And It Hits The Fan

Kat Potter

Disclaimer: Hmm, Am I a rich, British, single mom? Hmm, no I'm not J.K. Rowling, so… Nope, HP does not belong to me. I'm not getting any money out of this. I'm just a poor student, writing Harry smut to get her kicks. ;)

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Chapter 2 : About a Vampire

Severus Snape didn't appear to most to be a caring man. In fact, most people hated him, to put it lightly. He had the potential to be a horrible, spiteful, vindictive, evil creature, but only a very select few people knew the reason behind it. See, Severus Snape wasn't actually a man, or rather he wasn't human. He was a creature of the night, a blood-drinker, a vampire. Most people's impression of a vampire was an evil creature that only lived to cause others pain, and in some cases this was true. And if it were found out that Severus was a vampire then most would believe that he would fall into that category. Indeed, there had long been speculation among the students of Hogwarts that Snape was a vampire, with his sallow skin and evil temper.

Now the truth was that there were two ways that a vampire could turn, as they say, evil and it all centered around a vampires mate. Vampires, as with many humanoid magical creatures, had mates. Their one and only that could make them complete. Their other half. Each magical creature has a different way of finding his or her mate. Veelas find them by their scent. Werewolves bond with the first person or creature they mate with. Vampires, however, have a sixth sense about these things. They know who their mate is as soon as they see them. To turn a vampire evil, they either have to lose their mate or their mate is evil itself. Of course, if the mate is good, then the vampire is good as well.

Severus Snape knew who his mate was. He had known for about 16 years, but he hadn't mated with him and this may well have accounted for his very well known temper. The fact was that Severus' mate was someone who was quite a bit younger than him. He had actually first seen him when he was only a year old. The knowledge that he would have to wait till the boy grew up had tortured Severus. Then of course there was the fact that the boy was rather famous. Being mated to the-boy-who-lived wasn't going to be easy, because it was going to happen, of that Severus was sure. He was just biding his time. He was, in fact, waiting for the Dark Lord to be conquered, as he no doubt would be. Severus had faith in his mate-to-be. He would finish off Snake Face and then they could be together forever. Lately, though, it had been getting harder to bear. Harry would be 17 in a few days and so, legally, he could have him, but it was just too dangerous for both of them, Harry being the-boy-who-lived and him being a Death Eater spy, there was too much at risk, so he would just have to wait. He just hoped it wouldn't be too much longer.

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Severus was on his way to see the Headmaster. He had called him for an impromptu meeting, which meant that it probably wasn't serious.

He finally got to the Gargoyle Statue. "Fainting Fancies" The gargoyle jumped out of his way and he made his way upstairs. Barmy, old coot, he thought. Only he would have something like that as a password. He finally came to the wooden door at the top of the stairs. He lifted his hand to knock at the door when he heard a voice call out from within.

"Come in, Severus my boy." Severus sighed. I have to find out how he does that, it's so annoying. And that sounded so whiny. Merlin, I'm losing it. He made his way into Dumbledore's office and sat down in a chair in front of his desk.

"Tea, Severus? Or perhaps some lemon drops?" the Headmaster inquired.

"Tea, thank you. You know I'm not much for sweets." Severus took his cup and stirred the tea around a bit. He looked at the Headmaster with a raised eyebrow as he sipped at his tea.

"So how are you faring, Severus? How is life treating you?"

"Oh, I'm just peachy, thank you. Life's just great. I'm a vampire without a mate or rather I can't mate with him. More likely than not I won't ever be able to since he hates me almost as much as he hates the Dark Lord." He sighed and sank down into his chair, staring at his cup.

"Ah, I see. Well, it was exactly that which I wanted to talk to you about." Severus looked up at him sharply. "What do you mean?"

"Well, as I'm sure you know, it's Harry's birthday today. Therefore he is seventeen and of legal age. I was wondering if you would like to go check on him. Just make sure that he is all right. Perhaps you could start talking to him, try to win him over. It won't hurt for you to be friends."

"You know how I feel about this, Albus. It is too dangerous. If the Dark Lord found out about us he would use it to exploit us."

"Yes, yes, quite, but I have a gut feeling that the time has come for you and your mate."

Severus stared at him pensively for a few moments. "I should get going. Muggles don't like it if you come at some unusual hour." With that, he swept out the room. Albus just watched him go with a twinkle in his eyes.

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Severus apparated to an alley a bit of a way from 4 Privet Drive, checked to see if there were any muggles around and when he didn't see any, made his way to Harry's house. When he got there a fat, purple-faced man, which he assumed to be Harry's Uncle, answered the door.

"May I help you?" Vernon asked gruffly.

"Quite. I'm looking for Harry Potter. He lives here doesn't he?" Severus inquired.

At the mention of Harry, his eyes bulged and he looked frantically for a way to get away from this very intimidating man. "The boy's not here at the moment."

Severus narrowed his eyes at the man as he said through clenched teeth, "What. Do. You. Mean. He's. Not. Here? Aren't you supposed to be his guardian?"

"He threatened me and my family! What was I supposed to do? In case you haven't noticed, I can't do magic! Obviously your kind has decided he can use magic around here, so we have no power to stop him doing what he wants!"

Severus pinched the bridge of his nose as he took a deep breath. It seemed his mate was getting into trouble as per usual. Why did this not surprise him?

"Do you have any idea where he went? It is very important we find him."

"The boy breaking rules, huh? Doesn't surprise me. What with his parents being who…" Vernon decided it was best to stop this line of thinking, with the glare that Severus was sending him, it would probably be best for his health. "Ahem, yes well, he mentioned something about shopping. He made that weird noise that your kind makes when he left."

"What do mean? What kind of noise?"

"Oh, some really big crack sound. Sounds like a car backfiring, if you ask me."

"Hmmm…" Severus seemed to ponder this for a minute. "Well, thank you for your time."

"Um, no problem."

Severus made his way back to the alley. So the boy apparated somewhere. Although he could have gone somewhere muggle, it's more likely it was a wizard populated area. Well, I've gotta start somewhere. Might as well start with Diagon Alley. Why does it not surprise me he has gotten himself into trouble as soon as he was allowed to apparate? Scratch that, I'm surprised he didn't do it sooner.

As soon as he got into the alley, he apparated away.

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As luck would have it, the first thing that Severus saw when he apparated into Diagon Alley was Harry Potter, although he looked a bit different than when he last saw him. Severus grabbed his arm and swung him around to face him.

"Potter! What are you doing here? And… what have you done to your face?" Severus looked at the ring that was hanging from the left corner of Harry's lower lip and his right ear.

"That's none of your business! Now leave me alone!" With that he tugged his arm out of Severus's grip and apparated away before Severus could do anything.

Tbc…