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Severus woke to find a pair of sleepy green eyes regarding him. Severus blinked and felt his lips curving into a smile as Harry moved closer and kissed him gently. “Thank you” Harry whispered.
“For what?” Severus voice was sleep-rough, and he propped his head up on his palm.
“For loving me last night. I was terrified to open my eyes in case you’d changed your mind while I slept and left me here alone.” Harry’s forehead wrinkled. “You haven’t, have you? Changed your mind?”
Severus laughed. “Of course not, you dolt. Even if you do wriggle too much in your sleep. And steal the covers”
“Good” Harry breathed a happy sigh and stretched out. “I wonder where my glasses are”
“Accio Harry’s glasses” Severus said lazily, and they zoomed into his outstretched hand. He placed them onto Harry’s face, and those vibrant green eyes blinked at him a few times before a brilliant smile lit his features. As Harry stretched his hand to caress Severus’ cheek, Severus suddenly caught his wrist. “What’s that?”
On Harry’s ring finger, a deep green mark covered his skin. It looked like a tattoo. Fuck. It looked like a bondmark. With a sense of growing unease, Severus raised his own left hand and examined it carefully. Sure enough, a similar band of green surrounding his own ring finger.
“Well, that’s new” Harry remarked. He seemed bemused, but not especially upset.
“Strange, indeed, Harry. I think it’s a bondmark” A quick shake of Harry’s head indicated his lack of familiarity with the term. Severus sighed. Hogwarts really needed to do a better job educating Muggle-raised Witches and Wizards. “Have you ever heard the term ‘soulmate’?”
“Sure, but I thought that was a Muggle superstition thing. You always hear about it on those crappy daytime dramas.”
“In the Wizarding world” Severus answered, slipping into teacher-mode “Soulmates are discussed often, but there’s next to no documented information. If they do exist, they’re an extremely rare occurrence. The general idea is that, when two souls find their perfect match, they create an irrevocable bond. It manifests itself in some type of a permanent mark on the body.”
“Wicked” Harry said cheerfully.
“Quite” Severus replied dryly.
“So we’re what…married now?”
“Not exactly, but for all intents and purposes, we may as well be” Severus admitted “Soul bonds are are said to be permanent. They make it such that neither of us could ever be unfaithful, and, when one of us dies, the other will too.”
“That’s nice” Harry said, snuggling into Severus’ side.
“Nice? That’s a fairly unremarkable reaction, Harry”
“I’m sorry, I guess I’ve just gotten accustomed to weird stuff happening to me that I didn’t expect. It’s a good thing that this didn’t happen while Voldemort were still alive. You’d have had a target on your back”
“That’s true. But Harry, you’re not upset?”
“Why would I be upset? I’ve just spent the night with the person I love, we had amazing sex, and this” here Harry waggled his newly adorned finger “suggests I’ll get to do so again. To me there’s no downside”
“But you don’t resent this decision being made without your choosing it?”
Harry laughed. “Obviously I did choose it, though. Severus, I don’t give myself to someone else lightly. If I didn’t intend to be with you, I never would have made love to you” His face fell. “Oh. It bothers you, though, doesn’t it?”
Severus could see Harry’s face shuttering, as he tried to close himself off to prevent being hurt further. “Harry, stop. You’re coming to entirely the wrong conclusion. You’re correct that I was surprised by the bond, but please don’t think that it has upset me. There’s no one else I’d rather have this connection with. I just worry about you. You’re still very young, and you’ve had so many choices taken from you in your life. I didn’t know how you might react to knowing that another life-changing decision had been made without your intent”
A hopeful face turned up to look at his. “So you do want me?” Harry’s voice was quiet, and Severus could hear the lonely child who’d never been shown any affection.
“Yes, Harry. I want you” Harry’s arms encircled him in a hug. He was trembling, and mumbling something. As Severus leaned his ear closer he could hear ‘never thought’ and ‘always wanted’. Severus kissed Harry’s forehead. “Should we get up and see how Teddy feels this morning?”
“Oh Merlin, I can only imagine what his reaction to this might be.” Harry muttered. “He’ll probably accuse you of slumming, Sev”
“Come now, we need to give him another chance. His recent behaviour is, if nothing else, a testament to how much he trusts you”
“How so?” Harry was struggling into a pair of jogging pants and a t-shirt. Severus noted that he hadn’t put on any underwear and bid his cock to ignore that tantalizing piece of information for now.
