diclamer: I do not own Harry Potter, no matterhow much I would like to.
a/n: This is my first fic so be nice! Please enjoy!
Chapter 1
Sudden Beginnings
"Whoosh"
"Damn owls!" she screeched.
A lot of strange things have been happening to her lately. For example owls dive bombing her while she riding her bike or even at home. She doesn't know why but the owls give her a strange feeling about this coming year.
She, Jessica, and her twin brother, Michael, have lived in the same small town most of their lives, except when they go away for school. They are well known athletes. They love every sport, except dance, but their favorite is BMX.
She was riding home after a long and boring day of school. School, in this little town of Cool, starts August 2nd. There are 18 people in Cool (not including her and her brother because they are off racing so often) all of which live on farms. Her closest neighbor is six miles down the dirt road, which means a lot of places to ride her bike.
She and her brother are professional motocross racers and they make a pretty good living from it. Her mother started them on it at a very young age.
Her mom raised both of them by herself and still took care of the farm. Her poor mother had to put up with two noisy, rambunctious, and energetic kids who had a need for speed. They've raced each other since they were little. Even though they live on a farm they aren't country folk, they spend so much time in big cities they might as well live there.
Over the last hill and turning into her drive way she saw what she always did, her brother. Being 16 they don't have cars yet, but her brother is always showing her mother's boyfriend's car off. Her mom's boyfriend, Kris, loved that Mike was happy for him to be here.
"Mike, stop showing off the car!" Jess screamed as she rode up the drive way.
"Oh, it's okay Jess he's only having fun," Kris screamed back.
Her mom had a lot of boyfriends since, well, as long as she could remember. But there was something about Kris that made her feel uneasy.
"Hey, sis was up," Mike yelled as he waved good bye to his friends.
"Hey Jess wanna ride?" said a voice from behind her. It was her friend Sam.
"Sure, always willing to get a ride in a 'Stang',"she said as she got in the car.
"Why do you call it 'Stang' if it is a Mustang?" Sam asked.
"'Stang' Mustang, I don't see a difference," she said in a questioning tone.
"K then, you have fun with that," Sam said as they climbed the steep drive way.
They passed Mike then sped up, so he ran after them, and then they stopped suddenly so he did a face plant into the trunk of the car.
"That was so funny!" Jess managed to say between laughing and gasping for air.
"Get in," Sam said once she stopped laughing.
Since Jess had her bike in the back, Mike had a hard time getting in. Once he did they set off for the house.
Jess, Mike, Sam, and Kris climbed the stairs to their front door, where their mom was waiting for them.
"Your late!" she yelled in an annoyed voice.
"But, mom!" yelled the twins.
"No buts! You were supposed to be here early for our guest! Not be all sweaty and dirty! You two should be ashamed!" their mom was turning purple and her eyes were closed.
As you can imagine the twins are used to being yelled at so they just slipped by her without her noticing. She was still yelling when Kris put his hand on her shoulder.
"Cati they already went inside," Kris whispered in her ear.
"I know I just wanted to get a point across, I get so frustrated with those two. I just don't know how to control them," she said hoarsely.
"Why don't you send them far away from you?" Kris asked sympathetically.
"In spite of all I do they just act up more. I don't understand it where ever I send them they get into more trouble," she said.
"Have you thought of splitting them up?" he questioned.
"Oh I would never do that, they would be heart broken," as she said this there was a crash and a scream.
They both ran up stairs to the bedrooms and found something completely normal. Sam was doubled over with laughter and Jess had just punched Mike.
"You are the stupidest person to ever walk this earth!" Jess was screaming at the top of her lungs.
"Calm down! Now tell me what happened!" yelled their mom, but the twins were arguing again.
Their mom gave a deep sigh and walked down stair, followed by the completely shocked Kris.
"You just let them do that?"He spoke after a very loud silence.
"There is nothing I can do to stop them. They have to stop on their own," after she said that two doors slammed and she could still hear Sam laughing.
Suddenly there were two very loud screams and Sam stopped laughing. Their mom and Kris could hear what sounded like a dozen or so kids coming down the stairs.
"OH MY GOSH! There was an owl in my room!" Jess screamed.
"Yah my room too!" Mike shouted.
All three of them started talking at once so no one could understand any more.
Kris jumped up and ran up the stairs and before they had finished talking he came barreling back down.
"Look I found these in the window," he handed them the envelopes,
They opened them as quickly as they could and read aloud…
Dear Mr. /Miss O'Reaily,
I am pleased to inform you that you are invited to
a meeting in London, England on August 31st.
Please do make every possible arrangement to come.
Sincerely,
Cornelius Fudge
They stood there shocked looking at the letter. Kris was the first to speak.
