"So have you figured out the clue in the golden egg?" Christi asks Caprice. They were in Muggle London with Ambria-Jane and their mother, Giovanna shopping for dresses for the Yule Ball. They wanted to get all the best dresses and most unique dresses so that they were shopping for them now.

"No and it's driving me crazy." Caprice comments offhandedly, busy looking at a few tulle dresses.

"Have you talked to Harry, Fleur, or Viktor?"

"No." she shook her head.

"You should. I'm pretty sure one of them have figured it out by now."

"I don't want to. I'll seem weak asking my opponents."

"You should. What do you think about this one Capri?" Christi asks holding up an electric blue dress mermaid style dress.

"That dress hurts my eyes."

Christi groans and sighs. "This is difficult. I mean I want something that's different and unique but also something that will knock Draco's socks off."

"Draco who? A boyfriend?" Giovanna asks, "Draco Malfoy, possibly?"

"Uh yea. I've written to you and daddy about him."

"Oh. I didn't think you were serious with him."

"We have been dating for like three maybe four months now. He's really sweet, a total gentleman."

"The Malfoy's isn't a family you should associate with. They're a Dark family."

"Mother, please, if you just get to know him you'll really like Draco." Christi practically begs.

"I'm not meeting him but I'll allow you to date but your father won't like it."

She nods and gnaws her lower lip.

"What about this?" Caprice asks holding up a gold dress with lots of beading.

"Perfect for you! No one else is gonna have that dress." Christi says smiling.

"Good now we need to find you one!"

They search for about an hour until Caprice found a strapless bubble gum pink dress with some simple beading on the bust line for her sister. "What do you think Christi?" Caprice asks.

"I love it! Awesome! So we have two unique dresses and ones no one will have." Christi commented. "So mum why don't you like the Malfoy's? I mean Draco really is a good kid. He's nothing like his father. Nothing at all."

"Christi, what you asked was completely invalid." Caprice muttered, "Why doesn't she like the Malfoy's because Draco is a good kid. There's nothing to like about the Malfoy's. Draco may be nice, but you must learn to clarify what you want to know."

"How do you know there's nothing to like about the Malfoy's?" Christi asked.

Caprice and Giovanna shared a glance before Caprice said, "No reason..."

Christi surely didn't miss that.

Before she could ask, Caprice changed the subject, "Mum," Caprice begins, turning to their mother, who had a olive green taffeta monstrosity in her hands, "Are Christi and I too… Spoiled?"

"Spoiled? You mean because we have money?"

"Yes." Caprice nodded.

"Well, pet," Giovanna beamed at her eldest daughter, and took her chin in two fingers, "I don't see the point of having lots of money if you can't spoil your children with it."

"Well we could donate it to charity. I would love to give money to the fund for finding a cure for lycanthropy. Or Dragon Pox."

Giovanna shuddered, "Dragon Pox. Terrible thing, ruins your appearance. You'll still have green-tinted skin and scale marks even months after you've been cured."

"That's not even my point." Caprice rolled her eyes, "My point is, why not give to the less fortunate? For once when we see a bum sitting, asking for knuts in Diagon Alley, why don't we help him out? Why don't be give him a couple of sickles or even galleons!"

"One time I dumped my entire money purse into the fountain at the Ministry." Christi chimed in, in a spacey way, practically daydreaming.

"Capricia, why are you bringing this up now?"

"It might have something to do with her lower-class boyfriend." Christi giggled.

"Who're you dating?" Giovanna asked abruptly.

"He has red hair," Christi said tantalizingly, "He's got red hair and he's tall like a string bean… And he has a million brothers and one sister in his household, his family is so big!"

"Christi, how hyper are you today, really?" Caprice asked, nearly glaring at her younger bouncing sister.

"Just a little bit." she said quickly.

Caprice rolled her eyes, "I'm dating Fred Weasley, mother."

"A Weasley…" Giovanna's nose scrunched up in near disgust, "Why?"

"I don't want to say we're in love… Our attraction to each other is very strong though."

"You sure it's not your… Powers?" Giovanna looked around worriedly, looking for potential eavesdroppers, as if there were any. She was of course talking about the girls being a part Veela.

