Thanks to my sweet Cala for the beta'ing.
Chapter 11: The Famillia-Sangis-Conversio potion.
Early morning, the next day.
Harry was slowly waking up, and for the first since the beginning of the summer, he was feeling safe. He was in a soft warm bed, he was clean, and his wounds and broken ribs had been healed while he must have been asleep. A soft hand was lightly stroking his hair tenderly and a sweet feminine voice was singing a lullaby about a bird, a diamante and a pumpkin pie. It was feeling so much like what home should felt, that tears began to roll on his face. The hand left his head, and two slender arms found their way around him, a smaller body pressed himself against his back, and the voice shush him with reassuring words, telling him that he was safe now, that nobody was going to hurt him again, that Daddy, Papa, and Grand-daddy would make sure of that, and that he should go to sleep again, his body needed it. After a moment, the lullaby began again and he drift in a peaceful sleep were he had a family with a sister, two Daddies and a grand-father, not knowing that soon fantasy and reality would merge.
The night before.
Dawn had been waiting for her new family to come home for sometimes now, and she was still a little bit pissed at her Father and Grand-father. They had not wanted to let her come with them on the rescue mission, and she had had some long hours to plan revenge against them, they would see what the younger heir of the Slytheryn line was capable to do, be ware of Dawnster the great prankster! However, she almost succeeded to gain Spike at her cause, by using the most kicked puppy dog eyes the world had ever seen on him. But before she had had the time to have him agreed, her shiny new Dad came and told her to:
"Stop bothering your new Papa right now, you are not coming with us this time it's too dangerous! Now start apologising for the puppy dog eyes trick you've just pull on him and don't forget young snake who teach you that trick. Oh no, don't even bother to try the infamous Willow resolve face, it only work on me when it's applied by the original designer, nope missy, not gone work!". Just before hugging her and kissing her head.
After that he erupted in a mad grin, and she had only the time to ask what he had mean by 'Papa' and to hear his voice telling her that he and Spike were now legally matted by vampire lore and that they were going to tie the knot the wizzarding way, the next morning. Just before they all took the time potion, by the way did she want to be their grooms' maid? She never had the chance to answer that last question, because a second after he had finished, they were all gone to the apparition point accompanied by Spike mad laughter and the sound of her second mad snoopy dance of the day.
It took her half an hour to stop dancing, an hour to calm her heart which was banging like if a mad drummer boy on crack was playing on it, and an other one to begin to worry about the fact that they had not been back yet. She had made herself a cup of hot cocoa to feel better and some good Dardgeling from her grand-father hidden stash and put a warming charm on it to keep it warn for when the men would finally be back. Because even if she began her training the next, she had leave around two powerful earth witch for a couple of years and Tara had teach her some useful spells in case something happened, with the Hellmouth factor better be ready then sorry!
She was finishing her cup, when the door leading outside opened on her father. He was crying, while in the same time saying reassuring words to the bloody body he was carrying in his arms. When he finally saw her, he gave her a poor smile and asked her if she would transfer Spike's close in his room and prepare spike's room for their guest. Then she could come and help him heal Harry, they would be in her grand-father laboratory. She had done all that as fast as she could, then she had gone to help her Dad; she took only a look at the naked body of Harry, before she had to puck. She had never seen so much damage done to a human body, not even on Buffy's after her most apocalyptical battles. On the healing table was a vision of nightmare, and it took them more then an hour to dress all the wounds and heal the internal damages with spells and potions.
After that they put him in a bed with a dose of dreamless sleep potion, but the potion never worked and only a couple of minutes later his cries and screams could be heard from the living area. Her dad had gone and rocked the boy in his arms, while singing lightly, trying by that to shush his dreams. She had looked at them for a while standing by the door, feeling proud to have such a father and also feeling sorrow for the broken boy lost in his nightmares. After a little while she had joined them on the bed, putting her arms around Harry and joining her voice to the one already singing. And she sang, while caressing his head until he felt in a much lighter sleep. Before, she closed her own eyes and drift to sleep, feeling the light kiss given by her dad on her brow.
At two in the morning, a sound awoke her, and she realise that Spike and her Grand-daddy were finally back. For a long time, she listened to them while they talk about Harry and made decisions about what to do on the morning. Only, when she was sure that they all had gone to Morpheus kingdom, had she take the time to reflect on the event of this strange couple of days. In forty-eight hours, she had escaped Buffy's care with Spike, had learned first, that Joyce was really her mother, second, that she had the best father in the whole wild world. Her Xander, the one she always loved with all her earth, and it came with a bonus price, the most sarcastic Grand-father with the sweetest heart when it came to his family, she ever wanted. And now she was going to have a twin brother, it was a magically cooked one, but after all she had been magically cooked too! So, who cares?
