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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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Lucius must’ve thought Severus looked to be in pain because he pulled out the potion bag. No one saw the rat slip the fabric between the slats of the bench where it sewed itself to the bottom of the bag.
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James looked at Severus apologetically as they walked out of their last class before dinner, “I really didn’t mean to-“
“This can be discussed later.” Lucius commented calmly though you could tell that the words ‘without any witnesses around’ were there despite being silent.
Remus seemed to notice the hidden threat and gave James’ arm a sharp nudge hoping he’d stop digging his grave deeper, “That was nice of Professor Slughorn to start approaching the werewolf subject.” He commented trying to change the subject before James said something stupid again.
Sirius grinned, “True, but I wonder why he’s saving the whole lecture for tomorrow and why has no one said anything to straighten it out before.” He asked, wondering why his dear friend, Remus, had to go around with that ‘dark creature’ stigma.
“Everyone is probably worried about bringing up the war.” Severus suggested thoughtfully, and it made sense. He was pleased that Slughorn deliberately didn’t hint that there was a werewolf in the school. It might be too soon to bring it up. “It’ll be a sensitive subject for those who lost people they knew.”
“That does make sense.” Remus commented sadly. The more werewolves dragged to Voldemort’s side means the more deaths related to werewolves even if it isn’t during the full moon nights. It’ll just make accepting creatures that much harder. “Whoa … you ok?” He asked once he noticed Severus stumble on a step. Of course, both James and Lucius moved to help, but the healer was closer and quickly caught the younger Slytherin.
Severus nodded as he leaned against Lucius, “Yeah … some pain came out of nowhere … I need to sit down.”
“That’s perfect actually. I do believe there’s a bench just around the corner.” Remus said as they slowly traveled along.
Lucius was relieved to see a bench and helped Severus over, “It’s a little crowded right now.” He commented as many other students eagerly rushed past them to get to the Great Hall. “Can you three run ahead and tell the professors that we’ll be a little behind? We might even skip the meal if the pain continues.”
James nodded worriedly, “Of course!” James said and he started walking away with Sirius and Remus, but he suddenly stopped. “Oh. If you don’t make it by the time the food comes, do you want us to bring anything?”
“Something to drink.” Lucius answered sharply knowing that Severus needed something. They can easily have dinner in the dorm, but he didn’t want Severus to be even weaker from thirst and hunger as they went down there. “And something light.”
“Ok! Be right back!” James said and they left.
Severus watched the three Gryfinndors run off, “It’s not that bad. Just give me a minute to rest and I’ll walk the rest of the way. Besides, the hall isn’t crowded now.” Severus pointed out and the halls were definitely empty now meaning everyone was in the Great Hall.
Lucius hummed thoughtfully, “While I’d love to believe you I know you tend to make your pain seem less present than it really is.” He commented as his silver eyes looked at Severus carefully. Of course, he spotted the subtle twitches of pain and the possible flush from over exerting himself. “How about I humor you for a minute and just pretend that you only need fresh air because you pushed yourself too hard. Then I give you a pain reducing potion, ok?”
Severus scoffed, “Fine.” He muttered knowing he couldn’t hide anything from Lucius.
“‘Oh, don't look so annoyed. You just look cute.” Lucius said in amusement despite feeling the younger Slytherin’s pouty glare on his back as he went towards the window. With a nice cool breeze brushing their skin Lucius walked back to the bench. “Just a pain reliever or do you need anything else?” He asked, wondering if the breeze was enough to help the light flush on Severus’ cheeks or if a fever reducer was necessary.
Severus sighed, “I should be fine with just a pain reliever. The breeze helps.” He said as the cool breeze gently brushed past his face.
Just to be sure he looked at the flushed cheeks. It looked like the flush was already going down so he pulled out the bag. The bag grew to its natural size in his hand and he set it on the bench. Without any hesitation Lucius opened the bag and pulled out the potion vial that looked like the desired pain reliever.
The silver eyes watched as the potion moved in the vial as it was tilted back and forth, “Yes, it’s the pain reliever… for a second I thought the cap looked different. Here you go.” He said as he pulled off the cap and gave it to Severus.
“They served hot chocolate!” James exclaimed from just around the corner. That hot chocolate comment definitely caught Severus' attention and he quickly put the vial against his lips.
“James, slow down!” Remus could be heard saying along with Sirius’ snickering as their footsteps were heard coming towards the Slytherins.
