Harry Potter - Gamer Neighbour

Summary: The new neighbour over the street at Privet Drive number five seems pretty normal, but not Privet Drive normal. But is anyone with the power of the gamer ever even remotely normal? No fucking way.

Disclaimer: I do own some shit, but not any recognizable characters, places or settings in this particular fanfiction.


Chapter 20:

"What in all the hells! Why are you reading that in front of my daughter?!" Lily suddenly asked in an extremely pointed manner.

Nick blinked and looked up from a thick tome with a somewhat bewildered expression for a few seconds, until it seemed to click for him what had upset Lily.

"Did you want an actual answer or should I just apologize straight away?" Nick asked with an expression that was part guilt and part badly concealed bemusement. Now when she had pointed out what he was actually doing, he did kind of feel bad about it.

But at the same time, not really.

Lily had grown up in the Muggle world, albeit a pretty conservative part of the Muggle world. She'd then been entered into the Wizarding world, which while perhaps not quite as backwards as he sometimes made it out to be, certainly was extremely conservative in a lot of ways. He was pretty much the furthest thing imaginable from a conservative in most areas, though he had a rare few areas where his thinking was a bit more conservative then one might otherwise expect. But the fact that he was pretty liberal didn't mean that he couldn't empathize and see where those with opinions widely differing from his own were coming from.

"You..." Lily started and reached for her wand.

"I'm doing a bit of research. This actually gave me a few ideas for how to create spells and magic effects that can overcome another magical's innate resistance to magic." he swiftly stated and watched how Lily kind of halted in her tracks, the gears in her head quickly whirring away.

"By reading Sibylla Lovegood's 'Those magical devices - A comprehensive guide to magical sex toys'?" Lily inquired with a hefty amount of extreme scepticism.

"Yes. There are a few interesting theories in here about why it's so difficult to create effective magical dildos and why most witches prefer transfiguring and charming their own wands instead. Along with some other theories of hers in this book, I got a few ideas that may or may not pan out for applications outside of bedroom activities. The possible medical applications for some of this stuff alone is mindboggling and could overcome several of the issues inherent in using spells fuelled by the caster to produce results in a patient with a clashing magical core." Nick responded and Lily just observed him silently for a few moments, then let the wand rest in her holster.

"Alright, walk me through it." she said and seated herself next to Nick in the loveseat, looking down at the hefty book with an intrigued expression.

There was a reason why so much of magical medicine relied on Potions. The patients magic naturally resisted outside sources of magic trying to enter their bodies. Healing with spells was possible, to a degree. But it was hard, wasted magical energy, sometimes wouldn't work at all on very powerful patients and in a few very rare cases actually harmed rather then helped, because the caster and target had incompatible magical cores.

It was rare, but could happen.

Which was why Wizards and Witches with neutral cores that wouldn't clash with possible patients were almost without exception more or less gently encouraged to go into the medical field. Pretty much everyone in the medical field that did emergency treatments, pretty much needed a neutral core to qualify for the job. If he was right and magical healing could be adapted to work for and on everyone, it'd be a gamechanger in the medical field for sure. It would also enable those with neutral cores to find employment elsewhere, which was a good thing. Just because they could work in that field, didn't mean that they had the talent or desire to do that kind of work.

Lily couldn't help but smile in anticipation as Nick started explaining what he'd been reading and how it might be adapted for non-perverted uses.

"I don't understand how he does that." Sirius complained while munching on a sandwich he'd made for himself after spotting Violet making a few of her own for an afternoon snack to tide her over until supper. "If she'd caught me reading that thing, she would have transfigured my private parts into slugs!"

"Distract her with something she finds interesting." Violet responded with a sage nod. "Hermione is the same. No matter how angry she is, you can always distract her with something she finds interesting. She'll get back to being angry after a bit, but she'll have had time to calm down before that happens, so she's less angry when she does get back to it." she explained with a note of experience in her voice.

"Hm. Makes sense, I suppose." Sirius replied after a few moments. "I sure wish I'd known about that when I was your age." he huffed.

"Work on your place going alright?" Violet asked after chewing down a mouthful. She was interested in checking it out and had been offered to go along with Sirius, but had declined since she imagined that being present would mean that she'd get 'recruited' for the clean-up. Practising Occlumency was interesting, but somewhat boring. Having to clean a magical death-trap of a house might be exciting work, but work none the less.

"Yeah, Dobby has been helpful. He gets stuff done much faster than I do, even while spending the entire time arguing with Kreatcher as he works. Those two must be the nuttiest elves on the isles." he replied with a shake of his head. "Just being around gives me a headache, so I popped over for a bit of peace and quiet."

"Arguing?" Violet asked with a concerned expression.

"Kreatcher is... I think he'd actually prefer to burn the place down rather then let a filthy blood traitor like me have the run of the place. But someone must have ordered him not to do it at some point, so he settles for being as big of a wrinkled old arse as he can, including letting the place go to complete shit and slowing down our efforts to tidy up. Some other elf must have handled cleaning or he'd just never been ordered to keep the place clean." Sirius responded with a shake of his head. "Dobby worships you and since you might be around from time to time, refuses to let the place remain a spider-infested dust-covered death-trap. Their interactions are loud and annoying."

Violet took another bite of her sandwich and contemplated matters for a few seconds, then swallowed.

"Can't you just..." she hinted and made an indistinct odd gesture. "Tell him to help?" she finished with a vaguely uncomfortable note in her voice.

"To a degree, I could." Sirius agreed. "But if what he wants clashes too badly with what I order him to do, that cranky old prune of an elf is probably stubborn enough to resist long and hard enough to have his magic bindings kill him. It'd be more humane to just kill him and get a new elf to replace him. If I could go and see someone actually willing to sell me an elf, that is." he sighed and took a large swig from a cup of tea. "The kind of people that would be willing to sell me an elf at the moment, probably aren't the kind of people I would want to buy an elf from." the wanted man commented with a wry expression. "As it is, he still does help somewhat, even if he's dragging his feet something fierce. But better a little and massively annoying help, then no help at all I suppose."

Violet eventually nodded. She had been hesitant enough suggesting that Sirius could just order Kreatcher to help. While she wasn't quite as gung-ho as Hermione when it came to house elf rights, she wasn't entirely comfortable with the thought of an entire race of what was basically slaves to Wizards and Witches. Dobby was different, the pure and sheer joy in his eyes and entire demeanour whenever she did manage to ask him to do something for her was quite something.

If she could actually bring herself to give him an actual order rather then ask him to do something, she'd probably get to see what an elf O-face looked like.

She shuddered at the thought and took a huge bite out of her sandwich, feeling like her mind needed a heavy-duty scrubbing after briefly imagining Dobby climaxing on the spot after getting a firm order from her.

She had a complex enough past and current relationship with taking and giving instructions as it was.

Before Hedwig arrived bearing what had apparently been a shrunken pile of filthy books for Nick that he'd ordered because he thought Sex Magic could have other uses, he'd ran her through some basic duelling training. What little she'd picked up over the years and from the one joke of a class Lockheart had presided over back in Hogwarts had led to Nick snickering and otherwise badly supressing his amusement at how shit she was at it. Since they couldn't actually duel without making a mess of the place, it had been mostly him walking her through theory and tactics, before showing her some basic stances.

