Voldemort and the common cold

Chapter Three

It has been another sunny day, and today was the day that supposedly was the day the potion would be done.

"Wormtail, hand me those rat tails, would you?" asked Bellatrix.

Wormtail and Bellatrix were in the lounge again. They were making the potion.

"Ekk… I'm just glad that's not my tail, you know," said Wormtail, giving Bellatrix a jar full of tails. Bellatrix took one out and cut it while Wormtail started to get sick. Sure, it wasn't his tail, but it was still kind of gross to him.

Bellatrix rolled her eyes, "Wormtail, you're human, get over it."

However, Wormtail couldn't take it much longer, so he went to the bathroom and… Well, you know. Bellatrix just rolled her eyes again and kept stirring the potion. After several minutes, Wormtail came back, feeling better.

"Hand me that root by the very top shelf," said Bella.

Wormtail got a stool and grabbed the jar of this strange type of root. He gave it to Bellatrix.

"Good, what does the book say again?" asked Bellatrix.

"We should let it heat for another five hours," Wormtail responded.

"Okay."

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Five hours later, Bella went to the lounge to check on the potion. She yawned and observed it. It had a black color and smoke was only steaming from the middle of the culdron… That wasn't right…

Wormtail came in with a sandwich and went to check on the potion too. As soon as he saw the strange, odd liquid, he dropped his sandwich which fell on the floor. Both Bella and Wormtail were shocked, appalled, and confused. What went wrong with the potion? Why was it steaming white smoke from only the middle?

"It's not supposed to be black!!" moaned Bellatrix.

"The Dark Lord is going to kill us," muttered Wormtail.

"What should we do??" said Bellatrix, now in panic, "You-know-who is will go insane if he finds out what we did!'

Wormtail sighed, "What can we do?"

"Well… Uh… Um… I don't know!!" panicked Bella.

"What's going on?" said a cold, dark voice. The Death Eaters looked at the entrance, and they saw the Dark Lord.

"Uh… Uh…" panicked Bella. She pointed at the potion, then at the wall, then she made a gesture with her hand that looked like she was about to choke. Afterwards she fainted on the floor.

Wormtail looked at Bella, then at the Dark Lord, then at Bella again, then at the Dark Lord again.

"Well? What the merlin is going on?" said Voldemort. He started coughing a bit.

"OH!! Well, um, sir, you should stay in bed," said Wormtail as he grabbed Voldemort's arm and went to the Dark Lord's room, "The potion will be done, it just needs a few more minutes. I suppose it's not exactly an hour yet."

Voldemort went to his bed again and Wormtail covered him with warm blankets.

"Wormtail, is there something wrong with the potion?" asked Voldemort.

"Uh, no… Nothing's wrong, honestly," said Wormtail.

"You're lying," said Voldemort, angrily.

"… Okay, there is something wrong," sighed Wormtail.

"I suppose you two didn't know what you were doing?"

"We followed the recipe in this book…"

"Oh! I'm sure you followed it right," said Voldemort sarcastically.

"Then five hours later it turned black."

"Black? Oh, my favorite potion *cough* color. What was it suppose to be?"

"A white sort of pink or peachy kind of color."

"That's sickening…"

"Uh, yeah, and, uh, I don't know what went wrong. We did everything correctly," said Wormtail.

Voldemort thought for a minute, "Can I see the book?"

"All right," said Wormtail. He walked out of the room, got the book from the lounge, and went back in Voldemort's room, five minutes later. Bellatrix woke up and came in too.

Voldemort looked at the page and looked at every single detail, "Ahh… I remember making this potion in school, very easy…" He closed the book. "Tell me how on earth you managed to ruin it."

Bellatrix and Wormtail looked at each other and looked at Voldemort again. "We're not sure sir," said Bellatrix.

"Oh well. I guess you two have to drink the potion then," said Voldemort.

"WHAT?!?" Bellatrix and Wormtail said in unision.

"Do you expect me to drink it? Besides, I wonder what it does," said Voldemort with an evil grin.

Bellatrix and Wormtail looked at each other.

"You go first," whispered Bella.

"What?!? No! I'm not going to drink that! The smoke was acting weird… We might die!" whispered Wormtail.

"Ahem!" shouted Voldemort.

"Oh… Right… Yeah…" muttered Bellatrix.

The two Death Eaters slowly walked out of the room. What would happen to them? They did not know…

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Veld, the author: Don't worry, I'll write more. :P Just let my hands type.