Susan's inheritance was beginning to bug Susan. It had been three days since she had asked Ginny and Luna to sort it out and as far as she was aware, nothing had happened. On the fourth day, Susan asked Hedwig to get the daily prophet, so they could see what was happening in the wide world.
When Hedwig returned bearing the prophet Susan was shocked by the title,
Berevment fund accused as new untaxed company
Many leading people are convinced that the newly started fund was no more than a ploy by Harry Potter and Neville Longbottom in order to gain more financial support for their growing empires. As such nothing has been done as of yet with the fund by Mrs Johnston…
The story continued attacking the fund, amongst the articles was a small one of Amelia Bones looking for her Niece to pass control of the family assets to.
'Blaise?' Susan asked the man reading the paper over her shoulder.
'yeah?' he answered.
'fancy seeing what my auntie has to say for herself?' she inquired.
'might as well. I best get dressed then.' Blaise said standing up fully naked.
'spoil sport, but you are right, I need to get dressed as well.' She slapped Blaises bare bottom, she continued, 'common, we'll go in twenty minutes.'
'ok.' Was his response as he walked away rubbing his bum.
Soon they were both ready and they had Hedwig flame them to the ministry in front of Amelia.
Amelia jumped when she realised that her niece was in front of her and she hadn't heard anything.
'Ahhh,' Amelia cried, once she realised who it was, 'Ah erm, hi Susan.' She started abashed. 'Its just when your mother was around, she lost her life, because she held the position, and death eaters wanted to control her. She wouldn't have it. They tried everything, threats to the family, especially to you. They offered her money, they tried the imperius.' A tear formed at both the womens eye, her hands wrenching themselves. 'your mum was an inspiration. She stood up to them, then one day, I was babysitting you and he came around. Lily Potter and James Potter were guarding your mum at the time. That time they defeated him. It was a miracle, it was the first time those two defeated him. As it was they weren't there the next time he tried, no one but your mum was there. She died very quickly. She had great strength of mind, but couldn't defend herself in a fight.' Amelia bowed her head. 'I miss her terribly you know. That's why I kept control, especially when Dumbledore two years ago said he was back. I watched the political arena and the moves and tactics were the same as before. I know I can fight. Maybe not directly against him but against the death eaters certainly.'
Susan nodded her head and Blaise removed the disillusionment charm, he appeared behind Amelia. Susan spoke, 'then why havn't you trained me to fight? If it's starting again.'
'Like Albus, I wanted you to have a happy childhood, not one of pain and trials.' She replied.
'the same as in Harry,'
'yes, though I am beginning to regret that now, its done more harm than good.'
'yes it has, but I believe its recoverable.' A smile crept on the sad face of Susan.
The door opened to revel Cho.
'Madame bones?' She said as she closed the door?
'Yes dear?'
Cho swiped her wand in front of her and jabbed it quickly and harshly sending the killing curse at the head of the aurors.
Blaise pushed madame bones out of her seat onto the floor, leaving the spell to impact on the wall behind. Susan brought her wand to, automatically and sent a reducto spell at Chos wand hand.
'AHHHHHHH'
Blaise pulled Amelia to her feet, and both found Susan kicking in the screaming Cho Chang.
'Who did you kill you bitch? WHO!?' Susan screamed.
'You think you can stop the dark lord? No one can. Potter is weak! The dark lord toys with Potter, always has.' Cho spat back, manic malice in her eyes.
'really, is that why he always looks so annoyed when Harry upsets one of his plans?' Blaise questioned.
'LIES!'
Susan levelled her wand and Chos head, 'You cant do that!' Amelia spoke with shock at what her niece was about to do.
'Yes I can.' A cold voice came from a calm Susan, as she flicked her wand in the movements of Reducto. Amelia tried to stop her but Blaise restrained her. Chos head erupted and spread across the door and wall, applying a layer of blood and brains to the coating of skull.
'Nice.' Blaise said as he released Amelia.
'Did you have to do that? I mean we could have gotten useful information out of her.' Amelia shouted at her daughter.
