Fictober23

You lost it. Well, we lost it 11/10

Ominis was waiting for you in the castle courtyard, you asked for his help to study. You had been so busy with the Keepers and their trails that you were behind on all your assignments.

You thought the courtyard would be a nice spot, but you questioned your life choices on your way there from your last trial. There were still a few daylight hours left, but you were running late and didn't want to make Ominis angry.

"I'm he-here, so-sorry. I was ah... r-running some e-errands for Professor Fig. D-did I keep you waiting too l-long?" you leave your books beside him and sit on the grass. It was a pleasant afternoon, but you were out of breath and sweaty as if it was mid-summer.

"Not that much, I finished my essay on dittany and its uses. But please breathe, did you come running from his office in the Astronomy Wing?"

Actually, from a bit farther. You came running from the headmaster's office, but you didn't want to explain why.

"Yes"

"I'll start explaining while you recover, all right?" you were exhausted from the trial, and not in the mood for studying but you went ahead with it.

"Thanks" so you lay on the grass and listened to Ominis explain the latest lessons. When you could speak again you asked questions and he answered them patiently, he was a great tutor. Unlike Sebastian, who sometimes had this little attitude that pumped his ego when you didn't know something he did, especially if it was anything related to DADA.

You were about to finish when suddenly, you saw Garreth and Sebastian coming to you in a hurry.

"Guys, guys, guys! We need help" said Garreth "Sebastian fucked up."

"Me? Don't lie, Weasley. It is your fault."

"We know you made something stupid" interrupted Ominis "Just tell us what it is"

They shouted at the same time.

"Garreth lost a potion!"

"Sebastian lost a potion! "

"Was it one of your brewins Garreth?" you asked him, grateful for a break. You knew that if someone could distract you were these two.

" No, it was a potion for headmaster Black." explained Sebastian.

"Were you planning on poisoning him?" Ominis closed one of his books, ending the tutoring "I know nobody likes him, but it seems a little bit extreme"

"No, let me explain" Garreth sat facing you and Sebastian followed him and lay next to Ominis "Earlier I ran into headmaster Black, he asked to try my brews so I went to the potions classroom to stea... find some ingredients. Professor Sharp was there, we talked about it, and requested me to deliver a potion to the headmaster's office... and not give him any of my brews. But you would never guess what his potion was for!"

"A cure for boils?" you asked, even though you already knew the answer. Not laughing about it was harder than you thought.

"N... Yes, how do you know?" he looked at you up and down, probably wondering if you knew Legeremance.

"Oh Merlin, was I right?" you feigned surprise and finally laughed.

Of course, you knew about the potion. After all, it was you under the effects of a Polyjuice potion pretending to be Headmaster Black who had instructed Professor Sharp to have the potion delivered by a student.

"I know!" said Garreth, rapt for some reason "And I thought it was so funny I had to tell somebody and the first person I ran into was Sebastian."

"And of course, I thought it was hilarious. But we got a bit distracted talking about it and Garreth lost it."

"You lost it. Well, we lost it", admitted Garreth.

"And you came running to us why?" asked Ominis.

"For your help, for what other reason?" shouted Sebastian.

"Black being friends with my father doesn't mean I can save you from his punishment. But I ran into him earlier and something was wrong with him. He was acting odd."

"He is an odd man, that's perfectly normal" you were trying to cover up. You got really nervous earlier when you ran into Ominis disguised as Black, you almost asked him if he was still up for tutoring.

"MC, do you think you can help us make a new brew for the headmaster?" asked Garreth.

"I don't think so. I had never done it before, what if we poison him for real?" they didn't seem to mind about that, but you didn't need another thing to be worried about.

"Then what do we do?"

"Well, you have three options," suggested Ominis  "Brew a new one and hope you don't kill him, tell Sharp what you two idiots did, or buy one at J. Pippins."

Sebastian and Garreth looked at each other for a moment and answered at the same time.

"We'll take our chances with the brew."

You just laughed at them.

"Guys just tell Professor Sharp, I'm sure Black won't even remember Sharp was going to send it." you knew it for sure. Headmaster Black didn't even know his potion was ready. You wanted to tell your friends the truth, but it was too complicated and risky for them to know. Sebastian already knew too much for his own good. No, it was better to keep pretending, even if it made you feel alone sometimes. 

"J. Pippins is way too expensive. Not all of us can afford his potions, Ominis" Sebastian had a point.

"And if we tell Sharp, he is going to get mad at us" complained Garreth.

"At us? He asked you to deliver the potion, not me."

"If I'm going down you are coming with me Sallow. Besides Sharp already gave me detention for blowing up my cauldron yesterday." Garreth lay on the grass and looked at you "Can you at least come for support, MC?"

"Sure Garreth" You rub his arm to try and comfort him.

"Would you take my hand on our way there?"

"Um... sure" 

"And could you hug me before I tell Sharp?"

"What the hell Weasley?" Sebastian kicked Garreth on one of his legs.

"Auch!"

"Shut up" Ominis also kicked Garreth.

"AUCH"

"Let me tell you what you are going to do. I'll pay for the potion at J. Pippins if  you both deliver it to Black making all the fuss you can. Also, Garreth you are going to give him your craziest concoction.  And I won't be responsible for the consequences".

Sebastian and Garreth looked at each other for a brief moment.

"Deal" they said at the same time.

And they keep their word. They told everyone on the way to Hogsmeade and back, they made more fuss than you could have imagined and Ominis was trill. But only Merlin knew what happened to Black after he drank Garreth's potions, he stayed in his office for the next two weeks. Black gave them detention for the rest of the school year afterward, but every student heard about the headmaster's boils, and everyone kept laughing about it for the whole year.