Alright everyone…here is the next chapter that I promised!! Please review and lemme know what you think.

Chapter Thirteen

"You don't honestly believe that this will work." Snape asked as they set up for the 7th year Gryffindor and Ravenclaw class.

"Why wouldn't it? The last thing they expect is for us to be nice to each other. From what I understand, the students are probably going to place a ton of bets on us today because of the incident to breakfast." Alex argued. Her hair was still green since Snape refused to provide her with the antidote, but promised that it would wear off by the end of the day.

"I still do not think that this will work. We should just assign each and everyone of them detention." Snape frowned, pulling some jars off of the shelves.

"Fine then. I bet you 10 galleons that the class will fall for the prank." Alex grinned, taking a seat on the desk. Snape smirked back at her.

"I accept."

The class came filing inside, many still laughing about the events at breakfast.

"Miss Harper! I gotta say that green is definitely your color." One of the twins laughed as they passed by, heading towards their seats. Alex just rolled her eyes and waited for Snape to start the class. Today, they were both going to demonstrate how to make a truth serum.

"In your seats, NOW!" Snape bellowed, signaling the start of class. "Today you will learning how to make a truth serum. No, this is not Veritaserum. That process is not permitted to be taught in the classroom, and I highly doubt that you lot would be able to comprehend the delicate process that it takes in order to accomplish the full effect if it was." Snape said. Alex had to repress a laugh at the disappointed and dejected looks that many of the students formed.

"Now I expect all of you to pay close attention and take extensive notes on what Miss Harper and I will be instructing." Snape continued. Alex hopped down from her seat and moved over to the cauldron that they had set up. Her job was to make the potion while Snape explained the procedure step by step.

"Are you ready to begin, Miss Harper?" Snape asked with no hint of disdain in his voice.

"Yes, Professor." Alex replied treating him with more respect then what was normal. The students seemed to still be waiting for some kind of insult to come from either one of them. Snape couldn't believe it. Were they actually going to fall for this simple of a prank? It was quite possible that he might be paying up sooner then he thought.

The class continued with Alex carefully combining the proper ingredients to make the truth serum, as Snape explained what she was doing to class. Many of the students were not taking good enough notes since they were confused on to why the two instructors were actually being nice and civil towards each other. Alex was actually treating Snape with respect instead of muttering insults at his methods of teaching. And Snape actually seemed to smile at one moment, when Alex made a small joke about how her best friend had slipped the truth serum in her drink as a joke. She ended up revealing her feelings of loathing to her potions professor back when they were in their 7th year at the school she had attended before college. That had ended up with a month's worth of detention because of the few choice words she had used.

Soon the class was done and as the students were exiting, Snape grabbed hold of the Weasley twin's robes.

"A minute, if you'd please." Snape said with an odd glint in his eye. The twins knew then that they were in trouble and slowly backed back into the classroom. Snape and Alex both frowned at the boys

"A little bird told us that you have started a betting pool concerning us." Alex stated, crossing her arms in front of her chest. She hoped she looked intimidating enough since both boys were taller then her, but it must have worked good enough since they seemed rather nervous.

"Well, you see. We can explain." Fred said, hoping to somehow talk their way out of trouble.

"Oh really? Please. Enlighten us on what would make you believe that you are free to break the school rules, Mr. Weasley." Snape said sarcastically.

"Professor, they should at least have the chance to defend themselves." Alex said looking over at Snape. The twins cast pleading looking in Snape's direction. Maybe with Alex on their side, they would get out of this unharmed.

"Fine." Snape frowned, silently fighting to not make some insulting remark to Alex like he would have normally done. They were forced to make a truce and he would not be the first one to break it. Alex turned back to the boys, waiting for their excuse. Fred nudged George in the side, indicating for him to speak up.

"Well…umm…you see… we didn't really see any harm in it. It wasn't hurting anyone. And the fights that you two would have were pretty entertaining." George said thinking as fast as he could for some kind of defense.

"Yeah, no harm was done. We didn't think it was a big deal." Fred agreed with his brother.

"That's the best you could do? Boys, I'm disappointed." Alex said shaking her head. She had expected a better answer then that from them.

"The fact still stands that you broke the rules. Now you will serve detention with Mr. Filch for the next two weeks." Snape said. Alex was impressed. That was quite lenient for him! She had expected him to dish out at least a month's worth! Obviously the twin's were equally surprised about getting off so easily. The twin's made to leave, but George stopped.

"I was wondering something. Why are you two getting along now? We thought you hated each other." Alex laughed and grinned at Snape.

"I believe that you owe me ten galleons, Professor." Snape just rolled his eyes. The twin's looked confused.

"The professor and I have called a truce. But when we heard of your little betting pool, we decided to have some fun and freak everyone out. Hence the being nice to each other part." Alex explained to the twins. Their eyes widened in realization.

"You bet on us!" Fred exclaimed. Alex just smirked.

"Better get going or you're going to be late for your next class." She said. The twin's walked out, amazed that they had been conned by Professor Snape of all people!

"Only two weeks?" Alex asked once the twins had left.

"I know. It was rather out of character, wasn't it?" Snape smirked. "But look at it this way. All the students that placed bets on us are going to be after those two since we called a truce. They are going to lose all their money. I figured that that was enough punishment for them."

"I'm impressed." Alex laughed as she started to clean up from the class. Suddenly, they could both hear yelling and instantly knew that Fred and George's classmates had chased them down, demanding their money back. Alex and Snape shared a similar look and they both let out a laugh as they began to set up for the next class.