The Azkaban Hot Tub Tales by Miranda Aurelia (Blue Lady)
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Finally, the last chapter of the story has arrived. I want to thank everyone that read and especially that those that
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about the segways [in fact, I think I will include that tibbit in my future fics].
Chapter 9: Reunions
At the underground Death Eater HQ…
"Harry!" yelled a familiar voice.
Harry was still feeling a bit disorientated when a female form barreled into him, knocking both of them onto the ground.
"Draco!!"
Unlike Harry, Draco was a bit more effective in keeping himself balanced, so when Ginny leapt into his arms and wrapped her legs around his waist, he just swayed a bit, but didn't fall over.
"I'm so glad to see you!" Ginny said, her voice muffled against Draco's shoulder, before she pulled his head down for a long kiss.
"Remind me to charge to rescue more often," said Draco with a smirk when they finally came up for air awhile later. He rested his forehead against hers, grey eyes gazing into hazel ones.
"In fact, I think you deserve a reward," Ginny said huskily, her eyes darkening a bit as one hand traveled under his robes and began tugging at his shirt.
However, at that moment, a loud moan cut into Draco's thoughts and he glanced to the side for a second before rapidly slamming his eyes shut.
"Gin?" he hissed.
"Yeah?" Her hand stopped momentarily where it was tracing the planes of his back, "What is it?"
"Remember how you told me that Potter and Granger weren't doing it?"
Now Ginny just looked a bit confused. "What about it?"
He motioned with his head to the left, his eyes still tightly shut in horror.
"OH MY GOD!" shrieked Ginny when she finally saw what was happening.
"I told you they were doing it," muttered Draco.
"Oh my!" sighed Ginny, eerily reminiscent of one Luna Lovegood at that moment, "Those muscles are totally drool-worthy."
"Oi!" Draco's eyes snapped open, "No drooling over Potter!"
"Don't be silly. Just because he's like my brother doesn't mean I can't appreciate..." Ginny gestured in the direction of the couple on the ground before she gently tugged the lobe of his left ear with her teeth, "Besides, it's not like I don't drool over yours all the time…"
She smiled as her fiancé reacted to her words.
"DRACO!"
Ginny yelped as Draco almost lost his hold on her, seeing how startled he was.
"Father!" The blond finally managed to gasp out, "Uh…nice weather?" What was the protocol when your father caught you making out with your girlfriend?
He quickly removed his hand from a certain part of Ginny's anatomy.
"We are currently in an underground cavern, my son," Lucius Malfoy said evenly, "Though I must say that I am pleased that you are taking your duties regarding the next Malfoy heir seriously."
Draco and Ginny just looked at him in shock. Did Lucius just give them permission to shag?
"-in any case, Potter seems to."
Draco gave a quick peek over his shoulder. It was fortunate that Harry and Hermione were both covered by Harry's cloak, although he really wasn't sure how much clothing each party had on under it.
"Your father is one of the candidates for the position of Minister of Magic, is that not so?" Lucius abruptly directed this towards Ginny.
"I-I, I think so."
Seeing as the two on the ground were slowly starting to attract a small crowd, Draco sighed heavily as he made his way over, leaving Ginny to be interrogated by her future father-in-law.
Kneeling down beside the couple, he was relieved to see that they were both still fully clothed (though Hermione seemed to have teared off part of Harry's shirt in the process) and he grabbed the back of Harry's shirt, pulling him off Hermione.
"Hey!!" Two pairs of emerald green and chocolate brown eyes glared at him furiously, while a couple of "Boo's" sounded from the crowd.
"Unless you feel like starring in your own X-rated movie for the crowd, I would suggest you wait awhile longer," Draco said evenly.
Seeing the numerous Death Eaters and House elves gathered around them, the Boy-Who-Lived and his girlfriend flushed in
embarrassment.
"Maybe we were a bit too eager…" Harry trailed off when Draco's eyebrow almost hit his hairline.
"Right…." Draco said in a disbelieving tone before he turned to the crowd. "If anybody wants to see more of Potter and Granger, I think I can arrange to have a hidden camera or two stashed in their room-OW!" He glared at Hermione, who had just smacked him in the head as she walked over to Harry.
"Don't you even think about it!" hissed Hermione.
"That's the problem Granger," Draco rolled his eyes, "You can't even recognize a good business investment if it hit you in the arse."
"Watch it Malfoy," warned Harry, placing his hands protectively around Hermione's waist, "The arse in question, and any other parts along with it, belong to me."
Hermione gave Harry a dirty look.
"Okay, fine," relented Harry, "It's copyrighted."
"You can't copyright body parts!" Draco argued, before he ran his hands through his hair, "Although who the heck would want to watch the two of you shag is beyond me," he muttered, pointedly ignoring the slowly dissipating crowd.
"Draco?" came the soft inquiry from behind him.
"What is it, Gin?" Draco became concerned at the pale look on Ginny's face. "My dad didn't give you a hard time, did he?"
She shook her head. "It's just…your dad would make a very scary businessman," she whispered.
