AN: thank you for everyone who has reviewed the first chapter. I'm glad you like it. Here the next chapter, hope you like it. Warning: un-beta-ed (if anyone wants to help me, please PM me)
This is a Herculean Thing
Chapter 2
Harry opened his eyes when he heard knock from his door. He, tiredly, got onto his feet and opened the door. He was greeted by a sight of Draco's house elf bowing deeply in front of him.
"Mister Malfoy asked Bottle to wake Mister Potter up. Breakfast is ready" Bottle said.
"Thank you, Bottle" Harry nodded and the elf disappeared.
Breakfast? Harry walked back to his room and looked at the clock. 08.00 am. He had slept until the next morning. He shook his head and went into the bathroom, washed his face before went downstairs. Harry looked around as he tried to remember where the kitchen was. Damn Malfoy and their obsession with mansion. Even Black house wasn't this big. Along the halfway, he saw many costly vases, pictures of some people Harry wasn't familiar with and also some ancient cups and other things in a large glass cupboard. After walking around for few minutes, finally he found Hermione and Draco in the kitchen. They were bickering like an old married couple while preparing some food. Harry shook his head and sat down on the dinning table.
"Here. These are acceptation letters I got few days ago from our new school. Here, since we're not eighteen yet we have to attend school so we will go to La Push High School." Draco passes few papers in front of him. Harry sighed and nodded. He actually didn't like the idea of returning to school but now he didn't have any reason to say no.
"Where will we start?"
"The day after tomorrow. Oh, here are some letters form Ron and the Weasley." Draco dropped few letters on the table. Harry's gloomy face brightened up and he immediately opened them one by one. He even read some of them out loud when he found out they were not only for him but also for Hermione and Draco. Hermione put their breakfast on the table with Bottle's help and sat beside Draco who was glaring at Ron's letter in annoyed.
Dear Harry, Hermione and Ferret
Harry, everything is getting better here. Mum has accepted the fact that Fred and Ginny aren't with us anymore. She has stopped crying in the middle of the night. Fleur is expecting a baby and Bill is so excited about it. He can't stop tell everyone about his new baby. Charlie visits today and he brought home a lovely young woman named Skylar that reminds me of Tonks. She is a tomboy as well and she works with Charlie in Rumania. Mum is very happy when he told us they are engaged.
The joke shop George run with Lee and Angelina will be reopened tomorrow. I think I will help them too since I don't have anything to do and I don't want to work in Ministry without you guys. I don't want suffer alone. Harry, believe or not Teddy has been asking for you since you're gone. He keeps calling 'Hawwy... Hawwy'. I think he misses you.
Mum says 'Good luck for your new life dear and please try to say out of trouble there, especially with you Draco Malfoy.' Tell Malfoy to keep his hand off Hermione or I will hex him into next week if I find out he hurts her or takes an advantage of her. Mum sends her love for you, Hermione and ...Malfoy. Surprising, I know.
Send me your address, okay so I can visit you with everyone.
Your best friend forever
Ronald Weasley.
"Stay out of trouble especially me? You're the one who inherited your father's talent of getting into trouble, Potter!" Draco sulked. Harry and Hermione laughed. Hermione kissed Draco's cheek, trying to wipe off the sulk expression off his gorgeous face.
"Hey, I have an idea" Harry said, putting away the letter and took his breakfast. He rolled his eyes when Draco and Hermione looked at him cautiously.
"It's not an absurd idea, I swear. I just think about Teddy. He is my, you know, godson yet I leave him in Mrs. Weasley's hands. What about I bring him here to live with us?" Harry said.
"I don't think it's a bad idea, Harry. But the question is, are you ready to be a father figure for Teddy? You're still seventeen years old."Hermione said, looking at him in concern. Harry thought about it for a moment. Was he ready?
"Yes, I am ready Hermione." Harry said, looking at her straight in the eye. Hermione looked at him for a moment before turned to her boyfriend. The Slytherin Prince didn't say anything but looked at Harry carefully.
"Fine, if that's what you want. You're his godfather after all, so it's your responsibility to take care of that little monster. Besides, we have Bottle to help us take care of Teddy." Draco said. Hermione threw her arms around him and gave him a light kiss on the lips while Harry grinned madly before dashing to his room, obviously trying to find his quill and parchment to reply Ron's letter.
Harry ran downstairs once he finished his letter. He looked around for an owl and grinned when he spotted Pig, Ron's owl, in Aeon's, Draco's eagle owl, cage. He was Draco's best friend before Harry and co came into his life.
"What's this?" Draco grabbed the box fro Harry's hand and looked at it carefully. A picture of corn and strange white flower-like things on a large bowl were shown on the box. The three of them were going to watch a movie Hermione had brought. It was a Muggle movie called Inception. Harry and Draco got a job to make snack and drinks.
