Okay, I have had a questioned asked as to why I haven't had the confrontation yet. Well Harry is still trying to make sense of it all, he is putting all of his thoughts right with how he wanted his parents to know. I will be coming up so never fear. This chap is kinda a long ass fill in until I get through it a little bit more.
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Upon entering the house that day after school, the three teens felt the tense atmosphere as soon as they entered the house. Hanging their jackets and bags up by the door, Ron, Hermione and Harry headed further into the house and saw that the lounge room was in a mess with heavy claw marks in the furniture. Remus was sitting calmly in the midst of it all with Teddy crawling around him.
"Merlin." Ron gaped as he looked around the room.
Harry ran over to where Remus was sitting watching Teddy, "Remmy, what happened?" He asked grabbing the mans cheeks with both hands and made him look at him.
Remus looked back at Harry. He could clearly see the surprise and pride in his mentors gaze as he looked back at him, "Teddy did his first bit magic." He explained.
Remus moved swiftly, standing up and grabbing Harry in an embrace, "TEDDY DID HIS FIRST BIT OF ACCIDENTAL MAGIC." He crowed happily.
Ron, Hermione and Harry all let out simultaneous sighs of relief, "Jeeze Remus, could have warned a guy." Ron said as he sat down on one of the destroyed couches.
"That's great news Remus." Hermione spoke up, "Though instead of sitting there stunned you could have cleaned up a little. You just about gave us a heart attack. We thought that you had been attacked." She scolded the older wizard.
Remus turned his nose up at Hermione but a smile was on his lips, "Well excuse me for being so elated and stunned that my son had his first real burst of accidental magic." He sniffed.
Hermione rolled her eyes, "Yes it is wonderful that Teddy has had his first burst of magic besides his Metamorphmagus abilities but I do have to ask where all of these claw marks came from."
Remus scratched the back of his head sheepishly, "Well, mind you I don't know how, but Teddy transformed which caused Moony to emerge, but not into full wolf form and I remember everything that happened. I only had the claws and fangs of Moony but was still structurally human." Remus explained, "We were playing, Teddy and I and I guess I clawed some things up as we ran around. It wasn't until Teddy turned back to his human self that Moony receded."
"So Teddy is a werewolf?" Harry asked as he picked his godson up.
Remus shook his head, "No, no definitely not. I would say that he is a natural shapeshifter." He said with a small amount of relief in his voice.
"So he's an Animagus?" Ron asked.
"No, he's not an Animagus. A shifter is a little bit different then being an Animagus. Being a shifter is a hereditary skill not a learned ability like Animagi." Remus explained.
Harry rolled his eyes, thanking Merlin that he and Ron never had to be without each other when with Remus and Hermione. Both of them had one hell of a bookworm personality and extensive vocabulary that neither Ron nor he had the pleasure of having in their arsenal.
"What brought on Teddy's sudden burst of accidental magic though? When ever I had my bursts my emotions were out of control, usually I'm angry or upset." Harry pondered.
Remus sighed and rubbed at the back of his head ruffling his hair, "Lily and James stopped by not long after you guys went to school." He explained, "Teddy picked up on the tense atmosphere I suppose, didn't like it and wanted to make it known to me." He looked around at the damage, "And made it known to me he did."
"What did Lily and James want?" Ron asked.
"Simply, they wanted Harry to go and live with them. Now." Remus responded, "But I said that it was Harry's decision as to when he contacted them and where he wanted to live."
Crackling could be heard in the room, Ron, Hermione and Remus turned to where the light sound was coming from and could see the magic swirling around the teen and Teddy who was gumming on his hand happily, "What right do they have?" He growled thickly, his magic flared a little more. "WHAT FUCKING RIGHT DO THEY HAVE?"
Hermione, Ron and Remus hurried and ducked under an already turned over couch as Harry's magic shattered all of the windows and porcelain kept on the ground floor of the house, leaving nothing more then iddy, biddy little bits of porcelain and glass left swirling around Harry and Teddy. Remus sighed and cast a general shielding charm around himself and crawled out from under the couch and made his way over to where Harry was standing.
