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It was difficult to think when she was rubbing and kissing on him like that.....thank you very much.....and Gabriel giggled under her affection, trying to put the smallest amount of space between them. Nothing would get done at this rate.

"You shouldn't worry about that...." Poke! "...We love each other. That's not going to change just by taking some potion." The words were foolish and untrue, of course.....but Gabe honestly believed it in his current state of mind. Love was FUN.....AND FREEING....AND AMAZING.

Giggle.

"Come on. Help me figure this out..." More beaming smiles for yooooooooou. "I think we should incorporate....."


Jotting a few things down, he slid the paper over so his lady love could take a peek. "Hmm?"

Zahra was clearly struggling to think through what he was saying and how she was FEELING. In the end, she threw Gabe a huge, bright smile. "I'll let you do the thinking. You're the smartest in our whole year. You know way more than me." SO OKAY she'd help him! She'd do whatever he wanted, really. Read some dweeb novel? You bet! Translate some boring Egyptian tome? With her hand in Gabe's!

She turned her back to his front, but remained in the folds of his ROBES. His arms were MADE to be around her.

"Dragons are my favorite," she told him with a serious nod. "Definitely those. Those will make you love me MORE, I just know it."

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• Fluxweed sap
• Knotgrass
• Komodo dragon scales
• Essence of devil's snare
• Kisses (10000)
• Snogging (All day)
•

Looking around at his options, the Gryffindor shrugged and picked up the fourth one. Honestly, he didn't really know what the differences were, but erm- if it did anything to him like Gabe and Zahra then he'd just have to kindly excuse himself out of the classroom. ACTUALLY, no. This is exactly what Cinna said he needed. Snogging. Maybe he could nick one of the vials on his way out of the classroom. But for now, he'd stick with whatever the heck this potion was?

As he turned he noticed the Hufflepuff prefect -Marigold- practically running towards him mouthing something... Uh, was that partners? YES. He'd do it. She had to be smart too being prefect and all, so yes he nodded rather vigorously and showed her a bit of the vial he had in his hand. "We each choose one, right?"

SPOILER!!: Griff

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YAWWWWN!

Adi was feeling even more tired now. O_O Was that what the potion he consumed did? Adi rubbed his hands against his eyes. Nooooo! He could not afford to take a nap, thought that's what he wanted to do very much.

He looked over at AJ. Adi was keeping an eye on her. Yep. But nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary with her. So...back to Benny...who's head was in his hands. O_O

Adi struggled to his feet. He was suddenly feeling a bit weak. Gripping his work station (and still managing to wobble a bit), he went over to Benny. "What's wrong? Headache?'' Sure, he knew that Benny wasn't in any danger and that he himself was supposed to be watching the symptoms to figure out what potion had been consumed but that did not prevent his brotherly instincts from rising up.

Benny would count this as the negative effects of a potion. His head was pounding and he wasn't in truth fully aware of what was really up with the Hufflepuff beside him. His fellow fourth year that was currently speaking to him and asking him about what was up with him in turn. He went to shake his head not wanting to speak but stopped as the ache threatened to get worse in the process. "Yes..." he said quietly not looking up at Adi.

He moved his free hand to reach for his quill to right down the symptom, however his fingers missed grasping onto it the first...and the second time. Ben chanced a glance to try and focus on it to be successful a third time around only to see his hand shaking a little.

0_o What was that all about?

What was wrong now? Okay, thinking wasn't helping his headache any.

Dot took her potion at the same time as Sophie, although she kept an eye on the girl. You didn't get to choose, in this class, who falls for you, but it was nice to think it might be someone really interestin'. She sniffed at her potion, the one in the number 4 bottle, before finally taking a loooooooong sip of it.

Poison didn't taste half bad, did it? Smacking her lips, Dot turned back to her partner, who was basically falling apart on her. OH NO. WHAT HAPPENED? She cupped her Sophie's face in both hands and loooooooooked at her deeply. Poor Sophie. She was a goner, huh? Wasn't that hilarious? GONER. "Don't give up, Sophie-bo-bophie. I believe you can live FOREVER. I'll take care of you."

You know something else that was hilarious? This classroom with BLUE walls. So funny. And the way Sophie's hair was brown. And people kissing. And just... life. Funny. It made her feel like bubbles in her tummy. "I have a secret to tell you. But only if you promise TO FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE."

Kill him?

