Chapter 27 – Blue meets blue

Sora sat impatiently while Madame Pomphry cast spell after spell. Riku was watching him in amusement from the side.

"Well Mr Hikari, you seem to be fine. I'll get you a strengthening potion, and then you'll be free to go. Take the rest of today off, but it's straight back to classes tomorrow." She shook her finger at the brunette in reprimand. "The next time you end up in here I won't be so nice."

Sora gave a sheepish grin. "Noted. I never meant to end up in here in the first place."

Nodding, she handed over the potion and watched Sora drink it down before she turned and left.

"Shall we get you out of here again?" Riku teased lightly.

Sora nodded with a smile. "Sure." Hopping out of bed, he located his clothes on the spare chair and changed out of his pyjamas. "Ready when you are."

Riku nodded and together they left the Hospital Wing. As Riku escorted Sora to the Gryffindor Tower, he filled his friend in on everything he'd missed.

"….and Rose has been getting on my case about when you'll wake up. Watch out, she'll probably harass you about the assignment the moment she sees you, only just woken up or not."

Sora cringed. "Oh yeah, I forgot about that."

They made it to the portrait of the Fat Lady, who glared at Riku but held her tongue. "Oh, and there's something else you should know before you see him."

Sora spoke the password and stepped through the portal. "What's that?"

"It's about Roxas…"

Sora stepped out and into the red surroundings. "What about him? Is he okay?"

Riku followed him. "Roxas is fine. He's more than fine actually. It's just he's… come back."

Sora blinked in confusion. "I don't follow."

The older teen sighed and led his friend to the red couches to sit down. "Three days ago when the darkness spiked, you and Roxas were torn apart. He's now free with his own body and heart and everything."

"Really?!" Sora replied excitedly "Yay! I have a twin again! Only this time I get to get to know him!" Bouncing around excitedly, Sora almost jumped into the fire. "Ow."

"Careful. Yeah, Roxas is back. I haven't seen him much the last couple of days. He's been hanging with Axel and Demyx mostly."

"That's cool. He's in Gryffindor, right?"

"Yes."

"So I'll see him tonight." Sora smiled brightly.

Riku just shook his head. "You are so optimistic it's kind of scary."

The brunette just laughed. "Don't you have class Ri?"

"Did you forget I ditched when you crashed my potions class?"

"Oh yeah…. Sorry about that. I just woke up with this really bad feeling that something had happened to you and that you had disappeared again."

"I gathered." The older teen smirked a bit and pulled the shorter one into a hug. "Sor, I don't plan on going anywhere anytime soon without you. If I have to go anywhere, it'll be with you, or with your consent."

Sora smiled and snuggled into Riku's chest. "I love you Riku."

Riku, shocked, froze and didn't know what to say other than "I love you too."

"Ugh, get a room you homo's."

Jumping, both teens drew back and whirled around, only to find Fred Weasley standing at the bottom of the stairs looking a little green through his dark bronze complexion.

"Fred! You scared us," Sora said in a rush as he waited for his heart to settle down. "What are you doing here?"

"Free period. Shouldn't you two be making out about now?"

"We would be, but you interrupted us," Riku growled angrily.

"Oh, my bad. That was just so gay though. Really, who tells someone that they love them these days?"

"But I do love Riku," Sora began. "He's my best friend, and my mum always says if you love someone you shouldn't be afraid to tell them how you feel."

Riku's heart dropped and Fred cringed in sympathy. "Ooh, ouch mate. That's gotta hurt."

Sora blinked in confusion. "Um…"

Riku sighed. "It's okay Sora. I'll tell you when you're older." He ruffled the brunette spikes affectionately. He'd certainly set himself up well for that one.

Sora blinked in confusion again before he pouted. "Riku, you always say that. Can't you just tell me?"

"No, because you're not old enough."

"But I'm older than I was!"

"But you're still not as old as me."

"But I'll never be as old as you!"

"That's the point."

Sora pouted. "Not fair."

Fred snorted in amusement and stepped forward again. "I wish that still worked on my cousins. I'm going to the library." He clapped Riku on the shoulder comfortingly. "Oh, here, my dad sent me a shipment of new shock. Check these out." Grinning, he handed over a couple of vials filled with neon coloured liquid. "Try them. Seriously, they're awesome. Later."

Riku blinked a couple of times in confusion before lifting one to examine in the light. "I wonder what they do?"

Sora took the other one from his best friend's hand and popped the cork. "Only one way to find out." Without hesitation, he downed the potion.

"Oi! Don't just drink things without knowing what they are!"

