HP : The Chronicles

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"Could I have the key miss?" Harry asked sweetly as he widened his eyes, mimicking Severus perfectly. The girl smiled at him too and gave him the key.

"What a sweet son you have, Severus." She said sighing once more, completely forgetting any formalities.

"Ah yes." The potions master mumbled as he looked at Harry confused for a second, before realizing exactly what had happened. That cheeky brat! "Thank you for your help miss…" he trailed off smiling at the girl who returned the smile tenfold.

"Asmae." She whispered.

"Asmae." Severus repeated her name causing her to blush.

"If you need anything just call the reception." She stated with a wink. "Are we to expect a Mrs. Black too?" She asked coyly.

"Nope!" Harry quipped before Severus could respond. "Just Dad and me, Miss Asmae." The girl smiled at Harry.

"What a lovely boy you are!" She stated. The man behind Severus and Harry cleared his throat politely. Harry turned around and noticed that a small line had formed behind them.

"We should better go to our room; thank you again, Asmae." Severus bid her goodbye.

"Don't mention it, Mr. Black. Your room is on the fourth floor, suite eight. A house elf will take care of your trunks; just leave them by the elevator." The receptionist explained with yet another smile. "Enjoy your stay!"

"Thank you, Miss Asmae." Harry added as they walked towards the elevator.

"What was that?" Severus asked cocking one eyebrow in surprise.

"Come on, Sev!" Harry exclaimed in mock reproach. "I'm eight and even I could see she fancies you!"

"What?" Severus asked in shock. "No she was just… Aren't you too young to know stuff like that anyway?"

"Sev, did you forget that I have spent a great time of my life near the original Mr. Black?" Harry said shaking his head as they entered the elevator. "Whether I wanted to or not, I picked up a couple of things."

"But did you have to go all sweet and innocent on the poor girl? She had half a mind to adopt you by the end, I'm sure." Severus complained, still unable to wrap his mind around the concept.

"Me? I was going all sweet and innocent?" Harry asked surprised. "And what about you with that lost puppy look and then being all charming and stuff." Severus's eyes widened this time in terror.

"What. Lost. Puppy. Look?" He asked, pausing between each word.

"And you didn't even notice…" The boy said shaking his head as the elevator stopped at their floor. The doors opened to reveal a luxurious corridor, covered with a thick carpet. "Suite four, six… here we are!" The boy exclaimed pointing at the door.

"We're not done with that conversation you know! Lost puppy…" Severus grumbled under his breath, making Harry giggle. The door opened and they entered a room that took Harry's breath away. It was large with two king sized canopy beds, and was fashioned in the same rhythm as the main lobby. Linen hung from the ceiling and the view from the windows overlooked the river and the sand dunes in the distance.

"I love it!" Harry exclaimed and jumped on the bed excitedly. It took an hour to place all their clothes in the closet and have the dreaded puppy conversation -Severus filed the information away for further use, his Slytherin side emerging- before they left the room to look around the town. Severus explained how this town was once a muggle fortress that was eventually abandoned before wizards and witches of the area took residence and rebuilt it.

True to his word, he took Harry to the local bazaar, where they roamed around and ended up buying an astronomy chart for Harry and some potion ingredients that were rare back in England for shared use. By the end of the hour, Severus wore a soft grey, linen shirt that reached just above his knees with a pair of black linen pants, having wrapped a long red scarf loosely around his neck, as was the fashion amongst the wizard community of the town. Harry's shirt was a soft blue and his scarf white, but they both welcomed the lighter clothes and the cooler feeling the linen provided.

They ate in a local restaurant, Harry snapped pictures of the two of them and everything that moved, rented two horses for the period they would stay and then returned to the hotel to leave their purchases, shower and sleep. When the sun started falling to the west, they left the hotel once more, as discreetly as possible, and led their horses over the river before Severus unfolded the map. They made a quick assessment of their location -the parchment was after all more than four hundred years old, so accuracy wasn't its strong point- and rode southbound, parallel to the river. This was going to be the first of at least a fortnight worth of long nights, Severus realized as the evening star rose in the horizon. The search for the flower known simply as Eloḯsa had begun.

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