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Chapter Eleven

Penelope held Natalie's hand as they walked to the Great Hall. "I could kill him." Penelope shook her head and gave Draco Malfoy a dirty stare that told him to turn around from where he was sitting at the Slytherin table. "I'm assuming you want to sit with Fred and George? Be away from the Slytherin's for a bit?" She smiled understandingly at Natalie.

She nodded. "Yea… I think that would be best. I get sick anytime I see his stupid face." Natalie crossed her arms over her chest getting lost in thought of darkness at the thought of what could have happened if Penelope wasn't there to help her.

Fred spotted Natalie and waved before looking worried. Clearly, whatever anxiety was plaguing her mind was clearly showing on her face. She walked over and sat next to the Gryffindor boy. He wrapped his arm around her shoulder casually enough. Natalie put her head onto his shoulder and deeply inhaled his smell of vanilla and smoke. Nothing like the horrible smell of cologne and whiskey that was filling her brain.

"What's wrong?" Fred looked down at her and caressed the top of her head.

"It's kind of a long story… it involved me being drunk last night, I'm sorry." Her cheeks blushed in embarrassment.

"I could tell you some drunk stories of Freddie last night, Nat. Don't worry you aren't the only one." George smiled kindly at his friend.

Natalie smiled back. "Thanks, George. I think that would cheer me up later." She glanced over at Malfoy who was sneering at her. "It's about Malfoy."

Fred tightened next to her and shot a dangerous look at the Slytherin boy at the other table. "What did he do?" He said through his teeth.

Natalie never saw Fred get like this. He was always so carefree and laid back. It startled her and she felt like she shouldn't continue. "Um… well last night I was drunk and Penelope was going to get me food so that the room would stop spinning. I was sitting in the common room when he came over to me. He tried kissing me—"

"He what?" Fred roared and looked down at Natalie. Hurt and anger filled his eyes.

"Nothing happened!" Natalie assured him and grabbed his shoulders as he looked like he was going to get up. "Penelope stopped him."

"What do you mean, Penelope stopped him? Didn't you say no?" Pain filled his eyes again at the thought of me wanting to kiss someone else.

"That's the thing. I was trying to push him off of me and I was telling him that I was happily with you, Fred."

"Push him off of you? What the bloody hell was he doing? That's disgusting!" Fred grabbed his wand and looked at the fourth year Slytherin who was laughing with his friends now.

"Not here, Fred!" I put my hand over his that was holding onto his wand and glanced up nervously at the table full of professors at the front of the room. "You'll get in trouble."

George grabbed his wand as well looking at his twin for the lead on what they would decide to do. Fred looked at his twin and back down at Natalie. He was clearly torn. "I don't care about getting in trouble, Natalie. It was wrong of him to do that. What type of monster does that. What low life…" he began to curse under his breath. "When he leaves we will handle it." He finally decided and stuck his wand back into his robe pocket.

Natalie's stomach dropped. "He will be with Crabbe and Goyle at least. Possibly Blaise and Pansy as well. You will be outnumbered."

"Doesn't matter, Natalie." George assured her.

"We have a new product we have been dying to try out. I think I found the perfect target." Fred's usual easy going demeaner was clouded and instead he was looking at Malfoy with anger and determination in his face.

Natalie stroked his face. "It's okay, I'm fine."

"You're only fine because Penelope was there to get him off of you. He was physically trying to take advantage of you, Natalie. You can't make an excuse for that." Fred clenched down on his teeth and pinched the bridge of his nose as if trying to explain this to her was giving him some type of migraine.

"What are you guys going to do?"

"What do I want to do or what will we actually do? Because those are two different things." Fred shook his head.

George smiled at Natalie in a comforting way. "It's okay, Natalie. He won't know it's us. Won't see it coming." The way he said the last sentence, his eyes danced with a mischievous light.

She had no idea what he meant until the twins abruptly got up. Natalie whipped her head around and saw that Draco was leaving the Great Hall with Crabbe and Goyle on either of his side. Natalie jumped up and grabbed her books trying to hurry up and catch up with the twins long strides. She was on their heels when Fred and George both threw a black powder towards the trio of Slytherin boys when they were in an empty corridor.

Fred wrapped his non-wand hand around Natalie's hand, so she wasn't lost in the now pitch black corridor. George threw down another powder of some sort and some fireworks that made the boys shriek in terror. The twins and Natalie ran out of the cloud and down another hallway, away from the chaos as a group of students came running towards the action with the screams and cries of Draco and his gang.

"What was that?" Natalie asked breathlessly as they stopped to catch their breath in a secret compartment.

George smiled wickedly. "Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder."

Fred wrapped his arm around Natalie's slim shoulders. "It was a sample, but it looks like it works great. We also let off some Fireworks and some sample product of what will go into our Puking Pastille but in powder form. Those three will be in the hospital wing for a week at least with that high of a dosage going into them."

Natalie pulled the two twins into a tight and hug and began to cry slightly. "Thank you."

The boys soothed her and didn't stop cracking jokes until she began to laugh. Fred wiped her tears away from her pale eyes and kissed her cheek. "Malfoy shouldn't mess with you anymore. If he does, let me know and I will sort it out in a more muggle fashion." Fred snorted and cracked his knuckle.

"I would like to see Draco get punched… hopefully there isn't a next time." Natalie said with a laugh.

"Yes, hopefully there won't have to be a next time." George added seriously as the three of them snuck back into the student body as secretive as possible. No one saw the culprits so they couldn't be punished. Natalie swore she saw Professor McGonagall glance suspiciously at the twins. They however, had an alibi, Lee Jordan said they were with him walking to class. Natalie bit her lip to hide a smile as Malfoy was being hauled away, puking his breakfast up and his face was a violent shade of green that almost matched his Slytherin robe. Payback is a bitch, Malfoy.