*Aaron's POV*

At Hogwarts, I have a room all by myself. My door is locked and I am currently laying on my bed while drinking from a bag of donated blood. The blood tastes better than any other blood I have ever had. After I finishing it off, I dispose of it and lay there on my bed while thinking about why the blood tasted so much better than anyone else's blood. Then, my vampire side butts into my thought process.

'The blood was from your mate.' My vampire side tells me. I lay there in shock until my inner vampire growls at me. 'Go find our mate now!'

'But how? The blood bags never have the blood donor's name on it.' I reply, getting depressed.

'Go talk to Dumbledore! He should know!' He growls back at me. I perk up and undo the wards on my room. I clean myself up and run out my room. I run all the way to Professor Dumbledore's office. I give the password and run up the steps. I bang on the door until I am told to come in. I enter and stop in my tracks. At that moment I see Professor Snape, who is the potion master and the Potions professor, and Professor McGonagall, who is the Deputy Headmistress and the Transfiguration professor, sitting opposite of Professor Dumbledore. I smell the scent of my mate's blood and let out a sigh. The smell was intoxicating. It smelt like chocolate, fire, potion fumes, and cinnamon. Finally, I know who my mate is.

I close my eyes and get lost in the blissful smell. I follow the smell to be standing right behind Professor Snape's chair. We look each other in the eye and both of us are put in a trance. I hear someone speak a few different times. I hear someone approaching us, which snaps me somewhat out of the trance. I snap my head up to see Dumbledore approaching us. I let out a warning growl, pick Snape up, put him behind me, and get in a defensive crouch.

"Mr. Lefay, what are you doing?!" McGonagall asks, getting up and trying to approach us. I let out another warning growl and she stops moving towards us, too. I move us to a corner and work on calming myself down.

"I believe I just found my mate," I say quietly. Arms wrap around my waist and it calms me down even more.

"Student-teacher relationships are not allowed here, Mr. Lefay," Dumbledore says. I let out another growl.

"Mine," I quietly repeat while in a trance like state. I finally snap completely out of my trance. I glare at them. "You will not keep me from my mate! I can't control who it is! Plus, I'm of age and there's nothing you can do to stop me from staying with my mate." My green eyes start to become black.

"This is my school," Albus bellows. "You will listen and obey me as I am your headmaster!" I scoff. I gracefully walk over to him and get in his face.

"Then, I guess you've never heard of a demonic living vampire hybrid," I spat out at him. He pales drastically. I continue to glare at him. "I'll consider that as a no. You have and never will have any control over me. I might abide by all of the other rules, but I refuse to follow this one. If you try to take my mate away from me, I will kill you, which I can legally get away with it. I recommend being careful when around me if I were you. You cannot separate us. If we are separated, both of us will die and it would be all your fault. Albus, I want you to leave my mate and Harry Potter out of this oncoming war, too. Harry may only be almost 9 years old at the current time, but I know what you have planned. If what you plan to happen in the 2nd war happens, I will come after you. Do you understand me?" I end with a growl and he nods his head frantically. "Good."

I go back over to Snape. I look over and down at him to see him scared. I take his hand in mine and smile down at him, which he slowly returns. I lead us out of the office and he lets go of my hand, which make me frown. He wraps his arms around my waist and I drape my arm over his shoulders. I guide us down into the dungeons and to his, now our, quarters. He gives his portrait the password and we walk in. The quarters was perfectly cozy. They weren't too depressing, but not too cheery either. I lead us over to the couch. We talk about everything while sitting there.

"Aaron," he says, looking down at his shoes. I lift his head and give him my full attention. "You should know that I have only loved one other person." He looks into my eyes to detect any anger, but found none. "Her name was Lily. She would always defend me whenever I was picked on while we were both students here. By the end of our 6th year, she hated me for something I had accidentally said in front of her. She never forgave me for it and now she's dead." He starts crying, so I pull him into my chest. "She was my only friend and she hated me." I work on calming him down, which he slowly does. When he was done crying, I pull his head away from my chest to see his face. I wipe away the lingering tears.

"Severus, I don't care who you have previously loved," I tell him. "As long as there is a chance that you love me, I'll always be here to love and protect you. I won't push a relationship with me onto you. I'll wait for you for as long as it takes." He nodded frantically.

"Aaron Lefay, I have suppressed the feelings I have for you ever since the very first time I laid my eyes on you," he says. "I thought that I was going to have to win your heart. Since I'm now aware that I'm your mate, I know that I won't have to win your heart. I know that I already have your heart and you already have mine."

"Thank you, Severus," I say. "That was very beautifully said." I give him a short, searing kiss. He tries to deepen the kiss, but I pull out of the kiss. He pouts at me. "We will continue with that kiss later tonight. We have something else to discuss." He nods and gives me his full attention. "I know Harry Potter is being abused by his relatives and I know that it will only get worse as the years pass. If you are okay with it, I would like the boy to come and live with us as soon as possible. What do you think?" He gives me a grimace.

"I don't like the Potters, though," he whines. "Harry will turn out to be an arrogant prick just like his father was when we were in school."

"Severus, his father may have been an arrogant prick, but that doesn't mean that his son will be," I say. He nods his head for me to continue. "No one is an exact replica of one of their caregivers. Both of the child's caregivers are what makes that child who they are and what they will become in the future, including their behavior and actions. Every child turns out differently than their guardians, even when guided. It depends on what the child wants to do with their life."

"I guess you're right," he sighs in defeat. "We could go get the boy now."

"Who would watch him while I attend the rest of my classes and you teach?" I ask.

"He can come to class with me," he says. "I can entertain him while the students are working." I nod at the idea. I give him a short kiss and get up. I pull him up, being stronger, faster, and taller than him. He stumbles and almost falls to the ground. I steady him before he could actually fall. We smile at each other. I take his hand in my mine and lead him out of our quarters and to the apparition point. I pull him close to me and apparate us outside of the door to Number 4 Private Drive, Little Winging Surrey. I tuck Severus into my side and he cuddles into me. We smile at each other and I give him a short kiss. I knock on the door only to hear a man yell, "Get the door, boy!" The door was opened a minute later by a small, shaking boy in dirty, too big of clothes. I bend down to his height.

"Are you Harry?" I ask. He nods his head, but starts to shake violently.

"Who's at the door?!" the same man bellowed while coming to the door. The boy launches himself at me and tries to hide from the man. I stand back up, picking him up. He hides his face in the side of my neck. "Who are you and what do you want?" He sneers at us.

"I am Aaron Lefay and this is Severus Snape," I introduce. "We are here to adopt Harry Potter and take him far away." I conjure up the papers in one of my hands while it was behind my back. "All I need is you and your wife to sign these papers and to get the rest of Harry's stuff." He gladly let us in and leads us to the kitchen, where his son and wife was sitting at the table, eating their breakfast. I hand him the papers for them to sign, which they sign quickly and hand the papers back to me.

Then, they lead us to the cupboard under the stairs. They open the door and I can see a small bed and not much else in there. I control my anger as I hand the small boy to Severus, which the boy snuggles deeply into Severus. I sit down on the lumpy bed and gather what little things the boy did own. I conjure up a backpack and put everything in it. I stand up and they slam the door shut, which nearly misses Severus's fingers. I suppress a growl at that.

I tuck my boys into my side, glaring at the Dursleys for the last time, and apparate us all back to Hogwarts. We quickly walk to the Hospital Wing. When we get there, Severus lays the boy on a bed and tries to comfort him while I went to search for Madam Pomfrey. I find her finishing up with another student.