Getting Theo and Draco to cooperate was stupidly simple. It wasn't a lie either. She told them she was executing revenge and wanted them to join. They just never expected it would be turned on them.

It was five minutes past the time Ginny was supposed to show up with the boys. Doubts began to flood her mind but were held at bay by the expression she held on her face earlier. Surely a brother's revenge ran deeper than Hermione's conscience.

"What the hell are we doing here, Flint?" Draco snarled.

Theo knew her slightly better. "What's in the bag, Lex?"

She saved herself from speaking to him, every time she looked him in the eye she had the urge to grab him by the shoulders and shake him.

I lied, Ginny has perfect timing.

She took a less peaceful route, she had a twin's ear pinched between her fingers, dragging them into the room.

I gave up on excuses, summoned four chairs into the middle of the room. Ropes came through next, tying each boy to a chair.

The girls stood in the middle of the circle next to a table. The boys jumped and shook, but even with all their quidditch training. None of them were strong enough to break the ropes.

Lexus had them right where she wanted. She reached into her bag pulling out four potions, one for each of them. They put into black vials so they couldn't make out the colors.

"There are four potions in front of you. All you have to do is drink one and then you can leave."

"Enough of the games. Untangle these now." Fred demanded.

"You don't want to know what your options are?" Ginny entered the middle, smiling between her two brothers that have pranked her all her life.

"It might be better to not know. Ignorance is bliss." Hermione considered.

Lexus's mouth dropped slightly, maybe Gryfinddor's golden girl had more to her than she expected.

"I should have known the Mudblood was here." Draco proved Hermione's actions were justified.

Lexus had to admit that in her younger life it was easier to hear the slur without understanding the problem. She was surrounded by purebloods, raised to believe they were the strongest witches and wizards to live. But she saw the way Hermione flinched when he said the word, the way her fist clenched into a ball. She noticed that the twin's anger had shifted from the ropes that trapped them to Draco. They might have punished him themselves if not for the restraint.

"It's a mouth like that got you into this mess, Malfoy." Ginny spit, not an ounce of pity in her eyes.

"What are the potions?" Theo spoke for the first time.

"Amortentia, Veritaserum, Polyjuice and Lock of Lust," Lexus smirked, taking a drink from her first coffee of the day with no worries. Everything was falling right into the plan. "From my personal stash, of course, off-market specialties. I took off the labels so I don't even know which is which."

It wasn't a total lie, she had worked with the potions long enough to predict what each was. But there was no way of knowing for sure unless she tested them out.

Draco scoffed, "My father-"

"My mother will hex the daylights out of your father if he even thinks about pointing his wand within ten degrees of me." Lexus snapped.

"Can't we talk about this?" Theo nearly pleaded, holding onto his protected cool by the nails.

"You missed the opportunity of civil conversation when you started your exploration of the different house's skirts." Ginny defended Lexus. Despite being younger and smaller, she had the feistiness to almost match Lexus's.

"You cheated on her?" Draco shook. "You bastard!"

"She's my favorite ginger." Lexus pointed to Ginny which she returned with a wink.

Ginny shrugged. "Mum saved the best for last."

George muttered swears under his breath. "If they are getting along, we are surely screwed."

"Who's name do you think they'll put first on our tombstone? Mine or yours?" Fred played the dramatics in his favor.

Of course, they didn't intend to kill them but losing their minds was not off the table.

"Theo, you're first." Hermione pointed at the four small vials on the table. Each hand-picked to assure embarrassment or regret. "Pick a number."

"I'm sorry, Lex."

Theo sighed looking at Lexus with the million-gallon eyes that melted girls. She liked them once upon a time herself. It didn't matter who he spoke to or how many girls talked about his captivating smirk because he was hers and she trusted him. But those eyes hadn't been hers for a long time. But she had only admitted to herself for the first time last night.

"Pick a number. Theo." She ordered, crossing her arms and standing with her newly bonded friends.

