My Precious Jewel | By : sheherazade Category: Harry Potter AU/AR > Het - Male/Female Views: 3648 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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An unattractive corrugated-steel purple-painted hangar houses the Fun Factory, and when Ruby advised me to follow the sound of screaming juveniles she was only half joking.
It is not that I don’t want to see them again, but does it have to be in this primary-coloured, padded circle of hell? Even the way their faces light up on seeing me and the boy’s excited squeal of ‘Daddy!’ do not quite dampen the dismay I feel on entering the building. Inane jingly-jangly music plays pointlessly beneath the hysterical squawking of the patrons. Everywhere children scramble like unruly monkeys across rope ladders and down chutes into vast repositories of plastic spheres. Most of them are screaming, or laughing, but a notable minority are crying or throwing tantrums.All in all, my sentiments are that the person who misnamed this travesty ‘Fun Factory’ should face litigation for false advertising. This is as much fun as a bath of bubotuber pus. When I mention this to Ruby she clicks her tongue at me and snaps, “I don’t think forty-year-old wizards were the target market when they conceived this place.”Really, she is extremely impertinent these days; I feel this tendency ought to be checked. But when will I ever get the chance to correct her shortcomings again? I watch her tight-jeaned bottom wiggle over to where Tom is trying to kick a small boy off a slide and imagine it bared and squirming over my lap. Mmm. This is not a good place to be thinking of such an image though. I quash it, or rather have it quashed for me by a feral-looking eight-year-old who yells at me to get out of her way. My mood is not good as I growl out an order for two cups of tea and an apple juice to the menial at the serving hatch. I take the drinks with me and sit at the table, ostensibly watching the scenes of bedlam around me, but really undressing Ruby with my eyes as she climbs and jumps after the boy. There are so many things I want to do to her, I wonder if I could get around to them all if I lived to be five hundred. That tight T-shirt should be illegal, but it outlines her breasts in such sinful detail that my eyes cannot but linger. And if mine are hypnotised…grrr…I look around to make sure none of the other jaded fathers are ogling my woman. Good. Most of them look too tired to contemplate even mental infidelity, slumped over the football pages of their newspapers. Sweet goddess, now she is on her knees, bent right over while she tickles Tom’s stomach. Does she even know how that looks to a…ahem…casual observer? Her arse cheeks are lifted and separated like two ripe melons straining to burst through the stretched denim…A frantic list of all the shameful indecencies I could subject that magnificent backside to begins to gallop through my head. My breath is shortening and I have to affect sincere interest in the menu, placing it concealingly on my lap. It really wouldn’t do to be seen like this…here of all places…one could get a VERY wrong idea… Damn, she’s coming over. I must rid myself of this inappropriate erection immediately. What can I think about? Hermione Granger! Humourless bossy little Gryffindor prig…ah yes, that’s done the trick all right.I restore the menu to the table top and raise my eyebrow at the vision of curvaceousness that is mine, all mine.“What are you doing skulking over here?” she says querulously.“Excuse me! I am not skulking!” Oh yes, a spanking is most definitely number one on the agenda for later. Whenever later might be.“Why don’t you go and play with the son you’ve had nothing to do with for nearly four years? He’s asking for you.”“I don’t play,” I say huffily, but something in the irate cast of her face convinces me not to pursue the point. “Very well,” I mutter ungraciously. She sits down, sips at her tea and grins.“This I have to see,” she says as I move away towards the seething mass of snot-nosed mini-humanity.“Come into the ball pool!” shouts Tom, hurling varicoloured plastic balls out at passers-by.“I, ah, prefer to watch,” I tell him through the netting that separates our faces.“Come in!” he says, his lips drooping and the first signs of tears making their presence known.“How do I get in there?” I ask, looking around and seeing no other access point than a rather steep chute.