Disclaimer : All characters belongs to J. K. Rowlings, minus Dr slump, whose name belongs to Akira Toriyama. All were kidnapped in the dawn, and are not used to make money. They will be returned when I'm done.

See, don't own so don't sue, unless you're interested in my teddy bears collection...

Besides this work will contain : mpreg and people out of character since I am definitely not JK Rowlings, and some strange sentences since I'm French. Still here?

So, on with the show...

Chapter 8 – Who wants a rat-doughnut?

Lucius frowned as he entered the room and saw its sleeping occupants. Afterall, normal prisonners should be angsting right now, nervous about what would happen to them. So, why were those people sleeping? Did they have some plans to escape?

He was pulled out of his thoughts when Moony opened one eye, stood on his paws before padding a little bit further and, laying back down, closed his eyes and went back to sleep, snoring lightly.

Malefoy was completely stunned. Voldemort chuckled. "So, Lucius, is it the new way you found to keep them from escaping?" he asked.

The scene turned into chaos soon enough when Wormtail entered the room, Nagini wrapped around his body. There was so much of the snake and so little of the man that only two feet shuffling on the floor and two eyes, as well as the nose could be seen.

As soon as Nagini caught sight of Voldemort, he left Wormtail, eliciting a muffled shriek from the rat man as he fall on the floor. Hearing this sound, five pairs of furry ears perked up. Two canines stood up. One nekojin jumped from the couch, two from the bookcase. All of them closing on the petrified man on the floor.

"You know, Wormtail, it's no fun if you stay in place" joked James before pouncing on the now transformed Animagus.

Who squeaked and ran all around the room, the others in hot pursuit. James quickly caught him. He turned towards Moony, Padfoot, Blaise and Harry. "Ready?" he asked, eyeing them. He waited for a few seconds before putting the rat back on the floor, enabling the pursuit to continue.

A little bit after, the rat scurried in one of Lucius' legpant.

"It's not fair, you're not playing! Give it back!"

Lucius gasped, stunned. The pursuit resumed as soon as the rat fled, having been expulsed from his safe heaven by Nagini, who acted as a sheperd snake, bringing him back to the pursuing Nekojins, werewolf and Animagi.

Everybody stopped as Voldemort suddenly burst into laughing. "Some explanations, Severus?" he asked, an eyebrow raised.

Severus shrugged. "You'll have to be more precise on which matter you want those explanations."

"I thought you wanted James Potter dead?"

"No, what gave you this idea?" Severus deadpanned.

A raised eyebrow was his cue to continue.

"Why would we want to help somebody who, knowing what the situation was, kept the one I love miserable? He betrayed our trust, forced us apart and revealed some of James' secrets to his worst enemy... I had to have access to both side if I wanted to both save my lover and substract him from Dumbledore's attention."

James, who had silently padded to his side resumed his previous position.

"So, you used both sides for your personnal gain... Very slytherinesque, Severus."

"But..."Lucius tried to cut in, not finding his words.

Voldemort turned to him. "Lucius, I'm sure you wanted to point that if Severus did it once, he could do it again."

Lucius nodded.

Voldemort smirked. "He won't. He would only if I was to separate him from his lover or sons, am I right Severus?"

Severus nodded.

Lucius tried again. "But..."

Voldemort sighed. "Lucius, in case you had forgotten your magical creature studies, Nekojins are the best spies and killers there is. They are able to penetrate the most safely warded places unnoticed. They are fiercely protective of their loved ones, or the loved ones of other nekojins, even Nekojin they have never cross path with. They can also hold a grunge for very long, as well as pass it to other Nekojins to avenge them. I don't know you, but I don't feel like having the whole Nekojin population of the world trying to kill me."

He stood thoughtfully before smirking. "Besides, they took our wands from us, certainly during the 'pursuit'..."

Lucius felt into his pockets: his wand was effectively missing...

Seeing his disbelieving face proved too much for Harry and Blaise, and they transformed into their in-between form to burst into laughing; lying clutching their sides on the floor. Sirius was laughing silently, sat on the floor, Moony giving everybody the canine version of a smile, his eyes dancing with mischief. James was quietly snickering, muffling his laughter into Severus' robes. Severus was clinging with all his might to his impassive face, his mouth curling from time to time.

After his laughter had died, Blaise stood up. "I'm hungry! I'm going to the kitchen to make something."

James and Severus jumped to their feet. "Far from me the idea of starving you, son, but the last time we let you in a kitchen, the results were... creative, to say the least..."

Severus nodded eagerly.

Blaise thought for a moment before shrugging. "Okay, no more mint-pumpkin doughnut...I'll stay in the basic, however boring it is...You coming?" he asked Harry, who nodded.

They halted before exiting and glancing at Voldemort and Lucius who looked a little bit queasy, Blaise said to no one in particular. "I still maintain that with an engorgement potion, we could have rat doughnut." And quickly exited with Harry to avoid an identified flying cushion.