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The Third Time is a Charm	By : ladyedgecombe Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Snape Views: 45346 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
Disclaimer: I don’t own the HP Universe. I admire. Rowling for entertaining us with her world of make believe. I don’t make any money from writing this story, I just like to have fun and borrow her characters for a while but I promise to put them back

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The Third Time is a Charm 9/16/09

Disclaimer: I don't own the HP Universe. I admire. Rowling for entertaining us with her world of make believe. I don't make any money from writing this story, I just like to have fun and borrow her characters for a while but I promise to put them back so someone else can borrow them later.

Warning: Explicit sex scenes, Severus will be very OOC and a host of other characters

Chapter 15: Explanations

Severus and Harry quickly donned the green scrubs and started to leave the bathroom to explore other parts of the facility. Severus gently grabbed hold of the younger man's arm to stop him just as they were leaving the disaster area that had functioned as a bedroom/hospital area. He touched his lover very gently, mindful of the bruises that still littered his body.

"Are you alright? How are you feeling?" He actually felt guilty for not asking before and was more than a little surprised that Harry was even able walk, never mind he actually looked like a healthy person with flushed skin and not that sallow, pasty, on the verge of death complexion he was sporting yesterday. He would have to learn more about what happened yesterday and about Harry's magical core, but for now they needed to eat breakfast.

Harry didn't answer his question but just stared at him for a few moments and looked at Severus' arm. "Sev?" Harry inquired with a quirked eyebrow looking at the older man in awe. The scrubs were short sleeved and Harry had a full view of his mate's arms.

"Yes, it's gone. We really need to find out who our little savior is, she spoke to the mark in parsletongue and I don't know of anyone else that can do that besides you and the Dark Lord. If she is affiliated with him, why was she able to take an oath to keep us safe? The oath was real, I know that the magic was true, but there are many ways around the wording and why did she already know the gender and name of the baby? As if she knew what we would name it or she decided to name it herself. I would really like some answers after we get you fed. She told me she was our descendant, but I am not sure how than can be so there has to be some other explanation. " Severus' expression as he was speaking went from wonderment, worried, curiosity and then turned very determined. Harry had never seen so many expressions on the man's face in such a short space of time. Then he turned his obsidian eyes back to the emerald green and sighed, put an arm around his shoulders and walked with his green eyed mate out of the room.

As they were walking down the hall, Harry was thinking about what Severus said, but also everything else that had happened recently. First, he had no sooner come to terms that he was pregnant, and then he wasn't. He got that awful beating from his 'uncle' if that is what you want to call him and almost died. Actually he was ready to die except for wanting to be with Severus. The dreams they both had were about trusting this person. What if she was dark? How did one send dreams in the first place unless they had a lot of dark power? That was how Voldemort did it wasn't it? No, perhaps not, Voldemort was able to do that because of the connection. Actually, he no longer felt that either, his head felt unnaturally clear and... free. He agreed with Severus, they needed some answers.

They walked down the hall, each of them lost in their own thoughts. That is till they found the kitchen and a little elf Harry had thought never to see again was standing there. Said elf was in the kitchen gathering things for tea with a small plate of plain biscuits and he actually looked... well not happy but not miserable either.

"Kreacher!" Harry nearly shouted in the large room. "What are you doing here?" Harry could not imagine how the miserable elf could have made its way here, but then he didn't really know where 'here' was either. "How did you get here, Kreacher?"

"Kreacher being helping Mistress Becca, not feeling well is Mistress Becca. Kreacher being a good elf and getting Mistress something to make sickness go away" said the little elf with a very 'matter of fact' look of determination on his face. Harry just stared at the creature standing in the kitchen, dumbfounded that Kreacher wasn't muttering to himself about mudbloods and miserable blood traitors as he usually did.

"Maybe Harry and I should go look at your Mistress Becca and see if there is anything we can do." Severus jumped in. Obviously worried about their Hostess and wanting to see if they could find out what was happening around there. But Kreacher declined and said.

"Mistress Becca will be fine and is not to have visitors yet, will meet you in here when stomach settles." Kreacher then bowed his head and left to take the tea to his Mistress.

"Wow." Harry said with a bewildered look on his face. "That was different."

Harry had hated the little elf for deceiving him when he firecalled his godfather, but after speaking with Severus and thinking about it, he knew it was not really Kreacher's fault. The poor little elf only knew what others had taught him and that he had to obey the family he was bonded to serve. He wondered where 'Mistress Becca' fell into all of this. If the goblin at Gringotts Bank was correct and the elf came with the Black estate, then Kreacher should be following his orders not Becca's.

