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The morning light slowly crept through the window of the headmaster's chambers as another new day dawned at Hogwarts.
From the comfort of the nest in which they had mated, Harriet writhed gently against Severus as she gradually began her return to consciousness.
When she regained enough alertness to notice that she was lying next to a body, not a pillow, her green eyes shot wide open.
It was his white undershirt she noticed first, then the black trousers past the shirt's hem.
Harriet quickly turned her head to look up and her heart fluttered when she found Severus gazing down at her with his black eyes as soft as sifted tar.
Severus, her alpha.
The force of Harriet's heat still flushed her cheeks a deep shade of pink.
It was a comfort to them both knowing that they had the freedom of another luxurious weekend day with no classes to hurry towards.
Harriet had shattered the last bit of potion Severus possessed that could end her heat but as they stared at each other in the morning light, neither of them were particularly bothered about that.
No words passed between them as Harriet sat up and pressed a kiss to Severus's lips.
Severus failed to suppress the growl that echoed deep in his throat as he raised his hand and tangled his fingers in Harriet's messy hair.
Harriet whimpered as she moved to straddle her alpha and place her hips over his, eager to feel him inside her once more.
Her alpha.
It was still strange to think, but it was undeniably true.
The night they had spent together, the love mark on Harriet's neck, the feelings they shared for each other…………..
It was no longer ignorable, dismissible, or deniable.
Harriet Potter belonged to Severus Snape.
Severus Snape belonged to Harriet Potter.
Severus would have preferred to share a sweeter moment with Harriet before they plunged into intercourse again, but his mate's primal neediness was greater than his own.
He watched in fascination as Harriet broke their kiss to fiddle with the fastenings of his trousers until she had successfully freed his aching member.
Severus's breath hitched as his manhood hit the air. He tried to slow his racing heart while he watched Harriet position herself directly over top of him.
Severus's jaw was tense, as if he were about to speak while he watched her lower herself down.
Emerald met coal as they held each other's wide-eyed gazes at the sensation of Severus plunging straight into Harriet once more.
Severus instinctively grabbed his omega's hips and held them in a possessive grip while his darling began to ride him.
Harriet leaned back and treated her alpha to a view of her bouncing breasts, which Severus found rather irritating,
There was no easy way he could get at them and take them into his mouth from where he was, lying flat on his back while his omega rode him senseless……….how dreadfully inconvenient.
When Harriet eventually slowed her pace for a moment to catch her breath, Severus took over.
He dug his fingers into the thin layer of supple flesh that lined Harriet's hips and began to thrust up into her with such force that he saw her mouth fall open.
As Severus listened to her heavy breaths coming in gasps, he tried not to lose himself.
Carefully, he let go of one of her sides and snaked a finger out to gently stroke what he could reach of her womanhood.
The cry that he earned from Harriet as her center fluttered around him only heightened his own bliss as he found his release too, choosing to stay inside his mate so that they could be as close as possible.
Harriet placed her hands over Severus's as if she wanted him to hold her like that, in his possessive, protective grip forever.
Severus watched as she threw her head back and panted to catch her breath.
Parts of her skin had reddened from the exertion of their love making, as if the act itself had pushed her body to its limits in a pleasant way.
With a deep sigh, Harriet looked down at Severus before she climbed off of him and settled back down in the crook of his arm to nestle against him.
"Good morning." Severus drawled in his low purr of a voice.
"...Good morning." Harriet replied. She kept her ear pressed to his chest, enjoying the vigorous thumping of his heart.
Harriet moved her head onto Severus's shoulder once his pulse slowed and she let out a heavy breath as she closed her eyes.
Harriet rested until she felt Severus staring down at her.
When she lifted her head to meet his dark gaze, she leaned in and pressed her lips against her alpha's once more.
Severus Snape couldn't remember a time when he had been kissed.
He could barely remember a time when he had been touched, even by a gentle hand on his shoulder or a pat on the back from a friend…..
Harriet had certainly fulfilled those basic, human needs.
Since the previous night, his omega had lavished sweet, tender displays of affection upon him and that included many, many kisses and gentle, soothing touches.
Despite his prickly demeanor, Severus had no complaints.
He turned on his side, scooped Harriet into his arms, and deepened their kiss as they lay entwined in the bright glow of the sunlight that seeped into his bedroom.
Harriet shivered gently in the early morning chill.
Instinctively, Severus reached down and covered his darling with the blankets of her nest.
Severus very much wanted to shield his mate from the morning chill.
What kind of alpha would he be if he couldn't keep his beloved safe?
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Heats were exhausting times for omegas.
That afternoon, after a hazy morning of love making interrupted only by brief pauses of rest, while Harriet lay napping, Severus forced himself to let go of his new mate and rise.
