Chapter 6
Family Drama
When she walked out of the bathroom she heard a knock at the door. Grabbing her wand she moved towards the door and cracked it. James Potter stood outside. She flung the door open "James what are you doing here?" she demanded.
"Good you're safe" he said coming inside and shutting the door. "Mum sent me, Isabella escaped from Azkaban, and she had help on the inside we believe." James said looking around his wand at the ready. "There were notes in her cell and your name written hundreds of times, we think she may be coming after you. Magical Law Enforcement is on it and dads pissed." James said relaxing once he had checked the entirety of the small cabin. "Mum sent me to watch after you Albus is on his way as well."
"Wait Isabella broke out?" Kyra said sinking down onto the bed.
"Yes, I'm sorry I know this isn't what you wanted to hear." James said seeing how shaken his adopted sister was. "Look dad is on it, he will find her. They believe she's state side dad's here working with the US Magical Law Enforcement Department."
"Damn" Kyra sighed Bella and Butter came to her side
"You should go home dear where you will be safe" Bella hooted.
"She's right" Butter hissed.
"What are they saying?" James asked.
"That I should go back to England." Kyra said somewhat defeated.
"Mum would like that, but that's not you." James moved Butter and sat besides her setting the cat on his lap. Butter hissed in protest. "Sorry bud but she's my sister you're her cat, I'm higher on the totem poll." James said. Butter meowed towards Kyra.
"He says over his dead body you are." Kyra translated.
"It can be arranged." James smiled at the cat that dug his claws into James' leg before jumping down. "Owe damn cat, never understood why you liked that thing" he glared at the cat who glared right back. "Anyway, no don't go back stay here I will stay with you to keep you safe, you have work to do remember?"
Kyra smiled, "Thanks James but I can't have you lurking around while I work, and you're an Auror not a beast expert. You would scare them away." she said pointedly.
"Good point, how about I stay close Dad gave me these, if you're in trouble rub it like this, it acts like GPS and I can apperate right to you." James told her handing her a gold coin like Harry's old DA coin. "I and twenty others will be second away."
"Dad didn't think I would like the idea of you staying so this was his compromise?" she asked taking it and tucking it in her jeans. James chuckled and nodded. "Alright you can stay tonight but then you are gone tomorrow."
"Like a bad date huh" he laughed and grabbed a blanket from the bed to lie on the couch.
"Eww you're my brother I would never date you." Kyra said confused.
"It was a joke Kyra go to sleep" James chuckled.
LILILI
Kyra checked out the next morning and said good bye to her brother. She pulled a back pack from her trunk and prayed she could get the Charm right for undetectable extension. After a few tries she got it, packed everything into the bag and threw it over her shoulder, she looked at Bella and frowned, "Walking around with an Owl is going to be noticeable, how about a dog?" she asked.
Bella looked at her angrily.
"Alright how about I shrink you down and put you in my pocket?" Kyra asked.
Bella hooted "Fine, I don't like this not one bit and you better make me normal sized again when we are alone!"
"I will" Kyra shrunk her down and picked the owl up placing her in the inside pocket of her jacket. She could head Bella hooting her displeasure. "Alright Butter your turn it's a leash or you join Bella"
Butter hissed "the leash" he said angrily.
Kyra attached him to a leash and led him out of the cabin. "Time to find my dad, if anyone can help us it's him." Kyra said
"Do you think its wise Kyra?" Butter meowed.
"I don't know what else to do, if Isabella is coming after me we are going to need all the help we can get, he's hunted and killed Witches before."
"Yes but you are also a witch, what makes you think he won't kill you?" He retorted.
"Good point, I'm hoping the whole being his daughter thing helps." Kyra sighed. Since finding out about her father she had been tracking him for some time. He was nearby from what she knew that was why she had chosen this place to stay the night.
After searching all day she had to admit that he must have left town. She found another cabin to stay in for the night. "Look guys, as much as I hate to say this it might be best that you guys return to England with mum until this is settled." she said to her friends that night.
"But Kyra we have always been with you." Bella protested.
"Yes back in England and at school, this is America and it's hard to move around with you two. What happens if Isabella finds me, if she where to hurt you I could never forgive myself. I'm going to have James arrange for you two to go back to Mum in the morning. Mum is expecting you." she told them sadly. "When this is over I will send for you." she promised.
