Chapter 1
Blood to blood,
Mind to mind,
Love to love,
Life to life,
Magic to magic,
Dark to light.
Of course it was Harry who had found the ritual. Who else would have thought to look in ‘My creature magic’ when researching bonding magic. Though at the time, Severus knew, he would probably have been able to come up with a half decent logical train of tough. At the moment, the only thing he could come up with was; only to Harry, I should have known.
But then, Severus knew he had none to blame but himself. After all, he had absented himself from the planning of their bonding ceremony the moment he could and had only had a cursory glance at the ritual Harry had chosen.
Nothing had seemed wrong with the ritual of course, it was a fairly straight forward and simple one. The couple had had to prick each of their finger tips of their left hand, the other then was to draw lines down to the base of the finger then there came the circle on the palms and the dot in the centre. When the drawing was finished they each reached their drawing hand to touch their lips then brought their hands together. This was the first and longest part of the ritual.
Blood to blood.
Spoken in the language of their choosing.
Then came:
Mind to mind.
And they looked into each other’s eyes.
Love to love.
Their lips met in a brief moment of utter devotion to one another and the touch of blood dissolved between their two tongues.
They parted again, leaving only their hands touching.
Life to life.
Was a promise and then came:
Magic to magic.
Their surroundings faded as a blast of magic rushed out of them and started circling them both, mingling until one could no longer tell their magic apart.
Dark to light.
These words did not have to be spoken aloud but they both knew they had thought them at the same time and they came together for a final kiss before releasing their hands.
The magic around them pulsated a final time then dissipated and they knew, they were bonded for life.