Well, that was longer than I was hoping but I finally finished chapter 8. I hope you all enjoy it. I'm sad to say it's been very difficult for me to actually work on this with raising a toddler, work and writer's block punching me in the face.
Originally, I was going to have our next coven member admit to being barren due to her 'condition' and then regain the ability to have children later on in the story but the more I read and reviewed this chapter and the still incomplete chapter 9 I just couldn't go with it. So, I came up with this.
This chapter is primarily all with the girls. Harry will return in the next chapter where another potential (and I do mean potential – not set in stone) girl will show up.
Please read on and tell me what you think. Flames will be left unread and deleted so please, only constructive criticism.
Chapter Eight: A New Sister
"So, wait, you mean he has to marry several other women because of his many titles or he'll lose them to the ministry or be forced into a contract?" Daphne nodded to a slightly irritated Susan Bones as the two sat at the common room table within the Slytherin suite with Lavender, a cup of tea in the girl's hands. "And I can't take any of the Ladyships, why exactly?" The blonde sighed, placing her tea down on the table.
"Susan, you are the ONLY heir to the house of Bones, your house depends on you continuing it. By the ancient laws you will not be allowed to take on the Ladyship of another unless you surrender your right as heir. I'm surprised your aunt didn't go over this with you already." Susan leaned back in her chair, arms crossed over her chest.
"She never made it a point to tell me. I think it was because we had so much on our plate with me being half demon and her being the head of the DMLE that it was never brought up."
"So, what does this mean then? Obviously we all like Harry, there's no denying it, but at the same time, Sue's been very… determined to be with him."
"And she can, but she will have to be a consort or mistress."
"You're forgetting that others might not be very accepting of a Succubus being married as a second wife to a Lord as powerful as Harry. So far, the two of us are the only ones that accept her. What about the other four that will be joining us?" Daphne frowned crossing her arms over her chest as she placed her cup of tea on the table.
"That's a good point. Besides, we don't even know if…. Hold on, do the two of you realize that we're sitting here talking like Harry's already decided to marry us?" The two lovers blinked, taking a few seconds to think about it as a voice spoke up from behind Lavender.
"That's… indeed a bit strange." The trio looked back to the picture of Salazar, scratching his chin in thought. "Did I miss something when I dived into his heritage? I could have sworn I covered all the bases."
"What do you mean, Salazar?" The man looked to Susan.
"You are all familiar with the way the Veela allure works correct?" The girls nodded, the man stopping Lavender from speaking when she opened her mouth. "Hold on, he's not Veela and doesn't have any Veela in his blood… but I'll double check that later. Anyway, there are several other species that have a similar allure, succubi and incubi for an example are two of them. If you are feeling this way about him, he may have something similar that draws you to him."
"That's… a bit odd then. I highly doubt Harry's any part incubus… We'd have jumped each other by now." Susan mumbled the last bit to herself, a tinge of pink appearing in her eyes before she beat it back.
"And I definitely doubt he's Veela unless someone sealed his blood away, which is illegal and almost impossible without turning him into a glorified vegetable." Daphne added her two cents, getting a nod from the former Slytherin founder.
"Exactly and with the amount of blocks and potions I had to cleanse him of already it's amazing he didn't die before hand." The sound of shattering glass echoed through the room as Susan glared at the painting, her pupils slit and her lips pulled back in a snarl while the remains of her tea dripped from her hand with a mixture of blood.
"You want to repeat that, Salazar?!" Lavender watched the girl's fingernails lengthen into claws as her lover stalked towards the painting, the black haired man rubbing his eyes in annoyance.
"Wasn't supposed to say that."
"Sue, calm down, love." Lavender gently grabbed the girl's arm, a bit of nervousness in her tone as she felt the familiar sensation of Susan's tail wrapping around her thigh. Susan stopped stalking towards the painting and turned her head towards Lavender, the fury in her eyes softening when she looked into the brunette's. "Everything will be fine. Salazar will explain what he means." The man sighed in defeat at the pointed look the girl was giving him.
"Alright, alright, I'll talk. Sheesh, haven't been this cornered since Rowena was pregnant with Helena." The man rubbed the back of his neck. "I guess I'll start at the beginning. Back when Harry and Susan first started living here, I noticed Harry has had numerous blocks placed on him as well as being… for a lack of a better word, dosed with various types of potions. Slowly, using the little amount of magic I have access to, I've been slowly purging his body of some of the blocks and potions to avoid a serious backlash from releasing them all at once."
"What kind of blocks?" Daphne asked, eyeing the tail still wrapped around Lavender's thigh in curiosity.
"There were lots of them; Magical Core bindings, his intelligence, behavior and even his natural skills. I've been slowly tearing them down each night when he sleeps and yet I'm still no closer to unblocking his magical core."
"That might explain why his magic felt so potent yesterday when Malfoy interrupted our date." Susan snapped her gaze to Daphne the moment she finished speaking, a light blush on the blonde girl's cheeks as she shivered from the memory. Susan grew a feint smirk, a ring of pink appearing around her pupil causing Lavender to roll her eyes.
"Susan, settle yourself, you do not get to jump Daphne." The half succubus pouted at her lover.