That night she cried for the first time in a long time. In the morning she bid farewell to her friends as James took them to send them back to England. When she was alone she cried some more, she hadn't felt this alone since she was 11 and with Isabella on the run.
LILILI
Tracking a hunter was harder then she expected. Even harder when you knew nothing of the area. She had been tracking him for weeks; there was still no sign of Isabella. She prayed that she would have time to do what she needed to before having to face the woman who gave birth to her. She was in a town outside of Chicago; there were talks of a creature attacking and killing people. She was here to help creatures and thought this was a good place to start. She also thought perhaps her biological father would show up as well.
Walking through the woods she heard whispers through the trees. "Hello" she called out.
"Someone's coming hide" she heard the chattering of squirrels.
"It's alright; I am not here to hurt you. I can understand you though please come out." she chittered back. Slowly a squirrel popped his head out, "Hello little one" Kyra said softly.
"You understand me?" The squirrel spoke darting around a little.
"I do, what's your name? I'm Kyra."
"Bert" the squirrel said, "That's what the human calls me that feed me in the park."
"Nice to meet you Bert. Listen I'm looking for a creature that has been killing humans" she smiled.
"It's a Crup" Bert told her. "Its master experimented on it, turned it crazy and big. It killed its master and escaped now it kills to feed." Bert explained "It's been killing lots of creatures be careful the Crup" Bert darted away then without so much as a good bye. Kyra got up and turned around only to see why the squirrel had run. Behind her stood a massive canine, she couldn't believe the sight before her eyes. A Crup was the size of a Jack-Russell terrier but this thing was the size of a bull. It had massive teeth and its eyes were blood red."
"Lady gets down" she heard someone yell she turned in time to see a man with a gun.
"No please don't shoot it!" she cried standing in the way. The Crup sensed the danger and turned tail to run.
"Damnit lady!" the man pushed passed her followed by a second man both fully loaded. "What the hell is that thing Dean?" she heard the younger of the two yell.
"Hell if I know" Kyra turned and ran after them. She caught up with them outside a cave. The man named Dean turned and saw her. "Oh come on, lady what the hell are you doing here?" Dean demanded.
"Trying to save that poor creatures life" she growled.
"It's a killing machine you can't reason with it!" Dean snapped.
"The hell I can't" Kyra pushed passed him.
"Fine get yourself eaten!" Dean yelled after her, he stood there for a moment looked at his brother Sam then kicked the ground and followed her. "Lady come back here"
"Kyra, my name is Kyra now shut up" she snapped. She gave a soft bark, "Hello, its okay I'm not going to hurt you. I heard your master hurt you and that he's dead."
Dean watched the girl barking into the cave and wondered if she was crazy then he heard a response from somewhere in the dark. His gun went up reflexively and he spun trying to see where it was.
"Put the gun down you're scaring him." Kyra said putting her hand on Dean's and pushing his gun down.
"I'm scaring him?" Dean said confused.
"It's okay he won't hurt you" she barked. "I can help you, if you let me."
There was another bark back and Dean swore this girl was having a conversation with the thing.
"Look man he's not going to come out with you standing there go to the edge of the cave if I'm not out in 10 minutes come shoot it." She moved deeper into the cave.
"Fine your funeral." Dean said walking to the mouth of the cave.
When she was out of Dean's view she pulled her wand and whispered "Lumos" the tip of her wand started to glow. In the corner was the massive dog, she sighed, "There you are come here, let me help you" she said gently. The massive beast shuffled closer to her. She began work to shrink him to his normal size. She detected potions in his system that would have to be siphoned off and he was in need of some good food and rest. She picked the small Crup up and cradled it close. "Its okay buddy I know someone who can take care of you" she said smiling. She disapperated back to her cabin where she told the Crup to remain until she returned, she would feed him and take care of him then. He agreed to stay put. After such she returned to the cave with a minute to spare. She walked out of the cave to a waiting Dean Winchester.
"Where is it?" he demanded.
"Safe until I can do some more work on him, he's going to need a lot of it too. I have a friend who can take him." Kyra said walking past him.
"Who are you?" Dean demanded.
"I told you, my name is Kyra. Are you deaf mate?" she asked.
"Alright Kyra" Dean said following her, "What the hell where you doing in there?"
"I take care of animals, sorta an animal whisper" she said glad that he was following she had him intrigued. This wasn't how she had planned to meet her father but now was as good a time as any.