Showing her basic stances had involved him demonstrating them, then having her assume the same form. That last bit had involved him gently moving her arms, legs, hands, torso and hips into the correct positions with his hands while providing helpful commentary and instructions. Then he had her switch between different forms, giving verbal corrections and the occasional nudge with his hands if she somehow messed up her positioning.

Lily had been observing them in silence like a bird of prey with her eyes on her chosen next meal, barely even blinking as she kept an eye out for anything even remotely inappropriate going on.

Violet didn't think that her mother would have remained silent if she had any inkling of just how damned turned-on Violet had been.

Every single touch, no matter how innocent, had caused her thoughts to go straight down the gutter. Every single instruction had either been rapidly and happily followed to the best of her ability or deliberately somewhat misinterpreted so she'd once again get to feel his hands gently nudge her into the correct position. When Hedwig had arrived with the books Nick had ordered and he'd called an end to the session to assess his haul, she had headed straight for the shower and masturbated herself to three consecutive climaxes while gritting her teeth so hard to keep herself silent that she feared that she had chipped a tooth or two.

She suddenly had a whole new understanding about why Dobby might be so happy to follow orders, which led to even more horrible mental imagery and disturbing thoughts about just WHY he might be so happy to take orders from her. She'd scrubbed herself down extra hard, which had gotten her horny again and she'd schliked herself off one final time before exiting the shower.

Much to her private embarrassment, she was still feeling randy in spite of being fairly sore after her extended private fun time. In spite of feeling a bit rubbed raw, she had to really focus to avoid rubbing her thighs against each other as she tried to fill the bottomless pit that was her stomach enough that she'd make it to supper without her stomach growling away for everyone to hear.


"You shouldn't be reading that." Lily suddenly interjected into the otherwise silent room, a faint flush on her face. Violet looked up from her current reading material and just looked in silence at her mother for a few moments, her gaze deliberately and pointedly dipping down to the book Lily was reading, before it returned to her mothers now even more flushed face.

"You shouldn't be reading that." Violet parroted with a wide grin.

"I'm an adult." Lily protested but somewhat weakly, obviously understanding that she hadn't chosen the timing for her admonishment very well. It was hard to hold any sort of moral high ground when she had been deeply engrossed in "Plains to Mountains - Small to Large" by Mortimer Arborus, a hefty tome on various means of increasing breast size. Violet had seen Lily occasionally give her baps a brief mournful look when dressing and undressing, before forcefully yanking her gaze away from them.

Violet could empathize for sure. Based on the few pictures she had seen of Lily, there had been significantly more padding upstairs before her dirt nap. Going from what looked to have been high C's, possibly just across the border to low D's to her current just barely there A's had obviously affected Lily. She had otherwise filled out a bit since her resurrection, but her two boy-persuaders hadn't seen much improvement.

Violet had briefly skimmed through that particular book before she selected her current one and it sadly mostly seemed to contain various rumoured ways to increase busts followed by Mortimer debunking those theories. She obviously hadn't read it from cover to cover, but it hadn't seemed to contain any great wealth of genuine means to do what Lily likely wanted.

Her own tome, "A magical night - Sex Spells for the Bedroom" by Vivienne Waltham, was more of a compendium of everything under the sun that might have sexy applications, all the way from innocent household spells that had unexpected uses with little to no modifications to the sort of outrageously absurd pure sexual spells that left Violet furiously red in the face at a mere glance. She hadn't gotten to them yet, but there was also a couple of chapters about Potions, tools and toys.

Violet felt herself itching for another shower session, in spite of her nether still feeling a bit sore from earlier.

She had also seen her mother squirming somewhat in her seat from time to time, so she obviously wasn't the only one who felt the temptation of the big bathrooms in Nicks home.

"An adult reading a book about getting big honking manslayers." Violet commented, causing Lily to avert her gaze and stare at the wall with a complex expression.

Tonks had arrived earlier and been pressganged into helping Sirius out after he'd finished his snack. Nick had been interrupted in his reading by a loud beeping noise from his office briefly after the two cousins had left and shortly departed after checking his office and declaring that there was an excellent opportunity to have a bit of a chat with Minister Fudge.

He hadn't mentioned just what the opportunity was or how he'd found out about it, but she vaguely recalled him saying something about how some of his creations had found their way into various fairly important people's ownership over the years and how some of them helped him keep track of what was going on.

She had been a tad distracted by all the other Violet's-World-Changing information that had been dumped on her both before, during and after, but she was fairly certain that he'd actually admitted out loud to spying on select parts of Wizarding Society through some shifty no-doubt-Runic ways.

It was thus that the mother-daughter duo currently had the house and Nicks big pile of newly purchased sex books all to themselves, which had led Violet to do a bit of uncharacteristic extra study and Lily had eventually been tempted into grabbing a book of her own. They were currently reclined against opposite ends of the TV couch, their feet and ankles side by side in the middle of it.

"Find anything that would help in there?" Violet asked in a gentler tone then her earlier teasing and admonishing one. Lily shifted her gaze away from the wall and let it dip down to the book for a moment, before she met Violets eyes again.

"Not a quick fix, like I'd hoped for. There are some lengthy treatments that produce results, but they are expensive and take months for fairly small increases. It'd probably take me years to go back to where I was." Lily replied and sighed. "There's a clinic in Sicily, or at least used to be, that can do that and more in a week or so. It's freakishly expensive, but I know they can do it. I was hoping for something like that."

"That can do what, Wondergirl?" Nick suddenly interjected into the conversation, both female heads snapping around to see him having just emerged from his office where he must have Portkeyed or Apparated into at some point.

Lily instantly clammed up and averted her eyes from him, obviously reluctant to discuss her issues with him.

"Mom wants her boobs back." Violet simply stated, offering a semi-apologetic shrug when Lily directed a betrayed expression at her loose-lipped daughter. "Hey, he knows all sort of shit, it's not entirely impossible that he can help." she explained and Lily looked conflicted for several seconds, before directing a half-hopeful half-fearful expression towards Nick.

"Can you?" she asked in a low embarrassed voice.

Nicks eyes briefly dipped down at Lily's torso, swung over her book, back to her chest, before they swiftly returned to her face.

"Ah." he nodded in understanding while Lily closed her eyes with a loud groan. "That clinic is still around, offering their services to the rich and famous. They're very discreet and secretive, all clients and even prospective clients are forced to sign magical gag contracts to keep their secrets. Nobody really knows for sure how they do it." he continued and sat himself down at the back of the couch next to Violet s head, looking over in Lily's direction.

Violet looked up at him and noted a somewhat gloating hint of realization to the curve of his lips suddenly appearing, something Lily obviously couldn't see with her eyes closed out of embarrassment.

"But you think you've managed to figure something out?" Violet hinted after spotting the somewhat pleased and contemplative notes he seemed to give off.

