Pairing: Syndisparklez (Syndicate x Sparklez)

Summary: Due to Toms actions, a particular potion goes horribly wrong and it's up to Jordan to fix it. But after a long talk and a few emotional out bursts, Jordan isn't sure he wants this potion to go away so soon.

"So what does it do?" I asked, staring at the bottle of strange blue liquid.

"It's purpose is to read what another is thinking. I made it for Martha and I because...well it seemed like a nice gift. But I need to test it to make sure it works correctly. The last thing I would want is for my love to grow a second head..." He poured more of the liquid into a another bottle.

"Why are you brewing two?" I thought it only required one for it to work.

"In order for it to work correctly there must be two people to drink them. I invited Tom over to try it out with you." He screwed a cork in the bottle and sat it in the table.

"You invited Tom to try a potion that could possibly allow him to read my mind?" I narrowed my eyes at Wag.

He smiled sheepishly. "Sorry, no one else would participate in the testing besides you two. Don't worry, it will only last an hour if it does work."

"An hour?!" I didn't want Tom reading my every thought for a whole hour!

"Calm down! I thought Tom was your best friend and that you would be fine with letting him read your mind."
A large crash interrupted my thoughts and I jumped nearly fifty feet in the air as something fell through the roof and landed on its two feet in front of me.
A grinning idiot with blue hair.

"Hello peasants! I heard there was drugs, so I came right away!" He casually brushed the debris and dry wall from his suit jacket.

"You do know that I have a front door, correct?" Wag stared at the large hole in the ceiling.

"Front doors are for mortals! I am a wizard! I don't need no doors to enter." He took a seat on top of Wags crafting table.

Wag sighed and handed him the bottle. "Whatever you say. Okay, so here is how you must do it. Both of you drink them at the same time and try to stand as still as possible. Did you get that Tom?" He narrowed his eyes at Tom, who was tossing a piece of the ceiling in his hands like a baseball.

"Same time blah blah don't move. That it?"

Wag shook his head in response. "Perhaps I should have done this myself. Alright, whenever you both are ready."

"I'm ready. What about you Tom?" I felt like we were trying to get the attention of a five year old.

"Ready to see your every secret? You bet!" He laughed maniacally. I could feel the nervousness in my stomach grow at his words.

I went to drink the potion, when a hand slapped it out of my palm, causing it to fall and break on the floor. Toms laughs filled the room and I realized his was the hand that made the bottle break.
I turned to him ready to scorn him for destroying Wags potion, but then I saw him drinking from is bottle.

We didn't take it at the same time. What did that mean?

"Tom! You're not supposed to drink it alone!" Wag shouted and tried to take the bottle from Tom, but he had already drank all of the blue liquid inside. He let out long burp when he finally put the bottle down.

"I don't feel anything. Don't think it worked Mr. All Mighty Wizard."

"That's because you did the exact opposite of what I told you to do. I knew I should not have trusted you well enough to complete a simple task..." Wag took the bottle from Tom and sat it back on a shelf.

Tom only laughed. "Aw I'm sorry I didn't go along with your-..." His eyes landed on me, and he immediately stopped talking.

He was staring at me with the weirdest expression. It was really creeping me out.

"Uh, you okay?" I asked him. He didn't even blink.

"Oh dear. Tom, are you feeling ill?" Wag waved a hand in front of his face. Not even a flinch.

"Wag...what happens when only one person takes it?" I wanted to look away from him, but it was like my eyes we're permanently locked with his.

"Er...I am not exactly sure on that." He looked over to his spell book and traced his finger over some lines.

"Oh..." His eyes widened.

"What? What is it?" I asked him. Tom still hadn't moved an inch.

"A peculiar thing really...just um-" Wag didn't even get a chance to finish his sentence before Tom lunged at me and jammed his lips into mine.

It took me awhile to realize what was happening. Tom was kissing me.

And then my brain finally clicked.

TOM WAS KISSING ME.

I shoved him off and Wag pulled him back to keep him from kissing me again. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" I screamed, wiping my lips with my shirt.

He didn't respond. He just stared at me with that same look in his eyes. Pure affection. "You have such soft lips..." He smiled brightly.

