It was the first Saturday after start of term and Dru, Rose and the twins had gathered in the potion class room. Dru was busy working on two remedies and a love potion at the same time. Rose was helping her by following her instructions, while the boys were sitting across from them making notes. "I think the love potion is almost ready." Dru said as she was carefully stirring it.
Fred got of his seat and stood behind her and looked in the cauldron. "What does this one do?"
"This one causes a person to let their feelings intensify. So if they're in love with someone, but too shy or scared to tell them, they take this one and the potion will intensify their feelings to the point where they can act on them."
"We need a test subject," Fred and George grinned. "There's no way we're going to test that on ourselves." Fred then added.
"Maybe we could do it on Rose." Dru smiled and looked at her friend. "George knows she's under a potion, so he can keep her in check."
"No," Rose shook her head. "I'm all for being a test subject but for something that intensifies something... no." She was still scared that she'd lose control over everything. Her gift, her temper... potions could do one thing but could end up doing another.
"It'll be fine," George grinned at her. "You'll be fine."
"Rose, your feelings are better in check than ours. I'm already...well you know. and the boys have too mature feelings that you and I both want to keep buried." Dru grinned at Fred.
"Look, the three of us won't let anything happen to you. But let's do it on the common room for safety. We don't want Umbridge to find you all giddy at George, or you both be in trouble."
"One drip." Rose held up one finger. "One drip, and nothing more because I hate the word intensify... and I trust you, Dru, but that potion could be more than just a love potion."
George and Fred high-fived each other and grinned.
"I swear, if it makes me lose my inhibitions, I'll kill all three of you in the next DA meeting."
"Rose, relax. I know what I'm doing!" Dru smiled as she started to pour all of her potions in vials and started labeling them. "I think." She muttered to Fred with a grin. Truth be told, Dru had only ever used her love potions on animals and she didn't know how long the potion would last on a human.
"Yeah... that's why I'm saying one drop," Rose said suspiciously. "I have a bad feeling about this."
"Fine, do you want me to take it?" Dru suggested.
"Oh no, your feelings are very important for your gift... you're right, I'm the best candidate."
"Come on, you lot. Let's get back to the common room then." George said and took the papers, so Fred could help Dru carry the vials.
When they got into the common room, the boys first brought all the stuff to their room, before returning. Dru was sitting on the armrest of the sofa playing with the vial of love potion in her hands.
George pulled Rose on his lap. "Are you ready?"
"Yeah, I guess," she nodded. She took the vial from Dru and put a few drops on her finger before putting it in her mouth and getting the liquid off before swallowing it down. "There."
"Well?" Dru asked, as she leaned on Fred's shoulder, who was sitting next her.
"How do you feel?" Fred was getting a bit anxious.
"Good, like me, I suppose." Rose frowned and looked at George with a big smile. "Hi handsome!"
"Hi, sweetie." George grinned. "Feel different yet?"
"No..." she said before she turned around on his lap. She put her arms around his neck and smiled at him. "I'm still me," she nodded and kissed him tenderly.
George gently kissed her back. He knew he probably shouldn't but he was dying to find out what the effect of the potion would turn out to be.
Dru smiled at Fred as she bit her lip. She had an inkling that the potion was starting to work.
Rose felt as if she wanted to crawl inside of George, be as close to him as humanly possible, which was ridiculous because that wasn't possible and that made her sad. She gently broke off the kiss and looked at him with tears in her eyes.
"Hey, sweetie. What's wrong?" George asked concerned as he caressed her hair. He shot a look at Fred, thinking that they should not have done this.
"It's impossible to ... no it's stupid..." she chuckled as she wiped the tears out of her eyes before caressing George's hair.
"Somehow I have the feeling that once the potion wears off, she'll be very drained," Fred noted.
Dru couldn't stop laughing at the sight of her friend. Her potion was working alright.
George chuckled at Rose and gave her a quick kiss on her lips. "What's stupid?" He was getting curious.
"Well, first off..." Rose got off George's lap and started to pace back and forth in front of the fireplace. "I am stupid for thinking of something that stupid in the first place. Me. But I am stupid for not being who I was before while I know that I can still be that person so I'm terribly stupid. Very very stupid. Actually, George, I'm so stupid that you shouldn't even be with me. Seriously." she kept pacing.
"I think I didn't make the potion right. It's not focusing enough on her romantic feeling." Dru whispered in Fred's ear. She didn't want George to hear she slipped up.
"That's alright," Fred smiled. "You have no idea how many times George and I suffered from failed experiments."
"And I love you, George, I love you so much and it scares me. It scares me and that makes me so sad!" Rose felt tears run down her cheeks but she kept pacing. "And it's so sad that my father didn't like... oh dad..."
George got up and stopped her from pacing, by pulling her in his arms. "It's okay, Rose. How long does this stuff normally work, Dru?"
"A..a few..few hours." Dru stammered. She let herself sink into Fred's lap thinking George was going to yell at her any second.
"Not too bad then," George shrugged and caressed Rose's back as she had put her head against his chest and was sobbing. "We can do a few hours."
