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Gooey Melting Hearts	By : Blackkitten23 Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male Views: 24973 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 6
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Only Nicholas and Patty noticed the dark silhouette of someone pressed against the front window, “Either come in or stop fogging up my window, young lady!” Patty huffed and finally the person came inside ...
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“Where is it?” A red haired witch grumbled as she searched the book store.
“Of course! It’ll be a quick stop then we can go to the Crock & Pestle.” Some distant voices were heard saying.
The witch scoffed as she heard the chatter from the front of the book store, “Where the hell is the special edition- finally! This place has a terrible system! I can’t find anything!” She yelled out of pure frustration that no one was helping her. Her annoyance grew with each book she piled up.
She heard the guy up front mumble something before saying, “Thank you for your purchase! Have a good day!” He said just as the very annoyed witch came back to the front carrying her pile of books.
Even with the books blocking her view she knew the people left, “and who were those people? What’s the Crock & Pestle?” She demanded mostly wanting to know who was so important that the guy at the counter would help them over her.
Paul rolled his eyes from behind the stack of books, “The Crock & Pestle is an apothecary in Knockturn-“
“Eww. So it’s dark.” The witch scowled.
Paul forced himself to focus on checking each book she piled up so he wouldn’t snap at her, “If it’s good enough for the very neutral Prince and Potter families then I think it’s fine.”
The witch’s green eyes lit up, “Potter?”
“Yep. Apparently, the Potter heir works there.” Paul said absentmindedly before jumping in shock when the witch slammed the counter hard.
“Do you mean James Potter?! Tell me!” The red haired witch snapped as she desperately grabbed Paul by the collar. Crazy witch didn’t even care when some of her desired books fell to the floor because of her reckless actions.
Paul paled as the young red haired witch’s green eyes glared at him, “I guess? I don’t really keep up with old families. I just listen to the rumors and there has been a lot of talk about the Potter heir-“
“You’re not helpful at all!” The witch snapped as she let go of Paul’s collar with a shove. “Hurry up and get my stuff ready.” The barely 16 year old witch demanded sharply and tapped her fingers impatiently on the counter until he finished going through each and every book. “You’re taking too long … better not miss any.” She muttered. If the guy was going to make her wait then he better do a good job.
Paul bit back an insult and smiled, “Just a few more.” He said feeling really eager to get her out of there. She’d be out by now if she didn’t choose 30 books. “Here is your total-“
“About time!” The witch muttered before scowling at the number on the register. “Bloody rip off.” She mumbled as she searched through her wallet.
“30 books will add up.” Paul said politely just desperately trying to keep his cool until she leaves. “I’ll get you a bag-“
“Don’t waste any more of my time and money. Just shrink and stick.” She ordered as she pulled out some coins.
Paul frowned, “but it will be dangerous to-“
The witch huffed, “Sure.” She said disbelievingly before slamming some gold galleons on the counter. She immediately left when he made sure there were enough coins and handed over her shrunken purchase, which looked almost like a wand made out of tiny books. “I can’t believe I’m doing this, but for James I will.” She said as she tried to ram her tiny books in her pocket. “Idiot can’t shrink things properly.” She grumbled.
The witch failed to take into account that there were too many books. Paul always shrinks a customer's purchase that includes multiple books and also uses a sticking charm to keep them together so none are lost. For this large purchase Paul shrank each book more than usual and used a sticking charm, but once so many books were stuck together it was too long. Unfortunately, if Paul shrank the books any more you could lose it because it would be too thin to see or could poke a hole and fall out of the pocket. If he did two or three columns of books, shrank and stuck them, that could damage the bindings because it’d be thick enough to rub against the inside of the pocket. Poor guy was trying to think of his customer by offering the bag this time and tried to explain, but she refused and dealt with the pocket problem.
With her stick of books poking out of her pocket she marched towards Knockturn alley, “Now where’s the Crock place?” She muttered as she went through the only barely crowded streets with a confident strut.
