Chapter 3:
That Saturday, Draco came upstairs into the common room from his dorm room to find Lindi lying on the coach in front of the fire. With a smile, and slight hesitation at having to wake her up, Draco gently shook her shoulder.
Continuing Draco said, "Lindi," softly, trying to wake her because they had a meeting to go to.
When she didn't even move, he said "Lindi" a little louder. With a groan and a slight swipe in the general direction of where his voice, Lindi rolled over. Draco gave a slight laugh and said,
"C'mon Lindi we have to go to that Prefects meeting tonight." Merilinda simply responded with another swipe, this one a little faster and a little closer to his face.
With his trademark smirk, Draco grabbed the wrist that had almost hit him and knelt down beside her. Leaning down to her ear, he blew gently into it, startling her, into trying to hit him again. With a slight chuckle Draco continued whispering in her ear,
"Lindiiiii…come on, we're going to be late if we don't leave soon. And as much as I would love to…reinforce…the recent rumor involving you, me, and a broom closet -"
Lindi quickly rolled over and sat up clapping her hand over Draco's mouth. Feeling his smirk against her palm, she quickly pulled her hand back before he could lick it. And glaring up at him despite her obvious smile stood up and started walking towards the exit, with a laughing Draco and the glares of all the girls in the common room escorting her on her way out.
Both clad in jeans and long-sleeve t-shirts, the two Slytherin prefects made their way up to Professor Mcgonagall's classroom where the meeting was being held.
"How nice of you to join us Mr. Malfoy, Ms. Lestrange." Commented Mcgonagall as the two Slytherins walked in two minutes late and quickly took their seats.
Surprisingly, the meeting was relatively short only taking about 30 minutes. After Mcgonagall ended her beginning of the year rant about the standard they were all expected to be at now that they were prefects, and their main jobs and responsibilities, along with the new rules and contraband that was added this year. Then the head boy and girl shared the patrol rotation before dismissing the group, minus the Gryffindor and Slytherin prefects who had patrol tonight.
After Mcgonagall and the other prefects left, Draco turned to the two Gryffindors greeting them, "Weaselbee, Granger."
Granger didn't even look at Draco and instead turned to Lindi saying, "Lindi, I was thinking that we should just split the school in half. You and Malfoy take the dungeons up to the third floor and we'll take the rest. Okay?"
"Sounds good to me." Replied Lindi keeping up her sweet charade when talking to Granger.
"Good." Granger said with a smile, "Well, we'll just be off then." Then opened the door and led Weasley out.
As Weasley and Granger exited. Lindi stood with a groan. Quietly following Draco out of the classroom and up the stairs to the third floor. Unaware of Granger and Weasley discreetly following them from beneath Potter's invisibility cloak.
"Draco, how long do we have to patrol for?" asked/whined Lindi.
"Why? Sick of me already? Or eager to try out that broom closet?" He replied with his classic Malfoy smirk plastered once again to his face.
"Uh! Neither you pig!" Lindi screeched before mock punching him and then laughing when he winced in fake pain, before continuing, "Just answer the question before I really slap that smirk off your face."
"Fine, fine luv it's gone. And till eleven, an hour after curfew." Draco said trying not to laugh at the little huff Lindi was in. One small chuckle escaped and he faked innocence till he caught Lindi's eye and they both started laughing, hanging off each other and the railing of the staircase they were on. After sobering up a bit, they continued on patrol, still unawares of their Gryffindor tail.
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A stunned Hermione and Ron raised back to the Gryffindor common room, yelling "HAARRRYY!!!" before grabbing, and dragging him into the first deserted classroom they found.
"Harry! You'll never believe what we just saw." Chorused Ron and Hermione.
"Ferret boy laughed, like mouth open, smiling, a haha haaaa." Ron explained.
When Harry just looked at Ron confused, Hermione stepped in.
"Ronald, why would Harry care about Malfoy laughing. Exactly. He wouldn't. What's actually important is what Malfoy and Lindi were talking about." Hermione quickly explained.
"Oh please Hermione. Why would Harry care about Lestrange having to go to the owlrey tomorrow?" Ron asked exasperated.
"Ronald! Exactly! Harry would care about the letter Lindi will be sending…to her father." Added Hermione.
"Her father?" Harry asked. Not quite understanding where Hermione was going with this.
"Maybe I should start from the beginning - " started Hermione before trailing off in thought.
"Hermione!" snapped Harry to get her to continue.
"Oh! Right! Sorry Harry. So, me and Ron were at the Prefects meeting and were assigned the same patrol shift as the Slytherin prefects, Lindi and Malfoy." Continued Hermione
"And this is important because…"Harry chided.
"I'm getting there! Listen! So Lindi and me agreed on how to split up the patrol and then Ron and I quickly hid under your invisibility cloak. A couple minutes later, Draco dragged Lindi out of the room and they slowly started heading upstairs. They were joking around, mostly Malfoy teasing Lindi about her rumored inappropriate use of broom closets - " shared Hermione.
"What?! Who was she in a broom closet with?" the suddenly interested Ron asked.
"No one! There's just a lot of rumors about her because she's new, single, and gorgeous. Anyway, so they were laughing their guts out, bent over, hands on their knees, when I accidently stubbed my toe on a quit of armor, which obviously made a noise. And It was like a second later and they were both in a ready stance as if in combat!" Hermione continued to explain.
"Hermione, what did you expect? They are basically death eaters, of course they would respond so quickly." Harry sighed, still confused over the point of the story.
"I know Harry. Anyway, after that Lindi mentioned how she needed to send a letter to her dad." Hermione continued ominously.
"So? People send letters to their parents all the time. You sent a letter to your parents a couple of days ago Hermione." Said Ron.
"No! But don't you see Ron? That's exactly it! Lindi has no dad to send a letter to. Her legal guardian is Lucius Malfoy and the way her and Malfoy were talking about her father I highly doubt it was Lucius." Hermione explained, happy that the two boys seemed to finally be on the same page as her.
"Well then who's Lindi's father?" asked Harry
"That's exactly it Harry, no one knows." Finished Hermione.
