'Mild Flirting With the Hogwarts Sex-God'

I sat in my usual seat, next to Tommy boy. He just looked away from me as he sat down. Ha, how childish, stupid teenage villain, who, despite his extreme temperamental ways, is incredibly gorgeous. And I really have to stop describing him as that. Not only is it painstakingly annoying, but I'm trying to move on. "Trying" being the verb here - Ooh where's Alphard? I thought we were going to be potions partners this lesson? OH, MY SIRIUS BLACK LOOK-A-LIKE PLEASE DON'T LET ME DOWN NOW! Anna prodded me in the back with her quill – don't look at me like that, it hurt. She must have used the sharp end, because I jumped right out of my skin.

"He's sitting in front of you, idiot," She hissed in my ear as I casually leaned back on my chair. "Thanks for the Sex-God alert," I muttered with an eye role, and Anna just sniggered.

"Miss White, if you would so kindly pay attention," Slughorn said, a disapproving tone to his voice. I sighed, resting my head on my hands, elbows leaning on the hard, wooden table. Seeing my sudden change in posture, Slughorn took it as an invitation to continue his lesson. "As I was saying, the Vicenza Muscle Relaxant Potion is a very tricky potion to master and it needs to be brewed precisely, or the results could be disastrous. I have much faith in my N.E.W.T students, so partner up and get going!"

Tommy boy turned to face me, and so did Alphard, who grinned at me. I could feel my heart flutter at his smile, "Ready to get going partner?" He asked me with a wink, and I just nodded.

"Excuse me Black, but I believe Miss White is my potions partner," Tommy boy hissed, and I just rolled my eyes, "Riddle, I'm not your property," I retorted hotly, folding my arms across my chest. Alphard just chuckled at me, "You shouldn't assume that I'm going to be your potions partner, Alphard asked me earlier. You should have said something," I said, planting a sickly sweet smile on my face, "I'm not even sorry for saying yes. Better luck next time,"

Alphard (and Anna, who was listening in on the conversation – ironically, that does not surprise me) laughed loudly, causing the rest of the class to look at us and wonder what in the name of Merlin was going on. "Excuse me, I have a potion to make, and you're in the way of the student store cupboard," I pushed past a stunned Tom Marvolo Riddle and strutted all the way to the student store cupboard where the ingredients to the potion were most-likely to be.

"What did I need again? Oh yes," I muttered to myself as I barged through the queue and entered the room quickly – I was in a hurry! I didn't want to leave Alphard and his beautiful face for too long! I quickly grabbed a vial of unicorn blood, armadillo bile, a tub of gillyweed, a pot of beetle eyes and eight spider legs and pelted out of the cupboard, screaming "SHE'S ALL YOURS!" as I left.

I ran through the gaps of the desks, and dumped the stuff at the table I originally sat at, and Alphard, my beautiful assistant, pulled up a chair beside me, much to Tommy boy's distaste. "She's all yours?" Alphard questioned as I set up the cauldron, "I was in a hurry to get out of the cupboard," I shrugged, "Does that bother you, Black?" I asked, raising my eyebrow.

Alphard laughed as he ignited a fire underneath the cauldron with his wand, "Are you using the Confundus charm on me or are you just naturally mind blowing?" He asked me and I just rolled my eyes at the failing chat up line. From the corner of my eye I could see Tommy boy tighten his grip on his wand as he was lighting the fire underneath his cauldron. His knuckles began to go a scary porcelain colour. I smiled, my sudden mischievous side breaking through my hardworking exterior.

There was no harm in making our dear teenage villain a tad bit jealous, was there? I didn't think so.

"Pass me the unicorn blood please," I said, outstretching my hand towards Alphard. His hand brushed mine lightly as I felt the vial touch my skin. He leant closer to me, well, it was either me he was leaning towards or he was eager to see how well the potion was brewing. I felt his fingers brush through my hair, and tuck it behind my ear. "Emily," He murmured, loud enough for both Tommy boy and I to hear him. What on Earth is that boy playing at? Not that I care, "Are you interested in making some magic together? My wand is at the ready," I had to restrain myself from laughing hysterically. I turned my head to face him and merely smiled, "I don't know about you Black, but I care about my final grade for this potion,"

Alphard just grinned and his beautiful stormy-grey eyes twinkled slightly in the dim illumination of the potions classroom. Something hit me in the back, and I turned round to see what it was as Alphard had kindly taken over the potion. It was a piece of parchment. I raised my eyebrows and looked at Anna, who was conveniently looking up at the ceiling, not paying attention to the potion she was brewing with her partner – whose name escaped me a lot. Was it Fredrick Millington? Ah, who cares? He has no significant importance in my life. I picked up the crumpled piece of parchment and opened it up.