"That wasn't an animal- that was a supernatural creature." Dean caught up with her and grabbed her shoulder spinning her around.
"Obviously, it's called a Crup. Normally harmless enough until its master started experimenting on him. He was in so much pain it was driving him crazy and drove him to kill. He will be okay though a little rehabilitation and I are sure we can find him a good home. Crup make excellent pets. Nearly identical to a Jack Russell Terrier except they are born with fork tails. Strict laws on owning one of those, my brother has one.
"Excuse me a what?" Sam said coming up beside them.
"A Crup, come on I thought a couple of supernatural hunters like yourselves would know what a Crup was." Kyra pushed past Dean and continued through the woods.
"Who the hell are you?" Dean demanded again.
"You really are deaf aren't you mate, or is it the accent, I'm told sometimes you American's have a hard time understanding them. Kyra pronounced Ki-ra" she said annunciating. "Kind of like Kyle but with a ra instead of a le" she was stalling building up her courage to face the real issue at hand. Finally she stopped and turned to him for the first time she actually let herself look at him. She had his features, his eyes, and hair color. She even saw some of her own body language in his. "Blimey, I didn't think I would look exactly like you. I knew I looked nothing like me mum but this is insane." she sighed.
"Excuse me?" Dean looked over at Sam.
"Before you try and kill me allow me to explain" Kyra said sighing.
"Kill you?" Sam spoke up "Why would we try and kill you?"
"Well I'm a witch and I heard you boys kill witches." Kyra said confused.
"You're a witch" Dean said skeptically.
"Well yes, you really didn't figure that out." Kyra asked "Well geeze I should have kept my mouth shut, still have a hard time picking up on social cues and what not comes with the 11 years of isolation."
"Whoa what?" Dean looked between her and Sam.
"Perhaps we should sit down to talk?" Kyra asked. She pulled out her wand and conjured up a few chairs.
"Whoa!" Dean and Sam both jumped back.
"Honestly, I thought you guys had seen magic before." Kyra was even more confused.
"Nothing like that!" Dean said reaching out to touch the chair then jerking his hand away when he realized it was solid wood.
"Okay sit down let me start at the beginning." Kyra motioned for them to sit. "17 years ago, you Dean Winchester met a woman at a pub, you were drunk she slipped you some love potion and bam you fell madly in love with her. You took her back to your room got your jollies off and why? Because she wanted me her own child."
"What are you talking about?" Dean demanded.
"I'm talking about Isabella O'Connor"
Dean sank into the seat, "I never told anyone about her"
"Right, well my name is Kyra O'Conner. I am her daughter, your daughter. May 3rd 1999 right? Yeah my birthday is January 24th 2000. This means I share a birthday with dear old dad. Anyway what she did was highly illegal in my world. Shortly after I was born Magical Law enforcement Officers caught up to her, she killed four of them in her escape. For the next 11 years we were on the run, I never knew why until later but anyway I was kept in total isolation. My mother feared that if people saw me they would find her. So I was alone with my mother and our animals for 11 years. My mother brought home a cat for me for my birthday, little did she know it was a an Animagus"
"A what?" Sam asked.
"Honestly you call yourselves hunters of the supernatural but have no idea what an Animagus is? It's a witch or wizard who can turn themselves into an animal. Anyway this Animagus was a witch named Jazmyn. She rescued me that night and my mother was taken into custody. A wizard named Harry Potter took me home. His family pretty much adopted me and I went to Hogwarts..."
"Hogwarts?" Dean interjected.
"Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, I graduated a year early and came to America to help a dragon and study magical creatures and hopefully reform the terribly lax laws that you American's have towards their protection."
"Dragons?" Sam was sitting now too.
"Honestly you two, A few weeks ago my adoptive brother James showed up and told me Isabella had escaped and is on the lookout for me. I decided it was time to find my biological father, you" she looked at Dean "To help me hunt her down and put her back in Azkaban where she belongs."
"Azkaban?" Sam said weakly.
"For god's sake Azkaban the wizarding prison near England. You two are woefully uneducated." Kyra said getting to her feet and pacing.
"So you're a witch? My brother is your father, and your psycho mother is looking for you because she wants to what reconnect?" Sam asked.
