1Melime
Chapter Three
Several hours, and many stores both muggle and wizarding, we finally made our way back to Hogwarts, all of us laden with packages. As we walked down to the dungeons Sev and I were quietly discussing where Harry would stay while in my care.
"I will not have the rest of my vacation filled with watching after a student who does his best to annoy me in class and blatantly disobeys the rules." Sev insisted shaking his head.
"Sev, please. For me?" I asked pouting and giving him my 'puppy-dog' eyes.
Sev sighed before finally responding. "You are truly insufferable, you do know that don't you?"
"I know!" I said smiling and giving him a quick kiss. "But that's why you love me."
Behind me I heard Sev who was grumbling about manipulative women, which I chose to ignore.
"Would you like to come and live with Severus and myself, until school starts?" I asked as I walked beside Harry.
"Sure!" Harry exclaimed looking very excited at the prospect.
Soon after we finished our conversation, we were at the entrance to Sev's rooms. As soon as he walked in Sev flung himself into his favorite chair. Grinning I jumped into his lap the moment his eyes were closed.
"Ouf! Oi what the bloody 'ell do you think you're doing? Are you trying to kill me?" He exclaimed, trying to sound upset, but his arms wrapping around me diluted that a bit.
"No. I'm trying to get you to live a bit." I told him. "Now, where do you think we should live until school starts?" I questioned, not really asking either of them but leaving the question open to the room.
"What's wrong with right here?" Sev asked looking around.
"When was the last time that you stayed anywhere else?" I asked him. "And I don't mean just overnight." Sev looked thoughtful for a moment but before he could answer I interrupted his train of thought. "Too long, so I guess our options are a flat in London or Diagon alley, here, or..." I trailed off not really wanting to finish that thought process.
"Or where?" Sev asked. I coughed before mumbling something. "What was that?"
"Middle-Earth." I stated clearly. "I know that neither of you have been there before but it is a really great place, besides it would be the perfect place for Harry to hide out. And I would really like for you to meet my family." I added softly.
"You would?" Severus asked, obviously surprised that I would want to introduce him to my family.
"Yes, I want them to meet the man that I love." I said touching our foreheads together and smiling softly at him.
"Err... I'm umm... gonna go send a few letters out to my friends." Harry said awkwardly, evidently uncomfortable seeing his potions professor like this.
"Okay, we'll meet you in the Great Hall for dinner okay?" I said looking at him.
"Sure, dinner in the Great Hall." He stated practically running to the door.
"Do you really want me to meet your familia Sev asked, still not quite grasping that concept. I gave him a look that could rival one of his own glares.
"For the third and final time yes, I want you to meet my family." I said exasperated. Sev grinned then picked me up and carried me to the bedroom.
"So, Harry is going to be gone until dinner?" He asked continuing to grin. I just smirked at him and kissed him.
The next day Sev, Harry and I were having lunch in Sev's rooms when someone began to pound on the door. Sev and I jumped up and faced the door ready for a fight, but the voice that drifted thou the door was not one that we were expecting to hear so soon.
"You two open the door this instant! That means right now!" Gabby shouted though the door. "Wait! No, only if you're dressed!" she exclaimed, remembering one incident where she came bursting thru my door early in the morning, and Sev was there. I grinned at the memory and looked at Sev he smiled and returned my look.
"Let her in." I muttered to him, feeling nervous, she was one of my best friends after-all. A best friend who was bound to be furious with me, but a best friend nonetheless. The second that the door swung open at Severus' command Gabby lept through and ran over to me, at first hugging me tightly, then slapping me across the face. "Um... kay I know that I deserved that but next time will you do it more lightly?" I asked nursing my cheek.
"Sure thing Melie" Gabby replied hugging me again. "We need to talk." She sated. "Hope you don't mind Severus but I'm stealing Mel for a bit." With that Gabby was leading me out the door and down the hallway. Two seconds later I stuck my head back in the room.
"Oh and try not to kill each other, please?" I asked before being drug down the hallway again.
An hour later found Gabby and I sitting in the Great Hall with two empty bottles of wine beside us, and a third one halfway gone. We spent the entire time talking about what we had been up too the past few years.
"How did you end up here?" Gabby asked after a while, "I mean, you were in middle earth pinning away for Severus it seems, when suddenly you're back here, with Sev. What's up with that?"