Draco chuckled, "I don't doubt it."
"Hey, what did I miss?" called out a familiar voice.
"SHAWN XAVIER MALFOY!!" shrieked Ginny, "You are so grounded!"
Her son skidded to a stop in front of her and Draco. "What did I do?" Shawn looked a bit bewildered.
"Did you know about this?" Ginny glared at Draco, then, without waiting for an answer, she turned back to Shawn. "What did I tell you about going by yourself to Death Eater hideouts?" she hissed.
"Uh…" Shawn looked a bit sheepish, "Don't go?"
Meanwhile, Draco was rapidly making various hand motions behind Ginny's back, which Shawn tried to interpret. "I mean….I thought you were in danger…and then Dad disappeared, so I thought that I'd….come and buy a Happy Meal…but the penguins were marching…uh, I don't think I got that last part, Dad."
Draco tried to not to slap his hand against his forehead as Ginny turned her glare onto him.
"Oh man, you are so whipped," said a new voice.
"Stupefy!" yelled out four voices and Duke immediately found himself back on the ground once more.
Draco, Ginny and Shawn all stared at Lucius. The latter simply shrugged, "I figured that it's my job to set an example and all."
"I have the coolest grandfather ever!" crowed Shawn.
Lucius looked pleasantly surprised by this comment, "I must say I'm quite surprised. When I told you to see to the matter of the Malfoy heir, I had no idea you'd be that quick." he told his son.
"Thank you, Father," Draco really felt like preening.
"Ahem."
"Of course, I couldn't have done it without Ginevra here!" Draco quickly added, tugging Ginny closer.
Meanwhile,
Harry looked around at the random Death Eaters chatting amongst themselves. "Where's Ron?"
At that a crossed look appeared on Hermione's face, which caused some of the Death Eaters near them to tense up slightly. "That prat," she finally hissed angrily, "Is playing World of Warcraft on Death Eater Central's computer system!"
"WHAT?"
"I know!" fumed Hermione, "Here we have the perfect chance to do some reconnaissance and he-"
"Voldemort has World of Warcraft?" blurted out Harry. When Hermione's gaze seemed to burn into him, he hastily added, "I mean, that's terribly irresponsible of him. In fact," he started towards one of the tunnels, "I'm going to give him a piece of my mind right now."
"Harry, that way leads to the swamp."
"Opps."
"Let's do this the easy way," Hermione took out her wand and quickly said, "Accio Ron Weasley!"
A loud scream was immediately heard through the cave as Ron came flying out of one of the tunnel entrances and landed in a heap in front of Hermione.
"Give a bloke some warning, would ya?" groaned Ron from his place on the stone floor.
Hermione opened her mouth to retort when a familiar evil laugh echoed through the tunnels and Voldemort glided back into the main cavern. "I'm back!" he cackled.
"AH!!!" Ron resumed screaming. "We're all going to die! I'm too young to die!!"
"I'll see you back at the Manor, son," Lucius told Draco, "In fact, I think that trip to Mongolia is looking very attractive right now…."
Harry just grabbed onto Ron's arm and jerked him back, thus saving Ron from some of the hexes Voldemort was now shooting at them. "Do you have the portkey?" he yelled at Hermione.
"I got it!" was the reply as she took ahold of Harry's other arm and they disappeared from the cavern.
"I guess I understand why Grandfather finally did a hostile takeover-" was the last thing Lucius heard as Draco, Ginny and Shawn disappeared from view.
"Hmm," Lucius pondered to himself as the Death Eaters began scrambling to get out of the way of Voldemort's wrath once more, "Hostile takeover. I like the sound of it. In fact, I like it a lot."
He grinned as one of the hexes zapped Earl on the butt.
Back at Hogswarts
"Well, I guess it's time for me to go back now…" Shawn said nervously, looking at the ground before he was enveloped in a tight hug by Ginny.
"It was great seeing you," she smiled shakily.
Draco took her into his arms, "Don't worry, if Blaise is right, you'll even get to see him next year!" he said soothingly.
Ginny glared at him.
"Or maybe not."
"I am throwing that pile of parchment out the window of the Astronomy tower the first chance I get," she muttered.
"Aw…"
"Glad to see some things never change," Shawn gave the others another small smile before he tilted the time-turner over a couple of times. "See you in the future! Remember to buy lots of presents for me!" he grinned cheekily before he disappeared.
"I really thought V-V-Vo-Voldemort was dead," Ron finally said, "He did do the whole dramatic fainting and all…"
Draco mock-gasped, "You said his name! Weasley, my hero!"
"Shut up Malfoy."
"That never changes, either," Ginny said to Hermione under her breath.
The latter just hid a grin before she announced, "Of course Voldemort isn't dead! In fact, he can't die until the end of our 7th year-"
"Oh right!" Ron smacked his forehead, "Because then that muggle, JFK-"
"JKR," corrected Hermione.
"-she'll have nothing to write about!"
*GASP*
End Book 1.
Thanks for reading, everyone!
The sequel: Curse of the Second Assistant has been posted and can be found here.