, his gaze coming to rest on the nearly finished lilac colored potion shimmering softly in the cauldron in front of him. It had taken close to six hours of constant brewing and mistake after mistake, but he had finally done what he had set out to do early this morning. The potion still needed to be divided into three parts and then the final ingredients added to tie all of it together.
The potion that he had managed to create was an altered form of the appearance-changing potion. This altered form didn't just change the outward physical appearance but the recipients DNA and magical signature as well. If the ministry ever caught wind of the fact that he had created such a Black Arts potion he would be thrown into Azkaban with out a trial and would be lucky if he wasn't immediately given the Dementors Kiss. He shuddered at the thought of having his soul sucked out by such a horrendous creature.
Shaking his head slightly to rid his mind of the dark thoughts Severus stood up and started to carefully pour the precious potion into three separate goblets and then quickly cast a sealing charm on them. Grabbing three vials he headed for the door in search of Remus and his son. They had a lot to discuss and decide on. If Severus was lucky and everything went how he hoped it would by the end of the evening he would have a husband, Lucian would have another biological father, and Remus would have a second chance at a new life, a life that would include a ready-made family. He just hoped that both Lucian and Remus would go for the changes that the potion would bring. And if they didn't then Remus would probably have to leave Britain to escape the ministry and Severus and Lucian would probably go with him.
Severus smiled as he rounded the corner toward the kitchen in search of his hopefully soon to be husband.
Remus was sitting at the kitchen table with a half a cup of cold coffee clasped in his hands. He had come in here with all intents and purposes of making a fresh pot of coffee but had not gotten around to it yet. He had sat down and started trying to sort out his thoughts of everything that had happened in the last several days. To really sit and analyze everything was starting to give him a headache. Remus was really starting to wish that Severus would come out of the lab soon; he hadn't seen his mate all day and it was really starting to worry him. Although beyond the worry he was getting rather curious as to what was keeping Severus holed up in the lab all day.
Remus stood up and walked over to the sink and stared rinsing out his now empty cup. He was so deep in his thoughts that he hadn't heard the kitchen door open or Severus walking up behind him until he felt a familiar pair of arms sliding around his waist from behind.
Even though he knew immediately that it was Severus it still didn't stop him from jumping and dropping the cup in the sink, shattering it. With a quick 'Reparo' it was fixed and set in the dish drainer.
"Merlin Severus, you didn't have to scare the piss out of me you know." Remus exclaimed as he tried to calm his racing heart. He then quickly realized that wouldn't happen anytime soon with Severus pressing up against him. Remus breathed in deeply taking in the unique scent of his mate causing an immediate spark of arousal to course through his body. He quickly tried to bite back the moan that was trying to escape, but wasn't exactly successful as it audible caught in his throat.
Severus was enjoying the response that he was getting from the smaller man as he tightened his arms around him. He slowly lowered his mouth down to Remus's neck letting his lips graze over the highly sensitized skin. As he got closer to Remus's ear he bit down lightly and sucked on the salty skin while letting his tongue lave over the indentations that his teeth had made eliciting a lustful moan from his mate.
Hearing this spurred Severus on with the knowledge that he was doing something that Remus was enjoying. Suddenly Remus thrust back against him causing his body to come in direct contact with Severus's half-hard cock making it pulse instantly to life.
Grabbing tightly onto Remus's hips Severus pulled him harder back against his throbbing member wanting more of the friction he was getting.
Remus grasped onto the kitchen counter and pushed back against his mate, his own cock harder than ever and aching to be released from the constraints of his now rapidly tightening pants.
Severus knew that if he didn't get control over the situation he would be fucking Remus over the kitchen counter where anyone could walk in on them. Not exactly how he pictured the first time being with his new mate. They needed to get Lucian and figure out what to do about the potion.
Grinding against Remus, Severus started to whisper into his ear. "I would love to fuck you right here, right now but we have more pressing matters to take care of before we can indulge ourselves." He said as he pulled away from Remus.
Remus groaned at the loss of the wondrous sensation as Severus stepped away from him. He reluctantly turned around to face his mate wondering what the pressing matter was. He quickly cupped Severus's face and brought his mouth down to meet his and began kissing him feverously before releasing him once more.
