Chappie Nineteen

In a quiet corner shop in Sydney, Australia, Luke Burt, a seventeen year old stood inside his ice-cream shop bored out of his mind. His shift started at nine that morning and it was now three-thirty in the afternoon, and nobody had come in once to get ice-cream even though it was forty-four degrees. The only reason he hadn't shut the store down for the day was one, his boss Mr Lo-Ling would kill him and two, he needed the money. Christmas was in a few days and he need to get paid to buy presents for his family.

He moaned impatiently when suddenly the door swung open. DING! A beautiful young lady walked through the door, her long raven hair swinging behind her. DING! Another person walked in after her. He knew the lady quite well as she would come almost weekly to have ice-cream, but the other had come with her once a few weeks earlier.

"Fair Dinkum! Long time no see Sero!" He said cheerfully in his thick Australian accent.

"Hey Luko," Serenity answered, not as cheerfully as usual. She had a gloom in her usually bright face. The man with her however emitted waves of anger and sadness.

"What's wrong with you two?" He asked, "Doesn't matter, some cold cream will do ya some good. What do ya want?"

"I'm not that hungry, but I'll get a scoop of vanilla, choc-chip, blueberry, strawberry, cookies-n-cream, rainbow, raspberry, banana, and choc-mint," Serenity said quickly. Luke raised a brow, "And put some of those hundreds and thousands thingy's on it. Oh and some hot fudge too."

"Not that hungry, my ass," Luke muttered, wondering how the hell he was gonna remember that all. "What about, um, what's his name again?"

He pointed at Severus, who had seated himself at Serenity's favourite round booth. It was dressed in deep red leather and was very comfortable to sit in.

"Sev, what do you want?' she asked. He seemed to not have heard her as he stared vacantly out the window.

"What's wrong with him?" Luke asked, as he began to scoop out all the flavours of ice-cream Serenity wanted and placed them in a large round bowl.

"Don't ask," Serenity sighed, "Isn't the rainbow ice-cream vanilla flavoured?"

"Yeah," Luke answered.

"Then put Sev some of that," Serenity said, "And then put on hundreds and thousands, and those raspberry lollies, chuck a few scorched, chocolate-covered peanuts and almonds, and gummy bears as well."

"Alright," Luke said as he grabbed another plate for the Prince. He filled the plate with the ice-cream and extra junk food as Serenity sat down beside Severus. Once he had both of their ice-creams completed he set them on a tray and walked over to the pair. "Ya want anything else."

"Yeah," Serenity said, as Luke handed the plate to her and Severus "You don't happen to have any Vodka here do you?"

"No," Luke laughed, "They may have some next door. Actually, 'course they will. It's a bloody liquor store."

"Is the beach open?" Serenity asked as she began to eat at her ice-cream. Severus still stared out of the window.

"Yeah, but I wouldn't advise going," Luke said, "There has been a few shark sightings and there's already been three attacks. One chick had her head bitten of, but I think she is recovering."

"Shark smark," Serenity muttered, ignoring the last part, (thankfully for Luke.) "I'm going swimming."

"Hey what's-your-face, your ice cream's gonna melt," Luke said, "specially in this heat."

"Its okay," Serenity said, motioning to Luke to go. The young man nodded and returned behind the counter. "Severus, talk to me."

"I'm fine," he answered.

"If you were fine, you'd eat your ice-cream," Serenity muttered.

"And what, food's your solution to everything?" Severus snarled.

"Don't take that tone with me, young man!" Serenity snarled back, "Besides that's what the Vodka is for. But first you talk to me."

"There is nothing to talking about," Severus sighed, picking at his ice-cream.

"Do you want me to check if it is poisoned?" Serenity said referring to the ice-cream. She took a spoonful with her spoon and ate it. "Not its fine."

Severus rolled his eyes as he picked a chocolate almond and placed it in his mouth. Serenity managed to take seven spoonfuls of ice-cream as he ate it slowly. She rolled her eyes and snatched the spoon of him. She filled it with his rainbow ice-cream and brought it to his mouth.

"Open,"

"What?" As he spoke the word she stuffed the spoon into his mouth.

"If you ain't gonna eat then I'll feed you like a baby," Serenity said. Severus snatched his spoon back of her and began to eat his ice-cream faster than before. They spent the next twenty minutes in silence eating their ice-cream. Severus only ate as he was fearful Serenity may try to feed him once more.