"Well, if you do, I won't be mad," Toby replied, still all smiley. 'Cause it was TRUE. He wouldn't be mad, not least because if she killed him he'd be too dead to be mad. But, y'know, he just wasn't the kind of person to get angry anyway. "I'll try my best too. And... let's try to keep each other on task, too." Because he could SEE other people in the class, and how distracted they were getting from the activity here. Toby knew that he was likely to be one of those people going off task, so... yeah... every little helps, sort of thing.

Right then. Time to neck these poisons. Vial clinking happened and then the drinking commenced. Toby swallowed the contents of what he was consuming, also trying to sort of work out if he recognised the potions or any of the ingredients at the same time, though it occurred to him that that might be cheating, and so he stopped. The fifth year set the empty bottle down on the desk and looked back at Eden.

Uh. Oh dear.

"... Eden?" Toby replied, giving her a little pokey-poke on the arm, instantly forgetting that he'd also drank a poison too, and that it was likely to come into effect any second now. "Wakey wakey eggs 'n' bakey!" Even as he spoke, a great big grin spread out across Toby's features. He smiled so wide his cheeks were already starting to ache, though that didn't bother him right now. Nope. Far too happy. "C'mon, E! We have some antidotes to brew; it's gonna be so super duper awesome fun!"

Could she tell? Could she TELL how FUN it was going to be? LOOK. LOOK AT THE SMILE ON HIS FACE. TOBY KNEW. TOBY KNEW HOW FUN THIS WOULD BE.

The Hufflepuff bounced in his chair, enthusiastic and exuberant and reADY FOR THIS FUN ANTIDOTING. Gosh. So happy. SO. HAPPY. MAN. LOOK AT HOW HAPPY HE WAS. HE FELT LIKE HIS HEAD COULD JUST EXPLODE FROM THE HAPPY.

Toby looked at Eden again, still bouncing and grinning and sO HAPPY to the extent that he even laughed aloud with how GOSH DARN HAPPY HE WAS.

"You can do it, Eden! I believe in you!" Tobias cheered on, beaming away and no longer able to simply sit in on his chair. He had to STAND because of all the HAPPY ENERGY. "Are you ill? Or sleepy? I can FIX that! I CAN!" Toby had forgotten that he was also under the effects of a poison, and being that he was so used to naturally feeling so elated, the idea that his happiness was a result of poison simply didn't occur to him. He bounced on his toes and suddenly collapsed into a fit of PROPER giggling, for no real reason other than he felt so HAPPY.

Toby TRIED to get himself together, but every time he calmed down and straightened up, he thought of something else funny and went right back to laughing so hard he thought he'd run out of air.

He had to stop. Had to stop and breathe and figure out the antidote and save Eden and be SUPER TOBES. The Hufflepuff looked up and through streaming eyes at his partner, using the image of her to sort of stop himself laughing and focus on the fact that he was meant to be helping her. And it helped. Or, well... he could at least draw breath now. Hehe.

The Gryffindor twirled the rest of the back to her seat. She sat down in her seat. Time to start putting clues together, to see what poison Maddie had gotten. Aww she was tired? That was a good clue. Tiredness. She turned you the younger girl. Could it be a sleep potion or a fatigue potion. That narrowed it down. Sleeping potion though. One couldn't do a final sleeping.

She should collect more data. She didn't need to assume anything yet. Ah but she was just so happy so happy. She might even jump up on the table and jump up and down on it. Maybe even running around and do cartwheels. But wait no she had figure out Maddie's poison and do a antidote for it. For a moment she glanced over at two people snogging in class. WHAT??? And Culloden was laughing about it? She would have to remember that. *insert happy potion induced snickering here*

Cinna was half tempted to pat Maddie's head when she rested it on the table. Oh, did she need a minute? Okay. Man she was tired. She waited a minute.

Okay Maddie was good to good now. She nodded, with a huge smile, "I'm great. I've never been happier in my whole life." More smiling and happy bouncing in her seat. "I'm just sooooo happyyyyyy." She squealed and their was a lot Meeps and Epppps going on too.

This was it. The end of Sophie Brown's little life. Big dreams, all to waste...

...But her body reached a certain point where it stopped feeling progressively more and more miserable and leveled out so she just felt miserable, but it didn't keep getting so bad that she died. Her whole body just felt weak and droopy and she didn't want to move ever again. She didn't feel like she had the strength to even lift her hands and swat Dot's hands away from her face - she just let it happen, a pouty expression on her face even though Dot looked so HAPPY.

Really... REALLY happy.

