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Ties of Friendship, Bonds of Fate	By : KusanoSaku Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Snape/Remus Views: 5675 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Title: Ties of Friendship, bonds of Fate

Pairings: JamesxLily and RemusxSeverus, implied AndromedaxTed

Rating: K to start but future M. Currently probably a T.

Notes: Bound to you Pre-quel. Pre-Harry Potter Era Hogwarts, Marauder era AR/AU.

Chapter 17- Laude Abbey

Lily and Severus packed their school trunks with their things.
They had their holiday homework and nice clothes as well as warm ones. While Lily's family wasn't rich, they were comfortably off. They had nice clothes for church because Mr. Evans insisted and Mrs. Evans kept them here for him.
They wrapped their winter fur-lined travelling cloaks and pulled their gloves, wrapping their mufflers around themselves.
They were ready at fifteen to ten.
At five till the doorbell rang and Lily beat her mother to the door.
She threw it open and standing there was James' dad.
"Well you two ready to go?"
"They were packing and unpacking for hours after you left. It was hard to settle them down for the night." Rose teased gently.
"Well James and Remus were so excited about you coming over. James insisted your rooms be in the family wing instead of the guest wing. He picked your rooms out yourself, my dear. He and Remus said you wouldn't want your own room Young Master Severus. I had one prepared anyway but you are welcome to share with Remus."

Severus blushed and Lily giggled.

“I can’t tell Severus not to do that, he’s a young man but I would be terribly disappointed in Lily if she shared James’ room.” Rose said firmly.

Charlus raised a hand; “I warded Lily’s room so James can’t enter unless they were Bonded. Until she is a Potter he can’t enter. She can’t visit his room either. I can’t keep them from doing things but I can make it difficult.”

Rose shook her head, “I hope it works. I maybe older but I still remember how difficult it is to be circumspect when your hormones are going crazy.”

Charlus nodded, “Say goodbye to your mother Lily.”

Lily hugged her mother and kissed her cheek, “Goodbye and tell Dad thank you. I’ll miss you both.”

Severus also says his farewell to the woman who’d always been like a mother to him.

“Take care of yourselves and look out for each other.” Rose said sniffing.

Lily and Severus followed Charlus into the woods where there were no people. He took their trunks and shrunk them, seeing as how they were underage and unable to do magic outside of school.

After they pocketed the trunks Charlus took out a portkey once they all grabbed hold he tapped it with his wand.

Neither Lily nor Severus had ever travelled using a portkey before and they found the sensation of a hook latching somewhere behind their naval and dragging them onwards discomforting.

They arrived in the entrance hall of Launde Abbey.

Waiting for them were an excited James, an eager Remus and a subdued Sirius.

James pulled Lily to him and kissed her soundly in front of his father.

Remus took three steps forward and captured Severus’ lips as he folded him into his arms.

Severus relaxed against him, he’d missed him so much. He hadn’t the words to express himself but he left his kiss speak for him.

Charlus chuckled at them and Sirius coughed.

The couples broke apart, Remus and James smirking while Lily and Severus looked abashed.

Charlus smiled at them, his eyes sad and far away, “Ah young love, cherish it.” He turned to his son; “We must hurry if we want to do introductions before your mother is too tired.”

James sobered immediately taking Lily’s hand.

Remus placed a familiar arm around his mate’s waist.

Charlus led them to the family wing. The apartments that James’ mother Dorea had were quite beautiful. They were welcoming; it had a large hearth where a warm fire burned heating the main room. There were large enchanted windows overlooking a snow-covered lawn.

A very old woman who looked more like a grandmother than a mother lay on a settee propped up with pillows. She was wearing a green velvet dressing robe, she was thin and resembled Sirius in features which made since because they were related by blood.

James led Lily to her and knelt at her side, he leaned over to kiss her cheek, “Hello mother. I am so glad you are up. Are you feeling any better?”

Her voice was soft and a bit shaky, “Very tired Jamie. Is this her?”

Lily sat beside him, taking the woman’s hand in her own, “Hello Mrs. Potter. My name is Lily.”

“Dorea…” the woman gave her hand a slight squeeze of welcome, but the action made her pale and very tired. “You are most welcome. I regret that I cannot greet you as the Lady of the Manor but my health is very poor. I am most grateful to have the privilege of meeting you. There is much I wish to tell you. You seem as kind as James said. You will be a good helpmate, partner and Bonded. He is very important to me, when you have your own child you will understand. He’s precious; my only child. For years I failed my duty but Charlus never abandoned me.”

“Never my dear.” Charlus said kissing her forehead, “You have been my heart, my love, my bonded since we met.” His voice trembled and he looked a little lost.

Dorea seemed as if her speech had wearied her. “I will send for you while you are here child. I wish to know you better. My time is short but I wish to know you, the one who holds my son’s heart.”

James’ voice cracked, “Mother you will get better. You must. You promised…”

Dorea looked at him sadly, “Sometimes, no matter how much a parent wants to, there are promises that cannot be kept.”

Lily stood, kissing her cheek, “I will come if you call. It is an honour to met you Dorea.”

