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"Each pair will go into the room labelled with the name of their potion, in there they will find all the books they need to write the background for their potions. Move."

The whole class stood and moved through the door in that had just appeared in their potions room. There was a lot of jostling and shouting, mostly between Ron and Harry. The red head had his arm threaded through Hermione's and was holding her tight to him although why was a complete mystery to Drey as Hermione was her partner, she'd have to spend at least a bit of time with her today.

It took at least three more ear-shattering shouts from Snape before everyone finally managed to find their assigned partner and get into the appropriate room. With a heavy sigh, and a prayer to any gods listening that they wouldn't destroy the rare books he'd spent hours finding for them, although he'd never admit it. He sealed the doors and wandered off to fail some first year Hufflepuff homework.

Vince and Greg's room

"Telepathic communication spell. This could be interesting."

The two bulky Slytherins were sitting at the round oak table that took up most of their small chamber. 15 large tomes spread out around them, the yellowing pages had been carefully separated from where they had clung together after years of not being opened, and the air was filled with dust motes that danced in the small beams of light from the flickering torches.

Vince was leaning over the table, looking at a book directly in front of Greg, and Greg was looking at the massive scroll in front of Vince. The world outside of Slytherin house would never know these people. Instead of big thugs, Draco Malfoy's lackeys, these were the two boys who helped First Year's with their homework but not before making sure they would never tell anyone. They had to keep up their reputation as dim-witted bruisers; it was one of Draco's first lines of defence. Everyone hated Slytherins, and very often they started plotting against them, but everyone thought that these two were so stupid that they never believed they could be eavesdropping and reporting everything back to Draco who took care of it.

"So what should we leave out this time."

That was something else they had to do to keep up the pretence, they always left things out of their assignments to keep their marks as low as they could be while still passing.

"Nothing."

"What? But Greg we need…"

"No. We needed to keep doing that before, but now that Drey's here and we're back at full strength, I don't think we need to. And what better class to start in."

"Good point."

That was it really, these two were like the twins, they knew each other so well that there was no need to talk. They moved across the table, one with one book one with another, Vince wrote half a sentence on a piece of parchment, and then Greg took it away from him and finished it. If one wanted something they couldn't reach, the other passed it to them before they could ask. They worked in that way for a couple of hours. They had been given the whole day for this stage of their project, food magically appeared at lunchtime, and they conjured anything else they wanted with a spell they'd been using since they were eight.

"We really should start working again you know."

"Yep."

"That means we have to move."

"Yep."

"Move. As is go from one place to another."

"Yep."

And with that Greg promptly leant his head on the other boys shoulder and closed his eyes. Vince continued talking for a few seconds before realising that his friend was fast asleep. Deciding t wasn't such a bad idea he leant his head on the silky black hair and joined Greg in Morpheus's Kingdom.

It was probably about half an hour later that Vince woke up, heart beating fast from being woken by one of those disconcerting dreams where you think you're falling and then you wake up. He hated those dreams. He started when he heard a sort of snuffly snort, and a head pressed deeper into the crook of his neck, and his efforts at moving were stopped by the arm that flung itself across his chest.

Vince couldn't see the other boys face, but he could hear him mumbling in his sleep. The other Slytherin had always done that. It had always driven Drey to distraction whenever the stayed at the Manor. At the moment he wasn't saying anything concrete, just mumbling slurred vowel sounds under his breath and moving around a lot. It was when he said something in a slightly louder voice that Vince froze. It was just five letters, V-I-N-C-E; he'd probably said that name a million times before, if not more than that. But it was the voice he said it in, the voice that had previously only belonged in Vince's dreams. Low, husky, and passionate.

He couldn't move. He'd always known that he'd loved his best friend; it had really hit him when Drey had been taken from them. Tears had rolled freely down his best friends face, and he would have given anything not to see tears on his other half's face again. Because that's what they were two halves, what one didn't know, the other did. Vince didn't realise how deeply he'd been buried in his thoughts before he was dragged out of them by the feeling of hot breath rushing over his pulse point, followed by a split second contact between Greg's lips and his throat. Unfortunately he wasn't able to revel in the feeling since the loud expulsion of air from his mouth that marked his shock had woken the other boy who was now staring up at him with a flushed face and wide eyes.

"Oh shit."

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