I don't own WOWP. Happy? Can I go cry now?

A/N1: A few readers asked so; Justin and Max are not Wizards. They are plain although amazing humans.

A/N2: Jessie and roganjalex thank you for the spell suggestions. I would have certainly used one if I didn't remember the ears of bat spell from Alex's Choice episode.

Remember Me

MoonlightFire89

Summary

Justin and Max disappeared after Alex won the wizards competition. Alex thinks the loss of her brothers is set in stone until they walk back into her life again. Only, they aren't her brothers anymore.

Ok, she shouldn't have done it. She and her four forefathers all knew it.

But she was curious.

And she was Alex.

Did she need any other reason?

How could she give up a perfectly good chance to eavesdrop on her brothers? Especially after getting that chance after so long?

So she crept up behind the wall and whispered.

"Some people are a gem, some people are a rat, to learn who's who, give me the ears of a bat"

Her ears extended and grew till they resembled a bat's and suddenly she could hear everything.

"Excellent!" she grinned.

"Shut it ya ass-pirate!" Alex jumped about three feet in the air as Max yelled. His voice would've been loud to human ears but to bat ears? It was excruciating.

She continued listening.

Max: "I'm trying to listen to ma!"

Ma: "Are you swearing Maxine?"

Max: "No ma, I'm not swearing."

Ma: "Don't you love your ma, honey? We talked about thi…"

Max: "No, no, I love you too ma! Back off, you Bampot, let me talk to her!"

Brief sound of scuffle.

Justin: "Hey, she my mama too, Laddie!"

Ma: "Are you eating on time, Maxikins?"

Max: "No ma Justin is starving me over here. Can you believe I've not had anything to eat for the last half an hour?I miss home." He tacked on miserably.

The voice from the other side grew very excited.

"What? Oh my poor baby! Put Justin on the phone, I'll give that deddie a piece of my mind!"

Alex could envision the evil grin on Max's face as he handed the phone over to Justin.

She almost sympathized with Justin for the chewing out he got next.

She grinned. If she closed her eyes and pretended the last couple of hours hadn't happened, she could almost convince herself that things had never changed.

Her brothers were in their room, she was outside spying and trying to find fodder for my cracks and blackmails.

"Alex?"

She had been so lost in her time tunnel down past times she hadn't even noticed when the conversation from the other room had stopped.

She fumbled, trying to get a grip as well as ending the spell as inconspicuously as possible in case Justin noticed the bat ears hidden behind her hair.

"Yeah. Hey. I just…Mom sent me up to see if you guys wanted anything."

"No, we're good. I'm heading out for a while to set things up at my new…workplace." A mysterious smile lit up his features that had Alex itching to know what he was hiding. "Can Max stick around downstairs?"

Alex hid a smile. "Sure I bet mom'll be thrilled to have him there. I was leaving for college myself. Apparently there's some paperwork or something…"

"All right. I'll see you later then?" his smile still held a bit of a mystery that Alex couldn't decipher.

She groaned internally, hoping that she was imagining the faint longing behind his voice.

"Uh…yeah later."

(NYFA Building, Later)

Alex was bursting with excitement about the visit.

Sure, she'd been to the place before but earlier it had been all about getting in, clearing entrance, interviews, blah, blah, blah.

Basically she'd had zero time to explore the place.

Now as she entered the campus, she was just as awe-struck as she'd been the first time.

Well, not so much a campus as a building floor but still it was great.

She went through the classrooms, the huge screening room, the equipment storage and lots of other things with the campus counselor.

And she was absolutely, completely, smitten by the place.

The seven small classrooms were named after film legends: Mel Brooks, Billy Wilder, Jonathan Demme, Charlie Chaplin, Luis Bunuel, Martin Scorsese, Alfred Hitchcock, Nagisha Oshima and Akirea Kurosawa.

She hoped she'd have some classes in the Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock rooms. They both inspired her so much in completely different ways.

As she stood there in blissful happiness, she should've known it was all too good to come without a cost.

The counselor handed her the schedule she'd be following around the academy for the rest of the year.

It read something like:

Head Mentor: Adam Pike

QUARTER I

Film History: Harrison Peterman

Project Proposal I: Adam Pike

Screenwriting: Danielle Risotto

Directing I: Adam Pike

DV Cinematography: Justin Callaghan

Sound Recording I: Kevin Morris

Script Supervising: Danielle Risotto

QUARTER II

Producing: Adam Pike

Video Editing I: Justin Callaghan

Documentary Theory & Practice: Justin Callaghan

New Media Technologies I: Rosemary Goldberg

Applied Pre-production I: Adam Pike

Edit Theory (Art of Editing): Justin Callaghan

QUARTER III

Applied Production: Adam Pike

Video Editing II: Justin Callaghan

Sound Editing I & Design I: Kevin Morris and Justin Callaghan

Elective I*

Applied Post Production I: Adam Pike

Portfolio/Career Development

* Elective: Students can select an elective from courses available during the Quarter III, which typically includes:

- Motion Graphics & Visual Effects (After Effects)

- Intro to 3D Animation (Maya)

- Assisting Documentary production (with approval from Director). Students assist a faculty during the production of a Travel Documentary.

• Students receive a One Year Degree in Digital Filmmaking.

• Full Time – 925 hours

• 24-30 hours per week (instruction + labs). Mon-Thurs: 10:30am – 4:30/5:00pm

Alex stared at the schedule open-mouthed.

No way. No way in hell!

It had got to be a coincidence right?

There must be another Justin Callaghan.

Simple as that.

Although she had to admit Callaghan wasn't all that a common surname.

She groaned.

Justin was going to be her mentor?

Justin?

Nerdy Justin teaching?

Well the teaching part wasn't surprising but teaching Cinematography and Editing? Shut the hell up! If someone had told her a week ago, she would've asked the person how much crack had gone down his nose. But now staring at the evidence, she still couldn't believe it.

Sure, Alex was glad her brothers had come back in her life. That was great. But not if a) her brother kept acting like an infatuated fool b) he was going to be in the same place she had dreamt of being in for so long c) she couldn't even know what the hell to with them since they didn't even remember her.

And then Justin strolled up, all nonchalant like finding her here wasn't odd at all.

"Oh hey Alex. You excited about this?"

Good god, she could not believe her brother.

She was going to murder him.

No murder was going too easy. She feed him to the crows. Yeah. Tie him up and leave him with a bunch of man-pecking crows.

"You knew!" she hissed at him, her eyes full of accusation. "You knew and you never told me?"

"Where's the fun in that? Your face looks priceless by the way." He sounded like he was barely repressing laughter.

To Alex, he sounded like a complete tool.

She narrowed her eyes and stepped towards him deliberately.

"Ms. Russo? You've already met Professor Callaghan I presume."

Alex closed her eyes and inhaled deeply, hoping the breath in breath out technique did really work for anger.

Apparently it did.

She replied to the counselor with forced calm.

"Yeah, we've met."

"Oh that's wonderful. What a coincidence!" The woman had to be bat shit blind to not see the tension rolling off Alex in waves but the lady was oblivious.

"Yeah, isn't it just?" Alex said raising one eyebrow at Justin.

"Um-hmm." Justin replied, still smothering a grin. "Well, I'll see you in class Alex."

"Yes, Professor Callaghan."

She stormed off in a huff leaving a very bemused counselor and a highly amused Justin staring after her.