Hi, Some of you might have read this before but it got taken down from for too much sexual content. It is editted and back up, I should be fine this time.

For those who don't know this is a squel to one of my other stories THE CLAIMING. Something is killing off vampires, can Harry and Severus find out what it is and stop it before one of them dies.

CHAPTER ONE

Severus smiled as he woke up, for the first time in over a week and a half his mate was still in bed when he woke up. George was pregnant, Draco was panicking so Harry was spending most of his time trying to keep the blonde calm and monitoring George. He stroked one hand down the strong back then leaned over to nuzzle Harry's neck. It might have been over a week and a half since he had woken up with his mate still there but it had been over three weeks since they had managed sex as anything more than kissing.

Between the pregnancy, the ministry, problems at the sanctuaries and teaching they hadn't had a free twenty minutes together. Not only was it the weekend but it was also the Christmas holidays, he had plenty of time to have sex with his mate. He reached over and grabbed a tube of lubricant from the draw, not stopping from nuzzling Harry's neck.

Unfortunately his hopes of a nice slow romantic session or any sex session went out of the window when a very familiar and annoying sound echoed around the room. Severus found himself laying on his back, cold air playing over his naked front and his mate stood beside the bed, pulling a necklace off. If he didn't get to have sex with his mate soon he was going to to destroy that bloody sanctuary, kill Draco and his wife then burn Hogwarts down and kidnap his mate.

"Sorry Sev but they know only to contact me if its an emergency, as soon as this is over I am scheduling three days of just, you, me, a bed and blood. I promise."

Severus growled but stood up and dressed himself using magic, while his mate did the same, then looked at the hole in the ground and jumped. Severus made sure not to move so that he could catch his smaller mate when Harry emerged from the portal. If he wasn't going to get to fuck his mate any time soon he was going to spend as much time touching harry as possible.

Harry just smiled at him, wriggled down to his feet and took Severus' hand, "Soon love soon," Harry promised as they stared walking towards the sanctuary.

They were met at the edge of the wards by a young born vampire that Severus had had the pleasure of meeting before, 'Steph,' the older vampire said with a smile.

The young blonde smiled back, 'Severus, Harry, we have a serious problem, I was told to meet you and take you right there.'

'Lead away,' Harry replied with a smile and Severus squeezed his mate's hand, feeling the tension build up in his smaller mate's body. Harry gave him a squeeze back and a quick smile before he felt Harry's magic start to spread like tendrils checking the wards and magic in the sanctuary.

Severus kept all his senses spread as far as he could, emergencies were never good and normally involved fights with rogue vampires and other annoying things, especially when he would much rather be doing his mate. They soon arrived at a small house and Steph knocked on the door, it opened to reveal Zol, the unofficial leader and peace keeper of the vampires who lived there.

'What's wrong?' Harry asked split seconds before Severus could because there was obviously something seriously wrong, it looked like the other vampire (A vampire nearly twice Severus' age) had been crying. Fledglings rarely cried, a master hardly ever did, normally only the death of a mate or family would do it.

'Julian,' the vampire whimpered and Severus watched as Harry pulled from him and hugged Zol, allowing the de-facto leader to cry on his shoulder. Severus didn't feel jealous, he could feel the grief coming off the older vampire, he knew that Julian and Zol were a mated pair.

He manoeuvred the pair into the house and felt a wave of coldness spread over him, Severus knew it was Harry that led them into the bedroom. The Potions Master gasped and stared at the bed, Julian was laying on it but he wasn't there, he was dead.

'What happened Zol?' Harry asked as Severus found his arms full of grieving Vampire while his mate walked towards the bed. It wasn't just that Julian was dead, it was the fact that his corpse looked like a human one. When a vampire was killed their body reverted to the state it would have been in if they had died instead of being turned. For the oldest Vampires this meant their bodies turned to dust, Julian was young, only about sixty years old but he should have been more corpse like (rotting and such stuff) rather than just sleeping deeply.

'Alex left about two weeks ago, he said he couldn't stay here knowing you were mated. He had waited for you to come around but you never did. Three days ago Julian got an owl from Alex, Julian left me note and went off to see his brother. He came back last night, distraught and in tears, Alex had died, Alex had been dead by the time had had arrived and it had been Alex's neighbour I think to tell him the news finally. He was too upset to tell me more so I just held him and knew he could tell in the morning. When I woke up he was dead.'

