The Power of Four

Godric's Hollow

Chapter 1

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It was Monday morning, a typical day at the office. Everyone still wished it was the weekend, and drank copious amounts of coffee to get themselves through the day. The work was brutal, but someone had to do it. At least that's what Jackie thought as she stared at a blank Microsoft Word document.

"Allan!" yelled Jackie's boss Mrs. Sanchez snapping Jackie from her thoughts.

Jackie spun around in her comfy grey office chair. "Yes?"

"Get a move on Britain's sexiest ladies and lads story! Or else I'm going to give the story off to Rachel." Mrs. Sanchez snorted. "That girl's like the energizer bunny she started out yesterday and she keeps on going and going..."

"Okay I get the point." said Jackie quickly.

Mrs. Sanchez shifted her weight from one foot to the other. "Good."

"But you're going to give the story to Rachel?"

"Yes, if you don't finish in time so START TYPING!" ordered Mrs. Sanchez. She looked at her employee with sympathy. "You just haven't been yourself lately." With that she walked off.

Jackie let out a sigh. Yeah she hadn't been herself because she was torn between two lovers. There was her current boyfriend Jesse, who's a teenage guy and then there's...Draco. Draco, her prince. Her knight in shining armor... accept this time he screwed up bad. He became the Dark Lord for crying out loud! I mean what dipshit DOES THAT???

Jackie's colleague and good friend Peyton walked over to her desk. "Is she still picking on you?"

"Bit by bit." snarled Jackie. "She's tearing me apart everyday!"

"Maybe that's just her way of encouraging you, trying to bring out the best out of you." shrugged Peyton.

Jackie rolled her eyes. "I guess. So girl, you have to come with me to yoga tonight."

It was Peyton's turn to roll her eyes. "Fine, just for you I'll come. But our teacher is so...bizarre!"With that she walked off back to her desk.

Jackie laughed and shouted, "I love you Peyton!"

"Yeah, yeah." said Peyton.

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"Oh, Eli!" moaned Daniele after they just finished having another blissful session of honeymoon sex. The two were in Scotland for their honeymoon. After all, she is Scottish. "You're killing me here!"

Eli smirked, "Yeah well you know it's legendary. The only sounds I hear from you Danielle are oohs, ahhs and moans."

Danielle hit him in the shoulder. "I'm so glad I'm married to you." She said jokingly.

"And I'm so glad I'm married to you." said Eli kissing her softly.

Danielle smiled and then sat up alarmingly. "Veronica Mars is on!" She reached for the remote on the bed side table and turned on the television.

Eli groaned and buried the blankets over his head. "Not this show again!"

"Yeah, it's a new episode too!"

"Good lord!" muttered Eli. He groaned and got out of the bed. "I'm going on a beer run."

"Shh!" hissed Danielle. "I'm trying to watch the show!"

Eli smiled and shook his head as he put on his jeans. "Yep, that's my wife."

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Nehal was at the Ministry of Magic doing some filing. She was so exhausted, Monday mornings sucked. Yeah she was pretty much her own boss, but if she didn't do work then the other employees wouldn't do work. They looked to her as an example, a role model. "Urrgh! Why filing of all things?? And why do I have to do this??" Nehal plopped on her chair with a sigh. She picked up the nearest pile to see what she was filing anyways.

There was a knock on the door.

"Come in!" said Nehal welcoming any distraction.

Jamie walked in the office. "Hey gorgeous!"

Nehal gulped. She still hadn't worked up the courage to tell Jamie about Jensen. She felt awful. While everyone was living their happy ending after the battle, she was living a unhappily ever after ending. "Hey, what's up?"

"I just wanted to see my beautiful girlfriend." Jamie gave her a hug. He noticed she seemed tense. He scrunched his nose. "Something wrong?"

"No, no everything's fine, just got lots of filing crap to do...that's all."

"Do you need any help?" offered Jamie.

"I-I'm really fine." replied Nehal.

"You're a little high on yourself, aren't you? Going around telling people you're all fine." mocked Jamie.

Nehal pushed some hair back behind her ear. "Look Jamie, I really should get back to work." She didn't know long she could keep this up.

Jamie looked disappointed. He really just wanted to spend time with his girlfriend. "Oh okay, we'll I'll come by around lunch. See how you're doing."

