Rebecca tried to heed Aaron's advice about the good night's sleep, and go to bed early with the rest of the team. Unfortunately, she wasn't tired enough to fall asleep at first. She picked up her copy of Quidditch through the Ages to look over the moves that she had learned while she was on the team. Around about midnight she finally felt like she could fall asleep.

About 5:30 in the morning, she felt a draft from someone opening her curtains. Rebecca really didn't want to get up, but when the person started tapping on her forehead she decided that she could no longer ignore whoever it was from the team.

"Morning, Carter!" Wood enthusiastically said when Rebecca opened her eyes. "See you down in the locker room."

He left throwing two pieces of clothing in her face. Rebecca grumbled a little and then got out of bed.

When she made it down to the locker room she found that all the team except Aaron was in the same sleep deprived stupor she was in. She took a seat between a yawning Anna and closed eyed Charlie.

As Wood started his pep talk for the morning, Rebecca started to lean into Charlie so that she could possibly sleep a little while the captain told them the same thing that he had told them a hundred times before. She looked around and noticed that the rest of the team had the same idea. Greg and Heath were leaning up against a column while Anna and A.J. were in the same position and Rebecca and Charlie. It appeared that they all might get a good nap in when Aaron said something surprising.

"There is no sense in beating any more strategy into you heads today," the seventh said waking up his entire team. They all stared at him wondering if he went crazy as he continued, "I know we can out maneuver the Slytherin team, but that isn't going to win us the game. It is going to be a long and drawn at game, because as long as we are in the lead and they can't beat us in points Flint will try to throw Charlie off so neither gets the snitch. So what more do we need to win this game?"

Wood looked at his tired team waiting for an answer.

After a moment Rebecca finally muttered, "Stamina?"

"Exactly!" Aaron said with a thousand times the enthusiasm that Rebecca had in giving the answer. "So today, we are going to start our stamina training. Okay everyone get up and take off your practice robes." It took everyone a second to respond to Wood's peculiar order, but they all eventually got up and removed their robes revealing their black wind pants and red tops. Anna and Rebecca had on red thin-strapped tank tops and the guys all had thrown on red muscle shirts before they came down.

"Good you all are wearing the clothes I gave you. It will make this easier to do."

"Umph, like we were going to get up and pick out our own that early when he already did it for us," muttered Heath.

Snickers broke out amongst the other team members as Wood explained, "We are going to do some running today, but not just any type."

"Cross-country?" Anna asked looking horrified. "I hate just running long distances even if the scenery is pretty."

"Nope not cross country and not sprinting either. . Well not purely them anyways."

"Aaron, spit it out already," Charlie said as he started to yawn.

"We are going to play tag, because it will give us the best of both worlds and some fun in with it."

Everyone liked the sound of this so they started to be more awake with the enthusiasm they now felt towards practice.

"Okay, who is it?" Rebecca asked.

"Well, for this round we are going to divide into teams and one will 'hunt' the other. If someone gets tagged they become part of it."

"How are we dividing?" A.J. asked.

"Well I want the keep the people that work together, together so let's have it the chasers against the rest of us, sound good?"

"Are the chasers going to be chasing?" Greg asked for his group.

"No, I think that you guys should be pursued."

Anna, Rebecca, and Greg all looked at each other and then made a mad dash to the door starting the practice. Everyone else waited a few moments for a head start and went after them.

"Run!" Greg exclaimed when the chasers got into the hall.

"Where?" Anna asked as they started down the hall.

"The stairs," Rebecca whispered sure that the other part of their team would be behind them in a matter of seconds.

She led them up the stairs and across the corridor stopping in the in front of the Great Hall.

"Now were?" Rebecca muttered.

"Let's split up an meet up at the fruit painting that goes to the kitchen in fifteen minutes if one of us doesn't show let's assume that who ever it is got caught," Greg said.

"Okay," girls said in unison as they all headed in different directions.

Rebecca ran back down the stairs using the set of stairs that would take her to the potions class room as Anna headed continued on the same level away from stairs they came up and Greg headed up the steps. They all got out of sight just in time.

Rebecca hit the bottom of the steps just as she heard an echo that said, "Which way did they go?"

"Let's split up."

'Oh, I better hurry up and get out of here. Who knows which way they are coming?' Rebecca thought as ran past the potions room.

She was about to another set of steps that would take her back up steps when she heard a set of foot steps coming down them. She quickly ducked behind a suit of armor. She watched to see Aaron and Heath come down the step and get very close to where she was hiding.

'Oh, I am going to get caught if I stay here. I wonder if I could out run them,' Rebecca thought, but her feet wouldn't move to get her out of there.

Luckily, just as the guys were about to step where they would be able to see her, there was a noise come from upstairs. The boys looked at each other and headed back up the steps without ever knowing that they were that near their prey. Rebecca let out a sigh and looked up the steps and headed the opposite direction.

When she got to an intersection of corridors near the potions room she heard some more footsteps coming at her. She quickly turned into the other hallway. When she looked around she saw A.J. dashing past.

Rebecca cautiously started to go back down the hall she was in keeping her eyes down at the intersection so that if A.J. decided to double back she could get a head start.

Rebecca felt that she was at the point where she needed to start to figure out how to get to the meeting point. She turned around so she could decide the best route to get there and saw that she was about two inches from running into two people.

"OH!" she gasped as she jumped backwards before she realized that it was just Ryan and Russel. Rebecca quickly regained her composure and explained, "oh, sorry, I thought that you were one of the guys."

"What is going on?" Ryan asked looking at his childhood friend curiously.

"Oh, we are having practice and I thought you two were some of my team," Rebecca started but then she spotted Charlie coming down the hall behind the guys. "Oh don't let him see me, please!"

Ryan was taken back by Rebecca's sudden whisper and turned around to see what she had seen. Russel turned as well while Rebecca hid behind Ryan hoping Charlie hadn't seen any glimpse of her.

"What are you doing down here, Weasley?" Ryan asked before Charlie could say anything to the two Slytherins.

"Looking for someone. What are you do doing?" Charlie answered as he passed them.

Both Ryan and Russel turned around to look at Charlie while Rebecca moved so that she stayed behind her Slytherin friend.

"Just taking a stroll around before breakfast," Russel coolly said glaring at Charlie as Ryan took a step back and casually leaned up against the wall with his hands behind his back.

Rebecca managed to follow the boy's movements though she almost tripped herself, but she managed to stay up right. At first she didn't know why Ryan had moved but then she realized that there was a corridor there that she could go down.

Before she could start down the corridor she heard Charlie sarcastically said, "Good for you."

Russel who couldn't resist the urge to push Charlie's buttons, so he asked, "So did Rebecca finally figure out that you were loser and she left you in the middle of the night?"

Rebecca about lunged at Russel for that comment, but Ryan managed to keep her behind him as he said, "Mate, Rebecca's angry is only going to flare when she hears that you made that comment."

"Sorry," Russel grumbled looking at Rebecca staring at him from behind Ryan. Rebecca decided that she had heard enough squeezed Ryan's hand to tell him thanks and headed down the new corridor.

"Okay, why don't you two save it for the field," Rebecca heard Ryan say as she ran down the new hallway making her think, 'They were just glaring at each other.'

After a moment she found herself near the fruit painting. She could see Greg had just gotten there and Anna was coming from the opposite direction as she was. They all saw each other and the girls picked up their pace to get to Greg. Suddenly, they heard the voices of their other team members.

"He went this way," Heath called.

"Come on let's get him. Bout time you showed up again, Weasley," Dark shouted.

"I was looking for the girls. . I wonder if the girls are in front of him," Charlie answered.

"I think they separated, but let's get Bell first," ordered Wood.

Rebecca and Anna, who were almost to the point where anyone coming down the steps would see them, dove back behind the archways that they had just came through. Greg realized that he was going to be seen no matter what so he stood still for a second longer and when A.J., Aaron, Heath, and Charlie hit a point where he could give them a teasing smile and then dashed into the part of Anna's corridor.

The other guys were so wrapped up in pursuing Greg that they missed Anna pressed up against the wall. After everyone was out of sight Anna came over to Rebecca.

"That was nice of him," she said as they headed back down the hall away from the guys.