"It's located next to the worlds biggest Phoenix Sanctuary. After seeing the results of mixing your Phoenix Tears with Lily's Nutrient Potions and your Skele-Gro boosters, I strongly suspect Phoenix Tears are involved. Since they're so bloody rare and expensive on the open market, experimenting with them is almost unheard of. But if Lily could convince you to part with a few drops for a bigger cause, for the greater goo... For greater boobs. I'm pretty positive something can be done in short order." he mused.

"I know Veela are employed at the clinic, so there's probably more to it then just the Phoenix Tears, but Veela have actually been pretty extensively studied over the centuries. I'm fairly confident I can narrow down and somehow emulate whatever the Veela contribution is in short order." he continued with a contemplative expression.

Violet smiled and leaned back in her seat, once again allowing her attention to return to the spells in her book, relatively confident that Nick would figure out a way to help Lily.

Lily gripped the book in her hand so hard that a faint creaking could be heard, then snapped into a standing upright position in front of Nick almost fast enough for Apparition.

"Laboratory! Now!" she insisted and started herding Nick towards the stairs, before grabbing his hand and drag him along in her wake, dissatisfied with his current walking speed.


"I can feel the bruise already!" Nick suddenly groaned and tilted his head back, staring up at the ceiling in consternation.

"What did you work out?!" Lily instantly demanded and left the counter where she had been analysing and working out the Arithmetic s of three different Phoenix Tear-infused versions of some of the long-term treatments for breast enlargements she had found in the book Nick had bought.

She almost jogged over to where Nick had been working on a hefty heavy-duty shielded laptop, a version rarely used outside of expeditions to extreme and or hazardous environments. The background levels of magic in the laboratory were slightly higher due to all the Potions and ingredients present, enough that a regular laptop would just fizzle out and die in short order.

He had high hopes that this one would last for at least a year or so before that happened.

"Will you listen to my explanation and check out my calculations before hitting me?" Nick asked and gestured at his computer screen. Lily blinked, then directed her attention at the monitor while Nick just kept on looking up.

"I can't promise anything." Lily grunted and turned the laptop slightly around to better see what was on the screen. She swiftly browsed through what she could see and with a great amount of awkwardness found the up-arrow key on the keyboard, then hesitantly started tapping away at it to get to the start of what Nick had been working on rather then the end. After a significant amount of tapping while Nick pondered teaching her about page up or how to use the touchpad, she seemed to have found the start and then started reading, the room being completely silent other then the occasional tapping on the arrow down key. "It seems to be the rate of magic dissipating from organic matter, a human body if I'm seeing this right. Seems unusually rapid from what I can recall however." she eventually declared.

"Your body, to be more accurate." Nick agreed. "While your magic reserves are up from before, they're still lower than they should be. Your current magic retention is even more shit. Your body simply isn't able to take in and retain foreign magic for very long. Fast acting effects are all well and good, but shit that needs a bit of time to work just won't work well for you at the moment." he continued.

"Your bedside manner still needs work." she grunted out with a displeased expression. "But while annoying, not enough to warrant hitting you. So what would?"

"Any of the Potions enhanced with Phoenix Tears should work splendidly for just about everyone, but unless you've discovered that the Phoenix Tears boosted any of them by at least a hundred times over or so, you're currently somewhat unique until your body has recovered fully. The enhanced Potions would still have some effect, but they'd be rendered inert in minutes rather than hours when applied to you because your body is so shit at retaining magic right now." Nick responded promptly.

"Also annoying, but it's not like it's your fault, so also not hit-worthy. Again, why would I be hitting you?" Lily demanded.

"I've thought of a few work-arounds." he replied and Lily rubbed both her temples.

"Sounds praiseworthy rather then hit worthy." she started. "But since you seem so reluctant to spit out just what they are, I'm assuming the hit worthy bit is coming?"

"Yeah." Nick sighed and tilted his head back, swivelling around in his seat and looking intently at her. "Your body needs help to retain the magic in the Potions we will want to apply. Can you figure out some way to do that?" he asked and she pondered his question for a few moments.

"Staying in an extremely dense high-magic environment while the Potion runs it's course. A brassiere or breast wrapping enchanted to be magically insulating. Overdosing. Magical infusion." she rattled off and hesitated for almost half a minute.

"Waiting until I've recovered." she reluctantly added, revealing just how little she cared for that particular workaround. She wanted her curves back, damn it!

"Very good. Pretty much what I thought of as well." Nick agreed.

"The Goblins miiiiiiiight be willing to rent me a room close to the Gringotts Ward stone, though I don't want to imagine the rent or the secrecy oaths involved for something like that. I don't think anyone even knows where the Hogwarts Ward Stone is. Not sure where else to find a sufficiently dense high-magic environment." Lily mused.

"There's two other places in Britain I know of, but neither can be easily accessed by outsiders. Pretty much the same goes for the others I know of elsewhere. I may be able to build a magic pressure isolation chamber of sorts that may suffice. Not saying either option would be impossible, but by the time we've managed to arrange it, your body would likely be more fully recovered." Nick added.

"A brassiere wouldn't have enough coverage, would it? I would have to wrap pretty much my entire torso, wouldn't I?" Lily mused and her brow furrowed. "Probably all the way up to and including my neck, possibly all the way down to my thighs?" she thought out loud.

"At the very least. Depending on how much magic dissipates from your head, arms and legs, possibly a full-body wrap." Nick agreed.

"Yeah, lets leave that for mummification, shall we? I was just unearthed, I have no desire to look like a mummy." Lily shuddered. "Overdosing?" she asked.

"All of the Potions we've found that works are applied externally. We could transfigure a barrel-brassiere of sorts and fill it up with whatever Potion we decide to go for. None of the ingredients either by themselves or in this configuration should be directly damaging. You may wake up to severe magic exhaustion and a sore chest after wearing it overnight, but it could work. You could also have Violet or Tonks staying up and have them reapply it every five minutes or so, as you wouldn't be able to do it yourself. Your body needs the rest while the Potion works and having to wake up on a regular basis all throughout the night for reapplication probably wouldn't lead to a very good nights sleep. Not sure being periodically fondled in your sleep would be much better, but probably somewhat better." Nick responded and Lily glared at him for a few moments.

"Starting to see why you were worried about getting punched." she declared. "Infusion?" she asked and saw how he winced.

"This is where I'm truly concerned about being hit." he started and held up both his hands in her direction, palms towards her in a gesture of peace. "You've done the maths. What's the duration for the enhanced Potions?" he asked.

"Four and a half hours for the one I'm considering. It seems somewhat more potent and longer lasting then the others. Having it work for four and a half hours rather then the usual four to five minutes of the unenhanced Potion should work wonders." Lily replied and then blinked, looking at Nicks hands and then down at herself.

She slowly raised one hand up and pulled out the neck of her t-shirt, staring down into the interior for a few moments.

Lily dropped the neck of the t-shirt, then looked up, her gaze again settling on Nicks hands for a few moments, before she met his eyes in silence. Daring him to say anything.

The tableau was silent for nearly a full minute.

"I'll need four and a half hours worth of magic infusion." Lily stated and Nick nodded. "Violet is pants at Occlumency, so she can't learn how to do it for long enough at the moment. Sirius is out. Tonks?" she asked.

