Tears of Vampires
Chapter 22: Shiro's and Hermione's Date and Hiding from the Truth
Warnings and Disclaimer are in the first few chapters idiots!!!
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"Believe it or not everyone have things they hide
Believe it or not everyone keep most things inside
Believe it or not everyone believe in something above
Believe it or not everyone needs to feel loved- Feel Loved
But we don't and we won't
Until we figure it out"
-Believe it or Not- By Nickelback
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Shiro smiled as she watched a very unsure Hermione make her way to her. The human girl wore her most casual robes and had on a pair of jeans and a black tight shirt with a white tiger's face on it. Shiro had on a light yukata that was black and a pair of rubber soled gettas. She held out her hand for the human to take.
"Come koi. I don't think that dallying at the front doors is something I wish to do often." She pulled Hermione with her as they walked out and onto the dirt road to Hogsmade.
Hermione looked over the short yukata. It was about mid thigh and was a very dark black silk. The dragons that were embedded into the silk were the same color as Shiro's eyes, blood red. They where in different positions and not two dragons were the same. The sash that held the yukata together was blood red as well and it wasn't very wide only enough to hold the flaps in there places. She was surprised that the girl could even walk in it. The color of the undershirt was red as well and the tight hair knot Shiro had her hair in had to been done by someone else. There was no possible way she could have done it all by herself.
They were in Hogsmade before Hermione knew it and she only notice when she had crashed into Shiro's strong back. Shiro looked back and smiled. Butterflies build in Hermione's stomach and she blushed.
"Let's get some food. There is a Japanese restaurant just next to Three Broomsticks. It's really good." Shiro smiled as she walked with the human girl following.
They reached the restaurant which was very oriental. Hermione let out a small 'wow' as they walked in. Shiro bowed to the host in a kimono as well. This was one of the few places that had gone beyond the letter. Shiro took off her gettas and stood on the hard wood floor that was a step up. Hermione watched this and did the same with her open toed shoes. She was glad she had worn those than her regular sneakers or boots.
They went through a door and up stairs and passed a few doors before they reached a sliding door with paper on it to hide its occupants. Once open there was a low table. The host bowed as he turned to leave. Shiro did the same and Hermione followed suit. He smiled at her and left once the greeting was done.
Shiro smiled as she pulled her into the room.
"Ever have Japanese or Chinese before?" Shiro asked as she sat down at the small table where there was already warm tea on the table waiting for them.
"Yes I have. I usually use the chopsticks and study a bit of both cultures but never to an extent." She sat on the pillow across from her date with her legs crossed like she was just sitting for the sake of it.
Shiro shook her head and got up to go around the table to Hermione. "My father would've whipped me for sitting like that. Here, you need your legs under you like this." She sat next to Hermione sitting on her legs and her feet in a wide V. "Like this, we sit like this all the time cause we're nobles and it's proper. You try, I would hope that I could present you to father with the proper edicate." Shiro smiled as she helped Hermione into the proper sitting position.
"Oh, this hurts a little." Hermione said as she sat there with the blood flowing less to her legs.
Shiro chuckled as she poured tea in the large round cups on the table. She had a hand on the handle and a hand on the bottom of the pot with a towel. "The tea ceremonies are brutal cause they sit like that for hours on end. It won't hurt after awhile. But you legs will fall asleep for being in the same position for such a long time. Heheh, it'll get better. You just need to get use to it." She passed the cup of tea with a hand on the bottom and side of the cup. "Grab it the way I'm holding it to you. And drink it the same way."
Hermione nodded as she took the cup with a hand on the bottom and on the side. She took a sip since it was almost filled to the top and marveled at the taste of the herbal tea. "It's really good. What is it?"
Shiro took a sip from her cup and looked up at her human date. "It's called 'Sakura Hime'. It's a very special type of tea that uses both the leave and petals from a sakura tree and also uses another liquid to make it. It's very famous in my Clan as we where the ones who made it. It can get addicting so don't drink so much." She smiled as she took another sip. "I had talked to the manger yesterday and already had a list of food to be prepared for us. You'll like them, very much like home if I do say so myself."
The food soon popped up some time later and a very different culture was born to Hermione. She was taught by Shiro on how to eat each different food and how to hold herself and the chopsticks. Each meal tasted good and she filled herself with room to spare for the dessert an assorted display of sweets that she loved each one.
