May 1, 1994- Fred's Point of View

Fifteen days. It had been fifteen days since I had last talked to Allison, fifteen days since I had snapped at Julia, and fifteen days of nothing but nonstop revenge. Imagine waking up one morning glued down to the bed with an unstickable solution and you'd get the picture. She ruined my favorite pair of pajamas to! Heh… girls…. I sighed, dropping my quill on the desk, wincing as I buried my bruise covered face in my hands; she had jinxed my telescope in Astronomy last night to jump back into my face whenever I looked through it. How she wasn't caught only Merlin knows… but I knew one thing: the pranks were becoming violent, and I had absolutely no idea why. I mean sure, I had shaken Julia because I was frustrated about no one telling me what was going on, but I felt bad about it! Why didn't Allie look at me while I tried to explain? Why didn't she listen? Why-?

"Mate, you're doing it again…." George said with a sigh.

"Doing what?"

"Rubbing your face with your hands and looking miserable."

I looked up at my brother, "No I'm not."

He rolled his eyes before tossing his quill on the floor and leaning back in his chair, "You do it whenever you're worried about something."

"Well I've stopped now."

"It's an unconscious habit."

"Right…."

An awkward silence settled over us, he knew what was wrong, it had always been obvious to us what the other was thinking, and I was grateful that he didn't bother bringing it up. I needed to get my mind off of Allie; I needed to stop thinking about how her hormones might be the reason behind our fight. I needed to stop thinking about how not including her in the dyeing of Mrs. Norris might have made her angry, even though she had waved us off with a smile before turning back to her homework; but most importantly I needed to stop thinking about the most confusing sentence she had said to me since the beginning of our fight, the one about a 'quidditch buddy'.

Why would I want to make myself comfortable by the fire with a 'quidditch buddy'? Wouldn't I find it awkward snuggling up next to Harry, Oliver, or George? We were close, but not that close. And if she was referring to some other girl she had it all wrong! How could I look at Angelina, Katie, or Alicia when I still liked Allison? That fun loving and crazy best friend of mine with the temper that almost rivaled my mother's? Had any of the three girls been involved with Allison's seemingly random snap? Had one of them said something to her when George and I went out? If so it had to be a lie, because I had done absolutely nothing to upset her. Oh great now I was repeating my thoughts….

"Oi Fred!" I looked up from the table to face my twin, he was nodding towards the portrait hole that Lee and Angelina had just entered through, an odd mix of anger and awkwardness in each of their expressions. "Looks like they just got into a row… I wonder what it was about." George muttered

"Who knows?" I mumbled before turning around to roll up my parchment "My best guess is that Lee tried asking Angelina out again…."

"Then why are they still walking together…" I just shrugged at my twins words, "and why are they walking this way?"

Something clicked when George said that… the Quidditch buddy! Angelina, she and I had been close back in second year and Wood's extra practices had been putting us together more often, had Allison gotten jealous? Or had Angelina said something to tee her off? I never would have guessed how complicated things really were though until they came over with somber expressions on both of their faces and told us the full story….

May 2, 1994- Allie's Point of View

"Come on Allie!" Julia chided as I stared blankly down at the ingredient in front of me, "You know what it's used for, we've been over it at least a dozen times!"

"I can't think…." I groaned before face palming into the table, "The amount of stuff they want us to memorize is ridiculous, and Potion's was never my best subject anyways! Can't we just move onto Charms or something?"

She sighed before rubbing her temples with her fingers, "Allison, you said you wanted to be an Auror in the beginning of the year, during one of the times we talked, don't you still want that job? Because if you're serious about being an Auror you do you need an Outstanding in your potions O.W.L to move up to the N.E.W.T level…."

I gave another exhausted groan into the desk.

"Besides you're already more than enough prepared for your Charm's O.W.L, and the potions one is in three days, you need to study."

I peeked up from under my tangled black bangs and gave Julia a look, "Can't you just let me fail? I'm sorry, but I just don't think I can handle the pressure of being an Auror if I can't even make it through my exams without falling flat on my face-"

"You have to try though don't you?" she asked, her eyes wide as she stared skeptically at me through her glasses, "If you really want something you have to do your best, besides you've already learned so much-"

I sighed as I rose from my seat, "Can we just go back to the common room and take a break? I'm sorry Julia, but I honestly don't think I need to know the name of some random scrap of seaweed-"

"Its mandrake root…." She muttered, "You planted some for the third years in Herbology this year remember?