Which did brighten her spirits and make her remember what was going on - they had just poisoned themselves, and it seemed that Sophie had chosen the wrong one of the two bottles. Ah, well... better for her to be miserable than Dot, right? And Dot was kind of funny like this, enough that Soph wanted to smile, but it felt like so much work. So she forced a little laughter, even though her expression remained mellow. "Even though I'm pretty sure the muscles in my body all just stopped working on me... I'll fight." And this would be over soon enough, wouldn't it? They just had to... brew an antidote for each other.

But... "I promise. What's your secret?" Just because she was wildly curious.

............BLUSH.

Mini SNOG!BREAK.

When Zahra complimented his thinking like that......It made Gabe feel some kind of way. A very.....veeeeery good some kind, too. He liked being thought about as smart...and the smartest. It was literally the best thing......Uh, Gabe's cheeks glowed with his growing flush.

.....and he especially liked that she chose to remain in his arms. SNUGGLES WHILE WORKING. Gabriel Banner liked this very much. "All I'm looking at is what's used in known counter potions....I think we could pair the lot with a bit of then purified water.....and it should work just fine.".......for others. Not for them. THEY were reeeeeally in love, thank you very much.

A'www......Zahra had altered his notes again. He kissed at the back of her head.

"I need to start brewing.....Can you sit with me while I work?"......Gabe really didn't like the idea of her going anywhere. Would she stay....? Please.....? He felt almost desperate at the thought......or her leaving.

O.o !

Eden had closed her eyes...a few times...she wasn't sleepy, darn it. She was just so...ugh. Drained. DRAINED was the perfect word. She sighed and reached out to pet the giggling Toby...he was...rather happy wasn't he? Remembering that they had to brew things for each other--Eden sat up...and moooooaned. "Toby--quit---it--" she said slowly, and she blinked a lot at her book.

Book.

What was she doing again? Her mind was so sloppy and messy that she had to take in the words 'potions' a few times before she knew what was going on. And when she heard Toby's laughter--was he under a...cheering potion? Or something? She opened a few pages of her book--and kept flipping in the slow, drowsy way..."I...I think....I'll need....--" and she was losing focus again. Her brain was coming so close to just...shutting down her thought processes. And she was slumping over again--and then that LAUGH. Toby's laugh was pulling her back-and she tried her best to flip to the correct page. "T-Toby--do you know how...to...fix a happiness draught?" Or something similar...Eden didn't even know where to BEGIN.

"And I'm not sleepy, Tobes--" she blinked a lot in tiredness. "I...I feel...exhausted...like I've been..running on E or something--" Would he get the car reference? Eden was too tired to know the difference.

Poor Sophie. Dot felt really REALLY very bad for her, and so she immediately parked herself in Sophie's lap and gave her rather violent cuddles. Cuddles made everything better, even feeling like you were going to die. Sophie wasn't cuddling her back, but that's because she was poisoned. Dying and stuff. Terrible.

It made Dot SMILE.

"She's a fiiiiiiighter, this Sophie of mine," Dot sang a new song on the spot, picking up each of Sophie's hands and letting them fall limply back to the desk. "She's gonna live, 'cause I beliiiiiiiiiiieve in her." Now the hands were being pulled over Dot's shoulders like the sleeve of an empty sweater. LOOK THEY WERE HUGGING.

"Secrets. Okay. We're best friends, you and me. And I'm going to make you an antidote RIGHT NOW, okay? And also, the third thing is that I don't want you to fix me 'cause this is the best I ever felt in my whole life and why wouldn't I want to be happy forever and ever if I could be? I used to be sad, 'cause Dima is mad at me and I can't get Maddie to like me back and my parents threw me away, but NOW I AM SO HAPPY. So, I'll fix you okay? I think you something we in the medical profession call 'Broken Sophie Syndrome.'"

...What?

Her mental and emotional state unaffected by the poison, Sophie felt BETTER in those ways when Dot was cuddling her and trying to make her feel better, UNTIL the girl said some very concerning things. Things... that... if Dot knew she was saying, she would probably be very embarrassed, wouldn't she? Guh. Soph briefly debated on whether to pretend like she hadn't heard those things at all or if she should coddle the poor child. But the last bit of what Dot said made her laugh again, though she still felt too weak to properly hug the girl back. No... she would stay just like this - limp in the chair - for as long as she could. Needed to save her energy for... the brewing of SOME kind of antidote, whether she would actually give it to Dot or not.

But right now, she was leaning toward not.

