Chapter 91: Complicated Relationships

At Tonks's, Andromeda was getting a massage from her son-in-law. The other time it had served her well to sleep, and after offering it again she has begun to receive them occasionally.

"You are British?" She asked as she lay in bed, intrigued by Tenebrius' true identity.

"Yes," I replied.

"Aren't you a wanted criminal? I want to know, so I can start packing" she laughed but was also a little anxious if so.

"No, no proven crime"

Andromeda continued to enjoy the massage, almost falling asleep, but at one point she woke up and mentioned.

"I've noticed you've been letter someone, sending them flowers and candies"

"Oh... Worried?" I laughed a little as I pulled on top of her to give her back a rub.

"Should?" she asked tentatively.

"Tonks knows it and who it's for, and she doesn't care. I don't think it should matter to you any more than she does."

"Hmm... but still, could you satisfy this old lady's curiosity?" She did not give up. She spoke in a way that she did not seem aggressive, but at the same time that she would not give up until she found out.

"Amelia Bones" I confessed

"Ohh... give her my regards next time" Her tone changed to one of calm, and she positioned herself once more to enjoy the massage.

"Why did you relax so much?"

"Didn't you say I shouldn't worry more than my daughter does"

"Yes, but I know you wouldn't even if I told you. What made your attitude change?"

"That I'm not afraid that you're going to cheat on Tonks with Amelia. If you were writing to some other young girl, maybe I would."

"Why don't you think I have a chance with my boss? She would help our finances" I joked.

"I know her, she is a very upright person, and she is much older than you. You have the same chances with her as with me"

"Then I have a good chance, you're not going to tell me that our date last time was nothing...or were you just playing with my feelings?" I used a dramatic tone.

"I am an evil woman who abuses her son-in-law's fragile heart, but what are you going to do about it?" She turned her head and looked at me provocatively.

"I don't know, ma'am 'once I masturbated thinking about one of my daughter's classmates'"

"I told you that in confidence!" She reproached me "My husband went out on business and that boy was attractive... I need some material and I only used it to start..." she was embarrassed.

"It's ok, I forgive you"

"Why should you forgive me?" She asked me, she was annoyed to hear the way I said it.

"For not having thought of me"

"Ha, as if I wanted to think about your little sausage" She scoffed, but quickly felt bad, she said it without thinking. Since that date, we had become closer, like good friends.

"Hey, this is not my real body, my real sausage is much bigger"

"How many?" She provoked me, seeing that I didn't get upset by what she said.

"Enough for Tonks to walk weird the next day, you've seen it already" I puffed out my chest with pride.

"So big?!" She looked at me surprised.

"Well… no… that was more about the amount of sex we had than the size… but it's still respectable."

After he said that, we laughed. We continue joking for a while longer, even after finishing the massage. This Tonks did not like very much, since by improving my relationship with her mother, together we could annoy her even more.

...

In the Slytherin common room, Pansy was crying in front of Malfoy. She, tormented by the emotions had been feeling after the day she drinks the potion, decided to confess to Malfoy before anything else happened because she felt inside her that all hope with him was disappearing.

"But I love you…" Pansy sobbed, whom everyone in the common room was looking.

"Shut up, you just embarrass me in front of everyone" Malfoy said irritably "And someone who would really love me would never get together with Weasley. We all know you had a good time with him the other day, don't come with your stupid things to bother me"

"But... but... but I did it to protect you!" She yelled "Weasley was going to do something horrible to you and I made a deal with him to prevent it" Pansy fell to her knees, covering her face with her hands.

"I don't need you or anyone else to protect me!" Malfoy yelled at her after feeling all eyes on him "Don't talk to me again, I don't even know with what courage you dare to say that you like me. I don't want to see you again or listen to your stupid things, Whore!" He walked out of the common room into the great hall, luckily, because Tracey who had just arrived was about to knock his teeth out.

Tracey tried to help Pansy up, but it was difficult, the girl was mentally broken, still hearing Malfoy's words in her head. Pansy wasn't even aware of what was going on around her, she just heard a buzzing in her ear, to the point that she didn't notice when I showed up to help Tracey carry her to her room.

Pansy was now crying on her bed, not holding back her screams. Pansy's other roommates were in the bedroom right now, plus me, which surprised them, since boys shouldn't be allowed in girls' rooms.

Using my powers I was able to calm Pansy, but still she didn't want to get out of bed and her tears didn't stop flowing... inside her, she couldn't stop feeling the pain that after everything she did, the only thing she received was that called her a whore.

"I should go smash the bastard Malfoy's little things" Tracey raged, "He doesn't know how to respect Pansy or any other girl, he won't need them" She planned to geld Malfoy down.

"Although I think your idea is great, we can't do that" Daphne told her.

"Why not? Red, help me get a hammer, a big one" She seemed to order me.

"I think it's a good idea, but I'm on Daphne's side. Besides, I don't know if it's good that I keep getting involved, this is my fault"

"It's not your fault" Millicent told me.

"Yes, it is. Pansy was right, I had her spend the day before with us on the deal that if she didn't, I would give Malfoy the love potion."

"The fake potion she said you gave her?" Tracey asked.

