Hermione and The Lost Boys

Disclaimer: I don't own The Lost Boys or Harry Potter.

Author's Note: I hope all you mom's out there have an excellent Mother's Day tomorrow! I'm updating a day earlier than planned because I'll be spending tomorrow with my own mommy! Starting after this chapter updates for this story will be every other week on Sundays until I decide otherwise, enjoy the chapter!

Chapter 6: Heads Roll

Ginny was laughing and hollering along with the boys and she was having a blast riding on the back of Paul's bike from what Hermione could tell whenever she glanced back behind her. The blonde vampire Ginny was riding with was either doing his best to show off or just plain trying to scare the redhead to death. Not that it worked… that girl either had a death wish or was an adrenaline junkie. Which, now that the brunette really gave it a decent amount of thought, certain things made more sense.

No one could ride a broom like her or Harry and not be getting high off something.

A hand touched her own that was currently wrapped around the waist of the Lost Boys' leader. It caught her attention, so she turned her head away from watching Ginny.

"Relax. Your friend is alright. More than alright. She seems to be having the time of her life." David told her. Luckily, she was close enough to catch all of his words despite the roaring wind.

"I know she is… That's what worries me."

The last part was said in a lower tone, but his vampire hearing picked it up easily. "I'm sure she can take care of herself."

Hermione would usually agree, especially when it came to boys, but these weren't some schoolboys that Ginny was dealing with. Even the boys she 'dated' after Hogwarts weren't anything like these ones and not because they were not vampires either. Ginny never really dated a bad boy… or any boy that couldn't be brought home for a Weasley family dinner.

Not that her mother ever approved of anyone other than Harry but that was another story.

Not that she was looking to date the vampire but it was rare for her to shag someone she wasn't dating... Hermione was beginning to think she was thinking too hard about all this, but she still couldn't fathom her friend's fascination with Paul. It was just strange to the other witch. She wasn't like Hermione; Ginny still had a family, a nice big loving family.

"You might want to stop thinking so loud."

That jerked the witch out of her thoughts, "What? Did you… read my mind. No, that's not possible."

She didn't feel anything break through her barrier. Could things work differently for vampires? Or was it just because her magic now worked differently. Either way... She concentrated on her mental shield hoping to strengthen it.

David laughed, "Some pieces slipped through."

"What about now?" Hermione questioned him and for a moment he didn't answer. Not feeling anything trying to get passed her shield should mean he isn't trying to but does it? Shouldn't she feel something?

"No, nothing now." David eventually replied.

That was a relief but now she needed to be careful about slipping up. Who knew what he could pick out of her head if she wasn't careful. Speaking of that, what did he hear?

"So, what exactly slipped through?" The brunette witch tried to act casual with her question, though she isn't positive that it worked.

He turned his head slightly so their faces were now much too close for Hermione's comfort. He was even more attractive close up like this and if she wasn't on the back of a speeding vehicle she'd have jerked backward to avoid the closeness. Hermione steeled herself so she wouldn't react that way.

He smirked as if knowing that before answering, "Nothing important just you wondering what your little friend finds so captivating about my pal Paul back there."

Oh well, that wasn't too bad of a thing to slip… if he was telling the truth and that was all that he'd heard.

"Is that all?"

His smirk never left his face as he turned his attention back to the road giving no answer. He did that on purpose… he wanted her to stress over it but Hermione would not give him the satisfaction of doing so. After all, even if he got more than that from her she wasn't thinking anything that could be used against her.

So, she did as he suggested previously and forced herself to relax and not worry as much about Ginny. Not that she'd ever completely stop but right now she decided to pay attention to the feeling of the wind blowing through her hair. It wasn't too bad of a feeling. At least it was not due to flying as the motorbike was still on the ground even if her feet weren't. The lack of control still bothered her to an extent but not as much as it would have pre-war time.

While Hermione was having her conversation with the boys' leader, Paul was having a grand old time nearly colliding with Marko and weaving in and out of the other boys' bikes making sure to get really close, but it didn't seem to faze her.

No, she would laugh or say, "Do that again," or even, "Come on I know you can get closer than that!" He'd never rode with a chick who was this much fun before, so he obliged her.

Marko was having fun too and even Dwayne, who was the wariest of the witches, seemed to loosen up with their little game.

The drive wasn't that long, not surprising Hermione one bit given the speed that they were going. The one thing that did surprise her was when David pulled into a parking lot.

"Bowling? You want to go bowling?" She inquired while still holding onto the blonde and not getting off of the now parked bike right away due to her confusion.

He turned to her, "What's wrong with that?"

