Authors notes
Hello! To answer one of the comments about Luna and Neville. Their "lovey dovey" couple thing will have already settled down in this chapter. I have the first few done, and I noticed that they cooled their jets off pretty fast (I'm not a big fan of that behaviour either apparently).
Once again I do not own any characters or settings or really much of anything. If you recognize anything in the plots from another fanfic story, then i probably read it and it influenced my writing. If this is so, thank you very much, and please leave a comment for the credit!
As far as posting the chapters, I will try very hard to do so as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, life gets in the way sometimes, so I plan to have a few chapters ready in case for whatever reason I'm backed-up.
Anyways...Back to the games!
Game One:
Hello, ladies and gentlemen. A loud voice boomed into the room from above. Your professor's and I thought that this would be a good exercise for you all to get more comfortable. Now, the point of these activities is to let you all understand each other a little better, so to keep you all honest please take a drink of some of the veritaserum. A second later ten bottle of veritaserum appeared around the room. We each picked up our bottle and drank it all quickly without looking at each other. Good. That dose should last for about four hours, if you games haven't finished by then, another set of bottles will appear.
Before we start, I just want to say welcome back to Hogwarts, and as I'm sure you've been told, this year is all about house unity! So I hope you can all move one from the past and burry the hatchet as it were.
Now, for the fun part! The first game is very simple, just something to get everyone comfortable. It is called never have I ever!
For anyone who doesn't know the rules, it's quite simply one person will say, "Never have I ever…" and finish the sentence with whatever works. For all those who have done this, they will take a drink. When the bell chimes, you have completed the game, and I will reveal the next.
So get comfortable and let the games begin!
"I don't know about anything else but I'm trying pretty hard not to blurt anything out." Daphne said before smacking her hands over her mouth.
"You'll only blurt anything out if you think about something too much. Like if I really want chocolate, then I'll say that. If you try to keep your mind blank then nothing should slip out." I said before I could stop myself
"Keep your mind blank. Shouldn't be too hard for Weasley." Malfoy said before slapping his hand over his mouth.
Blaise started laughing at Ron's face as it grew redder and redder with every second.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean it. Honest. Just a reflex I suppose." Malfoy said.
At which point Ron started to turn purple, and Harry and I burst out laughing too. Everyone was staring at us, as though they were shocked we'd laugh at our friend, but it was just too funny.
"Dear god, I have to pee." Harry said while wiping a tear from his eye.
This only made me and Blaise start laughing harder, and when we fell down everyone else in the room started chuckling too.
"I never thought I'd laugh at something Malfoy said, but…"
"Is this what you think of me 'Mione? Because that'd make sense wouldn't it. Why would you want to be with a big dumb moron like me, right?"
"No Ron. That's not what I think of you. How could you think that?"
"Then why did you break up with me?"
"I…" I covered my mouth to mask my response.
"What! What don't you want me to hear?"
"This is a conversation we should have in privet not with a crowd of people listening."
Before Ron could ask another question Harry jumped in saying, "Hey the sooner we get to these games, the sooner this is all over right."
From her spot on the couch pansy said, "If it helps Ron, I'm mad at her too."
"What for?" I ask
"For getting thoughts of chocolate stuck in my head. I'm really craving now."
And for the second time in ten minutes I fell into a fit of giggles. How odd, that after what feels like years of intense seriousness I finally feel free to laugh, and it's with Snakes no less.
Everyone got settled in the living area. Blaise on the couch with Draco, and Pansy. Daphne sat on the bar, while Neville and Luna sat on the Loveseat in front of her. Ron and Terry sat on the chairs across from the Snakes, while Harry and I sat on the Couch facing the bar.
When we had all taken our seats, drinks appeared in front of us. "So, who goes first?" Terry asks to my right.
Looking up from her drink pansy grins, "You."
"Okay, umm. Never have I ever… gotten so drunk I couldn't remember the night before."
To my left I heard harry grumble as he lifted the cup to his mouth. Feeling a compelled to drink as well I looked across the room to see who else had taken a drink.
Luna and Ron I knew, and I wasn't shocked to see Malfoy and Blaise drink as well, but I was mildly surprised to see Daphne didn't take a drink.
Everyone looked at Harry Ron and I with gapping gazes. "Really the Golden trio plastered at sundown?" Pansy joked with Daphne.
"Yeah, well… you'd be surprised. Okay. So I guess it's my turn." I said. "Never have I ever, been skinny dipping."
Blaise, Harry, Luna and Neville all drank to that one. After Luna and Neville took their drink they started giggling and kissing again.
"Oi, I'm trying to keep my breakfast down over here." Terry said
"Here Here!" Pansy and Daphne said in unison.
"Okay, never have I ever been accused of acting like a sickeningly sweet couple."
Neville Luna and Daphne all took a drink
"Never have I ever, fought the muggle way." Blaise said before taking a drink, along with Daphne, Terry, Harry, and I.
