Merry early X-mas folks...
Disclaimer: Okay, just go to chappie one or two. I'm feeling lazy.
writing
'thoughts'
"talk"
A few more hints as to what Danny is doing. ;-)
I screwed up last chapter or something like that. Hermione's little sister is Janice, not Janet.
Chapter Three
Conversations That People Thought Would Never Happen
Hermione bit her lip as she tried to figure out the best way to convince her parents to let a vampire come over. Maybe if she left that out until he got here…? Or told her parents they could see his teeth without asking him first? No doubt there that her dentist parents would love to see a vampire's teeth.
One thing for sure was that she should probably ask Mum. She would probably be easier to convince…
"Hey, Mum…?" Hermione as she entered her mother's office.
"Yes, Hermione?"
"Can Harry's best friend, Danny Riddle, come over tomorrow? We wanted to work together for a surprise for Harry on his birthday."
"Of course he can come over."
"Thanks! Um, there's one other thing you should probably know…"
"Hm?"
"Uh, Danny's half vampire…"
"Oh my!"
"He won't attack anyone or drink someone's blood. He doesn't drink from humans except for his girlfriend because she lets him."
"Does he have fangs?" Hermione just knew that enthusiastic question was coming.
"Yes."
"Do you think-?"
"You'll have to ask him, Mum. He lives with Harry in London along with some other friends."
"Okay. As long as you say it's safe, I don't mind."
"Thanks, Mum!"
Danny carefully warped into the alley Hermione said it was safe to warp in. He looked both ways before jumping into a nearby tree and onto the rooftop. Jumping from rooftop to rooftop discreetly, Danny managed to cut the time to get to the Grangers' by ten minutes.
Danny knocked on the door a little nervously. Hopefully, she told her parents that he wasn't fully human…
A middle-aged woman who resembled Hermione opened the door and said, "You must be Danny. I'm Emily Granger. It's a pleasure to meet you."
'Might as well make a good impression,' Danny mused.
The vampire took her hand and kissed it saying, "The pleasure is all mine, Mrs. Granger."
"My! What a gentleman!" Mrs. Granger gushed. She was pleasantly surprised considering her daughter had warned her that the teenager grew up rough around the edges and was known for being vulgar.
"Who is it, Mum?" Janice asked curiously. Her eyes grew wide at the vampire in front of her. "H-hi!" she nervously said.
"Hello, are you Janice by any chance?"
The girl just nodded dumbly. "Are you the vampire prince Hermione's boyfriend is friends with?" she blurted out.
"…unfortunately."
"Hermione didn't mention that," Mrs. Granger muttered. "Does that mean you're the prince of the vampires…?"
"No! There are tons of my people. There's a council made up of the kings and leaders of the different clans. My great-uncle is the king of the Lamiae. I'm still not sure why, but I'm next to inherit the throne because my mother doesn't want it. I just can't say I don't want it though. It's not very fair."
"Who are you talking to…? Oh, hi, Riddle," Hermione said.
"Hello, Granger. You really can call me by my first name if you want."
"Fine, only if you call me Hermione, Disaster."
"Okay! Middle name! How did you know-?"
"It is all over the papers, Danny. Happy?"
"Yes. Someday, I will find out why my mother let my very drunk father at the moment name me…"
"Your father was drunk when you were born?!" Mrs. Granger exclaimed in shock.
"She was threatening him I guess. My mother's a vampire; father's a wizard. I'm not sure if I want to know what she was threatening to do to him…"
Hermione rolled her eyes and asked, "Did you bring the books you said you had?"
Danny showed her the book bag he had slung over his shoulder. "Yep. They're right here."
"I have a desk in my room we can use. Come on."
"Don't you want to show the young gentleman around, dear?" Mrs. Granger probed.
"That isn't needed, ma'am."
"Come on," Hermione said and dragged the vampire upstairs.
"So, did I fool her into thinking I actually act like I'm supposed to?" Danny mischievously asked when Hermione let him in her room.
"I knew it!"
"Hey, just 'cause I don't use manners don't mean I don't have 'em," replied Danny with a smirk as he took his hair out of the ponytail and messed it up.
"Nice grammar."
"Grammar is for squares."
"Anyways, do you really think you can pull that off? Won't you need a sacrifice?"
"I am pretty sure I can do it because I brought my wolf to life."
"But this is a living person! You can't possibly get away with just sacrificing your own blood and live."