Severus absent mindlessly stroked the crying vampire's hair as he watched his mate approached the body, running his hands over the body. No over the body was wrong, his hands were a few centimetres above Julian's body, feeling his aura, he Severus thought.

'Julian's biggest problem isn't that he's dead,' he looked up and Severus met those green eyes, 'He's dead and human.'

Chapter two

Severus stared at his mate in confusion, Zol had gone still in his arms and Harry was just staring at the body, "Pardon?"

"He's human, if you took him to , they would find he was human." Harry said something under his breath and then stood studying something that only he could see, "If they looked a bit deeper they would discover that while he died a human, he didn't live as a human. From what I can tell and this is just hypothosis, these reading make little or no sense, he went from alive vampire to dead human with no time spent as a live human. i am going to guess that the it was the change that killed him."

"But why would anyone want to make him human?" Severus asked, his mind still trying to absorb what was going on. He might not have known the vampire well but he got on very well with Zol, he felt sorry for the vampire still stood in his arms.

"Since the wizard was turned there have been other wizards trying to make them acceptable again. We need to find out where he went, where Alex lived and everything else we can. Zol I'm sorry but we have to go, we have to find out what is going on before any more of us end up dead. I'll have to take samples from his body then get rid of it, bury him as if he's a vampire but I don't want to have to explain a dead human to anyone."

Zol nodded and buried his face in Severus' shoulder as the vampire tried to calm him, Severus couldn't even imagine a world without Harry in it and had no idea how he felt. Harry removed a small box from his pocket and placed it on Julian's chest, he pressed a serious of buttons on the top then stepped back. The box glowed for about thirty seconds than then beeped and Harry picked it back up.

"Steph," he yelled and a few seconds later the young female came back in.

"Can I help you Harry?" She asked with a flirtatious grin, Severus growled low and hard, Harry was his mate, she gave him a quick look then her body language changed completely, backing away.

Harry gave him a small thankful smile then turned back to Steph, "I need you to find some of the elders, tell them that the body should be buried as if it was a young vampire. Don't bother with a coffin, just get him in the ground and decaying. I need you to pack up some clothes for Zol then take him over to Sean's and make sure Sean knows he is to stay there, no matter what he says.

"Lastly I need you too take this," he handed her a large black funnel he had just pulled from his pocket, "And run it over this entire room, it will pick up any out of place magical signatures, potions or anything else. When you have done every inch of this room, especially the bed and the clothes that Zol is wearing, tap it on the large end four times and say 'There is no place like Home', it will vanish and return to me. Can you do all of that?"

Steph nodded and took the funnel, slipping it into a pocket then walked over to where Severus was stood and took Zol from his arms. "We'll find out who did this Zol and it will get better I promise, don't do anything stupid," Severus said as the other vampire was taken out of his arms. He understood Harry's urgency, if something was turning vampires into humans and killing them, they had to stop it.

"We'll be back soon Zol," Harry said, "But first I need to take some samples from you."

"Whatever you need Harry, just find out what happened."

Zol stuck his arm out and Harry found a small black box in his pocket, different to the one he had used on Julian. Severus watched his mate press it briefly to the older vampire's head then give him a kiss on the cheek.

"I will Zol, I will," Harry promised and took Severus' hand, Severus squeezed his mate's hand as he pulled his necklace off again and then stepped through, Harry first. "Sev I'm going to need you to analyze the samples I've collected. I need you to compare the blood I collected against vampire Julian blood, then two other vampire samples," As they were talking Harry was leading him towards his young mate's lab, Severus had only been in it a few times and was actually quite excited about getting to work in it.

"Then I need the blood sample compared against three human samples, a wizard, a muggle and a squib. All the blood samples I have are in the red cupboard, vampire on the top shelf but all samples are labelled. Any potions you need should be already made, just tap the small green door with your wand and say the name of the potion, if it isn't already made, it should give you the ingredients."

Severus nodded as they entered the lab and Harry got out the box, laying it in the middle of the table.

"Other samples are kept in the yellow cupboard. I need you to compare hair and other samples with human ones, muggle. He had no magical ability so I need to know if there are any magical markers on him that the transformation may have left. I also want you to compare the sample I took from Zol to the one in the cupboard, do that first then the rest. Leave most of the blood in the box where it won't age but fill a small vial with blood and leave it in the open air so that it can carry on reacting. You will need to use Sanguismacula ( blood mark) and variations on it, if you need any help then there should be a book called blood potions on my shelf, green cover, top shelf. "

Severus nodded as the small black box joined the other one, he knew how the sample boxes worked, he had helped Harry make some only a few weeks earlier."Where are you going?" He asked, already thinking of potions he would need.

