Prompt/Title: Cheating
Character(s): Draco Malfoy, Ronald Weasley, Hermione Granger, Pansy Parkinson, Harry Potter, Violet Weasley, Scorpius Malfoy, Cassiopeia Malfoy
Summary: Draco gets stuck helping out Ron.
Rating: T
Word count: 677 according to wordcounter . net
Author's notes: Here is my fifth entry to "20 Prompts, 20 Drabbles". I seriously should be working on some of the fics that are due soon. Anyways, this is being applied to OTP Boot Camp Challenge for Sacrilegious, Your Favorite Hogwarts House Boot Camp Challenge for Traitor, Friendship Boot Camp Challenge for Pillow, Character Trait Boot Camp Challenge for paranoid!Ron, and Favorite Character Boot Camp Challenge for Chess.
Isn't slumber and MrsBates93 wonderful for getting this back to me so quickly with corrections?
All drabbles are part of the same timeline but not in order.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything you recognize, and maybe even some of the stuff you don't.
Draco doesn't understand why he's playing host to the Weasel. Why is he the one finding a pillow and blanket for him? Why is he fixing up the couch for him? Why the hell isn't he transfiguring the couch into a bed for that matter? Why is he not scowling at the jittery Ronald Weasley?
Because she said so, that's why. She had called him on the phone and told him, "If you ever want to have sex again, you will look after him, and help him through whatever he thinks he's going through right now." Well, she better be happy with the little that he is doing. If his housemates could see him now…
Ron is watching him as he transfigures the couch into a bed. "Why are you doing this again?"
Draco rolls his eyes and throws the pillow and blanket at his feet. "I want to fuck my wife in the near future."
"Too much information, Ferret. I'm pretty sure Hermione wouldn't want to know that's how you talk about her when she's not around."
Draco scoffs. "And I'm sure Pansy would like to know that you're hiding from her at my place."
The laughter rings through the entire flat. Draco is losing his breath from laughing at the fear reflected all over the Weasel's face.
"You can't! Hermione said that you have to help me, and telling Pans is definitely not helping me!"
Draco tries to catch his breath. He starts thinking about who really has the upper hand here. He realizes that they're both screwed; both wives have them by the bollocks. "It appears we have reached a stalemate."
Ron seats himself at the end of his bed and holds the pillow to his chest. Draco sits in the armchair directly across from him. The two of them are contemplating something - Ron trying to figure out how to get out of the trouble he's surely in, and Draco was calculating how to get rid of him sooner.
"Why are you here?"
"Well, you see. I'm scared to go back to the flat. Pans might be back from Paris. Is Hermione back yet? If Hermione is back, then Pans is definitely back. And I just can't face her right now. She's going to kill me and I really do like –"
"Weasley, you're rambling. Yes, Hermione is back, so you're screwed on the Pans front." Draco can't help but smirk at whatever predicament the idiot has found himself in. "Why would she kill you?"
"Well… you see… umm… you can't say anything. Not even to 'Mione. I haven't even told Harry yet. You know Pansy. You can tell me the best way to explain it to her to ensure the majority of my body stays intact."
"Okay… so what did you do?"
"I cheated."
Draco jumps up and throws him off the bed. "YOU CHEATED?"
"No, not like that you idiot!" Ron shoves Draco off him and rights himself before sitting back down.
"Violet was hysterical. She was crying like there was no tomorrow. I tried everything. I tried feeding her… rocking her… changing her diaper… I even offered to take her to the Manor to visit Scorpius and Cassie! You have to understand, I was so desperate!" Ron is almost in tears as he confesses.
"I don't see how this brings you to cheating?" Draco asks, puzzled.
"I dropped her off with my mum at the Burrow!" He shouts, exasperated with the situation.
It takes Draco a few minutes to let the news sink in. Once it has, he realizes just how much trouble Weasley is in, and how much trouble he'll be in with his best friend when she realizes he's an accessory to the crime.
"Okay, we need a plan. You're good with strategy. What do we do?"
"Why do you think I'm hiding at your place?"
"That doesn't work…"
"Actually, it does. I'll tell Pans it was your idea, she'll call you a traitor, and –"
Now it's Draco who's shouting. "I am not some pawn you can just sacrifice!"
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