"I have to brew one for a grade, but..." She lowered her voice so only the Dot in her lap could hear her, "What if... at the end of class, after Culloden checks it out, you just don't drink it? You can pretend, then leave class and keep feeling like this. But I do need you to brew a proper one for me, though, please, 'cause... we don't want me to die like this, y'know? I need a strength potion." Nothing wrong with diagnosing herself, yeah? "I have... a whole page of notes on it for you, if y'wanna use 'em, with really super detailed stuff - we made it last term, so I wrote down everything important along the way. S'better than textbook stuff."

Weakly and grunting a litle, she lifted her arm, letting it rest on the table as she slowly flipped through her notebook till she got to the page that was labeled Strength Potion. "I have good handwriting. Should be good."

Oh yes, the answer came to Jasmine suddenly. She was supposed to be brewing an antidote for her partner. She had promised not to let her down and she wouldn't. It sounded like Zhenya was really sick. She could see it in her eyes, even before she listed her symptoms. Jasmine took a moment to write them down in her notebook. Then she flipped through the pages, trying to find a record of a poison that would cause those symptoms.

While she looked, her mind kept wandering to Kevin. Jasmine tried to keep her focus, but it wasn't easy. His pull was just too strong. "His name is Kevin and be's wonderful. I know he's the perfect one for me." Jasmine continued to talk as she now searched her textbook for answers. She was so unbelievably smitten, it was hard not to be consumed with thoughts of her true love. However when she looked at the girl lying on the floor with her head in a cauldron, she couldn't help but want to cure her. Kevin would have to wait......for now, but Jasmine would have to pay him a visit very soon.

Turning her attention back to Zhenya, Jasmine said, "Don't worry, I'm going to find something to make you feel better. I have an idea." Jasmine flipped through her book, looking for information to support her idea. Maybe she should run it by Kevin first. He was a genius at potions. Handsome and smart. What more could she want?

Dot nodded in what she thought was a very serious and solemn way, although she was also grinning hugely and occasionally making falling over from laughing, but MOSTLY she was very serious. They'd brew the two potions and Sophie would take hers and Dot wouldn't take hers and she'd be happy forever. Just like this. Perfect.

"I knew what you needed already. Strength potion. Because you..." Dot considered her options from the class they'd had so far, resting her head on Sophie's shoulder while she thought. "You have the Physically Weakening Potion. And the way to fix it is a Strength Potion. And I knew that." Just so Sophie knew that Dot could do this. She knew. She did.

"OKAY POTION TIME." Dot climbed off Sophie's lap so she could open up her book and Sophie's notebook. Now where was her cauldron? OH RIGHT! Dot scuttled back to where her supplies were still located and put her cauldron on her head so she could carry everything. "I'M BLIND. SOPHIE. Giggle!snort SOPHIE." Dot ran into the workstation cauldron-first and tipped over onto the floor. That was AWESOME.

Quit it. Right. Quit it.

Hoooooooookay. Right. Yup. QUITTING IT WAS COMMENCING.

Toby tried very very very hard to calm down, even sort of clamped his lips together with his teeth to stop giggling, but he was still very clearly smiling. He let out a few more giggles through his nose and noted how Eden was looking at her book. EXCELLENT IDEA. And a great distraction too. Tobias pulled his own towards him and started aimlessly flipping through it, having forgotten what he was doing already.

He'd been looking through at the illustrations of ingredients when Eden's voice drew his attention again. Toby looked around at her, GRINNING SO WIDELY that you could probably see all his pearly whites, and then SUDDENLY remembered the task he was supposed to be doing. Boy, almost forgot. WHOOPS.

"A Happiness Draught?" he repeated, looking thoughtfully around the room and still BEAMING SO WIDELY LIKE GOSH. "Like... like the Elixir to Induce Euphoria?" Toby looked back at Eden, still BEAMING and BOUNCING and probably using enough energy for the both of them. It was like he'd SAPPED Eden and made her so... so... 'running on E'. "I suppose you look at the ingredients and-" BUT WAIT. Fix... why did she want... oh. OH. HAD HE HAD THE HAPPINESS DRAUGHT? That was hilarious. A voice at the back of Toby's mind told him that it was actually not at all funny, and perhaps the worst potion he could have picked, but THIS HAPPY TOBY probably would have smiled even wider if he could. "There's no need to fix me, I'm... I'm so happy. So happy I could sing." But he wouldn't yet. Had a job to do and all.