"We are not done with this and you will finish what you started." He threatened his voice low and husky.
Severus nodded his eyes bright with unbridled passion. He then turned and walked out of the kitchen and headed toward the living room.
Remus followed reluctantly wishing that he was pinned back up against the kitchen counter about to be fucked thoroughly. But nothing ever goes how you want it to so he would just have to so he would just have to wait, although he did realize one thing for sure. He wouldn't be sleeping alone tonight.
As they reached the living room they noticed that both boys were missing and Lucius was on the floor with papers scattered everywhere around him.
"What the hell did you do to my living room!" Severus asked incredulously.
Lucius replied with out removing his eyes from the papers in front of him, "I am making out the course syllabus for this years DADA class, or at least I am trying to." He looked up at Severus. "I don't know how you can do these bloody things. It's driving me insane!" the blonde aristocrat exclaimed looking traumatized and slightly crazed.
Severus just shook his head wonderingly, "Where are Lucian and Draco?" he asked still trying to take in the tornado of papers that had engulfed his floor.
Lucius furrowed his eyes brows thinking. "Doing homework in Lucian's room." He said shortly as he turned back to the papers.
Severus glanced at Remus who was trying hard not to burst out laughing. "Lets just hope that homework is all that they are doing." He muttered as they headed down the hall.
Remus tried to hid his laugh behind a rather obvious fake cough as he followed Severus down the hallway toward Lucian's room.
As he walked up to the doorway and peeked in, Severus let out a breath that he hadn't known he had been holding as he took in the scene in front of him.
Lucian and Draco were sprawled out on the bed with Transfiguration and Potions textbooks and notes scattered between them. Well at least he knew were Draco got his paper organization skills from.
Lucian who had been in the middle of revising his potions essay heard two sets of familiar footsteps approaching the doorway and as he looked up he caught a look of relief pass over his fathers face. He wondered what exactly he had been relieved about, but knowing his father even for the short time that he had he imagined the relief was that he hadn't walked in on him and Draco.
"Did you need something?" Lucian asked his father after it was apparent that neither of the older men was going to say anything any time soon.
Severus turned to face his son, "Remus and I need to talk with you so that we can make some rather important decisions." He said while quickly glancing at Remus who just smiled.
Remus had a slight clue as to what it was that Severus wanted to talk to the two of them about. He had noticed the three goblets of a strange looking potion sitting on the kitchen table when he had followed Severus out of the room. He just wondered exactly what those potions were for and who were going to be the ones that had to drink them.
Lucian glanced over at Draco who in return just shrugged his shoulders. "Ok, where are we going?"
Severus said nothing as turned and motioned for Remus and Lucian to follow him back to the kitchen. He knew that questions were beginning to form in Lucian and Remus's minds but hopefully they would wait until after he had secured the area around them before they started asking questions.
Lucian walked silently behind Remus and his father. As he stepped into the kitchen his father quickly cast a complex loving and silencing charm that he would definitely have to find out what it was, he and Draco could really use something like that.
He sat down at the table and noticed that there where three goblets of a light purple colored potion sitting in the middle of the table. He figured that this was the potion that had kept his father busy all day. How he was curious as to what the potion was for. He knew that all the questions that were beginning to swirl around in his head would eventually be answered one way or another. Lucian knew that he would just have to be patient.
Severus waited until both Remus and Lucian were sitting down before he began the explanation of what he hoped they would accomplish with the new potion.
"I managed to create an appearance altering potion that is undetectable and permanent." He said bluntly not wanting to beat around the bush, they had little time to waste before the potion went bad and lost its effectiveness. "But there is much more to it than just a simple outward physical change. Seeing that they were both intrigued Severus continued.
"What I want to know before I begin to explain the potion in detail is if you two including myself would want to become a real family in every sense of the way."
Remus was shocked at the question. He had never once thought that he would ever have a steady relationship with some one let alone a family. "I would." He said simply.
Lucian's breath hitched in his throat, he had been ecstatic when he found out that he had a caring and loving father still alive and he had been happy with that much but to be given that chance to have a real family, one that loved and cared for him unconditionally was something that he never even dared to dream about let alone think about it. "I think that you two of all people would know my answer to that question."