"But I wasn't… I was just going to tease her for being submissive to magically strong men like Harry." Daphne's cheeks burned brighter as she tried to sputter out a response. The brunette lightly slapped Susan upside the head with her own smile.
"Quit and listen to Salazar." The man chuckled watching the three as they returned their attention to him.
"Thank you Lavender but that was mostly it. Any questions?"
"Can you tell who created the blocks?" Salazar shook his head at the blonde haired girl's question.
"No, I didn't try to. I was more concerned with removing them. I can't promise when I'll have them off of him, the damn bindings have been placed very tightly around his core." Lavender spoke up next.
"How much power does he have exactly?" The man thought for a few moments.
"Probably that of a full grown adult wizard in his prime at this point, possibly even more than that but I can't truly tell since his core has been increasing with his constant training. He was originally only left with ten percent of his magical core to work with before now so it's a little hard to say."
"You mean he's been using ONLY ten percent of his entire core since he's been here?!" Lavender shouted at the man. "That's insane! He's able to produce a fully corporal patronus on just that much?" Salazar nodded.
"Yes, but as you'll learn in your medi-witch training, the magical core is like a muscle; the more you exercise it, the stronger it becomes. So take that ten percent that's been left and add the amount of training he's been doing since he's been a student here. Now put that aside and think about his remaining ninety percent that is confined under a block. How long are blocks usually placed on children for?" Lavender bit her lip in thought, idly rubbing the tail around her thigh, getting a content sigh from the resident half demon.
"If I recall the books Madam Pomfrey gave me correctly, children have their cores bound until they are eleven years old, in which case, the bindings breaks naturally after the unstable core of the child finally settles. It's not truly necessary as muggleborns never have their cores bound due to staying unknown to the ministry until their first bout of accidental magic." Salazar nodded.
"So they kept the concept the same since I was around, good. Anyway, Harry's never broke, rather it was reinforced."
"But that… it's dangerous! You're talking about keeping a core bound at ten percent it's natural power! Even as it grows the block will absorb the increase in magic to keep the core at that state. If the block was suddenly removed he could die from the sudden influx of magic through his body!" Salazar nodded once more at the slightly distraught girl.
"That's correct and the damned thing is so tightly bound that so far I've barely made any progress outside of the amount of magic Daphne here was able to feel. On top of his bound core, there's still something that troubles me that I can't identify, something dark hidden in his scar. This thing seems to also be leaching off of his magical core as well, helping with his increasing amount of magic. I can't say what it is though as I've never come across it before."
"This is insane." Daphne sat down on the sofa, her eyes lightly glazed over as she spoke. "His magical power is already so potent… If what you're saying is true… Oh gods, the amount of power he's going to have once this is all said and done is going to be unbelievable." Lavender felt the tail around her thigh started to coil its way further up her leg, her breath hitching slightly as Susan's resolve to keep her own lust back started to fail, the strawberry blonde grinning slightly with her eyes slowly melting to a light pink.
"Don't you mean, intoxicating, Daphne?"
"Susan, NO!" The girl blinked at the stern look on her lover's face.
"But Lav-" Lavender lightly slapped the girl's tail, stopping its ascent up the last bit of her thigh.
"She's off limits unless she says otherwise. I may have agreed to our situation, and I've been loving every minute of it mind you, but you will not do that to Daphne without her consent. That does not mean you get to manipulate her to consent." Susan looked to the floor sadly, her eyes returning once more to their hazel color as she retracted her tail from Lavender's thigh.
"I'm sorry… it's still hard to get used to controlling these new instincts of mine." Daphne nodded accepting the apology as Lavender wrapped the girl up in a hug. The room was silent before Daphne looked up to the portrait of Salazar.
"You said the magic he has would kill him from the sudden influx correct?" The man nodded before the blonde haired Slytherin looked at Susan. "Susan, you feed off of your partner's magic right?" Susan nodded her head, her face buried into Lavender's shoulder. "Then what if Susan drained his magic while you break the block on Harry's core? Why not use her ability to drain magic to our advantage?" Salazar shrugged.
"It could work, but it depends on how powerful Harry truly is. Susan would be able to handle only so much. While they feed off magic, Succubi can become sick from "overeating" to put it simply." Lavender felt Susan tightened her grip on her, shaking her head from Salazar's explanation.
"Why don't we research that option a little more later? I'm sure we can come up with a much better solution."
X Two Weeks Later: Hospital Wing: Afternoon X
"Well, Ms. Bones, I can see you were left in fantastic care with Ms. Brown. You've fully recovered from the poison." The Hogwarts nurse smiled as she waved her wand over the girl. "I can also see you've… accepted your other half it seems." Susan nodded with a smile as the woman allowed her to redress. Lavender sat on the bed opposite of the half demon with a smile.
"Yes, it seems my potion became obsolete due to the combination of Dragic Poison and the healing salve." Madam Pomfrey eyed the girl cautiously. "Don't worry, Lavender has been keeping me perfectly tamed and has been one hundred percent willing once the two of us discovered the problem." The woman studied the teenage for a moment more before nodding.
