Disclaimer : I don't own Harry Potter nor Vampire Diaries, both licenses belong to their rightfull owners.
This story takes place in the same universe than the one shot Prima Genitor so I would advise you to read it if it's not already done in order to understand the mythology regarding werewolves.
This Story starts almost a year after Prima Genitor and will surely relate the first three seasons of Vampire Diaries not sure about the ones after. The updates won't be regular as I will have to rewatch the firsts seasons in order to make sure in what order did things happen.
Beta read by coduss
"Talking"
'thinking'
Flashback/Book/Letter
Spell
Chapter 1
31 July 2008
An annoying noise and a strange thirst woke Iris Lilian Potter on the morning of her twenty-first birthday, not believing today to be special the young woman got up to do her morning routine : bathroom first then Teddy's room to wake him up then kitchen to have her morning tea and breakfast.
As she was still sleepy when she reached the bathroom to clean herself she didn't notice anything strange with her when she was in front of the mirror, the young woman took a quick shower and after getting dressed jeans and a t-shirt along with sneakers on her feet the young woman then went to wake her adopted son up.
Iris then went down to the kitchen to have her morning tea, strangely the tea did nothing to quench her thirst.
Suddenly her house elf Kreacher appeared with a pop, an envelope in his hand.
"Mistress Black a letter for you." said the house elf while bowing his head, the respect he showed her told of the effect she had on him when she did what Regulus Black couldn't do in destroying the Slytherin locket.
"Thank you Kreacher." said the young woman taking the envelope from her butler's hand.
The letter seemed to be addressed to her but as she didn't maintain contact with the wizarding world after she finished school, she didn't know from whom the letter might be coming from.
As a matter of fact unlike standard wizarding post there was no address only her name and the mention ''on the day of her twenty first birthday.'' and unlike muggle post no stamp.
Curious Iris went to open the envelope and read her letter.
My dearest daughter
If you read this words it means that what I feared as come to pass and I am not alive to tell you this myself. Hopefully our will must have been executed and you grew up with caring and loving people. But I digress I don't know what you were told of the story of James and I, everyone must have told you that in our seventh year we got close and eventually wed close after our NEWTs. That wasn't the case we did grow close during that year but not to the point of being in love, we were best friend but not lovers.
After our NEWTs James went to auror training and I studied charms and Potions further to earn masteries in those subject with professors Flitwick and Slughorn. During those two years Harold and Rose Evans my parents died in a car crash, due to this event what left of my relationship with Petunia blew up as Petunia found my mother's diary where she told that she cheated on her husband while in America with a guy named Samuel Salvatore, she believed this guy to be my father. Petunia was furious and blamed me for their death but more because Harold knew that I wasn't his daughter and treated me as such, Petunia didn't support it and broke ties with me for all matters disowning from her family.
Curious about the guy my mother claimed to be my father and tired of the war currently going on in Britain, I went in America to search for my father and his family.
My research drove me in the town of Mystic Falls in Virginia where I found that my father died of an heart attack and that I had a half brother named Zacharie 'Zack' Salvatore, I stayed a little getting to know him. I even made a friend there called Jenna Sommers and then I started travelling across the country, it was winter 1986 when I entered this bar, where I got drunk and met this guy, I am pretty sure he told me his name but I don't remember him, the only thing that I am sure of is that this guy is your father.
After that I received a letter from James telling me that he had to talk to me and that it was very important. So I went back to Mystic Falls and told my brother and my best friend that I was pregnant and that I had to take care of business in Britain.
When I got back in Britain it was awful discrimination against muggleborns was at a level unprecedented, Minister Bagnold couldn't do a thing because the Wizengamot was almost full of pureblood supremacist, I met James and his parents at his home manor and they told me that not only the war was going very bad with the ministry doing nothing and Dumbledore only reacting and most of the time too late to do anything useful but James was declared sterile by his own mother who was a healer, it was mostly due to inbreeding, that means that the most ancient and noble house of Potter would end with James.
I thought really fast and exposed them my plan, as I was pregnant but not knowing anything about the father and James needed to prove that he could procreate to have a say as the future Lord Potter, I would marry James in secret now and they would plant document in the Ministry that showed that I was married to him since 1984 and then when my child would be born we would do a blood glamor to pass him or her as James child.
They agreed and we did the celebration with only close ally of the Potter present the Longbottom and we made them swear an Unbreakable vow not to tell anybody about this we then named Sirius as Your Magical Godfather and Alice Longbottom as your Magical Godmother, and every one fell for it.
