Inheritance - The Courting

Chapter 9

Hadrian POV

The next morning I wake up with dreadful feeling in my stomach. I get up and change into something comfy. The dreadful feeling changes to pain and I yell for my parents: "Dad? Father?". The last thing I notice is my door banging open and my parents barging in, before I black out from the pain. 

Tom POV

I'm laying in mine and Severus bed when I hear Hadrian yelling for us. I turn to look at my husband confirm that he also heard it. We storm to Hadrian's room, and come in just in time to see him faint.

"Hadrian!" I yell. I try to catch him but I'm too slow. He hits the ground with a loud thud. Severus quickly scrambles over. That's when I smell the scent coming from my son. "He went into his heat." both my mate and I realize at the same time. "But why did he faint then?" I ask Severus. "I don't know, maybe we should get him checked up at Gringotts.". 

Yes, Gringotts. Not St. Mungos, because they don't know a thing about creatures. So that's what we do. We apparate at Gringotts and demand to see Griphook. 

"Hello Sirs, what can I~ Oh dear, yes come with me." is what he says when he sees Hadrian in my arms. We go to a white room what looks to be the Hospital Wing. "Well, let's see what is wrong with him, shall we?" Griphook says rhetorically asking. He pricks Hadrian in his finger and lets some blood fall into a potion. The potion goes into a machine, and a few minutes later the results are on the screen. 

"It seems that young Heir Riddle here had some very well hidden spells on him." Griphook says calmly. I push past him, afraid of what the results will tell me.

Hidden Blocks, spells and potions.

- Tracing spells

- Creature block

- Magic block

- Mate bond (semi-permanent blocked (must be found and courted to remove the block))

- Soulbond (to Albus Dumbledore (forced))

To say I'm furious would be an understatement. "Can we remove these?" I ask Griphook through gritted teeth. "Yes, but it would be dangerous. However," he says when he sees in my look that I won't go through with it if it's dangerous, "it would be even more dangerous if we don't remove the blocks, to a point where it could be fatal for him to have those blocks on. His creature is trying to come out, but it is weak and can't break through the blocks yet. If it does somehow break the bonds, that would be fatal to Mister Hadrian here.".

And with that our world came crumbling down. We just found him again, and now there is such a great risk of losing him again. "Do it." I say. 

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Hadrian POV

I don't know what's happening to me. One moment I was floating around in the dark, unable to move due to the unbearable pain. The next moment the pain somehow increases and the dark is replaced with some kind of light.

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Severus POV

My poor baby boy. He is laying on a ritual table, his body is spasming and his face is contorted from the pain. The goblins are chanting words in an ancient language I don't understand, and looking at Tom he doesn't understand either. It's hard to just watch and do nothing, because that might make it worse for Hadrian.

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Hadrian POV

I don't know what is happening to me, but whatever it is is very, very painful. It's like being eating from inside out, like something is trying to eat/claw its way out. I can feel my magic lashing out again and again. My magic is changing. Then everything goes black once again.