"Very well, but I want to perform a check up on you, Ms. Brown, to make sure no lasting damage has occurred to your mind, magical core and body. The aura of a succubus can have significant effects on those around her, especially those she lays with." The two girl blushed as Susan finished putting on the last of her clothes, the half demon having a hint of nervousness in her eyes.
"But I," Poppy stopped the girl with a raised hand and a gentle smile.
"Don't worry, this is just a precaution, Ms. Bones. I can tell Ms. Brown is in complete control of her mind by just looking at her eyes. I just want to make sure your newly awaken powers didn't affect her negatively since you are the first Succubus to have attended Hogwarts, and only half Succubus at that." Susan sighed in relief. "Why don't you step out of the screen while I check her over? This should only take a few moments."
The girl walked out of the screen, leaving the school nurse and the medi-witch in training in private. The elder woman started to wave her wand over Lavender, a pleased smile on her face. "You did very well taking care of her, Lavender. Keep this up and I just might have to make you my apprentice." The young girl smiled brightly.
"It looks like everything's in order with you. I can't find any damage to your core from you feeding your magic to her and your mind and body are still in pristine condition. How the two of you are still virgins is an amazing feat by the way. Most succubi aren't sated with foreplay." Lavender blushed a deep red in embarrassment while the healer frown, repeating the spell she just used that gave her the strange reading. "Odd, very odd."
"What's wrong?" Lavender asked worryingly, the medi-witch furrowing her brow in thought. Poppy placed her wand in the holster just inside her sleeve and sat down next to the future nurse.
"Lavender, I'm going to use a spell that will allow me to look further into what I found, ok? It could be nothing but I need to be certain of what it is before I give a diagnosis. Do you understand?"
"Will… Will Sue get in trouble from whatever this is you found?" The woman shook her head.
"No, no, no. She will not be in trouble but this does seem to have come from your relationship to her. I promise you, Susan will not be punished as this isn't even a bad thing. However, I may have to have someone verify it."
"But who? I'm pretty sure the healers at Saint Mungo's will refuse to think whatever this is, is harmless since Susan's part of it."
"Magister Gabranth is a master of many different magics as you have seen yourself. He will be the one to verify." Lavender thought for a moment before nodding her consent. Madam Pomfrey touched the teen's forehead, her eyes closed in concentration. Several minutes passed before the woman pulled her hand away. "As I thought but to be sure, you are heading directly to the Judge Magister with me, understand?" Lavender nodded slightly nervous about what was going on. "Don't worry, I'll explain what's going on once we arrive in his office. Susan will be coming with us, now come."
The two quickly gathered a confused Susan and headed towards the resident Judge's office. The trip took little time and the man invited them in before Poppy could knock on the door. Gabranth looked up from the paperwork on his desk and eyed the two teens before looking at the school nurse. "What can I do for the three of you?"
"I need you to check something I found. I ran a quick scan on Ms. Brown here when the two admitted to being… partners to keep Ms. Bones tamed since her potion seems to have become obsolete." The armored man nodded, gesturing for the two girls to sit down in front of him while the medical professional shut and locked the door.
"What can you tell me about what you found?"
"While everything is perfectly fine as they are both in perfect health, when I ran a check on Lavender one of the spells gave me odd readings. I preformed the advanced version and found some sort of bond that is linked to Ms. Bones." Gabranth nodded.
"I think I know what you're talking about then. Ms. Bones, Ms. Brown, I need you to be completely honest with me, I need to have an absolutely honest answer." The two nodded, still confused about the situation. "Have the two of you felt anything strange or had conversations that don't make sense when you think about them regarding the two of you?" The two girl shared a look before Susan nodded.
"Yes… Two weeks ago, Lavender, Daphne Greengrass and I were discussing something we discovered about Harry's… predicament."
"What predicament?" The Judge asked lightly.
"Daphne mentioned Harry being the heir of six houses, something I knew but Lavender didn't. We got to talking and she found out that I knew nothing about the duties of being an heir of multiple houses, let alone my own duties as heiress so she stayed the night and we talked about it the next morning when Harry went to talk with Professor Sprout about getting something for the upcoming task."
"You must mean his duty to have one wife for each of his houses or he risks losing his right to the lordship or a forced marriage." The girls nodded. "Why do you think it was strange?"
"Well… The three of us were talking as if we had decided to agree with being with Harry. Neither I nor Susan felt that way before she came into her powers and Daphne only spent the one night around us when we found it strange of how we viewed the situation." Lavender shrugged. "I don't understand it but that is what it felt like."
"I think my succubus side might have something to do with it." Susan added, her face flushed in embarrassment. "I… I think it's chosen Harry for my perfect mate. My mother left me a book, explaining everything she could about succubi and one of the things she mentioned is what it felt like when your instincts find your perfect mate." Gabranth nodded.
"The so called "Destined One." I am very familiar with that particular story among Succubi and Incubi. This is exactly what I think it is then, Poppy, a Succubus Coven Bond." The teens blinked in surprise.
"A what?" the two asked, as Gabranth walked around to his chair, taking a seat and leaning back.