When you were born my precious treasure the 31 July 1987 we did a spell in order to learn something about your birth father before doing the glamor, sadly your father identity must have been well protected since we couldn't find anything about him, The only thing the spell showed was that you were born a vampire, meaning your father must have been one, which puzzled us since as far as we knew vampire couldn't procreate. Dorea told us her theory that since the vampire are frozen in time the female vampires can't get pregnant unless they are turned on the day they ovulate, but the male vampires can get a human girl with no problem, it is just most of the time they compel the girl to forget them so most of the time the girl get an abortion fearing that the pregnancy is due to rape.
Since we did the blood glamor to pass you as James' daughter that means that as it was scheduled to break on the day of your twenty first birthday (since you are an American citizen it is the day of your majority) you should start feeling the effect of the transition meaning if by the first light of the morning you don't drink human blood you will die. Since as your mother I obviously don't want you to die I urge you to make the transition into a vampire please sweetie I don't want you to join me on the other side until you have lived at least some centuries.
I joined with this letter your birth certificates both the real one and the forged one, I also began to work on a spell that if completed and put on something that you would wear will allow you to go out even when the sun is bright in the sky.
I love you my dearest Iris, your loving mother Lilian Rose Salvatore.
Iris was completely mind blown after reading her mother's letter to think that all her life was a lie build by her mother to protect her, she was once more humbled by the sacrifice her mother made to be sure that her daughter would live a great life.
As her mother said in her letter there was two birth certificates in the envelope along with a paper full of runes, it was then that she was glad to have chosen Ancient Runes as an elective back in third year.
She picked the first birth certificate and saw that it was the forged one as it spelled :
Child : Iris Lilian Potter born the 31 July 1987
Father : James Charlus Potter age 20
Mother : Lilian Rose Potter age 20
Godfather : Sirius Orion Black age 20
Godmother : Alice Longbottom age 20
Witnessed by Remus John Longbottom age 20 Franck Longbottom age 21.
Then she picked the second one not expecting it to be many different it spelled :
Child : Iris Lilian Salvatore born the 31 July 1987
Father : Unknown
Mother : Lilian Rose Salvatore age 20
Godfather : Zacharie Salvatore age 22
Godmother : Jenna Sommers age 15
Witnessed by Grayson Gilbert age 25 and Mary Gilbert age 24.
It was then that she knew her life would never be the same and that her life shouldn't have been what it was.
She read and reread the letter and the birth certificates thinking about what to do in the end she decided to make the change and become a vampire in order to live and get to know her other family and most of all to not make her son grow up without her.
"Kreacher!" called Iris
"Mistress?"
"Go to an hospital and bring me a bag of blood that they keep for transfusion I have a need for it." ordered the Lady Black.
"Right away Mistress." replied the house elf before aparating away to do his mistress' biding.
Teddy then came down the stairs having finally waken up, the 5 year old boy seeing his adoptive mother distress immediately went to hug her, to comfort her.
"Say Teddy how do you feel about living in America?" asked the mother to her son.
"I don't know why?"
"Because Mommy may have family there." replied the mother
"Really, then sure." said Teddy before he was imprisoned in one of his mother's bear hug.
After the breakfast Iris sent Teddy to his room to get ready to leave for Gringotts, just in time for Kreacher to reappear with the bag off blood which Iris promptly drank completing the change.
She then took her mother's note about the enchantment for the daywalking and got to work, in the end after two hours of hardwork she completed her mother's work, with the runes array ready all she needed was a piece of jewelry to apply on.
She decided to use her Head of House ring which she got back in the summer after her fifth year, this ring was created when she took her inheritance test in Gringotts, having gotten away from her minders.
This ring showed that she was Head of House Black and Potter as the designed heir of both last head James and Sirius, well the last time she did the test that was the result she got, but since she was under a powerful blood glamor she was pretty sure that if she were to retook the test it would show something different.
She then carved on the ring the rune array and for good measure she put a run that kept anyone but her unable to take the ring of her finger as a precaution.
She then put on the ring on her right ring finger as the left one had the resurrection stone on it.
Teddy then came down the stairs having gotten ready to leave for Gringotts, as it was now forbidden to apparate directly in Diagon Alley, they had to either take the floo, something that Iris hated as she still didn't know how to exit the destination standing, or apparate at the back of the Leaky Cauldron.
