Chapter twelve
Hermione was sitting at the kitchen table when Harry walked in and made himself a cup of tea, then kissed her cheek.
'How did you sleep Harry?'
'Not good, I'm sure you heard me, but I'm glad you didn't come in. Like I said, I usually go back to sleep,' Harry got up and grabbed a vial from his cupboard and drunk the potion, 'Before you ask, it's an invigoration draught. Now my first client turns up in thirty minutes. So I'm making breakfast, you want some?'
'Since you are making your own, yes please. So will I know this one?'
'You will know who she is, but she's not shy about who knows she comes here. She's not one for leaving the bedroom, so you've got the whole bottom of the house.'
'Do you want me to expand the house while you're doing breakfast?'
'Thanks Hermione,' Harry gave her a smile, then finished getting breakfast as another section of room filled out into his back garden, 'That's great, you can just conjure another couch, until I get another one that is. You do know I have a library in my office?'
'I noticed when I looked around the first time, but you wouldn't get a lot of time to read.'
'Not a lot, but I still do when I can.'
'I want to ask you something before Ron comes down.'
Harry put two plates on the table then sat down, 'Okay.'
'Ginny, was she just looking at what you used or was there more to it?'
Harry chuckled, 'More to it, she wanted to see what Sherry used, then asked me to wear it, so I did and she decided to use it. Merlin I'm in for it with Ginny. She had me on the ground.'
'You never did anything though, did you?'
'No, she's not ready and I said nothing will happen until she is. She wanted to see what Sherry did to me that's all. I wasn't going to when she first asked only because I'm naked in that thing and she would have seen my reaction to it, I wasn't sure she should have seen that. But she was fine and just put me through a bit of pain,' Harry kept eating until he finished, 'I need to get ready, don't answer the door, I'll get it.'
'It's all yours Harry,' Hermione cleaned up their dishes, then sat in the living room with a book when Harry walked down just as someone knocked on the door.
'Ma'am, follow me,' Harry said and a tall woman walked in, nodded to Hermione then followed Harry up the stairs. A couple of minutes later, Ron came down, yawning hugely.
'I'll make you some breakfast Ron,' Hermione kissed his cheek and they both went into the kitchen. They heard a few noises from upstairs, but it wasn't so bad, so they never bothered with the silencing charm. Hermione put some food in front of Ron, then sat with him but kept reading, but kept glancing towards the roof with some of the strange sounds coming from up there.
When the time was up, Harry walked the tall woman down, but she never went to the door, she went over to Ron and Hermione.
'So the golden trio are together, do you join in?'
'Um, no we don't, this is one thing Harry does without us two,' Hermione smiled at the woman.
'Oh well, might have made it interesting, but couldn't have made it better. Harry, I'll see you next week.'
'You will Hestia, have a nice day,' Harry kissed her cheek then closed the door, 'I need a shower, before the next one,' Harry hurried up the stairs.
'I've seen her before, but I don't remember where,' Ron said.
'Hestia Jones, she's a member of the Order of the Phoenix. She was the one who took the Dursleys away before we changed into Harry that time.'
'Oh right, I remember seeing her at Grimmauld Place.'
Harry came back downstairs in a robe as someone knocked on the door. He opened it and a young dark haired woman stepped inside and walked up the stairs with Harry.
'Romilda Vane, at least she's got Harry this way,' Hermione said stiffly.
'Do you think she does this to try and get Harry properly?'
'Yes, I do, but I can see how much Harry loves Ginny, so she doesn't have a hope.'
Just then Kingsley and Michael stepped inside, they heard the noises from upstairs but walked over to Hermione and Ron.
'Business has started by the sound of it,' Kingsley said as he sat down.
'Yes, second client of the morning. I don't know how Harry does it. I know he always had a lot of energy, but this goes on all day.'
'Some men have more energy and stamina than others. I need a quick word with Harry, how long between each customer does he get?'
'Half an hour.'
'That'll be enough time, so you didn't put the silencing charm around the room.'
'The noises haven't been that bad, but we should head out to the back room. I don't think Romilda will like the idea the Minister for Magic sees her coming downstairs,' Hermione, Ron, Kingsley and Michael all left the living room. They conjured a couple of couches and talked while they were waiting for Harry.
'I just need a snack, but I thought you weren't coming until Sunday Kingsley?' Harry quickly started eating some fruit while he sat down.
'I wasn't, but we have some news. One of the women that was on your list was killed last night along with her brother. We thought you should be told in case you find out. It was Emma Linstrum.'
'Do you think they killed her because I cancelled her time?'
'Probably, but we can't be sure just yet. I've got the magical law enforcement squad keeping an eye on the others.'
'I'm going out to speak with Claudia Straughn later today. Even if she doesn't remember being imperiused, I can use a spell without her knowing, find out if she was,' Michael said.
'I hope if they were imperiused you can keep them safe. But Kingsley, I don't want to get personal, but did you and Sherry work things out?'