All of that confidence vanished once she made it to the entrance of Knockturn Alley. She shivered in fear of the imaginary evil dark magic that she truly believed was wafting off the area. The way she saw it even the stones were oozing some evil. However, she eventually sucked in a deep breath. A breath so deep it was as if she tried to get one last gulp of pure air before she went into the dark evil alley.
While going out of her way to avoid making any physical contact with the few people walking around she looked for the store she wanted. A few moments passed and she spotted a store sign with the words Crock & Pestle written on it in a fine scrawl. She ran as fast as her legs could carry her and pressed her face against the glass. If it wasn’t for the lion fish tank in the store front window and her own breath fogging everything up she might have been able to actually see more than two feet into the store.
“Either come in or stop fogging up my window, young lady!” An annoyed voice yelled from inside the store.
The witch scoffed, “That’s not a way to talk to a potential customer.” She grumbled as she finally opened the door and went inside. Besides the old man, old woman and many well stocked shelves she didn’t see the reason she risked going into a dark magic store.
“I’m Patty, the owner of this apothecary. Looking for something specific, young lady?” The old woman asked with a kinder tone than when the young witch was outside fogging up the window with her breath.
“I was-“ The red haired witch’s jaw dropped as a guy, who she assumed worked there since he wore an apron, walked out from between the shelves. “Sirius?” She said a bit surprised, but suddenly felt happy. After all, if Sirius was there then surely James was there too.
Sirius looked up from the list he was carrying and smiled, “Hi, Lily! Can’t talk now. I’m filling out orders.”
“What order are you on?” Patty asked, though she noticed that the old wizard with her was subtly looking at the stick of shrunken books sticking out of Lily’s pocket.
“I think James is done with his half so once I get the peppermint twigs we’ll be done with order 7! Two left!” Sirius said as he took one of the jars containing the desired twigs.and disappeared into the maze of shelves.
“Wait!” Lily muttered and tried to follow Sirius. Almost immediately she lost him and wasn’t sure where to go until she heard the voices. She followed the voices and was overjoyed to find a counter with the two fellow Hogwarts students behind it. “I never knew you both worked here.” She said cheerfully.
James looked up from the tongs he was cleaning off, “Hi, Lily. We started this summer. It’s kind of part of our punishment.” He commented as he set the tongs down.
“Ok, Order 7 is off!” A person came out from the back room. “Oh! Hi, Lily!”
Lily blinked, “Remus? You work-“
Remus held up a finger as he pulled out a list from the mouth of a little dragon statue with a 2 on its head sitting on the counter, “One minute, Lily.” He said as he skimmed the list. “Ok, we don’t need peppermint or slugs so you guys can put those back.” Remus said as he ran the list along the claw of the little dragon statue effectively slicing it in half. “Here are your halves. Ignore the 6 oz leeches. I’ll get those.”
“Wait-“ Lily said, but both Sirius and James just each took a half of the list and a jar before once again disappearing into the maze. “Ok?” She murmured and hesitated before finally looking at Remus. “What did James mean about a punishment?” She asked stiffly. Not that Remus noticed since he was setting up a scale and grabbing an empty jar and gloves from under the counter.
Remus chuckled as he put the gloves on, “That’s a bit of a long story, but the summary is that everyone knows about the stupid bullying, thus the punishment, and Severus will not be bullied anymore.” Remus said happily as he carried the jar to the tank that sat a few feet away.
“Oh?” Lily pondered, not sure what else to say. “He never said anything to me.”
“Yeah.” Remus said sadly as he filled the jar with water from a spout and grabbed the handle of the long net hanging on the tank. “He’s been so sick lately that it’s no surprise, but you’ll be happy to know that he is getting better and his grandfathers are taking great care of him.” He said as he attempted to grab the leeches, but then he raised an eyebrow in confusion. “How did you know to come here if you didn’t know? I thought you came to spend time with-“
“Can we look at the cauldrons on the top rack?” The voice of an old man in a different section of the store asked.