Iris then took Teddy's hand and side-along apparated them to the back of the Leaky Cauldron where the entrance of Diagon Alley, taking her wand out while carefully making sure they were alone, Iris quickly taped the three stone to open the way.
The reason Iris showed such paranoia was three fold : first as she had taken the Elder Wand from its previous master at the end of the war people were sure to notice it, second the wizarding world still saw her as either the Girl-Who-Lived-Twice and the Woman-Who-Won or as the murderess of upstanding wizarding citizen and so she didn't want to draw attention to her and the third was Teddy because no matter what they saw in her the wizarding world didn't change much and as such was bigoted toward anything non-human unfortunately as the son of a known werewolf Teddy was categorized as a non-human and as such shouldn't have been adopted by her so in order to protect Teddy she had contact with the wizarding world only when absolutely necessary.
Fortunately as it was rather early and in the middle of the summer Diagon Alley was practically empty so Iris and Teddy weren't bothered as they made their way into Gringotts, wizarding bank and goblin territory.
Inside the goblins saw to their daily occupations whether it be look imposing or count money, Iris walk to a Goblin Teller.
"Greetings Master Goblin may your foes tremble before the might of your clan." politely greeted Iris.
"Greeting human may the blood of your foes flows at your feet. Now how can I help you?" greeted back the teller pleased that a human greeted him properly.
"I have important business to deal with my account manager may I see him now?" asked politely the newborn vampire.
"Name?" asked the goblin.
"Iris Potter-Black." replied the human.
"Ah Bloodfang will lead you to him. Bloodfang!" barked the teller. Another goblin appeared "Lead this human and her little fellow to see Sharpfang."
Bloodfang nodded to the goblin and turned to Iris "If the human will follow me my cousin will see you shortly." as he lead them to Iris' account manager office.
Their escort lead them to an office knocked at the door before letting them enter when he was ordered to.
"Ah Lady Potter-Black What can I do for you today?" asked a curious Sharpfang.
"Several thing, first I would like to move to America in Virginia in the town of Mystic Falls so I would like you to help me purchase a house there if I don't already own one, second as I will be living in the muggle world for the foreseeable future I will need access to my money so I would like to know how that works and thirdly I would like to see how much I currently have in my vaults please." said Iris knowing you had to make precise demand when dealing with goblin who were as fierce banker as they were warriors.
Sharpfang nodded and barked something in his own language before turning to face the young woman and her son.
"The audit will take a little time and as you know we will take a fee of two sickles, so first I will explain you how you can have access to your money while leaving for the muggle world, what most wizard don't know or don't want to know is that every vault in Gringotts fit with an account number for every national banks in the muggle world so you will be able to access your money for a fee of two galleons we can even make you a credit card attuned to your vaults which means your account in the muggle world, if you have any trouble over there you should go see Moonfang who is your account manager in Gringotts' branch of Salem."
Then a goblin came and handed Sharpfang a huge piece of parchment who handed it to Iris.
It was the audit of her vaults, she took the time to go over it as it showed the recent transactions.
"As you can see we did as you ordered and fused all your vaults into two one family vault plus a trust fund for your son." said Sharpfang as he handed her the parchment.
Audit of Vault Potter-Black
G=Galleaon
S=Sickle
K=Knut
Family Vault
monetary value
5,000,000,000 G 2459 S 578 K
Estimate of artefacts and books Value
4,000,400,050 G 789 S 56 K
Properties
12 Square Grimmauld London UK
Potter Manor Wales UK
Potter Cottage Godric's Hollow Wales UK
La ''villa noire'' 13 rue du port Marseille France
An apartment in Manhattan New York USA
Secondary Manor of Black New Orleans USA.
Recent Transactions
Fee : -2 S
Royalties : + 400 G
Teddy's trust vault
Monetary value
2,000 G
Estimate artefacts and books value
0 K
No properties.
Iris nodded to herself as she saw the audit she then asked Sharpfang "How much is that in US dollars?"
"Hmm seeing the transaction rate is one galleon = 351 dollars you have 315 914 041 000 in dollars but of course that's only the money you have now, you should be getting more royalties and some interest money getting into your vault by September." said the goblin.
Iris whistled impressed at the amount and then told her account manager she would take the credit card and she would like to buy a house that was neither too big nor small.
Sharpfang said he will took care of that and will warn her when the offer will be made and pass her picture of the house so she could have the last say.
