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Blood Quill Consequences	By : EarthandWater Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Snape Views: 31160 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 5
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WARNING: VIOLENCE and DRAMA
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Anguis hissed at her guardian as he was about to pull down another book from the shelf in the old library with carvings of the old ones on the bookcases. They had been down here since waking and it was far past time for rest. "Guardian needs sleep. Not more reading."
Harry blinked and realized how late it actually was. He had taken refuge down in Salazar's library to get away from the hearts, candy and all the couplely stuff. He wasn't exactly in the mood for Valentine's Day with Snape gone with the Death Eaters. "I'm sorry little one, we'll go back to the tower." He placed the book back on the shelf and turned out the lights. "Are you hungry?"
"No I found some plump juicy mice not long ago. Nest now." The basilisk gave an exaggerated yawn.
"Good, go to sleep if you want to, I'll go straight to bed myself." Harry picked her up and wrapped her around her neck as he slid into his invisibility cloak and slunk up to the Gryffindor tower, he still didn't want to run in to anyone so he quickly got ready for bed.
Anguis made a happy hiss to be up against the warmth of her guardian. Dungeons got cold. After her guardian had slid under the covers she slithered to curl up on his chest contentedly, falling into a light doze.
Harry tossed and turned in restless sleep, his Occlumency barriers weakened by his worry, his scar ached and he was covered in cold sweat. His mind was invaded with images, horrible scary images of Severus chained to a cold and dirty floor. Lucius Malfoy standing over him with a smirk on his features and blood dripping from the silver snake head on his cane. Harry tried to cry out but he had no voice, he couldn't do anything except watch in horror.
A silent scream left his throat as black robes billowed and he saw Voldemort himself stand in front of Snape, grabbing his hair and tilting his chin up, showing what a mess Snape was, bruised and bloodied but not broken. Lucius returned with a bottle and Harry caught whispers of Veritaserum as they forced Snape's mouth open and forced the potion down his throat.
Harry woke screaming.
"Harry!" Hermione hovered worriedly at his side, Ron and Neville just behind her. Harry's familiar had fetched them and brought them here just as he sat bolt upright screaming. "What is it?"
"He's got him...Oh god Voldemort has him, he knows..." Harry's eyes were wild and unseeing and he was breathing harshly, voice hoarse from screaming.
She put her hands on his shoulders and made him focus on her. "Harry! Look at me!" She waited until recognition bloomed in his eyes. "Who does Voldemort have?"
Harry slumped against Hermione. "Severus, he's got Severus chained to a floor. They've hurt him, beaten him and the last thing I saw was them forcing him to drink veritaserum. They are going to know everything, Severus being a spy, Draco changing sides and Narcissa being with Sirius...They're going to kill him Mione." Harry's eyes were tortured.
Ron furrowed his brow, he understood that this was really bad news but he had never seen Harry this broken up about anything or anyone before.
Hermione inhaled sharply. She'd suspected that Harry had fallen for their potions master of course but seeing it was a punch in the gut when it was this tormented heartbreak. "Then we'll have to get to him before they do." She glanced over her shoulder at Neville. "Neville go get Pansy and Draco, they may have an idea where Professor Snape might be held."
"Right." He was out of the room like a shot.
The girl met her friend's eyes. "Harry we will not let him die. It will take time for Voldemort to question him about everything and I doubt even that madman will want to lose even the slightest bit of information that could prove useful. Veritaserum only compels answers to questions asked."
"I can't lose him Hermione...I can't."
Ron's mouth opened in a silent gasp of surprise when he finally got it. Harry and Snape...Snape and Harry. Ron couldn't wrap his head around it. Snape was so...old and grumpy and evil and...Snape. Picturing them together was not pleasant, it actually kind of made Ron's skin crawl but still as he watched his best friend looking so broken and so sad Ron knew that he would walk through fire to get the slimy old git back to Harry.
Hermione's voice was strong and firm. "You are not going to lose him. We won't let that happen." She straightened and looked over at Ron. "You two get dressed and get your wands. I'll do the same and then we'll head to the common room."
Ron nodded and coaxed a nearly catatonic Harry out of the bed and made him get dressed in worn jeans and a soft sweater.