"Yeah, we'll have to thank him for taking one for the team later," Rebecca said as they turned a corner into an area that she really had never been.

Soon they were faced with a choice of continuing down the hall or up a set of steps. The girls stopped and looked at each other.

"Which way?" Anna asked as she caught her breathe.

"I don't know. Where do you think Greg is?" Rebecca responded looking down the hall and up the stairs well.

The girls had only stood there for a moment resting and weighing their options when they heard something happening behind them.

They both started to move, but somebody wrapped their arm around the girls' waist, securing their arms in the process, and placed their other hand on the girls' mouths so they couldn't scream.

The girls were picked up and turned to see Kirsta staring at them with an amused expression on her face.

"Well, well, well, what do we have here?" The black haired girl started as she constrained her laughter. "Two lost little Gryffindors. . Sam, Hans, take them into the common room. I am sure that there is some one that would like a word with these two."

Anna and Rebecca glanced over at each other not sure what Kirsta was alluding to, but the both knew it wasn't good. Both started to struggle with their Slytherin captor. Unfortunately, the guys managed to keep the two chasers restrained while Kirsta said, "pure-blood" to a section of the bare stone wall. The next thing that Rebecca and Anna knew they were thrown on the cold, rough, stone floor of the Slytherin common room.

Rebecca landed first and Anna was thrown on top of her.

"You okay?" Rebecca whispered as the two girls got up.

"Fine. You?" Anna whispered back as she looked to see that Hans and Sam were blocking their way out with Kirsta.

"Fine."

"Well, well, well, what do we have here?" a voice said behind them. Rebecca and Anna glanced at each other, before the turned around to see that Jason Calloway, who was sitting in one of the high back chairs of room, was the one addressing them.

Both girls rolled their eyes and glared at the Slytherin Captain.

"Like we haven't heard that line already," Rebecca muttered causing Anna to snicker slightly.

"So what do we owe the pleasure with ladies?" Calloway creepily asked them.

Rebecca and Anna both were determine to show no fear and continued to stare definitely at him.

"They were standing around the stairs when we found them," Kirsta said.

"Well, isn't that convenient I wanted to talk to that one," Jason said as he got up and stared at Rebecca.

Krista started to laugh as she said, "Well, Rebecca, you don't have your precious Russel to protect you now, so what are you going to do?"

Rebecca looked at her curiously, not noticing how close Calloway was getting.

"Oh, so you are the one that is distracting my seeker. I never thought that Wood would stoop so low as to put distractions on the team."

Calloway looked over at Anna, who nervously looked away. Rebecca took advantage of not being watched and took a couple steps back. The Slytherin captain noticed and started towards Rebecca. She kept backing up until Calloway had her in a corner.

Anna knew that Rebecca was about to pass out so she started towards Calloway as she exclaimed, "Leave her alone!"

"Hans, watch this one," Calloway said as he turned towards the blonde chaser.

Rebecca looked over and saw Hans heading towards her. She wouldn't have said that she was scared by that sight. It was actually the décor of the room that got her worse than even Calloway backing her into a corner.

When Rebecca rolled her eyes at Hans going to watch her, she noticed a sculpture of a snake right next to her head. Rebecca gasped and turned to get way from the statue and hit her head on a shelf that was on her other side.

As Rebecca fell to the ground she heard Kirsta burst to into laughter followed by Calloway, Hans, and Sam. As she slipped in and out of consciousness, she heard the laughter and Anna screaming.

"I can't believe that you forgot ." Ryan said as he and Russel came back into the Slytherin to find Hans picking up an unconscious Rebecca, Kirsta dying from laughter on the floor, and their captain approaching Anna.

"I always did prefer blondes," Calloway said as the Gryffindor chaser backed away from him.

Unfortunately for Anna, she didn't know the layout of the room and tripped over a foot rest causing her to hit her head against the wall behind her.

"What is going on here?" Ryan asked as he looked back and forth between the two Gryffindor chasers.

"Oh," Kirsta innocently said regaining her composure, "Jason was just explaining that those two are distractions."

Hans took a couple of steps with Rebecca and Ryan noticed a pool of blood behind her.

"OH, MY!" Ryan exclaimed as he rushed over and took Rebecca from a reluctant Hans.

"She is bleeding. Russel, check on Spinnet."

Russel rushed over to Anna and tried to rouse her, but with no luck so he called back, "She's out cold."

"Come on let's get them to the hospital wing. . Oh, my uncle is going to kill me for this," muttered Ryan as he examined the gash on Rebecca's forehead.

"Don't!" exclaimed Kirsta as she tried to stop them from leaving the room.

"KIRSTA, SHUT UP!" shouted Russel staring at her furiously. "If we don't get these two to the infirmary, this house is going to be in major trouble, since obviously they weren't here by choice. We'll be lucky if we don't get accused of trying to sabotage the Gryffindor team." Russel turned to Calloway and continued, "Jason, if these two don't wake up we might win the quidditch match by forfeit and you know what rumors are going to go around school if they do."

The two Slytherins walked out with the two cataleptic Gryffindors out of the room leaving Calloway to think about what Russel had said.

"Why did you let them go?" Kirsta blurted out when the door closed.

Calloway glared at her and said, "Didn't you hear him? We were going to have those two hurt and not able to play. That loser Wood would say we were afraid that we couldn't beat them with a fully developed team. If it wasn't that Carter was so good we would probably be hearing it now. I don't care how much you hate that girl and how much you and I really want Dark and Spinnet broken up, I am not going to put up with the rumors that would come from this! NOW DROP THIS UNTIL AFTER THE MATCH! . And Kirsta, if you do anything anyone on the Gryffindor team, I will make you regret it."

Kirsta stared at him, but knew that he was not playing around.

Rebecca and Anna woke up in the infirmary to something hitting the heads. It wasn't hard so it didn't hurt, but it was wet and really annoying. They both opened their eyes simultaneously and saw that there was a cup of water suspended above their heads tilted in such a way that drops of water were falling from it.

"HEY!" Anna grumbled. Just then her cup turned all the way over and poured out the rest of its contents on the blonde's head. Rebecca's was about to do the same, but she managed to stick up her hand and catch the cup before it got too much closer to spilling.

As she brought the glass down out of the air she heard laughter, very familiar laughter.

And then as she looked over to see if it was truly who she thought it was she heard, "Sorry! I guess I am little out of practice."

Rebecca and Anna looked over and saw that Cathrine was sitting up in bed laughing.

"You're up!" they exclaimed as they sat up to get a better look at their former comatose friend.

"Yeah, I am up and from what I got from these two," Cathrine giddily answered as she pointed at Ryan and Russel who were on either side of her bed, "I was out for a while."

"We were beginning to wonder about you two," Ryan said remorsefully looking at Rebecca as if he just realized what Colin had been going through.

"Of course, I had to prove to them that it wasn't the case," Cathrine smarted off.

"Yes you did, Tyson. I swear you will never lose your sense of humor about anything will you," Russel said looking at Cathrine amazed how cheerful she was.

Anna and Rebecca just smiled at each other and started to rearrange their pillows so they could remain sitting up more comfortably.

"Rebecca, Anna, I am so sorry. We didn't know ." Ryan tried to start.

"Ryan," Rebecca weakly interjected stopping causing everyone to look at her. "No one is blaming you." Rebecca then forced her self to add," or Russel. Kirsta started it. She said something about 'my precious' Russel wouldn't be able to protect me from what I deserved. And the way Calloway acted it was obvious that it was a surprise to him when we got thrown into your common room."

Rebecca stopped because Sara ran into the infirmary.

"Oh, there you two are," she huffed trying to catch her breathe. "Everyone is looking for you. Why are you here?"

"Sara," Rebecca started with no intention to answer Sara's question, "look behind you."

Sara skewed her face a little and the turned to see Cathrine sitting up.

"AAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!" Sara screamed as she ran to give Cathrine a hug. She knocked Ryan out of the way, causing him to flip over the cot behind him, and gave Cathrine a huge hug as she asked, "Does Colin know your up? He'll be so happy to see you! Oh someone has to go find him!"

"I'll go," volunteered Russel as he rushed around the cot and headed out the door.