“Teddy has been feeling irrational anger for some time, and has likely been confused and upset by it. But, you’ll notice that it wasn’t really directed at anyone other than you. It shows that he feels safe, that he knows you’ll continue loving him even if he gets angry with you. Even when he hexed the Victoire, it was because she’d said something about you that hurt his feelings. It shows how much he loves you, Harry”
“I’d never thought about it that way. My boyfriend sure is smart” Harry shot him a heart wrenching grin.
“You’ll cease calling me by that insipid term from here forward” Severus said crankily. “We’re not fourteen year old girls.”
“What should I call you, then? My lurrrr-ver?” Harry purred.
“It’s more accurate, but perhaps you might call me your bondmate. Or your husband”
“So we’re married? Like for real?”
“It would seem so. I imagine something like this would be automatically registered with the Ministry”
“That’s good, although the press is likely to have a field day. They’ve largely ignored me since I lost my magic, but something tells me this story is too good to be true. I suppose we’d better let the family know”
Severus’ blood chilled. “I suppose this means that Molly Weasley is my mother-in-law.”
“I hope you like itchy sweaters” Harry laughed as he left the room and went downstairs.
Teddy was already at the table when Harry and Severus entered the kitchen. Lucy gave an excited hoot at the sight of Harry and hopped over. Harry laughed, and stroked her head. She gave his fingers an affectionate nibble and then hopped over to Severus, who eyed her warily.
The bird tilted her head and gave him a long appraising look. Severus resigned himself to the hissing and pecking that would inevitably follow. To his surprise, the bird merely hopped over, nudged him with a beak, and accepted his tentative stroking.
“Lucy’s in a good mood this morning” Teddy announced.
“And how about Teddy?” Harry asked, running his hands through his Godson’s hair.
“Teddy feels good too” the boy laughed. “I think the potions are helping. I don’t want to scream at anyone”
“That’s great news, Teddy. I’ll take advantage of your good mood to share some other news that we have” Harry drew a deep breath. The boy looked interested, smiling at his Godfather’s discomfort. “Severus and I are…together now.”
Teddy tilted his head in confusion, looking a great deal like the owl had when taking Severus’ measure a few moments ago. “Cool.” Teddy looked at Severus archly. “Does this mean you’re my step-Godfather?”
Severus smiled. “I suppose it does, if you’ll have me”
“Of course. Family is who we pick, right Uncle Harry?”
Harry nodded, his eyes bright with unshed tears. “You’re not upset?”
“Upset? That the world’s greatest potions Master is now my other dad?” Teddy snorted. “I’m going to kick so much ass at Hogwarts”
“Language” Severus tutted. Teddy merely rolled his eyes.
“Oh, there’s tea!” Harry said happily. A teapot and two cups floated lazily over to the table.
“Thanks, Ted” As Harry poured a cup each for himself and Severus, he noted that his bondmate was staring at Teddy in shock.
“Teddy, how long have you been performing non-verbal summoning incantations?” he asked.
Teddy looked at him in surprise. “Huh? I haven’t”
“So how did the teapot end up on the table?”
“I don’t know. I wasn’t even thinking about tea”
Harry looked at Severus in surprise. “So you didn’t summon it?”
“No, I was about to, but hadn’t yet.”
“Teddy, try again. See if you can get me a glass” Teddy concentrated, but the cupboard doors stayed firmly closed.
“We’ll have to watch that, Teddy. You’re amazingly powerful” Severus warned. Something didn’t feel right about the occurrence. Spontaneous magic did occur in children, but usually only in circumstances when their emotions were high. Severus had never heard of such a casual display of power in someone so young. Unless…perhaps Teddy weren’t as comfortable with his and Harry’s bonding as he’d let on.
Feeling only a small amount of compunction at the invasion of the child’s privacy, Severus quietly stole into Teddy’s mind. The thoughts were as chaotic and disorganized as his Godfather’s had been, he thought to himself. Methodically, Severus picked through the whirlwind of thoughts and emotions until he came to Teddy’s feelings about himself and Harry. Surprisingly, there was no hesitation. The boy was pleased that Harry had found someone to love, and excited that Severus was part of his family.
