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The Price of a Soul	By : dark-huntressmoony Category: Harry Potter Crossovers > Slash - Male/Male Views: 3098 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
- 1-The Price of a Soul
- 2-I
- 3-II
- 4-III
- 5-IV
- 6-V
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V

Severus stood as Hannah Longbottom walked over carrying a tray and he took it and set on the table and pulled her chair out for her. “Thank you for meeting with me Mrs. Longbottom.” Severus studied her, her dark blonde hair was pulled back in a messy bun and her dark brown eyes were still as warm as he remembered of the woman when she was a student at Hogwarts. The years had been kind to her and he noticed the swell of her stomach, his abilities letting him know that she was with child, hers and Neville’s second. Her thoughts hummed pleasantly through his mind and he slowly shut them out.

She smiled kindly and sat down, “it’s no trouble Auror Prince. I feel awful that someone died around here, and someone so well loved too.”

Severus tilted his head, “so you knew the victim personally?”

She nodded, “he was a regular, came in four or five times a week sometimes alone or sometimes with friends. His name was Luke Short.”

The Dark-Hunter nodded as he pulled out a notepad and a self inking quill and wrote down the name. “Can you tell me anything specific about him?”

Hannah sighed, “I don’t know what I can tell you that I haven’t already told the other Aurors.”

“I’m looking into a different angle, trying to see if there’s something that they missed you know? Besides being here on Minister Potter’s orders I tend to have to do what I am told.” He heard the snort from his headset and had to school his face to hide the annoyed twitch in his eye when it came to dealing with Belladona.

“Yes of course, Harry did send along a Patronus telling me that you would be here and to give you my full cooperation. I really am glad that Harry became Minister after everything that happened, he’s really done a lot of good.”

Severus nodded, “yes he has. Now then, do you know what Mr. Short did for a living?”

“Well he wasn’t part of the Ministry if that’s what you’re asking. He’s not an Unspeakable or an Auror. He was a toy maker, had this cute little shop just down the street from George Weasley’s shop. He specialized in toddler type toys, things that younger children played with. Stuffed animals and the like.” She took a drink from her tea, “it’s a shame that he passed, I loved his stuffed animals.”

“So he was skilled in Charms magic?”

“I wouldn’t say skilled, he actually was a terrible wizard. Could barely do any house hold magic, just shy of being a squib I think.”

Severus blinked, his brow furrowing. “Are you sure?”

“Very, he’d been coming here the last six or seven years. He really was a sad man, his wife left him because he couldn’t have children, he wanted a family but because of some weird birth defect he couldn’t so he made toys instead. He loved bringing smiles to children’s faces.” She sighed softly, “I’m going to miss him around here, he had just given me a new special toy for the baby.”

Severus chewed over the information, “can you remember if there was anyone strange hanging around the Cauldron that night? Anyone that looked out of the ordinary?”

Hannah shook her head, “no not that I can remember. Oh wait a moment, yes there was something kind of strange, a really good looking man walked in, but he wasn’t a wizard.”

“Was he a muggle?”

“No, you know this place has the wards to keep Muggles out just like any other Wizarding building.”

Severus nodded, “right of course, can you describe how the man looked?”

“Like I said, really good looking. He looked like he could have been related to Draco Malfoy for all I know. He was tall, really tall, easily six-six, maybe six-eight young looking too, mid-twenties at best. Muscular, blue eyes, a very pretty shade of blue too like the ocean, and white blonde hair, he distracted every female customer I had in here that night, even some of the men.”

“Did you see any tattoos of any kind on him?”

“Actually yeah, I thought they were pretty. Inside one of his wrists was a weird tattoo, it was some kind of sunburst with some kind of dragon or some kind of phoenix. It was kinda hard to tell I only saw it for a minute maybe two. He also had pink tear drops on the top of his left hand.”

Severus suppressed a flinch as Belladona swore up a storm in his ear and he tried to keep his mind on the interview. “And he just came up to Mr. Short?”

“Yes, he was a charmer too. Luke was a man practically starved for some kind of romantic tie. Sure he had a few friends but he wasn’t romantically involved with anyone, he wasn’t the best looking guy if you know what I mean. I served them a couple drinks and then they left, the next thing I know Luke turns up dead in the alley next door.”

Severus nodded as he finished his tea and put his quill and notebook away in his robes. “Thank you for your time Mrs. Longbottom.”

“I really hope that you find the bastard who did it, Luke was a nice man, he didn’t deserve to die.”

Severus nodded as he left the pub and slipped into the alley to head back to Harry’s home. Once he landed he heard Belladona thundering down the stairs, he canceled the glamor and voice charm and walked into the hallway to meet his Squire. “So what do you think?”

“I think, we are in a world of trouble.” She said shaking her head, “I looked up that tattoo Mrs. Longbottom described, well after describing it to Otto and boy you did not want to hear the words that came out of that man’s mouth, made me blush.”