Kreacher popped back into the kitchen as Harry was thinking and next thing the younger man knew he smelled bacon, sausage, eggs and toast. The table was instantly set before him with everything needed to eat the full English breakfast as well as jam, biscuits, porridge, juice and coffee. Harry just sat there wondering who was going to eat all of that food when the healers from yesterday started to shuffle in. A few mumbled a good morning and Doc just said "Hi" but they all gathered around the table and started to fill their plates. Harry looked at Severus, shrugged his shoulders and they both filled their plates too. Obviously these were not morning people or they were still exhausted from yesterday's events.

The first one to talk to Harry was "Doc" and at first he was just staring at him making Harry uncomfortable. He looked into the older healer's eyes and finally said "What? Did I do something wrong?"

The healer shook his head as if coming out of a trance and said to Harry. "I was looking to see how strong your aura was and to see if you were feeling better. How are you feeling today? You must be doing better for you and your mate to make breakfast for all of us."

"We didn't make breakfast, the elf did." Harry replied, getting sidetracked from the other things the healer said.

"Harry, we don't have house elves here. This place is not occupied long enough to warrant house elves here all the time and they cannot apparate here. We usually fend for ourselves." The healers had been to the facility before when there were emergencies but only three other times when a time spirit called them. Since the facility was a secret, there were not a lot of people that knew about it.

"When we walked in, Kreacher was here and he was fixing tea for 'Mistress Becca' and then came back and made breakfast for the rest of us."

Then Harry remembered what the healer said about his aura, and clearly wanting information asked, "You can see my aura? How is that possible?"

"It is a gift Harry. Everyone has gifts and this one is mine, well that and healing magic."

"To answer your first question, yes I feel much better considering yesterday I was sure I would never see Severus again but would be with my Mum and Dad. I don't really know what happened after I was taken from the Dursley's. Everything is more or less a blur of fragmented images. Can you tell me what happened?" Severus, who was sitting next to him at the table, took his hand and held it for a few minutes. He was disturbed to hear Harry speak so nonchalantly about his almost dying, he had been so anguished when he found him yesterday lying on that floor after being beaten almost beyond recognition. Even today he was still sporting a few bruises, but they were fading.

Doc got a thoughtful look on his face and said carefully. "I can tell you some of what happened and some of it will have to come from Becca as I don't have all the facts. When you came to us yesterday, your magical core was nearly drained. It had been used mostly to sustain your life force but there was also a slow drain to an alternate location. Becca told us this was because you had a connection to an evil power that was somehow connected to you through your scar." Doc didn't want to give them too much information about already knowing them before Becca had a chance to explain.

"We attempted to boost your magical core with potions and spells but could not get it to regenerate faster than the other power was draining it. Normally you don't feel the drain, but after using so much of your magic to stay alive the drain was very noticeable. We needed to use something that was really strong and quick to keep you alive." Doc stopped there waiting for the information to process in the young man and his mate sitting at his side. The older of the two just inclined his head as he already knew this, but it was new information for Harry as, other than the beating, he couldn't remember much of yesterday. He finally nodded for the man to continue.

"Part of what we did was to outfit your bed to transmit sound waves, a rhythm and frequency that would compliment your magical core. You may have felt some thrumming coming from the bed; this would amplify your magical signal and help keep your magic from disappearing altogether. Severus may have felt it more than you, as you were in such bad shape." The healer looked at Severus for confirmation and the older mate spoke.

"I did feel what you are describing; I just though it was our magic coming together, I did not realize it was from an external source. I have never heard of what you are describing. Where did the technique come from and what culture? Why are not more healers using this type of method to restore magical cores? Why did we have to use Sex Magic instead of just using your treatment?"

The healer got a sly grin on his face and answered Severus' question. "It is a muggle technique studied in the late 1970's early 80's and is still used today. They use it for healing and to treat depression as of course they don't know anything about magical cores. It is not used by the magical community because most people in the wizarding world refuse to believe muggles have anything to contribute to our world. Actually I stumbled across it researching other medical treatments on the internet, which is something else most wizards ignore." He looked back at Severus and although the man with the obsidian eyes tried to keep the usual mask in place, he was slipping. Harry just snickered at him and said nothing. "We could have treated Harry's core with just the sound waves but his core was so weak it couldn't absorb any energy with the leak of his magic. The Sex Magic was not only to boost the healing in Harry's body, it was the only thing we could think of the get enough power to remove the connection to Voldemort."

