Chapter 5. Amortentia?
Both Fred and George sat on the floor, a dazed look in their eyes as they slowly looked at her and said dreamily in unison. "Hi. Anna."
Anna slapped her own face trying to sober up a bit and stood up. She took her wand from her hair letting it down and conjured up the quick quotes quill with the floating notepad in front of her. There was no use in wasting this experiment; she might as well take notes for improving the formula. She slowly approached Fred first with her wand lit up evaluating his pupil dilation. She smiled and spoke softly. "Hi guys, how are you feeling?"
When she was kneeling down closer to his face he reached up and placed her hair softly behind her ear and stroke her cheek. "Great, now that you're here."
"We missed you so much this year Anna." George said from his place on the floor drunkenly.
"You would have loved tormenting Umbridge with us." Fred said hand still held out as she now moved towards George.
Anna was all business, she was keenly observing their skin changes, breathing etc. "Aw, that's so sweet you guys, I probably wouldn't have though, all the healer positions are ministry appointed..."
Fred suddenly interrupted her "Why didn't you ask one of us to the Yule ball?"
Anna stood up dazed.
"You didn't even know Ron then." George added.
"You've known us for seven years now." Fred said looking up at her.
"You really hurt our feelings." George whined.
"Pupils dilated, breathing increased, dial down the neediness." She dictated to her notepad then plopped back down on the floor between them. "Guys, I had a vision, it was your brother I needed to help, not you."
"Did a vision also tell you to fuck Sato?" Fred spat out bitterly.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, Fred you are out of line! Note to self, tone down jealousy." The quill happily wrote.
"Well did it?" Fred asked again.
Anna leaned in toward Fred menacingly "Yes, it did, happy?"
"No, not really." Fred said, defeated.
"You see, we were really excited when you asked out Ronnie." George told her softly.
"Cause we thought if you liked his type, we had a chance." Fred said calmly.
"But if the only reason you asked him out was a vision, we're back to square one." George said, still smiling dozily.
Anna looked up and exhaled dramatically, she looked down still slightly annoyed and blushed. "I-I I do have a weakness for gingers, I'll admit it."
Fred suddenly inhaled loudly.
"Funny enough I think it started my first day at Hogwarts, there was this super cute ginger Gryffindorf head boy who welcomed me, I was so nervous and scared I never got his name." Anna said smiling.
"Dammit Anna that was Bill." Fred said standing up angrily.
"He's our oldest brother." George said sweetly.
Anna laughed "Well damn, I may end up your sister in law yet."
"He's taken." Fred said, leaning on the table.
"He's dating Fleur Delacour." George said and giggled.
"Wow." Anna said, genuinely impressed.
"Why not us?" Fred said again, going down on his knees less than a foot in front of Anna.
"We loooove you." George said in a sing-song tone and giggled.
"Note to self, decrease intensity." The quill wrote down on the notepad. "Guys I like you a lot, but you're just full of yourselves…I like shy guys." She said leaning back a bit from Fred wand ready in hand.
"Give us a chance, luv." Fred said, stroking her cheek again softly.
"We'll grow on you." George added.
"Let us take you on a night on the town." Fred said reaching for her wandless hand and stroking it. "You won't regret it."
Anna was silently contemplating her options and thought it'd be good to see how much this thing affected their interactions in society. "Sure, I can eat. Give me 5 min to get ready and we'll head out."