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Spiral Tangent: '9403c - Enthralled' Holly and Tonks discover the value of positive reinforcement and define their burgeoning relationship with as little regard for convention as possible.



Placement: March - May 1994; Intermixed with Chapter 30 'Sordid Details'; it makes more sense to read this first (I think). Use the dates to guide you if you want to jump between the chapters. I will try to never do this again, but sometimes 'offscreen' antics run too closely with journal entries to separate them easily. Keep in mind that I never write a Tangent just to write about sex. If I wrote out every sexual encounter Holly had, I'd still be writing about this 'prison term' when the last Harry Potter movie was released.



What you need to know: Holly Evans attends Hogwarts in place of Harry Potter, but she has recently discovered that Holly actually is Harry, and can now turn into him much like an Animagus form. Auror cadet Nymphadora Tonks has been asked by Professor McGonagall to help our hero reconcile this double life, due to Tonks' experiences in being able to change herself into a man as a Metamorphmagus. During one of their first conversations, Holly suggested that if Tonks didn't like her first name she should change it to Natalia. Tonks has taken Holly's Spiral Mark to enable a greater level of trust between them, to protect Tonks' mind (particularly from Dementors at Azkaban where she is working part-time for the foreseeable future) and to give her the maturity and calm detachment Holly has in stressful situations that Tonks will need to be a successful Auror. As the Spiral Mark is a customized variant of the Dark Mark, they haven't uncovered all the effects of their ritual.



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Holly Evans' Journal: The good news is Natalia's mental barrier held up like titanium. Now the prison duty just sucks, though as she says, "It's no worse than working in the records office of the DMLE- everyone there is always bitchy and short-tempered as well."

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12th March, 1994



Holly breaks the slow, meaningful kiss with Natalia with a smile.

"Wow!’Honey I'm home' must be some sort of trigger phrase for you, Hols."

"Tell me how your time at Azkaban went. You seem alright, but I want to make sure you're okay with this."

"It was alright. The feelings that used to just stab through my chest were totally not there. I tried it without the Amulet but after a few minutes one of the rovers hounded onto me and I felt the effect directly, but he turned away once I had the Amulet on again. Other than that it was smooth, y'know, for being on a bitter cold goth-horror island surrounded by demons! I mean, I began to really feel them encroaching on my good humour towards the end of the day, but I was able to keep any nervy feelings at bay with my dreams."

"Dreams?"

"The ones I'm about to enact on your body. You weren't busy or anything were you?"

"Talia, to me you've been gone nearly a week. I have my whole day set aside for you and the next few as well! By the time you have to go back to work maybe we'll both be satisfied."

"What do you mean? I have to work in Records tomorrow."

"Well, now that I've learned how to adjust the Gyro, we can live at fast-forward throughout the Madhouse- it's why Lily buried the Gyro so deep; the arc of the band of effect is much flatter at this radius. Your job may be boring, but you'll only have to go every few days. The rest of the time, I'd like you to teach me how to fight like an Auror... and act like her girlfriend afterwards."

"So... fondling, food, fucking, fighting, fornicating, feasting, and uuhh, sleep?"

"Sure. I can work with that schedule."

"FFFFFFFFFantastic! Why bother wearing clothes?"

"Well, I don't usually plan to be naked when in combat, any previous experience aside. Besides, it's fun having you take them off of me!"

"Okay!"

Natalia spins Holly in her arms so that the shorter girl is now being embraced from behind. Holly turns her head back and up to join in a renewed kiss. Natalia's hands slide across Holly's belly to slip under her shirt and glide up over her otherwise unrestrained breasts. Holly breaks the kiss with a gasp as Natalia begins to press and fondle Holly's firm breasts, taking special care to pull and flick both nipples until they tense up to tight peaks. Holly's arms barely hold onto Natalia's neck due to the awkward angle of keeping them raised above and behind her head. Holly's heaving gasps are ragged and brisk. She lets one arm drop from reaching above and instead curls it behind her back to caress Natalia's waist. Blindly finding the target of her fumbling, she releases the top button of Natalia's jeans and manipulates the zipper down and out of her way. Natalia nibbles on Holly's neck as she shifts her massaging, keeping her right hand active on Holly's heaving chest and sliding her left hand down into Holly's flannel shorts to rub the moistened sex underneath.

"No f-fair. (Gasp). I can... only...."

"Shut up, Hols."

Natalia dips her head down to bite and suck on Holly's shoulder as she rubs Holly's vulva and right breast in tandem earnestness. Holly's breathing comes louder. With a last effort of concentration, Holly slips her own hand back between Natalia's belly and jeans, finding a similarly hot and dripping vulva to finger and swirl. Both girls gasp in unison as their protracted fingering brings them to dizzying levels of stimulation.

"(GASP) MMM FUCK!"

"Yeah! Yeah! MMmmm! MMmmm!"

"Ohh! Ohh! Ohh! Ohh! Ohh! Ohh! "

"MMMmm! MMMmm! MMMmm! MMMmm!"

Teasing and tickling give way to pushing and gripping until both girls call out in their ecstasy.