Remus wrapped him up in his arms, "Calm down cub. They can do nothing to take you away from here. They can go to the authorities all they like if they want to but there is nothing, NOTHING, they can do. It is all up to you and your feelings about all of this, it's your choice when to approach them and talk with them." He explained to the teen.
Harry let himself fall back into Remus' embrace and sobbed into Teddy's hair. Remus let them fall to the ground and cradled the sobbing teen, rocking him back and forth. Hermione pulled Ron up from the floor and pulled Ron from the room leaving the two, and Teddy some time alone.
"Harry needs us." Ron spluttered as he was pulled from the room.
Hermione shook her head and kissed Ron on the cheek, "No. Not right now he doesn't Ron, he just needs Remus right now more then anything."
Ron sighed seeing where his girlfriend was coming from, "I guess you're right." He surrendered to her logic.
"Good, now let's grab our bags and we'll head upstairs and get a start on your homework alright." Hermione smiled joyfully.
Ron moaned but followed after Hermione, "This Muggle stuff is going to kill me. I just know it will." He grouched as they headed up the stairs with their bags leaving Harry and Remus to talk and for Harry to calm down.
Alice jumped from tree branch to tree branch around the house thinking about Ron, Hermione and Harry and how they could escape her ability. How they didn't smell like food to Jasper who was more susceptible to a human beings blood, especially in such a crowded place.
"You should stop antagonizing over it Alice." Edward spoke up as the pixie vampire passed by his opened studio window where he was composing.
"I don't know what you're talking about brother dearest." Alice responded as she lightly and gracefully dropped down from the tree limb.
Edward smiled and shook his head, his fingers playing over the ivory with infinite grace, "Of course not dear sister. You seem to forget that I hear everything, but you can't see everything."
Alice pouted and slapped Edward in the arm, the sound echoing through out the room, "That's not very nice." She stated and took off out of the room, stopping at the door "Mum, Edward's being mean to me." She called through out the house.
Seconds later Esme appeared in front of her daughter, "What's Edward doing now?" She questioned putting an arm around Alices' shoulder as she pouted and her lip trembled.
"He's teasing me because I can't see the new kids futures." She explained.
Esme rubbed her daughters back and glared at a spluttering Edward, "Honestly Edward, that is not very nice." She scolded, "What if you couldn't read the mind of some one that could turn out to be a threat?"
"I'm not the one antagonising over what could be and what has been. Alice is the one that isn't letting it go." Edward responded, "Besides, I'm waiting for father to get home before I even talk about what I have seen from the new kids." He explained and turned back to his piano.
Esme sighed shaking her head at the pair, "Why do I continue to let myself fall for this?" she mused and turned leaving the pair alone, laughing as she left.
Esme walked down the stairs and to the lounge where the rest of her brood were passing their time. Rosalie was reading 'Shop-Till-You-Drop' magazine and Emmett and Jasper were combating against each other on the PS3.
"Dear hearts, what do you think about the new students?" She asked, "I want to know about them until Alice is able to get a read on them."
"Why do you want to know?" Rosalie asked, "There is nothing special about them that should be shared."
"Rosalie, Alice is not getting a read on them and I would like to keep an eye on them until her vision becomes clear. Jasper do you get anything from them?" Esme questioned.
Jasper nodded, "Yes I do. Their emotions are quite high and full of angst for only being teenagers. Well more angst then normal teens." He explained, "Edward can read their minds before you ask."
Esme nodded, "Good. Now Jasper, Emmett what do you think of them?" She asked.
"I think they're cool. Especially once you get some sugar into Harry." Emmett laughed, "His friends said that he never had much in the way of sugar when he was a kid and tends to get hyper if he consumes a large amount. The only reason it is apparently visible now is because Harry doesn't have football to play to waste his energy on. So Jasper looked after him and took him out into the forest to waste his energy before his next class." He explained.
"Harry, he has the wrong emotions that a teen his age should." Jasper started his explanation; "His emotions feel familiar, like I should know them but I cannot put my finger on what those emotions could be. Ron and Hermione also share one particular emotion that Harry has. What ever they have gone through they went through it together."
"So Harry, Hermione and Ronald. What about a guardian?" She questioned, the mother in her coming out in full.
"Lupin. Hermione and Harry Lupin and Ron Weasley." Rosalie said with a bored tone as she casually flicked through her magazine.
