FanFiction - Harry Potter
AN: So far I've only have one review, which isn't that encouraging, but I'll just go with it! :) x
Did anyone realise the last chapter was named after a Beatles song? Well it was, and all the rest will be too. Enjoy!
You Know What To Do
Alex let out a frustrated sigh as she walked into the dinning room that morning. She had just received a letter from one of her best friends: Simon. "They're gonna bloody kill me!" She announced.
"Don't worry, I'm sure it'll be painless." Bellatrix shook her head and chuckled lightly as she entered the room. "How are they planning on doing it?"
Alex shrugged, re-reading the letter again, making sure she got the right message. "Avada probably... but that's not the point! Mum! You're not taking this seriously!" She exclaimed.
Her mother held up her hands, surrendering. "I'm sorry dear, but you know they won't actually kill you, right?"
Alex turned and raise an eyebrow at her mother. "Mum, you realise this is Simon, Charlie and Jo we're talking about?"
Bellatrix stopped for a moment and her face turned serious. "You right... come on, quickly! We must pack our things and get as far away as we can!"
Her daughter smiled. "Oh ha ha! Very funny! Real witty Mum!"
Bellatrix smiled also. Not soon after that, Lola, along with several other house elves came and served their breakfast up for them. Once they'd both finished eating Alex rushed up stairs to write a reply to Simon.
Later that day the Lestranges had arranged to meet the Malfoys in Diagon Alley, for school shopping. They were already late (as usual) and Alex was struggling to put on her coat and tie her shoelaces, at the same time.
"Merlin!" She cried, frustrated. "I can't wait to be seventeen!"
Her mother chuckled and rolled her eyes. "Don't wish your life away sweetie."
Alex let out another grunt and eventually they managed to make it to Diagon Alley without being too late.
The Lestranges walked down the high street, stopping every now and then to look in shop windows and to gawp at price tags, even though money wasn't exactly a issue. Alex hadn't been to Diagon Alley for ages, since she didn't really go much during the holidays and all of the rest of the time she's in Bulgaria. The only time she actually visits the shops, is when she needs more things for school, and most of the time they're bought privately. They don't sell many things need for Durmastrang in England.
"Finally, I thought you'd never show." A voice drawled behind her. Alex spun round to see who it was. Surprise surprise, it was her cousin.
"What is up, Coco?" She asked cheekily, while poking him repeated in the chest.
He scowled at her. "Haven't we discussed the fact that Coco is not short for Draco? yes, I believe we have."
Alex loved making up girly nicknames for him. 'Coco' was her latest concoction, and she was very proud of it. "Whatever." She replied bubbly.
Her mother was busy talking to Lucius on the other side of the road. Alex had no idea what they were talking about but it probably was her mother coming up with some excuse over why they were late, so decided not to get involved, otherwise she might just wind up in that excuse.
The parents had gone to do their own shopping, which left Alex and Draco on their own, which was kind of what they wanted in the first place. They were currently walking out of 'Florish and Blotts' after buying a handful of books each and stuffing them in their bags. Thank God for the Undetectable Extension charm.
"Dod you hear that the Weasel twin have opened their own jokes shop?" Draco asked as he slipped his shoulder bag back over his shoulder.
Alex turned to him in surprise. "No! Of course not! How would I know that! I don't even know the Weasels." Draco rolled his eyes at her obvious response. "But the joke shop sounds cool, do you think we can check it out?" She continued.
Draco thought about this. He hadn't actually been in there yet, so it might be worth seeing... but then again it will mean most probably having to face at least one Weasel.
"Please!" Alex begged, with her hands clasped in front of her. "Please, please, please, please, please, please, please-"
Draco rolled his eyes. "You're not going to stop until I say yes, are you?"
"Nope!" replied Alex, who was now jumping up and down. "Please, please, please, please-"
"Alright!" Draco shouted over her pleading. "Alright, fine! We'll go, but if anything goes wrong, I'm blaming you."
Alex shrugged. "You blame me for everything anyway, it makes no difference." She told him.
"True." He admitted. And with that, they both made their way to WWW.
They walked down one of the positively darker and gloomier streets in Diagon Alley. The shops down there were mainly old, and I'm talking really ancient, antique shops. Beggars sat on the sides of the street, near the gutters, muttering to themselves or asking for money.
"Gloomy or what?" Alex whispered in Draco's ear. He smiled.
