Chapter 33: winter solstice
Taking her limp form to the already ready steaming bath, he enters the water with her resting in his chest, thinking of what to do.
'There is no way for us to return to a normal relationship after that. It was ever more strange that we have such relationships in the first place! I nearly never spoke to her, other than our group studies when she was brought by Neville.'
Unconsciously playing with her breasts, obtaining soft whines for the passed while he was pondering what just happen.
At the start of the year, and after the situation with McGonagall, Neville had brought Susan and Hannah to one of his class. It had at first started as simple worries for the girl, all were painfully aware that the boy had a crush on the blonde, reciprocal sentiment from what they could see. All were aware safe the two who would blush while peeking at the other, or when they were caught by the other.
Passing from two to four, and on a different level hadn't been that hard for Orion, it had served as revision for the two, and greatly help the newcomer take have a deeper understanding on the material of the year.
What first started has surveillance session, where Orion would subtly restrain the hold Voldemort shade had on the girl, became a genuine friendship. With Hannah constantly at his side, Neville had shown had better self-confidence, under her heart fill comment and support, and the shy girl had open more to other, emboldened by the fact that she had an actual friend out of Susan and that none of them was mocking her when she fails but give her useful advice and tidbits to perform better.
The two had rapidly understood why Neville and Hermione were that great in class, Orion was just too good of a teacher for them to no be. They had seen their results skyrocket and truly enjoyed their Hogwarts experience after knowing the Orion wasn't some sort of homicidal psycho, but a caring friend that would slay giants to help anyone he likes.
That was the reason why there were only two attacks. Voldemort shade wasn't able to establish itself into her subconscious, as he would sever, and erase any link he made to her psyche.
Looking back, he could now so that Susan had always had that faint blush when he would scowl her for mistakes, more so for the intended one. The girl wanted to be dominated and found the one that would handle her.
While she had stayed, proper around people, she had sent him some sign, that he unknowingly take in stride and respond how she wanted it, expected. The girl had been a flirt pure and simple, but the worst was he didn't seem to care, and like it!
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He was broken out of his thoughts by a sudden meowing from the redhead, looking down, he could see that he had unconsciously tightly clad his left hand on her right breast, molesting the flesh while pulling and rolling her erect nipple between his finger, mashing and trapping her left breast under it.
While his left hand was teasing her breast, his right one had plunged underwater and gone south, playing with her hard and sensible nub. Looking at her face, he could see that she was awake, and staying quiet, enjoying his ministration, and staying immobile, as if fearing that he would stop if he understands that she was awake.
Leaving her breast for a moment, and earning a dissatisfied groan from her at the lost, he turns her head, and kiss her fully on the lips. She eagerly opens her mouth as his hand return to her chest, feeling her hand sneak to fetch her prize and slowly stroke it.
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They stay quiet for a moment, enjoying the pleasure given by the soft play, before Orion break contact, after giving her a soft release.
Sighting, she put her head in the crook of his shoulder, basking on her feeling of fulfilment.
"I will speak to your aunt, you're my little bitch now, and I can't leave you without owner, who knows where you would wander." Say him gently, and contrasting with the crass language.
She says nothing, she knows that he wasn't asking, her, he was stating the fact and taking full ownership on her.
She blushed, and buried her head into his shoulder, letting out only a slight, "Mnnn." To inform him that she understands.
Stroking lovingly the hair of his new acquisition, he takes a more serious tone, making her look at him.
"We need to talk." Seeing her peaks her head to him, he continued. "The reason why I invited Hannah to pass the break with us, even when I have a bad relationship with her father, was of two points. The first was because I know it would do her good to pass a little more time with Neville."
She nods at that, her friend had been more outspoken since they had started to mingle with them.
"The second reason is she had in her possession a cursed diary that tries to slowly possess her, and unleash a beast in the castle."
She was startled by the news, but analyse his words carefully before reacting.