"OHHH! OHHH! AHHH! AHHH! OHHH! OHHH! AHHH! AHHH! AHHH! AAAAAAAAAIIIEE!"

"MMMmm! MMMmm! MMMmm! AAHH! AAHH! AAHH! AAHH! GODHOLLY FFFFFFUCK!"

Within moments of each other's passionate exhortation, both girls lose some muscular control and together they collapse in a giggling heap on the Persian rug.

"You really missed me!"

"I really did. You actually want to try the clothes-removing thing now?"



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Minerva: "Is... is she constantly... stimulated?"
Holly: "Well yeah, but not because of anything I ever did."

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15th March, 1994



Harry takes a moment between thrusts to give Natalia a deep kiss. She returns the snog with fervor, running her hands through his messy black locks and wrapping her legs around Harry's arse to leverage herself off the Octogonagall table.

"Yeah baby. Ooh! Ooh! Just like that!"

Natalia now shifts her weight to slide one leg down Harry's side while still presenting her pelvis at an upturned angle for his thrusts.

"Ooh! Oooh! OOM! Ohhm! Yeah! Perfect! Yeah!"

Natalia stops again, pulling her other leg to whip in front of Harry until she is facing the table and looks back over her shoulder, pressing back against Harry's erection and beginning to pant once more.

"OH! OH! YEAH! Yeah! Do it! Do it! Do me! Yeah!"

Natalia starts crawling onto the table, spreading her legs wide as she balances on the surface and pulling her legs forward to present her vagina in a wide-open position.

"OOH! MMM! YEAH! YEAH! Wait, Harry can we..."

"THAT'S IT!"

Harry grabs Natalia around the waist and lifts the startled woman off the table to place her on the rug with her face to the ground and her hips up at an agreeable height.

"Stop changing position!"

"Yessir!"

Harry moves in and reinserts into Natalia's sex, renewed moisture causing a squelching sound to emit as they resume their loveplay.

"That's better. Oooh, Tonks! You feel so warm! Yeah!"

Natalia's breathing becomes more pronounced and she begins to squeak as each insertion bottoms out in her channel.

"Ai! Ai! Ai! Ai! Ai! Ai! Ai!"

Harry's breathing also becomes laboured as his sliding begins to accelerate. Harry's gasps are answered with Natalia's yelps in a rhythmic cadence of sexual syncopation.

"Ainh! Ainh! Ainh! Ainh!"

"Mmm! (Gasp!) Mmm! (Gasp!)"

Harry slides his hands along Talia's flanks and up her torso to caress her breasts suspended just above the nap of the rug, the extension of her nipples downward causing them to be rubbed ruthlessly against the wool fabric.

"Ainh! Ainh! Ainh! Ainh! AINH! AINH!"

"Mmm! (Gasp!) Mmm! (Gasp!) MMM! (Gasp!)"

Harry rises up suddenly and doubles the speed of his thrusts causing Natalia's whines to become shrieks of stimulation.

"AAAIIH! AAAIIH! AAAIIH! AAAIIH! AAAIIH!"

"GOD! TONKS! YES! YES! YEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHH!"

With Harry's orgasm in process, Natalia also reaches a peak of ecstasy, but it is accompanied only by a silent scream caught in her throat. Undone, Harry slips back out and flops back onto the rug behind Natalia's quivering legs.

"OOOOoooooohh! That was great! Not so much with before when you were... Natalia?"

Harry looks up to see Natalia is still posed on all fours with her face to the carpet and pelvis upward, though her whole body seems to be shaking in a near-palsy of stimulation.

"Um... good job. You can move now, Tonks."

Tonks drops to the floor in a burning orgasm, a full scream startling Harry enough to cause his immediate retreat back a few crab-walked feet.

"MMMmmmMMMMYYAHH! AHHh! (Gasp!) (Gasp!) (Gasp!)"

Natalia's look is anxious and frantic. She fumbles about on the floor, one hand poised over her crotch but seemingly afraid to touch the oversensitized flesh, the other flailing about searching for something until she finds her wand.

"Arbor fio machina sybiana."

Natalia aims at a wood sculpture on the nearby bookcase and quickly reshapes it into an unusual multi-pronged device, like a very small saddle with three protrusions along the seat; the first like a largish string bean, the second shaped as a radish and the foremost a small sunflower. Natalia takes the bizarre object and carefully inserts it into her vagina and arse, with the small nubs of the sunflower resting on her clit. With a last flick of her wand, the device begins to emit an oscillating buzz, causing Tonks to clench, twitch and gasp immediately and almost constantly. Her hands move to cross over her breasts, clutching at them occasionally as she slowly twitches into a foetal position, her folded legs holding the device in place.

Harry sits up and then moves to the reading chair, shifting back into Holly while taking a seat. With a startled and incredulous look, Holly just sits back in the reading chair to watch Natalia for several minutes. After watching in concern for a while, Holly stands up and grabs an afghan throw and covers Natalia's softly moaning form, and then grabs her dressing gown heading idly for the potions lab, shaking her head.

