Hello! And welcome to another exciting installment of "Oh For the Love of Gred and Forge!" I'm thankful that we have readers and we're glad some of you like our work. Reviews would be helpful and most appreciative. Also, I'm thinking after this one I'm going to just put one out every week. Thank you all for reading and I hope you all enjoy Chapter 2: "Oh Panties."
After she gave the cuff link back to Star, Aeryn walked the perimeter of the room, picking up stray books and placing them back on their shelves as her friend talked to Peeves. She'd have no idea what Star was talking about, so what was the point of listening? Humming to herself a song she'd heard someone singing earlier that day, (Come to think of it, wasn't it a Weasley?) Aeryn preoccupied herself with her nails as Star finished what sounded oddly like negotiations with Peeves.
"Got it Peeves? Remember, 2 in the morning." Star finished. Peeves gave her a salute with an offensive noise and flew off cackling. She saluted him back and walked over to Aeryn. "Ready to go?" She asked excitedly. She led her friend out of the classroom and down the hall. Following Star out of the classroom, Aeryn heard Mrs. Norris's claws on the stone floors before she saw her.
Star froze and stopped Aeryn, "Mrs. Norris is down the hall." She whispered, "Time to get ugly." She groaned, she had done this many a time and hated being Filch. Just pretending to be him made her angry. She changed into the taller, ugly man and grabbed her friends arm. "You know the drill." She whispered to Aeryn and turned her usualy bright smile into a scowl that could only come from being unloved. Looking away as Star changed into Filch (the transformations were gruesome to watch), Aeryn let herself being dragged along and tried to look guilty
They walked closer to Mrs. Norris and upon seeing them she pranced up. "Taking this one to Snape, go check the 7th floor." Star barked at the cat. The cat scampered off, excited for a job. When they got far enough away Star turned back into her usual form and Aeryn took her arm back. "Blagh. I hate being Filch." She said as they walked into the Entrance Hall, they heard loud bangs a crashes coming from the Trophy Room. "And that would be Peeves." Star said happily as she lead them to the dungeons.
Why does she always look so happy when things are being destroyed? Aeryn thought with a yawn. Once they finally reached the Potions classroom, Aeryn stood back and watched the halls as Star peered in. Aeryn heard a muffled voice from the classroom. Doing one last check, Aeryn crept over behind Star. "Is Snape talking to himself?" she whispered.
Star saw two silhouettes in the dark of the classroom."That doesn't sound like Snape, there are two different people and they sound...happy" She whispered back confused. She opened the door enough for her to be able to slide in and crawled to a desk near the shapes, she motioned for Aeryn to do the same. Sitting under the desk she listened in on the conversation taking place before her.
"I think we should take these red and gold moonstones, we can crush these up and they'll give them the proper colors."
"Brilliant mate. Why do you think Snape is so tired? He was out cold when we checked in on him."
Star smirked and quickly stood up, "That would be my doing boys." She stated, "Lumos" And there before her stood the Weasley twins, bright blue eyes wide with shock.
Still hiding under the desk Aeryn could only see the shadows of the Weasley boys upper bodies, but giggled to herself as she imagined their faces. Star was quite theactrical when she wanted to be. Probably has to be with all the pretending to be other people, Aeryn thought. Standing up but staying behind Star, Aeryn looked around her as the twins gaped at Star, then looked at each other before quickly hiding their hands behind their backs. Giggling behind her hand, Aeryn waited for someone to speak as she looked at the twins confused faces.
"What are you doing here?" The boy on the left said, finally breaking the silence.
"That's not important, who are you and why are you in here stealing my supplies?" Star retorted with authority. She kept her wand pointed at the twins, she knew who they were of course but how weird would that have been? 'Hey Weasleys! Why are you taking my bloody idea and supplies?'
Aeryn was confused when Star asked the boys who they were, after all, hadn't they just been talking about them at dinner? She quickly cleared the emotion from her face and gave the twins a cool look she and Star referred to as the "Slytherin stare". They had learned it from a boy 2 years younger than them; a certain Blaise Zabini, a quiet boy who always looked cool and collected. Aeryn didn't particularly care for him, but she did admire his confidence.
The twins were dumbfounded, who was this small girl talking to them like they were 6 years old? "Your supplies?" They said in unison.
Aeryn's stare was broken however the first time the twins spoke in unison. She felt her mouth drop open and her eyes widen, and was amazed. Had they even looked at each other? How had they done that? Aeryn had always had a weak spot for twins, they were so interesting! She loved trying to find differences in them. Wow Aeryn, FOCUS! she thought, shaking her head to clear out her strange thoughts.
"Yes. My supplies." She said with conviction. 'Well that was a bit odd. I wonder, do they do that often?' Star thought.
