A/N: Still don't own anything. My requests keep being denied. Don't own Twilight, don't own Harry Potter, don't own the song Come Fly With Me. Hannah, Ivy, Raven, Wolfie, Sheila, She-Cat, Melody Alvaro and Fireball…them I own. And fair warning, there's a bit of content some readers may find disturbing. Reader discretion is advised.
Chapter 21
Territory is Marked
The next morning found us all starving by the fire, looking for something to eat…
That's when I realized. I still had Ivy's grandma's cookies…and they were still fresh thanks to the Charm I put on them! Cookies were breakfast food…weren't they?
I grabbed my backpack and the bag the cookies were in. "Ivy's Grandmother, we owe you one." I said, opening the bag and finding the cookies still there, perfectly fresh as if they were made the previous day! "Hey, guys!" I shouted. "I found something!"
Everyone looked up and I held up the cookies.
"How the hell did you get those!?" Raven asked.
"When I left Privet Drive, one of the stops we had to make after we crash landed at the safe house was Ivy's place, her grandmother gave me some cookies for the road. And I put a Charm on them to keep them fresh!"
"Brilliant!" Draco said, grabbing one as everyone did the same.
Everyone seemed to be satisfied with a cookie each, so I put the bag back in my backpack.
"Harley Quinn saves the day again." Blaise said, ruffling my already bedraggled hair.
"Man, keep up the dishevelling of my hair, you guys and I'm going to end up looking like my brother." I joked. "I wonder how him, Ron, Hermione, and Ivy are doing?"
"Probably worse off than us." Emily said. "They didn't have money, only one tent and didn't think to bring any food with them to the Ministry…unlike someone here."
I shrugged. "What can I say? I had a feeling."
"Vision." Drosie said, rolling her eyes.
"Feeling." I snapped.
"Vision." Drosie repeated.
"Feeling!" I insisted.
"Vision!" Drosie shouted.
"Werewolf snack!" I said.
Drosie shut up.
"Feeling." I said. "Case. Closed."
"Meow!" She-Cat said. "You showed Vampire Bait there, Hannah."
"Oh, yeah, you could also be a vampire's snack, Drosie." I smirked.
"Shut up." Drosie snarled.
Draco smirked and stood up. "Well, we're gone on the run, come on, Blaise." Draco said.
"I want candy!" Mel chirped.
"Ok, ok, candy for Posey. Anyone else have a request?" Blaise asked.
"I could go for some doughnuts." Alvaro said.
"That is a good call!" Raven said. "You can't live without doughnuts!"
"Ok, candy for Posey and doughnuts for Gale and Raven."
"The whole coven!" Alvaro corrected. "No nuts, and loads of chocolate."
"Yes!" I chirped.
"Ok, candy for Posey and doughnuts for the whole coven. Anything else?" Draco asked.
"Burgers and hot dogs, regular and veggie." I said. "I'm feeling barbeque tonight, who's with me?"
Everyone smirked.
"Ok, candy for Posey, doughnuts for the coven and barbeque stuff for Harley. Enough to go by, let's roll, Blaise." Draco said.
"Wait a second!" I said, standing up.
"What!?" Blaise groaned.
I handed both boys a mask. "So you don't get discovered." I said, turning to Draco. "Be careful." I said.
"It's me, what d'you expect?" Draco said, kissing my forehead and going off with Blaise.
At that, I started to worry. Draco was gone again and so with his departure came the arrival of the nerves again.
…
Draco's POV
Blaise and I Apparated to Diagon Alley and started nicking stuff for the coven, talking in hushed voices the whole time.
"She seemed to be relaxed last night." Blaise said when we got to Hannah.
"Of course she was relaxed." I smirked. "I was with her."
It never got old, having Hannah in my arms, out like a light. It was a treat to watch her sleep, her hair splayed out over the pillow, or on my chest as the case was the previous night. The way her hand would rest on my shoulder, the occasional muttering of complete Gibberish that only I could make out (and let's just say a lot of it was my name or Jeff Skinner and cookie stealing pirates…how that idea got into her head, I don't know.). But the cutest thing…the absolute cutest thing that she does is when she's stirring in the middle of the night. She makes a little squeak and shifts a bit. All it took for me was to kiss her temple…and she went back to sleep with a sigh.