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"Good morning," Remus smiled as he walked out of the room he and Bill Weasley spent the night in. Livia smiled weakly at him. "What? What's wrong?"

"Some thing happened last night," Livia whispered softly as she led them away from the room, "We can go and talk in the office."

The two men followed her exchanging looks of confusement. Before they knew it they had reach the office.

"Nodolian," she muttered. The gargoyle sprung to life and jumped out of the way. The three of them jumped on the spiralling staircase and waited for it to reach the top. Livia turned the door knob and walked inside the two werewolves following her.

"Livia, what's going on?" Bill asked.

"I hate to be the one to inform you off this," Livia spoke softly barely able to speak.

"Livia, what is it? You speak as though some one has died," Remus cried. Livia winced as realisation dawned on the two men.

"Who was it?" Remus asked softly. Livia breathed in deeply before muttering.

"It was Enlil."

"What?" Bill cried, "It can't be! He wasn't that old!"

"He was a muggle," Livia said softly, "Not much could have been done to save him. Most potions would have harmed him because of the fact he was a muggle-"

"You mean a squib?"

"Pray tell the difference," Livia murmured, "Neither have magic. And he the fact he died so young…"

She drifted off as Remus rubbed his forehead.

"What of Charlie and Snape?"

"Serenity took Severus to Australia for a few days," Livia said, "She's giving Octavian time to help Charlie pack."

"She's kicking him out?" Bill snarled.

"You can say that," Livia said, "but it's for his own safety."

"Oh Okay," Bill said.

"Besides, he'd be better of in the Burrow," Livia said, "Everyone knows him much better. Octavian isn't the person you'd choose to help a mourner move on, Halle is always busy, Gabriella is working and Samuel, well Samuel is Samuel."

"I better go home then," Bill said, "For Charlie."

"Alright," Livia said watching him walking to the fire.

"Bye," Remus said.

"Bye," Bill said as he stepped into the fire, "The Burrow!"

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"Stay here, Sev," Serenity said, rubbing her bloated stomach as she walked into a liquor store. Severus wondered how a vampire could get a bloated stomach. He looked around to see a handful of muggles walking around all dressed in peculiar clothing. The men were all dressed in pants that just reached their kneecaps and were shirtless. The women had either the same pants on or long skirts on and where wearing undergarments that barely covered their chests. He raised a brow and then realised that they where in swimming costumes

One of the men, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed man with a ridiculous tan, turned to Severus and gave him a glare. "Stop checking out our chicks!"

Severus raised a brow and looked around, wondering where the chickens were.

"What chicks? All I see is seagulls," Severus said coldly.

"Wise guy, huh?" another man snapped. A black haired man, with a goatee that reminded him of Karkaroff. "Let's kick his ass!"

"Oh! Guys enough!" one blonde girl sighed. Severus felt his eye twitch in annoyance as he fingered his wand. He watched as the three men stormed over rolling their sleaves up. Severus began to pull his wand out of his pocket as they neared him.

"OI! Buggar off!" Severus spun to see Serenity walking out of the liquor store with two bottles of Vodka.

"Sero! You know this perve!" the second girl cried. She was a brunette with a stern looking face.

"Yes I know this perve," Serenity snapped, before realising what she said, "He ain't a perve. He's gay actually."

"So he was perving at us," the blonde man cried

"I was not perving at no one!" Severus snarled.

"Keep your pants on," the final man grinned. Severus raised a brow. The man had bright green hair with red tips that was spiked around his head. "I'm Jacko by the way."

"I'm Johnno," the blonde man said.

"And I'm Stevo," the goatee man said.

"I'm Sheila and this is Tamara," the brunette said, pointing at herself and then at the small blonde. She then pointed at the three men, "They call us Sheilo and Tamo."

"Severus," he muttered.

"Sevo!" The three boys cheered.

"They have a habit of giving people nicknames that end in 'O'," Serenity said. "Why Luko called me Sero and I called him Luko."

"Australians are odd," Severus muttered.

"Well, they did come from the UK," Serenity smirked, "'Cept for the Middle Easterners and the Abo's"

"The who-bo's?"

"Aborigines," Serenity said. "Indigenous people of Australia."