"Hey. Hey. Hey, Eden. Eden, Hey. Hey. Eden. Hey. Good news!" Toby spoke as he flipped through the pages of his textbook before stopping and bookmarking one in particular. "I know what potion you've had! Fatiguing Fusion. I can try to fix that, a...nd IIIIIII wiiIIIiiill tryyyYYY, to fix youuuuuuuuu." Twirrrrrrrrl.

Aaaaaand there was the singing. And dancing. Merlin.

"I know you knew," she offered Dot a soft smile. "You're a smart girl." Soph didn't entirely doubt that Dot knew what she needed, but... she was a LITTLE skeptical that she knew ENTIRELY what exactly Sophie was suffering from AND the potion that would combat her symptoms best... though she HAD just figured out what was likely the poison she had drank, yes. She didn't verbalize her thoughts, of course, because she very much liked this happy Dot and wanted her to stay a happy Dot. Of course, the poison probably would keep anything from hindering the girl's mood, but... she didn't want to take any chances.

Though she wouldn't admit it, Sophie had kind of enjoyed Dot's cuddles - she assumed that's what it was like for Cat when Soph cuddled up to her like that. It made her feel... admired and important, but the Ravenclaw tried not to linger too long on the thought - surely once Dot was back to normal, she wouldn't want to be best friends with Sophie anymore, right?

That kind of thinking made it easy for Soph to get right down to business.

She mustered the energy to flip through her own textbook, knowing exactly where the potion she wanted to find was in it - the Calming Draught. Dot was very clearly overly excited and maybe her potion was the Elixir to Induce Euphoria, and though there were potions that could have given Dot the opposite effect to that - like a Sadness Draught, perhaps - Sophie didn't think Dot NEEDED an antidote that would make her the complete opposite and worried that even a little bit of a draught like that would STILL make the girl too sad. No, she didn't want to potentially send the girl spiraling at all - it was about finding a middle ground, right? Leveling out Dot's emotions to a normal, calm state compared to the manic one she was in now? She knew the Calming Draught brought relaxation to the drinker, so... that seemed like the best antidote to this particular potion she could think of. It was a safe choice.

At least, if SHE had drank Dot's potion, she wouldn't have wanted to take one that could make her sad instead - she'd want one just to mellow her out, so that's what she would brew for the Slytherin, even if the second year didn't want to drink it. So she started looking for the materials she'd need for the draught and planning which ones she would need to find from the storage, when... Dot was suddenly on the floor.

Oh.

"You okay?" Soph would normally try to offer the girl a hand to help her up, but she didn't currently have the physical strength to do that. The girl was spunky, though, so she'd bounce right back up, wouldn't she? Also at that moment she caught sight of a dancing, singing Tobes. Heeeeeeeeeeeheheheh. He must have consumed the same poison as Dot, she guessed. Too cute.

Everyone had partners, EVERYONE...

... except him. Boooooo. Of course nobody wanted to work with a firstie who failed their project. That meant they'd be doomed to be rescued by Professor Culloden. Ugh. Boo. HE WANTED TO PLAAAYY...

...

It was like muggle school all over again, last to be picked for important things.

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Kace heard they were doing the final!? GULP! He wasn't nervous or anything ya know. He would play it cool. Now he needed to find a potion and find a partner. That shouldn't be too bad. He walked around and was scouting partner, he saw Lux and Cinna being taken and he grinned. He saw the little lion Zeke there and he smiled. He thought why not work with this little guy. There time doing the COMC homework was fun times. He walked over to him and tapped his shoulder. "Need a partner..?" he asked with a smile.

But then, feeling a tapping on his shoulder, he turned to see Kace.

ZOMG!!!! SOMEONE WANTED TO BE HIS PARTNER!!!

"Yes... please, I promise I won't kill you," he said with all sorts of seriousness to the Hufflepuff.

"Shall we choose our poisons?" he asked. Not wanting to waste time, Zeke rose from his seat and made his way around the front row to the Professor's desk to claim one of the black bottle, his eyes though were still on Kace as he waited for a reply.

Consequently, he selected lucky RANDOM bottle number two, which unbeknownst to him was the infamous love potions stuff he'd been taught to despise. Bottle in hand, Zeke tried to inspect it - which was impossible considering the black bottle - and then peered to his partner. "This is it, I guess," he shrugged, pulling out the stopper and DOWNING the liquid within it in ONE clean shot. It tasted, funny.

