Hey Guys! I don't own the characters, except for Nicole. =) This is just going to be a couple of drabbles (right?) about what might happen if Draco and/or Harry was forced to play a bunch of games. I am planning on doing Old Maid (becuase who does't love that game?) and Sorry, but if you think of one you want me to do, do't hesitat to ask.
"Ha ha, I sunk your battleship!"
"Bugger."
These words greeted Draco Malfoy as he struggled through the door to the small apartment he shared with Nicole, Harry, and the occasional visiting friend with no place to go. He slammed the door loudly, expecting to be reprimanded. Instead, Nicole gave a gleeful laugh.
"Bet you can't guess where my ship is!"
"You're right, and since that was my last ship, we have to stop playing," Harry retorted.
"Hello? I'm home!" Draco yelled.
"Draco!" Harry came sailing into his arms. "So sorry love, but Nicole was being difficult."
"I was being difficult? It's not my fault that you suck at Battleship."
Draco was busy kissing Harry and would have been happy to ignore her, but the word "battleship" was new to him. He pulled his face away and looked at her quizzically.
"What the heck is Battleship?"
"Hey, I wasn't done with you yet," Harry complained.
"Sorry." Draco bent his face back down.
Nicole tapped her foot, waiting impatiently until Harry was done with Draco's mouth. When they finally broke apart, Draco turned his face back to her.
"You were saying?"
"Battleship is a game."
Draco stared at her blankly. "Thanks for clearing that up, now I know exactly what you're talking about."
"Don't be rude. Come in here and I'll show you how to play."
Draco carried Harry into the kitchen, where the game was set up on the table. Nicole waved her wand and all the pieces reset, flying into their respective trays to quietly await the start of another game. Draco dropped into a chair and stared at the tray in front of him. It looked like nothing he'd ever seen before.
"Whatever you do, don't set up like I do," Harry said smilingly from his lap.
"Oh? How do you set up?
"He puts all his ships in a square pattern. Easy to spot once you've played him four or five times. It gets dreadfully boring after awhile. So, let's get on with it." Nicole clapped her hands and set about arranging her ships.
"Are you ever going to explain to me how you play?" Draco asked, raising an eyebrow.
"All you have to do is set your ships up horizontally or vertically, then try to guess where I've set up mine," Nicole replied, placing her last ship and staring at him with her wide, green eyes.
"Umm…"
"Here, I'll help you," Harry seized the longest ship and placed it as close to the center of the board as he could get it.
Draco picked up the smallest ship and tucked it away in the lower right hand corner. The other three ships they placed randomly, and Draco looked over at Nicole, grinning.
"You go first," he said sweetly.
"Alright. A 5."
"That's a miss," Draco replied, and Harry placed a white peg on the A5 square. "Why is it on the bottom?"
"Because," Harry replied with a grin, "you mark on the top after you ask her. Wait, you'll see."
"Go already, we don't have all night," Nicole snapped.
"Ok. F 2."
"Miss!"
Harry put a white peg in the F 2 slot on the radar screen. "See, this keeps track of where you missed on her side."
"This is complicated. Can't we play chess or something?
"We always play chess and you always win. D 7."
"Miss. H 9."
"Miss."
Harry yawned sleepily. "This could go on forever."
*
It did go on forever. By the time Nicole finally won, it was close to eleven o' clock at night.
"You did really good, much better than Harry," Nicole told him consolingly. "At least you actually tried."
"Hey, I do try!" Harry napped, pouting heavily.
"I don't understand why we just had to waste an hour and a half of our lives playing a game invented by muggles. We could have played a thousand games of Exploding Snap by now."
"You need to learn some muggle games. We can't always play Wizard's Chess and Exploding snap; my head would explode. Every now and then we've got to play something I can win."
"But that game had no point!"
"Neither does chess. Now, if you'll kindly excuse me, I'm going to bed. Good night!" She skipped off and they heard a door close.
"Well, I think you did good. Now if you'll bend your head a little, I'll make that wait worthwhile."
"Ooh, goody."
When Nicole woke up the next morning, all the pieces to the game were scattered all over the floor, and Harry and Draco were snoozing on the table, curled up under a blanket, their clothes all over the floor.
Thaks for reading! Review please!
