Over the weekend Harry was made welcome by the Cullen family into their home. He was given a room next to Edward's and was told that should he need anything to just ask. Esme had been beside herself with the opportunity to cook for Harry for the foreseeable future. Emmett loved that his play buddy was back and Rosalie was happy that the son of her heart was with them now as it should have been. Alice couldn't seem to sit still and danced around the house while pushing new clothes onto Harry at random moments. When Monday morning came, Harry wasn't ready to return to school, he wanted to be nowhere near the school or Isabella Swan.
"Harry where do you think you are going?" Esme asked as she saw Harry making his way down the stairs and to the living room to put on some shoes to go to school.
"School"
"No" Esme said coming from the kitchen and stopping Harry from placing his other shoe on.
"What"
"Carlisle has sent in a note saying that you will have the whole week off"
"I don't have to go to school?"
"No deary, your injuries are a bit too severe at this point to allow you back at school"
"Oh" Harry said relived and sad at the same time. He had heard the plans that Edward and the rest of the Cullens had made for Edward's breakup with the Swan girl. He wanted to see it, maybe if he was lucky Alice would let him peak into her mind and watch.
"Harry" Edward said looking at Harry and wondering where the slight teen was going.
"I'm not going to school" Harry answered before looking over to Esme and seeing her nod her head.
"Good" Edward said before guiding Harry back to the kitchen where Esme had made breakfast for him.
"Eat up"
"But you're going to break up with Swan, I want to be there"
"I'll let you see when I get home" Edward gave in, he knew that Alice had a tendency to show a bit more than she should when asked so he figured he would give in and hide the fact, at least for now, that Harry was his mate. Harry nodded his head before grabbing a piece of bacon and munching on it. That was how the rest of the family found Edward and Harry.
"Ready to go bro?"
"Just a moment" Edward said before running a hand through Harry's hair, something he had done when they had been friends before.
"Be good for Esme"
"I'm not a child" Harry huffed before laughing and saying that he would.
"See you later then" Edward said before giving into the urge to kiss Harry. He kissed Harry on the forehead and moved out of the room quicker than Harry could register.
"Eat, the food is getting cold" Esme said humor in her voice; it seemed that Edward was now fully engaged about his feelings for Harry.
"Sure, sure" Harry said as he continued to munch away on the bacon and eggs that Esme had made for him. For the rest of the day Harry relaxed and worked on a potion that would allow Edward to become immune to the potion that he had sold to Jessica's sister; while also waiting for the Cullen coven to arrive back from school.
"That was too good bro" Emmett said as the rest of the Cullen Coven entered the house. Harry perked up at the words, the Cullens had returned back from school.
"Hey bro" Emmett said as he noticed that Harry seemed to be deep into some books that looked like they were at least 200 years old.
"Hey guys, how did it go?"
"You should have been there man" Emmett said before beginning on the tale of how Edward broke up with Isabella Swan and how she made a complete and utter fool of herself.
"Let me show you" Edward said while sitting next to Harry. Harry turned to him and placed a hand on Edward's face before he sunk into the memory. He never noticed the huge smiles that were on each of the Cullen's faces, even Edward's at the move.
~Forks High School, several hours prior~
"Edward" Isabella Swan shouted before marching over to where Edward was getting out of the silver Volvo that he had driven to school with his family inside.
"Bella" Edward said in answer before Isabella was dragging him off to where the Stanley/Newton group stood talking about their weekend.
"Good luck bro" Emmett called out before making his way to his first class of the day, a huge and slightly scary smile on his face. By lunch time everyone was in the cafeteria and word had gotten around that Harry Potter was out of school for a week with an unknown illness. Most believed it had something to do with the way that he looked on Friday while others thought that he was faking it. It was at this time that Isabella decided to push Edward to introduce her to the family; she would need to at least be civil with them before giving them the boot from Edward's life.
"Edward why don't we eat lunch with your family today?"
"Sure" Edward said having no problem being by the other vampires. Once there, she received glares from all even Alice, a person who was always in good spirits. Isabella started in on Edward the moment they sat down.
