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The Unicorn and the Stag
Chapter 21
Rose was trying desperately to push down the magic bubbling up inside her, but it wasn't working. She tried concentrating it instead.
*Focus the magic! Focus it at the Malfoys and only the Malfoys! Otherwise we could do some serious damage.*
She felt the others struggling to control the magic. They were barely in time. There was a loud whispering noise, and the Malfoys both dropped to the ground, apparently Stunned. The Golds quickly grabbed their dates and jogged upstairs. The girls busied themselves looking at bathing suits and hiking clothes, while the boys looked through the tents.
"Hermione, what about this one?" Ginny said. She was holding up a cute pale blue bikini with a lavender star on the top.
"I think the pink one with the spring green flower would look better on you."
"Hermione, try this one," Ginny said, holding out an aqua bikini with deep blue straps.
"I don't have enough to fill out the top."
"Yes you do. More than I have."
"You both would look great in them. Ginny, pink is a perfect color for you. Hermione, I think that the aqua brings out your hair and eyes," Rose said.
"Really?" they said at the same time.
"Really." She smiled. They made such cute friends.
"Rose, how about this one?"
"No way! This one's better!"
"Is not!"
The Bernards were each holding up bathing suits. Alex was holding a lime green one-piece. Ally was holding a white bikini with beige ties.
"I want that one." Rose made a grab for the white one, but Ally snatched it out of her way. "I saw this pair of matching tankinis down there in blue and white." The Bernards dropped the suits they were holding and ran for the blue and white. Rose snatched the white off the floor.
"Oh Rosie, how about this?" came a falsetto from behind her. She screeched and whirled around. Bill was grinning at her, holding up a flesh-tone thong bikini.
"William Weasly! Go back to gaping at the tents!"
He dropped the suit and scuttled off.
*~*~*
Harry was having fun picking out tents. Rose had handed them a good-sized wad of cash to pick out a good-sized one. She told they needed two, and they had to fit about five each. She didn't want the Muggles getting suspicious with about ten people in two two-man tents.
So Harry, Bill, Dean, Ron, and Seamus were looking at tents. The Weaslys were searching a large rack of Muggle prank tricks and discussing how they could charm them to "improve" them.
"Hey, Harry! Over here!"
Harry followed Ron's shout to a good-sized tent with no screens or windows. The rest of the boys were with them (except for Fred and George). Bill and Seamus were inside the tents.
"Hey Harry, come look at the insides! Can you believe Muggles sleep in things this tiny?"
"How's Rose going to enchant it, anyways?"
"One bedroom for every two people, two bathrooms, a kitchen, living room, dining room and a Jacuzzi."
"Wow. She's had experience."
"Our first date was camping in the Appalachians," Bill said, emerging from the tent. "We're going with these. They're perfect. Oi! You two!" he yelled at Fred and George. Their identical red heads peeked out from behind the prank rack. "Grab a tent! Oh, and all of you, whatever you do, don't make suggestions on what they should buy."
They found the girls at the front counter. They had found everything they needed. Clothes, packets of dried food, first aid kits, sleeping bags, supplies for the bathrooms, kitchen supplies.
"Wow," was Dean's reaction.
"Oh, you found the tents? Let's see, we've spent.exactly $400," Rose said.
"Is that a good amount?" Bill asked nervously. She gave him a Look.
"Pureblood." she stopped because Alex had clapped a hand over her mouth.
"The last time you said that word, Lucius Malfoy showed up like he was Summoned there. Shut up!" She did.
They paid for their purchases and left for the Leaky Cauldron to pack them up and shrink them. The girls chattered and laughed about their clothes all the way. Harry looked back at Ginny. She looked really pretty when she laughed like that. He saw Ron staring at Hermione, who was holding an aqua bikini up to herself.
"Ron! Snap out of it!" Harry said, waving his hand in front of his face.
"I can imagine how hot she'll look in that."
"Where's Ginny's suit?"
"Shut up, Harry."
"Ron, she's fourteen," Bill told him. "She's a big girl. Let her make her own decisions."
Harry looked at Ron's suddenly sullen face with surprise. He hadn't thought Ron didn't like his sister dating. He hadn't minded them going to the ball together.
Bill grinned. "Besides, what's wrong with my brother-in-law?"
Ron turned pink.
"Ooo, Ron," Padma said. "The Potters do seem to have a taste for Weaslys, don't they?"
Ron, Harry, Hermione, and Ginny all turned red. Bill and Rose just laughed and hugged again.
"Ugh," Dean said.
"They've been nuzzling each other in the hallways for weeks," Ron said. "I swear I'll hurl if I see them do that again."
"Definitely," Harry agreed.
Rose smacked Harry and Bill smacked Ron. Padma just rolled her eyes. "Rose!"
"Hey! Billy!"
Bill smacked him again.
"Shut up, Ronnykins."
Ron and Harry rubbed their arms where Bill and Rose had smacked them.