"What makes these your supplies?" The boy on the right said with a confused smirk.
"Well, if you must know. I'm the reason Snape is out cold right now." Star explained flatly.
"What did you do?" They said together, 'I guess they do do that a lot.'
"Let's just say that he won't be waking up anytime soon." She said with a smirk.
"Um, Star?" Aeryn whispered to Star. "Can I start gathering supplies? I don't think you need me to interrogate do you?" She looked pointedly at Stars wand. "And don't you dare hex them! The last thing you need is more detention!"
Star gave her friend a nod, never looking away from the boys. "You remember which ones I told you I knicked last time right?" She asked as Aeryn nodded, "And quit spouting out my personal business to everyone, woman." She added with fake seriousness. Everyone knew that she had detention, Snape yelled it out after the Pasty incident. "And I can hex them if I like! It's not like Snape will wake up and come in here." She laughed.
The boys looked confused to say the least, though she could see that one of the boys confusion wasn't directed at Star but at the girl who had suddenly appeared behind her. "What did you do to Snape?" The boy on the right asked thoroughly interested, though his brother was still staring at the girl with unusual hair.
Star sighed, "I slipped him a long lasting time-released sleeping potion at dinner." The looks she received were filled with scared confusion. "What?" She said blankly.
"Honestly woman, when in the world did you do that?" Aeryn said as she passed Star, then the twins on her way to the cupboards.
"It's like you just met me on the train or something!" Star said looking at the boys faces, "I'm small, I can hide anywhere." She explained with a mischievous smile.
Pulling out a random bottle, Aeryn read the label, then frowned and put it back. Star was still threatening the twins. Aeryn looked over grinning. She would make a terrifying Auror one day. Taking some of a gold colored filament from a jar labeled "lacewing flies" Aeryn used her wand and procured a vial, placing the flies inside it
"Now, you never answered my question boys. Who are you and why are you stealing my supplies?" Star said taking a threatening step toward them.
"Oi! Get that thing out of our faces!" One of the boys said.
Star giggled, 'That's what she said.' She lowered her wand a bit, "Now answer me." She demanded.
"We're the Weasley twins." They said together, "I'm Fred." The boy on the left said.
"I'm George." The one on the right said. "We were here getting ingredients for some of our inventions."
After wandering around and taking various other supplies Aeryn had only one thing left. "Curious.." Aeryn murmured to herself as she looked into an empty jar. "Ah," she said, walking over to the backs of the Weasley twins. Looking at their hands, she quickly snagged the red and gold moonstones they'd been holding and placed them in her robe pocket.
"Hey!" they protested in unison.
"How on Earth do you do that?" she asked them, walking back over to stand behind Star. "I've got it all," she proudly announced. Star gave her an approving nod, eyes never leaving the twins.
The boys looked at each other, "What are you talking about?" They said at the same time.
"She means that! The talking together at the same time thing!" Star said loudly, she was shushed by the group. "He's not waking up!" She said, a bit agitated. She was getting a bit tired and she was annoyed that they kept forget her handy work.
"We don't know, we just think the same way." Fred said. Star nodded, content with the answer.
"Well, this has been lovely but we really must be off." She smiled and turned to walk away. Just before Star left the room she turned her head to the boys and winked. They would be seeing each other again, she knew it. She leaned up against the wall outside the Potions classroom, waiting for Aeryn to come out.
Aeryn turned to leave with Star. Turning back quickly, Aeryn gave a quick wave to the twins who were strangely enough still standing in the middle of the room, confused. Honestly, you would've thought they'd break out of it by now.
"Thanks again," Aeryn said grinning and walked out the door. As Star led her down the hall, Aeryn mused about the twins. I wish I had a twin, she thought, sighing out loud. "I must admit, that was rather fun. And don't worry, your sleeping magic was quite impressive," Aeryn said grinning.
"I knew you'd have fun! And you didn't get in any trouble! Thank you, I was working on it all summer. Sniffling snake. I've been planning this part of the evening out for about a month now, I ran out of fireworks and supplies over break."She grinned proudly as the walked through the common room.
"So, whats next boss lady?" Aeryn asked with a smile at a job well done.
"Next, we go to bed and rest up for the morning antics. It's gonna be good." Star gave her friend a devious smile
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2 a.m. BST:
"AHHHHHHHH!" A scream rang through the Slytherin dorms.
Aeryn screamed as someone else's scream scared her awake. Her legs getting tangled up in the blankets of her bed, she fell, hitting her head on the cold stone floor. "Ouch," she murmred with tears in her eyes. "What is going on Star?" she yelled as people everywhere were streaming out of their dorms to go see what had caused the scream. Star smiled sleepily with her eyes still closed, "I know you did this, don't give me that smile!"
