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A/N: Ok, I feel like I must update! Thanks for the nice reviews!!

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The halls were as empty as a ghost town as they walked silently through them. Teddy held to map in front of his face as he walked down the hall. He led his friends by the faintest light from the tip of his wand. Even this light, which hardly even lit up the map he was holding, seemed terribly bright to the four kids that were sneaking about the school. In situations like these, everything seems to be exaggerated. Teddy glanced at the map. Ally had been right about Professor Dingbit. A little dot with his name was floating around the corridors of the third floor. Teddy constantly watched as he moved swiftly and silently down the hall. Being winter, it was already pitch black at on eight at night.

"Where is he now?" Ally asked under her breathe. She had to be right by Teddy's ear as to not have to speak to loudly. Though they were on different floors, Ally was paranoid that somehow Professor Dingbit would hear them.

Teddy looked at the map, "Still on the third floor. He's by the staircase. I think we can get to the bathroom easily. Fortunately for us, he picked the wrong floor to patrol. "

Todd leaned into Teddy to whisper, "Don't you think we should watch for other students? He may have the other prefects working for him tonight. It would be awful to have a battle of the prefects right as we get to the bathroom."

Teddy nodded, "It's alright. He's the only one we need to worry about. Everyone seems to be staying in the Houses tonight. The only others names out are Flitwick and Longbottom. Professor Longbottom wouldn't turn us into Dingbit though. I think we're safe. Besides, none of them are near the bathroom. Wait...Dingbit's on the move. He's taken to the stairs. Be quiet now. He's coming to our floor."

Olivia instinctively grabbed onto Teddy's arm. He paid no attention to this as he was too busy trying not to make a noise. At the last possible moment, he pushed everyone into an empty classroom, locked the door, and put out his wand. His breath was now coming in shallow gasps as he tried to not make even the slightest sound. He listened as footsteps that he knew could only be Professor Dingbit's pass the room they were now hiding in. They all waited in darkness for a long time after they had heard the footsteps recede. Teddy finally made a tiny bit of light with his wand and looked at the map.

Faster than he had ever moved in his life, he put the light out. Right outside the door on the map was Dingbit's dot. Teddy stopped breathing and listened hard. The door handle was turning just to his left and it was making his skin crawl. He knew nothing more than a few weeks of detention would be the punishment, but he still felt that if the door opened, something terrible and unimaginable would happen. His heart was beating so hard he was afraid it would betray him. The door began to open slowly, teasing them with agonizing suspense. A foot came through the crack of the door and Teddy felt his heart skip a beat. This was it! He was done for!

"Couldn't sleep, Professor?"

The foot seemed to hesitate before pulling out of the small gap between the door and its frame.

"Just wanted a nice stroll around the school. I have a feeling that a few students are out later tonight", said the voice of Professor Dingbit. His words were slow and purposeful. Teddy could feel that they were pointed toward them. He felt Olivia tighten her grip on his arm, which was already starting to tingle from lack of circulation.

"Oh, I see. Well, there are students out tonight. I saw a few on the fifth floor. I can't say who they were. They scattered so fast I could have almost sworn that they hadn't even been there at all. Quiet suspicious if you ask me!" Replied a soft, cheerful voice.

"Thank you for the tip. Good night to you!"

Outside the door there was the sound of two pairs of shoes hitting the floor. Both seemed to be walking away from the door, though in opposite direction. As they both seemed to fade away, one pair stopped entirely as if pausing. It waited for the other pair to fade completely before moving again. Teddy winced as he heard them coming back to his door. Professor Dingbit was returning. The footstep grew closer and closer to the door. Olivia hugged Teddy's arm to her chest and he could feel her heart was racing like his. He knew Ally, to his left, and Todd were both feeling the same thing as he. They all knew that in a matter of seconds, they would be caught and interrogated.

The footsteps grew louder until they were right at the door. A shadow fell into the room and Teddy heard Olivia whimper. He looked over at her, seeing only the outline of her terrified face. His head snapped back to face the door as it started to creak open.

"Come on out. I know you're in here!" A voice called from the half-open doorway.

Teddy was startled. It was not the voice he had been expecting. Though he could not identify who the voice belonged to, he knew that it was definitely not Professor Dingbit. There was a gentle quality to this voice that Dingbit's lacked entirely.

"Please come out. I'm not going to turn you in. If that had been my intention, I would not have sent Professor Dingbit to look for imaginary students on the fifth floor. Now can you please come out so I can talk to you properly, Mr. Lupin?"

Teddy sighed and got up. Olivia tried to pull him back down but he shook her off and indicated that it was alright. She got up as well and all four went out of the dark classroom. Teddy was surprised to find that the owner of the voice and his protector was Professor Longbottom. Teddy smiled but his smile soon faded when he saw the expression on his teacher's face. Professor Longbottom wore a troubled expression.

