Y/N collapsed to the bed exhausted, and Hermione pulled a sheet up to try and cover their glistening bodies- they were both naked and sweaty and had been enjoying what she called their 'special time' for hours.

She stopped though at the waist and looked across to her lover, smiling as a post climatic blush grew on her cheeks. She pointed to her chest:

"Could you unsheath your wand love? This is a bit um, sticky"

Y/N chuckled and did as his girlfriend asked, adding as he cast a cleaning charm:

"To be fair it was your idea, you cheeky little minx."

Y/N reached across to the bed stand next to their bed that their special place always provided for them. He checked the time on his watch and was shocked that it read 3:45am.

"Quarter to four?" Y/N exclaimed, followed by a mutter of "the bloody woman's insatiable."

"What was that love?" Hermione asked happily, her cheeks still flushed as she hummed happily to herself.

"Just saying I'm gonna skip my workout in the morning- you've worn me out baby" Y/N chuckled.

"Whatever you think is best, my L-"

Hermione suddenly cut herself off mid sentence, causing Y/N to raise an eyebrow in puzzlement.

"Oh no. That word has too much of an effect on you. I can't take another five hours" Hermione giggled as she leapt onto Y/N's chest, snuggling her face into the crook of his neck as his arm wrapped around her back and held her right, Hermione's finger gently running up and down Y/N's chest scar.

"To be fair, you are the one who kept screaming it" Y/N chuckled as he was playfully slapped on the chest, the pair falling asleep not long after.

—~—

After waking late, showering and feeding Gizmo the happy couple headed down for breakfast before Y/N headed to Ghoul Studies.

He arrived and entered the class and he and Sam greeted each other with their customary hug.

"Hey, Y/N. How have you been? How was your week?"

"Eventful Sammy. Very eventful. How  about you?" Y/N chuckled.

"Likewise. Seals, hunts, the usual" Sam replied.

Y/N looked down in guilt, stammering: "I'm sorry Sam I-"

His mentor cut him off quickly:

"No it's fine, Y/N. I told you last week- I get it. Do you want to talk about it?"

Y/N looked at Sam and smiled.

"Yeah I do. Come here. I'm gonna lie my head on your shoulder. We could cry and hug and maybe even slow dance?"

Sam chuckled at the moron.

"That wall's back up is it?"

Y/N chuckled back:

"Yep. You caught me weak last week Sam. Won't happen again."

Sam sighed and shook his head before deciding to change the subject.

"So what's been going on with you?"

Y/N caught him up- the Goblins, the emancipation, the Lordship. Sam sat there absolutely blown away by the earth shaking revelations, and asked:

"Wow- So should I call you my Lord now?"

Y/N chuckled "Don't you fucking dare. So what's the plan for today, Prof?"

Sam smiled at his younger friend. "Since you're so far ahead and nailing everything I've thrown at you- Today we have a field trip."

Y/N was caught off guard, muttering: "Sam I-"

"No. Not hunting, no danger of anything- just taking you to meet some friends. I've had Albus connect this room up to the Floo Network. I know you know how to use it. Just repeat after me."

Sam picked up a handful of powder.

"Ellen's roadhouse"

With a burst of flame he was gone.

Y/N took a handful of the powder. He repeated Sam's destination and emerged from a fireplace in a dark and dingy looking bar.

"Sammy?" Y/N asked looked around at the deserted and dilapidated bar.

"Huh. Did I Floo to the wrong loc-"

Y/N stopped mid sentence, feeling a wand in his back.

"Don't-"

The assailant was cut off after the first word as Y/N had spun, flung them hard over his shoulder in a judo throw he had learnt from Neville's cousin, Noel, the year prior.

"Oof" the assailant groaned in pain as a wand shot down Y/N's arm directly into the attacker's face. Y/N snarled before a look of realisation grew on his face:

"Jo?" he asked in shock at the pretty young barmaid laying at his feet.

