A/N : I do not own Harry Potter. Remember, reviews help me updating quicker! Love, Luciana
Chapter one : To never come back
'Are you sure that it's done?' Harry Potter asked to the blond haired girl who was standing in front of him. 'Yes, Harry, for the hundredth time, it is done. All we have to do is to drink the potion, say the spells and hope for the best.' He remained silent, staring at the ice-blue potion in the cauldron. 'It seems so.. final, doesn't it?' Harry nodded. He understood what Luna was saying. 'Well, my dear Cicile, ready to go?' She smiled when she heard him use her other name. 'Well, my dear Gabriel, ready to taste some adventure?' He nodded.
'First, we have to change our appearances, of course. I mean, we are twins..' Harry said. Luna nodded, already taking a book out which said something about a brother/sister spell. She started reading out loud. 'When you use this spell, be aware that some characteristics from the other person can be transferred to you as well. Mostly, these are small things, think about the same hair colour. It has occurred, however, that a few larger traits are transferred as well. Because this has not occurred often, it is impossible to give an example of these traits.' Harry nodded. 'Well, we'll just have to try it then, I guess..' Luna nodded. 'Can you cast the spell?' She asked Harry. He read the spell and said it out loud. Slowly, Luna began to change. Her hair became a dark brown, almost black. She kept her pale skin and her bone structure, but her eyes changed to a strange kind of blue-green. Harry conjured a mirror for her. 'Well, this could have been worse..' she said, with a smile on her face. 'Worse?' Harry said. 'You look amazing! I have to worry about all the boys though..'
Half an hour later, they were both standing in the same spot they stood before. This time wearing dark clothes, like it was a sort of school uniform. Both carrying weapons and a wand, although they were strong enough to use magic without one. Luna was also carrying a bag, in which she had put her books, money, clothes and everything else from this life that she wanted to keep. Harry had put everything in his trunk and shrunk it. 'Ready?' he asked her again. She nodded.
They both started to say the spell. It almost sounded like singing, Luna thought, while she took the potion. It felt like ice sliding down her throat. The swirling began.
After a while, she noticed that she stood on the ground again, no longer swirling. Harry was looking worried at her, he didn't know how much damage this had done to her, emotionally. Leaving a world behind where she had nothing but memories, but still, the memories where there. Luna looked at him and started laughing. Harry looked at her like she was crazy, but then he noticed that she looked like a ten year old girl. He thought the same must have happened to him. He was right. After a few minutes, she was calmed down again and they both started going over there cover story once again.
'Your name is Cicile Tessa Adrians, the daughter of a long-lost cousin of James Potter' Harry started. 'You have a twin brother, me, and love reading. You're a closed of person, doesn't like to show emotions and doesn't like to talk about herself.' Luna went on. 'Your name is Gabriel Lucien Adrians, the son of a long-lost cousin of James Potter. You have a younger twin sister, me, and you love sports. You don't trust many people, but when you do, you're extremely loyal. We both support each other the best we can after seeing our parents getting murdered.' He nodded.
'First stop, Gringotts wizard bank.' Gabriel said when he and his sister walked towards the amazing white building. Before they left their old live to travel to another dimension to safe, they took all their money from the bank. The goblins had been looking weird, but it didn't matter to them. They walked up to the front desk and waited till a goblin spoke to them. 'And who do we have here?' a goblin asked, not friendly at all. 'Our names are Cicile Adrians and Gabriel Adrians. We would like to open a bank account here.' The goblin stared at Gabriel. 'Well then.. Let's see what we can do for you.' The two of them followed the goblin to a more private room. When they sat down, the goblin started to speak. 'First, I need to know your full names and the amount of money you want to dispose here.' He dropped to parchments in front of them and gave them a quill. They started to write down the asked information.
'Cicile Tessa Adrians. Amount of money; 546.907.342 Galleons, 54 Sickles, 23 Knuts.
Gabriel Lucien Adrians. Amount of money; 584.302.012 Galleons, 31 Sickles, 41 Knuts.'
The goblin started to act friendlier as soon as he saw the amount of money they both had. 'A shared bank account or a separate one?' They didn't have to think about the question. Gabriel answered, as plan. 'Separate ones, please.' The goblin nodded and walked them to a cart. They stepped in and started the journey to the vaults.
When they had disposed the money in the vaults, they were back in the office they were before. 'Anything else?' the goblin asked. 'Yes please,' Gabriel answered. 'We would like to be citizens of this country, as well as emancipated. We do not want any adults to take 'care' of us.' He said it with a double meaning, one which the goblin understood. 'I see. Well, officially, that has to go through the ministry, but I'm sure I can arrange something for you two. Let's see, where are these papers..' He rang for another goblin and gave him the order to get the papers. They both read them. And signed. 'Congratulations. You are officially Britain adults.' They nodded and headed back to Diagon Alley.
'What do we all need?' Gabriel asked his new sister. 'Let's see.. We've done Gringotts.. We need to get a new wand. We have to check out the books here.. Perhaps they have a different history line. Clothes, seeing how we both shrunk back to being ten-year-olds. Eh.. A pet, perhaps?' Gabriel nodded, taking out his purse. 'Well, let's put our wands away and get a new one.' They both did as he said and entered the wand shop.
