Severus looked down at his hands, his were holding another's. Pale-the golden tint gone, the tan gone. He frowned as he rubbed the smooth nearly lifeless skin. The soft scars faded but there for his eyes to focus on.

His frown deepened as he looked up to the face that held no emotion or awareness. Just a calm sleep.

"He will be fine." Poseidon spoke gently. "He is filling out what has been done and healing. Both mentally and physically. So that when he wakes...he will be fine..."

"What if he isn't?" He asks his brows furrowing deeper.

Poseidon looked the man over, the way he held his sons hand as if it was a lifeline to the way the creases seemed more permanent by the second. The way his eyes didn't ever stray far from Percy. To the agony of worrying over him settled deep into his eyes.

The god of sea sighed. "Then you will be there for him. All gods...go through this-it always helps to have someone there when they wake up though." He patted Severus' back roughly. "Though...if you or Tom hurt him in anyway...you will not like what happens."

With that the old Greek left a paler then normal pale Severus to stew in the silence created.

Tom then walked in with a tray of food, looking tired but he felt better then he had in years. He smirked happily at Severus who melted internally.

They may hate-despise what happened. But it couldn't destroy their love for each other. Or how Severus was actually a big softie to those he loves. Or to how Tom Riddle was a dork. It wouldn't change who they really were...and all thanks to Percy they were themselves again.

Severus supposed it was fates doing-though Percy would try to disagree-that Percy came into their lives, had taken care of their son and was their mate all in one go. How he also saved them, made them the way they used to be, cleansed them in a way.

"What?" Tom asked as he sat next to Severus, handing the man a cup of water. When he was given a raised brow red eyed rolled. "You just scoffed. You thought of something either funny-or irritating."

"Just thought that he really is a god." He spoke with a shrug then sighed as he checked the time. "Speaking of the time-and what is irritating. I have to go back to Hogwarts before I am missed."

Tom stopped him from leaving. "At least eat first." He shoved the man back down, putting Percy's hand back on the bed after taking it away. Though he wanted to hold the mans hand just as much as he needed to let go for a moment.

The professor sighed and rolled his eyes at his mate. Before he took the sand which that was handed to him. As Tom sucked on a blood pop.

"Do we know when he will wake up?" Tom asks as he sets the tray down from off his lap and onto the nightstand. Leaving him standing over Percy.

Who was in their care till said otherwise.

They still couldn't get ahold of Sirius and Remus. And they worried by the day. Even if Severus hated Sirius-it still worried him that the man wasn't responding when they needed him. For Harry. For Percy.

"Stop." Tom sighed as he knelt before Severus with a frown on his usually calm face. "Stop worrying over everything."

"I can't!" Severus burst out. "I can't not worry! Cause so many things can go wrong and everything could be taken away from us the more time passes! Don't you get that? The more answers aren't coming means he's ahead of us!! It means he's planning something-or he's done something while we're here doing nothing!" Severus growled when Tom took his hands and took his face to make him look at Tom and not at Percy. Who layed so still sometime she thought he was dead if it weren't for him breathing softly against the sheets. "We can't do anything...." He whispered trying to keep the sting out of his eyes.

"We are doing everything we can..." When Tom said that his face relaxed some and he smiled at Severus who huffed in his seat to like the angsty teen he once was. He laughed lowly as he stood and kissed Severus on his head. "And we will be doing a lot more, I agree. We've been sitting for to long my love, my little bat-" he laughed when Severus hit his stomach at the pet name. "Don't worry...just wait and play the game for now. Because as soon as we can-we'll be cursing the man in a torture chamber for the rest of its life."

Breathing in Severus nodded. "Okay. Keep me in the loop though...I want to be there every step of the way Tom. I mean it."

"Of course, now...you probably should finish eating and get back. Your students must be awfully worried." Tom smirked and urged him to finish.

The man grumbled and did what he was told all the while speaking of Dundee heads and prats that made him even more  endearing to Tom.

Once the cave bat left, through the floo and back to Hogwarts to report false claims to the old headmaster Dumb bore. Tom turned to Percy. A frown marring his lips-red from his own snack.

He wondered why he felt so sick for years and worried over death-it was because he wasn't eating what he was supposed to as a vampire in nature. He cursed the name of Dumbledore once more in his head before he turned back to the man in the guest bed.

The black hair was sprawled all over the silk pillows, messy and wild. To the pale skin against the red. Which didn't do much but make him worse. He wished so deeply to see those eyes again. The ones that made his breath stop from atop the stairs.