"Oh my...I had no clue this would happen and I apologize. I am terribly sorry Jordan."

"What happened to him?! Is he in love with me?!" I was still trying to process the fact that he kissed me.

"Er, it's a little hard to explain actually..." Wag chuckled nervously and let go of Toms arms.

"Wag what have you done?" I feared the worst for Tom, who was now standing an inch away from me and was trying to hold my hand. I slapped his hand everytime it got close to me and tried to keep him away from my face.

"I don't think I can explain it. All I can say is you may have to make sure he gets home safely and goes straight to sleep, or else this potion may not wear off."

"What?! I can't take care of him when he's like this! You do it!" I slapped Toms hand away for the third time as he tried to touch my cheek.

"Give me an hour or two and I will come by with a potion to fix him, okay? Can you do that?"

I really didn't want to deal with a clingy Tom all night. "Ugh...I guess. But can you please just tell me what's going on with him?"

"I can't exactly tell you what is wrong, but I will tell you what I can get from it. So, instead of Tom reading your mind and discovering your deepest emotions and hidden thoughts, he is reading his own. And they are taking over his normal emotions and thoughts, causing him to act this way. So in the next few hours you may see his mood change drastically from love and feelings, to rage and anger, and then to depression and sadness. Put him to bed as soon as possible or you may see and hear things you don't want to..."

"So...he's acting like this because of the emotions he's hiding? But wait...that would mean-"

"No time to talk about it, just go and put him in bed! Quickly! You know how destructive he is when he's angry and I do not wish for my tower to suffer any more drastic injuries." Wag quickly pushed the love sick Tom and me out the door and locked it.

Toms arms immediately snaked around my sides. "All alone~" he sang into my ear.

This was going to be a long night.

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"Tom lie down!" I wrestled the blanket over him, but he just kept throwing it aside to try and get to me.

"Maybe if you cuddle with me, I'll be a good boy." He smiled innocently.

"Listen to me, this isn't you! You do not love me and you hate cuddling! Lay down and go to sleep!" I commanded.

His golden brown eyes seemed to shimmer as he once again began staring at me like a creep. "I do love you. So much it hurts."

"Tom. Lie down. Now." I pushed him on the bed, but he raised back up soon after.

"Maybe if you beg me I'll listen to your needs." He purred. I almost threw up my lunch.

"I am not gonna beg you. You're acting like a pervy creep Tom."

"Beg me. Cuddle with me. Kiss me." He pulled my neck down and forced my lips onto his, and I slapped him in the face as hard as I could.

I could have handled that better.

His face twisted in anger and his eyes lost the affection that had once filled them. "Why are you so damn uptight?" He growled at me.

Wag was right about his mood changing. He went from love sick puppy to blood thirsty demon in seconds.

"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have slapped you. I just want you to go to sleep. Please for me just go to sleep?" I actually did feel bad for slapping him...

"Is it because I'm a zombie? Is it because I'm ugly and I'm gross and you don't want to touch me?" Sadness. Thank god the anger didn't last long...but the sadness was sort of worse than the anger.

"No no that's not it. You're not gross, you're just-"

"Save it. I'm just an undead flesh eater that no one will ever love...no one will ever want to cuddle with a monster like me..." He laid down on the bed and pulled the covers over his head. I heard small sniffles from under the sheets and an occasional sob.

Now I felt horrible. He was crying because he thought that I thought he was ugly. I felt the need to do anything to make him feel better.

"Please stop crying. You're not ugly. I don't care at all that you're a zombie." I felt like I was trying to comfort a teenage girl who just had a breakup.

"Then why won't you love me?" He sobbed.

"Because you're my best friend and it's weird...and you don't actually love me. It's just a potion that's making you do all this stuff."

"I do love you...I always have...you just never noticed because you love your stupid machines more than anyone..."

This potion must be really strong..."Tom you're my friend. That's it. A potion is controlling your mind right now. Just go to sleep and this stuff will go away in the morning." If he didn't go to sleep soon, I was bound to have a nervous break down. I pray to the gods Wag would get here soon with a spell or something to help him.

He ripped the covers off and sat up with anger written all over his face. "No it isn't! Wag told you what it did, it made me feel my deepest emotions! And my deepest emotions are my undying love for you!"