"Yeah I remember, with Fred… speaking of which I'd like to go back to the common room to check on our shrinking draught so I can pour some in his goblet at breakfast tomorrow can we-" the whole library erupted into a fit of coughs as an eerie cloud of purple smoke filled the room, causing my ears to clog up and eyes to water, what the bloody hell was going on? I squinted through my tears just in time to see Julia fall to the floor paralyzed, before I followed suit….

The whole kidnapping process went along quite smoothly if you asked me; Lee and the twins didn't have to deal with their struggling victims because they were completely helpless throughout the whole ten minutes it took them to relocate to some obscure broom closet, I couldn't tell from my position but I was sure Angelina was there to. Brilliant, just what I needed to make my day worse, a confrontation with my ex and his new girlfriend…. Merlin I wish I could glare at someone right now…

"Finite Incantantum." Lee muttered and my body unfroze from its uncomfortable position on the floor, my eyes narrowed, "It was a precaution…"

My eyes narrowed even more, "Humph! Precaution my arse…." I was trying my best to keep my cool, Angelina had returned to classes the day after I had and ever since then I had given her the cold shoulder. We hadn't been forced to talk to each other in class though so I hadn't had to worry about strangling her, but now that there were no Professor's around I had to fight to stay calm.

"Well we didn't think you'd come willingly Allie," George smirked

"Yeah, seeing as you're still furious with me…" Fred trailed off as I shot him a death glare

"Have you figured out why yet Freddie darling?" I asked in a mockingly sweet voice before shifting into one that contained more venom, "Because if you don't I suggest you back off."

Fred shrugged, "What are you going to do Al's? Your wandless, defenseless… and I doubt Julia will do anything to interfere."

"What are you going to do?" I huffed, "Attack me?"

"We might be forced to restrain you if you get out of hand, but right now you're doing just dandy so we'll leave you be for now…." He leaned back against the damp stone wall and considered me with those brown eyes of his. Those stupid, demonic, sweet, puppy dog eyes that could still make me melt, even though the horri- no… wonderful person… behind them had been lying to me the whole time.

I glowered, not taking my eyes off his until Lee distracted me, "Allison, you have to listen to us, what happened that night in the courtyard-"

"He told you?" My voice was a growl, as my glare returned to Fred, who only smirked.

It took Lee a moment to speak again, and when he did his voice was shifty, "No…" he began slowly," we told him…."

…Wait… what the crap? "W-what?"

George smirked, "You look confused…."

"Well of course I'm confused George! What does Lee mean-?"

"Allison, just listen." Angelina countered and I sunk to the floor to sit next to Julia, an aggravated pout on my face. No one could possibly understand how I was feeling right now… I was locked in a room with my ex-boyfriend of a little over a year and former dorm mate whom he had cheated on me with and they expected me to sit back and listen? What the bloody hell was wrong with these people?

"Fine." I huffed again, crossing my arms across my chest, "I'll listen to what you have to say, but don't think for a moment that you're going to fool me by having your friends lie for you." I aimed another glare at Fred who just continued on smirking, cheeky bastard.

"Oh I think after you hear this story you won't hesitate to throw a punch or two…." He winked, causing a familiar rush of warmth to rise up in my cheeks, a sensation that I hadn't felt in quite awhile.

And so I listened, I listened as Lee explained how he had grabbed a hair off of Fred's Quidditch sweater that he had left on the bed one night. I listened with a mask of anger as he recounted stealing some ingredients from Snape's store, brewing himself a polyjuice potion, and headed out to the Transfiguration courtyard. I only began to show what I was really feeling when he got to retelling how the conversation had escalated to level it had, and how he hadn't intended for the kiss to happen.

"Lee," I muttered as I let my mask fall away into a somber grin, he winced, "I'm going to kill you."