She had the strangest family, but it was her own. And, oh, she almost forgot her new Papa William. The though of a tamed Spike smiling contritely to her stern Grand-dad, after forgetting for a moment that he was now supposed to act with dignity, made her smile and giggle lightly. No, he would never leave them now, he was her and Xan, and on that happy though she felt asleep with a smile on her lips.
The next morning, breakfast time.
It was two hours later, when Harry woke up for the second time, he had waited to make sure that the girl next to him was sleeping deeply the first time, and had fall asleep again without realising it. Strangely he was feeling secure in the girls arms, but after a time he decided to go explore his new home away from hell.
He got out of bed, without waking the lovely girl who had kept his nightmares at bay last night. He had only made two steps out of his room, when he encounter a very naked version of Malfoy. The naked blonde looked at him, before smiling and screaming.
"LEX, LEEEEEEEX, LEX, LEX, LEX, LEXY, sweetie come here pet. Your new pup's up! LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEX!"
And then he began to laugh as if he had just said the funniest thing ever. Harry was just beginning to realise that the block was really naked, when one of the other door of the room opened on someone he was not pleased to see right now. The lovely bane of his existence at Hogwarts, Severus Snape, potion master and pain in the ass extraordinaire, who looked pissed as hell.
"William, would you be kind enough not to scream and please go put some cloths on, before I get the urge to try my new experimental reducing potion on some of your beloved jewellery." Said his professor dryly, after taking one look at the scene in front of him.
"Nope! Can't!" answered the naked blonde with a corner smile.
"And, could you be kind enough to tell me why?" asked Snape, with the expression of someone who was really close to have a headache.
"Because your beloved son put them all in his room last night and when I woke up this morning, he had left after putting me in his bed, NAKED! And that BLOODY SPAWN OF A MA'A'GRA DEMON AND BUGS BUNNY ON STEROÏDES, on the painting of the dressing room refused me access to what he called his FUCKIN' CASTLE! So, I was currently looking for a knife to tear that loon to teeny tinny little beats, when I found the pup and screamed for Lex to come. And why the fuck isn't he here right now?" said the naked block, who's name was apparently William, with a melange of irritation and worry in his voice.
"Hum, the word on the fridge, said that he had been summoned by the old fool, and to not let Harry out of our quarters before he had the potion." Interrupt his pillow girl with a yawn. Before going first to William's side to hand him a pink bathrobe which was to short for him but managed to hide all the offending bites. After he passed it, he kissed her on the head and hugged her, then she made her way to Snape and hugged him to death, giving him a smacking kiss and a happy "Good morning Grand-daddy!". Harry was scarred for the girl, and took a step ready to defend her, but to his surprise the cranky wizard didn't try to kill the girl, he only returned the hug and smiled with tenderness to her.
Harry was left there looking like a crazy goldfish out of his water. He had watched the whole scene play with confusion. Who really was the naked guy named William, and how a girl could she make Severus Snape smile? But before everything else who was that lovely girl and why was she calling the professor 'Grand-daddy'?
It was in the middle of that strange scene that Lex chose to enter the room, a dark cloud floating above his head.
"What the hell is happening here? NO, no, don't tell me, I don't want to know! Dad, the old fool had just send aurors to Harry's house. Don't look at me like that he wanted me to go with them, I had to tell him that my husband and children had just arrived and that I could not let them just now, and he had to send a man cold Lupin or Lutin, something like that, let me tell you that he was not a happy camper. So, we running with the clock, everybody move your asses! Spike get dress, we need to go to the ministry now, Dawnie if you want to come with us hurry and get dress too, Dad the Famillia-Sangis-Conversio DNA potion needs to be finished for when we come back, could you also begin the other potions, I'll help you finished them later and you young man, get you butt back in your bed right now! You're in no conditions to be up and running." All that was said in one go, while Lex was crossing the room and collecting things that he would need later. After a good five minutes, when he saw that they were still in the same place gapping at him like a band of goldfishes, he saw fit to add a "MOVE!" before pushing Harry to his room, when he heard Spike asking him something. He stopped and turned his to look at his mate "What?"
"I said, love of my unlive, what's the BLOODY EFFIN PASSWORD FOR THE BLEEDIN DRESSING ROOM! Or do I need to tear that fuckin' painted knight in shreds." Repeat Spike with a snarl.
"Well, sorry husband mine, the password is white knight. It fits, don't you think?" said Lex with the most innocent smile he was capable of, before pushing Harry inside the room once again.
An hour later, at the ministry of magic.
