Unexpected Comfort

White Wedding

A.N.: I had a great time writing this chapter. The marriage ritual was written from scratch by me, using primarily Gods and Goddesses from the Celtic Pantheon.

Iris quietly slipped into the dark office, the jars of pickled and preserved ingredients glowing eerily in the light that spilled from the open door. She quickly closed the door behind her and put up a series of silencing and locking charms. She knew she'd have to work fast to get everything in place before Severus flooed in from Grimmauld Place.

She quickly conjured a silver pillow and added an extra cushioning charm to it. A casual flick of her wand towards the fire had it flickering to life and warming the cold, damp space. She shed her school robe, placing it on the coat rack hidden in a corner between a set of bookshelves, and settled herself on the pillow facing towards the fire.

Iris shivered slightly in the still chill room and placed a warming charm on herself before placing her wand in its holster. She quickly clipped the hooks on the suspension cuffs to the ankle cuffs she wore and lowered her head to wait for Severus to floo into the room.

A swooshing sound heralded Severus' arrival, causing Iris to smile wickedly from her place on the floor. She held her breath as she saw Severus' booted feet stop right in front of her, the toes of his boots just touching each knee. She hummed in pleasure at the feel of Severus' fingers carding through her hair. He slowly walked around her, taking in the sight of her naked form kneeling. He felt himself hardening as he took in the smaller details, the fur padded suspension cuffs around her wrists, the cuffs around her ankles and the leather collar around her pale neck.

"Hello, my Beautiful Flower." His voice was thick with arousal and it flowed over Iris like melting chocolate. She felt her body heating under her fiancé's intense look. Severus quickly unclasped the suspension cuffs from the D-rings that adorned the ankle cuffs. "Stand."

Iris moved quickly to obey Severus, she kept her head down and clasped her hands together behind her back. Severus gently raised her chin as he caressed her neck. "Follow me", he said placing a gentle kiss on her lips. She quickly followed after her soon-to-be-husband, a small smile pulling at her lips.

Iris looked around the room discreetly, slowly taking in the furnishings and the somewhat uncharacteristic warmth the room projected. She watched silently as Severus unbuttoned his robes and carefully hung them from the coat rack just inside the door. He moved to one of the wingback leather chairs, gracefully draping his body onto the chair. Iris sedately made her way to Severus' chair and slowly knelt at his feet, head still bowed and hands clasped behind her back.

"Iris?" He waited a moment to make sure he had her attention. "While I greatly appreciate the sight of you kneeling at my feet, wearing nothing but a blush upon your skin, I need you to verbalize why."

Iris looked up at the man sharply, her nose scrunched in confusion. She thought it was obvious why she was here, kneeling before this man who made her body sing and her mind silence its raging thoughts. "I... I don't understand."

Severus smiled down at her and patted his knee, "Come sit with me." She complied easily, wanting any touch she could get from the man. It had been so long since he had touched her. "What do you know of a true Dominant/Submissive relationship?" He ran his hands slowly down her body. Caressing first her shoulders using the barest of touches until he reached her breasts. He gently cupped the firm mounds and began to knead them while softly flicking the nipples with his thumbs. "I have deduced from your attire and the way you were arranged in my office, that you wish to be my Submissive. Correct?"

Iris moaned softly as she writhed in her lover's lap, "Ye...yes!" Her breath hitched as Severus spread her legs with his knees, his hands still fondling her breasts. "I... I want to... be your... your pet, Sev'rus", she said between gasped breaths.

The man just smirked at his writhing fiancé as he tweaked her nipples one last time before he started to feather touches down her abdomen. He raised his signature eyebrow when his touches pulled a breathy giggle from panting lips. As he caressed the slight swell of her abdomen with one hand he tilted her head back with the other to claim her mouth in a heated kiss.

Severus' hand slowly moved down, whispering touches to the sensitive skin of her hips and firmly stroking her pubic hair. He teasingly stroked her outer labia, opening and closing his fingers to pinch her clitoris between the fleshy lips. He smiled wickedly at her long, needy moan before he plunged two fingers into her dripping hot core.

Slowly he pumped his fingers in and out of her, massaging her walls teasingly as he ground his clothed erection against her lower back. "I would love to have you for a pet. I love the thought of you splayed out on my bed," he whispered into her ear giving a deep thrust of his fingers, "writhing uncontrollably as I torture you with feathers and whispering caresses."

Iris squirmed uncontrollably on the fingers buried inside of her, moaning her consent to the picture Severus conjured in her mind. She desperately reached behind her searching for the fastening of Severus' pants, whimpering in desperation as she fumbled to relieve the man of his pants.

He slowly removed his fingers from her before slowly raising himself and Iris from the chair. Taking her hand he lead her to his bedroom. Iris' eyes widened as she took in the enormous bed that took up the center of the room. The bed was a massive iron affair with thick chain-link ropes wound around each of the four posts.

Severus stopped next to the bed and turned towards Iris, raising his brow in question as he gestured towards his still clothed form. Iris reached up and slowly began to unbutton the man's shirt, gently running her fingers through the coarse hairs on the man's muscular chest. She leaned forward to brush the tip of her tongue against a pebbled nipple, her hands tracing a teasing line down Severus' stomach to the button of his pants.

She quickly slipped the button from its hole and carefully lowered the zip, moaning as her hand wrapped around the naked straining erection, and let the slacks fall to pool around Severus' feet. He quickly slipped his feet from the garment and allowed his shirt to fall to the floor. He slowly pushed Iris down on the bed, caressing her thighs as he followed her onto the bed.

He helped maneuver her to the middle of the bed as he let his hands wander across her flushed skin. He swiftly attached the two cuffs around Iris' wrists to the chains on the bed, all the while rubbing his thigh against her soaking pussy. Sliding down her body, he wasted no time in attaching his lips to her