A/N: Here I go again.
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"I don't know Cissy… we just got here, you see. I know. I know. I said I know!" Blaise leaned forward and tried to eavesdrop on his mothers' conversation with Narcissa on floo. He couldn't hear what the other woman said. He sighed and just gave up.
He walked past the entrance to his home and over to the Zabini Library. It was the biggest library in the palace. Blaise smirked. Draco had his beloved 'Malfoy Manor', but there was real beauty in the Zabini Palace. His whole house was made of gold and silver and bronze. His mother imported things from Egypt and Italy and Mexico. No one called it the Zabini palace except for him, but one day it'll catch on.
Unable to focus on a book at the moment, Blaise headed on the kids' playroom. It was enchanted to satisfy every kids' needs. His mother had it built when he was 4, Ant was 2 and Vivi was just born. And that was only 3 of the 7 children his mother eventually had. He father was Merlin knows where. When his mother left the Death Eaters, his father stayed. They never agreed, about anything and Blaise wasn't surprised when his father left the family and joined the Dark Lord. But he didn't like to think about the lack of father figure he and his siblings had, he just knew that his mother was obviously enough to hold the family together.
"Blaise! Can you to the kitchen, please? And bring your siblings." Blaise smirked. He loved being the oldest.
"Alright guys! Single file line and march. You too Jaylen, I don't care if you have a boo-boo! Let's get to it, people!" And like magic, Jayden started the line, behind him came his twin sister Jaylen, after her came the active 5 year old Leo, then came a scowling Dino and lastly Viviana, who wasn't really in the line, she was just following behind. "Right, right, right, left right, right, right…" Natasha watched with an amused to on her face as she saw her kids march in to the kitchen and sit at their large, but needed, family table.
"Alright guys, who wants to stay at Aunt Cissy for the weekend? Fun, fun, fun! And Aunt Jackie is going to be staying to. The whole family. How does that sound?" she smiled widely and Blaise knew that she was just trying to convince the little kids with that clownish grin. At the end of the hour, the Zabini family was ready. Blaise grinned. If only he knew of the horrors that were going to happen at the Malfoy Manor.
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"Mum! They're here!" Draco put on his best disgusted face and opened the door. "What do you people want?" he said, curling his lip.
"To eat your food, now open the door, Malfoy." Blaise said pushing through this best friend of 17 years. Draco smiled, and looked down at all of his best friends' siblings. No one thought that Natasha was going to keep having children after Dino. But five years came and went, and then came Leonardo. After that, two more surprises. Jayden and Jaylen were not an easy package!
The Malfoy Manor was jumping that afternoon. After the Zabini family arrived, Jackie and Alex Nott came with their children. Narcissa played the role of the perfect hostess, serving lunch and snacks to everyone until the kids, both old and young, went to on to play or such. Draco, Blaise, Theo and now Ant locked themselves in Draco's quarters, and they'll stay there until super. Logan and the twins played in Logan's old nursery, which was turned into a mini baby paradise, that even had its' own (paid) house elf they would boss around or play with. Mostly they just played with Blinkers. Leo and Olivia were 'exploring' the garden. Which left Naomi, Vivi and Isabella, who were most likely gossiping in Naomi's room.
Left in the dining room were Lucius, Narcissa, Natasha, Jackie, and Alex. Off to the corner were the oldest children, Violet Malfoy and Sebastian Nott, whispering quietly to each other.
"This is horrible, Cissy. You know Yoskar is a Death Eater, and we never got a formal divorce. They're going to take see that in my record, Merlin I have a record, and then they're going to send me to Azkaban in a second! What about my children, Narcissa, I can't leave them-" Natasha started, until Lucius cut her off.
"We'll just contact Yoskar, we as in I, and get him to sign the papers. And as for your children, so you really think we'll live them on the street…" he smiled softly at her, then continued. "I think who we really have to worry about is you Alex. A lot of Death Eaters by homes from you. They'll think you're helping out the Death Eaters. But really, Cissy you and Jackie are fine, you never got the mark like the three of us…" he looked over at Alex who nodded. Natasha signed and rubbed her forearm. Lucius massaged his temples. "Personally, we have nothing to hide here, at the Manor. I sold all of our Dark materials a long time ago. But if they do take us away, then I would say that we could leave them with their god parents but we really didn't plan ahead on that case." Lucius grinned. As did everyone else. Violet, Draco, Naomi and Sidney's god parents were the Notts. And Logan's god mother was Natasha.
"I think it'll be safe to say that the children with help each other out if we're," Cissy gulped, "taken away." Then Natasha slammed her fists on the table.
"I never, never, understood our boys' hate for that Potter boy. But now I see! Merlin if I ever meet that boy I'll strangle him with my bare hands! He can't even fathom what he's putting me through, what he's putting us through!" Lucius waved a lazy hand towards her to calm her down.
"We can give him, and the whole wizarding community, a reason hate us more. We can't just give them a reason to throw in Azkaban. We they come, and they will come, to 'investigate' us, treat them with hospitality and be kind, but don't kiss up. Don't see desperate. Offer to show them to a certain room, things like that. Don't worry, we'll get through this. We will." Lucius tried to get everyone's mood up with the little pep talk, but worked but just barely. All they could do now is sit and wait.