"Oh, where are they?" Severus asked.

"Usually find them in the Northern Territory or Western Australia," Serenity said, "But we may see one here. Just listen for their music."

"How does it go?" Severus asked.

"Like this," Serenity said, as she began to clap and sing out of tune in a strange language.

"Sero! Please stop!" Sheila begged as the five Australian's blocked their ears.

"What language was that?" Severus asked as Serenity stopped singing.

"Well, that was jibberish," Serenity smirked, "I don't know any Aborigine languages. 'Cept for the word 'treaty'"

"Sero, that's in English," Jacko grinned.

"What ever, it's a good song any way," Serenity said. "What was the band's name again?"

"Yothu Yindi," Tamara answered.

"What does that mean?" Severus asked.

"Mother, Child," Stevo answered. Severus stared at Serenity and smiled softly. She grinned back in realisation.

"A band named after us," Serenity whispered to him. "Oh Joy."

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Fred sighed in boredom, "Maybe we should have brought a shop in Hogsmeade instead, and where is every one?"

"Dunno," George said, "But they certainly won't be in Hogsmeade."

"Suppose," Fred sighed, "Lucky Verity isn't here."

"Tell me about it," George said, "Maybe we should close down for the day. Go see Charlie."

"Yeah, let's go," Fred said, "Never thought we'd have to shut down early. I mean this is a joke shop, for God's sakes."

George laughed, "Maybe we should do our Christmas shopping?"

"Yeah, but what to get everyone?"

"A spider for Ron," George smirked.

"A mouse for Bill," Fred sniggered.

"Fake wands for mum and dad," George said. "And Ginny, we can get her hair-changing lollies."

"Charlie needs to be cheered up," Fred said, "So a packet of Ecstasy Potions would be good for him."

"And Percy…"

"Maybe some alcohol," George laughed, "Lets get him drunk!"

"Yeah!" Fred said, "Come on lets go-"

The door to their shop opened and a handsome young man came strolling in with a bag with their logo on it in his hand.

"Can we help you?" Fred asked.

"Yeah," the man said, "My brother and I came in here earlier and brought some of that U-NO-POO. Well I gave some to my dad, and eh, I was wondering if there was an antidote?"

"Nope," George said, "It only lasts for twenty-four hours."

"Well it's been three days," the man shrugged.

"Okay," Fred said, "Maybe your dad's was already constipated from before hand?"

"Probably," the man said, trying to suppress a smirk.

"Any way," George said, "Fred and I have nothing to do so we can work up an antidote now."

"Thanks," he smiled as the door opened once more. A man and woman walked inside holding hands.

"Hello," George smiled. The woman looked up and smiled back at him. Some thing very unsettling about her, he thought. "How can we help you?"

"I've just come to help my brother," the man said, softly. "Our mother will be quite angry about being constipated."

"Moron!" the girl snapped, "It's your Grandmother!"

"I thought it was your father," George said. The first man slapped his head in anger.

"I thought it was your pet goat?" Fred said, giving George a cautioning look. George nodded back in understanding.

"You two are idiots!" the first man snapped, "How are we meant to force-feed them the stuff now that our cover is blown, huh Rod?"

"It's not my fault Rabastan! You said mother!"

"No I didn't! Bellatrix did!"

Fred and George exchanged looks and began to slowly edge towards one of their telescopes.

"And just were do you two think you are going!" Bella snarled them her wand pointing at Fred. "Cruc-"

"Catch!" George said chucking a telescope at her. She caught it and stared at it, wondering what it was. Suddenly a large puff of smoke covered Bella as she cried out in both surprise and pain.

"Bella!" Rodolphus cried running to his wife. The smoke subsided leaving only a stunned Bella. "What the hell happened to your eye?"

"What do you mean?" Bella asked. She turned towards a clear bowl and stared at her eye. "AAHHHH! What happened to my eye?"

Rabastan leaned over and burst out laughing, his sister-in-law had a huge black bruise around her left eye.

"IT'S NOT FUNNY!" Bella screeched.

"Ouch. She'll give a Banshee a sore throat if they ever went against each other in a 'who can screamer louder' test," George groaned.

"I concur," Rabastan said rubbing his ear.

