Month: February

Prompt: Shallow

Location: The Fish Spa, Philippines

Word Count: 500

It was Luna's idea to go in the Fish Spa.

It was also Luna's idea to make him dip his feet in dragon dung.

"They say the smellier the feet, the more the fish will nibble it," Luna airily said at his frowning face.

And as Nott could never deny anything to Luna, and if that meant he had to cover his feet in dragon dung, or jump off a cliff, then bloody hell he would do it, just so she could be happy.

So Theodore dipped his large dragon dung-covered feet in the shallow pool full of big fish that immediately began to nibble at his feet. It was like they were having a buffet. It was ticklish and he was biting his tongue to keep from giggling like a second year Hufflepuff girl. It wouldn't be good for his tough ex-Death Eater image. Just because he was done with that part of his life didn't mean that he wanted people to look at him strangely. And a nineteen year old with scars on his body and one on his face who was giggling like a school girl would get strange looks.

Well he did have dragon dung on his feet...

Looking around the spa, he noticed that not one wizard or witch was glaring at him like they mostly did in Britain. It seemed that outside of Britain, people really didn't care if you were an ex-Death Eater or a War Hero. If you had money, talent, a great personality and the right attitude, you were worthy of being called magical.

But they were staring at Luna and him with confused eyes. It was the dragon dung, he thought. Because they were the only ones who had used the dung.

Theo felt stupid.

A small pale hand touched his much larger one. He looked up at Luna who was giggling. "Aren't the doctor fish amazing, Theodore?" she asked him between giggles.

And he had to agree – these fish were eating their dead cells with a speed that would have made a roadrunner cry in shame. But did they really have to use the dung? It smelled awful.

"I feel stupid," he told her. "We're the only ones with dung on our feet."

She sighed and laid her head on his shoulder. "The doctor fish will make our feet smooth for our walk that we're going to take tomorrow to learn about the water faeries, and when we find them you'll be able to transfigure them to fire faeries," she said dreamily, smiling up at him.

Her blue eyes looked so happy and hopeful that he felt bad for saying it again. "I still feel stupid, though."

Luna's lips went to his nose and kissed it. "Well at least think of this. We'll be stupid together."

Theodore couldn't help but chuckle at her response. He was lucky that he had Luna to be stupid with. Not many girls liked to be seen that way, but his Luna did.

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