Two hours later, Tonks hobbles into the lab wrapped in the comforter, looking ashamed, even humiliated, but also appearing sickly. Holly immediately stops her work to rush to Tonks' care. As she approaches, Natalia removes the coverlet and kneels on the floor. Holly kneels in front of Natalia and reaches out to caress her cheek, but Natalia bows lower.

"'Talia, what's wrong?"

"My liege, I am sorry."

Holly's eyebrows pop up in surprise.

"I'm a what, now? I thought you were joking."

Tonks continues to sink to the floor the lower Holly bends to get closer to Tonks' small voice until they are both nearly laying their heads on the floor.

"I failed to restrain myself. I offended you. I am sorry."

"Natalia! What the Hell?"

"Please don't be angry or disgusted by me any further. Take my life, but don't make me feel so awful."

Holly notices the Spiral Mark is softly glowing red, like a recent sunburn. She reaches over to touch it carefully and focuses on her finger while saying "I'm not upset with you." The glow fades.

Tonks relaxes from her position of submission to flop onto the floor.

"I am, however, confused."

"Well, fuck. I never wanted you to see me like that. Especially you, Holly. I really want you to be proud of me, y'know? Not ashamed or embarrassed or disgusted. I get enough of that from me Mum!" (crying a little) "I am such a freak!"

"Don't ever say that! Don't you EVER use that word to describe someone I love. I won't have it!"

Holly moves across to pull Natalia from the floor and embrace her from behind, holding her close and swinging her leg around to draw the other girl closer.

"H-holly, you don't really love me; you love Hermione."

"I can't love you both?"

Tonks relaxes a moment, calming down from her anguish. A smile begins to spread across her face.

"Not in most districts."

Both women laugh briefly. Holly's arms close around Natalia's waist.

"I do love you, Tonks. Maybe more like a sister, only...uhhh..."

Tonks turns her head back to look at Holly and grins.

"Incestuously?"

"Well, I'm already an escaped criminal and part-time bisexual; sure."

"Likewise, my sexy sis. Can I confess something to you?"

"Sure."

Natalia sits up and turns to face her friend and lover.

"That... "

"Yes?"

"...WAS THE HOTTEST THING, EVER!" Talia squirms in place in her enthusiasm, kneeling on one knee while she gushes until she falls flat onto the floor again grinning madly. "Gods, I've never come so hard for so long!"

"OK, I'm confused again. Was that good or bad? Because, up until now I figured I'd lost you and you were going to ask me to remove the Mark. We can do that, you know. I'd rather keep up our arrangement until I'm supposed to be released, but..."
"Holly! Holly, Holly, Holly! Stop! I need rest, juice and a big smooch from you, then we can talk about your issues with trust, alright?" Natalia rises up from the floor again with a hand from Holly, which Natalia then uses to bring both of them to standing.

"Yeah, sure. Dobby restocked the icebox, so I made smoothies here in the Potions lab."

"YUM!"

"Natalia, c'mere."

Talia spins in a circle as Holly pulls her back with her still-held hand to meet Holly's face in an abrupt kiss. Holly immediately deepens the kiss into a full on snog, the two women delighting in the active fencing of their tongues and soft lips, both threading their hands through the other's hair and caressing the back of their partner's neck until both begin to moan and gasp in enjoyment of the fervor of their 'big smooch'. They finally part their lips to lean back far enough for their eyes to meet.

"Holly, I've only thought I was in love once before and the bloke felt nothing for me. Are you sure you don't... really love me?"

"Natalia, I do really love you. I love loving you. The only difference between this and the love I feel for Hermione is... well..."

"She's not reciprocating?"

"Well that, sure. But what I was going to say was that I enjoy your passion and your optimism, particularly when you're enjoying me. It's just the rest of the time you drive me absolutely batty!"

"Oh. So we could never be a couple because... we don't have a meeting of the minds, is that it?"

"No, I'm just glad you get away from me often enough that I don't get so frustrated that I want to hurt you- it's come close a few times. I don't accept violence as part of a healthy relationship. I know I have a lot of anger. I know you could take any abuse I dish out, and I know you would accept it because of the Mark. It's those things that make it unsafe for us to be a normal couple."

Natalia is caught in a sudden moment of anger.

"But it's fine for me to be your fucking sister?!"

"Yes, exactly! And, not to demean your outrage, but I mean EXACTLY that. Get it?"

"Got it. Bitch. Holly, you know you drive me spare sometimes too, right?"

"Yah, I know. I also think it’s the reason we can actually fight each other effectively when we duel or spar. As my sister, I don’t mind putting you on your arse and I don’t take it personally when you send me to the floor. If there's something you'd like me to do to make up for that, please tell me."

Natalia grabs the coverlet from the floor and wraps it around her shoulders. She stalks off into the library followed a moment later by Holly. Natalia stops to turn around thoughtfully, though a mischievous smirk gently makes itself known. Talia speaks with an air of landed gentry.

"Cook, clean, paint my toenails and... I think you should allow me to do you from behind as Gordon. Mmm-yes."

Holly counts off her fingers.

"Alright; okay; not at the same time; and sure I'd love to, but if you're thinking of spanking me to add to the experience I'd like to remind you of that anger thing. It won't make me hot- it'll make me mad."