"Come on Harry, get a hold of yourself. Turn on the hero powers, we're going to save him but it won't work with you in this state. Pull it together." Ron didn't want to be cruel but Harry really couldn't afford to fall apart right now. Harry glared but then gave a soft sigh and nodded, he knew that Ron was right.
The redhead got dressed too grabbed his wand and the two of them made it down to the common room as quickly as they could.
Anguis was already down there waiting and she slithered up to curl around Harry's neck, hissing comfortingly to him
Neville came in followed by Draco, Pansy, and Luna as well. He took a look at the two boys dressed and nodded. "Be right back." Then he dashed up to the dorm room to toss some clothes on himself and grab his wand.
Pansy moved over to Ron, somewhat pale and worried. "Neville said that You-Know-Who has Professor Snape. What's going on?"
"Well Snape's been a spy for the Order of the Phoenix...The good guys for the longest time, now it seems as if he's been found out and You-Know-Who has him captured." Ron whispered quietly to Pansy, trying to fill her in.
Draco was pale and tense. Snape was his godfather and he cared more about the man that he did his father. Snape had been the one he could come to with all his troubles and questions.
They were told the short version of Harry's dream and Draco tensed even more. "Chained to the floor you say...I think I know where he is. He's at the manor, that room has daddy dearest written all over it."
Hermione settled the hip bag she'd brought down with her more firmly around her waist, her jaw tight and eyes positively infuriated. She'd like to have free reign to hex Lucius Malfoy into oblivion. "What's the best way to get in and out then? I somehow doubt Lucius is the only Death Eater about there so we'd better be ready for a nasty fight."
"The manor is unplottable and heavily warded, besides this place it's probably the most secure place in Britain." Draco sighed. "As long as father hasn't changed the wards I should be able to get us in. The best bet we have is coming by air, maybe we can make use of our animagus forms too."
Ron raised a hand. "And the ones that doesn't have any animagus forms, what about us?"
"As I said, by air...I hope you all have your brooms ready." Draco had started to pace around the room.
Harry was very quiet and still but he was listening intently to everything that was being said. His whole being called out for Severus, and he would get to him even if he had to tear the manor apart brick by bloody brick.
Pansy frowned. "I don't think the brooms will be fast enough. What else could we fly?"
Luna stepped forward. "Why don't we ride the Thestrals? They are fast and they can carry our weight without problems."
"Thestrals?" Ron asked questioningly.
"Yes the horse like creatures that pulls the carriages from the Hogwarts Express to the school." Luna nodded.
Hermione nodded. "Right. Hagrid had a lesson on them remember Ron. You and I couldn't see them but Harry could. So we take the Thestrals. We really don't have time to make a long complicated plan so let's keep it simple. We are just going in to get Professor Snape and then get out as fast as we possibly can. No doing anything stupid that might get us killed, captured, or hospitalized. And no claiming vengeance," she pinned Harry and Draco with a stern look, "In and out. Got it?"
"Got it." They both echoed and eyed each other warily causing Ron to chuckle despite the seriousness of the situation.
"Then let's go." Harry said, he was antsy and he just wanted to get going. "If anything happens we'll just have to wing it along the way. We can't afford to lose anymore time. Severus doesn't have much time left."
Hermione nodded sharply. "You've got the Marauder's Map? Filch may be busy interrupting the trysts all over the school but we need to get out of here fast and I don't want to risk him waylaying us."
"I've got it right here." Harry waved the the parchment in the air. They looked at it closely so that they would be able to avoid Filch as they made their way out to the forest where the Thestrals' were.
They all crept carefully through the castle and out through a secret passageway and then ran to where the Thestrals were pinned up. Hermione and the others who couldn't see the animals had a bit of confusion on where and how to get up on them but Luna, Harry, and Neville helped them before mounting a Thestral each. The creatures spread their wings and took off into the sky, somehow knowing precisely where their riders wished for them to go. They landed not far from a horse paddock outside a large manor and dismounted, creeping as close as they dared risk without fear of being caught.
Hermione looked around at them all and nodded before turning to Draco and whispering. "Alright you're up. Be careful."