Esme positively squealed with glee causing them all to wince.
"What was that about love?" Carlisle questioned trying to shake the ringing noise from his ears and he hung up his overcoat.
"Some one moved into the Estate I designed the block next to us." She explained, "We must go over there and welcome them to town this instant. I want to know what they think of the house."
Carlisle chuckled, "Be calm my love. We should let them get used to the town and the towns people before descending on them."
Esme stomped her foot, her cool calm lady like personality turning into that much like a child, "No. I want to go now."
Carlisle sighed and brought his wife into a passionate kiss that left her 'breathless'. Esme looked up at her husband in stunned amazement before waltzing off through the house toward her art studio. Emmett let out a wolf whistle while clapping and Jasper had a knowing smirk on his lips.
"Behave yourselves." He responded and headed off down the hall to his office, stopping at the stairs as Edward appeared, "Yes Edward?"
"Could I please talk with you a moment?" He asked
Carlisle inclined his head, "Of course son, you know you can talk to me when ever you feel the need." He explained opening his office door.
"I know." Edward responded entering and taking a seat near the large bay window.
"How can I help you Edward?" Carlisle questioned as he placed his doctors bag in its designated place and sat down across from Edward.
"It's about the new students at school. Something I saw in their minds makes absolutely no sense to me." Edward started and then launched into everything that he had seen swirling inside the heads of Harry, Ron and Hermione.
Harry looked down at the journal that he had just finished updating. Something that he had done since he was of a young age thanks to one of his schoolteachers before Hogwarts. He had kept a journal for as long as he knew how to write and could get his hands on something to write on and with he had kept a journal. His first journal had the dream about the green light he had always seen when he had nightmares as a child and not much else.
Harry knew that these journals would explain everything about what he had went thorough during his childhood with the Dursleys and then what had happened when he went to Hogwarts. He wanted his 'parents' to know of the pain that he had gone through growing up, who he had grown up to become. Harry had just finished jotting down about his first week at school and what he thought of the classes and the people.
"Everything alright Cub?" Remus questioned from the doorway.
Harry turned his chair to face Remus, "Yeah, I'm alright Remus. Just thinking about something is all." He explained.
"Anything that you need help with?" He asked.
Harry shook his head, "Nah, it's nothing that you can help me with. It's a decision that I need to find a conclusion to myself."
Remus nodded, "Of course Cub. Now on to what I came up here for. I have asked Ron and Hermione what they would like to do tonight and I'd thought I'd ask you what we can do tonight and we could all vote. So want to think of something cub and come on down stairs?"
Harry nodded and threw his journal in the draw of his desk, "Sure Moony."
The pair headed down stairs and into the kitchen where Hermione and Ron were waiting on them with bottle butter beer sitting in each place setting. Sitting down Harry grabbed his drink and took a few gulps and waited for someone to talk.
"So Ron has come up with going into town, Hermione would like to go out into Port Angeles, I personally don't care. So all we need if for you to come up with something Harry and then we'll vote." Remus explained.
"Well I've done Port Angeles and Forks already with Teddy in those few months I was looking after him while you were going through the worst of your transformations." Harry explained, "There is something that I would like to do though. Jasper gave me the idea on our first day of school when I had my sugar high."
"Well what is it?" Hermione questioned.
"Jasper mentioned that they go camping every once and a while. I thought that maybe we could go camping." Harry trailed off at the looks that he was getting.
He knew that they had camped before when looking for the Horcruxes. But that was something different. They couldn't use their magic for fear of getting caught by Voldemorts' forces and being killed. So they were really camping, they were hiding to survive.
Remus smiled, "If that is what you wish to do for fun. Then we're going camping."
"Sounds good to me." Ron agreed.
Hermione sighed, "If we have to." She moaned half-heartedly, "I'm not going to pack your things though. You're on your own there."
"Do we have a tent?" Ron questioned, "Because if we don't have tents then we can't go anywhere."
"Good point Ron, we do not have tents." Remus responded, "How about we head into town and get the things that we are going to need for our weekend and to stop at the sheriffs office to let them know that we are going camping and where the best place to camp would be and their regulations about camping." He said and started out of the room thinking of everything that he would need for Teddy while they were out camping and a list of everything else they may need.
