Chapter 37

For most of the summer, Calypso stayed in her bedroom all day, complaining about how the Dark Lord was unfair to murder Warrington and how hot it was since her mum refused to reset the atmospheric charm.

"Do you want it to be like Azkaban?" her mother had demanded furiously when she brought it up for the fifth time.

"UP- WAKEY WAKEY CALYPSOOOOOO!" singsonged her mum from downstairs as Calypso rubbed her eyes.

"WHAT?! I'm AWAKE!"
"GET DOWN HERE THEN!"
Calypso sighed. She stuffed the letter from Theo about 'settings' or whatever shit, hurried to get dressed, grabbed a bag with her wand in it, and ran down the stairs.

"Finally, you take forever- and what is that you're wearing?" her mum wrinkled her nose at Calypso's choice of muggle attire, a black cropped tank top and ripped jean shorts.

"Its called muggle clothes"
"Yes I know, ugh- we need to talk about styling someday but anyway, you're going out with Draco to wherever you two want, the Dark Lord is coming over for a house tour to decide his headquarters. I can't wait to see everyone else manors- but..oh yes! Your father will be home soon. He's just been out to buy some cake." she glanced at the clock, "I do hope he remembers to take polyjuice potion. Have some toast"
Calypso stared at the piece of toast that her mother was waving in her face. "Er- I don't want-"
"You'll have some toast" she insisted.

"Fine" Calypso grumbled, taking the piece of toast.

No sooner had she swallowed it was there a knock on the door. A house-elf ran forward, revealing Draco in ridiculous muggle clothing. "What are you wearing? We're going shopping, not attending a wedding at the beach!?"
He glanced self-consciously down at his outfit choice, "Don't know, come on let's go before he gets here"

Bellatrix's anxious face appeared in the hallway. "Death eaters will be arriving any second, RODOLPHUS!"
"Yes?"
"Apparate them to King's Cross, quick! And do NOT board the train to Hogwarts mind you! Remember to stay in the muggle world! AND DON'T COME BACK UNTIL EVERYONE HAS GONE!"
Calypso nodded and took her father's hand before he disapparated.

Once she had gotten bearings of her surroundings, he handed her a wallet. "Muggle money- bye!"
Calypso glanced inside and noticed about 30 sheets of paper rolled up inside. "Uhhh?"
Draco snatched the bag from her. "Why's he given us a bunch of paper?"
"It's muggle money I think," said Calypso uncertainly, "Where should we go?"

Draco thought for a moment before clapping his hands together, "The ministry!"
"No! My mum said to stay in the muggle world"
"Oh yeah...Diagon Alley then?"
"MUGGLE WORLD DRACO!" shrieked Calypso in his ear.

"Ow...Ice cream!" he pointed to a small parlor a little off the station. "Let's go there"
"I guess" Calypso shrugged. "Wait!" she grabbed his arm as he made to cross the road just as a car whizzed by. "I think you have to press this thing. The professor mentioned it in muggle studies." Calypso gingerly pressed the giant button with a stick figure walking on it.

A small screen attached to a pole on the other side of the road glowed with a green, walking, stick figure. "Er- now we go?"
Draco scowled, "You don't sound so sure" but followed her across the road. Thankfully, nobody got turned into car kebabs.

Finally, they reached the ice cream parlor unharmed. Draco attempted to push open the door but it wouldn't budge. "What the-"
"Do not take out your wand" Calypso hissed, studying the doorknob.

"What's that?"

"What?" Calypso followed Draco's gaze to a small bell on top of the door. "Oh! Ring it I think"

"Ring ring ring"

A second later, the door opened with a click, and they stepped in.

It was a small, brightly lit room with bright white and baby pink furniture. The walls were painted in an illusion-ish fashion in pale yellow and glass.

"Oh merlin" Calypso whispered, "This is almost as bad as the Lestrange Manor"
Draco glanced around, "I doubt it. That place is so eye-blinding and dark at the same time it's almost depressing"

Calypso rolled her eyes, "You find a table, I'll go order"
"But I want to order" complained Draco.

"But you don't get to" Calypso snapped, walking towards the counter upfront. "Two raspberry sundaes please"

The lady nodded and yelled something to the kitchen behind her before tapping the order into the little 'computer' thingie. "That'll be 12.50 ma'am"
Calypso picked through the British notes for a paper that had a '20' on it. "Here"
"Thank you- and here's your change"

Calypso dropped the coins and notes into her wallet before taking the receipt that had just shot out.

"Thank you have a nice day. We'll call you when your order is ready- NEXT!"
Calypso smiled tightly before making her way to Draco.