"I'm already half dead."
"That's beside the point!"
"I know. Calm down. Breathe in and out."
Hermione gave the mage a look before going through the bag of books he brought. "This thing is heavy," she stated.
"No it isn't."
"Not everyone has inhuman strength you know."
"…I have inhuman strength?" was the rather amazed question.
"I'm starting to see why you needed my help…"
"I needed a smart person who Harry wouldn't expect," Danny stated, while quite proud of himself for figuring that part out without help.
"I'm surprised you didn't go to Serenity."
"All you have to do is wake Serenity up at around three or four in the morning and bribe her with money. She'll tell you anything then."
Hermione found herself laughing under her breath by his tone and constant enthusiasm. She was starting to see why Harry kept him around.
"You think too loud. Harry doesn't keep me around. I keep him around because he was too scared of me to leave before he really saw me as a friend," Danny stated giddily.
"How are you so… happy all the time? Aren't vampire hybrids mood-swingy?"
"I am not mood-swingy…!" whined Danny. He seemed upset actually by the way a hurt expression was starting to show on his face.
"Um, never mind…" Hermione was starting to see why vampire hybrids were considered emotionally unstable.
"Okay!" was the now cheery response.
Hermione shook her head and opened one of the books. …that she couldn't read.
"Do you have any books I can actually read, Danny? I speak English and some French, not Italian."
"Uh… You'll have to check… I'm not very good at telling languages apart. I know some of them are enchanted so only certain types of mages can read… It all looks like the same shit to me."
"Language."
"I would say that you're not my mother, but I don't listen to her either."
"Go figure…"
"Figure what…?" was his confused question.
"Never mind."
"Okay… You're confusing me!"
Hermione achieved one of the easiest things to do in the world, confuse Disaster Dante Riddle…
"I-. Whatever, Riddle…"
"Stop calling me by my last name."
"Happy, Danny?"
"Yep."
"…how do you plan to get in anyways? I mean, don't you have to go where he… you know?"
"Yeah, but my great-uncle who is very willing to spoil me rotten and an influential king is working on it."
"Right, you're royalty…"
"I hate it actually. Ren and I don't know why we agreed to stay there every other week…"
"How can you not like being royal?"
"Let's see, they want to partially turn my mate, change myself and Renny, and are pushing us to wed and/or bond fully before the year ends."
"Oh…"
"Yeah. Can we change the subject please?"
"Sure. Just as a warning, my parents want to see your teeth."
"…why?"
"They're dentists."
"Oh… I have a tooth out in the back!"
"I can't believe I'm asking this, but how did you manage that?"
"Got in a fight when I was… twelve I think. This thug punched me in the jaw. My molar went bye-bye… I miss it."
"Um… okay then…" Hermione was mentally asking why Harry put up with this maniac.
"I am not crazy! I am perfectly sane! It's the rest of the world that's messed up!"
Hermione raised an eyebrow but started to read the book she finally found that was in English. She really needed to learn Italian… Most of his books that he had with them were in Italian of all languages. He might have gotten them from the Lamia library if it existed.
"Do you two want anything to drink?" Mrs. Granger suddenly said. The woman had poked her head in to see both of the teenagers reading and taking notes.
"Mum, can I have some lemonade please? Danny, do you want anything?"
"Uh, water is fine if it isn't a problem, Mrs. Granger," Danny said politely.
"Are you sure, dear? We have coffee, lemonade, soda although I'm not sure which brands, and tea if you would rather have that."
"I don't drink anything with caffeine or a lot of sugar. I know it's the opposite of the caffeine junkie known as Harry Potter..."
"He drinks a lot of caffeine?"
"Heck yeah. I try my best to make sure him nor my girlfriend, Serenity, don't drink a ton, but that isn't always possible…"
Serenity made a face when she checked everywhere she could think off but still couldn't find her mate. "Dearie…? Where are you? Come out, come out, wherever you are! Danny…? Disaster Dante Riddle get your ass over here if you know what's good for you!" she had been yelling into every room to no avail.
"Why are you yelling for Danny? Can't you find him?" Harry asked curiously from behind her.
"I can't find my dearie…!" whined Serenity. "I have to cling to you then."
"Okay, I'm going to help you find him," Harry decided when his sister jumped on his back.
"Piggyback ride!"
"Argh!"
'Danny, where are you?!'
"Oh, shit… They just realized I was gone…" Danny muttered aloud.