"My father's dead... and he killed my grandfather!" Rose sobbed and took hold of George's shirt. "Don't ever leave me, George? They left me, and they lied to me and they hurt me and..."
"I'll never leave you." George kissed the top of her head. "I'll never hurt you." He felt bad for the girl.
"I'm sorry... it's all so stupid... I can't..." she chuckled. "I'm stupid, but that's not the point, is it? I thought of something stupid and it made me cry."
"You're not stupid, Rose. You're a bit emotional, that's all." He chuckled and put his hands around her face. "You feel better in a few hours." He gently kissed her on her lips.
Rose grabbed the back of his head and kissed him back, harder and with more feeling behind it than she had ever kissed him. Without breaking off the kiss, she climbed onto the table so that he wouldn't be too uncomfortable kissing her.
"hm, Rose, should we-" But George didn't get a chance to finish his sentence as Rose pulled him into a even deeper kiss.
Rose couldn't control herself anymore. She wrapped her legs around him and started unbuttoning his shirt.
It only took George two seconds to realise what she was doing. He quickly broke off the kiss and had grabbed her wrist. 'That's not a good idea, Rose." his voice sounded strained. It wasn't as if he hadn't wanted it, but he was not going to take advantage of Rose like this.
Rose blinked at him and managed to get back on her feet. "It may not be a good idea, but it certainly felt good!" she said before looking at him. "Don't you love me?" she asked in a small voice.
"Rose, I love you to bits, you know that. But you don't want this." George grinned.
"We could slip George a few drops too." Dru chuckled in Fred's ear.
"You mad? Mum will kill us if she'd ever find out!" Fred laughed. "Let's just... handle with one ticking time bomb instead of two, and enjoy ourselves."
Rose felt tears run down her cheeks and ran towards the entrance, where she bumped into Neville. "Neville!"
"What's wrong with her?" Neville asked as he protectively put his arm around Rose. "What did you do to her?" Neville had started seeing Rose like a sister and he didn't want anyone to hurt her.
"He didn't like me kissing him, Neville," she sobbed. "And he said that I didn't want to kiss him but I did!" she then realised that she was with Neville. "And YOU! You're a complete idiot you know that?" she took a step away from him and looked at him furiously. No signs of tears anymore. "How could you!" she hit him on the chest.
"What did I do?" Neville asked surprised, as he shielded himself from her fist.
"Uhm, did we ever take her wand away from her?" Fred asked hesitantly.
George quickly reached into Rose's back pocket, got her wand and threw it at Fred. He then pulled her away from attacking Neville. "Rose, calm down."
"No! He promised not to hurt Dru and he did! He broke up with her!" she then realised what she had said and started to cry again. "That was so sad... it broke my heart..." she put her arms around George and buried her face in his shirt.
"It's okay, Dru's fine and so is Neville, aren't you?" George looked pleading at Neville, for him to agree.
"What in the name of Merlin is going on?" Neville demanded.
"We gave her a potion to enhance her feelings." Dru said.
"Are you mad?"
"She agreed to it. We needed someone to test it on." Dru's voice was small. She still hated it if Neville got mad at her.
"Relax, mate," Fred said and gently caressed Dru's leg. "We're in a controlled environment. George and I usually test these things on ourselves but we're too honorable to actually have let this happen."
Rose had been watching Fred and Dru talk to Neville and smiled at George. "You know, I like this," she nodded.
"Like what?" George asked.
"You. And Fred and Dru... I've never seen her happier." she sighed happily. "She and Fred were made for each other."
"Rose!" Dru said shocked.
"I know that I've said that about her and Neville too, because you know, that's what my head told me, but no, this is so much better. He..."
"Rose, don't." George said as he looked at Neville.
"And Neville is just... Neville. Breaking up with Dru was typical a Neville move to do, he got too scared. But that's okay, she's got Fred now, so much better."
George put his hand over Rose's mouth to keep her quiet. He looked at Neville. "I'm sorry. It's the potion."
"Yeah... right..." Neville said as he made his way to the boys dormitory.
"I've got to go and talk to him." Dru said, got of Fred's lap and quickly followed Neville. She knocked on the door, before she walked in.
"Leave me alone," Neville muttered.
"Neville, I'm sorry. I never meant for any of this." Dru said down on the end of his bed. Tears were rolling down her face, she never meant to hurt him.
"It's not your fault," he sighed and moved over to put his arm around her out of instinct. "I shouldn't be such a pain in the neck."
Dru moved back from him. "Neville."
"What?"
"We're not... I mean..." Dru was stammering. She and Neville had always had an attraction between them and her being with Fred hadn't changed that, but she wasn't going to give in to it.
"What? It's what friends do, isn't it? Comfort each other? What do you want me to do, Dru?"
"I don't know. You needed your space." Dru knew it was better if she left, but she couldn't get up.
"Yes, and I'm doing very well in my space, when I'm not confronted by the fact that we broke up and that you're with Fred now."
"We didn't broke up. You broke us up. Stop pulling Fred into this. He's got nothing to do with what's between us"
"Just go." Neville got up and rummaged in his trunk to find his notes on Herbology. "I need to give these to Luna."