"I think that I will join him," Ryan said as he gingerly got up from the floor and started out.

"Wonder how long it will take those two to convince Colin that they aren't lying to him," pondered Rebecca.

"We'll find out soon enough won't we?" Anna stated giving Cathrine a smile to let her know that she was really glad to see her fellow chaser up.

"Cathrine! You're up!" Colin exclaimed as he dashed over to his girlfriend's side minutes later.

"Nice to see you, too," Cathrine laughed as Colin gave her a big bear hug and then proceed to give her a million kisses.

"Here I thought Greg was pulling my leg. He told me that he heard that you were up. Charlie and Greg were on their way in, but when they heard your voice they turned around. Charlie went to get Kris and Greg said that James and Jacquelyn would want to come too." Colin quickly said and then gave Cathrine another big kiss.

"Hey! She is up!" Greg exclaimed as he entered the room with James and Jacquelyn.

The three rushed over and gave her a huge hug. Greg then glanced over and saw Anna and Rebecca sitting up in their beds.

"What happened to you two?" he asked.

Both girls looked at each other and were about to start to tell their when Charlie came running in.

"Kris is coming and so is.," he stopped when he looked at that three out of the four chasers were in hospital cots and then saw Russel and Ryan reenter the room.

"What. happened. to. you. two?" Charlie asked clearly trying to control his temper. 'I don't know why but I know that Anna and Rebecca are in those beds because of something involving those two. those two. those two.' Charlie was starting to lose it. He was staring at the two Slytherin and was beginning see red.

Before anyone could answer Charlie's question or Charlie could say anything else, Colin got up, headed towards the two, and started to shout, "WHAT DO YOU TWO THINK YOUR DOING HERE? YOU ARE THE REASON THAT CATHRINE WAS IN A COMA!!!!!"

"Yeah, I know." Ryan tried to say.

"THEN WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!"

"I wanted to say that I was."

"GET OUT!"

"But I am sor."

"I SAID GET OUT!"

"Sorry," Ryan blurted out and looked at Russel who jerked his head towards the door.

The two headed out the door as Colin screamed once more, "GET OUT!"

Colin turned back around and was about to head back to Cathrine's side when Madame Pompfrey came in and told him that he couldn't scream in the hospital wing and asked him to leave. Colin was about to start a furious round of protests, but James walked over and calmly put his hand on Colin's shoulfer to lead him out.

"Poor guy," Greg muttered and then he turned towards Anna and Rebecca to say, "So this is where you two ended up? Nice hiding spot I wish I would have thought of it."

"Did you get caught?" the girls asked in unison.

"Yeah, up near the north tower I got cornered, so I had to join them in pursuit of you two. We were all over the castle and then we found you in here. Madame Pompfrey wouldn't let us in, so we all went and got changed and that is when we ran into Colin. So what made you two get in here?"

Anna looked at Rebecca and then said, "Oh, well we sort of had a run in with Kirsta and Calloway."

"Aaron isn't going to be happy about that," Greg stated.

"Neither is A.J.," Anna said.

"You don't think those two will fly off the handle, do you?" Rebecca asked as Charlie took a seat next to her.

"I don't know," Charlie said as he tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. He then looked at Greg and added, "I guess we better go check on them, before we lose more teammates to suspension."

Charlie gave Rebecca a kiss and started to walk out the door.

"Yeah, mate. We better get Heath too so that we can keep those two in check," Greg said as he followed Charlie out of the room.

"I'd better go to," Sara said as she got up. "I don't know what good I can do if Aaron goes crazy, but I might be able to help."

"Would you check on Colin, too, please?" Cathrine called to Sara who quickly turned around to give her a nod and then continued out of the room.

The three friends were barely out of the room when Kris came rushing into the room to her sisters side.

"You're up!" the third year giddily squealed.

"So I am told," Cathrine responded giving her sister a big hug.

As the two let go of each other the room started to fill with more Ravenclaws. Bill walked in with Lennon.

"Hey there is the smile we all were missing," he said as Cathrine flashed a smile. "I would love to stay and celebrate some more, but I was recruited to keep some people in line I think it has something to do with you two."

Rebecca and Anna could just shake their heads yes as the Head Boy looked at them and then headed out the door.

"They must think telling Aaron and A.J. about what happen really isn't going to go over well," Rebecca whispered to Anna.

Both girls just looked at each other hoping that it wasn't going to be as big of a task as everyone was anticipating.

"I have to go owl mom and dad," Kris happily said and started to follow Bill out as Kurt James and Jenna Moliby walked in hand in hand.

They were then followed by Adam Harker, Audrey Valvadian and Kevin Shea. After telling Cathrine how good it was to see that she was awake, they all looked over and noticed the other two Gryffindor girls.

"What happened to you two?" Lennon asked.

The girls went into their explanation starting with their game of tag for practice and going to when Anna saw Ryan and Russel.

"And those two weren't in on it?" Kurt questioned.

"No, I slipped in and out of consciousness when Ryan was carrying me in here and before I was completely out, I heard Ryan say something about getting us to the hospital wing, so they got us out of there," Rebecca said.

"Yeah, if they hadn't have walked in it would have been a lot worse," Anna stated and then playfully added, "We could have been knocked unconscious. . Wait, we were."

Rebecca looked at her fellow chaser and decided to say, "We could have been tumbled down a set of steps. . Wait that was me a couple of times this year."

"You could have been hit by a bludger," Cathrine soberly added, but in a matter of a second she started to smile and laughed, "No. No, wait that was me."

The whole group started to laugh at the girls who were trying unbelievable hard to make light of the situations they had been in.

The Gryffindors and Ravenclaws sat and talked for a while. Cathrine thanked everyone for the cards that she received while she was sleeping and commented on the flowers Jenna had given her.

"Those are really cool," the Gryffindor said as she examined the daisies.

"Yeah, when I figured out how to do it I knew that you would love them," Jenna explained with a huge content smile.

"You'll have to show me how to do it."

"You mean that you don't already know?" Jenna asked amused. "I would have thought that you would have had it figured out ages ago."

"Well, Colin and I were more interested in getting stuff that would be good for pranks."

"Surprise, surprise," Audrey sarcastically stated.

Kevin started to laugh as he said, "Yeah, you two always did prioritize homework more on how it could help you to develop new pranks then anything else."

"Look who's talking," Cathrine joked looking directly at him. She then soberly asked, "So did the prank wars happen?"

"Um, no," Audrey slowly started. "With you being unconscious, Kevin and I didn't approach Colin about that."

"Rebecca you didn't fill in for me?" Cathrine called across the room.

Rebecca was a bit confused and with a wavering voice said, "I-I'm sorry. . I didn't know about it. . What are the prank wars?"

"Oh, these two," Lennon started pointing at Audrey and Kevin, "and Colin and Cathrine started them to see who were the King and Queen of pranks. How many years ago was that?"

"Oh, probably since first year," Cathrine proudly answered causing Audrey and Kevin to grin.

"Oh, and it is a yearly thing?" Rebecca asked.

"Yep," the three pranksters answered in unison.

"So who won last year?"

"Cathrine and Colin and undefeated," Kurt answered.

"Yep, for four years and running," Cathrine happily added.

"Hey, don't rub it in," Kevin playfully said as Audrey said, "Well, if we had had it this year you might have been saying that a little differently."

"Yeah, well Colin and I were in the middle of planning some of the best pranks that we ever had. . And besides even in my absence you should have still had it. Rebecca could have filled in and you all wouldn't have known what hit you."

"Why do you keep saying that?" Adam asked in his deep voice.

Rebecca was astonished. She knew of Harker because was Kevin's counter part on the Ravenclaw team, but she had never heard the beater say anything to anyone.

"Well you know how the Slytherins' that stayed in our house changed colors?"

"Cathine, don't," Rebecca interrupted.

After what just happened to her and Anna, she really didn't want it to go around the school what she had done. The repercussion might be far more severe. Unfortunately, she hadn't stopped Cathrine soon enough, because everyone was looking at her with the same enlightened expression on their face.

"You did it, then," Anna said amazed.

