In Which The Love Triangle Begins

Antanasia entered the Slytherin common room, and saw Scorpius waiting for her, as well as a pissed off Lacey. She frowned, having forgotten about her. She sighed, then walked up to Scorpius. "Good morning, Scorp," she kissed his cheek lightly, causing Lacey to teeter on the edge of an emotional breakdown. Antanasia grabbed Scorpius's hand and dragged him to the Great Hall before Lacey could do any damage.

Scorpius smiled when he saw Antanasia, then frowned in concern as he glimpsed Lacey's death glare. What could she possibly do to the vampire, seeing as he was there and Anta was, well...a vampire? Still, he was surprised when she ushered him away so hastily to the Great Hall, and for the first time ever, he could sense fear coming off her. "Anta, relax, please? She can't hurt you."

Vasili saw Malfoy and his girlfriend enter the hall, and watched them from the corner of his eye as they finally got to the Slytherin table for breakfast.

Vasili decided to distract himself and read over the daily papers, not much going on, except for the preperations for the World Quidditch Cup, which he was very excited about going to this year as a matter of fact.

Antanasia poured herself a goblet of blood and sipped it, "What's your first class today, Scorp?" She hoped they shared a class, knowing they probably didn't. So she wasn't too terribly disappointed when he shrugged and said, "Tranfiguration, what do you have?"

"Potions," she replied. "I just hope Lacey decided to drop the class over the summer, I don't need her trying to kill me while brewing whatever concoction Slughorn has us create."

He scowled at the mention of Lacey, "Anta, she won't harm you. I won't let her, and God knows I won't let her near me if she does."

She smiled weakly and kissed his cheek, "Thanks, Scorpius...we should probably head to class now." She hated being late for classes, especially for Potions, where Slughorn would just stare disappointedly at her.

Vasili quickly finished his foot and headed to Potiions, hopefully there would be time to ask Slughorn for advice. Slughorn wasn't as good as Snape was but, no teacher is better than any teacher he supposed.

Vasili hadn't been around for a week so he didn't know who was in this class actually. Hopefully not too many Slytherin's were around or things might get ugly in the Potions class room fast.

Antanasia entered the Potions dungeon, desperately hoping Lacey wasn't there. She smiled in relief as she didn't see Lacey, and took a seat quietly in the middle of the room, and began to dig her Potions book out of her bag, waiting for class to begin, not noticing any of the other students walk in.

Vasili saw Antanasia, and figured giving the current situation it would be best if he not sit near her. He hoped that he wouldn't be distracted too my by her as he took a seat on the opposite side of the room.

Vasili pulled out his book and his notes from the personal project to have looked over some time during class.

"Hey, Anta!" Oh God. It wasn't...Antanasia stared up in horror as Lacey Parkinson took a seat neat to her. "Imagine seeing you here!" she said in mock surprise, knowing that Antanasia's favorite class was Potions.

Antanasia blinked at her, confused, especially after Lacey's death stare that morning. "Um...hi, Lace." She chalked it up to PMS. Lacey was totally insane. Still, she looked Lacey over to make sure she didn't have any stakes on her. Finding none, she shrugged it off. "What's up, Lace?"

"Nothing much, you know how it is," Lacey bubbled happily, secretly plotting Antanasia's demise. She was so sick of the vampire getting everything she wanted, and she decided to win Scorpius back once and for all. Her grip on the stake concealed in her robe tightened as she smiled sweetly at Antanasia.

Vasili noticed that another one of Anta's friends, or so he thought was one of her friends was also in this class. "Oh boy, two of them in one room." He thought to himself as he pulled out his notes and asked Slughorn to look at his notes.

"Sir, I think I finally figured it out, and if I did, well it would really help."

"My boy, if you have figured it out, not only that, but you'll be famous." Slughorn told him.

"That's not really want I want, but I guess it wouldn't be so bad." Vasili said to Slughorn.

Lacey smiled at Anta warmly. "Sooo, what's it like, dating Scorpius?" she asked, waiting for class to end so she could corner the vampire, alone, and stake her.

Antanasia shrugged, "It's not that different from being his best friend, we still talk the same, it's just more kiss-oriented." She stopped, noticing the twitch in Lacey's right eye.

"Oh, cool," Lacey shrugged as class finally let out. "Hey, do you mind helping me with something, 'cause you're so great at Potions?"

"Sure, what?" Antanasia asked suspiciously, but wanting to get back in Lacey's good graces at the same time.

Vasili smelled something, and he wasn't liking it. He smelt it coming from Lacey and he didn't think everything was going to end up well.

Vasili finished talking to Slughorn and things seemed to be well, and they were going to test it tonight and see if it produced the correct results of a good formula.

"Just help me make this one potion," Lacey pointed to a potion recipe in her book, the name of the potion obfuscated, "It's not too terribly difficult for someone as talented as yourself."

Antanasia shrugged, "Sure, Lace," and began making the potion as Lacey watched. Something didn't feel quite right, but Antanasia couldn't put her finger on what. Then Lacey began talking.

"Anta, I don't appreciate your nasty man stealing ways," Lacey pouted. "It's very unattractive. And it upsets me. You don't want me to be upset, do you?" Her grip on the stake at her hip tightened.