Draco nodded and slipped forward, he was fairly confident that Lucius hadn't altered the wards. If he had they wouldn't even have made it into the paddock. Lucius was power-mad and paranoid, he liked to have have his back free and know he was untouchable.
He made it into the antechamber from a back door and managed to alter the wards so that the alarm wouldn't go off for any of the Hogwarts students. Draco wasn't a Slytherin for nothing. Of course the wards was only one of their problems, the Death Eaters patrolling the manor was a much bigger one.
Draco sent a patronus to Hermione to let the others know that the wards were down.
It didn't take long for them to slink into the antechamber and join him. Neville looked around nervously. "Any idea how many Death Eaters are here?"
"I don't think it's too many." Luna answered. "Not if you think logically, Lucius is still trying to keep up good appearances in front of the ministry. My guess is that it's only You-Know-Who's personal guard."
"Oh well...lovely." Neville looked decidedly green.
Hermione grimaced. "The best of his rats. Well we'll just have to try to avoid them and go for a quiet hex when we can't. Draco where's the...erm dungeon?"
"Why in the basement of course...Where all the dungeons worth while are placed." Draco was feeling nervous and on edge and reverted back to snarkiness. "The door that leads down there is located in father's study."
"Oh that's just great, that will make getting down there so much easier." Ron's voice dripped with sarcasm.
Pansy's lips twitched despite her nervousness. "Let's quit nattering on and get to it then. Draco you know the way, start leading."
Draco rolled his eyes but started to lead them down the lavish antechamber and into a winding corridor. The mansion was surprisingly light and airy for a place that held so much dark magic. It was huge and empty, it didn't seem as if anyone was actually living there. To Draco it was as if all personality of the house had disappeared along with his mother.
They made it to the study quickly and they all snuck in the on quiet feet.
Harry was going crazy, he was in the same building as Severus and he still felt helpless. He knew this was the way to go but that didn't stop his urges to draw his wand and just blast his way to Severus, consequences be damned.
Hermione brushed her hand over Harry's shoulder as Ron locked the door quietly behind them all, offering silent comfort and also a reminder to keep control. She whispered to Ron, Pansy, Luna and Neville, "You four stand guard here in case one of the Death eaters tries to get in. If that happens send a Patronus to warn us." She looked at Harry and Draco. "We'll go down. Draco can you deal with Lucius if he's still there while Harry and I get Professor Snape unchained?"
Tensing a bit Draco nodded, he would have to deal with Lucius sooner or later so why not just get it over with. "I'll do my best." He replied with a stern nod.
The others nodded too, taking up positions where they could guard the door and be prepared if someone was to enter. "Good luck and don't do anything stupid." Ron called to the three of them that was going down to the basement.
Hermione looked at him with a brow raised as if to say 'Stupid? With me there?' "Same to you Ron." She nodded to Draco and then the three of them crept down the cold stone stairs, along a corridor, and paused, leaning against the wall just beside a stone archway. Voices echoed from the chamber and Hermione shivered as the cold, not-quite-sane voice of Voldemort hissed clear as crystal.
"So you've been Dumbledore's since I announced which child I would kill. You, my most loyal, faithful servant turned your back on me. For what Severus?" The twisted parody of a man reached down and traced his fingers along the cut that had lay Snape's cheek open, coating the corpse gray fingers in crimson. "For a worthless mudblood?"
Severus, despite being bloody, bruised, chained to the floor, and in obvious pain from the numerous torture spells used on him, lifted his chin stubbornly. "For a friend I knew you would not spare."
The snake-like man sneered. "A friend Severus? You call Lily Potter a friend? A woman who turned her back on you? Who, using your allegiance to me as an excuse, refused to forgive you for a single insult spoken in a moment of bruised pride and pain? Even after you put aside that pride to literally beg her forgiveness? A woman who chose to become the wife of a man who had tormented you thousands of times without cause? A woman who became a dear friend and confidant of a man who nearly caused your death? Who even years after your argument still refused to forgive you? You call that a friend Severus? One worth going through this," Voldemort gestured at the battered potions master, “to protect her son? You’re protecting the son of a cruel mudblood whore, not a friend, my dear Snivillus.”