Lucius sighed as Severus downed the potion, “Not even one moment of peace-“ he froze as he heard a snap and Severus screamed in pain. “Severus! What-“
“Not a pain reliever-ah!” Severus screamed as a rib could be heard snapping.
Sirius, Remus and James immediately rounded the corner and were about to help. However, out of nowhere both Lucius and Severus were blasted off the bench. Lucius was slammed through the very window he didn’t open meaning glass went everywhere. While Severus collided with the wall before crashing to the ground.
“Severus!” James exclaimed in horror. In one fluid motion he put the hot chocolate on the bench, grabbed the potion bag and kneeled next to Severus. “What happened?!” He asked as Remus ran to help Lucius and Sirius ran to the Great Hall to get help.
“Potions swap-“ Severus screamed as another snap was heard.
Without a second thought James started grabbing potions. One by one he popped the caps off and looked down in the vials. It seemed odd, but it was a method Patty rammed in their heads and for a good reason. After all, a potion can look different through glass. Perhaps the glass vial is tinted or it’s dirty. No matter the reason it can look off and an incorrect identification can be made because of that. Patty taught them to open the vial and look directly at the potion and James never felt so thankful than right now. With that one lesson he quickly learned that a few potions weren’t even recognizable and he found what he wanted in only a few seconds.
The Potter heir opened the fifth vial and looked in, “Pain reliever!” He yelled, but he heard another bone snap. Severus’ screams of pain prompted him to hurry up so he poured the potion into his mouth. He locked lips with Severus and used his tongue to push the potion into the Slytherin’s mouth. “Is that better?” James asked while quickly wiping some tears away. He was only vaguely aware of a squawk and the footsteps of two people running away coming from down the hallway, but he didn’t let that draw his attention away from Severus.
“Yes.” Severus said weakly.
Lucius was bleeding from a deep gash on his head, but as Remus helped him back through the window he looked at Severus, “Give him a blood restorer.” He ordered despite his own wounds.
James immediately located a blood restorer and repeated what he did before. He didn’t move from Severus’ side until help came. That, of course, didn’t take long, but there was far more than just healers headed their way.
Gill stepped up once the healers began moving Severus and Lucius to the infirmary, “What happened?”
James pointed at the bench, “Severus needed to rest so we went to get something for them to eat and tell the professors. As Remus, Sirius and I came back we heard an explosion and they were both on the ground. When I went to help Severus he said the potions were switched … and I heard two people running away.” He said as he pointed down the other hall.
Gill and the three Aurors with him examined the bench and bag, “Perfume. Follow it.”
Lucius glared at the bench. The only reason there’s a fresh trail is because someone was moving. Only someone small could sit under the bench without him noticing. Someone like a rat called Peter.
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Peter was cowering under the bench. He was inches away from being discovered by Lucius. Just because the Malfoy was a Death Eater doesn’t mean he’s safe. After all, he believed that Lucius didn’t know he was a Death Eater too.
Unfortunately, the rat knew he had to move now. With Remus, Sirius and James headed his way and no idea what Lily planned Peter was sure he didn’t want to be there. That’s why he started edging away from his hiding spot. However, right when he took his eyes away to make a run for it he spotted Lily poking her head out from around the corner. Something about the way her lips were moving made him nervous.
In an instant Peter saw a faint glow above his head. Once he looked up he noticed that the peace of fabric was unstitching itself from the bag he just put it on. As the fabric fluttered to the floor Peter heard Severus scream in pain. It was then Peter saw Sirius, James and Remus run around the corner and knew he had to leave. However, once he started running he saw the fabric glow out of the corner of his eye and a blast sent his furry butt flying down the hall.
In a pain filled daze Peter slowly got up. He looked down one side of the hall where he saw Remus, James and Sirius frantically trying to help Severus and Remus. Then he slowly looked in the other direction and saw Lily smirking. Suddenly, he snapped to his senses and made a literal mad dash for Lily.
Peter quickly shifted into a human and grabbed her arm in a very tight grip, “What the hell-“ his pissed off whisper was cut off when he saw her face look horrified and heard her squawk. He immediately turned around to see if someone was headed their way, but only saw James kissing Severus and just rolled his eyes as he dragged her away. “After that we need to leave. Where’s the ankle monitor?” He asked as he ran as fast as he could while dragging a slightly shocked Lily with him.
