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Warning: Story will be male/male! Not this chapter really…..maybe if you squint really really hard but it will be going on later on I promise!

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Chapter two: One Hell of a Day

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Arthur stretched a bit as he walked out of the room where he had apparated in.

"G'mornin Ar'ter." A woman in her early 70s smiled at him as he signed his name in the book that was on her desk.

"Morning, Mrs. Somina." Arthur smiled brightly at her before stepping out into the pushing crowed that was ministry workers.

Arthur Weasley.

Age 20, married and has a bouncing baby boy at home. He got a job at the ministry shortly after he had graduated from Hogwarts and had managed to even move out of parent's house to a small apartment outside London. He and Molly had eloped without their parent's blessing when Arthur's father had died last year.

The times seemed to be even darker since Voldemort's name started to appear more frequently than it used to.

Voldemort had been terrorizing both the wizard world and the muggle world. He had somehow gained so much power that the ministry didn't even know if they could stop him. And with his followers…Deatheaters they were called……Arthur just didn't know what was going on.

But he was smart enough to be scared.

"Weasley! There you are!" A man a few years older than Arthur appeared.

"Amos, what do you have for me today?" Arthur smiled at his friend. Amos had been a few years above him at Hogwarts and had been in Hufflepuff so Arthur had never really gotten to know him. But that didn't stop him from being friends.

Arthur was still at the bottom of the Ministry since the position he had applied for; Muggle Creatures; had been merged into the jinxing office which was too crowded as it was. Arthur in return still got paid what he had been offered but instead of having an actually position, he was more like an unspeakable.

Except his work wasn't secret it was just merely that he did whatever the ministry needed of him to do.

"You're not going to like this." Amos started with a frown, "Bagnold wants someone to give a sponsor a tour of the ministry."

"A tour guide? Why wouldn't I like that? I can give a tour to any rich elderly that the Minister wants." Arthur patted Amos on the back. "Heck and if the Minister of Magic is the one asking then.."

"I'm just saying you might not like the person who you are…"

"Arthur Weasley! Good to see Mr. Diggory already told you about your assignment today." An old man stood at the end of the hallway. Despite his age he seemed to be full of youth and smiled at the young men.

"Mr. Bagnold." Arthur gave a polite handshake to the minister of magic.

"Amos, I believe you have something more important to do than escorting Mr. Weasley." Bagnold gave a sharp look to Amos who quickly bowed out and went on his way.

Arthur remained silent as he walked behind the minister of magic. He had heard many things about Bagnold considering that this man was the minister since he grandparents went to Hogwarts.

"You are very quiet for someone so young." Bagnold stated as he eyed Arthur. "You went to Hogwarts, did you not?"

"Yes sir." Arthur stated quickly.

"Dumbledore is a great man." Bagnold said more to himself, "I am hoping he would take my position from me one day."

Arthur gave a small laugh before he could help it and looked at Bagnold to see the older man giving him a questioning look.

"I do not…umm I don't think Professor Dumbledore has any passion for a job at the Ministry…..sir." Arthur added the last part sheepishly not knowing if he was over stepping his bounds or not.

"Hmmm." Bagnold just shook his head.

There was a moment of silence before Bagnold stopped just in front of the door they were supposed to meet the sponsor in.

"What was your favorite subject at school I wonder?"

"Muggle studies." Arthur blurted out without thinking then paused and smiled sheepishly at Bagnold.

The old man smiled back this time and nodded his head approvingly whilst muttering to himself and opened the door.

Arthur walked in behind Bagnold with a blush on his ears. He smiled approvingly to himself before taking a breath and looking up at the old nutter he would have to impress with a tour on the ministry.

Except the old nutter wasn't old, no, he was rather young. Arthur felt his face flush up in mortification.

Today was going to be the worst day of his life.

"Ah, Lucius was it?" Bagnold smiled as he shook the teen's hand. "I was expecting your father, to be quite honest."

"My father sends his regards but has fallen ill." Lucius stated politely. "He told me to come in his place, I hope that is not a problem."