"What made Harry's connection different than mine? Becca spoke to my mark and it released and disappeared. Why couldn't she do the same with Harry?"

Doc had to think about his answer on this one. He knew some of the information he was asking needed to come from Becca so he replied. "Harry's connection was a piece of Voldemort's soul. It was imbedded into Harry and had lived there contained by Harry's inherent good. It took more power to knock it loose."

"Wow, you mean I had a piece of Voldemort inside my head? Harry asked shockingly.

Doc nodded in the affirmative. "I don't believe anyone knew though, although Dumbledore had suspicions."

"So the thrumming and waves we felt were not our magic?" Harry asked, wanting to understand more of what the healer was saying.

"Not exactly; the thrumming and sound waves actually merged with your magical signature and created a bigger boost than was possible with just potions and spells. The combined power was able to remove the blocks on your magic, and boost your core so that your body's energy would boost to get your healing magic to work. We did everything we could but you needed your magical core to work. I imagine the room is probably destroyed by now since you are sitting here with us and not still in bed." Harry had the grace to look down and his face got very red as he remembered the destruction they found this morning and what had caused it.

"Don't worry about it, Harry." The healer said as his gentle eyes full of mirth tried to catch the younger man's. "It is no more than we expected. We are just glad it worked."

Doc continued his explanation of Harry's obscure healing treatments. "The Sex Magic was another thing to boost your power. When we tried to remove the blocks on your core we couldn't get them to release. They were very old and very powerful. I would be surprised if you never had any accidental magic as a child with so many blockages there." Harry looked at him with puzzlement on his face but decided to let him continue without interruptions. "Again, Muggle Sex Therapy is used between couples for some illnesses and can be anywhere from just being intimate by casual touching, spending time together, just talking to one another or in your case having sex. It has been used ages ago to increase the bond between two people but the Ministry decided it was dark magic and it is used very seldom. The art of this form of magic is almost lost to the magical world. It releases adrenalin and endorphins to boost your energy level. Much like you may hear about a muggle that can lift a car from an adrenalin rush when someone is trapped under it but would never be able to do that normally. When you come to completion, the energy is released at one time on a very powerful level and can blast through most magic blocks that we could not do otherwise."

"You have said something about blocks a couple of times. I don't know anything about blocks." Harry turned his head to his partner at his side. "Sev?"

"We presume Dumbledore had put several blocks on your magic to keep you from coming into your full potential." Severus paused a moment and quietly informed him "He also had branded you as a sex slave, Harry. We don't know for what purpose, but Becca told me you had that brand from the time you were fifteen months old."

Harry was shaking. Severus could only hold his lover and try to comfort him and let him come to terms with what he had been told before trying to further explain.

"What blocks? I never saw a brand of any kind, ever!"

"The brand was concealed under a charm that was only released when Becca spoke to it with parsletongue. She said she couldn't remove it but she could uncover it. I don't know how many blocks there were, but I did see them as transparent walls around your core, and Harry, your core was so dim I don't know how..." Severus trailed off and swallowed hard as he thought about how he almost lost his soulmate. He rested his head in Harry's hair for a few minutes before he could compose himself again.

"Where are we now and how did we get here?" Harry asked next.

"That is better left for Becca to answer; I only know that we are called when we are needed. I would think that our young hostess will be up soon. There are many things to accomplish today. I do want to give you a physical before you start your day. We need to see how much your core has been boosted and we should probably check Severus too, since Becca removed the mark from his arm."

"So how did you get here? You said this place is not used often and I think we were portkeyed but to be honest I was pretty out of it."

"We are a team of healers that Becca calls when she is in great need. We do not normally see each other all at once. She was very worried about you and called all of us here to help you. To my left is Acubi, he is a half light elf and half wizard, his specialty is injuries such as broken bones, cutting curses and other trauma. He uses magic from both his magical sides in his practice. On my right is Kyia, she is from Italy and is a witch with a little veela, her healing power comes from her veela side and her specialty is more viral and blood disorders, potions and healing herbs are used in her practice. This little one to the far left is Hymnia and she is part dark elf and witch. Her healing power is also more for curses than disease using the powers from the dark elf side to counter evil curses and blocks. There was one other that has left already, his name was Acton and he is a wizard and muggle healer. He uses both muggle and wizard healing practices combined together to get the best results. I am Doc, and am the team leader. We were all called in to be on your healing team and were very worried about you."