Nehal forced up a smile. "Yeah that would be nice."

"Bye!" waved Jamie.

Nehal waved back. She put her head on her hands, frustrated. She decided she needed to talk to someone and not Jamie. She walked over to Moody's office and knocked on the door.

Moody smiled. "Nehal, what can I do for you my dear?"

"Hi, I-uh...just wanted to ask you something."

"Sure, what's going on?" asked Moody.

Nehal sat down across from him and crossed her legs. "Do you think it's really over? The whole auror vs. death eater rivalry. I mean it went away and came back five years later, you know? Do you think it could happen again?"

Moody pondered what Nehal was saying, "Well, truthfully Nehal it's never over. There's always going to be a new enemy somewhere. Someone who's doing wrong. Someone who's lost themselves and decides to create havoc on the world, oh yeah it's never over."

"So we really shouldn't be having a break now, we should still be on the look-out for new enemies?" questioned Nehal.

"You can't look for new enemies. They always find you. Always."

Moody then noticed Nehal's brow creasing with worry. His top Auror might have trouble getting to work on time, and never attending meetings....but she was always an all-out person. He reached out and put a comforting hand over hers. "Why don't you take the day off?"

"But..the files.." Nehal began.

"I'll find someone else to do it instead." With an encouraging smile, Moody convinced Nehal he was serious.

"Thank you." Nehal felt five years of worry fall away as she walked out of the Ministry of Magic. She had no idea what to do on a day off, so she just walked into the crowd.

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Nehal realized that walking around in circles would do her no good, so she sought out to find a place where she could find some peace and quiet. Without a care that muggles might see, she disapparated to the Pradhan Manor. Her feet touched the floor and in a daze she walked into the living room, resting her head on the sofa. Into three minutes of her nap, Nehal heard the soft rustling of fabric on carpet. With the battle so fresh in mind, Nehal reacted without thinking.

Nehal drop rolled off the couch and while doing so, kicked the coffee table in the general direction of where the soft noise had come from. She picked herself up and while doing so, unsheathed the daggers from her hiding spots out of habit. It turned out that her unknown visitor was non-other than Jensen, who had taken it upon himself to move into her house. She could tell he had slept the night, by his tousled hair and wearing her dad's old silk robe.

"Jensen?" cried Nehal now panicking. The shards of glass from the coffee table had cut into his skin, and he was bleeding from several places. She hoped over the mess and knelt beside him, making sure he was okay.

"Well...you sure know how to defend yourself." Jensen glanced at the daggers still in her hands. "Uhhh...are those silver?"

"What?" she said distractedly. Looking down at her weapons, she realised what he was talking about. "Oh..right. Sorry." She helped him up, and even as she did so, the marks on his face disappeared and his skin had turned smooth again.

"Are you okay, Nehal?" he asked. "You look...different." Nehal gave him the "oh really?" look. "I mean, that you're neither here or there. What happened today?"

"That seemed to set off a trigger in Nehal's head. "What happened today? Every bloody thing happened today! Why can't I just be normal?"

Jensen led her to the sofa that she was originally sleeping on. "Why are you here today? Do you not have to work?" Nehal shook her head no. "Well, then we'll have to improvise as to what to do with our time" Jensen had a mischevous smile on his face. Nehal, sensing adventure, let him lead for once.

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"Timmy!" groaned Heather as the cat circled around her legs. "I just gave you tuna, and now you want more?"

"Meow,"

Heather rolled her eyes slightly annoyed. She was pretty glad she had decided to move back in with Oliver and Timmy. She missed them so much, not that she didn't like living with her friends but...it was time for a change. Change can be good.

Vlad lived with them too and Antoine shared his time between the Malfoy's and their place. He had a double-sized coffin where they both slept the day away together.

"Meow!" yelled Timmy. (This one's for Bonnie)

"Pssh!" said Heather. "Bonnie doesn't count." She really did not like Bonnie, ugh stupid doll.

Oliver sat on the couch eating pudding.

"STOP IT!" yelled Heather really annoyed with both Timmy and Oliver.

"I'm not doing anything. It's just pudding." defended Oliver.

Heather clapped her hands on her ears.