"Fine."Dru got up and walked back to Fred. She crawled back into his lap and leaned against him. "Stupid jerk." She muttered.
When Neville had left again, Fred softly kissed her. "Don't worry, you'll be friends again, he just realises what he's given up."
Dru looked at Fred and smiled. "Promise me you'll be less stupid than him."
"I'm a Weasley, I'm always stupid," he grinned. "But I'll never hurt you like that."
Dru gently kissed him and placed her head on his shoulder.
"Keep your eyes closed," George told her. They were sitting on the floor in front of the fire and George had decided that Rose had suffered through enough of the potion and since she had told him that she sometimes managed to find her inner peace again by relaxing and trying to tune everything out, he was going to try and help her do just that.
A part of him was really happy that thanks to the potion, he knew that she had deeper feelings for him that she had let on, and that he had been right about her keeping a tight lid on those feelings for reasons he didn't really understand yet, but it was good. Fred had been right about taking away Rose's wand, he didn't want her to accidentally hurt someone if someone else than Neville had walked in that she didn't particularly liked, like Lavender Brown.
On the other hand, he had realised that maybe it would have been a better idea to have had someone else, someone other than one of the four of them, test out the potion. Dru was too reliant on her feelings for her gift and this could have messed her up completely and him and Fred knew that they would have gone full out on the girls and they wouldn't have been able to do anything about it.
And yet, another part of him realised that maybe this had been a good experience for Rose despite it being an emotional rollercoaster. Maybe she'd learn that it wasn't that bad to share. She had had everything bottled up and maybe that's what made the experience so intense.
"Maybe I better take the potion myself next time." Dru sighed as she looked at Rose. "Rose's not strong enough for that amount of feelings."
"What if you brewed something and you think that you can handle it and it leaves long lasting damage?" Fred asked and shook his head. "No, you rely on your feelings too much."
Dru lifted her head and looked at him. "I'm not as feeble as everyone thinks I am. I feel more than most and I know how to handle myself."
"Just worried, that's all."
"I've behaved myself so far, haven't I?"
Fred chuckled. "Yes."
"Then trust me."
"Alright, Rose... one thing at a time, okay?" George asked her and she nodded. She looked so serene at this point, she was calm and hopefully in control. "How do you feel?"
"Tired, so tired."
"You want to go to bed?"
"No, I'm just tired," she said with a peaceful smile on her face. "Tired of myself."
"Do you still feel high strung?" Dru asked.
"Not now... if I let go then... yes." she nodded. "I'm aware of how this potion is affecting me now and it scares the hell out of me."
"Well, I suppose it's better to let Fred go next then. Maybe it's smarter to let George take care of you." Dru said. "We need to test it on all of us to see the full effect." She looked at Fred. "Don't you think?"
"Ah, science," Fred chuckled. "You're absolutely right. Usually George and I both test the same product, occasionally Lee."
Dru handed Fred the vial. "When you're ready."
He pointed at Rose. "She had just a few drops, I'm going to do the same," he said as he put a few drops on his finger and put it in his mouth. "George, keep an eye out, will you?"
Dru put the vial in her bag and looked at Fred.
All of a sudden, Rose started to laugh. "Ginny caught the snitch!"
"What are you talking about? The game isn't in weeks." Dru asked.
"I know!" she giggled. "The new team... well... it needs some work."
"Thanks." George said a little hurt. He secretly wanted the team to fail, without him and Ferd on it.
Fred had started to kiss Dru's neck after gently caressing her hair away from it and caressed her stomach with one hand over her clothes.
"Are you okay, Fred?" Dru asked smiling.
"Never better," he replied, not stopping with what he was doing. "I like the way you smell."
Dru giggled. She knew she would have to be strong, but she couldn't help liking the way Fred was kissing her and a bit of kissing never hurt anyone.
"Hands above the table, Freddie," George reminded his brother and looked at Rose. "How are you feeling?"
"Scared," she said with tears in her eyes, she had just seen something really bad happen and she wanted it all to stop. "I want this to stop!" she crawled into George's arms and squeezed her eyes shut as she put hands on her ears, as if that would stop her from seeing and hearing things.
George put his arms as close around him as tight as he could, without taking his eyes of his brother. "It'll be over soon. The potion's probably going to wear off very soon."
Fred nuzzled Dru's earlobe. "Did anyone ever tell you how pretty you are?"
Dru shot a look at George. "No." she lied. "Tell me." she turned around and put her arms around his neck.
"You are so incredibly pretty, your beauty can stun a man..." he moved his hands to her lower back and gently pulled her closer to him.
"You're an idiot." Dru chuckled.
"No, I'm not. Even George said you were before he decided he wanted the shortest one of you two."
"What?" Dru and Rose chorused.
"As I told you before, that you two are both the prettiest girls in the school. I just like you the most." George reassured Rose.
Fred grinned and moved his hands underneath Dru's shirt, he wanted to feel her skin underneath his finger tips.