The whole place was a mess, everybody was running like mad, since the news that the boy who lived had mysteriously disappeared, had been announced. You could hear the old fool ... hum, sorry, the honourable Albus Dumbledore, eyes twinkle less for once, using his most honeyed voice while the beloved Cornelius Fudge, great minister of magic, may he live forever, was screaming like a banshee, each trying to reject the fault on the other, for Harry disappearance . In the middle of all that nobody noticed a brown haired wizard hurrying a whit blonde one and a bouncing witch to the matrimonial department, on the six floors. Strangely the matrimonial hall was looking like a bad imitation of the most disgusting parody of Las Vegas chapel. For a moment, the two grooms almost expected to see Elvis himself bounce right in the front of them.
At the end of the hall, a very old witch was finishing the last words of the ceremony and two young witches kissed passionately, after that they shocked the priestress hand and left the hall passing just beside Dawn, who thought that they were really cute.
Just after they had stepped out, the hall became blinding white, until the boys took a step inside. Everything around them suddenly morphed to take the look of joy's summers garden in Sunnydale, the light began to dime to a lovely mix of deep gold and red. Little white flowers bloomed everywhere in the grass and you could hear a light music. Seeing that, Lex made a flick with is wand and dressed himself in his most beautiful Slytherin formal dress made of dark black-green velvet with the Slytherin emblem on his chest embroidered with black silk, at the same time Spike and Dawn had had the same ideas, and were wearing now dresses in a beautiful burgundy for the vampire and in a deep dark blue for Dawn.
When they finally arrived in front of the old lady, she smiled at them before asking them to extend their hands over the wedding certificate and with a beautiful ruby and silver dagger she cut their wrists lightly and let some blood drops fall on the paper before joining their hands together. Then she began to chant with a crystalline voice in a language so old that its translation had been lost in time. The song was hypnotic and while it progress to its end, the boys' wrist began to glow with a bright emerald light.
When the song was finished, the light began the become more and more solid, leaving on each of their wrists a cuff made of silver and emerald, and shaped like the Slytherin snake. After a couple of seconds, the snakes began to move around looking at the priestress with their emerald eyes, before biting in the hands of the boys, grafting themselves and fussing with their masters skins. It took another couple of minutes, before the stunned lady finally shook her head lightly and said that they were now husband and husband. Lex and Spike kissed passionately and they all left to go back to Hogwarts.
Same time, Severus's private lab.
"Another minute boiling, until it is creamy and lilac coloured. Yes, now I need to add the wild bear seed, steer counter clockwise three time, add the fairy hairs and the wild berries juice, three time clockwise, and for the final my, Lex's, Dawn's and Joyce's blood. I'm the Grand-father, so two drop of mine, Lex and Joyce are the parents so six drop from each, and Dawn is the twin sister so three drop and a half, now it can boil lightly for the next two hours and twenty-two minutes." Severus was finishing the DNA potion, unaware that Harry Potter had been sitting in a chair in the corner of the room for the better part of an hour.
Harry had first came to ask his professor what was going to happen to him now that he could not go back to the Dursley and that he would not be able to trust Dumbledore as far as he could throw the old loon, but Snape had been so absorbed by what he was doing that Harry hadn't dared to disturb him. He had found a chair and had began to wait, after sometime he had found himself fascinated by the way his professor worked, seeing for the first time how much potion was an art when it was done by a true master. He was still looking two hours later when Snape finished his last addition to the cauldron in front of him. After waiting ten more minutes to make sure that Snape would not begin another potion directly, he finally got up and asked.
"Professor Snape, may I ask you a question, please?"
Severus looked at the teen for the first time in his life without hostility, remembering his previous conversation with his son. Harry was not James and if everything went has planed; he would not even be a Potter, when the next morning comes. Well, if the boy would soon been his grand-son, he supposed that he could be a little bite less sarcastic with him and even try to be friendly.
"Mister Potter... Harry, I, we have decided last night that it was too dangerous for you to be with the Dursley or even in this school. So, after discussing our options, we've decided that we needed to hide you and if we can do it in front of everybody, it's even better. So, we have decided that I would made the Famillia-Sangis-Conversi potion, it's a potion to change you DNA, altering your appearance in the same time, for everyone you would be someone else, even the most advanced medical test could not prove that you had been Harry Potter once in your life time. After that, we will wait for a couple of months, before killing a clone of your body and left it somewhere to be found by the order members." Answer Severus with a calm voice, while directing Harry in the living room and the sofa.
"And who will I become professor?" asked the boy.
"You will become my grand-son, the son of my son; you have seen him this morning." Said the older man while forcing Harry to take a place in the sofa, beside him.
"The naked blonde?"
