Chapter seventeen
"Severus where are we?" Harry's groggy voice broke into the potions master's very troubled thoughts.
"We're in my bedroom, Harry," the vampire answered calmly.
'Oh no, did we… was my dream real!' Harry gave himself the once over and quickly realized that he was no longer in his school robes. No, he was dressed in a pair of blue striped pajama bottoms and a matching long sleeved button up top. Harry blushed as he thought, 'I really hope he used magic to get me out of my robes. If my memory serves me I had a wet dream. Christ, Harry, you have got to get control of yourself! I mean one dream of the man in a pair of tight black jeans without a shirt on should not be enough to make you … well you just have to stop these thoughts! Remember, he sees you as a student, nothing more.'
"Don't worry, Mister Potter, Harry, while we were in the headmaster's office you began to run a very high fever. I brought you back here so that we could, well, break your fever completely, Harry," Severus explained. Harry noticed that the potions' master seemed very nervous.
"Break the fever totally? What does that mean professor?" Harry asked.
Severus sighed, "Well Harry, the dream you had of attacking Ron is called a bloodlust dream. This is a sign that the vamporic change is close at hand. Then, usually about three weeks after these dreams occur, something called the fledgling fever sets in. This fever consists of two parts. You went through the first part in the headmaster's office, Harry."
Severus was pleased to see that so far Harry seemed to be taking this news well. He took a deep breath and continued, "So, the first part of the fledgling fever, that you have completed, is called blooding. Don't ask me why it's called that because no one knows. The only thing I can tell you is that the only way to stop the rise in body temperature is for the victim to receive blood directly from an elder vampire usually the fledgling's creator. Once the blood is taken into the bloodstream the body begins to flush out the toxins of the human dietary system. Some toxins come from meat and all salts are flushed out. This cleansing of the body is the second part of the fledgling fever and completes the second stage in the Vamporic change. The third and final stage of changing has three parts."
"The first part is the blood call. This is where our blood will pull us to one another or 'call' for us to finish what we started. At Harry's questioning gaze Severus sighed and told the boy flat out, "We will become aroused and want to have sex with each other Harry."
"Oh," was Harry's only intelligible answer as he turned a deep magenta.
"In the second part two things will happen," Severus went on. "One, your fangs will emerge and two you will bite the first person you see." Upon hearing this Harry paled considerably. His fear quickly turned to anger when he heard Severus' husky laugh.
"Damn it William Severus Snape this is not a laughing matter!" Harry shouted at his potion's master. "This means that no one is safe from me! N-no one I could very well b-b-bite Ron," when Harry finished saying this he began to cry as he had done so many times this day.
"Relax Harry, I plan to be the only person you see until the change is completed and I have already cleared it with the headmaster, so don't worry," Severus explained to Harry.
"But Severus, what if…I don't want to hurt you," Harry said, while chewing his bottom lip from worry. Once again Severus laughed. Harry glared at the man.
"Potter, I am an ancient who is more than capable of dealing with one such as yourself. Now shut up and let me finish my explanations so we can get some sleep before the night is over, okay? Now, the last thing that is to happen will be the consummation," William finished with a sigh.
"HUH," Harry couldn't believe his luck, "Do you mean that we…that is to say do you mean we get to make love Sev?" There, he had done it he had asked the question that had plagued his mind since he had awakened on this very messed up day. Now all that was left was to hear Severus' answer. It was at this precise moment that Harry realized that he had lied earlier in the day, not only to Severus and the Headmaster but also to himself. The fact of the matter was that Harry would let his potions master have his virginity. Gladly. If only the man's answer were yes…