"I know right?"
After a five to ten minute walk they'd passed at least fifteen beggars, which they had to threaten, otherwise they would have left them alone. Suddenly a ridiculously bright orange building came into view. They'd taken a short cut down the dark alley, instead of going round the long main road to reach the shop.
There were three stories to the building and a gigantic decorative archway, for the entrance. Even from a distance, Alex could hear the excited chatter and the laughter of all the busy customers inside.
"Race you there!" Alex shouted with glee as she sprinted off towards the shop. Draco smiled and followed, a good few metres behind.
Draco had caught up with Alex, by the time they reached the entrance, but hadn't quite beaten her. So they called it a draw. "W when d did you get s so f fast!" Draco exclaimed as he caught his breath again.
Alex snorted. "I've always been this fast, I just never went full speed with you. I mean, how would I look if I won every race? I had to let you win some, I'm not that mean."
Draco rolled his eyes. "Great. That makes me feel a whole lot better. At least you'll be a valuable member of the Slytherin Quidditch team."
"If I'm actually in Slytherin." She pointed out.
Draco raised an eyebrow. "You're serious? Alex, go look up Slytherin in the dictionary. You'll see a nice picture of yourself and caption which says 'Natural Evil'."
Alex laughed. "I know, don't flatter me. I was just looking at the situation from every angle."
The interior of the shop was much more impressive the the exterior. There were toys and games everywhere, mechanical planes and miniature dragons flew around the shop and jack-in-the-boxes popped up everywhere. There were shelves with jars filled with every single sweet you could ever think of. And, the WWW most prized invention. Sweets that can get you out of class and those which can be used of amazing pranks and jokes.
Alex picked up a jar from one of the shelves. It contained jelly worms. "Hey Draco! Look at this!" She called. Draco walked over with a different jar in his hand. Alex shook her jar, and the jelly worms wiggled around wildly.
"Neat." Draco commented, smiling widely. "Look at this." And he shook his jar. It was filled with jellyfish in water. The jellyfish started to glow, one yellow, another green and the last purple.
"Wicked." Alex admired. She put her jar back and walked over to a stand which held small bottles filled with pink liquid. "Love potion." She read. "Nice."
"You know your mum would kill you if she knew you'd bought that." Draco had joined her and was gently handling one of the vials.
"Hello there my lovely lady! Welcome to our humble store." A voice called out from behind Alex. She turned around to see two men who were reasonably tall, pale complexions and a head of cropped ginger hair. She had no idea which one had just spoken, they were identical.
"Love potion. Our own recipe, guaranteed to work every time!" The other one announced. "Interested, my lovely?"
"One, I don't need a potion to get boys. Two, my Mum will murder me if she found out I'd bought this and three, I so much prefer you're glowing jellyfish. So no, I don't your love potion will be a good purchase for me." Alex explained.
The twins shrugged. "Fair play." They said in unison.
Alex and Draco turned to go over to the pranking section. "Hey! Aren't you Malfoy?" One of the red-heads asked.
They both turned around again. Draco scowled, and Alex watched the interaction carefully. "So what if I am?" Draco replied snidely and Alex rolled her eyes at his obviousness.
"Just asking!" One of the men answered and they both held their hands up in surrender. "But if you cause any mishaps or do anything wrong Malfoy, you're out. No words said." The boys warned.
Draco raised an eyebrow. "What if it's her?" He asked, indicating Alex.
The twins looked at her, and thought about it for a moment. "Fine, then it's not your fault. But make sure nothing happens, or else." And with that, they left and Alex and Draco returned to their shopping.
"No Harry. I'm not really sure that that is appropriate to use within the school grounds. I mean, what happens if Filch catches you with it?" A girls voice spoke from behind a shelf.
"No Hermione. I'm not going to let Filch catch me with it, that would be incredibly dim. And besides, this is dead useful." A boy's voice argued.
Alex and Draco were on the other side of the shelf, looking at puking pastels. Draco stopped suddenly when he heard the voices and made Alex drop all the pastels that she was holding.
"Draco! What the hell!" She exclaimed, picking up the fallen pastels and putting them back on the shelves. he ignored her and walked round the other side of the looked at him in disbelief and followed him.
"Oi Potter! What you doing here? Trying to get out of class more often? That's not a good idea, don't want to get anymore dim than you already are!" Draco drawled.