"Well I came up with it," Rebecca started knowing that everyone wanted the details. "You guys can't tell anyone until after the match, okay?" Everyone shook their heads in agreement. "It came to me after Cathrine said something about some candy that my friend, Stacy, had sent me. Little Miss Prankster over there had some rainbow potion left over so we coated the candy for the Slytherins and passed it out. With everyone getting candy, no one could pin it on us if they didn't see us coat the candy, so we got off scotch free."

An awed hush came over Rebecca's audience until Cathrine proudly said, "See, you would have had a real challenge if Rebecca would have joined the team. It would have been so interesting to see what she would have came up to do with my smiley potion."

"Smiley potion?" Rebecca asked intrigued.

"Yeah, Colin and I had been working on a potion that would make smiley faces appear."

"So, what can you put it in?"

"Well I put it into some dye over Christmas and when I tye-dye a shirt it came out with all these cool smiley faces all over it."

"Cool. Did you try it with ink?" Rebecca asked.

"Yeah. It took a while but what I wrote became smiles and I am not sure how to reverse it."

"Well that would be a calling card now wouldn't?" Audrey commented.

"Yeah, well obviously I didn't have time to figure out how to use the potion in a prank for you guys."

"Why didn't you use the ink?" Jenna questioned. "It would have been good."

"But it changes what you write. One of the agreements of the rules of the prank wars is that we don't mess with someone's school work," explained Cathrine.

"Yeah, Jenna, it's a friendly competition. That's why the Slytherins aren't involved in it," Kevin added.

"Are they the only house that doesn't participate?" Lennon inquired.

"Oh, no, this is an exclusive competition," answered a sarcastic Audrey. "There is no Hufflepuff team either. . Don't get me wrong, we have asked, but no one seemed to be up for the challenge."

"Typical Hufflepuffs," muttered Kurt causing everyone to look at him. "What? We tried to get a scrimmage with them for quidditch and they flat out refused. They don't really care much for unofficial contests."

"Kurt, don't go stereotyping the Hufflepuff," Rebecca said.

"Oh and you don't have stereotypes in the back of your head. I would love to hear what you think of the Slytherins after the scrimmage, this little incident, and I am sure you had some other run in with them."

"Okay so I really haven't had that much 'good' interaction with the Slytherins this year."

"Rebecca?" Cathrine interrupted. "Are you going to try to get back at the Slytherins for everything? I mean you, Anna, and me in here. I think Chelsea was getting some grief from Cicille Navarro before my accident. And don't forget about what Lauren has been through with that Harvey boy."

"Why do I have to get them?"

"Well you know what I mean. Do you have a plan to strike back at them?"

Rebecca looked around the room at the faces of her fellow Gryffindors and her Ravenclaw friends. Anna's expression showed that she wanted to get back at Kirsta and Calloway and that was the deciding factor for Rebecca.

"Um, actually, when you were talking about your smiley potion, something came to mind. I will need help though."

Everyone looked at her in anticipation to hear what her prank was. Rebecca was about to explain when Madame Pompfrey came in to check on everyone.

"Well I am glad to see you're all still up," the healer said as she looked over at Rebecca and Anna. "I think that it is safe to think about releasing you. Are you two feeling okay?"

Both shook their head to tell her yes. Madame Pompfrey quickly examined the girls and released them.

"What about me?" Cathrine asked eager to get out of the hospital too.

"Sorry, Miss Tyson, but I want to keep you in here for a while longer to make sure that there isn't any relapse," Madame Pompfrey said as she left the room again.

Fine," Cathrine grumbled as Anna and Rebecca slowly got out of their cots. Both could not help but feel a little guilty that they were allowed to leave.

Rebecca and Anna walked over to talk about Rebecca's plan.

"First off if you aren't going to help do this you better leave now," Rebecca started when she reached the end of Cathrine's bed. No one made a movement they all seemed resolved to be part of the plan, so Rebecca continued, "okay, then, we are going to take some of Cathrine's smiley potion and put a drop in some of their ink bottles at night when they are all asleep. They."

"Wait," interrupted Lennon. "How are we going to get into their dorms to do that? We don't have the password. I don't even think Bill gets it."

"Well, when we were thrown into their common room so as long as they don't change it, we can get in. We'll have to figure out a way to see if they changed it or not without them knowing it. Anyways, as I was saying we can sneak down there. I know of an invisibility spell that we can use to get through the halls. Unfortunately it may not work on the vials with the potion, but Lennon you can walk around where ever you want with out anyone questioning you, right?"

"Yeah, when I am on rounds," Lennon said intrigued.

"That will be perfect," Rebecca replied almost giddily. "You can hide the potion somewhere close to the Slytherin entrance and then we can get a hold of it and there won't be a lot of potion bottles floating through the air. We can sneak in and then put a drop in to the bottle of ink we can find. We should be able to do it fairly quickly since we can all take two rooms and I am sure Colin will want in on this, so we should be able to get everyone that we want without any problems. And actually we don't have to get every single one of their ink bottle, because the randomness will psyche them out. After all, getting back at them mentally will be ten times sweeter than sending them in here."

"Wow," Lennon and Jenna muttered together.

"Why aren't you in Ravenclaw?" pondered Kevin.

"You thought of all that just sitting over there?" Audrey asked.

"Yeah, I guess," Rebecca said sort of blushing.

"So when are we going to do this?" Kurt asked.

"Well, we will want to know whether the password is changed yet or not, but we'll have to do it some night around 2 am or so when we figure that out," Rebecca said looking at Anna for some support. This was the one part of the plan that she hadn't got completely figured out. "We'll let you know when we have that confirmed and we will probably have another meeting here so it looks like we are all visiting Cathrine instead of plotting anything," Anna finished.

"Sounds good," Kurt said as Madame Pompfrey reentered the room.

"I am sorry but I am going to have to ask that you all leave so Miss Tyson can rest. She isn't quite 100% yet."

The students shook their heads and after saying good bye to Cathrine left the infirmary.

Outside of the Hospital wing Anna and Rebecca finalized contact procedures with their Ravenclaw allies and then started towards the Gryffindor Common Room.

They had just rounded the corner that would take them past the library when they ran into Snape.

"Ladies," the professor greeted them.

"Professor," was the only thing that the girls could reply.

"Miss Carter, I was wondering if I could talk to you about the letter you gave me on Monday."

Rebecca's eyes widened. She had temporarily forgotten about it with everything that happened that day.

"W-why of course," she finally got out when she recovered.

Anna caught sight of Calloway down the hall and decided that this was a perfect time to attempt to find out about the password, so she said, "Well, please, excuse me then. . I'll see you up in the common room." Anna turned towards Rebecca and jerked her head in the direction of the Slytherin captain. Rebecca caught on to what Anna was going at and nodded her head.

Once Anna started to walk away, Snape started, "I think you might like to know what was in the first letter I got from the lawyer's so you understand why I didn't get back to you on this right away."

"If you would, sir," Rebecca said sort of thankful that he was willing to fill her in, but at the same time astonished that he was since she normally didn't get to many explanations about her stipulation tasks until after she completed them.

"Well, I first had to write Mr. Spangler back and tell him that I was willing to do this. And then I had to await him to send me which potion you needed to do." Rebecca nodded calmly though she really wanted to scream at him and ask him to cut to the chase.

"Do you know what potion you have to do?" Snape asked as an excited smile formed on his face.

"N-no?" Rebecca garbled as she thought, 'Why don't you just tell me?' Rebecca was about ready to bust. How she managed to answer as meekly as she did was a complete mystery to her.

"Wolfsbane potion," Snape responded about as giddy as Rebecca imagined the professor would ever show a student. "I know with OWLS coming up and your newfound sport, you are not going to have a lot of free time so I suggest we get started right away so that you have plenty of time to learn the potion and execute it successfully several times."

"How many times?"

"I believe that if you can successfully create this potion three times is a row that you will always be able to do it." Rebecca shook her head in agreement as Snape said, "Now if you have free time Sunday night we can meet and got over the potion and discuss any questions that you might have. I am sure you have read of this potion and have a grasp of the ingredients."

Rebecca's jaw dropped. "Um, . actually sir, I have read about it, but I really don't know what goes in it. Or any of the process that goes into making it."

