So I had a tire blow out on the highway this morning in the middle of a Level 2 Winter Storm and very nearly got ran over by a semi truck, it was fucking terrifying. Not boring with details but I am fine, the car is fine, and I'm only out about $100 for a new tire and lost a days wages because yeah, by the time everything was said and done I'd have been able to work like two hours and I'd be such a nervous wreck I would not have managed to do much of...anything.
So my sister instead got me very drunk to distract me from my near death experience and I woke up two hours ago with a life hating hangover, I channeled that into this little sort of insomnia chapter, please enjoy!
Harry awoke feeling like he wanted nothing more than to die quickly, painlessly, and immediately.
Groaning he held his head while stumbling towards the loo and soon felt a gurgling sensation in his belly that had him sprinting towards the toilet, barely reaching it in time to wretch his guts out in a painful deluge of alcohol, partially digested cocktail snacks, and stomach acid.
On his knees bowing before the porcelain alter Harry dry heaved for a few more minutes, before his Auntie entered the room and sat beside him on the floor while offering him a bottle of water, "Here love, drink this it will help a bit."
Turning bleary eyes towards Andromeda Harry nodded his thanks downing the bottle quickly which was soon followed with him falling on his back, and much to his personal shame he began tearing up as he muttered out, "Am I dying?"
Andromeda sighed at that while shaking her head slowly, "No little one, the only one who is going to be dying anytime soon is Sirius. Tell me what did your idiot Dogfather tell you he had given you before he started calling it 'liquid courage'?"
Harry, head still swimming, braced the palms of his hands to his forehead a moment before replying, "A...Long Island Iced Tea? I think that is what he called it..."
Andromeda grit her teeth a bit before nodding slowly, "Right...right... Harry that drink was basically a dozen hard liquors mixed to taste like tea with a splash of cola to make it look brown."
Harry stared at his Auntie a few moments before groaning and burying his head under his hands while letting out a muffled nearly unintelligible, "That makes way too much sense."
Andi felt for the boy, she really did, he was highly responsible, intelligent, courteous, and just generally a decent person.
Unfortunately every once in a while his Dogfather decided to stick his nose in the last Potter's business and this was the end result.
Andromeda ran her hands through Harry's hair while her adoptive son lay there a few minutes before his entire body stiffened and he sat up and shot her a look of absolute horror, "I kissed Dany last night!"
Trying her bet to resist the urge to laugh Andi nodded at that, "Yes you did love."
Sputtering he stared down at his hands a few moments before turning his perplexed gaze back to her's, "She kissed me back!"
"Oh?"
"And then she hit me, which, whatever, Black Witch I was expecting that."
Andi had to resist the urge to giggle there, he was a bright one after all.
"Then we danced...we danced right?"
Andromeda nodded at that smiling brightly, "It was quite the sight to see Harry."
Harry's skin tone then turned milk white as he sputtered out, "I asked her if I could be her boyfriend!"
"Yes you did dear."
Harry stood up shakily and began pacing about the room as he muttered, "She said I could be her boyfriend if I let her be my girlfriend, then we kissed some more...bloody hell!"
"Language dear," Andromeda chided as Harry turned to face her with a fearful gaze that gave her pause.
"I'm... I did it...I ...I'm dating my best friend..."
Tilting her head to the side Andromeda raised a brow as her adoptive son ran his hands across his face before dropping them to his side falling back to the floor while muttering out, "What if I just ruined everything?"
Andromeda sighed, leaned over, and hugged the boy while whispering, "What if you just made it all the more better?"
"I..." Seeing the lost look crossing his young visage Andromeda smiled and ran a finger along his chin while shaking her head slowly.
"Do you care about my niece?"
"Well, obviously."
"Do you think she would ever agree to something as game changing as this without wanting it?"
He snorted at that, took a drink from his water bottle, then shook his head, "No, never."
Andi smirked then and stood up while offering her hand to the young teen helping him to his feet, "Then I would say you did not ruin anything, you just made your intentions clear, and my niece liked what she saw."
Harry was quiet for a moment before he eventually asked, "Why aren't you more... I don't know... Mad about this?"
His Auntie just snorted at that as she guided the hungover youth back towards his room, "Oh I'm absolutely livid, but not at you or Dancia. Honestly ss much as I love you two you both were rather blind to the fact that you were smitten with each other so I get where that mutt was coming from arranging this however irresponsible it was. Sirius never had any sense of patience and he rather ruined some elaborate long term teasing I had planned so he'll pay for that at the very least eventually."
Harry shuddered at that and allowed his Auntie to guide him back to the bed while muttering, "Better him then me."
She grinned in return, "Quite. Now get some rest love, I'm sure you and Dancia are going to have a lot to speak about later today, if you need anything just call for me. Oh, and I better never see you get that inebriated on purpose again until you are well into your late teens, savvy?"
Harry's face took on a green tinge at the very thought of alcohol and nodded sullenly, "Savvy...I'm going back to sleep now."
With that Andi nodded, turned out the light, and closed the door behind her leaving a very ill, but quite contemplative young man behind her.
Dancia awoke groggily, sat up from her bed and walked into the loo, leaning over the sink she glanced at her somewhat frazzled reflection as her hungover brain rebooted and reminded her of what exactly had happened last night, her toast to Astoria, her heart to heart with Dora, Harry kissing her at midnight, the dancing, the snogging, the...
Her eyes widened perceptibly as she muttered out, "Bloody hell I'm in love with my best friend... I'm dating my best friend..."
Dany shakily took a few steps towards the toilet and closed the lid before sitting on it and after a few moments stared down at her hands as a cascade of snow white hair formed a halo around them, unsure how to feel about this entire scenario.
Had Draco loved his Harry like this without realizing it? She actually scoffed at that thought after a few moments of reflection before shaking her head ruefully, no, Draco's Harry was... Kind of a jackass honestly, but he had been their jackass and would always be there for you if you needed him. Her Harry was kind, sweet, protective, and had the cutest little smirk when he knew something you did not and you just realized it and...
Her cheeks began heating up then and she dropped her face into her hands while letting out a tired sigh, "Oh fucking hell I've got it bad... Fucking hormones..."
Sighing she cleaned herself up eventually reentering her bedroom and crawled back into bed, staring up at the ceiling as she faded back to sleep she couldn't help muttering out one last thing, "If this was your doing old friend, well played you asshat, well played..."
If she happened to hear a faint cackling as she slipped into the realm of Morpheus, well, it was her prerogative to ignore it after all.