"A Succubus Coven Bond is formed when a succubus's magic and instincts, in this case Ms. Bones, finds potential sister mates for her own mate, Mr. Potter. No one truly knows what causes it but the succubus will become very protective of her sisters when another male touches them in what could be considered an intimate way and are equally as protective of their mate, potential mate in this case, if a female without the approval of the succubus tries to move in on him. The… chosen I guess you could call them, have their affections for the male/female vastly strengthen as well but only if there is something there to begin with and not just a school girl crush. Very rarely does this bond ever form as most Succubi never stay with one mate for too long." The girls blinked in confusion while Poppy took mental notes of the situation.
"But how and when did it form? Susan didn't accept her succubus half until a week after the first task, isn't that a bit too quick for that to form?" Gabranth shook his head.
"Not at all, Ms. Brown. Even when she suppressed it, her instincts were still searching for a potential mate, which she apparently found in Mr. Potter and you Ms. Brown as a sister mate or sister wife if you prefer."
"Is… Is it possible that Daphne is in the same boat? That she's a part of the bond?" Gabranth shrugged.
"The only way to find out would be to for either madam Pomfrey or myself to check for the bond, or you, Ms. Bones, can try sensing for it. Being the Succubus in this bond makes you the queen among your fellow coven members as it's your magic that's creating the bond so you have the potential to sense them out."
"Soooo she's essentially the alpha female among the coven?" Lavender was given a nod.
"Exactly. Even should you find yourself with, say for example, a werewolf, she would still be the most dominate as far as the coven goes."
"How is the bond finalized?" Gabranth chuckled slightly at Lavender's question.
"I'm sure the three of you will figure it out, four if your concern for Ms. Greengrass is warranted." The armored man looked to the school nurse standing behind the two girls. "They are perfectly fine and are in your hands, Madam." Pomfrey nodded in agreement.
"I'll see to it that Ms. Greengrass is given a checkup in case she is a part of the bond."
"Very well, you ladies have a good day. I hope to see you in class tomorrow morning, Ms. Bones, Ms. Brown." The girls stood from their seats, leaving the man's office and splitting off from the nurse as she made her way toward the Hospital Wing.
"So, what now?" Lavender shook her head.
"I don't know. I'm a little scared of what Harry would think if he knew about this." Lavender smiled, throwing her arm around her lover's shoulder.
"Hey, what did I tell you about that line of thinking? Harry won't hate you, if anything, he'll thank you for helping him find wives." Susan ducked her head with a blush. "That reminds me, we should find Daphne and discuss this with her. She's been hanging around us and Harry a lot more since the two of them started dating and if she is a part of the bond we need to tell her."
"Maybe… I don't know this is all happening too fast and it's all too confusing." Lavender kissed her cheek, laying the girl's head on her shoulder.
"We'll figure this out, don't you worry."
X Slytherin House: Girl's 4th Year Dorm X
Daphne swore as she slammed the book shut, eyes glaring into the darkness of her dorm room. 'Still nothing to help us release the blocks on Harry.' The girl sighed, setting the book aside on her nightstand as she pinched her nose in annoyance.
"Well, someone looks a little sour tonight." A dark haired girl with blue eyes grinned at the visage of Daphne from the door of the room. The blonde haired teen shook her head at the girl as she walked over and sat on the bed next to her. "So, what's got the Ice Queen's knickers in a twist? Harry not giving in to your feminine wiles?" Electric blue eyes rolled.
"Please, Tracy, I've told you we were waiting until we're more comfortable. Besides, if you haven't noticed, I have him practically wrapped around my finger." Tracy Davis barked a quick laugh before meeting the girl's eyes.
"You and I both know you'd rather have him wrapped in something a little more private than around your finger Daph. After all, you've been with him for what, two weeks now? How much longer before I have to just lock you two in a broom closet to avoid hearing your wet dreams and get some actual sleep?" The blonde haired Slytherin blushed, embarrassed as Tracy continued teasing the girl, imitating her voice. "Oh Harry, right there! More, more!" Tracy leaned in, whispering into the eldest Greengrass's ear. "How is my service, Milord? Does this please you?"
"Stop it, Tracy!" Daphne snapped, looking away from her best friend as she pulled away with a laugh.
"Oh calm down, I'm just teasing you. But you really should start drawing your curtains closed, they are charmed to keep sounds from escaping and entering." Daphne raised a brow at the girl, her cheeks flushed in embarrassment.
"If that's the case, why don't you ever close yours and be done with it? Unless you're trying to tell me you like watching me while I sleep?" Tracy blinked, surprised by the question while her own cheeks gained a bit of color. She composed herself with a grin, gazing towards her friend with a mischievous look in her eyes.
"Well how else am I supposed to tease you about, now let's see what did you call them…" Tracy put a finger to her lips in thought. "Oh yes, your Master Harry and Mistress Susan?"
"Wha? What are you talking about?"
"Please Mistress Susan, allow me service you. Your hands feel so good Mistress! Oh, Mistress! No Mistress, Master is watching!" Tracy watched the color of her best friend's face turn a dark crimson in embarrassment, the girl hiding her face in a pillow she had grabbed as the girl continued to try mimicking her voice.
"I've got to say, Daph, you really have a wild imagination when it comes to Potter and Bones. Have you even screwed them yet? Obviously you wouldn't be against it."
