Chapter 5 – Getting To Know You – Day 2
Draco and Blaise were at Remus' door at 6:30 the next day, nervously waiting for the door to be answered.
"Are you sure that anyone will be awake?" Blaise asked for the fourth time. "We said we'd be here at seven."
"It is a well-known fact that the only Professor to sleep past six is Dumbledore." Draco and Blaise jumped at the sound of the cheerful voice coming from the now open door. "Sirius is in his room pouting and marking assignments. Hermione and Harry are meditating in the sitting room and please, forgive the paperwork. I'm trying to get Harry's inheritance in order before I hand it over to him," Remus smiled. "You can come in; Harry and Hermione will be coming round soon and breakfast in nearly ready."
The two boys followed the cheerful wolf into his rooms, only to stop in the doorway. Seated cross-legged on the floor, facing each other and hands linked – were their mates. They watched enthralled as the magic surrounding them pulsed and receded in ever-increasing and decreasing speeds.
Remus watched them with a knowing look on his face. "It's a beautiful sight, isn't it?" he asked as he turned to watch the transparent black, silver and gold colours pulsing around the two. "They had to learn to do this before they learnt anything else since even though Demons can use wands, they rarely do."
"We don't use wands because it is very hard to find a core that suits us. Most Demon use wands that have three or more components to their cores: not the normal one that is found in a wizard's wand."
All three males jumped, eliciting a slight giggle from Harry.
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to scare you," Hermione said, giggling softly.
Harry stepped close to Draco and nuzzled into him. "Hi," he smiled, looking into Draco's eyes.
Draco's eyes had turned silver. "Hello Little One," he purred, revealing elongated canines. "You look delightful this morning."
Harry beamed and snuggled into Draco's chest once more before disappearing into the kitchen. Draco sighed happily and turned to watch.
Remus, Hermione and Blaise nearly chocked when they tried suppressing their laughter at the look of devotion and slight hunger in his eyes.
The hunger increased when Harry returned with four glasses with a pink liquid in them and one with a bright red which made everyone's flesh crawl. Harry handed the red on to Draco, then handed the others to the rest.
"I thought since you got here so early, we could have a coursed breakfast," Harry said with a slight blush on his checks and over the bridge of his nose. Draco melted at the shy look on his mate's face.
"It's alright, Harry," Hermione said fighting the urge to squeal happily. "I'm sure they won't mind. It is a big castle after all."
Harry smiled and took a mouthful of his drink. "It's okay; it's only a strawberry, banana and almond meal smoothie. It's yummy."
Draco took a sip of his when the others did – but unlike everyone else, his eyes darkened to the colour of storm clouds. He also managed to drain his glass in what seemed to be one gulp. Silently, Harry poured him another glass, which Draco drank at the same speed as the others.
"What just happened?" Blaise blinked. "What the hell was in that smoothie?"
"It was exactly the same that was in yours except I added some of my blood to it. I guessed that he'd need more and that he wouldn't be comfortable feeding from me when I wasn't freaking out, so I added the same amount that he took the other night and mixed it into his drink."
Blaise looked at Harry in surprise. It was obvious that he had forgotten that his friend had tasted his mate's blood and would need to feed from him once every one or two days. He shook his head and followed the laughing couple to the rest of their meal.
An hour later the four youngsters were ready to leave and after saying goodbye to Remus, the four took off for the castle tour. All four of them were having so much fun walking through the castle and talking to the portraits that they had to run to the Great Hall to make it to the Great Hall in time for lunch.
When they entered, the hall fell silent in shock at the sight of both Slytherin Princes flushed and laughing. The fact that the vampire in Draco had become more pronounced also drew many lust-filled male and female eyes.
As if he knew exactly what was going on in the minds behind those gazes, Harry stepped closer to his mate, seemingly trying to crawl into his skin. Draco glanced down at his mate with a soft smile. He knew that being around so many people was scaring his kitten so he did what his instincts told him to do.
The Hall erupted into life as his fangs pierced his mate's throat. Males yelled in horror, females screamed – whether in jealousy or fear was the most popular question – and the entire Hufflepuff table fainted.
Draco removed his fangs after a few moments and licked the mark he'd made. "Mine!" he whispered possessively, causing Harry to shiver uncontrollably. Up at the head table, Remus was shaking his head in resignation. Severus was smirking while internally jumping like a teenage fan girl who had just discovered slash fan fiction and Sirius was so shocked that, for once, he had nothing to say.
As the Slytherin Princes lead their mates to the table on the far side of the hall, all the Professors who knew Sirius were wishing that Rita Skeeter was there to record the reason why the apocalypse was coming. Oh well – that is what a pensieve was for after all.
Remus and Severus walked towards the teens as they were finishing their salads and they watched in amusement as Harry made sandwiches from whatever food was left on the table after the savages disguised as students had left.
"Can we help you Remus? Professor Snape?" Hermione politely asked, earning herself an extremely rare smile from the Potions Master.