"Ok, let's leave that for another time." Dru gently removed his hands from under her shirt. "I don't mind, but not when you're under the influence of a love potion."
"Ah, love," Fred sighed happily. "Such a cruel feeling."
Dru laughed. "You're a funny guy, Fred."
"I'm not just funny, you know," he said as he kissed her lips. "There's more to me than just funny."
"I know that, silly. But I love your funny side, it makes me happy."
"You know what would make me happy?" Fred said in a low voice and a wicked smile on his face.
"You can tell me, but i'm not promising anything." Dru was very much on her guard.
"I can't really say, because you know, you're 15 and it would be... very wrong."
"Maybe you shouldn't then." Dru said as she gave him a kiss on his lips without thinking about that might not be the smartest thing to right now.
Fred kissed her back, harder, and got out of the sofa before setting Dru on the table. He was about to push her so that she would be lying on the table when his brother pulled him away from her. "Aw, Georgie, I was having fun!"
Dru got up and put her arms around Fred. "Let's keep that kind of fun for later." She wasn't going to let him scare her and winked at George. She knew George would keep Fred from going too far.
"But I want it now!"
"She said no, Freddie," George said and pat his brother on the back. "Later, much much later."
Dru gently kissed Fred on his lips. "I don't shy away from a body binding spell if you don't behave."
"Now I like the sound of that!" Fred grinned and winced when George slapped him on the head.
Dru roared with laughter as she suddenly saw that Ginny was standing at the corner with Dean and Seamus and had witnessed the whole thing. "It's fine. He'll go back to normal in a few hours."
"Ginny!" Rose said giddily and waved at the youngest of the Weasleys. "I really like your hair."
"She was worse," George pointed out as he made his way over to Rose again. "Well, on the love front, he is worse, but ..."
"I can't believe you're using your own girlfriend to test something new." Ginny said in shock.
"George and I are going test it too, just on a different day. When these two are back to normal." Dru said as she gently pushed Fred back on the sofa.
"You're mad, all four of you!" Ginny shook her head.
Dean looked at George. "Can I buy that stuff too?" He couldn't help but snicker at the thought of what that stuff would do to Ginny.
"No," Fred and George chorused. "It's still in its testing stages, mate," George added.
George sat down in the chair and pulled Rose on his lap. "If you want I could colour your hair, to make it look like Ginny's."
"Ohhh!" Rose smiled widely. "Why haven't I thought of that? Oh right, because I'm stupid."
Dru suddenly realised that Fred had two wands in his back pocket. She got them out and put them under the sofa for safe keeping.
"You got my wand out!" Fred snickered and kissed Dru again. "You want to touch my wand?"
"No, and you're going to keep that wand away from me." Dru snickered while she kissed him back.
"Freddie, Ginny's here, keep your mouth shut."
"George, your sister has a dirtier mouth than the two you put together." Dru said as she broke off her kiss with Fred.
"That's true," Rose nodded. "Oh and congratulations Ginny! You're going to catch a snitch!"
"Ignore her." Dru said and slowly pushed Fred's hands from under her clothes again. "Behave." She said with a grin.
"I am? When!" Ginny bounced her way over to Rose.
"Soon," she nodded with a big smile on her face as she put her head down on George's shoulder. She then yawned and closed her eyes. "I think I'm going to take a nap."
"That's my good little girl." George chuckled, while not letting Fred out of his sight. Although he had to admit that Dru was doing pretty good with Fred, who kept trying to get under clothes, but she wasn't letting him.
"Wow, you're really are fast, aren't you?" Lavender said as she and Patty looked at Dru, who was still kissing with Fred.
"She's slow, actually," Fred deadpanned after gently breaking off the kiss.
But Dru got off the sofa and sat down on the armrest as she looked shy to the floor.
"I mean, poor Neville..."
George felt Rose tightening her grip on his shirt, she wasn't napping yet. "Can you two come back another time to have a bitch fight?"
"Why? Because you're all so cute together?"
Fred pulled Dru back towards him and protectively put his arms around her. "Words don't hurt, curses do," he smiled at her. "Breathe."
"Aww, look at that, it makes me sick!"
"Would you shut up?" Rose snapped as she got to her feet. "I'm sick and tired of hearing you complain about everything and think that just because you've got great hair and a pleasant attitude... well most of the time, you've got the right to dive nose deep into someone else's problems!" She had already noticed that someone had taken her wand away from her and maybe that was a good thing. "And it's not 'Poor Neville', 'Poor Neville' broke up with her, and she moved on. He knew the risks. For your own good, let it go, Lavender."
"Rose, It's fine. Just drop it." Dru said as she put her head against Fred's chest.
"No, it's not fine, I'm sick and tired of people treating you like you're the enemy, like you're always to blame for things. It's not fine." She glared at Lavender, wondering if the girl was going to say something else.
"Well, sorry, but she has been gushing over Neville for months and now suddenly it's Fred. She's a slut." Patty said, trying to defend her friend.
"Oi!" Fred called out. "I'm usually not one for hitting girls but right now you're pissing me off!"
"Just leave her alone. You have no idea what Neville did to her. He's not as innocent as you make him out to be." Ginny shot at them.
