~*T*~

"Why are we waking up in the van again?" Harry asked, as he cuddled closer to Luna.

"Because I wanted to have sex with you two, and didn't want my kidnapper-parents, your dad, or Luna's team in the same building listening when we did."

"One of us should have learned a wandless silencing spell."

"One of us will learn a wandless silencing spell. Just not within a time period that I'm willing to forego sex for," Hermione leaned over Luna, and gave Harry a morning-breath kiss.

He carded his fingers through her hair, then sat up, crossed his legs, tailor-, he snorted, style, and started to take his pigtails out.

Luna looked at Hermione, who nodded, and they pounced Harry before he got too far.

~*i*~

"So," Harry said, pulling out a notebook, and turning it to a blank page, "What's next?"

In the center of the page he wrote "Rule Brockton Bay with an Iron Fist" before he drew a big circle around it. In the upper left he wrote "Destroy the gangs" with Undersiders, Coil, Merchants, ABB, and E88 under it, indented a little. He crossed out Undersiders and Coil.

"Co-Opt the Protectorate, PRT, and BBPD," Luna said. Harry wrote that down.

"PR," Hermione said, "We need to appear legitimate if we are going to stay in power once we seize it."

Harry wrote down PR, then asked, "Why aren't you protesting taking over this time?"

"The Wizarding World was such a crapsack that I could no longer see any way of making it better without killing everyone."

"Not everyone," Luna protested, "75% should have sufficed."

"Yeah, ignoring the idiots seemed much more fun than trying to rule them," Hermione said.

"But these guys seem worth conquering?"

"We're not going to conquer them," Hermione smiled, "We are going to save them."

Luna laughed, "I don't think that difference is a difference."

Harry just laughed.

~*i*~

"Empire 88," Harry nodded, "I can hear through my bugs, but my range is still pretty small," he sighed, "We'd get noticed hanging around them to listen, even if we weren't driving a big white van labeled "Free Candy.""

"Let me see one of your bugs," Hermione said.

Harry dropped a spider down into Hermione's hand on a line of webbing. It lifted a foreleg and waved at her.

"Do that again!"

Harry had the spider wave, then dance a bit, "Drivin' that train, high on cocaine, Casey Jones you better watch your speed."

The spider twisted, nauseatingly, then painfully, then, poof, his range expanded, "You got it."

"Hmm," Hermione said, then the spider thinned, lengthened, grew wings, and flew out of the van, "It'll plant itself, and grow range-extender bushes."

Luna got to her first, and snogged her thoroughly.

Harry waited impatiently until Luna pulled back, short of breath, then snogged Hermione himself.

~*i*~

Hermione knelt, one knee on the ground, and clicked her tongue, "Hey there," she said, "Come here, old lady," she cajoled.

The boney old cat gave her a look, and flicked her tail.

Hermione clicked a couple times, holding out her hand.

The old cat flicked her tail again, then walked, a little gingerly, over, sniffed Hermione's hand, and allowed a pet.

"Let's see," Hermione told her, gathering the cat gently into her arms, "Malnutrition, old age, spayed," she scratched under the cat's chin, on the white side.

The calico purred, leaning into the caress.

"That should take care of the arthritis, and," the cat turned her head, wanting the other side of her face scratched, "This should help with the malnutrition," she scratched the white side again, "That should let me find you in a while to check on you."

She pet the cat for a few more minutes, until the calico decided it was time to be on her way. Hermione watched the cat walk smoothly away, and smiled.

~*i*~

Luna circled, fists up to guard her head, breath a little roughened, but steady.

Harry circled the other way, palms forward, also breathing a little hard.

Luna darted forward, trying to get inside Harry's longer reach, striking with hard, straight blows.

Harry countered with sweeping, circular deflections, pushed Luna's right fist down and across her body to the side with one hand as his other followed towards her face.

Luna got her left fist over and intercepted the strike, even as she stepped back and to the left, faded with the blow. Her right foot followed, right knee nearly to her chin. Her right fist came up high, drew Harry's eyes, and her right heel took him in the solar plexus, winding him even as it pushed him back.

~*i*~

They bounced along the boardwalk, well, Luna bounced, Harry and Hermione walked, mostly, occasionally skipped when Luna cajoled them enough.

Luna window shopped for all three of them. She dragged them into various stores to look at things, or occasionally coerced them into trying things on.

"No," Hermione said, looking at the red straw hat, "I ain't gonna do it."

"Please?" Luna said, her eyes watery and big. Her lips trembled, and she whimpered almost inaudibly. She held the hat up, and sniffled.

"Fine," Hermione huffed, putting on the hat and looking in the mirror, "Creep."

Luna smiled and laughed, "I knew that'd look good on you." She leaned in and gave Hermione a kiss on the lips.

Hermione clutched her fingers in Luna's hair, pulled her closer, and deepened the kiss.

Hermione paid for, and wore out of the store, the hat.

~*T*~