Snape looked down at her with an astonished expression and sighed, "Very well, we will start from the beginning. . I am sure that it won't take very long to get you up to speed. Shall we meet at 8:00pm tomorrow then?"

"That will be fine sir."

"Very good, I'll see you then."

As Snape walked away, Rebecca let out a sigh as she started back towards the Gryffindor tower and thought, 'Just one more thing that I have to do.'

In side the common room, Rebecca found a huge group of people in the center making a lot of noise. From what she could make out, Greg, Charlie, Bill and Heath were trying to calm down A.J. and Aaron in the middle of the group. She was about to step through the group of younger students that were standing around so to help, but her eye caught sight of Colin sitting by himself just staring out the window.

'This might be the perfect time to approach him about this,' she thought as she headed over to her friend's side.

Rebecca plopped down next to Colin and gave him a sweet smile.

"I know I should have kept my temper. Oh, I can't believe that I got thrown out. I ran into McGonagall on my way out. She said that she had just gotten a message from Madame Pompfrey about Cathrine being up and thought I would want to know. Of course when she found out that I knew and that I get kicked out hospital wing I got scolded. . Sorry I didn't mean to dump it all on you," Colin said glumly.

"It's okay. . I actually wanted to ask for your help on something that might make you feel better," Rebecca slyly said as Anna walked over and took a seat next to her with the same expression.

"What is going through your head?" Colin asked intrigued.

"Well, you want to get back at the ones that sent Cathrine to the infirmary and well let's just say that Anna and I are looking for, oh how should we put it," Rebecca quickly glanced at Anna who gave her a shrug to let her know to proceed, "vengeance for what happened to us."

"You know that sweet innocent tone as you said that is a bit scary," Colin said as eyed the girls. "I know you already have a plan in your head and it got to be ten times worse then turning the Slytherins colors."

Rebecca smiled and slightly blushed. Then she turned to Anna and in a fake remorseful tone said, "Yeah, I guess hitting them where they live is worse, isn't it?"

"What did you mean 'hitting them where they live'?" Colin asked before Anna could say anything.

"Anna and I know the Slytherins password."

"How?"

"We heard it when we were thrown into the common room. We were struggling so hard that they didn't think we could hear them," Anna stated.

"How do you know they won't change it?" Colin asked.

"Well, I heard Calloway and Kirsta discussing how there was no way that we would have gotten it they way we were struggling. So there was no reason for them to tell anyone that we were there. They also said something about changing the password would raise suspicion," answered Anna with a smug look on her face.

"Why did you get that close to Calloway?" Colin questioned with this horror struck expression on his face.

"Well I had to find out without asking around so I was walked up behind them and sort of lurked around the corner. They didn't know I was there," Anna soothingly said.

"Anyways," Rebecca said trying to get the conversation back on track before any one else would walk over and over hear what they were saying, "we know the password. Cathrine gave me the perfect idea for a prank that will drive the Slytherins nuts and they will never know that we were down there."

"What's the idea?" Colin asked intrigued by everything coming out of the two girls mouthes.

"Well, knowing the password would give us an opportunity to set up 'traps' in their place. Unfortunately we can't do that or else someone is going to figure out that Anna and I did it, so we need something a little more subtle, but that will get them ten times worse. Cathrine was talking about you two developing a potion that would make ink change into smiley faces no matter what you wrote."

"You want to put some drops in their ink?" Colin asked. He was torn whether to think his friend was brilliant and daring or just plain crazy.

"Yeah. If we do it while they are sleeping then they won't have a clue how it happened and it will drive them nuts and even if we don't hit every jar of ink they have, they won't trust any of it."

"Are we going to get everyone?"

"Yep."

"Even Ryan and Russel?" Anna asked, because she had a soft spot in her heart for them since they had rescued the two chasers.

"Well, Ryan was the one that put Cathrine in the infirmary," Rebecca slowly started because she was torn about getting her childhood friend too, "so we have to get him. . And Russel, ... Russel has done enough to me that I think... I think that he deserves it."

"Okay, I am in," Anna resolved. She only needed to be reminded that they were getting revenge for more than just what happened to them.

"Um, don't get me wrong. I think it is a brilliant plan, but how are we going to do it with just three of us?" Colin asked. "I mean we are going to have to be fast, so we aren't caught. Also, unless one of you two have an invisibility cloak I don't see how we are going to get past Flinch in the halls..."

Colin faded out when he noticed that Rebecca and Anna just started to smile bigger as he went on. He stopped and looked at them for a moment and then gave them a look that said 'fill me in know, or I am going to prank you instead.'

"We have a team already formed to get everything done," Rebecca simply said.

"Go on," Colin demanded.

"Well, when you got kicked out of the hospital wing you saw all the Ravenclaws coming in with Kris, right?"

"Yeah, there was Jenna, Lennon, Kevin, Kurt, Audrey, ..." Colin trailed off and as if an idea formed into his head, he then turned towards Rebecca and asked, "They're part of the team, aren't they?"

"Yep. It appears that the Slytherins really rubbed them the wrong way, by attacking Charlie and getting Cathrine in the process. And I guess trying to get us two didn't help matters."

"Harker is on it, right?"

"Yeah," Rebecca responded curious on why the strong and silent Ravenclaw was singled out.

"Hmm? I think that you have quite an excellent prank. Might be better than that color changing one."

"Oh, speaking of that. I promised to tell you who did what after the Slytherins left," Rebecca interrupted him and then started to tell him the whole story about the prank.

"Impressive," Colin said when she finished. "Wish I could have been in on that, but it was probably be the best that I wasn't."

"Yeah," Rebecca quietly said. "Well, we are going to have to get everything set up for so let's get started. I want to do this Sunday night."

Anna and Colin nodded and they all started to get up. They turned to see that the group in the center had dissipated alittle, but Charlie, Greg, Heath, and Bill were still trying to restrain Aaron and A.J.

"Guess we better go and calm those two down," Anna mutter to Rebecca.

"I am going to go look for the vials of potion that I have," Colin said as he started towards the stairs and the girls towards the group.

"Rebecca! Anna!" Aaron exclaimed as he noticed them approaching them. "You're out of the infirmary."

"Yep," Rebecca responded as she and Anna walked into the center of the group.

"I am going to get Calloway for this. He realized that we didn't use any of our moves at the scrimmage and still won, so he decided to take out two of our chasers." The fury in Aaron's eyes matched that in the tone of his voice.

"Yeah, he always said that he would beat you sooner or later. This was his last year and he knew he couldn't. He needs to be taught a lesson," A.J. added broodingly.

Rebecca and Anna looked at each other. It was obvious that they were going to have to do some quick talking get the two guys to calm down since the others obviously were only really able to keep them in the room and not breaking things.

"Guys," Rebecca started, "we're okay, so don't do anything stupid. We can't afford to lose you two either."

"A.J. you can send the bludgers directly at him to get back at Calloway and if one 'accidentally' hits Kirsta in the stands, then so be it," Anna said as she walked towards him.

A.J.'s expression softened a little as he wrapped his arms around his girlfriend, because he was content to send the Slytherins to the hospital wing that way. After all there was no way that he could really get in trouble for it.

Rebecca was relieved to see A.J. calm down. Aaron was going to be another matter. The captain was still fuming and seemed to have a backlog of fuel from all the things Calloway had said or done to keep him going for a while.

"Um, Aaron," Rebecca slowly started and then picked up speed. "Why don't you let Anna and me take care of getting back at Calloway outside of the match? You have a lot of motive to get him. He wouldn't have to tell about this new incident if you get caught. If Anna and I were caught, us getting thrown into the Slytherin's common room would come out. We would make sure of it. And Calloway isn't going to want that now is he?"

Wood took a deep breathe and slowly let it out. Rebecca's words mollified the captain and the guys that were trying to keep him inside the common room felt that it was safe to relax a little.

"You're right," grumbled Wood. "What are you two going to do to get back at him?"

"Oh, don't worry about it," Rebecca replied. "We have it under control."

Rebecca started to walk away as did Anna. There was no way that either of them were going to sit there and be badgered about what they had in mind.

They were almost to the stairs when Charlie grabbed Rebecca's hand and stopped her from going any farther.