Tom closed his eyes, and remembered the night when he was sitting in his office, doing paperwork-then feeling the apparition wards. To smelling blood-and yet it didn't smell like any blood he ever smelled. It smelled of salted Carmel. Then he realized what more he was smelling along with it-a pheromone much like his mate Severus'. How it ignited that fire.

The way he ran in. To see the ghost child helping as much as his form would allow. To Severus looking at him with knowing.

To the way those large sea blue-sea green-it didn't matter. They were both or one. All he cared for was how he looked at him. How Percy smiled at him softly even while hurt and how utterly beautiful he was to him.

His eyes opened to look at the long lashes closed and unmoving. He bit his inner cheek and sighed. "Don't worry Jackson, we got things here until you're ready...and I will show you I am a good mate...sleep well." Awkwardly he took Percy hand and left a warm kiss to it before leaving the room to let him rest.

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"Who would have thought-a masquerade party! For Halloween! We get to dress up-no houses for the night. It's perfect!" Hermione gushed as she helped Harry with his hair.

"Mione-calm down." He laughs as she twirled around him happily.

She smiles at him through the mirror in the bathroom they were occupying. Luna on the tub watching with a happy smile, holding her mask as she was already ready to go. "I'm just happy I one upped Dumb Headmaster Bore."

"I still can't believe it." Ron said as he leaned in the doorway. During the year-he was told and started to believe them more and more. Happy Percy was back-and worried for Harry if Dumbledore ever found out about the boys creature inheritance.

Wings ruffled up, Harry turned his head only to have it snapped back into the position Hermione had to keep putting him into. "Right? I'm so proud of you Mione. But still calm down-I don't need to look like a great piece of art for a ball-"

She rolled her eyes. "Of course you do! Don't you know what this means-you get to couple you with Draco-without anyone knowing who you two are!"

Ron gagged-though he stopped when Hermione gave him a glare and warning with a flick of hair gel. "I mean, yeah that'll be great." He said unimpressedly.

All the while Harry blushed red as an apple.  "Right..." he was kinda happy-they'd be able to hang out.

They didn't get much as mates before school-and Harry still had some forgiving to do-as Draco has some convincing to do.  But otherwise they both longed for each other deeply with the mate bond in place. It just made it harder when they were school and acting that they still hated each other.

Neville told them it was time to go and Harry couldn't help the happy smile that came to his face as he put a black mask over his face. His wings and such out as it was a costume event-and it was nice to have them out.

He wasn't the only one with wings either-some fake-some spelled to look real-which made him fit right in.

Chatter and music filled the air. Treats of all kinds floated on trays and whisked around. Sometimes getting bumped by others in their blindness. The room was dark-the great hall lit with candles in the air and the roof spelled with the starry ceiling.

About an hour in and looking for Draco-Harry nearly gave up before he found himself pulled towards a corner-and he recognized the smell of the brown haired male immediately-it was Draco disguised of course.

Draco led them from the corner, and out of the great hall-without saying a word-before pulling them into a abandoned classroom and locking the doors.

"Draco?" Harry spoke worriedly as the boy looked over him with a frown. "What is it?"

"Why do you tempt me so?" He responded, his eyes roaming over the tight top-a crop top, with loose to the knees shorts. Black-showing off how shimmery his skin was now. All the while Draco himself was in a modest suit.

Harry was confused before his eyes looked down to where he was looking and blushed a little. "It's simple-and Hermione suggested it."

Groaning the taller male stepped forwards, his silver eyes piercing from behind his gold mask. "Yeah-shes getting jinxed later." He spoke casually.

And before Harry could argue with him about it, he was being kissed-though the masks kept getting in the way so they were quickly ripped off just as he was set onto a desk. "Oh wow..." he tried to breath before he made a noise of surprise when a warm mouth was over his throat and warm hands holding his bare sides. Making him shiver.

"Mm," Draco smirked against his skin. "Harry..." he stopped-paused really. Before kissing softly on the boys ear. "I hate that I can't hold you like this every moment of the day-Harry, I love you..."

Harry gulped as he pushed Draco away to look into his eyes and search to be sure the boy was telling the truth. He smiled so wide it was breathtaking for the Malfoy. "I love you too-though I'm still not going to apologize for the nose break." He grinned cheekily.

Draco rolled his eyes and laughed. And smiled unlike anytime he had done. With just the two of them, he was more comfortable doing so. "Of course."

With that he kissed Harry softly and the wizarding hero kissed back.

It was a night they'd remember-for being a time of great happiness between them.

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