A/N: Do you know, one thing that I love is when I see people favoriting my stories, and subscribing to author alert. *_* Totally made my day. I would love it if some of you did review. I really would like to know if I'm doing something wrong. Or anything, tips? Feedback. :) But I guess I'm thankful to all of you who are reading this story, or all my other stories! I'm so so so so sorry it's so late. School's been really overwhelming, stressful and overbearing. I wrote most of this on my trip down to Virginia. It's been sitting in my computer for the longest time. I'll post up another chapter when I have the time. I'll try to be more frequent about it. My goal is to get up a chapter every Friday. I'll work on it. Thank you for the patience!
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"Okay, come on kids. I hope you picked out what you wanted so we can go home," Hollie reprimanded coming up behind the two little Malfoys.
Bethany looked up at Hollie.
"Yes, Auntie Hollie," Bethany smiled, and ran off with Scorpius as they found something they liked.
Hollie laughed fondly as they chose out the harmless materials from the Weasley's joke shop. Well, from where she was standing all the harmful ones were not in their direction.
"Taking care of Malfoy's kids eh?" A voice carried on behind her.
Hollie spun around and smiled at the Weasley. It was George, since he was now distinguishable from his brother. Having a missing ear and all.
"Yeah of course, you know that Draco's different, and Katie she's one of my best friends," she shrugged with a smirk.
"Oh and don't I remember that, before Fred and I left, you guys were worse then us with the crazy tricks. Especially you and Katie, those were some good times," George grinned and gave her a pat on the head.
Hollie sighed and shook her head at him. She then went back to watching the Malfoy kids.
She then went back to watching the Malfoy kids. Back in school she was in Harry's class, but not in his house. Hollie had been a Ravenclaw who had be friended a Gryffindor and Slytherin. Katie being the Gryffindor and Draco being a Slytherin, this was their second year of school. Hollie had met Draco on a whim and possibly on purpose. She and Jenn, one of her roommates in Ravenclaw, were eating a muggle snack called sour skittles in the library. Madam Pince had no idea, they were hidden from view. Jenn started throwing sour skittles at random unsuspecting people.
They twitched every time Jenn hit them, which brought a whole round of giggles from both girls. Hollie then started to throw skittles as well. Unfortunately for her, she ended up hitting a certain Malfoy. She made the mistake of laughing when it ended up on his paper. His head snapped up and he looked around with a scowl on his face. He had heard her laughing and went to investigate.
Hollie had always known that she had bad luck. Draco had found her instantly.
"Moore, what the hell are you bloody doing?" he drawled with a raised eyebrow.
This surprised Hollie, she had no idea that the Malfoy twerp knew of her existence.
"Well, if you must know, I am enjoying my simple time here in the library. Trying to study, because that's what we Ravenclaw's do according to everyone else here in school," Hollie retorted smartly holding up a random book up, really out of nowhere.
"What are you throwing at me?" he asked with a scowl.
"I don't know what you are referring to," Hollie looked up at him with an innocent look.
If it was even possible his glare increased.
"You know Malfoy, glaring at me isn't going to solve anything," the girl smirked defiantly.
"Moore, tell me what where you throwing at me," he voice didn't go to a whining tone, but he kept his glare in place.
"Damn, you're so annoying. I'm not even doing anything to you," Hollie scoffed. "Leave me alone and get off my case."
By now you'd know that he would be furious, but Hollie paid no mind to it. The twelve year old didn't scare her, she'd met scarier people. Death Eaters were one of those.
"Wait until my father hears about this," Draco spat and went to walk away, but Hollie stopped him in his tracks.
"What, your not big enough to fight your own battles? Have to have daddy dearest fight your battles. What a baby," she rolled her eyes and looked at him with a hard stare. "Do you want to hear something Draco Malfoy?"
Draco stared at her, refusing to move as Hollie stood up and walked up to him. She stood a foot away from him and gave him a smirk.
"You don't scare me," she enunciated each word slowly.
The tension was cut by her throwing a blue sour skittle in his face and walking back to the table where she and Jenn sat, the both of the girls ignoring the platinum blond that stood there dumbfounded. From then on Hollie would always bother Draco, until he snapped and begrudgingly allowed Hollie to become friends with him. Since she'd always take no for an answer when he told her to go away.
Later on she met Katie in the end of her third year, she had run into the Gryffindor after she had literally run into her in the hallway when Hollie was on her way to Transfiguration. Katie had been knocked out and Hollie took the task of taking her to the Hospital Wing and staying there until the girl woke up. The two became fast friends, then Katie met Draco.
Hollie noticed by the middle of fourth year when Katie started to have feelings for the Malfoy. Drama revolved around that since Katie wasn't occupied with Quidditch because of the Tri-Wizard Tournament. They ended up getting together in the middle of fifth year. It was kept a secret for a while. The secret was actually kept until the Battle of Hogwarts ended. That was the time when his parents found out about their relationship.
For a while it was complicated and a mess, but the two of them eventually worked it out, with his and her family.
After the kids and Hollie left the joke shop they headed home. Since it was about time they did. As they walked down the street, towards her new flat she pondered over, while watching the kids enjoy the light drizzle of the rain, the fact that her neighbor had asked to have tea in his flat. From the looks of his flatmate, that wasn't a normal occurrence. At least this Sherlock character was a fine looking man.
She'd just have to be careful.