"It took them an hour," Hermione said with disbelief. She thought Harry and Serenity would have noticed the vampire prince's absence a while ago.
"Well, it took Jamie an hour. Ren probably noticed once I left and just realized I wasn't hiding from her or something weird like that. Believe it or not, she doesn't actually have that much commonsense at times…"
'Danny…?'
'I'm somewhere.'
'Well, get back from somewhere and get your girlfriend off my back, literally!'
'Hm?'
'Serenity decided that she was going to cling to me until you got home. Right now I'm being forced to give her a piggyback ride.'
'Oh, have fun then, Har.'
'Traitor!'
"Where were you?!" demanded Serenity once Danny stepped in the door.
"Places…"
"Danny!"
"What? Ren, I'm sorry, but you don't own me."
Serenity scowled and jumped on his back. "You're making it up to me, or you're sleeping on the couch for the next year."
"How?"
"We're going on a picnic in the park."
"Okay."
"You don't have a choice either. I'm going to get the collar real quick. Come on, up."
Danny rolled his eyes and went up the steps with his mate on his back.
Ginny had no idea how she did it, but Ellie somehow convinced Ginny to take the muggleborn to Diagon Alley…
"So we tap here and here?" Ellie asked.
"Uh, just let me do it, so you don't stab your own eye out," Ginny replied with a smirk.
"Hey! What is that supposed to mean?"
"Oh, nothing…"
"Yeah, right."
Ginny stuck her tongue out and tapped the bricks. She heard a gasp from her newer best friend.
"Wowza…"
"It's really weird hearing a French person say that."
"Shut it, Gin."
Ginny smiled brightly and linked arms with Ellie. "You know you love me."
"Not in that way, you dirty, dirty person!"
"Hey!"
"So sorry, but you can't beat me. That means we get to go to the Apothecary first."
"Fine… It's over here."
Ginny blinked a few times when Ellie gave a delighted gasp and was not looking at the potion ingredients.
"What is it, Ells?" asked the redhead.
"Dude! Severus Snape is here! He's, like, the coolest person ever…!"
"Um, you're scaring me. He's my least favorite professor…"
"He's your professor, and you and Harry never bothered to tell me?!?"
"…I am starting to see why Harry never mentioned it…"
Of course, the dirty-blonde French girl had already run off towards the surly Potions Master.
"Ellie, get back over here! Leave him alone!" yelled Ginny in vain.
Too late, Ellie had already gotten to the now rather irritated wizard. Ginny bit her lip but decided to try to save her friend.
"I'm sorry, sir. I tried holding her back!" Ginny innocently said once she got over to the annoyed Slytherin and the hyper Nundu who was having a fangirl moment. "Come on, Ellie."
"Bite me, Gin. Like, can I have your autograph, Mister Snape, sir?"
Ginny groaned and slapped her forehead. "Right, I'm going over to the prank section… Meet me outside if you're still alive, Ellie."
"Okay… Can I please have your autograph? Please…? I'll give you a lap dance if you want!"
Ginny resisted the urge to run in a corner to throw up as she fled.
A slightly dazed Ellie came out of the Apothecary alive and mostly unharmed. It looked like Ginny's least favorite professor had tried to hex her though…
"He loves me…" Ellie said in a dreamy voice.
"Really? Because it looks like he hexed you to me."
"It's a symbol of our love."
"Ookay then, Ellie. Can we just go now…?" asked a suddenly nervous Ginny. She saw a good chunk of her family go into Fred and George's store.
"No, I want to go to that prank store I heard Dan talk about here…!"
"Uh, you see; my older twin brothers run it…"
"Come on, Gin! You need to face them sometime. Wouldn't this be a good start?"
"It would be if I didn't just see my mum, the rest of my brothers minus one, and my dad go in for some reason…"
"How many brothers do you have…?"
"There's Bill, Charlie, Fred, George, Percy, and Ron. I'm the youngest."
"Ouch."
"Yeah."
"Come on, you chicken." Ellie grabbed Ginny's hand and started to drag the redhead through the crowd expertly. Ginny was wondering if she had gotten lessons from Serenity or something.
"NOOOOOO…!"
"You are being—what do you Brits say—melodramatic."
"Ellie…!"
"Stop whining. I want to go in."
"Come on! I went into the potion place with you!"
"And you won't believe me that Severus Snape truly loves me!"