"I thought you two would be having 'neither of us is dead!' celebratory sex." Blaise shrugged.
I gave him a look. "Just because neither of us are virgins doesn't mean we have sex every night." I told him.
"Oh, so you did pop her cherry?" Blaise smirked.
"Well, technically, no, Alvaro did." I said.
Blaise gaped at me. "Who did?" he growled.
"Diamond, but I told Hannah we'd never speak of it again." I said, shrugging.
"I knew there was something that bastard had with Hannah from the moment they met!" Blaise said angrily.
"What are you talking about?" I asked, looking at my best mate confused.
"Malfoy, Diamond wants your girlfriend." Blaise said bluntly.
I snorted. "What makes you think that?" I asked.
"Ever since first year, when he 'accidentally'," Blaise started, putting air quotes over accidentally. "knocked Hannah over, he's been ogling her as if he was a wolf and she was a juicy looking sheep! You know how you stared at her in every class? He was staring, too. And it wasn't the 'she's pretty' stare you had. It was the 'the things I'd do to that girl' stare that a pedophile has. He's a pervert and he wants Hannah…tied to his bed as his sex toy."
I gaped. "Then why would he still be my mate?" I asked.
"He wants to get on your good side so he won't be suspected when he moves in for the kill." Blaise said. "He takes her, you think she's a whore and leave her, letting her fall directly into his trap."
"And let's say for the sake of argument," I started, rolling my eyes as we nabbed candy for Mel. "that this whole hypothesis rings out true, what can I do? He's already taken Hannah to bed."
"Mark your territory, man!" Blaise said, shaking me. "That girl belongs to you and you alone!"
"How the hell do I do that?" I demanded, pushing Blaise off me. "Force her to get a tattoo over her crotch that says 'Property of Draco L. Malfoy?'"
"Not that obvious." Blaise said. "Take her." he said simply.
"You don't mean…" I told him.
"Bone her. Lay her. Worship her body like the idol I know you think it is?" Blaise said. "Hell. Yes."
"But how the fuck am I supposed to do that! We're in a coven and there's no privacy!" I said, aghast at what Blaise was saying.
"Take her out into the woods, book a room in the Leaky Cauldron, zip up your tent and cast Privacy and Silencing Charms around it for all I care, just get it done!" Blaise said. "Or you're going to lose Hannah forever."
I paled. "Ok, ok, I'll do it tonight." I said, agreeing with him as I grabbed one more thing.
That was the straw that broke the camel's back. The vendor at that stand saw me put it into the bag and shouted. "STOP! THIEF!"
Blaise and I paled and found ourselves surrounded by Death Eaters.
"Well, well, well…" Isabel Lockton said, coming into the center of the circle with me and Blaise. "if it isn't a couple of Harley Quinn supporters."
Blaise swallowed as I licked my lips, looking for a way out of this situation.
"Think, Cato, think!" I murmured to myself. "What would Harley do?"
"Take these two back to the Manor," Lockton ordered. "maybe Lucius Malfoy can get Harley Quinn's whereabouts out of them."
Blaise and I both paled. Father would know instantly who I was!
"Draw your wand on three." I whispered to Blaise, who nodded.
"One…" I said.
"Two…" Blaise whispered.
"Three." Blaise and I said together.
"NOW, THRESH!" I shouted, drawing my wand. "Stupefy!"
I Stunned the Death Eater that grabbed me and Blaise did the same before we went nuts, Stunning Death Eaters left right and center and making a break for it.
"Stop them!" Lockton screamed. "STOP THEM! THEY'RE GETTING AWAY!"
Blaise turned around and Stunned her as well as we ran to the Apparation point, me yanking a bouquet of roses for Hannah as I went. (Yes, I'm a romantic even when I'm trying to save my own ass…deal with it!)
We grabbed each other and Apparated back to the forest, panting as we walked.
