Harry Potter and the Beach Vacation: chapter 10



pairings: HP/SS, RW/HG, DM/NL



Author's Note: Hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving, here is the next chapter!



At four o'clock in the morning, Hermione sneakily crept into the boy's suite. She was going to find Ron this time. She was going to have a midnight romp if it killed her.

She had strictly commanded him to sleep on the cot tonight, and he promised her with a wink that he would not forget. He said he wanted it as bad as she did.

So over to the cot she went, tiptoing past a silent Severus, and a loudly snoring Harry and Neville. The makeshift bed was in the corner, covered in complete black shadows. It was incredibly hard to see where Ron was, so she just hopped in, wincing as the springs creaked in anger.

The sleeping figure grunted, and rolled over to spoon her. She smiled. Haha! Her smile soon turned to a silent scream of horror.

Another figure grunted in reply and turned to embrace her frontally. She had jumped right into Neville and Draco's love nest!

"Aaaieeeee!"

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The lights glared into life, and Snape, Lucius, Harry, and Ron*with a sandy-colored wig on his head* sat up in bed, laughing like lunatics. Hermione, Neville, and Draco yelled and tried to get away, but just ended up getting in a huge tangle and squishing each other with kicks and head butts.

Ron got up and pulled a traumatized Hermione out of the mess, and tried to give her a peck on the cheek. But she kneed him in the groin and sprinted out of the room, red-cheeked and totally mortified.

"She will never lay you again." Lucius chuckled, turning back over since their prank on the three wizards/witch was done.

Ron looked just as mortified at that thought as Hermione was of being spooned by Draco.

Harry looked at Severus for one long moment, and then erupted into new peals of mirth, turned off their lamp, and soon fell silent. They were all exhausted from the club.

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The next morning, Hermione refused to sit with them, so Ron got down on his hands and knees and licked her shoes, bought her chocolates and flowers, wrote her a poem, and tried to serenade her with a stolen guitar. She only acknowledged him when he bought her a stack of new books on physics, ancient Egypt, and Shakespeare.

"They are very nice. You will be forgiven, once you tell Dumbledore that he has the sexiest beard you've ever petted. And run your fingers through it first." She smirked, loving to put him in an embarrassing position, just like he did to her.

"Hermione! No, please!" Ron begged, tears in his eyes.

"Nope. I will never look at you again until you do it."

Ron whimpered, and slowly walked over to his Headmaster. Hermione pulled a video camera from her backpack, and turned it on. Harry and Snape grinned. She had a Slytherin side!

"P-p-professor?" Ron squeaked, standing in front of Dumbledore. The old man turned to him, eyes twinkling.

"Yes, Mr. Weasley?"

Ron quickly tried to run a hand through his beard, and got immediately got it stuck. "Oh dear."

"What the....ow!....hold on, I'll get you untangled!" Dumbledore winced as Ron tried to tug his hand free.

"No it's ok, I'll get it!" Ron tried to pull harder. He nearly pulled the old wizard out of his waffle chair.

"Ouch! Wait! Grrrr....HI-YA!" The Headmaster head-butted the red-haired spaz, ninja-style, and while he was dazed, deftly pulled each gangly finger from his white hair. "There. All done."

"Sorry sir. Y-you have the sexiest beard I've ever p-p-petted." He stuttered out, and ran away.

Albus Dumbledore stared after the boy, blushed a tint of pink, and turned back to his bacon. "What a strange child."

Back at Severus's table, every person, including Hermione, was crying.

"I've never seen something so funny in my LIFE!" Harry laughed, wiping tears from his eyes.

Snape chuckled with Lucius, and pulled out the day's itinerary.

"Well, today's Hell Hole is....Universal Studios theme park. And we have a choice. We could either go to the Islands of Adventure, or the Studios. Which one will it be? Since we are in America, let's be democratic about it. All hands for Islands?"

Harry, NevilleandDraco, and Lucius raised his hand. Severus sneered at the couple sitting in the same seat and rolled his eyes.

"I guess we get to ride more roller coasters, Severus my friend! How exciting!" Lucius grinned, pulling out a small purse of galleons. "Care to make a bet, boys? I wager 20 galleons that Severus here won't ride......the 'Hulk.'"

Draco gasped, and Harry's eyes sparkled with mischief. "I'll take that bet....and I'll add in 10 gold! Draco?"

The blonde took a long look at his head of house and whistled low between his teeth. "Hmm.....I'm on Father's side.....I don't think he has the guts. Sorry, Professor. 'The Hulk' is a bit more than you can handle."

Severus bristled at this little game the Malfoys were playing, and at Harry for tagging along. He would have sneezed on Lucius's offer in a second, if he could consciously force himself to sneeze (a very hard task to accomplish: I know, I've tried), but Harry's confidence in his stamina (not that kind of stamina, get your head out of the gutter!) made him decide that a potential emergency prayer to the Porcelain God was worth seeing his boyfriend's(yes, they are now an item. Isn't it so cute?) shining smile when he stepped off that ride and claimed the title of Macho Man.

"You are on, Lucius. If I could ride all the coasters in Busch Gardens without retching once, the 'Hulk' doesn't stand a chance." He boasted, entwining his fingers with the Guy Who Wouldn't Chuck It's.

Lucius and Draco smirked an evil, wicked smile that would make the Grinch envious. Uh-oh. Sevewus wus in big twouble.

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"But I don't understand what's so different about this ride! What the blazes is 'G-Force?' I've never been in an American fighter jet, so how am I supposed to know what it feels like to blast off that fast?" Snape ranted at Harry as they trooped off the big yellow bus to the gates of Universal Studios Islands of Adventure. The colorfully painted steel beams of the rides looped around the horizon over the park wall, and the boys' hearts thumped with adrenaline as they laid eyes on the little cars speeding up and down the tracks.

Harry, on the other hand, was currently amusing himself with the image of Severus strapped in the pilot's seat of a jet fighter, experiencing Mach 2 with his oily black hair pointing straight behind him and his cheeks blowing out like a chipmunk with the air force on his face. The man in question nudged him and raised an eyebrow when he didn't receive an answer, and Harry snapped out of his reverie.

"Oh, uh.....well, G-Force is...hm. How to put this......your eyes are going to get dry and incredibly wet at the same time, you will feel the thrill of weightlessness when we drop the first hundred feet, your hair is going to be a swallow's nest when we get off, your stomach shall become your brain's room mate, and your throat will be sore from all the screaming you're going to be doing. Oh, and do keep your limbs in. I don't want to have to go hunting for them in the water when we get off the ride." Harry finished, maneuvering them into one of the long lines waiting for tickets.

Snape was quiet, wondering if he should put a "Oopsie Daisy" charm on his underwear before the ride. Hahahaa, like he would EVER need that......

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author's note: Wooo! Next chapter is finished! I need to do a bit more research on Universal Studios before I post the next chapter. I want to get all the attraction info accurate, and that is hard for me to do right now since my internet is down.

It's the calm before the storm for us -IB kids. A few day's lull after Thanksgiving break, and then POW! Semester exams! I hope I can get out another chapter soon, but no promises! Please review, and feel free to add any suggestions for what our beloved boys go through at Universal!

(P.S. If anyone is interested, I'm in desperate need of a beta reader!)