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Chapter Thirty-Three

THIRD POV
I made a few changes to add Harry's animagus ability to the equation, sorry I missed it originally. But also, thank all of you guys for following me, I just broke four hundred! 💙

Draco placed his presents in front of Harry just as soon as the submissive had swallowed his last bite of heavenly pancake. "Open mine first." Harry giggled at Draco's smirk and took the smaller of the two, gently unwrapping the red ribbon tied around it. Selene and Calli both peered at the package as Harry gently opened the box and gasped at the gorgeous silver bracelet sitting on the plush material. Gently picking it up, Harry peered at the oval pendant, it was of a prowling lion, but it was also covered in all sorts of protective magicks. "It's beautiful Draco, but... are you sure you want to give this to me?" Draco beamed at the compliment and some smug satisfaction entered his aura, though it seemed to be ringed with sadness. "Of course Petit, it's my pleasure to spoil you, plus, it even has your house animal on it. I guess it just has more than one meaning now." Draco rolled his eyes as Harry giggled, offering the bracelet to the domsubmisisve to clasp on his wrist. "Thank you, my lion. I have one question though." Draco sat back down and looked at the submissive curiously. "Ask away, Poppet." Harry cast a quick glance down at the lion before staring into Draco's mesmerizing, silver eyes. "Why does it have protective magic on it?" Draco furrowed his brow, looking at the bracelet in thought. Harry stared down at it as well, now scared of what it could be. "How do you know there is magic on it, Precious?" Harry looked at Tom with a confused expression, wondering how that relates to the current situation. "I can see and feel it. Can't you?" Tom shook his head, his eyes widening a bit, Draco stared at Harry while Severus also shook his head. 'Having mage sight is a rare gift these days, my Lord. Not many magicals are powerful enough to be granted such abilities.' Harry felt tears sting his eyes, and Severus was quickly up and around the table, cradling the submissive in his arms. "No Karus, stop. Don't ever even begin to think that you're that. I don't even want to hear the word. You're the most dear thing to us, our final piece. It wouldn't be right if we didn't  have you. And because of that, we will never leave you, even if you hate us, we just won't leave. You have my promise on that." Somewhere in Severus' little speech the tears coming from Harry's pink eyes turned from ones of distress to those of happiness. Leaning his head against Severus' shoulder, Harry breathed in his scent, squeezing the vampire's arm a bit too hard, but he made no comment. Gently letting go, Harry felt his face flame as he realized he had just done it again. Harry despaired over ever getting his emotions under control. He had thrown a tantrum not even fifteen minutes earlier. "It's okay, Karus. Submissives are all extremely sensitive to emotions when they first gain their inheritance- it's natural. The fact that you have three is making it even worse, especially with your... past, but it will eventually get easier to handle. There's no reason to worry either; the fact that you can feel emotions better than we can only makes you all the more precious to us dominants." Harry sniffled, wiping away his tear tracks while Draco gently pet Harry's large doe ears. "Yeah, petit, it happens to all of us. It was a nightmare for me, I can only imagine what you're going through." Draco fake shuddered, causing Harry to giggle while the other dominants had a small smile on their faces, remembering a time where Draco would start blubbering at the littlest of things. "Plus, Precious, being able to see magic is a wonderful gift." Harry smiled at Tom, relaxing into Severus' arms a bit more. 'What about the magic in the bracelet?' Harry jolted for a second, only to remember the silver piece of jewelry around his wrist. "Lion, you never told me what the magic on the bracelet was?" Draco seemed to puff up in pride as he remembered his amazing gift. "Yes, that bracelet is charmed with a lot of old Malfoy Family magic. There are spell protections placed on it to protect you and alert you of any spells directed your way. The little pendant will start to vibrate to alert you, and it can even block some spells, but only small ones like the severing charm." Harry gently leaned over and kissed Draco's cheek. "Thank you my lion, it's wonderful." A small blush came to Draco's face as he gestured to the other box and sat down. "You still have my other one to open." Harry giggled as Severus sat down and set Harry in his lap, not taking his eyes off of the submissive just in case. Severus could easily smell doubt still on Harry, coupled with the fact that his submissive's hair also had a wine tint to it. "Come on petit, open it!" Harry giggled and gently unwrapped the present. He grew silent as he took in the roaring lion on the front, tracing his fingers