"That would be Peeves with the hot fish soup and it coming in contact with Malfoy and all of his belongings." Star sighed happily, rolling over onto her side to fall back asleep. She didn't need to go see Malfoy just now, she was content with falling asleep to his misery and embarrassment. "I'm going to wake you in the morning, you're going to want to see what's going to happen next." She said just before falling asleep.
Aeryn looked horrified at Star. "Star, that could scar him! I mean physically, not emotionally like he scars everyone else! Although I'd imagine it could scar him emotionally as well," she added as an afterthought. "Star?" she called through the dorm. "Star!" How on Earth did she fall asleep so fast? Aeryn thought. Knowing that she wasn't going to get any answers from Star, (Big shock there) Aeryn settled for a long nights sleep. Just think about classes tomorrow, she told herself. That always made her feel better about being involved in detention causing mischief.
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The next morning Star had a bounce in her step, she didn't even mind that her 2 free periods would be spent scraping cauldrons with Snape. Though she had to reassure Aeryn that the soup hadn't been scalding hot, not hot enough to burn, just hot enough to get a point across.
She showered and dressed fast and pulled Aeryn down to the Common Room so they would have front row seats to the Malfoy Show. "We have to follow him." She gave her friend a smile that was brighter than usual. Maybe she was getting too much enjoyment out of this, she didn't care though. This was good.
Malfoy walked into the room with a face full of anger and sadness. He smelled awful, 'Good boy Dobby.' she thought proudly. "I asked him to put something in it too make the smell last a long time." She whispered. They followed the boy out to the Entrance Hall and hid behind a corner as they saw McGonagall.
She was waiting near the entrance to the Great Hall, she looked infuriated. "Mr. Malfoy, you have 3 months worth of detention with at every free period you have for the destruction of the Trophy Room. We found this," She held up his cuff link that Peeves had placed at the scene of the crime. "amongst the wreckage. I am appalled with your actions." She said and walked away. Oh this felt better than Star thought it would.
Aeryn felt her jaw drop as she heard Draco's punishment. Pulling her beaming friend over to the side of the corridor, Aeryn looked wide-eyed at Star. "Three months Star? All for 2 periods of detentions?" she squeaked. "Star...you're malicious!" Aeryn said, shaking her head in astonishment.
"It's not just for my detention. This is pay back for every person who has gotten un-fairly punished because of him, and every person he's made fun of, and everyone who has been hurt by him and his goons!" She finished this speech with a far-away look as if she was talking to a large group of people about some horrible dictator. "I did this for you too Aeryn! Remember all the nasty things he's said to you and called you? He's had this coming." She gave her friend a nod.
"Of course I remember everything he's done to me, all fourth year he referred to be as 'that Mudblood' if I recall correctly. I don't like him but..." Aeryn trailed off looking over at Malfoy whose hair had seemed to turn a rather dirty greyish brown over night. Ew, Aeryn thought once she got a smell of him.
"Anyways, let's go get some breakfast, shall we? I'm starved!" Star said happily and led them to towards the doors.
Rolling her eyes, Aeryn asked, "Star, when aren't you starved?" as they entered the Great Hall.
Glancing over at the Gryffindor table as they passed by, Aeryn saw the Weasley twins whispering to each other and their friend Lee Jordan, whom Aeryn knew used to announce Quidditch matches. Oh that reminds me, she thought. "Hey Star, when are we going to make those fireworks you need?"
Star thought about this, she would have done it during one of her free periods but those were occupied with the ball of sunshine known as Snape. "I suppose we can make them at lunch? We can take some food with us and go to the usual place." She gave her friend a wink. "I hope Myrtle doesn't scream the whole time, I hate when she does that."
"Lovely Star. You know how much I enjoy eating my lunch in the restrooms with Myrtle. You know shes just going to moan and complain about not being able to eat," Aeryn said, glancing over at Star shoveling food in her mouth. "You know, I think I figured out why you're in Slytherin Star. Did you actually just unhinge your jaw to fit more food inside it?" she joked giving Star a sly smile.
"Hello ladies." They heard from in front of them. Looking up Star found the Weasley twins standing on the other side of the table.
'Oh geez, what now? Aeryn thought looking up at the Weasley boys. Choking a little on her Pumpkin Juice, Aeryn remembered that she never took the stones out of the inside pocket of her robes.
Star cracked a smile, "Hello boys!" She smiled up to them. "Can we help you?" She piled up more food on her plate to compensate for the amount she just ate.
"We want our supplies back." They said in unison, again.