Natalia reverts to her playful self. "But you like it when I bite your nipples..."

"Yes, I like everything to do with you and my breasts. Bite all you want. But... if your hand flies, I'll be compelled to return fire. Never again will I be struck without an answer."

"Rrrright. Plan 'B': all that I said before and you spend two hours between my legs tonight."

"Again, not all at the same time but okay."

"Okay."

Natalia sits down on the arm of the reading chair. Her expression turns grumpy.

"Natalia?"
"Yuh."
"You seem a bit down right now. Do you like ice cream?"
"As long as there's no fruit in it."

"Shmuh...?"

"Oh, fudge monkeys. There's fruit, isn't there?"

"No, you just threw me off because... never mind. I'll be right back."

Holly leaves to walk upstairs to the big freezer. Natalia slumps down into the reading chair and begins to look somber and pensive, her hair becoming more mousy and brown in color and texture. After a few minutes, Holly returns carrying a round white cardboard container and a spoon.

"Here. Hold that."

With Natalia holding the ice cream, Holly reaches down and pulls Natalia up for a kiss. This one is not forceful or sensuous but tender and loving.

"I love you. All definitions and labels aside, I will be there for you because I care for you and you deserve it. There is no other factor that matters to me."

As Natalia looks back at Holly with a teary smile, her hair swells into a peach color like a sunrise. Holly's eyes light up momentarily and she smiles.

"I want a picture of you looking like that. You've never looked more beautiful to me."

"I'll buy us a camera tomorrow. With uhh... your money?"

"(Snort) Cool! Okay, this is a special mix of chocolate and cinnamon made by Florean Fortescue called Chocolate LeStrange. I'd like you to sample a bit and tell me what you think. Fair warning, it has a bit of a kick."

"Alright. I know the healing power of chocolate, but I really think I'd feel better if we talked this out a bit more. I feel like I'm being dumped yet we'll be having sex together for the foreseeable future. There will be sex, right?"
"I predict very soon. Try the ice cream."

"See, that's where I'm stuck. I don't (mumm, slurp) think I know what sort of (ohh, that's tasty, sluupp) relationship I should really (Mmm, lemme have some more; nummm, mmm) what sort of relationship I really want for myself beyond this y'know? I mean, if not you, then who would I want to build a life with? (Mmmm, numm, mmm, slurp, lallallammm, sluppslurp) Is there any more of this?"

Natalia's hair by this point is standing up in a rainbow colored mohawk whose free tendrils are rubbing suggestively against Natalia's cheeks.

"(snicker) I'm so looking forward to having that camera. Natalia?"

"Yah?"

"For now, I suggest you live in the moment. Savor the flavor!"

Natalia freezes and her eyes open wide, looking almost like she is being electrocuted. Her eyes slowly close until they are squeezed tightly shut. At the same time her body begins curling into a ball at the center of the armchair and Natalia's breath starts stuttering out of her, rising in tone and volume into a scream.

"AhhhhhhhhhhuhuhuuhuhhuhhhhhhahaaaaaaAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE (Gasp!) (Gasp!) (Gasp!) (Gasp!)"

While Natalia wrestles with her ice cream-induced orgasm, Holly takes off her dressing gown and after considering her twitching friend for a moment, shifts into Harry. Harry reaches down and takes the last dollop of Strange Chocolate from the edge of the nearly empty container and licks it off his fingers. Between the stimulating confection and Natalia's passionate exhortations, Harry's penis grows quickly into an enjoyable, usable stiffness.

Having caught her breath following her ecstatic scream, Natalia begins hyperventilating while her body twists and writhes on the chair in a sensory firestorm. Her hands begin rubbing across her body, her arms and legs in constant motion. She finally settles into an agreeable position for her; Natalia's writhing on the chair has ended up with her arse pointing directly towards Harry, one hand rubbing across her labia like she was kneading dough, sometimes drawing her two ring piercings in contact with her clit before resuming the forceful swirling. The other hand has a solid grip on the arm of the chair to prevent her from falling to the floor.

"AIIIEEEEEEAH! AHH! AHH! AHH! AHH! AHH! OH FOR MERLIN'S SAKE WOULD YOU JUST FUCK ME NOW? MMM! MMM! MMM! MMM! AHH! AHH! AHH!"

Harry steps closer, his cock springing to full engorgement as he watches Natalia screaming and moaning like something Holly once saw in a tape from Dudley's porno collection. Heaving a sigh like he was about to dive into shark-infested waters, Harry steps forward and grips Natalia's hips, bringing them down to meet his fully erect flesh pole. With a quick thrust forward he buries himself deep into Natalia's spasming channel. Natalia screams once more in rapturous joy and Harry starts pistoning her out of her mind. Once their rhythm is set, Harry reaches forward to change from gripping Talia's hips to grabbing her full and bouncing breasts, drawing the girl upward from laying across the chair to using it as a place to rest her weakening legs and keep a tight grip. Natalia expresses her appreciation well enough that Buckbeak may be hearing her through the Silencing charms and two stories of stonework.