"Not at all! I would even go as far as to say that it is better to have the son than the father. After all you are the next generation of the Malfoy name." Bagnold shook Lucius' hand and turned to Arthur.

"This is Arthur Weasley." Arthur took his cue and held out his hand for Lucius to shake. "He will be giving you the tour today as I have something that has come up."

Lucius eyed Arthur before placing his coat in Arthur's out stretched hand instead of shaking it. Arthur clenched his teeth through his smile and took the coat and hung it up at the visitor's area in good stride before turning about around and returning to Bagnold's side.

"Ya'll went to school together you say?" Bagnold smiled at Arthur then back at Lucius. "Then I hope you enjoy the tour and maybe you will get to reminisce about some of the good times."

"Quite." Lucius stated before Bagnold apologized again and left to two young men alone.

Arthur stared at the teen in front of him. Honestly he hadn't seen the young Malfoy since he had graduated from Hogwarts and had honestly not once bothered to even waste time to think of the teen.

Yet here he stood.

Lucius' hair had gotten longer and was tied back in a black ribbon, which Arthur made note to make fun of later in private company, and the teen had grown to the point where they stood eye to eye now.

"So you are a tour guide for the Minister of Magic?" Lucius sneered at Arthur.

"I do what ever he needs of me." Arthur stated motioning towards the elevator at the end of the hall that would lead them to the other departments.

"Oh! Even better, "Lucius laughed, "You don't even have a set position. Maybe after this tour he could get you to clean the owl droppings that seem to be everywhere."

Arthur clicked his tongue in annoyance and decided he would just walk to the elevators himself and maybe Lucius would follow. And if the teen didn't then it wouldn't be his fault now would it?

Lucius glared at Arthur's back as it walked to the elevators and weighed the options of following or just jinxing the older man in front of him; deciding that he would eventually need to know how to get around this place on his own Lucius followed.

Two owls were hooting on their perches in the elevator carrying notes tied to their legs.

"We use owls for department memos." Arthur stated when he saw Lucius glare daring at the bird above him.

The man in the elevator looked at both teens before shutting the door and moving to the next floor.

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"Level two, department of Magical Law Enforcement, including the Improper Use of Magic Office, Auror Headquarters and Wizengamot Administration Services." A cherry voice informed them as the elevator doors opened.

As they walked down the halls Lucius ignored most of what Arthur said and instead mused himself by the people they could see through the windows of everyone's office.

"If you are just going to ignore me through out the whole tour then I suggest we head back and you can go on your way instead of wasting my time." Arthur stated as Lucius looked at him not impressed.

"I doubt you have anything to say that is truly that interesting Weasley." Lucius eyed his fingernails before looking at Arthur with a glance that suggested he really did not care. "If you wish you can just make this an escort request and then you don't have to say anything through out the rest of the tour."

Arthur looked like he was about to yell at Lucius. His jaw clenched at the younger teen before a hand was placed on his shoulder.

"Arthur I have a question…" The person who interrupted them didn't even bother to recognize Lucius was there and instead look at Arthur expectantly.

Lucius recognized the older man right away.

"Alastor, it's going to have to wait…." Arthur eyed Lucius with annoyance, "I'll come back up here after I'm done with him."

"If I'm that much of a bother for your, what I am sure is busy, schedule then I could finish the tour on my own." Lucius stated with a smirk.

"Like hell you will." Moody eyed Lucius up and down as if he knew something about the teen that even Lucius didn't know. "Keep an eye on him Arthur."

"I'll be back Alastor." Arthur patted Moody on the back before he continued down the hall with Lucius following behind him.

"And that was the Auror office we just passed…" Arthur sighed before glancing at the blond that was simply giving him a bored expression. "You're in your last year at Hogwarts right?"

Lucius quirked an eyebrow at Arthur before giving a small nod.

"I bet you must be excited to get to leave the school. Heck I would have done anything to leave that mess of homework behind." Arthur smiled to himself as they continued down the long hallway.