Harry and Hermione turned to face him, scowled deeply, and reached and took out their wands. Alex appeared at Draco's side, with her arms folded and her eyebrow raised. She cleared her throat.
Draco turned to her. "What?" He asked, viciously.
She rolled her eyes. "Do you have to start a fight everywhere you go Draco? I thought losing a duel against that beggar in the alley would have been enough for you." Alex asked cheekily.
Draco narrowed his eyes at her. "Whatever." He mumbled. "You lost against him too, he had you hands behind your back with your front against the wall."
"Thats only because I left my wand at home and I didn't want to kick that hobo's ass the muggle way." She replied sassily.
Harry and Hermione watched this interaction with interest, they were surprised that Malfoy wasn't beating this girl up already. "What do you want Malfoy?" Harry asked forcefully.
"Why would you think I want something from you?" Draco replied nastily.
Hermione rolled her eyes. "Why else would you be here?"
He shrugged. "Maybe I just like getting on your nerves. It's quite addictive you know."
Hermione mocked surprise. "Didn't know you could use such a big word, Drakie." She emphasized his pet name (given to him my Pansy).
Alex stayed quite this whole time, analysing her cousin's behaviour around his school mates. It was just how he described it, constant bickering. She decided that this must be the Mudblood he kept going on about and one of the buddies. Potter? Harry Potter? Alex doubted that, even though Draco mentioned many a time that he was the most stuck up Griffindor there is.
"Well?" Draco had asked her something, and Alex snapped out of her daydream.
"Huh?"
Draco rolled his eyes and muttered "Air-head" before turning to Harry. "See at school Potty, Mudblood!" He spat, before turning away and walking out of the shop.
Alex turned and watched him go, then faced the couple, eyed them up and down, took another look at the boy, and left. "Draco! Draco come back!" She was running down the stairs trying to catch up with him. "Draco!"
He spun round so fast they ended up face to face. "What?" His voice didn't contain as much malice as it had before, but he was still edgy.
"Don't leave yet, don't let them get to you. Anyways, don't you want some of those jellyfish?" Her voice was soft, and she tried her hardest to calm him down, she hated it when he got into one of his moods. They usually both ended in bruises.
Draco sighed. "Fine, but we need to get one of those jumbo prank sets." He smiled weakly.
Alex smiled widely, grabbed his hand and started pulling him back up the stairs. "You think I'd leave without one?"
Draco laughed. How could he be so stupid?
They walked down the dark alley once again. This time, they each held a bright green and orange striped bag and were laughing their heads off.
"Yeah! that time when you fell through the ceiling was hilarious! And during one of Dad's business dinners too!"
Alex pouted. "That was a dodgy floor board and you knew it!" She accused. "Anyways... it doesn't really matter that my nickers showed, I was only six."
Draco laughed even louder. "No you weren't, you were at least ten!"
"Whatever." She mumbled. "I'm not the only one who has embarrassing things in their past."
Draco stopped and raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean?"
Alex smiled mischievously up at him. "What about that time when you were eleven and you had a strop in the middle of (wizard) London?"
He flushed brightly at the memory. "Didn't your hair turn bright pink and you couldn't turn it back? So you had to walk all the way through London shopping before-" Alex's teasing stopped abruptly as Draco placed a palm over her mouth.
He narrowed his eyes. "Shut it cheeky, otherwise I might have to tickle you to death." Alex visibly paled at his suggestion and he laughed. Even though he was joking Alex
wisely kept quite for the rest of the walk back. Their parents were now in sight and they were talking to one of people at Florish and Blotts.
"You know what's great about having a cousin, so laid back and boyish like you?" Draco spoke through the silence. Alex looked at him, surprised by his sudden rush of emotion. "Whenever I'm in a strop or a sticky situation, you'll help me. You know what to do."
Alex smirked. "Yep, that's me. Little miss Wisdom."
"Oh Merlin. Don't go and get your pretty head even more inflated!" Draco exclaimed, smiling.
Alex stuck her chin up, flicked her hair back and walked quickly back to the parents. Draco laughed at her naturally good acting and followed.
She never stopped surprising him, she kept him on his toes. Just the way Draco liked it.
Well, if you weren't constantly on your toes, you ended up in some kind of luminous slime. And it usually smelt pretty bad too, so whatever you do, don't eat it. Draco learnt that the hard way.
