Part 3

Disclaimer: See part one

Warning: same

Rating: FR15

Author: Sio

A/N: Enjoy!

PART 3

Xander rubbed his neck to lessen the feeling of the small hairs at the back of his neck standing to attention with unease. Something was wrong but Xander couldn’t put his finger on what. Spike was still being his nasty self and Buffy was completely self involved. Yup nothing new, so why did Xander feel like there was someone constantly watching him? It had started to effect his sleep, it was even starting to showing in his work. His boss had told him to sort it out or find a new job, since his fatigue could put others at risk. Maybe Willow was working some magic that she wasn’t supposed to be doing or maybe Xander was well and truly paranoid. Xander hid a yawn behind his hand, noticing this Tara gave him a concerned glance.

“X-x-Xander? May-be you should take a n-ap on the sofa, in the back?” Tara timidly suggested. Xander gave her a bright smile.

“That’s a great idea! Thanks Tara.” Replied Xander as he disappeared into the back. He snuggled comfortably into the old tattered sofa, with in seconds he was asleep. A few minutes later Tara came back to check on him, covering him with a warm blanket as he quietly snored. Tara smoothed the blanket down and left Xander to his well deserved rest.

Poor Xander.

Severus watched from the shadow’s waiting for the interfering girl to leave. He had ground his teeth in jealousy while he watched her give his mate a kiss on the forehead. Thankfully the sound of a bell from the front of the shop drew her attention and person away quickly. Severus moved to stand directly over Xander, his pale long fingered hand caressed Xander’s cheek. Xander murmured but stayed sleeping. The Potions Master tucked the blanket tightly around his mate and lifted the male into his arms using his impressive supernatural strength. Again with a twist of will Severus open a vortex and stepped through leaving no clue to for Xander’s friends to follow.

“Your mine now.” Severus intoned possessively to his sleeping bundle.

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Hours passed before Xander showed signs of waking. The crick in his neck that he usually got from sleep on the couch was strangely absent. Xander stretched and yawned before rubbing the sleep out of his blurry eyes. Wait a second, where was the back of the couch? Not to mention he was stretched out comfortable on something well cushioned, but what really caused the alarm was the missing spring in the couch that usually poked into his lower back. Xander’s eyes flew open and he squeaked in dismay when he saw his surroundings.

Xander sat up intent on finding a way out of what looked like a windowless prison cell regardless of how pleasantly it was decorated. Once standing Xander heard the rattling of a chain. He looked down and found that one of his ankles was manacled and tied to the bed with a long chain. Xander cursed under his breath. Was this more of Anya’s vengeance, was totalling his truck not enough? Xander paced the length of the chain, finding that it was long enough to reach inside the bathroom he had discovered but not long enough to reach what Xander suspected was the door out of the room.

Xander decided to see if he could pull the chain from its place around the leg of the old style bed. However instead of getting free Xander received an electric shock strong enough to make is arms fling back awkwardly leaving them feeling like jelly. Xander curse loudly this time. Feeling slowly returned to Xander’s arms. Seconds after Xander accepted that he wasn’t going to get the chain off, not by conventional methods anyway, the door opened revealing a man dressed completely in black. Xander backed away, but left enough room around himself to dodge any attacks that might be forthcoming.

“Did you sleep well?” asked the man with a dark but deeply pleasant voice that caused shivers to go through Xander’s body.

“Who are you?” asked Xander “Why am I here? What have you done with my friends!?” demanded Xander feeling slightly freaked out by the circumstances and his reaction to the stranger.

“I have no interest in your friends and as such have done nothing to them.” Severus made a motion with his arms showing that he meant no harm and that he was not armed. “My name is Severus Tobias Snape, and you are here because you are my mate.” Xander’s mouth fell open and his eyes went wide.

“MATE!?” Screeched Xander “I can’t be your mate! I am MALE for Gods sake!” Severus winced slightly at his mate’s high octave tone.

“I assure you, you are my mate.”

“B-b-but no! I’m male, MALE, as in can’t mate with you cause I can’t produce children! Haven’t you ever watched the nature channel!?” reasoned Xander. Severus smirked.

“No need to worry about that, my dear mate, you will bare me many children.” assured Severus, surly now his mate would calm down, and not worry about being unworthy of the Snape line.

“WHAT! Are you kidding!?” yelled Xander, who was reaching the limit of his patients.

“What does a pregnant goat have to do with anything?” asked Severus perplexed. Xander growled and Severus shivered in pleasure. Xander yelped when he saw the rather hard effect his growl had on Severus.

Taking a deep calming breath Xander asked. “What kind of demon are you?” Only a demon would be interested in impregnating Xander, cause that was just Xander’s kind of luck.

“I am a Forevermore.”

“I see, and I’m chained to the bed because?” asked Xander, just barely remembering not to growl.

“For your protection and security of course.” Drawled Severus as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. This was going very well in Severus’s opinion, his mate was asking questions and did not seem scared of his new environment. “I will leave you to become accustomed to your new surroundings. I will be back with your dinner in an hour, I suggest you wash up. There are clothes in your size in the closet.” With that Severus turned and left the room his coat tails billowing behind him.

Xander slumped down on the bed, putting his head in his hands just barely holding back tears of frustration and anger. It just figured something like this would happen to him.

(and with Sio writing the story it usually does.)

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A/N: Please point out any glaring mistakes! Thank you! Please review!