Fighting A War
Prologue
"Hello Ivan" smiled Helen Longbottom. Ivan looked up at his friend and grinned. He was a handsome man who had inherited his mother's Slav cheekbones and stormy grey eyes. He was also an Auror, a dangerous job, for the war with Grindelwald was at its height.
"Hi Nell" he replied "Where is everyone?" he asked looking round for the rest of their group of friends affectionately known as O.T.T.T. which stood for the Organisation for the Trials and Tribulations of Teachers. It was made up of him, his twin Tatiana, her boyfriend Alessio Zabini, Rema Bell, Janus Lupin, Niall Spinnet and Nell.
"In parlour 3" she answered "I'll join you just as soon as Edward and Edna get here. I take it you'll be having the same as always?"
"Yes" he answered and ducked into the parlour.
Every Saturday the O.T.T.T. met at The Griffin's Nest, a small pub that no one but a few select people knew about. It had as regular clientele and had been bought 200 years ago by P.Z.B.L.S. Enterprises which comprised of a Potter a Zabini a Bell a Longbottom and a Spinnet. The Longbottom family ran it and the other 4 families were silent backers.
A tall young woman identical to Ivan except for the fact that her hair was long and straight turned her head
"Vanya!" she cried in delight "It's you! I thought with all the paperwork after your last mission,"
"Tanya" sighed a tall black haired man with hazel eyes and olive skin "much as I love you, you do have the slightest tendency to go on a bit, Hi Ivan."
"Ivan you great galumphing half- Russian you," grinned a brown haired man looking up from the game of chess he was playing with a red haired sapphire eyed woman, "I thought you had disappeared in the wilds of Scotland never to be seen again!"
"Well there goes that game of chess," sighed the woman "Janus move your chair I want to get up,"
"Of course Rema my pearl of pearls, my flower of flowers, my"
"Shut up Janus," begged a man with aqua eyes and auburn hair "I still haven't got over my hangover from last night, so for the sake of my sanity I beg you to shut up,"
"You have sanity now?" smiled Nell as she came in the door laden with a large tray filled with food, "I come bearing gifts of food butterbeer and hangover cures."
The group laughed and began to eat. As they finished off their food Alessio turned to Ivan and asked
"Are you going to have a new partner since Macmillan you know died,"
"Yes" Ivan replied absent mindedly eating apple crumble.
"Maybe you'll get Meg," he replied, "She's getting a new partner as well"
"Heaven forbid," said Ivan looking scandalised "We'd have killed each other before the day was over,"
"Well you never know," said Niall "Crouch might have a sense of humour."
"Crouch wouldn't know a sense of humour if it danced naked in front of him wearing our house elf's tea cosy," said Janus.
Nell blinked several times "Ok do not go there," she said "The mental images are just to awful"
"I agree," replied Janus in a heart felt voice.
The group laughed and then got ready to leave to go home. Ivan and Tatiana went to a large ornate door marked Potter, opened it and then flooed home.
A/N*****************************************************************
Just to explain Russian diminutives:
Ivan=Vanya
Tatiana=Tanya
Mum=Mama
Grandma=Baba
Natalia= Natascha
Prologue
"Hello Ivan" smiled Helen Longbottom. Ivan looked up at his friend and grinned. He was a handsome man who had inherited his mother's Slav cheekbones and stormy grey eyes. He was also an Auror, a dangerous job, for the war with Grindelwald was at its height.
"Hi Nell" he replied "Where is everyone?" he asked looking round for the rest of their group of friends affectionately known as O.T.T.T. which stood for the Organisation for the Trials and Tribulations of Teachers. It was made up of him, his twin Tatiana, her boyfriend Alessio Zabini, Rema Bell, Janus Lupin, Niall Spinnet and Nell.
"In parlour 3" she answered "I'll join you just as soon as Edward and Edna get here. I take it you'll be having the same as always?"
"Yes" he answered and ducked into the parlour.
Every Saturday the O.T.T.T. met at The Griffin's Nest, a small pub that no one but a few select people knew about. It had as regular clientele and had been bought 200 years ago by P.Z.B.L.S. Enterprises which comprised of a Potter a Zabini a Bell a Longbottom and a Spinnet. The Longbottom family ran it and the other 4 families were silent backers.
A tall young woman identical to Ivan except for the fact that her hair was long and straight turned her head
"Vanya!" she cried in delight "It's you! I thought with all the paperwork after your last mission,"
"Tanya" sighed a tall black haired man with hazel eyes and olive skin "much as I love you, you do have the slightest tendency to go on a bit, Hi Ivan."
"Ivan you great galumphing half- Russian you," grinned a brown haired man looking up from the game of chess he was playing with a red haired sapphire eyed woman, "I thought you had disappeared in the wilds of Scotland never to be seen again!"
"Well there goes that game of chess," sighed the woman "Janus move your chair I want to get up,"
"Of course Rema my pearl of pearls, my flower of flowers, my"
"Shut up Janus," begged a man with aqua eyes and auburn hair "I still haven't got over my hangover from last night, so for the sake of my sanity I beg you to shut up,"
"You have sanity now?" smiled Nell as she came in the door laden with a large tray filled with food, "I come bearing gifts of food butterbeer and hangover cures."
The group laughed and began to eat. As they finished off their food Alessio turned to Ivan and asked
"Are you going to have a new partner since Macmillan you know died,"
"Yes" Ivan replied absent mindedly eating apple crumble.
"Maybe you'll get Meg," he replied, "She's getting a new partner as well"
"Heaven forbid," said Ivan looking scandalised "We'd have killed each other before the day was over,"
"Well you never know," said Niall "Crouch might have a sense of humour."
"Crouch wouldn't know a sense of humour if it danced naked in front of him wearing our house elf's tea cosy," said Janus.
Nell blinked several times "Ok do not go there," she said "The mental images are just to awful"
"I agree," replied Janus in a heart felt voice.
The group laughed and then got ready to leave to go home. Ivan and Tatiana went to a large ornate door marked Potter, opened it and then flooed home.
A/N*****************************************************************
Just to explain Russian diminutives:
Ivan=Vanya
Tatiana=Tanya
Mum=Mama
Grandma=Baba
Natalia= Natascha