Susan turned slowly to her aunt. 'She just tried to kill you. Family is important to me. That's why I came today, trying to patch up our family. And I will defend our family to the death.'
A tear seeped down the check of Amelia, 'That's what your mum used to say.' She grabbed Susan and Blaise in a crushing hug.
Mad-eye saw Cho Chang a recent addition to another department of the ministry enter the head office, he saw the flash of green and then the rich red, a few seconds passed then the hazed glass was sprayed red.
'Aurors on me now!' Alastor barked out, shocked faces looked up as he drew his wand and stomped to the head office, 'Possible hostiles.' He called across the room, four members converging on his position, three taking cover and aiming their wands, with spells on their lips.
Alastor held up three fingers, then one finger dropped, then another dropped. A spell careered into the door from one of the covering aurors, shattering the door into four pieces. Alastor jumped in to see Amelia cuddling Blaise and Susan.
'Aurors back down.' He said as he realised he had just stepped into a pool of brains. 'Nice, do I have to guess? Anyway what happened?'
'Were fine Alastor thank you for asking.' Amelia said with a smile on her face.
'I can see your fine woman, I expect nothing less, but who caused this mess. Its not like you!' he retorted indicating the headless body.
'Have you two actually ever dated?' Susan asked.
Both parties quickly denounced that, 'No, heven forbid.' Or 'Merlin No.'
'Well I think you two should, get some of that frustration out of your system.' Susan said.
'Now look here Gina,' Alastor said.
Amelia burst out laughing while Susan looked at Alastor with anger, 'What did you say?' She said.
'I can't believe I just called you that, but that's what your mum used to say as well. Keeping on at Amelia and myself.' Alastor replied.
'Well maybe she was right.' Susan said and walked out the door less hole, she turned around to see her auntie. 'were going to the bank now, to see what's what, and we'll be home tonight for tea. There are three of us coming. See you later.' With that Blaise laughed as he exited the room following Susan.
After Blaise had left the office and Moody conjured a door and closed it, Moody turned to Amelia. 'Maybe, you know, there right. I've had the same spiel from Potter as well. You know I've always had feelings for you, and it bugs me I can't see through the door or walls of this office.'
'That's why I had them charmed. To bug you, it's annoyed me you never said anything. I guess the kids are right. You wanna come round tonight as well?' She invited him.
'Least I could do when you saved me from those death eaters the other night.' Alastor stepped closer to Amelia and leant in and gave her a peck on the check.
'Come round at six will you?' She asked him, 'I need help in cooking.'
Alastor laughed and left the room.
Later that night in the Bones residence, more specifically in a kitchen, we can see it with boiling pans, and a roaring fire with a spit rotating on it slowly and two occupants.
Alastor was spinning like a balarina, leaving a heaving Amelia on the chair in fits of laughter. The reason Alastor was spinning was he was cooking a roast leg of lamb, with all the trimmings.
'Oh Alastor,' Amelia gasped, 'if the kids saw you doing this, they would never believe it. I can't believe it, I've known you all these years and I never knew you cooked like a muggle, not one wave of the wand. It's so funny!' Fresh bouts of laughter and tears came to the scene.
'Well, I really loved my ma's cooking, could cook for a whole battalion of us, and there would never be anything left. It were that good.'
'oh I hope so Alastor, common, leave the cooking we best get dressed up.'
'ah pish posh,' Alastor flicked his hand once and his wand came forth, he flicked it again and he was in a dinner jacket.
Half an hour later a bell rang through the house, indicating someone was at the front door. Amelia swept into the main hallway and opened the door to see her niece and the two Zabini boys dressed in evening gowns and dinner jackets.
'come on in then.' Amelia said.
The three entered the house, the house Susan was taken from forcefully, she held Blaises hand and gave it a gentle squeeze.
Blaize spoke his thoughts, 'wow, nice place you have here.'
At that moment Moody stomped in, 'well foods ready, so find a seat and park your self quick.' With that he returned to the kitchen.
'Mad eye, cooking? Cooking, Mad eye?' the younger Zabini was saying in shock, after discovering that the greatest auror in recent memory cooked.