Theo had known her for about the same amount of time that he could create memories. He knew her. He understood his fate was set the moment he was tied to the chair. He was caught guilty, no trial or jury was needed, he needed to accept his sentence. "Two."

"Theo! Don't give in," Draco yelled at him.

"The sooner you choose the sooner you can get this over with," Hermione told them she wasn't as eager for what was to come, not in the same way Ginny and Lexus were. She stayed, against her better judgment, more than likely only to see Draco get pushed around for once.

Theo tilted his head back, keeping his smooth composer and locked emotions. He might have broken down and explained it all if it were just Lexus, they shared nearly everything with each other. But nearly wasn't enough this time. In protecting himself, he hurt her.

"Am I still allowed over for Christmas dinner?" Theo checked his standings on her best friend list.

His boyish grin always burned into her whenever she was mad. When Lexus was having her worst tantrums as a child, her parents would shove floo powder in her hand and send her up the chimney. After twenty minutes of talking to Theo, she would come back home like nothing when wrong. In all the ways possible she was fire and he was ice. And married or not, their souls were connected through his universe.

"It depends on how well you apologize after this." Lexus poured the contents into Theo's open mouth.

"Fair enough."

Theo bit back the awful taste of the vial, coughing as it went all the way down.

Lexus watched Theo shrink smaller and smaller, growing furry everywhere until it was just a little ferret sitting amongst the ropes. Lexus chuckled and picked up the creature, remembering how she made it after Mad-Eye Moody had the genius idea of turning Malfoy into a ferret. She dreamed of doing it herself. But as time one she simply forgot about it entirely. What a shame that Malfoy wouldn't have gotten the vial number two?

Ginny was sitting on the table, acting as a marketer of each vial to the rest of the boys. "Pick."

Theo nibbled on her finger, and then looked up and smiled at her. Acting a fool to ease her anger and maybe save the other boys. A desperate act.

They all shook their heads. Were they really thinking that denying a potion would get them anywhere? Surely Fred and George had been at the receiving end of her pranks long enough to know that Lexus never fails to serve revenge cold.

"Or we can choose for you," Lexus suggested.

Theo stood up in her hands, shaking his furry head back and forth wildly at the boys. Lexus had to look away to avoid laughing at the adorable thing.

"Three!" George yelled, not liking the idea of the choice being in our hands.

"George, I thought we were in this together!" Fred hollered as Ginny gladly poured the third vial down his throat, no idea herself what it could be.

"We are clearly not in control of this situation brother," George admitted, fear creeping into his veins as he watched Theo climb onto my shoulder and sit there. The tiny thing held onto a piece of my hair for security.

"You have three seconds to pick or we pick for you." Ginny grew impatient with the other twin.

Ginny had sixteen years of their pranks to make up for, it was hard to imagine she would resist taking this opportunity to her full advantage. Lexus could sit back and observe as Ginny did most of the work on her brothers, Hermione and Lexus just had to handle Draco, who might have been more stubborn than both the Weasley boys combined.

"Three, two..."

"Ginvera," Fred warned, wearing a stern glare Lexus had never seen before, she imagined he wore the same expression as his mother when she was chastising them.

"Frederick." She teased back playfully.

"Last chance." Lexus offered in a sing-song voice, looking at Draco, who must have hoped if he was quiet enough they would forget about him.

Draco's eyes bounced back and forth from ferret Theo to Lexus, "Lexus, I'm going to hex you into-

"-One." Ginny clapped her hands gently, picking up the remaining vials and throwing one to Lexus. She caught it, uncorking it. Fred held his mouth shut and refused to open it. Draco was putting up the same fight so she plugged his nose, making the only option to breathe to open his mouth. She quickly emptied the contents into his mouth and held it shut until he swallowed. She saw the movement of his adam's apple and knew it was on its way to his system. Draco tried to spit at Lexus but when she dodged it, the silva hit Theo instead. Lexus couldn't hold her laughs back anymore as the ferret shrieked in her ear.

"You're gonna pay for this." He sighed slowly.

"You'll try. " She leaned in, patting his shoulder