"Shut up!" Daphne roared, catching the girl by surprise as she looked at the tear filled eyes. "Just shut up! You know nothing of our relationship so don't you dare attempt to insinuate I'm fucking either of them right now!"
"Daphne, calm down! I'm sorry, I was just teasing!" Hands up in surrender, Tracy watched her best friend wipe away the unshed tears. "Obviously there is a lot of tension right now between the three-"
"Four." Tracy paused at the cut off, blinking confusingly at Daphne as she clapped her hands over her mouth, eyes wide from what she said.
"What?" the blonde sighed, hands hiding her face as she took a deep breath.
"Four of us: Lavender, Harry, Susan and me." The dark haired Slytherin gaped like a fish momentarily before sighing, pinching the bridge of her nose.
"Ok, is this something you can explain or am I going to have to grab at straws here?" Daphne bit her lip in thought, hesitating to say anything. Seeing her friend in turmoil, the raven haired teen sat on the bed next to her blonde friend, drawing her close with an arm over her shoulder.
"Daphne, you can trust me. I don't care about Bones being a succubus, nor do I care about the fact you are obviously pinning after both her and Potter. What I do care about is the fact that my best friend is happy. You can tell me anything, Daph, and I promise you that I will not say anything you don't want me to."
"I won't lie, I envy you. You got your hands on the greatest guy in school. He's calm, caring, brave, powerful, entertaining to be around and damn can he teach spells pretty damn well. This is all from the short amount of time I've spent with him learning Black Mage magic with him in Grabranth's class. He's partnered with you and Brown so often, I seriously want to learn that time magic he's also been dabbling in to stop you two from hogging him all the time. But damn girl, if you're having an issue with him, you better tell me and I'll beat him to a pulp for messing with my best friend!" Daphne looked slightly surprised at her friend.
'Tracy likes him?' "Why haven't you tried before yourself?"
"Thanks to Malfoy and Weasley, we Slytherins haven't been put in the most positive of perspectives. Hell, Potter only just started to pay attention to people outside his own house this year and you were the girl he chose to date." Tracy shrugged. "I'm a half blood witch, my father having left before my mother even knew she was pregnant. No one that has grown up in the magical world here in England is going to want anything to do with a muggle raised, bastard, half-blood child. I'm lucky to have even gotten the chance to have you and Astoria as friends. Barely anyone in Slytherin tolerates me while any muggleborn that tries to get with me is always a pig trying to get into my pants. It's a wonder I haven't tried the other side of the fence, so to speak and believe me I've thought of it."
Daphne stayed silent for a moment, her eyes filled with various emotions as she sat in silent thought. "Tracy, if I tell you about what's going on… You have to promise me that you will not tell ANYONE." Tracy nodded.
"You have my word, Daphne. You are my only friend, I wouldn't dare do otherwise." Daphne nodded, standing from her bed and grabbing her wand.
"Follow me, I'm supposed to meet Susan and Lavender in Hogsmead." The girl nodded, slightly confused as she followed Daphne out of the dorms.
X Bones Manor X
A knock at the manor door and an alert from her home wards forced Amelia to look up from files she was looking over. Standing to her feet, she moved from the den into the entry hall, waving off the family elf that had appeared to answer the door. Taking a deep breath, she pulled the door open to be greeted by a man that looked to have not been able to take proper care of himself in years. "Sirius Black."
"Hey, Amy, long time." The man rubbed the back of his neck nervously as he looked around the property. Amelia moved to the side, opening the door wider.
"Come inside, we have a lot to talk about." The man stepped into the home, the door being shut behind him. Just as he turned to face the woman, he felt the full force of the Bones woman's fist hit him in the cheek.
"What the hell, Amelia?!" The woman glared at him.
"That was for being foolish and going after Pettigrew in the first place instead of taking care of your godson!" Sirius nursed his jaw. "What the hell were you thinking? Or were you even thinking at all?" The Black family heir glared back.
"That rat betrayed James and Lilly. Did you expect for me to let him run free?"
"You impulsive bastard." Amelia stormed past Sirius into the den, the man quickly following behind her, ready to speak when she held up the file she had been reading before the Black heir arrived. "Do you know what I've been reading over the past two hours, Sirius? A case file on your godson's relatives." The woman slapped it onto the table. "I had to do some convincing to get any type of statement from Harry to go against the Dursleys and all I got was that he wasn't meant to go there in the first place."
"You mean Petunia and Vernon?"
"And Dudley. You see, I inquired about the last will and testament of James and Lilly and you know what I found at the ministry? This," Amelia held up another folder. "This here is the will that was filed at the ministry. It named you as the secret keeper and that Harry was to go to Lilly's sister." Sirius opened his mouth to speak when a stinging hex made him yelp. "Let me finish! This is why I'm angry with you! You are impulsive and don't think things through. You're lucky I even sent out that letter to ask you to come here."
