The next day Robbie woke up early. He had been wondering all night what the treasure was and how it would help him in the next task.

He jumped out of bed and changed quickly, while glancing at Alfred's bed but the hangings were still closed. Disappointed, he walked over to his bed – he had hoped Alfie would be as excited as him and would get up early. Robbie pulled apart the hangings and was about to use Levicorpus like he had did to Robbie before the first task but the bed was empty.

He bounded down the stairs, grinning, Alfie hadn't forgotten after all! He was probably down in the common room already…

But a quick glance around the common room told him that he wasn't there – only a few early stragglers, including Leanne who was scribbling on a piece of parchment next to the burnt-out fire.

"Leanne!" Robbie called, grinning. Leanne's sleepy head looked up from her quill and smiled at him.

"I'd knew you'd be up early too!" Leanne beamed and gestured down to the parchment. "I'm just writing to mum and dad about your brilliant performance yesterday!"

Fortunately, Leanne went back to writing her letter so she didn't see Robbie's blush and uncontrollable smiling, he was delighted – if Leanne felt he was important enough to write to her parents about maybe he was important enough to her that she'd say yes to a date…? Robbie cleared his throat hopefully and began, "So, Leanne, I was wondering -"

"ROBBIE! LEANNE!" Victoire and Ted bounded over to them wearing funny hats and each holding a muggle device that Leanne knew (she was a muggle-born) were magnifying glasses in one hand and their wands in the other. "We're ready to find some treasure!" they announced enthusiastically. While Leanne laughed fondly, Robbie scowled – he had been so close!

"Shout it out to the whole common room, why don't you? We're supposed to be doing this in secret!" He snapped, seriously pissed off.

"Ah sorry mate," Teddy looked completely unfazed at being snapped at, though Victoire looked slightly affronted beside him. "So where's Alfie? Not still in bed?"

"No," Robbie said shortly, "I thought he'd be down here…"

Leanne rolled up her letter. "I thought he was still in bed, too! I've been down here for half an hour, and I haven't seen him…" Leanne looked slightly worried.

Victoie laughed. "Well you know Alf, he probably got hungry during the night and came down to have an early breakfast – you know him, he could eat all day if you let him."

So the four of them headed down to the Great Hall, but once again, Alfred was nowhere to be seen.

"Where is he…?"

"Maybe he's playing Quiddich? You know he probably misses not being able to play." Teddy suggested.

"Yeah, maybe…" Leanne looked doubtful, a thoughtful look on her face.

But as breakfast ended, he still didn't show up. They even waited while Leanne went up to the Owlery to post her letter, but she came back before Alfred showed up.

Leanne rushed over to them, looking slightly confused and hurt. "I met Charlotte in the Owlery!" She exclaimed. "She seemed really flustered so I didn't talk to her long but I asked her if she knew where Alfred was and she said he was helping Freddie with the Treasure Hunt!"

After these words, a silence stretched out between the four.

"You did tell Alfred you were going to look for it this morning, didn't you?" Teddy asked Robbie.

"Yeah! We were talking about it last night and he seemed really excited…obviously not…" Robbie finished bitterly, turning away from the all, suddenly thinking of Olympe. He had dismissed the thought that Freddie was a better son a long time ago, but now his best-friend decides to desert Robbie in favour of his twin? He was beginning to see a pattern…Freddie was obviously more fun than him. First his mother, now his best-friend, what next? Leanne? Robbie shook his head angrily, he wouldn't let that happen.

"Well c'mon now that we know the opposition have got a head start, we'd better get to work!" Robbie said in a voice that didn't sound like his at all.

He walked away from them, not seeing the look Teddy, Victoire and Leanne exchanged with each other. He had just called his own twin the 'opposition', looking worried, they hastily tried to catch up with Robbie – hopefully the treasure hunt would keep his mind of Alfred's betrayal…

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