A/N: Wow what a response! Thank you so much for reviewing and favoriting etc. I certainly didn't expect this! Anyways, here is the next chapter that you have all been waiting for.
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Hadrian Nelluc readied his classroom at Forks High school where he had worked as a music teacher since the past autumn, for his next class when an excited knock came from his slightly open door and a brown haired girl ran in.
"Rian!" She cried and smiled at him widely.
The 23-year-old man with a pale skin, waist-long black hair and emerald green eyes turned to look at her with a smile of his own that held a hint of relief. He was well built and had a certain boyish charm that had all the school's girls and a few boys too drooling after him. Rian was very aware of the effect he had on his students, but held no interest in accepting any of their date offers or any other offer for that matter and was glad that Bella didn't belong to that group.
"Bella." He greeted her. "Where have you been? You haven't been in class for a few days and your dad was worried sick. He called me a few days ago and asked me if I had seen you."
"Ah, yeah, about that…" Bella grimaced. "I err... I went to Italy."
"Italy?" Rian frowned. "Why on earth would you go to Italy? You didn't even tell anyone."
"It's a long story…" Bella said dismissively. "But more importantly, I have someone I want to introduce you." She grinned and on cue a copper haired boy entered the room making Hadrian stiffen. This boy was a vampire. Hadrian wondered for a moment if Bella knew, but realised that she must have. Suddenly all the evasive answers regarding her – ex? – boyfriend made sense.
"Hadrian this is Edward, Edward this is Hadrian Nelluc, our new music teacher." Bella introduced.
"It's nice to meet you sir." The boy said politely, but frowning a little.
Hadrian felt a light tucking in his mind and narrowed his eyes slightly before taking the offered hand and giving him his trademark smile.
"It's nice to meet you, Edward. I have heard so much about you. And please call me Rian, I'm not that much older than you." He said and Edward nodded. "Bella would you mind taking this to the principal? In the mean time I can catch Edward up for what we have been doing this semester." He continued and Bella nodded a bit warily at the thought of leaving Edward alone with Rian after all she had told him about them.
After Bella left the room Rian turned to Edward.
"So, Edward… You're back in town for good or just visiting?" He asked casually.
"We are planning on staying." Edward said.
"And you and Bella? Has she forgiven you for leaving her?" He asked cocking an eyebrow.
"We are together, yes." Edward said frowned. "Though, I do not know how that is relevant to you."
"What has Bella told you about me?"
"Not much. Just that you are the son of Charlie's old partner and you're friends." Edward frowned.
"Ah. Well, I believe she has forgotten to mention that we are not just friends. I regard her as my little sister" (more like a daughter but Edward didn't need to know that) "and I was the one who pulled her out of her depression after you left her and showed her that there was more to life than one boyfriend." Rian looked at him, his intense green eyes pouring straight to his soul. "Now I'm going to say this once. You hurt her again and you will have me to deal with, and I swear to God that after that no-one will find what's left of you. Do you understand?"
"Yes Sir." Edward nodded clearly uncomfortable, sensing the power that exuded from him.
"Good." Rian said jovially. "Now, since it's so close to the summer holidays, I'm going to give three assignments you need to complete to pass this class. First you need to write me a ten-page essay of music history of a genre of your own choosing; secondly, prepare a 30 minutes long presentation of a musician whom you admire; and thirdly choose a composition that you will perform with your chosen instrument during the last week of school. There is a pile of music sheets from where you need to choose your piece. The ones already reserved are marked with red. Any questions?"
"No." Edward said moving to look at the pile of music sheets.
"Very well. You have ten minutes till my next class. If you have any questions or problems you are welcome to come to me." Rian said and moved back to arranging his desk.
Meanwhile Edward looked through the pile of music sheets noticing that they were all composed by some known classic musician – all except one. He picked the sheet up and looked at it closer. The song was named Hedwig and the composer was marked H. Evans. Edward had never heard of him but a quick look at the notes showed that it was a very good piece. Deciding to pick that one Edward moved to Rian's desk and asked:
"Is it okay if I take this one?"
"What is it?" Rian asked taking the sheet.
"Hedwig by H. Evans from 1879." Edward said and Rian stiffened for a second before forcing himself to relax.
"Where did you get this?"
"It was in the pile you told me to choose a piece." Edward frowned at the slightly sharp tone.
"It was?" Rian stated.
"Yes." Edward said. "Do you know who the composer was? I have never heard of H. Evans."
"No, I don't. It must have gotten mixed up from somewhere, but if you like it you can take it." Rian said and Edward nodded. "Well if that is all, you must excuse me, I have a class to teach. Tell Bella I will see her later today." He continued dismissing Edward, who nodded and exited the classroom leaving Rian lost in memories he had not thought for a very long time.