"Well, that was some very Harley thinking, Cato." Blaise complemented.
"Thank you, Thresh." I smirked. "I try, I try." I said as we broke for an apple break.
"So how're you gonna do it?" Blaise asked, back to the marking my territory thing.
"The same way everyone else does it." I said.
"No not the copulation itself, I mean seduction! You can't just barge in and grab Hannah and start the nasty, you have to ease yourself into it."
"Seduce her?" I said, biting into the apple I had. "I do that now."
"No, no, that's just plain flattery and sappy shit." Blaise said. "You need full blown pillow talk. Take the flattery, add a little touch here and there, that's sure to send a shiver up her spine. Any pick up lines that you could use on her to get her in bed faster?"
I shrugged. "No, I think things up on the fly, I'm like Harley that way." I said, tossing the apple core and standing up. "Come on, Blaise." I said, heading back to camp.
"Slow down!" Blaise whined. "You're too fucking fast!"
"Hurry the fuck up, then!" I said, turning around as I walked into the Charms of the base camp to find the girls playing cards and Alvaro reading a book.
"We're back." I said, Blaise putting the food under my bed and returning, going to play cards with the girls. "Where's Hannah?"
"Went to wash her hair." Emily said, Blaise locking eyes with me and nodding.
"Go!" he mouthed. "Now's your perfect chance!"
I nodded, setting the roses on my bed and going to look for Hannah.
I went out of the protection of the Charms and heard a female singing along with a loud blaring of Come Fly With Me.
"Come fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away! If you can use some exotic booze, there's a bar in far Bombay! Come fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away! Come fly with me, let's jet down to Peru! In llama land, there's a one man band and he'll toot his horn for you! Come fly with me, let's take off, in the blue!"
I followed the sound to a lake and found a petite figure in the middle of it, lathering her long black hair. Hannah.
"So typical." I whispered as she dunked herself under, rinsing the soap from her hair and jetting back up to grab conditioner.
"Once I get you up there…where the air is rarefied. We'll just glide, starry-eyed. Once I get you up there…I'll be holding you, so near! You may here…the angels cheer, because we're together! Weather wise it's such a lovely day! Just say the word and we'll beat the birds down to Acapulco Bay! It's perfect, for a flying honeymoon, they say. So come fly with me, let's fly let's fly away! Come on and fly with me!"
I smirked, watching her sing into the conditioner bottle, making her complete the look of a female crooner before setting the bottle down and grabbing her cloth.
"Once I get you up there…where the air is rarefied. We'll just glide, starry-eyed. Once I get you up there…I'll be holding you, so near! You may here…all the angels cheer, because we're together! Weather wise it's such a lovely day! You just say the word and we'll beat those birds down to Acapulco Bay! It's so perfect, for a flying honeymoon, they say. Come fly with me, let's fly let's fly…" Hannah grabbed a towel and wrapped herself in it. "Pack up let's fly away! Yeah!" she finished, whipping her hair back and drying it with a flick of her wand, letting it fall in gentle waves down her back as she grabbed her clothes, starting to put them on before looking to where I was.
She screamed, covering herself with the towel and glaring at me. "DRACO MALFOY!" she screamed, her face beet red with embarrassment "How long were you standing there!?" she demanded.
"Since you started your little number. Brava, by the way." I praised, giving her an ovation.
Hannah flushed again, grabbing a dressing gown and throwing it over herself awkwardly, dropping the towel when she tied it in place to put her hands on her hips. "Were you peeping?"
"Don't be embarrassed, love." I told her, leaning against a tree. "I've seen you in a bra before."
"But I'm naked now!" Hannah said, sounding borderline nervous and furious.
"I already saw." I said, smirking. "Not a bad body on you."
Hannah blushed again, now borderline nervous and flattered. "Thank you, now if you'll excuse me…I'm going to get my clothes on."
I grabbed her by the shoulders as she turned around. "I'll be in the tent in my boxers." I whispered to her. "You have ten minutes to meet me before I start putting my clothes back on." I said, making her gasp as I left.
…
Five minutes later, I was pacing around (in my boxers as promised) the tent when a dressing gown came flying in and hit me in the face.