Anna continued up the stairs hoping that no one would try to stop her as Charlie asked, "Becca, what is going through your head?"

"Well," Rebecca slowly started looking into Charlie's eyes, "I was thinking we need to get our homework done and maybe study a little for O.W.L.s."

"You know what I mean." Charlie's voice was stern.

"I know, but I don't want to get you involved." Rebecca grimaced slightly when she said this, because Charlie might be mad at her for the comment.

"Why not?" Charlie asked in a defensive manner.

"Sorry, but if I do this without you it will throw them off. Everyone thinks that we are joined at the hips. And ." Rebecca trailed off not sure how to phrase the next thing she wanted to say. In fact she wasn't sure what she wanted to say, because she really didn't appreciate tone in Charlie's voice and at the moment, he was treating her like a child, which just plain annoyed her.

"It's okay, Becca," Charlie interjected in a soothing tone since he could tell his girlfriend was starting to get cross with him. "I am sure that you have everything planned out and I won't ask you for the details, but I want you answer one question for me. Did you change the Slytherins color?"

"Yeah, I came up with it," Rebecca softly responded slightly blushing that he caught her.

"I thought so," Charlie whispered. "How about for this mission, I get a part." Rebecca was ready protest when Charlie quickly added, "I'll keep Bill off your back."

Rebecca smiled sweetly at him and the wrapped her arms around his neck as she whispered in his ear, "Thank you."

"No problem," Charlie said after she let go.

Rebecca smiled at him again and he couldn't resist leaning in a giving her a kiss.

'If I could keep her smiling like that all the time, I would be in heaven,' he thought as they finished kissing.

"We better get some studying done."

"Yeah, we better," Rebecca said as she headed up the steps.

Charlie and Rebecca worked on their homework and studied for the rest of the day while Rebecca filled Charlie in with her potion challenge. Charlie could sense that she was nervous about it since she only kept mentioning it every half an hours so he suggested that they strive to finish everything up on Saturday and then she could hit the library all day on Sunday. Rebecca was so happy that Charlie made his suggestion that she gave him a kiss. For some reason with everything that she had on her mind that she was getting to the point that she couldn't think straight. It was nice to have someone to keep her from going crazy.

That night after Charlie and Rebecca finished up everything; she worked on the plans for the prank and sent an owl to Lennon to tell her when the other Ravenclaws should be at the infirmary at 1pm on Sunday for their meeting along with some other information about the prank.

On Sunday, Rebecca woke up early to get the vials of the potion together from Cathrine's trunk and what Colin had and hide them in her book satchel along with a couple copies of the invisibility spell. Around one, Rebecca grabbed her bag and headed out of the common room with Anna and Colin talking casually about visiting with Cathrine and then each going off to do something different. In the infirmary, the three Gryffindors found Cathrine surrounded by the Ravenclaw conspirators.

"Hey everyone, glad to see you all here," Rebecca said in a low hush. "Lennon, here are the vials and some copies of the spell." Rebecca handed the goods to Lennnon who put them in a bag that she had brought. "With the spell, it is abeo in pulvis and you have to say it over and over and concentrate on it for it to work. I tried it this morning and it didn't matter how hard I tried I couldn't get it so that I could hold something and walk and have everything invisible. . Anyways, we'll do it tonight at 2 am and I think when we get around there. I'll tap on the wall to tell everyone can stop with the spell. And you all know where the entrance is now right?"

"Yeah," Lennon answered for the Ravenclaws, "we formed little groups and took a stroll around the castle at different times today to find the place that you described," and then almost as an afterthought, she added, "also, I destroyed your letter so that it couldn't fall into the wrong hands and I am going to make sure Bill doesn't know when I hide these bottles."

"Thank you, that's great. Charlie is suppose to be keeping Bill off my back, but I didn't give him any details so he does know that you're in it or that we are going to do it tonight."

"How is he going to know when to stop if he doesn't know when we did it?"

"I think it would be best if Bill didn't ask questions anytime after we do it so when it seems that Bill isn't going to at all then Charlie can stop. . Any more questions about what we are doing?"

Everyone shook their head no.

"Good. Well, see you all later then." Rebecca said as she closed her book bag.

Everyone said their good byes and slowly trickled out of the room. Anna and Rebecca were the last to leave Colin and Cathrine in the infirmary. Colin was back to his old chipper self with Cathrine awake.

"We'll have to start planning Cathrine's coming home party when we get this done," Rebecca comment when they were outside.

"Yeah, I'll see you later. Good luck at the library," Anna said.

"Thanks!" Rebecca turned and headed towards the library.

Rebecca walked into the library and started towards the potion section. She passed Russel on her way, but she was too focused to notice. Even though Charlie managed to calm her down the prior night, her mind was racing a mile a minute. The only things that she knew about the wolfsbane potion were that wolfsbane was in it and that there were not too many wizards that actually made the potion so it must be difficult. If she didn't find anything more out about it she was going to be a nervous wreck at the meeting with Snape.

As she walked into the aisle that held the potions book she set her bag on the floor and grabbed a random book called 'Experimental Potions of Our Times.' She casually flipped through the index to see if there was any mention of her mystery potion. Rebecca let out a sigh of relief when she saw that the potion was listed. After setting the book next to her bag she picked up another and another doing the same thing. Fifteen minutes later, she had a stack of five books on the floor.

'I guess that is enough for right now,' Rebecca thought as she tried to lift the stack.

Unfortunately, they were all thick heavy books so when she got them off the floor she felt as though she was lifting hundred pounds.

'I don't want to walk and try and find a table with all this,' Rebecca thought as she set the books back down and settled herself on the floor.

"Recent Discovers in Potions," Rebecca mutter reading the first book she picked up. After finding the page she started to read. There wasn't a whole lot in the book so she went to another and another each time getting more and more frustrated, because she didn't feel like she was learning anything new.

After about 45 minutes she decided that it was a waste to spend any more time looking at books so she got up and started to put them back on the shelf. She had just gotten the first book back in it place when Russel walked into the aisle.

"Sorry, just wanted to make sure you were lying on the ground hurt," he said turning back around to walk out, but then he stopped. He looked at Rebecca as she picked up another book and put it away. "Hey, can we talk about the bet?

Russel stood there waiting for her to respond, but Rebecca continued put the books away trying to without saying one word. She was frustrated enough as it was and really didn't want to have a conversation with him about something that was just going to upset her more.

"Why are you so obdurate on the matter?" Russel final blurted out.

"I am not obdurate..." Rebecca said as she whipped around to look at the Slytherin

"Yes, you are," Russel calmly replied. "You are being inflexible and refusing to listen to me. I have to admit that I never thought that you would just flat out ignore me. Yes, I realize I deserve it, but you have never been that type of person."

"I have other things on my mind," Rebecca blurted out. "I have homework, then there are O.W.L.s to get ready for, as well as a quidditch match, and now I have to spend the little free time I have to know how to make some potion that I don't know anything about, so that I can stay here for the rest of my schooling, and. " Rebecca could feel the tears of her frustration start to swell up inside her as she watched Russel's facial expression change to show he was genuinely concerned about her, so she turned to face the book case and started to run her fingers on the books' spines," and. and I don't know if I'll be able to do it."

Rebecca had whispered the last bit, but Russel read her lips. As much he just wanted to take her in his arms and tell her everything would be alright, Russel restrained himself, because that would have got her madder at him.

'She really doubts her abilities. . Oh I hate it when she's not smiling. I have to do something, but what?' Just then it hit Russel. He had the most wonderful idea that would let Rebecca see how much he cared for her and that he was really a nice guy.

"Uh, Rebecca," he started gently putting his hand on her shoulder. "I am sure that you will be able to do the potion. . but I can see you're really worried about it, so why don't you go talk to Charlie about it?"

Rebecca shook her head in agreement. Russel picked up her bag and handed it to her.

"Thank you," Rebecca whispered as she took it from his hands and started to walk away.

"It was nothing," Russel softly replied.

Rebecca was half way out of the library when she stopped all of the sudden.

'I just took advice from Russel!'

The thought horrified her so she rushed the rest of the way out of the library and headed to find Charlie. She didn't have a hard time finding him, since Charlie was sitting in the common room studying with Greg and Sara.

