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Trial by Fire	By : sazsazzel Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Snape Views: 37684 -:- Recommendations : 4 -:- Currently Reading : 4
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any of the characters associated with the books/movies and I never have and never will make any money from the writing of this story

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I'd like to say thank you to everyone who's reading and reviewing and I'm hoping you're all still liking it. As always and and all feedback welcome.

Kurai - what can I say but Mwwwhaaaaa! lol

unneeded - thanks again and hopefully you'll be satisfied with some of the answers in this chapter hehe

lemondropfan64 - I'm glad you like Fawkes, he's such fun to write and he can sometime get glossed over in quite a few stories.

Chapter 3 – The Morning after the Night Before

Fawkes flashed back into Hogwarts with a resounding crack startling Dumbledore, who was sitting at his desk sucking on a liquorice wand, so much that he fell backwards off his chair. Fawkes couldn’t contain the chortle that burst forth from his beak, he just loved scaring people like that. What most people didn’t know was that he could flash without a sound; he just chose not to and opted for the loudest and brightest flashes to annoy them and hopefully scare the crap out of them as a bonus.

“Damn it Fawkes! Must you always do that?” Dumbledore levelled a calculating look at him. “Where have you been anyway?” Fawkes just stared back and gave him the bird equivalent of the finger. Dumbledore huffed and went back to sucking his liquorice wand. Oh how he loved annoying that man! He gave one last little titter before tucking his head beneath his wing and drifting off to sleep, dreaming about the fun that would happen tomorrow.

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Nearly 12 hours later finds the mated pair curled around each other on the grass in Severus garden. You might assume that they would be freezing after spending all night outside. But you should never assume because that makes and ass out of you and me. Sometime during the night they moved into a more comfortable position and Harry wrapped his new wings around them both. The wings apart from providing shelter against the elements also provided warmth. Not just a normal warmth, no, a warmth that seeped into their very bones.

Harry was the first to awaken, or at least he thought he was. He slowly blinked his eyes open dispelling the sleepiness from them. Harry couldn’t remember having such a good nights sleeps in his entire life. Stretching to get the kinks out of his back caused him to freeze. Remaining still, he tried to take in his surroundings. Well, he was out side, not too odd for him as he’d often slept outside to escape the Dursley’s. Oh, wait a minute, he was naked and outside, this was new. There was also something heavy on his back. He slowly turned his head and immediately got a face full of feathers. Oh bloody hell! Just what I needed! I have fricking wings!!! He tried to control his breathing when he noticed the most important fact his sleep addled brain had overlooked. He was outside, naked, with wings and on top of an equally naked Severus Snape. Who was looking at him with such burning emotion in his eyes and reaching a hand up to tangle his fingers through his blood red hair. Wait a minute! Since when has my hair been RED! Severus started to gently stroke Harry’s hair and he began to calm down and lean his head into the touch, causing Severus to smile at him. My god, he’s gorgeous when he smiles, Harry thought.

Severus of course had woken up first, but due to his life as a spy he trained himself to be able to appear to be asleep, right down to his breathing. From Harry’s point of view, Severus appears to be taking their situation like a walk in the park. This is far from the truth however. Let’s just say that he had a mini mind freak out but not even a muscle twitched on his hansom features. His mind ran through all the possibilities of what had happened. It didn’t take him long to understand or except what he saw as inevitable. He was actually going through how they would have to make the bond official and openly declare themselves as mates before they returned to Hogwarts when Harry began to stir.

Just before Severus woke up a visitor soundlessly flashed into the garden ready to observe the pair. Now Fawkes was nosey by nature, so he was constantly eavesdropping on other people’s thoughts. It was a source of much amusement for him and this time proved not to be an exception. For a very powerful wizard he thought Severus was quite unobservant at times, especially when they concerned him. The silly human doesn’t know that they are already officially bonded. And that had nothing to do with Fawkes being there to officiate as bonder, absolutely not. This thought caused more sniggering from the bird, he nearly fell of the branch again. He was really going to do himself some harm if he wasn’t careful, it wouldn’t be permanent damage of course but it would bloody hurt! But back to the matter at hand. All that was needed was one kiss witnessed by the bonder and the bond would seal itself. Ohhhhh, here they go!

