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Chapter 10. Bring it on
After a long and tiring night of flipping through magazines, Draco and Julie would have done anything to sleep in, but they had to get up for school. At 6 am, Aphrodite hopped onto Julie's bed licking and prodding Julie with her own cute paws. Groaning, Julie got up, giving Aphrodite and cuddle while heading over to Aphrodite's food bowl. After giving Aphrodite her food, she rubbed her eyes and walked over to her closet, got out her uniform and went to the bathroom. After she was finished, as she usually did on a school day, she waited for Draco to wake up and get ready before they grabbed their things and headed to the Great Hall together.
"Hey guys!" Blaise greeted when the two of them collapsed into their seats. "Hi…" they said almost falling off their seats. "What did your parents do to you yesterday?" Pansy asked. "How do you know we went to their rooms?" Draco asked puzzled, then teasingly added, "Are you stalking us? I don't blame you, you can't stay away because of my incredibly handsome looks." "No you git! Remember when we were younger and I had stayed over with my parents at you manor? Well, I overheard them saying that if you don't turn out to be a veela, seeing how close we were we might get married. They joked that if we got engaged, they would bomb us with wedding magazines and such." Pansy replied. "Well, they definitely bombed us with the magazines, I didn't' know there were so many of them!" Julie said. With that, they took their empty plates and piled them high with food filled or covered with sugar.
After breakfast, they headed to the dungeons for potions. "Good morning class. Take out your textbooks and turn to page 66 of chapter 8." Professor Snape said crisply as he swept into the classroom. There was the rustling sound of pages turning, then, everyone found the page and waited. Slowly the class progressed with Snape deduction points from Gryffindor. Bit by bit the day went on uneventfully till it was time for D.A.D.A. Everyone was excited to see how a deatheater would teach the dark arts. It was the first time there were four teachers for a subject and one of them was a deatheater. "Good afternoon class! Monsieur Bellerose, Mr. and Mrs. Malfoy will arrive shortly but first, everyone put your books away, this class from now on will not be using textbooks unless needed. The four of us believe that books are useless for defense against the dark arts." Mademoiselle Bellerose said. The class was at the edge of their seats, this was the first time since Lupin that a teacher was teaching without textbooks. Everyone was sorely disappointed when they only went through what they had learnt for the past few years.
After the rest of the classes for the day were over, Julie and Draco followed by their friends headed back to their room. Conjuring up more chairs, they all sat at the table doing their work silently when the silence was broken when Neville said, "I'm done, anyone hungry? I can head over to the kitchen for some snacks." "I'm almost done, go get the snacks Neville, I'm starving." Ron groaned. "When are you ever not hungry Weasley?" Draco smirked. Neville quickly dashed out of the room before Draco and Ron started fighting. "Who else is done?" Pansy asked. "I'm done!" Julie and Hermione replied. "Let's go play exploding snap while waiting for the rest." Hermione suggested and soon the three were engrossed in the game to even notice when Neville came back juggling a pile of food and drinks.
"Come on over! Foods here!" Ron shouted even though they were just a few meters away. "Gosh Ron! We're not deaf!" Hermione exclaimed. "We might soon be!" Pansy uttered under her breath to Hermione and Julie. The three of them were giggling by the time they got to the table. When everyone was eating they didn't notice a small spark coming from Julie's fingers.
After everyone was done eating, they (except Ron) were too full to go down for dinner. "Neville, what exactly is your definition of snack?" Blaise asked. "Well, seeing that Ron was hungry I brought up quite a lot, I didn't expect everyone to be that hungry!" Neville said. "Either way, I'm still starving, you guys stay up here, I'll just head to the Great Hall for dinner, I won't be long." Ron said as he walked out of the portrait door.