"I called you this weekend"
"I was busy"
"But you were never busy before" Swan said you could tell that she was getting angry with the way that Edward was acting, it was almost normal.
"Don't you want to spend time with me?"
"Actually, no. Which is why I am breaking up with you" Edward said trying to hold back the smile that wanted to break over his face at the words. Since he had found out what she had done he had been itching to dump the girl. Alice had said she was digging her own grave but Edward wanted to do something to hurt the girl that hurt his mate.
"What" Swan asked truly surprised by his words, she must have heard wrong.
"We're through" it was here that Isabella stood up and began yelling about how could he do this to her. Edward answered in low tones that made everyone at the school begin to wonder if Isabella Swan was as self-centered as Jessica Stanley was.
"Potter will pay for this!" She shouted before stomping over off to where Jessica and Mike Newton sat stunned at the turn of events. Meanwhile Edward was busy reading Swan's thoughts and she was certain that the potion had worn off and that she need only get more into his system before things would return back to her normal. After the lunch period had ended Edward made his way to Biology where he sat next to the girl, he was on the alert for anything that she might offer him that could have the love potion on it or in it.
"Edward let's talk this through" Swan said once they had been set to work at looking at the different cell stages via slides.
"There is nothing to talk through, we are done" Edward said noticing that the girl seemed to keep fingering a small vile she had on her finger as a ring.
"Potter's got to you didn't he, your family took him to your house and you spent the whole weekend with him" Isabella guessed knowing that there were limited places that Harry Potter could go since his emancipation had gone through.
"And so what if he did stay at my house? That has no bearing on why I am breaking up with you" Edward lied, Harry was the sole reason he was dropping the girl, besides the fact that he found her as interesting as a slug.
"Edward we can work this out" Isabella said reaching out with the hand that had the vile that now looked open towards Edward. Edward moved away instantly knowing that she was trying to pull him back under.
"Just finish the assignment" Edward said before quickly finished the assignment and moving as far as he could away from Swan, who looked very put out. Once the bell rang Edward made his way towards his next class not bothering to stop and help Isabella as he once had. He could hear everyone's thoughts and they all centered over the break up between the pair of them. Some seemed happy that Edward had finally gotten the clue about the girl, while others plotted their revenge on hurting her. As the last bell rang Edward made his way over to his car to wait for the rest of the family before speeding back to their house and back to Harry.
"Edward" Isabella called out hoping that Edward had, had time to cool off and see what a bad idea breaking up with her was.
"Isabella"
"I told you to call me Bella"
"I don't wish to be familiar with you, so you will be Isabella"
"Edward don't do this"
"Do what? You are the one making a scene" Edward pointed out to the girl before she was blushing and looking at the crowd that had stopped to watch the interaction. This seemed to give her more gumption since she stood up straight and began to speak.
"We were meant to be Edward, this thing with Potter…..it will go away, he will go away" Isabella said already thinking of ways to make the slight teen disappear.
"Are you threatening Harry's life" Edward asked in a growl, no one would be getting away with that sort of thing. Isabella had figured out that she had said the wrong thing and blushed again.
"No, nothing like that" she was swearing up a storm in her mind while Edward's eyes narrowed at the girl.
"Listen, I no longer want to be near you and go out with you and if you think doing something to Harry is going to change my mind you had better think again" Edward said before getting in his car and waiting for his family that way. Isabella stood there at a loss for words, she had figured that she would at least be able to talk Edward into at least letting her try to correct whatever had gone wrong over the weekend, but it seemed not to be.
"Swan" Rosalie said pushing the girl out of the way and getting into the back of the car with Emmett and Jasper, while Alice took the front seat. Once all in Edward started the car and zoomed away, wanting to be next to his mate to make sure he was okay.
~End of Flashback~
"You should have seen her face when Edward snapped at her" Emmett said before laughing, the girl had looked like a fish out of water with her mouth hanging open.