Patty pulled Lavender out of the common room and nearly walked into Ron, Harry and Hermione as they just walked in.
"What wrong with them?" Harry asked.
"Fred and Rose told them off for bitching at Dru again." Seamus said. He and Dean were sitting down at at table enjoying the show that Fred and Rose were giving them.
Rose was fuming. "They're so lucky I can't find my wand right now," she said before sitting back down in George's lap.
"Okay, they're gone now. Try and focus on me. Maybe your anger will go away then." He gently caressed her back.
"I can do that," Rose giggled and softly kissed George as she dug her her hands into George's hair. "Yep, definitely."
George chuckled as he gently kissed her back.
Fred caressed Dru's hair and looked deep into her eyes. "You're pretty, and you're adorable and they shouldn't be so mean to you."
"Uhm..." Hermione looked at them. "You slipped them something, didn't you?"
Dru giggled as she broke her eye contact with Fred. He was making her nervous. "Hmm... we're testing a new product. George and I are up tomorrow."
"Is that such a great idea?" Ron said worried. "Fred! You shouldn't touch her like that!"
Dru took Fred's hand and held them together to her chest. "Behave."
"Oh breasts," Fred sighed happily.
Dru quickly moved his hands against his own chest, but she couldn't help laughing at him. "We need to make sure the product is safe. But we could test it on you if you want." Dru said to Ron.
"No thanks," Ron said and put his hands up. "Pass."
"Wise decision, Ronald, I think they're being irresponsible." Hermione nodded.
"Don't be such a..." Fred started. "I know! Why don't you try, Hermione?"
"Fred, knock it off." Dru said and kissed him to silence him.
But Ginny was laughing now too. "Maybe it would be a good idea to let Hermione try some. Or Ron?"
Even George was now laughing. He broke off his kiss with Rose and put her head on his chest. "Are you feeling better now?"
"Totally zen," she nodded and closed her eyes. "I'm not doing this again, George," she said seriously. "It's really really hard to control myself."
"Don't worry. It's my turn next." he said and gave her kiss on the top of her head. "Try and get some sleep. You feel better then."
"I don't know what I would do without you, George... I don't even know what I would do if you've left me... I might explode."
"I'm not going anywhere for a few months as least. And after that I'll never be too far away." George pulled her into to tighter embrace. "Fred you could try just holding Dru. It's nice too."
"No, I'm actually fine now," Fred nodded. "I didn't have that much." He said and caressed Dru's hair.
"Fred, when did it wear off?" Dru asked with a shock face.
"Right after... ohh I made the comment about your breasts?" he smiled. "That was inappropriate and I'm sorry."
"Fred, when did it wear off?" Dru asked again, she started to realise he had been fooling her a bit.
Fred sighed. "Right after George pulled me away from you," he then looked at her innocently. "What? A guy can't have a little bit of fun?"
"If I had know that, I wouldn't have pushed your hands away." Dru said. "I would have known that you could stop yourself."
"What? I made sure that I behaved myself, I never went anywhere near your sensitive areas."
George rolled his eyes at his brother. "So much for collecting the correct data on the potion."
Dean and Seamus were in stitches in their little corner at the table.
"Behave, or I'm going to spill some in your morning pumpkin juice." Dru warned them before gently kissing Fred.
"That would be interesting," Fred replied while returning Dru's kiss. "How's Rose doing?"
"Sleeping," George said softly and kept caressing her hair. "Thankfully."
"Honestly, I like what you guys have done to the girls, they're a lot more happier now, and open, but you're..." Hermione shook her head. "Don't ruin them, you know."
"Thanks for the faith in us, Hermione," George chuckled.
When Rose woke up the next day, she had a huge headache but at least she felt she was herself again. She and Dru had made their way to the breakfast table and were now chewing on pieces of toast and drinking their tea. "So you're not afraid of what it might do to you?" Rose asked her friend.
"Honestly, yeah...but... I promised." Dru answered.
"You don't have to, you know." Rose reached for one of the boiled eggs and started to peel it.
"If I go too far, Fred will stop me." Dru shrugged. "I'm more afraid of what I might say than of what I might do."
She sighed with a nod. She knew that her friend still had feelings for Neville. "I think Fred knows. I mean, you and Neville were pretty intense, it's not easy to get over that."
"I'm more scared that Fred finds out..." Dru drank her tea. She didn't wanted to admit it, but she hardly felt anything anymore when she saw Neville.
"What?" She smiled at her friend.
"Never mind, Let's go up and get this over with."
Rose finished eating her egg and downed her tea in one go. "Just a few drops, remember that," she said as she put an arm around Dru as they made their way up to the common room.
"Good morning!" Fred and George chorused as the girls walked into the common room. "Who's going to go first?" Fred added before kissing Dru gently on her lips.
Dru looked at George, who was dreading this almost as much as she was.
"You guys really have lost your mind? You can't let Dru take that stuff." Neville said. He had been watching the twins. He overheard the boys last night talking about Dru and George testing the potion today.
"I'll go first." Dru said quietly to Fred.
