Double Double Toil and Trouble

By Zeta - otherwise known as Amanda Halliwell

Chapter - I lost track of the Chapter number -

I was her she was me
We were one we were free

Sirius was watching the sun go down over the hills as his thoughts wandered back to Prue. She'd been in the coma for three weeks now. On Monday she had been moved to St Mungo's where they were looking for a cure for the Potion that had struck her down. The doctors were saying it was the Draught of Peace.


And if there's somebody calling me on
She's the one
If there's somebody calling me on
She's the one

He frowned; then again, he knew Prue would most definitely wake up and see him. She had too! There was no way she couldn't. Sirius cast his mind back to what Snape had been planning to do with her. He had been going to rape her with the use of the Imperius Curse. It would make her do whatever he wanted. Anger bubbled up inside him. Then there was the issue of what he himself had done to the girl.


We were young we were wrong
We were fine all along
If there's somebody calling me on
She's the one
When you get to where you wanna go
And you know the things you wanna know
You're smiling

Prue's smiling face was for sure what he wanted to see now above everything else. Just to have her awake again so he could tell her how much he loved her. How much he wanted to be with her and take her to the upcoming school dance. Just to take him out of these horrifying thoughts.


When you said what you wanna say
And you know the way you wanna play
You'll be so high you'll be flying

Though the sea will be strong
I know we'll carry on
Cos if there's somebody calling me on
She's the one
If there's somebody calling me on
She's the one

Sirius moved quietly to look out of the window at the darkened sky. There was hope that she'd finally get cured of that Potion as soon as they'd found the cure and how much she had taken. The only way to do that would be to discover who had done this to Prue would eventually lead them to the cure. Hopefully they could find out how much of it she had taken and how much of the antidote she would need. It was all very worrying, and even Dumbledore wasn't frequently at the High Table during meal times.


When you get to where you wanna go
And you know the things you wanna know
You're smiling

When you said what you wanna say
And you know the way you wanna say it
You'll be so high you'll be flying

Sirius wished he was with Prue at St Mungo's but Dumbledore had told him he had to remain at Hogwarts. Dumbledore said he, James and the others could visit her at Christmas holidays if she hadn't woken up by then.


I was her she was me
We were one we were free
If there's somebody calling me on
She's the one
If there's somebody calling me on
She's the one

If there's somebody calling me on
She's the one
Yeah she's the one


Sirius most definitely couldn't wait for the day Prue would wake up and speak to him. Even if she shouted continuously at him, it would still be worth it to see her awake for the first time in weeks.


If there's somebody calling me on
She's the one
She's the one

If there's somebody calling me on
She's the one

Sirius decided then that it was time to go to sleep. He was exhausted and he had a full day of lessons tomorrow. He knew Lily was trying her hardest to find the culprit and with that girls determination she most probably would.

The next morning Lily was walking down the corridor looking over the notes she'd taken on the behaviours of the Slytherin's. Kyra was quite often feeding her information on who was doing what with whom, and what the conversations were in the common room. So far Lily had no leads on who had poisoned Prue let alone anything that was even remotely useful. A thought then occurred to her. What if it wasn't a Slytherin that had done it? What if she had been spying on the completely wrong group of students?

"Evans!" Lily heard a voice shout from behind her. She whirled around and spotted James, much to her displeasure.

"Hey Potter," Lily replied turning back to her notes.

"Haven't found who poisoned Prue yet?" James asked walking up beside her.

"No I haven't," Lily said sighing, "Parisa's not helping much either. She keeps losing her notes."

"Ah, well, Parisa was always a klutz," James said reminiscing, "but most I remember was she was all over Sirius."

"Glad you had Qudditch Practice then?" Lily asked suddenly spotting Parisa talking with Narcissa Black.

"Lily! Over here!" Parisa called spotting Lily with James.

"I'll be right back," Lily said to James and then jogged up to greet the girls.

Lily met the two and began to walk off with them down to the dungeons. Parisa was smiling casually and constantly playing with her Quill for some reason. Narcissa looked decisively blank as she always did. Then again, Black was most definitely a blonde bimbo, one who had never had too much between the ears. They rounded another corner - one Lily had never been down before and spotted several other Slytherin's. Narcissa smirked then walked straight up to them. Confused Lily looked at Parisa who was smiling evilly.

"Parisa what's going on?" Lily asked suddenly afraid as the Slytherin's advanced.

"You've been snooping around in our business," Bellatrix snarled, "now you're gonna pay."

"Expelliamus!" Parisa cried out disarming Lily.

"Accio Notes!" Narcissa yelled.

All the notes Lily had collected flew over to Narcissa's waiting arms. All Lily's hard work gone in an instant, incinerated by the Slytherin's as they howled with laughter. Lily looked helplessly as spells started flying. One curse even hit her in the stomach and made her fly backwards across the room. She felt herself being helped up by James and the rest of the Marauder's as curses and jinxes began flying around the room. Lily furious for being led into this trap, fought back with several curses and jinxes as well.

"Oh you shouldn't have messed with us Evans!" Bellatrix roared cornering her as James and the others were busy with the other Slytherin's.

"Evans!" James roared and was cut off by Snape and two others and driven back into the battle.