"You're alright" Harry asked placing a hand on Edward's arm now that he had seen the scene that had occurred at school.
"Yes, she has a vile of the potion on her fingers. I never really noticed the ring before, but now that I think about it she never wore jewelry before" Edward explained, thinking that was how she kept him dosed with the love potion. She was forever pulling him by the hand to places, which would explain why it lasted as long as it did.
"The potion doesn't last for very long, a few days at most" Harry explained before grabbing a book and flipping through it and then stopping.
"This is the potion I sold" Harry said pointing in the book so that everyone could read it. Everyone was surprised when the words weren't in English but in Latin, a very dead language that was making a comeback with current generations. All read the page and then looked up to Harry, they hadn't known that Harry knew how to read and probably speak Latin.
"We didn't know you read Latin" Alice said surprised that she hadn't seen this bit of information. Her visions had always been spotty at best with Harry and she had always wondered if it had something to do with Harry's magical powers.
"Yeah, have been able to since about seven" Harry said remembering when he had been at his Aunt and Uncles house and had found some books that looked very out of place in a book store they had been in. From there he had learned how to read the language that the books had been written in and the rest was history. The Cullens nodded their heads before going back to their previous positions.
"I made the potion to counter act the effects of the potion" Harry said lifting a glass vile that held a pink looking potion.
"You sure about this? You know magic effects us differently"
"I made sure to keep that in mind while making it; I added something to make sure that you don't react badly to it." Harry said making everyone in the room wonder what he had done and if it would work.
"Bottoms up" Edward said drinking the potion without a second thought; he knew that Harry wouldn't hurt him even though he could. It just wasn't like Harry to do that sort of thing. Everyone watched Edward as he sat patiently for the potion to start working.
"How do I know if it works?"
"Do you feel any sort of need to go and smooth things over with Swan?" Harry asked, he knew that there was some residual effects of the potion still in Edward and if the potion worked as it should he wouldn't feel anything for the girl than what he had before.
"No and I don't have any sort of fondness of my time with her either" Edward said grimacing at the thought of kissing the girl as he had done on a few occasions. It may have been her cheek but he had touched her with his lips something that made his stomach churn at what or who had touched her body before him.
"Then it worked" Harry pronounced before the front door of the house opened and closed.
"Everyone" Carlisle called out, he had gotten word at the hospital that Edward had broken up with the Swan girl, so he had called it a day quite early, wanting to hear how things had gone.
"Carlisle" Esme said sliding up to her husband and kissing him in welcome.
"Your home early" Jasper said from his seat where Alice sat in his lap a sunny smile on her face as she watched Edward and Harry interact.
"I heard the news"
"It was great" Emmett boomed breaking Harry out of what he was telling Edward about magic.
"She will try again tomorrow with another approach" Alice warned as she got a vision of what Isabella Swan had planned.
"And she will receive the same answer that I gave her today" Edward responded back before asking Harry something and sinking back into a world that only Harry knew about, it seemed. Carlisle watched Edward and knew that soon Harry would be welcomed as Edward's mate.
"All will be well" Alice said quietly not wanting to break the pair up, who seemed quiet cozy now. For the rest of the night the Cullens along with Harry planned out a 'camping trip' that Alice foresaw them going on in the next couple of days.
"Morning" Harry greeted everyone as they came down dressed and ready to go to school. Edward had stayed up late with Harry talking about any and everything he could. He had missed his best friend greatly while he was with Swan, and now that he had him back he planned to spend as much time as he could with the slight teen.
"You're up early" Alice joked knowing that both Harry and Edward had been up until the wee hours of the morning. Edward not needing sleep was fine but Harry looked even worse than he did when he arrived to the house.
"Tired" Harry yawned secretly happy that Edward had spent as much time as he had with him.
"I think a nap is in order" Alice chirped she was so happy that Edward had finally found his mate, she had begun to worry about him years ago since he spent all of his time alone, now though she knew that he was working to gain back Harry's trust in him, something that had hurt him more than the rest of the family knew. She had seen the vision where Edward had gone out into the forest and demolished an area because of the pain he was feeling over Harry's words. He had never wanted anything like that to happen again and he was going to make sure that it never did happen again.