Severus could feel Harry start to panic when he noticed his wings, it made his heart ache and he just had to comfort his mate. It was a deep seeded need within him to care for and protect his submissive. Ooooo I’m the dominant, cant wait till Harry figures that out, he thought with a smirk on his face. He reached up and ran his fingers through Harry’s hair, marvelling at how soft and warm it felt in his palm. Harry closed his eyes and let out what he could only describe as a purr while leaning into his hand. He couldn’t take his eyes off Harry’s luscious lips that were just begging to be kissed. So he treaded his other hand in Harry’s locks and gently eased him down till their lips met in a languid kiss.

A crack and a wave of power emanated from them as they kissed. It caused them to jerk back in shock and then hiss in pain as a spiral of runes appeared at their elbows on their left arms and wind its way down their arms till it ended a the tip of their ring fingers. Then platinum bonding bands materialised on both their ring fingers on their left hand. The rings were exquisite, both sporting a ruby and emerald between the Potter and Princes coats of arms.

Severus gasped in pain as his dark mark boiled and melted off his arm. He lay back on the ground trying to get his breathing back under control while Harry stoked his forehead trying to sooth the pain. Just as the pain subsided Harry shrieked in pain clutching his head. The scar of his forehead split open and black smoke billowed forth from it. Severus did the only thing he could think of, he pulled Harry into his arms and held him as if his life depended on it.

All the while Fawkes watched this with interest. All humour gone from him now. He just witnessed two very surprising and two very welcomed side effects of the bond. It had overridden ALL previous bonds. For Severus this was his dark mark and for Harry it was the Horcrux embedded in his scar. At least that was one problem fixed rather simply as it was the last remaining one. The only one Dumbledore hadn’t managed to destroy and was planning on sending Harry off to sacrifice himself to destroy. The bumbling old fool.

As the pain ebbed away Harry was left shaking in his mate’s arms. Eventually when the shock of what just happened wore off they parted slightly, but still kept quite a lot of skin on skin contact. This didn’t go unnoticed by an irritating bird. Severus entwined their hands and brought them to his lips as he kiss each ring in turn, admiring their beauty.

“Sev…?” Harry whispered uncertainly. He didn’t have a clue what was happening and hoped the older man would.

Severus glared at him but there was no real heat behind it, he could feel Harry’s confusion. “It appears as if we have official bonded as mates after you gained your creature inheritance. Although I have no idea what you inherited or how the bond was made official without a bonder…” he trailed off. Just then a happy trill could be heard and a feeling of smugness washed over them. Severus whipped his head round to find Fawkes sitting on a perch on his oak tree. He was singing with his wings wide open and swaying back and forth like he was at a concert or something. Daft bird, he thought.

Harry giggled looking at Fawkes, “Looks like we’ve found the bonder Sev”

“Stupid pigeon” he muttered.

Harry looked slightly deflated at Severus “Are you angry we’re bonded? I-I thought you were happy?”

Severus looked Harry in the eyes and could see the moisture there starting to gather before Harry broke eye contact. How could his mate ever think that? Didn’t he know how much he cared for him? Obviously not if he had to ask that question. “Harry? Luv? Look at me, come on.” He took Harry head in his hands and turned him so he was looking right at him. “I love you Harry, have for a while, I couldn’t be happier now we’re bonded. I just thought we could have planned the bonding ourselves rather than have that irritating parrot do it for us, that’s all” Harry smiled at him before he launched at him and stole a breathtaking kiss before murmuring, “I love you too Sev” Severus growled at the use of the nickname but all Harry did was smirk and kiss him again.

Fawkes flew down and landed next to the happy couple. He preened himself before announcing his presence to the distracted pair. Well it wasn’t everyday you got to meet the Phoenix Lord now was it?

To be continued…
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