"I'm going to do the hard job, find out where Julian went and what Alex has been up to."

Severus returned his mate's wry grin, glad he had analyzing job and not the tracking one, he was decent tracker but nothing compared to his mate. "I'll get started, good luck," he whispered and leaned forward, kissing his mate gently on the mouth, pulling back before they got to deep, they couldn't afford to get distracted now.

"Sev I don't want to take any chances so please wear magical gloves and a mask, we don't know how it is passed or what it does."

"I'll be careful love, now go and I'll see you soon," Severus promised, "And as soon as we have a spare twenty minutes I am going to fuck you so hard you won't walk straight for a week."

Harry moaned then smiled, "I'll hold you to that oh mate of mine."

Severus watched Harry vanish further into his lair and returned to his samples. As requested he removed a vial of Zol's blood and left the rest in the bag, a simple "Tell me" potion along with a drop of blood from the vial listed all magical markers and over more biological things in the blood down one side of a piece of parchment. He did the same with a drop of blood from Zol's sample from the red cupboard on the other half of the page and put them to one side after a quick look, he couldn't see nay obvious differences.

Severus sorted the rest of the potions out before going any further, collecting samples from the red cupboard and laying them all out with a pieces of parchment, making sure to mark on the top of the parchment the number and name of the sample.

He knew that he needed four different variations of the potion Harry had told him about to get the best results. The variations he needed were ones to compare dead blood with vampire, wizard, muggle and squib. Three of the variations were already in the cupboard and for the fourth, the squib one, he was given a base and the other ingredients.

Severus smiled in glee as he made the potion, using all of Harry's best equipment, it was a dream come true. He had used it all before but this was the first time that he had done it on his own, and although he loved working with his mate, this felt better.

He didn't notice when Harry left their rooms and noticed his reappearance when the scent of blood interrupted him. He had finished the tasks Harry had set him and had been playing with one of his pet projects since. "They're all over there, labeled, this needs another thirty minutes then I can leave it for while."

"Thanks Sev, I'll tell you what I found afterwards. If you get a spare few minutes then do the test on Zol's blood again."

"Will do, love you."

Severus heard a chuckle and brush of lips on his cheek before the sound of the door opening then it shutting. He sank back into his potion, glad he had such and understanding mate and lover.

It was an hour rather than half an hour later that he left the lab but he doubted Harry had even noticed, his younger mate was sat in the middle of their living room with all the sheets spread around him. Harry was studying them all, a goblet of blood in one hand and chewing on his bottom lip between sips.

"Does it make sense to you?" He asked, he had had a brief look at the pages then put them down because it had made no sense to him. He sat down on the floor next to his mate, staring at the confusing papers.

"Yes, I spent a summer working at . I disguised myself so they gave me all the crappy jobs including deciphering blood samples for a week solid. Julian's vampire markers, all three of them are missing as are the other twelve nexus that would mark him as a vampire."

"Nexus?" Severus asked in confusion, knowing that he had to understand everything from the beginning or he would just get more confused and would be no good as a sounding board for his mate.

"All blood, no matter what is from, muggle, vampire, wizard, unicorn or house hold cat has twelve markers in their blood. Each of these markers are called a nexi and each of these nexi can have one of five classifications, Phobos, Deimos, Pan, Calypso and Titan. It is the combination of these that mark blood samples as what they are, they are the reason that the blood tastes different to us and other blood drinking creatures. There is one combination for each species and one combination only. Those are the marks at the top of the page.

"The next approximate twenty marks, the number depends on species and varies from individual to individual. Our three markers, the one that marks our taste, our master and mate are actually three pairs and even without the first twelve only vampires have those three pairs."

"So he isn't human?"

"No but I know what killed him, he only has thirteen other markers that aren't Nexi."

Severus stared at the sheet that Harry was holding, his mate had been pointing out the different markers as he had been going, 'Why did that kill him?' He asked.

"All humans, wizards, squibs or muggles need nineteen markers to work at their full ability, too many or two less give us humans with mental or physical disabilities depending in what marks are missing. The least markers I have ever seen anyone with and still be alive is sixteen and he was a vegetable, not even able to breathe for himself all the time."

"So how does a vampire loose his markers?" Severus asked as he found a more comfortable place to sit, which involved moving papers so he could lean against the sofa and pulling Harry to lean on him. The best bit of this new position was that he could smell his Mate's scent every time he took a breath.