Severus sighed in relief, the hard part was out of the way and now they could get on with the rest of it. He then turned his attention solely on Remus.
"What do you say to being given the chance to become a whole new person, and have a new life with out the stigma of being a known werewolf?" Severus asked carefully not exactly sure as to how Remus would take the question.
Remus was stunned once again, he had dreamed of scenarios like this ones where he was given a chance to be someone else only it was usually just for a day, not forever.
"I think that I would be crazy not to even think about accepting." Remus replied.
Severus let out his breath again. "The potion that I developed not only changes a person's physical appearance it changes them on a genetic level. Your DNA would be altered, as would your magical signature. Any type of revealing potion or charm would show you to be who ever you pick to be as long as the name you come up with is of someone who isn't alive." He took a deep breath as he had come to a big part of what the potion would do.
"You would also become Lucian's biological father, the one that carried him and… you would also become my husband."
Remus smiled and turned to Severus taking his hand from across the table. "If that is a proposal then I except on all accounts… if that is ok with Lucian." Remus said smiling slightly at Lucian who was wearing a rather shocked look on his face.
Lucian was shaken out of his shock when he heard Remus mention his name and he hurriedly recalled what it was that was asked of him. "Oh…Oh… yeah I would like that." He said smiling sheepishly.
Remus looked back at Severus who was smiling as well. "How exactly is this going to work?" he asked glancing at the three goblets still sitting in the middle of the table.
Severus took out the three vials that he had put in his pocket earlier. "First, I need a vial of your blood Lucian." He said turning to his son.
Lucian turned a little green but held out his arm resolutely. He watched curiously as his father held the vial up to his wrist and then sliced it open with one quick swipe of a small knife. The cut itself wasn't deep but bled a lot. He watched with morbid fascination as his blood ran into the vial, and with in several seconds the vial was filled. With a swish and flick later his wrist was healed with no visible scar.
Severus looked up at Remus. "Now we need to come up with a new name and personal information for you before we continue."
Lucian who had been silent since coming into the kitchen spoke up for the first time. "What will the potion do exactly?"
Severus sat there wondering how well Lucian would take the knowledge of what he was going to tell them.
"I will mix your blood with the first goblet, the information that we need with be infused with the potion and then Remus will drink it. Remus will change and mold him into a person form the traits that you received from Lily and any of her ancestors, and no, this will not make him into a male version of your mother. The potion will combine the new traits and pull the recessive traits that Remus has and make them the dominant ones." Severus took a small breath and noticed that Remus was listening just as intently as Lucian was.
"From then on genetically and magically Remus Lupin will cease to exist and you," he said looking straight at his son, "will show up on any magical test done on him as Lucian Salazar Snape, his biological son."
Lucian smiled at Remus who was grinning as well.
Severus glanced at the clock on the wall, it was getting late and they needed to speed things along before someone came and interrupted them. "I will explain everything as I go but we need to get started on this." He said as he added Lucian's blood to the goblet.
"Have you decided on a new name?" he asked Remus wanting the information so that he could add it to the potion.
Remus shook his head. "Yes I have, but will I have Snape as my last name or will it be a combination?"
Severus smiled at the mischievous glint in Remus's eyes. "I would like it to just be Snape, if that is ok with you."
Remus nodded his head and pulled out a paper that he had in his inner robe pocket. Albus had slipped these papers to him earlier in the afternoon when he had first been told of the ministries new policy. He handed the papers over to Severus. " I think that this will cover my name and personal information."
Severus glanced through the papers until he was looking at a birth certificate for 'Ian Michael Wylder, born March 3rd, 1960.'
"A gift from Albus no doubt." Severus said smirking at the knowing smile from Remus.
Remus smiled at laughed, "But of course, now lets get to the taking of these ingenious potions."
Severus nodded and muttered an incantation at the papers in front of him, a bright ball of golden light emerged at his wand tip and he carefully dipped it into the potion and stirred it gently. The potion began glowing as Severus pushed it in front of Remus.