Lily raised her wand and fired, "Impetimia!" she cried.

Bellatrix was blown backwards and into a group of Slytherin's. She quickly brushed herself off before she knew it another two of them were on her, firing jinxes left right and centre.

"Perfecto Totallus!" Lily cried pointing her wand at the advancing Bellatrix.

Then the group all heard footsteps coming this way and automatically froze. There in front of them stood Prue Dumbledore who looked shocked at the sight that was before her.

"Dumbledore!" The Marauder's chorused happily.

"Completely cured!" Prue exclaimed happily, "What's going on?" she asked, surveying the frozen battle scene before her.

Prue looked confused. The scene before her was nothing like she imagined going down to the Slytherin common room and seeing. Her friends and Lily looked like they were completely outnumbered by the Slytherin's. For some reason they had been group duelling and it looked like the Marauder's were losing. After all they were outnumbered.

"Evans was spying on us," Bellatrix snarled, "collecting evidence to catch whoever poisoned you. We decided to take matters into our own hands. They aren't going to get away with this."

"Poisoned? Yeah I got given the Draught of Peace," Prue said suddenly, "I know who did it too."

There was a stunned silence in the Slytherin corridor. All eyes were on Prue.

"Who?" Bellatrix snarled.

"Remember that day when we were all making the Draught of Peace in Potions?" Prue asked the Slytherin's as she stepped into the middle of the crowd.

"What day in Potions?" Sirius asked confused, "James and I weren't there."

"You're right, you weren't," Prue said calmly, "but Snape and Narcissa were. Narcissa saw Snape saving some Potion for later. Probably wanted to keep it safe. Narcissa took that to her advantage and asked if she could have some of the potion. Snape easily complied, after all, what could Narcissa do with a Potion? It wasn't like she was going to poison anybody. Snape was half right in that respect. But then Narcissa gave the Potion to Parisa, who knew exactly what the Potion could be used for. She coated the muffins that she'd got from her parents with the Draught of Peace and gave them to Sirius to give to me. Fortunately, I didn't realise the dangers of what had happened. Afterwards while I was asleep, the Potion must have had a weird effect on me because the whole conspiracy I managed to somehow dream - I saw every little detail of what was happening at Hogwarts. I must say Parisa that was an excellent plan you had. I'm sorry to say it didn't work."

All attention was now focused on Parisa. Lily's too, for she had believed Parisa's innocence right from the start. She couldn't believe a Gryffindor could have done this awful deed. The Slytherin's all looked stunned too with this outburst and most of them turned towards both Snape and Narcissa. Snape looked as though he had been slapped in the face. He had never intended to harm Prue; moreover it was his fault the girl had landed in the hospital in the first place.

"Parisa," Sirius said darkly, "you wanted Prue out of the way so you could go out with me without interference!"

"Yeah! What's your excuse Parisa?" James demanded, "That's no way to treat anybody! No Gryffindor should stoop that low!"

"Originally I hadn't planned to," Parisa said honestly, "But I was getting seriously annoyed with you drooling over her. Bloody hell Sirius, you were only with me so you could make the girl jealous! Why didn't you tell me I was just fun aye? But no. You had to hurt my feelings didn't you?" Parisa was almost screaming now, "AND YOU THOUGHT YOU COULD GET AWAY WITH IT! WITH PRUE OUT OF THE WAY I THOUGHT I COULD HAVE YOU!"

"You were wrong," Sirius replied, shaking his head and taking a couple of steps away looking horrified.

"AND YOU DIDN'T CARE EVEN AFTER PRUE WAS GONE! YOU NEVER DID!" Parisa shouted advancing, eyes glazed over a tad, "you didn't care."

Much to Sirius's discomfort she began to cry, "You didn't care."

"I'm sorry," Sirius said quietly, "I never meant to hurt your feelings."

"Nor do any of us," Professor Dumbledore said coming up into the corridor, "And I'm afraid that you'll have to come to my office Parisa. We'll discuss your punishment in there. As for the events that just took place, I'm going to have to take fifty points from both Gryffindor and Slytherin."

Parisa nodded numbly and was lead away by the Headmaster. Both groups of students hung their heads, both of them had lost points and were feeling just as guilty as the rest. Time was never as slow as it had been. Sirius looked over at Prue as all the Slytherin's and other students left the corridor where the fight had taken place.

"I'm sorry Prue," Sirius said placing his hand on her shoulder, "I should have known."

"Nobody could have known," Prue replied quietly, "It wasn't something anyone would see coming."

"I'm glad you're okay," Sirius murmured, "There's a dance coming up…"

"The Christmas dance? I'd love to go with you, I heard about it from my grandfather," Prue said softly, "I'll definitely be there."

"Excellent, don't get poisoned either!" Sirius called gleefully as Prue walked off down the corridor to the Slytherin common room.

"I won't!" Prue laughed waving back at him.

Things were going right, at last. Everything was as it should be.

AUTHOR'S NOTES: Right this is going to be the second to last chapter. I'm going to end this fic on the Christmas dance, because really, how romantic is a Christmas dance? Nothing I write after it is going to make quite as much of an impact as this night.