Y/N sheathed his wand and pulled Jo to her feet as chuckling and clapping could be heard behind him. Y/N turned to see a number of people appear from disillusionment charms, Bobby and Sam among them looking quite unhappy. One man with a flat top and a thick southern American drawl was chuckling loudest and added happily:

"You said he was good Sam but goddamn I ain't never seen anything like that!"

Y/N was confused but turned back to Jo, handing her back her wand as he chastised:

"Don't ever pull that again, Jo. I could've killed you."

Jo, the barmaid Y/N had met at the Leaky Cauldron, blushed brightly before she rushed in and hugged Y/N tightly. He stood there confused before patting her on the back awkwardly. She released the hug and smiled at him:

"Good to see you again, Y/N."

"Uh. Yeah you too" Y/N replied, still uncomfortable with the close physical contact.

"Alright let the boy breathe Jo" an older woman said as she walked over smiling with her hand out. Y/N shook it.

"Bloody Hufflepuffs! Always hugging. Couldn't be a Slytherin like her ma. Ellen Harville nice to meet you" the lady said with in a thick Brummy accent.

"You too, Ellen. I've heard lot of good things. So this is your roadhouse? Charming. Love what you've done with the uh-"

Y/N was interrupted by a small charge of electricity exploding from a corner. He looked across and saw a body on the bar's pool table.

"...decor. Very... rustic?"

Ellen chuckled. "It looks like a dump kid. We do that on purpose. Most muggles walk in and walk out just as quick. Sam, Jo and Bobby have told me a lot about you."

Y/N smirked and replied: "Well the stories don't usually do me justice."

Ellen chuckled again. "Said you were a smartarse too"

Y/N smiled before Sam put a hand on his shoulder.

"Alright sorry for that little test Y/N. Benny thought it would be hilarious."

"I told them it was a bad idea" came another gruff and grizzly voice. Y/N smiled as he turned to face its owner, the two embracing in a warm familial hug.

"Good to see you Bobby" Y/N smiled, the grizzled hunter doing the same as he added:

"You too boy, you're looking bigger every time I see you."

"Well ain't this the cosy little get together" the large man with the flattop and and a thick southern drawl spoke up as he approached Y/N, Sam and Bobby.

"Y/N this is Benny Lafitte. A good friend of ours" Sam said introducing the man. Y/N shook his hand and noticed it was ice cold.

"You're a long way from home. Louisiana?" Y/N asked warmly.

"You got a good ear boy" the man chuckled.

"Good senses too. Sam never told me he ran with vamps" Y/N answered nonchalantly. The room instantly went silent before Sam muttered:

"Y/N, you gotta-"

He was quickly cut off by Benny replying:

"Naw it's ok, Sammy. Something you wanna say boy? Got a problem with vampires?"

Benny's tone was defensive as he took a step closer to Y/N. Y/N raised an eyebrow before he chuckled in realisation:

"Not generally Benny, no. I'm not prejudiced. If Sammy trusts you that's good enough for me. Actually got a few people I'd like to feed to you come to think about it, if you're interested that is."

Y/N rubbed his bearded chin in far away thought, momentarily running through scenarios in his head as Bobby stared for a moment before chuckling.

"I like you boy. You was right Sammy, balls of steel this one."

Sam rolled his eyes, patting Y/N on the shoulder and chuckled:

"Alright, Y/N, this is Jody Mills and her three daughters. Annie, Claire and Patience."

Y/N smiled and shook Jody's hand.

"Not much of a family resemblance" he said at the same time, causing Sam to sigh and rub his eyes behind Y/N. If Y/N was the Archduke now he should probably start working on a filter for himself.

"Adopted daughters" Jody clarified. "All muggles. Sometimes on hunts things go bad. All my girls were left with nobody. So I adopted them and now we're family."

"And the Ministry were ok with that?" Y/N asked with a smirk.

"What the Ministry don't know doesn't hurt them" Jody smiled. A wide smile broke out across Y/N's face as he answered:

"Oh I like you already, Jody."

Her daughters though could be overheard behind her.