'Flirt back you moron! Riddle appears to be getting jealous of the intimacy between you two! Turn it up a notch, will you? The three of you just ooze sexual tension and I can't stand it anymore! EMMY GET IN THE DAMN GAME ALREADY! – Anna'

I shoved the parchment into my pocket. Get in the game? Flirt back? Well, if I must, and I'm definitely not complaining. I turned round, acting as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened, "Emily, be a doll and pass me the gillyweed please?" Alphard asked me in that beautiful velvety voice of his. I grinned to myself as I grabbed the jar and handed it to him. I silently cleared my throat, "Your smile's like expelliarmus: simple but disarming,"

I could feel Tommy boy's negativity vibes from where I was sitting – they weren't very pleasant, but I could tell Alphard liked the fact that I was replying with my own flirtatious techniques. I'm not the kind of girl to get all flirty and show off my mad skills, because I don't have any, but this was kind of fun. I'm probably terrible though.

"You know, Emily," Alphard continued as I added two drops of Armadillo bile into the rich purple concoction, "when I said 'Accio Hottie' I didn't expect it to work," I could feel the warmth of my blush hit my cheeks as I stirred the potion seven times clockwise. Once I finished that, I added two beetle eyes and Alphard chucked in the spider legs. We had nothing to do for half an hour.

Now, when I mean nothing, I actually meant that we'd finished this so-called "complicated" muscle relaxant potion. We can talk freely amongst ourselves without worrying about what the hell we needed to add next. So, in times of doubt, and stupid silences, what do you do? TALK, well, use cheesy chat up lines to say the least.

I pointed at my chest as Alphard turned to look at me, "It's a port-key," He gave me a weird look, and I smirked at him, "Once you touch it, it'll take you somewhere you ain't never been before,"

Over Alphard's laughter, I swear I heard something break. Maybe it was a quill? "Did you know girls call me Aguamenti?" Alphard asked, wiping the tears from his eyes. I raised my eyebrows at him, and gestured for him to continue, "Yeah, girls call me Aguamenti – Every time they hear my name they get wet,"

Over the roar of laughter from those around us and myself, I saw Tommy boy bottle up his potion, hand it to Slughorn and storm out of the classroom, his robes billowing round him. It was at this point in time, not only did he look drop dead gorgeous when he was angry (GODDAMNIT! I'm not supposed to be admitting that!); he also reminded me of Severus Snape – the greasy haired, bat-like teacher from Harry's era. Mmm, Professor Snape... I'd never kick him out of my bed any day.

I looked around me to check to see if I was getting any weird looks. Coast was clear, looks like this time I didn't say that out loud. Merlin, the last time I did that my friends said I was gross because the guy who plays Snape in the movies was old. SO WHAT? I thought Ralph Fiennes was an excellent Lord Voldemort and I turned round and put in my media coursework that I found the no nose appeal on Voldemort rather attractive.

It was also at this point that my friends said that I was disgusting and that I need to see a councillor for my strange fetish with old men. IT'S NOT OLD MEN I LIKE! IT'S THE BAD BOY BACHELORS FROM HARRY POTTER! God, get it right people!

Slughorn didn't bother to set us homework this week (thank Merlin for that! I wanted a homework-free weekend this weekend! Ur, hello, Hogsmeade trip) –so Anna and I packed up pretty quickly and left before anyone else. "Oh, Emmy, did you see his face when Black mentioned that last one?" Anna giggled, talking non-stop about the flirting façade.

I was about to say something when I walked right into the devil himself – Tom Riddle. "HIYA TOMMY BOY! How you doing on this fine afternoon?" I asked, beaming up at him. He glowered at me, and it took every last bit of me not to cower beneath it. It was a scary look.

"Would you like to explain last lesson White? I'm pretty sure I made it clear that we were permanent partners in potions?" I snorted childishly, really, how immature can you get over a potions partner?

"I'm afraid, dearest Tommy boy, that you don't own me. Besides, you didn't bother asking if you could be my partner, you just assumed I would be. Now, if you don't mind, Anna and I have to get to the common room and discuss what we're wearing to Hogsmeade tomorrow. Pip, pip, cheerio!"

And that was the end of my interrogation of my extravagant potions lesson. Intriguing, huh?

The part about Voldemort's no-nose look being attractive isn't a lie, either. I actually did put that in my media work - though I put it in my Movie Case Study instead. Did you like it?

I didn't take too long in updating, did I? I had a hard time writing this, I wasn't sure how to pull it off without making it sound lame.

Please leave a review telling me what you think, and whether you think Tommy boy deserves a chapter explaining his fury over their childish antics!

muchlove,
imafeckingstarr xxxx