"You two little bastards are going to pay!" Rodolphus sneered pulling his wand out, "Avada-"

"No!" Rabastan said, pushing his brother's arm down. Fred and George breathed out in relief.

"Get your hand of me!" Rodolphus snarled. "You dare stop me from killing them!"

"Master said only to feed them the U-NO-POO," Rabastan snarled back.

"They are worse then us," Fred muttered.

"No they're not,"

"Yes they are!" Fred snapped back.

"Shut up!" Bella snapped, "You two will eat this entire thing if you wish for us to leave and not harm you."

"Oh yeah, not harm us," Fred mocked.

"You will eat it Mr Weasley," Rodolphus snarled, "if you knew what was good for you."

"I'll have one if you have one," Fred smirked.

"Cruc-"

"Stop trying to curse them," Rabastan snapped as he slapped Bella's hand.

"Yeah stop trying to curse us," Fred said.

"You, be quiet," Rabastan snapped.

"Yeah! Quiet Fred!" George snapped, "Don't annoy the mean old death eater!"

"I may be mean and old, but I'm no-" Rabastan snapped, stopping once he realised his mistake, "oops. What I meant was I'm a death eater and I'm mean but I ain't old!"

"Now eat," Bella snarled throwing a U-NO-POO to the Twins. "Or else."

"Or else Vat?" Fred said in a Swedish accent.

"Or else they vill Crucio our asses to ze sun," George answered.

"Oh No!" Fred cried.

"What have we gotten our selves into?" Bella asked as the twins continued to cry out stupid remarks to one another. Rabastan sat himself down on a chair and hoisted his legs onto a table.

"I find them quite enjoyable really," he grinned.

"Petrificus Totalus!" Rodolphus snapped, Fred fell over with a thud and George fell beside him in worry. "If you knew what was good for your brother, you would co-operate?"

"Get bent!" George snarled, pulling his own wand out.

"Experilliamus," Rabastan sighed, catching George's wand. George groaned and pulled out Fred's wand. "Experilliamus."

"Oh crap!" George cried. Rabastan threw the bag of U-NO-POO's to George.

"Eat them and we will go,"

"I can't eat them all," George snapped, "Not only will I be constipated, but I'll also have a killer stomach ache!"

"Well you should have thought of that before you used the Dark Lord's name in your product," Bella sneered.

"We said you-know-who!" George said indignantly, "It could be any one!"

Rabastan had to laugh at that. "Okay I have to admit, some of this junk is ingenious."

"Thank you," George said, beaming, he added sheepishly, "Fred would thank you to but he's a little busy."

"I see," Rabastan grinned.

"Will you stop talking to him like he is your brother?" Rodolphus snarled.

"What? Are you jealous?" Rabastan snarled back.

"You!" Bella sneered at George, ignoring her husband and his brother.

"Me?"

"Begin eating now," she barked, "I'm growing sick of this place. It's probably been infested by mud-bloods."

"And death eaters," George smirked.

"EAT!" She bellowed. George nodded mutely as he pulled out one of the U-NO-POO's, he put it in his mouth and began to chew on it softly. "Good boy."

"You want one? It's tasty," George said throwing one at each death eater. Stupidly Rodolphus opened his and put it in his mouth.

"Um Rod, you just had a U-NO-POO," Rabastan muttered as he pocketed his own. Bella smacked her head in annoyance. George pulled out the chew and threw it away.

"Are you sure you are not related to the Goyle's in any way?"

"I feel sick," Rodolphus moaned, walking away from them, "Where is your toilet?"

"Out side," George said. Rodolphus nodded and ran outside.

"AHHHHHH! DEATH EATERS!" A person screamed from outside.

"Imbecile," Bella snapped running after him.

"One-two-three," Rabastan muttered. A bunch of red lights were shot at the two death eaters to the ground. Aurors flooded the place as the people cheered. "Dopes. I guess you set that up on purpose huh?"

"Maybe," George muttered.

"So why aren't you constipated?" Rabastan asked. George pointed to the lolly on the ground. "Smart one aren't you? Here, have your wands back."

Rabastan threw the two wands back to the red-hair and then muttered a counter curse on Fred. Fred sat up and stared at the death-eater. "Why are you helping us?"

"Because I can," Rabastan answered, he then apparated away.