"Well, it's kind of a long and rather boring story that you really wouldn't want to hear, let's just leave it at I got stupid, I made some mistakes, and then somehow ended up here at Hogwarts." I replied filling my glass for the umpteenth time. When a hand came out of no-where and grabbed it from me. "HEY! I'm drinking that!" I exclaimed turning around.
"No. You WERE drinking that." Severus said with a smile, taking a sip from the wine. "Now you are going to tell all of us exactly how you got here, and why you looked like you had been though hell when you got here." Sev continued his dark eyes boring into me.
"Fine" I sighed gesturing for him to sit down. "Where's Harry?" I asked, stalling for more time.
"With Dumbledore, now continue" Sev said shortly.
"Okay I might as well start at the beginning. Um... since I went back to Middle- Earth I've been going on monthly 'orc hunting' trips with my brother, Legolas, and the twins Elrohir and Elladan." Sev opened his mouth, probably intending to ask me what the hell I was thinking but I put my hand up to stop him. "Don't. I know it was stupid, not to mention dangerous but I learned my lesson, that's how I ended up in looking like I did. I was on a hunting trip a few weeks ago, when we were ambushed by orcs they came out of no-where. We fought hard, but it wasn't enough, the orcs shot me with an arrow, I think that it was poisoned because the next thing I know I'm getting the shit beat out of me by some pansy-arsed orcs who were too afraid to fight me on even grounds, they had me chained to a wall. But somehow I got free, I really don't remember how or what happened after that, other than waking up in the forest and dragging my-self towards the castle. After that I passed out, I'm assuming that Hagrid found me and brought me up here to the hospital wing." Here I looked to Severus for conformation, when he nodded his head I continued. "When I woke up Albus and Poppy were talking in the hospital wing, then they both left, and I decided to leave, that's when Sev came in and then Poppy returned. The next day Sev and I talked things over and then here we are!" I exclaimed flailing my hands about in a drunken manner, then I started to giggle, and Gabby soon followed, while Severus just stared at us as though we were crazy. After a few moments Sev stood and offered me his hand.
"Come on, I think you two have had enough wine for one day." He stated pulling me out of my chair. "Are you staying here in the castle?" He asked Gabby, as we both calmed down.
"Yeah, somewhere by the Slytherin dungeons." Gabby replied as she stood. We all walked out of the great hall and down into the dungeons, after we made sure that Gabby went into the right room Sev and I went into his rooms.
That night I was woken by a screaming coming from Harry's room, bolting out of bed I ran full force into his room. Harry was laying on his bed, still asleep, even though he was screaming bloody murder. I quickly shook him awake. As soon as he realized that he was safe he burst into tears. I pulled Harry into my arms and rocked him back and forth until his sobs subsided.
"Shhh... You're okay now. It'll be okay." I whispered. "What happened?" I asked gently.
"It was just a nightmare." Harry said. "ever since my third year, when I came into contact with dementors, I keep reliving my parents deaths, over and over again I see Voldermort kill them." he continued talking as though he wasn't really aware that he was talking. I quickly pulled him into another hug as began to fall down his face again.
"Come on, let's go get some hot cocoa." I said after a few moments, knowing that neither he nor I would be able to get back to sleep that night.
We went into Sev's small kitchen and I made us both some hot chocolate.
"Tell me about your years at Hogwarts?" I asked looking at him. He nodded his head and began a story that took us well into the morning. When he was finished we sat there for a few moments before Sev walked out of his bedroom and looked around.
"Mel?" He asked looking around for me.
"In here." I replied grinning at Harry, "I just had a rather nice conversation with Harry about the past few years." I said as Sev walked into the kitchen. After getting a cup of tea he walked over to me and kissed me on my cheek. Harry made a gagging noise, while grinning.
"Shut it you." I said swatting at his head also grinning. Sev just shook his head at our antics and drank his tea. Suddenly an owl flew thru the window and landed in front of me. I immediately recognized Narcissa's elegant handwriting on the envelope. I quickly ripped open the envelope, eager to hear from one of my old friends from school.
Dear Melie,
I am writing to you to tell you about a gala I am holding this evening at our manor. The gala starts at 5 o'clock. Hope to see you, Sev and Harry there.
Hugs and Kisses,
Sissy
P.S.- Don't worry about Harry, it's a ministry thing for Luc's work, Voldermort wouldn't dare try and attend.
