Ok, here is number 3, go me! Anyway, enjoy.

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter, Jessa, and I only own half of Xander. And I don't own the one set of lines in this story because they belong to Monty Python and The Holy Grail.

The first few days went slowly, the group only talking when need be and Jessa, Xander, and Rhymes fighting over something or another almost daily. Harry was getting clearly sick of the situation.

"You know what," he said two weeks into the potions beginning.

"What?" they asked together.

"I'm moving out and I'm taking one of you with me, and it's not going to be Xander or Jessa because I don't know them well enough," he said simply. "So you three figure it out between yourselves."

Hermione, Ron, and Rhymes looked at each other.

"Odds and evens to see who plays rocks, paper, scissors?" Rhymes asked. The other two nodded. They stood next to each other and Rhymes and Ron ended up winning. Hermione sat back in a corner moping while the others played. Rhymes won. She looked up at Harry, both their eyes wide.

"Um, ok, well I found another shelter a little bit away from here, so uh, let's go," he said. They left and the first thing Ron did was go 'ohhhhhhhhh'.

"What?" Jessa said.

"Haven't you noticed?" Hermione said.

"Noticed what?"

"Clearly you're not as observant as we thought," Hermione said smirking. She was still a little ticked about the potion thing. Jessa glared. "Well," Hermione continued, "Rhymes has had a bit of a thing for Harry for a while and well, this should be interesting." Jessa nodded.

Rhymes and Harry walked along a path that Harry had made in silence. They glanced sideways every few seconds like they wanted to make sure the other was still there.

"Um, how do you think until the potions done?" Harry asked.

"Well the full moon's in another week, so about a week in a half," Rhymes replied. Harry nodded soundlessly. "Wow, this is awkward."

"Yea, why is that?"

"Probably because we're going to be living with each other for like a week and there are no adults to tell us what to do."

"You have a point. Hey, here it is," he said. There was a small little alcove that looked just like the other one; only this one was under a thick bunch of trees. "It'll keep us dry when it rains."

"Yea, convenient."

They went in and Rhymes promptly lay her stuff on the opposite side of the shelter and fell asleep. Harry shook his head and went outside to read some from a book he had borrowed from Hermione.

As the last week and a half wore on Harry and Rhymes had better conversations, though they avoided talking about Sirius and Dumbledore, which were very touchy subjects. They definitely had a change in their relationship. They both started to like each other more and get a lot closer. Ron and Hemione noticed this change also.

"So, Harry," Hermione began one day when he and Rhymes were checking on the serum one day. "How have you and Rhymes been?"

"Uh…well…you know…good," he stammered, turning crimson. Hemione smirked.

"Harry, you know it's ok to like Rhymes. She's a good girl."

"I know that!" Harry said bitterly. He didn't like that fact that he was falling for Rhymes, it didn't seem fair to Ginny.

"I sometimes doubt that you do."

Harry glared at her and went to talk to Ron. As he walked over he decided against that, Ron had that same smart-ass look on his face as Hermione. So he walked over to see how Jessa was doing on the Vertiserum.

"So is it ready?" he asked.

"Tomorrow it will be," Jessa answered. "But I think he's telling the truth, I mean, he's been here for month, perfectly able to kill us all in our sleep and he hasn't."

"Yea, but then the time has been wasted if we just believed him."

"I know, that's why I'm still making him take it."

Rhymes came over then and she and Harry left.

"Those two are definitely into each other," Ron said coming over to talk to Hermione.

"I agree, but I think he thinks Ginny will hate him if he is with her." Ron looked over at Hermione and cocked his head to one side. He knew that Harry had liked Ginny a lot that would be the only reason he would just randomly kiss her in front of a bunch of people at a party. But he couldn't see why, since they were broken up and Rhymes was a great girl.

The next day when the potion was ready Ron fetched Harry and Rhymes and they came for the interrogation.

"Do you want to question him?" Hermione asked them as they came in. Jessa looked a bit insulted, but all had to agree that she didn't look as intimidating as Rhymes. Rhymes looked like she would kick your ass in a minute.

"Ok, well let's start," Harry said. He handed the potion to Rhymes and she made Xander drink it straight. He gave off a bit of a disgusted look, but he drank it.

"Well, what is your name?" Rhymes asked.

"Xander Xavier Lupin."

"Xander Xavier? HAHA!" Ron laughed, finding the name quite amusing. Everyone laughed a bit at Ron's reaction. Xander scowled.

"What is your quest?" she asked.

"To protect Jessa Sullivan," he answered, still a little pissed.

"What…is you're favorite color?" she continued. Everyone looked a little puzzled. Then Jessa got it and actually laughed at what Rhymes said.

"Um…" then Xander thought, I'm going to try to lie. "R…Re…R…Royal blue!" He sighed, he couldn't lie.

"Well, who sent you?" Harry asked as Rhymes collapsed into a fit of laughter over the fact that only one person got the joke.

"My uncle Remus Lupin."

"Did you plan on hurting any of us or biting us?" he continued.

"Jessa in fact, she was a bitch when we first met."

Jessa looked highly affronted and got up to hit Xander again but Rhymes held her back. Then they started yelling at each other.

"Girls! Shut up!" Harry yelled. Both of them silenced themselves. After a few more questions they stopped and had another pow-wow. Xander began having one of his wolf-spoken talks in his head again. 'I must have really insulted Jessa, but that was pretty much insubordination, her yelling at the alpha-female. And what is going one between the to alphas? When they find that I'm telling the truth I will be the alpha-male and if I must I will be with the overly obnoxious Rhymes, but I hope that she will keep with the Potter boy. However, she seems to like the man in power.'

They came back over then and looked at Xander warily.

"We've decided that we believe you and we trust you," Harry said. Xander nodded and looked at Jessa, she was smiling.

Here I am, I have finished this chapter and it is complete!

Rhymes

Last lyric I heard:

Here I am once again

I'm torn into pieces

Can't deny it can't pretend

Just thought you were the one

Broken up deep inside

But you won't get to see the tears I cried

Behind these hazel eyes

-'Behind These Hazel Eyes' Kelly Clarkson