"Now, obviously, I know you better than to believe you would betray James and Lilly however I didn't have the power, thought or the ability to do anything until now. So, after checking with Gringotts, I was allowed to see the actual will and found the truth. I had to do a LOT of digging, Sirius and much of what I found, has upset me greatly. You had ONE JOB, Sirius Black, one damn job and you ignore it in favor of going after a traitor instead of taking care of your godson!" Sirius looked down in shame. "And you wonder why I said no to your proposal? How Lilly put up with James's childishness I will forever wonder but you refused to grow up and act like a man!" Amelia pointed at the folder she had first pointed out. "I'm going to inform Judge Gabranth you've turned yourself in. You will sit there and read that folder, cover to cover, and reflect on how your impulsive, childish behavior has affected your godson."
The woman turned and started to walk away from the room, throwing one last comment over her shoulder. "His medical file is in there too, I had to practically BEG Poppy for it. You leave this house, I'll tell Harry the Dementors got you before anything could be done."
X Hogsmead: Three Broomsticks X
"I don't mean to be rude but is there a reason Tracy is here, Daphne?" Lavender looked the girl over cautiously while Susan looked a bit intrigued. Daphne sighed, slipping into the private booth after placing the privacy wards over them to avoid others hearing their conversations.
"Let's just say my big mouth let something slip and now I'm following my gut and trying to help with a certain issue." The girls gave the blonde a raised brow.
"What issue would that be?" The lone brunette asked carefully, eyeing Susan discreetly as she placed her hand on the girl's thigh.
"Hell if I know. All I know is that Daphne here says the three of you are in a complicated relationship with Harry." Susan's eyes narrowed on the blonde girl. Tracy frowned, snapping her fingers to get the girl's attention. "Hey, don't glare at her like that, it's my fault for teasing her like I was that made her slip up. You want to glare at someone, glare at me." Susan turned her gaze towards the other Slytherin, eyes still narrowed as she looked her in the eyes.
"Let's all calm down." Magic laced in her voice managed to get the three girls to relax, Daphne nodding in thanks to Lavender as she turned Susan's gaze towards her. "Susan, calm down, love. While I love the tail, I would prefer you don't cut off the circulation from my leg." Susan closed her eyes and took several deep breaths, Tracy looking at her fellow housemate with a raised brow.
"Tail?"
"Susan has a tail and a pair of wings which I have yet to see still. Lavender says she's hot when she's allowed them to form." Lavender smirked.
"Damned sexy is how she looks thank you very much!" Lavender stroke the tail around her thigh soothingly as Susan blushed with a grin. "Now that I've got our little sex demon calmed down, perhaps someone should explain the current situation to those not in the know." Daphne nodded taking a deep breath.
"Anyway, the reason I brought her is because," Daphne paused, trying to find the right way to word everything. "Well… Damn this went so much smoother in my head on the way here."
"Start at the beginning, Daphne. We've got all day and more." Lavender's words calmed her, getting a nod from the Slytherin while Tracy just watched with a raised brow.
"I was searching through a ritual book I managed to nick from my family library before school, when Tracy walked in just as I finished the book and failed to find one and we started to talk. Tracy being, well, Tracy, she started to tease me about my relationship with Harry. Apparently I've been speaking in my sleep and she used what she's heard to tease me regarding Harry, Susan and I."
"Oooooh, so I star in your wet dreams already and haven't even had the pleasure of seeing you naked yet? Not fair." Susan was lightly slapped on the arm with a grin while Tracy laughed.
"Oh the stories I could tell you! Ow!" Daphne elbowed her friend in the ribs with a glare.
"Ignore her. What else?"
"Well, after I snapped at her, she pointed out that there is a bit of tension Harry, Susan and I but I absentmindedly corrected her and told her Lavender was in this as well."
"Wait, tension? I'm sorry if I'm making it hard to be around us." Susan blinked confusingly, worried she was causing her friend to be uncomfortable in anyway. Daphne blushed and shook her head franticly.
"No, no, no! It's not your fault it's… Well, it's more of a… sexual tension." The girls blinked slightly.
"Ok, this just got awkward." Tracy muttered, Daphne palming her face.
"How exactly do we create tension then?" Lavender asked, brow raised curiously as Daphne crossed her arms over her chest.
"For one, I've been wanting to throw out all reason and shag Harry senseless for the last week. My guess is this bond with Susan is causing it all since none of us have fully given in to our wants. You and Lavender have it a bit easier since you two have each other while I'm trying to hold off on jumping him this early in our relationship. This isn't your fault before you say or think anything bad about yourself Susan!" Daphne scolded the girl as she started to look slightly depressed. "We don't know how this bond works nor how it affects Harry at this time. You have nothing to blame yourself for."
"Alright, we can talk more on this in private. What about Tracy, she's looking very confused at the moment?" Lavender spoke up, trying to get the girls back on track. Daphne nodded, looking out the corner of her eye at her best friend.
"Yeah, about as far as I know, Susan's a succubus with Lavender as her girlfriend and Daphne has enough pent up sexual tension that she's neglecting to close her curtains at night. What bond are you talking about anyway?"
"Later, once we know you can be trusted…. It's a succubus thing." Tracy rolled the thought around in her head with a nod, Daphne slumping into her chair and sighing embarrassingly.
"Tracy… admitted to being slightly envious of me dating Harry. From what she told me she obviously likes him. She's even thought about studying time magic to try and stop us from hogging him to ourselves all the time. She's convinced that no one would want her for anything other than her body."