They finished off the desserts and drank tea. Hermione sighed as her filled stomach made an attempt to put her to sleep. It was working before the host had come in with to sets of bath supplies. Hermione raised an eyebrow at Shiro.
"What? I wanted to give you a complete culture shock of my home so stop with the look and get your ass off the floor. Arigato Hitoko." Shiro stood up and bowed to the host as she took the supplies. He said a few things in Japanese and handed the supplies to her. She turned back to Hermione and smiled. "We got the whole bathhouse to ourselves. Be appreciative they usually don't even let a high classed vampire like me do that. Now get up so we can bathe." She handed the small buck to her human date and walked out of the room with Hermione following her.
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Zack walked back and forth in her rooms trying to figure out what Draco had told her this time. It was the same thing just a bit more and she wanted to know what it all meant.
/Threatens to tear us all apart and kill the royal families. It will take the one thing that was never accomplished by two vampires on the first try... The blood of his body will flow through the mother and either kills the unborn snakes or make them into something else...and now the love that created the snakes will break or be destroyed to save what is the world today... another snake will help the evil but will be trapped inside it self and give power to the evil for the young mother that carries the snakes/
"ARGH... why the hell is this happenin. DAMN YOU DARRES!!!" Zack yelled as she hit the wall making another hole next to the one Draco had left there a week ago. "Shit, why? It doesn't make any sense. Why would he join up with that snake and keep Harry? He'll just kill him when he's done with him. Won't he?" the new questions kept running like that in her mind for another hour or so.
Draco groaned as the world of the living returned to him. He had woken up like this a couple of times spending it with Zack. He was worried that the other knight didn't see it as a sign of weakness. He sat up on the bed and saw Zack with her back turned to him her head down in thought.
"Zack?"
Zack whipped her head around to look at the young vampire in her bed. She smiled and walked over to her lover. "What, are you feeling alright?" her voice was calm and smooth.
Draco sighed as his weary body began to weigh on him. He didn't know why but it could be the stress from pretending to be Harry's lover. He had no clue but it was wearing him down that and the unknown predictions he made for Zack.
"I feel exhausted and feel like I don't want to do this any more. Why the hell was I used? Why not you or Shiro?" Draco sighed once more as he put his head in his hands and took several deep breathes to calm his tense body.
Zack sighed as she watched her lover. /This is taking a toll on all of us. I can't believe that he even asked me that/ she thought as she sat down next to him. "Love, first off if we used me or Shiro we would have to have a serious sex change for that and second you were the only other male vampire in the castle. We are the only vampires in this castle and we have to watch out for each other. Your cousin has already sent a letter to me saying that he'll be here the day we leave for Sniper castle. And I'll take a few days off. Severus is taking time off too and we can relax ok. Truth be told I really didn't want to make the fucking suggestion but what other options did we have." Her slender arms wrapped around the strong torso and she laid her head against his heart.
Draco wrapped his arms around her and pulled her to lie on top of him on the bed. They stayed like that for two hours thinking of things to come, things yet to be seen and things to expect.
~*~*~*~*~*~
Severus sighed as he sat at his desk grading papers with Roseael sitting next to him. She had been a great help since the day she had come in and just started to grade papers. It was relaxing but they were both tense as well. Roseael had yet to apologized to Sirius and Severus was taking it hard to spend so much time away from his lover since the day they made up on. He was ready to kill someone for any reason and giving Zack another beating didn't seem like a bad idea at the moment.
"Don't even think about it dumbass." Roseael said as she laid another paper faced down on the stack she had made. "She's having problems with Draco and seems not to know what to do. Her duty to your family or love him when it seems right. And if you need a release go terrorize your students." She smiled at him.
Severus gave a scowl and read the paper in his hand giving a big fat F before he even finished.
"She needs to know that doing her duty doesn't mean she has to give up the life she wants. She can manage being my guard, royal assassin, and a lover if she only tried. If she hadn't forgotten she's immortal and has all the time in the world to do these things and Draco is in need of love. I felt it the last time I saw him."
Roseael nodded remembering the tired look she saw in the Malloy's eyes a need and wanting of love. It was powerful and it worried all of them as Zack had not even decided to think of a visit yet to her Prince's lover. She had, to Roseael's knowledge, immersed in the library every other waking moment. She had no idea what the woman was looking for but it shouldn't have been in the library. It should have been in the arms of her lover.