Harry blinked after Remus, "Guess he likes the idea." He mumbled.
"Probably likes the idea that we're spending a few days out in the wild. Makes Moony seem at ease I suppose." Hermione explained and headed out of the kitchen to get started on packing a few things and think of a list of things they needed to go with Remus' list.
Harry frowned and looked down at the table top, "I'm going to go for a walk Ron. I'll be back by lunch. Could you let Remmy and 'Mione know?"
"Of course I can mate. You go do what you need to do. I'll get 'Mione to help me get everything that I need to take with me." He told Harry with a bright smile and headed after his girlfriend.
Harry grabbed his jacket and headed out the door, closing it carefully behind him and headed down the road, away from the direction of the town having not yet explored the territory down the small hill they lived on.
Heading down the small hill Harry made sure to skip over the patches of ice and puddles of water. He didn't mind that it rained all the time, he liked the feel of the rain when it fell against him, kind of like the water was cleansing him of all of his doubts, his unhappiness, his 'un' everything. Refreshing him for another day.
"You really should watch where you're going Harry." A loud voice spoke up from out of nowhere startling Harry and causing him to slip on a small patch of ice. Harry waited for the harsh impact of the paved road when he felt a pair of strong solid arms around his waist, catching him and pulled up to a solid chest.
Harry took a deep breath and moved back, breaking the hold of the arms that were like a band around his waist, "You could warn a guy you know Emmett." Harry responded looking up at the much larger teen, "Don't just sneak up on someone."
"Hey you're the one that entered the boarder of our land you know." Emmett responded and pointed out the wide-open gate to the teen.
Harry blushed, "Oh, right sorry. Haven't explored down this way yet." He explained.
Emmett laughed, "Well how's this then, my mother designed the house that you live in so we know where the acreage for each of the properties is." He explained, "What are you doing down here?"
"I was just taking a walk is all while Remus and the others get everything planned for our camping trip." Harry explained.
"You're going camping?"
"Yep. Just decided it this morning. Though we don't have any tents and we don't know where the best place to camp would be or what kind of food and clothes to pack." Harry rattled.
Emmett chuckled, he had unconsciously led Harry to the Cullen household as they spoke about Harry's camping trip, "Well if it helps any, we have infinite knowledge about camping."
Harry nodded, "Yeah, I remember. Jasper told me the same thing when I was on my sugar high and asked him what there was to do around this sleepy little town."
"And you're going to try camping on for size?"
"That's right." It was at this admission that Harry stopped and looked around to see where he was and noticed that he was standing in a living room surrounded with the rest of the Cullen family staring at him, "Uh, hello."
"Hi ya Harry." Alice waved from where she was sitting on the sofa.
"Hello Alice." Harry smiled at the pixie teen, "Emmett should be buried alive, brought back and then drowned in cement and dropped in the middle of the ocean." He told her, smile still on his face.
"Why? What did I do?"
"You brought me home like a stray and with out the permission of myself or your parents." Harry scolded shaking a finger at him.
"Well you should be glad I did other wise you would have been caught in that down pour and heavy fog." Emmett responded pointing out the large windows at the sheets of rain hitting the window.
"I better call Remmy and let him know where I am." Harry mumbled and searched his jacket pocket for the phone that Hermione had made sure that they each carried. The search for his phone came up empty when there was nothing in them and it clicked that he had put it in the front pocket of his back pack because it kept dropping out of the pocket of his jacket.
Harry looked up cutely at Alice, "Can I burrow your phone?"
Alice nodded and pulled her phone out from the breast pocket of her designer jacket and handed it over to the teen, "Thank you Alice."
Hello.
"Hello 'Mione. It's raining cats and dogs and I'm at the Cullens'." Harry explained.
Harry could hear Hermione chuckle on the other end, Alright Harry, I'll let Remus know and we'll come and get you.
"MmKay, there is no rush I guess. Though Alice's mother looks like she's about to eat me." Harry told Hermione, Esme looked like she wanted to smother Harry much like Mrs. Weasley does every time he comes from the Dursleys.
Like Molly does?
"Yes, exactly like that."