"AIIIEEEEEEAH! AHH! AHH! AHH! AHH!

(Smeck, smack, smick, smack)

MMM! MMM! MMM! MMM! MMM! MMM!

(Smick, smack, smeck)

AHH! AHH! AHH! AHH! AHH! AHH!

AHH! OH MAEVE!

(Smick, smack, smeck)

AHH! AHH! THAT'S!

(Smick, smack, smeck)

AHH! THE SHIT!

(Smick, smack, smeck)

FUCK MY PUSSY!

(Smick, smack, smeck)

WITH HARD COCK!

(Smick, smack, smeck)

AHH! AND GRIP!

(Smick, smack, smeck)

MY TITS LIKE!

(Smick, smack, smeck)

AN IRON VISE YOU!

(Smick, smack, smeck)

ABSOLUTE GOD!

(Smick, smack, smeck)

AHH! AHH! AHH! AHH! AHH!

(Smick, smack, smeck)

MMM! MMM! MMM!

AHH! AHH! AHH! AHH! AHH! AHH! AHH! AHH!... "



Three hours later...

Both girls are flopped and tangled with each other on the four-posted bed, Harry having reverted to Holly at the one hour mark when his sausage became raw from overuse, Holly reverting back to Harry when her tongue lost feeling. Holly took over again twenty minutes ago.

"Holly, I love you. I love Harry. I love Harry's cock. I love your tongue. Will you place everything I love into my happy place?"

"Oh don't start that again."

"But you still owe me an hour between my legs!"

"Sisters?"

(singing) "I lick you, you lick me, we're a happy family..."

"THIS! THIS IS THE INSANITY I CAN'T ABIDE! That's it. I'm... cooking. I'll make supper. You just sit there and twist purple dinosaurs in your brain. This is just further proof that the Telly is an instrument of the Ultimate Evil!"

Holly quickly stumbles painfully from the bed and wraps herself in her light grey cotton dressing gown, any movement causing her to wince. Natalia bats her eyes at Holly from the bed.

"I wuv you, too. Will you be my fwiend?"

"No! Now... uhhh... get dressed, please or we'll never eat a nutritional meal."

Natalia suddenly sits up and shifts her weight so that her knees are underneath her and starts bouncing on the mattress.

"Uhhhoohheeehaahah! Let's bounce because we're happy!"

"Oh, God save me. Savor the flavor?"

"I am baby! HA HA HEE HEE HOO HOO!"

"I’m going to need a tranquilizer gun. Since when did I become the calming influence in my world? Dobby!"

"Threesome?"
"Eughh! Natalia...!"

A note appears a swatch of parchment in the air in front of Holly with a 'poof' and begins to float towards the ground. Holly snatches it from the air and reads it quickly.

'Mistress Holly,

Calls Dobby again when it is safe. Some things Dobby cannot do for Mistress.

Yours in non-touching friendliship,

Dobby.'

"Once more I am abandoned to face a monster in a cave armed only with my wits to save me."

"Be Harry again! I have an urge to swallow some meat!"

(sigh)

“Couldn’t we just grill?”

“Whatever you wanna call it, sweetie!”



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Newt: 'Natalia loves you! I think you love her, too! What are you thinking?!'

Holly: "Damnit, Newt, of course I love Natalia! I love her to pieces. I am quite completely over the moon in love with her. But at some point very soon ... I'll return to Hogwarts while she resumes Auror training ... I am star-crossed with everyone, Newt."

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23rd April, 1994



"Natalia, do you remember when we made love?"
"Hah! Holly, we make love whenever we get within 3 meters of each other if there isn't food about."

"Natalia, we have sex. It's like aerobic exercises. I could run a marathon now so long as you were there to rub all my favorite parts every five minutes. We've made love once. It was at the end of our all-ways experience and I connected our senses for a bit. We were invoking the Bond of Lust and our Rapport just seemed to take us deeper."

"Oh. Yeah. That was... intimate."

"You seem bugged. Are you alright?"
"Holly, sex for me is like... how I share happiness. What we shared at that moment made me feel very vulnerable."

"So you didn't like it. Alright, I won't bring it up again."
"No, Holly, it was... look, if you say you're not in love with me then I don't know why you'd want to do that again. It's really private. Why do you want to go back and bring up all the nasty parts of me to see?"

"Natalia, I want you to understand me and I want to understand you. We stumbled over something then and I think that if we were to allow ourselves to really sink into it, we could know each other better than any couple married a hundred years."
"Wow. Why would you want to do this with me, then?"

"Because I trust you, and because you're worth it."

"I... think... you're bonkers but let's try it anyway."

Holly leads Natalia to the bed and gently pulls off Natalia's kimono and then allows her own grey cotton cover to drop to the floor. They clamber onto the bed and lay down until they are facing each other with only an inch or so between the tips of their noses. They shuffle forward so that their legs intertwine and they loosely hold each other together in a hug. Holly reaches around Natalia's waist and down to extend her hand over the soft flesh of Natalia's rump until her fingertips reach close to the Spiral. Holly stares into Natalia's eyes, watching as they shift in hue until settling on a deep plum tint. Holly smiles just slightly with how mesmerizing she finds the colour. With a touch and a thought, their minds link together and Holly senses a rush of movement, finding herself floating in a massive tangle of tree roots suspended in air. At the same time, she can feel Natalia's entry into the storehouse of her memories, opening boxes and diving in. Holly takes a moment to purposefully relax her defenses and then touches on a larger branch.