Oliver laughed and decided to annoy her more. "I just love pudding. It's so fun to say. Pudding. Pudding. Puuudding."

"UGH!" Heather left the room utterly irritated, her hands still clapped on her ears.

Oliver chuckled to himself. "Oh Heather, only you."

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"Hi!" said Jackie calling Jesse on his cell phone.

"Uh..." said Jesse nervously.

Jackie heard a voice snap on the other end, "JESSE! TURN THAT OFF! NO CELL PHONES IN CLASS!"

Jesse sighed, "I'll call you back, bye."

Jackie also sighed on the other end. She really wanted to talk to him about what happened a week ago. She still hadn't really talked to him since, because they were both so busy with work and school.

Half an hour later Jackie's cell phone rang.

"Hello?"

"Hey Jackie! What do you want to talk about?" said Jesse.

"Well, you know Danielle's wedding..." started Jackie.

"No."

"Yes you do!"

"Yeah, so you were saying?"

Jackie replied, "I know you must have been thinking what the fuck is going on but you see...the cops turned up and I did not want you to get in trouble so that's why I told you to run away."

There was silence as Jesse thought this through.

"Oh I see, but why did the cops turn up?"

"Um...well some random person...um...called 911 because they claimed that they saw a group of terrorists lurking in the shadows." lied Jackie.

"Oh okay...."

"So do you believe me?" asked Jackie timidly.

"Yeah of course."

Jackie giggled.

"So I'll see you later?"

"Yep."

Jesse smiled. "Alright bye Jaxs."

"Bye handsome!"

Jackie spun her chair around and screamed when she saw Mrs. Sanchez was standing behind her! "AHH! Oh my gosh! Please don't do that ever again!"

"Well please don't you ever again spend your working time calling up your boy toy. How rude!" scolded Mrs. Sanchez as she walked away saying, "Rachel would never do that. Nope she wouldn't."

"If you love Rachel so much why you don't just marry her, jeez." muttered Jackie turning her chair back around to face the computer screen, in a much better mood.

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Eli was taking a shower while Danielle was on the phone.

"Yes, I know-yeah..." said Danielle. "Of course, I miss you Sunshine. Okay bye baby." With that Danielle hung up the phone, feeling upset. She decided to go for a walk around the hotel to clear her head.

Fifteen minutes later Danielle came back.

"Hey, where did you go?" asked Eli concerned.

Danielle took off her flip-flops, "I went for a little walk, but er..." She put her hands in her capri pockets nervously. "Eli...you know how this honeymoon was supposed to last two more weeks?"

"Yeah,"

"Well can we maybe shorten it? Sunshine just called and I'm really worried about her."

Eli froze. "Wait what?"

"Sunshine called, she's not feeling so well."

"Your bird calls you?" asked Eli bewildered. He was still getting his head wrapped around the whole witch, magic concept.

"Yeah we also talk on msn sometimes too."

Eli laughed. "A-are, are you being serious?"

Danielle nodded. "We don't have to leave right away or anything just we shouldn't stay the whole two long weeks, that's basically what I'm trying to get at."

Eli nodded. "Okay, a couple more days it is."

Danielle smiled widely and hugged her husband warmly. "Thanks sugar! I knew you'd understand."

"Trust me, I'm trying." laughed Eli.

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Nehal arrived at the condo to find that Jackie was still at work. It was just the two of them. Both Heather and Danielle had moved out and on with their lives.

Nehal plopped down on the couch exhausted. "I'm so bored!" she muttered. Suddenly the lamp beside her turned on. "EUREKA!"shouted Nehal. "I'll go visit Malfoy at St. Mungo's."

Ever since the battle, Draco had been at St. Mungo's hospital because he had broke his arm after the battle and the ring just emotionally destroyed him. He was so distraught. He had to stay at the hospital till his full strength was recovered. Of course, Draco being Draco did not like that.

Nehal had been visiting Draco for at least one a week to update him on the world. He did not get a lot of visitors apart from herself, Ian, Sean and Narcissa. Sometimes he would be awake when she visited, sometimes sleeping.

So Nehal got her things together in her purse, applied a some lip gloss and wrote a note to Jackie telling her where she was. Off to St. Mungo's she went!

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