Quicksilver

Quicksilver
story rating NC-17
pairing: DM/HG

Disclaimer: Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Draco Malfoy, etc. are the sole property and copyright of the lovely J.K. Rowling. This story is for entertainment purposes only and is in no way affiliated with the original Harry Potter novel series or the Warner Bros. films.

This story contains minor violence, some adult language, and overt sexuality.

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Hermione flinched. \"Wow, that\'s strong,\" she said while making a face at her
tumbler of firewhiskey. \"No, I don\'t think I\'ll have any more of that.\"

\"Ugh, me either,\" Ginny said from the corner of the room, dumping the rest of
hers down the drain of one of the sinks.

\"That\'s a bloody waste, that is!\" Harry exclaimed, trying to grab Ginny\'s hand
to stop her. It was too late as the last of the liquid gurgled down slowly, ending in
one loud slurp. \"Well,\" Harry said, \"I don\'t want it now.\"

\"It\'s strong, but it\'s worth it,\" Draco said through a grin as he threw back
another large swallow. He poured another round for himself and for Harry as the girls
made faces at them. They, in turn, grabbed a bottle of butterbeer each.

\"This stuff tastes better and we all know I can\'t last on it, so why go with
the hard rubbish?\" Hermione said cheekily.

\"Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker,\" Harry retorted, and both he and
Hermione laughed hysterically. Ginny and Draco looked at them quizzically. \"It\'s from
a Muggle film,\" Harry added.

Hermione busied herself with two small urns -- one of a leafy green material,
one of a blackened, condensed gritty mixture. Her motor skills were already
plainly off as she dropped things here and there. She pulled a small pipe made of
glass out of another container, then began to crush some of the leafy material with her
mortar and pestle. The others watched as she added the crushed green stuff to the
pipe, then sprinkled the sootlike material on top of it.

\"Candy may be dandy, liquor may be quicker, but this stuff is real magic in
comparison,\" Hermione said, before igniting her wand and burning the contents of the pipe
while she inhaled. Dipping her head back with her chin in the air, she proceeded to blow
nearly a dozen smoke rings. Everyone else stared at her open-mouthed while
Crookshanks chased the fading rings.

Hermione put on a devilish grin and handed the pipe to Draco. \"That stuff
smells like the incense in the North Tower,\" he teased her. \"But I was never one for
passing up crazy antics,\" he added. He took much too big of an inhale and coughed until
his whole torso hurt from the effort. The room started to swim before him immediately.

***

After several rounds around the room, the pipe retired on the floor by the
sinks. Even Crookshanks wobbled around for a while, clearly absorbing the smoke
secondhandedly. He soon took to dozing by Hermione\'s feet.

\"HELLO, MY NAME IS HARRY AND I AM AN ALCOLOHOLIC!\" Harry nearly shouted,
toasting the room with the bottle of firewhiskey, then throwing back a few gulps straight.
He had stood up uncertainly for this silly pronouncement, but nearly fell over trying
to tip back the bottle.

\"If only they could see the Boy Who Lived now...\" Draco mused slowly, grinning
at his stupefied cousin.

\"Shove off, you! I am the Dread Pirate Potter! Yo ho ho and a bottle of...
industrial cleaning fluid! Avast ye, Quicksilver, for I be the better fighter!\" Harry
brandished the now-empty bottle at Draco, who knocked it out of his hand with a mere wave
of his own.

\"Malfoy, do you see what you just did?\" Ginny asked, trying halfheartedly to
repair the broken glass on the lavatory floor.

\"See? What is this \'see\' you speak of? I can\'t focus on a bloody thing,\" he
responded with a giggle.

\"You just disarmed Harry without a wand, Draco,\" Hermione articulated slowly,
then turned to Ginny and the glass to help out. Even she could not get it done in
three waves, the substance abuse showing in her wand technique. \"Oh, nevermind.\" she
said resignedly.

\"Really? Hmm, that could be interesting,\" he said lightly, then turned to
Hermione and waggled a finger. A button popped off of her blouse. She threw her half-eaten
cherry tart at him and all four of them burst into hysterics.

\"Keep going!\" Harry cried.

Draco looked at him blankly, not quite believing what he just heard. It wasn\'t
really the idea that Potter might fancy Hermione that was vexing him, but more that
his drunk dolt of a cousin seemed to have forgotten his own significant other was sitting
on his bloody lap. Ginny looked positively devious...but not in a threatening sort of
way. On the contrary, she appeared to be just as enthusiastic as her lover did about
Hermione being exposed.

\"We have now entered the Twilight Zone,\" Hermione blurted, holding the top part
of her shirt together and blushing deeply.

Ginny stood up and walked straight over to Hermione. She took Hermione\'s hand
and tried to gently unclasp it from her chest and before the older witch could say a
word, she silenced her with an obviously impassioned kiss.

The two male jaws in the room hit the floor. They were incapable of coherent
speech until....

\"HOLY FUCK!\" Harry exclaimed in utter disbelief.

This finally distracted the girls\' attention and they turned to look at Harry.
Ginny began to giggle, Hermione looked dazed.

\"You took the words right out of my mouth, Potter,\" Draco replied. \"Though for
a second there, my mouth could not move out of the \'wide bloody open\' state.\"

\"What\'s the matter, you two have never seen girls kiss?\" Ginny asked teasingly.

\"Not only is the obvious answer \'For the love of Merlin, NO!\' but my first time
ended up being my girlfriend and my best friend,\" Harry replied. \"I don\'t know
whether to die of shock or enjoy the show way too much!\"

\"Meanwhile, someone hasn\'t said a single word about it and she is directly
involved,\" Draco said cautiously, eyeing his motionless, silent girlfriend.

\"I didn\'t know you fancied girls,\" Hermione said quietly, apparently deep in
thought.

\"You try growing up with six brothers and not coming to some sort of
appreciation,\" Ginny replied loftily.

Hermione seemed to consider this for a moment, then suddenly advanced on Ginny.
The younger witch immediately groped for her wand, thinking she was about to
be slapped...or perhaps something worse. Hermione reached out...then grabbed
Ginny\'s neck and pulled her in for another blazing kiss.

Both boys sat in absolute awe of the sight before them. Harry shifted his robes
so that they covered his lap.

\"Why bother pretending like you aren\'t getting turned on by this? A moment ago,
you appeared to be cheering on a striptease with all the shame of a politician.\"
Draco sneered heartily as if to emphasize his point. The bulge in his trousers
was rather obvious by then and he made no move to display otherwise.

Harry was about to respond sarcastically when Ginny began to remove Hermione\'s
shirt. All comments ceased as both wizards watched hungrily as each button left
its loop.

***

Author\'s Note: Now that I\'ve got my plot bunnies in a row, perhaps I can keep
writing more of this thing. It\'s coming a lot more easily now, I just need the spare
time...
I know that I\'ve just traded one evil cliffhanger for another. I don\'t want to promise
anything about Chapter 19, as I did that already for 18 and it took nearly five
months for me to crank out. I already have 19 half-written, however, so it *should
not* be long.