Truth or dare!
After such an emotional end of Christmas dinner Harry, Moreen, Marcus, Tyran, Ruby, Theodore, Lorelei and Hemera went to the second year Slytherin's room to have a chat, passing time before midnight and the arrival of their presents. Apollo and Vincent had stayed downstairs, trying to teach Ron how to play video games.
Inside of the bedroom all the teens were seated in a circle on her giant fluffy purple carpet.
"Let's play truth or dare." Announced Tyran with his most Slytherin smile, a problem for a Gryffindor, it usually meant bad news.
"No problem but for that I think we all need this…" said Hemera, taking a bottle of muggle tequila from underneath her bed. She then accioed four shot glasses, a bottle of coke and three big glasses. "I'm not giving alcohol to first years." She explained to Tyran who looked at her with saucers for eyes.
"But no problem with you drinking it?" Rhetorically said Ty with smugness.
"I'm the one who bought the bottle, am I not?" Answered the girl with the same tone before serving a drink to everyone.
"Bottoms up!" Giggled Marcus, before drinking, quickly followed by Ruby, and the Black siblings. Rory, Theo and Rhys took their time since they just had coke.
"That we are in better spirits shall we start." Offered Ruby, with a predator smile. "Let's start the game!" She said with triumph. The girl had always looked like a lamb for Hemera, sweet and understanding and all, but now she looked so much like her dad: the wolf in sheep's clothing.
"Ty, truth or dare!" Offered the albino girl.
"Dare!" Said the boy, which seemed to annoy Ruby.
"I dare you to kiss Ri-ri on the mouth!" Said Lorelei with a compline smile, understanding what her friend wanted to do.
"Euuuh… Why would I do that? It's my cousin? I'm not one of those Black degenerates." Ty said, before looking like he could barf.
"You are a Black. And you are a degenerate. I found your 'secret' stash of Playboy Magazines." Countered Hemera, sticking her tongue out to her brother.
"Then, truth it is!" Encouraged Theodore Nott, helping his best friend in her Slytherin trap.
"You bloody snakes." Grumbled Ty, waiting for his question.
"Do you date Alicia Spinnet?" Asked Ruby and Lorelei at once.
"Yes I do." Admitted Tyran with a grimace. "Hey I didn't want you to know. What have you done Emma?" He growled, looking at his sister with rage.
"Might have mixed the tequila with veritaserum I stole from uncle R's workshop." She said proudly.
"You Slytherin." Said Marcus placid. He loved the idea, of course but could admit it. He was the responsible one. Well at least it was what his parents thought.
"Can I choose a victim now?!" Asked Ty with puppy eyes. Hemera nodded, and he looked at Lorelei with amusement. "Rory, truth or dare?"
"Truth." She said trying to appear confident, she wasn't, but at least she had tried.
"Do you fancy someone?" Questioned the oldest Black, his eyes locked on the first year.
"Maybe." Answered the blonde, her ears trunking all red.
"What do you mean maybe?" He said unhappy. How could she not answer, and that's when it hit him. The veritaserum was in the tequila, not the coke.
"First years get a year of freedom." Said Hemera winking.
"So now my turn!" Joyfully said Lorelei, she then pointed out her cousin Marcus.
"Marc, truth or dare?" The fourth year looked at the blonde with a look of disbelief. How could Rory be that triumphant? Hemera was definitively rubbing on her.
"Dare." He answered hoping he would counteract the first year's plan.
"Open Emma's closet." She said with defiance.
"Too easy. Truth." Countered Marcus, raising an eyebrow at the French girl, confused, while the rest of the group stayed silent wondering what Lorelei had up her sleeve.
"You had it coming. Is Percival Weasley hiding in the closet?" She asked, pronouncing every syllable.
"Yes." Admitted, the oldest of the buch, defeated, as a ginger exited the wardrobe.
"That's a bit cliché for a gay man to hide there." Expressed Theo to Rory, which made the two first years Slytherin laugh out loud.
"I think you can come out of the closet!" Giggled Lorelei, tears in the corner of her eyes.