I didn't know what to say. I thought back to what Wag had said, and he did say something about Toms deepest emotions taking over his head. So was it actually true? Did Tom feel something for me and I really was too wrapped up in everything to notice? But he never acted like he loved me. He was always crude and selfish to me, not to mention he always teased me about everything.

"If you do love me...then why? I mean I'm not attractive and I'm boring and awkward...Plus you're always with a different girl every time I see you and you always act like you hate me."

"Are you kidding? You're cute at hell and you know every thing there is to know about...well...everything! And I act like I hate you because that's my way of flirting!" His eyes lit up when he spoke about me.

"...you're really telling the truth, aren't you?"

"Yes! I love you, Jordan!" He wrapped his arms around me and held me tightly. I didn't really know what to do. I didn't want to reject him because he would get horribly sad again. And I didn't want to accept him because well...he was my best friend! And he was a guy! I'm straight anyway....I think. I went out with Capsize and I was happy with her until...
No. I can't think about that. I gotta think about Tom and what in the world I'm going to do about him. He was still hugging me and I was still frozen in place.

"Tom...why don't we talk about this tomorrow when you're feeling a bit better?" I tried to pry his fingers off of me, but he only squeezed harder.

"No...then I'll be normal again. I'll deny everything and you'll forget about what I feel for you..." He whispered sadly.

"Then what do you want me to do?"

"What I've always wanted to do."

"And that is?"

He answered by pressing his lips to mine once again. But this time I didn't push him off. I just let him do what he wanted to do. If it made his deepest emotions happy, then what does it matter?
His fingers began to knot through my hair, making my chest flutter. Was I enjoying this? I shouldn't be. He's my friend and I'm taking advantage of him by letting him do this. He's gonna hate me later for not stopping him.

His eyes were closed and his nose occasionally brushed against mine as he moved his lips. It was cute. What?! No! I will not enjoy this! This is wrong!

But god did it feel so right.

I moved my lips a little just to see what would happen, and Tom seemed to love that given that he attacked my lips harder. So I kept doing it. I was making out with Tom. And I was enjoying it. He pushed me back just a little so that I was laying back on the pillows and began to kiss me deeper and harder. I tried to match his patterns but it was difficult since I'd never kissed anyone before. He must have had so much experience. He moved so that he was on top of me, one leg on the left side of me and the other on the right. He was straddling me. His hands began to roam my neck and shoulders. I felt like I was on cloud nine. But I immediately opened my eyes and stopped when he unbuttoned my shirt.
"Tom no." I gasped and sat up from the kissing, making his eyes sadden immensely.

"What? Why?" He looked like a sad little puppy who was lost. It broke my heart.

"I just can't do this." I sighed.

"Why can't you? I thought you were actually liking it." He removed his legs from my sides and sat next to me.

"I was. But I'm not ready for this kind of stuff...That was my first kiss and...I don't want to lose all my morals in one night. I'm sorry." I was just as disappointed as he was. But I couldn't do this while he was under a spell. I'd live with the guilt for the rest of my life.

"But you really liked it? The kiss?" He asked in a hopeful tone.

"I did." I smiled.

He grew ten times happier at my words. "That's enough for me." He hugged me again.

And this time I hugged back.

"Do you really want the spell gone? You seem to be enjoying it greatly." I heard someone smirk.

Wag. Oh my god.
He stood in the doorway with a large grin plastered on his face.

"Oh my god...please tell me you didn't-"

"I didn't see a thing. I will see you two love birds tomorrow. I have more potions to brew." Wag winked at me before leaving the room in a puff of blue smoke. Tom began to nuzzle me again when he left, completely unfazed by Wag catching us together.

Thank the gods for Waglington the wizard.
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I know it's late but I took a nap and now I can't sleep so I have a lot of free time xD

I'm sorry it's been so long since the last thing I posted, but this writers block is the worst thing in the world. I'll try to have more one shots up this week for you guys and I'm really sorry about the lack of content.

But hey! This one turned out greater than expected! I've been wanting to write about a potion gone wrong for a long time anyway xD

Hope you guys enjoyed! Leave a favorite or a comment if you did! Thanks!

- Lee