"It's popcorn, Draco" Harry said patiently and took a bowl and its cover. Draco eyeing the box like it was the last horcruxe they had to destroy. Harry grabbed it from his hand began to make the popcorn.
"Popcorn? Is it safe food? Its name is so strange" Harry rolled his eyes. Doesn't he realize that wizarding food's name were much stranger than this one? Maybe the rich boy was just trying to find something to insult.
"It's a good food, I assure you Draco. It won't kill you." Harry said, opening the oven and put the bowl of corn in it. They waited for a minute before a familiar was heard. Harry turned around and saw Draco was looking at the oven curiously when Harry took out the fresh made popcorn. Harry held a laugh. That boy was really amusing when it came to Muggle technology. Draco noticed Harry was looking at him amused. He glared at him before walked out the kitchen.
"Where're you going Draco?"
"I'm going to put some charms around the house so the Muggle won't be confused when they see a house appears out of nowhere here." He said, taking out his wand.
Harry followed him and watched as Draco walked around the house while muttering some unfamiliar spells. Harry turned his gaze off the busy boy and looked at his surrounding. He walked into the forest behind the house and found himself at a cliff. He looked down and gulped when he saw many rock and wild wave. He looked at his left and saw an empty beach. Hmmm maybe I can go there somewhere. He noticed few large boys with tan skin and black hair playing football at the beach. There're some girls too. They must be the local citizens.
"Potter, come one. Hermione's throwing a tantrum." Harry heard Draco yelled. He quickly apparated from the cliff and landed softly on one of the soft sofas in family room. Hermione had moved one of the sofas and placed a large TV and a DVD there. The sofa, she said, had been move to her room. Wow, lucky!
Harry sat on Hermione's left and took a handful of popcorn as the movie started. Harry held back a chuckle every time Draco tried to mock the movie, well actually he always mocked the actor Leonardo DiCaprio, and Hermione slapped his arm then began to argue. Maybe Draco was jealous of him because Hermione always said how hot Leonardo was. Harry didn't mind their bickering since he didn't really paying attention to the movie, he was just enjoying the time together with his friends.
After the movie ended, Draco ran upstairs and grabbed his broom. Harry raised an eyebrow before sprinted to his own room and took his Firebolt. Draco was waiting at the backyard when Harry approached him, grinning. Draco took out a golden snitch from his pocket before released it to the air. Both Harry and Draco jumped onto the broom and sped up to the air. They were bumping onto each other, dodging the trees, until they finally the snitch was right in front of them. Both Draco and Harry's hand stretched out to grab the snitch. Their eyes were set to the golden flying thing in front of them that they didn't realized a big tree was right in front of them.
THUMP! The loud sound of crushing followed by groans and curses broke the silence of the forest. Harry rubbed his head while Draco rubbed his shoulder as they sat up from their laying position on the ground. Harry looked around for his broom and sighed in realized when he found it was unharmed. He didn't want to lose another broom after the Nimbus 2000 incident. Draco took his broom, unharmed too, and stood up.
"Let's back to the house. I have charmed the snitch so it will go back to its place in my room in an hour, in case something like this happens." Draco said in pain before apparated with Harry. Harry began to walk but stopped when he noticed Draco wasn't following him. He turned around and saw Draco was looking at his surrounding with narrowed eyes.
"Draco? Are you coming?" Draco snapped his attention to Harry and nodded.
-next morning-
Harry scowled as he threw his books into his black bag. He really didn't want to go to school today. Hermione woke him up early and ordered him to take a bath, get dress and go downstairs for breakfast. Harry winced when he felt a sharp pain in his lower back. He and Draco had some duel last night.
'Practice is important, Potter. I don't care the Dark Lord has already fallen but we will never known what's waiting for us here. It helps us to improve our magic skill, reflex and concentration. Don't be such a wimp, Potter!'
Draco's words were still in his mind. Draco, being raised among cunning Slytherin and Death Eaters, could sense if there was something wrong. Did Draco find something wrong in this place yesterday? Draco was looking curiously at the forest but he didn't say or act like something was abnormal here after that. Well, Draco was a Slytherin after all. He always had something to hide behind that cocky mask.
"Harry, are you ready?" Hermione's voice was heard behind the door.
"Y-Yes, I'll be down in a minute" Harry replied before zipped his bag and put on his shoes. He quickly ran downstairs and headed to the kitchen and sat beside Draco, who had eaten his breakfast.
"Have you got everything you need, Harry, Draco?" Hermione asked the two boys as she put her bag on the table. Draco and Harry mumbled 'yeah'. Harry drank his milk quickly and stood up.