"Try?" Asked her when she put the finger on to why he didn't seem too worried.
He smiles at her deduction, stroking her hair.
"Good girl, I like it when my pet is intelligent." She happily gives in the head pat, blushing and elated to be prized by her master. "Yes, try. It was one of the reasons why Neville had introduced you to us, at first it was only to monitor her and reduce the hold it had on her, but you two have a growth on us. Rather to limitate the hold it had on her, I periodically severe and erase all after the effect it had on her, it had for side effect to loosen her a little but it had done her more good than harm for not, so it is good in my book. For now, she had no memories of the possession of its side effect. I had filled her memories lost by a slight compulsion, showing her a day to day life, not out of the ordinary, her brain and mind a greatly taken on it, and fill the blanc, leaving no sequel on her psyche.
The only reason I let her in possession to the diary his because I need a victim, a single will be sufficient, before I get rid of it and the one that had given it to her. I need a victim for the magic to validate my claim. I know It stretches on the limit of my pledge but, as long as I make sure that the victim stays alive, it will be all good."
"Nothing will happen to Hannah?" Asked her worried for her friend, but relieved that her master had everything in hand.
"No, nothing will happen to her, I have an elf looking over her when she isn't with us or you. The moment she vanishes to unleash the beast, I will shadow, it and made sure that it didn't kill anyone. I was planning to use this situation to my advantage."
"How?" Asked her puzzled.
"By letting rumours know she had been possessed. Knowing her father, he will disown her, letting her able to accept my proposition and came under my protection. When she would, I will be able to ruin her father, and give her the entire holding of the Abbott House."
"What about her mother? She ..."
"I told you, she will have ALL the holding of House Abbott." Grin him, making her realise, and squeal happily that her friend would soon be free and able to bring her mother with her, far away from her scum of father.
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While they were enjoying their bath, and the other three the pool, the rest of the British government was once again harshly slapped in the face by the session of the winter solstice. As it was custom, the Wisengamot was holding a session where any change in the political sphere was suitable to be brought for, this session wouldn't be different.
After being definitively elected as chief Warlock after the dismiss of Dumbledore the previous year, Madam Marchbank was presiding the session.
Banging her wooden mallet on the desk, she calls for silence, before nodding to the scribe on her right.
"On the date of the 22 December 1992, the Wisengamot is assembled in the extraordinary session of the winter solstice, the court recognizes Lucius Malfoy."
"Thank you." Rising from his seat, he climbs down, before standing behind the desk, facing the entire and somewhat diminished assembly. "As we all know, a large group of our peers had been dismissed of their seat when they lost everything, until their very seat, to the goblin, to repay Mr Dumbledore extravagant debt incurred to Lord Evans." Say him with the slightest smirk, earning the growl of the light block.
Unbothered, and even giddy at their loss, he continues." From this ...this painful and delicate situation, the Wisengamot had been thus divided into the following block.
-Light side, 23 seats.
-Grey side, 19 seats.
-The dark side, 30 seats." Say him smugly, this smirking at the evident majority of his party.
"At this came the following change. 12 of the seating Lord of the grey side had to be accepted into my alliance, and now forming:
-Light side, 23 seats.
-Grey side, 7 seats.
-The dark side, 42 seats!"
The announcement tore gasp of fright from the light side as the now majority power of the Dark block on the Wisenmagot, the Ministry would soon fell in the hand of the pureblood Lords, completely.
The great mood of Malfoy was snuffled out when he sees the impassive face of Bones, disappointed and suspicious that something wasn't right.
"Silence!" Bark surprisingly the old woman, regaining control of the chamber." We had heard you, Lord Malfoy, I will now leave Regent Bones made her claim."
"Thank you, Chief Warlock." Say the woman as she takes the place previously held by Lord Malfoy. "I have with me two documents, I will start by the longer one, first. It a claim that Lord Evans had forwarded to me." This made all turn completely serious and Malfoy reeling that something might wreck his plan. "This is a list of past debts owned by several House to House Black. As House Black had sworn fealty to House Evans, the debts had passed to the Head House, and Lord Evans had called into the debts."
