/I really want to try and update more often for you all, but every time I go to I end up either feeling like its horrible, or I just don't have the drive to continue... I'm hoping I can take this plot nice and slow so I can make a decent fanfiction length . thanks for being patient/

Through Shay's chaos, Serina had her own problems, though they weren't as horrible as what Shay went through- that didn't mean it didn't hurt. Serina was a half blood, and dangerous for her, she enjoyed Shay's company... never really sure which sex she preferred, she had fallen for two people, Shayla being the obvious one, and Draco Malfoy. Both were a bad idea, a very very bad idea, and she knew it. But if you ever had fallen in love, or thought you were you'd easily understand. And she would bargain with herself constantly. Draco didn't even know she existed, and Shay did... but Draco's father, though he may disown and disapprove, wouldn't kill her; she hoped, where if the Dark Lord found out, and knew her "dirty little secret" he'd torture and kill both of them. She never really worried about what would happen to herself, it was always Shay. She hated the situation Shay was in, and she hated she had no choice but to sit and watch. To Shayla, her being there, staying silent and just letting her rant about everything... it helped.
But wouldn't he kill her now? If he knew she associated herself with a half-blood. Or maybe he was lenient on half bloods? Or maybe not. Maybe- just maybe he didn't notice her father wasn't a pure-blood. Maybe he didn't know any of this. He probably knew nothing of her existence, knowing her father.

Her father loved her too much, it seemed the exact opposite of Shay's father, which Serina constantly insisted that she would switch if ever they could. And they looked close enough didn't they? Her and Shay, if they both had the right glamours, they could pull it off. Or –or polyjuice potion.

She couldn't believe her own mind. Was she willing to take Shay's place? Serina, a Slytherin, she wasn't brave, and she really hated the idea, but would it hurt less for him to hurt her instead, and for shay to get a taste of what having a real daddy is...

Or would Serina feel stuck after it, like she couldn't give her friend back this life, but she couldn't take it any longer. Was it necessary to risk it? When Shayla was use to his cruelty.

But the again, was this worse, maybe she wasn't, maybe it was killing her mentally, maybe it was wearing on her so heavily that inside she would soon snap, and Serina would lose that friend. That thought terrified her. Losing her friend. After a sleepless night she finally went back to Shay's room, tired and worked up, stealing a small potion from her daddy's cabinets and slipping into the window. "Shay...?" She touched her gently, freezing and staying completely silent when she realized he was next to her, he was asleep and so had shay been before Serina woke her up. She sat on the floor not sure if she felt like walking at all... if she moved it could wake him up, Shay and Serina stared at eachother, in silence for a long while, each one sick and unsure what to do. Slowly serina grabbed a cup off he nightstand and filled it halfway with the liquid from the potion flask, pulling out a strand of her own hair, then shay's.

Shay shook her head when Serina offered her the cup, then after a few moments teared up.

"are you sure?" she whispered.
"yes."

They took a sip, and instantly shay jumped up and disappeared out the window, leaving Serina standing there in silence, trying to get used to her new body, the snake tongue, the way Shay saw things...

"what are you doing shayla...' his voice was tired and annoyed.

"I-I had a nightmare." Serina listened to her own voice, it wasn't English.

"Lay down.." he said without seeming to care about her fears, which easily made Serina's stomach churn.

"I-I'd rather not."

"I'm sorry did you not hear me Shayla?"

He knew damn well she did, and Serina knew it too, she took a deep breath, and uncomfortably slid next to him, turning her back on him and staring out the window in silence.

" Where is your mother?"

The Snake! Dear god they forgot about the damn Snake! Did she see it? Does she know?

Will she tell on them? Serina felt panic and bile rising in her throat. "I don't know, hunting?" she wasn't even sure if that snake hunted...

"that'd be odd for her, she hasn't done that since I was –" he trailed off, and Serina did not press him to continue. "go find her."

"Yes...er..." what did shay call him? "Yes- I'll go do that... right now..."

All serina could think of when she ran down the stairs and towards the door was that shay would be gone, she knew it, she wasn't sure how it worked yet and she knew Shay would have wanted to leave right away.

"Serina!" the voice wasn't Shay's and it made her heart leap. She turned looking up into two icy-blue Snake eyes, just like shay had.

"Are you insane?" She was pinned to the wall, seeing her own body sitting silently on the grass. "Do you realize that he probably will find out before morning? He knows Shay- he knows her too well, and he knows Legimency. There is no way in hell you can pull this off. What would your father say if I brought you home to him right now! I just can't believe this! Both of you are so- so!" she released Serina gently

/let me pause here, when I say shay- it is shay in serina's body and when I say Serina it is Serina in shay's body, just so I don't confuse anyone this is almost as bad as trying to do a weasley twin fan fic!/

"mum.." shay whispered softly. "I-I don't think we were thinking..."

"No you weren't... and as sweet as what Serina is trying to do is, I just- don't think it'll work, You can't disappear without getting in trouble so I can't even have you two hang out until it wears off... unless Serina used the short version..."

"It lasts a week, this one..."

"What on earth! If I go missing for a week he'll be furious with both Shay and myself... I just. Five minutes, give me five minutes..."

"what if- I just tried to be Shayla, and once the week is over..."

"You know I see you as Serina, I can sense the potion, but animals see the humans as what they are... I don't know what he sees, he certainly does not appear human any longer. So if he's tired he may have taken you for Shay when he sees Serina... I just wish I knew... I- he- he can see you right now, he can see you through me..." Suddenly she turned her back and stared at the forest in silence. "run... and I will find you when I think of something, both of you- you can go to hogwarts if you find that better, and go to the headmaster-..." she winced. "and tell him what you did... and I will go and tell him that I took Shayla to Hogwarts, and I will go and get in trouble but the two of you need to get out of my sight right now. Because /I/ am furious with both of you. And I don't want to be- especially with the intentions that were originally your thoughts."