To The Dungeons We Must Go

This was written for the TSS contest # 3.

Genre: Romance. humor
Warnings: Sexual content, ooc-ness, mpreg


For TSS Contest #3 WINNER!!! - Dark Of Night (Challenge #8) Lucius receives an urgent owl that requires his presence in the dungeons of Hogwarts


Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoat Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.

A Special Huge and Warm THANK YOU to Tarallynne for the beta work!

Please read and leave a review so I know whether to keep writing or just pack up the keyboard. THANKS!

TO THE DUNGEONS WE WILL GO

Lucius Malfoy sat in his high-backed leather chair in his personal study. He was at his home in Malfoy Manor for a change. The past few weeks had been difficult or was that an understatement?

Voldemort was making sure to keep his closest Death Eaters very busy – first the attack, then the mandatory celebratory revels upon returning. Lucius’ mind wandered back to the revels and smiled. He hadn’t had that much sex in quite a while and was feeling rather pleased with his performance and the person he had been lucky enough to partner. During the revels Voldemort would usually select some Muggle to perform his perversions on his Death Eaters. This time was different; he had allowed his Death Eaters to partner who they wanted. Lucius grinned at the thought of his “wife”, Narcissa, choosing Peter Pettigrew. Maybe there was something a little kinkier about her than he thought, but he didn’t really want to know.

Unknown to the general populace of the Wizarding World and even their son, Lucius and Narcissa had been divorced since Draco was a year old. They continued the façade of a family for Draco and to avoid any unpleasantness with the Dark Lord. Lucius and Narcissa had married as a convenience and had managed to become friends. They had decided on a divorce after the heir had been born. Since then, the two have had their lovers but it was all kept very secret and discrete. They knew each other’s lovers and would make sure they were invited to any function at the Manor and treated with all due respect. It was easier for Lucius to have his lover invited. It would never have raised eyebrows in any circumstances. Severus Snape was a frequent visitor to the Manor. He was godfather to Draco and a fellow Death Eater.
The other secret the three guarded as closely, they were also spies for the Light Side.

Lucius sighed and placed his glass of firewhiskey back on the desk, leaned back, shifted to get comfortable, sighed and closed his eyes. Exhaustion claimed the blonde for a quick nap. He was dreaming of the past two weeks. He had to thwart the attacks on the Muggles while making the Dark Lord think there was a spy amongst the group, never leading the suspicion to the trio. He could then come back and enjoy the evening with Severus, under the guise of reveling with the Dark Lord. He smiled in his sleep. He had the best of both worlds.


Deep in the dungeons of Hogwarts, Severus Snape was sitting in his teacher’s chair; hands propped up on the desk and his head lying in his hands. Muttering and cursing could be heard if someone listened very closely. He raised his head, took a deep breath and stared at the empty classroom. This had been his home for at least the past twenty years. He knew every nook and cranny in “his” dungeons. He knew them as well as he knew the body of his lover. He could identify either in complete darkness, just from touch and smell. Lucius. What was he to do now? Only one thing to be done, write. Severus pulled the ink, quill and parchment to himself and began writing the letter. He started and stopped several times, sending the destroyed letters into the fire. He finally had a draft he considered worded appropriately. He called to Jenkins, his falcon, and tied the sealed letter to his leg. He held the bird, stroking his head and gently over the feathers on the back. “Jenkins, you must take this to Lucius as fast as you can. Make sure no one else receives it. You may stay with Lucius until he is ready. You may return here when he does. Go, my faithful.” The bird lifted off and within moments was out of site, riding the wind currents to Malfoy Manor. Severus went into his private rooms and fixed himself some tea and collapsed on the couch to await the arrival of Lucius. This had the potential to be worse than any slaughter ever performed by Voldemort and he was not looking forward to it.

Lucius was in the middle of a very erotic dream when the insistent tapping on the window finally woke him. He looked to see if he could identify the sender who had dared to disturb him while trying to think of a suitable hex for them. He looked again. “Jenkins?” Lucius jumped up and rushed to the window. Something was terribly wrong if Sev had sent Jenkins to him at home. He opened the window and allowed the bird to perch on his forearm. He carried the bird to the perch and waited for it to move. When Jenkins was on the perch, Lucius offered him the special treats he kept on hand for the delivery birds. He poured fresh water from his own pitcher into the dish on the perch for the bird and waited. Jenkins would give up the message when he was sated. Lucius chuckled, thinking how well the bird and Severus were paired. Finally Jenkins raised his leg and Lucius thanked him as he removed the missive. He broke the seal, cast the spell over the parchment so it would be visible to him only and began reading.

