Summary: Edward is a rather slow learner

AN: Dedicated to Mistra Rose on fanfictionDOTnet who asked for one of Hannah's siblings to turn Edward green.


~ooO Interludes III, Life with Stregas - Christmas Coloured Edward Ooo~

Tracey froze unable to believe what she was seeing. Deliberately she rubbed her eyes and stared again. It did not change. A sparkling green and red figure was walking across the courtyard to the Ladies Garden. A vampire with sparkly crystal-like apple green skin from head to presumably toe, topped with messy copper-coloured hair, dressed in a maroon shirt and olive-green khaki pants.

"Hannah Abbott! Fix this!"

Tracey could not help but move in to find out more of the… green vampire.

Hannah did not budge from her seat on the stone planter bench. She looked up at the vampire and did not bat an eyelash. "Mr Cullen. You look rather… colourful." And he was. In a rather horrendous way.

"Fix this!" Edward Cullen hissed huffing like an enraged bull.

"I have better things to do with my time. It will wear off. Eventually."

"Your brother and sister did this!"

"Do you have any proof?" Hannah inquired archly and from Cullen's silence he didn't.

"Fix this!"

Hannah glared at him. "I do not have to do anything. Go away or I'll make it permanent."

Cullen glared at Hannah and his hands clenched. For a moment Tracey believed he was going to attack her friend. Then he spun around and ran away, almost bumping into Tracey and sending her falling backwards. Luckily she managed to stay on her feet but she was still pissed he ran off without even stopping to see if she was all right.

She scowled at his retreating back before turning to her friend. "You took a risk!" she scolded the Hufflepuff witch.

Hannah shrugged. "Life is risk." Then she frowned. "He isn't making any friends and is becoming a pain my posterior. He's so condescending and superior. Like Malfoy." Tracey made an understanding noise. "You and I know kids are kids and they like to play games and have fun… but Mr Cullen doesn't seem to understand that. It seems like he made them mad enough to risk pranking a vampire with super speed and senses."

Tracey snorted. "I'm surprised Nessie is half-way normal and sensible with the two of them for parents. Then again she had plenty of family around to compensate for them."

"Tracey!"

"What? I know you feel the same."

Hannah scowled then sighed because Tracey was right. "I know I should be more charitable but he really gets on my nerves. You know he never thanked me for regrowing his hair."

"Oh?"

Hannah chuckled. "Oh you should have seen it Tracey! I'm sure several vampires took pictures. Ask Emmett. He would know."

"I will. But tell me!"

"He talked down on the Volturi and Jasper when Rina and Emma were around. They were not even physically three years but they managed to vanish his hair."

Tracey's eyes widened. "Really?"

"Oh yes. And the usual hair-regrowing charms didn't work because he's a vampire. It took me two weeks to grow it back fully in stages. It was so funny, his head covered in short fuzzy hair, you know like baby chick pin feathers. Hermione wasn't interested in tweaking the charms to make his hair grow out properly in one cast and no one else was willing to risk tweaking the charm and making it worse. But it did grow back out properly."

"Who do you think did this?" Tracey asked critically. "I'm not sure if it's a potion or a charm. And as annoying as Cullen is I can't see any adult pranking him like that."

"Oh no, it was definitely one of the kids."

"Oh?"

"Let's just say Matt and Sophie were diligently practicing their potion skills brewing a temporary dye last week."

Tracey's eyes widened. "Oh really?" She considered the information. "How did they get it in him? Vampires don't eat or drink and the Sang bottles are sealed for storage and preservation. Or was it a topical potion? A water balloon? Or a booby-trapped aerosol spray?"

"I'm not sure how but I think Matt and Sophie might have enlisted Emmett's help. He's always up for playing pranks."

"How long will it last?" Tracey asked.

"Five days." Hannah grinned at Tracey's inquiring look. "I checked the potion instructions when I caught them brewing it."

Tracey laughed. The Slytherin witch knew how to brew many standard neutralizer potions. She could do that for Cullen. Too bad he didn't ask her. And too bad she wasn't a nice witch who'd volunteer her services without being asked.

~ooOoo~ooOoo~ooOoo~

The End


AN: Sang, the marketing term for the blood replenishing potion derivate that is a vampire's meal substitute. Spanish for blood