Harry Potter and the Sketchy Resorts
DISCLAIMER: I don't own the Potterverse!
Author's Note: Many thanks to my Beta Cassy!
Second Author's Note: I have received requests for translations for the French in these chapters so I will add translations at the bottom of each chapter with a new word or phrase.
Chapter Ten
The next morning Harry awoke feeling better than he could remember feeling before. He got out of bed carefully to avoid waking Fleur and went to their bathroom for his morning routine. He noticed his forehead scar was now a faint pink line and smiled.
"I am glad you are happy mon amour," Fleur said from the doorway. "But I need to use the facilities and there are some things I do not wish to share."
Harry kissed her cheek and left. He ordered breakfast from room service. He smiled and thought to himself that it was easier to eat in the room than get dressed to visit the dining room then come back to get undressed again for the spa. It cost more but he had the money. He reminded himself to put on his robe before answering the door and shook his head, he really had changed since the start of this summer.
After breakfast they went down to the spa.
"Good morning!" Malama greeted them. "Today is the mud room and sauna in the morning then a nice light lunch and a relaxing herbal bath." She gestured and a woman came up to them, "This is Emily, she will escort you."
They were led into a tiled room with two massage table covered in white linen and a shower in the corner. The lady inspected the shower then pulled a curtain around it. She turned them and said, "Place your robes on the hooks and lay down on the tables. Your Aestheticians will be here shortly to apply the mud."
Fleur hung her robe up immediately but Harry waited until Emily left. When she was gone he pulled his wand and cast the detection spell and was surprised at the feel of the spell. He cast a few more just to see if it was only he detection spell that had changed.
Fleur said, "Yes, I see the difference but you should put that away now before someone comes in."
Harry nodded and put the wand back into the magically concealed holster then hung up his robe. He was just settling onto the table when two women came in carrying a large pot of warm mud.
"Bonjour, Monsieur and Mademoiselle," the first one said. "I alone speak English so with your kind permission I will do the talking for us both. We are here to give you the mud wrap. If you will both roll over on to your stomach we shall commence to applying the mud. Once all of you is covered we wrap you in the linens and leave for a bit. After we come back in we unwrap you and you shower the mud off with its load of accumulated toxins and refreshed you dry off and wait for Emily to come show you to the sauna."
They rolled over on the tables as the two ladies moved the pot of mud to rest between the two tables and picked up the soft brushes they used to spread it.
Eventually she said. "Bon, you are both well covered on this side. You may now turn over and we shall do the other side."
Harry turned over a little nervously but the women were very professional. After coating them thoroughly from the neck down the women wrapped them in linens and left.
After waiting a few minutes Harry said, "My spells are stronger. Do you think it's because of the ritual cleansing last night?"
Fleur nodded, "Oui, I do think so. I am quite impressed."
Harry blushed, "Lagi did it not me."
"True," Fleur agreed. "However you are the one performing the spells so it is you I am impressed with. Not that I wasn't before but now I am almost in awe."
"Well I am in awe of you," Harry said. "Your skill and confidence as well as your beauty."
"Merci Harry," she replied.
After being freed from their linen wrappings they had fun in the shower together getting clean. Then they were led to the sauna which was fortunately empty of any other guests. Harry withdrew his wand from its concealed holster and cast another detection spell.
"I think one more detection spell will pinpoint it," he said.
"Bon," she replied. "You should get the chance during the herbal bath and once it is pinpointed we can come get it late tonight and bring it back to our suite."
He kissed her, "Yes, and then we put up our strongest privacy spells and get rid of it."
"And then we can truly relax and have fun the rest of our time on this lovely island," she replied with a smile.
After the sauna they showered again and had lunch. Then Emily showed them to a large bath with steam rising slowly from it. Various flower petals floated in the water.
"This herbal bath should help stimulate your metabolism now that all the toxins are out of your body and help you digest your healthy lunch," she said. "I'll check in on you in an hour but feel free to stay as long as you like. It's just one o'clock and dinner isn't until five." With that she smiled and left.
Once she left Harry cast the detection spell again and said, "Okay I'm sure I can find it tonight. Now I can relax in the bath with you."
Fleur beckoned from inside the tub and he grinned and joined her. They left when Emily came back for them and headed for their suite to rest up for their late night run to come.
After dinner they took another nap and sometime after midnight they dressed all in dark clothes and snuck out of the suite under Harry's invisibility cloak and headed toward the spa. They found the horcrux, a cup with a badger on the side, in an unused room to the rear, under a floorboard. Quickly placing it in a bag they headed back to their rooms.
Once back in their room Harry grinned, "We did it!" He tossed off the invisibility cloak and hugged Fleur.
"Oui, we have it but we have still to destroy it," she said. "Will you conjure a rug to destroy it on? I will get the basilisk venom."
He nodded, "I'm on it." He conjured a rug and again it was much easier than the one he made in France. He dumped the cup from the bag onto the new rug as Fleur came back with vial of venom.
She opened the vial and poured a little out onto the cup. It hissed and smoked and slowly dissolved. Once it was more than halfway gone a dark cloud that was becoming terrifyingly familiar poured out of it and screamed horribly before dissipating into thin air. Fleur shivered as she capped the vial and put it away.
Harry went to her and hugged her tight, "Thank you! None of this would be possible without you."