Zhenya had recovered slightly and had peeled herself off the ground and back onto her chair. She dumped her cauldron onto the desk and looked at her notebook with dot points on it about Jasmine's symptoms. All she saw was that the Ravenclaw prefect was happy. Well, she was definitely HAPPIER than she was when lesson started. And she seemed to be concentrating on something other than Zhenya, which she really shouldn't have been too cross about. Zhenya was, after all, concentrating on her own sickness.

WAIT A MINUTE!!

It was the poison Jasmine had drank.
IT WAS HAPPINESS POISON!
Wait… No, something 'happy' wouldn't end in 'poison'. No, that would be like a happy potion. Like an elixir. Maybe it was something more than that. When would happiness be a bad thing?
When… Zhenya tried to think hard.

OH ENOUGH ABOUT KEVIN!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Wait… Zhenya looked around at her partner. "Are you, like… dating Kevin or… do you just like him?" Perfect one for her? Zhenya's eyes enlarged. She was gobsmacked, really, I mean what was she thinking? Zhenya couldn't believe how frustrated and surprised she was at her partner for being so… in love with someone! No, wait, it was just nausea. She didn't care that her partner was in love with Kevin, that was good. Everyone deserved a bit of love.

Oh but she really felt sick..

"BLEUGHHHHHH," she yelled, vomiting into her cauldron.

"EWWW!" she squealed. "Jasmine do you know the… oh I remember it," she pointed her wand at her cauldron and said "Scourgify," and the vomit disappeared. That was good, vomit was gross. Besides, she needed her cauldron to brew a potion, not as a vomit carrier.

"Thank you Jasmine," she said quietly, feeling the nauseous wave hit her again.

Well, now people were really acting crazy. Brooklyn just stayed in her seat and watched for quite a while, observing it all with a sort of detached interest. As far as she was concerned, the activity Professor Culloden had set for them was worth observing. It could come in useful later on, if she ever needed to know what poisons to use to get what she wanted. The first year knew what she wanted, after all, and it certainly wasn’t acting like a stupid person. Although she also knew participating would keep the professor on her side in it all, would keep him liking her, so the redhead finally got up out of her seat to approach the tray. She’d already decided she was going to pick her bottle first, then deal with finding a partner. Especially since, at some point during her stalling, her seat partner had gone off and asked someone else to be hers.

Brooklyn would remember that. But for now, she needed a partner and no one seemed like they needed one. Until she heard someone being rather rude, and her blue eyes swiveled over to see a Hufflepuff. Of course. She walked over, though. “Obviously nobody wants to,” she observed, eyeing the fingers drumming. “But I don’t have one either.” So they might as well pair up. She wasn’t going to do anything like those other two older students who were kissing though. No matter what was in the bottle currently in her hand, she’d never stoop so low as to do that.

Cinna really was the most beautiful person he had ever seen and Kevin did not get why he never saw her before. He sighed lovingly when Jasmine suddenly waved at him. He waved back , still with the stupid grin on his face but she wasn't as beautifully glowing like Cinna. Cinna was just...perfect. "Do you think her hair is as soft as it looks?" he sighed when turning around to find his partner, Lux was already busy with her potion. Oh right! This was a test!

Battling with his willpower to turn back around and stare at Cinna some more, Kevin slapped his cheek to try and keep him focused and looked at Lux yawning and being all tired. Was she just tired or was it the potion effect she drank earlier? Wait...he knew that potion! Faty something...it was something with an F!

Focusing on the letter F and not Cinna, the Gryffindor grabbed his potions book and turned to the index in the back. Finding the letter F he used his finger to hover over the words until he found it. Fatiguing fusion! that's what she drank right? Thinking he was right, Kevin flipped to the right page and went to get the ingredients necessary for this antidote.

But as he walked to the cupboard , he had to pass Cinna and his heart was beating so fast the closer he got to her. His cheeks turned redder and redder and as he walked passed her he couldn't take it anymore. He HAD to confess his UNDYING LOVE for her! He spun around and took a deep breath, he then waved his wand while muttering an incantation transfigurated a big bouquet of flowers.. "C-C-CINNA?!" he yelled because everyone had to SEE and HEAR this beautiful moment! He got down on both knees and held the bouquet out with stretch arms. "I - I LOVE YOU!" his voice came out high pitched but he continued anyways. " I LOVE YOU SO MUCH! you're...you're the most beautiful girl i've ever seen and and...i want to be your boyfriend!" Cue the puppy dog eyes~

Ehm...Lux ...hurry up O__o

So Lux had noooooot just fallen asleep with her cheek resting against her notes, leaving a blue smudge mark on her face when Kevin's loud love declaration woke her up.