Ginny was once again disgusted by her friend's obsession. How Ginny missed that was past her…
Ginny grabbed the wall by the door in hopes of not being shoved in by her now excruciatingly determined friend.
"In you go, Gin!" cheerfully chirped the tall blonde.
"Never!"
"Give me one good reason not to hex you through that door."
"It's pranked!"
"Oh… That is a reason. Not a good one though because I can just shove you through first and not get hit!"
"You're evil!"
"That's what you get for not telling me that my idol was your professor."
"Ellie…!"
Fred and George were talking to their family. Mum never quite recovered from Ginny going to the Nundus… They just didn't have the heart to tell her that the Nundus seemed to have the right idea.
"Come on! For the last time, you chicken!" Fred heard someone yell.
"Never!" someone shouted back. The second person sounded oddly familiar for some reason.
"What is going on out there?" Mrs. Weasley muttered under her breath.
The sound of the door opening reached them. "Hey! You were supposed to take the prank!" the first person from before whined.
"I'll sneak you into Hogwarts sometime and let you see Snape, okay?"
"Really?"
"Sure… As long as I'm far, far away."
"Yes! Come on. Do I have to shove you? Keep in mind I'm taller than you."
"Is it just me or does that second voice sound familiar?" Bill asked curiously.
"I sure hope so," the first voice from before drawled. The second person seemed to be hiding behind the tall blonde. "Ginny, stop being like Harry and hiding behind people taller than you. You two spend too much time around each other…" The mysterious girl shoved the other one in front of her.
"Ginny!" Mrs. Weasley cried and tried suffocating her daughter in a hug. Unfortunately, she missed and hugged Ellie instead.
"Um, lady, I don't know you. Is it a habit to hug strangers…?"
"You're that Nundu that was at the conference!" Ron said with an accusing finger.
"And she's also Snape's number one fan," Ginny added with a smirk.
"Why can't you see that it's true love, Red…?" Ellie whined with a begging tone.
"He hexed you."
"It's a symbol of his love for me!"
"…you're in love with the greasy git of the dungeons…" George muttered under his breath.
"Don't call my Sevviepoo that!" Ellie said while very flustered.
Ginny carefully started to back away before running as fast as she could. She should be very, very glad that Harry made her do sprints in Quidditch last year after all. She wasn't going to tell him that though.
"Ginny! Get back here now!" Ellie yelled. The redhead had already gone. Ellie scowled and started to run after her.
Danny sighed when he realized that Serenity had really been pissed at him when they had gotten back from the park. He had already endured a picnic of her feeding him and clinging to him without complaining, but that wasn't enough for the half veela.
Once they had gotten in their bedroom, Serenity pushed him on a chair by the small table they used as a desk and started to paint his nails black. When he started to complain, she snapped her fingers; gold energy-bonds secured his hands to the table.
"So, what have you learned today?" she suddenly asked sarcastically.
"Cover my tracks better," he muttered under his breath.
"What did you say?"
"Uh, don't sneak off…?"
"How about you should have the decency to tell Harry and I where the hell you were?"
"That, too…?"
Serenity rolled her eyes and finished painting his nails. She muttered a spell under her breath and held her hand away from his. A gust of hot air blew the nail polish dry. Serenity smirked and ducked down under his arms, which were still stuck on the table.
"Snuggle time!" chirped the petite mage; she started to rub her head against his chest with a low purr after she clamped her arms around his pale neck.
"…are you going to let my hands go now?" the vampire muttered and kissed the head of blonde locks.
"Maybe, why should I?"
"I can't hug you back…!"
"Damn, you're right, for once."
Serenity removed the energy bonds quickly before continuing to rub her head against the muscled chest.
Danny smiled at her before wrapping his arms around her and rubbing her small back. "I love you," he quietly whispered in her ear.
He didn't get an answer because the weight on his chest increased when the blonde fell asleep. Danny snorted softly and scooped his mate into his arms and gently laid her on the bed.
The vampire was going to leave the room, but he couldn't get the iron grip she had on him off. Danny scowled lightly but flopped down next to her, pulling Serenity closer to him.
"Why does she always fall asleep on me…?" he muttered to himself.
Danny watched with amusement when Serenity wiggled a little to get in a better position. Everything turned black for him though when her hand shot out and pinched that one nerve in the shoulder.
Serenity sat up with a smirk and hugged the unconscious Danny. "Now to see if he was with anyone…" she murmured to herself.
