Party

Keith saw Wally flash the panic signal through the door of the women's bathroom, and he lost his temper.

"No," he said, shaking his head and kicking his backpacks into a corner. "Nope. Nope nope nope nope." Like hell he was destroying the products here. The stuff he had given Andrei was a brand new mix! Which...come to think of it, might be why it was hitting Alice so hard.

Whoops.

"Star!" Keith shouted, striding towards the girl's bathroom. "Star, what are you doing?" He pushed past him and turned to Wally. "Alice isn't going anywhere. And you're definitely not touching her!" He said, pointing at Alex. "Does she look like she's in any condition to have an amateur attending to her? I didn't bloody think so!"

"Wally, Andrei, get over here," he said, moving towards Alice and beckoning them both over.

Wally had expected a bit of a financial hit. The new stuff would be gone, but they would rally and move on. She would have the threat removed, the party would be quickly swept up and turned into a fake study session so they could get Star carted off to St. Mungo's for paranoid delusions. She had expected disappointment from Keith, but she did not expect full-blown fury.

She had not seen this out of Keith. He worked too hard to keep his cool. She had seen him frustrated and irritable while they had worked on Sugar and Spice, when it simply didn't seem to be coming out the way they had planned. But this raving, boiling anger was new. He found her and ordered her. Part of her itched to defy him for the sake of defiance, but she cared too much about everything she had worked for to question Keith right now.

She quickly obeyed, moving towards him, growling, "Come on, Dolohov."

Amelia got really upset now. She was really scared she had scared off Lance for good. This time she couldn’t stop the crying. She noted to herself never to drink again, it made her a ball of emotions. She wanted to curl up into a ball and sob. This isn’t what she wanted. Everyone was going wrong and she didn’t want anyone to get hurt.

“Please don’t leave me here. I’ll come with people. Just don’t leave me alone,” said Amelia through sobs. Jessica turned back around sighing. She got up on a table. “Stay at your own risk. If you get caught and you bail on anyone here I swear I will hex you into the next year. Get along with your party now!” announced Jessica before hoping down from the table. “Sis, you really shouldn’t drink. It is what it’s built up to be is it,” said Jessica. Amelia stuck her tongue out at Jessica. Jessica walked away.

Alex was a slytherin, he was use to lies and what she had done was far from normal. Then Keith had came in with his acts but really he had called him a Amateur. This only made him leave without a word, leaving them to there work but then he walked into the party and grabbed one of the products from one of the smashed people without a word. Since Keith had not decided to destroy to the product then, but he had his wand out just in case. He didn't want to be blind sided by them.

" Lumos maxima "

He said under his breathe as a large ball of light, so bright that it started to blind people. It was used as a way to cause panic, end the party and get away. As the crowd of students had started to panic, few had ran towards the door and he was gone from the party in all. Pondering what to do now, but he had a idea for now.

Andrei sighed when he saw the Slytherin perfect right behind him. There was too many people involved in this now for it to end good. Someone is going to be the rat in the group and he knew it. Looks like Alice got a lot more from her first party than she had expected. "It's fine Star, we have it under control. She is just a bit lightheaded that is all", Andrei spoke in a firm voice. He knew that Star wouldn't believe him, no one would. Just one sight of the Hufflepuff girl would be enough for anyone to decide that this was a lot more than some Weasley products gone bad. But that didn't matter, he had to make something up to get rid of the perfect.

He was relieved when Keith came to help. Alice's condition had gone too bad for him to fix it by himself. He moved towards Keith and took a few glances around the room before speaking. "Look we have to take her to the Hospital Wing, this is getting out of control. She might not like it but it's the only option left. You can go ahead and try masking the signs of Spice, but I doubt it will do any help. Don't worry, no one will connect your names with this incident. At least not from my words". Andrei knew this would bring both Alice and him into some deep trouble, both from the school and her parents. But he had no other choice and he wasn't willing to risk her health by not doing anything.