"Yes... fake" I affirmed, not what I thought, but it will work.

"That's not your fault, what you did is that Pansy had a good day with her friends, nothing more. Malfoy can't understand that he's not the navel of the world, if he were at least a little less stupid we wouldn't come to this" Millicent justified "If someone is to blame, it's him"

"Let's stop talking about Malfoy because Pansy cries again every time we do" Daphne whispered to us.

We lowered our voices and argued some more, we kept trying to comfort Pansy, but every time I reached out and tried to touch her to use my powers, she moaned and backed away. We had a hard time calming her down enough for her to start talking.

The girls made her express feelings in words, how she felt, as they comforted her.

"We should go to dinner" Tracey said.

"N-No… I don't w-want to g-go… I d-dont want to s-see he" Pansy, sitting on her bed, was clinging to the arm of Millicent, who was sitting next to her.

"Okay, okay, we're not going" Millicent tried to calm her down.

"Yeah, we don't need to go there, we can eat here, like at a party" Tracey said trying to liven up the atmosphere.

"We just have to get some food," Daphne suggested.

"I'll take care of it" I said pulling various things out of my inventory, enough to really throw a party, but Pansy flinched at the sight of me too.

"I-I-I don't want to see you either" she started to cry again, but this time it was for me. Her crying for me was almost as bad as Malfoy's.

I sighed and left, I knew she couldn't calm down with me present, not naturally. I left the room and went about my business, hoping that Pansy would recover.

...

"How can you keep doing this?" Amelia was scolding me "I don't know how you keep sneaking into the ministry, but it's very dangerous if they find out"

"Okay, I'll stop coming" I replied.

"And stop sending gifts, you have no idea how they look at me now in the ministry. How did you think that was a good idea?"

"I don't plan to stop doing that"

"You're losing what little respect I still have for you" she looked at me seriously.

"How will I show you my love?"

"We don't have any love!" She screamed.

"How do you know? I already told you the other time..."

"And I told you 'It's not possible!'" She interrupted me "Why can't you understand it?" She seemed very irritated.

"Amelia, you've said it several times in about 10 minutes... you deny it, you don't even give me a chance. Last time we made it clear that there was nothing stopping us, why don't you let me at least try? "

"Why do you have to be so stubborn?!" She was rubbing the bridge of her nose "I told you, stop playing with me. I'm not young enough to put up with things like this... find yourself a girlfriend, lives your life, and stop bothering me with stupid things"

"Amelia... Is it so hard to believe that I want something with you? Really" I kept my eyes fixed on hers and with a serious expression.

"Yes, it is. In my mind, everything you do is nothing more than a stupid game that you will get tired of, but until that happens I have to put up with it"

"Then I think I have to increase my efforts"

"I already consider it harassment... and I don't want to have to call the Aurors to catch my best assistant" Her voice was very stern.

"... Amelia..."

"Stop!" She yelled "Stop trying to convince me, this is my last warning. You drop this, or next time I'll lock you up for harassing a ministry staff" She prevented me from answering. She was tired of so many looks and whispers in the ministry, at first she didn't care but then...

I extended both hands together, which earned a confused look from her.

"What are you doing?"

"I surrender" I replied indifferently.

"What?"

"You said it, stop or prison... I don't plan to arrest myself. Let's save time..."

"You can not be serious?" She reacted in disbelief. She didn't really plan on doing it unless I passed certain limits, or maybe she would, but just for a few days to teach me a lesson.

"I want you to believe that what I want is real... I may not be trustworthy, but I would like to try"(Red)

"So you're really out of your mind," she denied.

"I think that was shown when I killed 18 people in a fit of rage" (Red)

"That's another thing I'd like you to clarify for me"

"Amelia, stop changing the subject. Stop trying to avoid it, I want to try, I want you to give me a chance"(Red)

"That's not gonna happen"

"Then you only have to lock me up... I don't plan to give up"(Red)

"You know if I do that, you'll leave the Tonks women alone. Don't you think about them? Grow up and stop playing stupid games"

"They'll be fine... you can lock me up or continue to receive snacks and breakfast from me, things I know you haven't refused..."

"Okay… I'll lock you up" she said, taking the wand from her and casting a spell on my hands, binding them.

She was getting tired and wanted to teach me a lesson so that I would learn to behave. I was a bit surprised but didn't show it, she seemed serious about it, and she didn't seem to be kidding. She took me to the ministry and I didn't resist, we got to some aurors, and she gave them orders to lock me up in Azkaban.

The Aurors were shocked, they thought I was going to be jailed for my previous crimes, but Amelia made it very clear that this had nothing to do with it, that it was just for a bit of a ruckus, and that I was to be strictly treated like a petty criminal.

"Send me the paperwork to the jail, so I can help you, it will be complicated if you do the job alone" I whispered before they took me away.

I went to Azkaban a second time, albeit in a better cell. This place could even be pretty, if it weren't for the prisoners' complaints, this part of the prison has fewer dementors, so the captives have more strength.

I wasn't worried about coming to Azkaban, it would be just another clone, and I'm interested in seeing how far Amelia will go. Also, I have some ideas I want to put into practice and I need some dementors.