"Hey!" I said, tossing it to the floor as someone came in, fully dressed with her hair up in a ponytail.
"What's gotten into you?" Hannah demanded, crossing her arms with a smirk as she zipped the tent closed.
"Wouldn't you like to know." I said, leaning against the bed.
"Yes, yes I would." Hannah said, joining me against the bed.
I grabbed her, dragging her onto the bed as I yanked her shirt off and threw it aside. "It's called playing wicked." I growled, kissing along her neck as I ripped her hair out of her ponytail. "Care to join me?"
Hannah mewled. "Absolutely." she whispered, kissing me as I dragged the two of us under the covers.
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Hannah POV
"Holy Skinner." I mouthed two hours later, unable to speak and short of breath. That had been everything I had imagined.
"Fuck." Draco groaned, collapsing next to me, panting. "Thank…Skinner…for… Silencing Charms." Draco panted, turning to me. "You ok?"
I nodded, still speechless.
Draco chuckled as he slipped his boxers back on as I slipped into my underwear. "Too good for words?"
I nodded again, placing a hand over his still heaving chest and his racing heart, letting my head fall on his shoulder and waiting for his heart to slow down, slowly relaxing against him as it did.
Draco wrapped his arms around me as my eyes closed, Draco's deep, relaxed breathing putting me slowly to sleep.
…
What felt like five minutes later, I heard someone opening the tent and walking in.
"Come on, Hato, get your pants on, it's time to get food made for the coven." Blaise said, waking me up.
"Go away, Blaise." I said groggily, nuzzling into Draco's chest.
"Come on, Harley, the coven's getting hungry." Blaise said, laughing.
"Piss off!" I said, glaring at him. "Can't you see we're cuddling?" I asked.
"Yes, but the rest of the coven wants food, not to see you and Cato here cuddle." Blaise said, rolling his eyes as Draco groaned.
"What is it, love?" Draco said groggily as he saw Blaise. "Get out!" he shouted.
"Someone's gotta get food." Blaise said.
Draco dug under his bed and tossed the bag at Blaise.
"There, now leave!" I growled, Draco drawing me to him.
"Wow, who knew that Malfoy post-sex would be so possessive!" Blaise joked.
"I think the lady told you to piss off, Blaise." Draco growled, gesturing for Blaise to go away.
Blaise laughed. "We'll save you two something for when you're done your cuddle session." Blaise said.
"OUT!" Draco and I shouted together.
"Ok, ok, I'm gone." Blaise said. "Go back to your cuddling."
"Thank you!" I said sweetly as Blaise left, cuddling back into Draco. "Love you." I whispered.
"Love you, too." Draco said, kissing my forehead as my stomach growled.
"Fuck." Draco and I groaned together, laughing.
"I don't wanna get up." I said, laying back down, ignoring my growling stomach.
"Come on, Hannah." Draco said, slipping his pants on and a shirt, tossing me a baggy shirt of his. "We gotta eat." Draco said, picking me up and carrying me outside as I slipped the shirt on, letting it swallow me.
"Why are you so big?" I asked, looking to him.
"I can't help that you're petite." Draco said, grinning at me. "And I'm taller."
"Shut up." I said. "I didn't ask to be five foot three."
"And I didn't ask to be six foot even." Draco said, shrugging. "And how much do you weigh?"
I shrugged. "Ninety, last time I checked." I said.
"Ninety pounds?" Draco gaped. "Holy, a girl of you stature should be hundred and ten, easy. I'm underweight for my height."
"How much do you weigh?" I asked.
"Two hundred." Draco said.
I gaped.
"It's muscle!" Draco protested.
"No debate there." I teased as I was set down.
"No shit." Draco said, rolling his eyes. "You know that."
"Ok, ok, enough of the carnal talk, save it for the bedroom." Blaise joked.
Draco and I smirked at each other, Alvaro glaring at Draco as he pulled me into his lap.
"Hey, Potter looks skinny!" Drosie said, nodding to my shirt.
