Heels clicking all the way, Lucius danced across the hall, humming a little tune under his breath. He threw open the parlor doors and practically collapsed on the expensive silk sofa, as if he had been doing strenuous exercise all night. Who knows? Maybe he was fighting earlier with himself, trying to decide whether to wear the fun pink heels, or the more conservative black heels. He went with the black; he didn't want to seem too ignorant in the ways of female fashion. Believe me when I say the costume Lucius wore that night was not put together at the last minute.
Moving on, the party of partygoers was slowly filing in and looking around, as is searching for booby-traps. This was going to be no ordinary night, as they were constantly reminded by the gulping sounds from Severus' corner and the small contented sighs Lucius kept uttering from the sofa. He, at least, was comfortable. Several of the guests made glances at the doors.
Lucius got heavily to his feet. The heels were already getting uncomfortable; he would have to run upstairs and change.
"My friends and relatives, we are gathered here today to celebrate this joyous season of giving! Isn't that right, Severus?"
Severus grunted from his corner, inebriated.
Expecting more help from his friend, Lucius felt a little lost for words, but it didn't last long. "Let us celebrate this season as one big happy family!" he said with unnecessary flourishing of the hands, and with more enthusiasm than he would have assigned to a speech he copied from some shit muggle movie he sneaked into the house as a child.
Several of the guests looked rather like they wouldn't want to be caught dead with him in public, let alone being considered related to him, even as a fake family for this one night. One interminable night. And they only just got there. None of them wanted to see what madness would occur next…
To be continued…
(A/N: I've finally updated this thing! Clap clap clap…There's no Draco in this, but I'm not sure I want there to be…I'll figure it out later, I'm having a pudding shortage at the moment, I can't think properly…)