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A Master's Servant	By : Sayan Category: Harry Potter > General > General Views: 3076 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, nor any of the characters from the books or movies. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.

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Disclaimer: Neither These old Shades by Georgette Heyer nor Harry Potter by J.K. Rowlings belong to me, I just play with them so don't sue me, it is just for fun and not for money.

Note: These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer is one of my favourite books but I don't have it at hand now and I will make take some liberties with the plot anyways, please don't be angry. This is unbetaed because experimental. And my mother tongue isn't English but I will do my best. Tell me what you think of it, please. I couldn't resist putting Sev into Justin's shoes
Justin Alastaire: Severus Snape
Leonie Bonnard: Harry Dursley (Potter)
The rest...you will see!
Chapter one: In which Severus Snape buys a gutter rat.
London, Late September 1996
Knockturn Alley wasn't a place one should enter unprotected, especially if you look like the ideal target for pickpockets and other bounty hunters, cutthroats and whatever lurked in the shadows of this part of the city. But the dirty street with the crooked and unsafe looking houses had something to outweigh its dangerousness: certain etablisments which would never be found in the more socially accepted areas of the city. Goods of every sort could be found here and only here. You just have to know where to look for them and the money (or quick fingers) to afford them. The same applied to the services offered. From a simple or more exotic fuck with a common female or male whore to a bought assassin there was everything available.
It wasn't surprising that many hidden eyes followed the tall man who made his way around the garbage and abandoned crates that littered the ground. He was more gliding than moving and there was no wand in his hands. The hood disguised his features only an energetic chin and thin lips could be seen whenever one of the spare laterns penetrated the shadows obscuring the face.
What a fool. Calculating glances weighted the worth of this potential prey that acted like it would promenade down Diagon Alley, completely oblivious to the danger he was in. He didn't display any expensive accessories or a fancy robe, on the contrary he wore only black but the cutting of robe and cloak cried: money. But there was something else, something that kept the creatures of the night at bay like rats that sense the company of a snake and tried to hide.
A small body suddenly leaped out of the doorway and collided with the rich gentleman. And naturally the lurking audience turned a blind eye to the on goings. Cries for help were very unlikely to be answered in this part of magical London, more likely they would wait and see what they themselves could make out of the crime. But this time the scavengers were disappointed. The black clad wizard spun around and forced the much smaller attacker on his knees, bending and holding the wrists of the culprit painfully. The hood glided back and revealed piercing dark eyes under heavy lashes and a very prominent crooked nose.
Severus Snape was on his way home and he wasn't really in a good mood. He was bored. There seemed nothing to lighten the boredom he suffered and this little encounter only angered him more. And it wasn't even a skilled criminal he could use to let off steam. The hurt sobs and pitiful trembling body made him feel like HE was the one doing wrong. The shaking figure tried desperately to escape his hold but couldn't bring up the force.
"Please Sir, please let me go! I would have never...sir. Let go, I beg you..." A curtain was opened somewhere on the first floor of the nearest building and a faint glow illuminated the strange pair. Green eyes shone desperately, searching for mercy in the stony face above.
"He will catch me and..."
"You are clearly to young for this profession, little gutter rat." An elegant eyebrow rose in a detached sort of amusement. "Did you honestly think that you could overpower me? With no wand and no muscles."
"Let me go! He will get me-"
"He? Another victim?"
"My brother. Oh please..."
Another pull to free himself was made unsuccessfully then the small frame shrank in defeat. The boy tried to vanish between the folds of Severus' cloak. Was the little gutter rat insane or did he try to offer compensation for the attack in form of his unwashed body?
Someone should tell him that sweat and the stench of the gutter was no good ground for business. Soiled goods literally.
Heavy footsteps and heavy breathing disturbed the relative silence. A bulky man, he had nearly no neck and it was a miracle how fast he could move his frame, was sporting a whip in one and a broken dish in the other. Between puffs of breath he was grumbling something unpleasant under his breath.
"Sir, have ye.... There ye are, ye useless freak! Tried to run, didn' ye? Tried to rob this fine gent even. Spawn from hell ye are."