He jumped up, "Wa-what? B-but Allison I-I-…"

"Later…" I laughed, a happy smile growing across my face for the first time in three months as I turned to face Fred. My heart swelled at his cheeky grin, "It seems like I owe you an apology…"

He looked down at his feet, his hair masking his face, "Now Allison, not in front of the friends…."

"W-what?" I squeaked as my face grew steadily warmer, "N-no I meant an apology for how I've been acting, I was ruddy awful," he looked up to face me before crossing the small closet in one swift movement, a familiar mischievous "I'm so sorry-…"

My voice was a squeak before he leaned in and pecked me on my cheek, his lips tracing up to my ear before he whispered, "Later Al's okay?"

I nodded weakly, the warm brush still tingling across my face. Merlin I had missed that feeling….

Angelina cleared her throat, "So now that we're all made up can we just head back to the common room and forget this incident ever happened? I have some last minute studying to do and…."

I shook my head, a goofy smile still on my face, "We'll forget this ever happened after you and I have a little talk Angelina, but for now I do think that its best we head back to the common room to study, I don't want to get caught by Sn-"

It was at that coincidental moment of course that the door decided to creak open, and a cold snide, nasally voice filled the small closet, "May I be privileged enough to ask why you six…." His parrot like nose crinkled up as he thought for a word, "…imbeciles… are hiding around in a broom cupboard while you could be outside enjoying the weather and getting some last minute studying done?"

My mouth dropped open as I tried to think of an answer, how did Snape always manage to appear exactly when we thought of him? "Ehh… Um… well you see Professor … we were …"

Fred came to my rescue, something that I, for the first time in over three months, didn't actually mind, "We thought the library was to loud for studying." He smiled cheerfully. Well he could have gone about that smoother, but I let myself smile as Snape's dark eyes swept over each of our nodding faces, after a moment he sneered, "Yes, it certainly was quite loud after you set off that explosion… very well, all of you detention, report to my office after dinner… I need someone to clean out some of my… nastier ingredients."

Julia's face fell, and I felt a pang of guilt, Snape turned his hooked nose downwards, as if he was noticing her for the first time, "Except for you Miss. Avery… I do believe your cousins are in need of your assistance."

If it was possible her face fell even more, she had rarely spent time with her cousins after my arrival and I knew they'd be on her case, "Alright…." She murmured as she stood to leave, glancing at me one last time, her eyes filled with terror, before vanishing through the door arch, Snape following shortly behind her.

Once the sound of their footsteps vanished down the corridor I turned back to look at my group of fellow Gryffindor's, none of us was without a worried frown.

"Do you think she'll be alright?" George asked

My eyebrows furrowed as I turned to look back down the corridor, "I don't know, it's hard to say, I'm sure her cousins won't do anything to hurt her, but when she gets home…."

"What?" Fred asked a guilty look on his face, "What will happen?"

I bit my lower lip, "I don't know exactly… she never spoke much of her mother when I stayed with her… but whatever it is it can't be good." I shuddered at the memories from my early childhood, was it anything like that in her home? I knew she was a pureblood, so she must have had money, but did that have any effect on the way she was treated at home? Her mother was a full grown woman surely she mustn't be as bad as her cousins… she'd be more dignified… wouldn't she? "We'll just have to wait and see…."

And I did, I went back to the Ravenclaw dormitory and waited through the whole night, but she never reappeared. This wasn't looking good.

May 18, 1994

It didn't get much better after that, even though I had Fred back I hardly saw him because of last minute Quidditch practices, and even when he wasn't around I couldn't help but miss the fun loving, kind hearted Ravenclaw that had forgiven and supported me when I needed her most. I couldn't just leave her with her insane cousins after all she had done for me, now it was my turn to repay my friend. I did my best, every few nights I would try to catch her back in the Dormitory, but she never showed, I'd try to catch her in the hallways between classes but she'd just shake her head before being dragged off by her brutish cousins. Why they even needed her after the OWL's were over was beyond me though, we only had the finals to prepare for now, but with all of the studying we had done for the major test that wouldn't be a problem, we already had all the knowledge we needed to pass those with flying colors.

