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Hermione
I saw him fall down; I was shocked that he fell. He was Max the uber-witch; no demon could bring him down. I ran over to him, "Max, come on, wake up, this joke isn't funny," I kept trying to tell him. "Max, come on wake your bloody ass up! I can't do this without you!" I sat there cradling his head, which was burning up, silently pleading for someone to come and help him. I felt some blood trickle down my face. I wiped it off with my sleeve, still murmuring to him how much he needed to wake up.
"Hermione?" I heard a voice say. I look up and saw that the Weasley twins standing there staring at me in shock. I couldn't believe this, twice in one day our secret had been blown by the Weasleys. However, I realized at that moment I didn't care, Max my twin brother was dying from some poison that I didn't have enough time to find an antidote for it. "What happened?" one of them said as they ran over to us.
"Hermione, look at us, what happened?" the other twin said as soothing as he could. I shook my head. "Why are you here, weren't you just at the Burrow with the rest of the family?" I looked up in shock; of course, Prue had stayed behind while we fought the cloning darklighters! Prue had the ability to heal us from most wounds; she could, at least, if nothing else buy some time for Max. I looked up.
"PRUE!" I yelled at the top of my lungs just as two people orbed in. Wait two?
"Oh man, he got himself poisoned again!" I heard a girl say slightly annoyed, she looked at the other person who arrived who it turned out to be Chris Halliwell.
"He always manages to do this no matter what, this is getting rather tiresome," Chris replied as I realize the girl was Bianca, Chris's on-again-off-again girlfriend, but always best friend to both. She shimmered Max to her without even so much as a glance to me. "Don't worry, Hermione, he'll be fixed up in no time, and the more help we have the faster we can save him."
"Wait, you two are acting like this is a common thing," I said forgetting about the twins. Chris chuckled and showed me a bracelet that looked the same as the one that Max wore, and I notice that Bianca wore the same thing. I looked curiously at the bracelet.
"It's about as common as one of the Charmed One's being brought back to life, and Chris getting kidnapped," Bianca said with a chuckle as she poured some liquid over the wound. She looked over at Chris, "Got the poison to slow down, the main problem I'm going to have is trying to cool him off."
"Bianca also almost always loses her powers somehow at the worst possible moment," Chris said as he look at me with a smile. He turned to Bianca, "Can't we just douse him in some cold water?" Bianca looked at him annoyed as she tried to find some way to cool him off.
"We could, if we wanted to send his body into shock and maybe try to give him a heart attack," she said annoyed. She looked at me again realizing that I still needed an explanation concerning the bracelets. "Since we kept getting into various sorts of trouble usually without any reinforcements, and since we work so well together, Max decided to give us some sort of warning system whenever we were in trouble."
"The bracelets are designed to let the other two know when one of us was in trouble. Whenever the green gem glows, that means Chris is in trouble, Purple equals Bianca,"
"I still don't know why he chose purple for me," she grumbled as she looked through a small book.
"And blue stands for Max, he's even come up with the idea that we add different gems for whenever someone else was added to our nice little group," Chris continued as though Bianca hadn't said anything. He then gestured behind me, I looked and noticed the twins standing there looking shocked and for once in their lives speechless.
"Oh! Fred, George, umm I guess it would be too much to ask for you guys to forget that entire thing, right?" They looked at me.
"It seems that our little Granger-,"
"Brightest witch of our generation-,"
"Apple of the all Professors' eye,"
"Except Snape of course,"
"Too right, except that greasy git,"
"Has a little secret,"
"Not so little dear brother of mine,"
"Oh of course,"
Chris and Bianca looked at me, searching for some answers about these two. I took a deep breath trying to figure out the twins had just said. I decided not to answer their question (at least I think it was question) just yet. I turned to face Chris and Bianca; "We need someplace that's sterile just in case the poison is weakening his immune system,"
"Well, that's good to know but where do you suggest we take him?" Bianca said slightly annoyed. She cast a spell to cool him down. "Well, that brought down his temperature but it's only a temporary fix."
"We can't take him to your place because your parents will get in the way, Mi," Chris said. He looked over at Bianca to see if she had any suggestions.
"We can't go to my place because my family hates Max, ever since he told my grandmother that she reminded him of a cow," I heard the twins snicker at this, I glared at them to shut them up. I looked at Bianca trying to figure out if she was telling the truth or not. Max didn't usually go around telling older women that they reminded him of cows.
"Bianca's grandmother told him that he had the looks of miniature ogre," Chris explained at my look. I couldn't believe that she would say that to him.
"What about the Burrow?" Fred interrupted my questioning of this anecdote. I blinked owlishly at him trying to figure out if that was wise. I shook my head realizing that there was another place we could go to secretly.
