Theo stared menacingly at Crabbe and Goyle, a triumphant smile flittering across his thin lips.
"So now you know it's me. Which is surprising seems you don't have two brain cells between you to rub together, do you?" He sneered and Goyle thought it looked all wrong on him, he just wasn't doing it right.
"Why?" Goyle asked.
"Why wouldn't I, eh? I was always ignored outshined by Malfoy and his stupid fan club. I could have ruled Slytherin."
"Sorry to tell you, but that's Draco's job."
"I know that, you nitwit!" He yelled, still holding the three wands. "I was going to take out the two of them with the soul expression potion to weaken them; only it bloody backfired didn't it. It was supposed to only be Potter and Malfoy that got it, but I didn't know it reflected did I? I wanted to deliver Potter to the Dark Lord before your precious Draco did and finally I would be acknowledged for my greatness. With Draco's guard down he would never be able to do it."
Crabbe and Goyle just looked confused. "Draco wasn't going to deliver Potter to..."
Theo groaned in frustration. "You two are possibly the most stupid-"
THUNK!
Theo fell over backwards as Goyle's shoe collided into his face. Somehow the boy had managed to slip it off and kick it with enough force to knock him over. Theo smashed his head on his trunk and slipped to the floor unconscious, the wands falling from his grasps. Crabbe and Goyle looked at each other shocked they had actually pulled something off.
Goyle shrugged, "I had no idea what he was on about to be honest, we should ask the others." Crabbe nodded.
"That was… weird. We all thought someone in school was part of it. I never thought it would be Theo, why Theo?"
"I don't know, I think he felt a bit left out. So what do we do now? Where do you think he's been keeping Hermione and the Professors? What would Draco do now?" They sat and thought about it.
"We should look for clues." And so they did.
They rummaged through Theo's things and they came to his trunk at the bottom of his bed. It was locked. Crabbe and Goyle didn't't know an unlocking spell. So they did it the good old fashioned way and broke it open. The lock gave a satisfying crunch and they opened the trunk.
When Crabbe had been saying 'I think you might have something we… need.' He was referring to potions he had noticed Jason had an interest in potions and hoped he would have some energy potions as he had saw him drinking them before. Crabbe was right for once because Jason's trunk was full of all different colored potions. They didn't't know what they all were so they grabbed one of each because Blaise would know what they were he was a wiz at potions and they might come in handy. There were 8 energy potions in veils too and they grabbed all of them as they most definitely recognized them. Then went in search for Harry and Draco proud that they were helping this mystery be solved.
Ron and Ginny had just burst into Cronan tower much to the annoyment of the Dragon, to find it empty.
"Where the hell are Harry and Draco?" Ron exclaimed, annoyed beyond words he pushed open the bathroom door just to make sure they weren't in there, he breathed deeply hoping they wasn't as stupid to not go along with their plan. He looked above the fire place at where they had kept the map for Snape's house and his fears were confirmed, it wasn't there! "Oh, those little bastards! They have gone without us!" he kicked one of the chairs for good measure but it didn't make him feel any better.
Ginny looked at him confused, "What are you talking about? And where the hell are we?" She looked around the room with beds lined up under the window. Were Ron and all the students really staying in this one room?
Ron tutted, "There's no time Ginny, Harry and Draco aren't here, they've went to Snape's house to rescue Hermione and McGonagall."
"But why are they at Snape's house I don't under..." It was just at that moment that Crabbe and Goyle walked in the door.
"Ah, Weasley! There you are!" Goyle said handing him a potion. "She-Weasel." He nodded at her politely and then turned to Ron ignoring her completely; it looked as though Ginny was going to 'Avada' him with her eyes.
"What's this?" Ron peared into the viel, wrinkling his nose.
"Energy potion, we all haven't slept in days and we don't want to suddenly collapse like last time, eh." Crabbe mumbled, Ron nodded and necked it instantly feeling more awake.
"Wait, where did you get this? You didn't make it, did you Vince?" Ron said suddenly alarmed.
"You will never guess what's just happened!" Goyle exploded, yelling accidently into Ginny's ear, he continued oblivious to her stare.
"Yeah, it was brilliant!" Goyle added with a huge smile on his face also not paying Ginny any attention.
"We went down to grab some energy potions from our dorm mate because obviously we didn't make them and he confessed to everything! Hermione, the Potion, everything! So we knocked him out!"
"Yeah, with my shoe!"
"And he was all like confessing and thought he would win 'cause he disarmed us, right? Then we got the better of him!"
"You should have seen it, it was brilliant!" Goyle finished speaking, very proud of himself.
Ron and Ginny looked at each other completely gobsmacked! Ron broke out in a huge smile. "That's bloody brilliant!"
"You idiots!" Ginny screamed, making the three boys jump.
"What!" They cried in unison.
"Where is he now?" She fumed turning very red, even more annoyed.
"Oh, he's in the dorm." Crabbe and Goyle replied still looking pleased with themselves. Ron's face fell instantly.
"We need to go back and get him, find out where he's holding Hermione." Ron immediately rushed out the door and started to jog down the corridor, he suddenly realised he had no idea where he was going. Crabbe and Goyle emerged from the tower looking embarrassed and Ginny pulling them by the poor little delicate ears. It was a rather funny sight to see, little Ginny Weasley making such large and intimidating Slytherins wince the way they were.
"Tell him, you buffoons!" She said letting go of their ears and then pushing them forcefully forwards.
"We don't really, kind of know what the password is, Weasley..." Ron took a very big soothing breath.