In short I had been completely stumped on how to get her to talk to me until the other day when Fred, George, and I had come up with an invention to make even the Slytherins support us when Gryffindor won the cup today. It was simple, I'd slip away during the beginning of the game and pull Julia aside while her cousins were either cheering their arses off or playing the game, it would be easy to forget her during the match, making this the perfect opportunity to corner her and find out what was happening.

So that's why I was here, crouched under the Slytherin stands with the bags set, ready to go off, and strategically placed around the posts. The game was to start in a few minutes and Julia was nowhere to be found, you wouldn't believe it but more Slytherins were built like gorillas then you might think. So I ended up scanning for the blue and silver plaid socks that I had sent to her this morning in case something like this happened, it worked and within another few minutes I was standing behind her, ready to pull her aside when the game started.

It took forever. I had never been a real fan of Quidditch, other than the danger of being hit in the head by a bludger there was also the long wait for the game to start. Once the game did start though, it was nasty, Slytherin kept earning penalties for the team and Gryffindor kept scoring, this was of course a good thing for us, but It took a while for the fat snakes to get some points….

As soon as they did I made sure to 'Accio' Julia's glasses and as I intended she ducked down to retrieve them, when she saw me, her eyes widened in surprise, "Wh- Allison what are you doing here?"

I smirked, "I've come to talk to you of course… what do your cousins have that's preventing you from talking to us?"

She opened her mouth to answer my question, but a loud curse from Lee covered what she had said up. A cheer went up from the Gryffindor supporters, and I briefly wondered why my aunt had let him get away with it.

She tried again once the crowds died down "A threat," she began carefully, "Allison, you have to understand, my mom will take me out of Hogwarts RIGHT NOW if I don't start hanging out with the 'right people.' If I don't stay close to them and do what they want they'll tell my mom I'm with Gryffindors and I'll have to leave."

My mouth dropped open, her words had hit me like a stupefy spell multiplied by five, "She'll what?" I all but screeched, and Julia nodded her head solemnly as another cheer from the Slytherin crowd went up, "She can't do that! It isn't fair, it isn't right-…"

She sighed, "Life isn't fair Allison, you know that…."

That didn't cool me down at all, "BUT SHE WANTS TO STOP YOU FROM GOING TO SCHOOL HERE! YOU'RE ALMOST AN ADULT; SHE NEEDS TO START CONSIDERING WHAT YOU WANT!"

She winced as my yelled words and I instantly regretted it, she hated it when people yelled, it reminded her of her mother and now that she was the subject we were discussing it made it so much worse.

There was another cheer from the Gryffindor supporters, as Lee announced that one of George's bludgers had met their mark and that Angelina had scored another point. And all of the problems from the past year replayed themselves, including the very reason why Julia and I had become friends, "I made a lot of mistakes this year…" I began calmly, "a lot of serious, serious mistakes. Spiking your drink, making failure apologies, trying to make you do things that you didn't want… but in the end?" I laughed wryly, "In the end they all worked out, because of you…." I looked up to face my friend, "You were there for me despite what I had done to you, you helped me through a nightmare and I'm not going to let all of that go to waste, I'm going to help you Julia."

She shook her head, and just as she was about to open her mouth to speak we were blinded by a large poof of Red and Gold.

The cheers of the Gryffindor supporters mixed with laughter as the screams of annoyance arose from the Slytherin supporters. I opened my eyes cautiously, taking in the insane spatters of red and gold that surrounded me, when I caught sight of Julia's face however, I couldn't help but laugh, her brown hair was a bright gold and red color as was her face, which was scrunched up and splattered in my houses color. I smirked, "You look great…" I smirked as I turned to leave, and her eyes narrowed, "Just remember my promise!" I laughed as I took off, down the stairs not giving her a chance to call me back. If we were going to help her she couldn't be seen with us, but I'd write over the summer…. This would all work out, I knew it will….

A/N

Hallelujah! It's done! FIFTH YEAR IS OVER! And with quite a long chapter to I might add ;) So what did you think? The truth came out and Julia developed as more of a character…her mother though…whatever will happen next? You'll have to find out in the next chapter, but for that to happen… it was my three quarters birthday a few weeks ago… you could always leave a present… a review maybe? For my mega-muga chapter? :D even if you don't thanks for reading!

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