Snape had let go of his captive's wrists but the boy made no attempt to stand up, on the contrary he was clinging to his sleeve like a drowning man.
Beefy hands grabbed for the green-eyed boy and more accusations were shouted. Rather wetly so, Snape noted disgustedly. He gave the newcomer a once over and then pulled out his handkerchief to block the smell that assaulted his sensitive nose. Now not only the stench of unwashed human body but the aroma of cheap alcohol could be smelled. A really off-putting person indeed with his big moustache and the pig-like eyes- And interestingly a fair contrast to the lithe frame of the boy and his delicately boned face as far at it was visible under all this grime.
Interesting indeed.
A lot of pained yelps and some struggle and extensive swearing later the red faced man managed ot hot hold of the boy and began to retreat in direction of the doorframe, stuttering excuses to Snape, assuring him that the boy would get punished severely for his crimes.
"He won't attempt it again soon, sir. I'll see to it."
"A good beating will do the boy good."
Tearful green eyes stared back at him.
"Spawn from hell this one is, like I said. Took him in and brought him up out of the good of my heart and he repays me with nothin but troubl.. Lil' bastard..."
"If this is indeed the case you will be open for a - bargain to both our advantage. Is he for sale? How about one Knut for him. Do spawns from hell have a price actually? Interesting question." There was bored tint to the sophisticated voice.
This clearly got the man's interest and little eyes began to shine calculatively. "In fact I am rather fond of him, he's family and much more worth than a what have you said, a Knut?"
A sweaty hand patted the mop of dark greasy hair not very convincingly while the other clenched the back of the boy's shirt securely. The young face looked up distrustingly. Both missed the slightly surprised flicker in Snape's eyes.
A shirt. No robe on either of them.
Could it be?
How was it possible for them to even be in this street? There were numerous repelling wards and spells on the borders.
Unless...
"This boy is your brother? He looks nothing like you. How old is the boy? He seems to be very small. And- " He hold up his hand commandingly at the man who crept nearer stay away from me, you are an affront to my senses, I can see you clear enough where you are now." The fat guy blubbered apologetically and bowed.
"As ye say. Small? That' normal for him, he was always a small lad, I fed him liberally but ye know, boys of his age are bottomless pits. He turned sixteen this summer. Quite a hard worker. Me and me wife love him to bits."
"Bits. Literally I presume."
The calculating grin grew more prominent and rather suggestively. "And in some quarters me would make quite the bounty for offering his services if ye get what I mean." Teeth stumps, yellow and black, made their appearance under the moustache but he sobered up quickly under the hard stare that was sent his way. The third part of the party looked rather clueless. Then he yelped.
His captor had pulled him upright and was presenting him to the gentleman, even pulling the boys tattered cloak away to showcase the meagre body. The boy was blushing but there was a hopeful flicker in his gaze.
"How much do you want for this pitiful excuse of a human being?"
" 3 000 pounds."
" Then keep him." With an imperious swish of his cloak he turned around and attempted to walk away, not reacting to the stuttering opponent.
A tug at his cloak stopped his retreat. He looked down at pleading green orbs. "Please sir, take me with you, I will serve you well."
"You don't even know what you are offering to me, aren't you?" Slender fingers circled the youth's chin and turned it upwards, studying it closely. "No, you obviously don't know."
"Sir?"
"I am clearly a fool but nevertheless..." Snape turned to the waiting red faced man and after some rustling of fabric held out his palm. Golden cufflinks with sparkling diamonds were offered to the stunned older man who rubbed his eyes and came closer.
"Haven't I you you to keep your distance? To make it clear: for these precious jewels I buy your brother's body and soul. Does our bargain stand?"
"Yeah."
A nod and the cufflinks were lightly thrown in his direction. "Go back to were you came from and you boy-" A careless wave in the youths direction, "follow me little rat."
And without a look back to make sure that his newest possession was following him, Severus Snape left Knockturn Alley.

TBC
Please review! First I want to make it a Draco/Severus, it would have made more sense in the looks department. People who know These old Shades know what I am talking about. But IMO it wouldn't have worked as well in the chemistry and behaviour direction. Draco as a submissive and naïve servant? Highly unlikely.
Second note: One reason for the pairing might be that I am a HP/SS shipper normally I wouldn't write Harry having a sexual relationship with Sev as a teenager but for this fic it works.
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