After dinner that evening Anastasia was looking through her blue binder. She gasped when she saw some of the potions:

The liquid Imperious

Liquid Death

The Burn of the Fire

The Creator of life

The power of knowledge

The Icy cold of hell

The knowledge of power

Death to life

The potions looked so interesting she had to go try some of them. She walked down three hallways to her and Jake's lab. She walked in and saw Jake on the couch crying. She walked over to him and put her arms around him. Without even saying anything he started talking.

"Jen dumped me she cheated on me then dumped me."

"Jake look at me" She took a handkerchief from her pocket and wiped the tears from his cheeks. "I'm not going to sit here and tell you what a bimbo she was or how much she isn't worth crying over cuz in your mind she is the most beautiful thing and she is worth the world. I know it feels like she took a knife stabbed it into your heart twisted it and pulled it out. All I can tell you is that the wounds will heal in time. No matter how much you think she is the only one you will find some one else maybe sooner than you think. You will find someone who loves you just as much as you love them and would never dream of cheating on you. I also know the best remedy for the heart" Jake looked up.

"What?" Anastasia left for five minutes and came back with a chocolate cake. Jakes eyes lit up "Is that for me?"

"Not all of it I get to have at least a quarter of it"

"Thanks Annie" Anastasia looked at him. "What?"

"You have never called me Annie when ever n e one else called me Annie even when we were little you never called me Annie."

"I know its just seemed like Annie was a special name and it didn't feel right for me to call you that but now even if you hate me for calling you Annie I feel like I finally have a reason to call you Annie. Anastasia smiled.

"I don't mind its just your only one year older than I am and we were never close now it just feels like we've hung out all our lives.

(Pause)

That night was never spoken about or mentioned again. They worked side by side for the Couple of days. Any one who saw them would say they were a couple. But it was far from it. They were just good friends that had a same interest. The were working on the potions in the binder. Turns out each had a different binder Jakes binder held recipes for healing potions, while Anastasia was more concentrated on the Dark Arts. They would both help each other when they had a break from their potion. But some times they worked apart at separate lab tables separate ingredients just sitting there working. Jake would normally have his headphones on and Anastasia just preferred the silence.

This was one of those times. Anastasia was working on "The Icy cold of Hell" It turned your insides so cold it would kill you in an hour. She added the blood of a vampire and looked at the next direction. Let brew for 30 min.

The perfect time for a cig

She took her pack out from her book bag and went to go sit on the couch. They moved the couch farther away from the lab benches for 2 reasons:

1. Incase something went wrong they didn't want the potion to get on the person sitting on the couch.

2. Anastasias cigarette smoke affected some of the potions.

She pulled a cig out and lit it. She looked around the room. The two potions she was working on were on the right side of the room. The ingredients sat in the middle and jakes were on the left. She spent some time focusing on jakes side of the room he was working on three potions like one of hers it had to brew for a month another had to sit for a little over 2 weeks before being bottled for later use. She turned her focus to Jake. He was chopping up some mandrake roots and sliding them into his caldron. Suddenly the light filled with a silvery light. She threw her cigarette into the fire and walked over to him. He pulled his headphones off and said simply.

"Pensive" She nodded in acknowledgement and walked over to her own potion. It had 15 more minutes to brew. She looked at the next ingredient.

Vile of maker's blood.

"Jake…" He looked up. "Do you have a second?"

"Yeah sure why?"

"Can you come over here?" He walked over. He noticed she was a little pale. He looked down at the next ingredient. He took the binder walked through the door to Draco's classroom. He walked up to Draco even though he was teaching and said.

"Dude she's looking pretty pale how much blood?"

"Which potion?" He handed him the open binder. "Fill this vile" He handed him a vile two inches but an inch.

"She's not gonna be happy."

"She doesn't have a choice."

"I know" Jake walked out of the classroom and into the Lab. He walked over to Anastasia sat her down on the couch. Told her to lie down. Went over to his lab bench got a clean knife and went back over to her. He nicked her wrist and let the blood flow he told her to close her eyes and not watch. When he finished filling up the vile he sealed the wound with his want and kissed where he had cut. He then summoned a house elf to bring her some hot chocolate. He added the blood to the potion the next direction was to let brew for an hour. He walked back over to her.

"Are you going to be ok?"

"Yes thank you fro doing that I don't know if I could have."

"Its ok hey I got to get back to my potion. You have to let yours brew for an hour I set the timer so any homework you want to get done… go ahead. Well be here all night its Friday." She grabbed her "All u need to know about herbs" (one of her herbology books) and started working on a 2 foot essay for professor Sprout. An hour later she added a cup of flobberworms and three drops of snakes venom. She glanced up momentarily to see how Jake was doing. She looked at his glossy golden hair and the way he swayed to the music when she felt immense pain in her left arm. She looked at it and screamed. She had spilled cobra/rattler venom on her arm. Jake ran over to her. He picked her up and ran through professor's class room (just so the class could see his heroics no not rele) and up to the hospital wing. Madam Pomfry saw her and rushed to her side. In an instant she had the antidote on her arm. Jake looked at her. By the way Anastasia was squeezing his hand he knew it must have hurt. Madam Pomfry put a salve on it and bandaged her arm. She was told to come back every day to get the bandages reapplied. Jake and Anastasia walked back down to The Lab and went to their potions after both reaching a point they could stop at for the night. After that they went to dinner and headed down to the Professors' quarters to tell them what happened. That night Draco Installed an emergency button in their lab so Madam Pomfry was alerted and could take the secret passages to get to their lab faster

That night Jake insisted on walking Anastasia down to her common room.

"Thanks for getting me to Madam Pomfry as fast as you did."

"No problem"

"I mean if you didn't who would have known what would have happened and…" Jake put a finger to her lips. He gave her a hug and kissed her on the forehead.

"Don't even think about it."