He smiled widely not stopping his playing when a pair of arms wrapped gently around him and warm lips pressed to his neck.
"Still composing love?" The voice next to his ear asked.
"Hmmm." He hummed as the lips continued worshipping his neck. "I'm almost done."
"It sounds beautiful. What's it called?"
"Hedwig." He answered with a sad tone in his voice, his eyes gazing far away.
"Love?" The voice answered concerned.
"She was my only friend in my youth. She died for me." He said.
"I'm sorry."
"Me too."
After his last class Rian entered the teachers' lounge and found all the female teachers gushing over something.
"What's going on?" He asked with an amused smile, drawing the women's attention to himself.
"Oh, Rian! Haven't you heard? The Cullens are back!" Mrs Goff – the Spanish teacher – gushed.
"The Cullens?" Rian asked with a raised eyebrow.
"That's right! You wouldn't know about them, they left just before you moved here." She continued.
"Mr. Cullen is so dreamy…" Shelly Cope, the secretary, sighed.
"He's a doctor, you know." Mrs Goff winked at him. "And so very polite! Too bad he's already married."
"The whole family is polite." Julia Hammond, the nurse, commented turning to Rian. "Dr and Mrs Cullen have five adopted children all aged between 18 and 20 even though they're not older than thirty themselves. One would think the children would be hard to handle, but they have never caused any trouble at all."
"The Cullens tend to keep to themselves, though." Mrs Goff said. "It caused quite an uproar last year when their youngest son, Edward, started dating Isabella Swan..."
The other women nodded in agreement and continued their gossiping while Rian slipped out of the room and left the building lost in his thoughts.
He had of course heard many things about Edward and his siblings, especially Alice, but Bella had neglected to mention their last name.
Rian closed his eyes feeling the same old pain in his chest as, for the second time today, he thought about the past.
Cullen.
Cullen had been the name he and Carlisle had chosen for themselves for when the world finally changed and they could be together without all the hiding. Only they never got the chance and Rian had been left to spend his eternity alone.
Rian shook himself out of the painful memories just in time to see he had reached the shop and to collide with a young couple who came through the door. Out of habit Rian let himself fall onto the ground along with the couple.
"Sorry Mister. We weren't looking where we were going." The boy said (Rian noted he had a British accent) helping his girlfriend up.
Rian too got up and waved his hand dismissively.
"It's quite alright, I wasn't really paying attention myself either." He smiled taking his first good look at the couple. The girl had a long blond hair, beautiful and kind features and bright blue eyes while the boy's hair was turquoise mess and he had amber eyes. There was something very familiar about them, but Rian couldn't place it.
Suddenly the boy's eyes widened and his mouth fell open.
"Uncle Harry?"
Immediately on guard Rian snapped his gaze back to the boy and looked over him again in search of the features that belonged to the only person who'd call him Uncle Harry. It had been over two and half centuries since he had last gotten a proper look at his godson, but he still remembered how the five-year-old had looked and though this boy was fourteen years older, he still carried the same features from his parents as he did back then.
"Teddy." Rian whispered.
Teddy took a step forward, but stopped when the girl Rian still couldn't identify, took hold of his hand. Rian and Teddy both turned to look at her and Rian noticed her looking at him with a mixture of caution and curiosity.
Rian smiled at the protectiveness, glad that Teddy had someone like her by his side.
"I'm not going to hurt him." He assured her. "Or you for that matter."
"See, I told you." Teddy told her grinning happily and suddenly Rian found his hands full of his godson.
"You have gotten taller." Rian chuckled and hugged him back and inhaled the scent of his godson and found that he didn't smell appealing at all.
"Your wolf-genes have awakened." He said pulling back and looking at Teddy with concern.
"Yeah, it happened when I turned 17. But don't worry, I'm not a werewolf. I just have a few wolfish traits like Victoire's dad." Teddy grinned.
"You're Bill and Fleur's daughter?" Rian asked turning to Victoire.
"Yes."
Rian nodded.
"So what bring you two to Forks, if I may ask?"
"We were looking for you, actually." Teddy said making Rian frown.
"Me? Why would you be looking for me? How did you even know where to find me?"
"We didn't actually. We came here to meet a coven in order to find out if they knew you." Victoire said quietly as to not attract attention. "Actually finding you was like the biggest coincidence ever. We have been looking for a few months already."
Rian looked at the two near-adults disbelievingly before shaking his head.
"Come with me, I have a house close by and we can talk there. I'm sure you have a lot of questions and this is not a place for them." Rian said and started walking away from the centre.
