In Too Deep (Blairon)

He's A Wizard

"So let me get this straight. You found this guy on the beach. Naked, might I add. You decided it would be a good idea to take him home. You changed your mind and took him to the hospital instead. He woke up and you figured out he is a Mer?"

Ron and Harry gulped. Hermione looked furious. Her chest was heaving and she looked a few seconds away from slapping the both of them each. Twice.
"We're Deputies, 'Mione. It's our job!" Harry tried to reason with the fuming girl and she stared at him with so much disbelief and menace Ron could almost feel the sweat Harry was breaking. "If so, Harry, then why the HELL IS HE LOCKED IN RON'S BEDROOM?!" She screamed and both boys stepped back,  flinching and cowering away from her. Hermione ran a hand through her vellumptouis curls. "I had a dream about him," Ron added and Hermione and Harry both cocked their eyebrows. Confused at this new information. "What the hell do you mean?" Harry asked and the two of them sat down on the old, red couch before the TV. Ron sitting in the armchair near it. "The day we got back from Mage, I had a dream about Theo," he said and Hermione rolled her eyes. "So it's even got a name," she whispered sarcastically and Harry snorted, making Ron hide his grin before he continued. "Anyway, he was singing to the ocean during a typhoon. But it didn't sound like he was singing. It was more like he was calling out for someone. When he finished, the storm died down and the dream ended," Ron stared into the hallway where he could barely hear the muffled shouting of the Mer pounding on his bedroom door. "And just before he-it passed out on the beach. It said something. It's been bothering me all night," he muttered and Harry and Hermione leaned forward, intrigued. "What?" She asked and Ron licked his lips, figuring out how to pronounce the word. "Coruscare," he whispered and Hermione furrowed her eyebrows, biting her lip in deep thought. "I'll do some research. But it sounds Latin. We could call Draco? He'll be able to give us a direct translation," She said and Harry brightened up at the thought of his boyfriend. I winked at him and he sneered back, though he couldn't hide his smile.

It had been an hour since Theo had been locked in Ron's room. The pounding of the door and the Mer's shouting had stopped and it was eerily silent. Ron wondered if he was dead at the lack of water? Though he doubted it. Reluctantly, he unlocked his bedroom door and tensed as he walked into his room. Harry and Hermione behind him. It was obvious that someone had been there because his bed was tussled, his closet had been obviously messed with and one of his curtains was broken. Groaning loudly, Ron, Hermione and Harry nearly jumped when they heard the tap in the bathroom start. They slowly turned around and crept out of Ron's bedroom. The bathroom was at the end of the hall. "How the hell did he get there? The door was locked!" Harry hissed as they stalked closer. Ron and Hermione shrugged. Suddenly Hermione smirked to herself and muttered, "He's a wizard." Harry and Ron refrained from snorting.

As they reached the door, Ron thrust it open and his eyes widened. The Mer was sitting in the middle of the bathtub opposite them, the water close to over spilling. Hermione ran to switch it off but Theo growled so aggressively she backed away so quickly she nearly slipped on the now overflowing water.

"Hey, mate. You mind switching that off? Water bills are painful," Harry said and the Mer rose a dark eyebrow. "No," he stated and Ron sighed irritably. "You kidnapped me and locked me in a cage without water. I have a right to cause pain unto your bills," he said and Ron and Hermione were shocked when Harry snorted. "First of all, that wasn't a cage, it was my bedroom. Secondly, we didn't kidnap you, we..... Helped you," he stated, rubbing his hands together awkwardly. Theo shifted uncomfortably in the bathtub, a malevolent sneer plastered on his pale face. "So you say knocking me out, shoving me into a moving seashell and locking me into your quarters is helping? " He jeered angrily and Ron, Harry and Hermione blushed. He had a point. "Well... If you had walked around the town naked you'd be in jail by now!" Harry quipped and Ron sighed, thankful that he came up with a viable excuse. Theo switched off the tap, stopping the water which was probably flooding into the hallway. "Thanks," Hermione sighed and the Mer squinted his eyes, unmoving once again. "Let me go," he stated bluntly and Harry, Ron and Hermione shared glances. "We can't knowing you don't mind walking the streets naked," Hermione said and Theo pursed his lips. Suddenly, the door to their small house which was a walking distance to the beach unlocked and Draco's voice echoed through the house. "Harry? Ron, Hermione?! I got the translation!" He shouted and with one last fleeting look at the Mer, they ran into the living room. Draco looked as if he had run from Malfoy Manor all the way here. His hair was tussled, his face was bright pink and there was a bead of sweat slowly falling down his temple. "What does it mean?" Hermione questioned curiously and Draco gulped. "Coruscare in English means blaze," he breathed heavily and Ron paled.