Smiling I stood up and grinned at Sev before saying, "Guess who's having a party tonight?" without waiting for a response I continued. "Sissy is at their manor. 5 o'clock." I said continuing to grin like a maniac.
"What!" Both Sev and Harry exclaimed both looking frightened, Sev because he was remembering all the parties that we went to during school and after school. I wasn't quite sure why Harry was scared but then he got a far off look in his eyes and then he blushed. I raised an eyebrow at him questioningly.
"I can't go." He stated.
"Yes you can, Voldermort won't be there, and it's a ministry thing anyway. You're going. It'll be fun." I finished looking at him.
"That's not why I can't go." He said nervously. I gestured for him to continue. He muttered something that even my elvin ears couldn't pick up.
"What was that?" I asked.
"Ican'tgocasueIlikeDraco." He muttered a bit more clearly this time.
"What?" I asked exasperated. "You do know it helps to OPEN your mouth when you talk right?"
"I said that I can't go to the party because I kinda-sorta have a crush on Draco." Harry stated louder than necessary. Sev burst out laughing while I was just confused.
"What does that have to do with going to the party?" I asked.
"Mel, Draco is Sissy and Luc's son." Sev explained after getting over his laughing fit.
"I know who the hell he is!" I exclaimed smacking his arm lightly. "But what does that have to do with Harry going to the party?" I asked staring at both of them. There was no answer to that. "Then its settled Harry, you're coming with us to the party. In fact I think that it's a good idea, it'll give you a chance to get to know the real Draco, not the one that you know from school, I'm sure that, just like his father, he has two sides, School-Draco and Home-Draco. Now I've got to go talk to Gabby about this then I have to start getting ready." I said looking at the clock, which said that it was one o'clock then I quickly walked out the door and down the hallway to Gabby's rooms. Without knocking I walked in and found Sirius coming out of the bed-room, his wand drawn in nothing but a pair of pajama pants, that left little to the imagination.
"Oh my." I said turning and walking back out the door and back into Sev's rooms Sev then informed me that Harry had gone to the library to look up something for his homework.
"What's wrong?" Sev asked after he saw my paler-than-usual face.
"Let's just say she had a visitor last night, who hasn't quite left yet. And let me say this, that is more of Sirius than I have ever wanted to see." I said continuing to walk to our bedroom and into the adjoining bathroom, stripping my clothes off as I went.
"What are you doing?" Sev asked amused.
"I think that's rather obvious, don't you think? I'm taking a shower." I said closing the bathroom door in his face. Twenty minutes later I stepped out of the bathroom wrapped in a towel and walked over to the closet.
"What to wear...what to wear." I muttered tapping a finger on my chin.
"I rather like what you have on now." Sev said walking up behind me and wrapping his arms around my waist.
"Don't' be silly, I need to find something to wear to the party." I stated pulling away from him. "What do you think of this?" I asked pulling a new robe out and holding it up for him to see.
"It's nice." He responded, shrugging his shoulders.
"Nice? That's it?" I asked raising an eyebrow in question.
"Well, I think that this one is better." He stated pulling another set of robes out of the closet. It was all black except for the blue and silver flames shooting up the hem on the sleeves and the bottom of it, and the silver dragon that held the top together. Severus then pulled out a simple black dress from the other end. "If you wear this under it you can leave it open." He continued knowing how I hated wearing robes for very long. I turned and held the suggested outfit up to myself in the mirror.
"I like it." I stated nodding my head in approval. "Now, shoo, I have to start getting ready to go." I said gently pushing him out of the room.
"But... it's only 1:30 the party isn't until 5." He stated looking at me increliously.
"Good point." I said pointing at him. I snapped my fingers and I was standing in a pair of gray jogging pants and one of Sev's old Slytherin sweatshirts, it felt weird using wizarding wand less magic again. "So, what do you want to do until the party?" I asked Sev while I walked out into the living room and sat down in front of the fireplace on one of the couches.
"I can think of a few things." He replied grinning at me.
"Sev!" I exclaimed. "Is that all that you can ever think about?" I asked.
"Pretty much." He answered his grin widening.
"Hey...Mel?" Harry called out from his bedroom obviously he had returned while I was in the shower.
"Yea Harry?" I called back.
"Could you come here for a minute?" He asked. I smiled as Sev flung his head back and covered his face with his hands and muttered something.