A minute later, the lady called, "Order number 178"

Draco stared at the lady, then at the receipt "What's that supposed to mean? Also, why do we have a small 178 at the bottom of this?"
"It means when they call 178, you go and get your order I think"
"That's stupid," said Draco bluntly. "How do they expect us to wait 178 minutes?!"
Calypso eyes the receipt weirdly. "I don't think that's what it means...See? They're calling 179 now."
"Does it go backward?"
She shrugged, "Go ask the lady"
"Why me?"
"Because I don't want to," Calypso said, glaring at Draco until he sighed and went to ask the lady.

Minutes later, he returned with two vanilla sundaes topped with red syrup. "They do NOT call backward for your information" Draco grumbled, handing her a spoon. "Where do we go next?"
Calypso shrugged, wrapping up the ice cream with a napkin to avoid her hands from freezing when she held the cup. "We can go to the mall?"
Draco crossed his arms. "No"
"And why not?"
"Because Nott will be there and I don't feel like seeing him today"
"Why?" probed Calypso. She knew she was making him annoyed by sticking her nose in his business but she didn't care.

"Because he's a prat!"
Calypso glared at him, "'What did he do- refuse to help you with homework?"
"Exactly!"

She blanched, "Oh, I was only joking, I think we should go to the mall after all."

"LES-"
"Shut it. That's not a very common last name, I'm sure you've realized. Now you owe me for almost getting us caught. "

And that is why they ended up at the mall a bit later that day.

Almost immediately, Draco stared at the red and white dome on top of a side shop. "What the fuck is that?"
Calypso shrugged, "I think that's a food court."

There was a long line outside the shop which included a group of people that had been seen picking Potter up from the train station.

"How do you know?"
"What- oh" Calypso pointed to the large sign above them. "It says food court"
"Ahhh"
"Mhm, let's go buy you new clothes"
Draco eyed his outfit, "Ehh"
She rolled her eyes, "Come on Draco. I'm embarrassed just being seen standing with you. And aren't those Potter's parents?"
"That's rude. How would I know?"

"Whatever" Calypso gripped Draco's hand and dragged him inside the mall. "Do you think Potter's with them?"
Draco eyes the people contemptibly and ignored Calypso, "They didn't do a very good job on him did they?"
"Why don't you ask them?"
"What- they're staring at us now"
Calypso squinted at them carefully. "No doubt looking at your ridiculous clothing choices. Honestly Draco, what were you thinking?"

Draco picked at his shirt, "You're the one wearing heels and shorts"
"So?"
"I don't know, I wanted to say something"
"Seriously?"
"..." Draco looked at her like he was trying to find something wrong with her, "...aha! I got it, you're wearing heels, and you're still shorter than me"

Calypso scoffed. "Not my problem, you need to stop bloody growing. And stop stalling, we have to go in some- Potter, what are you doing here?"

Potter, who had been evidently eavesdropping on the table behind them, looked up. "Er-"

Next to him, sat a thin bony woman and two rather large men.

"Who is this?" asked the one with the mustache.

Draco sneered their way- (not helping Draco!), "You're muggles aren't you?"
The two adults' eyes widened and the child for some reason shifted downwards into his seat. "What are you playing at?" the man grumbled, probably Potter's foster father.

Calypso extended her hand and put on a fake, bright, cheery smile. "You must be Harry's parents."
"Er-" he interrupted, but Calypso was on a roll.

"So nice to meet you, Harry's told us all about you"
Potter looked at her oddly and Calypso smirked. "Do you want to come with us? It's such a LOVELY day to be out."

Potter's mother seemed to be actually considering it. "Don't want to be impolite-" she grumbled, "Next time- come on boy, we're leaving!"
Well, she failed, that was obviously very impolite.

As Potter was being dragged away, he stared at them. "Why are you all out here? Why aren't you with-" his voice faded away as his father shoved him into a gleaming silver car.

"Seen Potter than have you?"
Theo had just somehow appeared right behind them, coincidentally making Draco scowl.

"Stop doing that!" Calypso shrieked at Theo. "One of these days I'll get a heart attack"
"Huh, I'm not the only one who thinks your creepy and a pain Theodore," Zeren grunted from behind Theo.

Theo glared at Zeren. "Don't call me that."
Zeren snorted. "Theodore, Theodore, Theodore. That was our father's name. You should be proud to bear it-"
"Yeah yeah yeah. I've heard the same thing from him. Why would I want to be a stooped old man who snivels at the feet of-"
Zeren stepped him, presumably to slap Theo but he was quicker. Ducking, Theo pulled out his wand.