Then I'd be more afraid of being over fed first before being eaten. Hermione told him with a laugh, We'll see you later alright Harry.
"Ok, call this number when you're on your way. I forgot my phone."
I figured when I didn't know the number. She responded, Harry could hear the eye roll, Bye Harry.
"Bye 'Mione." Harry said and then the dial tone met his ears seconds later and he handed the phone back over to Alice, "Thank you."
"Mum isn't going to eat you, you know." Alice told him.
Harry nodded, "Yeah I know that. But she's giving me the same look that I get from Rons' mum at the end of each summer." He explained, "And then proceeds to stuff me full of food before I head off to school."
"Well how about introductions then since Emmett has been remiss in doing so." Edward spoke up as he stood and moved over to where his parents were, "Harry this is our father, Dr. Carlisle Cullen and our beautiful loving mother, Esme Cullen. Mother, Father this is Harry Lupin."
Esme smiled beautifully at Harry, "You moved into the house up the hill didn't you?" She asked.
"Yes ma'am."
"How do you like it?" She asked.
"It's beautiful. It's large and open, even though the design is smallish. The openness of the house makes it seem larger though. We have plenty of room in the back yard to put up a play set for Teddy when he gets a bit older. I stole pretty much the whole upstairs for myself." He said smiling cheekily.
"Oh I'm glad you like it." Esme gushed, "I designed your house you see and I had wanted to come over and see how you were liking it. But some people wouldn't let me." She explained as she glared at her husband.
"So Emmett explained to me. I have to admit though I'm kind of glad you didn't end up coming around, little Teddy had a cold and we wouldn't want some one else to get it." Harry explained.
"Oh the poor dear. Did you take him to the doctor?" She asked.
"No ma'am, we had our family physician come around and have a look at him." Harry explained.
Esme moved over to Harry and steered him to an empty seat on the sofa, "Tell me a little bit about yourself Harry." She requested as she sat down next to him folding her hands daintily in her lap.
"Ah, well, there isn't really much to tell." Harry said, "Come from London, England, went to boarding school with Ron and Hermione." He shrugged, "Pretty boring really."
"Oh I'm sure there is much more to tell, but you're not the type of person that can easily talk about themselves are you?"
"No ma'am, I mean yes ma'am." Harry looked slightly confused at Esme.
"Please call me Esme dear, much better then calling me ma'am all the time."
"Yes ma'am, ah Esme."
"Kiss ass much." Rosalie sneered at the green-eyed teen.
"Rosalie Lillian Hale, you apologise for that this minute." Esme scolded the blonde.
"I will not." Rosalie responded and stormed from the room.
"It's alright Esme. I'm used to the personality that Rosalie exudes. One of the guys at my boarding school comes from old, old money and his personality is much like Rosalie's and we were quite the rivals." Harry explained, "So we more then likely will never get along and if we do it will be full of sarcastic comments and witty comebacks."
Esme sighed, "Well I suppose that is better then nothing at all."
=What are you getting from him Edward?= Carlisle questioned.
+The man he lives with isn't related to him by blood, but is his Godfather. His last name is Potter.+ Edward responded speaking faster then what a human could pick up so that Harry wouldn't hear him but the rest of the family could.
=Potter? Is he related to James and Lily?=
+Yes he is. He is their first-born son and he has just recently found out that they are actually alive. All his life he has been told that his parents were dead and only just learned that they were alive and well and living here.+
Edward could hear some distorted thoughts coming from Carlisle but for some reason Carlisle wouldn't let him catch any of the thoughts. Obviously Carlisle knew something more it seems about Harry that he didn't want him knowing about just yet. =Can you pull yourself from his mind? We don't need to know anything more right now.=
+Distract me with something else would help I suppose.+ Edward responded.
Carlisle let his mind open up about a patient he was now looking after without breaking Doctor-Patient confidentiality. Asking Edward about the case, what he thought was wrong, what he would suggest as treatment for the patient just letting the thoughts go to distract Edward from reading anymore of Harry's mind for the time being and keep up with the new medical advancements since Edward hadn't studied medicine for the last 30 years having decided on not going to collage with everyone else.
"You're going camping?" Jasper asked Harry.