Severus moved into the kitchen with her trailing behind him, “so what did you find?”

She hopped up onto the counter and swung her legs, “well first off the tattoos, the pink tear drops are normal in Apollites and Daimons, they represent family memebers who chose to die at 27 rather than take a human soul to extend their own life. Not a bad one, kinda sweet when you think about it, Cassandra has five in the shape of a flower on her palm.”

“And the other?”

She sighed as she typed on her tablet and pulled up the picture. “This is what she was describing. It’s a mark of a Spathi.”

Severus drew in a hissing breath as his skin prickled, he braced his hip against the counter as he took her tablet and read the short passage on the Dark-Hunter website. He looked up as he heard Harry walk in and felt his breath catch in his chest. He must have just gotten out of the shower, his chest was bare and he was wearing a pair of silk pajama bottoms that hung low on his hips and a towel slung over his shoulders.

“What’s a Spathi?” Harry asked.

“They are the elite of the Daimons.”

“Compaire them to the Dark lord’s inner circle.”

Harry sighed as he scrubbed at the side of his head with the towel. “So what makes them so dangerous?”

Belladona sighed, “we don’t really have a lot of information about them. Even Urian is tight lipped about them. He may be on our team now but he refuses to give up any information that isn’t on a need to know basis. The most we have is that they are usually some of the older ones, around the time when they were given the secret to elongating their life. Here’s the kicker, even if we ice one of these fuckers they can come back. There was one case a few years back, nasty son of a bitch, his name was Desiderius and he was after the Hunter family.”

“What happened?” Harry asked.

“Well the first time around Amanda and Kyrian were able to kill him, we thought that was the end of it but it wasn’t. later he came back and went on one hell of a killing spree in New Orleans. Took over the body of one of our guys, Ulric, and killed Amanda, Kyrian, Amanda’s sister Tia, Kassim, and Cherise Gautier. He was stopped, but the price was high, we lost two good hunters, and two good women that day. Tia and Cherise were good women.”

“But what about Kyrian and Amanda?”

“Oh they came back to life, all because Ash has a soft spot for them and their kids. He also owed them. Anyway, back to the Spathi. If it’s them doing the hunting you can bet we have bigger problems than a little Daimon activity.”

Severus nodded, “I agree, have you informed-”

“Already talked to and checked in with Dragon, Squid, and Xander and they are all on alert. I also sent out feelers with Otto so he can look into it because apparently Otto kept the lovely secret that we also have ties to every other Ministry of Magic in the world and they are sending out Dark-Hunters to the other two schools here in Europe.”

“Durmstrang and Beauxbatons?”

“Yeah those are the ones. Anyway this just went from a simple recon to we better gear up and get ready because wherever Spathi are…”

“Gallu and Stryker are bound to fallow.” Severus finished rubbing his eyes tiredly. “So what’s our next move?”

“We can’t do anything more tonight until we have more information. Otto said that the orders for the Squires were to bunker down and keep in contact. Rumor mill has it that Ash is popping around.”

“Yes I am, boy you guys just like to stumble into the shit piles don’t you.” Ash asked as he strolled into the kitchen.

Harry yelped and drew his wand, his heart thundering in his chest. “How the bloody hell did you get in here? This place is warded.”

Ash smirked pushing his sunglasses back up his nose. “I don’t quite fallow the rules. Anyway, good work for finding out we have Spathi on our hands Severus, keep on your guard and make sure you check in.”

Severus glared at the taller man, “I never forget to check in. What else can you tell us Ash?”

“You know I can’t do that, rules and all that jazz.” Ash tilted his head and vanished from the room making Belladona and Severus groan.

“So as usual Ash is pretty much useless and we are back to where we started.” She shook her head as she hopped off the counter. “I’m going back to do more work with Tyler, Bry, and Carl, maybe some of the other Squires have heard something. I don’t know what’s happened with other Dark-Hunters in the states but maybe someone’s got something.”

Severus sighed, “it would seem so. I’m going to go do my rounds and then we can figure out our next move.” He watched her make a gesture over her shoulder before turning to Harry. “Harry?”

“yes?”

“Can you get me those files on all the people who have died like Luke Short?”

“Yeah, yeah I can do that. Be careful out there ok?”

Severus couldn’t help but smile as he tapped the earpiece in his ear. “I’m always careful, I didn’t survive for twenty years as Dumbledore’s spy to be taken down by some punks in leather.” He walked over and brushed his fingers over Harry’s cheek. “Don’t worry about me, I know how to take care of myself.”

Harry took his hand and pressed it to his cheek. “Are we going to continue what we started earlier when you get back?”

Severus smirked, “we shall see about that.” He dipped his head down and pressed a soft warm kiss to the younger man’s lips before sweeping out of the kitchen.
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