When Ron was gone, everyone was playing exploding Snap when one of the cards Julie was holding caught fire, Luna made a dash for a water pitcher on the coffee table and was running back when she tripped over a stack of books and parchment. She was lying in a pile on the ground and the fire was spreading, suddenly the puddle of water rose and moved fast as lightning towards the cards and the fire was finally put out. While Neville helped Luna up, the rest collapsed into their seats trying to cough up whatever smoke they had inhaled. The Malfoys and Belleroses barged in, looking around, Lucius asked, "What happened? The alarm went off in our rooms." "The cards Julie was holding caught fire and a puddle of spilt water floated up into the air and put out the fire." Luna explained still as serene as ever. "Draco, you do know what is going on right?" Narcissa asked. "No, not a thing." He said puzzled. "Why don't all of you just stay in here and get over your shock while we talk to Draco and Julie." Lucius said and quickly dragged the two out of the room. "Kids, did either of you do your reading? Think, the puddle of water, the cards catching fire when there was no fire in sight?" Narcissa prompted. "Mating season?" Julie suggested, swiftly catching on. "Mating season… Mating season?" Draco said in a daze. "Yes son, mating season, you know, the time when veelas-" "Sweetie, I think they get the drift." Narcissa said cutting Lucius off. "We can place both of you in different rooms if you want?" Adéle suggested. "No, we're fine, at most we can use our rings." Julie said uncertainly. "Well, if you have any questions, you know where to find us, I suggest you go and make sure your friends are fine and then explain to them everything. Understand?" Narcissa said. With a nod and quick good byes, they went back to their respective rooms.
When Julie and Draco got back to the room, Ron was back and had brought Madam Promfrey and she was checking everyone to make sure that they were fine. "Everyone seems fine, I'll be going now." She said and added quietly to them, "If you need any potions or anything I'll be in the hospital wing." She left the two of them chuckling.
"Guys, I think you all need to know something…" Draco trailed off. "If it's about mating season, we know or well, I do. Besides, Madam Promfrey also explained to us since we're your friends. She thinks it's a good idea, you know just in case you two accidentally become parents." Pansy said rolling her eyes. Draco and Julie both blushed a deep red. "Well then, if that' s all, I guess we should be going, you two would want to have some alone time." Blaise said teasingly. "Come on, all of you just found out and you're already teasing us, how would we make it through the whole season." Draco said. "Let's go!" Hermione exclaimed, watching the whole conversation with a very bad attempt at a poker face. Finally, all of them left and the room was filled with a very awkward silence.
"Dray, promise me we won't bond we are both ready." Julie said worriedly. "Jules, I would never force you to do anything you don't want to." Draco assured her. She leaned in and soon they were kissing. Breaking apart, Draco said, "If this is how you say thank you to me, I look forward to doing everything nice and good for you." "Well, I don't think I was done saying thank you…" Julie teased. Once more, they were kissing when they were interrupted with someone clearing their throat. Breaking apart startled, "Sorry, I just came by to make sure you were all okay, didn't realize they left so early." Narcissa said clearly embarrassed to have walked in on her son making out with her soon to be daughter-in-law. "No, problem mum, we were going to bed soon." Draco replied. Seeing her expression, Julie blushed and said, "Not that kind of bed!" Draco realized that what he said sounded wrong and blushed a fiery red. Soon, there was nothing other than a lot of very awkward silence and three blushing people. "I'll leave you two, good night." Narcissa said and briskly walked out of the room.
"Now, where were we?" Draco whispered into Julie's ear. She turned to him and pressed her lips against his. They spent the next hour kissing till their lips were red and slightly swollen. They then spent another half an hour after changing and brushing their teeth curled up on the sofa. After that, they turned in for the night.
The next morning, the two of them woke up bright and early. After feeding Aphrodite, they played with their newfound powers, setting things on fire and putting them out. The cycle seemed to fascinate them endlessly. They stopped playing with their powers when Draco accidentally showered Aphrodite with a blast of icy water. Aphrodite was still shivering by the time they were both changed and getting ready for school.
Bang, Bang, Bang! Someone was banging on the portrait door furiously. "Hey! Will one of you please open the door! This person is starting to rub off the hems of my dress!" Their portrait guardian complained. "Sorry Kate!" Julie apologized, swinging the door open. "Hey guys, you coming? Class is starting in 45 minutes!" Hermione said, punctual as ever. "Hey 'mione! We were just leaving." Answered cheerfully. "Hey Dray, help me get my books will you?" She said turning to Draco. "Sure, you get the parchment and quills!" He shouted from inside. Julie turned back and grabbed them and waited at the door.