over it in awe. "It's a journal. I thought it's be a good way for us to talk without it looking suspicious. You just have to write something in it and then it'll appear in my journal, and I'll write back. The words disappear though, I couldn't figure out how to make them stay. It's not-" Harry giggled as he flapped one of his wings in Draco's face, disrupting the domsubmisisve from his rambling. "It's perfect Lion, I was worried we wouldn't be able to talk because of our earlier opposition." Harry gently opened the lock, noticing it's protection magic, and gently flipped through some pages, delighting in the fact that the outline of the paper was decorated with little spells and sparks of magic. "I love it, thank you so much Lion." Another blush sprang to Draco's face as he slid down in his chair a bit. Harry only smiled and gently set the book off to the side, being careful with the wrapping paper as well. "I believe my gifts would be in order now." Severus silently summoned Harry's presents from him and gave the rectangular looking one to the submissive. Eyeing the shape, a smile grew larger on his face as he quickly untied the bow and lifted the lid. There, just sitting innocently, was a large book with a picture of Lily and James Potter smiling in front of the Black Lake in the center. The pages were all tastefully scrapbooked and thoughtfully put together, and Harry couldn't help the tears that came to his eyes at seeing his parents so happy. Hagrid didn't have this many photos in the other album. Selene gave a sad hiss when she saw the dead parents of her owner, much like her family. Severus looked down at his submissive as Harry covered his face in his robes again. Tom and Draco both smiled at the little one, winking up at Severus. "Come Karus, you still have other presents to open." Harry hummed and nodded, wiping at his eyes quickly before once more opening his present with care. It was a small box, and inside was a gorgeously designed watch. It was silver with Roman numerals for the time, as well as little diamonds adorning the metal straps of the watch, connecting to the clock with a bit of a bigger diamond in the center of the v-connection on both sides. There was small text hidden behind the hands of the clock, and Harry was glad to have his creature sight, otherwise it would have been impossible to see, much less read, as it was in Latin. The words read 'No Potion' and Harry could acutely feel the protective magic settle into his entire body as he let Severus put it on his wrist.
Seeing the gratitude about to explode in his mate, Severus cut Harry off before he could speak. "It was no problem Karus, this is my gift to you. I want to protect you, even when I cannot be there, and this will alert you of any possible potion intake, as well as stop it when the crown is pushed, so if I am not there, you will still have protection from my works' manipulations." A single tear of equal happiness and sadness rolled down Harry's face as he stuck his head in the crook of Severus' neck, just scenting his subdominant to make him remember that he wasn't leaving anytime soon. Gently rubbing his mates' neck and shooting a glance at Tom, Severus chuckled as another thought occurred to him. "Plus, it would do me no good for you to always be arriving late to my classes, now would it?" Harry lurched back and stared up at the dark potions professor. "You mean you're going to let me into your advanced potions class?" Severus kissed in between Harry's eyebrows, staring into the hopeful green eyes, framed by cyan hair. "Why of course Karus, I would love to teach you of my mastery, but I won't be allowed to change my personality towards you until we kill Dumbledore. Are you okay with that?" Tom easily saw the doubt creep into Harry's mind, but smiled when he saw his precious straighten his back in determination. "Yes, as long as I can see your true intentions I'll be fine." Severus smiled down at the little one and stood up with Harry in his arms, walking around the table to carefully deposit the fragile cargo in Tom's lap before sitting back down in his own chair. Calli looked irritated her owner was taken from his seat, but made no intention to move. Draco smirked at Harry's chagrined face while Tom and Severus chuckled. "Here Precious, take a look at what I got for you." Harry gently kissed Tom's jaw and looked at the smaller of the two red boxes, fumbling with it for a few seconds before realizing it opened like a clam. Inside was a silver medallion attached to a necklace. The medallion had an elegant crown engraved on the front and a protection rune written in parseltongue on the back. There were two little silver buttons on the sides of the medallion covered in protective magic just like his other mates' gifts. Instead of offering an explanation, Tom only smiled knowingly, fastened the necklace around Harry's neck, and gestured to his other gift. Harry pouted, but gave in as Tom moved the unopened package closer to him. Grumbling lightly, Harry opened the other box, only to