Original poster: house_illrepute
Author: gabe_speaks
Characters: Harry; Colin; Viktor (mentioned); Draco (mentioned);
Summary: Newly-wed Harry makes preparations for the Honeymoon with Draco. But there are other plans afoot aside from travel plans. Plus, the Twins unveil a new ingenious product, sure to be all the rage... in espionage circles, that is.
Category: Romance; Humour
Rating: PG-13
Warning: Copious use of The Creeveys; smut-free; blissfully happy newlywed!Harry; plotting!Harry
Author's Notes-1: This is a continuation of the non-series "Maintaining One's Station"(m1S). It occurs after the wedding ( partially told [ here ] ) but before the honeymoon, which will be posted soon. You don't need to read the wedding to understand what's going on, but I do advise you to read "Potted Rump" [ here ] as it explains a great many thing about Draco's financial and estate affairs.
Author's Notes-2: This part split into two parts because of the sheer size of it and my desire to keep each part of m1S condensed into nice, quick, and lite reading experiences. Part 2 can be found [ here ].
Challenges: Part 1 is written for slythindor100's Challenge #51: Letter 'T' and Challenge #48: Pic Challenge and for awdt's Prompt: Edge of Reality.
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Oddly enough, Colin felt as though he had just been caught masturbating by his father, which, coincidentally, didn't feel quite this awkward when he had actually been caught masturbating by his father. “Well, yeah… I mean, I’m perfectly fine with house-sitting for a short patch, but I’d been told the Black Hou – er, sorry – I’d been told your house was huge and … mean. But I never imagined… ”
“My house is mean?” Harry laughed, though not unkindly.
“That’s what they say.”
“Who’s ‘they’….?”
“… fred and george …”
“No fear,” Harry said. “My house has been cleaned of Doxies, Puffskeins, and Boggarts long ago.”
If Harry thought that a consoling joke, Colin found neither comfort nor humour in it. He swallowed hard and looked again under the table for wayward beasties.