A/N: I've had a lot of reviews saying that Lucius deserved his Voldie-hunt so I have devised a mini chapter in which an unlikely collective go a- Voldie-hunting! The usual: Please review, I love my reviewers, I love Kitty more than she loves me, I don't own anything, go read my fictionpress stuff the link is in my bio... I think that covers it. Ph and this is a shorter chapter because it wasn't something that I was going to put in. Luv to you all Willow Delace xxx

Chapter Eighteen – Off We Go A-Voldie-Hunting!

3am. The Slytherin Dungeons, Hogwarts.

Lucius got out of bed and got dressed... again. He placed a light kiss on the forehead of a very pregnant sleeping Severus and crept out of the room, shutting the door carefully behind him. Luckily for him, Harry and Draco had both fallen asleep and baby Kellan was asleep in his cot. He leaned over and kissed his sleeping baby and scowled at the dark mark on his arm. He grabbed his wand and departed the room.

He walked up the stairs, stumbling a few times and spending a few minutes trying to free himself of a step that had stolen his foot. He eventually arrived outside the Griffindor common room and turned on that good old fashioned Malfoy charm to get the fat lady to let him inside. He bounded up a few more stairs and woke his target. "Ronny... come on little Weasley wakey wakey, we go a-Voldie-hunting now." He said softly, shaking Ron awake.

It was the first time that Ron had ever got out of bed at some relative speed. He had gotten used to the fast life and adventures and other such rah-evil-bitey-death-defying-sharp-thing-weilding missions, and not that Harry was pregnant the fun was over! But now we had Lucius offering him a chance to kick Voldemort's ass. Not something he was going to pass up in a hurry. "Hurry up!" Lucius whispered impatiently. "We still have others to recruit!"

3:20am. The Griffindor Girls Dormitory, Hogwarts.

"Get up, there is a Voldie-hunt to be done... stop sleeping and get your ass out of bed!"

"Are you allowed to be in here? I'm sure that there are rules against this sort of thing... especially when it means me getting up at... what time is it?"

"It's time that you were up! Come on Lavender! It'll be fun! And if you get up right now then I'll buy you some pretty jewellery..." Lucius coaxed.

A rather distort Lavender Brown looked up. "What kind of jewellery?"

"The kind with lots of pretty gems and real gold. The kind that is going to be so shiny that no one will listen to any of the teachers in classes because they will all be silently preying for the money to pay for something as lovely as what you will be wearing."

"Okay, I'm game, but I do have a question..."

"What's that?"

"Do I know you?"

4.15am. Gimmerald Place, London.

"For god sake, I am getting very bored with trying to make you people get up. You most of all, I've been here for nearly ten minutes now, leaving my baby totally unattended. Please, for the last time, would you get out of bed!"

"No."

"Yes! Up! Now!"

"For god sake Lucius, do you ever give up?"

"NO!"

"Fine... I'm up, I'm up." Sirius moaned, crawling out of bed. "You better make this worth my while."

"You are protecting Harry and his unborn child, knowing that should be enough."

"Well it's not. It is four in the morning and I want to be asleep. Harry and kid can be rescued in the morning. Remind me again just why I am doing this?"

"Because you wuv me wots and wots. Pweez hewp me Siwi. Hewp me and I pwomise I will never wake you up again."

"Never wake me up again, sounds like a deal."

5am. The Forbidden Forest, Hogwarts.

"Now, just keep quiet boys and girls and we will kill this nasty Voldie that think's he can put a dark mark on my baby. We will beat him up, and hex him, and..."

"Lucius, would you please shut up." Sirius drawled, prodding him with his wand.

"Well... yes... just keep your eyes open and any minute now we should see some movement and we can jump him."

Ron shook his head, Lucius was clearly loosing it, but the concept of killing Voldemort was too good an opportunity to pass up. Lavender just sat on the floor, playing with a bit of dying grass, mumbling about how the jewellery she was promised better be nice because she was hungry and still couldn't understand why this stupid blonde man, who she was still sure she didn't know, had dragged her out of bed.

Sirius was more interested in the dead set look on Lucius' face. If it wasn't such an intense moment he would have laughed. It was about to be a very long night.

7:30am. The Forbidden Forest, Hogwarts.

"Wakey wakey honey."

"What? Who? Where is he? I'll kill him!" Lucius shouted, struggling around on the floor before he got up. He looked around him, Ron, Lavender and Sirius were all asleep on the ground around him. "Huh?"

Severus smiled down at him. "You fell asleep, it's just taken me three quarters of an hour to waddle over here or else I would have got here quicker and told you that the thing resembling Tom Riddle turned out to be one of the seventh years sleep walking and the dark mark on Kellan is in fact an unfortunately shaped birthmark."

"Damn it."

A/N2: the next chapter will be up as soon as it's finished and the unanswered will be answered. It will be up in a few hours so fear not! Then people can stop asking me about Narcissa's relation to Draco!!

Replies to Reviews:

[slasherbabe] Easy tiger, no need to get nasty about it! All is well and good with the Snape's now. But Lucius got to go on his Voldie-hunt after all!

[Reese Craven] I'm working on it! I'm going to be doing a NVQ in teaching assisting in September. One Voldie-hunt has been granted, though it won't be the last...

[Shania Maxwell] Glad that you liked his name. I was really worried people wouldn't like it!

[devilserpent] Yeah I'm Bi. I have been for a couple of years now though I have been in denial. I came out a couple of months back. There will be more mush in the not to distant future because there is going to be a father son heart-to-heart between Dray and Luci.

[RosE-ofHeL] I thank you very much! I aim to please and apparently I'm not doing too badly!

[Harry's Sister] Happy Birthday Honey!

[SoulSister] Yep, back to the fun though before the end there will be a bit more mush and some angsty-ness (which was unbelievably hard to write! But that you will have to wait to read...)

[driven to insanity] Good song. Current favourite song is (for no real reason at all) 'This kiss' by Faith Hill. It just makes me smile for no apparent reason... I am really strange...

[Sirius-gal-4-eva] Well here's an extra three votes for it because I'm special and deserve to have more voting rights than everyone else! Pregnancy is fun to write and when it all goes horribly wrong there are a lot of ways that you could make story lines i.e. suicide, life re- evaluation, stuff like that. But it's your story so I'm gonna slink away...

[kitty minky] Easy Kitty Kat! I have a tendancy to base characters on people I know, Playing The Game isn't the first story that I have attempted. The various 'fairytale' characters are from WiP stories that I'm working on. Torien, Atalanas and Jetetci are from my 'Guest of the Darkness' collection (there are now ten books) and Kate and Faith are from 'Faith and the Muse'. You are yet to hear from Harpious (from the 'House of Blake Goldsand' collection) and Pepe (from 'Tekyra's Eyes'). I love you the most in the whole world, it is not possible for you to love me more because I have drained all the love from the world just for you!!

[JAML] I'm glad that it went well for you! No one dared laugh at me when I was kicking ass at a school talent show. I have signed up to an agent now and am waiting to here from her for an interview which may well get me into acting and singing as a career! But it will mean attending White Hall Performing Arts College, which means internet time will be limited...