"She's all right at Occlumency, but four hours and then some likely would be hard on her. I have to ask if she's good enough at infusion to keep it up for that long, but I think Aurors are taught at least the basics of magic infusion for emergency situations. But I rather doubt she'd be able to do it for more then a night without needing to rest up before trying again. The headache she'd get out of bed with in the morning would be legendary." Nick replied and saw how Lily mulled everything over for a few moments, her expression darkening.

"But you can?" she asked and Nick nodded. "So, my options are either workarounds that will take long enough to arrange that I won't need them any more, to wait until I've recovered fully which could take Merlin knows how long or to have your hands pretty much sealed to my breasts for five hours a night for the next week or so?"

"Depends on your desired end goal." Nick responded with a wince and alt-tabbed to an Excel spreadsheet, then started filling in numbers. He looked at the results spat out by his spreadsheet and sighed. "I'll have to check your exact numbers on the Potion and ask some pretty embarrassing questions about your former breast size, but based on my guesses and the duration you gave me, you'll probably need around thirty-five to forty hours worth of treatment to get back to what you had. So a little over a week."

"Five hours a night, during which I'll should be asleep while you've got your hands on my chest. For ten nights." Lily declared and nodded to herself, then clenched both fists. "If you think just the one hit would be enough to calm me down, think again!" she hissed.

"Aw, come on! We'll need to explain this entire situation to Violet as well. Just how many times do you think she'll want to punch me after we explain that I need you to sleep in my bed with my hands on your chest for almost two weeks?!" Nick protested. "Can't I negotiate you down to just the one hit?" he pleaded.

"I should be thanking you for coming up with a way to help and I bloody will once I've calmed down. Heck, daughter-molesting creep or not, I could probably kiss you for this. But since I will be conked out unconscious in your bed with you fondling my breasts for hours, I think you'll be thanked enough anyway." Lily declared and then decided that the time for talking was over.

She hurled herself at Nick in his chair with an Amazon-like howl and her entire right arm cocked back for the haymaker of all haymakers.

"Meep!" Nick yelped and dove forward underneath Lily, scrambling on all fours towards the door while Lily crashed into his chair and tumbled to the floor behind his back. "Do I have enough juice and skill to Apparate across the channel? Lets find out..." he mumbled as he shot to his feet, yanked the door open and rushed downstairs.

The fact that she had enough trust in him to have seemingly already decided to go through with it with barely any time to consider it at all, was scant comfort now when she seemed intent on smashing his face in.


"Not quite the threesome activity I would have expected to walk in on in this house." Tonks simply commented.

"Far too many clothes and much too violent." Sirius agreed, but with a wide grin on his lips as the two of them simply stood there in front of the door leading to the back yard, observing in faint shock and vast bemusement.

The three combatants halted all movement and three heads turned in unison towards the two recent arrivals.

Nick was back-down on the ground, held in his current position by Violets left leg which was kneeling on his chest and right shoulder, with her right leg kneeling on the ground next to him. Lily was another reason he was currently unable to get off the ground, seeing as how she was straddling his stomach with both her own knees on the ground. Her left hand was holding a fist-full of Violets hair and the other had stopped in mid-journey towards Nicks face by Tonks and Sirius sudden arrival.

Nick had managed to get his left hand up palm-forward in her direction and likely would have managed to catch or deflect the punch. Violet had her right-hand grasping Lily's left wrist, trying to prevent her from yanking on her hair too much. Her left clenched fist was cocked back and would shortly have departed for Lily's solar plexus if they hadn't suddenly been interrupted.

"Uhm. There's a perfectly good explanation for all this?" Nick tentatively stated.

"She started it!" Violet and Lily yelped in unison.

Violet started at that and glared at Lily.

"Me? You were the one who came leaping down the stairs and tackled Nick in the back before he could run outside. When I tried to pull you off him, you elbowed me!" Violet accused.

"You tried to strangle me!" Lily protested. "I was merely employing good, solid self-defence techniques against an unknown assailant." she pompously announced.

"I just tried to pull you off him! You bloody knew it was me too!" Violet yelped in outrage.

"Strangle!" Lily insisted and yanked Violet s hair with the grip she still had on it.

"Ow! Let go of my bleeding hair, you bint!" Violet snapped and let her left fly, hitting Lily in the stomach with enough force to double her over.

"You... Brat!" Lily exclaimed with a huge wheezy rasping breath interrupting the two words, then pushed herself up and forward, tumbling the two of them off Nick and onto the floor next to him.

"Should we intervene?" Tonks asked with a brief glance over at Sirius.

"Unless there's broken limbs or an excess amount of blood, fuck no. Five Galleons on Lily." Sirius responded.

"She's just barely got back from the dead and is still being treated to recover. My five are on Violet." Tonks simply argued and crossed her arms, grinning as Violet and Lily rolled around on the ground.

"You bloody arseholes." Nick grunted and rolled over, then forced himself onto all fours. He observed the two fighting ladies for a split second and started moving towards them at first, then shook his head.

"I'd rather stick my hand in a bucket of rabid weasels." he declared and raised his right arm, his wand shooting into his hand with a deft wrist movement. Whatever spell he used was a subtle silent one, but the results weren't subtle in the slightest.

"Mfffffglh!" both ladies yelped in unison around the cloth gags suddenly appearing in their mouths. From the looks of it, it actually seemed like wadded up silk which was held in place by another highly decorative silk band wrapped around their heads.

That might have been enough in and of itself to halt them in their tracks. But ropes also appeared and zipped around them in a flurry, before one end of either rope hurled up to the ceiling where the end sealed itself against it and then the rope started curling up in a tight circle up against the ceiling.

This pulled the two now thoroughly secured women up off the ground until they found themselves swaying a meter or so off the ground, held in place by an elaborate and somewhat decorative rope pattern.

Their arms were held straight down their sides, their thighs had been pulled up against their respective torsos and their ankles secured to their arms, leaving them well and truly hog-tied and suspended off the ground in a manner that was not only functional, but highly aesthetic.

"Woooh." Sirius exclaimed in stunned admiration. He was a deft hand at Incarcerous, as all the Marauders had been. It was one of the many spells in his silent repertoire and while it was shoddy and only produced weak easily snapped ropes, he had even been able to cast it wandlessly before his stint in Azkaban.

He hadn't tried it out since, so he was unsure if he could still manage it. But talented as he was, this was something else. This pretty much looked like something straight out of the books he had been reading lately, though more clothes were involved now compared to the books.

"You are SO teaching me how to do that or our friendship is not only over, but I'll have your balls for breakfast." Tonks breathed out in awe. "Don't test me, I'm angry enough that you've held out on me with this little gem until now." she added with a warning glare at his back.

"Yeah, yeah." Nick grunted dismissively as his wand returned to the holster and he used his now liberated hand to make a shooing gesture over his shoulder at Tonks and Sirius.

He took several deep breaths and worked his jaw a few times, feeling himself out for any serious injuries only to come up short on that front. His left knee ached a bit and his back was sore, but other then that, nothing too serious.

Lily had managed to get a glancing hit with a straight right, but it felt like it had resulted in something more along the lines of slight friction burns on his left cheek then anything else.

With her current physical state, she wasn't actually a genuine threat in a brawl, but he'd been reluctant to retaliate and had thus taken a few hits and a tumble to the ground as thanks for his reluctance to fight back.

