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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 10 – Smile, you're on TV!

A few minutes later, after a few more kisses, James jumped to his feet and began to drag Severus to the door.

"Jamie? You were about to explain..."

James took a deep breath and said in a rush. "Well, last time we were here, I planted both muggle and magical listening devices. They both transmit directly their recordings to the nearest lair, so it's useless to try and destroy them. And should the worst happen, your scents are all over the place." He stopped for a smirk. "Now, I've got to go, bye!" with those words, he tugged on Severus' hand and litterally ran out of the room.

Their steps could be heard hurrying in the stairs. Soon, the door to their room was closed and locked.

"Well, duh!" smirked Sirius. He shrugged when Harry arched an eyebrow to him. Blaise thought for a while. "Well, we could always sleep here with you and Moony, which would leave the two others rooms upstairs. I suppose Avery and Mac Nair will stay with us..." he turned to look at Voldemort and Lucius. "Oh, and who ever will sleep in my room, don't open the blue box!"

Harry, Blaise and Sirius transformed in their animal forms, and went to curl in front of chimney with Moony.

Lucius and Voldemort were left standing in the middle of the living room and a very awake flock of rabbit.

"Avery, Mac Nair!" Voldemort called. "Stay here and don't let them get owls or outside. And I don't want any of them hurt! Come, Lucius!" They both exited the living room.

The following morning found Sirius trying to build a card castle Moony kept throwing to the ground when it reached three stories high. Blaise and Harry were playing chase the tail. Avery and Mac Nair were sprawled bored out of their minds on the couch. Nagini was sulking in a corner, as he had been forbidden to eat any rabbit. Wormtail, who had spent the night behind Voldemort's door preceded him in the living room. They were followed by three blue rabbits.

Blaise jumped to his feet. "I thought I told you not to open the blue box!" he complained to Lucius, "now, I've got to do it again!"

Lucius merely arched an eyebrow and declared in an haughty tone "It is not my fault. The rabbits you released yesterday were the ones to chew through it."

Harry and Blaise burst into laughing.

"What did you intended it for, anyway?" asked a curious Lucius.

"It was for Weasley" began Blaise.

"I thought he might get tired of red." Shrugged Harry.

"And we decided to offer him other options." Blaise went on.

"To broaden his horizons!" ended Harry.

Sirius snickered. "I don't think blue is his colour, you should try to turn his skin green. It would be more christmasy." He cut in. Moony agreed with a 'woof'.

Sirius stood up. "Well, I'm going to make some coffee. Maybe it will wake our two sleepyheads."

Blaise and Harry, ill at ease with the Death Eaters, ran to him with a cry of "we'll help!" and the three exited the living room, chatting cheerily.

Lucius arched an eyebrow and asked to no-one in particular "Should we be worried?"

They came back with food, coffee and milk to catch the end of a conversation between Voldemort and his Death Eaters.

He turned to them and annonced "Avery and Mac Nair are leaving now. When Severus and Potter arrive, Lucius will explain our point of view."

Everybody settled to wait while enjoying breakfast.

Soon before lunch, Severus entered the living room, dragging a nearly asleep-on-his-feet James with him. Even the cup of coffee he slept-drank with his lover's help was not enough to wake him up. But Lucius'speech was.

"Well, my Master put me in charge of explaining what will happen now. It is clear that Severus needs to return to Hogwarts. So do Blaise and the boy-who-lived-to-be-a-bother" Harry bowed to him. "Or Dumbledore would sent someone on our traces. And obviously we can't separate Severus and Potter..."

James turned to him, grabbed Severus tightly and hissed loudly, baring sharp fangs. Lucius gulped. Severus rubbed James' back and cut in smoothly. "Don't mind him. His brain is still sleeping."

James frowned at him before mewing indignantly. And covering his mouth with both hands, before hiding his blushing face in Severus' shoulder.

"Still the same, eh James?" teased Sirius.

Lucius coughed slightly. "If you could bring your attentions back to the subject at hand?"

Everybody turned to stare at him.

"As I was saying, they need to go back to Hogwarts. But we need an insurrance, to even things between us, a way to be sure the lair is not going to sent somebody after us. An 'hostage' if you prefer such a common term."

Everybody was silent.

"Thus, to ensure that we will not be murdered as soon as we set feet outside of this house, we will be accompanied by Sirius Black and the werewolf."

The hostages' names were no surprise to the presents, but hearing them aloud seemed to make the situation more real.

"Don't worry. They will not be mistreated, as it would be breaking our 'truce'. I will not hand Black to the ministry either for this reason. He will be allowed to sent you news. He'll be our assurancy."

"Siri?"

Sirius raked his hands through his hair and sughed. "It's the only solution, isn't it?" he thought for a while, scratching Moony's head who was resting on his left tight.

"I'll do it, but I don't understand why you couldn't just leave."

"Well, it never hurt to have a back up insurrance. Besides, we would need our wands."

They all turned to look at Blaise and Harry. "It's easy, just call your wand, grab the rabbit when it arrive and scratched it under the chin." Shrugged Blaise.

"But it has to be done by the wand owner." Added Harry.Everybody laughed when Lucius' wand proved to be one of the blue rabbits. Even Voldemort smirked when Nagini nearly ate Wormtail's wand.

"Black, we're leaving!" They left with Mac Nair and Avery's wand-turned-rabbits secured in one of Lucius' pockets after having been reduced.

All the while Lucius' hand never left Sirius' shoulder, either to prevent him from escaping or to hold him near.