Snape inhaled sharply and spat at the Dark Lord, blood tinged saliva splattering on the freakish cheek. “You can and will go to hell, Tom Riddle. Tell me how many of the others know that you’re a halfblood who never even knew magic was real before Dumbledore showed up at the orphanage?”
A venomous hiss came from the Dark Lord. "Insolent traitor!" He whipped the back of his hand swiftly against Severus' wounded cheek, the crack echoing sharply.
Harry tried to rush forward instantly but Hermione and Draco held him back. He wanted to get to Severus, wanted to get him out of there so that he wouldn't be hurt anymore. Also his mind whirred with the things that was said about his mother. Was it really true? Had she shunned and refused to forgive Severus for just one mistake? Had she been that petty? Harry was losing faith in both his parents and it hurt, no matter that he had never known them it hurt to have his illusions crushed.
Draco nodded to a small niche just out of sight of the men in the dungeon and they quickly made their way to it, still with a firm hold on Potter to keep him from rushing forward.
Hermione looked at Draco and lifted her wand, angling her head toward Lucius. Then she gripped Harry's shoulder and made sure both boys were looking at her before mouthing 'Wait until I have a clear shot at Voldemort.' Once they'd nodded, she turned her attention to the scene before them again. Lucius stood watching Snape bleeding on the floor with a disgusting smirk on his face that made her want to hex him herself but she'd leave that to Draco. Then she spotted something slither out of the corner of her eye and nearly cursed out loud when she saw a humongous snake looking in their direction. Their time had officially run out.
Voldemort shifted just as Nagini began to hiss something at him and Hermione flicked her wand, "Reducto!" sending the vile bastard flying into the stone wall.
"Stupify!" Draco shouted as he pointed his wand at his father and stunned him. Lucius’ surprised and angry expression gave way to a blank look as the elder Malfoy hit the floor.
Harry was firing spells around him, trying to get all the Death Eaters even as he made his way to Severus and cast an unlocking charm on the chains that bound him.
Hermione reached into the hip bag she'd strapped on and retrieved two phials, one which she threw down at the feet of a pair of Death Eaters who tried to charge them. It exploded all over the two and in a puff of yellow smoke they weren't Death Eaters any longer but turtles. The other she handed to Harry to give to Snape. "It's a mild Healing Potion, it’ll take care of his wounds enough that he’ll be able to walk with support." Then she ducked a beam of green light and cast a sectumsempra at a pair of other Death Eaters.
As soon as the chains had fallen off, Snape had tried to stand, hissing when his knee gave way from an earlier blow from Lucius' cane. The sudden assault on the Death Eaters had shocked him but not nearly as much as the sight of worried and near infuriated bottle green eyes. His voice was rough from screams and lack of water as he scolded his lover. "You realize I fully intend to plunge Gryffindor's house points into the negative for this stunt correct?"
"You can do that all you want as soon as we get out of here." Harry replied as he held on to Severus tightly, not willing to let him go even for the chance to take a shot at Voldemort. Snape was more important, he was the most important person in Harry's life. "Here, drink this." Harry handed Snape the healing potion after having uncorked the phial.
Draco had cast a rope charm on both Lucius and Voldemort binding them tightly but he didn't know how long it would hold them. "We should get out of here as quickly as we can." He called with a worried look to the bound dark wizards.
Hermione yelped as a Death Eater grabbed her arm then she spun and kicked him or her hard in the groin and added insult to injury by casting a stupefy curse on them. "No kidding. Ignis Deglubere!" The fire whips lashed out at several Death Eaters at once and gave Hermione the opportunity to grab another phial from her bag, throwing it to turn another group of Death eaters into newts that scattered like frightened sparrows. "Oh I hope someone drops them in a cauldron."
Snape drank the potion. "Hm adequate but it won't fix everything." He held out his hand and concentrated. "Accio wand." His wand flew into his grasp and he cast a powerful stunning spell at the remaining Death eaters. "Let's go, now."
"SWEET CIRCE!" Hermione's scream came at the sight of the large hybrid snake lunging for Snape and Harry.
Anguis suddenly struck from her coiled position around her guardian's neck, leaping forward off the youth and sinking her fangs into the freakish familiar of Voldemort. Being smaller she was able to dart away from any retaliation just before the other snake began writhing in pain. "Evil snake gives us a bad name."