Riku watched anxiously as Sora smacked his lips together a couple of times and hummed. "Yum. Tangy."

"Do you feel okay?"

"I feel fine. I don't feel any different. Do I look different?"

Riku cringed as Sora looked at him, his eyes seeming to glow. "You're looking luminescent."

"What do you mean?" Sora looked at his hands. "I feel fine."

"You're starting to glow." Riku watched nervously as Sora's skin began taking on a pinkish glow that seemed to radiate outwards. It eventually got bright enough to be clearly seen in the daylight.

"Whoa," Sora said when he could clearly see what was happening on his hands. Jumping up, he ran upstairs to the floor to ceiling mirror in his dorm. "I'm glowing pink!"

Riku followed, the other vial in hand. "Yes, you are."

Sora grinned as he pushed his sleeves up so he could reveal more skin. "I'm glowing all over! Quick, close the curtains!" Running around, he closed all the curtains in the dormitory so that there was the minimum amount of light coming in. In the darkness Sora looked like a giant pink glow stick. He laughed. "This is awesome! Riku, you drink the other one!"

Riku cringed a bit and looked at the glowing vial of potion. It was yellow. "This had better wear off Sora." He uncorked it and downed the potion. Within a minute or two he was glowing yellow. Grimacing as he looked at his skin, Riku sighed. "Yellow is so not my colour."

"No, it really isn't," Sora agreed. "We look kinda cool though." He began waving his arms around while laughing. "Look Riku! I can write my name! S. O. R. A! Sora!"

Shaking his head in amusement, Riku located the vial and crossed to one of the windows to open the curtains to try and locate some instructions. There was nothing. "I wonder how long this lasts?"

"Dunno! But I'm enjoying this." Sora continued waving his arms around gleefully for a few minutes, right before he pulled his shoes and socks off so he could watch his feet and toes glow.

Feet pounded up the stairs leading up to the dormitory. "Sora?"

"In here!" Sora yelled, still preoccupied with his feet.

"I heard you were up. How are you feel-?" Roxas froze in the doorway, his eyes wide as he first clapped eyes on his Somebody. "Why are you glowing?"

Sora looked up with a grin. "Roxas! I heard you'd come back. Welcome back!"

"Sora, why are you glowing? That's not natural," Roxas stated. He turned to Riku, not noticing the yellow glow surrounding the older teen. "Why the hell did Madame Pomphry release him?! Glowing pink is not a good thing! Why didn't you take him back?!"

Riku sighed. "Roxas, chill. One, he's fine. Two, it's not a side effect. Fred gave us a couple of potions to try from his uncle's stock. This was the result. I think it's temporary."

"You think?!"

"Whoa, hey! Is that Uncle George's new glow worm potion?" Albus asked as he appeared in the doorway. "Awesome! He has pink now? When did Fred get those?"

"Recently I think," Sora answered as he looked down at his hands again. "Riku is yellow."

"Huh, he is too. I'm gonna go raid Fred's trunk. Wait here." Albus darted off before anyone could stop him.

"So," Roxas began slowly. "How are you feeling?"

"Pretty awesome actually. How are you? Riku said we split a few days ago."

"I'm doing okay. I woke up yesterday."

"Yeah, he said that too. Are you enjoying the classes?"

"So far, yes. I've been mistaken for you a few times today. It's a little annoying." Roxas sighed.

"I'll bet. Is Axel happy you're back?"

Roxas smiled. "He seems to be."

Sora smiled in return. "And you? Are you happy to be back to yourself?"

"As long as it doesn't put your life in jeopardy, I have no issues with being my own self again."

Riku gave a small smile and shut the curtain again to try and hide it.

"Whoa…. You do glow yellow." Roxas blinked as he stared at the older Islander.

Albus bustled back in, Scorpius on his heels and a box in his hands. "Everyone gather around! Scorp, here. Roxas! Heads up!" Tossing Roxas a vial glowing orange and Scorpius a vial glowing lime green, he picked up a sky blue one for himself and pulled the cork out. "Bottoms up!"

Roxas frowned and gave the vial an apprehensive look but downed it anyway. "Mmm. Citrusy."

"Blargh," Scorpius grimaced as he placed the empty vial back in the box. "Lime."

"Oh, sorry," Albus apologized. He grinned and examined his hands when he started to glow blue. "This is awesome."

"Fantastic for clubbing," Scorpius agreed.

"Yeah, but you couldn't go to a muggle club like this though. There's no way. Even drunk they'd pinpoint magic from a mile away," Albus agreed.

"Is there a way your Uncle could make it react under UV lighting only?" Riku asked curiously.