"Morning" Emmett boomed before taking in a now sleeping Harry.
"He was up that late?" Emmett said having not really paid attention to how long both Edward and Harry had been up.
"I don't think he went to sleep" Alice said before she saw Edward standing in the doorway a loving look on his face.
"He should have told me" Edward said a bit ashamed at having kept Harry up all night. They had just finished talking when Harry's alarm had gone off signaling another new day.
"You know Harry" Rosalie said walking in and seeing her son dead asleep at the table, while everyone else watched him.
"Take him upstairs Edward" Esme said coming into the room and seeing that Harry was in no condition to eat breakfast that morning. Edward nodded his head and made his way over to where Harry slept on not hearing or realizing that he was being talked about.
"Harry" Edward spoke into Harry's ear not wanting to startle the slight teen.
"Edward" Harry asked confused before realizing he had fallen asleep at the kitchen table.
"Come on" Edward said before picking Harry up and making his way to Harry's bedroom, a place that Edward was beginning to love. Everyone watched the interaction and smiled, Edward had finally accepted Harry as his mate, now to make Harry accept it. As Edward carried Harry back to his room the pair of them spoke about nothing much.
"Get plenty of rest" Edward said tucking Harry in and giving Harry a kiss on the forehead, something that made Harry grin a silly smile.
"Will do, sir" Harry said before letting out a yawn and trying to fight the effect Morpheus had on him.
"I'll be back as soon as I can" Edward promised before kissing Harry's forehead again and leaving the room, not wanting to go in the first place.
"Ready" Alice asked before getting a nod and the group was out the door and to the silver Volvo that waited for the forever teens. No one spoke since they need not to; each was lost in their thoughts about the upcoming holidays and what they would get for Harry. Edward had, had an idea of what he could get for him but wanted to make sure that they were firmly friends before offering up the idea.
"It's perfect Edward" Alice squealed in glee having seen Edward's idea play out for the Christmas holidays.
"Alice" Edward bit out, not happy that his idea had already been exposed by Alice, but then her words hit him. It was perfect, something that he wanted for Harry.
"We'll each get our own and attach it to yours" Alice chattered from the backseat, happy to finally have a vision that centered on happier things.
"What are we missing" Rosalie said looking between her driving brother and Alice, who had a huge grin on her face.
"Our Christmas gift to Harry" Alice answered knowing that Edward wouldn't answer the question.
"So" Rosalie said waiting for Alice to expand on her answer, as she was known to do.
"Eddy here wants to give him the diamond his mother gave to him before dying" Alice explained before getting a glare from Edward.
"But we each get our own gem stone and attach it to the bracelet that Edward is going to have made, so he has a piece of us every day"
"Wow bro" Emmett said surprised and quite happy that Edward had come up with something that the whole family could get. Harry always got fidgety about gifts and the like; they had heard that he never received gifts even when he lived with his parents. So getting gifts always made Harry fidget since in most cases he couldn't get much for the giver.
"Asking him to marry you already" Jasper said having gotten what Edward was trying to do. Everyone including Alice stared at Jasper.
"Maybe" Edward answered truthfully; there was after all no need to hide his feelings for Harry. His family would find out one way or another and he figured he might as well start now.
"About time you admitted your feelings" Rosalie said before giving Edward a smirk, she would make sure to speak to him alone to warn him off of trying anything that would hurt her son. They arrived just as Rosalie had said her words. Edward pulled into a spot and then turned and glared at Alice again, knowing that there was nothing he could do now that would stop his family from helping with the gift. Maybe he could get Harry something else as well, but so far he was blank with ideas.
"Edward" Isabella Swan shouted as she made her way over to where Edward was getting out of his car along with his family.
"Isabella" Edward said looking the girl over and wondering who she had gotten into a fight with for she had scratches all over her face.