"Hiding your boyfriend in my closet Prince." Said Hemera with one of her cunningest expression.
"What boyfriend?" Asked Percy while trying to unwrinkle his shirt.
"As if someone hadn't seen you suck the life out of my brother." Said Moreen, dramatically raising her eyebrows. "Are you a dementor by any chance?" She added.
"And may I add, the perfect bathroom, really!" Explained a Harry who had been awfully silent before.
"How did you…" said the prefect, horrified.
"Magical map." Simply answered the first year Gryffindor.
"Madeline Noble caught you red-handed but according to her you were busy snogging to realize she was here." Explained Hemera.
"Now the real question: why the hell were you in a closet?" Questioned Moreen, darting at the Weasley.
"He came from Wood's house through floo for a quick snogging session but Mrs. Shafiq arrived earlier than expected." Confessed Marcus, still under the influence of the potion. "Will you forgive me for the revelation love?" Asked Marcus, his shoulder length black hair unable to hide how he blushed.
"Told you he was a bottom. You owe me ten chocolate frogs dragon heart." Expressed Theodore before being smacked in the head by Lorelei."It hurts Rory." Complained the boy, his ego taking a bigger blow than his head.
"Sorry for Theo. But I don't know what is going on with him right now." Apologized Lorelei, ready to smack again her best friend if he did or said something stupid.
"Might be partially my fault." Explained Tyran, looking rather guilty which only meant one thing for Hemera.
"You made a fire whiskey coke and took the boy's glass, didn't you?" Offered Percival now sitted next to a blushing mess of a Marcus.
"Maybe." Said the Gryffindor with guilt. "Okay I got mixed up while serving everyone. He had the alcohol with a bit of coke."
"Run." Simply answered the two Slytherin at once, so he did and ran downstairs.
After Tyran had escaped his furious cousin and sister, silence fell in the room, only rythmed by Theodore's snoring. The boy had felt dead drunk a few seconds after. A lightweight Hemera commented, whereas Moreen complimented the boy for acting sober for so long.
"How did you figure out I was there?" Percival had broke the silence, looking at the first year with a mix of pride and something the girl couldn't identity. Yes she would have been a good red and gold but she loved being a snake even more.
"I could hear you breath." She answered calmly. "Always had a good ear.
No one seemed to believe her. So not very happy about it she admitted that, since Marcus had never been the best at hiding, she knew something was happening.
"It's a quarter to twelve. You better go to dad to explain why you are here." Advised Moreen, the rest of the group nodding.
"Can't I just discreetly floo back?" Offered Percival, not very keen on meeting his future father in law.
"Are you a Gryffindor or not?" Toned Lorelei, looking at the prefect with fire in her eyes. "Plus every one is already in the living room waiting for us to open our presents. Now be a man and go face my sickly uncle." She said with some bitter humour.
"I love this woman." Whispered an half asleep Theodore, than only Ruby heard, making her smile softly.
"That's my sister!" Said Harry proudly. "So now go to your future father in law if you're a man. Or did Marcus take it!" At the end of his sentence his twin started laughing hysterically.
"This dusty hat should have sent you with me! That was such a Slytherin move!" Explained the girl between laughter. After taking a minute to calm down she asked to Percy "Now go to Regulus, now!
Percy looked defeated and exited the room walking towards Mrs. Black office. He was scared not because the man was a Black or the father of his boyfriend but because he was the husband of the most terrifying teacher of the school. How could someone find him attractive? Well, he didn't have much time to converse with himself; he was now facing the door of the office.
Percy took a deep breath and as the brave Gryffindor he is he opened the door without knocking and he came across something he never wanted to see. Professor Snape, trying to button up his shirt while his husband was kissing him.
As silently as possible, he closed the door before putting a silence charm on the door. He then walked back to the room where he started yelling at the two Slytherin.
"Hemera, Lorelei… I'm gonna kill you!" Growled Percy as he entered the room.
"Okay but why?" Asked the oldest Slytherin placidly.