After rubbing her eyes, she redhead gazed at her partner, feeling sorry for him. This would be hilarious if it wasn't so embarrassing but she still couldn't help laughing a little because....she didn't even know.

Poor Cinna though.

She supposed she ought to do something to help Kevin, but she couldn't remember what until she glanced the notebook on the table in front of her. The writing was kind of smudged, but apparently she needed to brew a love potion antidote. It was probably a good idea to write the recipe down even though she'd much rather not do anything when she had no strength.

Slowly she wrote down the recipe into her notes:

SPOILER!!: Lux's Notes

POTIONS FINAL

Lux Carrington
Fourth Year
Hufflepuff

Partner: Kevin Hirase
Potion: Love Potion
Antidote: Love Potion Antidote

Love Potion Antidote

Ingredients:
Wiggentree twigs
Castor oil
Extract of Gurdyroot

Recipe:
1. Add four Wiggentree twigs, or until the potion turns green.
2. Stir until the potion turns orange.
3. Add castor oil until the potion turns blue.
4. Stir until the potion turns purple.
5. Add extract of Gurdyroot until the potion turns red.
6. Add Wiggentree twigs until the potion turns green.
7. Add Extract of Gurdyroot until the potion turns purple.
8. Leave the potion to simmer till it turns red.
9. Add more gurdyroot extract till it turns green.
10. Stir till it turns orange.
11. Add seven Wiggentree twigs.
12. Allow to simmer till it turns pink.

Blink.

None of that even made sense to her. Her brain was too tired to function.

Aha. Benny had a headache. And by the looks of it, his reflexes weren't that good. Hmm...Adi tried to put the symptoms together but honestly, he did not have much to go on. Yet.

He on the other hand, wanted very much to go back to his seat. The muscles in his feet felt very out of it. "Think I'll go take my seat again. My feet feel like they will collapse at any minute.'' With the aid of him fingers weakly gripping the workstations, Adi hobbled back to his seat before collapsing with relief onto the chair.

YAWWWWN!
YAWWWWNNNN!

Merlin! These yawns were coming a lot quicker now. Maybe he could shut his eyes for a few moments. The Hufflepuff eased his head against the back of the chair and closed his eyes.

This was a whole lot better.

Norah had been busy trying to ignore all of the weird kissy stuff going on when she heard someone approaching her. WOOOT! She sprung out of her chair, fully prepared to give the little firstie a hug for being nicer than everybody else in the dungeon when the little girl began to speak. Oh. So she wasn't being nice at all. Actually, she was being rather rude herself and the second year felt her smile fade a little bit. She opened her mouth to retort, and then closed it again, because she didn't really have anything mean to say back. The firstie was right, after all, it looked like nobody had noticed her, and if she was mean to this little one then she'd have no partner at all. Plus hugging was much more fun than being mean any day.

Norah made an effort to smile at the girl and simply replied, "Okay. I'm Norah." She considered adding that she didn't know anything about antidotes but then maybe the firstie would leave her for someone who knew a lot. That seemed like something this firstie would do. But THAT was a mean thing to think so the second year shot an apologetic look at the girl just in case she could read her mind or something, and pushed a curl from her eyes so she could see the bottle in the girl's hand. "I'll get a number four too then, so we can figure out what antidote to make together." AND if she embarassed herself by kissing people, then the little girl would do. Norah was so busy imagining that she DID get that crazy kissy potion and she would get cooties and DIE that she didn't even relish the fact that for the first time ever she was working with someone that she was a little bit taller than. What a miracle.

Skipping over to the table, the Hufflepuff grabbed a bottle labeled number four and skipped back to the girl. "okay, drink on three? 1....2....3!" Norah closed her eyes and downed the contents of the bottle in one gulp. She started to make a face at the funny taste, when suddenly she didn't notice it anymore. It wasn't funny, it was beautiful! The dungeon, the dungeon was beautiful too! The WHOLE WORLD was SO beautiful that she felt the need to start bouncing on her toes and twirling in between the desks. "WHEEEE! Wheee wheee wheeee!
She cried at the top of her lungs as she continued to twirl. Getting dizzy, she stopped twirling and looked to see Zahra snuggling with a boy. Good for her! Love was BEAUTIFUL. She pranced over to slap the girl a high five and then did little leaps until she reached her chairs again. There was a girl there. Hi girl. She gave the girl a hug and smiled until her dimples began to cramp, but she didn't notice. So, she began to sing. I feel pretty! Oh so pretty! I feel pretty and witty and....wait. Are we supposed to be DOING something on this fine day? I''m faaaar to happy to DOOOO things. SSEEEE?" She attempted a high kick and giggled madly when it didn't work. Hi people. Hiiiii. He hehehehhe.