“I’ll help!” James yelled from the deep recesses of the shel maze and rapid footsteps were heard. Mere seconds later James shot out of the maze and put a jar of beetles on the counter. “It’s 1 cup of beetles.” He said before he put his half of the list in his apron pocket and raced over to the far reaches of the cauldron section in the store.
Remus chuckled as he scooped up some leeches and put them in the jar, “Lord Prince has him scared.” He looked at the number of leeches in his jar. “Maybe a couple more.” He muttered before scooping up a couple more leeches.
Lily frowned, wondering who was so important that James would drop everything when he won’t even spare a minute to talk to her, “Lord Prince? As in the famous Prince family?” Lily asked quietly to herself as Remus used long tweezers to put the leeches on the scale. Once he measured out the desired amount he poured the extra leeches back in the tank and got a little jar to pack the 6 oz of live leeches in safely.
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“I’ll unlock that shelf and lower it.” James said as he pulled his apron string revealing a little button. He pressed the button into a groove on the wall next to the shelf of cauldrons and the shelf lowered into the floor revealing even more cauldrons of every color, material and size. “Is there a particular type you have in mind?” He asked as he fidgeted nervously under Sebastian’s watchful gaze.
“We were thinking of a stone or wooden one.” Sebastian said calmly as he let his reserved, and unintentionally intimidating, gaze watch the glasses wearing teen.
James nodded quickly and turned the button to make the shelves go lower, “I think those were at the top … yep!”
Severus gently touched James’ shoulder to signal him to stop, “What’s the third one to the left?” He asked, not realizing that his touch was affecting James.
“I ummm …” The Potter’s cheeks turned slightly red before forcing himself to look at the cauldron in question. “Oh! That is solid obsidian.”
Sebastian raised an eyebrow, “You knew that rather quickly.”
“You never forget the cauldron your friend DROPPED ON YOUR FOOT TWICE!” James snapped loud enough to be heard across the store.
“I SAID SORRY!” Sirius could be heard yelling back from the other side of the store.
“STOP YELLING!” Patty yelled back.
“SORRY!” James and Sirius yelled sheepishly and James looked back at Severus. “Want me to bring it down?”
Severus nodded, “If you don’t mind.”
“Nope!” James exclaimed as he unhooked the cauldron down gently on a low podium so they could inspect it. “It’s a really pretty color like-“ James froze when he saw Severus was much closer than he expected. However, he really should have seen that coming since they were going to get close to see the cauldron.
Severus looked right into James’ eyes curiously, “Like what?”
James blinked, “Ummm.” You could almost see James’ brain come to a screeching halt as he looked into Severus’ dark eyes. Very pretty obsidian eyes to be exact. “I … don’t remember.”
Sebastian coughed to get James’ attention, “This will do. We’ll take it and three moonstones.”
“Ok! I’ll go get it packed up. Is there anything else?” James asked.
The Lord Prince looked at Severus and they seemed to silently agree, “Yes, that will be enough for now.”
James nodded and grabbed the cauldron and its stirring stick, “Oh! I forgot. Lily is right outside. She was talking to Remus at the back counter. I’ll get these to the front for check out.” He said as he picked up three moonstones from the gem shelf nearby, but he dropped one. Of course, before James could adjust the cauldron so he wouldn’t drop it Severus picked up the little stone. “Thank you!” James gasped, but his eyes seemed to be stuck on Severus and his hand seemed to linger against Severus’ hand a lot longer than necessary as he retrieved the stone.
Sebastian stepped closer to Severus and that seemed to be enough to send James scurrying away, “He really should slow down.” He commented casually despite knowing full well that he was the reason James left so quickly. “So who is Lily?” He asked calmly though he was admittedly already suspicious of this person. After everything so far he wanted to meet this person and figure out their intentions immediately.
“She’s a childhood friend who lived near me. We both ended up going to Hogwarts together even though she’s in Gryffindor.” Severus said as he went to find his friend and explain what has been going on. He never realized that his grandfather was on high alert as he followed quietly behind him.