see a beautifully crafted disk sitting with its pretty little emerald in the center of a cushion. Harry looked up at Tom quizzically for a second before picking the silver device up, and realizing it was a compact mirror littered in magic. Carefully unlocking the latch, the submissive peered in at the two mirrors while Tom gently twisted a knob on the compact mirror's side, which made the bottom mirror lifted up and to the side in order to reveal a third mirror. Harry couldn't help the awed sound from leaving his mouth as it fell open a little. "Yes, I thought it was interesting as well. This is a compact mirror, as you know, and I believe it would be perfect for communication between the four of us. All you have to do is hold down this button until the outline of the mirror turns green and then state the names of who you want to talk to. The mirror will grow warm, but only enough to alert you that someone is calling." Tom smirked as he withdrew two other mirrors for Draco and Severus from his robe's pocket. Draco had a small diamond in his, Severus had an onyx, and lastly, Tom pulled out his, showing off a ruby. Severus smirked at the irony before pocketing his mirror, quickly casting a warding spell on all of theirs to keep Dumbledore from sensing the communication magic as he did so. "Then what is the magic in the medallion for?" Tom cast a quick glance at Severus that Draco caught, causing him to give a small smile when he realized the purpose. "Dumbledore is known to look into people's minds with his legilimency, and since you haven't mastered the skill yet, Severus will be working on it with you again during the school year. The medallion is for protection, mind protection to be more exact, it will reinforce your mental walls if you ever find someone trying to get in, just press the buttons in sync." Harry nodded with a small smile and gently grabbed the medallion on his neck, enjoying the warmth it brought. 'Selene and I could also help you my Lord. If this evil Dumbledore tried to get in, I'll show him why ravens are harbingers of death.' Shooting a grateful look at his raven, Harry turned back to his mates. "Thank you all so much. You don't know how much this means to me... I just don't know how to repay all of you." The three dominants smiles sadly at their little sub while Tom cuddled Harry closer. "There is no reason to repay us Precious. This was a gift for your birthday and for our courting." Harry pouted, but resolved to repay them later, inconspicuously. "It also seems the elves wanted to give you some things. They must appreciate how you let them have the kitchen." Harry blushed as Severus placed three gifts wrapped in old Christmas wrapping paper, remembering how he hugged the embarrassed house elf. Unknown to the mates group, fourteen invisible elves sat watching as the submissive gently opened their presents. The dominants smiled at the beaming smile Harry's face as he read the card connected to the three packages. Once again opening the smallest of the packages, Harry smiled at the simple silver ring. It was only a thin band with messy engraving on the inside saying 'special'. Harry gently ran his fingers over the writing before slipping it onto his right ring finger, in front of the Potter lordship ring. A shocked yelp escaped the submissive's lips as the Potter ring disappeared and a black opal appeared on the silver one. Severus had his brow furrowed as Tom gently asked if the submissive was okay. Harry hummed in affirmation as he gently touched the opal, watching in fascination as the magic defused the two rings. Taking the silver ring off, Harry put it on his pinky, making the Gryffindor ring disappear as a ruby appeared on the silver ring. Smiling to himself, Harry defused the rings and then proceeded to fuse the Black ring, the Potter ring again, then the Gryffindor, the Pendragon, then the Hufflepuff, the Evans, next with the Ravenclaw, the Peverell, and finally, the Emrys. A small frown appeared on the submissive's face as the Emrys lordship and Green Lightning ring didn't fuse. A tinkling of laughter slunk through his mind. Harry, my ring won't fuse with a flimsy silver holder. My hold is just too ancient for it to work. Harry gave a small huff of irritation before removing the Green Lightning ring and replacing the Emrys ring on his right pointer. Letting the sentient ring fly back onto his middle finger, he put the silver 'holder', as Starheart had called it, on his pointer as well. Feeling a sense of satisfaction, Harry smiled down at the rainbow of gems on his finger. As he had predicted, the Black ring had an onyx stone, the Pendragon's was a fire opal, Hufflepuff was citrine, Evans was an emerald, Ravenclaw was a sapphire, Peverell was amethyst, and Emrys was a diamond. Looking Draco dead in the eye, Tom and Draco were startled by his seriousness. "I love your elves, Lion." The watching elves all smiled widely, their large eyes shining. "Please don't go stealing my elves Petit, I could never clean this entire building by myself, even