Harry nodded, "Yeah, though with this weather I guess it wouldn't be the best thing to do right now, huh." He said disappointed, "I really wanted to go."
Alice giggled, "Awe, poor Harry."
Harry pouted playfully at Alice, "Yes, poor me. Woe is me."
"Have you never been camping before Harry?" Carlisle asked.
Harry shook his head, "Nope. None of my family have been and we were deciding what to do this weekend and I didn't want to go to Port Angeles or into town cause I've done that already when Remus was sick the first month roughly that we had arrived. So I took Teddy, my Godson, out while Remus was sick." He explained, "And I had asked Jasper what there was to do around here and he mentioned that you like to go hiking and camping and I thought it was a good idea."
"Well I don't think that you'll be able to go this weekend, the rain fall is definitely too heavy and will wash out the trails and won't be very safe for you to put up your tents." Carlisle explained looking out the corner of his eyes at Alice who nodded that he was right.
"I guess that we're going to have to find something else to do then." Harry sighed and lent back in the chair with his arms over his chest, "I don't know what else there is to do here." He grouched.
"You could always play board games." Esme offered, "Do you have board games at home?"
Harry shook his head, "No. Just chess but it's no fun when Ron kicks my butt every time."
Esme leapt off of the couch and headed gracefully into the hallway and opened one of the closets and pulled out an armload of games that the whole family could play, "Here you go Harry dear. These should keep you all amused during this weather." She explained putting the games down on the coffee table.
Harry blushed and looked down at his twiddling thumbs, "What are they? How do you play them?" He asked in a small voice.
"You don't know anything about simple board games. How pathetic." Rosalie sneered from the landing having decided that she would join her family once again despite Harry sitting with them. She sat down next to Emmett and snuggled up to him.
Harry blushed harder and glared icily at Rosalie, "I didn't always live with Remus you know." He growled, "Not everyone gets to have such a loving family that you have Rosalie." He snapped and he turned to Esme, "Thank you but I think that I will be heading home despite the rain. It was a pleasure to meet you." He said with a bow and headed for the door and out the house in to the pouring rain, his emotions going haywire and he wanted to do nothing more then turn Rosalie into a pile of smoldering ash.
"Edward could you please go with him, make sure that nothing happens in the rain since Alices' ability doesn't work on him." Carlisle asked of his eldest son and seconds later Edward was gone to walk with the teen and then turned on his daughter, "Rosalie Lillian Hale, what the hell is your problem with him young lady." He ordered startling his family as he swore.
"He's human." Rosalie seethed, "That is reason enough."
"You know nothing." Carlisle told her.
"And you do?"
"Thanks to some of the thoughts that Edward shared with me I know everything that any 'normal' person knows about Harry. Something that you will never understand because of your attitude." The way he said normal like that eluded that Vampires knew who Harry Lupin was and why he was such a big deal.
Esme wrapped her arms around one of Carlisles' and rubbed at his chest soothingly with one of them, "What do you know dear heart?" she asked.
Carlisle shook his head, "I'm sorry my love but I cannot tell you and I ask you not to question Edward either because he doesn't know what I know. I'm blocking those thoughts from him because he doesn't need to know everything about Harry and it is not something of mine to tell. It must come from Harry and his family." He explained kissing his wife on the cheek and left for his office.
"Oh Rosalie." Esme moaned disappointedly, "He's such a sweet boy."
Rosalie rolled her eyes, "What ever." She grouched and picked at her fingernails with disinterest not caring what her family thought of her when it came to Harry.
"You really shouldn't have left the house." Edward said coming up behind Harry, covering the teen with the umbrella that he had brought with him.
"Yeah well I'm sick of your sister being a bitch for no reason. At least back home people had reasons for being like Rosalie has been toward me. But she doesn't even know me enough to be like she is toward me and I don't care when you say that she is like that with everyone, she has no god-damn reason for it." Harry snapped at the other teen.
Edward just stared at the drenched teen with one brow raised, "I understand your frustrations but please come back up to the house. The news reports have alerted to slight flooding in the area. We just so happen to have a slight dip in the road where the water gathers. You would need a jeep to get through it with out killing the engine of your car." He explained.
"I WISH I NEVER CAME HERE." Harry yelled and stomped back in the direction the Cullens house was leaving a heavily wincing Edward behind.