"No, no, the naked blonde is William; he is my son's husband. No, my son is the one with the dark long hair, his name his Alexander or Lex, he's a good man and a good father. You've met his daughter too, her name is Dawn, she's a sweet girl, and of course you would have me as grand-father. Oh, I know that it's not something that would excite you, nut before you decide to say no to this proposition, just listen to me for a minute. I've not been a good man or professor for you, and for that you have all my apologises. I was angry, so angry because of what your father and his friends had done to me, and by the fact that even if James was dead, he had won once more. You see, you were in Hogwarts parading and having friends, when my son could not be here with me, could not go in this school, it was irrational and I know it but ... I can only say one more time that I'm sorry. When the prophecy was know for the fist time, I had to sacrifice my life to protect yours, to become a spy and to send my son far away, which was what motived me to dislike you. So, if you agreed, I would like to make it even to you by being a good grand-father for you, please?" Severus had told his piece with a tremble in his voice and was now waiting for Harry's answer. The young man took his time, looking at the man before him for a long time and finally answered.
"I forgive you, I think that I can understand why you were like that, and I would be glad to disappear and to finally have a family. Now that I've agreed could you tell me how your son can be the father of a girl who seemed to be only five or six year older then her? If I'm family, it would be better if I knew." Finished Harry, with an intrigued expression on his face.
And Severus began to tell Harry, all about his life, his son's life, a girl named Dawn, a vampire named Spike, a Slayer, a Watcher, two Witches, a Key, a chaos Mage, a Hellmouth and a beautiful woman named Joyce.
"...and when you take the potion and are legally a Snape, we will simply tell Albus that Lex had an accident with a time turner some years ago, let say when he was fifteen. When he was supposedly in the past, he met Joyce who was still married but unhappy and helps him, they felt in love and had intercourse. So, when he came back in the present, he seeked her and when he understood that Dawn and you were his children, he asked her to move to Sunnydale so he could take care of his children magical education. She agreed and they became friends once again, until the day she died. Of course they never told anybody that he was your and Dawn's father, after the Hellmouth closed Lex decided to come see his father to ask him if he and his family could come to leave with him at Hogwarts. So, we decided to first ask Albus if he could be my apprentice, before we would present Spike aka William's candidature for the DADA position and for you and your sister to finish your schooling here. It would be no problem since Lex and I made sure to be really vague and to tell the old coot little as possible on Lex's life before he came here." Severus was finishing telling Harry the plan, when the door opens on a really happy couple and a grinning Dawn.
"Hello Daddy, let me present you my dear husband William Aconite Malfoy Snape-Slytherin!" sing-songed Lex while looking with love at his very own Vamp.
"Oh joy! And Lex, call me Daddy one more time and I'll find a way to feed you a male pregnancy potion, just imagine your self without your cock and with a shinning new vagina! Did I made myself clear young man!" answered sarcastically Severus, while looking at his son with fondness.
"I'll never do it again, I promise DADDY! Well, let's stop kidding for a moment; I think that Dumbledore will be finished at the Ministry in a no long now. So, is the potion ready, did Harry agreed and are we ready to proceed?" asked Lex in a rush, while he took place in a chair with Will beside him and Dawn decided to spoon a very red Harry on the couch.
Seeing Harry becoming red as a tomato, Dawn smiled and decided to tease him, while her grand-dad was busy fetching the potion.
"Don't fret sweetie, your going to be my twin in less the five minutes and I always wanted a little brother I could cuddle. I think that I've been a really good girl lately since, Santa bring my present early this years." And she kissed him strongly on the cheek. By that time Severus was back and was giving a silver cup filled with fuming liquid to Harry. He told him to drink it in one go, but that before that he needed to take a couple of vials of blood. It only took two minutes and Harry drank the potion, after that he began to tremble and deep green light recovered his body. He stayed in that cocoon of light for a little bite more then forty minutes while the Snape family members were waiting patiently for the potion to finish its work.
When the light finally receded, they could all see a young man with Lex's deep brown hair and Dawn hazel eyes he was two inches taller then Dawn, but beside that he was a masculine version of the girl beside him. He was as beautiful as new sister and was now a Snape. Severus took a drop of his blood to put on his new birth certificate and let Lex sign it before it was magically send to ministry archive. They were going to eat their diner, after Harry had change in some of Lex's close because his were to little for him now, when someone bang at the hall door. It was a very calm potion master who opened it on a dishevelled headmaster, who forced the door and made his way inside.
"Albus, what can I do for you?" asked Severus with a half smile.
"Harry, had vanished, we can seamed to find him not even with the strongest tracking spells. You need too..." at that moment the old man saw that they were not alone for the first time and tried to recomposed himself. "... Sorry, I didn't realise that you and Alexander were not alone." Looking at the blonde man and the two adolescents sitting at the table.
"Yes, this is Alexander's family, we were planning to come and see you tomorrow morning, since they only arrived tonight. This is William, he is Lex's husband and we were hoping that you would agreed to consider his candidature as DADA teacher, and those two are Lex's children," Albus send Severus a questioning look, after considering the children's age. " time turner accident, I'll explain!" answered Sev, before continuing " as I was saying these are my grand children Dawn and Nox Snape, who are going to attempt this year at Hogwarts.