Remus took the goblet in his hands; "Well I guess this is goodbye to Remus Lupin and hello to Ian Michael Wylder." He said as he brought the goblet to his mouth.
"Cheers." He said and then downed the still glowing potion.
A bright white light engulfed Remus blinding Lucian and Severus briefly. Then as sudden as it had come the light was gone and in the place Remus Lupin had been sitting was now occupied by a man who looked nothing like he did before. And thank Merlin he looked nothing like Lily Potter.
Remus… err… Ian had dark brownish red hair that fell in soft waves that just brushed the tops of a set of broad shoulders. He had a softly rounded face with a strong chin and small nose. Ian was lightly tan but it was his eyes that stood out more than any other feature.
His eyes were a darker emerald than Lucian's and had small flecks of amber scattered through them.
To say that Severus was stunned would have been an understatement. He was beyond shock, Severus had been attracted to Remus before but now, Merlin he couldn't believe that this was the man that was going to be his husband. To say the least he was drooling and he had no plans of stopping until he had this man withering beneath him and screaming his name.
Lucian was starring at the man who since his third year had been a father figure to him and grinned. There would be no mistaking who this man was to him and now he wouldn't have to come up with some lame excuse for an absent mother.
Ian grinned at the reactions of Lucian and Severus although he was especially intrigued by his mate's reaction. If he didn't know better he would have to say that Severus had the same gleam in his eyes as he did when they were in the kitchen earlier. He quickly summoned a mirror; he wanted to see why his new family was so stunned at his appearance.
Taking a look at himself in the mirror, Ian gapped "Well, I will have to defiantly get used to this."
Severus cleared his throat and picked up another vial from his pocket. He quickly and efficiently collected half a vial of his own blood and then turned to Re… Ian, Merlin this was going to take some getting used to, and motioned for him to lay his arm down. Seconds later the vial was all the way full.
He took the second goblet of potion and added the combined blood. "This one we will both have to take, it will bind us in marriage and it will reveal your use of a conception potion." Severus said explaining it to Ian.
Waving his wand several times in the air golden words appeared over top the goblet.
Marriage of:
Severus Anthony Snape to Ian Michael Snape (Wylder)
Date: June 1, 1979
Conception Potion Taken,
Date: August 25, 1979
Birth of: Lucian Salazar Snape
Date: June 1, 1980
The words then blurred together and formed a golden ball at the tip of Severus's wand. He dipped the wand once again in the potion and stirred it gently until it began to glow.
Severus picked up the goblet and drank the first half of it and then handed it to Ian. He watched as his husband drank the rest of the potion. With in seconds he could feel the tell tale tingle of the magic bonding them together. It was an amazing feeling.
Ian leaned over the table and caught Severus's face in his hands; he softly brushed his lips over his new husbands with the knowledge that he would never be alone ever again.
Lucian groaned at the sight of his parents kissing, Merlin that was odd to think about. The realization that he had two parents was slowly starting to sink in causing his to smile. "Ok you two, lets get on with the potion taking so I can go and finish my homework with Draco and you two can go and spend time with each other."
Severus pulled away from Ian a slight blush rising on his cheeks. "Ian I need your blood again."
Ian held his arm out once again and watched as the vial was once again filled up with his blood.
Severus mixed the blood with the potion and then for the last time waved his wand in the air, more golden words appeared.
Lucian Salazar SnapeBorn to: Severus Anthony Snape and Ian Michael Snape
By aid of conception potion
Date: August 25, 1979
Birth date: June 1, 1980
The words once again blurred together and formed a gold ball at the end of the wand. Severus stirred the potion until it started glowing he then pushed it toward his son.
Lucian picked up the goblet and sniffed it, "I hope it doesn't taste as bad as the Wolfsbane potion." He said smiling. He downed the potion and immediately felt the tingle of magic coursing through his body.
Severus gathered together the three empty goblets and vials and incinerated them. He didn't want any one to be able to trace any type of potion residue from what they had just taken. He watched as Lucian hugged Ian his eyes slightly glassy, and then nodded when Lucian said that he was going to go back to his room.
Severus turned to his new husband and smiled.
It was time to consummate this marriage.