"Julie, is Draco always this slow?" Hermione groaned impatiently. "Most of the time, I never knew a guy could take so long to get ready!" Julie replied. "I HEARD THAT!" Draco yelled from inside, getting closer to the door. "Someone want to help me?" Draco grunted. "Wingardium Leviosa." Hermione said, flicking her wand while rolling her eyes. "Aren't you a wizard Draco? She teased. "Thanks." He said grudgingly. At that moment the rest of them appeared from the corridor and they headed to the Great Hall together.
When they got there, the hall was illuminated with a bright green light. All the students were sitting there just staring at whatever was causing the light in awe. Draco squinted his eyes to get a better look and there was a scroll. Everything was written in an ancient language that was believed to have been lost and only understood by veelas. No matter how hard a veela could try, they could never teach it to another for an odd reason. Moving closer, Draco could feel his wings pushing at his skin, Julie watched in horror, she was rooted to the spot and she had lost her voice, but she felt a pull towards the scroll, she could hear someone singly sweetly and faintly. It was soft, almost not there. Slowly and mechanically, she moved, picking up one foot after another. When she stood next to her mate, they felt the tug of a portkey and with a flash, they were gone, leaving a hall of people stunned.
When they landed, they stumbled to regain their balance. An entourage of blonde guards followed a raven-haired boy, who looked 6. "Hello Harriet! Draco." He said greeting Julie warmly while curtly greeting Draco. "Thank you for writing to me. I am grateful for another black veela to help me. Ever since my mother, Queen Tanya passed away, the responsibility of all the veelas in our worlds was given to me. I had all of my people working in the department of Veela births finding out where her veela blood came from. If the records find that she is, indeed related to me, she will rule with me or if we can find proof that she is my sister, then she will take on full responsibility, with your help." The boy said as though he had longed to say those exact words for a long time. "Yes my king." Draco answered respectfully. "Francesco! Come here, you have not eaten your breakfast yet!" A graceful blonde yelled as she ran towards them. "Annabelle, didn't one of my guards tell you?" Francesco said, his eyes wide in surprised. "The Malfoys have found another dark Veela, today I'm completely free from any meetings, so I sent one of the scrolls to get them." He added. "Still! And Francesco, I believe they were interrupted from their own breakfast. My dear boy, I'll send someone to explain to Dumbledore about this meeting." Annabelle, who appeared to be the king's nanny, sighed. "Now, let's bring our guests back to the palace to eat. My, my, my! How she looks like your sister, Angelica. I won't be surprised if she really is your lost sister. Oh, and Harriet, don't worry, I'll tell the messenger to use your new name." Annabelle continued rambling. "Annabelle, would you please be quiet for a while?" Francesco teased. By then they had already reached the palace.
Annabelle ran off to send a messenger while they all went straight to the dining room. "Many people would expect the palace to be grand and coated in jewels, but I prefer something cozy and not cold and fancy." Francesco said quietly. His face was sad and stressed, something that should never be combined on a small child's face. At that moment, Julie's heart reached out to him. "Don't grow up so fast, enjoy your childhood. As I am also a dark veela, I'll be helping you, if you like, I'll take most of the work. No child should be deprived of a childhood." Harriet said, the painful memories from her own childhood flashed through her head. "Thank you Harriet-" He was interrupted by someone running into the room. After the person had finished speaking to him, he turned to her and said, "I will need something for a D.N.A sample. Saliva, hair, blood, your choice. Though I suggest saliva, the least painful one." "I'll take blood. Someone hand me a needle please." Julie asked. The person, who had run in, produced a needle and a piece of glass and gave it to her. Everyone watched as she pricked her index finger and squeezed a drop of blood onto the glass and passed it back. The person then ran off again.
There was silence for a while, and then Francesco said, "Let's have breakfast." Everyone sat down and ate silently, not sure what to say.