Once Fred and George woke up, the twins snickered and slid out of their room and into Harry's, ready to play a trick on him. George carefully opened the door, sing-songing;

"Wakey-Wakey." Only to find the bed was not only empty, but unused as well.

"You don't think the dark lord put him in the dungeons, do you?" Fred snickered, knowing that was not the case.

"Hardly." George chuckled at the joke, poking the bed to see if Harry had his invisibility cloak on. When his wand just touched the bed, he huffed. "Are you ready for some Potter searching?" Fred grinned evilly at the idea.

"Let's see, where would he be..." Fred hummed, tapping the tip of his wand against his chin. "Most certainly not in Voldie's room." They shared a look.

"We should check there anyway." Both said together, walking out and bumping into Lucius Malfoy. The blonde man took a step back and brushed down his clothes, raising his eyebrow.

"Do I even want to know what you were doing in Potter's room?" Despite the joke, the twins blushed and snickered.

"Only looking for him, dear Lucius." They said in sync, making the man uncomfortable.

"Ah. So it seems the boy is missing too." The twins exchanged a look at that, both confused.

"So it looks like we-"

"-have a dark lord-"

"-a venomous snake-"

"-and a rising dark lord missing." They snickered again.

"Well, Lucius. I think we better go find them. They might be forming new strategies on how to finally get rid of the order." George said dramatically.

"Yes, I couldn't agree more, George. We wouldn't want to miss such an important conversation! What type of death eaters would he take us for?" Fred sighed out, somehow dragging Lucius with Fred's help around the manor, looking for any signs of the dark duo.

"Would you stop dragging me around?" The blonde man growled, taking his arms away and standing up straight. "Now, there is one place we have not checked, and that's the dark lords study." He sniffed, leading to the room. "Don't touch a thing, the books in here are priceless and have valuable information."

"Oh please, Lucius. What do you honestly take us for?" Fred sighed, rolling his eyes.

"Yeah, we've read dark arts before. We even sale it at our shop." The blonde stopped, spinning to look at them.

"That's against regulations, you know? Especially in Diagon Alley of all places. Worse if you don't have ties that would help you." Lucius said.

"Your point?" George scoffed out.

"We have a loophole, so don't you go worrying about us if the ministry were to find out. We appreciate your concern though."

Lucius groaned, having enough of the two boys already. He walked into the study and stopped, eyes wide at what he saw before him.

"It looks like he's seen a ghost, wouldn't you say George?"

"Why yes, Fred. It does indeed look like he's seen a ghost. I should hope it's not Harry's." He snickered, walking to where the older wizard was. When the twins got there, they too froze with wide eyes. "Well, Fred.." George trailed off. "I think we see what's got him all worked up now."

Right before their very eyes was Harry Potter sleeping on the dark lord, who in turn, had his arms wrapped around the younger wizard, and of course, there was Nagini, sleeping between the two.

"Who knew that Voldemort would make such nice cushion for our dear brother?" George joked, still shocked to see Lucius had not uttered a word.

"Do you think he's broken?" Fred asked, waving a hand in front of the man's face. After he did that, Lucius Malfoy seemed to gather his wits and take a step back.

"For the first time in my life, I am at a loss of what to do." The man said quietly, observing the two humans and the snake that was sleeping with them. He fixed his posture and stood straight, turning back to the twins. "Even though I do have work I must get too, I do not trust the two of you waking them up without-"

Before he had the chance to finish, Fred and George were marching up to the sleeping pair and poking them in the rib cage with their wands.

"Just because you're dark lords doesn't mean you're allowed to sleep in all day." The pair said when the two began to awaken.

"In fact-" George hummed in thought.

"-you should be-" Fred's grin widened,

"plotting and scheming." The twins grinned more, especially when Lucius groaned and hid himself behind his hand, muttering something about immaturity.

While they watched the two slowly detach from one and other, Fred snickered at the obvious blush on both their faces and crossed his arms.

"Since we can't play the prank we originally intended, this will have to do." George sighed, acting as if it had been a great loss. "Now come on, you two. It's time for breakfast and then you can carry on with whatever you were doing last night." He held back a laugh at the flush on Harry's face and turned back to find Lucius staring at them with narrowed eyes.

"Why do I have this unsettling feeling that this isn't the last of your little prank?" Instead of answering the question, the twins chuckled a diabolical manner, unsettling Lucius to no end.

"You'll either be the first-"

"-or the last to know."

Lucius blinked, hurriedly escaping and flooing to his manor, dual laughter echoing in his ears.

Merlin, save him. This was going to be an extremely long year.

When the twins walked out like they owned the place, Harry turned to see that Voldemort looked amused by the whole fiasco.

"You don't seem to be upset." He pointed out, raising an eyebrow when the dark lord simply shrugged.

"It's not often that I have someone on my own side point their wand at me."

"Besides me?" Harry said, snickering at the fond eye roll he received.

"You weren't on my side at the time." He stated, smirking when the younger frowned. "You were on Dumbledore's side." Grimacing, Harry groaned.

"Please don't remind me of that. That was the worst mistake I've ever made. At least I was able to fix it before it was too late."

"Yes, others won't be so lucky. As you said, some of the Weasley family will find that out."

"I was able to befriend the smart ones." Harry said with a smirk. "That just happen to be sneaky pranksters."

"Sounds fairly Slytherin to me." Voldemort spoke in a smooth tone, trying not to smirk any wider than he already was. "You were right about them. I'm even surprised they weren't sorted into Slytherin." He looked at the younger, resisting the urge to move the raven hair from his face.

Despite enjoying the conversation, Harry knew if they didn't make their way to breakfast, the twins would barge in here and literally force him and the dark lord in there. "As much as I enjoy this, I know Fred and George won't take kindly to waiting on us. They like making sure I eat." He added, shrugging at the confused look.

"You need the energy anyway. Your training starts today." Voldemort said, smirking at the shocked look on Harry's face.

"You're being serious."

"I'm a dark lord, I'm always serious."

"Are you sure? I recall reading a few jokes you wrote when we would owl each other." Harry said, laughing at the small sigh that escaped the dark lord.

"I should have known you would not let those jokes go."

"And I will never let them go, in fact.." He smirked like a true slytherin. "I think the world should know."

"Remind me to hex you later." Voldemort huffed, playfully glaring at the younger as he slowly moved Nagini to the vacant sofa.

:Master: She hissed in displeasure. :You and the hatchling must return. You're warm.:

:I am sorry, Nagini. It's time for breakfast. Come on, you spoiled snake.: Voldemort coaxed her awake, expecting the snake to curl around his shoulder. Instead, she wrapped around Harry's.

:You smell like my Master: She chuckled to herself when she felt the skin heat up around her.

:Thank you?: Harry replied, looking up and surprised to see Voldemort flushing.

"She can be invasive, Harry. I'm sorry in advance."

"I don't mind. I like her." He said, starting to walk with the older into the kitchen.

The first thing they spotted was the twins who had matching grins.

"Finally, we were afraid that we would have to drag you in here to eat." Fred said, although he and George had their eyes on Harry.

"Both of you." George nonchalantly spoke up, taking his seat. "Well, three I suppose." George realized, eyes narrowing on the snake wrapped around Harry's shoulders.

Harry hoped breakfast wouldn't be too awkward, considering what had happened earlier that morning, but seeing that Fred and George had already had their fun, he didn't worry too much.