Just two floors right above their heads was the room of a certain blond Malfoy. Draco paced his room with his best friend lying on his bed and another close friend sitting on the desk. Ant, who was never let into Draco's room before stood awkwardly by the window, wanting to sit down on the window seal, but now daring to.
Blaise propped himself up on his elbow and stared at Draco. He rolled his eyes and took out his wand. "Malfoy, stop pacing, or I'll hex you. You're making my nervous." Draco turned and glared at his best friend. Theo chuckled. Draco and Blaise were his best friends, but he knew that they were closer to each other more than anything. For example, Draco has seen Blaise cry. Blaise has only cried once after the age of 8. And when he was 13, he cried like a baby in front of Draco. And as far as Theo knew, it was because his father left. It may or may not be true, but then again, he wouldn't know.
"Potter, Potter, Potter. He's doing this just to get to me. I know it. He's doing this to spite me!" Draco growled. "But if Scarhead thinks he's going to get my parents in Azkaban, than he is sadly mistaken! My father's clean! And he's got nothing against me. I've only called Granger a mud blood once. Once! Alright, maybe twice-" Theo cut Draco off in the middle of his ranting.
"Sebastian's got the mark." he stated quietly. Blaise's jaw dropped. Sebastian was the most muggle-loving person he has even known. He even has a telecellphone. Whatever that is. "Remember when he was 16, and he was going through that ' All hail the Dark Lord' stage, and he hit mum? Well yeah, he ran away, got the mark. But then he thought it was too much, and left. Technically, he's in hiding, but the Death Eaters don't really care about him much."
"Well," Blaise started, clearing his throat, "your bothers' in trouble then, isn't he?"
"Whatever! It's his problem!" Theo said, suddenly angry, "let's talk about something else." he pleaded.
"Actullay, Theo, I rather like this conversation." Draco smirked, "but fine. So, Blaise, how are you going getting that muggle girl into bed?" Blaise laughed.
"That's such old news Draco, but you'll never beleive what I found out recently. Our dear friend Theo is a- OW!" Blaise was cut off and thrown to the floor when Theo suddenly threw himself from the wall and landed on Blaise, pushing him off Draco's bed and onto the floor. Draco glared at them.
"What do i not know, that Blaise does, Theo?" Draco asked, clearly offened. Theo smiled meekly.
"Uhh, Isabella like Antonio?" Theo tried. Draco narrowed his eyes.
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"Have you got any kings?" Hermione said brightly. Ronald Wesley rolled his eyes and threw his cards on the table.
"This is the stupidest game I have ever played, 'Mione." Hermione huffed and picked up all the cards.
"Can you think of something to do?" she said. Harry had gotten her, Ron and Ginny summer jobs at the ministry, but it was boring work because they never got to go on any investigations or raids or anything. Ginny was on a tea run, and that was the highlight of their time. Who ever got to go on the tea run. Harry was gone half the time, raiding the houses of pureblood families her thought were suspicious. Sure he's gotten loads of people in Azkaban, but some of them were innocent, Hermione thought. She didn't dare tell Harry this. He would say she was in 'contempt', a crime he made, that would give any one a free ticket to Azkaban without a trial stating that they were 'aiding the enemy' by disagreeing with him. The power was going to head at this point.
"We have to stay here until Harry comes back from interviewing the Parkinsons, but as soon as he comes back, we're off to Diego Ally, I don't care." Ron said.
"And Merlin knows when that boys' coming back." said Ginny as her entered the tiny office. Hermione smiled at her best friend. Ever since Harry's been off being the Ministry's poster boy, and Ron being his faithful sidekick, her and Ginny had become close. They shared secrets only girls could share. Like period, boys, and everything in between. Ginny even told her how every Saturday she would sneak off to a local muggle town and party with people Harry would call commoners, something Ginny took great offense too. ("Hell, I am caw-min'! Ron and the rest of my damn family is just fooling themselves thinkin' they're nawt. Buncha mingers…")
Technically, they were suppose to being doing what their being paid for. 'Paper work'. But there was really no work to be done. They lounged for about 10 more minutes, none of them really talking until Harry crashed into the room with a huge grin on his face.
"You guys are not going to guess what happened." Hermione yawned.
"You caught the 'bad guy'?" she guessed lazily. Harry frowned, and rolled his eyes.
"No Hermione, but thank you for your excitement. I went to go see Madam Bones and she gave me permission to investigate the Malfoy-"
"Finally!" shouted Ron, with his face lighting up. Harry glared at him or interrupting his news.
"I'm not finished! She also told me that I could bring my own team…" Hermione jumped up. Finally some excitement. "So Ron, your coming, and Ginny, and of course you Hermione! Plus a couple faceless aurors, but it won't matter. We're leading it-"
"Yes! We won't be stuck in this stupid office for a day! And it's the Malfoys! You know they're going to have some Dark stuff there." Ginny said, jumping in her seat.
"I know, but I saw something weird in their file. Look how many children they have. They've got 5. I always thought Malfoy was an only child." Harry said, handing them each a copy of the Malfoy file.
"Awww, they've got a four year old, Logan Alexander Malfoy. He's a cutie…"Hermione's voice trailed off.
The four of them went over the plan for the rest of the afternoon. Hermione seemed generally glad for once. They were going to get the real bad guy for once. Tomorrow, they were going to bring back a bunch of criminals to await trial. If only she knew how wrong she was…
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A/N: I tried not to make it a cliffy. I hope it was better than the first one.