“The slide!”Ah, as I feared. With all the enthusiasm of Marie-Antoinette en route for the guillotine, I climb the squashy steps while tots scramble around my ankles, almost unbalancing me a number of times. I have faced death on numerous occasions. I have even meted it out. So why is this so hard for me? As I crest the stairs and appear at the top of the slide, Tom cheers and claps his hands. I look over at Ruby. The minx is laughing at me. Only the thought of the painful retribution I shall exact from her later ameliorates the mortifying reality of my position. I launch myself down and land with an unexpectedly hard bump, dislodging a shower of plastic bubbles as I do so. Tom screams with laughter and jumps on top of me, the consequences of which are almost seriously grievous for my chances of ever providing him with siblings.“DON’T….do that, Tom,” I warn, biting back an angry retort. His response is to pick up a ball and throw it hard at my face. “Let’s play catching!” he suggests. The boy is clearly overexcited, and I am tempted to drag him out of there and slip some Sleeping Draught into his fruit juice. Give me a second or two alone with Ruby. But I don’t want to alienate him, so I indulge him in a half-hearted throwing and catching game. His reflexes are as yet poorly developed, so I get him to practise his catch over and over until he gets bored (mercifully quickly) and demands something to eat.I lead him back to his mother, who produces some breadsticks from somewhere. “When do I get you alone?” I ask her bluntly, holding her eye as colour floods into her cheeks.“You have to realise what life is like for me now,” she says. “I can’t usually afford a babysitter…”“I can,” I say instantly. “Hire one. Tonight.”“It isn’t that easy…”“Ask your friend. Freda.”“I…”“Ask her. Call her now.” I keep my eye fixed on Ruby as her shell of defiance crumbles and she takes her mobile phone from her handbag. It seems she has been exaggerating the difficulty of finding supervision for the child, for the deal is made within a minute.“He can spend the night at Freda’s,” she says, colouring beautifully at the inference she knows I am making. “Perfect,” I say, a smile flickering on my lips as she tears her eyes guiltily from my uncompromising gaze.She giggles nervously. “God, I can see the cogs whirring in there. You’re making devilish plans, aren’t you?”I reach over and thread a couple of her fingers through mine. “The darkest, deepest, most devious and deviant kind, my dear,” I say with deliberation. She shivers deliciously.“Well I want you to take me out,” she says imperiously. “I’m not a cheap date any more. You can’t get your way with me just like that.” I’m pretty sure I could, but I decide to humour her.“Name your heart’s desire,” I say, though I always find it difficult to say romantic words without sounding sarcastic. Why is that? “I shall endeavour to fulfil it, Ruby.”She is fluttering like a trapped butterfly, poor girl. She stands no chance. When I want something, I am completely, single-mindedly ruthless, as she will learn.“Oh, well. Dinner would be nice. Somewhere…oh, I don’t mind really. Not McDonalds though.”“McDonalds?”She smiles beatifically. “I love the things you don’t know,” she exclaims.“I’m delighted I have such novelty value,” I say, a stern edge creeping into my voice, which gets her knickers in even more of a twist. They’ll be off before the stroke of midnight, I would put money on it. “I’ll leave you to make a booking then, Ruby. Anywhere you like. I’ll pick you up at half past seven.”“Half past seven,” she beams, winding her fingers more tightly into mine.*How does one dress for a ‘date’?Impossible as it may seem, I have somehow arrived at the age of forty two with no experience of such a social encounter. Having spent my teenage years mooning fruitlessly after the unattainable, I moved on to a few clandestine encounters with another man’s fiancée which had to end when she married. As Lord Voldemort’s youthful protégé, young women were occasionally procured for my pleasures, though I prefer not to dwell on that time. Although it was never explicitly stated, I always suspected that they were under the Imperius; their enthusiasm for me was certainly not something I would expect, given my usual underwhelming effect on women at that age.Later on, my personal situation was such that the pursuit of a personal relationship was quite out of the question. I spent sixteen years gratifying my natural urges with the assistance of the amenable ladies of The Enchanted Boudoir. Occasionally I was tempted to take advantage of tired and emotional witches at the end of long nights in Hogsmeade or elsewhere, but as these women were almost invariably ex-pupils of mine, there was an odd, rather creepy quality to the liaisons which made them less enjoyable than they should have been. The girls always came back for more, however. I always had to send them away.So while I am far from sexually inexperienced, I am wholly unversed in the ways of courtship. Never since Lily have I wanted a lover