"Hey, Becca! How did your hunt go?" Charlie asked as Rebecca approached them. He hoped that Rebecca being back was a sign that everything went well, but from the look on her face he doubted it.

"Um, not to good. I didn't really learn anything knew other than what the function of the potion was," Rebecca replied as she took a seat. She didn't wait for anyone to respond to what she said. Rebecca just went ahead and gave them details on how she started to get frustrated when she couldn't find any new information and that Russel showed up.

"What did he want?" Charlie interrupted gritting his teeth while doing so.

"First to see if I was conscious and then to talk to me about the bet. I told him no, but somehow he got me to tell how frustrated about the potion and do you know what he did?"

Charlie's jaw was locked and his mind was racing, 'I am going to hunt him done and get him if he did anything improper.'

Rebecca noticed Charlie's dark expression and also so that Greg was anticipating having to stop his friend from doing anything rash while Sara face held a concern look.

Deciding it was best just to say what happened rather than wait for a response, she said, "He said that I could do the potion, but since I was so worried about it that I should go talk to you about it."

Charlie's face assumed a shocked puzzled look as did Greg's and Sara's.

Looking Rebecca right in the eyes, Charlie asked, "Are you serious?"

"Yeah, isn't that weird?"

"Uh-Huh," Greg and Sara responded together.

"I never would have thought those words would have come out of his mouth," muttered Charlie.

"I know I was about out of the library when I realized I took advice from him. I don't care if it was good advice; do you know how scary that is?"

"Creepy," Sara said as a shiver ran down her back.

"I want to know what his angle is," Rebecca commented turning Charlie's book to see what they had been studying before she came in.

"Isn't it obvious? He's trying to get back in your good graces again," stated Charlie his temper starting to flare at the thought.

"I guess so," Rebecca still looking at the book lazily responded trying not to get annoyed at Charlie acting like she was going to fall into another of Russel's web of deceit. "He has to come up with something better than that. Helping get Anna and me to the infirmary didn't change my opinion so why should this."

Charlie was about to responded to Rebecca's comment when she looked up at him and in a playful hurt voice asked, "You're studying potions without me?"

"We were trying to get up to speed with you for O.W.L.s, Potion Mistress," joked Charlie.

"Funny," Rebecca retorted with a smile partly because what Charlie called her was hilarious and partly because she succeed in changing the subject. "Oh, well at least you weren't studying defense without me."

"That would make you mad?"

"How would you feel if I started studying Care of Magical creatures without you?"

Charlie could just shake his head as he chortled a little. She had caught him. It didn't matter what he was doing he would rather be working with magical creature or learning about them and she knew it. Rebecca joined in and started to pull out some of her school books so that she could study with them.

The little group studied until dinner with a few more interruption. After dinner, Rebecca headed upstairs for a nap before her long night started. Charlie thought something was up, but at the same time he knew that she was stressed out about her meeting with Snape and was anticipating it to a very long so he restrained himself from questioning her about this.

Around 7:30 Rebecca got up and had a casual meeting with both Anna and Colin to confirm where they were going to meet and that they had tried out the spell to see if they could do it.

She then told Charlie and everyone else good bye and of course had to add the line, "Don't wait up for me." Whether she was joking or not was a mystery even to Rebecca, because she had no clue how long the meeting would take.

Down in the potions room, Snape was waiting for her, even though she was 15 minutes early.

"Ah, I see that you are ready to go," he said as Rebecca took a seat front and center of the board and started to get out a quill, ink, and several pieces of parchment. "As I am sure you know, wolfsbane is also called monkshood or aconite, which is poisonous," Snape started and continued giving Rebecca more and more details about her task and its ingredients. She wrote fast and furiously to keep up. By the end of the meeting she had went through an entire bottle of ink.

'I'll have to get more at Hogsmeades. . Or maybe I could nick some tonight?' Rebecca thought as she started to pack up. She had to keep herself from laughing at the thought of stealing from the Slytherins.

"Miss Carter I want to show you're the proper way to cut the wolfsbane before we call it a night."

Rebecca shook her head and left her bag where it was to step up to the teacher's table. Snape demonstrated first and then handed the knife over for Rebecca to try. She timidly tried. Rebecca wasn't use to being under such a watchful eye of a teacher.

After the first cut, Snape said, "Very good, now why don't you go ahead and cut the rest then you will have that done for tomorrow night."

"Tomorrow?" Rebecca questioned as she made another cut.

"Yes, you do have time to attempt the potion then don't you?"

"Um," Rebecca thought furiously of what she already had scheduled as she continued to chop the ingredient up. "Around 8 again?"

"Yes, if that works best."

"That will work out best."

"Very well," Snape responded as Professor Sprout entered the room.

"Excuse me Professor," the plump woman started," but I wanted to talk to you about the herbs that you needed."

"Ah, yes, thank you for getting back with me so quickly," Snape said walking towards his colleague.

Rebecca let out a sigh to get herself to relax now that she wasn't under a watchful eye. Her mind was swimming with everything that she had learned that even. As the two teachers talked, Rebecca glanced at her watch. It was about a quarter til midnight.

'Two more hours to go,' Rebecca thought as she finished chopping the wolfsbane.

"Miss Carter, you are free to go," Snape said suddenly startling Rebecca. "Don't worry about cleaning it anything up."

"Y-yes, sir," Rebecca stuttered as she turned around.

She headed straight out of the room there was something about Snape telling her not to clean up that told her that it would be appreciated if she made a quick exit.

Rebecca walked into the common room to find it empty except Charlie who was dozing in one of the chairs close to the fire. She walked over and gave him a kiss to wake Charlie up.

"Hey," she quietly said when Charlie opened his eyes and looked at her. "I thought I said not to wait up for me?" "You did, but I wanted to make sure you go back okay," Charlie responded before he started to yawn.

"You know I could have left you sleeping down here and you would have never known if I got back or not," Rebecca testily said. She was tired and still had one more task to do before calling it a night. With that and being stressed out in general, Rebecca misinterpreted Charlie intention for staying up.

"Yeah, but you didn't," Charlie shot back. "Let's go to bed and you can tell me how your meeting with Snape went down at breakfast."

Charlie headed towards the stairs, but Rebecca remained where she was.

"Are you coming?" Charlie gruffly asked.

Rebecca coolly responded, "In a while."

"Fine, good night Becca."

"Good night, Charlie."

Rebecca sat down on the couch. Going to bed sounded wonderful, but she couldn't afford sleeping some place Anna and Colin couldn't get to her without wake several other people. Rebecca positioned herself so that her fellow pranksters could see that she was there if she fell asleep.

She did fall asleep and was awoken by Colin and Anna. Colin had placed his hand over her mouth so that if she screamed from being startled it would be muffled. Once she saw who it was, Rebecca immediately jumped up off the couch and the three headed out of the room.

As they walked out the door they started repeating over and over in their heads abeo in pulvis so that the Fat Lady didn't see who woke her up. Rebecca became visible for a moment as she stuck a loose stone behind the portrait to keep it slightly ajar so that when they came back they didn't have to give the password. The three Gryffindors cautiously proceeded with their journey so that they didn't make any noise or trip over each other.

Once down by the Slytherin entrance and sure the coast was clear, Rebecca knocked on the wall signaling that everyone could stop the repeating the spell. Colin and Anna automatically became visible with Rebecca. In a matter of moments, Lennon, Jenna, Kurt, Audrey, Kevin, and Adam joined them.

"Okay," Rebecca started, "I am going to give the password and then check to see if their common room is actually empty. If it is then I'll stop using the invisibility spell and we can all proceed in with the bottles. Then we will go into each to the dorm rooms and put the potion in as many ink bottles as we can find. I want us back out here a half an hour after we go in okay."

Everyone shook their heads in agreement.

"Pureblood," Rebecca whispered to the wall. As the wall started to open Rebecca became invisible as did the rest of her cohorts.

Rebecca walked in and looked around quickly no one was there so she stepped back outside and instantly became visible. Lennon walked over and got the box that held the potion from its hiding spot behind a suit of armor out in the hall and lead the rest of the group into the Slytherin's dwelling.

As they started passing out the vials, Harker said, "I found a spell that muffles sounds that I taught my housemates. . Watch."