'I have a theory," Harry teased out loud as he wriggled against Severus' groin, teasing in another way. Severus growled and pinned his mate still at the same time as he sank his teeth into the back of his Mate's neck, he didn't feed or make it sexual, he just felt Harry turn to putty under him before pulling them out.

"Later Harry once you have told me everything."

"Yes sir,' Harry murmured before seeming to shake himself and speak with more force in his voice, 'I think what ever happened to him it was definitely an attempt to turn him human but our inventor hasn't done enough research. I think the spell/potion/charm whatever it was is in two parts, the first wipes out all vampire markers, this includes both the Nexi and the three pairs then replaces them with human nexi. What our inventor didn't know was that their first part would remove six marks so didn't think to reform them."

"So it isn't a vampire then?"

"Maybe, I didn't know about the marks until you told me. If a wizard or witch, it must be a magical human as it is a charm or something like that and only humans can be turned. Well back to the point, if a witch or wizard was turned and their master killed before they woke up, like I did then they would have no way of knowing and would be green with no rights, they would want to be human again but wouldn't test it on themselves."

Severus murmured an affirmative as he nuzzled the bite marks he had left, it made sense. "But if isn't a vampire then it could be anyone."

"Any magical person, this was done with magic. The Nexi from his blood mark him as human and the remaining thirteen, the same ones he had as a vampire, could be anything. If st. Mungos got hold of the sample they would only check his Nexus and find he was human nothing else. But with these I can tell that he has magic residue in his blood. Do you have the second page from Zol's sample?"

Severus nodded and reached under Harry to pull the page out of his pocket, Harry took it and spent a few seconds reading it then frowned, "There is a magical build up in his blood that wasn't there earlier, I don't like it but there isn't enough to work with."

Severus nodded again and then started the serious business of seducing his mate, nuzzling the pale neck and raising his hand so that he could play with Harry's nipples. "I am going to fuck you so hard Harry."

"Now?" Harry asked, his voice unbelieving.

"Yes now, my potion needs another forty minutes and while I finish it you can tell me about your trip."

"Please," was Harry's only response.

Severus grinned as he stood and in one smooth movement threw Harry over his shoulder and strode towards Harry's office, he'd had dreams for weeks of taking Harry over his desk and for a quick fuck it was a perfect place. The older vampire threw his mate onto the desk and growled at the younger vampire to keep him in place. Severus grinned as Harry froze in place and he stepped forward to arrange the younger body as he wanted it.

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"Love you Harry," Severus murmured as he removed his fangs from the delectable flesh.

"Dead but luv ya too."

PART THREE : Alex's Apartment

Severus smiled as he looked at his potion, it had turned the right shade of green, smelt perfect and had the right consistency of slightly thicker then water.

"What are you making?" Harry asked as he took a seat on the bench beside where Severus was working, all the blood test sheets in his hand.

"It's a surprise for you."

"Okay."

"Well tell me what happened on you trip then."

"First of all I had find where Alex was living...

FlashBack

Harry stood in his private lab, he wished he could have stayed with Severus, he wanted to spend time with his mate but knew that Julian's already hard to follow trail would only get harder to follow as time went by. When George had gone missing he had worked on locating spells from the minute George vanished to the second they found her. Trying different things and combinations to see if he could work out a way to get around Voldemort's shields.

He sighed, knowing that tracking where Julian had been for the past few days was useless so he had to find where Alex had been living and go from there. He needed a focus and the best he could think of was Alex's aura. He opened his red cupboard, the same one that was in the outer lab, he loved magic for doing things like that. Harry removed Alex's blood sample and then a silver tray from his supplies.

He placed the tray on the ground in the middle of some of his more powerful markings on the ground. He carefully let five drops fall of blood from the vial onto the tray, equal distances from each other then used his flawless clear crystal in the middle of the star and he was ready to start.

It took some complicated spells but not too powerful spells to remove Alex's essence and store it in the crystal. Wisps of white smoke rose from the drops as he chanted and then swirl together and down into the crystal. A small incantation sealed it in the crystal and he was ready to search, he didn't move the crystal knowing that without more spells the spirit would be polluted by his own magic.

During the time that George had been missing, Harry had used, rediscovered and invented some location spells so he had no problems finding out where Alex had been living. Harry smiled at his mate as he went past the outer lab, the older vampire was so absorbed in his work that he didn't even notice Harry leaving. At the edge of the wards Harry put himself inside a layer of magic that would stop any infections getting into his system then apparated to the address his spell had found.