"So, what are you going to do when Luc gets here with your parents?" Roseael said to take their minds off the couple.
Severus stopped reading the paper he was grading and looked into space. There wasn't anything he could do and made this point to his sister. "Well, I can't really do anything. I can't deny him to not come since it isn't my call this time and Zack was the one who suggested this plan in the first place so why fight with something that seems to make no sense. I know Zack doesn't like the king very much but why is still a clue to me." He leaned back in his seat putting his hands behind his head in thought.
Roseael cocked her head to the side watching her brother. "So, why are you hostile to the King of the Malloy's? I don't see any reason or is there some family history or some tragic event I know nothing of?" she put down her quill to lean over with both hands cupping her chin as her elbows rested on the table between them.
Severus watched her a minute before answering her question. "Well, there was a problem but we had managed to take care of it over forty or fifty years ago. I don't keep a count on that event. Not something I wish to remember. But Luc had lost a lover, a mate as we would say in our home. I don't remember what they call their bonded. But he was a good friend to all of us before he died. Then a war started between the man that killed his lover and the rest of the vampires in Wales. We were in the center of everything cause it was a direct descendent to my family." He sighed remembering his brother's reign of terror before Voldemort had come into a small set of power against the world.
"Heh, brother or sister?"
"Brother."
"Older or younger?"
"Older"
"I see, so you looked up to him did you?"
Severus thought of this question and remembered all the times where he wanted to be his brother and wanted to do nothing more but be as strong as that man that had gone mad. "At a time I did. The Clan had respected him for coming over his defects but he hadn't managed to over come the insanity that took over his mind. It destroyed him and everything we had as brothers." He took a deep breath. "My father had killed him by cutting his head off. We let his body burn in the morning sun and then put a seal on his ashes as we made the grave for him."
Roseael watched her prince and it seemed he was hiding more then he was letting on. "What are you hiding from me or Harry for that matter?" she watched him as his body didn't change from the question.
"Nothing. There is nothing and no need for you to worry about it." He went back to his work. "You may go now sister. I will handle the rest. There isn't that much left." His voice had a final tone to it and Roseael didn't want to test him or that temper. So she left without further question.
~*~*~*~*
Hermione relaxed in the large pool after washing herself. It was the most relaxing thing she had ever done in her life. Shiro had asked to wash her back and had decided that the woman have a treat for doing all this for her. She watched through half lidded eyes Shiro wash her self. Her back was already done and so were her legs. Shiro was now doing her chest and arms. Hermione watched ever without blushing at the exposure the other woman gave her. It was a strange feeling and she continued to watch as the vampire rinsed off and did her hair. After Shiro was done she got up and didn't bother to warp herself as Hermione did and got into the pool.
The warm water was good to the sore vampire. She had not only to deal with a very hormonal Harry but a stressed Severus and not to mention that knight that seemed to leave her with guard duty when she herself was a princess. /Why I do things for them is beyond me/ she thought as she looked up to watch Hermione.
"How do you like the bath?"
The question didn't phase the strange mood Hermione was in. "Good." It was a simply answer that seemed to effect the vampire. "Well, uhh... we can stay here as long as you want. The owner said we can have it for a couple of hours."
Hermione nodded as she relaxed more into her warm seat. Shiro took a deep breath before she made a mistake. The girl was affected by her presence and it pleased the vampire princess but it also worried her. The girl was fragile and she didn't want to scare her off. So Shiro decided that she wouldn't let her beastie side effect what she wanted from the girl as in love.
Yakumoris where creatures with a dark side to them that was dangerous to anger them and more dangerous to anger them while feeding or during a heated night with a lover. It wasn't unknown for Shiro to have a bad temper at times but when she was around other vampires who seemed more sophisticated then her, she would keep her anger in check. Unfortunate for those who would piss her off just the sake of pissing her off but the dark side had another purpose than anger and the feeding it had a purpose in the love department as well.
Shiro growled as the scents of Hermione's and her own started to mix with the scents of oils and soap. She had limit on how to control her beast and it wasn't a long time when it was with humans and this could end ugly for her.
Hermione was having a problem with keeping focus on anything at the moment but she felt a shift in the air and looked up with clouded eyes to see what it was. To her it seemed that Shiro was having a hard time breathing. She glided over to sit next to the over hyperventilated vampire.