Heats could last up to a full seven days.
That wouldn't do, tomorrow brought with it a new week filled with class and work.
Severus moved quietly so he wouldn't wake Harriet, but he began to rummage around his chambers.
He gathered a cauldron and all of the necessary ingredients.
The potion that Harriet had spilled when she knocked the vial out of his hand, they were going to need more of that.
Already, it would be Wednesday before they'd be able to return to their posts.
Severus smirked to himself when he noticed how little that fact bothered him.
For once in a long time, his life wasn't all about errands and tasks.
There was no drudergy in having an omega in heat lying in his bed, waiting for him.
His only duty at the moment was to please and cuddle Harriet.
After Severus mixed the ingredients in the cauldron and brought the pewter pot to a brewing boil, he wrote a letter to Professor McGonagall, sent it with an owl, and returned to his bedroom.
Severus was genuinely surprised by how much he missed Harriet during their brief hour apart.
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Harriet's hormones gave her a merciful break from her most primitive wants, but as she opened her eyes from her short nap, she sighed deeply when she felt gentle kisses being pressed along her body.
Harriet hazily blinked her green eyes.
Kisses……?
She vaguely registered the scent of warm vetiver mixed with amber and old parchment.
Harriet relaxed into a figurative puddle as she realized that smell was Severus.
Severus, her mate.
Harriet groaned softly as she focused on the soft flutters of sensation that his lips caused as they ghosted over her skin.
Gently and sweetly, his kisses trailed along her thigh, across her abdomen, over her collarbone, and up her throat until he reached her mouth.
Harriet whimpered as Severus pulled away and looked down at her with loving concern.
In her current state, she didn't really know how to put it into words, all she knew was that Severus was with her, Severus had been with her, and that made her glad.
She blinked in surprise when Severus lifted her out of her nest and carried her from the bedroom all the way down to the bathroom.
Severus cooed to her when he heard her whimper her displeasure at being taken out of the place she felt safest, "Hush, Potter. Let me look after you."
Harriet looked at Severus and he gazed back at her as he asked, "Do you trust me?"
Harriet pouted hesitantly for a moment, but then she nodded, and held onto his neck.
Severus clutched her tightly to him as he walked over to the clawfoot tub in his lavatory and filled it with warm water.
Harriet watched him add lavender, mint, and eucalyptus once the tub was full and the water was steaming.
She blinked as he lowered her in for a relaxing soak.
Severus didn't expect it when Harriet grabbed hold of his shirt and pulled her towards him.
His eyes widened when he realized that she wanted him to come into the tub with her.
That meant he would have to be…...nude.
Completely nude.
Regardless of what had passed between them, Severus had so far evaded exposing his naked form to Harriet.
Severus Snape did not enjoy his unclothed form, he had Harriet's father to thank, at least in part, for that.
The humiliation of that terrible day he had endured in his youth had been seared into his mind and his thoughts since it had happened nearly thirty years ago.
Although Harriet was determined to break down Severus's emotional walls as she looked deep into her alpha's eyes, with her grip still firmly on his shirt, and asked, "Severus……...please?"
If there was anyone that he would ever feel comfortable enough with to reveal his nakedness to, it would be his mate, his chosen partner in life.
Severus didn't disrobe himself.
Instead, he let Harriet take the initiative.
His dark eyes watched her closely as she carefully undid the buttons on his shirt and slipped it off of his chest.
He memorized the look on her face as she admired the smooth sheen of the slender, pale muscles that lined his abdomen and his rib cage, slight, subtle, but present.
From where she sat in the bath, Harriet unbuttoned his trousers and let them slip to the floor.
His legs were thin and trim, but pale as well and covered with black hair.
Harriet let her eyes roam from his ankles to his thighs, lingering for a moment on what hung between them, before he stepped into the water with her.
She hadn't been able to see much of his bottom, but she supposed her chance for that would come later.
The water sloshed in the tub and Harriet seated herself on Severus's lap as they began to gently wash each other.
It only took a moment for Harriet and Severus to lock gazes and another moment after that for the omega to feel her alpha's arousal pressing urgently into her bottom cheek as her body released the pheromones silently signaling to him that she was ready yet again.
One moment more and they were kissing feverishly as they splashed together in the water, already eager to reunite……….
Severus hadn't realized that having an omega in heat could be so wonderfully exhausting.
He wondered if he'd have the strength left to move once their potion was finally ready?
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While the headmaster and his assistant were busy reading each other, Professor McGonagall pursed her lips together in concentration as she read over the letter that the owl had delivered to her.
It would be a great burden, to have to take over all of the potions classes for two full days, but McGonagall smiled widely anyway.
She was happy to do it for her dear friend.
Minerva McGonagall thought it was high time that Severus Snape finally enjoyed a little happiness.