'I have been wondering when I would see you..' and with those, words, he fell silent. Cicile stared at him, while Gabriel had trouble pretending not to laugh. 'But you'll have to tell me who you are first.' He ended his sentence. Once again, Gabriel did the talking. 'My name is Gabriel Lucien Adrians and this is my sister Cicile Tessa Adrians. We are looking for wands.' If Olivander was confused, then he didn't show it. 'Well.. Who wants to go first?' Cicile looked at her brother and said 'Well, he is the eldest, so I guess you should start with him.' Olivander nodded and started to take Gabriel's measurements. It took about thirty wands before Olivander found the one. 'Phoenix feather, Holly wood, eleven inches. Yes, that one will suit you well, I'm sure..' Gabriel wondered why he didn't say anything about the brother wand, but he didn't ask. 'Miss Adrians?' Olivander asked. She stepped forward and he took her measurements. Before he could say something, however, Cicile spoke. 'I would say.. Thestral blood, 10 ¾ inches and olive wood..' Olivander wanted to contradict her, but thought better of it. So he took the wand she requested. And, as she told him, the wand chose her. 'Odd.. No one has ever been able to tell what kind of wand he or she needed. And then I meet you.. I must warn you, miss Adrians, that this wand is a wand for people who have seen death. It holds a lot of power.' With those words, he looked at Gabriel again. 'That will be fourteen galleons, miss and mister Adrians.' Gabriel laid the coins on his desk and left the shop, Cicile following after him.
'How did you do that?' Gabriel asked. 'What? About the type of wand I needed?' He nodded. 'Well, I heard it from Snape a few years ago. Someone who could use his magic as a part of him and could understand it, knows himself. And therefore, should be able to choose the wand.' He didn't really understood it, but then, Cicile had always had a weird sense of logic. 'So? What's next?' he asked. 'Books, of course!'
When he saw her standing there, with dark hair and her arms full of books, he had to think about Hermione. He missed her so much, and yet he was grateful that she died early in the war, not having to deal with all the dead. He stood there, wondering about his life, when he heard a boy. 'Uncle Padfoot, look, that boy looks like me!' He froze. That was his voice. Apparently, Cicile had heard it too, because she paid quickly for the books and walked back to her brother. She just arrived at Gabriel's side when she saw Sirius and Harry coming over. 'Hey' Sirius said, when they arrived the twins. 'Good afternoon' they replied. The conversations fell silent. After a few minutes, Sirius spoke again. 'So.. Any chance you two are related to the Potters? Because you look an awful lot like them..' Gabriel looked at Cicile, with an almost pleading look, as he was saying 'please do the talking for me!'. She looked back at Sirius. 'Yes, I believe we are. Have you ever heard about the Adrians? A distant cousin, I believe.' Sirius looked thoughtful. 'Yes. I believe James said something about a William Adrians..' Cicile answered again. 'Yes, that was our father..' She stared in the distance. Sirius wondered why she had said 'was' and not 'is'. 'Excuse me, this may be a personal question, but why did you say 'was'? I mean he still is your father, right?' 'He died last month, sir.' 'I'm sorry.. Eh.. where do you live now?' Cicile looked back at the man in front of him. He was so much different than the one from her own timeline. 'We came back from Canada a few days ago. It was our parents' last will that we went back to England to continue our education at Hogwarts. Right now, we have to look for a place to live. After that, we'll see. Perhaps we can stay at Hogwarts over the summer break..' Sirius looked back at the children. 'And you'll have no parent figure in your life?' Cicile shook her head. 'Well.. come with us and we'll have an ice-cream, what about that?' Cicile frowned, looking back at her brother. 'I don't believe we have time for that, sorry sir, but we have to do quite a bit of shopping and we have to find a place to stay for the night.' She turned to her brother. 'Gabriel, I'm done here. We can go to the next shops and then get an hotel room for the night.' She took her books, shrunk them and put them in her bag, before following her brother out the shop, into the next one.
Sirius stayed behind with Harry, who was looking confused at him. 'Uncle, what was that?' He sighed, got the books for Harry for his first year and walked outside before explaining. 'That, Harry, where your cousins. Their parents died and now they live here. They don't have anyone to take care of them.' 'That's sad! Can't they come home with us? I'm sure aunt Katherine wouldn't mind!' Sirius thought about his wife, Katherine. It was true, she wouldn't mind if the two children would come home with them. They had a big enough house for them to live. But of course, he had to talk to the children first.
Cicile and Gabriel walked into the next store, to buy clothes. After an hour, they both had everything they needed and were out again. The next one, however, took a little bit longer. They wanted a pet. When Gabriel came in, he didn't look at the owls. It still hurt him to think about an owl, although Hedwig had died a few years ago (for them, at least). He went straight to the snakes, while Cicile looked at the bird first. Gabriel found his pet pretty fast, and went looking for Cicile, who was wondering through the store. When she arrived at the snakes, she looked stunned. Gabriel, thinking something was wrong, looked concerned around him. 'Cicy, what's wrong?' She looked at him. 'I can hear them, Harry. I've never been able to hear them.' She whispered. 'The snakes, you mean?' he asked. 'Yes.' He almost laughed at her expression. 'Well, talk back!'. After Cicile had had a few conversations, she also choose a snake. It was a very small, black snake. When she read the information card, she found out that her snake was very poisonous. She found that she didn't care.
When they walked out of the store, they bumped into Sirius and Harry, again. 'Hey! You two again! Listen, did you find a place to stay yet?' When they both shook their heads, he started to grin. 'Well, why don't you stay with us for the night?'