The minute he arrived Harry knew this was the right place, the scent of Alex surrounded him but he was pleased to note that there was traces of Julian's scent among it. It took Harry little time to search the two rooms, if it wasn't for the overwhelming scent of Alex in the room, he wouldn't have thought Alex lived there at all. There was a few clothes in the wardrobe, two books and a television.

Harry sighed as he removed his belt and ran various tests over the small flat, sighing when he found nothing, no magic or potions had been cast or made here in the past three months. He needed answers and knew that the flat wasn't going to tell him any more but maybe the neighbours could.

He took only a few spells to transform his clothes into those which could pass as muggle ones. He never wore anything too wizard like around his flat but they would have looked slightly odd if he had gone out in the muggle world.

Harry opened the door and went next door, he knocked on the red door and waited he could hear someone moving around inside. lt was nearly a minute that the door was opened by a woman in her thirties, wearing jeans, a blouse and a necklace that was obviously magical, he could see it glowing with magic so strong could almost taste it. She wasn't a witch but she obviously knew one because to get a charm that powerful it had to be personally done for that person.

'Hello, can I help you?' She asked with a smile.

'Yes, could you tell men about your neighbour Alex?

'Of course but I have to tell you that he died.'

'Yes l know that he is dead, as is his brother -'

'Julian? But he seemed like such a nice young man.'

'Yes he was and I think they were both killed by the same virus.'

'The police said that he died from a heart attack, very unusual for a guy his age age but the autopsy proved it. It was in all of the local papers because he was so young.'

Harry nodded, if Julian had been Human when he died then he would have died as of a heart attack, 'Ms -'

'Hammon, Elizabeth Hammon.'

Harry nodded in thanks, 'Ms Hammon do you have a witch/wizard in your family?'

'Look Mister I am quite prepared to answer questions about Alex but not my family, that is too personal and anyway Magic doesn't exist.'

'I thought that for the first eleven years of my life, my relatives punished me for even saying the word magic then when I was eleven I got my letter to Hogwarts.'

She gasped and smiled at him, 'You're really a wizard?'

'Yes.'

'Wow, my half brother is also a wizard, we have the same mother but he had a wizard as a father. He graduated from Hogwarts six years ago, he gave me this charm about three years ago and dies three weeks later, I don't take it off.'

'I'm sorry about your brother and if you do take the charm off don't remove it for longer than about an hour. He has used his own blood, the blood you share to strengthen it and without contact with you it would loose its power quickly.'

'Thank-you for telling me that, but why did you ask?'

'What I am about to tell you is very sensitive could we go inside?'

Harry smiled as she nodded and moved out of the way so that he could come in, 'I don't even know your name.'

'Harry Snape.'

'Snape, are you any relation to the Potions Master at Hogwarts that Simon was always telling me about?'

'No, not directly. I am married to a distant cousin of hers and as the younger male in the relationship I take his name.'

It wasn't the truth, he hadn't taken Severus' name as they had yet to get married, despite Minerva telling them they had to. It was actually planned for the first of January, a new year for a new relationship and he did plan to take Severus' name. But he hadn't wanted her to know who he was, if her brother had been a wizard in the war, on either side and they were that close (proved by the fact that she knew Snape had been the Potion's master) then she would know him. He didn't recognise the name Simon Hammon but that didn't mean he hadn't been on the side of light.

'Wow, Simon never mentioned that two men could marry.'

'Although it is quite a common practice in the wizarding world, we rarely speak about it with the outsiders.'

Elizabeth nodded and Harry gave her a smile as they sat down opposite each other on a black leather sofa, 'What did you want to talk about in private?'

Harry sighed, 'Both Alex and Julian were born Vampires, they have never been human so neither could have died from a heart attack. Someone turned them human and this transformation killed them, there was something wrong with their blood so I need to know more about Alex's life here.'

'Vampires are real too?' She asked in amazement. Harry nodded, 'Wow, my brother told me about werewolves and centaurs and loads of other magical creatures but never vampires.'

Harry gave her a small smile, 'Yes they are very real, can you tell me about any friends Alex had?'

'He didn't really have any friends except for his girlfriend.'

Harry blinked and stared at her, 'Are you sure she was a girlfriend?'

'Yes, the walls in this place aren't that thick and they liked it nice and rough.'