Although he was glad that the boy was supportive of their relationship, his burgeoning magical abilities filled Severus with dread. With his volatile cocktail of emotions, Teddy could inadvertently become a danger to himself or others. And Harry…with his inability to shield himself, he was especially at risk.
“Harry, I believe that we should apply for Teddy to get a wand earlier than usual”
“Why, Sev?” Harry was crouching on the floor, throwing a tiny ball for Lucy, who hopped madly around the kitchen trying to catch it.
“If he’s able to perform such precise spells without an incantation, and without a wand, so casually, I think it’s in our best interest to channel his abilities.”
“What’s involved in such an application?”
“He’d just need to attend an appointment at the Ministry and have his magical core scanned. It isn’t painful or dangerous”
“Ted, would you like to get your wand now, instead of waiting until you’re eleven?” Harry asked.
“Of course. Then I could help out at the shop” Teddy had long harboured a desire to join his Uncle George in his joke shop. George had told him that when he got his wand, he’d be allowed to help out during holidays.
Just then, Lucy, careening after the ball, lost her balance and slid towards the cabinets. To Severus’ amazement, her progress halted abruptly, and she slid to a stop well clear of the hazard. “Teddy!” Harry gasped in amazement. “You did it again!”
“What? No I didn’t! I didn’t do anything!” Teddy looked up from the book he’d been reading.
“You cast arresto on Lucy!”
“I didn’t, Uncle Harry. I wasn’t even watching her”
“Sev, did you?”
“Of course not. I have my hands full keeping an eye on you, let alone paying attention to your menace of a bird”
“Well someone did! She was skidding right towards that cabinet. And then she stopped.”
Severus though for a moment. He conjured a feather and placed it in front of Harry. “Try to levitate this” he instructed.
Harry’s face darkened. “Sev, that’s not funny. I don’t think you’re allowed to make fun of me now that we’re together”
“Just humour me, please?”
“This is cruel, even for you” Harry grumbled, but he concentrated on the feather. As it rose, tottering, from the ground, Harry gasped. “Sev, what’s happening?”
“Harry, I think you have your magic back”
“Oh Merlin, Sev. Did I take it away from you?” Harry’s eyes were filled with anguish.
“Idiot, I just conjured that feather. I’m fine” Severus’ eyes were warm. Harry’s first concern had been for Severus. He hadn’t considered the implications of having his magic back, rather, was just fearful that Severus had been robbed of his own. Unable to help himself, the taciturn man kissed Harry deeply.
“Gross” Teddy remarked. “Stop that, there are impressionable children present”
“Git” Harry smiled. “Sev, what does this mean?”
“Honestly, Harry, I have no idea. I think we need someone who understands soulbonds a bit better than we do”
“Draco” Harry said definitively. He grabbed his mobile and dialed. “Dray, can you come over?” he asked presently. “We need to take advantage of that Pureblood upbringing of yours.”
As he hung up, Harry’s eyes suddenly widened. Without another word, he leapt to his feet and tore from his room. Severus heard the sound of a heavy trunk being dragged across the floor and soon, Harry came thundering back down the stairs, carrying a slim box. He settled himself at the table and, with a breath, opened the box and reverently removed a silk-wrapped bundle. He gave Severus a sheepish smile. “I couldn’t bear to get rid of it” he said, unwrapping his eleven inch Holly wand. “Hello, old friend” he whispered gently to the wand, before giving it a tentative wave. His face lit up as green and silver sparks shot from the end.
Draco arrived through the floo in minutes, and entered the kitchen with not a little apprehension. “Never a dull moment, here. What’s wrong now?” he asked. Just then, he stopped short and looked from Harry to Severus and back again. “You’re shagging!” he accused. Harry’s blush was brilliant and beautiful.
“Not currently!” Harry protested weakly with a gesture around the kitchen. Draco’s eagle-eyes spotted the mark on his hand, and in a flash was across the kitchen and examining it more closely.
“You’re soulmates?”
Harry gave a little shrug. “Not so far-fetched, really. Would you believe me though, if I told you that wasn’t the weirdest thing that’s happened today?”
“Uncle Severus?” Draco took a close look at his Godfather. “This is a big change. How are you feeling?”
Severus considered the possibly snarky responses, and, in a rare show of confidence, settled on the truth. “Complete” he said simply. Harry’s eyes were warm, and Draco gave him a smile, with no trace of the smirk that he normally offered.
