Epilogue:

"He's suffering from what?"

"From the effects of the Hou Van Lachen Tree. Its blossoms are used in several perfume products, and it's leaves are used in Amortentia. When brewed, it's harmless—well, as harmless as love potions go. Unfortunately, touching its leaves with bare skin will bring about an infatuation for love for an indeterminate amount of time."

Blaise stared at the mediwitch, his mouth hanging open.

"An indeterminate amount of time?"

"Oh yes, dear," she said distractedly, sponging sweat off of Theo's forehead as he lay in the hospital bed, his tongue lolling out of his mouth, his pupils still shaped like hearts. "Sometimes it lasts for a couple of hours, sometimes a few days, months. The longest case lasted for a year, but as long as he doesn't ingest anything related to Amortentia, he should be fine in a short time."

"There's no cure?" Blaise asked, outraged. Goddamn, when he'd heard about the tree—about how it showered leaves every time someone touched it or spoke too loudly—he'd been overjoyed. He knew that it would be the icing on the cake for the disaster he had planned for Draco. But he hadn't heard of the side effects.

"Unfortunately, no. There's an experimental remedy circulating in Germany, but there isn't any known cure."

"Well, can we get that stuff from Germany? I can't watch over him until this stupid thing wears off."

"Then you will have to find someone who will, Mister Zabini. We simply cannot keep him here on the grounds of delusionary side effects."

"What am I supposed to do?"

The witch gave him a sharp, reprimanding look and helped Theo to sit up.

"That a boy."

"Blazje," Theo slurred, grinning toothily at his friend. "I think love ish jusht everywhere. Isn't it sho great?"

"Oh yeah," Blaise sighed, slinging Theo's arm around his shoulders. "It's real great."

The mediwitch bustled around the room, shoving a small bag of tea into his hand.

"Make him drink this twice a day. It may or may not make it better, but it will certainly subdue the—er—friskiness."

"Friskiness?!" Blaise said in a panic, reeling as far away from Theo as he could without dropping him on the floor. Theo leered at him, suggestively raising his eyebrows at his friend. "Don't even think about it, funny boy."

"But you're so—you're so handsome, Blazje."

"No, Theo." He looked helplessly at the nurse. "There really isn't anything that you can do?"

"Sorry, no. Good luck, love." Blaise watched her in outrage as she hurried out of the room.

"Let's go home, Blazje," Theo said, sagging into Blaise's side.

Sighing, Blaise complied, mumbling obscenities to himself as he tucked Theo into bed and then poured himself a tall glass of Ogden's Finest. He didn't know how in the hell he was going to explain this to their boss…or Draco. Boy, that was going to be a conversation.

Thankfully he didn't have to do that until Monday. In the meantime, Blaise was only too happy to drown his stupid decision to sabotage Draco and Hermione's Valentine's Day. It wasn't that he wanted to make things difficult, but they had been so damn cute all the time that something had to be done. And here, here he was, suffering the consequences while Draco probably got laid.

Damn him. Damn him and his stupid girlfriend, too.

(¯`v´¯) *DMHG*

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"You have got to be kidding me," Draco laughed, practically rolling on the floor of his (thankfully) pink-free office.

"Will you please just watch him for a little while?"

"While you go off gallivanting with some witch who wants to seduce you? I think not!"

"Come on, Draco, I'll owe you forever!"

"You already do!"

Blaise cringed, forcing Theo back into the chair, leaning his body away as his friend tried to grope him. Again.

"Please, Draco."

"Not a chance in hell."

Blaise sighed, looking dejectedly at Theo. Well, Blaise though, he isn't all that bad looking.

"You're some friend, Malfoy."

"Nope. Just Slytherin."

Shaking his head, Blaise yanked Theo up by the collar of his jacket. Since Draco was being such an arse, he guess he would just have to take what he could get.

Accepting his fate, he allowed Theo to lean against him as he led them both out of the ministry.

A/N: Haha, happy ending! Sorry it took so long, college was a bitch. I hope that you enjoyed this little Valentine's Day story!