Holly is Nymphadora, age six and she is being scolded by her mother for kissing the boy next door.

"But mummy you said love is always a good thing and I was sure you were right because it felt as good as I thought it would."

"Nymmy, you can't just... well, how did Denny take it?"

"He was silly. First he ran away, then he came back and kissed my cheek and then he ran away again."

Holly retreats from the memory and finds another. Holly is Nymphadora the new Hufflepuff and she is sitting in a dorm with an older girl with long brown hair.

"Delia, why do you keep laughing at me?"
"It's your name! Nymphadora? Sex-fairy and love! You might as well call yourself Cleansweep, as the boys will be riding you like a broom!"

"Yeah, well, you're just a fat cow! I wouldn't kiss you if you were the only person on Earth!"

"Yuck! Why would I want you to? Nym-pha-WHORE-A! Nym-pha-WHORE-A!"

Holly extracts herself again. She finds a tendril leading from the same memory and enters. Nym is older and having a serious snog with a barely-dressed dark-haired boy in a dimly-lit broom closet when the door is opened suddenly.

"Well. Nymphadora. Living down to your name I see."
"Delia, my name is Tonks and I..."
"Jeffrey!?"

"Uhh, hi Delia."
"You... you... "

"Y'know, if you weren't such a cast-iron frigid bitch, Jeff here might not have lost interest. Thanks sweetie! It was fun while you lasted."

With an internal laugh, Holly moves to another memory.

Hours later, both girls return to alertness at the same time with a gasp and lean back to look at the other. There is a sense of them both trying to readjust their perceptions to remind themselves of which one of them they really are. They move in tandem, rising to face each other in a kneeling position on the bed. Holly recovers first, giving a small smirk before speaking.

"Wow. I had no idea there were so many Auror procedures."

Natalia's eyes start leaking streams of tears down her face. She stares at Holly incredulously.

"Umm... Natalia, what's wrong?"

"H-holly?"

"Yah?"

Natalia reaches both hands to hold Holly's face delicately. She lurches forward and kisses Holly, her lips sealing together with Holly's again and again in what seems like an earnest attempt to catch up for something.

"Na... (kiss) Nat... (kiss) Natalia (kiss) Natalia! What is wrong?"

Natalia finally ceases her very wet act of affection and stares once more into Holly's eyes. Fresh tears flow down her cheeks.

"I am so, so, so sorry. On behalf of every stupid motherfucker out there that has left you in charge of saving their sorry arses, I apologise, alright? And one... other thing."

Holly raises her eyebrows in shock at the depth of feeling from her usually care-free lover.

"Wha... wow! Uhhh.... what's the other thing?"

"I am absolutely in love with you."

Holly's mind sets to racing, images of Natalia standing next to her and being set aflame, struck by lightning, grabbed and torn apart by shadowy men and always Holly is helpless to move much less save Natalia.

Holly's eyes begin to tear up and her lips begin to moisten and pull back into a grimace of pain and anguish. She leans forward and kisses Natalia, leaving her quivering lips pressed against the Auror's for a nervous minute, her hand mimicking Natalia's in caressing the other girl's face.

Holly's mind stops with a decision.

"Oh, Natalia. (SOB) Obliviate!"

Holly loses her focus for a moment, silently protesting to herself that she may never be forgiven but that it will be a milder punishment than losing Natalia like she lost Hermione. After a minute, Holly regains some measure of composure to look back into Natalia's spell-stunned face. Holly's grateful she's had enough presence of mind to keep her hand in place on Natalia's cheek since she needs to finish the spell properly.

"You will remember everything up until you apologised on behalf of others. You decided that you couldn't... (SOB) couldn't confess your love to Holly so long as you're enthralled to her. You will not remember being Obliviated. We've been crying over the apology."

Holly finally releases her right hand from the side of Natalia's face, and the Auror blinks for a minute before fresh tears start to form as she sees Holly weeping great sobs in front of her.

"Oh, Hols."

"Thank you, Natalia. You have no idea what that means to me. What you just said? That means the world to me."





10th May, 1994



Holly is sitting at the desk in the library with several jars, chisels, knives and a large piece of agate cut as a bookend. In the warmth of the room she's wearing only her Quidditch overshirt embroidered with 'EVANS # 8' and a pair of flannel boxers. Natalia enters the library from the potions lab area eating an apple, wearing the black and pink skintight exercise gear she usually has under her Auror robes these days. She walks over and leans down against the edge of the desk, chewing loudly.

"My day went well."

"Mmm."

"I had an interesting conversation..."

"Mmm."

"Holly, would you mind if I kept staying here while you're at school and into the summer?"
"Sure, as long as you don't bring anyone else here."

"No guests?"
"This is a protected space, Talia. All my secrets are here, along with everything I value."