rather than – excuse my coarseness – an available set of female genitalia for the night. The night Ruby and I spent together in the beach hut was a revelation to me; it unlocked a set of needs and desires I did not even realise I had. The sweetness of it was so potent it had an almost toxic quality, like Amortentia, suffusing one’s blood and one’s brain until madness is precipitated. I want more of it. I want it and I want her.But first I must dress.Before leaving the Muggle sphere earlier on, I purchased a copy of a men’s style magazine, and I flick through it looking for something suitably sharp. Gods, no, nothing floral. Do Muggle men really wear such unpleasant leisure outfits? I am unimpressed until I find a well-cut suit in charcoal grey with a white shirt and discreet tie. That will do. I absorb the information from the magazine into my wand and then apply it to my own attire. Aha.The Malfoy’s mirror almost has a seizure.“I usually admire your style, Sir, but in this instance I must object most strongly! Is it your intention to look like a Muggle?”“Yes,” I say curtly, and its response is a scream of outrage.“IN MY MISTRESS’ HOUSE! WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?”Ignoring the idiotic glass rectangle, I make a few last minute adjustments, unable to decide whether to tie my hair back or not. On the one hand…it looks more Muggle if I do…on the other…Sweet goddess, is my nose really that big? I leave it down.Descending the stairs to Apparate from the grounds – Lucius has never been able to disable the Anti-Apparition wards Voldemort put on his place of residence – I almost run into mine host, who stares at me with frank astonishment.“Severus! What on earth are you wearing?”“Ah, Lucius, sorry, I can’t stop and talk. I have business to attend to.”“Muggle business?”“Yes.”I move to pass him, but he holds up a hand.“How is your mysterious young family?” he asks with deadly courtesy.“They are very well, thank you.”“When can we expect a visit? Narcissa is so looking forward to meeting them.”“In due course. Lucius, I really must….”“Yes. You really must. Mustn’t you?” says Lucius, a hard edge in his flinty eyes. It seems the perennially able Arithmancer is putting two and two together.I nod and sweep towards the door, hearing Malfoy mutter under his breath in my wake.“Unbelievable. Snape, of all people, knocking up a Muggle.”*Ruby. In a strapless dress, tightly boned to accentuate her tiny waist and luxuriant cleavage, flaring out in a froth of petticoats to just above the knee. Her hair, shiny blonde, piled up on her head, her heels sky-high, her stockings sheer, a little vision of perfect beddability. My throat is uncomfortably dry when she flings the door open to reveal herself and I find myself transfixed by the hollow beneath her throat and above her collarbone, wanting to kiss it so that she throws her neck back and offers its white expanse to me.Later, Severus, later.“Where am I taking you?” I ask her, my choice of words perhaps inadvisable as I am immediately assailed by the image of Ruby being taken by me, the way she looked, her rapt little face on that pile of old bedding in the beach hut. Hmmm. I really need to discipline my mind; at this rate I won’t make it through hors d’oeuvres without some kind of accident in the trouser department.“I’ve booked a place by the river, brasserie type of thing. Supposed to be nice. I didn’t really know what to go for; I never really eat out.” She smiles bashfully at me, as if embarrassed by her lack of sophistication.“No, neither do I,” I tell her, wanting to put her at ease. I hold out a hand. “May I escort you?” Damn, why does even that sound sarcastic? Am I capable of saying anything naturally?The waiter hands us menus and a wine list and I finally think to compliment Ruby on her appearance. It’s considered good form to do so, I believe.
“Oh. Thanks. You look…really good too,” she says. The atmosphere is stilted and formal for some reason. I wonder if there is some pre-approved script for dates. Is there something I have forgotten to say, or should I not have said something else? I feel completely out of my depth.“There’s lots of choice for vegetarians,” says Ruby approvingly over the top of the menu.“Oh, still a vegetarian, are you?” I ask slyly. “Albeit a fair weather vegetarian who eats pork scratchings.”“It was hard being a vegetarian on The Rock,” she defends herself. “Chips in curry sauce was as good as it got. If I hadn’t sneaked the odd pork scratching, I’d have expired from some vitamin deficiency or other.”
I snort. “Perhaps you could have tried eating some vegetables,” I suggest teasingly. “I believe they’re an acceptable component of a vegetarian diet.”
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