They walked for some time till they arrived to an edge of a forest here Rian stopped and turned to look at the two.
"I could get you there much faster if you want, or then we can just walk." He said and the two looked at each other before nodding.
"You can take us." Teddy said.
"Okay, I will take Victoire first and then come back for you." Rian said to Teddy and in a blink of an eye they were gone.
Not two seconds later though, Rian was back having left Victoire in front of his house, and took hold of Teddy. Again Teddy didn't even have time to blink till they were standing in front of a gorgeous small house with big windows.
"Please make yourself at home." Rian said as they entered the house. "Would you like something to drink? I've got soda and juice."
"Soda please." Teddy said looking around the house.
"The same." Victoire answered and the two sat down.
A few seconds later Rian handed them their drinks and sat down on the armchair.
"Now, you said you came here to meet a vampire coven in order to find me." Rian said tonelessly looking at the two young adults who nodded. "Do you have any idea how dangerous that is?!" He exclaimed. "They could have killed you in a blink of an eye!"
"We knew they were vegetarians." Teddy protested suddenly feeling like he was four again and being reprimanded for his latest prank. "Sanguini told us."
"Sanguini?" Rian asked disbelievingly shaking his head. "That's no excuse Theodore Remus Lupin and you know it! Being a vegetarian does not guarantee that the vampire can maintain control around humans! You can never know for sure."
"We had our wands with us." Teddy mumbled.
"And you think you could defeat an entire coven of vampires with your wand?" Rian asked incredulously.
"No." Teddy looked down.
"This is highly irresponsible Teddy! Vampires are incredibly dangerous creatures and you'd do well to keep away from them. You may think you're invincible now that you're considered an adult, but you're not!" Rian ranted angrily.
"I wanted to find you, Uncle Harry."
"And that is even more disturbing! You knew what I had become, how dangerous I am and you still wanted to find me!?"
"I knew you wouldn't hurt me." Teddy protested.
"I tried to kill you when you were a five-year-old child and you thought I wouldn't hurt you?!" Rian asked disbelievingly, his voice filled with pain as he recalled his change.
"But you didn't!" Teddy cried. "You took care of me even when you were in pain because of the venom in your veins and after you stopped yourself before you could hurt me."
"Even so, I could do it in a blink of an eye if I lost control. I'm dangerous, can't you see that Teddy?"
"I know you would never hurt me or anyone else if you could help it." Teddy said with confidence.
Rian sighed in defeat. "This was still a very stupid and dangerous idea, Teddy. I can't believe your parents or Andy approved this." He said to both of them before realising: "They don't know, do they? You didn't tell them."
Victoire shook her head. "I told my parents we were going travelling, but didn't mention about you."
"I can't believe this." Rian said. "How do you think your parents would feel if they were told that you were killed by a bunch of vampires because you were stupid enough to go looking for them? Or your grandmother, Teddy?"
"Well I wouldn't know because she's not feeling anything anymore." Teddy lashed out before leaving the room.
"What?" Rian sobered up.
"Andromeda died a while back." Victoire said quietly. "That's why he wanted to find you so badly. You're the only family he has left. And he never cared you had turned into a vampire. He was sure you would learn to control yourself and someday be able to live with people again. With him. He has missed you and looked up to you his whole life and all this time he hoped that one day you would show up and be his Uncle Harry again. After Andy died he was dead set on finding you and that's what we have been trying to do since I finished Hogwarts."
"Oh Teddy." Rian sighed, feeling pain and sadness for his godson.
"He really needs you right now Harry." Victoire said.
Rian sighed before nodding and leaving the room to find Teddy. He followed the boy's scent to his back yard and found him curled up under a big tree. He walked towards him in human pace and sat down next to him.
"I'm sorry about Andy." He said quietly. "What happened?"
Teddy was silent for a moment before answering:
"Cancer."
"I'm sorry Moonlet." Rian said using the nickname he had given Teddy when he was a baby and put an arm gently on the boy's shoulder.
Teddy cracked a small smile at the name leaning to his godfather's one-armed embrace.
"And I'm sorry for getting angry." Rian said. "I'm happy to see you, don't doubt that for a second, but I just need you to understand how reckless and dangerous it was for you to try to find me by meeting vampire covens."
"I know." Teddy said. "I just didn't know any other way."
"As long as you know it." Rian said and ruffled his godson's turquoise hair making him laugh. "Now come on, let's go inside. We better not keep that girlfriend of yours waiting for too long or she will think I ate you for dinner." He joked and Teddy rolled his eyes, though he was smiling.
The two went back inside the house and found Victoire reading through one of Rian's books.