"Jo was right. He is hot"

"Look at that rig under his shirt"

"I bet he's got a massive cock"

Jody went beet red as she turned and spoke between gritted teeth:

"Girls! I keep telling you lot we can hear you. You aren't as quiet as you think you are!"

Y/N stood awkwardly in front of Jodie before hearing another voice behind him:

"He does. I mean I don't know, know, but psychically, I know" the woman chuckled tapping her temple.

"Pam. Good to see you" Y/N smiled before quickly turning beet red at her next words.

"You too, N/N. But I told you, use a condom even though it's just oral. Five hours last night and not one used? Come on kid! If you don't practice safely now when you do progress with Hermione she'll be pregnant before you know it!"

"Yeah like I could find one big enough Pammy" Y/N fired back, hoping to shock Pam into silence. Instead it had the opposite reaction, sending the three muggle girls behind him into fits of giggles.

Y/N heard "dibs" and "mine" and wished to Merlin he would learn to keep his mouth shut. As he stood there wishing to be swallowed up by a massive hole he heard another voice enter the room. It spoke with a weak chuckle:

"Massive cock. Won't use a rubber. Must be my favourite little hunter."

Ruby entered the bar from a back room-holding her stomach and walking gingerly with a pronounced shuffle.

"Ruby!" Y/N exclaimed as he rushed over and hugged her gently, surprising not only her but Sam and the others as well.

"Wow. I guess this means you finally trust me?" Ruby chuckled as Y/N helped her sit.

"Yeah you could say that. How are you feeling? I've been worried sick. What did that bastard do to you?"

Ruby smiled at Y/N's sweet concern. As she held his hands and pulled him down to sit next to her she remembered what Sam had told her- Y/N's trust and loyalty was incredibly hard to gain, but once you had it he would scorch the earth for you. She smiled sweetly and squeezed his hands:

"I'm ok, Y/N. Ellen has been taking good care of me."

Y/N smiled in relief before looking over to Ellen as she spoke:

"You did good ,Y/N. Real good. Those healing spells you cast on Rubes saved her life"

Y/N chuckled and turned back to a smiling Ruby as he added: "Guess we're even then."

There was a happy silence in the room before Sam finally added:

"So lastly, there's just Ash."

Y/N looked around but couldn't see anyone else as he asked "Ash?"

"ASH!!!!" Ellen yelled out. The 'corpse' on the pool table suddenly shot up, resembling a dog that had been woken up quickly from a deep sleep. He sort of looked around,  swivelling the entire top half of his body in a state of disorientation.

"Huh. What. Yeah? Closing time?" He asked with a thick Jeordie accent.

"That's Ash?" Y/N asked surprised looking at Jo.

She looked at him doe eyed before giggling, looking down, and smiling, adding: "Mhmm. He's a genius."

"A genius? Looks more like an Acca Dacca roadie" Y/N chuckled. Ruby leant over and whispered in Y/N's ear.

"Just give him a chance big guy? For me?"

Y/N smiled and patted Ruby's hand gently before walking up to the mullet wearing man and smiling.

"Hey, I'm Y/N. Nice to meet you. That's a hell of a haircut, Ash."

Ash smiled at Y/N, running a hand through his magnificent mullet as he replied:

"I know, right mon? All business up front, party in the back like. Just how I like it."

He slapped himself in the face, his eyes widening as he took Y/N in properly:

"You the new guy? Can't be accepted into the family until you pass the initiation."

"Initiation?" Y/N chuckled.

"Ash..." Sam started before Y/N raised his hand, asking Ash with a chuckle:

"It's cool Sammy. What have you got mullet boy?"

Ash picked up two cans of beer.

"Shotgun a beer" He smiled cheesily.

"He's 14" Ellen yelled out.

"And he can drink like he's 45" Bobby chuckled. "The kid's got it Ellen, don't worry so much."

Y/N and Ash both pierced their cans as Ash yelled: "Go!"

They lifted, opened and drank through the hole. Both finished in a matter of seconds.

Ash looked at Y/N impressed, smiling: "I like you. Welcome to the family. Let me show you what I've been working on."