Star laughed with her mouth full, so it sounded like she may have been choking. After swallowing she smiled up at them, "I guess you're out of luck. There is no way that you're getting my supplies. We need them." She made these words sound sweet, and smiled up at them.
"We need them too." The one, 'Fred?', said.
Aeryn looked up at the one who had spoke last. "Silly, didn't your Mommy ever teach you that stealing is wrong?"
"You stole them from us!" the other one replied.
"I wouldn't call it stealing. I just asked Star to help me get some supplies so we could practice Potions in an...extracurricular way," Aeryn quickly lied.
Star looked to Aeryn, and turned back to the twins with a sly smile. "Exactly, now if you'll excuse us boys we would really like to eat in peace." She said taking a bite of food.
The twins stared at them and looked as if they were about to respond when Malfoy walked behind them. "Oh Merlin! What is that smell?" the one that didn't speak before said as he and his twin plugged their noses.
"That would be fish head soup." Star mumbled with a smile.
"How do you know?"
She just gave them a wink. "Now run along boys." She waved them off. She looked around the table and found some potatoes, "Oooo, I want you!" She said to the potatoes, adding them to her full plate.
"Are you really going to eat all that?" She thought George said. She looked up surprised that they were still standing there. She just nodded her head and motioned for Aeryn to try and take over trying to getting rid of them.
Eyes watering from Malfoy walking by, Aeryn blinked the tears away to see Star motioning to the twins. Noticing that Star had begun eating again, Aeryn knew it was her turn to speak. "As much as we love the company boys, we really shouldn't ignore our other friends in favor of two amateur prankers," Aeryn said seriously, motioning to the empty seats surrounding the girls. Serving herself some fruit Aeryn ignored the twins as they continued to stand in front of her and Star. After a few seconds, the twins looked at each other, then proceeded to sit down in the empty seats across from the girls. Groaning, Aeryn asked, "What now? Can't you just leave us alone?"
"We aren't leaving until we get our moonstones back," the one on the right said.
"Well you aren't getting them back," Aeryn said, already tired of this conversation. The boy who had spoken was wearing a black vest with a Gryffindor crest and no robes. Aeryn looked over at the other one who was wearing a similar outfit but with a grey vest. He was still watching Star eat, amazed, Aeryn could only imagine, at her capacity to eat . "Hey Star, you know how I was telling you about zoos?" Aeryn asked.
Star looked up, mouth full of food, confused. " Yeah?"
"Well this is what it's like to be in one," Aeryn said, gesturing to the boy staring at Star.
Star furrowed her eye-brows at the girl and turned to look at what she was gesturing at. The boy was staring intently at her, it made her feel odd. "What are you staring at?" She asked before taking a drink of Orange Juice.
"Do you eat like that all the time?" He asked, Star heard Aeryn try and stifle a laugh and mask it as a cough causing the twin with the black vest to look at her with a confused look.
"Pretty much." Star replied with wide eyes. "You're not going to leave any time soon are you?"
"Not a chance." The twins said together and gave the girls identical smiles. Star felt her heart beat a little harder, 'Oh no, am I having a heart attack? Aeryns always telling me that if I kept eating the way I do that I'll have one.' she thought with wide eyes.
The boy in grey stopped smiling and her heart went back to normal, 'Odd...'She looked back and forth from one twin to the other. One was still watching Star intently as she ate and the other was watching Aeryn eat much more ladylike than Star. She sighed, "If you're going to stay, eat this and shut up." She threw a roll at the boy in grey.
Aeryn felt incredibly awkward as the ginger boy in the black vest stared at her whilst she ate. "I don't know if you've heard this before, but staring is quite rude," Aeryn informed him. She only got back a bright smile in reply. Rolling her eyes, Aeryn settled in to read her schedule and ignore those around her for the rest of the meal.
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After 15 minutes of awkward silence Star was actually relieved that it was time for classes. "Well, not that this wasn't smashing or anything but we really must be off. First day of term and all." Star got up speedily, grabbing her bag and a roll and walked out of the Great Hall pulling Aeryn along without looking back. "Time for Potions." Star sighed walking down to the dungeons and into the Potions class room for the second time. Walking in, Aeryn and Star took seats in a row near the front. Aeryn always made Star sit in the front, in the back of rooms is where she caused most of her trouble. Not that it stops her, Aeryn thought as she got out all her supplies. Just before class started two identical gingers walked into the room and sat next to the girls giving them both bright smiles.
"Oh panties." Star said mouth full of roll.
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Well there you have it folks! Chapter 2: "Oh Panties." What will happen next? Will the twins ever leave the girls alone? Will they become best friends and live happily ever after? Will Star ever stop saying "panties"? Stay tuned and find out.