"Look at what Potter did to me?" She said looking at Edward as if she knew he would believe her, he had before and she figured she would again and she had taken his hand and placed the potion on the back of his hand as he had done before.
"Harry couldn't have done that to you, for I was speaking with him pretty much the whole night at our house" Edward answered feeling Swan rubbing the back of his hand as if trying to rub something in, he jerked his hand away and gave the girl a glare before moving over to where his family waited for him. Isabella Swan watched on in shock, she had been certain that the potion would be in effect by now but it seemed that wasn't the case.
"So" Jessica said after she was certain that the Cullens were far enough to talk to Bella without being over heard by them. Sadly she didn't know that they could still hear her even from the distance they were away, ah the benefits of being a vampire.
"It didn't work" Bella said before looking over to where the Cullens now stood waiting for the bell to ring to signal the beginning of school.
"Maybe you need more" Jessica offered before looking over to the group and wondering if Bella's plan to get Edward back would work. She had told Bella of the flaws in the plan but when Bella continued not to listen so she had given up. She just didn't understand why Bella just couldn't settle for one of the guys in the group, she knew Mike was more than willing to date Bella but she seemed intent on dating and then marrying Edward Cullen. Isabella Swan was one thing though and that was stubborn, she only hoped that Bella wouldn't get hurt trying to catch a shooting star like Edward Cullen.
"Come on before we're late" Jessica said pulling Bella to her first class of the day that they had together.
"She'll need to be stopped" Alice said seeing a vision where Harry was being taken away for supposedly attacking Swan.
"How" Edward asked, he wasn't going to allow that girl to compromise the relationship that he now had with Harry.
"The easiest way is to make Black come and rein her in, he is after all her mate" Alice said seeing Edward going to La Push to talk to Black about Swan.
"I'll go tomorrow" Edward said remembering his promise to Harry to be home as soon as possible.
"Yes tomorrow is fine" Alice said smiling and then making her way to her first class of the day. The rest of the day was spent with Bella attempting to speak to Edward and being rebuffed by the family if she got too close.
"Finally" Edward said as the last school bell rang and he was making his way to his car to wait for the rest of his family. He wanted to be with Harry instead of being at school but he had known they would need to keep up appearance, maybe he could talk Carlisle or Esme into letting him stay home for a day.
"Edward" Edward heard before groaning the girl just wouldn't give up.
"What do you want?"
"I thought we could talk, I miss you"
"Well the feeling is not mutual"
"Edward" Bella said her voice sounding like she was going to cry.
"I have news I need to talk to you about" Bella said resting a hand on her belly, she was going to get Edward Cullen one way or another and if she had to use her pregnancy to do so, then she would. There of course was the issue of them having never slept together, but she figured that the town wouldn't care much since she was the toast of the town.
"You have nothing I want to hear" Edward said hearing her thoughts and knowing she was about to tell him she was pregnant.
"I'm pregnant"
"Well I guess congratulations is in order, who's the father" Edward asked making sure to say it loud enough so that everyone could hear that he didn't know anything about the pregnancy.
"Well you silly"
"That's not possible and you know it. So you were cheating on me as well" Edward said before Bella turned bright red at his words, it seemed that the whole school was watching the scene. Most were beginning to wonder about Bella Swan, for why in the world would the cheat on someone like Edward Cullen.
"Edward" Bella said slowly as if talking to a small child.
"Don't play me for a fool, I know that child is not mine and you know that as well"
"But Edward"
"No, why don't you go to that baby's father and tell him your pregnant" Edward said before he noticed the scent of dog in the air.
"Bella" Jacob Black said shocked at over hearing the news that Bella was pregnant.
"Jake" Bella said looking between the two and wondering if Edward would be jealous if she was a bit too friendly with Jacob Black.
"You're pregnant" Jacob said looking at Bella in wonder, he was going to be a father.
"I am" Bella said placing a hand on her stomach and then looking between the pair, torn as to what her next move would be.
"Are you the father" Edward asked already knowing the answer, he had heard the thoughts running through Jacob's mind the minute he knew the dog was there.
