Ok, here is chapter 2 and it's a bit shorter then chapter 1. Anyway I hope yins all like it.

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or Jessa and I only own half of Xander, the top half.

Enjoy

Rhymes came out of the shelter around 6 in the evening and found Xander sleeping in the fetal position on the forest floor.

"Xander! Hey you big poodle wake up!" Rhymes called. Xander's eyes flew open in anger and he stood up, fists clenched and growled.

"Don't call me a poodle," he snarled.

"Oh please, you're a big puppy, stop acting like stupid pit bull," she replied, not frightened by his bared teeth. He growled but stood down. He didn't want to get in a fight with the alpha-female; she would probably kick his ass. Jessa came out of the hut then and glared at Xander.

"Are we leaving?" she asked, dressed in a black cloak. Rhymes nodded and began walking toward the town.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione sat in the shelter, hot and sweating. Ron wiped his forhead with his sleeve and sighed.

"How long does it take to make Veritaserum?" Ron asked.

"Around a month," she answered, reading one of the many books she had brought with her.

"A MONTH! We have to sit in this God forsaken hellhole for a month!" Ron cried.

"Yes, if we want to know the truth about this so called nephew of Prof. Lupin, then we have to sit in this hellhole for a month."

Ron scowled and muttered incoherently again.

"Ron, stop that, you sound like you should be committed," Harry said, looking silently out the door to where the three were walking away. He could see Rhymes's and her two secret pistols sticking out the back of her black jeans.

"Harry, if you like her it's ok. Ginny will understand, remember, you guys talked about 'meeting someone else' at the wedding," Hermione said understanding. Ron stared at Harry.

"You like Rhymes? Are you CRAZY! SHE'S A PYSCHOPATHIC MANIAC!" Ron cried.

"You've always liked her, you guys are really good friends remember?" Harry said.

"Yea, but I've never wanted to date her! And I never said she wasn't a psychopathic maniac because she is one."

"Would you two lighten up on her? There's a lot that you don't know," Hermione said. Harry gazed at her.

"How do you know?" he asked. She gave him a look that said 'girls talk' and kept reading her book. He sighed and sat down next to Ron.

Rhymes, Jessa, and Xander walked into the apothecary and stared at the ingredients.

"Ok, let me handle this," Jessa said. And she worked like lightening getting all the ingredients together. Then Rhymes took over.

"Ok, all of this together is 14 galleons and 8 sickles," the witch behind the counter said smiling. She looked nervous, like this was her first day and Rhymes took advantage of that.

"It costs that much? Wow, and I thought that we were getting a deal. I mean, look at some of this stuff this dragon's blood looks a little too pink, not in tip top shape to me," she said. The witch looked a little more nervous then before.

"Um, I can drop the price a bit if you think the merchandise isn't up to mark," she said.

"I think that would be right."

"Well, ok, how about 10 galleons?" she said, smiling again.

"That sounds perfect. Cough up guys I ain't got 10 galleons," she said. Jessa and Xander handed over a few galleons each and they paid. As they walked back to the shelter Xander looked in between the two girls, as if deciding which one he would like to date more. He settled on Jessa, mostly because she was much prettier then Rhymes. Rhymes's only real plus was her hair while Jessa had beautiful hair and eyes and body. He felt that if he had to choose a female one day he would choose Jessa, not for her personality, which he loathed, but for her beauty. They arrived back at the hut and almost threw the ingredients into Hermione's face. As she bent down to get her book she rattled on about making the serum and what to do when it was done and such. Jessa was getting annoyed waiting for her to find her book, so she grabbed the stuff and lit a fire under the cauldron.

"Let me handle this, I know how to make Veritaserum off by heart," she said snappishly. Hermione looked shocked, angry, and envious all at once. Jessa took a deep breath and began working, she had always have a thing with potions, she could do pretty much anything with a potion and she could make any potion and not need a book. Snape hadn't trained her, but by an American potions master named Thyrn H. Mal. He had taught her to train her mind and to memorize every potion that he knew, which was pretty much all of them. She sat at the cauldron and began adding ingredients and stirring.

"Hmph, she could've helped, she didn't need to be so rude," Hermione muttered.

"O come on Hermione, you're jealous and you know it," Ron said. Hermione glared and Harry rolled his eyes. Jessa continued working on the potion and Rhymes asked Xander to play cards.

Harry sat back and stared at everyone. 'Wow' he thought 'I hope it stays like this, us all semi-getting along and no one dies'. Then he realized how close a possibility the latter was.

"How're long are we going to be here?" Rhymes asked.

"About a month," Jessa replied.

"Great," she and Xander muttered. Jessa glared.

Ok, well there it was. R&R please.

Rhymes

Last lyric I heard:

My weakness is I care too much

And these scars remind me that the past is real

I tear my heart open just to feel

-'Scars' Papa Roach