Harry Potter and the Heir of Slytherin

The two shifted their gaze from Selene to me. The one in the business suit gave me a stern once over, seemingly focused on my posture and clothes. I wasn't worried about her, it was the other one I was concerned about.

She was looking at me like a piece of meat.

"So cute..."

Very concerned.

Knowing that it would be rude not to introduce myself after Selene had given me the opportunity, I inclined my head respectfully.

"Harry Potter. Pleased to meat you both."

They sucked in their breaths again. Or at least appeared to. For different reasons this time.

"Yes," Selene smiled before they could even open their mouths. "He is The Harry Potter." I could almost hear the capitalized T when she spoke.

"And he rescued you?" the stern looking one asked, her eyes now giving me a second look. I got the feeling she was reevaluating her opinion of me. Just what that opinion was, I didn't have a clue.

"Oooh~ that is so romantic!" The other one gushed. She clasped her hands under her chin and I could almost see hearts forming in her eyes. I have to admit, I was a tad frightened. "It's just like those novels I read. The Prince comes to rescue his princess at the last second, saving her from the evil villain, then they fall in love and have hot, passionate sex!"

Correction: I was very frightened. I could just tell from that single statement that this girl was worse than Lisa ever could be.

Though, thinking about how I rescued Selene, she did kind of have a point. Selene was a princess, sort of, and I had rescued her at the last second. At least I rescued her chastity at the last second. I don't know much about their being an evil villain, but those mercenaries were certainly not a pleasant sort. The only thing that was missing from her description was...

Oh no. No, no, no, no. It couldn't be like that. There was no way my life could possibly be like one of those horrible, trashy, god forsaken novels Lisa reads so much. I refused to believe it. Those novels were not conducive to how relationships went. That's why they were fiction!

I glanced down at Selene, still attached to my arm. I flushed.

"Oh! And he's blushing! How cute!"

"Selene," the stern woman interrupted her giggly counterpart before she could keep going. I found myself grateful to her. It gave me a chance to recoup and recover. "Perhaps you can tell us why you were not at the checkpoint. It has been a little over a month since you've disappeared. Surely the time needed to recover from any injuries you sustained have long since passed."

It was in this moment that I got to see another side of Selene. That of a girl who had just had her hand caught in a cookie jar. The young vampire was giving the business suit wearing female a very guilty look, like she knew she had been caught doing something she shouldn't have, but was still trying to cover it up. It was dreadfully amusing, and terribly cute.

Wait. What?

"I forgot."

"You forgot?" the woman raised an eyebrow. The hillbilly girl remained silent, content to let this play out.

Selene looked away, unable to withstand her gaze.

"...Yes."

The stern woman pinched the bridge of her nose, as if to stem the tide of a coming headache.

"Am I to assume that the young... man you are with is the reason you forgot?"

Selene glanced at me, and I once more had the pleasure of seeing her blush. Blood rose to her cheeks in mass quantity until much of her face was red.

She quickly looked away.

"I see..." the woman mused, eying me once more, this time with minor hostility. I met her gaze evenly, raising my head just a bit. It might not have been the smartest move I ever made, matching glares with a vampire, but I would not allow myself to be intimated by this woman. I've had enough of being frightened by women from Perennelle.

After a few seconds of our staring contest, the female vampire in the business suit snorted and broke her gaze off. I chalked this up as my win.

"Very well. I suppose we shall let bygones be bygones," the woman decided. "He did save you after all." I narrowed my eyes. "Now, come along Selene. Your father has been frantic with worry for you."

I almost missed it, the way Selene's eyes tightened at the mention of her father. I wondered if she and her father were not on good terms.

"I will come with you in just a minute," Selene informed them. When the woman turned a heated look on her, she just raised her head and gave a glare of her own, daring the woman to challenge her. "It's my amore's birthday today, well, yesterday, but I am celebrating it today. And, I have yet to give him his birthday presents."

"Oooh! Presents!" Unable to contain herself any longer, the hillbilly squealed happily. "What are you gonna give him? Is it a kiss? Tell me it's a kiss!" She was definitely worse than Lisa.

The business woman sighed.

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