"Well that's very -er- interesting,"
"I don't get it,"said Mike sounding sincere.
'Smack,' that is the sound of Jess hitting her brother on the back of the head, which she does quite often.
"Well I guess we're supposed to-er- go?" Jess really didn't trust this letter considering it was just delivered by an owl.
Kris reread the letter than said," Yes you both should definitely go," he continued before anyone could interrupt." I know old Fudge he is a nice man, I'll be more than happy to take y you both to see him."
When he finished everyone was silent for a moment, then their mom spoke," Well it sounds ok to me."
Jess was very shocked to hear her mother say this.
"What?" Sam blurted out.
"Well you can go if you like of course," she added with a sweet smile.
"What? You never let us go any where with any of your boyfriends before," Jess was a little shocked.
"Well," she paused," That's because he is not my boyfriend," she almost whispered that part.
"WHAT?" Jess, Mike, and Sam screamed.
"Well, we're going to be married," she went and stood next to Kris, who took her hand.
Standing there with their mouths open, eyes wide and completely shocked. Thy stood there for at least a minute when Mike's eyes rolled into the back of his head and he started tipping backward.
'Smack' he was startled awake by another hit on the back of the head from Jess.
"And," Jess stuttered a little," When did this happen? And when were you planning on telling us!"
"I proposed last night, when we went out for our one year anniversary," Kris said.
"See!" their mom put out her left hand from behind her back to show a ring with a good sized diamond.
If Jess's jaw could hit the floor it would be in the basement. Despite not being much of a girly girl, Jess still loves diamonds.
"Holy-,"
"Don't you dare!" her mother sounded threatening.
"How did you hide this from her," Sam said pointing to Jess, who was still staring at the ring.
"I'm skilled like that."
"Hey that's my line!" Jess said finally taking her eyes off the ring.
Her mom smiled wildly when she looked over at Kris, who was smiling just as wildly.
After the 14 hour plane ride, they got off the plane and Kris lead them all over London. London was quite interesting for Jess because she didn't understand their English.
"Ok I give up what is a flat?" she finally asked after the 4th or 5th guy asked 'Where's your flat?'
"It is like an apartment only there called flats instead," Kris explained.
"That makes no sense, why don't they just call it an apartment?" she asked in frustration.
"I don't know they just do," Kris was either confused or frustrated.
When they got back to the hotel room about 50 guys had looked back at Jess as they walked by.
"SO FRUSTRATING!" she yelled as she sat down on the bed." Do I have a sign over my head that says 'LOOK AT ME'?"
"Get used to it a lot of guys like American girls," Kris said with a look of disgust.
"Why do guys do that! They always do that! I hate it! Why do you think I dress like this!" she pointed to her clothes, not even trying to keep her voice down.
Both Kris and Mike looked at her as if it was the first time they have seen her. She was wearing a black t-shit that only touched her shoulders and her jeans hardly touched her hips. Thinking about it her brother has never seen her in any thing else, except a dirt bike outfit. They had been staring at her for a minute or so when a noise from the window brought them back to reality.
Jess looked at the window and screamed, "Damn owls!"
Kris ran over to the window and let the owl in. there was a letter on the owl's leg, he opened it and read aloud…
Dear Mr. / Miss O'Reilly,
The meeting is on the 31st. Please do remember
Remus will take you to my office for the meeting
then you will be on your way to school.
Hope you enjoy London!
Sincerely,
Cornelius Fudge
"Who's Remus?" Mike asked.
"I'm Remus," Kris said.
"What? You're Kris. You know Kris the guy marrying my mom! Remember!" Mike was worried.
Jess was just standing there looking confused, and then she spoke ." How can you be Remus if you're Kris!"
"Well, that's what they call me in this world," Kris tried to explain.
"World? What 'World? Your in our world not fantasy land!" Mike continued," Hello, you awake? Have you just gone crazy! Did you just get hit in the head?" Mike continued with this sort of thing for about 3 minutes before taking a breath and was about to start up again when Kris interrupted.
"Mike I know this must be a little confusing, but you have to believe me," before he could finish Jess interrupted.
A LITTLE CONFUSING! A LITTLE! WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!" she was still screaming when Kris noticed something. Her eyes weren't their normal shade of baby blue, they were electric blue almost soul piercing. He looked over to Mike, he was just staring at the floor, but his eyes were almost cobalt blue.
He wondered why he had never noticed before, maybe he had never seen them this mad before.
"Does mom know about this?" Jess asked.
"Yes I told her months ago," Kris aka Remus explained.
"You told her and not us?" Jess was still screaming.