"Okay, I'll let the two of you down shortly, so hold your horses. First, any serious injuries? Nod for yes, shake for no." he demanded to know of the two ladies swaying faintly in front of him. Both seemed to contemplate that for a few seconds, then he was greeted with two shaking heads.

"Great. Now, since I have the opportunity to have my say without being interrupted, I think I'll take it." he declared with a faint smile. "Do try to talk things out in the future. I detest violence and would rather not have any in my house. I understand where Lily's anger came from and I can understand Violet s shock since she wasn't around to hear the reason for it, so all is forgiven this time." he continued and then turned to Lily.

"Wondergirl, you've had a few free swings and that's all you're getting. Try it again and I'll do this again, only I'll transfigure your pubes for the ropes." he said and watched how Lily paled and frantically shook her head in her elaborate rope bondage, somehow managing to convey her sincerity to avoid a repeat occurrence.

"Shorty, your mother was understandably upset. Do try to not be upset with her." Nick continued his admonishment after turning his attention to Violet, then blinked and continued in a more hurried manner. "Uhm, and don't try to emulate her when you find out why she was so angry!" he babbled and Violet tilted her head in confusion, then offered a somewhat hesitant nod.

"Great, great. Ah, I'll be letting the two of you down now. Stay civil, please." he pleaded and took a deep breath, before his wand shot out of the holster once again. "Emancipare Maxima." he declared with a swish of his wand, which lowered the two ladies to the ground and then caused the summoned rope and gag to vanish in a cloud of small glowing motes of light.

"SO teaching me that too!" Tonks insisted. "I only know the standard Emancipare."

"Not too different, but more of an energy hog. But the Hojojutsu Incarcerous variant can't be undone by standard Relashio or Emancipare spells." Nick casually explained as Violet and Lily got back onto their feet and brushed themselves off, avoiding looking at each other or anyone else in the room as they put themselves back in order. Both of them finished at about the same time, then briefly glanced in each others direction before they almost in unison turned away, crossed their arms and pointedly looked away from the other.

Nick sighed and rubbed his temples in frustration.

"Spank them?" Sirius suggested. "My mother certainly favoured that trick to bring unruly kids into line. I still have nightmares about that wretched paddle she kept around the place so she could spell it into action at a moments notice."

"Ooooh." Tonks approved and clapped her hands. "You should have done that while they were still tied up!"

"Sabine liked that." Nick mused with a somewhat nostalgic expression as a memory of the time before his Awakening flashed before his inner eye, before he shook it off and refocused.

"Sabby? That little mousy minx! I had no idea she was into that!" Tonks laughed and Nick buried his face in the palm of his right hand for a few moments, then looked at Tonks over his shoulder.

"Keep that one under wraps. If she comes complaining to me about you asking her a bunch of uncomfortable questions, I'll dump your naked arse unconscious in a sex toy warehouse and invite reporters to take pictures of you surrounded by half the soiled stock." Nick threatened, then cleared his throat and returned his attention to the two contrary women in front of him.

Both of them were somewhat glaring at him, but pointedly avoided looking at each other and neither appeared eager to talk, both of them remaining quiet.

Well, mostly quiet. Lily was panting quite heavily as she'd exerted a lot of effort in both chasing him down and the struggle, which was levels of exercise her body just wasn't used to at the moment.

"Promises, promises..." Tonks snorted dismissively from behind his back.

Sirius giggled.

"Fuck this, I need to get started on supper, not play father trying to get his unruly kids to act nice with each other." Nick suddenly declared. "Work it out amongst yourselves, but if I see fists or spells start flying, I'll string you up again and take advice from Sirius. I won't let you down again until both your rears are spanked into the colour of red bell peppers." he snapped and spun around, heading for the kitchen area.


"Stuffed red bell peppers." Tonks remarked and laughed as she saw a large oven dish with the items in question resting in the middle of the kitchen table as she took her now customary seat at the table.

"That's freaking hilarious." Sirius declared with a chuckle, then demonstrated ample survival instincts as he suddenly jerked sideways away from the chair he had been about to plonk himself down on and hit the ground as Violet launched her fork in his direction. Her knife was about to be hurled at Tonks, but she halted in mid-motion as Nick stared pointedly at her, holding a plate of short-ribs in his left hand and angling his right in a way that seemed familiar from all the times she'd seen him whip out his wand with a deft wrist movement. She swallowed and slowly put the knife back on the table.

"Sorry." she squeaked.

"No harm done, pup." Sirius declared as he popped back onto his feet as if nothing had happened, then slid into his seat at the same time as he silently summoned and cleaned Violet's fork with the wand he was holding as he returned from having taken cover. The once again clean fork zipped over and plonked itself down over at Violet, while Nick nodded to himself and then resumed his walk towards the table, where he put down the short-ribs next to the other dishes in the centre of the table.

Lily tried to return her own utensils to the table in as unobtrusive manner as possible, but blushed as she saw both Tonks and Nick glance her way before they were once again back in place next to her plate.

"Like mother, like daughter." Sirius chuckled.

"Have the two of you worked things out or do I need to get involved?" Nick asked while looking between Violet and Lily.

"We have." Lily declared.

"Mostly." Violet agreed. "I will want a more detailed explanation about this 'cure' and possible other options however." she growled, looking suspiciously from Nick to Lily and then back again.

"Cure? Something wrong?" Tonks asked and blinked as Violet glared down at her plate, while Lily averted her gaze. She shifted her attention to Nick, who sighed and tilted his head back, looking up at the ceiling. "Alright, what is up?" she demanded to know with a bit of steel in her voice.

"Not up, out. What isn't out is moms boobs." Violet snarked and Lily whipped her head back, gifting her daughter with a severely betrayed gaze.

"Whut?" Sirius asked with a befuddled expression. "Boobs?"

A few minutes later, after a terse explanation from a reluctant Nick, both Tonks and Sirius were completely still and quiet for several very long seconds.

Tonks was the first who started laughing, but Sirius wasn't far behind. Violet grumbled under her breath while gnawing on a spare rib. Nick was leaning forward over the table, resting his forehead against the palm of his left hand with his elbow on the table in silence and Lily's face had assumed the colour of a ripe tomato.

"It's not funny. Mom gets to sleep with him before I do!" Violet eventually snapped out.

Tonks and Sirius laughed even harder at that.

"I don't want to sleep with him. I just want my breasts back!" Lily yelped in protest. "The sleeping is just a side effect!"

"Side effect!" Sirius howled with laughter. "Man, I wished all treatments came with hands cupping boobs for a few hours as a side effect!"

"Truth!" Tonks agreed and wiped tears of joy from her eyes. "Sure, they're not much to grab at the moment, but just imagine what they'll be like near the end of the treatment. Should make for two more then decent handfuls, as far as I can recall."

"You little slag, if I'd known you'd grow up to become such a brat, I'd have stunted your growth and kept you as a child forever no matter how much Andy would have complained!" Lily snarled. "Sirius, you'd better shut up or so help me, I'm not even sure what I'll do to you!"