Blaize chuckled and grabbed the scruff of his brothers shirt and pulled him after Susan, they found themselves in a relatively small room, big enough to hold a table and chairs and a few side tables, but nothing you'd expect of a house this big. Blaize pushed his brother to one of the seats then promptly helped Susan with her chair. Amelia was already sitting opposite her niece, and mad eye stomped in carrying trays, he placed them on the table, then went to get more trays.
Blaize asked, 'why doesn't he levitate all of them at once? We know he can.'
Moody answered as he stomped back in, 'cos I believe cooking like potions give much better results when you use the ingredients and no magic has a chance to foul things up.'
Realisation dawned on Blaize and Susan's face, Susan gasped, 'so that's why we always got better results with potions which we didn't use a spell to stir the potion with.'
'correct, took Amelia years to work out why I always had a better potion.
'So it just goes to prove that the muggle way can be the better way of thinking at times.' Amelia said smiling at Alastor, she looked at Susan. 'So how did the meeting with the goblins go? Hopefully you got full control of the seat and monies?
'well I took control of a seat, and the majority of the monies, but I left some fifty thousand gallons in your account as it were. As a thank you.'
'yo shouldn't have. As it is, we were living off the interest of the families money, and my pay was going into investments in the muggle world. All of them doing nicely. So do you have any plans with the vote in the council?'
'oh yes. For one, ousting scrigmour, then try and get some new blood into it.'
Alastor asked knowing why, 'Why?'
Blaise replied, 'he is thinking of a defending action, he's kept the unspeakables, and the hit wizards back. If they had had a chance to capture death eaters and interrogate them, we might not be so bad off, but as it is, we've had a blessing in the form of this little vigilante group killing them off.'
They stopped talking and ate silently enjoying the food, passing their compliments to Amelia about wonderful food who deflected it back to Alastor. Amelia drummed up the courage to ask a question.
'so who took you two? And where have you been? Really?'
'sorry, we cant answer that. But lets say they gave me a reason to fight to better this world, and gave Blaise the home truths about Voldermort and company.'
'you say his name as its nothing?'
'it's only a psenoa.' The youngest Zabini said.
Alastor spoke up, 'so are you two dating then or just shag partners?'
Amelia looked at Moody with contempt, 'that's my niece your talking about!'
'Aye, I know, I'm trying to find out if there in a serious relationship or just fooling around. Cos the fooling has consequences,' he rounded on the two youngsters. 'pregnency, morning sickness, labour pains, looking after a child and raising one up can be a harrowing thing.' Mad eye saw the smile on Blaises face. 'what? You arnt already? Christ, bloody rabbits!'
Susan burst out laughing, 'mad eye, I'm not, and Blaise and I have feelings and were exploring them, but like you said, its not the only thing were exploring.'
Amelia couldn't believe it, she put her fingers in her ears, 'lalalalalala I cant hear you!'
This sent a wave of giggles around the table, the youngest Zabini spoke, 'surely you realised one day we would grow up and have sex?'
'well yes, but it seems like yesterday I was changing her diapers.'
'oh thanks aunite.' Susan looked humiliated.
The evening passed into night with talking and laughter, until the three were setting off to go.
'Are you going back into hiding, where ever it was you were?' Amelia asked.
'yes, but hopefully not for long.' Susan replied with a smile on her face. 'see you soon auntie.' A quick hug then a flaming bird appeared and disappeared along with the three youngest members of the party.
As they walked into the house Amelia turned to Alastor, 'Its potter isn't it. Don't answer me, I just know.' She said in a quite sure voice. 'least they will be safe.' She hugged her self, pulling in the wrap around her tighter. Alastor seeing this placed his arms around her cuddling her from behind and warming her up. 'stay the night Ali, please?' a voice quivered in the silence.
Alastor replied with a kiss on the neck. 'you've always had me lass.' With that he scopped her up off the floor and walked up the stairs well ok, stomped off to the main bedroom with a silent Amelia in his arms snuggling into his chest.
(see old people are just as bad and the youngsters when it comes to sex.)