"Some of us have the ability to do well in school." Lucius stated with an air of superiority as a smirk made way to his lips.

Arthur clenched his fist but once they reached the dead end of the hall turned around to look Lucius in the face so they could both glare at each other.

"So you still think you're better than me don't you?" Arthur spoke softly even though there was no one around them.

"I believe there is a difference in thinking and knowing." Lucius pretended to dust some invisible annoyance off his shoulder before eyeing Arthur, "I still can't believe you are a pureblood."

"I still can't believe we haven't found a spell to remove that stick up your butt." Arthur retorted.

"Crude…." Lucius looked at the broom closet at the end of the hall and the smaller closet next to it that didn't seem to have anything in it. "I suppose it would be too much of the ministry to even give you this closet as an office."

"Why are you so interested in the ministry anyway Lucius? Don't tell me you are scouting it out for that dark wizard." Arthur gave the blond a weary glare. "I'm surprised you haven't joined in his ranks of death eaters since his reign of terror started this year."

Lucius gave Arthur a look that almost looked like a sincere smile, "Who says I haven't?"

Arthur's eyes widened as he grabbed Lucius' left arm catching the blond off guard as he was suddenly pulled forward and Arthur pulled Lucius' sleeve up to reveal nothing.

There was no mark.

Arthur gave a sigh of relief before he threw Lucius' arm out of his grip.

"That was a dangerous statement to make Lucius." Arthur warned as the blond pulled his sleeve back down, "You better be careful how you talk about things around here or you will be sent to Azkaban."

"I'm touched that you are worried Arthur." Lucius sneered as he shoved Arthur against the wall next to the broom closet. "But it will be wise for you to learn your place in the presence of those you should fear."

"Fear?" Arthur laughed ignoring the pain from his shoulder that Lucius was holding against the wall. "I am supposed to fear you? The rich snot that has no idea how the real world works outside of money."

"How the real world works?" Lucius lowered his voice and leaned forward so that he was talking in Arthur's ear. "The real world works through money, Arthur. You should be poor enough to know that."

Arthur grabbed Lucius' arm and attempted to push it off before both arms were caught by Lucius' hands and slammed against the wall so that Lucius and Arthur were glaring at each other mere inches from each other.

"Mark my words Weasley……" Lucius smiled wickedly like a mad man. "I know more……."

A glimmer of something danced in Lucius' silver eyes as if debating if he should tell Arthur or not but instead of finishing the sentence he loosened his grip on Arthur's arms and ran his hands down the outline of Arthur's body, not moving away but keeping inched away from the red head in front of him.

Arthur really wanted to hit the teen in front of him but knew he better not. Bagnold trusted him with the small task of giving a tour and Arthur knew if Malfoy showed up at the end of it with a bloodied nose the red head would no longer have a job here.

"You really must like working here." Lucius scoffed before he finally backed away a few feet so Arthur could peel himself off the wall. "If this was Hogwarts you would have attempted to break something of mine by now."

"People change." Arthur stated enjoying the new distance between the two. He did not like the blond being so close. "And I doubt I would just get detention for attacking a sponsor."

Lucius smiled at this, "A Weasley can be taught."

"And Malfoy can suck my-"

"Arthur!" An young man turned the corner. "Arthur everyone in the ministry has to go to their offices, since you don't have one you can come with me to the Aurors!"

The man panted as if he was out of breath before eyeing Lucius.

"I was giving a tour of the Ministry to Mr. Malfoy here. He is a sponsor of the ministry." Arthur pointed toward Lucius trying to sound as polite as possible ignoring the part of his brain that was screaming 'and current number one prat!'

The man nodded a Lucius. "I am sorry Mr. Malfoy but you are going to have to leave the ministry for your own safety. I will take you back up to the main hall where you can use the floo network."

Before Lucius could say anything the man grabbed the blond and dragged him down the hallway as Arthur followed until they were at the Auror's office and jumped in there leaving Lucius to be dragged down the hall like a child.

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Lucius stared at the image of the mermaid in the prefect bathroom. She seemed to be sleeping which would make perfect sense considering the time of night it was.