Zeren eyed it hesitantly. "Put that away! There are muggles-"
Theo glared at him. "You're supposed to be making sure I-" Theo sneered, "behave"
"Put that away before I make you!" snapped Zeren. "Expel-"
Theo flicked his wand before Zeren could finish and the latter's wand flew into his hand.

"What do you think you're doing!" Zeren demanded. Turning on the spot, Zeren grabbed Theo and disapparated.

"Come on then" hissed Calypso. "Security will be here soon!"

Sure enough, seconds later, ministry officials were on the scene.

"Pretend to just be a muggle" Calypso hissed, ducking her head and pulling Draco into the mall.

A ministry official, Amos Diggory, scanned the area. "Have you seen anything unordinary?" he asked calmly to a muggle nearby. Diggory was dressed in a muggle security outfit, with black camo and the words 'SECURITY' printed in block white letters on the back. He even had one of those muggle wand thingies that make loud blasts, tucked in his belt.

The muggle shrugged, "Just saw a boy or two- disappeared into thin air!"

"Could you please describe him?"
"Er- dark hair- bluish-green eyes"
Diggory nodded, "Alright- Obliviate now. You?"
Calypso looked at Diggory. "Er- I'm a witch, no need to obliviate me"
"Aha! So you cast a wordless Accio charm in the presence of muggles did you?"
"No...Harry Potter did. I saw him- he tried to take my wand"
Diggory was scribbling all of it down on a notepad. "Alright- can I please have your contact?"
"Er- Alicia Malfoy" she lied. There was no way she could just announce that she was an escaped death eater's daughter. Her word would count for so much less than.

"Okay, ma'am. We'll send a letter if we need you. I'm off to track Potter then and obliviate these poor muggles. Have a nice day" Amos stuffed the parchment into his pocket and hurried off.

A second later, Draco walked forward from where he was hiding behind a water fountain. "What'd you say?"
"Pinned it on Potter. I swear- I will KILL theo next time I see him. What was he thinking?"
"Not much by the looks of it" Draco shrugged.

"Oh aren't you so clever" Calypso sneered.

Draco stared at her, "Do you want coffee?"

"No?"
"I didn't think so" Draco shrugged. "In we go now or have you forgotten Les- Calypso."
"Call me Alicia!" Calypso hissed.

"Don't tell me what to do- oh alright ALICIA"
"Ehh I don't like that name much actually. Let's go back to Calypso"
Draco growled. "You woman and your indecisiveness"
Calypso raised an eyebrow, "You're the one who can't choose which hair gel will 'smell best with your black robes' every day"
"It's an internal struggle!"
"Sure it is" Calypso drawled. "It's almost noon now," she said, changing the subject. "What do you want to eat?"
Draco stared around the block, "What do muggles even eat around here?"
"Let's go ask them…" she approached a muggle who had just recently gotten his memory wiped. "Do you know if there are any good places to eat around here?"
"Uh- what? Oh- eat….yes eating. You want to eat?"
Draco walked up from behind her. "Yes?"
"Eat...here's food." he pointed to the large red and obnoxious food court right outside the mall.

Calypso smiled tightly, "Thanks?" but proceeded to drag Draco away from the restaurant- of you could even call it that. "Any idea when the death eater meeting will be over?"
"Past midnight" Draco hissed back.

"Seriously? What are they discussing in there?" Calypso demanded.
For once, Draco looked worried sick.

Calypso stared into his pale grey eyes. "What's wrong?"

"You don't have to worry" Draco scoffed. "You're parents are loyal and never lied there way out of anything"
"So this is about your parents?"
"Obviously, who did you think I was worried about- my owl?"
Calypso shrugged, "Your owl's really cute. You two have so much in common- both furry-"
"I do NOT need you to relive the ferret incident for me" Draco snapped angrily.

"But I want to," Calypso said, her voice dripping with false sweetness. "You were so fluffy and-"
"I get it! Now shut up miss."
Calypso stuck her tongue out at him. "Please."
Draco crossed his arms. "I'll go buy you a firebolt if you just shut up"
"Don't need one" waved Calypso nonchalantly.

"Ugh, what do you bloody girls like?"
"Hmmm. Well, we like making fun of-"
"Shut it Calypso. I rather hang out with Nott than you"

"Oh really? I've discovered this wonderful muggle device, it was in a book- it allows you to send messages to people without magic. I could message him right now and I'll spend the day with Zeren?"
Draco stared at her. "You're joking"
"No, I'm not" Calypso pulled a rose gold metal square thingie and pulled up the little antenna on the top.