Shiro's eyes widened when the scent of lilies mixed with the scent of the sunflower scented water. She looked up to see Hermione with a worried expression on her face. She smiled at her and patted her head. "Do not worry about me koi. I'm just not all use to the change of events that have been happening and my father will be here in a month or so." she sighed. "Life is never fair or gentle."
Hermione smiled a genuine smiled and leaned on the Yakumori vampire to offer comfort. "That's because the fates are never kind to those who are meant to live in tragedy. Like Harry and Professor Lupin. They both have messed up lives but they keep living to move forward to the next day. Believe it or not but they are two sides of the same coin." Hermione sighed and felt Shiro tense but ignored it. "It's the Fates that decide what paths they can walk on. And their choices are since they were born."
Shiro smiled at the words of wisdom coming from the human next to her. Taking a deep breath to take in all the scents she wrapped an arm around her koi. "Yes, they are Beauty and Lupin. But fate changes f they don't take the roads that are offered to them. My father once said that "simplicity is only a tool to reach harmony. Harmony is only a guide to reach the peace with in one's own heart. Follow it and it will give you a Fate that gives life." His words where always a friend in my heart. To keep me from falling into despair since my mother died." Shiro said holding tighter to Hermione.
"Life was a cruel tool to those who had seen fate as a why to live in ignorance. But life gives no meaning if that ignorance can't be saved." Hermione returned with a soft voice as she snuggled into the side of the vampire princess and sighed.
"That is true koi. That is true." Shiro said leaning back and thinking of her friend's fate and the old woman that seemed to hold it in her hands even if she was in a castle miles away.
/There is no hope for us. Once the babies come all hell will break lose. I know it. /
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BDL: Yeah! My beta reader finished. Mystic Dragons1 is so slow. (
Draco: Yah! One time she held a chapter for a whole fucking month. We were bitching so bad!
Harry plays his video games.
Harry: Guys, give her a break. She's got college and work to handle you know. She ain't wonder woman.
BDL: I have school too and I don't have that problem. And she lost all the chapters I beta for her. I feel insulted!
Harry rolls eyes.
Harry: watch what happens when you get your job. Watch out now.
BDL: ARGH!
BDL picks up her ax and goes after Harry. Harry runs away while Draco picks up the game boy and plays.
Chapter 22: Shiro's and Hermione's Date and Hiding from the Truth
Warnings and Disclaimer are in the first few chapters idiots!!!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Believe it or not everyone have things they hide
Believe it or not everyone keep most things inside
Believe it or not everyone believe in something above
Believe it or not everyone needs to feel loved- Feel Loved
But we don't and we won't
Until we figure it out"
-Believe it or Not- By Nickelback
~~
Shiro smiled as she watched a very unsure Hermione make her way to her. The human girl wore her most casual robes and had on a pair of jeans and a black tight shirt with a white tiger's face on it. Shiro had on a light yukata that was black and a pair of rubber soled gettas. She held out her hand for the human to take.
"Come koi. I don't think that dallying at the front doors is something I wish to do often." She pulled Hermione with her as they walked out and onto the dirt road to Hogsmade.
Hermione looked over the short yukata. It was about mid thigh and was a very dark black silk. The dragons that were embedded into the silk were the same color as Shiro's eyes, blood red. They where in different positions and not two dragons were the same. The sash that held the yukata together was blood red as well and it wasn't very wide only enough to hold the flaps in there places. She was surprised that the girl could even walk in it. The color of the undershirt was red as well and the tight hair knot Shiro had her hair in had to been done by someone else. There was no possible way she could have done it all by herself.
They were in Hogsmade before Hermione knew it and she only notice when she had crashed into Shiro's strong back. Shiro looked back and smiled. Butterflies build in Hermione's stomach and she blushed.
"Let's get some food. There is a Japanese restaurant just next to Three Broomsticks. It's really good." Shiro smiled as she walked with the human girl following.
They reached the restaurant which was very oriental. Hermione let out a small 'wow' as they walked in. Shiro bowed to the host in a kimono as well. This was one of the few places that had gone beyond the letter. Shiro took off her gettas and stood on the hard wood floor that was a step up. Hermione watched this and did the same with her open toed shoes. She was glad she had worn those than her regular sneakers or boots.
They went through a door and up stairs and passed a few doors before they reached a sliding door with paper on it to hide its occupants. Once open there was a low table. The host bowed as he turned to leave. Shiro did the same and Hermione followed suit. He smiled at her and left once the greeting was done.