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Lily smiled when she heard someone coming out of the shelves. Her entire body sagged when it turned out to be Sirius instead. It was a little annoying that the young wizards seemed too busy for her.
“I have two more items to get. Is James done with his half?” Sirius asked as he set a bushel of vines and a jar of bat wings down on the counter.
Remus chuckled as he packed the bushel away with the jar of leeches and small jar of beetles, “You should have realized from the yelling that he’s helping Lord Prince.”
Sirius twitched sheepishly as he counted out 5 bat wings, “Oh! That explains how that started!” He said as Remus pulled out a bag to put the bat wings in. “I’ll go get the next- Hey! How are you feeling?”
Lily looked up to see who Sirius was talking to and her eyes widened, “Severus? What’s going on? Remus was just telling me you were sick and you didn’t tell me!” She exclaimed and she ran over to hug Severus.
Severus ever so slightly winced when something poked him, “I’m sorry, Lily.” He said and pulled back to see that it was a stick of shrunken books that jabbed him.
“There shouldn’t be a reason to apologize. He was truly ill. A friend really would understand why my grandson wouldn’t be able to explain right away.” Sebastian said firmly as he walked up behind Severus. Of course, his sharp eyes spotted the books too and it didn’t help his suspicions.
Before Lily could respond James raced back, “Patty is checking everything, Lord Prince. She also says she has a possible solution to your problem. Is everything ok?” James asked while looking at Severus with worry only to blush when Severus actually smiled.
“It’s not about me this time. Thank you for telling me.” Severus said, clearly happy about the news.
“Anytime!” James said and finally remembered his actual job and grabbed the jar of beetles in a way that, intentionally or not, hid his blushing face. “Should I take the beetles back?”
Remus chuckled, “Yep. I already took 1 cup from the jar and packed it away.”
“Ok, I’ll get the rest!” James said and rushed passed a baffled Lily to return to filling out his half of the order.
Sebastian eyed the young witch before looking at Severus, “Perhaps we should hear Patty’s solution and get that going.”
“Yes.” Severus looked apologetically at Lily. “I’ll owl you and explain everything. It was nice to see you.”
Yeah.” Lily said as she watched the person, who she realized was not just the poor kid from the bad neighborhood, but also the heir to the Prince family, leave she frowned. “Bye, guys.” She muttered, but it was only Remus left and he was busy so she just made her way through the maze of shelves.
It occurred to her that she could try to wait there and see if she’d have a moment alone with James. After a couple minutes she didn’t run into James and decided to just leave. She barely glanced at Severus and his grandfathers, who were chatting excitedly about something with Patty, as she raced out of the store
A few minutes later an enraged man stormed into the store, “Remus! Get out here!” He yelled, waving his wand around. Patty, Sebastian, Nicholas and Severus’ eyes narrowed, but just as Patty was about to throw the man out he shot a random spell that nearly hit Severus and ended up shattering a jar of spices. “I’m taking my son and you dark Death Eaters better not try to stop me!”
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“You’re useless” Voldemort screamed as he used the torture curse. “Something is changing at Hogwarts and I want to know more!” He demanded and finally stopped the curse leaving Lucius limp on the floor of the Malfoy manor.
Lucius tried to move, but he was left basically useless so Regulus stepped forward before it got worse, “My Lord? I’m still in school so I can spy for you.” He suggested, deliberately standing in front of Lucius to protect the Malfoy from any more of the dark wizard’s wrath.
Voldemort gave an eerie smile, “It’ll be limited information with a student, but it will do.” He said and his followers assumed he approved because the crazed wizard left.
“Are you ok?” Regulus whispered and helped Lucius finally to get to his feet.
“I am. Thanks.” Lucius said knowing the young wizard did something very dangerous just to save him.
In a pain filled daze Lucius struggled to get to the floo and flooed to the Prince family home where he collapsed on the floor. Hours ticked away and his body started getting cold ...
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