"Sure think Har." I replied standing up and walking into his room. "What do you need?" I asked looking around at the mess he had made, clothes everywhere, on the floor, the desk, the bed, the window frame, the window seat, even on top of the canopy. "Um... ya know, I don't think that clothes are supposed to be decorations."
"I can't decide what to wear. Don't call me that." He said sitting down on the bed.
"What about the dress robes that we got in diagon alley?" I said gesturing to the outfit.
"Isn't that a bit too formal for a party?"
"Harry, this is a Malfoy gala there is no 'too formal'." I stated grinning at him. "Trust me on this, this party is going to be like a royal ball at the palace. Sissy always goes all out for these things." At that Harry looked a bit nervous. "Don't worry, everything will be fine. I promise. If you get uncomfortable you can always tell me and we'll come right home."
"Really?" He asked looking at me after I nodded he launched himself at me. "I've never had a place that I could really call home." He said after a short while. I smiled sadly at him before I heard a knock at the door.
"Come on lets see who that is." I said standing and pulling him up with me.
As we walked out of his rooms I saw someone push past Sev to get into the rooms, thinking quickly I pushed Harry back into his room and whispered to him quietly to stay put. Then I magically moved myself into Sev's bedroom before the guest noticed me in front of Harry's room. I heard a familiar voice speaking to Severus but I couldn't tell who it was so I opened the door a fraction of an inch to hear better. I then recognized the voice as belonging to Bellatrix Lestrange, a girl from my school days that was always after Severus, before and after we started seeing each other. Getting a rather Slytherin idea I mused my hair a bit and walked out of our bedroom and faked a yawn, "Sev, who was it?" I asked bending down to wrap my arms around his shoulders where he sat and kissed his neck, I then looked at Bellatrix who was sitting in a chair across from him. "Oh hello Bellatrix. I didn't see you there." I said in a voice that I usually saved for unfavorable people in my father's court. "What a...unpleasant surprise." I said with obvious distain. "What do you want?" I asked bluntly.
"Well I wanted to speak with Severus." She said haughtily glaring at me.
"Go right ahead, don't let me stop you." I said smirking and moving so that I was sitting in his lap.
"Alone if you don't mind Greenleaf." She said waspishly.
"Oh but I do mind Lestrange." I said smiling coolly at her, "And until Severus, who might I remind you is my boyfriend, asks me to leave I will not."
"Fine," She said smiling triumphantly she then turned slightly and addressed Severus, "I can't stop thinking about what happened between us." She said sincerely, acting as though I did not exist. Before she could continue or I could ask what she meant Severus quietly interrupted her.
"Mel, I think that you should leave now." He stated.
"Why?" I asked looking at him questioningly.
"Because I don't want you to hear this conversation." He said looking at me, "This will only bring you pain if you listen to it."
"You mean she doesn't know Severus?" Bellatrix said pretending to be astonished. I got a bad feeling in my gut telling me that for once I should listen to Sev and get out of there. "Oh, poor lamb, well I will just have to tell you then, after you left, Severus and I became and item." She continued snidely looking gleeful. I stared at her in disbelief, feeling as though my heart had just been ripped out. Then I turned to look at Severus.
"Tell me that she is lying." I pleaded with him, knowing that in my heart he couldn't truthfully deny what she was saying.
He looked pained for a moment until he grinned evilly and said looking at Bellatrix, "Sorry, slag, but that was a momentary lapse in judgment. Besides," He continued, "you were complete rubbish." His comment made me feel slightly better but did not dispel the hurt that I felt at his betrayal. I stood silently and magiced myself into Harry's room.
"Want to go for a walk?" I asked him. Something in my face must have shown how upset I was because he put his things down and nodded. "Come on then grab a hold of my hand." As soon as he did this I magiced us to the entrance hall and started up the stairs. "His... guest hasn't left yet, so we couldn't take the door." I explained at his curious look, turning left at the top of the stairs I then walked to a tapestry that I knew would still be there I lifted up the corner of it and gestured to Harry to enter as soon as he did I followed after him making sure that the tapestry fell back into place.
We both stood in the center of an apparently empty room, that is until I pulled out my wand and transfigured some stones into a pair of over stuffed chairs flinging my self into one I lit the fire and called down to the kitchens to bring up some hot-coco for Harry and a cup of tea for me. Once we both had our drinks in our hands I burst into tears.