After saying their goodbye to Sharpfang and having no other business in Diagon Alley, the mother and son duo went back to Square Grimmauld where Iris started to put together a resume somewhat fake as Hogwarts wasn't a normal school, however she took the muggle examination call the A-levels when she finished Hogwarts and she was quite proud of her results.
She applied on several job offers some may think that due to her money she wouldn't have to work, that was true but she needed something to do her she would go crazy.
With that done, she floo-called the few friends that still talked to her or were still alive to warn them of her intention.
It was no surprise that not even an hour later Lord Neville Longbottom and his wife Lady Luna came by floo to talk to her in person, not five minutes later it was headmistress Minerva McGonagall and deputy headmaster Filius Flitwick that came inside.
Her former teachers came because they tried to hire her as the new Charm teacher for the younger years since Professor Flitwick wanted to open a Dueling class and wouldn't have the time to teach both class full time.
The Longbottoms came since they were friends since the beginning of their studies with Iris, Neville and the now dead Hermione Granger becoming friend on their first Hogwarts express trip, Luna came into her circle of friend a year later when the blonde started Hogwarts only to be excluded by almost every one due to her oddities, Iris took the younger girl under her wing since then.
"Professors, Neville, Luna it is good to see you." said Iris greeting her guests.
"Happy Birthday Iris and good to see you too." said Neville as he hugged his best friend.
"Nice to see you to Iris, I see you found your savior, but the Narggles are still within you." said Luna as she too hugged her friend.
As part seer Luna's speech could be quite hard to understand sometimes, but Iris finally understood something that puzzled her since after each birthday since she got to know the girl the little blond asked her about her savior. As Salvatore meant savior she know understood that Luna knew from the beginning that she wasn't who she thought to be.
"Come Miss Potter we aren't your teachers anymore, no need to call us professor anymore." said McGonagall with Flitwick nodding along.
"Only if you call me Iris, professor." replied the young vampire.
"So then Iris, why did you ask us to come here?" asked the charm teacher to his former favorite student.
"Well I, know that you wanted to hire me as a Charm teacher for the youngest year coming this September, but something came up and I decided to move to America." said Iris looking both sad and happy to not see the hall of her former school again.
Every one but Luna who seemed to already knew and teddy who already knew, were shocked by this revelation.
"Why would you want to move?" asked both the headmistress and Neville.
"The two main reason are one that I may have family over there, from my mother side of the family, and second because there are no discrimination against magical creature or relatives of one, so Teddy would grow up as a normal wizard." explained the young mother.
All her guests nodded understanding her motives.
"That's all right with you?" asked the concerned young woman for which the opinion of closed friend was important.
"My dear girl though I am sad that I won't see you again in the corridors I quite understand that Family is what matters to you, so yes I understand and stand behind you." said Flitwick.
"I agree with Filius, Iris." added the former transfiguration teacher.
"I support you Iris, you are my sister in all but blood." said Luna
"Iris if it is what you wish to do then do it." softly said Neville.
"How will you deal with the classes if I am not there?" asked a curious Iris.
"While it is true you were my first choice, my dear I have other candidates to ask." said the half-goblin.
After that discussion, they talked about everything before the guests had to leave.
Iris hugged her friend goodbye with tears in her eyes because she knew it would be a long time before they saw each other again.
1st August 2008.
After doing her morning ritual Iris looked into daycare for Teddy because as she intended to work, she couldn't take care of her little boy so someone had to do it for her, sadly she wasn't really moved by the daycare in Mystic Falls guess she will have to use her family members after convincing them she was who she said she was.
The rest of the day was spent packing and taking care of any business she may had in Britain, her plan was hat as soon as the house in Mystic Falls was bought to move in quickly to get used to the town before starting whatever her new job would be in September.
A week passed before her bank sent her the pictures of the different houses, she consulted them with her son as they both would live in it, so his voice will be as important as her in the choice.
In the end they both chose a two story house that gave them a homey feeling, it seemed the neighborhood was quite nice seeing the Gilberts were her neighbors, maybe they will be able to explain things to her as they witnessed her birth certificate.
Seeing that both her and her son chose the same house brought feelings of joy inside Iris heart and so she send the agreement needed for her bank to buy the house.
She then prepared their move by calling some muggle companies that specialized in moving furniture in order for them to move her bike, or the bike Sirius left her to her new house.
She didn't have other special furniture to move as the house was fully stocked and she didn't need anything for them.
A week after they left for Salem, by muggle plane and then took a bus to Mystic Falls and their new lives.
To be continued...