with magic." Harry giggled, but didn't respond, instead turning to the two unopened presents, curious as to what the elves had said would help him with his inheritance. Grabbing one of the two identical boxes, Harry opened it to find an amethyst beaded bracelet covered in concealment magic, though three of the nine were oddly empty of the magic. Ignoring the odd beads and putting the bracelet on, Harry giggled as the magic washed over him, lightly poking his own. Draco startled as he saw the old Harry emerge from the random magic sparks. True, his hair was now longer and looked easier to tame, but his skin was back to being more tan and it was so much easier to notice the scars littering his body. Severus felt sharp nails clawing at his heart when he noticed just how blinded he was by Dumbledore's influence. If this was how he had always looked, how could he have missed it, even under influence? There was absolutely no way Dumbledore did not know of Harry's abuse. Harry furrowed his brows and looked at Tom, his eyes questioning from behind the glamour of his glasses. "You look like your old self now, Precious. The you that was under all of the spells." Harry made a small sound of fear and quickly, but cautiously, grabbed his compact mirror to look at himself. Sensing his intended flight, Severus was up and out of his seat before anyone could even begin to blinking. Enclosing his submissive in a hug before the Nature Lord could dash off, Severus internally hissed at Dumbledore for making so many problems. "Karus, do I ever lie?" Harry stopped trying to squirm out of the vampire's hold and turned to gave him, a questioning look on his face. "No, you only omit the truth to try to help others with their pain." Severus hummed at the astute observation, but let it slide. "So then was I lying earlier today when I stated that you could never make us hate you?" Harry shook his head mutely, turning his gaze to Severus' chest. Lightly tilting the submissive's head back up, the vampire lightly kissed him on the forehead. "Karus, you could be a werewolf, I would still sleep next to you; you could be a dementor, and Draco would still kiss you; you could be a gorgon, but that wouldn't keep Tom from staring into your eyes; or you could be a porcupine, and we would still hug you. Nothing- absolutely nothing- will make us not love you." Draco and Tom both came up and circled around Harry again. "Now you don't have to constantly keep that glamor up, petit. The elves were looking out for your magic. Holding a glamor like that for so long could easily tire you out, it might have even put you into a magic-induced coma from magical exhaustion!" Draco hugged Harry tightly in relief as he realized the disaster that had been diverted thanks to his house elves. Noting how much he would need to thank his elves later, Draco gently picked up the last gift and presented it to Harry on his knee with a chuckle. "For you, my queen." Harry giggled and took the box, still being wrapped in a hug by an overprotective Severus. Inside of the box was a beaded brown leather bracelet with a small bronze plate attached, the words 'Lionhearted Treasure' engraved on it in red. Harry gently traced over the words, causing the elf deigned to help the little submissive to apparate in. "Reprtings fors duty, Master." Draco gave a quick growl as he appeared in front of Harry, only to blush when he realized it was one of his house elves, Sissy if he remembered correctly. Harry softly cocked his head to the side in curiosity, scanning the little female elf. "What duty?" The elf turned her bright green eyes to Draco, slightly unnerving him with her deep stare. "Sissy's jobs to prtects Masters' mate, Masters Lord Potter Bleck Evns Emrys Peverell Pendrgon Gryffindr Rvenclaw Hufflypuff." Harry giggled at the beaming elf, gently releasing himself from Severus' grip to bend down and hug the little one. "Nice to meet you Sissy, but please, just call me Harry." Sissy cast a concerned look at the submissive, gently tapping his shoulder. "Are yous sure, Master?" Gently straightening and looking down at Sissy with a warm look, smile still large and bright, Harry nodded. A matching grin bloomed on Sissy's face as she jumped a bit, hugging Harry's waist. "Oh thanks yous, Master Harry!" Severus, Draco, and Tom smirked as Harry giggled again at the cute little elf. "It's no problem Sissy." The elf let go and smiled up at Harry before remembering what she had to do. "Ohs! Sissy almost forgots- Sissy be suppose to tell Masters Harry about bracelet! Bracelet from elves to helps Master durings Hoggywarts. Yous just be touching thes plate and Sissys be called to Master! Only to save though, toos many time an' Dumbydore mights notices!" Harry cast a quizzical glance at Sissy before turning to his mates, who all gave a low growl at Sissy's proclamation. Standing up, and possibly growing a few more inches, Harry raised an eyebrow at his edgy mates. "Something you all want to tell me?"

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