Y/N raised an eyebrow and chuckled but followed the mullet man down the far side of the bar to what Ash called a 'computer.'

"This is the latest muggle model. I've suped it up with a little magic mojo and now I can do a lot of things" Ash smiled.

He pressed some buttons and a map of the UK appeared.

"Ok, so I've entered all the data from known seals in. These are nonparametric statistical overviews and cross spectrum correlations."

He looked back at the blank expression on Y/N's face.

"Basically it's a big map, shows the outlying pattern of seals- see if we can predict a pattern."

Y/N nodded before pointing at the rough shape on the screen:

"That looks like an inverted pentagram."

"Yep. With one village smack dab in the middle of it"

"Which is?"

"Little Hangleton"

"What's so special about this place?"

"Nothing, far as we can tell. But if something big was gonna go down at the end of these seals, that's where my money would be, mon."

Y/N studied the screen intently, remembering each of the dots/seals he had been involved in as he asked:

"Ash, where did you learn to do all this?"

"Oxford" Ash replied lazily as he opened another beer.

"Oxford?"

"Yeah. I'm Muggleborn and it's this muggle University. Went there til I got bounced for.... fighting."

Y/N chuckled and replied: "a man after my own heart."

—~—

Y/N spent the next couple of hours getting to know the family and trying to avoid flirtatious smiles from teenage girls. When it was time to leave he assured Sam he could make his own way back as he had to go to Hogsmeade for an errand first.

"You sure you're allowed to do that, Y/N?" Sam asked. Y/N looked back blankly:

"No idea. I've never asked permission, I just do what I need to. See you next week."

With that he apparated away silently and was gone.

"Silent apparition. He ain't even supposed to be apparating yet. You guys weren't lying- that kid is something else. Definitely a chip off the old block" Ellen chuckled as she poured another round for her friends, remembering when Thomas had been a part of the family.

Y/N appeared out the front of Honeydukes and entered the sweets store. It was strange seeing it so quiet compared to the student visit days where you could hardly move in the store. He grabbed five blocks of Hermione's favourite chocolate, peppermint, and went to pay at the counter.

"Not sure if I can sell to you, you guys aren't supposed to be here today" The shop assistant stated, picking up that Y/N was a Hogwarts student.

"How much is it for these five?" Y/N asked.

"Well it will be 1 galleon, 3 sickles"

"Here's 5 galleons and I disappear immediately. Does that work?" Y/N chuckled.

"Ok" The shop keeper agreed. She handed Y/N the chocolate and he handed over the money. He exited the shop and looked up to see an extremely stunned Professor McGonagall staring at him from across the street. Y/N smiled, gave her a cheeky wink, and apparated.

He arrived in the Great Hall just in time to catch lunch, he plowed through a couple of sandwiches after kissing Hermione and they headed down to the Reserve.

"You keen for this baby?" He asked sensing Hermione was slightly on edge.

"Yeah, just nervous. It's a pretty difficult spell."

Y/N stopped and gripped Hermione's waist.

"Ok baby. One- you're brilliant. Two- there's no pressure and no timeline. If you manage to make some progress today, awesome. If you don't, that's fine as well. Three- Grim promised not to get too close so you won't be affected by him." Y/N finished kissing her on the cheek. Hermione smiled:

"Thanks love- wait, Grim?"

"Oh yeah, Grim's my Dementor" Y/N smiled as they walked forward again.

"Your D-Dementor. You've got a Dementor? And I'm going to be learning with a real Dementor?" Hermione gasped.

"Yes baby, you will. And he's not mine really, he's a creature. He wasn't too happy initially when I trapped him in the enclosure, but we're making progress on our relationship" Y/N smiled.

"Why do we have to practice with a Dementor though?" Hermione asked with genuine fear now evident in her voice.

"It speeds up the progress a lot baby, having an actual Dementor present. I can't explain the science behind it, I just need you to trust me. And I promise you, I would never put you in any danger. I wouldn't bring you down if I wasn't sure you would be safe. You know that right?"