"He's sure got a set of lungs on him." Edward mumbled wiggling a finger in his ear in hopes of getting rid of the yell and followed after the smaller fuming teen.
"Ah good, you're back Harry dear." Esme said greeting him at the door with a big fluffy towel, the teen took it from Esme with a quiet thank you and towelled off in the entrance of the doorway and only moving over when Edward came up behind him and took the other towel Esme had in hand, "If you follow Edward up to his room I'm sure he could find something that should fit you." She told him and ushered him to follow after Edward.
Harry wrinkled his nose, "They'll still be too big on me." He grumbled as he followed after Edward.
"You can have a warm shower if you wish Harry." Edward told him and pointed out the bathroom to the teen, "I'll put a change of clothes on the chair by the door for you."
Harry nodded, "Thank you." He said shyly and headed into the bathroom to warm up, dry off and change into something warm.
Edward walked down the stairs and noticed that everyone but Rosalie was sitting around the coffee table with the Monopoly board out and set up, "What are you doing?" he asked.
"I thought that since Harry would be stuck here for a few hours we could show him how to play Monopoly." Esme explained.
"I don't see why Emmett can't take him home in his jeep. What's it matter if the boy gets soaked?" Rosalie griped from where she was painting her fingernails with baby blue nail polish.
"Enough out of you Rosalie. If you don't want to participate that is fine but you will keep your mouth shut while we play or occupy yourself in your room." Carlisle told her sternly and turned back to the game box to choose his game piece while Alice and Edward fought over the Scottie dog while Jasper had snagged the Howitzer for himself, Esme had taken the Top hat, Carlisle decided on the Race car and Emmett had take the Battleship, Alice pouted at Edward and grabbed the Thimble.
"What's going on?" Harry asked from the landing of the stairs looking down on the family confused, Edwards' designer jeans covering socked feet and the cuffs of the long sleeved shirt completely covering his hands. All in all he was making a very cute picture in Edwards clothes.
Esme and Alice each squealed mentally causing Edward to wince, =He's sooo cute.= they thought looking the teen over.
"We thought we could show you how to play Monopoly." Alice told him as she got up and danced over to him and grabbed him by the hand and placed him in between Emmett and Edward, "Choose you're piece, there is a Train, an Iron, a Wheelbarrow and a horse and rider."
Harry looked over the tiny pieces, squinting at them even with his glasses, "I'll take the train thank you."
Alice moved the train over to 'GO', "Okay Harry, what we need to do first is roll a die and see who gets the highest roll, who ever that is starts the game and we go to the left of the board." She explained and handed Harry the die so that he could start, Harry looked at Alice wonderingly, "Just let it drop on the board Harry.
Harry nodded and let the die fall from his palm onto the board and watched it roll to a four, Harry watched as the Cullens rolled, Esme having the highest of five so she started the game off with commentary in between helping Harry with how to play. Even with the help Harry was enjoying himself immensely and couldn't wait to play it with Ron and gathered that Remus and Hermione would already know how to play it. Part way through the game Harrys' stomach started to growl alerting the Cullens to the fact that they had a human in the house and said human was now hungry.
"Oh how forgetful of me. I never even thought about fixing anything for dinner." Esme said aghast at forgetting about Harrys' human needs.
"Oh, no. Please Esme, don't worry about it. I'll be fine until I get home." Harry told her trying to forestall the woman from heading to the kitchen to make him something.
"No, no. I am going to go and make you something right now." Esme responded and headed off to the kitchen to see if there was anything still in date that she could make up for Harry.
Harry sighed and stopped the on coming protest, seemingly knowing that no matter what he told the woman that it wouldn't stop her from getting him something to eat.
"Don't worry about it Harry, you'll get used to it." Emmett told him with a smile.
"I haven't gotten used to Rons' mum doing it so I doubt that I'll get used to your mum doing it." Harry explained to Emmett, "And Ron has 5 older brothers."
"Then what's he doing here, why would his parents let him go so far away from home?" Jasper questioned.
"Ron's the youngest of all his brothers and just wanted to get out from under their shadow I guess, see the world a little since I was going and didn't really want to go alone." Harry lied easily, smoothly.