Ian had been so busy trying to keep up with note taking and potion/poison concerns that he didn't think he was going to do very well in this class. Of course Professor Cosgrach had learned to encourage Ian, even though Ian was completely and hopelessly inept at this class.

He looked to the blackboard to figure out the potion work to be done in class, but he wasn't sure who he might partner with. He looked around to see if anyone else was still available/looking for someone to work with.

Zhenya was up, that was good. Jasmine hoped that she was feeling a little better. Looking over the list of her partner's symptoms, Jasmine had narrowed down her diagnosis. It couldn't be a fatiguing potion because Zhenya was sick, not tired. Then, there it was. Nausea, headache, dizziness, weakness. "I think I've got it." Could Zhenya be the victim of a common poison? All of the symptoms fit. That had to be it.

Unfortunately, Zhenya picked that moment to ask about Kevin and Jasmine was off track again. "Dating? No we're not dating, but we will be soon because I love him so much." As Jasmine was about to go on about Kevin, her partner picked that moment to empty her stomach into her cauldron. "Oh.....um, better out than in I guess", Jasmine said. She really felt badly for Zhenya. She'd better brew that potion quickly.

Before Jasmine could help, Zhenya cleaned her cauldron. Just to be safe, Jasmine repeated the task. Pointing her wand at the cauldron she said, "Scourgify" Wouldn't want any chunks ending up on the antidote potion now would they?

OMG, Kevin waved back at her and smiled. "He loves me too!", Jasmine said to herself. "Ummm, I'll be right back, she said to her partner. And off she went to make her love connection.



Jasmine followed Kevin, ready to declare her love for him. She was so happy she was ready to burst. But wait.......why was he talking to another girl? And saying WHAT? "Kevin!", Jasmine yelled just a little too loudly. "What are you doing? How can you say you love this girl when you know I love you? I LOVE YOU! Forget about her, I'm the one for you." No this this chick wasn't trying to steal her Kevin. Oh I dont think so. There was about to be a cat fight up in Potions class.

Never been happier in my whole life. Maddie would've raised her eyebrows if she thought she could manage it. Because while Cinna seemed nice and pleasant most of the time, she didn't strike the second year as the type to get this jazzed about a potions final. She also didn't seem the type to squeal and bounce for NO reason. That HAD to be what her potion had done to her. It was some kind of Elixir to Induce Euphoria or something. Happiness potion. Boy, had Maddie picked wrong.

"M'glad," She said tiredly as she pulled her potions notes very slowly towards her. "And I think it'd make you even happier if you could help me." She managed the weakest of smiles towards the older Gryffindor and then turned towards her notes again.

As she flipped through in search of the correct antidote, Maddie's eyelids began to droop. Heavy lids and slightly watery eyes due to yawning made it extremely hard for her to read her own handwriting and it was beginning to frustrate her. "I know-" Flip. Flip. "I wrote this down-" Flip. Flip. "Somewhere..." But she couldn't FIND the antidote and she couldn't READ her writing and she was FAILING. Stupid potion. The thirteen year old's chin wobbled and she leaned back against the chair, letting her eyes fall shut.

"I feel like I'm going to melt right into this chair. My head is so heavy, Cinna. My body is so heavy too." She was going to be stuck there FOREVER because she was too tired to move. Chair!Maddie. She was failing. She was sleepy. And her eyes were beginning to tear up. "I can't do it." Sniff. Sniff. WIBBLE! She tried to bring a hand to her face to wipe the water that was LEAKING from her eyes. It was annoyingly hard to do and she stubbornly brushed off the tears with her sleeve, hoping that nobody was paying attention to her. She NEVER cried in public and this was NOT her day.

Hearing someone confessing his love to her partner was enough to get her to open her eyes again and stop all the wibbly business. He was a distraction and she couldn't have Cinnamon engaging him.

"Hey Cinnamon? Will you come work with me over here? It'll be FUN to work together, yeah?" Not really, at least not for Maddie, but hopefully the Gryffindor girl would take the bait.