Shiro smiled as she pulled her into the room.
"Ever have Japanese or Chinese before?" Shiro asked as she sat down at the small table where there was already warm tea on the table waiting for them.
"Yes I have. I usually use the chopsticks and study a bit of both cultures but never to an extent." She sat on the pillow across from her date with her legs crossed like she was just sitting for the sake of it.
Shiro shook her head and got up to go around the table to Hermione. "My father would've whipped me for sitting like that. Here, you need your legs under you like this." She sat next to Hermione sitting on her legs and her feet in a wide V. "Like this, we sit like this all the time cause we're nobles and it's proper. You try, I would hope that I could present you to father with the proper edicate." Shiro smiled as she helped Hermione into the proper sitting position.
"Oh, this hurts a little." Hermione said as she sat there with the blood flowing less to her legs.
Shiro chuckled as she poured tea in the large round cups on the table. She had a hand on the handle and a hand on the bottom of the pot with a towel. "The tea ceremonies are brutal cause they sit like that for hours on end. It won't hurt after awhile. But you legs will fall asleep for being in the same position for such a long time. Heheh, it'll get better. You just need to get use to it." She passed the cup of tea with a hand on the bottom and side of the cup. "Grab it the way I'm holding it to you. And drink it the same way."
Hermione nodded as she took the cup with a hand on the bottom and on the side. She took a sip since it was almost filled to the top and marveled at the taste of the herbal tea. "It's really good. What is it?"
Shiro took a sip from her cup and looked up at her human date. "It's called 'Sakura Hime'. It's a very special type of tea that uses both the leave and petals from a sakura tree and also uses another liquid to make it. It's very famous in my Clan as we where the ones who made it. It can get addicting so don't drink so much." She smiled as she took another sip. "I had talked to the manger yesterday and already had a list of food to be prepared for us. You'll like them, very much like home if I do say so myself."
The food soon popped up some time later and a very different culture was born to Hermione. She was taught by Shiro on how to eat each different food and how to hold herself and the chopsticks. Each meal tasted good and she filled herself with room to spare for the dessert an assorted display of sweets that she loved each one.
They finished off the desserts and drank tea. Hermione sighed as her filled stomach made an attempt to put her to sleep. It was working before the host had come in with to sets of bath supplies. Hermione raised an eyebrow at Shiro.
"What? I wanted to give you a complete culture shock of my home so stop with the look and get your ass off the floor. Arigato Hitoko." Shiro stood up and bowed to the host as she took the supplies. He said a few things in Japanese and handed the supplies to her. She turned back to Hermione and smiled. "We got the whole bathhouse to ourselves. Be appreciative they usually don't even let a high classed vampire like me do that. Now get up so we can bathe." She handed the small buck to her human date and walked out of the room with Hermione following her.
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Zack walked back and forth in her rooms trying to figure out what Draco had told her this time. It was the same thing just a bit more and she wanted to know what it all meant.
/Threatens to tear us all apart and kill the royal families. It will take the one thing that was never accomplished by two vampires on the first try... The blood of his body will flow through the mother and either kills the unborn snakes or make them into something else...and now the love that created the snakes will break or be destroyed to save what is the world today... another snake will help the evil but will be trapped inside it self and give power to the evil for the young mother that carries the snakes/
"ARGH... why the hell is this happenin. DAMN YOU DARRES!!!" Zack yelled as she hit the wall making another hole next to the one Draco had left there a week ago. "Shit, why? It doesn't make any sense. Why would he join up with that snake and keep Harry? He'll just kill him when he's done with him. Won't he?" the new questions kept running like that in her mind for another hour or so.
Draco groaned as the world of the living returned to him. He had woken up like this a couple of times spending it with Zack. He was worried that the other knight didn't see it as a sign of weakness. He sat up on the bed and saw Zack with her back turned to him her head down in thought.
"Zack?"
Zack whipped her head around to look at the young vampire in her bed. She smiled and walked over to her lover. "What, are you feeling alright?" her voice was calm and smooth.
Draco sighed as his weary body began to weigh on him. He didn't know why but it could be the stress from pretending to be Harry's lover. He had no clue but it was wearing him down that and the unknown predictions he made for Zack.
"I feel exhausted and feel like I don't want to do this any more. Why the hell was I used? Why not you or Shiro?" Draco sighed once more as he put his head in his hands and took several deep breathes to calm his tense body.