She blinked. Nothing was wrong with it it was just… this was a much more normal and safer thing than she'd expected when he mentioned a contest. He helped her off of the bike while her attention was mostly on the neon lights outside of the bowling alley.

"That was so much fun. Too bad it's over," Ginny complained also getting off of the back of a bike.

"Feel free to ride with me anytime you like," Paul winked at her and she grinned at his invite.

"I'll hold you to that."

He grinned back, "I hope you do."

Hermione shook her head and thought that maybe Ginny's part of this spell wouldn't be as big of a deal as she first thought it might be. Which would be one less thing to worry about, honestly.

"So, um, what's bowling?" All the boys turned to Ginny and looked at her as if she had grown a second head.

"You don't know what bowling is?" Marko asked bewildered.

Paul, however, gasped, "What do witches do for fun? No bikes and not even knowing what bowling is!?"

"We have quidditch!" The redheaded witch exclaimed in protest. She kept trying to prove that witches did have fun things while Marko kept trying to pronounce quidditch and butchering it to the girl's annoyance.

David glanced at Hermione as if he knows she was at least somewhat familiar with bowling given her words from earlier. So she explained the reasoning behind it, "Ginny grew up around mostly other magical people so her non-magical knowledge isn't very extensive."

The other witch huffed and nearly protested but Paul cut her off, "Don't worry I can teach you." He wrapped an arm around her waist. "I'll let you be on my team."

Hermione watched the two of them go into the bowling alley followed closely by an excited Marko."

"Looks like you're with us then," David told her as the three of them followed the others inside. Once they entered, Hermione was shocked to realize that they really were just going to go bowling.

Shocked, but relieved too.

The first thing she noticed was that they didn't pay. Instead, she watched David tell the young girl behind the counter that they'll be using aisle number three. One guy tried to get them to change their shoes, but Paul just scoffed and lead Ginny towards the aisle they were claiming and David only had to look at the worker for him to get the hint and not try to get them to change footwear again. While Hermione figured she'd be okay in her flats, she did decide to, not only give Ginny a silent idea of how to use their magic without looking like she was doing so but also, help with her potential shoe problem.

"Ginny," she grabbed her attention away from Paul who was showing her the bowling ball. "Your shoes might make you slip."

She brought her thumb to her mouth and bit down and Ginny nearly said something until she saw the small amount of blood and it occurred to her what her friend was doing. Magic. After that she looked at Ginny's shoes which had become much more bowling-friendly and then her finger. It healed due to her willing it to.

"There. You won't slip now."

The redhead nodded, not only in thanks for the shoes but, for showing her how it was that her magic worked before and how she'll need to make it work again.

It was like Hermione had said, intent mattered, especially here… All the more reason to believe that this spell was intent based the redhead thought before focusing back on the vampire before her.

Hermione made sure her thumb was blood free before she went back over to her 'team'. As it was, David was watching her and she was slightly nervous even though her thumb was no longer bleeding. The bushy-haired girl hoped he didn't think too much on their magic being blood-based as the implications could be a bad thing.

"So, I take it you've bowled before?" The lead vampire asked her and she nodded.

"Yeah, but it's been a while."

At first, it was a relatively normal experience. Well, as much as bowling with vampires could ever be considered as normal. Paul showed Ginny how to roll the ball and she caught on quickly, though she was constantly reminding Paul and Marko that they were on the same team when they tried to compete against each other and not Hermione's team.

They were also running down the aisle halfway and sometimes just sliding and hitting the pins with their bodies which wasn't really the way to play. It was fun though, and after Ginny 'cheated' as well, Hermione joined in on their unorthodox rules or lack of them.

Even without that though, Hermione wasn't doing all that bad. Her reflexes weren't like those of a vampires but she was holding her own against them making Marko eye one of her strikes and accuse her of using magic to which she told him that Ginny could be as well so it really wasn't an unfair advantage. Ginny laughed and told the boys she didn't need magic when she had so much natural talent.

At one point someone who worked there reluctantly brought them sodas when they asked, or in the boys case more like told them to do so, and that was how Hermione found herself taking a break long enough to grab an extra straw and use it as a hair stick to help manage her hair that was bushy and windblown from her earlier bike ride and much less manageable than usual.

"A straw, really?" Marko asked while taking a sip from his drink.

She finished pinning it up and shrugged. "Just working with what's available. Besides now I'll be able to keep it out of my face and also keep up with Ginny. She's making me look bad," the witch joked because yeah, for the most part, the redhead was doing better than her. She was also more goofing off than playing too at this point and it felt less like a contest than ever before.