"Of course not," the vampire muttered as she began chopping the ingredients, wondering what Lacey was up to. "Would never want that."

Vasili kept his eyes on the girls, but he was descrete about it. He appeared to be studying, but he kept his eyes on Lacey in particular.

Something just didn't feel right to him, and he could smell it, that was the one good thing about being a werewolf, was the greatly increased sense of smell.

Lacey watched Antanasia intently, annoyed by the Gryffindor watching. And it was the one who liked Anta, too. She sighed, deciding to stake the vampire, then dispose of the witness. She could make it seem accidental. A potion gone awry. She smiled at Antanasia's back, who was busy preparing the potion. Hopefully she wouldn't catch on that it was Polyjuice.

She glanced over at Milkovich, who seemed quite engrossed in his studies. Surely he wouldn't notice. She kept an eye on the vampire, lest Antanasia caught on.

Antanasia continued making the potion, noticing that Vasili was still in the room. How sweet. She hoped he wouldn't leave her alone with Lacey. "So, what is this, anyway?" She tried making conversation.

"Oh, just something," Lacey shrugged as she began to pull out her stake. "Nothing special. Just something to help me get with Scorpius."

Well, that was news. Antanasia whirled around in shock as Lacey brandished her weapon, almost hitting her. Antanasia backed away from Lacey, shaking, "Lace, c'mon, you don't wanna do this, do you? I'm your best friend." Her voice was calm and collected, unlike her nerves.

It was late before Sunay got out of bed. She felt terrible today, sick to her stomach. It took all of her strength not to puke as she climbed up the stairs, out of the common room, and off to the infirmary, where she would spend the rest of the day, sleeping and resting up, thinking about Pan and wondering what Anta and Scorpio were up to.

[Sorry, have to cut out for the moment, packing]

Vasili saw the stake and quickly moved into action, taking the stake and pining the Slytherin punk to the wall. "I'd known you Slytherin's were dirty, but turning on your own friends, now that's just down right rotten."

Professor Slughorn came over and tried to take a hand on the situation. Vasili backed away and crushed the stake in his hands and smelled the brewing potion. "Now why would she be wanting to make Polyjuice potion?" he asked looking at Anta as Slughorn escorted Lacey to the headmistress's office for disipline and punishment.

"You okay though?" Vasili also asked looking at Antanasia.

Antanasia nodded, still shaken by the ordeal, "Thanks, Vasili." Her hands were shaking as she put her books back in her bag, and she forced herself to concentrate on breathing. God, Lacey was a scary jealous bitch. She smiled weakly at the werewolf, "You know, we don't usually turn on each other."

Vasili smiled, "I know, most house members don't." he said as he gave Antasia a quick hug, and tried to help calm her down. "I guess I should go find Scorpius, he'd probably be better at helping you since you two are dating." Vasili said before he got up to go find Scorpius in Transfiguration.

"Wait!" Antanasia cried as she grabbed his arm, her eyes widened pitifully, "Please don't tell Scorpius...I'd rather he not know...he'd flip out..." Then a thought hit her. 'He could be looking for Scorpius so he can kill him! If Lacey was insane enough to murder...and Vasili's liked me for the same amount of time Lacey's liked Scorp...Why wouldn't he follow in Lacey's footsteps?'

"I wasn't going to murder him, I'm too goody goody for that remember? I am a Gryfindork." Vasili poked a joke at Anta.

"But if that is what you want I won't find him, well class is about over soon anyway, so is there anything else you need, that I can do?" he asked, having a weakness for those in distress.

Antanasia shook her head, "My next class is a free period...but Scorp has Defense Against the Dark Arts...I'm pretty sure Sunay is sick, her color wasn't too good this morning...Do you know what class Goyle has next?" she asked, not wanting to be alone during her free period.

"Free period, I think, but I never know where to find him. However if you do find him, tell him I want my money. He'll know what it means. I have a free period, but I have to finish this potion and do a test run of it." He said holding up his notes as everyone began to flow out of the class room for whatever they had next.

"Oh? What are you working on?" Antanasia sat on a table, genuinely interested. Anything with potions fascinated her. "If you don't mind my asking."

Vasili pulled out his notes. "What I'm trying to do it create a more powerful potion for werewolves. There is already a potion that allows us to suppress it, but if I could create a potion that allows for werewolves to be able to not have to transform every month, but perhaps maybe 4 times a year or so, it would be very helpful. Orginally I had been trying to find away to reverse the werewolf condition, but that didn't work. So i'm trying to finish this and create a werewolf control potion." He said with a smile.

"Oh," Antanasia mulled that over. "That's really fascinating..." She sat quietly, thinking about what had happened with Lacey. She reached absentmindedly into her bag and pulled out a small flask of blood, still lost in thought.

"Yeah, unlike Vampires, pretty much all Werewolves have no control over the times we change or our impulses. You probably noticed I wasn't around for a week before, and you can imagine that it's really annoying." he said beginning to mix the ingredients.

"One of my friends put it a great way a few years ago about my weeks missing." Vasili chuckled, as he turned up the heat a little bit.