End My Life Of Pain And Suffering

Chapter 3

An owl was perched at his bedroom window with multiple packages when Hades woke up, which he thanked the owl for after receiving his mail. He would eventually venture into both Knockturn and Diagon Alley or maybe request to go to another country so he could purchase things that you can't order from a catalogue. A faint pop made him turn around to see a tray of breakfast along with the potions that he needed to take on his bedside table, so he downed the disgusting concoctions and ate his breakfast while opening his packages.

He had ordered all new school books since he had never had the time to properly read them, and he added those along with the other books to his personal library while he kept one of the sketchbooks he ordered on his bed whereas the rest went into his desk. Over the next few hours, he alternated between reading his school books and sketching ideas for the first magical tattoo, Severus also popped in for about an hour so they could discuss what was happening. He also gave Hades a more accurate telling of the real goals of the Dark Side rather than Dumbledore's propaganda and Hades found that he actually agreed with the majority of them.

Before Severus departed he asked if he could write to his friends, the ones he knew were his real friends as well as the possibility of going to another magical community so he could get a familiar and another owl since poor Hedwig, who had arrived at the castle sometime during the night, was overworked. When he had gotten the go ahead for both, Narcissa popped her head in to check on his healing progress since they were still focusing mainly on healing him and then they would work more directly on getting his weight back to a healthy number.

He told her what his plans were while she did all of her scans and then Narcissa asked if she could accompany him because she loved shopping, he agreed considering he could use the company when he went and they planned for the next day.

Hades wrote letters to Luna, Neville, Fred and George explaining what had happened, and also asked the twins to get Remus to Gringotts because he had a suspicion that Moony might have some blocks and compulsions, possibly even an obliviate as well. He sent the letters off with Dobby who was given strict instructions to give it to only give it to them when they are alone, he also asked one of the other house elves to deliver letters to Draco, Blaise, Theo, Daphne and Pansy who he had secretly been friends with.

It had originally just been Draco and Hades before the others were added to the group, because they didn't know who they could trust considering Dumbledore had eyes and ears everywhere. All of them had started meeting in secret with Luna, Neville and the twins joining most of the time as well where they talked about everything from hobbies and favorite colors to school work and types of magic.

They had all shown him what true friends were and at the end of the year they had been the ones to suggest that he finally go to Gringotts. When all of them were together they were very different from what everyone else sees, they all wore masks when they were around other people but when they were together, they dropped all pretenses and let themselves relax without worrying about backstabbing or blackmail.

For the rest of the day, Hades did nothing but read while making notes in one of his journals and occasionally planning random things before going to bed around midnight after taking the dreamless sleep potion that Severus had dropped off after he had woken up from the third nightmare.

The next morning after he took his potions and had breakfast, both Narcissa and himself left for shopping out of the country where their first stop was in America. As it turns out Cissa, who had instructed that he call her that, had a penchant for shopping and a killer eye when it came to fashion so she was more than happy to be dragged around to every shop, where he tried on many different clothes, both magical and muggle.

They also stopped at some jewelry stores where he picked out things that he liked before asking one of the shop attendants to get pierced. By the time they finished, he ended up leaving with a belly button, tongue, nipple piercings, and his ears pierced in a few different places which he also picked out different jewelry for.