"Why not?" asked George, both of the twins looking rather serious at the situation, which surprised me.
"Because the fact that you two and Ginny already know our secret has already put your family in more danger just because you know it, and if we bring Max to the Burrow then we'd have to expose Bianca and Chris to our secret and it puts them in even more danger than they normally are."
"Wait! What other secret?" they both said at the same time. I ignored them and continued talking to the twins.
"Plus, you're family has no protection against the things we face, so guys look just try to keep this between us and we'll save Max," They looked a bit confused by this explanation. Fred then did something that kind of worried me, he smirked.
"Fine but you have to use your magic to help us on three pranks no matter who the target is," I heard Chris and Bianca laughing at the terms of the deal before I silently agreed, I knew they weren't going to do anything to harmful on anybody. Right?
"How about Magic School?" I asked Chris and Bianca. They looked at me, then at each other worriedly.
"I don't know if we can sneak in there again without anyone figuring out what's going on, especially with Chris's dad as the headmaster," Bianca answered. Chris looked thoughtful for a while. Prue finally orbed in.
"I'm sorry but do you know how hard it is get away from that large family, I had to get Ginny to help me out," She said right before she looked over at Max. "Oh my!" She rushed over and tried to heal him. When she found she couldn't, she was close to panicking. Of course, no one else saw that, they just saw Prue getting frustrated, only Chris and I realized just how close to panicking she was getting.
"Don't worry, Aunt Prue, Bianca and I working on saving him," Chris said as he brought us all closer to Max so we could discuss the plan. "Look as Hermione mentioned earlier we need to get him to someplace else, but as Bianca has pointed out we don't really have a place to take him to, so the question is where can we take him without any interruptions?"
"You're parents aren't going to be happy about this, you know?" Prue said while she looked at me. I nodded and looked at Chris and Bianca, and saw them discussing the possibility of using Magic School, and the people they might need for it to work. I looked at Fred and George and decided to finally answer some of their questions that they had.
"So ask away guys, and only one of you at a time and no finishing each other's sentences," I laughed at their identical looks of shock. Then they talked it over quietly, "Come on guys we don't have all day,"
"Fine, I'll go first, what are you?" Fred said barely veiling his curiosity. I chuckled and answered him.
"I'm a witch, as you already know, but me and Max are actually two different kinds of witches, one being the wizard and the other being a Wicca witch," I explained. They actually looked interested in this, Fred more so than George. "Wiccas or actually witches (both for male and female) don't need to use wands and their magic is actually more emotion based than anything else. Oh and we have our own powers!" I said a bit too excitedly. I heard Prue and the other two chuckle at how I said it.
"What kind of powers?" asked George. I was about to answer when Chris interrupted me.
"We gotta go now, we figured it out a plan for using Magic School as the place without Dad finding out," I nodded and they picked up Max and orbed out. I looked at the twins.
"Sorry for not answering your questions but I gotta go and help them, please try to keep your mom from finding out, later!" I said as I orbed out following them to Magic School.
Ginny
I saw them leave the Burrow in their strange ways with Max's words on my mind We're the good guys but someone needs our help and we'll explain everything once we get back. I couldn't believe that Hermione's secret was so monumental, and now here I am trying to keep "Hermione" from ruining everything. She disappeared into the bathroom a few minutes ago after I let out one of the twins' pranks, which of course led to Mom finding out about Weasley's Wizard Wheezes, or something like that. She was still shrieking and nobody's come back yet, which was really worrying me. I sort of felt guilty for blowing the twins' secret joke shop plans but they can take Mom's yelling at them, and it helped keep everyone from finding out about Hermione's secret. I tried to keep Mum from finding out about Hermione's secret, the Twins' many secrets, Ron's secret crush, and of course Dad's secret muggle modifications on other things besides the Anglia. When you think about it was only a matter of time before one or all of them blew up from me!
"Did you know about this? Did you know about their OWL scores?" Mum found me; I was trying to think fast before someone else's secret came out. I looked at the door and noticed Fred and George came in from wherever they were.
"Mum, who's in trouble now?" Fred asked with a fake smile on his face, which made me wonder what caused the look.
"Yeah Mum, did ickle Gin-gin do something wrong with the laundry?" George asked also with a fake smile. Mum then turned to them looking very scary at that moment. The twins noticed the temper getting ready to explode and they actually paled for the first time in their lives. I kept telling them to run, but they didn't get the message.
Prue came down the stairs, or at least I think it was Prue. She had tears in her eyes. "Hermione! Are you OK? What happened?" I yelled distracting Mum's attention from the twins. Mum got so distracted by the tears on "Hermione's" face that she forgot about the twins for the moment and started trying to take care of "Hermione." I motioned them to follow me so I could at least give them a little bit of warning as to what happened since it wasn't their fault. I guess I felt I owed them some sort of explanation.
