Laura sat there thinking to herself, Boys are stupid, and indeed when it comes to love they can be pretty stupid. She sighed wondering what Giovanni had gotten himself into. He was off on one of his jaunts again, his Aunt Margarita had told her.

"I could sit here all day or ..." she watched the wind rustling the light yellow curtain in the living room. It was sunny and bright outside and beautiful and the world was young and she was young and there was no point sitting around pining for a boy that didn't realize she was in love with him.

"I've been spending all my time just thinking about him," she said to the empty room. "Enough."

Laura ran to her bedroom, slammed the door shut. After a quick change of clothes she grabbed her purse threw loads of random accessories and necessities and she ran for the door then stopped at the mirror to make sure she looked pretty and happy. Then, Laura remembered her wand got it off her bedside table and ran out of the room.

Giovanni was stupid if he thought she was going to sit around waiting for him to notice she had feelings for him.

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They walked into the room which lay in darkness. Freddie had his wand in his hand in seconds. The boy standing in the corner of the dark room held his hands up and smirked, behind him Teddy, using Draco as a shield, pointed his wand at Freddie.

"Boys, behave," a voice came from behind the desk. "I didn't call you all here so you could blow your heads off."

"Ottery?" Freddie asked. "You know I have better things I could be doing than traipsing through the city in the rain just so you can ..."

The boy stopped mid-sentence. The chair behind the desk turned and Freddie gasped. "You're not Ottery."

The boy replied, "No. Actually, I'm not."

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"What's this I hear you've been giving your step mother a hard time?" her father's voice echoed in her mind. A tear slid down her cheek. Things had changed so much since mother had died. Her heart ached for her Momma but she was gone and Madison only had herself. That witch had turned her father against her and Madison was fine with that ... really she was.

The girl walked the darkened passages of the museum, shafts of bright moonlight crashed through the long tall windows but otherwise she was alone. The guards were busy chasing their socks which she had spelled to run off and they had left the museum unprotected.

Madison was here for the painting of Paris by Santini Armandus St. Valentin. It depicted a cupid smiling down, bow and arrow ready, and a balcony scene, many believed to be Romeo and Juliet in a new setting, and in the background the Eiffel Tower. It was heavily guarded. But then again most museums were but they were guarded against muggle thieves not wizarding ones. She sighed. She could have sent her doppleganger but the truth was she was not in any mood to be in the same house as her father and that evil witch.

"Honey, she only loves you and wants what's best for you. Did you know I had to drag it out of her she didn't want to tell me what it was that was bothering her so much ..."

Madison walked past the Egyptian exhibit. She fought the urge to steal the whole collection and return it to the Egyptian government. She didn't feel that witchy just yet. Then she stopped, smiled and paused. Oh, no he wasn't ...

The dark haired boy stood in front of the painting of Paris by Santini Armandus St. Valentin wondering how best to dislodge it. The thing was a veritable mural and would not be easy to carry.

"Step away from that and ..."

"Madison, nice to see you," Ottery replied smiling. "I thought you'd quit this racket."

"No, I just took up another one ..."

"Let me guess, Death Eater?"

"Try Death Stalker." Madison smirked. "Octavius wants that painting ..."

"Funny, I want Octavius," Ottery replied. "What? Did you really think this was you trapping me? Sorry honey, I'm a little bit older than all that ... I wasn't born yesterday you know." He smiled wickedly, then snapped his fingers.


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