"I'm sure. We were friends long before he asked me to be his girl." Caprice smiled.

"And actually, she turned him down several times before she said yes to him!" Christi giggled as if she thought it were the most hilarious thing in the world.

"That's not the point!" Caprice exclaimed, "Look, it's a good feeling to give money to those less fortunate!"

"You want me to give money to the Weasley's?" Giovanna raised her eyebrows.

"No! I want you to give money to St. Mungos! I want you to give money to House Elves and to rights groups for Goblins and to safe homes for distressed witches and Squib support groups and vampire tolerance associations and troll rights movements! I want you to give money to help society!"

"Merlin, Caprice!" Giovanna sighed exasperatedly, "What sort of bullocks has he put into your mind?"

"Oh, it isn't bullocks mother! We have enough money to help people and keep living the life we do!"

"Okay, Caprice! You know what, fine. We will contribute to society. We will help people. I promise, there are you happy now?"

Caprice nodded surely, "Yes. Yes I am."

"Ridiculous…" Giovanna started muttering, "Pure, utter foolishness…"

XXX

They headed back to the school and the girls head back to their dorms and put their dresses away. After they get them put away Christi and Caprice both head to the kitchen to get something to something to eat as they missed lunch.

"Caprice answer me truthfully. Do you really have a problem with the Malfoy's and are you tolerating Draco just for me? I mean if you would just give Draco a chance and really get to know him you'll see he's nothing like his family."

"Again, Christi. That is invalid! You cannot group 'the Malfoy's' and Draco alone together. They are different. I can handle Draco. The rest of his family... Not so much."

Christi nods as they head back to their separate common rooms after quickly eating their lunches. Reaching the Gryffindor Common Room and sees either George sitting there working on what she hoped was homework.

"George." she nods to him in greeting.

"Capri." he greets her.

"So have you figured out the egg yet?"

"No! This stupid egg is ticking me off." she muttered angrily.

"You'll figure it out." he said honestly.

"Yea. Well I am going for a hot bath. If you need me, then find another Prefect to come and get me." she said.

"You're bathing in the Prefect's bathroom?"

"Yes." she nodded.

"You aren't a Prefect."

"Since when are you so stern on breaking rules?" she practically sneered, but caught herself before she finished. She went to her room and grabbed her bathrobe and towel along with the egg to glare at it as she bathed.

On her way to the fifth floor Prefect's Bathroom she's stopped by Professor Moody. "Miss Venizelos, I would open that egg underwater." He says then hobbles away.

She frowns and gets to the bathroom's entrance. "Pine fresh." She says. The door opens and she heads inside. She fills the tub then climbs in once it's filled. She relaxes a bit then looks at the egg.

"Alright. Let's give you a try and open you up underwater." Caprice says aloud to herself.

She grabs it then takes in a breath of air and submerges under the water and opens the egg.

As soon as she opens it instead of the loud ear piercing screeching she hears, "Come seek us where our voices sound, We cannot sing above the ground, And while you're searching, ponder this; We've taken what you'll sorely miss, An hour long you'll have to look, And recover what we took, But past an hour - the prospect's black, Too late, it's gone, it won't come back."

She pops up and closes the egg underwater then brings it back up and places it on the edge.

She leans back and starts thinking about each line deciphering it.

"Come and seek us where our voices sound we cannot sing above the ground." she repeats surely, "Obviously under the water. Black Lake, possibly…" she sighed, "Taken what I'll sorely miss… Prized possession. That doesn't matter. And hour is the time limit, past an hour, I won't get my possession back… Delightful. Now, what's under the water? What's in the Lake? Giant Squid… I will bet on that one." she sighed, unable to figure it out, "I'll have to go to the library…" Finally, after mulling over it some more, she got fed up and ended her bath. After drying herself and walking back, it came to her. Mermaids. "Fuck!" she growls. "It just has to be vicious as hell mermaids!"

She gets back to the common room and spots Fred in there and she smiles. "Hello love." she greeted him.

"Hey. How was the bath?"

"Refreshing. I actually figured out the egg."

"Really what is it?"