"She told me not to tell you because you would freak out, her exact words," Remus said.
"Yah mom was always right about that kind of stuff," Mike said, which surprised Jess," Jess, take a walk."
Mike steered her to the door, opened it and shoved her out.
"But-," she started but the door slammed on her face.
She went down stairs to the lobby of the hotel and went outside. She didn't know where she was going or what she was going to do. She picked a direction to go and stuck with it till she heard her name.
"Jess, hey wait up," a boy she had never seen before came running up to her.
"Do I know you?" she asked the panting boy.
"Well, no, but Remus told me to keep an eye on you, to make sure you don't do or go any where you shouldn't," he stood up straight still breathing deeply.
"Oh, and what is your name?" Jess looked eye to eye with the boy.
"Harry, Harry Potter," the boy said.
"Ok, nice to meet you," Jess shook the boy's hand and set off again.
"Might I ask where you are going?" Harry said while trying to keep up with her.
"Don't know. You know somewhere I can find a place to get some food?" Jess asked.
"Yah, -er- we can go to the Leaky Cauldron. Not the best but they're ok," Harry answered.
"Sounds good to me,-er- where is it?" Jess stopped and looked to Harry.
"Well, it is on the other side of London. Behind the Ministry offices, so we can take the underground," Harry lead the way.
"The underground? Like B.A.R.T.? Or like a subway?" Jess asked Harry looked at her with confusion.
"Er-"Harry didn't know what she was talking about.
They walked down some weathered stairs and came out in what looked like to Jess a B.A.R.T. station.
"Must be like B.A.R.T. only not in the Bay Area," she looked at a map hanging near by." Where are we going?"
"Huh, oh, over here," he pointed to a station on the other side of London. "What is bart?"
"Oh it stands for Bay Area Rapid Transit, it's sort of like this only part of it is above ground and part is underneath," she stepped onto the train that just pulled up.
Suddenly music started to play and Jess took out a silver object and pressed a button on the side that made it stop singing.
"What is that?" Harry asked.
"My cell phone."
"Who was calling?"
"My brother," she said flatly.
"What if he wanted to know where you are?" Harry was obviously an only child.
"I don't care, he is my brother he should be used to it by now," she smiled as she tried to remember when her brother really cared.
Getting off the train, Jess followed Harry along dark streets and alley ways. Jess asked Harry questions as the walked.
After about 20 minutes of walking they came to a little old building with a sing that read 'Leaky Caldron'. They stepped inside and Jess saw what she had been expecting.
"Hello," she said casually.
"Have a seat Jess," Remus motioned to the chair next to him. "Thank you Harry."
"No problem," Harry took a seat by the fire across the room.
"So, shall we start?" Jess asked.
The meeting was extremely boring to Jess; all they did was talk to Mike. Probably because he asked all the questions and was actually interested. Jess glanced over to Harry who had fallen asleep by the fire.
"Are we done yet, I'm bored and it is," she leaned over to check her brother's watch,"2 o'clock in the morning and I'm hungry."
"Did you listen to anything I said?" Remus asked.
"No, was I supposed to?" Jess yawned.
"Yes, it was very important!" Remus raised his voice only slightly.
"Since I'll find out eventually wont I? Now let's eat!" Jess said happily, Remus rolled his eyes.
They ate and then Remus steered them toward a staircase that led to the bedrooms.
"Wait," Mike stopped which caused every one behind him to stop, " Where is our stuff?"
"It is in your rooms," Remus said and continued to walk.
"How did it get there?" Mike being a guy, aka stupid asked.
'Smack' the sound of Jess's hand meeting the back of Mike's head, Jess enjoyed doing this a lot.
"I had it brought over after we left," Remus said.
"Ok," Jess said and started walking again.
They walked till they got to a door marked 'J.O'REILLY', and next to that was a door marked 'M.O'REILLY'. The twins went to their doors opened them and walked inside. Harry passed by the door right as Jess was closing it and smiled, Jess smiled back.
She turned around and faced the room, there was a four poster bed, with her luggage at the bottom. She pulled on her pj's and threw herself into bed. She stared at the ceiling, thinking about why she was here. She felt like she was sleeping for what felt like a couple of seconds when her brother came running in.
"Are you ok? I've been really worried," he was breathing hard.
"I'm fine, but you should knock next time. And what do you mean you were worried?" Jess was extremely shocked to hear her brother say he was worried.
"We missed the train," Mike was eager to change the subject.
"What?" Jess sat up and looked at the clock. It was noon."Damn how are supposed to get there now?" Jess was standing up now and started pacing.
Mike stood up and stared at the corner, seeing this Jess looked to see what he was staring at, when she did she smiled.