Luci,

It is with greatest reluctance that I send Jenkins to you especially during the day. I realize you are running on exhaustion and adrenaline. We have a few more things that need the utmost urgent response from both of us or I would not have bothered you. There is a matter that you must come to Hogwarts to handle immediately. Non-action on our part will have the utmost dire consequences.

Please, Luci, bring Jenkins with you and get here the fastest way possible. I know you dislike Floo travel, but in this case it would be best. Hood Jenkins first, he will be agitated and not responsible for his actions if he travels by floo uncovered.

I am here preparing for your arrival.

Sev.

Lucius read the letter a second time and threw it in the fire. He called for a house elf, jotted a note and told the elf to take it to Mistress Narcissa and to let no one else see it or read it. The house elf bowed and popped out of the study. Lucius walked over to Jenkins and began stroking him, gently speaking to him. He pulled the hood off the shelf and showed it to the bird, who lowered his head. Lucius placed it on the bird and held the ribbons in his free hand. He placed his forearm against the front of the falcon’s legs and waited for it to mount. When the bird was comfortable he went to the fireplace and took a handful of floo powder. He stepped in and called out, Hogwarts, Severus Snape and was gone in a rush of flames.

Lucius and Jenkins landed with the sound of soft leather on rock. Lucius looked around and saw Sev curled up on the couch. Curled up? Something was definitely wrong and he needed to know. Taking the hood off Jenkins he carried him to his perch and fed him some more treats and headed back for the couch.

Lucius knelt down in the floor next to the couch. He gently and carefully reached out a hand and began stroking the fine silky ebony hair of his lover. Severus felt the familiar touch and relaxed, uncurling on the couch. Lucius smiled and leaned over and started placing small kisses along the exposed ear and jaw. Severus turned in his sleep, seeking more of those sweet lips and wasn’t disappointed. After several minutes the potions master opened his eyes slowly, to be greeted by lusting eyes and more of the seeking lips. Severus rolled towards Lucius and wrapped his arms around him, pulling him up and on top of him. They finally broke the kiss and smiled at each other.

“If you just wanted more of me, you could have come to the Manor.” Lucius whispered softly. Severus groaned as his mind cleared and he remembered why he sent for Lucius. He looked at his clock and realized they were not too late. Severus pushed Lucius up and sat up himself. He turned and looked at his lover. “We may continue this after we get through the next few hours, if you are still inclined.” Lucius frowned. It was unusual to hear Severus speak like this when it was just the two of them. “Severus, please explain.”

Severus stood and held out a hand with a sad smile on his face. “Come with me love. Sooner started, sooner done.” He led the way to the secret passage that would cut out all the walking to the headmaster’s office. He opened the door and they made the trip in silence. Severus knocked on the door to announce them and it swung open. He led Lucius into the office and waited for the expected explosion. Lucius stood there looking around at the occupants and tried to get an idea of what were the implications from the seated pairs. He began with Dumbledore seated at his desk. Perched on the old man’s chair was his elegant “wife”. To her left stood Peter Pettigrew in a full body bind. He let his gaze continue around the room. There was a small urn that had several locking charms on it and something else he could not define. His eyes moved further around the room to see a disheveled Harry Potter sitting next to his son and heir, Draco. He looked closer at Draco; the boy sat there with his head bent and lips that looked like they had recently been thoroughly ravaged. He came full circle with Severus standing next to him. Severus’ now imitated his son. “Would someone care to explain to me what is going on?”

The babbling became an irritating roar. Lucius threw up his hands and yelled above the rest. “QUIET”. Everyone settled down again and looked at him. He looked at the headmaster. “Albus, would you please explain what is going on?”

Albus looked at him with twinkling eyes. “Hello Lucius. Strawberry Twist?” Lucius looked at the strawberry licorice candy twists and shook his head. “No, thank you. Please, what is going on?’ Lucius was on the verge of losing control over his stretched patience. Severus conjured chairs and pushed Lucius into one, taking the other for himself. He leaned over and took a piece of the twist and began sucking on it. Lucius looked at him and arched his eyebrow almost to his hairline. This was most worrisome, Sev very rarely ate sweets.