Adam picked up a book and muttered something and dropped it. Rebecca was taken back partly because there was no thud and partly because she was ready for anyone else to talk, but Adam.

"That's great," she whispered.

Rebecca was going to ask him what he had muttered when Adam said, "I think it would be best if we split up into groups of two or three. The spell works for five minutes at a time so if two people could get in an out of a room fast enough not to have to worry about lapse in the spell."

"Sounds like a plan," Kevin stated as Colin nodded to show his approval.

Rebecca had to admit she like the idea of the spell and if she didn't have to learn it right now that was okay by her.

"Okay, Jenna and Kurt, Audrey and Kevin, Colin go with Lennon. Adam, you're with me and Anna. . Okay let's get going."

Rebecca turned slightly and jumped back because she thought someone was behind her. When she took another look she realized that there was a mirror in the room that she hadn't had time to notice before. Relieved that it was just her image that she saw she turned and lead the group up the steps.

Once up the steps each group positioned them selves to go into different doors. The Ravenclaws muttered the spell Harker had taught them with their wands pointed at their door and then opened the door. The groups then headed in and hunted for the ink bottles.

Each group worked as quickly as possible, but each had little mishaps in their first rooms. Kurt dropped a bottle of the potion, but luckily Jenna had managed to levitate it before it hit the ground and shattered.

Lennon and Colin ran into a bag that was jinxed causing Colin to sprout a goatee. Needless to say Lennon had to fight a fit of giggles as she performed the counter-jinx to it.

Kevin knocked over a bottle of ink that he was trying to put the smiley potion into, but between him and Audrey they managed to get the mess taken care of and still get more bottles of ink to have smiley faces in them.

Adam, Anna, and Rebecca probably had the best luck of all the groups, they didn't have any problems getting the potion into the ink bottles they found, but they were about to exit the first year boys' dorm when Harvey got up out of bed. The three upper classmen hide as fast as they could, hoping he didn't notice the open door to the stairs or see them. Harvey didn't, since he appeared to be sleep walking and was muttering something that was incoherent to the hiders, though the name Lauren came out as clear as a bell.

Rebecca was beginning to wonder how long the boy was going to walk around the room, when Harvey climbed back into bed and seemed to be sound asleep again. The three intruders rushed out of the room.

Out in the hall, they met up with the rest of their crew. They all then moved to the next set of doors, where they were much more efficient, since they worked out their nerves in the first rooms and had a better idea of where to look in the Slytherin rooms.

Personal revenge came out in the second set of rooms, because Colin was in the fifth year male room while Anna and Rebecca were in the seventh year male room.

Lennon found herself with her hands full with getting Colin out of the room with only putting the potion in the ink. The prankster was finding it hard to resist setting some pranks up for Dan and Ryan for what they did to his girl. Over with Anna and Rebecca they relished in the fact that they were getting most of Calloway's ink while Adam went around and hit a couple of bottles from each of the other Slytherins. After the group was done with that set of rooms they met back in the hall and went to the next set of rooms.

There were only two rooms left after that set so they combined their four little groups into two groups. Audrey, Kevin, Jenna, and Kurt formed one group and took the fifth year girls room where Audrey and Jenna savored the fact that they were going to cause Cassie's next dramatic tantrum.

Adam, Anna, Rebecca, Lennon, and Colin went into the sixth year girls' room, where they did the same to Kirsta as they did to Calloway.

When they were all back out in the stair way, Rebecca whispered, "Okay let's get out of here. I am going to make sure we didn't drop anything out here. I'll meet you all out in the hall."

"Okay see you there," Adam said as he and Kevin took the empty vials from her hands and ushered everyone else down the steps. Rebecca looked around quickly and found an eye dropper that probably just slipped out of someone's hand and with Adam's spell no one heard it.

She picked it up and headed down the steps looking for other things. Rebecca made it down the steps without seeing anything else and saw the last of her cohorts leaving the Slytherin common room with all the empty vials. She checked around to make sure nothing was left from the others and was about to head out with the eye dropper when she heard someone coming down the steps. She slipped out of view from the stairs and waited for them to go back to bed.

Rebecca was just standing there waiting when she heard, "Rebecca?"

Rebecca was shocked for a moment until she realized that the Mirror in the room had Russel's image in it.

'If I can see him that means that he can see me,' Rebecca thought as she forced herself to calmly gaze back at the image. She glance to her side to see that Russel was where he could see her if he turned his head in her direction.

"No, Rebecca don't leave, please," Russel pleaded as he took a step closer to mirror.

Rebecca looked back at the mirror and saw that Russel's reflection staring at her.

'He thinks that my image is the real me. Oh, how am I going to get out of this without him really thinking that I was here?' Rebecca thought as her mind frantically raced for a plan. She just couldn't walk out of the room. Yes, her image would disappear, but with the real Rebecca would walk right in front of Russel. The invisibility spell was no good to the eye dropper and leaving it there would end up more catastrophic than Russel catching her.

Rebecca looked behind her. She had a couple of feet and then there was the wall.

'If I walk at the right angle and say the spell at the write time he may not notice the dropper,' Rebecca thought as Russel once again beseeched her to stay.

"I just want to talk to you," Russel cried exasperated as Rebecca turned and walked towards the wall.

From the angle Russel was at it appeared that Rebecca was walking away from him. When she was about to hit the wall, she began the spell. To Russel it looked like she had walked right through the wall.

Rebecca turned around still thinking the spell to see Russel utter a quiet, "No," and walk directly into the mirror.

As he fell backwards to the floor, Rebecca almost started to laugh. How she managed to restrain herself and still keep enough concentration on the spell was beyond Rebecca. Sheer determination to stay invisible was the only answer.

Russel jumped back up and looked around the room bewildered.

"What am I doing down here?" he grumbled as he looked straight through Rebecca into the wall. "Must have been sleep-walking. But why did it feel that I was awake? I couldn't have been though. Rebecca wouldn't have been in this place at this hour."

Russel continued muttering as he trudged back up the stairs. Rebecca waited until she heard the door shut to stop the repeating the spell.

'Well, I'll be. He thinks that I was there because he was hallucinating,' Rebecca laughed to herself as she walked closer to the exit.

Looking behind her once more to see that they really hadn't disturbed things too much she walked out the door.

When Rebecca came out, Adam, Jenna, Kevin, Audrey, Colin, and Lennon appeared before her.

"What happened to you?" Adam asked.

"I almost got caught," Rebecca half-whispered half-laughed.

"What!" Everyone quietly gasped.

"Well I am glad you guys remembered to stay quiet," Rebecca commented as she embarked on the tale of Russel coming down stairs.

"Why aren't you in Ravenclaw?!" Kevin frustrate whispered.

"That's what I call thinking on your feet," commented Adam.

Rebecca stared at the dark haired boy and couldn't stop herself from saying, "When did you become Mr. Chatty?" Harker just shrugged his shoulder.

"What are we going to do with all this?" Jenna asked setting all the vials back into the box where Lennon had hid them.

"Lennon, when are your rounds tomorrow?" Rebecca asked placing the bottle she found in with the others.

"I have one scheduled for right before breakfast so I will have my bag with me to get them," the ravenclaw prefect responded as she placed the box back into its hidding spot

"Good. Okay everyone, thank you for participating and let's get to bed."

A round of good nights ensued and one by one everyone became invisible.

Rebecca, Colin, and Anna entered back into the Gryffindor common room a quarter til 3. If they thought that they would get up and get in bed before anyone noticed, the three would have collapsed on the couch and chairs they were so tired now. But they knew that they wouldn't get up in time, because the energy that they had while they completed their task diminished as they made their way back up to the common room. They slowly headed up to the dorms and climbed into their own beds.

Colin and Anna had put their clothes on top of their pajamas before they went out for the prank so they just had to take off their top layer and they were ready for bed.

Rebecca was a different matter. She hadn't the chance to do what the others did and when she snuck into her dorm she decided it was best to just stay in the clothes she was in so that she could fall right to sleep and also so she didn't wake up Sara or Jacquelyn trying to find her pajamas. Rebecca climbed into bed without even getting under the covers to sleep for a couple of hours.