"Shutting up!" Sirius instantly agreed and froze in position, barely even breathing noticeably as he waited for the danger to subside.

"Hours every night with Nicks hands on your chest!" Tonks chortled. "Over and over again!"

"I could tie her up for you." Nick offered with a tired glance over at Lily. "You could paddle her rear down to the bone."

"Nick! You wouldn't do that to a mate, would you?" Tonks protested with a betrayed expression.

"A mate who delights in throwing aviation fuel on the bonfire for shits and giggles? Sure I would." he argued and Tonks tilted her head in consideration for a few moments.

"Yeah, probably." she sighed and held her hands up in surrender. "Fine, I'll stop laughing." she promised, then let out a brief chortle. "Eventually. It is pretty funny."

"Not how I would put it." Violet groused.

"You could join them. While Nick is the big spoon for Lily, he could be the little spoon for your big spoon." Tonks suggested and Violet disgruntledly considered that for a few moments, then visibly perked up.

"I could just kiss you, Tonks! I love you!" she exclaimed.

"I've been there, you've done that." Tonks waved it off. "Consider it a freebee."

"You most certainly will not be spooning with anyone before your twenties at the earliest, young lady!" Lily protested.

Sirius looked about to speak up right about then, but seemed to think better of it and slumped in his seat for a moment, then leaned over and whispered something to Tonks.

"You slept with Pandemonia Zabini in your fourth year?! The Widowmaker?!" Tonks exclaimed.

"No! That's a filthy lie! I never slept with her!" Lily instantly protested, but averted her gaze at the incredulous expression Sirius directed at her. "We were interrupted... Broke up shortly after, before we got the chance to try again." she reluctantly spat out.

"Man, no wonder I kissed both of you. Both my ma and da couldn't keep their paws off the ladies." Violet stated while looking in utter befuddlement at her mother. "But yeah, you don't have a leg to stand on. I'll join you."

"Tonks? Fuel. Fire. Throwing." Nick groused tiredly in admonishment with a gesture at Violet for fuel and Lily for fire.

"Oh, shut up. I'm the best wingman you've ever had. Look. I even set it up so you'll have two girls in your bed for over a week straight! You should be worshipping me and offering your everlasting servitude!" Tonks protested.

"Worshipping you as a deity of calamity and discord?!" Nick asked in outrage. "I really need to ask Andromeda again just how many times you were dropped on your head as a baby. I think she may have lied to me when she claimed it never happened even once."

"Oh, yeah! You might be onto something with your MILF theory, Vi. He does get on frightfully well with my mother too!" Tonks suddenly exclaimed with a look of mock realization. "Who knows what sort of sleazy MILF related fantasies he has about her!"

"He what?!" Violet shouted.

"He what?!" Lily shouted.

"Fuel. Fire. Throwing." Nick repeated and shook his head. For a day that had been mostly calm, it had been pretty draining. To think that blackmailing the Minister of Magic had been the simplest, easiest and most relaxing activity of the day!


"You'll never be able to sleep if you keep on cursing under your breath like that." Nick sighed.

"Shut up, you scoundrel." Lily snarked and shifted around a bit, trying to get into a more comfortable position, only to start muttering again as no matter what position she curled herself up in, Nick's hands were still cupping her.

"Both of you shut up." Violet admonished them. "Trying to get some sleep over here." she murmured as she pressed her front even harder into Nick's back. In spite of her cranky tone of voice, she was the only one of the beds occupants that was smiling.

Just about grinning, to be accurate. Her face was somewhat flushed, but her lips were curled up into a huge wide grin.

"Keep your hands north of the equator, Shorty." Nick groused as Violet sneakily tried to move her left hand down his stomach, curious as to what she might come across if she just 'happened' to slide her hand further down his body.

"Violet!" Lily yelped and nearly yanked Nicks wrists out of whack as she spun around and glared down her daughter over Nick's prone body. "Get your hands off that! You've got no idea where it's been!"

"My hand is nowhere near 'that' and where it's been is closer to your happy zone then mine!" Violet protested.

"Dear lords of magic. Kill me." Nick groaned and used the fact that he'd magically sealed his hands to Lily's breasts to twist her back around into a side-ways curl with her back turned against his front though with a slight gap between the two of them, so there was barely any touching, except for his hands and her cold feet which seemed to seek out his legs like heat-seeking missiles in spite of her complaints.

"Shorty, for your information, I'm in a partial trance so that no distractions will keep me from providing the magical infusion that Wondergirl needs. As a side effect, my 'thing' is currently softer than chocolate pudding. Whatever you're expecting to find down there, will likely disappoint you and is currently out of order."

"You've turned yourself impotent?" Violet asked with a somewhat horrified note in her voice.

"Hell no, don't even say that word out loud with your mouth that close to my ears. It gives me the creeps! For future reference, you should be whispering sweet nothings or raunchy turn-ons into your partners ears in bed, not... That last word you just used!"

"There will be neither raunchy or sweet talk in my presence, thank you very much!" Lily yelped and kicked him in the shins. "And stop giving my daughter kink fodder, bastard!"

"Tomorrow, I'll just stun you straight away. I won't be able to sleep anyway, but at least it'll be quiet so I can get some form of rest." Nick muttered.

Before Tonks left to go back to her place, she'd challenged him to a bout of Mario Kart on his old Nintendo Wii, which Violet and Sirius had gleefully joined in on. Violet had kind of gotten the hang of it by the time Tonks had to leave, but Sirius had been the big surprise.

Once he'd gotten the hang of the controller and the game itself, which hadn't taken nearly as long of a time as explaining that the controller used technology to control the characters on the TV, he'd been damn well near unbeatable. Lily had observed the four playing for a bit, but had been more interested in reading and scribbling things down on a notepad she had secured for herself.

After Tonks had left, Sirius had continued playing with Violet right up until bedtime, while Nick had bowed out and returned to his own reading to wind down a bit before bedtime.

After faintly longer than usual night-time ablutions for all three of them as neither wanted even a speck of dirt or hint of weird smell on their bodies for this, Violet and Lily had turned up in his bedroom and after a bit of arguing, negotiation and a whole lot of awkwardness, they'd wound up on their sides in Nick's bed.

Lily was wearing a pair of comfy boy shorts over her panties, but the t-shirt she had been using to sleep in had been discarded once she got under the covers so it wouldn't get in the way. She didn't wear or even need a bra at her current size, so Nick had unimpeded access to where his hands needed to go once the enhanced Potion she'd brewed had been applied to her breasts.

Nick who was the kind of guy who got pretty warm under the covers was in a pair of simple blue boxer briefs and nothing else, much to Violet's vocal approval. She had wanted to strip down to her panties only, but Lily had nixxed that pretty hard, so she too disgruntledly wore boy shorts, a t-shirt and the comfiest brassiere in her newly expanded collection.

But being able to snuggle up against Nicks naked back and wrap her arms around him had been pretty nice compensation for having to wear clothes, so her protests had been weak and ended fairly quickly. Nick and Lily had a bit of space between them, but Violet was slithered up against Nick like a snail, leaving as few and as small gaps between them as possible.