She hugged him back and kissed him, "We have a lot of night left and I, for one, could not sleep after that. Whatever shall we do?"
He grinned, "I can think of something."
The next morning and for the rest of the trip they were just a couple on a beautiful vacation.
Eventually the two weeks were over and they were taken by ship back to Papeete where a limousine took them back to the airport for the flight to the last island on their itinerary.
They landed in Jamaica and went through customs. After claiming their luggage they saw a limo driver holding up a sign saying Delacour. They headed over to him.
"I am Fleur Delacour," she told him.
The man smiled, "Your description did not do you justice. Let me help you with your bags." As he picked up her suitcases he said, "Are you here with anyone?"
"Merci, and yes," she answered. Gesturing to Harry she said, "I am here with my boyfriend."
The man's smile wilted a bit but he put Harry's luggage in the trunk and said, "Welcome to Negril. I hope you'll enjoy your stay."
Soon there were at Hedonism II and checked in. Fleur threw herself on the bed and groaned, "More unpacking to do."
"Well you could just leave most of your clothes in your suitcase," Harry said.
"Non," she replied. "It would look odd and we agreed that we wanted to be as forgettable as possible. I will unpack. But if we do go on a spa holiday next summer let's only go one place. All this packing and unpacking and rushing to catch planes is something I can do without."
Harry nodded, "I can agree with that. If we go to a resort next summer we'll stay in one place. Maybe that private Villa in the Seychelles?" He had his suitcase open and was moving neatly folded clothes from bag to dresser. Looking at her still sprawled on the bed he added, "I can unpack for you if you like?"
"And never know where anything is?" she said and sighed. "No, I shall get up and do it myself."
While Fleur unpacked Harry cast detection spells around the room looking for the horcrux. He finished and shrugged, "Not here. We'll have to check the rest of the hotel."
"This is a much busier place," she added. "I think I shall cast notice me nots while you cast detection spells. Just to be sure nobody spots us and wonders."
Harry smiled, "Thank you."
They found it in a basement Janitor's closet that was otherwise empty. It was under a concealment spell but once his detection spell told him something was in the corner he was able to dispel the concealment and take it.
"It is a good sign that we find it so quickly," Fleur said. "Let us destroy it so that we can enjoy the rest of our vacation."
Harry said, "I agree. In fact I think we can do it here. We can keep anyone from hearing us and any stains left on the floor will be passed off as natural."
"Vraiment," Fleur said. "But I shall throw a few protection spells on the floor anyway." She put silencing spells on all four walls, ceiling, and floor then add a few protection charms onto the floor.
He smiled, "The less evidence we leave the better. You're right." He waited until she was done then kicked the ring they found onto the center of the floor. "Did you bring the vial?"
"Oui," she replied and handed it to him.
He poured it on the ring and watched as it dissolved. As with the others, when it was more than halfway dissolved the soul fragment poured forth and screamed before eventually dissipating. He shivered and she hugged him.
"I feel the same way," she said. "Let us go back to the room and make love then order room service and do it again. The spa doesn't expect us until tomorrow morning."
He grinned, "That sounds like a wonderful plan."
The next day, wearing white terry cloth robes, they headed off to the spa.
While waiting laying side by side relaxing between a massage and an exfoliation Harry said, "Well we are done early. I will happily spend the rest of the summer with you but if you want to go home and see your parents we can do that at any time. Now that we have finished our little scavenger hunt it's not as urgent to keep to our schedule exactly or avoid all notice."
Fleur replied, "I thank you and I will keep that in mind. For now however I am content to stay here with you." She smiled, "And I am in no hurry to pack again so soon."
Harry chuckled at that, "Me neither. And I'm really in no hurry to go back to where I'm famous."
Fleur nodded, "So we shall stay the full two weeks then go to my home where we can inform the Order that we succeeded. You can meet my family and we can avoid either of us having to stay at the Burrow or some place worse until you go back to school."
"So you want to return the day before eh?" Harry said. "I can get behind that plan. We don't even have to notify the Order before then. They might have other things they want you to do and I want you with me until I have to go."
She smiled, "That's sweet. We shall do that then. They did tell us it might take the whole summer so hopefully they won't be too upset if we're a bit late."
The spa staff came in then for the exfoliation so they stopped talking about it. The next Saturday they noticed an option that hadn't been available in the other resorts, a non nude beach.
"Look mon amour," Fleur said pointing. "There are two beach signs."
"Yes," Harry said. "I see. Nude and Prude? Fairly descriptive if a bit biased." He smiled, "I might have voted prude once but now I leave it entirely up to you. There are a lot more people here and some of them seem rather boisterous, let us say, in their appreciation of the female form."
Fleur smiled back, "I think that anything they would say about my nude form they would also say about me in my bikini. That is if I had brought one to wear, which I have not. I have practice dealing with men of that sort and as none here have our advantages I am not concerned. If I get to choose then I shall choose the nude beach." She headed that way and Harry followed her.
The next day Fleur wrote her parents with her plans to visit and her day of arrival.
They wrote back to say that of course it was fine but that they were going to be with her mother's family for the rest of August. They were sorry they wouldn't be able to meet her boyfriend and hoped to meet him soon.
Translations:
Mon amour - my love (from female to male)
Bon - Good
All others are translated in previous chapters.