Zack sighed as she watched her lover. /This is taking a toll on all of us. I can't believe that he even asked me that/ she thought as she sat down next to him. "Love, first off if we used me or Shiro we would have to have a serious sex change for that and second you were the only other male vampire in the castle. We are the only vampires in this castle and we have to watch out for each other. Your cousin has already sent a letter to me saying that he'll be here the day we leave for Sniper castle. And I'll take a few days off. Severus is taking time off too and we can relax ok. Truth be told I really didn't want to make the fucking suggestion but what other options did we have." Her slender arms wrapped around the strong torso and she laid her head against his heart.
Draco wrapped his arms around her and pulled her to lie on top of him on the bed. They stayed like that for two hours thinking of things to come, things yet to be seen and things to expect.
~*~*~*~*~*~
Severus sighed as he sat at his desk grading papers with Roseael sitting next to him. She had been a great help since the day she had come in and just started to grade papers. It was relaxing but they were both tense as well. Roseael had yet to apologized to Sirius and Severus was taking it hard to spend so much time away from his lover since the day they made up on. He was ready to kill someone for any reason and giving Zack another beating didn't seem like a bad idea at the moment.
"Don't even think about it dumbass." Roseael said as she laid another paper faced down on the stack she had made. "She's having problems with Draco and seems not to know what to do. Her duty to your family or love him when it seems right. And if you need a release go terrorize your students." She smiled at him.
Severus gave a scowl and read the paper in his hand giving a big fat F before he even finished.
"She needs to know that doing her duty doesn't mean she has to give up the life she wants. She can manage being my guard, royal assassin, and a lover if she only tried. If she hadn't forgotten she's immortal and has all the time in the world to do these things and Draco is in need of love. I felt it the last time I saw him."
Roseael nodded remembering the tired look she saw in the Malloy's eyes a need and wanting of love. It was powerful and it worried all of them as Zack had not even decided to think of a visit yet to her Prince's lover. She had, to Roseael's knowledge, immersed in the library every other waking moment. She had no idea what the woman was looking for but it shouldn't have been in the library. It should have been in the arms of her lover.
"So, what are you going to do when Luc gets here with your parents?" Roseael said to take their minds off the couple.
Severus stopped reading the paper he was grading and looked into space. There wasn't anything he could do and made this point to his sister. "Well, I can't really do anything. I can't deny him to not come since it isn't my call this time and Zack was the one who suggested this plan in the first place so why fight with something that seems to make no sense. I know Zack doesn't like the king very much but why is still a clue to me." He leaned back in his seat putting his hands behind his head in thought.
Roseael cocked her head to the side watching her brother. "So, why are you hostile to the King of the Malloy's? I don't see any reason or is there some family history or some tragic event I know nothing of?" she put down her quill to lean over with both hands cupping her chin as her elbows rested on the table between them.
Severus watched her a minute before answering her question. "Well, there was a problem but we had managed to take care of it over forty or fifty years ago. I don't keep a count on that event. Not something I wish to remember. But Luc had lost a lover, a mate as we would say in our home. I don't remember what they call their bonded. But he was a good friend to all of us before he died. Then a war started between the man that killed his lover and the rest of the vampires in Wales. We were in the center of everything cause it was a direct descendent to my family." He sighed remembering his brother's reign of terror before Voldemort had come into a small set of power against the world.
"Heh, brother or sister?"
"Brother."
"Older or younger?"
"Older"
"I see, so you looked up to him did you?"
Severus thought of this question and remembered all the times where he wanted to be his brother and wanted to do nothing more but be as strong as that man that had gone mad. "At a time I did. The Clan had respected him for coming over his defects but he hadn't managed to over come the insanity that took over his mind. It destroyed him and everything we had as brothers." He took a deep breath. "My father had killed him by cutting his head off. We let his body burn in the morning sun and then put a seal on his ashes as we made the grave for him."
Roseael watched her prince and it seemed he was hiding more then he was letting on. "What are you hiding from me or Harry for that matter?" she watched him as his body didn't change from the question.
"Nothing. There is nothing and no need for you to worry about it." He went back to his work. "You may go now sister. I will handle the rest. There isn't that much left." His voice had a final tone to it and Roseael didn't want to test him or that temper. So she left without further question.
