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Rose glanced up from the fading image in her sister's crystal ball to look out the window. She shivered, she didn't understand how Gabrielle could deal with the cold that trickled in from her window even when it was closed. As much as Rose hated being stuck in clothes most of the time, she thought her sister was more than a little nuts for running around the forbidden forest with hardly a stitch on. She briefly thought about looking up a spell to enchant a shirt for warmth as soon as she could get to the library, but decided it was easier to just heat up the bed again. She reached over snagged her wand from her sister's nightstand and cast another warming charm on the bed and covers. It was already much colder out than she was used to. Though she guessed that was to be expected as it was already near the end of October.

Rose sighed, she was sitting in her sister's bed because she was waiting for her sister to return from the forbidden forest. Her sister had been raiding the forest for things to sell for a few weeks now. Rose knew that she should have put a stop to it as soon as it started rather than helping her sister by teleporting the materials out of Hogwarts. She also knew she should feel bad about selling something that came from an intelligent monster even if it would just as soon eat you as talk to you. The problem was that their best source of cash for the materials for their projects involved selling the things Gabrielle gathered from the forest. Anya was one of their best buyers, she just happened to be outside this world and thus outside Gabrielle's teleportation range but not Rose's. Rose was fairly sure that Gabrielle could have ripped open a portal there at great need but that would leave all sorts of evidence and raise all sorts of questions as well as take a larger amount of power than they wanted to risk. Besides she knew that she shouldn't complain as she was making a great deal of money both muggle and wizarding from the sales.

Rose gathered her concentration and tried to get Gabrielle's crystal ball to show her sister. It was rather hit and miss depending on how much magic her sister was using to hide herself. If her sister was invisible the best it could do was a shimmering image. The worst was it not functioning at all. In some cases it merely showed the area where she was. Add to that difficulty the fact that Rose wasn't particularly good at using her sister's crystal ball, and it made for a frustrating early morning. She would have just used her own crystal ball which had been one of the first things she had bought with her ill-gotten gains but it couldn't even pick up an image of the area where Gabrielle was let alone Gabrielle while she was invisible.

They'd spent many hours when they first noticed the quirk working on why that was, they finally decided that it was because Gabrielle had used so much magic on it that it was attuned to her or something. She would have to remember to ask Willow or Dawn for a better explanation on her next vacation.

Rose fidgeted, she knew that her real reason for trying to catch glimpses of Gabrielle running through the forest had little to do with making sure her sister was safe. Mostly it was that she found the sight of a naked girl running through the woods fighting monsters gave her a nice happy feeling. She had been particularly disappointed in the Hogwarts students when it came to cute boys or girls. She had met a few people who might be worth making friends with but none that she was sure would grow up to be something other than self involved idiots. Rose's fingers lingered on the crystal ball as her thoughts drifted away from her sister and toward the girl's showers.

Gabrielle blinked at the early morning light as she worked her way out of the darkened passageways of the forbidden forest. She smiled as she felt the wind play over her skin as she breathed in the cold morning air. She knew that she was risking expulsion and a severe punishment from her parents by running around the forest at night but it was too much fun to pass up. She argued with herself that it wasn't like it was detracting from her studies, she didn't think that would hold water with either her parents or the school but felt it was worth the risk. Besides there was a lot to learn when you could sneak around places completely invisible and mostly scentless and if you tried hard enough move almost silently, she was still working on that last one. She had a much better idea what centaurs did on their downtime than just about any other person at Hogwarts with the possible exception of Hagrid. She tried to push the thoughts about how cute some of the young centaur girls were out of her head as she made her way back to the castle walls.

She reflexively tossed herself to the ground, forgetting for a moment that she was invisible, when spotted professor McGonagall escorting a pale looking Trista back from the shrieking shack. Gabrielle held her breath as she watched her friend make her way back toward the castle. She sighed in relief as the two vanished into the castle. She looked around for a brief second then called forth her magic and jumped into the air. She flew quickly to her window. Her heart skipped a beat when she found the window locked. Her mind went spinning through a horrible series of what ifs until she realized that her sister had merely closed it to prevent a draft and that her sister was laying in her bed using her crystal ball.

Rose was startled from her crystal gazing when she hears her sister's whispered voice, "Enjoying yourself?" The misty image of the girls bathroom faded from the crystal ball as Rose's fingers quickly left it. "I couldn't sleep, I was too worried about Trista's transformation and the upcoming Halloween feast." Rose watched the window seemingly shut by itself.

Gabrielle dropped her invisibility as she sat on the bed and faced her sister. "So any girls worth watching in the shower?"

"As long as you avoid the sixth year bathrooms most of them. Some of the older boys are worth a look as well."

Gabrielle grabbed her large crystal ball away from Rose and mock glared at her sister, "Use your own crystal ball for the boys' bathroom."

Rose grinned, "It's not my fault I'm slightly more normal than you."

"How am I not normal?"

Rose reached out her right hand and patted Gabrielle gently on the head, "We don't have that much time."

"Laugh it up, but I'm not the one spying on the boys' showers."

"Oh believe me if they could they would totally spy on us, and I know you and Lenora have spied on the girl's showers so don't even claim innocence."

Gabrielle set the crystal ball on her nightstand, "As Fred and George would say, innocence is totally overrated."

"I'm not sure either you or them ever had much to start with."

Gabrielle smiled, "Now speaking of innocence… you're in my bed… and I'm all wound up from hunting."

Rose chuckled even as she lifted up the covers for Gabrielle to slip under, "Come and snuggle then."