"First shirt I grabbed." Draco shrugged. "It was either this or one of my first year school shirts."
"Shut up!" I said. "I get it, I'm short and thin!"
Draco laughed as Emily handed food out to everyone.
…
The few weeks and months after that were very easy after the coven got a rhythm going. Draco, Blaise and I would steal the food and Emily and Sheila would cook it. Alvaro and She-Cat and Mel were in charge of gathering water and Drosie and Raven were in charge of defence of the camp.
Fireball pitched in as much as he could, too, by helping Teresa gather firewood and keeping Mel busy.
When it started to snow, the coven meetings became less and less frequent because it was so cold. Sleeping in tents wasn't helping much for heat, because they always caught the draft and it wouldn't pass.
The only upside…Draco was such the gentleman, he'd hold me closer than ever because I was very sensitive to the cold.
Melody and Draco had become closer in the few months since his eventful arrival. She liked him, but still loved Alvaro.
Two weeks before Christmas, while the coven went to do something productive in the night. Draco and I had been outside, trying to absorb some heat from the fire as I absorbed what heat I could from Draco's arms tightly around me, trying to keep our minds off the cold.
"Ok," Draco said as we played the game we had played in first year. "favourite spell?"
I giggled. "Um…Stupefy." I said. "Favourite book?"
"Hmm." Draco said. "Anything Shakespeare…favourite Muggle TV show?"
I smiled, resting my head on his shoulder. "Archer." I said. "Favourite Muggle TV show?" I asked.
Draco groaned. "Austin and Ally."
"Why?" I asked.
"Because the two title characters are so sweet together." Draco muttered. "Ally reminds me of a certain someone." he added, prodding me in the stomach.
I giggled before I yawned.
"Fuck, Spitfire, don't fall asleep." Draco said, patting my cheek. "Quick, favourite Muggle movie moment."
I blushed. "You're gonna think it's cheesy." I said.
"Try me." Draco smirked.
"Ok…" I bit my lip. "In Twilight…"
Draco snorted. "Typical Hannah. You get a kick out of dramatic romance, don't you?"
I nodded. "Anyways, in Twilight…I swooned at Bella and Edward's first kiss in the book."
Draco laughed. "I knew you'd say that, love." he said. "I found the Twilight book on your nightstand open to that very page at Hogwarts."
"What were you doing in my dorm?" I asked.
"I like watching you sleep." Draco admitted.
I blushed.
"So, Twilight romance gets you off, does it?" Draco smirked.
I nodded, my face still pink.
"So…" Draco said, before impersonating Edward. "So, I was thinking, while I was running."
"Oh, God." I muttered, turning pink.
"Just play along, Hannah." Draco joked, messing up my hair. "So…I was thinking…while I was running."
I sighed and played along. "About not hitting the trees, I hope."
"Silly Hannah." Draco chuckled. "Running's second nature for me, I don't need to think about it."
"Show off." I murmured.
Draco smirked. "No." he continued. "I was thinking there was something I wanted to try." he said, taking my face in his hands.
And even though he had kissed me before, I could feel my heart hammering in my chest. There was something different this time around when he was going to kiss me that made me weak in the knees.
Then gently, almost nonexistent, Draco kissed me.
It wasn't like he had kissed me the first time. That was all the way back at twelve years old. But it felt like it was the first time. My heart raced in my chest as Draco pulled me tighter into him, me entangling my fingers in his hair.
By Skinner, it was like I was falling in love with him all over again. My body instantly warmed and I wrapped my arms around his neck.
By the time Draco broke the kiss, I was laying in the snow, Draco above me.
Draco laid next to me, holding me close as I felt the heat drain from my body again, feeling the cold of the night once more.
Draco took his cloak off, wrapping it tightly around me as his left hand seized my right, our fingers and forearms interlacing.
I looked down at the spot where our forearms brushed. One side was perfectly pale, smooth and small…the other was smooth and black…swirling with the Dark Mark.
Death Eater. Ivy's voice warned in my head.
But Draco wasn't a Death Eater. He bottled out on the murder of Albus Dumbledore and saved me from Hagrid's burning shack. A Death Eater wouldn't do that.