Dorea smiled weakly, “And I you…”

Lily dragged James to his feet, “We’ll let you rest.”

Dorea scanned the room, “Remus?”

Remus stepped forward to her line of sight.

“Come here child.”

Remus brought Severus as he came closer, “Yes Dorea?”

“Let me see him…”

Remus pulled Severus to the floor beside her, “This is my mate.”

“He is a Prince. I knew your mother slightly. I was far older than she was, I was twenty one when she was born. I knew her parents better... I remember thinking she was beautiful. I see you inherited that. It’s a blessing while it lasts but looks are fleeting. Love based on appearance is short lived. Build on mutual affection and respect, it lasts a lifetime. You may weather storms but together you are strong. A Bonded is a pillar in times of sorrow, passion and romance in joy and strength in weakness. Trust is everything…I care for you like a son Remus, same as Sirius. Be happy…”

“I am…” Remus said holding Severus tight to his side.

“I’m tired…” Dorea said quietly.

Three house elves appeared, one was glaring at them to depart.

Lily led James out of the room; he wasn’t the cocky star Chaser or the future Auror. Right now, he was a boy losing his mother at fifteen. He still needed her!

Once they left Dorea's rooms, James started to shake with sobs.

Lily wrapped him in her arms, "I'm here. You aren't alone."

Charlus looked worried and lost, "I don't know what I'll do if she passes to the Veil..."

His father looked worse, his heart was breaking and they could all read that.

James was pulled tight to Lily; the gesture wasn’t sexual so much at it was meant to comfort.

They’d left Dorea’s apartments the door locking behind them.

Remus was sad, he’d watched his own mother weaken slowly and she too was doing poorly and might not make it to his graduation.

Remus and Severus politely bid goodbye to James' mother after she gave them her blessing.
They separated, Lily following James to a first floor parlour to get a hold of himself.
Remus led Severus to his rooms. Once they were alone Remus was kissing him as he cupped his face in his hands.
Severus moaned softly.
"Mine..."
Severus said nothing as he kissed him back.
Remus took his travelling cloak and shrunken chest.

Before Severus could speak, Remus had warded the door and was kissing him eagerly.
"Remus...not here... "
Remus growled, "Don't care...I missed you. Please...don't fight me Sev..." he ground against him insistently.
Severus groaned, matching his frotting.
Before Severus could react they were naked in Remus' bed.
Remus kissed him, pinching and teasing his nipples, "want you so bad..."
Severus spread his legs wantonly, he was still nervous but eager.

Remus leaned up, his eyes almost a hot caress as they drank in the vision of his lover.

Severus swallowed, blushing, “I can’t be that good looking….”

Remus licked his lips, his amber eyes sprinkled with gold. “Oh yes you are…”

They kissed and ground against each other moaning.

They came hard.

Remus held Severus tight, “You don’t know how much I missed this…”

“Not as much as I missed you…” Severus said quietly, his eyes closed.

Remus chuckled, rolling over and pulling Severus to lay on his chest. “Perhaps…perhaps not.”

They took a nap, relaxing and basking in the other’s presence.

XoooooX

Lily sat rocking James, “You’re not alone. You have us.”

“She’s slipping away Lily…I want my mother to go to our graduation. I want her at our Bonding…”

Lily ran her hands through his hair trying to soothe him, “I don’t think she will be. The best we can do James is let her see how happy we are. We can let her know that you’ll be okay. You have me James. We’re together now and always.”

James cried himself to sleep in her arms.

Lily just held him knowing that was what he needed most.

XoooooX

They were all summoned to lunch.

James’ eyes were still read, Remus and Severus smelled like sex, while lily looked sleepily.

Sirius looked bored and more than a bit jealous.

Charlus was worn and tired.

They ate lunch quietly.

Charlus spoke up, “Why don’t you all go outside to play? The grounds are heavily warded so you’ll be safe. James mentioned you’d all learned to be Animagi. That’s a difficult skill to master but you’re welcome to go play.”

“I haven’t learned yet.” Sirius mumbled.

“He wasn’t around when we were studying.” Lily said quickly but we could teach him, he’s pretty decent at Transfiguration anyway.”

“That would be a great idea.” Charlus said with a forced smile. “You’ll be hungry for dinner we can have an early night and have presents tomorrow. James is always up early on Solstice.”

James smiled, “It’s Lily and Severus’ first Solstice so we’ve got to do it right.”

“We’ll celebrate the new moon tonight son, I promise. It is the coldest and darkest night of the year. I’m sure that makes Remus happy.” Charlus said grinning.

“Any night without a full moon is a good night.” Remus muttered.

“That settles it, you’ll all play and then we’ll toast the solstice.”

XoooooX

After dinner they ran out the front door of the Abbey, which swung open for them.

James was the first to transform, followed by Lily. Severus and Remus weren’t far behind.

Sirius stood there looking jealous.

James tossed his head, despite the time of year he still looked like a buck in his prime, “You read the books I gave you right? The ones on human transfiguration and Animagi? Plus the meditation ones?”

Sirius nodded vigorously, “Yes. I’ve been practicing the meditation exercises.”

