A.N. Well here we go again….
Chapter 10
Later that day after both parties were talked out they left the office and walked back to the kitchens, ordering lunch and setting off upstairs, Draco to find Blaise and Pansy Mya to get dressed. They all met and hour later in the dining room to eat, Blaise demanding for his questions to bed met with answers.
After Blaise and Pansy had been filled in, to a certain extent, they were not permitted knowledge on the Horcrux's, they all decided to go shopping, what else is there to do with endless amounts of money and free time?
Several hours and many complaints from Mya and Blaise later Draco and Pansy finally decided to call it a day, only because they needed to get ready for the party, which would take time. By the time they got back to the manor Mya and Blaise were exhausted, the other two looked on in pity.
"Come on guys that was fun!" Pansy said smiling at them
"That was hell, I don't think I've ever been forced to speed shop in such a way before, I've never tried on as many things in my life." Mya whined closing her eyes and preparing to fall asleep in her chair.
Blaise looked at her fondly, "THANK MERLIN! Someone else who thinks you two are suicidal shoppers" He said loudly.
"Oh come on man it's not as bad as the time we had to get Lucius to come apparate you home coz you passed out." He said trying and failing to hold in a laugh.
The noise in the welcoming room attracted Lucius and Alberto to the room. The entered surveying the many bags surrounding their children and the now sleeping Mya and Blaise and chuckled.
"Well well, what have you four been up to, when did they nod off?" Lucius asked.
"Just, thankfully we didn't have to call you to come get us; she's as bad as Blaise is for shopping. Me n Pansy had a great time didn't we Pans?" Draco looked over to her
"Sure did, but don't we always?" She smiled at them all.
"Zambini's just weren't made for shopping" Alberto said.
"Let's get them upstairs, they can sleep for an hour or they will be useless tonight" just as Lucius approached Mya she stirred gently
"Hmmm… Bear, sleeping" She murmured before falling promptly in to his outstretched arms, he looked over to Alberto who laughed quietly to himself while levitating Blaise behind Lucius to his room, After putting the twins to bed the adults left the house on business leaving Draco and Pansy to begin preparations for the ball, they only had themselves to get ready but it would take a while so they went their separate ways.
"Dray?" Mya's eyes fluttered open, she found herself in her own bed but Draco wasn't next to her, she sat up, he wasn't in the room, she pulled back the covers and stretched her legs to the floor, she padded across the hall to Blaise's room, knocking lightly she entered, she saw her brother sleeping in his clothes as she had done, she went over to his bed and laid down next to him. She shock his shoulder lightly
"Blay…"
"Blaise..."
"BLAISE" she all but screamed in his ear, at which point he rolled over and slipped out of his bed… which woke him up
"What?" He asked still not moving from the floor.
"Get up here you joker, come on it's just me" She encouraged
He slowly uncurled from his position and climbed back up on the bed, looking over at his sister he smiled sleepily.
"What's up My?" He asked her gently, "is it time to get up, did Blinky come get you?" he prodded when she said nothing
"No, I don't know what time it is, I just woke up in my bed without Draco and thought he'd be with you, but apparently we both fell asleep"
"Don't worry him n Pans will be getting ready for the ball, we don't have to get up until Blinky comes in and wakes us" He smiled snuggling down under the covers once more "Just go back to sleep" with that he went off to dreamland himself.
"Ok, I guess I could do with another hour" She said yawning and pulling the covers over herself falling asleep where she was.
What felt like two seconds later to the twins but was actually a good deal of time later Blinky popped in to wake Mya up, when he didn't find her he went straight to her father to report her missing, at which point he fire called Lucius and told him, both men went in to panic, Lucius came over and went to find Draco Pansy and Blaise, upon entering Blaise's room his heart finally began to beat normally, she was safe, she was in fact curled up in her big brothers arms sleeping soundly, the other three came in to the room when Lucius called them, they all looked on at the sight and laughed, waking Mya up.
"Hey guys, what are you all doing watching me sleep?" She said blushing
"You gave us quite the scare there My, when did you come in to Blaise's room?" her father inquired
"I woke up and Draco wasn't there, so I thought he might be with Blaise, so I came to see and Blay told me that it wasn't time to get up yet so we went back to sleep." She looked slightly sheepish… scare? She wondered to herself
"Ok, well its time to get ready now anyway, ill go get a glass of water for your brother." He father said
"What?" She inquired getting out of bed and stretching
"No one in this house can wake Blaise up, he's like a log when he sleeps, so we wake him up with water everyday" Her father told her
"What? Wait a sec…. Blaise" She said slightly louder than normal
"What?" He answered groggily
"Time to get up" Mya said while everyone else's mouth hung open
"Ok" He said rubbing his eyes and turning over to face everyone else, he looked slightly confused and raised an eyebrow, at which point Draco explained the reason for half the family being in his room. Mya padded across the hall back to her room closely followed by Pansy who was helping her get ready.
Lucius and Alberto left the children to get ready and went back to the study.