"We were just wondering how your morning was and what your plans for this afternoon are," Severus answered in an almost kind voice, causing the majority of the remaining students to hide under their tables for protection against the Ice that was surely forming in Hell at that very moment.
"Well, we haven't finished looking through the castle yet - we still have the dungeons and the ground to go, so we will be doing those," Blaise answered.
"I promise we won't go into the Potion's room, Sev," Draco added almost hastily.
Severus noticed the spark in Harry's eyes dimed slightly at Draco's words and mentally shook his head. "You may show them the room, Draco," he interrupted, noticing the return of the spark with satisfaction. "I just don't want anything touched in there until I can assess your companion's potions skills. If they pass then they will have free reign like you do."
By this time, Harry's eyes were shining with suppressed excitement.
Remus groaned in mock agony. "You do know that you've just given your word to open your lab to a monster, don't you?" he asked, walking towards the door.
Severus frowned following him. "What do you mean by that Remus? Lupin? STOP IGNORING ME WOLF!"
Draco, Blaise and Hermione laughed while Harry just tilted his head to the left.
"What is it Harry?" Hermione asked when she had calmed down.
Harry smiled at her. "I'm just happy that Remus has found a new pack for himself," he answered. "I know that he has Siri, me and you, but he needed more than just us. I'm glad that he picked right."
The four teens finished their sandwiches in silence, thinking about what had just been said. When the last scrap had been consumed, they stood and made their way down to the dungeons.
An hour later - thanks to a particularly, and oddly, talkative portrait of Salazar Slytherin - the four made their way back to the Entrance Hall. When they reached it, Draco and Blaise groaned. It was raining. It seemed that a storm had come while they were talking to Salazar.
Harry and Hermione just looked at each other and ran out the doors and into the downpour. Draco and Blaise started out in shock. That was not what they had expected. When they had gotten over their shock, they started to laugh. There before them were their mates. Both of them were spinning around on the pavement of the courtyard, laughing and getting soaked.
Hearing their joyous laughter, they did the only thing they could do. They ran into the rain, picked up their perspective mates and spun them around, causing them to shriek with laughter.
Sirius stood before the window in his rooms, watching the rain fall and the four figures on the grounds. He smiled softly when he heard his door open softly. "Hey Moony, what can I do you for?" he whispered, scared of breaking the peaceful silence.
"I just came to see how you were. I think Harry missed you at breakfast. I think he misses you."
Sirius sighed softly and looked back out at the four teens. "I miss him, Remy. I just don't know how to not annoy him. He's so ... so domesticated!"
Remus walked over to his friend and placed his hand on his shoulder. "He's a lot like Lily, isn't he?" He asked with a slight smile as they watched their Kit playing in the rain.
"Yeah, he is. I've never seen Draco smile so much - and before now he would never think of being out in the rain unless he was playing Quidditch."
"You and Lily were nearly inseparable when she wasn't with either James or Severus. Why don't you try treating Harry like you did her?"
Sirius smiled slightly. "Do you think that he would teach me to cook? I swear all I wanted to do when I walked in the kitchen was to help him - I just don't know my way around the implements good enough."
Remus tightened his grip on Sirius' shoulder. "All you can do is ask - and prove to him that you want to learn."
Sirius nodded. "Let's go down and join the youngsters. I want to play too!"
Remus laughed and followed his only remaining brother-in-pranks out of the room.
Harry shrieked when a familiar pair of arms picked him up.
"Hi Kit!" Sirius grinned down at him, black hair stuck to his face by the rain.
"SIRI!" Harry grinned back.
Remus watched them with a slight smile on his face. While they weren't watching, he quickly snapped a photo before joining in with the five people in front of him.
Once again the students were shocked to silence when six water-logged people walked into the hall with large smiles on their faces.
"Don't worry about us," Remus announced. "We just came to drop off a run-away child."
Everyone laughed when Sirius shouted, "Hey!"
After a few quick hugs, Remus and Sirius headed up to the Head table - still soaking wet - while the four teens headed to the Slytherin Table. As the six sat, purple flames rose around them and disappeared, leaving behind six dry, but dishevelled, people. Next they were surrounded by shadows and when they had disappeared they looked as neat as if they had just walked out of the shop.
Once again after the meal, Blaise and Draco walked their mates to Remus' door.
"We had best get to the Common room. We have to get ready for classes tomorrow," Blaise said sadly.
"Will you be coming here for breakfast?" Harry asked bright green eyes wide and innocent.
Draco beamed. "Of course! It wouldn't be a good start to the day if we didn't."
Both Demon gave their mates a hug and a soft kiss to the cheek and walked into the room. After hearing the door close, the two Slytherins left, discussing what they needed to do for the following day. Suddenly Draco stopped.
"I need to talk to the Headmaster about something," he said in answer to Blaise' puzzled look and he vanished in the opposite direction, leaving his friend to shake his head.