"No! I will not have it!"
"Neville, you lost your voice about anything concerning her when you broke up with her," Rose said sweetly. "Besides, she wants to do this and she says she can handle it, I'm not too keen on it either, but we'll see what happens."
"Fine, But I'm staying then. If anything goes wrong, I'm going to kill you." He looked more at Fred than at George.
"Neville, I get your point, but you're only going to hurt yourself if you stay." George said.
"I don't care." Neville said resolutely and crossed his arms over his chest. "I'm staying."
"No, Neville. You don't want to see her take that stuff." George looked at Fred. He and Rose had both tried to have sex with their partners. George wanted to spare Neville seeing Dru jumping Fred.
"Listen mate," Fred spoke calmly. "You've seen in what kind of state Rose was yesterday and how I was... you don't want to see Dru with enhanced feelings, trust me. But, I also understand that you're worried, and if you want to stay, you can stay."
"You're just scared when she takes that stuff, it will prove she wants me more than you. That you're just...some...in between guy."
"You really shouldn't have said that," Fred looked at Dru who was already putting a few drops on her finger. "She might get mad." He reached for Dru's wand in her boot and pulled it out of there. He put it in a safe place, somewhere she couldn't reach. He saw that at the moment, Dru was ignoring Neville and she was doing a good job at it.
She licked her finger and smiled. "I don't really feel that different."
"Give it a moment to work," Fred said, pulling Dru on his lap. Mostly to ensure that she wouldn't go off on Neville. She could be like a little firecracker without the potion, she could get far worse with the potion. He softly caressed her hair and smiled at her.
Dru looked at Fred and smiled. "You're a funny guy."
"I know," he chuckled.
"You called me pretty yesterday."
"Well, that's the truth. You are very very pretty." Fred kissed the tip of her nose.
"Am I just pretty?"
"Hot too, so I suppose that makes you pretty hot."
Dru giggled and started to kiss Fred's neck. "I lied to you."
"You did? About what?" he softly caressed her back, he could take the neck kissing thing without any problem.
"You asked me if anybody called me pretty before?"
"Ah yes, I did, didn't I?" he laughed. "Well, what's the truth then?"
"Neville used to call me pretty and Blaise told me too."
"Blaise is a bit of a knob, isn't he?"
"I used to call you Beautiful, not pretty." Neville said, trying to see if he could get her to pay attention to him.
Dru looked at him and smiled. "Yeah, you did."
Suddenly George realised why Neville had wanted to stay. "You slippery little git." he spat at Neville.
"He stole her from me, there's no rule I can't steal her back."
"He didn't steal her, you let her go!" Rose glared at him. "I think you should leave."
"No." Neville said firmly and smiled at Dru. "You don't mind me staying, do you?"
"No." Dru said.
Fred looked at Neville, if he really thought Fred was going to give up that easily he had another thing coming. "Well, I think you're beautiful too."
Dru looked back at Fred and kissed him full on his lips. "I think you're beautiful too." She whispered in his ear.
Fred chuckled and couldn't help giving a scowling Neville a very smug look. Dru was his now and he had no plans of giving her up without a fight.
"I think it's my turn now." George looked at Rose.
"Can't you wait at least until Neville stops being a jerk?" she asked worried.
"I don't have forever." George gave Rose a kiss. "Behave yourself." George spat at Neville.
Neville nodded and kept watching Dru who was now just sitting in Fred's lap, giggling about nothing.
George sat down in the chair as he put the drops on his finger and put his finger in his mouth. When he looked at Rose's worried face, he laughed. "Come here." He reached out for her with his hand.
She made her way over to him, sat down on his lap, and put her arms around his neck. "I'm still worried, even though I'm in your lap now."
"You worry too much, Rose."
"Yeah... you keep saying that," she smiled at him.
"Well you do, but then so do I." He gently kissed her collar bone. She shouldn't have worn just a top without a cardigan at least.
"You do?" Rose played with his hair. "Why?"
"I'm constantly scared I'm going to hurt you. Going to do something you don't want and you either run away or..." He rested his forehead against her chest. He was trying to fight the potion from telling her everything.
"George Weasley, I'm constantly amazed by your amount of self control," she smiled and planted a kiss on his head. "You'll never hurt me, and if you scare me... well, we'll talk about that."
"But I want to lose control every time I feel you." He let his hand slip underneath her top. "I really do."
"Hands above the table, Georgie!" Fred laughed and Rose shot him a look.
"He's fine, he's not doing anything he usually doesn't do... yet."
"I wanna get my hands under the table." Dru said and let her hands slide down Fred's chest towards his private parts.
"Ohh no," Fred took hold of her hands and kissed them before placing them on his shoulders. "We're not going under the table."
"But that's fun." Dru smiled. "Don't you want to." She started kissing the thick vein in his neck, trying to make him give in on her.
"Oh yes, I really want to, but it's not..." Fred took a deep breath and stared to the ceiling. "Not like this."
But Dru wasn't giving up easily. She would just kiss him now, and try again later.
