Hello everyone! This is my companion piece to A Lions Quest. Sorry it's taken so long to get this out to you all, but I was having some trouble getting all my thoughts together. Anyway, this chapter is of when Elizabeth is 17, before Bill and Fleur's wedding. Fred and Elizabeth are already together, I will cover how they got together in A Lions Quest, or maybe I'll put brief flashbacks in here. I hope you like it.

My eyes flew over the crinkled parchment, trying to find some form of humor. Something to show he wasn't serious. Yet knowing Fred, my search was in vain…he wanted to meet my family, and I had put it off for far too long.

Sighing in defeat, I glance at the large clock that hung from one of my golden walls of my room. With it being 4:15, and calculating the time difference, Fred would be her in 2 hours. Two hours till hell opened.

Wanting to get this over with, I sluggishly made my way down to the family room. The members of my vampire family were scattered through the large room. Their movements graceful, too graceful, a stark difference from my clumsy, blundering, beautiful wizarding family.

"Hello Dear!" Esme, my 'Grandmother' greeted cheerfully, with that smile that was too wide to be real. With that greeting, all eyes flashed to me, and I fought the urge to clench my hand around my wand. Being scrutinized this way was never a good thing in my world.

"Oh, hi. So, uh, I was wondering if a friend could come over." I was hesitant to let them know how much Fred meant to me.

"Who is she?" my mother asked from her spot beside my sister.

"Well, uh, HIS name is Fred."

Everyone froze, my father being the worst. His hands, which had been ghosting over the keys to his grand piano, slammed down cracking some of the ivory on impact. I winced. 'oh, boy. Here we go.'

"Fred?" Jacob asked, breaking out of his frozen stature. A wide smirk was stretched across his rosette face.

"Yeah, he's kind of my…boyfriend."

"Boyfriend?" my father chocked. This was the most 'human' I had ever seen him. "When did this happen?"

I blushed. "About a year ago. We officially got together while I was staying at the Weasleys. He's one of Ron's older brothers." An unimportant fact, considering they had never met Ron.

"So, he's how old?" Alice asked, as she braided Nessie's hair. She seemed to be the less phased by the fact I had a boyfriend.

"He'll be 19 in about a month."

"Lizzie and Freddie, sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-" Jacob sang, before I cut him off.

"You want to shut up this instant, or I'll turn you into a frog." I growled at my brother-in-law.

He immediately shut his mouth, his eyes widened, then narrowed. "Can you do that?"

I arched an eyebrow, daring him to try me. "Do you really want to find out?" I could see the conflict in his eyes. While he didn't want to be turned into a frog, he, like everyone else in my family, wanted to see me perform magic.

"Why didn't you tell us about this before?" My mom asked, her eyes all gooey like she was going to cry. I groaned. This was what I liked least about my mother. She always took everything so personal, and she let my father run her life. It was sickening. Even pure blood females didn't let their husbands run then like my mother let father run her.

"I don't know. It didn't seem important." I tried to shrug it off.

"Of course it's important!" Alice squealed. "You have a boyfriend! Oh, this is going to be so great! Can I dress him up?"

"Uh, Aunt Alice, I don't think that's such a good idea." Most wizards didn't trust vampires too much. To be honest, I didn't either, but being related to them didn't give me much of a choice. Don't get me wrong, I loved them, but no matter how tolerant of blood they were, how immune to blood they were, there was still the possibility that they would snap at any moment.

"Aw, come on Lizzie! It'll be fun!"

"No, it won't. Besides most wizards don't like being touched by those they don't know. It's a protection thing."

She pouted, upset at not getting her own way. I shook my head. With all their years, everyone in the family were children. They didn't know the dangers out there. Sure they had fought a few vampires, but they didn't know what it was like to be truly haunted by evil. So instead of arguing more with my childish aunt, I walked away, to prepare for Fred's arrival.

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