A light flash engulfed the room and people started to panic and run towards the exit. How foolish of all of them. This will only cause a lot of noise and increase the chances of all of them getting busted by a professor. "Looks like this party is over. I suggest you hide and take away all of your products now or it won't get pretty. I'll take care of Alice", said Andrei turning his head to Keith, who was the person risking it all it they get caught. He took Alice into his arms and tried to move towards the exit.

Perhaps Henri could defuse this Alex Star issue. He seemed a bit like a rule stickler - understatement - but she was confident. She didn't think herself so alluring as to attract anyone - she just thought that any teenage boy with a working department downstairs might think twice if being talked to by a half-naked girl.

She approached him, sure she wasn't going to get in trouble. She hadn't taken anything in, she had been so busy dancing. She approached, slinking her way towards him. She smiled. "Hey, you look a little tense." She drew nearer. "Some dancing might do you good." She trailed her hand down the front of his shirt.

Alice couldn't really see or hear anything for a while now. Her head was spinning at a fast pace as she closed her eyes, trying to fight off the nausea. A lot of mumbling and chatter seemed to surround her but she couldn't bring herself to care. She even had a strange feeling she was hovering over the ground in mid air, as her feet were not touching the ground but she could tell that she was moving. Slightly opening her eyes and blocking out the light with her hand, she saw that she was being carried. Across the room, to the bathroom, then away again, every it seems. But the constant motion didn't help her already frail state and only made her more ill. "Stop...running", she whispered in a tired voice, barely even able to speak.

The overwhelming feeling of pain made her regret the decision to even come here in the first place. She did not need this in her life at all. But even thinking right now was too painful. All she wanted was for it to sleep, so she can wake up the next day feeling hopefully even the slightest bit better than now. Hearing someone mention the hospital wing made her very nervous. That definitely wasn't a good idea. She shook her head gently, trying to get her point across but she doubted anyone was paying attention to her now. The hallucinations were getting even worse. The floor was still a river of melting lava but now strange black creatures were jumping over the walls and across the room. "Leave...", she begged softly as she squeezed Andrei's hand, the horror clearly visible in her eyes.

Keith bit the inside of his cheek. He was thinking, but he wasn't focused. He blamed Star, for making this a bigger deal than it needed to be. He blamed Alice, for taking more than she was ready for. He blamed Andrei, for letting her. He blamed Wally, for...something. Something was probably her fault in all this.

"She's not going to the bloody hospital wing," he growled. Oh, look at him, talking like a proper brit. Sometimes he couldn't stand this country, this school, these people, this entire situation seemed like just so much out of what should've been so little.

Keith pulled his wand from his pocket. Wally probably wasn't going to like this - she preferred the spells and such herself - and Andrei definitely wasn't going to like it, because he had the whole deal with Alice and honestly how did you ever let someone you cared about get like this? This was why Keith never got to know his customers.

"Stand back," he said, waving Andrei off. "I'm going to try a spell I've been developing. Hold on." He rolled his shoulders. He waggled his fingers. He jabbed his wand suddenly and violently into Alice's mouth, until the tip touched the little thing that dangled back there. "Up it all goes!" He shouted, pulling the wand back out and flicking the saliva in Andrei's general direction.

Wally gave Keith a look of warning - a warning worn by wives everywhere as they tried to warn their husbands that he was about to make an ass of himself. And Keith, like husbands everywhere, was ignoring it and going forward with his own plan. Oh, Wally was sure whatever he planned would relieve Alice of her current condition, but she was also sure it would be terrible for public relations. And it sure as hell wasn't going to be discrete. Keith didn't know the meaning of the word.

Wally knew full well Keith was not developing a spell for the effects of his products. She had worked on perfecting basic healing spells, and some charms, to mask and relieve some of the symptoms (even working on enhancing some Weasley's products) but Keith dealt exclusively with the product and distribution.

She shouldn't have been surprised at the method he chose. But she was.

She quickly backed away, not intending to be in the way of vomit.