"Oi, I told you that-"
"She is hot, I'll admit to that." Susan interrupted, getting a sigh from her lover as Daphne smiled teasingly at her best friend, watching the blush form on her face.
"Yeah she is and while she may tease, she's very loyal to her friends."
"Are you sure it's that and not because she wants the Boy Who Lived? What about being jealous of Harry for being with you?" Lavender questioned, getting a snort of amusement from the blonde while the Slytherin in question glared at her.
"What about you gossip queen?" Daphne snapped her fingers before the two could start arguing.
"Tracy is a teaser but never a fan girl. I won't confirm or deny her being jealous of Harry dating me but I do know she wishes she could be in my position."
"Which I told you in confidence." The girl hissed.
"I might have a solution that we can see if she truly likes Harry." Susan muttered, still heard by the girls as she stared at Tracy, the teen in question squirming uneasily at the sight of the half demon's eyes.
"What do you mean?"
"What's going on inside that head of yours Sue?" Lavender saw the outline of the girl's succubus nature in her eyes, not overtaking the entire eye but just outlining the iris. This was the first time she had seen such a thing from her lover, normally it was one or the other color and never both.
"What do you know of Pureblood houses?" Tracy shrugged.
"Not much. I grew up with my mother in the muggle world, her being muggleborn herself."
"What about the abilities of a succubus?"
"Well, from the little I've been able to find in our Dark Arts book, you are labeled as a dark creature." Tracy snorted at the title. "You can drain the life of whoever you have sexual contact with, even only a kiss would do. You can shapeshift, weave illusions, fly and even read the desires…. You want to read my desires." Susan clapped her hands politely.
"Yes, if you'll allow me and for the record, we feed on magic, not life force. I'm sure you've noticed I've avoided direct eye contact with you this entire conversation, yes?" Tracy nodded. "I haven't learned to control all my abilities, some just happen without me meaning to."
"You mean like the illusion you put me in three days into our relationship?" Lavender gave the half demon a teasing smile, getting an embarrassed look back from her.
"Yes, like that, although I can recreate that one at will if you want?" Lavender grinned, bumping her shoulder against her lover's.
"Maybe later. I would rather have the real deal than an illusion playing with my mind."
"Now I'm curious what kind of illusion you went through." Tracy leaned forward with a grin, Daphne shaking her head as Lavender grinned back, a pink dusting on her cheeks.
"Well, I won't go into too much detail since it's personal, but it involves-"
"Can we please get back on topic?" the other Slytherin at the table begged getting a groan of disappointment from Tracy.
"Come on, Daphne, your guys' sex lives are more entertaining than mine. Let me live through the stories." Susan's eyes briefly flashed a full pink before returning to their pink rimmed brown.
"Maybe if you're a good girl I'll give you one of your own. Anyway, would you let me see your desires?" Tracy shrugged.
"Sure, got nothing better to hope for." Susan frowned slightly but nodded.
"Alright, then what say we enjoy the rest of the day and try it after dinner in private?"
"Sounds good, mind if I stay with you all?" The coven trio agreed before heading out of the bar and into the village.
X Unused Classroom: Several Hours Later X
"Alright, so how is this going to work?" Tracy sat on the edge of the unused teacher's desk, Susan and her two coven mates taking a seat at one of the desks.
"It's fairly similar to Legilimency but I'll only be able to see your desires. However, as a side effect, you might… er…"
"As you learn them I might become as horny as Daphne because I'll be viewing them with you?" The teen's guess made Susan sigh and nod her head.
"Yes."
"Well, this will be interesting."
"Lavender, after I'm done I might need-"
"Don't worry, I'm here for you, silly girl." Susan smiled.
"Um… before we go on, would this be a bad time to confess that you're not the only half breed here?" Tracy rubbed her arms. Getting surprised looks from the trio, the Slytherin girl reached into her shirt and removed an amulet. "This is something my mother made for me using runes and alchemy. It's made of Mythril and… and a bloodstone, made from my blood." Daphne gasped.
"You're a vampire?!" Tracy nervously nodded her head. Susan blinked in confusion.
"What's a bloodstone got to do with vampires?" Lavender sighed pinching the bridge of her nose in slight annoyance.
"Sometimes I curse your aunt for not telling you some of these things. Bloodstones are very rare jewels that resemble rubies but can only be created using a vampire's blood. They can be used in blood rituals to drastically boost the effects and can hold a magical change indefinitely if enchanted. There is a similar and just as rare type of stone created from Succubi and Incubi called a Soul Stone but I'm not sure how they're made."
"Yeah, and I'm half vampire actually. My mother was anemic her entire pregnancy and from what I was told, the first of my teeth to appear were my fangs, and only when I was two months old." Lavender frowned.
"But a baby's teeth don't usually start to brake the gums until at least 6 months."
"From what Madam Pomfrey told my mother when she was taking care of her, a Dhampire's teeth grow quicker than a human's to help with the natural hunger for blood. While I didn't and still don't require blood to sate hunger, it's… I guess you could say healthier for me to drink it occasionally."
"I'm guess you see Madam Pomfrey then to get some?" Tracy shook her head at Susan's guess.