Meanwhile George was still fighting his urges to tell Rose everything that was on his mind.
but she was driving him crazy. He loved the feeling of her fingers through his hair. He suddenly tried to slide out of the chair, so he could lay on top of her, but as soon as Rose's back touched the floor, George was pulled back into his seat.
"Sit." Neville said as the then helped Rose back to her feet. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah... thanks Neville... I didn't see that coming."
George suddenly started sobbing. "See, I can't keep control of myself."
"Oh honey..." Rose kneeled down in front of him and softly caressed his cheek. "You're under the influence of the potion, of course you can't control yourself, that's why we're testing it, remember?" She had never seen George cry, and she hated what it was doing to her. It was like her insides were getting torn out of her body and pushed back in. "It's okay!"
"Is he crying?" Fred laughed. "George and crying? Wow."
"Shut up and kiss me." Dru whined as she sat on top of Fred and forced him into a hard kiss.
Neville walked back to his chair on the other side of the room. As he walked by Dru and Fred, he couldn't help himself. He let two fingers trace her bra strap.
Dru broke off her kiss and looked at Neville with a wide, devilish smile on her face. She had always loved it when he did that.
Neville sat down and smiled back at her. He knew how to get a reaction out of her.
"George?" she got to her feet again and sat down in his lap, making him look at her. He was still sobbing. "I know you want to protect me from whatever you're holding back, but I have a wand, I can get you away from me if needed. You're not being a reliable test subject right now, that's what this is all about, remember?" she softly kissed him. "I love you, no matter what happens."
George nodded and kissed her for a few seconds, before he suddenly broke the kiss off. "Did you just tell me you love me?"
"Don't act so surprised," she smiled at him.
George pushed Rose onto the ground, not caring if she was on her feet or not, got up and pulled Dru off Fred. George then got on the sofa, hoisted his brother up to stand on it too, and started to bounce up and down. "She loves me, she loves me, she loves me, Freddie! She loves me, she loves me."
George had pushed Dru on the floor and Neville decided to seize his chance. He gently helped her back on her feet. "Are you okay?" He gently caressed her back.
Although Rose really liked seeing her boyfriend jump on the sofa, she felt that she needed to keep an eye on Neville right now. For whatever reason, his jealousy had turned him into a jerk while he had been the one to break it off with Dru. "Neville, you slimeball!" she called out as she got to her feet.
"Yeah, I'm okay." Dru said and smiled at him. "You shouldn't have done what you did."
"No, I should not have broken up with you, I'm sorry," Neville nodded. "Can you forgive me?"
"Yeah, I can. I'm not mad at you anymore." Dru smiled.
Neville looked at Fred, who hadn't noticed yet the Dru was standing with him now. "I really miss you."
"I miss you too. You're always been my best friend."
"Fred," Rose said and pointed at Dru and Neville. Fred rolled his eyes at the two of them, hopped off the sofa before lifting Rose up on it to keep George happy and made his way over to Dru and Neville.
"Everything alright?" he asked. "I think that it's really really sad that Neville is trying to take advantage of the fact that you're under the influence now," he said to Dru as he put his arm around her.
Dru looked smiling at Fred. "He told me he was stupid and asked if I would forgive him and i said Yes."
"Well, forgiveness is always good," Fred said, hesitating. He didn't like the smug look Neville had on his face.
"Yeah, and I really do. I'm not mad at him anymore. And I do really miss him." Dru smiled at Fred, before smiling at Neville.
Fred had berating Neville about taking advantage of Dru now that she was oversharing things, and how wrong it was, but he couldn't help but feel rejected. He didn't want to be the spare ever again. Damn Longbottom.
"And I shouldn't have broken up with you," Neville said slowly. "I wish I could just take that back, you know... what was I thinking?"
"You were thinking that it was my fault that we nearly had sex. That I was controlling your mind, but the funny thing is, You always made the moves first, not me." Dru was still smiling at Neville. "Do you still think that way?"
Neville swallowed hard. "Of course not, I never thought that, I was breaking up with you, I had to say something."
Dru shrugged her shoulder, before looking at Fred again. He was looking really depressed. "What's wrong with you?"
"You're going back to him, aren't you?"
Dru smiled. "You're funny."
"What? Why not?" Neville asked shocked. "What does he have what I don't?"
Dru looked at Neville. "He makes me happy. He doesn't make me feel like I'm going to be tossed aside, because he either doesn't want me anymore or that I'm too much trouble."
She looked at Fred. "You like it when I'm trouble, don't you?"
Fred grinned at her. "You know I do."
Dru put her arms around Fred waist. "I love Neville, but I wanna be yours now."
"I can live with that," he said with a smile and softly kissed her.
Dru suddenly put her arms around his neck and jumped a little so she could wrap her legs around his waist.
"Alright, let's not do this," he chuckled and moved her back towards the sofa, but he was surprised that George was still jumping on it, Rose was keeping an eye on him from the floor. "You alright, Georgie?"
"She loves me. she loves me, she loves me."
Dru let Fred go and joined George. "She loves you, she loves you, she loves you."
"She does, doesn't she?" George grinned at Dru.