“In my room.” Lily muttered as her mind tried to wrap around what she saw. “James kissed …”
“It looked like he was putting a potion in him. Now hurry.” Peter hissed and just when he considered ditching her she started running with him. Of course, he didn’t relax until he got her through the one eyed witch’s statue, through the passage, out of Honeydukes and Ino a floo. “I think we’re safe, but someone was definitely running after us.” He panted after flooing them to the safe house. They seemed to lose their pursuers at the statue, but he was too scared to look back and check.
“Good.” Lily said indifferently and sat down on a chair. She seemed to be deep in thought. Since Peter was too annoyed with her he decided to ignore her and finally take a break for some much needed rest.
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Nicholas and Sebastian raced out of the floo and into the infirmary at Hogwarts. They saw Minerva, Horace Slughorn, James, Remus and Sirius standing near a curtain. It was easy to see dozens of healers behind the curtain. Those healers all seemed very busy trying to save one particular person.
“What In Merlin’s name happened?! How is Severus and Lucius?” A very worried Nicholas asked just as Poppy came out from behind the curtain with a healed Lucius. “Lucius, are you ok?”
Lucius scoffed, “I’m just annoyed that I let it happen at all.” He muttered as he sat down.
Poppy sighed, “Severus is being taken care of. Well know what’s going on in a minute. Now don’t blame yourself.”
“She’s right. No one could’ve seen that coming. Not with these tricks.” Everyone turned to see Amber carrying Severus’ bag into the room. She first tilted the bag to show a square shaped line of tiny, yet noticeable, holes. “We already know Lily uses stitched runes after finding her family members’ wallets and one in her throat.”
Sirius cringed as he subconsciously rubbed his throat, “Her throat? Ouch.” He said with a disturbed shiver.
Amber nodded, “It’s definitely a drastic maneuver. In this case a stitch rune was put on the bag. It held homemade potions, which the runes transferred into the bag and blow up on command. It’d be very hard to spot the potion imposter because of another trick.” She explained as she put the bag down and opened it up.
The Auror held up an empty vial. With a simple water spell she filled the vial. Everyone could see the water go into the vial. However, once in the vial it looked like a pain reliever potion.
Sebastian scowled, “I’m torn between calling it a poor brewing practice and thankful she did that. Using magic on the glass must’ve greatly lessened the impact of the potion.”
“It did.” A familiar healer, Mathias, said as he came out from behind the curtain. “He’ll be fine. Only 9 old bones re-broke, which sounds like a lot, but not in Severus’ case. The wounds from the blast were already healed. Anyway, we removed what we could of the potion that caused this terrifying effect.” He said as he handed Amber a tube of said potion. “Severus is asleep and his bones are mending. I’d recommend bed rest for a week. That can be here or at home.”
“Home.” Nicholas said with a look at Minerva.
Minerva nodded understandingly, “Of course.”
Gill walked in the room, “That’s wise. I don’t think he should come back until the secret passage Peter and Lily used is closed up. Any hole big enough for that rat will be closed off before Severus returns. I’ll see to that myself.”
“Thank you, Agent Jackson.” Sebastian said gratefully and went with Nicholas to see Severus.
Lucius noticed a few things in that instant. The first was the way James, Sirius and Remus glanced at each other when the passage was mentioned. A nagging feeling told him to ask Potter about it later.
The second thing the Malfoy noticed was that Gill specifically said ‘that rat’. Now he did tell Gringotts about Peter. If Gill knows, does that mean Gringotts and the ministry are all after anything connected to Voldemort? He remembered the minister being at the trial for Severus so is it even deeper than that? Do they have a plan? In fact, where was the rest of Gill’s team? Lucius distinctly remembered more than one Auror chase after the perfume trail. Also Gill mentioned the secret passage. If they know then did they go through it?
Third, Lucius was curious about where Dumbledore was right now. The headmaster loved those moments. It was a chance to play the wise old know it all and manipulate the situation. The real Dumbledore wouldn’t pass this up.
“Lucius.” The Malfoy’s thoughts were interrupted and he looked up at Minerva, who leaned close. “We’d like for you to continue helping here. Besides, when Severus returns he will need help.”
Lucius nodded, “I’ll help however I can.” He said and his mind went back to running wild.
However, Lucius also started thinking about what to do at the next report. What should he say to the dark lord? If his story doesn’t match Peter’s then someone was going to get hurt …
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