“Did you look up Irish Wolfhounds?” Severus asked.

Sirius glared, “Of course. I thought they were really cool.”

“Well then. Sit and mediate than. Visualize your body changing into one and then come play tag with us.” James lighting tapped Remus’ shoulder with his right foreleg, “Remus is it! Run!”

Remus growled playfully, “Hey!“

Lily and Severus took off veering in separate direction.

Remus left Severus for last, he chased down James, tackling the buck into the snow, “Gotcha!”

“Get off you’re heavy.” James pouted.

Remus ran down Lily, landing on her back, “Two down!”

Then a deep howl split the air.

Remus spun around to see a large black dog, not that different from a grim. He cocked his head, “Siri?”

The dog laughed, “Yeah. I did it.”

“Cool. Your reward is: You’re out!” Remus announced as he tackled the irish wolfhound to the snow.

“HEY! Not fair Remus!”

“Don’t care. Where are you Sev?”

“Not telling.”

Remus took off in the direction his lover’s voice came from. He spotted a bit of sliver fur poking out of s disturbed snow drift. He leapt at it. Knocking the snow flying and more of Severus was visible. “Gotcha.”

The wolf and the fox rolled around on the ground, playfully growling and nipping each other.

“That means Sev is it. He was caught last!” Lily called out shaking her tail.

Severus licked Remus’ muzzle, “You’re out Remy!”

“No fair! I left you for last.” Remus protested.

“I got you first so there!” Severus stuck his tongue out before wheeling about and launching himself at Sirius. He landed paws against the hound’s barrel chest. “Gotcha Sirius.”

He leaped left and ran towards James, leaping on his back and riding him for a bit before he jumped off and chased Lily.

Lily was faster than James and took longer to run down.

Severus nipped her hindquarter playfully and ran laughed, “Lily is it.”

“Severus! That was my arse. Watch those teeth.”

“James will kiss it and make it better.”

“Like hell he will!” Lily snapped. She ran towards Sirius, knocking him over with a kick. “Out!” she took off after Remus nudging him with her shoulder, “Control your fox.”

“He’s a sexy fox!” Remus called out teasing.

Lily was still annoyed tackling Severus before running towards James. It wasn’t autumn anymore but she still found James’ large black buck sexy.

The games was part tag and part hide-and-seek but it was still fun. It didn’t matter that they were fifteen- well Sirius was the oldest and he’d turned sixteen back in October but no one cared. They had only themselves to please.

James stopped suddenly.

Lily crashed into him.

James laughed, “Guess I’m out then.”

James tagged Lily out right away by licking her muzzle before heading after the other leaving Sirius for last.

After they were all it twice, they were cold and drenched with sweat.

They ran back to the large oak doors in the Abbey’s main entrance.

They stripped off their wet cloaks and boots.

Each running upstairs to find hot baths waiting for them.

Severus and Remus undressed, tossing their clothes into the laundry basket by the en suite bathroom door.

Remus kissed Severus and pulled him towards the tub.

Remus got in first and then put Severus in his lap.

The water wasn’t too hot it warm enough to bring their core temperatures back up.

Severus let Remus hold him, he really had missed it. He read once that girls need to be touched a thousand times a day to be sane. He wondered how much good touching an abused teenage boy needed. He doubted he was normal at all but he did like that Remus loved him. They were becoming so close.

XoooooX

James walked Lily to her door, kissing her lightly, he was pleased that his father thought ahead to ward Lily’s room. He was going to be a bit worn out and he probably couldn’t respect her wishes. He felt a bit bad about that time in the forest when Lily transformed the first time, Lily had been so insistent that they had to be Bonded first before he took her to bed.

XoooooX

Lily wanted James to ask her father permission to court her. She had looked up the ritual after overhearing older students discussing that Tonks had courted Prefect Black. She thought that the Courtship ritual was so romantic…

She wanted to see how James courted, the gifts he might give her to prove that he wanted her, that knew what she liked and symbols of the sort of future he wants to build with her.

XoooooX

Sirius felt like a fifth wheel.

James had Lily and Remus had Severus…

The idea of playing the field was nice and all but it was a bit disheartening to see his friends so happy. He’d never wanted Narcissa. If Mother had held off until he was seventeen he might have gone along with it. He didn’t want to be Bonded before he was sixteen.

He was very grateful that he’d not been betrothed at birth to Bella- they’d have killed one another already.

Sirius loathed his cousin Bellatrix, he adored Andromeda and tolerated Narcissa.

He might have liked Narcissa if she had more personality. He wished she’d told him to back off and made friends with Lily and Severus despite his warnings. He wanted a woman who had opinions and stood by them. Someone like Annie or Lily…

As they got older the students started to pair off, leaving less girls for him to enjoy.

He wasn’t bent so he wasn’t sexually interested in his friends, he wished he could find a girl like Lily though…

Not that he liked her like that…he just wanted someone like her…

Smart...funny…protective and hard-working…

Despite her blood status Lily would make a fine Lady of the Manor…

What do you think? Outstanding? Exceeds Expectations? Acceptable? Poor? Dreadful? Troll?
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