Harry gave a smile at her embarrassment then frowned as he retreated back into his thoughts. It made no sense, Alex was homosexual, he had never like woman and on more than one occasion Harry had heard Alex saying : he would never touch a women in a sexual way, no matter how much he was paid.

'Are you Okay Harry?'

Harry looked up and blinked, 'Yes I'm fine, just thinking. Can you tell me about her?'

'Alex introduced her as Amelia, I can't remember her surname.'

'Can you describe her to me?'

'Sure, she was..., well she looked like..., she had hair like...' Elizabeth stuttered to a stop and looked at Harry in confusion, 'I don't understand, I've seen her dozens of times, the last time only a few days ago at the funeral but I can't form a picture of her.'

Harry nodded, not an obliviate that would have been too obvious, something more subtle, some kind of confundus. He smiled and hoped that the witch hadn't done anything too serious to the young lady's mind, but depending on the spell he still might get a description off her.

It was all about precision and yes or no answers, no options, 'Was her hair long?'

'No.'

'Short then?'

'Yes, like a boys.'

'Good, was it brown?'

'Yes.'

'Light?'

'No.'

'Very dark?'

'Yes.'

'Tall?'

'No.'

'Your height?'

'Yes, about that.'

'Brown eyes?'

'No.'

'Blue?'

'No.'

'Green?'

'No.'

Harry frowned, he knew you could strange colours in the wizarding world but not often, 'Violet?'

'No.'

'Orange?'

'No.'

'Black?'

'Yes.'

Harry nodded, 'What about her skin, was it tanned?'

'No.'

'Pale?'

'Yes.'

'Healthy pale?' Like Dray, Harry thought who suited his white skin.

'No.'

So we're talking pale like Snape, someone who never saw the sun, Harry thought. He knew that the witch could have changed her appearance completely using charms but he was willing to bet that she wouldn't waste the magical energy to form charms strong enough so that a vampire couldn't see through them.

'How did I know all that?' Elizabeth asked in amazement, 'I still can't picture her.'

Harry just gave her a small smile, 'I have lots of hours practice at questioning people.' He didn't want her to know that she had had a spell cast on her, many muggles felt violated by it.

'Can I help you with anything else?'

'No, thank you Elizabeth for your help.'

End Flashback

'...I searched Alex's apartment again after I left Elizabeth's apartment, there were no signs of a witch or even just a woman ever having being there, not even anything other than semen on some dirty sheets.'

Severus frowned, 'Nothing?'

'Nothing, that apartment had been cleaned out, cleansed in a way only a witch or wizard could do it but the strange thing was that there was no magical residue, no evidence of any spells that had been cast in that apartment. I think I'm going to have to back there with some finer equipment and some potions to see if I can find some trace.'

Severus nodded and lifted his head as he heard the cry of an eagle from outside the lab, 'I'll get it love, you stay with your potion.'

Severus smiled in reply and watched that tight arse walk away, his mate had only redressed in his trousers which were very tight and framed his mate's arse perfectly. He stirred carefully, hoping Harry would like his surprise when it was finished and hoping that it worked. Severus added a small amount of powdered snake bone, making sure to write it on his notes then watched his potion slowly turn deep blue and thicken further as he stirred clockwise.

It took Harry only a few minutes to return and when he did he was frowning at a small letter, 'It's for you, it smells like Darla.'

Severus frowned and looked at his potion, he needed to stir it for another two minutes, 'Could you open it and read it to me?'

'Sure.'

A few seconds later Harry's beautiful voice filled the room, "Severus, I know that you have given up your position in our society but I request a favour for the one once paid to you by allowing an untrained vampire into my clan. I know that you are living in the wizarding school in Britain with your very important and powerful mate.

"My vampires are dying Severus, seven in the past five days, the first two were discovered by humans and declared human. I don't know what to do, I am writing this as a request for help, one that I hope you will answer. Darla Queen of Western New York."

Severus looked up at his mate who had a grim look on his face, 'It looks like we're going to America luv.'

Severus nodded, 'What should I do?'

'Finish your potion Severus I'll sort everything out,' Harry ordered and Severus couldn't help but smile, glad that while he was the aloha in the bedroom, his mate still exerted himself. 'I need to talk to Dray, get him to go back over Alex's apartment and then to the sanctuary, they are in isolation, especially Zol and Steph,' Harry said so quietly that it was only because of Severus' supernatural hearing that he heard.

Severus sighed and turned back to his potion, back to America they were going.

TBC