"Not really, even after she offered it when I came here first year. My mother found another way for me to drink blood without having to tell anyone or clue anyone into what I am. This amulet serves two functions. The first," Tracy removed the amulet from around her neck, her canines, once the normal human length, suddenly grew into sharp fangs, her eyes gaining crimson tint to them.
"The first hides my vampire traits, such as my eyes, pale skin tone, my superior senses (taste, smell, ya know) and my fangs. The Second," Tracy bit into the stone on her amulet, sucking on the fluid that was released. Once she drank her fill, the vampire removed her fangs, the amulet not showing any damage at all. "Stores a massive amount of blood ready for my taking. The bloodstone, created through my blood and my mother's magic, stores enough blood commonly found in seven human adults bodies."
"How do you replenish it?" Tracy used a napkin she took out of her pocket to clean up the blood on her face with a proud look on her face.
"Another piece of awesome magic my mother ingrained into this wonderful jewel. The runes she used take the blood still in there and replicate it, allowing the amulet to constantly refill itself without need to absorb more blood. As far as we're aware, this is the only amulet of its kind."
"Amazing." Susan agreed, a smile on her face as Lavender and Daphne eyed the amulet.
"You guys aren't scared?" Daphne rolled her eyes and slapped her best friend on the back of her head.
"You idiot, I hang out with a Succubus on a daily basis and we had a werewolf for a teacher that I never batted an eye at. Why the living hell would I be scared of you?"
"Daphne has a point, Tracy. Plus, I'm sleeping with said succubus who can drain all the magic out of me to the point of killing me if she wanted to. You are no more a danger to me than she is."
"While I'm not hanging around 'dangerous' creatures or sleeping with something that can literally fuck me to death I'm not really bothered by it either." Lavender threw a mild glare at her lover. "Anyway, if you're still willing to share your desires, shall we?"
"I guess." Tracy shrugged, slipping the amulet back around her neck, her eyes returning to their normal color while her fangs shrank down to the average human canine. "Whenever you're ready." Susan nodded and allowed her eyes to finally meet those of the half vampire's. A brief flare of magic was the only indication that Susan had begun.
Five minutes barely passed before Lavender and Daphne yelped in surprise as Susan darted forward, her tail wrapping around Tracy's thigh while the vampire gasped into the kiss laid upon her lips, her eyes drooping as she began to return it with a moan only for Susan to pull away, her eyes entirely pink while a grin stretched across her face.
"Welcome to the coven, Tracy." Daphne and Lavender gaped at the girl as Tracy leaned against Susan, panting with a blush on her cheeks.
"What just happened?" the brunette raised a brow at the half demon, watching as those pink eyes landed on hers.
"Let's just say someone's naughtier than she seems." Susan laid the vampire onto the desk, licking her lips at the sight before turning back to her other two coven sisters. "However, she truly does like Harry as he is and not his titles or money." Pink eyes glanced to Daphne as her smirk widened. "She even has her own crush on him and a certain Ice Queen." Daphne blushed and glanced away, only for the leathery feel of a spaded tail to gently lift her head up to look at her coven's alpha.
"No need to be ashamed, Daphne. After all, you have your own desires about the three of us." The girl blushed, opening her mouth to deny it only for a pulse of magic to slam into her from Susan, the girl moaning as she went to her knees, looking up at the succubus.
"S-S-S-S Mistress." Lavender narrowed her eyes as Susan patted the girl on the head.
"That's better Daphne."
"Susan, stop now." The succubus turned to her lover, hands help up and her tail removed from holding Daphne's face. The pink hue in her eyes didn't vanish.
"I'm not going to do anything to them. I merely wanted Daphne to know that I know her desires, just as I know yours and just as I now know Tracy's." Lavender crossed her arms.
"And you're using them to entice them. Your instincts are taking control again, Sue, you need to calm down." Susan winced, her eyes returning to their normal brown as she fought to control herself. Lavender sighed, walking up and kissing the demon's cheek. "There's those brown eyes I love. You're demonic eyes are beautiful as well, but until you learn more control keep them for me."
"Or Harry when you admit your love to him." Tracy piped up from the desk, a grin on her face as she looked at Susan. "Can you do that thing again? That felt awesome." Lavender busted into a barking laugh as Daphne regained control of her senses.
"You should see the work she can do with just her tail."
"How about no? I still feel bad about trying that on you." Lavender rolled her eyes.
"Well, I can definitely feel the connection between us and Tracy, just as strong as ours too." Daphne chimed in, her face still slightly pink.
"Which means?"
"Which means we can now tell you everything you want to know." Lavender smiled as she felt her love's tail curl around her thigh. Tracy blinked in confusion as Daphne snapped her fingers.
"Oh, and while I'm thinking about it. Could I study your amulet sometime?" Tracy blinked in surprise.
"Uh, I'll see if my mother can send her notes but sure?" Daphne grinned widely, shocking the girl with a kiss to the cheek.
"Thanks, Trace and as Susan told you, welcome to the coven of Lord Harry James Potter-Gryffindor-Slytherin-Ravenclaw-Hufflepuff-Perverell."
"Whaaaaaaaat?"
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Definitely cannot call this my greatest work, but I like it better than I originally planned it out. As always, please read and review. Constructive criticism only please, no flames.