"It's in Black Lake, something that I would sorely miss is going to be taken and I'll only have an hour to get it back but after an hour it's gone for good. Oh and I'm going to have fight mermaids. So no big deal." she shrugged nonchalantly.

"It is a big deal!" he exclaimed, "Mermaids are vicious things! So do you have any idea of the thing you'll sorely miss is? I mean if we can figure it out it will make the task easier for you."

"Yea but I don't know if it's a material possession or what. I mean if it's a person it would most defiantly be my sister. But if it's a material thing it would be my gold and diamond rosary."

"Why not me?" he pouts teasingly.

"Fred, love, she's my sister we grew up together. She's blood family and no matter how much she bothers me. I love her." Caprice says.

"I understand. It would be the same thing for me if I was able to join. It would be George for me."

She smiles and kisses him.

"So you going to tip Harry off since he tipped you off about the dragons?"

"Yes. I mean why not repay his favor when he didn't have to tell me. I'm going to tell him. I'm just worried about what the thing I'll sorely miss is that they're going to take." She shrugged, "I also need a way to breathe underwater for an hour."

"I wonder on how they'll get whatever you'll sorely miss." Fred said.

"Me too. But lets not worry about that right now."

In the Slytherin Common Room Christi was stretched out across one of the forest green leather sofa leaning against the arm doing Potions homework.

"Damn it Draco I hate your godfather! This freaking assignment is really pissing me off and wanting to chuck my book into fire place."

Draco laughs and shakes his head. "Hey. Stop laughing or you won't get any snogging for the rest of the month."

"Love, if you need help have one of the sixth or seventh years to help you out."

She just glares at him making him laugh. "Prat." She mutters.

"Hey!" Draco cries fake insulted then goes over and starts tickling her.

"Take it back." He laughs.

"No!"

He goes for her most ticklish spots on her sides making her squirm uncontrollably and she falls off the sofa and Draco keeps tickling her as Snape walks in as he needed to speak with a student about their grades and he sees the two laughing.

"Didn't I assign three rolls of parchment on Devil's Snare and Aconite?" he drones.

"Draco started it!" she giggles pushing him over.

"Well get back to work if you want a good grade." He said heading toward the boys dorms to talk to the student he needs to.

They nod still laughing as they get up and continue on working on their assignment.

"So has your sister figured out the egg yet?" Draco asked, changing the subject.

"Nope but I'm sure she'll find it out sooner or later and tell me." Christi said.

"You two tell each other everything don't you?"

"Yea. I mean it was just her and I growing up. Ambria-Jane is like our seventh nanny. We grew up with nanny's raising us. So we only really had each other growing up."

"What about your parents?"

"My dad works for the Ministry and my mum does nothing."

"Then why do you have a nanny if your mum does nothing?"

"Because she's too damn lazy to take care of us herself."

"That's terrible." he frowned.

"Yea. But it's really no big deal." She said finishing up the homework for Snape's class. "So what about your family?" Christi asks.

"Well my dad is one of the Twelve Governors, he also owns his own companies and my mom is basically the same as yours does nothing so I was mainly raised by nannies and governess."

"Looks like we have a lot in common." She smiles.

"Yea." He says.

"I really want to know what this second task is. It's driving me crazy."

"Ask your sister."

"I can't just waltz into the Gryffindor Common Room, yell out for my sister and ask what the second task is."

"Find her when she isn't in there."

"Yeah, whatever." Christi sighed, and changed the subject, "So what do you want for Christmas this year? It's in a few weeks, you know. I wanna go and get all my gifts early and don't tell me nothing. Tell me something."

"I have no idea. Honestly."

"Ugh! You need to think of something."

"Alright. I promise I'll think of something. What do you want?"

"I saw this really gorgeous silver necklace that has this really nice looking snake pendant with emerald eyes and pearls going along the body. It's really nice looking. I love it."

Draco smiles and nods. "Where was it?"

"Hogsmeade in that antique shop."

He smiles and kisses her softly. Her stomach suddenly growls loudly and they both start laughing hysterically. "Come on it's almost time for dinner." Draco says. Christi nods and they go put their books away then they head to the Great Hall, holding hands.