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"Why did you stay behind?" asked Justin. Alex looked dazed for a second but regained her composure.
"I wanted to hear you bang your head on the pipe, duh," laughed Alex, "It never gets old."
"Hey!" said Justin rubbing his forehead and looking at Alex's face, "No you didn't. You stayed to find out if there's anything you could do to save Mason."
"NO! Pfft! No, why would you think that?" asked Alex.
"Alex, I don't blame you, I probably would have done the same thing if the tables were switched," said Justin.
"Really? You'll help me?" asked Alex.
"Of course, you're going to help me get Juliette back. I'll help you get Mason back," said Justin.
"Thanks Justin," said Alex with her hand on the door but turned back to face Justin, "And we can't tell mom or dad about what we're going to do."
"Or Max either, he'd just blurt it out in some stupid way," said Justin.
"Right," said Alex looking like she was organizing her thoughts.
Alex opened the door to Waverly Sub Station. Alex entered followed by Justin. Harper was helping Theresa serving orders. Jerry was in the back making the orders until he saw Justin and Alex through the window.
"What took you guys so long? Harper's been back for at least five minutes," said Mr. Russo.
"Yeah dad, I know, but…we…were—" started Alex pausing trying to think of an explanation.
"I don't want it hear it. Both of you, in the back now. Harper can you take over back here," said Mr. Russo making circular motions around him.
"Sure thing Mr. Russo," said Harper moving to the back.
Justin walked ahead of Alex proceeding to the back. Alex looked at Justin worried. Justin slowed down to walk next to Alex.
"We have to act like we can't get Mason and Juliette back or else they'll know we're up to something," whispered Justin.
"Don't you think I know that? I just couldn't come up with an excuse right away. I would have come up with one sooner or later," said Alex as they crossed the threshold into the back room.
"Well then act a little better," said Justin.
"Oh I wasn't acting. I act all the time, just like when I told you that I didn't take your doll last week," said Alex.
"Hah…You know where Capitan Jim Bob Sherwood is?" asked Justin opening the door to the lair.
"I was gonna wave it in front of your face so you would cheer up but—"
"Hurry up and take you seats," said Mr. Russo as Alex and Justin went to their usual seats, "Now I know Justin doesn't have to be here, because of his spell quota. But I thought it would be a good idea play potion roulette because of recent events."
"Dad do we have to…I just wanna go up to my room," said Alex.
"C'mon Alex it'll be fun. It'll get your mind off Mason," said Jerry.
"Dad!" said Alex putting her head on the in her folded arms. Justin looked at his dad angrily.
"Oh, Alex, I didn't mean," said Mr. Russo holding one of his knuckles to his mouth, "let's just play."
Jerry Russo pulled out two bags filled with vial of potions. He pulled out the potions and set them on the table next to each other. Max walked over to the seat closest to the door and Justin tapped on Alex and brought her over to the table. Alex took the chair in front of the table and Justin sat on the end of the couch closer to Alex.
"Here's how it works. You pick one of the vials here and drink it. Not to worry all of them are drinkable and reversible. So, who wants to go first?" said Mr. Russo.
Everyone looked at one another, neither one wanting to go first. Then Justin raised his hand in defeat and taking one of the vials containing a blue clear liquid. He uncorked the vial and held it up to his lips then to his nose, smelling the liquid. Justin didn't smell anything. He drank the potion and set the vial on the table and waited for something to happen. Justin then burped with bubble flying out of his mouth. Alex and Max laughed and pointed to the bubbles.
"What Justin just drank was a bubbling potion. It's mostly used by younger wizards as prank on others because it causes them to produce bubbles," said Mr. Russo, Justin burped again with more bubbles floating out, "It can also be used as a getaway potion because the only spell that can come out of their wand is bubbles. Don't worry Justin. It should wear off in a couple minutes. So who's next?"
Alex grabbed one of the vials before Max could. She grabbed a yellow cloudy liquid that seemed to almost glow and gulped it down. Alex began glow a faint yellow that became brighter and lighter until Justin, Max and Jerry had to shut their eyes. Alex began to become thinner until she was as thin as a needle. Alex shot straight up to the ceiling and bounced around the walls ending up in the same exact spot she was in before. She filled up to her original size with her glow disappeared.
"OOOWWW! I have a headache now," said Alex holding her head, "What was that potion anyway?"
"That was the speed of light potion. Before the person drinks the potion they simply state where they want to go. The person turns into a beam of light and travels at the speed of light, which is faster than flashing," said Mr. Russo. Justin burped another time with bubbles exploding out of his mouth.
"Couldn't've you told me that before," said Alex still holding her head.
"All right! My turn," said Max grabbing a dark, green cloudy liquid. Max drank the potion and backed up as if they were waiting to be hit by something. Nothing happened though.
"Dad, are you sure that all these potions do something? Because I don't feel anything," said Max.
"Yes I'm sure, I made all of these myself. What did it taste like?" asked Mr. Russo.
"Biscuits," said Max. Jerry, Justin, and Alex all looked confused.
"I didn't make any potion that tasted like biscuits," said Mr. Russo.
"Wait…What type of biscuits Max, mom's or the biscuits from the pet store?" asked Justin.
"Duh the pet store, nothing can compare with those," said Max.
"Max those are for dog," said Alex slapping her hand on her knee.
"I need to keep my hair nice and shiny though," said Max.
"Well that answers the question," said Mr. Russo, "What Max drank was a Wolfsbane potion. It's designed to stop the morphing of human or wizard into a werewolf before their first full moon. Now there is some controversy to what happens if a wolf actually drinks the potion."
"Dad!" yelled Alex putting her head in hands.
"Oh Alex," said Mr. Russo.
"Nice going dad. What's next a vampire remedy?" said Justin burping up more bubbles.
"Sweetie I didn't to…I made these potions a couple days ago when you were still with Mason. I just forgot to take it out," said Jerry, "Would it make you guys feel better if I stopped class now?"
"A little," whined Alex.
"How about I take away your shift in the shop for today?" said Mr. Russo.
"Well okay," said Alex.
"Sweet! Lesson's over," said Max leaving the lair.
"I'll bring you up to your room," said Justin.
"Good idea and I'll gather up all these potions," said Mr. Russo. Alex let out another short little sob at the mention of potions. Once they were out of the lair Alex brought up her head whipping back the hair that fell over her face.
"Now that's acting," said Alex.
"That was luck. That's all it was, you would've never been able to get away with that if it wasn't for the wolfsbane potion," said Justin.
"There was and I got away with that's all that matters," said Alex.
Justin and Alex began to ascend to the spiral staircase brining them upstairs to their apartment. When Justin was sure that they weren't going to be overheard he spoke.
"So what's the plan now?"
"When is you're over?" asked Alex.
"Eight," said Justin.
"And what time is it now?"
"Four Oh Eight," said Justin.
"Okay, I'll meet you down there afterwards," said Alex.
"Gotcha," said Justin heading back downstairs, "Wait…what are you going to do in the meantime?"
"I…guess…I'm going to do homework," said Alex.
"Homework?" said Justin.
"Pfft… No, I know that was too far off even for me. I'll be watching TV," said Alex heading in the front door and Justin taking off downstairs.