"Well, I'm glad that's over" Lucius sighed sitting down in his seat
"You're glad?" Alberto acknowledged
"Yes, I would have hated to be you for the last half an hour my friend, when are you going to tell her the whole story?" He asked
"I don't know that she needs to know the whole story Lucius, she is still my baby, and I just want to protect her a little while longer."
"I know that is what you want my friend, but you can not lie to her, she needs the facts, someone will attempt to take her from us, from the world, and she already knows said person, they mean something to her, she needs to be made aware." Lucius said looking resigned
"I can't bear to tell her that someone she trusts will turn on her though Lucius, who could it be?" He mused
"I know, it will most likely be one of those blasted Gryffindor's, but I could be wrong, it could be someone else, someone we don't know of."
"We must prepare Lucius, the guests will be here in an hour, and I need to talk with my wife." Lucius nodded and left for home to dress and pick up his wife
"Stop messing, you look perfect" Pansy instructed Mya
"I don't, I look something else… I don't know I feel like…" She couldn't quite articulate what it was but she wasn't entirely sure she liked or disliked it.
"You look good now come on we only have five minutes"
They waited in Mya's room until the boys collected them, which was only a few minutes later anyway but it felt like an eternity to Mya who was worried about what Draco would think about the way she was dressed.
Blaise came in first and took in Pansy's dress, she was wearing a deep purple dress, almost a robe but it opened low, but not too low at the front, it had long sleeves and went to the floor, floating gracefully around her curves and ending near her ballet pumps which were purple and black with tasteful beads on them, after commenting on how nice she looked he glanced at Draco who had said nothing and hadn't moved from the door, he followed his eye line to his sister, she looked stunning.
Mya had on a deep green dress, it was pretty low cut but the design was so beautiful it didn't look at all inappropriate, it had belle sleeves and again went to the floor where she had white and green pumps on, her beads were all white and green and her hair was pulled up decorated with pears, she had a light dusting of makeup on and was smiling in a nervous way, Blaise told her she looked beautiful and hugged her which finally shook Draco out of his stupor.
He went over to her and kissed her hand taking her arm and escorting her out of the room to the landing, he was wearing a black tux and looked pretty damn handsome himself in her opinion, but he was mesmerised by her. They went down to the party as instructed and began to mingle with everyone, all of whom noted her beauty and he connection with the young Malfoy with smiles.
The party was long, and she had to greet many people she didn't know, all of whom knew her, which she had thought would have been annoying, but once it began happening she noticed that they didn't have any pre-conceived ideas about her and all were attempting to make her feel comfortable. She settled in with surprising ease. After about an hour of mingling with the older guests a surprise arrived through the floo. Theo and his girlfriend Hannah, and four other 7th year Slytherin's. Lucius and Alberto informed them they were able to continue celebrating their birthdays upstairs in the den while the grown ups were downstairs until it came time for everyone to leave at which point they may need to return to say thank you and goodbye. However Draco and Blaise just laughed, which made Pansy smirk. Mya looked confused and was a little nervous when Draco dragged her over to the podium.
"Thank you all for coming…" began Blaise. He looked at Mya asking her to say something similar.
"Yes, it's been a pleasure seeing you all, I hope you are having and continue to have a wonderful evening." She looked curiously at Blaise.
"However, it has come for the part of the evening where we…" Blaise pointed at the 'children' "… will leave you to get blind drunk without us present to save you embarrassment." He smiled and laughed a long with everyone else.
"We will attempt to come down later, but as we are young we may fall asleep of course." He winked.
One of the audience members who looked like Theo's dad shouted across the hall "Yeah right we all know you're going to get just as druk… I mean... drunk as we are Blaise…" He trailed of laughing as Theo hung his head.
"See its past due for us to leave your already slurring…" More laughs
Mya smiled at Draco… "Thank you all again… and Goodnight" She said climbing down from the podium
They all re-approached Lucius and Alberto innocent smiles all around…
"Every year…" Alberto said smiling and they all laughed.
The young housemates went upstairs to the den as instructed and started drinking some butterbeers laughing and joking amongst themselves happily. Mya had chosen to occupy a large chair with Draco sitting with her legs swung across him and Pansy and Blaise had opted for almost the same position directly across from them.
Hannah suddenly slipped on to the floor causing all attention to be on her;
"right come on then guys… lets play a game."
"What game?" Mya asked
"Spin the bottle?"
A chorus of "NO"
"Ermm… truth or dare?"
"Come on we need better games?" Blaise moaned
"Hmm… How about we play 'dare, dare, double-dare, kiss, command, or promise?" Mya asked
"But there's no truth in that" Hannah whined
"Shush Han I've never played that" Theo instructed only to be shot by a glare from his girlfriend
"Ok, its pretty simple… dare… obviously is a dare… but there are only two options for just a dare, because you can't ask for the same thing in the same round of the game more than once. Double-dare is a bigger or more risky dare, kiss is obvious, and command can't be the same thing as a dare it's got to be something the person can do without getting in trouble but that they just wouldn't want to do. Promise is harder though, and after a few I'm thinking it'll be hard, so maybe we could just have truth instead?" She proposed
They were all looking around at each other, subconsciously deciding what to dare their friends to do.