As Doc introduced each healer, Harry and Severus nodded their heads in greeting. The first healer, Acubi had blonde hair and was a small build with ears that were a little pointy if you looked close. He was very nice looking, but Harry got the impression he was happy to be unnoticed in the room. The second healer Doc introduced was more of an olive complexion to her skin and she was very tall, almost as tall as Severus. She smiled politely but her blue eyes sparkled as she nodded back in greeting to Harry and Severus. The third healer was just as small built as the light elf, with hair black as midnight and eyes the same color; it made Harry wonder if Severus was part dark elf as their eyes were the same inky black color. All three of them looked happy to have Doc do the talking.

They all heard a noise at the door of the kitchen and looked to see Becca standing there in her pajamas and a robe tied tightly around her waist. She started to address everyone when she suddenly turned a slightly green pallor in her face and ran off. Doc and Harry started to get out of their chairs to see what was wrong, when Kreacher popped into the room and stopped them.

"Mistress Becca wants kitchen cleaned before coming back." Kreacher stated clearly as if waiting for someone to argue with him. The healers looked at the elf with shocked expressions on their faces as he snapped his fingers and the top of the table was cleared. Then he snapped his fingers again and you couldn't even smell that breakfast was ever on the table. Then he popped back out of the room.

Doc started to get out of his chair again, but Severus halted his progress by speculating out loud. "She probably has morning sickness and the smells in the room bothered her stomach. Maybe I should make her some."

"What do you mean morning sickness?" Doc shouted at Severus interrupting him. He didn't know anything about Becca being pregnant and knew she had no husband nor was she involved with anyone. "As far as I know, she was not pregnant yesterday so what changed?"

Severus looked at the older man, trying to measure what his reaction would be when he told him. "We caused the chang; Harry was pregnant when his Uncle took a caning stick to him yesterday for being sick and evidently not telling them his Godfather had died. Becca transferred the fetus to keep it and Harry alive." The healer looked at Severus, opened mouthed, as if he had two heads. He sat down again closing his mouth, started to get up again opening his mouth, then settled back into his seat a second time closing his mouth and rubbing his hand over his face. He really seemed to be at a complete loss for words. Severus knew how he felt.

"You mean to tell me that Harry was pregnant? But how?" Doc said as he finally got his voice back. That had not been part of the plan that he knew of, at least he hadn't been told about it and yesterday when Harry was brought in, no one thought to run those kinds of tests as there was too many other things to do to keep him alive.

"We don't know how the baby survived the beating Harry took. All I can say is he must have curled up protecting his stomach early on when his Uncle was hitting him. Becca said that Harry's body was feeding off of the baby's magic to sustain itself and we were going to lose both of them if we didn't act fast, then just after she transferred the fetus, she portkeyed us out of there to this place. We both knew Harry was dying so we didn't have a reason to distrust her especially after she took an oath to keep us safe."

Doc nodded his head in understanding. He had heard of fetus transfer before but he didn't know why Harry was pregnant in the first place. It was not supposed to happen for another two years. He also didn't know where Becca got the power from. Just as he was about to say something else, Becca entered the room again.

"Good Morning everyone," she said cheerfully, "is everyone feeling alright? Harry, you look much better than yesterday, how are you doing today?"

"Since you are the one that ran out of here I should be asking you that question." Harry countered to her question. His smile was hesitant as he was the reason she was in this condition, but he felt light hearted and there was a twinkle of humor in his eyes.

"I am feeling much better, thank you, however; my stomach does not like the smell of bacon it seems. I am sure there will be more things it doesn't like as well." She answered him with a little wince thinking about her stomach revolting to the smell of bacon just a few moments ago.

"Now ladies and gentlemen, we need to plan a strategy for getting the rest of our tasks completed and getting Harry and Severus brought up to date." With every breath she took, Rebecca Prince was more and more apprehensive about the upcoming revelations she had to make.

A/N Sound therapy or sound waves and bio waves are a real technique to treating depression and minor illnesses that go along with it. It uses the same principles as we do when we use music for exercise, relaxing or other related activities. If you suffer from these illnesses I suggest you speak with a health care professional before trying to use them. You can find more information using a search engine with the same topic. Similar searches on Sex Magic or healing through intimacy is very real also. There are several articles on this subject as well. Obviously we don't have a magical core to be boosted so we can call that part poetic license.
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