*Too much sibling rivalry already.*
*Living with five brothers for years is harder. I had Fred and George.*
*I had Dudley.*
*Good point.*
*~*~*
The girl's room in the Leaky Cauldron was a scattered mess of bathing suits, coats, shirts, pants, and shorts, and everyone was giggling. The girls were shrinking their clothes and putting them into their trunks.
"How much did we spend again?" asked Alex, levitating a shrunken box of hair supplies into her trunk.
"Four hundred dollars," Rose responded. She was packing the bag with all the vital things.
"Hello, ladies," came a voice from the door.
The girls screamed. "GET OUT, FRED!" Fred grabbed his head and ducked out the door, "accidentally" dropping something on the floor. It started filling the room with vivid orange smoke. The girls shrieked and ran. Hermione, however, kept a cool head.
"Wingardium Leviosa!" she said, and levitated the smoking object out of the window, where it terrified several old witches on the street below.
"I'll kill those horrid little." Ginny said several nasty words. She had apparently learned Ron's vocabulary over the summer.
"Language, Miss Weasly."
"Please call me Ginny."
"Language, Ginny."
The girls finished in about half an hour. They grabbed their boyfriends, who had been packed for an hour, and grabbed the Portkey Rose held out, a bottle of sunscreen. In about a minute, they were at their first destination, the Bahamas!
*~*~*
"Oh, look at the little cabin!" Rose squealed. It was so cute! It was a good-sized wooden hut about the size of Gryffindor Tower.
"That's a cabin?" Harry said in disbelief.
"Of course it is," Rose said. The girls' rooms are on the top floor, boys are on the bottom. There's a bathroom on each floor. The kitchen and the dining room are downstairs, there's a living room on each floor, and the breakfast room's connected to the balcony on the second floor. Here's a map." She pulled out fourteen maps of the spacious house and handed one to everyone. "As you can see, it's right on the beachfront. The pool and hot tub are out back. Any questions?"
No one raised their hand.
"Good. You can pick out your room. Everyone gets their own. I'm up for a beach party once we get changed; anyone else? The towels and sunscreen and umbrellas are in the big trunk in the main foyer."
The girls shrieked and ran inside to change. The boys shook their heads and followed much more slowly.
Rose pulled off her skirt and blouse to reveal the beige and white bikini from Galleon's and grabbed her towel from her newly resized trunk. She spread out the towel, slapped on some sunscreen, and put up a lavender umbrella. She stretched out onto the towel and relaxed. No Voldemort, no Death Eaters, and thank God no Malfoys. She could truly relax for the first time in months.
*~*~*~*
How long do you think she'll be able to relax? Maybe long enough to realize her wand's still in her trunk. Five hundred yards away. All alone on the beach.
The Unicorn and the Stag
Chapter 21
Rose was trying desperately to push down the magic bubbling up inside her, but it wasn't working. She tried concentrating it instead.
*Focus the magic! Focus it at the Malfoys and only the Malfoys! Otherwise we could do some serious damage.*
She felt the others struggling to control the magic. They were barely in time. There was a loud whispering noise, and the Malfoys both dropped to the ground, apparently Stunned. The Golds quickly grabbed their dates and jogged upstairs. The girls busied themselves looking at bathing suits and hiking clothes, while the boys looked through the tents.
"Hermione, what about this one?" Ginny said. She was holding up a cute pale blue bikini with a lavender star on the top.
"I think the pink one with the spring green flower would look better on you."
"Hermione, try this one," Ginny said, holding out an aqua bikini with deep blue straps.
"I don't have enough to fill out the top."
"Yes you do. More than I have."
"You both would look great in them. Ginny, pink is a perfect color for you. Hermione, I think that the aqua brings out your hair and eyes," Rose said.
"Really?" they said at the same time.
"Really." She smiled. They made such cute friends.
"Rose, how about this one?"
"No way! This one's better!"
"Is not!"
The Bernards were each holding up bathing suits. Alex was holding a lime green one-piece. Ally was holding a white bikini with beige ties.
"I want that one." Rose made a grab for the white one, but Ally snatched it out of her way. "I saw this pair of matching tankinis down there in blue and white." The Bernards dropped the suits they were holding and ran for the blue and white. Rose snatched the white off the floor.
"Oh Rosie, how about this?" came a falsetto from behind her. She screeched and whirled around. Bill was grinning at her, holding up a flesh-tone thong bikini.
"William Weasly! Go back to gaping at the tents!"
He dropped the suit and scuttled off.
*~*~*
Harry was having fun picking out tents. Rose had handed them a good-sized wad of cash to pick out a good-sized one. She told they needed two, and they had to fit about five each. She didn't want the Muggles getting suspicious with about ten people in two two-man tents.
So Harry, Bill, Dean, Ron, and Seamus were looking at tents. The Weaslys were searching a large rack of Muggle prank tricks and discussing how they could charm them to "improve" them.
"Hey, Harry! Over here!"
Harry followed Ron's shout to a good-sized tent with no screens or windows. The rest of the boys were with them (except for Fred and George). Bill and Seamus were inside the tents.
"Hey Harry, come look at the insides! Can you believe Muggles sleep in things this tiny?"
"How's Rose going to enchant it, anyways?"