Back at Snape's house, the Professor was so annoyed with Harry and Draco being locked in the study, he decided it was time to put his plan into action. So he had walked to find his wife. He found her on the top floor reading a book.
"Hello dear, I bought you some of your favourite candy." He said sweetly. She smiled at him, took the jellytots off him and opened the packet very pleased.
"So," She said not looking at him but scoffing down the fruit flavoured jelly sweets. "What do you want? Jellytots are a rarity; you must really want something badly." She smiled to herself.
Snape dropped the act straight away. "Arazona, I really need to borrow your broom, I promise I won't wreck it again."
"If you do, I will be expecting lots more jellytots." He smiled, kissed her on the cheek and then ran out the room.
Ginny, Ron, Crabbe and Goyle were back in Cronan Tower looking at the Marauders Map that was on the wall, sure enough a tiny dot labelled Theodore Nott was in the Slytherin boys dorm.
Ron surprised everyone by pulling out his wand and jabbing the Slytherin entrance wall on the map, the word 'Cupcake' appeared. Ginny and Ron exchanged horrified looks.
"Cupcake? What the hell?"Ron said turning to the Slytherins.
"Well, we could never remember the password so they change it to foods we like so we can remember." Greg shrugged his shoulders.
"Bloody bearers of darkness my arse." Ron muttered to himself shaking his head. "Anyway, we need to go see this Theo bloke."
"Leave the map here!" Ginny argued as Ron went to take it down.
"But what if he moves? We'll never find him Gin."
"Didn't you say Harry and Malfoy had went somewhere, they will need to know where we are when they get back, especially if we get ourselves into any trouble in the dungeons." Ginny said, obviously the only intelligent one in the group. "Now come on." She instructed walking out of the tower.
Crabbe decided to leave two energy potions for Harry and Draco when they returned to the tower. He put them on the mantel piece propped up against one of the photo's there. He ran out after the others.
The group were just walking down the moving stairways when Pansy came bouncing towards them. "Hi, everyone!" She yelled.
"There you are, that detention was quick." Ron said puzzled.
"Well, it was only with Lucius, he only had me reading some drabble out loud, nothing nasty really. What's going on? You heading down to lunch, I'm starving I didn't see you in the hall so I thought you would be eating in the tower and decided to join you. How's the plan going, does the map work?" Pansy was speaking very fast as usual and the group had to stop to tell her to slow down.
Ron explained about what had happened, how he and Ginny had figured out who it was, how Crabbe and Goyle had... kind of ... captured him and how Harry and Draco had rushed off to Snape's House without them.
"So where's Blaise?" She questioned, noticing he wasn't with them. Ron Shrugged.
"Maybe he's with Harry and Draco?" They all nodded in agreement.
"So, what are we doing now?" She said trying to process all the new information.
"Well, we need to get Theo to find out what he has done with Hermione and the Professors." Ginny said looking at the girl as if she was stupid.
"Wait, what are you doing here again?"
The four sighed rolling their eyes, which was saying something because Crabbe and Goyle were two of the four.
"Just come on sweetheart." Ron said grabbing her by the hand and giving her a gentle tug to make her walk faster towards the dungeons.
Harry and Draco were still inside Professor Snape's study. They had made a truce and decided to go back to Cronan tower to tell the others of their findings. They were just climbing into the fire place when Snape came smashing through his window on a fancy looking broom with his wand raised and cursing about the state of his study. With quick thinking the boys ducked and shouted 'Cronan Tower' and in a flash they were stumbling into their familiar bedroom.
"Merlin, did you see the look on his face I thought he was going to blow a fuse!" Harry laughed.
"What?" Draco asked.
"Doesn't matter, I just don't think he was happy that we ruined his room."
Draco smirked, "Yes, well I would care... But I don't." Harry snickered as he brushed the soot off his clothing.
"Hey, look Draco." The dark haired wizard pointed above the fire place, "They left us an energy potion each."
Draco picked them up staring at them. "You know," He said furrowing his brow, "They look a bit different from energy potions." Draco sniffed one of them and handed it to Harry who sniffed it then chugged downing it.
"Well?" Draco said raising an eyebrow. Harry twitched.
"Nah, it's an energy potion." He could feel the adrenaline start to pump through his veins. Draco nodded before swallowing his potion; he closed his eyes wincing at the taste. Just then there was a bang as Snape fell through the fire place looking as though he could commit murder more than usual, he must have followed them.
"Potter!" He yelled. Draco opened his eyes for the first time and gulped in regret as a familiar sensation invaded his system, one he hadn't felt since... oh, crap. Then before he knew it he was more aroused over the sight of his potions professor than he had been in his life, over anyone that is. Draco couldn't help himself, it was all the potions fault as he suddenly burst into song...
"I want to lick you up and down, 'till you say stop. Let me play with your body baby make you real hot..." Unfortunately Draco had started to hump the air and he looked seductively at Snape. Harry couldn't help but laugh. Yes, Snape was going to have his blood which was enough fear for one person in an entire lifetime, but this was just so humiliating he couldn't have stopped himself laughing at his friend's expense."Let me do the things, you want me to do, because tonight baby, I'm gonna get freaky with you!"
Meanwhile Snape turned green and ran from the room leaving Draco yelling after him about a dinner for two.
Author Notes: THANK you so much for all your lovely reviews! SFTM has now reached 50,000 hits, 358 reviews, 180 story alerts and over 120 favourites! ^^ So we're almost at the end now, I'd say about 5 more chapters and we are done, I would love to make it over 400 reviews :) Help me out guys, make my dreams come true?
The song featured in the chapter is called "Freak Me" by Silk.
Fanfiction is by Faith Valconbridge . This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.