~*~*~*~*
Hermione relaxed in the large pool after washing herself. It was the most relaxing thing she had ever done in her life. Shiro had asked to wash her back and had decided that the woman have a treat for doing all this for her. She watched through half lidded eyes Shiro wash her self. Her back was already done and so were her legs. Shiro was now doing her chest and arms. Hermione watched ever without blushing at the exposure the other woman gave her. It was a strange feeling and she continued to watch as the vampire rinsed off and did her hair. After Shiro was done she got up and didn't bother to warp herself as Hermione did and got into the pool.
The warm water was good to the sore vampire. She had not only to deal with a very hormonal Harry but a stressed Severus and not to mention that knight that seemed to leave her with guard duty when she herself was a princess. /Why I do things for them is beyond me/ she thought as she looked up to watch Hermione.
"How do you like the bath?"
The question didn't phase the strange mood Hermione was in. "Good." It was a simply answer that seemed to effect the vampire. "Well, uhh... we can stay here as long as you want. The owner said we can have it for a couple of hours."
Hermione nodded as she relaxed more into her warm seat. Shiro took a deep breath before she made a mistake. The girl was affected by her presence and it pleased the vampire princess but it also worried her. The girl was fragile and she didn't want to scare her off. So Shiro decided that she wouldn't let her beastie side effect what she wanted from the girl as in love.
Yakumoris where creatures with a dark side to them that was dangerous to anger them and more dangerous to anger them while feeding or during a heated night with a lover. It wasn't unknown for Shiro to have a bad temper at times but when she was around other vampires who seemed more sophisticated then her, she would keep her anger in check. Unfortunate for those who would piss her off just the sake of pissing her off but the dark side had another purpose than anger and the feeding it had a purpose in the love department as well.
Shiro growled as the scents of Hermione's and her own started to mix with the scents of oils and soap. She had limit on how to control her beast and it wasn't a long time when it was with humans and this could end ugly for her.
Hermione was having a problem with keeping focus on anything at the moment but she felt a shift in the air and looked up with clouded eyes to see what it was. To her it seemed that Shiro was having a hard time breathing. She glided over to sit next to the over hyperventilated vampire.
Shiro's eyes widened when the scent of lilies mixed with the scent of the sunflower scented water. She looked up to see Hermione with a worried expression on her face. She smiled at her and patted her head. "Do not worry about me koi. I'm just not all use to the change of events that have been happening and my father will be here in a month or so." she sighed. "Life is never fair or gentle."
Hermione smiled a genuine smiled and leaned on the Yakumori vampire to offer comfort. "That's because the fates are never kind to those who are meant to live in tragedy. Like Harry and Professor Lupin. They both have messed up lives but they keep living to move forward to the next day. Believe it or not but they are two sides of the same coin." Hermione sighed and felt Shiro tense but ignored it. "It's the Fates that decide what paths they can walk on. And their choices are since they were born."
Shiro smiled at the words of wisdom coming from the human next to her. Taking a deep breath to take in all the scents she wrapped an arm around her koi. "Yes, they are Beauty and Lupin. But fate changes f they don't take the roads that are offered to them. My father once said that "simplicity is only a tool to reach harmony. Harmony is only a guide to reach the peace with in one's own heart. Follow it and it will give you a Fate that gives life." His words where always a friend in my heart. To keep me from falling into despair since my mother died." Shiro said holding tighter to Hermione.
"Life was a cruel tool to those who had seen fate as a why to live in ignorance. But life gives no meaning if that ignorance can't be saved." Hermione returned with a soft voice as she snuggled into the side of the vampire princess and sighed.
"That is true koi. That is true." Shiro said leaning back and thinking of her friend's fate and the old woman that seemed to hold it in her hands even if she was in a castle miles away.
/There is no hope for us. Once the babies come all hell will break lose. I know it. /
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BDL: Yeah! My beta reader finished. Mystic Dragons1 is so slow. (
Draco: Yah! One time she held a chapter for a whole fucking month. We were bitching so bad!
Harry plays his video games.
Harry: Guys, give her a break. She's got college and work to handle you know. She ain't wonder woman.
BDL: I have school too and I don't have that problem. And she lost all the chapters I beta for her. I feel insulted!
Harry rolls eyes.
Harry: watch what happens when you get your job. Watch out now.
BDL: ARGH!
BDL picks up her ax and goes after Harry. Harry runs away while Draco picks up the game boy and plays.