"Yes. Of course. It's just intimidating though" Hermione smiled.

"I know baby, but I promise it will work out."

They entered the Reserve before heading into the Dark Hominid enclosure.

"Grim! You ready?" Y/N called out.

Hermione was shocked as the Dementor flew over towards them but stopped and hovered about 20 feet from where they stood.

"Still ok baby?" Y/N asked smiling.

"Yeah" Hermione answered, suddenly feeling more confident. "It's nothing like the train."

"I promise I would never put you in harms way baby. Ready to start?"

Hermione nodded and drew her wand.

"Ok so the first thing you need to get right is the incantation. Repeat after me."

Expecto Patronum

Expecto Patronum

"Excellent baby excellent" Y/N gushed.

"Now the key part is thinking of a very happy, very powerful memory. Let yourself be filled up with the feelings of that memory. Try to remember the sight, the smell, the feel of the memory, almost as if you were reliving it. This is the part most people aren't able to succeed at. They can't concentrate hard enough."

"You said your first time casting you thought about our first kiss?" Hermione smiled.

"I did. Now I think of every time we are together, at the same time. The fact that it's not just you pleasuring me but me pleasuring you as well makes it more special. My Patronus has got stronger if anything" Y/N smiled.

Hermione smiled to herself, blushing, taking in Y/N's words and how much their intimacy meant to him. She thought of the same, and imagined the first time they would make love. She held up her wand.

Expecto Patronum

Nothing happened at first. She had got discouraged but Y/N reassured her it took him days of practice with Jacob before he could cast it.

After half an hour she was getting tired but wanted one more try. She steadied her wand. She thought about all the times she had been with Y/N. Their intimacy, their kisses, their cuddling times. In short their love.

Expecto Patronum

A small white whispy cloud shot out of her wand and flew at the Dementor, hitting Grim and sending him flying back. She leant down with her hands on her knees, it really took it out of her. Y/N erupted in praise:

"Baby. Well done. Well done. You're brilliant. That was incredible. That's enough for one day but well done!"

She put away her wand and Y/N picked her up bridal style, kissing her deeply which she melted into.

He lowered her down before opening his moke pouch and pulling out a block of chocolate.

"Here you go baby. This will help a lot. Want me to carry you back to the castle? I know how much it takes it out of you learning this."

Hermione giggled: "Peppermint? My favourite. Thank you baby. And you don't have to but if you want to...?"

"It would be my honour, my Lady"

Y/N swept her into his arms bridal style again before checking Grim was alright with a whisper and then the pair of them exited the Reserve.

Y/N carried Hermione all the way to Gryffindor tower, they laughed and chatted and Hermione enjoyed her chocolate as she was carried. Y/N was right, it did make her feel better.

They just relaxed in the common room for the rest of the afternoon before heading down to dinner. Once there Y/N was almost instantly confronted by an angry McGonagall:

"What did you think you were doing at Hogsmeade this morning, Y/N?"

He smiled and answered calmly:

"I was on my way back from my field trip with Sam. I had to buy some chocolate. I was teaching Hermione the Patronus charm today Professor, so it was vital I bought some for her."

This stopped the Professor in her tracks.

"T-T-The Patronus? Truly?" McGonagall smiled with glee at her students. "How did you go, Ms. Granger?"

"Ok I guess" Hermione said, unsure of her progress.

"Ok? Ok?" Y/N asked in disbelief. "Hermione you cast an incorporeal Patronus after half an hour of learning. You were incredible!"

"She did? She really did?" McGonagall asked as she clapped her hands together in glee. Y/N nodded and McGonagall squealed:

"Well done Ms. Granger- 20 points to Gryffindor for your outstanding achievement. Oh I can't wait to tell the Headmaster."

With that she was off, forgetting completely that she was going to discipline Y/N.

"Was it really that impressive baby?" Hermione asked.

"Yes you silly goose! I told you that you did incredible. We'll do the same next Sunday, ok love?" Y/N smiled.

Hermione nodded as they sat down with their friends to enjoy dinner.