Hermione dashed forward and scooped Anguis up. "Okay time to go. Draco help Harry with the professor and I swear if one more Death Eater pops out at us, I'm turning them into a rat and letting Anguis eat them."
Severus limped after the Gryffindor girl with Harry and Draco's support and chuckled in amusement. "I'm loathe to admit it but I'm impressed."
"Thank you little one, you did very good." Harry hissed at Anguis even as they made their way as quickly as they could up the stairs away from the dungeon and it's many threats. "You really didn't think that I wouldn't come for you right?" Harry asked Severus and Draco turned his face away to give them at least a little privacy.
Snape grimaced as his ribs protested the fact that he was moving. "I didn't think you would know what had happened. How did you?"
"Um...I've might have had a teeny little vision." Harry replied somewhat sheepishly. He couldn't regret that though, not when it showed him that Severus was in trouble.
They got up to Lucius study again and was met with four wands pointed at them as they opened the door.
"Ah good, you've got him. Now let's get out of here...This place gives me the creeps." Ron lowered his wand.
Hermione looked at the open study door and the Death Eaters either unconscious or incapacitated just beyond it. She frowned at four of the cretins who looked be tied up with..."Are those vines?"
Neville gave her a sheepish smile. "It's a small hybrid of Devil's Snare."
Hermione shook her head. "You, Neville, are one of a kind." She looked back at the three wizards just behind her, frowning in concern at the blood dripping down Snape's torso from a wound near his collarbone. "Okay, let's go."
They all headed out as fast as they could towards the paddock where the Thestrals waited. Neville helped Harry and Draco set Snape up on one of the creatures then went to mount his own. They all gotten on when they heard a furious roar come from the manor.
Pansy turned white. "I think that's our cue."
All of them nodded and motioned the Thestrals into the air, Harry was seated behind Severus unwilling to let him go even in the air. "I think Voldemort found his pet." He whispered in the potions master's ear as they soared through the ear towards Hogwarts as quickly as the wind.
"More than a pet I think. He's always been disturbingly close to that monstrosity." Severus kept hold of the Thestral with one hand but his other was stroking along Harry's arm, drawing emotional strength and a feeling of safety from the youth. "You are mad to have come but I am glad you did."
"I had to come, you understand that right? There was no way I could have left you there." Harry wrapped his arms tighter around Snape, being careful not to jostle or hurt the man more.
"Blimey, he really loves the git." Ron spoke softly to himself. He had accepted that Harry had feelings for Snape more or less but now he saw that his friend truly did love the other. He didn't really understand it himself but he would support Harry to his last breath, Merlin only knew that the kid deserved to love and be loved.
Severus turned his head to brush his lips against Harry's chin, a little fuzzy from blood loss and adrenaline rush, just enough not to care who saw. "I know. I would have come for you were our situations reversed so I know."
"I know you would have." Harry nodded and nuzzled the man's tangled hair. "Now let's get you home and up to Poppy so that you can be all fixed up." Harry nudged the Thestral to go faster and he was relieved when the ragged silhouette of Hogwarts came in to view. Snape had been growing heavier and heavier in his arms and Harry knew that Snape was fighting unconsciousness even with the pain potion he had taken. Days of torture were bound to take their toll.
Hagrid's eyes went wide when he saw the Threstrals and their passengers as he was putting some slop in the trough for the pigs kept for Hogwarts' feasts and he dropped the bucket and ran towards them. "Harry! What in the name of Merlin's pants are you...is that Professor Snape?!"
Severus looked wearily at the half-giant. "Hagrid. Could I impose on you to assist me to the infirmary?"
"O-of course Professor." He lifted the potions master with a gentleness that would surprise those who didn't know him and began striding towards the castle. "You lot take care of the Thestrals as you've taken them out then." He glanced down at his side where Harry was half-running to keep up with him but didn't ask what was going on. Not yet, it was more important to get Snape to Madam Pomfrey.
Luna watched them go and calmly picked up a raw steak from her bag and divided it to give it to the Thestrals as a treat for carrying them as they slowly walked back into the forest.
"Did you know that your girlfriend walks around with raw meat in her purse?" Ron asked Neville, looking just a little bit shocked.