A Death Eater wouldn't also risk their life to sneak back into their own house and save you from their father…I knew that.
Draco was Marked…but he wasn't a Dark wizard.
He was a Light wizard. The boy who made all the wrong choices. A supporter of the Potter twins and Harley Quinn.
He was mine.
"I love you." I whispered.
"I love you, too." Draco whispered back before shooting up. "Oh, fuck!" he shouted.
"What is it? What's wrong?" I asked, shooting up with him.
"My mother's still in the Manor!" Draco said, turning to me. "Oh, God, no…" he said, putting his head in his hands.
"What?" I asked.
"You know about the Malfoy Christmas party?" Draco asked me.
I nodded. "You ditched the party to visit me last year, why?"
'It's not just a party when the Dark Lord's in power. He uses that party to punish Death Eaters." Draco groaned. "My mother's primary responsibility was to make sure I didn't stray and join the Order. They're going to punish her!"
"You don't know that." I started before grabbing my head, having a vision.
They had Narcissa tied up onstage, Lucius glowering down at her.
"Narcissa Black," Voldemort hissed. "You have been accused of treachery to the Dark Lord. The punishment is death, delivered by your husband."
Lucius glared and pointed his wand at his wife. "Crucio!" he hissed.
Narcissa screamed, writhing around in her bonds.
Again and again Lucius tortured her until she was limp against the pole she was tied to.
Lucius smirked. "Avada Kedavra!"
I jolted out, paler than ever.
"What is it?" Draco asked, grabbing my arm.
"Now you know they're going to punish her…the Dark Lord's going to have Lucius torture and kill your mother."
Draco gaped, his eyes welled with tears. "Oh, no!" he choked out, letting a sob escape his lips.
I paled. "When is it?" I asked.
"Christmas Eve." Draco said blinking back tears.
I smirked. "Well, I guess we're going in and getting her out of there." I said.
Draco shook his head. "No, I'll go, you stay here."
"No!" I said.
"Hannah, you're Harley Quinn. You get caught at that party and Father will have his hand on his Mark faster than you can say 'Skinner, Fanelli and Faksa.' You're wanted!" Draco said.
"And so are you." I told him. "It's in the manifesto. It's all for one and one for all. The coven and I will help you save your mother."
"What about Narcissa?" Blaise asked as everyone came flooding back.
I shot up. "Ok, the Malfoy Christmas party's coming up…and the Snake Faced Little Shits are going to try to kill Cato's mother."
Draco's jaw clenched as a collective gasp ensued through the coven, Sheila whispering "Not Narcissa!"
"Yes, Narcissa." I said. "She's being punished because she stood by and watched as Draco escaped from Malfoy Manor." I said seriously. "But, we're not going to let them succeed. They aren't going to kill Narcissa…and why?"
"Why?" the coven said together.
"We're going to that party and springing her out!" I said, raising my wand in the air.
The coven cheered.
"That, and it'll get us some good dirt on what the Snake Faced Little Shits are up to!" Wolfie said with a grin.
"Exactly!" I said. "So, who's with me?!" I asked.
Everyone raised their hands, a loud cheer piercing the calmness of the night. "REBELLION! WE'RE SPRINGING NARCISSA!"
Draco shot up and I smirked. "Ok, we're going shopping for disguises tomorrow, so I'd get to bed."
Everyone nodded, Draco grabbing my waist. "Night, Harley." everyone chorused.
"Goodnight, Gale, Posey, Wolfie, Raven, Foxface, Effie, Glimmer, Clove, Thresh and Rue!" I said smiling as Draco yanked me into the tent, kissing me.
"You didn't have to do that." Draco whispered.
"Please, of course I did. It's in my principles." I whispered as Draco took me to bed, laying me down.
"So I guess we're in for a good Christmas Eve?" Draco asked.
"Hey, think of it this way, it's a good anniversary party." I smirked.
Draco laughed, holding me close. "I love you, Hannah."
I sighed, finally letting my eyes drift closed. "I love you, too, Draco." I whispered before falling asleep.