He had only arrived back at Hogwarts less than half an hour ago and really wanted to relax a bit before he headed to Slytherin common room.

When his father had told him to go to the ministry for him the blond honestly could care less but when his father reminded him that there is always a need for information Lucius finally realized what was going on.

His father was not a death eater.

But that did not mean that his father disapproved of the actions the Dark Lord was taking, no, Lucius knew that his father had full expectations for him to join the death eater's after he graduated from Hogwarts.

Lucius didn't mind, in fact he agreed with all that pure-blood wizards were the only true deservers of power. Muggle-borns were nothing but filth beneath his shoe for all he cared, they were more worthless than house elves, at least those creatures cleaned.

Arthur Weasley was nothing but a grunt at the ministry.

A small smile crept onto this face at the mere thought.

"A blood traitor earning his keep." Lucius muttered before he moved the water around a bit to get more bubbles.

For all Lucius cared it was only right that the wizard was still at the bottom even after graduating from Hogwarts two years ago. The Malfoy name alone was worth more than that silly employee to the ministry and Lucius didn't have to do anything but be born!

Still…….a frown grazed Lucius' face as he closed his eyes and let him sink into the water so that no part of his body was above the water.

Arthur seemed to be the only insolent fool stupid enough to have a backbone in front of Lucius. Even if he was older it still ticked the blond off to no end how Arthur faced Lucius on even ground.

There was nothing even about them.

They were not similar, they were not rivals, they shared no equal footing in the world and yet Arthur Weasley acted as if he prided himself to be the equal of, if not better than Lucius, the gift of God, Malfoy.

The tall red head had always been infuriating, from the moment Lucius met him, and then he slowly became an object of desire to Lucius……….now don't get Lucius wrong in this thought, he meant desire not in the way of love or lust; no he meant in the way that Lucius had slowly grown to realize at Hogwarts.

He desired nothing more than to ruin Arthur's life.

Not that there was much to ruin.

Lucius pulled himself up on the side of the bath so that only his feet remain in the water as he closed his eyes.

He liked throwing Arthur against the wall, the defiant look in the older man's eyes. Lucius let his hands trace down the front of his chest sending shivers down his exposed body.

The blond leaned back on his right elbow and lifted his left hand from his stomach to stare at his left forearm. Had Arthur honestly thought that Lucius would be honored with the 'mark' before even graduating school? Lucius paused as he remembered Arthur's fingers along his skin.

The redhead had been genuinely concerned.

Lucius bit back his laughter as he finally lifted his feet from the water and walked over to the clean towels that were a few feet from the bath.

"Honestly Severus!" A handsome young blonde male laughed as he pulled a dark long haired figure behind him.

"Gilderoy…." Lucius made his presence known to both the intruders who stopped and looked at him.

Seeing Lucius in all his glory seemed to be too much for the young ones as they quickly turned there heads, even Severus was blushing. That in itself seemed to be a feat as Lucius smirked and folded a towel around his waist and then proceeded to walk over to his fallen robes and took his time pulling his pants on as the other two in the room started to fidget.

"I'm decent." Lucius didn't hide his amusement as both heads turned back to him sheepishly.

Gilderoy Lockhart was handsome young man. He had long golden wavy hair that laid neatly on his shoulders as he smiled handsomely, though that was about all that was there to him, handsome as he may be, he was probably the most useless fool Malfoy had ever met. He could hardly believe the buffoon was a fifth year.

Severus Snape on the other hand was almost the complete opposite. He had long dark black greasy hair that fell to his chin and his hook nose sat perfectly between both his dark black eyes that almost always had some sort of sneer in them. While not handsome, this first year had a mind on him that was sharper than most teens Lucius' age.

And that much deserved respect.

"Sorry for interrupting, um, mate?" Gilderoy started hesitantly before looking at the smaller dark haired boy.

Lucius suddenly realized why the golden haired prefect had brought the young man to the prefect's bathroom.