"Now I want you to tell me everything I have missed since I had to leave." Rian grinned at the two young adults who smiled back.
"Only if you tell us too." Teddy said.
"Is it true that you travelled back in time for centuries?" Victoire asked eagerly and Teddy too perked up.
"How do you two know about that?" Rian frowned. He had never told anyone about his time travelling.
"Erm… A lucky guess?" Victoire said sheepishly and Rian looked at her pointedly.
"Tell me."
Carlisle arrived home late that night, having spent the rest of the day hunting and trying to push the old memories back in their place. He couldn't believe that Harry, his Harry had actually been a man out of time and not born in the 18th century like he had thought. He could understand why his lover had never told him about his past as at the time magic was not something widely accepted even among vampires as it was too unknown skill. He did wish of course that Harry would have trusted him with it as it had been such a big part of his life, but still, he understood.
It was odd, though, to think now decades later that his Harry had family alive in the world, people Carlisle had never known about. He couldn't help but play around with the thought of contacting Victoire and Teddy and asking them to tell him more about Harry and his life before Carlisle had met him. He was just afraid that it would be too painful for him to handle.
Carlisle stepped into the house hearing Edward playing the piano. He was playing some new song and Carlisle wondered for a moment whether he had composed it himself when he stopped dead and realised he knew this song.
Hedwig.
"Carlisle, you okay?" Jasper asked at the same time as Edward stopped playing and asked:
"Carlisle, you know this song?"
"Where did you find it?" Carlisle asked approaching Edward and the piano.
"It's a school assignment. I'm supposed to perform it for my music class. I found it in the pile of sheets from where I was supposed to choose a piece to perform."
"It was Harry's." Carlisle said his voice breaking as he took the sheet of paper in his hand. It looked to even be the original version as it was clearly written by hand – by Harry's hand.
"You mean?" Edward raised his eyebrows in surprise and Carlisle nodded.
"I wonder how it ended up in the music classroom." Edward mused frowning. "Come to think of it, the music teacher probably knows something about it. I think he acted a bit weird when I asked if I could take it."
"Mrs Miller?" Carlisle frowned.
"No, there's a new teacher, called Hadrian Nelluc, but he apparently likes to be called Rian. He's around 24 and the son of a friend of Charlie's. He has gotten close to Bella and thinks of himself as big brother to her. Gave me the 'you-hurt-her-again-and-I-will-kill-you' talk today." Edward grimaced.
Emmett, who had entered the room just in time to hear Edward finish his sentence, let out a booming laugh.
"Poor Eddie, you need to be careful from now on or he might just kill you." He fake-wiped his eyes. "Oh right, but you're already dead!" He laughed.
"What did this…Rian, look like?" Carlisle asked ignoring Emmett.
"He was pale, tallish, about my height, had long black hair and green eyes."
"That sounds a lot like the picture we saw today." Jasper commented, but Carlisle kept his attention on Edward, not willing to let himself hope.
"Did you find anything about him?"
"No, I couldn't read his mind at all, just like Bella's. There was something shielding his mind. It was like walking into a prick wall." Edward said. "And he felt… powerful. I don't know how to explain it, it was like he could actually follow through with the threats he told me."
"Poor Eddie was scared of his music teacher." Emmett chortled and Edward glared at him.
"Nelluc." Jasper muttered.
"That's like 'Cullen', only backwards." Emmett quipped not looking up from his video game.
Carlisle's eyes widened as he realised the same.
"Carlisle?"
"Cullen was the name we decided upon when we would be able to be together without hiding." He said.
"I don't want to get your hopes up Carlisle, but there are too many connections to your Harry for this to be just a coincidence." Jasper said cautiously.
"I know." Carlisle whispered.
"Wait, you think he's alive?" Edward asked shocked. "But I though you saw him…"
"We had a couple of visitors today that suggested otherwise." Jasper explained and showed Edward the visit from Teddy and Victoire.
"He was a wizard?" Edward said amazed.
"So it would seem."
Edward opened his mouth to say something when a phone rang and Carlisle picked it up.
"Hello?"
"Carlisle?" A familiar voice asked. "It's Victoire."
"Hello Victoire." Carlisle said trying to keep his voice calm.
"You asked me to call you if something came up and… we found him!"
A/N: Thanks for reading! Please review and tell me what you thought!
So far I have only written this chapter and about half of the next one of this story and honestly it was always supposed to be a very short little piece with maybe some additional scenes regarding Harry and Carlisle's past, but now I don't know... I had a few ideas of how I could continue this, but it will take time as I'm quite busy right now and writing three other stories at the same time as well, so I'm asking you, do you want me to continue this beyond Harry and Carlisle's reunion?
- Dalnim
