BLOOD OF THE MOTHER by BertaS Oct. 2005
Chapter 20
Description: The guys have some fun
Disclaimer: They are, sadly, not mine. They all belong to JKR
A/N: My plot bunnies have escaped and attacked my Beta. This part was actually written by Loralee1. Checkout her other stuff here at fanfiction(dot)net/loralee1
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Okay, on with the madness.
Playing Games
Severus Snape and Harry Potter have both had horrible childhoods. When Harry removed the Dark Mark from Snape's arm transfiguring it to a protection mark it bound them together in ways neither of them expected. Like a Chinese life deft once you save the life of someone you are bound to care for them for the rest of your lives.
Snape has trouble fighting the behaviors that the compulsions and controls have ingrained in him and irritates Harry. Harry decides that they should experience some of what they missed and Snape cannot bring himself to outright refuse anything Harry tells him to do. Even when Harry is telling him that such behavior is acceptable.
"Hey Sev, I'm back I got a bunch of things to play with" yells Harry as he enters the place they have been sharing since the death of the Dark Lord Voldemort and their independence from Dumbledore.
"Play? My l… Harry? I don't play. I haven't played since … well never." Sneered Snape.
"Yes play," said Harry as he began pulling things out of bags marked with a popular muggle toy store logo. "We are going to have fun."
"This is play dough you make things with it. See," said Harry as he made a little figure out of blue play dough, "This is Dumbledore" and then as Snape looking closely at the figure start to object that it looked nothing like Albus Dumbledore Harry smashed the figure flat.
Snape stared for a moment and then stated with absolute calm, "Ah, I see the resemblance now." The play dough party last for twenty minutes, until they started blasting little effigies with their wands, before long there wasn't enough left to scrape off the walls but they both felt better.
"Professor Plum killed Voldemort in the library with the lead pipe." Announced Harry with satisfaction.
"He most certainly did not. He couldn't fight his way out of a paper bag. He knows nothing about the Dark Arts." Snape objected. "It was Bellatrix Lestrange in the kitchen with a knife."
Harry stared at Snape for a moment and then shrugged, "As long as he's dead I don't think it matters." The game was pushed to one side.
"The point of the game is to touch only the first monkey and use it to pick up the other monkeys in a row. Now you try." Said Harry handing a red monkey to Snape.
Snape picked up the first monkey and then the second, by the tenth monkey Harry was suspicious.
"You aren't supposed to do a sticking charm on the monkey's hands, Sev." Said Harry in an accusing tone.
"I read the rules, it doesn't say you can't. Besides I didn't even use my wand." Snape replied.
"It's a muggle game they don't know about sticking charms wandless or not."
"I don't believe this is a accurate portrayal of muggle Life. This is the fourth set of twins I've had. I need a bigger vehicle and I don't even have a wife!" whined Snape while throwing his car across the room.
"That's Boardwalk with a hotel and you're telling me you won't pay." Screamed Severus Snape wand in hand.
"You have all my money from Park Place with a hotel!" sneered Harry Potter back.
"Fine," Snape said in a cold tone, "Reducto" and Harry's piece was destroyed. Snape smirked at the astonished Harry, "I win."
"I'm a grown man Potter. I don't play with dolls!" sneered Snape with some of his old attitude. Harry felt this was a good sign but still felt he had to make a correction.
"They aren't dolls they're action figures. GI Joe action figures. These are the good guys and these are the bad guys. This one is called Cobra Commander and we can pretend he is Voldemort. Dudley never let me touch his. Thought I'd destroy them or something." Harry said with a snort.
"I still think they are dolls but where are their wands?"
"Hum, we'll need to transfigure some. I'll get the matchsticks." Said Harry.
"It's called a skateboard. I figure if I can stand on my broom I should be pretty good at this. All it takes is good balance." Harry said with a smirk as he mounted the board and pushed off. He wobbled precariously, picked up speed and then 'CRASH'.
"Are you injured my l… um, Harry?" Snape ask with concern in his voice and a smirk on his face.
"No," Harry shook his head and picked himself off the floor. "The wheels make it wobble."
Snape looked dubious but didn't think it a good idea to argue, "Perhaps you should take the wheels off and put a simple levitation charm on it." Harry's eyes lit up at the idea.
"You sunk my battleship." He said with a whine. His opponent smirked and cast "fluvious" they had reasoned that if one went down with ones ship one would be wet.
"Can we stop having fun now?" Snape ask.
"Well there's only one thing left in the bag. A junior chemistry set. I suppose you don't want it." Harry said pulling out the box.
"Chemistry? That muggle for potions isn't it. Well let me see it. It's probably useless but perhaps I can have some fun ridiculing it." Snape snatched the box, opened it up and started reading the instructions.
Harry smirked slightly and left him to it. He had no interest in Potions or Chemistry. He was quite surprised by the explosion sometime later.
"Hey Sev, I'm back you'll never guess what I got this time."
A/N Loralee1 here I want to thank my sis BertaS for allowing me to play in her little corner of the potterverse. Of course she has to, Mom always makes us share 'smirk'