"Right. I get that."

Holly looks at Natalia's thoughtful expression for a moment and then turns back to look at the runes on the agate piece.

"Still, we could have a lovely time if I find a suitably open-minded bloke or lass. I could blindfold them, and then we could enjoy them together. Like a people pie!"

"No, if you're going to date, you'll just have to go back to their place or your flat."

"Not interested in doubling your pleasure? There are some things you just can't do without a third player that are simply yummy!"

"Natalia, I understand you a bit better now, so I can see why that would be appealing, but I really just want sex to be something I do to express love."

"You must love me a lot, then!"

Holly looks up and locks eyes with Natalia. Her expression is kind but a little sad.

"Yeah."

Natalia's expression falls. Her face scrunches up in concern and frustration.

"Oh. I'm sorry I brought it up, Holly. Sorry."

Silence holds for a minute aside from Natalia continuing to chomp on her apple.

"You broke the sounding stone?"

"I got pissed at Newt and the runes got scraped. I think I may have to find new stones."

"Well that sucks but let's talk about me."

Holly looks up at Natalia with a withering look, then slumps in the chair.

"I'm sorry, Talia. Yes. Tell me about your day. You have news?"

"Nahh, I need to be bribed now."

Holly stands up from the chair with a smirk on her face and walks in front of Natalia, gently removing the apple core from her hand and tossing it behind her onto the floor. Holly takes the hand and proceeds to lick every bit of leftover apple stickiness from each finger, her split tongue wrapping around each digit and digging into every crevice. Natalia's breath hitches in her throat as Holly moves to laving the center of Natalia's palm and finally takes Natalia's thumb into her mouth, sucking it clean. She removes the thumb with a pop.

"I've done the cleaning."

Both girls fall against each other in a sudden fit of giggles.

"Okay cleaning lady! You'll be proud to know that our very own Natalia Tonks has recovered from near-washout status to being second in her cadet class of forty-seven!"
"Yes! Congratulations! I knew you'd give em a show!"
Holly embraces Natalia tightly around her chest, leaning her head into the crook of Talia's neck and then turning to give Natalia a wet kiss on the lips.

"Thank you, Holly."

"You did the work."

"You have me a reason."

The girls share a warm smile for each other and kiss once more before breaking their embrace. Holly returns to sitting at the desk and Natalia shimmies her butt across the surface, edging the pieces of Holly's tools out of her way so she can sit comfortably. Holly rests her hand on Natalia's thigh, stroking it gently.

"So what's next?"

"Well, I seem to have caught the eye of this semi-retired Senior Auror that everyone calls 'Mad-Eye'. You'd like him, Hols. He's got worse scars than you do!"
"That means he's either very foolish or very lucky, probably both."

"Yeah, anyway he's got me signed up for two advanced electives for Investigators and Hit-Wizard training."
"What's a Hit-Wizard?"
"Well, it goes beyond the normal patrolling and peacekeeping functions and focuses on tracking and taking down Dark wizards. If I get the cert and survive two years internship they'll give me special enforcement powers, like clearance to use Unforgivables during wartime and the like."

"Wow. You really are on your way. When do you become a full Auror?"

"Sometime in August. They don't announce it or hold public ceremonies in order to keep Auror's identities safe. It's one of the rules Bones added when she was made Director."
"I understand. You'll have to let me know when we should celebrate, though."

"We can go dancing!"

"You dance?"
"No idea, but I figure if I just adhere my body to yours we'll look good enough no one will care!"

Holly leans forward and Natalia bends down so they can share a loving kiss.

"There's a thought to warm my... mmmmmm."

They break apart with identical smiles. As they lean back into place Natalia's expression shifts.

"Hols, I really am sorry about before with the... wait. You said 'if I'm going to date'; won't you be offended if I start boinking other people?"

Holly leans back in her chair with a sigh, then looks at Natalia with a cheerfully saucy expression as she starts to twist the seat back and forth.

"Why Natalia... I wouldn't want to keep you from loving the world!"

"Ohhhh! That's so sweet! Wait. What's the real reason?"

"You really are picking up some of my traits. That's so cool."

"Yes, I'm feeling quite Holly-flavoured, particularly after last night- HEY, don't distract! Why are you cool with me being promiscuous when you're being monogamous?"

"Well, for the one thing, I'm not staying monogamous, I only intend to have sex with people I love. Hermione may yet come to her senses and I still might find a man worth the trust one of these years."

"Alright. And...?"

Holly's expression turns frisky.

"And... if I tried to keep up with you I'd be sucked dry by Christmas."

Natalia starts giggling.

"Really! I'll never get any work done if I'm trying to satisfy you. You've proven yourself TOO MUCH for any mortal to handle on their own. Seriously, when this is all over, you should consider building your own harem!"

Natalia's giggling moves up to guffaws.

"It's either that or else we'll have to classify you as a roaming health risk! Oh, caution-only, as few could complain for dying in such a manner." Holly sits up as she shifts to an announcer-voice, holding an imaginary microphone in her hand. "She was known 'round the world as the Titanic Tonks, Nightshade Natalia, bringing happy death in a rainbow swirl of hair follicles and screams of ecstasy! AAAH! EEEE! Ooh Baby! Thump!"