Normally, that wouldn't have bothered him overly much and he would in fact be in great approval of finding himself sandwiched between two ladies. But with his libido nearly inaccessible thanks to the partial trance he was in, Lily's obvious and vocal disapproval and Violet clinging like a maniac, he was getting increasingly miffed with the current situation. It felt distinctly weird to be in a situation which should have his body reacting and then not having that reaction happen thanks to the way he'd partially put his brain to 'sleep'.

The only reason why he hadn't stunned both of them and thrown Violet back into her own bed so he could provide Lily with the magic infusion she needed in peace and quiet, was that he found himself somewhat distracted by the incredible information-gathering opportunity he found himself in.

Back before he had even met Violet for the first time, when he was starting to set things up for what he was planning, he'd quickly realized that he'd have to keep just what the fuck he was doing under as tight a wrap as Wizardly possible.

The Wizarding World had no real catch-all laws against Grooming. Age of consent was a thing in parts of the world and was a thing in Britain, but it was set at twelve when distinguished families like the Potters were involved and had multiple loopholes to ensure line continuation if even younger people needed to be involved.

With the Potter family having been reduced as much as it had, Violet was pretty much exempt from the laws in that particular area at the moment thanks to those loopholes.

The fact that they were in the Muggle world at the moment which had a higher age of consent and didn't give a fuck about Magical Family Lines, could make things a tad more complicated, but the Wizarding World rarely cared about Muggle Laws anyway.

Rape was a Wizarding crime but often lightly punished and convictions were few and extremely far between because Magic, Potions, Mind Arts and a corrupted judicial system could make a real fuckery of things.

The common Witch had a pretty shit safety net in case some bastard decided to have a go at them without true consent.

A Wizard doping a Witch up on Love Potions or other foul means to get them into bed or marriage wasn't seen in the best of lights, but a conviction was unlikely and even if it happened, it'd be a slap on the wrist at best. The reverse was seen as a little bit worse, but it wasn't likely to lead to any serious punishments either.

But Violet and Lily were Potters and Violet was a world-wide celebrity to boot, they were not the common Witch.

Line Theft laws were incredibly confusing at the best of times and incredibly flexible. Even after actually reading up on that, all Nick had been able to figure out was that if he was ever accused of that, it was all up into the air and the Wizengamot what would happen.

He could be proclaimed innocent or guilty based entirely on the whims of a bunch of corrupted Politicians with lined pockets and the same was true for the punishment, it could be anything from a slap on the wrist fine to being tossed through the Veil after having a smooch with a Dementor, it was all up to the same bunch of corrupted Politicians.

Granted, as many of those Politicians were part of families protected by those Line Theft laws, it was in their own best interest to have those laws respected, so it was unlikely to be a light punishment if he was convicted.

As he wanted to avoid that, he couldn't allow being accused of anything shady and especially not Line Theft against the House of Potter.

So, to protect himself and his secrets, he'd dumped skill point after skill point in his Mind Arts and worked extensively on his protections on a regular basis ever since Awakening. After getting his Mind Arts to 20, which was the highest he could raise it until further skillups became far too costly to justify for further skillups without a dire need, he was extremely skilled.

But then he'd went ahead and gotten a Perk which boosted his Mind Arts up to 25. Thankfully, the Perks which just involved himself and didn't directly affect anyone else, had a higher likelihood of working unlike more complicated Perks, what with the current semi-broken Perk system.

Extremely skilled was a joke compared to what he was now.

One of the things he'd discovered after he got the Perk, was that there was nothing in particular about the eyes which enabled the use of Legimancy. Eyes were used to see with, eye contact wasn't what enabled a Witch or Wizard to read the Mind of someone they had eye contact with.

What made that possible was making a magical connection between user and target. Most users of the Mind Arts did that by sending a pulse of magic out through their eyes into the eyes of their target, which established a temporary magical connection.

The reason why most did that, was that the eyes had pretty shit magical resistance, so it was a lot easier and didn't take quite as much energy as other means. At some point, other ways to enter minds had likely fallen out of favour and these days, he wasn't even sure if anyone else knew that it wasn't the only way.

He'd certainly never seen anything about it in writing nor heard anyone talk about it and Mind Arts was something he'd been very interested in all his life, way before the Game had crossed dimensions and shoved the tattered remains of its host into this body.

But once he bought the Perk, he just suddenly knew that eye contact wasn't the only way to go about using the Mind Arts against others.

He currently had his hands on Lily's chest, constantly sending small amounts of his own Magic into her body. Not only did he have a magic connection to her, he had a fucking excellent magic connection to her! His magic was mostly there to give the Potion she'd smeared all over her breasts enough juice to work long-term with, but it was dissipating into the rest of her body as well.

Violet was flush up against his back, rubbing her cheek against his back and rubbing his chest and stomach with her hands. Their respective magics were mingling from the closeness they shared, each others magic dissipating into each other. They had a decent magic connection, nowhere as strong as the one he had with Lily, but it was there.

Then there was the Protections, after Violet had declared that this was her home, he'd been included in them. Through them, he had another magic connection to not just Violet, but Lily as well. It was a fairly weak one on its own, but it did add to whatever else was already there. The Oath he'd sworn was another little bonus. All in all, the magic connection he had to Violet at the moment was more then good enough to enter her mind without eye contact.

So while he was sandwiched between the two bickering Witches and occasionally contributed to the dispute, he was also rummaging around their Minds.

Violet was making decent headway with her Occlumency, proving herself a decent student. Granted, she was getting help from both him, Lily, Tonks and Sirius, but it was mainly book learning at this point. But he could see some rudimentary beginnings of what would make a mental defence in the near future. But at the moment, it wouldn't be up to stopping much. She might be able to hold off a beginner, but only because she was such a magical powerhouse, not because of her skills.

Lily was good.

Not as good as he had been pre-perk, but with time and dedication, he had no doubt that she could get to that point and further. He'd gotten a decent read on her when he entered her Mind to teach her to control her body and his memory organisation was as excellent as his other Mind Art skills, so it was easy to make comparisons with the Lily just post-resurrection to the current Lily.

Her dedication to keeping her Mind safe was admirable, because in spite of the brief amount of time between her resurrection and now, she had achieved a lot. He wasn't sure how well her Mind had been defended before she died, but he assumed pretty well as she had been involved in the Wizarding War, though not as much as she had been once Violet had been born.

Her current protections would have been a nightmare to navigate for anyone below a Master of the Mind Arts and a challenge even for that Master. If his Perk hadn't pushed his skills from mastered to legendary, he would have recoiled in shock after the briefest of brushes up against them. Because her reserves were shit, they weren't all that powerful. But she'd worked around that, by layering them in incredibly convoluted, interlocking and imaginative ways.

Trying to breach them would be like trying to walk normally across a room filled with rat traps while blindfolded. None of the individual traps was especially dangerous or imposing, but you fucking try to keep on walking normally after having your pinkie toe getting stuck in the seventh rat trap in a row!

Once past that, came an incredibly confusing mess of compartmentalization and deliberate disorganisation. It was as if she had deliberately shattered her mind into a thousand pieces, put them together again in the wrong order and yet somehow still made it work.

He could see what she had done, realized how she had done it and in spite of being able to do it better himself, wasn't sure if he'd dare to do so.