"I…." Jacob said looking to Bella and seeing that she had paled at the words. It made him wonder if she was embarrassed to be with him. He did after all live on the reservation but Bella had told him that none of that mattered, but it seemed that she had lied.
"I am" Jacob said knowing that Bella needed to get a taste of her own medicine.
"So how long were you cheating on me?" Edward asked knowing that Jacob would answer; he had heard what Jacob was doing.
"Two months" Jacob answered for Bella as she got more and more pale.
"I see and yet you feel the need to lie about what Harry has done to you"
"Edward, Potter is bad news"
"And you aren't?"
"Edward please understand"
"I have no reason to understand anything" Edward said before turning and making his way to his car where his family stood waiting for him.
"All will be well" Alice said once they were in the car, she had seen a vision of where Isabella was a loner due to her pregnancy. No one wanted to be friends with a liar and pregnant by one of the Indians on the reservation. Edward nodded his head as he drove he was already thinking about Harry's gift again, he had decided that Harry would only have the best and a platinum bracelet was the best.
"We're home" Alice called into the house before dancing her way with her husband into the house. She was just so glad that Isabella Swan was out of their life and for good.
"Hey guys, how was school?" Harry asked interested to hear if there was any more drama between the Cullens and Isabella Swan.
"Swan announced she is pregnant" Rosalie said with glee, she just couldn't help it. The dog had come and rained on her parade on trying to get Edward to believe that the child she carried was his.
"Wow"
"I quite agree" Esme said standing near the kitchen.
"The dog Black came and told a different story than what she had been feeding the town"
"She'll leave us be" Alice said from her spot in the chair where Jasper sat.
"Did you congratulate her?"
"Of course, I was the perfect gentleman" Edward said sitting next to Harry and pulling the slight teen into his arms.
"Good to hear" Harry said now snuggled up next to Edward, he had been quite lonely today but he knew that it would only be a matter of time before he would be back at school wishing for the time he had now.
"Play something" Emmett asked Harry, knowing the boy was always up for a game.
"Sure" Harry said before he was passed a wireless controller.
"He cheats you know" Edward whispered into Harry's ear knowing that Emmett heard him anyway.
"Not Emmett" Harry said before watching the TV with a smile on his face. He was so glad that things were going right for a change, now if only he could persuade the family into changing him, for he wanted to really be a part of their family for all eternity. For the next few hours everyone watched as Harry and Emmett played video games, laughing when Harry was able to beat Emmett at his favorite game.
"I did it" Harry said stunned, he had actually beat Emmett.
"How….when….rematch bro!" Emmett shouted before getting a slap on the back of the head from Rosalie.
"Rose" he whined before looking over to where Harry sat still in shock.
"I'll let him have it" Emmett sulked as he got a glare from everyone in the room.
"Good"
"Now it's well past dinner time for Harry" Esme said having been in the kitchen while Harry and Emmett played video games. She had been searching for what a traditional Christmas and Thanksgiving dinner consisted of, she had found many things but she was stuck on the idea of cooking a turkey for Thanksgiving and a ham on Christmas, now to just make sure that Harry ate both.
"Thanks Esme" Harry said as he took a seat at the kitchen table and dug into the pasta with sauce that she had made for him.
"Harry dear, do you eat turkey and ham?" Harry looked at Esme, what an odd question to ask before he realized that in just a few short weeks the Thanksgiving holiday would be upon them.
"Of course, I always had to cook a very large dinner for my Uncle since moving here"
"Good to hear"
"Now don't go off and buy a twenty pound turkey just for me, a turkey breast is more than adequate"
"I'll take that under advisement" Esme said before smiling as Harry loaded his plate up with more pasta. For the rest of the week things continued on in much the same way, it was the next Monday morning arrived that Harry was a mess. He was worried that as soon as he stepped onto the school's campus he would be bombarded by hate over Edward and Bella breaking up. He hadn't heard anything else from the Cullens over how Swan was fairing which made him quite nervous.