Severus was soaking wet, leaves were partially hidden in his hair and mud clung to the bottom half of his cloths. He looked like he had been thrown into the lake, and knowing Snape's luck he probably was……Lucius had heard the young Slytherin seemed to be meeting the bad end of some pranks.

"You do realize was time it is?" Lucius asked as he shuddered a bit as his own voice filled the quiet room. He had a nice voice.

"Sorry!" Gilderoy started but was cut off when Lucius raised his hand.

"Actually, I don't really care." Lucius looked to the side to see Severus was avoiding his gaze.

Lucius bent down and gathered the rest of his robes after he pulled his white button shirt over his exposed torso and then slid on his shoes. As he was leaving Gilderoy had started to push a reluctant Snape towards the bath as Snape cursed him under his breath putting up a small fight at being touch by the other man.

The hallways were pitch black causing Lucius to walk as quietly as possible as he made his way down to the dungeons.

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"Guahhhahaha!" Bill clapped his chubby hands together before reaching up at his father who had just walked over to him.

"Yes, yes daddy's home!" Arthur smiled as he pulled the child up from the ground and held him against his chest.

"Dadadadaaa." Bill sung happily as he moved his hands to reach Arthur's hair and gave a tug.

"Ow!" Arthur laughed as Bill giggled and kept on pulling.

"Cute." Molly walked into the room cleaning her hands on her apron as he smiled at her two boys.

"Men are not cute." Arthur pouted at her.

"My apologies," Molly rolled her eyes as she went up to her husband and gave him a kiss before taking the baby out of his arms, "Now it is time for Billy's N A P and I would appreciate some help this time."

At the mere spelling of the word Bill's eyes began to tear up, Arthur sensing the soon to be outburst quickly pulled Bill back into his arms and lifted him above his head so that the child was the tallest thing in the room. Bill made a confused face before clapping and giggling again.

"He's a smart kid." Arthur smiled at his wife, "He already knows how to spell nap."

The word nap was whispered so silently that if Molly hadn't known what he was talking about she probably wouldn't have understood.

"Well he definitely got that from me." Molly gave Arthur a look, "Now unless you want him to wake up really early again you will get him to go to sleep soon!"

"Yes Mrs. Weasley. You are right." Arthur kissed Molly on the cheek before yawning a bit himself, "And I think I shall join him for this one."

"Good idea, you look like crap." Molly stated with a small smile when Arthur pouted again. "Was work a bit rough today?"

"You have no idea…." Arthur positioned Bill more comfortably against his chest before making his way to his and Molly's bed.

Bill rubbed one of his eyes lazily with a small pout for looking up to his dad. "N'tiru."

"Sure you're not, but daddy is exhausted." Arthur plopped down on the bed and placed Bill next to him, "Will you stay with daddy when he goes to sleep?"

Bill eyed Arthur suspiciously but then considered that his father said nothing about him going to sleep so nodded. Arthur made him self comfortable by kicking off his shoes and then pull Bill next to him so that the baby would lay his head on his chest and then closed his eyes.

It only took two minutes before Bill had finally fallen asleep listening to his father's heart beat and Arthur smiled as he looked down at his sleeping son.

Arthur stepped into the Auror's office to see the grim look on everyone's faces. He opened his mouth to say something when a big hand landed on his shoulder to reveal Moody standing beside him. Moody shook his head so that Arthur would remain silent.

It wasn't until the young man who had disappeared to take Lucius back to the Floo network had showed up that someone finally spoke.

"We have just received word that…."

Arthur would never get to hear the end of that sentence. At that second the Auror who had been speaking had thrown a picture of a family that had been slaughtered. Arthur couldn't hear what anyone else was saying, all he could was stare at the picture of the mother's corpse holding a child, the blood was every where.

Arthur's knees gave out under his tall figure as he suddenly felt the hand that had been on his shoulder grab him so that he was able to catch himself a bit.

"Arthur?" The voice that had been speaking asked as everyone turned to look at the red head.

"I'm okay…I just…" Arthur couldn't think of the words to say as he used Moody to help himself up again. "I'm okay, thanks."