Natalia's giggling expands to full blown tear-inducing laughs.

"Hey! You'd appear on the telly, at least. 'Lock up your sons and daughters! Beware of approach, or don't, y'know? Details on pay per view for six quid a night! Here's a sample!" Holly switches voice to a Betty Boop-like squeak. "I was just walkin' down the street and suddenly it's like learning my alphabet all over again! Ahh! Eee! Aii! OHH! OOOOOOOOOOO!"

After several minutes of laughter, Natalia looks down at Holly's shining, smiling face.

"Holly? Sex!"

"Yeah, okay!"

Holly stands up and pulls off her Quidditch shirt exposing her pale flesh to the warm air and moving quickly into Natalia's embrace. Natalia kisses Holly deeply.

"See what I mean? I'm supposedly your Dark Lady but you make me pant with a smile and a saucy wink. Where's the justice?"

Natalia resumes kissing Holly while fondling her breasts. Holly moans into the snog while hanging from Natalia's shoulders as her knees buckle.

"Mmmmmuh!"

Natalia breaks the kiss again with a smile.

"I thought you said justice before death was only imposed by the will of mortals?"

Holly's confused expression is accompanied by her making a scratching motion with her finger on Natalia's bottom lip.

"Shmuh? Tongue no quacky, insert and lick, yah?"

"I'm smarter than Hol-ly! I'm smarter than Hol-ly!"

Holly rests her hands around Natalia's neck once more as she rolls her eyes.

"I was ensorcelled. And not for nearly long enough. Please ma'am, may I have some more?"

"I thought you said I was lethal!"

"You know anyone else with a proven deathwish?"

Natalia's grin falls once more. She leans back to look into Holly's lidded eyes, holding the shorter girl at the waist with both hands.

"Holly. You don't really want to die, do you?"

Holly smiles and leans forward, rubbing her face against Natalia's like a cat.
"Not anymore. The love of two fine women has cured me of that. I just seem to be drawn towards the Reaper's scythe anyway. Please reapply hand to breast posthaste."

As Natalia smiles and moves to comply with Holly's request, her lips are enthusiastically engaged in a kiss.



*

Holly Evans' Journal: Yin and Yang. Natalia says I'm of two minds but one set of memories.

*



Natalia wakes to find herself wrapped around her lover from behind. Sensing movement, she gives the closest ear a lick. A muffled giggle comes in response. She smiles widely.

"Mornin', luv!"

"Mmmmm. Natalia, I love having you hold me as I sleep. If you're going to get frisky this morning, feel free to take me as Gordon, just so long as you take your slow sweet time about it, alright?"

"Umm, I don't think so."

"Why not? Do I have morning breath?"

"No, morning wood. You said you didn't dig the backside action. Besides, you're acting all little-boy again and you know I can't make love with you when you're like that. What's going on, Harry?"

Harry's eyes pop open.

"I'm Harry? I'm Harry. Just... Harry. That's... really weird."

"Can you be Holly?"

"I... I think so, and this may sound really odd, but I think she's... still asleep."

"Why do I suddenly feel like I'm sleeping with my lover's younger brother?"

"Umm... you are?"

"So, how come it's just you now?"
"Honestly? I think this is first time in my life since my parents were killed that I've ever felt... safe."

Natalia smiles and embraces Harry more tightly. After a minute she relaxes her grip, and then gives with an amused snort.

"Suddenly my incestuous sister joke makes more sense."

"How so?"

"Well, up 'til now I've been having sex with both of you whenever you're Harry. It's no wonder the idea didn't bother you."

"Heh. Good one. Natalia, I think I'd like to sit alone for a bit."

Natalia unwraps herself from holding Harry and sits up on the bed, turns and looks at Harry for a moment and then leans down to kiss him on the cheek.

"I'll have Dobby make brekkers. I love all of you in there, y'know?"

Natalia rises from the bed, wraps her well-toned naked form into her pink and brown kimono as her hair changes colour to match and then exits to the loo.

Harry smiles but an expression of mild worry crosses his face. He reaches a hand to touch his cheek where Natalia kissed him.

"We know."



*

Poppy: "If there's one thing for certain, this is the child of Lily Evans. Almost everything else about her is... subject to revision."

*



Omake from the beginning of the chapter:

"Was that one of your dreams?"

"No, but I'll have to include it next time! Yowza! What was that, the 'Standing Spoon'?"

"These positions have names?"
"Well, sure! I thought you read the Kumma Supra."
"Kama Sutra, Natalia, and I did, but that covers hetero positions. There are things we do that would be ineffective or painful for a man to try."
"Love, there are things you and I do that no one else CAN try."

Both girls grin madly.

"Kinda takes away from the fun of naming them if there's no point in sharing."

"Boasting rights."

"Yeah, like 'I survived a year of constant sex with Tonks' won't give me awesome instant street cred."

"BAHAHAHAHAAAA!"

"Joy just bubbles out of you, doesn't it?"