Taking their silence as a bad thing she spoke again;
"Or we could always play I never"
"What's I never" Draco asked
"Oh now that's an ace game… only we need shot glasses and fire-whiskey, damn that I don't have any absinth or any sambuca! But anyway, basically we all have shots in front of us, we all go round in a circle, a person shouts out something like, 'I never had a crush on Draco Malfoy…" Draco grinned "… and if you had you have to down your shot. Then we re-fill glasses and it moves on to the next person to say 'I never…' see? It's a way to learn more about each other and get plastered at the same time."
They all looked enthusiastic. Mya smiled, "so we have a game now do we?"
"We have two, I liked the first one as well" Blaise replied.
"Right wait two ticks" He clicked his fingers
Blinky appeared in a instant.
"I need about 100 shot glasses, and some absinth and some sambuca and some fire-whisky now" Blinky nodded and left, a few minutes later the table was full of glasses and there were bottles on the unit, Blinky nodded bowed and left.
"Right." With a wave of his wand Blaise filled the glasses, some with each drink and lined them up so each person had a row of 10 in front of them.
"Let the games begin." He laughed.
They all found out that the only person not to have a crush on Draco at some time or another was in fact Draco, which made them all laugh, Pansy had had a crush Snape at some point and that she wasn't wearing underwear. A few shots later they found out Mya was the only one to have run away from home leaving the country and ending up in Europe drinking for a summer. They also found out that Draco and Blaise had both dresses up as women before, as a dare they both insisted but it did not put an end to the giggles, which were educed now by the smallest thing as they were all feeling the effects of the shots. They refilled the glasses and began again, finding out many things about the other that only come out in games like this, naughty little secrets slipping out here and there.
"I have never done anything remotely naughty in the Great Hall at Hogwarts" Pansy called out
'shit'… Mya and Draco's thoughts ran the same. Looking at each other they both downed the shots in front of them. Theo cheered, it was his turn next. Rubbing his hands together he decided he'd try and get it out of them.
"I have never had sex in the Great Hall" He called out… no one drank "Shit" He sighed
Hannah was up next. "I have never done anything in the Great Hall when it was full" She called out
"Balls!" Mya picked up her shot followed by Draco, and they downed them
More cheers, Annabelle was next… "I have never… given anyone a hand job in the Great Hall" She said
No one drank…
"What the fuck did you do?" Blaise was looking horrified.
"Blaise I'd down a couple more shots if I were you, your gonna need em." Draco sighed
"Fuck" Blaise downed three shots and sat back in his chair waiting for the inevitable.
Damien was next "I have never sucked anyone off in the great hall" He slurred out
Mya and Draco looked at each other; Mya picked up her shot and drank it.
Cheers rang out Chris decided 'I have never been sucked off in the great hall' would be funny next and Draco was forced to drink.
A few rounds later things got worse… Snow blowing was brought in to it. Then Pansy caught the look between Draco and Mya and brought the great hall in to it… needless to say Blaise was disturbed and everyone else was amused. Then they all wanted to know when and instead of drinking more shots to let them find out she just came out with 'at the sorting feast' which made them all laugh at the look of horror on Blaise's face and his outraged cry of 'I was sat bloody next to you!'
Mya decided it mite be time to switch games for a little while and so they began daring each other to do things. A few hours and many drinks later Mya got up to go to the bathroom, she wandered down the hall on her way back and tripped, ending up on the landing of the first floor, she got up, not really hurt when Lucius came around the corner;
"Hey sweetie, what are you doing here, are you ok?"
"Fine bear, just a little tipsy, I slipped" she motioned the stairs.
Lucius chuckled; "Lets make sure your ok, you cut your forehead I think sweetie, come on down to the kitchen"
She followed him downstairs, looking in to the rooms they past, the party had spread along the ground floor and people were in varying states of drunkenness, Mya laughed at the sight.
Lucius looked at her. "I know, it's quite sad really, but our kids birthdays are about the only thing we celebrate like this anymore, which is why even the adults tend to get out of control here" He laughed.
After sticking a plaster on her head for fear of using magic under the influence of as much alcohol as he knew he'd consumed he walked her back up to the den and left her there.
When she went back in Hannah was sprawled on her back her legs half way up the wall passed out and everyone else was still sitting.
"What the hell happened here?" She laughed
"Don't worry Hannah never could hold her alcohol" Theo laughed
Mya snuggled back in to Draco's lap and sat quietly, something about her fall seemed to have sobered her slightly. Draco looked down at her and noticed it, she explained and her kissed her forehead better… literally, she wondered that there was no more pain, but soon the game of 'I never' began again and they were all distracted.
When they all eventually passed out from the drink there were arms and legs everywhere, it looked like they had played a game of twister without the board and ended up just piling on each other and staying there.
There heads were going to hurt in the morning.
A.N. Hey, not sure if I like this chapter, but I wanted to work a little more on the character relationships and have a little fun rather that the whole 'serious Voldemort' plot, and I figured drinking games were the way to go, also I had to do the party anyway… tell me what you think.