Draco jumped almost three feet in the air when it lit up. "What the fuck is that!"
"Look!" Calypso tapped the buttons on the 'cellphone' or whatever. "Theo helped me figure it out over letters so it's not perfect- but look" she waved a 'message board' in Draco's face. "See? I can message people now without sending an owl!"
Draco glared at the screen like it stole his hair gel. "Humph. What else can you do on- er that thing"
"Uhhh" Calypso looked at the screen. "I think there's this thing where you can talk to people. And here their voice from a mile away. Also, make little birds jump up and down by shaking it.

"Wait...You said it could send letters?"
"Yeah"

"Then can it send items too?"

"Er-"

"Can it?"
"I don't know…maybe?"

"Oh come on, it's basically the same thing right?"
"I don't know Draco!"
"Eh, well I want one of those things anyway"
Calypso stared at Draco, "You know how fast your emotions can change?"

"What?"
"One moment you were all, 'i'm worried' now you want a muggle cellphone"

"But I'm still worried!"
"You know, you're really bad at hiding your emotions. Isn't that the whole point of Slytherin?"
Draco rolled his eyes. "Would you say Nott's good at hiding his emotions then?"
Calypso frowned, "Yes, why?"

"Oh my god, what is he doing with that bitch?"

"I know right he is so hot" someone laughed.

Calypso turned around to three girls whispering. "Excuse me?"

Girl number one stared at me. "Who do you think you are?"

"Oh, just your average daughter of the most feared witch in the magical world. Who's on good terms with someone who's about to blast your kind to rubble…" but of course she didn't actually say that, instead she lied because that's what Slytherins do best. "If you'll excuse us, we're kind of busy right now, we're on a date"

Draco stared at Calypso but didn't say anything, and he's lucky he didn't or Calypso would've shot him into next week.

Girl number 2 giggled, "How about you ditch the ugly hoe and come with us"

"Sure...but only one person"

"I call him!" number 1 shouted.

"NO, he's mine!"

"You wish! You always get the good ones!" shrieked girl number three. "He's soooo mine!"
Draco smirked, "If you can't decide-"

"NO WE DECIDED!" shouted girl number 1, she smiled sweetly at Draco and swirled her hair a bit before yanking the two other girls in a huddle.

I stared at Draco. "What the fuck do you think you're playing at?"
"I'm being cunning and all"

I glanced at the three girls who were still whisper arguing.

"I don't think they'll be done anytime soon."

"Hmmm. Well, something to do in the meantime...you said you're good at occlumency?"
"What do you-"
Calypso grinned and stared into Draco's eyes.

'What does she think she's-"
A wall of white shot up, causing Calypso to stumble back. "Seriously?" she demanded. She pressed harder into Draco's mind. Those annoying white walls bent and shook but they refused to go down.

Draco stared at her. "Who the fuck taught you?" he wiped a bead of sweat from his hair.

"My mum" Calypso could feel the white walls around Draco's special knowledge "What is it you're trying to hide Draco?"
"Nothing" he grimaced. "Get out of my mind. I need to sit down" he plopped himself down on a bench. "Nott never mentioned this being tiring"
"Of course he didn't" Calypso scoffed. "He's been doing it since before he could walk. Of course, he's good at it"

Draco crossed his arms and glanced at the three girls that were still arguing. "Yeah, but when he does it, it's not so tiring. I want ice cream" Draco added as an afterthought.

"I'm guessing his goal is to TEACH you, not to KILL you?"
"Fine, but can we get ice cream."

Calypso raised an eyebrow. "When?"
"Now" then Draco strutted off in the opposite direction of the ice cream parlor they had come from.

Swearing, Calypso swung her bag over her shoulder and walked after him. "The fucking parlor is THAT way"

Draco stuck his nose in the air. "Whatever"
"Hahaha," Calypso said coldly. "Sure you did. And I want lunch first" she cast a backward glance at the three girls who were still whispering shouting, "Come on then Draco…"

Thirty minutes later, they were at Poppies, a strange food place for muggles. "Are you sure we have to stop here?"
"Yes," Calypso snapped. "I'm hungry and NO ICE CREAM!"
"You sound like my mother"
"Humph", not that Calypso had anything against Narcissa...who was just lovely by the way.

After another disaster, ordering food and whatnot, they walked to the park near the train station.

"Do we just sit out all her till midnight?" Draco grumbled.

Calypso ignored him and dug through her bag for a handheld mirror. "Just hold on a minute." she reapplied the matte lipstick that had been wearing off.

"Do you really need to do that?" Draco complained.

"Yes...I put it on when I first woke up, it's faded"

"I don't think it matters"

"Yes, it does" snapped Calypso. "There. Where do you want to go now?"
"Don't know. Anywhere I suppose. Just not the mall, we stood outside for hours."

Calypso sighed but didn't argue.

Just another filler...exciting stuff happening in the next chapter!