This sends shivers to all and made more than one whiten. All know that none other House had incurred debts to another one for at least the past three centuries, calling now on those debts would ruin more than one, and they know this.
"For all House concerned and calling themselves grey, should any of them were to willingly ally with know criminal and/or branded cattle, they are to pay in full, plus interest, the past debts they are owning the past House Black, now House Evans..." She was immediately interrupted by Lord Nott screaming. "That upstart can't cash in those debts, we are recognized innocent by the government and this body!"
"You forget, Lord Nott, that House Evans is a foreign House, and under his chart, any branded wizard is to be seen at what it truly is, branded cattle under the mark of another. This activated one of our law, stating that branded cattle isn't to hold any right. In the light of our law, your group is now seen as nothing more than cattle and don't have the right to contest wizard words."
The slap couldn't be more painful as say law was passed by the very dark alliance of the death eater to protect they hold on their slaves. Now that the assembly was completely silent, she enumerates every one of the twelve grey House that ally themselves with Malfoy, just to lose everything.
"Now that I'm finished with the first act, I had a last statement to made know. House Bones, Greengrass, Patil, Lovegood, Davis, Bell and their vassal House had all been offered to rejoin House Evans, and have accepted, for now on, the House holding a seat in this body will cut all ties with Britain. I have myself give my demission to Minister Thickness this morning. I all have been asked to transmit that the pass ally of House Black have been found waiting and have lost all power for a breach of contract."
The second slap was as painful as the first, and all look powerless as the named Lord present exit the chamber.
Regaining some countenance, Chief Warlord Marchbank strike her mallet three times, before announcing.
"For today forth, the WIsengamot shall be constituted of its remaining seats, under the following division.
-Light side, 22 seats.
-Grey side 3 seats.
-dark side 20 seats.
The Wisengamot had now 45 seats, the majority will be fixed as 22 seats, plus one. The session his adjourned."
While the equilibrium was restored, it became painfully evident that the body was turning into a big joke, in a little more than one year, it had lost 56 seats, all to a now 12 years old.
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As soon as the session was concluded, Gringotts was informed, and the account managers look powerlessly as their past client holding vanishes from their guard. Millions of gallon vanish from the bank and alongside, a vast majority of the shares from the shop in the Alley. For every second now, Gringotts was lousing gold to an enemy they had deemed as inconsequential a year before that was now legally bleeding it dry.
The 15 head of the left behind clan had to form an extraordinary session of their own to discuss the future of the bank.
Say future was bleak when they receive a message mid-way, from the King of the Nation. Gringotts British branch had been deem waiting, and a great shame to the Nation, no help would be sent to them in their struggle. Their branch had been definitively cut from the rest of the Nation, like a gangrened limb that was cut to spare the rest of the body.
This effectively leaves them with two solutions, beg for forgiveness to be accepted under the Evans House, or fight to their death and try to conquer their foes. The first would see their pride crushed and their vaults dried, the second would be their unique attempts to regain their honour.
The session finalizes on a draw. 6 Clan wanted war, 6 wanted to mend bridge at the cost of their honour and fortune, and the left 3 had stay silent. It was finally chosen that they will wait and see how the situation evolves in the wizarding world.
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Orion feels the sudden expansion of land while he was still in the bath with Susan. Giving her a last squeeze on that marvellous chest, he says.
"Return to the others and tell them that I had to deal with the issue, and will be back shortly."
She nods and climbs out of the bath, followed by Orion. Giving her a sharp slap on her doughy rear, he cast a drying charm on her, and repair her swimsuit, sending her off, while he pops to the heart of the Island. The majority of the land was sent to expand the island territory, while the Manor of each family was put on the previously selected place.
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