Serenity wrapped her arms around the vampire tightly before taking in his scent. Okay, clinging to him wasn't the best idea because her own scent was covering the others up…
Serenity's nose brushed his chest when she tried again to determine someone he had been with.
"…what are you doing and why is Dan unconscious…?" Harry asked with his head poking through the doorway.
"I'm trying to pick up the scent of someone he may have been with… Shut up and let me concentrate."
"…you can actually tell?"
"Yes, shut up, bro! I think I'm picking up some people…"
Harry shook his head as he watched his sister sniff his best friend.
"Weird, two females of unidentified ages and a girl around our age but a little older than dearie… He's not cheating though. My senses would have screamed that to me once he walked through the door."
"How do you know-?"
"Veela thing. I can tell whenever someone our age that is a girl goes near him. Otherwise, I can't tell the age. I have no idea who it could be… I can tell the Nundu gals apart…"
Harry was a little weirded out when Serenity stood up and sniffed him. "Uh… sis…"
"It's on you, too! Is there any girl you've seen within the past couple of days that's older than us and isn't a Nundu?"
"Only Hermione…"
Harry regretted telling her that when honey orbs momentarily blazed. "Someone has some explaining to do," Serenity decided.
When Danny returned to the world of the conscious, he was immediately pounced on and had a familiar head in his face. "Why were you with Granger?"
"I'm not cheating on you if that's what you were thinking."
"I would have noticed by my senses if you did. Trust me, if you did cheat on me, you would currently be bowing at my feet and begging for forgiveness with a collar around your neck."
"Wh-what?"
"Oh, don't think about that," Serenity purred and ran her fingers through his shaggy hair. "Just tell me where you were, what you were doing, why you were doing it, and why Granger of all people."
"In order: Hermione's house, planning a surprise for Harry, Harry deserves it, and she's smart and not easily bribed early in the morning like a certain sexy blonde."
"Are you saying she's smarter than me, mister?"
"No, I'm saying Harry wouldn't suspect her and doesn't know how to open her mouth."
Serenity pouted and demanded with a whine, "Tell me what you're doing…!"
A small smirk graced Danny's face. He just got an idea…
'Hey, Harry…'
'Yeah?'
'I just got an idea to get Ren and Hermione to talk it out.'
'Since when was it Hermione?'
'Harry, don't get jealous. Besides, Ren just implied she would force me into being her pet or something if I cheated on her.'
'I know, well the first part anyways. Is it just me, or is sis getting more possessive of you every day?'
'I noticed… I figured it out awhile ago.'
'So, plan?'
'Right, I'll tell Ren what I'm doing. No, I am not telling you. It's a surprise, and you'll find out on your birthday if I manage to pull it off. Hermione has a weakness for books, right?'
'Yeah.'
'I can bribe her with access of the Royal Lamia Library for a few hours if she'll talk it out with Serenity.'
'That just might work… I could tell that I won't lend her any more of my books until she makes peace with Serenity, too.'
'We are so good.'
"I'll tell you what I'm doing if you make peace with Hermione," Danny stated with a small smirk. "…and if you pinky swear not to tell. I'll just have to get home from feeding before he normally wakes you up to find out that kind of stuff."
"What?! Granger?! She called me a slut!"
"And you told her to screw herself."
"I tell everyone to screw themselves except for you."
"Why not me?"
"What do you think?"
"I-. Oh geez, no, Ren."
"Ah, why not?"
"Because we're too young, and you just want to get pregnant. I know you're up to your little veela games, missy."
Serenity stuck her lip out with a pout. "I didn't mean right now!"
"Oh, good. Uncle Jerry made me promise him we wouldn't, um, you know, until we were ready to have children, which he would really appreciate it if we waited until we were fully bonded."
"Why…? I mean the fully bonded part! Gah, this is getting awkward…"
"Hey, you started it, darling. It's, uh, easier to conceive while fully bonded I guess. I wouldn't know from experience of course."
"Oh… Can we change the subject?"
"Let's. Will you?"
"Will what?"
"Try to make peace with Hermione."
"I will if she will."
"…I guess that's a start. I think Harry's writing a letter to her now. He's threatening to not lend her books."
"Why do you two care so much?!"
"Both of you are getting on Har's and my last nerves with your constant, pointless bickering. What do you have against her?"