David watched her take a drink of one of the ordered sodas, with her hair held up by the straw it was easy to follow the swallowing motion of her throat. Once she set the cup back on the table that Marko was using as a footstool the vampire called over to get her to join him in front of the lane.

Hermione does so and he hands her the ball he was casually holding, while his free hand snatches the straw out of her hair much to her annoyance.

"Really?" She huffed.

He tossed it backwards and smirked, "Looks better loose and free."

The bushy-haired witch was already slightly flushed from bowling and his words hardly helped the matter. It wasn't only his words that got to her though, the way he looked at her made the girl nervous.

It made her wonder if he was really just talking about her hair.

Hermione broke their eye contact and turned away from him to focus on the pins in front of her instead. She was very aware that he was now smoking a few feet behind her but did her best to tune him out… It didn't really work. She only hit two pins... he was chuckling behind her as if he was aware of the reasoning behind her distraction.

Damn cocky vampire, she thought moodily.

The girls weren't sure how long they were playing for or even who was currently in the lead despite the boy's competitive nature, and even Ginny's own. The two were just having fun.

Hermione was just surprised to actually be having fun.

Unfortunately, it wasn't meant to last.

The manager had been called in by his disgruntled employees. Apparently a familiar group of boys was bothering, not only the staff but, the other customers with their wild ways and they also didn't pay... again. When he approached the group about needing to leave, as they had been banned from here for months now, the two girls with them seemed agreeable, but the bleach blonde leader looked around and then at the scoreboard.

"Well, it looks like your group won Paul so… what'll it be?" His tone held humor, but his gaze was what concerned Hermione the most as she glanced over at Ginny. The girl didn't look worried but that was probably because she didn't suspect the boys would do something in a public setting. Then again it was late and most of the people had left at this point. Hermione really hoped that her gut feeling was wrong.

It wasn't.

Paul laughed and the manager threatened to call the police on them again and have them removed from the property, but it was too late.

It only took a quick lunge from Paul and a horrified scream before the manager's head was ripped from his shoulders and left rolling from his body to cause chaos. The three other employees and the four human bowlers panicked and tried to flee.

Ginny was the one who screamed as the manager never got the chance. Paul, who was covered in the dead man's blood was fully vamped out, laughing and licking the freely sprayed blood off of his hands.

Hermione grabbed her fellow witch who couldn't move as the bowling alley dissolved into a bloodbath. The brunette dragged the two of them under a nearby table.

Marko was having a delightful time blocking the exit and playing with the humans stupid enough to run for it.

Dwayne had joined Paul in a contest of who could tear off the most heads. At least that's what it appeared like to Hermione who was watching the scene take place, unlike Ginny who had her eyes closed and ears covered shaking like a leaf. As much as the brunette witch wished for it, she didn't have the luxury to react like her fellow witch. She needed to be ready in case they were attacked and she had to stay calm if she was going to need to do a side-along apparition… Last time she panicked and performed it… Well, she wouldn't let that happen again.

Truthfully, she was inwardly berating herself for getting comfortable for even a moment with these heartless creatures. Usually, she was a fan of creatures of all kinds but this had to be the exception.

Suddenly she felt a gaze on her and searched for the source. Unsurprisingly, it was David. He was calmly standing around smoking, as if the chaos around him wasn't happening, while watching her and for some reason that frightened her more than if he'd joined in on the fun.

He smirked as if he knew that and flicked his cigarette away. Then, continuing to ignore the bloodbath, he approached the table like the predator he clearly was.

Hermione eye's darted to the entrance and saw that Marko was away from it now and playing with his 'food'. She wasn't the only one who noticed either. Ginny was waiting for a chance to make a run for it.

As the redhead wasn't going to be using her magic anytime soon, being way too freaked out, -not that Hermione wasn't. She was sadly more used to situations like this- it was up to her to confront the monster heading their way.

Ginny was able to gather herself together enough to flee outside and was trying to pull the other witch with her. When that didn't work she went herself while Marko was still distracted. Hermione barely noticed the absence of her friend as she came to stand in front of the vampire leader.

"Well Paul's team won but it doesn't look like your friend enjoyed the victory party." His eyes trailed after the girl who just made a mad dash for the entrance.

"I can't say I do either... you planned this massacre from the start didn't you?" It was less of a question and more of an accusation.

He looked around them at the scene before finding her dark eyes again. "The manager is someone Paul and I have had our grievances with for a while... It seemed like the best way to settle who got to take care of him."

Of course. It only made sense. If you have a problem with a guy you rip his head off. Sounded perfectly sane, she thought sarcastically.

"Right... and you brought us along for what reason?"