"So you're not going to stay here?" Alice asked with a pout.
"For a while, maybe until Teddy is a little older so that he can appreciate the wonders of the world when he knows what those wonders are. He's going to be a well travelled little boy before he's even a teenager."
"What kind of places would you like to visit?" Carlisle asked.
"Well we'd check out the rest of America then more then likely move on to South America, Asia, Russia, Germany, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, you know. Every where." Harry explained happily, "All of the places we've always wanted to go to and haven't had the chance before now."
"So Forks is you're first stop?"
Harry hummed, "Yes and no. Forks is a home base I guess you could say, we'll holiday for a couple of weeks, come back and rest then head off again." He explained, "'Mione would need to drop off all the souvenirs that she'd collect along the way cause I am NOT going to carry them for her, that's her boyfriends job."
"And what about you Harry, do you have a girlfriend?" Esme asked appearing in the doorway of the kitchen.
Harry smiled sadly and looked down at the Monopoly board fiddling with the remaining money he had left over, "My girlfriend was murdered a few months ago."
"Oh I am so sorry dear." Esme said softly.
Harry shook his head, "It's okay Esme, you didn't know so there is nothing to be sorry for." He told her and gave her a small smile.
"I believe I heard something about that." Carlisle spoke up, he knew he was giving away something as he said it, "An old friend of mine from Medical School mentioned something about a megalomaniac running around killing people."
Harry gave Carlisle a strained smile, his thoughts and emotions swirling around him, "Yeah, Ginny and I were out on a date at the wrong time I guess." More then anything Harry wanted to know what Carlisle knew. The man was eluding to Harry that he knew who he was and what had happened in England.
Jasper winced quite visibly at Harrys' emotions causing Alice to look at him in concern but he shook her concerns off and started to give out calming, reassuring waves in Harrys' general direction hoping to get the teens mind off what ever he was thinking.
"So you went to boarding school?" Emmett asked, "What kind of things did you do?"
Harry thought about how he could reveal some of the things that Hogwarts provided and make them sound completely Muggle, "Well the school was set up into Houses, those Houses were your family I guess you could say, you had the same dorm space and a points system where you could gain or loose points academically. We had a Great Hall for breakfast, lunch and dinner with you House. Had a football team for each House and played against the other Houses to win the Cup. There were normal classes with a few added extracurricular classes like Herbology and animal care."
"Damn, how big was your school?" Emmett asked.
"Huge. It was in Scotland around the grounds of an old worn down castle." Harry explained, "The castle was cordoned off though since it's not structurally sound. Not that that stopped some of us." He added cheekily.
"Here you go Harry dear." Esme said as she put a plate of assorted sandwiches down in front of the teen. The Cullens looked at Esme knowing that there wasn't anything in the house that could make sandwiches. Esme gave them an unnoticeable shrug explaining it away.
"Thank you Esme." Harry said and picked up one of the sandwiches.
"Would you like to play another game?" Alice asked Harry, "We've been playing Monopoly a while now."
"Yeah, sure. What else do you have?" Harry asked once he swallowed his mouthful of food.
"We could play Cluedo." Jasper offered grabbing the first box off of the pile and showed the cover to Harry.
"What do you have to do?" Harry asked as Edward began to pack up the Monopoly board.
"Basically you have to find out who the murderer is, what weapon they used and what room they did it in." Jasper explained.
Harry nodded, "Sure, though is it possible to play in pairs or something? Just till I know what I'm doing."
"We can play the first round in pairs if you like." Carlisle responded as they all stood, Emmett and Edward picking Harry up under the arms so Alice and Jasper could move the table over nearer to the T.V.
"This version of Cluedo is the DVD one." Edward explained and looked to his family, "I'll sit this one out and work the player." He explained. It wouldn't be fair if he knew what cards everyone else had in hand.
"Who's with who then?" Emmett asked feeling the glare of his wife in his back, knowing that it meant if he didn't want to sleep on the couch tonight he had better not pair up with Harry.
"I'm with Harry." Alice quickly called out and sat down next to the teen after giving her husband a kiss, leaving him to go with Emmett.
"Okay, everyone ready?" Carlisle asked as he started to shuffle out the playing cards to everyone.