"You can go back to Severus' rooms if you want." I said after quickly checking to see if anyone else was in there. "But don't tell him where I am please?" After nodding to me he left. As soon as I heard the tapestry swing back into place I began to cry again. I don't know how long I was there for, it could have been minutes or it could have been hours before someone knocked on the stones outside.
"Mel?" I heard Sirius call out. "Are you in there? Look, Snape is really worried about you, worried enough that he asked Gabby and I to look for you in all of the old hang outs. If you're in there open the door, please." I stared at the door for a few moments before walking over to it and opening it.
"Hey Siri." I said looking down, "Come on in."
As soon as he was into the room he pulled me into his arms in a brotherly hug.
"What did the greasy git do now?" He asked leading me to my chair.
"Bellatrix Lestrange." I muttered staring at the fire.
"HE CHEATED ON YOU!" Sirius screamed, "I'LL KILL HIM." he continued ranting at he walked towards the door, panicking I quickly waved my hand at the door and it disappeared. "Mel, let me out of here so I can go strangle him for doing that to you." Sirius said, obviously trying to sound reasonable, and not succeeding.
"No." I replied looking at him, "Because even if he broke my heart, I still love him. Besides, it was apparently after I left, meaning that he really didn't cheat on me." I said looking at him. Deciding to change the subject before he could say anything stupid I asked him what time it was.
"Around 3 o'clock." He said glaring at me, obviously upset that I was being rational.
"Damn." I muttered looking at my clothes. Deciding that the only way I could get there at the time I wanted to was by using magic I snapped my fingers and was standing in front of Sirius wearing an elegant floor length black dress that sparkled when I moved and the robes that Severus picked out earlier. "What do you think?" I asked him.
"You are not wearing that out in public." He said glaring at me. "It is entirely too low cut and way to tight."
"Good, that's what I was going for." I said smirking at him. I then opened the door and gesturing to it I asked, "Shall we?" He just shook his head and smiled at me. We then walked back to the dungeons, at Severus' door I stopped and stared at it for a moment before gathering my courage and walking in, Sirius still at my side. Severus was sitting in a chair with his head in his hands. "Siri, I think that you should get back to Gabby. I'll come and see you guys after the party." He didn't look happy about leaving me with Severus but nodded his head and left anyway. I closed the door behind him and rested my head on it. My heightened senses told me that Severus had stood and was now walking towards me. "Don't" I said as he reached out a hand to touch my arm. "Not now, just don't." I muttered turning to face him after I had collected myself. "I am going to be leaving shortly for the party, you may come with me if you wish, or you may come at the appointed time." I said coolly, and then I walked over to Harry's door and knocked. "Harry, are you decent?" I called.
In response he opened the door. "What do you think?" He asked shyly, gesturing to his black pants and a forest green silk shirt, covered by his black dress robes.
"You look fabulous." I said smiling at him. "Are you ready to go?" I asked.
"Ummm...yeah I suppose. Why?" He asked looking confused.
"I am going to go to the party early, do you want to come with me or with Severus?" I replied.
"I'll come with you, just give me a second to finish getting ready." He responded. Glancing nervously between Severus and me before going back into his room.
"Mel." Severus said quietly. "We need to talk. About this."
"I know," I said sighing, "Just, can it wait until after the party?" I asked, looking pleadingly at him, he sighed and nodded his head. "Thank you." I said as I walked over and gave him a kiss on the cheek. "Do you want to come with us?" I asked softly.
"Yes just give me a few moments to get ready." He said in reply. Then walked quickly across the room and into the bedroom. I sighed again and sat on my favorite chair.
'Not what you expected is it princess?' The cruel Voice taunts, 'You thought that you could just come back and have everything be perfectly fine. Instead two of your best friends are dead. You are looking after their child, you are still stuck spying on Voldie, and now you find out that the love of your life cheated on you!' It exclaimed.
'He didn't cheat on me!' I exclaimed in my head, 'I left him, he could have gone out and shagged anyone that be pleased.' I finished.
'Then why are you so upset?' The Voice taunts again.
'Because it hurts, the fact that I was in Middle-Earth for nearly two hundred years, and throughout that time I remained faithful to Severus, but he cannot remain faithful to me for sixteen years. The entire time I was there I never once thought of any other man, let alone do anything with them.' I continued.