Messing up even once while setting all that up, would have rendered her stark raving mad or a drooling vegetable.

Sadly for her, it just wasn't enough. It was daring, it was creative and it was no doubt effective. Even if someone did breach her defences, her entire Mind had been rewired into something completely alien, something incredibly different from just about any other human mind. Trying to read it, would no doubt be extremely head-ache inducing, if not straight out impossible.

But he pretty much had the original blueprints memorized. Even if she'd yanked everything apart and assembled the pieces randomly, he knew exactly what he was working with, how the pieces connected to each other and thus, her mind was still an open book to him.

He also found himself impressed that she'd managed to get some alone-time with both Tonks and Sirius, whom she had asked to keep an eye on her and use certain codewords if they discovered her acting oddly or out of character.

Those codewords would trigger sub-routines she'd programmed and hidden deep in her own mind, which could help her break free from mind control, possibly restore memories that had been lost or supressed, force her to ingest a Flushing Potion to throw off Love Potions and a few other things she probably feared might happen to her also had specific self-programmed triggers in place.

Impressive.

Even weak, confused and still recovering, she was obviously hell-bent on protecting herself, so that she in turn could protect Violet.

Because that was her strongest motivation and driving force. She'd basically done her best to shunt off and supress all else, leaving her with one focus in life. Her daughter.

He now understood why she hadn't spent a lot of time grieving over the loss of her husband, the years she'd missed or all the friends she'd lost. She'd just shoved everything into a mental box and buried it deep inside her own mind. Not dealing with it wasn't healthy and she realized how dangerous it was, but it was beyond crystal clear that for now, Violet was her top and only priority.

Browsing around her Mind was a treat and it didn't take him long to confirm some suspicions.

She realized that she was treating him a bit unfairly and was feeling guilty about it, since she actually liked him just fine. He grinned like a shark with blood in the water as he discovered that she found him attractive.

She spent a bit of time on a daily basis supressing that, compartmentalizing her guilt and basically making sure that nothing would come of it, but it was there and kept reappearing in spite of her best efforts to keep it down.

He also discovered that she did indeed have some pretty conflicting thoughts and emotions about Violet and Tonks. She did the same there, supressed and compartmentalizing like a madwoman on a daily basis to keep the faint attraction she felt under wraps.

Thanks to that, she pretty much started out from scratch after her own daily brainwashing sessions, but because she deliberately pushed so much aside in order to focus so fully on Violet, the attraction returned pretty fast after she supressed it and remained until she felt it was time to brainwash herself again.

Her attraction to Tonks never quite reached the same heights as she was so hyper-focused on Violet, but it was there none the less.

He was tempted to tamper a bit right away, but he'd better wait until he'd dealt with Sirius and Tonks.

If they noticed something wrong with her and used one of the codewords, shit could hit the fan pretty damn fast. He could disable her triggers, render her codes useless. But if Tonks or Sirius used one and it had zero effect, they'd likely wonder why and that could be almost as bad.

Feeling satisfied with his explorations and new knowledge, he pulled back from Lily's mind and instead shifted his attention to Violet.

Shit.

No wonder she was currently doing her darndest to assimilate with his body by hugging him tight to herself. The girl was head over heels for him.

The first crush, ones first love, could be intense even during normal circumstances. She'd found some boys attractive and the occasional girl semi-attractive in the past, but it had never really turned into a full-blown crush.

But now, it had.

And he was feeding it with aphrodisiac massages, giving her bottomless stomach great food on a regular basis, making her feel welcome and wanted in his life and a Rune Matrix which was triggered pretty much 24/7.

Violet thought about kissing, fooling around and sex A LOT now when she was in full-on crush mode. So the matrix barely had time to deliver one jolt to her system, before it was triggered again.

She was astonishingly aware of the crush too, considering how little experience with love, crushes and whatnot she had. Aware and approving. Not only did she know that she was crushing on him, she actively encouraged it on her own.

She was one lonely girl at heart, the rare few deeper relationships she had to her few friends and other people she liked were what she had valued the most out of everything before this summer.

She hadn't fallen for anyone before, but she had given it a bit of thought and now when she had, she had decided to go all-in. Once she'd started finding him attractive and as a possible partner, she'd basically subconsciously pushed herself deeper into that particular rabbit hole on her own.

Man, she was one kinky gal as well. Was it her lack of experience that made her latch onto what little she had and every new thing she came across?

He could see that she'd always been a bit bi-curious albeit somewhat denying it, which answered one of the questions he'd asked himself. But now she imagined herself with Tonks and Lily almost as often as she imagined herself with him. Or Tonks with Lily. Or him with Lily. Or him with Tonks.

She didn't have to be involved herself to find something sexy. This was no longer merely curiosity. She did feel a bit icky when she thought about being involved with Lily herself, but she had no problems getting a bit hot under the collar if she imagined Lily and Tonks getting it on with her watching them or herself involved with Tonks.

Hermione and a few other Hogwarts girls also made the occasional appearance in her fantasies about other women, but Tonks and Lily were the two by far most frequent fantasy girls making an appearance.

He d pretty much had Tonks in his friendzone for as long as he'd known her and had like Lily done a bit of mental gymnastics to keep it that way. It wasn't like he was unaware of the fact that Tonks was a highly attractive young woman with an astonishingly sexy magical ability, but he hadn't allowed himself to be affected by it.

Seeing how both Lily and Violet thought about Tonks did cause him to pause for a moment, but he decided to give any decisions about changing things up for himself in that area up for a later time. There was more to discover about the ladies in the bed with him, so he continued to explore Violets mental secrets.

Dear lord, she had an anal fixation the size of Mount Everest which she'd discovered during the massage sessions and been enforced thanks to his high-tech bide-equipped toilets.

After getting immobilized earlier, she'd also started incorporating bondage into her fantasies and gotten curious about spanking, just from a bit of teasing about it.

A simple comment about how nice a picknick spot a small area between a small forest and a lake he'd spotted on the drive to Godric's Hollow had made her think about a little sexy outdoor fun time during the picknick, which had given her an interest in outdoor sex and the thrill of being discovered which was slowly growing stronger.

If he thought he had a libido problem, it was nothing compared to what Violet was going through.

If it hadn't been for the fact that she lacked actual experience, thus making her a bit awkward, hesitant and self-conscious, she'd probably stun him from behind and then drag him off to her bedroom for a bit of ravishing at the earliest opportunity she got.

She had been tempted to do a lot of rash and brash things in the last couple of days, but due in part thanks to a lack of confidence and another part thanks to an iron will, she likely would have steamrolled him into intimacy already.

He was almost afraid to consider just what she might be like after she had a bit of experience under her belt and the lack of confidence was no longer an issue.

He'd never been in a relationship where his partner had possessed the largest sex drive in the relationship before and he wasn't sure how he felt about it now when he was facing the prospects of that very situation.

Was it a good thing? Was it a bad thing? He wasn't sure, but he suddenly felt concern about it.

Perhaps he'd better look a bit more closely at all of those new books he'd ordered and see if he could find some sort of stamina and recovery Potion that could be infused with Phoenix Tears, because he had a feeling that such a thing might come in handy in the future.