Chapter 4
Sitting down at a back table with a tray of hamburgers, Tom began to explain.
"I am the last… well you're the last of the Slytherin lineage. Purebloods richer even than the Malfoys, once. My stupid mother fell in love with a muggle, and had me outside an orphanage. Depressing childhood, murder while at Hogwarts, powerful, evil, blah, blah, blah, regained the fortune, had a son who turned squib on me, lots of death, followers all from pureblood families, a mortal enemy, who, embarrassingly, is 16. All caught up?"
"I'm related to my house, and your arch nemeses is 16?" Manny found this amusing.
"Well, when you put it that way, it sounds ridiculous. But yes, it's true."
"You'll meet Harry flippen Potter at school, he's a Gryffindor. And the Golden Trio as well." Draco added.
"Harry who?" Manny had never heard of any of these things before now.
"You don't know who Harry Potter is?" Both men exclaimed in unison, disbelief written on their faces.
"My parents never talked about it at home, and I skipped most of my classes. This is only my second trip here legally."
" Well you'll meet him soon enough, Dumbledore's taken him under his wing." Tom said.
"So, you said something about a mansion?" The group had finished eating and Manny was feeling much better about the whole thing. She liked being the heir to an evil throne.
"We'll check in with Dumbledore first, trust me, he knows shit I can't even imagine, and it'll be my ass if he gets to worrying himself over you." Tom said, calmer himself.
"Bullocks! I forgot about my parents!" Draco groaned.
"No worries! Your father wouldn't dare disagree with me." Tom said with a smile growing awkwardly on his snake-ish face.
"Not my father, my mother! She's going to flip!"
"You're 16. This is expected from you. Besides What's she gonna do? Ground you?" Manny would have laughed, but her mom could get scary, until she tried magic, which just made everyone laugh.
"Uh, my mums a full blown witch, and yeah, I don't wanna get grounded." Draco half whined.
"OOOHHH! That's right! I'd forgotten. I guess growing up with squibs has its advantages." The smirk on her face let Draco know she hadn't forgotten.
"Look, we'll go back, I'll say I need you and your dad, and then… we'll deal with all that later." Tom said fixing the situation.
"Looks like the Po Po's found our little experiment." Manny said pointing out the window to the alley where large crowds and police cars where accessing the scene.
"What in the hell is a Po Po?" Tom had the funniest look of complete confusion on his face.
"It's American Stoner for Policeman. Also known as: the Feds, Pigs, Bacon, blue and reds, policio, cops, pork chops, stickmen, and in my case, the Sons-a-bitches-who-put-me-in-fuckin-juvy." Manny had said this like she was reporting the news, until the last part when her voice got higher as her blood pressure rose a few points.
"Who put you in juvy?" Tom asked at the same time that Draco said
"You were in juvy!"
"Well, I did cut that bitch who hit the thing and broke Matt's glass, which fell and ruined the carpet and woke up my parents, who called the Po Pos, who had to call reinforcements cause I was tearing out her hair, and everyone was screaming and then I got tazed." Manny had switched to girl speak in a matter of seconds.
"What?" both men looked at each other, than at Manny, then back to each other.
"Kidding. The last time I was tazed, well, Officer Martinez hasn't been seen in 2 years and is legally dead." This was said slower, in more understandable English.
"That's my girl!" Tom said standing up and heading to the door. The other two followed, Manny recounting the gruesome spell she had used to Draco's rapt attention.
sorry if this is a little short and fast paced. But if you don't review, you can't complain.