'That's not entirely true and you know it! What about Elrohir, he confessed to you that he loves you, he has proven that he loves you. You were intrigued by him while you were there.' The voice speaks up. 'He even proposed to you.'
"But because of my love for Severus I did not even consider the proposal." I muttered under my breath, but it was apparently loud enough for Harry to hear me as he walked out of his room.
"What proposal?" He questioned looking at me strangely.
"It's nothing." I said quickly glancing at the door to Severus' bedroom. Harry raised an eyebrow.
"What happened Mel?" He asked sitting in the chair next to me.
"I found out something that I didn't except to. It upset me very much." I replied looking at him.
"What did you find out?" He questioned looking curious.
"While I was gone Severus apparently hooked up with someone from our school days, someone that I have never liked, and someone that I thought that Severus never liked. Apparently I was wrong." I added bitterly.
"Oh." he said quietly.
"Yea," I responded, "Though I suppose that I shouldn't be that surprised considering that the stupid whore was after him all though school."
"Umm... who is this stupid whore that you seem so vindictive about?" Harry asked quietly.
"Bellatrix Lestrange, is the said stupid whore." I answered vhenimently.
"Okay." Harry said and after a short pause continued. "Cause ya'know that answers my question completely, knowing the name of someone that I've never heard before." I grinned at his sarcastic tone.
"She's just someone that we went to school with, she was always after Severus during our school days. Which got me into a bit of trouble with Albus, because I was always taught to fight for what I believed in, as long as it didn't go against my father mind you. I believe in Severus and my's love, hence she ended up in the hospital wing every time that she got close to him, and I do mean every time, weather I was there or not I found out about it and did quite a lot of damage to her before she finally got the message that I wasn't going to go anywhere. When I said that she was stupid I really meant it, she probably ended up in the hospital wing at least twenty times before the got the message. It was quite fun." I finished thoughtfully.
"So you know how to fight well?" Harry asked me.
"Yes, I am one of the only female elves permitted to go into battle with the rest of the army. The other being my friend Lithian. If you want I could teach you." I offered seeing interest spark in his eyes.
"That would be great." He said grinning.
"Ready to go?" Sev asked from the doorway to his (our?) bedroom.
"Yep." I answered jumping up and pulling Harry with me to the door. The three of us quickly walked out to the edge of the castle before I pulled a pen out of my pocket and changed it into a portkey.
"Is that legal?" Harry asked staring skeptically at the pen.
"Not really, no." I answered, grinning at him. "But then again, most of the other stuff that I do isn't either." Severus just sighed and smiled at me sadly. I offered him a small reserved smile and grabbed the portkey. "Now grab a hold of this, we're leaving in approximately three seconds. They both grabbed a hold of the pen. Seconds later and we were standing in the Malfoy's manor, in the portkey room to be exact.
Sev and I immediately began to walk to the door, but when we were half-way across the room I realized that Harry was still standing in the spot where we landed.
"What's wrong Haz?" I said, trying out a new nickname.
"What if he doesn't like me?" He asked looking nervous. Apparently he didn't mind the name, either that or he's to nervous to notice it.
"Not possible. Now come on, or you won't get to see him before the other guests arrive." I said winking at Severus before turning and walking out of the door. Both males followed me quickly. A house elf popped up before we got very far.
"Masters have asked Trippy to lead yous to the study on the second floor. Please follow Trippy." The house elf said in a squeaky voice.
"Of course Trippy." I said smiling at her. "How have you been?" I asked continuing hte conversation.
"Miss. Melime!" Trippy exclaimed jumbing on my leg. "We has all missed you much much." She continued.
"I missed you too, Trippy." I said my smile getting wider. Sev just shook his head and grinned at me. "What has your family been doing today?" I asked.
"They is getting ready for the party, once master Draco heard that a Harry Potter is coming to the party, master Draco is getting nervous about what master Draco is wearing to the party. He is saying that he must... Trippy thinks that it is "dress to impress" that master Draco is was speaking about." Trippy finnished looking at me.
"Oh really?" I asked, my eyes twinkling. "That is very interesting, very interesting." I continued, glansing at Haz out of the corner of my eye, the poor boy was blushing scarlet. I dropped back behind Sev and Harry, and Sev engaged Harry in a conversation about something or antoher."Just between us gals, why do you think that Draco would want to that?" I asked her.
"Trippy is not for sure, but Trippy thinks that master Draco is having a crush on Harry Potter." She said in a conspiering voice.