Neville just smiled. "She likes to feed the creatures she finds and they're not all herbivores." He went to join Luna in feeding the Thestrals, leaving Ron and the others staring in his wake.
Pansy moved to snug into Ron's side. "Match made in heaven that I suppose. No one else would just shrug that off I think."
"You're right about that." Ron answered and wrapped his arm tightly around Pansy, he still looked a little queasy. "I'm glad they have each other." Ron kissed her temple. "And I'm glad I have you. You were brilliant back there by the way, that nose breaking spell was bloody amazing...And efficient."
She smiled. "You weren't too bad yourself. Had you held a sword in your other hand I'd have thought I was seeing Godric Gryffindor reincarnated."
Hermione chuckled at them and headed for the shed connected to the paddock. She assumed there would be blankets for the Thestrals in there and really, considering all the creatures had done for them this night they deserved to be warm at the very least. Once inside though she found herself slumping to sit on a bale of hay rubbing her shaking hands over her face as the adrenaline finally caught up with her. "God."
Gray eyes watched her from the doorway of the shed and Draco hurried over, knelt by her side and wrapped his arms tightly around her. "Hey, it's okay, we did it. You hexed You-Know-Who into a wall so forcefully that he passed out, that was fantastic." He rocked her slowly. "We made it out and Snape will be okay." Draco fell silent and just kept holding Hermione. He would never be able to go home again, his father was not the forgiving kind and Draco had raised his wand against him, that equaled a death sentence. It didn't matter though, or at least that was Draco liked to tell himself, they had gotten Snape out and none of them had gotten hurt...That had to be worth something.
She turned into him and slipped her arms under his to cling hard. "I know and I've known that the fight's been coming for a while, that why I had those phials but," she pressed her face hard into his shoulder, "we were lucky Draco and I am not about to pretend otherwise. All Voldemort's true best, aside from the little worm that is Lucius, are still in Azkaban and if that snake had noticed us sooner we wouldn't have gotten through this so lightly. That was a very lucky Reducto but he's going to be worse now." She leaned into him. "I'm afraid, for you and your Mum, for Harry and Ron and everyone else I care about. And oooh if he didn't have a reason to hate muggleborns before boy does he have one now."
"You're right, you're right about everything you say. I'm worried too but on the other side I think we scared him, now he knows that he can be beaten and I think it scares the crap out of him." Draco nuzzled her soft brown hair. "We'll make sure your parents are safe and the rest of us...We'll train and watch each other's back until this bastard is nothing but dust in the wind."
She closed her eyes and let his presence calm the storm shaking her inside and out. "I wish Barty Crouch Jr. wasn't just a soulless husk so I could hex him without feeling guilty." She sighed softly. "Whatever Voldemort does now is bound to be very very ugly but you're right. We'll see each other through it." She pulled back lightly so she could look at his face. "Once we get indoors we'll have to floo your Mum and Sirius and let them know what happened tonight. They'll need the forewarning."
Draco grimaced. "Oh Merlin, I do not want to have this conversation with my mother, she can be very, very scary you know." Draco rose and pulled Hermione up by her hands, it was time to leave the shed and return to the castle.
Outside Ron, Pansy, Neville and Luna were waiting for them so that they all could go to the castle together. Ron was just about to open his mouth and say something entire inappropriate about how they had spent their time in the shed when Pansy shoved her pointy elbow in his side and made him close his mouth again with a loud snap.
Hermione smiled in gratitude at the girl. "Come on. I know we've all got people to write or floo before we get some rest after tonight."
Pansy nodded. "Plus I want to check on the Professor. He looked awful when Hagrid took him. I've got a question though Granger."
The Gryffindor tilted her head in curiosity. "What is it?"
"When the bloody hell did he and Potter get together?"
Hermione saw Neville and Ron both nod in agreement to that question and her lips twitched before she burst into outright laughter. "Oh I needed that! I'll tell you what I know on the walk back. I first really noticed it on Yule night..."
The group made their way to the castle as she told them about the mistletoe kiss and other signs she'd noticed since that gave a rough point of when the two former antagonists had become so much more. She just hoped that Snape was going to be alright, there was no telling what he'd been through while down in that dungeon.
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