'Yes, we did a lot of talking last night. She explained everything, what I was doing and I never even realised I was doing it. She also explained about exactly what went on here. It all started when I first married her, I just used to keep my work separate from my home life, but I seemed to take that a bit far. But it's all good now and you were right, she decided to have some fun last night and you really taught her well. She had me on the ground in a lot of pain and aurors are taught how to handle pain.'
'Yeah, but you see Kingsley, Tonks explained about some things you do during you're training, so I use some of that, but make it more intense.'
'Okay, now I get it, but why would Tonks tell you about that?'
'She knew I wanted to be an auror, so she used to sit down and tell me things. All about the tests and trials, how you have to learn to beat the imperius curse, the pain, how you have to learn to control your emotions, everything really.'
'So maybe when you're finished with this life, you still might consider being an auror?'
'Bit hard Kingsley when I won't be getting my N.E.W.T.s, so I'll work on something else. I like working for myself, maybe I might buy a business or something. Maybe I might keep this going, but with others working for me and I just run it, don't know.'
'If there were a way for you to get you're N.E.W.T.s would you consider it?'
'I'll have to think about that. I'm so used to doing what I want, I don't know if I could take orders from someone else,' just then someone knocked on the door, 'Sorry, business calls,' Harry got up and went into the living room.
'Harry and I were both going to join together, but I think Harry would make a great auror.'
'He would, if he could get used to taking orders from others. That can be taught during the training.'
'If he does, I know he won't for a while. He told Ginny he'll be doing this for a year or two. Oh we've got a loud one, time for the silencing charm I think,' Hermione waved her wand and it fell silent, 'That's better.'
'She was a screamer,' Ron shook his head, 'I wonder what Harry does to make her scream like that.'
'Unless you ask him, you'd just be guessing. But we'll be off, tell Harry we'll keep him informed with what we find out. Take it easy you two.'
'Bye,' Hermione and Ron said together and watched the minister and auror leave.
For the rest of the day, they saw Harry a couple of times when he came in for a quick snack before heading back upstairs with his clients. Hermione decided to make dinner and was just about finished when Harry sat down with them.
'I'm knackered.'
'Don't blame you Harry, but if you can tell me, were all those woman today here for sex?'
'Yep, two were sex with dominance, one her, one me. Did you end up putting the silencing charm around the room?'
'Yes, that third one liked to scream loudly,' Hermione put three plates on the table then sat down.
'Thanks and you didn't need to cook Hermione, I would have taken you out to eat. But yeah, Rose is a screamer.'
'The one you brought to dinner?' Ron asked.
'Yeah, that's the one. I can see Hermione's a little uncomfortable, so if you can't handle this Hermione, you don't need to stay.'
'No, it's fine Harry and I'll get used to it.'
'Up to you, but I'm sure I'll be fine and from Sunday I'll have that charm on the room. Not sure when Michael will be staying though.'
'Probably after you get your new clients. Do you think it will be a woman or man?'
'Don't know until they contact me. Oh tomorrow there will be two men turning up, one you know, not together separate, but one I mean you actually know. He'll be right before lunch and I'm not sure if he will want anyone to know. So it might be best to be out the back room before he turns up.'
'Since we are here and seeing you're clients, can you tell us who it is?'
'Well, since I know you two won't say anything, okay, it's Lee Jordon. He worked out his gay, but hasn't felt comfortable picking up a bloke when he had never done anything. So he thought since he heard I take on blokes, he could get used to it first with me. I'm not sure how long he'll keep coming here though.'
'I wonder if George knows, they usually tell each other everything.'
'Don't know Ron and I don't bring things like that up with my clients if I know them. Actually there's not a lot of talking with them, the dominance ones do though, well order me around is more like it.'
'I wanted to ask you about that, when you knelt down in front of Sherry.'
Harry laughed, 'Yep, that's how I used to act with her. Once she started to get comfortable that's when she came up with the name. If she told Kingsley everything, I wonder if she told him she was always dressed, I never thought to mention it.'
'They said they talked and she told him everything, so she probably did. Because knowing Kingsley, after hearing you were naked, I'm sure he wanted to know if he's wife was. Do all the woman that like to dominate you stay dressed?' Hermione asked.
'No, she was the only one that did that. The others will usually wear some weird get up under their normal clothes. I've got a few muggleborn woman, they dress up like muggle movies stars, things like that. I've had a Wonder Woman, a Princess Leia, even a Storm.'
'Who?' Ron asked looking confused.
'I might show you one day Ron. I was thinking of setting up a part of the house to take muggle TV and dvd players. But those three I just mentioned are super hero type characters in movies. I think you'd enjoy watching those, but Hermione, you're cooking gotten a lot better, this was nice, thanks.'
Harry, Ron and Hermione laughed as they remembered some of their meals they had when they were away living in the tent and couldn't believe it was only nine months ago. So much has changed since then, but at least there was no Voldemort anymore.