"Nothing until she started to treat me mean…! I was going to apologize when she found out that I was pretending to be Jamie's boyfriend, but she was being a meanie!"
Danny felt his eyebrow twitch slightly because Hermione said basically the same thing when he probed her for answers. "This is just bizarre…" he muttered.
"What is? The fact that we should be making out now?"
Danny rolled his eyes and asked with amusement, "Well, no, but if you want to, I'm always open to that suggestion."
"You're acting like that was a suggestion," she purred and wrapped her arms around his neck. "I'm ordering you to kiss me."
"Oh really?" Danny whispered back with a small smirk.
"Mm hm, and good vampires listen to their mate's wants."
"I guess I'll be a good vampire then."
Harry stuck his head in his friends' room in hopes of getting Danny to help him write the letter to Hermione. He immediately turned around and left when he caught them snogging, again. Serenity didn't seem to be letting go of the vampire anytime soon by the death grip she had on him…
Harry sighed and sat at his desk. How should he word this…?
Harry really hoped Hermione wouldn't hate him when she read this…
Mi,
Danny and I have been thinking. (Yes, Danny can think amazingly.) You see, we both are completely and utterly sick of you and Serenity feuding for no frigging reason.
Danny and I have an offer for you…
If you agree to try to make peace with my soon-to-be little sister, Danny said he would take you to the Royal Lamia Library (yes, it's all capitalized…). Frankly, few humans not mated to a royal vampire have ever been in there if any, but Danny's great-uncle, the king, is pretty much wrapped around both Danny's and Serenity's finger.
Oh, and by the way, I'm not lending you anymore books until you make peace with Serenity.
Please, please consider this, Mi. I care about you greatly, but if you or Serenity makes me choose between the two of you, Serenity will wipe the floor with you. I just can't choose you over the girl who wiggled her way into my heart as a sister over a decade ago, Serenity. I just don't know what I would do without her or Danny for that matter. All three of us need each other, and I doubt I would leave to tell the tale if I chose Serenity over you anyways.
XOXO,
Harry
P.S. Serenity said she would do it if you would do it.
Harry went to Hedwig's cage and whispered to his snowy owl, "Take this to Hermione, okay girl?"
The owl softly hooted and stuck her leg out for Harry to tie the letter to. Harry watched his owl fly out into the sunset.
Two days later, Hedwig returned with Hermione's reply tied on her leg. Of course, Serenity just had to be telling him what she had changed on one of his chapters for the mage book he really needed to finish within the month.
"Bro-bro, Hedwig is here."
"Why aren't you-? Wait, right, you like Hedwig for some reason."
"She's purty."
"You said that about Danny's arse, too, you know."
"So? Your owl and Danny's ass are both very nice to look at in my opinion."
Harry rolled his eyes in amusement and held his arm out for Hedwig to land on. Hedwig swooped in and landed on the couch arm. Serenity looked up and stroked the white feathers. Harry carefully untied the reply and started to read it.
Jamie,
Fine… I don't really want to, but no one in their right mind would turn down visiting a famous, restricted library even if I won't be able to read the majority of the books.
Why do you always mention the fact that you're the only person with mage books besides really basic, bad ones? Seriously, you're being very evil right now…
How did you get Serenity of all people to agree? She's stubborn as a mule at her best! Don't deny it, Harry. You know it's the truth but are just too afraid to admit it to her face.
When do we have to do this? I leave for vacation in mid-August and will arrive home three days before school starts. Yes, I know I'm cutting it dangerously close.
While I'm thinking about it, is there anyway you can pick my school supplies up for me? I'll pay you back. Please? I don't need new robes, and that's the only thing someone else couldn't get me. Pretty please?
Anyways… Where? I don't really care if it's at your house or mine, but if it's at mine, I need to warn my mum… Imagine how much she'll coo over someone who's by now notorious for having a strong dislike of being cooed over unless your name is Danny Riddle?
Write back soon, Harry!
XOXO,
"Mi-Mi"
Harry laughed under his breath as he read the postscript. Serenity seemed curious by the way she had been trying to read over his shoulder.
"Lemme see! Lemme see!" chirped the blonde.
"You sound like a six-year-old, sis."
"I don't care…! Lemme see, bro-bro…!"
Harry rolled his eyes and handed her the letter.
"Hey…! I'm not stubborn as a mule…!" whined Serenity.
"You're right. Mules are not stubborn at all compared to you."
"Meanie."