"Do you have any idea what kind of trouble you could have gotten into? You aren't being very careful, Teddy Lupin. People are starting to get suspicious of you, Professor Dingbit especially. You are very fortunate that I saw him roaming about the corridors tonight. He knows you're up to something but he still has yet to figure out what. Oh, if he only knew! He thinks your just causing a bit of mayhem. Well, he would have been in for a surprise if he had found out your true motives for being out tonight!" Professor Longbottom sighed. "Well, we don't have much time. You have only a few minutes to work on your 'extra credit'. "

Professor Longbottom looked at their shocked faces, "Oh yes! I know. Your godfather, Harry Potter, has informed me of your plans and asked that I keep a watch over you. I'm surprised that you've gotten this far. I thought for sure that you would have been discovered last week when your potion started to give off a nasty smell. That part of the corridor reeked. I contained the smell fortunately, but Professor Dingbit still got word of it. He's been getting more and more suspicious for the last week. I really don't know how much longer I can cover for you. But enough of this! We have to get going if you want to be able to add your ingredients!"

Teddy seemed to snap out of a daze at these last words and began walking to the girls' bathroom. He muttered a thousand 'thank-you's' to Professor Longbottom as they walked into the bathroom. He accept each one and urged Teddy to get on with his potion. Teddy dropped to his knees and pulled a few brown clumps from in his bag. He dropped on in at a time until he had only on left. He explained, as he stirred the potion, that this was just an extra in case something were to go wrong on one came up missing. He changed the direction of the stirring after five strokes and then finally came to a stop. He looked down at the potion and was pleased to find that the potion was now smooth and yellow. This was just as the book had described it.

Professor Longbottom checked the corridors before helping them to get back to the staircase. Teddy thanked him once again for all his help before walking up the steps to the seventh floor. Teddy pulled out his map and looked for Professor Dingbit. His dot was pacing the Entrance hall, near the staircase.

"We'd better hurry! Dingbit's near the stairs and I think he's going to come up. We had better not test him again. I don't think we should be so lucky a second time!"

With this being said, they all hurried up the steps and up to the Fat Lady.

"It's a little later, isn't it?" She said in a bored tone. She flipped her hair and sighed, "Well then, are you going to give me the password or must we sit like this all night. You know, I do have better things to do. Just because I'm a portrait doesn't mean that I must stay here always. Unlike Muggle paintings, I may move about my frame!"

"Yes, yes! We're sorry! Of course you can and I hope you do! Jelly tubes!" Ally said impatiently.

The Fat Lady huffed an irritated sigh and swung open. Teddy had never felt so safe in his life than when the portrait swung shut behind them. They all sighed with relief and sank into the couches by the fireplace.

"Some night, huh?" Ally said as she looked at each person. Todd was rubbing his temples, trying to relieve the stress of this evening. Olivia was sitting by Teddy, leaning against his shoulder, her eyelids drooping with exhaustion. Teddy was wide-awake with leftover adrenaline. His pupils were still dilated even though it was quite bright in the common room.

Teddy breathed in, "Quite!"

Ally laughed. She could feel the exhaustion starting to creep into her limbs. Her arms were starting to feel heavy and her feet seemed unwilling to have weight put on them again. She got up and walked to Olivia.

"I think you and I should probably go to bed before we're too tired to move", Ally said and helped Olivia up. Olivia slumped against her, her body worn out from all the previous excitement and adrenaline. She kissed Teddy good night and let Ally support her up the steps. Teddy looked at Todd. Both boys still weren't feeling the after effect of an adrenaline rush. They both felt fine and did not particularly want to go to bed just yet.

"So, Harry told Professor Longbottom, eh? Might have been nice of him to tell us this, right mate? Would have saved us a little stress tonight, that's for sure!" Todd laughed.

Teddy smiled, "No joke. I wish Harry were here. He was always sneaking about this castle doing things more difficult and dangerous than this. Too bad. I wish he could pass some trick of the trade to us. Maybe I should just have a nice chat with George Weasley. He and his twin were right pranksters! They got away with some much under these walls without the professor knowing a thing. They would sure come in handy right about now! Maybe I should go back to Harry's third year then. I can talk to all of them if I do that and still have my dad! Perhaps I will..."

Sleep was starting to sneak into both boys eyes. They looked at each other and silently agreed that his conversation could be picked up the next morning. They pulled themselves off their comfortable chairs and slowly took to the stairs. Each step seemed like a mountain to their tired limbs. By the time they had reach the door to their dormitory, they were both feel rather heavy and sluggish. Teddy tried to get out of his clothes quickly but his attempt at quickly turned into six minutes just to strip down to his boxers. He felt like he could just fall flat on the floor and not move ever again and be content with that as he put a white, long sleeved shirt. He didn't even bother with pajama bottoms. Leaning down to put them on would have surely made him fall over. His head and shoulders felt like they weighed the equivalent of a baby elephant.

Teddy dropped into bed and felt relieved. All the weight on his top half seemed to spread throughout his body evenly, making him sleep like he was sinking deep into his mattress. He felt insanely comfortable and let his heavy eyelids drop and sleep finally take his exhausted body.

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A/N: I hate the aftermath of an adrenaline rush. It's so exhausting that it almost hurts to stay awake. In case you've never experience it, let me tell ya, it's rather annoying. I hate the feeling of my whole body feeling like a sack of extremely heavy potatoes. Te he. Anyway, reviews are very welcome. Sadly, they're kinda what I live for during this long, boring spring break! So, review and I'll love you always and forever.

Wow! I must be getting tired...I'm rambling! :P