"I walked on your dads snogging." He admitted horrified, his eyes focused on his boyfriend.
"Oh. Dad was supposed to arrive tomorrow. That's a surprise." Said Marcus with little emotions.
Percival was very much shocked by Marc's reaction but did not have time for the third time today, a record, to react, the door of the bedroom flew open revealing Severus Prince and his husband.
"Time for…" started Severus, with a warm tone that Percy never heard coming out of his mouth, before realizing that the prefect of Gryffindor was in front of him. "What are you doing here Mr. Weasley."
All the children looked at Marcus and Percival. Your problem, you go, they all thought.
"Dad, pa' this is my boyfriend Percival Weasley. Percy, my parents: Regulus Prince and Severus Prince that you know under the name Snape." Presented the fourth year, not without a sweat.
"I would say please to meet you lad, but haven't we seen you enter through the floo or the door." Explained Regulus, his 'you're in trouble' look on his face, while his father's was more 'out of all the students you had to choose a Weasley'.
"And why are you in my niece's room, tequila bottle on sight?" Asked Severus with his usual monotone professoral tone.
"This part's my fault, uncle S." Admitted Hemera. "It's not tequila. It's veritaserum 70% cut with sugar cane syrup 15% and 15% tequila.
"And why would you do that?" Wondered Regulus, his look still focused on the Gryffindors.
"To finally have the bloody truth in truth or dare. Took the vial out of your lab uncle R. No worries, I replenished the veritaserum. It was very hard but I succeeded." She admitted, as the last drop of the potion left her organism.
"You brewed veritaserum!" Said Regulus impressed.
"You stole from your uncle!" Said Severus almost at the same time as his husband. "I don't know if I should take points out of Slytherin or give you more."
"I thought you were scolding Marc because he hid his boyfriend from you, even though he is very bad at it. Like three fourths of the school know." Explained Lorelei, saving her cousin from the potion master.
"Don't throw me under the bus!" Squicked Marcus, looking at Lorelei.
"I choose my battle mate, and you're already fucked."
"Language young lady!" Said her aunt Cornelia as she entered the room. "What is going on here?" Oh, long time no see Percival," started Mrs. Black before spotting the ginger.
The group of teens turned their gaze at the woman, very much confused.
"Long time no see Mrs. Black." Answered the boy, embarrassed.
"Since when did you start calling me Mrs. Black. I remember the little boy running towards me and screaming: aunt Nelly every time I was flooing to the Burrow. " Remembered the woman, her amber eyes filled with nostalgia.
"Now tell me why Theo is sleeping on the floor?" Ordered the hostess, looking at her son already having a hypothesis.
The little group then spent ten minutes explaining what happened to the mother. At the end of which the woman looked on the brink of a migraine, proud of her daughter and yet angry at her and at Tyran.
"So you thought that snogging your boyfriend at your aunt's was a good way to be discreet." Said the woman with the shadow of a smile. "I knew Gryffindor were bad at hiding things, it's worse than expected." To which Regulus and Severus agreed, nodding.
"You're not angry!?" Said most of the children at once. They were flabbergasted by Mrs. Black's reaction. She was never a very strict parent but at least she would show her annoyance.
"It's not my role to be angry at you Marcus your dads will. But I might send an owl to your mother."she explained, pointing at the Weasley boy. "She has the right to be angry."
Percy swallowed soundly before agreeing with the witch, even if he was scared of Molly Weasley, he would have to face her.
"Now you lot, go downstairs. Sirius won't be able to stop your cousins longer." Explained the pregnant woman before pushing them out. "Not you Tyran!" She interrupted as her eldest son tried to exit the room. "You're responsible for Theodore's state. So you will wake him up and give him a headache potion. No hangover one, he is still too young." She explained with details.
As soon as Tyran was out of the picture, the three adults had a laugh, remembering their own youth.
"Speaking of our crazy teenage years. I think we lost a bet, love. " Expressed professor Snape, his hand on his husband's side .
"You did and I won." Said Cornelia like a child.
"We'll see." Said Severus enigmatically.