Giggling to himself Draco said "Sorry mate. Never have I ever worn females clothing."
Of course all the girls took a drink, but we all dropped our jaws when Blaise took a drink as well.
"What the hell Blaise?" Daphne said from the bar.
"Okay, I lost a bet that's all." He said looking at us daring us to laugh.
"What was the bet?" I ask
"I'm glade you asked. So in slytherine, we have this running pool of who can get into the pants of the hottest bird in each house. So for years the Gryffindor cup has been gaining more and more money. And last year someone tricked me into thinking the person for Hottest Gryffindor had changed, and I bet I could win it."
"Who tricked you?" I asked
"I did." Malfoy said. "I told him someone was going to go for it, and he asked if they were insane – "
"To which he replies 'nope, but we took a vote and now it's going to be too easy. I thought they had changed it to lavender or something. So I bet Malfoy I could get into her pants before anyone else did. And well, obviously I lost and I had to wear a dress to his family Christmas party."
By the end of the story, most of us were bent over trying to stop laughing. Terry looked up and shakily said, "Who was the girl?"
Grinning ear to ear, Blaise looked over at me and said "Hermione."
I started to choke on air and moved my mouth to ask a question, but it never came out.
Malfoy and Blaise started laughing at my face, until it started turning red.
"YOU BET YOU COULD GET IN MY PANTS!"
"If you really think about it, I bet I could get into lavender's pants."
"Sorry bro. That didn't work then, it won't work now." Malfoy said chuckling.
"YOU BET YOU COULD GET. IN. MY. PANTS!" I repeated.
"I feel like you've completely skipped over the whole 'hottest girl' thing, and stuck with the –"
"YOU BET YOU COULD GET IN MY PANTS!"
"Yeah that part." Blaise said with a chuckle.
Standing up Harry caught me and picked me up before I could attack Blaise. "Deep breaths Hermione." Harry said until I started to calm down. "Do you promise not to go crazy if I let you go?"
"I'd hardly call betting the shit out of him going crazy. Just venting my frustrations."
"Okay do you promise not to vent your frustrations if I let you down."
"I would, but it'd be a lie. And apparently I can't lie."
"What if he apologized?"
"FOR TRYING TO GET IN MY PANTS!"
Apparently Ron couldn't take it anymore, cause he burst into laughs and fell off his chair and started rolling around the floor laughing.
"THIS IS NOT FUNNY RONALD."
"On the contrary, it's actually quite humorous" Luna said from the love seat, which got just about everyone to start laughing.
After another twenty or so minutes of this harry got Hermione to calm down, and everyone sat back in their seats. Yet Blaise couldn't help but notice, Hermione giving him the evil eye. Deciding to pick up where they left off, Pansy spoke up before another fight broke out. "Never have I ever… had sex."
Luna, Neville, Malfoy, Blaise, Harry and I all took a drink.
"You've had sex!" Ron shouted while jumping up from his seat. "Who was it!"
"I don't have to answer your questions Ronald." I shouted before I blurted out the truth. To be honest that was the one question I didn't think I could answer. And I had been desperate for no one to ask.
"NO! No more screaming matches" Daphne shouted before anyone Ron could retaliate. "Never have I ever gotten a tattoo!"
Draco, Harry, Ron and I all took a big swig.
Daphne's eyes widened "Really? First sex now a tattoo, miss goody-goody where have you gone?"
Rolling my eyes when Ron slams his cup down at the first part I speak up before things can get hairy again. "We all got a tattoo when the war was over."
"Ohh, lets see" Terry says.
Harry and I stand up at the same time. He takes off his shirt and turns around; in the center of his back, in a ball of flames is a phoenix with the letters DA just to the side. I turn and lift up my shirt on the right side, and pull down my pants a couple of inches to reveal the trees of wisdom shaped like an hour glass, and the letter DA hidden in the roots. Next Ron stands up and pulls his shirt off to reveal the lion tattoo on his shoulder with the letter DA just below it.
"Wicked" Terry says, but I notice Malfoy looking down in shame at the same time.
"Oh yay! My turn" Luna says "ummm, hm. Never have I ever been in a relationship with someone I wasn't entirely attracted to."
She says looking directly into Neville's eyes. Ron, Harry, Blaise and I all took a drink, but no one questioned it.
"Never have I ever, regretted being intimate with anyone." Neville said also looking into Luna's eyes.
I was the only one to take a drink. Mostly everyone gave me a funny look, but no one dared to ask a question.
Looking directly in my eyes Ron said, "never have I ever cheated on anyone."
Malfoy and Pansy took a drink, glanced at each other, and shrugged their shoulders.
***CHIMES***
Not breaking eye contact I ask, "Happy?" Before putting my cup down, and leaving the room.
Hope you enjoyed the chapter! R&R