Dru nodded. "She really does. You're lucky!"
"You're lucky too!"
Dru shrugged her shoulders. "I want your brother, but he doesn't want me."
"He so does!" George nodded violently, he almost looked like a jumping bobblehead figurine. "You have no idea what he talks about in his sleep."
"Georgie, let's not go there, shall we?" Fred said as he pulled George of the sofa.
George picked Rose up from the floor and pushed her against the wall. "I love you, you know that." and hugged her.
"And you're bonkers," she laughed and caressed his cheek.
George kissed her while wrapping her legs around his waist. "I won't hurt you. I just want to kiss you." his voice started to sound more like his normal voice.
"I know, don't worry." she softly kissed him as she put her arms around his neck. "I trust you."
"What the hell is she doing?" Angelina asked as she walked into the common room.
"She is jumping on the sofa," Fred said and rolled his eyes at her. "Isn't it obvious?"
"Why?" Angelina looked at Dru like she was a bug that needed to squashed.
"She's happy."
"She's crazy." Angelina said.
Dru suddenly lunged at Angelina and grabbed her hair. "You stupid..." Dru turned Angelina into her object of rage. She was cursing like a fairy whose tail got stepped upon, which left George, Fred, Neville and Rose shocked that Dru even knew those kinds of words.
Angelina was screaming as Dru was trying to rip every hair out of her head.
"Dru!" Rose managed to get between Dru and Angelina, and hoped that she wouldn't get hit. "Calm down," she said softly and pushed her away from the offending girl. "It's okay, calm down, breathe."
But Dru was taller than Rose and because of her sudden rage she was a lot stronger than normal. She pushed Rose to the side and lunged at Angelina for the second time.
"Guys, do something or I will use my wand on Dru and I don't want that to happen!" Rose barked at George, Fred and Neville as she nursed her wrist. She had felt something snap when Dru had pushed her away.
Neville grabbed Dru around her waist and pulled her back from Angelina. But Dru was struggling hard to get out his grip and Neville could barely hold her.
Fred moved himself in front of Neville and Dru and made her look at him. Neville (luckily and wisely) released her and Dru threw her arms around Fred. "She said calm down," He said softly and caressed her back. "It's okay... but calm down." he planted a kiss on top of her head.
Dru nodded and hid herself in his arms. There was something about him that always calmed her down. She put her head against his chest and closed her eyes. She could feel her anger slip away and with it the rest of the effect of the love potion. "I don't think we should use this potion voor the shop."
"Well, study suggests that girls have adverse reactions to it," Fred replied with a chuckle. "Us boys however..."
"You can't guarantee that it won't be used on girls," George said.
"What the hell? You were trying something out again, weren't you? Turned that little sprite into a Giant?" Angelina spat. "Thanks a lot, Fred."
"I still have some more potions that we could try." Dru looked at Fred and gently kissed him.
Rose looked at Fred and Dru, they seemed to be okay, Dru seemed to be doing fine again. George was still a little bit shocked, but he was fine too. She decided to take the opportunity to slip away to the infirmary to get her wrist checked out. Madame Pomfrey could heal broken bones within a heartbeat, she did it all the time with the Quidditch players. She was never going to allow herself, or Dru, to test out something ever again, at least until Dru was certain that it would be safe.
"Rose, where are you going to? Neville asked. "What's wrong with your wrist?" he had followed her out of the common room.
"Nothing, I'm fine," she managed a small smile.
"Then I shall accompany you to wherever you're going, we made a deal, remember? You weren't allowed to walk somewhere by yourself anymore."
"Yeah... but there are extra safety measures in place now, so it's safe."
"Yeah, right." Neville said as he shoved his hands in his pockets. "So, George hurt your wrist, did he?"
"It wasn't George," Rose glared at him. "This was an accident, go and play with your plants."
"Sorry, can't do that."
She decided to have him tag along then. He was acting like a jerk one moment, and perfectly fine the other, and now he was acting like this Jack Russell terrier that had bit down on her leg and wouldn't let go. As expected, Madame Pomfrey easily fixed her wrist, and she didn't really ask any questions. She just said that whatever Rose had been doing that she shouldn't do it again because it'd likely end up with the same result.
"Hey, it's lunch time, you want to come to the Great Hall?" Neville said, as Rose exited the infirmary.
"Sure, why not," she said with a shrug.
"Rose, did you mean what you said yesterday?"
"Well, the potion enhances feelings... I'm sorry," she said softly. "But you and Dru..." she took a deep breath. "Maybe this time without her will do you some good. You two were far too intense far too quickly and you can't disagree with me on that because you know."
"But.. She loves me, she even said so today."
"Yeah, she does. But she loves Fred too. It's complicated, I know, but I think that you should take your distance a little bit, you know... In the end, it won't matter anyway."
"Wait, what do you mean in the end? You think she's going to come back to me?"
"I don't know, Neville. You shouldn't wait for her, that's all I know. If you love her, you should let her go. She's happy."
Neville looked at the ground. "But isn't she going to turn bad, if she's not with me?"
"Not as long as she's with Fred."