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"Pretty ain't it?" Serenity asked as her and her descendent stared down at the beach and the five Australians who were now in the water catching the waves and surfing.

"Yes," Severus murmured. Serenity pulled him down a sand hill towards the water. "What are you doing?"

"Let's get closer to the water," Serenity said, she then added because of the look on Severus' face, "Relax, we're not gonna swim."

"Oh okay," Severus said, sounding relieved.

"Why don't you like the water?" Serenity smirked. Severus didn't answer. "What? Did you have a near-death accident with water?"

"Something like that," Severus said uncomfortably.

"What? Did Tobias try to drown you?" Serenity muttered, growing angry.

"No," Severus mumbled.

"Who?"

"No one," Severus muttered.

"Then why don't you like the water?" Serenity asked.

Severus murmured some thing but even with her ears Serenity didn't hear it.

"Say what?"

"I can't swim!" Severus finally barked. A few seagulls flew off.

"Oh is that it," Serenity laughed, "That's what you're worried about. Well, this is the beach, not the pool, if you stay close to the shore and don't go in to deep you don't need to worry about swimming."

"I have no costume," Severus muttered.

"Neither do I," Serenity said, "I'm swimming in this."

"Shouldn't you be at school?" Severus sighed, shaking his head at the thought of Serenity swimming in her jeans skirt and tight midriff.

"Holidays, Sev," Serenity smiled, "starting in a few days."

"So what about your classes?"

"Liv cancelled them," Serenity said.

"So you cancelled your classes for me?" Severus whispered

"Who else?" Serenity grinned, "Any way, we're having Christmas at our place and I think Samuel invited some of the students?"

"Like who?" Severus asked, not sounding to please.

"Blaise, Draco and Millicent," Serenity said, "I also think that Theodore Nott may come as well, but he said he had other plans. Harry, Ron and Hermione may come also but I think that they will go first to the burrow."

"Oh okay," Severus muttered.

"Uh huh," Serenity said, "You're not peeved that the Golden Trio are coming along?"

"No, it's your house," Severus muttered.

"Well I guess you'll be pleased to know the Creevey brothers are coming to if the Trio come," Serenity smirked, waiting for an outburst.

"Oh okay," Severus sighed.

"Or not," Serenity said, "Severus, I know you miss Enlil, but you know he is still with you even if you can't see him? Now give me a reaction for inviting the Creevey brothers."

"Give your self a reaction," Severus snarled.

"That's my boy," Serenity sniggered, ruffling his hair. She pulled her hand away and rubbed it against her shirt, "Eww!"

"Serves you right," Severus smirked, restraining a grin.

"That's it!" Serenity snapped. Severus jumped in surprise. "I'm giving you a make over!"

"Oh no!"

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"What happened?" Voldemort sighed when Rabastan returned from their mission alone. "Where are Bella and Rodolphus?"

"Aurors got them," Rabastan muttered. "They've taken them back to Azkaban."

"How did this happen?" Voldemort barked angrily.

"One of the boys tricked Rodolphus into having one of those constipating lollies," Rabastan answered. "In his search to find a restroom he got himself and Bella caught."

"How on earth did they trick that dunderhead?" Voldemort barked.

"You just answered your own question," Rabastan muttered, "He is a dunderhead."

"Crucio," Voldemort said, casually as Rabastan fell to the ground writhing and screaming in pain. "Wormtail! Get this vermin out of my sight."

"Y-yes master," Wormtail stuttered, he pulled the younger man by the arm once the spell was removed.

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Yay I updated before Xmas! Any Hoo the next chapter which will be up in two minutes is the Xmas chapter!

I dedicate this chapter to any Aussies reading this… (Looks around and rolls eyes defeated…guess there ain't any!)

Any way Luke Burt is a name I stole of my favourite footballer. And the whole thing with Aussies and added O to the name is true, but its usually only used on blokes…I just exaggerated it…

Yothu Yindi is a cool Aboriginal band in Australia by the way…you may have heard of them, I dunno…

Thanks for the reviews guys! I wonder who will play Luna…Sarahamanda pointed out that they are searching for a peep now…I reckon I can play her, although I have black hair black eyes dark skin and 'fuck off' stamped on my forehead…so im quite the opposite! Hmmmm maybe Bella might be good for me…Isn't that wight my widdle weveiwers!