Moody gave Arthur a knowing look causing the red head to turn from him and give everyone else a sad smile. "Sorry, please continue!"

The older wizard on the other side of the room who had been speaking eyed Arthur suspiciously before continuing, "The Dark Mark was above this household….."

Arthur felt a nudge on his shoulder to see Alastor motioning for him to follow him out of the room. Arthur nodded in agreement and slowly followed his older friend.

"Alastor, what about the meeting?" Arthur asked when they were finally out of the room and back into the hallway.

"Screw the meeting I need to show you something." Alastor was about to turn when he saw the uneasy look in Arthur's face. "Listen kid, the meeting was an emergency cause that family that was killed contained two members of the council. It's a meeting to inform everyone that the Death eaters have someone on the inside that is letting them know who is interfering with their plans. It has nothing to do with a small fry like you."

While Arthur felt a pang from Moody's bitter words he realized it was true. He didn't even have a position, what good would his death do for death eaters?

"So what did you want Alastor?" Arthur followed his friend, "You said you wanted to ask me something earlier didn't you?"

"Yes I did." Moody paused at the dead end of the hall way that Lucius and Arthur were at not too long ago.

Arthur gave a sideway glance to the spot where Lucius had shoved him against the wall and gave a small shudder as he remembered the blonde's breath against his neck.

He had been too close.

"Arthur?"

Arthur snapped back to see Moody eyeing him with a bit of agitation.

"Sorry Alastor!" Arthur gave him a sheepish grin, "You were saying….?"

"……" Moody eyed Arthur one more time before he bit his lip and shook his head. "I changed my mind, Arthur."

"What?"

Moody just kept shaking his head before he turned to Arthur, there seemed to be a shadow of some unexplained feeling in his eyes.

"Alastor, I know you can be paranoid about some things, but come on. It's me, Arthur…."

"I know who the hell you are you ingrate." Moody all but yelled at Arthur before he put his hand to his mouth and started mumbling again.

Arthur just waited in silence to let his friend sort out his thoughts. Whatever it was it was probably something Arthur should not know considering how Moody was torn over it.

Moody growled before he turned to Arthur again.

"I want to tell you this but I was told not to." Moody threatened Arthur to interrupt him with a glare before he continued, "There is an organization aside from the ministry…..we are doing our best to get control over this Voldemort problem……….The group is small but we are still recruiting."

"What are you going on about?" Arthur didn't bother to hide his confusion.

"Listen, I can't tell you about the group, I can't let you join the group….stupid brothers….but I want you to know I trust you." Moody took a breath to show he had finished.

"Alastor, I'm not following….."

"There are going to be times I am unable to cover what is going on at the ministry and so I need you to do it for me. Not too many people know who you are yet so it should be easy for you.."

"You want me to spy on the ministry?" Arthur cut in.

"I want you to do your job just be more aware of what is going on around you." Moody growled.

Arthur gave Moody a look that clearly stated he thought the man was mad.

"Arthur, just do it!" Moody yelled causing Arthur to jump. "I can't tell you anymore until I know it is okay, I can't tell you anymore because the more you are involved the shorter you life is most likely going to be. GOT IT?"

"Gompu…." Arthur sighed as he looked at his sleeping son who continued to mutter in his sleep.

Bill had down a bit so Arthur sat up and pulled the boy to his lap, playing with the child's soft red hair, Arthur smiled.

While he had no idea what Moody was going on about Arthur was kind of getting the idea. There was another organization that was going against Voldemort that trying to be a secret to the ministry as well. Apparently there were a few people in it but some of them didn't want Arthur joining?

Moody still wanted his help though?

Arthur sighed as he leaned back and closed his eyes.

Today was one hell of a day.

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The end of chapter two.

Okay, I think I have firmly established the era that I am setting my story and so I will start the fun stuff of this story next chapter.

Now if you are just waiting for a story full of smut then you might have to wait a few chapters but I promise it will be here….heheheh.

I hope to see ya'll next time!

Have a great week!