"Let's go!" Draco and Hermione stood up as well.
"I hope nothing bad happen in school later" Harry said. He and Hermione were waiting for Draco who fetched his car. Hermione smiled and put her hand on his shoulder.
"Don't worry, Harry. We'll be fine."
Jacob was leaning on his Rabbit while Embry and Quil were munching on two giant muffins the stole from Emily's kitchen this morning. Jacob glanced at the muffins longingly but well, he had lost on rock, paper and scissor this morning so he didn't get any of the last muffins. Embry was taunting him by making a funny face as he ate it. Jacob huffed. Jacob turned his attention to the parking lot, trying to find something cool in his schoolmates' cars. His brown eyes caught an expensive silver lamborghini-estoque.
"Wow, whose car is that?" He asked.
"Don't know but I heard we have new students. They are new to this town and live together so maybe that's their car." Embry said, his eye were on the car. Jacob frowned.
"Really? I don't know anything about it. Where do they live?"
"I heard I big abandon house in the middle of the forest. I think it's strange. I never heard about the house before and we patrolled around the forest all the time. The students also said that the house actually in Forks but La Push High School is closer to their house so they choose this school instead of Forks." Quil added, nodding.
"That's good. Poor them if they have to be in school with bloodsuckers." Embry said.
Jacob didn't say anything but he agreed though. Bloodsucker reminded him of Bella Swan, the girl who was toying with his heart. She wanted Edward but she wanted Jacob too. Jacob shook his head, trying to delete the image of dark brown haired girl from his mind. He followed his best friends to their first class, English, the only class he shared with Embry and Quil.
Jacob was laying his head on his table when the door of the class opened and a boy with jet-black messy hair and glasses entered the room nervously. He was looking around the classroom, unsure about what should he do. He was pushed forward by a curly brown haired girl behind him.
"Ah, you must be the new students." Mr. Reeds, who was actually standing behind the new students, called. The new comers turned around and smiled sheepishly.
"Why don't you introduce your self first?" Mr. Reeds said as he moved to his deck and sat comfortably there. The girl tuned to the class and smiled sweetly.
"Hi, I am Hermione Granger and this is Harry Potter. We moved from England. Actually, there three of us but the other one, Draco is in Mathematic, right now. Nice to meet you all and I hope we can be friends." She said.
Jacob noticed some guys were drooling over her and well, he couldn't deny that she was hot. Jacob's eyes moved to the taller between the two. The black-haired boy with glasses. He was looking around the classroom, trying his best to smile. His eyes landed on Jacob. Both of them were staring at each other. Jacob felt he was drowned into the green orbs he had. He felt a very weird sensation in his heart, stomach and mind.
Harry was staring at the big tan boy at the corner. His brown eyes were set on him too. Harry couldn't help but to think that the boy was absolutely gorgeous. Harry felt his cheeks went red as the boys didn't even blink when he looked at him.
"Harry!" Hermione hissed behind him, telling him to move. He broke the staring contest and quickly followed Hermione to the empty seats. Great, his seat was right beside the boy. Harry took a deep breath as he quietly sat down on his chair. Hermione was sitting in front of him, beside a perverted looking dude. He hoped this guy wouldn't do anything to her, Draco would be furious. Not to mention what Hermione would do to this poor guy if he tried anything. A hard slap like she gave Draco in their third year, maybe?
"Hey, I'm Jacob Black. Nice to meet you" Harry's green eyes turned to him. Jacob, as he said his name was, smiled at him and offered his hand. Harry smiled shyly.
"Hi, I am Harry, Harry Potter. Nice to meet you too" Harry said, shaking the bigger hand. Harry melted when Jacob gave him a charming smile. What's happen to me? Do I have a crush on him? No way! I just meet this dude. Think about Ginny, you fool! How she was so beautiful... this guy is beautiful too in a manly way. Wait No! Stop thinking like that!
Jacob smiled happily when he saw red tint appeared on Harry's pale cheeks. He is so cute!
"Ahem" Jacob sighed when he heard that. He turned around and glared at his two best friends who were watching them with a knowing look on their faces. Harry turned around as well and saw two boys, as big as Jacob, with mischievous grins that reminded him of George and Fred, although the Weasley Twins' grin was more frightening.
"Hi, I am Embry Call and this is Quil Ateara. We're Jacob's best friends." Embry said, grinning.
"Nice to meet you, I am Harry Potter."
"You can sit with us at lunch later." Quil offered.
"Thank you; I'll think a bout it"
"Class, now open your book page 39, read it and answer the questions!" Mr. Reeds' voice earned some groans and moans but they did it anyway. Jacob and Harry turned around and did the task but not without glancing to each other every five minute.
TBC
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