"Oh man, what did we do now?" Fred moaned quietly while Mom helped "Hermione."
"Gin, what's Mum mad at us for now?" George asked keeping an eye on Mum.
"I may have let out one of your pranks to keep Mum from finding out about something, and it led to her trying to clean your room," I said looking away from them.
"Does it have to do with Hermione's secret?" Fred asked me. I nodded, too shocked to even try to lie. They nodded and tried to think of ways to calm Mum down before she noticed them again.
Chris
We orbed home to pick up my cousins Hank and Li'l Prue and my brother Wyatt so that they could distract Dad while we smuggled Max and Hermione into Magic School. The only problem was that I couldn't let Wyatt know because he'd overreact and try to help but end up in the way. That was the only tricky part, especially since he kept asking us why.
"Look, since I'm helping you guys break into Magic School, right under Dad's nose I might add, I just thought I was entitled as to why I am doing this," he was saying to me. I grumbled and told him it had something to do with an innocent, who was trouble. It wasn't a complete lie, if you didn't count the fact that Max was anything but innocent.
"Wyatt, it's obvious he doesn't want your help on this one, so let's drop it and help him in the way he asked us to." Li'l Prue said firmly. Wyatt nodded annoyed that one of his youngest cousins had just bossed him around. Hank orbed in at that moment.
"Okay all of the teachers are in the meeting room, does everyone have a potion?" Hank asked them. They nodded holding up small vials filled with a turquoise liquid.
"Hank, what does this potion do again?" I asked slightly worried. I didn't want them to get into major trouble. Since it was just a potion it should be easily reversed, and it shouldn't last too long. Hank looked at me annoyed.
"You're the one that wants us to provide a distraction with no questions asked. So you don't get to know what the potion does, just do what you need to do and we'll do the same." I nodded slightly afraid of Hank at that moment, while he only has levitation and premonition as his powers, Aunt Phoebe taught him martial arts while he grew up. So, he was lethal when he needed to be.
I orbed away to Bianca and Hermione who were still holding Max up and arguing with each other at the same time. It looked pretty heated.
"Bianca, I don't know why the hell you're asking me what kinda potion did this!"
"Because you're part darklighter, you idiot!"
"What did you just call me, you filthy tramp?" Uh-oh things are getting ugly now, I thought as I moved in between them.
"Hey, hey, hey! What's going on here?" I said before they could start exchanging shots. They both looked at me very angrily. I stood my ground while silently hoping that they wouldn't hurt me. They both started explaining the situation to me, by yelling of course. "Shut up! One at time but not right now because the distraction is about to begin."
They both straightened up while still glaring at each other. When we heard the yells and screams, we ran into Magic School searching for the conservatory that never gets used. We turned into a hall and ran right into a… a camel?
"What the?" I muttered as we turned down another hall to see three dogs chasing a cat. I started to guess what the potion had done, and damn I wished I came up with that prank.
"What's with the zoo?" Hermione asked us. Bianca looked at me for answers I smiled sheepishly.
"Apparently Hank came up with a better prank than we have so far," Bianca grumbled about owing her little brother twenty bucks now. We went down two more hallways before finding our destination. We had already set this room up in case we should ever need it. There was a long table that had a navy blue blanket covering it, with royal purple pillows on it, and a hunter green comforter on top of it. Yes, we had turned it into a makeshift bedroom. There was a huge window with a balcony to the left of us.
"Okay, put him on the table. Bianca, do the cooling off spell again he's starting to cook again. Hermione start thinking of poisons that could cause this."
"Why does everyone think that I knew which poison did this?" she yelled at me. I looked at her confused, I thought everyone knew about this fact. I looked at Bianca and she might as well have yelled 'SEE!' with the way her eyes looked at me.
"Hermione, don't you know about a darklighter's powers?" I asked her confused. She shook her head, then I realized what Max always grumbled about Hermione never taking the time to hone her passive powers. "Well, Hermione, a darklighter's powers are orbing, conjuring, spell casting with the more powerful ones, their own individual powers, and one that every darklighter shares. The ability to know every poison and antidote magical or otherwise in existence," She looked at me in shock at that statement.
"I'm only part darklighter though," she whispered. I don't know why it wasn't like it wasn't a very dangerous power.
"Yes, but Max mainly got Hera's powers so that means you have you darklighter grandfather's powers, which would include that knowledge,"
"But I can't, nobody ever told me, and I don't know anything about poisons."
"Hermione, we need you to tap into that power because your brother's life depends on it." She grimaced but nodded resolutely.
"I'll try but I can't guarantee anything." I nodded as she set to work on identifying the symptoms while Bianca and I headed to the library to see if we could find anything there.