“My congratulations on your bonding. May you never be asunder” he said, with a little bow, offering the traditional Pureblood blessing. Severus inclined his head graciously.
“Draco, you’re so smooth” Harry laughed. “You always know the right way to behave, don’t you?”
“Centuries of breeding, Potter” Draco’s grin was warm. “So if your bonding isn’t the topic at-hand, what else has happened?”
“This” Harry grinned, waving his wand and conjuring oppugno. A flock of tiny yellow birds flew across the kitchen and dive-bombed Draco’s head.
“Potter, what the fuck, cut it out!” Draco cried, banishing the birds in annoyance. “You’re such a child-“ His insults were abruptly cut short as he realized what had happened. “Harry. You’ve your magic again?”
“It seems so” Harry said shyly. With a whoop unbecoming a Malfoy, Draco picked up the smaller wizard and swung him around the room in a bear-hug.
“What did you do?” he asked, when a giggling Harry had been set back on his feet, and tea had been conjured. Harry had insisted on performing the spells, the novelty of having magic flowing through him not yet worn off.
“No idea” Harry said through a biscuit that he was devouring. “I’ve been performing unintentional wandless magic all morning”
“And blaming me for it” Teddy said, only a little indignantly.
“We’re hoping” Severus said smoothly “that you could help us learn more about the soul bond that Harry and I seem to have developed. I’ll admit, I had dismissed the notion as young witch’s fantasy before this happened. We can only ascertain that Harry’s returned magic is related somehow”
“It’s possible” Draco said thoughtfully. “There are three types of bonds that can develop. One is a kinship bond. It develops between a Guardian and their protegy. It’s usually used to allow for an apprentice to develop their skills more closely by tapping into the skills of their Master. This type of bond develops as a result of a ritual, though, so unless you two get up to some really freaky stuff, I don’t think it applies here” Harry blushed again, and Draco grinned.
As Severus cleared his throat, Draco continued. “Another bond is more of a friendship bond. It’s said that Godrick Gryffindor and Salazar Slytherin enacted an Amicitia bond. And, there was also gossip that Dumbledore and Grindewald did so as well. This bond develops after great personal sacrifice is made on the part of both parties, but there’s a specific incantation in latin that needs to be said. It also needs to be completely intentional. Although each of you sacrificed for one another, I doubt you’d be able to unintentionally stumble into such an arrangement. It goes against the spirit of the magic”
Severus was watching Harry as Draco explained the nature of the Amicitia bond. As Draco had explained the sacrificial nature of the bond, Harry looked troubled, but relief washed over his features as Draco reasoned that it was an unlikely fit. “Good” he said firmly. “I don’t fancy a bond that develops through sacrifice. It’s too transactional. If I gave anything to Severus, it was willingly, not a sacrifice.”
“Then it has to be the third type of soul bond. These ones are super rare, which is why, Severus, you’ve dismissed it as the fantasies of a school girl. Heart bonds are pre-ordained, blessed by the gods. There have been a handful in written history. They’re super special, though. If the soul-paired couple manage to find one another and meet with pure hearts, the bond forms automatically. The writings about heart bonds suggest that you’ll experience a dramatic increase in shared magical power.”
“Well, that explains it, then. We’re sharing your magic, and, since the bond has caused it to increase, it’s enough for the two of us. That’s good” Harry turned back to the plate of biscuits placidly.
“But Harry, don’t you want to understand it more? There could be unintended consequences” Severus despaired that Harry was again blindly accepting his circumstances.
“Nope” Harry said calmly. At Severus’ frustrated groan, he smiled. “Sev, weird stuff has been happening to me since I was a baby. Seeing as how this isn’t someone trying to murder me, I’m struggling to see the downside.”
“But-“
“Severus, do you love me?”
Severus felt his neck flush. “Yes, Harry” Draco smirked at what served as a declaration of undying love from the reserved man. Teddy mimed gagging.
“Great. I love you too. We’re bonded. I have magic again. Teddy’s feeling better. Severus, I never dreamed I’d have a family. After the War, I never thought I’d have magic again. In the span of twenty-four hours, my wildest dreams have come true. Forgive me for not questioning it.”
“Well, when you put it that way.” Severus, uncharacteristically, grinned. “So now what?”
“We go on”
***Finite***
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