For The Love of Pranks! I Love You!

Beautiful Creatures

"Whatcha doin' Love?" Fred asks over my shoulder Saturday afternoon.

"Just working on the antidotes for our snackboxes. We should be able to start testing soon." I say with a smile at him as he sits next to me on the couch.

"You're amazing you know that?" He says kissing my forehead. "Mum sent a letter, said she's going come up here to watch Harry in the tournament."

"Really? Well that'll be nice for Harry. Poor kid, not only did the Slytherins make those nasty badges, your brother's being a right prat to him you know?"

"What's new? Ron's always a prat." He says with a laugh. "And those badges..we're working on how to fix those."

"That'll be awesome. You know, while your mother's here, we can't work on our products.." I say and he gets a thinking look on his face.

"That's okay. We'll figure something out." He says, suddenly Harry comes stomping down from the boys stairs, not looking very happy.

"You alright Harry?" I ask, sitting up slightly.

"I'm fine. It's just...the champions, we have to go and weigh our wands and I don't want to be there. They all think I'm a cheat." He mumbles.

"Harry, like we said, it doesn't matter what they think, as long as we know you didn't put your name in. Don't worry about it okay."

"I'll try. Thanks for having my back Evelyn." He says with a smile.

"Any time." And he heads out of the common room.

"Oh!" Fred exclaims slapping his hands to his legs. "I got a letter from Charlie the other day, how would you like tonight, we go and visit him?"

My eyes light in excitement, at the thought of not only sneaking out with Fred but seeing another one of my favorite Weasley's.

"He's here?! Of course! Let's go."

"Wow Paws, seems like you're more excited to see him than you are to see me."

"Oh shut up! You know I love you. Charlie is just one of my favorites. And anyways, I see you all the time." I say simply waving it off.

"That hurts Evelyn."

"I said he is one of my favorites not my only favorite."

"Cuz that would be me right?"

"No it's actually George—"

"Hey!"

"You know I'm only joking." I say as he pouts and faces away from me.

"And I was going to bring you to see dragons... Now I don't know if I should."

"He brought the dragons! Fred you know how I love dragons. And anyways I was only playing—"

He turns around with a giant grin on his face, that loser was never really upset.

"You take everything so seriously Evey. I was just joking. Who else would I take to see Charlie and break curfew with at the same time?" He laughs and brings me into a hug.

Later that night, we meet back in the common room, and with the knowledge of our short cuts we avoid Flitch and the teachers, and safely make it to the Black Lake.

"Didn't think you two would ever make it." Charlie says with a smile, and I wrap him in a hug, which he quickly returns.

"Missed you too Evey." He says with a chuckle, and I grab Fred's hand Charlie begins to lead us to where they're keeping the dragons.

Each step I bounce along and both brothers laugh at me.

"A bit excited Evelyn?" Charlie asks, as we get closer you can feel the heat from the dragons in the air.

"You know I've always loved dragons Charlie. Thank you for letting us come and see them!"

"It was actually Fred's idea, to bring you to see them."

"Really?" I say looking at Fred, and I can see a slight blush even in the dark.

"I know how much you like them, so I asked Charlie and well here we are."

I stretch up on my toes to give him a loving kiss on the cheek, making him blush and hit his brother when he laughs at him.

"We brought four dragons with us. One for each champion, Dumbledore told us they're going to be in the first task. That way we can get them back to the sanctuary as soon as possible."

"Do they not like to be away for long?" I ask as Charlie leads us closer.

"Well it's usually their choice to leave, but we used a Sleeping Draught and well, they didn't like that too much."

We come to the camp where we see the other handlers fighting to control and subdue the angry dragons, and yeah...they're a little pissed.

"We've got the Hungarian Horntail, over there a Common Welsh Green, a Swedish Short-Snout and of course, a Chinese Fireball." Pointing to each as he calls them out.

"They're beautiful. Thank you Fred, and thanks for showing us around Charlie." I say with a big grin, squeezing Fred's hand in excitement and thanks.

Heading back to the common room later, I can't help but worry about Harry. Hopefully he'll get an easier dragon to deal with.

"Thank you Fred. Tonight was really great."

I say with a huge smile as we get passed the Fat Lady, and he stops us at the base of the girls staircase.

"Anything for you Love." He says with a smile, and he leans in to kiss me goodnight.

"Goodnight Freddie."

"Goodnight Evelyn."

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"Evelyn!" I hear my name early Saturday morning in the common room, turning my head to see its Harry that called.

"How are you Harry?" He sits quickly next to me, but fiddles nervously with his hands making me worry.

"Well...actually. The first task...its dragons." He whispers to me and I feel my eyes widen.

"How did you find out Harry?" I say seriously. The champions aren't supposed to know about the challenges.

"Honestly, Hagrid showed me. But what am I supposed to do against a dragon?"

"I dunno what they're gonna make you do, but I always find a good Summoning Charm can be helpful in bringing whatever you need." I say and that gets him thinking.

"You still have a couple days to figure out what you're gonna do, so just think about it okay?"

He just nods, mumbles a thank you, and heads back up the staircase to  ponder and worry some more.