"You're my uncle then, well look at that a family reunion. Now we just need my mother and we can be one big happy family!" she yelled. "No you idiots she wants to kill me, Harry found notes in her cell she blames me for all of this and she blames you too. She's went even more mental in prison so she's coming after you too." Kyra sighed
"She's right about one thing; she's your spitting image." Sam said looking between the two. "She's even got the short hair and the eyes. She even moves and acts like you"
"She does not!" Dean growled putting his hand to his face. "We are sitting here in the middle of the woods listening to some woman claim to be my daughter, she says she's a witch and that her crazy witch mother is coming to kill me, while isn't that just great. Well guess what princess, I can handle myself. I don't need your protection and I don't need your interference." Dean got up and walked away.
Kyra looked at Sam with tears in her eyes. "Well, if he feels that way" she said trying to keep what dignity she had left.
"Wait Kyra" Sam said looking after his brother then back to her. "Give him some time; you've sprung a lot of information on him. You aren't like any witch we've ever met and you are challenging what we thought we knew. Then to add to the fact you're his daughter he just needs some time."
"He's made his opinion loud a clear." She said sniffling.
"Well then let me make my position clear, family is family, I believe you Kyra which makes you my niece and I would let him be the cause that I lose family. This is my number, call me and we can meet. I mean it Kyra; give him some time he will come around." Sam said handing her a card.
Kyra took it and then handed him a slip of parchment with her number, "Be careful Sam, my mother is more powerful then I am." with that she disapperated.
Once inside her cabin she sunk down on the floor and cried her eyes out.
LILILILI
Dean looked up when Sam walked in, he was half a bottle into his whiskey, and had been drinking in the dark. Sam frowned and shook his head he stripped his Jacket off then sat down a cross from his brother.
"Where the hell you been?" Dean asked
"Well, I spoke to my niece, and then tried to catch up with you but you had already taken off so I had to walk back to town." Sam snapped. "What the hell is wrong with you? In all the times you been screwing around with women you never thought you might possibly have a kid out there?"
"That isn't my kids, it's a witch." Dean said chugging some more whiskey. "We kill witches and Sabrina there is no different than any other witch we've ganked."
"Bull shit, she isn't some witch that's going around killing people and since when have any of the witches we've met been able to conjure a chair out of thin air? There were no hex bags no symbols, just a girl looking for her dad to make sure he's safe. You're an ass Dean, and you broke that girl's heart."
"You believe her? You truly believe her that she's some magical witch that can pop in and out and conjure things out of the air maybe ride a broom stick and somehow talk to animals like some Doctor Doolittle?" Dean demanded.
"I do, and I am willing to give her a chance to prove it are you?" Sam asked. "Family is family Dean; you would do anything for me but what about your own daughter? What would dad think of you shunning her like that damnit Dean save for the British accent she walks, talks, and acts like you with your sarcastic wit and everything the girl is a chip off the old block!"
Dean downed the rest of the bottle; "You're my family she's not" he threw the bottle in the trash and then lay on his bed to pass out.
LILILI
"Dad, I need you here please" Kyra said through quiet sobs into the phone.
"I'll be right there" Harry told her.
She hung up but didn't have long to wait. He apperated right in the middle of her cabin. "What's wrong Kyra?" he asked coming to sit beside her on her bed.
"I found him, my biological father, I talked to him. He is the meanest foulest man I have ever met." she said angry and sad at the same time.
"What happened Kyra?" Harry asked and she told him everything. He listened intently as she spoke then sighed, "So he didn't know about the wizarding world. Our intelligence from the American's was wrong" Harry's shoulders sagged, "It sounds like the witches they have killed are of the demonic nature not of our world. The Wizarding population is so spread out here and most would not lift a finger to help the muggles unlike in England. This place is so backwards; I'm having a hard time finding anything out. Look we have a tail on Dean Winchester in case your mother shows maybe I should talk to him man to man." Harry suggested.
"You would do that dad?" Kyra asked.
"He doesn't know you like I do and if he spent half a second getting to know you he would love you like Ginny and I do." Harry kissed her forehead. "Get some sleep and if you need me call" Harry smiled as she lay in bed he tucked her in like he used to. He tucked the little Hufflepuff badger he had found for her under her covers and kissed her forehead one last time. "Good night Kyra" he said and then was gone.
When she was alone it hit her hard, no Bella, No Butter she was completely alone and the tears just kept rolling.