"I have it on a good athority that Harry Potter likes Draco as well. I think that we should do something about that, don't you Trippy?" I asked winking at her.
"Ohhh, yes Miss. Melime, Trippy thinks so very much." She said nodding her head furiously.
"Do you think that you could arrange it for them to sit next to each other during the dinner tonight?" I asked her, keeping an eye on Haz and Sev.
"Of course Miss Melime!" She exclaimed. "I will go right down to the kitchen and arrange it for yous. Masters is waiting in there." She finished, snapping her hands and dissapering with a pop. I shook my head and walked into the study. Draco was sitting in a large winged back chair with his legs over the sides and Luc' was sitting behind his desk with his feet on it. They both looked up a tthe three of us as we entered.
"Mel, Sev I'm glad the three of you could make it. Mister Potter, its nice to see you again." Luc' ever the scocialite was curtious and warm. "I trust that you had a good trip."
"Of course." I replied, smiling at him. "Hello Draco, how are you?" I asked shaking his hand.
"I'm fine." He said smiling at me in return. "Hello Severus, Potter." He nodded to both of them. Suddenly and idea struck me.
"Draco, why don't you take Haz on a tour of the manor?" I suggested.
"Umm... okay." He replied standing and gesturing Haz out of the room. Severus sat in the vacated seat. Barily pausing I sat in his lap.
"Am I forgiven?" He asked quietly, wrapping his arms around me.
"Maybe." I answered smiling at him. I then turned to Luc' who was sitting in the same position that he was when we entered, the only difference was a raised eyebrow.
"What?" Sev and I asked at the same time.
"Nothing, Mel Sissy told me to ask you to go and see her the moment that you got her. She said something about the new fall styles from Paris I believe." He sai dsmiling.
"Ohhh yay." I said jumping up. I planted a kiss on Severus' lips before dashing out of the room and up the stairs to Luc' and Sissy's wing. As soon as I entered the room I was tackled to the ground by a blond blur. "Ack. Hi Sissy missed you too, also miss breathing." I struggled to get out.
"Ohh, Melie, I can't believe that you're back. I missed you soooo much! You won't believe what's been going on." Sissy began while standing up and walking over to her dressing table. "Luc' and I had a son, did you meet him, isn't he adorable?" She continued to talk much in the fashion tha tshe did while we were in school. "Aren't you excited about the party, I am. It's going to be so much fun, I'm trying ot find someone for Draco. Do you have any ideas?" She asked. I grinned, this was the opertunity that I was waiting for.
"Acctualy I do. I was thinking about Haz, he's interested in Draco, and I have it from a rather reliable source that he feels the same about Haz." I said sitting down next to her.
"Really, who is this Haz? I don't think that I've heard of him before." She commented while putting make-up on. "Do you think that he would make a good match for my Drake?"
"Harry Potter." I said. "I already have Draco showing Haz around the manor, I think that it is going well." I smiled at her. "It's good to see you again."
"Same here. I see you haven't changed much though. Still playing match-maker." She teased.
"It's fun." I said shrugging my shoulders. "How long do we have until the party?" I asked fiddiling with some of the objects on the table.
"About an hour and a half." She replied puting on eye-shadow.
"Do you think that this dress is okay for the party?" I asked her standing.
"It's a bit out of style. Go though my closet and pick soem things out, we'll see what we can find." She said, grinning at me remembering the times that we had done this in the past.
"Kay." I replied walking over to the walk-in closet. I quickly foudn four dresses that I liked and felt I would look good in. "What about one of these?" I asked holding them up.
"I like the blue halter, there is a pair of matching shoes in the closet as well." Sissy said pointing to the dress. I quickly changed and walked out from behind the silk screen.
"Ta-da!" I exclaimed striking a pose. "What do you think?"
"You look faboulus." She said giggling. "Now lets get your make-up done."
We spent the next forty-five minutes talking before Sev and Luc' came up to tell us to get our arses downstairs because the party was about to start.
A/N: Well there is chapter three. The next chapter will be the party, and maybe some slash? evil smirk
Disclaimer: See chapter one.
So this chapter is A LOT longer than the other ones are going to be, I think, not really sure about that yet but I might not even update it anymore if no one likes it, so if you want me to continue with it, review!
Also if anyone would like to/is able to be my beta I really need one for this story and the other one that I am working on. Thanks!