Albus cleared his throat and began the story. “Lucius, I have known about the arrangements between you and Narcissa sent it occurred. I know because I have been her secret keeper. She has been working her way into Pettigrew’s graces since then, following a woman’s intuition. She was proved right by the way. Today after the revel was concluded, Narcissa stayed behind with the other Death Eaters. She watched as Peter looked at Voldemort and managed to summon Harry to him. Harry had been practicing curses with Draco in the DADA classroom. He arrived in time to see Peter stun the Dark Lord. Harry took one of the new curses he learned and more or less annihilated the Dark Lord, leaving nothing but ashes. Narcissa saw the way the power play was going so she bound Peter. Together she and Harry cleaned up Voldemort and placed him in the urn. The two then stupefied and bound all the Death Eaters in the building and called for the aurors to get them. Narcissa, Harry and Peter made it here to my office with no one seeing them. Draco was here already relating what had happened while practicing. I called for Severus knowing he could get to you fastest. Since then there have been several more surprises disclosed. For that I think I will let Mr. Potter take over. Harry.”

Harry cleared his throat and looked at Draco sitting next to him. He placed his hands over the wringing ones in the blonde’s lap. He leaned over and whispered something to Draco, causing him to turn and wrap himself around the Gryffindor. Lucius’ eyebrow shot up even further. He didn’t like the looks of this, especially with Narcissa smiling like that. He looked at Albus. “May I?” he asked indicating the candy. Albus went to hand it to him and Severus grabbed the container. He pulled one out and handed it to Lucius and took another for himself, holding the container in a death grip. Lucius frowned. “Mr. Potter, I am waiting for an explanation?”

Harry stroked Draco’s back and looked at Lucius and thought how best to do this. He considered it for a moment and before he could change his mind he looked Lucius dead in the eye and muttered only the second thing that could have surprised Lucius more today. “Hello, Grandpa”

Lucius hit the floor. Narcissa squealed in joy. Albus sat there grinning. Severus tried to help Lucius up and Draco held on tighter to Harry without looking at his father. Peter, being in the body bind, stood immobile.

Lucius managed to sit up on the chair and took another piece of candy. He eyed the inhabitants and repeated to himself everything that had been heard. He shook his head and looked to his son. “Draco.”

Draco didn’t move. “Draco Adonis Malfoy look at me when I speak to you.” Draco stiffened at the tone coming from his father. He looked into Harry’s eyes. Harry nodded and he turned around to face his father. Harry wrapped his arms around Draco and pulled him back against him. Lucius looked at this and the fuzzy picture cleared again. “Draco, I am assuming you and Harry have been having relations (Severus could be heard guffawing) and you are now expecting? How long has this been going on and why weren’t precautions taken? We’ve discussed this. Wait. That doesn’t matter now, It’s done its done. When were you planning on telling me? We would have made arrangements for you, to keep you safe. With the Dark Lord out there and you being my son, it was foolish to take the risk. I hope it was worth it. We may not have Voldemort to worry about now, but there are now new problems. We will discuss them later.”

Lucius looked to Harry. “Harry you may have saved our world, but if you hurt Draco, you will have me to deal with, and it won’t be as easy as Voldemort. You two will be getting married today is that understood?”

He then turned to Narcissa. “Good work love. It’s a shame you had to tolerate that though.” Narcissa smiled back at him. “Thank you Lucius and it wasn’t as bad as you might think.” Narcissa began blushing, the beauty radiating from her as she slipped into Albus’ lap.

Lucius took another piece of candy, imitating the potions master. He shook his head and looked around. “Is there anything else to be said here today so my hair can finish turning gray?” Severus cleared his throat and looked at Lucius. “WHAT NOW FOR GODS SAKE?” Severus blanched and leaned over to Lucius and whispered in his ear. Lucius hit the floor again in a dead faint. Albus called for Madame Pomfrey and together they levitated Lucius to a stretcher. They waited for the aurors to arrive and when they had taken Pettigrew directly to Azkaban for “the Kiss” the six began the walk to the dungeons while moving Lucius on the stretcher. Harry was feeling in a strange mood and began humming a Muggle tune. Draco was familiar with it and joined in. Soon all were humming it and Harry began singing an adulterated version.
“Hi Ho Hi Ho It’s off to the dungeons we go.” He continued all the way there, changing words as he went.

They made it to Severus personal quarters and entered. Poppy hit Lucius with an Enervate and they helped him to the couch. He looked around again at his spreading family. “Are you absolutely, positively sure Severus? There is no way that the results are false?” Severus just nodded his head. Lucius expelled a deep held breath.

“Who would have believed it. I’m going to be..” he stopped. He couldn’t even utter the word.

Severus sat next to him, kissed him gently and took his hand. “Yes, Lucius, it’s true. You are going to be the next Minister of Magic.”

A/N Music theme shamelessly borrowed and adulterated were from Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. No infringement was intended.

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