"One bedroom for every two people, two bathrooms, a kitchen, living room, dining room and a Jacuzzi."
"Wow. She's had experience."
"Our first date was camping in the Appalachians," Bill said, emerging from the tent. "We're going with these. They're perfect. Oi! You two!" he yelled at Fred and George. Their identical red heads peeked out from behind the prank rack. "Grab a tent! Oh, and all of you, whatever you do, don't make suggestions on what they should buy."
They found the girls at the front counter. They had found everything they needed. Clothes, packets of dried food, first aid kits, sleeping bags, supplies for the bathrooms, kitchen supplies.
"Wow," was Dean's reaction.
"Oh, you found the tents? Let's see, we've spent.exactly $400," Rose said.
"Is that a good amount?" Bill asked nervously. She gave him a Look.
"Pureblood." she stopped because Alex had clapped a hand over her mouth.
"The last time you said that word, Lucius Malfoy showed up like he was Summoned there. Shut up!" She did.
They paid for their purchases and left for the Leaky Cauldron to pack them up and shrink them. The girls chattered and laughed about their clothes all the way. Harry looked back at Ginny. She looked really pretty when she laughed like that. He saw Ron staring at Hermione, who was holding an aqua bikini up to herself.
"Ron! Snap out of it!" Harry said, waving his hand in front of his face.
"I can imagine how hot she'll look in that."
"Where's Ginny's suit?"
"Shut up, Harry."
"Ron, she's fourteen," Bill told him. "She's a big girl. Let her make her own decisions."
Harry looked at Ron's suddenly sullen face with surprise. He hadn't thought Ron didn't like his sister dating. He hadn't minded them going to the ball together.
Bill grinned. "Besides, what's wrong with my brother-in-law?"
Ron turned pink.
"Ooo, Ron," Padma said. "The Potters do seem to have a taste for Weaslys, don't they?"
Ron, Harry, Hermione, and Ginny all turned red. Bill and Rose just laughed and hugged again.
"Ugh," Dean said.
"They've been nuzzling each other in the hallways for weeks," Ron said. "I swear I'll hurl if I see them do that again."
"Definitely," Harry agreed.
Rose smacked Harry and Bill smacked Ron. Padma just rolled her eyes. "Rose!"
"Hey! Billy!"
Bill smacked him again.
"Shut up, Ronnykins."
Ron and Harry rubbed their arms where Bill and Rose had smacked them.
*Too much sibling rivalry already.*
*Living with five brothers for years is harder. I had Fred and George.*
*I had Dudley.*
*Good point.*
*~*~*
The girl's room in the Leaky Cauldron was a scattered mess of bathing suits, coats, shirts, pants, and shorts, and everyone was giggling. The girls were shrinking their clothes and putting them into their trunks.
"How much did we spend again?" asked Alex, levitating a shrunken box of hair supplies into her trunk.
"Four hundred dollars," Rose responded. She was packing the bag with all the vital things.
"Hello, ladies," came a voice from the door.
The girls screamed. "GET OUT, FRED!" Fred grabbed his head and ducked out the door, "accidentally" dropping something on the floor. It started filling the room with vivid orange smoke. The girls shrieked and ran. Hermione, however, kept a cool head.
"Wingardium Leviosa!" she said, and levitated the smoking object out of the window, where it terrified several old witches on the street below.
"I'll kill those horrid little." Ginny said several nasty words. She had apparently learned Ron's vocabulary over the summer.
"Language, Miss Weasly."
"Please call me Ginny."
"Language, Ginny."
The girls finished in about half an hour. They grabbed their boyfriends, who had been packed for an hour, and grabbed the Portkey Rose held out, a bottle of sunscreen. In about a minute, they were at their first destination, the Bahamas!
*~*~*
"Oh, look at the little cabin!" Rose squealed. It was so cute! It was a good-sized wooden hut about the size of Gryffindor Tower.
"That's a cabin?" Harry said in disbelief.
"Of course it is," Rose said. The girls' rooms are on the top floor, boys are on the bottom. There's a bathroom on each floor. The kitchen and the dining room are downstairs, there's a living room on each floor, and the breakfast room's connected to the balcony on the second floor. Here's a map." She pulled out fourteen maps of the spacious house and handed one to everyone. "As you can see, it's right on the beachfront. The pool and hot tub are out back. Any questions?"
No one raised their hand.
"Good. You can pick out your room. Everyone gets their own. I'm up for a beach party once we get changed; anyone else? The towels and sunscreen and umbrellas are in the big trunk in the main foyer."
The girls shrieked and ran inside to change. The boys shook their heads and followed much more slowly.
Rose pulled off her skirt and blouse to reveal the beige and white bikini from Galleon's and grabbed her towel from her newly resized trunk. She spread out the towel, slapped on some sunscreen, and put up a lavender umbrella. She stretched out onto the towel and relaxed. No Voldemort, no Death Eaters, and thank God no Malfoys. She could truly relax for the first time in months.
*~*~*~*
How long do you think she'll be able to relax? Maybe long enough to realize her wand's still in her trunk. Five hundred yards away. All alone on the beach.