To scare them? Or was it something else... something worse?

"You said before that you weren't impressed. Change your mind yet?"

A wicked and attractive smirk crossed his face, but the witch refused to dwell on that thought or the thought that her words possibly spurred on this event. Instead she answered, "No, not impressed more like disgusted."

"Really... but you don't seem too surprised."

Hermione really wasn't she realized... Given how many times as a kid that she had watched the movie... the camera angles did a great job of not showing much of the way they fed but it still gave enough away for her to know how they truly were... And to think she'd had a crush on the monster before her as a little girl.

What was wrong with her? It being in a movie was fine. It being real suddenly made it not okay unlike before. It was reality and he was really slaughtering people.

"I knew you were killers but seeing it in person and like this... well I'm not curious anymore so if you could not slaughter people in front of me again that'd be great." More than actually. This was going to bring back her nightmares she just knew it.

He laughed, "I've never seen a reaction quite like yours. It borders on the instinct to fight, not flee, but still you're standing in a blood-soaked room talking to me." His expression was curious and that made her uneasy as anything that interested him can't lead to good things.

"I'd rather not fight you but if I have to I will. Though I wasn't the target here, collateral damage doesn't seem to bother you." She didn't take her eyes off him but motioned around the room at the poor people that happened to be said collateral damage.

He didn't say anything so she glanced at the door. It was smeared in blood as well. Not unsurprising given how many people probably ran there only to be stopped by Marko.

"I need to go find Ginny."

Before she could leave though a bloodstained Marko called out to her, "Hey can you magic this all away?"

She turned to address him just in time to see him using a head to knock down some pins and tried to keep her nearly empty stomach from rolling.

"I can but I won't. This is your mess, you clean it up." With that she left because no amount of puppy dog eyes could change her mind this time. She felt ill.

And suddenly grateful for the lack of food…

As she left she heard Marko complain as David's words followed her out, "You heard the lady. You clean it up."

David figured since it was Paul and Marko's win anyway the mess was theirs as well. When Paul tried to complain about it David just pointed to the head laying by the bloody pins that had been used as a bowling ball as one of the reasons they had to clean up the place up. There was blood everywhere and it was mostly due to them so their leader wasn't going to be the one picking up after them when he didn't even join in the fun due to it being his loss. Though for once he didn't mind so much as it gave him the ability to focus more on the two witches reaction.

Hermione did her best to settle her stomach at the sight and smell of the place as she carefully made her way around the bodies or pieces of and exited the bowling alley with David and Dwayne following a ways behind her.

Outside she found Ginny who looked ready to bolt now that she was there meaning only one thing.

"You can't apparate like this you'll splich yourself if you try." Probably not the best first words after the slaughter in the bowling alley but it needed to be said.

"It's better than staying here!" She yelled.

Hermione grabbed the pacing girls arms. "Ginny calm down."

"Calm down! I'm not you Hermione. I can't pretend a bloodbath just didn't happen!" She gestured to herself, "Look I've been splattered with blood," then she motioned to Hermione, "You have too!"

It was a feeling that she had once had to become accustomed to but things were different now or at least they were supposed to be. Hermione didn't need to look at her shirt to see that but, in an effort to calm the other girl down, she bit her lip and cast a scourgify spell to remove the blood from both of them before willing her cut lip closed.

"You think that removing it can make it all go away?"

Hermione shook her head, "No but-"

Ginny cuts her off, "I can't do this. I thought I'd seen horrors, death, and the like so this should be a piece of cake but I was wrong. The way you can push it all away and focus like you are... I know you've seen... worse things than me... I'm not like you. You are someone who could lie while being tortured... but that's just not me." She told her feeling defeated.

The other witch sighed, "That's not a terrible thing Gin. I don't want you to have to be that kind of person either."

The last thing she wanted was any more of her friends getting themselves hurt.

"What, a strong person?" Ginny asked glumly.

Hermione shook her head with a frown. "No, a person who has been put in that position in the first place."

The redhead looked thoughtful, "I don't either... I just wanna go home."

Before Hermione could comment a voice called out to them.

"So are you girls walking, apparating, or riding?"

Hermione didn't look back at David instead, she looked at Ginny who she was trying to reason with through her eyes. Telling her that they couldn't run from this. That if they wanted to go home there was only one way to do that and it meant spending time with the vampires behind them.

Ginny thought that maybe she could find the courage inside her to do that but the second part she wasn't so sure of any longer... Paul terrified her.

Author's Note: Thanks for reading if you feel like it drop a review! Also we're getting back on track with the movie's plot next chapter so expect some other familiar characters!