Albus nodded slowly. "Maybe. I'll get Fred to suggest it in the review letter he'll send back."

"How often do you get products from your Uncle?" Roxas asked curiously even as he gave his orange skin a bemused look.

"Whenever a new one is about to come onto the market. He usually only sends us the stable experimental stuff to get our opinions. He's under threat of death from Mum that if he purposefully sends us something that will cause us to blow up like balloons, change our genders or shape, make our appendages disappear, or turn us invisible forever, she will personally come and torture him herself to get the antidote, and then rake him over the coals, literally."

"Ouch," Roxas winced.

"Your mum sounds scary," Sora murmured.

"She is when it comes to us," Albus agreed. "She loves us though. That's all we can ask for I guess."

"Your entire family is close," Scorpius continued. "Extended relatives as well."

"Some of them," Albus corrected. "The dreary ones we just leave on the edges unless we absolutely have to include them. We have a lot of honorary Aunts and Uncles too. Like Uncle Neville and Aunty Luna."

"Uncle Neville. As in Professor Longbottom?" Riku asked curiously.

"Yeah. He's my Godfather and a family friend of mine, Rose and Hugo's parents. Same with Hagrid actually."

"Sounds big," Sora murmured.

"Huge," Scorpius mouthed in agreement.

"Hey, is there a purple in there?" Sora asked suddenly, bouncing over to Albus to look in the box himself.

"Uh, actually, yeah, why?"

"Quick! We need to find someone else. Then we can make a rainbow!"

Roxas rolled his eyes.

"Oh yeah. Come on!" Albus darted down the stairwell, Sora following him excitedly, and left the Common Room.

"Whoa, Al! Wait!" Scorpius yelled as he quickly followed, Riku and Roxas hot on his heels.

The group of five traversed the corridors, looking for someone to try the sixth potion on. They eventually spotted someone.

"Hey, Hugo!" Albus yelled, catching his taller cousins attention. "Catch!"

Tossing him the vial, Hugo quickly caught it and held it up to the window as they approached. "Uncle George's new glow worm potion?" He asked curiously, giving his glowing cousin and friend's a good look.

"Yeah," Albus replied.

"Awesome." Quickly popping the cork, Hugo downed the potion with a grin. Smacking his lips together afterwards, he hummed and looked down at it. "Hmm. Berries. Not bad."

"Yes! Now we can make a rainbow." Sora cheered and rearranged them all. "See?"

Roxas huffed. "Why do I have to stand next to Riku?"

"Because you're orange and he's yellow."

"I feel like an idiot," Scorpius complained.

"You look like a cool idiot though," Hugo placated.

"What is going on here?" A voice echoed through the corridor.

Turning, Sora smiled at Professor McGonagall. "Oh, hi Professor. We're making a rainbow. See?" He quickly ran back to his place beside Roxas.

"Mr Potter, Mr Weasley, what have I told you about testing Weasley Products during school hours?" She fixed the two culprits with a stern look.

Albus had the decency to look ashamed. "Sorry Professor. Sora and Riku were already glowing and I got excited when I saw them. Uncle George has been working on this one for a while."

"Hmm. When will this one wear off do you think?"

"No idea. The last batch lasted about six hours. I didn't find any instructions that came with this one. Fred might know though."

"Well, nothing that can be done about it now then. Off to class, all of you. Next time it's detention."

"Yes Headmistress."

As they all moved out of their line, Riku looked at Albus. "Next time, I get blue."

Albus looked back at him with a grin. "Deal."

"Definitely no," Scorpius broke in, looking disgusted. "If anyone gets yellow next time it should be me. I'm the only one that actually looks good in yellow. Al can get green. It'll bring out the colour of his eyes."

"Thanks Dear," Albus replied as he fluttered his eye lashes.

Roxas snorted in amusement but rolled his eyes all the same. "Come on, we've seen Sora. Time for class."

"Back to the Tower with you," Riku shooed Sora, who pouted but allowed himself to be moved away.

"Fine. But you're coming."

"Bye Sora! Bye Riku! See you later!" Hugo yelled with a wave as they walked away.

Professor McGonagall just watched them all split up into two groups and shook her head. The Potter/Weasley clans were a strange bunch. What was even stranger was that Potter and Malfoy got along like they did. It was history in the making for those two.

Shifting back into her cat form, she continued prowling the corridors like she had been. Following the boys back to their classes, she then drifted off and jumped up on a windowsill when she found a warm sunny spot. Curling up in the sun, she drifted off to sleep.

TBC


*scratches back of head* Not quite the same day, but close. Enjoy. :)