I own Drey, unfortunately that's it
In the silence following Hermione letting the cat out of the bag Draco explained what she had been talking about, to the increasing astonishment of their friends.
"Elves, there are elves now, you never mentioned elves. How could you not mention that you were the vessels for that spell? I remember when we were reading that, you had to have known but you never mentioned it, how could you not mention it. This is just so irresponsible, how could you not tell us this, we're you're best friends, you're court. HOW COULD YOU NOT TELL US!!!?"
Pansy finished her tirade with an ear splitting screech, unfortunately she received no answer from the twins, they were string at the decorative bowl on the table, it was actually shaking from the force of her scream.
"Don't you dare ignore me you…"
She screeched again, sounding like a wild animal, and then she lunged at the twins, arms flailing, only to be caught around the waist by Charlie Weasley who pulled her onto his lap and held her arms at her sides.
"Thanks Charlie."
The calm statement from Draco elicited another shriek from Pansy that was muffled by Blaise slapping his hand over her mouth. Which earned him an infuriatingly calm nod from Drey.
"Hysterical though she is, Pansy does have a point, why didn't you ever tell us."
Blaise looked perfectly at home talking while holding Pansy's mouth shut. Drey and Draco didn't look so calm anymore though, actually their faces did, but their eyes were flicking from face to face, trying to find a way out.
"We never really wanted to admit it. I mean, we did, in a way, we're still Malfoys, power's good, especially this amount of the stuff. But it's still weird, besides we were going to tell you."
"When?"
That came from Blaise, Vince and Greg, and there was a muffled 'mvhenm' from Pansy.
"When it actually mattered! We can't use all of this power until our seventeenth birthday, that's the age when elves traditionally came into their inheritance and its not as though anything is going to happen before then.
And you knew that we had different powers, you have since the first time you met us."
"What are you extra powers? What?!"
Harry returned the glares everyone was sending him with interest, so what if they were getting all tense, he was curious.
"Telepathy, we've both got that, Drey's empathic as well, both telekinetic, and we can both control the four elements, oh and we can conjure things out of thin air."
"Oh."
Again there was silence, everyone except the four original members of the court was surprised, they knew the twins were different, but they didn't know that they were quite so strong.
Finally Drey broke into the silence.
"Look, we all knew that there was something different about us, I mean, we made a beach from a tiny stream, what the hell did you think we were, normal.
Now, Hermione, Ginny, could you give me a hand with Pansy. Boys, stay out of my room, we're having a girls night."
With that the three girls stood and while Ginny took Blaise's job of holding Pansy's mouth closed while Hermione and Drey made a chair from their linked arms and with a little hep from Charlie the four girls made their way towards the mahogany door that marked the entrance to Drey's domain.
The guys just sat there.
"Charlie, you mind if I crash with you tonight?"
Bill's tone of voice was plaintive and slightly confused and the rest of the males burst out laughing, then Draco conjured up a couple of bottles of fire whisky and the rest of the night was spent in the time old tradition of male bonding. Getting absolutely smashed and reliving embarrassing memories.
Drey's room"Pansy, do you promise not to do anything physically violent if we let you go?"
There was no hint of a smile in Drey's voice and her face was motionless. Ginny and Hermione however weren't doing such a good job of hiding their smiles at the sight before them. Pansy Parkinson had been one of the most terrifying girls in Slytherin, and here she was lying on a bed with her arms and legs held down and a hand slapped over her mouth as Drey calmly talked on.
"Pansy!"
With a reluctant nod Pansy agreed and snatched her limbs away from the two Gryffindors as soon as they released them.
"You can't blame me Drey. We used to share everything before you went away, you were by best friend, why didn't you tell me."
There were tears running down the blondes face and the purple lock of hair concealed her left eye. When Drey clambered onto the bet beside her and pulled her into a hug the Gryffindors were astonished. Intellectually they had known that the Slytherins were different than what they had always thought, but they had never expected to see such an emotional display. The tears of the two girls turned into a mix between sobs and laughs, but then Pansy hit the other blond with a pillow, supposedly to persuade her that she was never supposed to keep secrets from her again, but of course Drey couldn't let that pass unchallenged and the battle began.
Hermione and Ginny just stared with their mouths agape at the sight before them, this couldn't possibly be two Slytherins having a pillow fight, and giggling! Then a stray pillow hit Hermione and they had to join in.
Half an hour later"Did that actually just happen? Did I really just have a pillow fight with Pansy Parkinson and Dracaena Malfoy?"
All Hermione got in response was a tired giggle from Pansy. Ginny and Drey were sorting through the piles of drinks and food that Drey had conjured up. The red-head had line of sherbet decorating her top lip and Drey was making little butterflies out of nothing and they were flying round the room. The whole thing was insane but it actually blended well together.
"What's your mother like Ginny?"
The question came completely out of the blue, but Drey didn't seem to notice the looks she was getting.
"Why?"
Ginny's response was long and drawn out with a tone of suspicious curiosity.
"Because she'll know by now, won't she, about me and Bill, how do you think she's going to react?"
"Knowing mom, not very well. There'll probably be lots of shouting and screaming, and probably a Howler.
Bt you don't need to worry, that'll all be aimed at Bill. She'll be too freaked out to do anything to you, yet anyway."
"That's comforting."
"How did you two get together anyway? I thought you were supposed to be in a school somewhere."
"I was, but that school was in Egypt. I had a really nice professor at school and he taught me everything about the ancient Egyptian curses. Then the university got a message that Bill's team needed some help, and as he was going to help them he took me along. I was good at it, really good, so I just, stayed there. He was my best friend for about a year, and then we got together, but in my defence, I did think he'd broken up with Fleur."
A soft smile graced Drey's face as she reminisced about the hot desert days. But then a sickeningly sweet "Aaaahhh" drew her out of her memories and directed her attention towards the rest of the room's inhabitants. Sticking her tongue out at them she clambered onto the bed and with a wave of her hand erased any sign of the rubbish that littered the room thanks to their pillow fight and subsequent feast.
"I wouldn't worry about it Drey. Molly's really nice, she'll probably just be glad that her son's got someone."
"She's right Drey."
"I guess.
Hermione are you staying here tonight."
Growing uncomfortable Drey made a quick change of subject that was about as subtle as a sledgehammer.
"Can I?"
"Of course. Shall we all stay in here tonight? I don't want anyone going out there. I can smell the alcohol from here."
While the other giggled Drey conjured up some more beds and nightclothes for the other girls. When they were all in bed Drey was just about to fall asleep when she heard a whispered thank you from the Gryffindors. Too tired and full of cake to worry about it now she decided to ask them what they were thanking her for in the morning and fell to sleep to pleasant dreams about Egypt.
bthatcher2002: thanks, I hope you like this one
Morena Evensong: thanks; I didn't want Ginny to turn her opinions around completely
Silverone3: yeah, that's what the room is like, and thanks
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