May 1938. Rome, Italy.

The Flamels where sat around a large table enjoy a lovely meal in a muggle restaurant. Every few years they would venture out of the castle and into a muggle city to experience the food, entertainment and culture to better understand how muggles lived and to get ideas for new inventions and books they could gear towards the muggle population. They also tended to stay in the muggle side of the cities in fear of having their parents recognized in the wizarding villages and streets and being stared at like animals on display.

"Why don't you children run along and go to the local art museums, your father and I need some alone time" The Flamel children made disgusted faces before finishing up their wine and leaving the restaurant. The weather in Rome was fairly warm with a light cool breeze, they wore appropriate muggle garments and where thankful for the light weight garments their mother had bought them and the fact that the could control how much they grew so everything always fit perfectly.

"So what museum shall we go to?" Katana turned to Evie with an exasperated look.

"Do you honestly think we are actually going to an art museum? When have we ever gone to place mother has suggested?" Everyone stopped walking once they where far enough away from the restaurant their parents where in and turned to James.

"I was thinking we'd go to the island, Tom hasn't been there yet and we haven't been there in a while" Everyone but Tom nodded their heads with large excited smiles on their faces.

"What Island?"

"Avalon of course dear brother" Tom raised an eyebrow in disbelief. Everyone else snickered.

"King Arthurs Avalon?" James shook her head.

"Of course not, we just like to pretend it is, we bought it three centuries ago and build a castle on it, mum and dad don't know, it's a sibling secret so you can't tell them, alright?" Tom nodded excited to be included in the secret. "You also can't get to the isle unless you have Flamel blood and have to floo from a very specific floo only we would be able to get to"

They all grabbed onto each other as James flashed them all to the library in Slytherin Cottage, up in Northern Scotland. Tom looked at the library in confusion, he hadn't been to the cottage none of them have since the last time they snuck out to go to Avalon. Dust had gathered in their absence covering the books and tables, it looked as if someone had spilt a bag of flour.

"What is this place?" Tom walked to the nearest book shelf and dusted off the spine of a book.

"This is Slytherin Cottage, Grandfather Sal built this for his wife and son to live in while he was at Hogwarts, when they died he closed it for a few years until he was banished and he brought mum her with him. Once Grandfather died we moved to Grandma Ro's house in London while father had the Castle built in the countryside right outside Paris. I haven't properly lived here since I was four years old" James turned to grin at a baffled Tom. "Yes, that was quiet a while ago"

Loki and Reagan cleaned the fireplace and hunted down the floo power that they had hidden and placed a preservation charm on. Katana and Evie where helping Billy find books about weather magic and Castor was searching for more books on necromancy for James. By the time the fireplace was cleaned and the floo power found everyone had finished what they where doing and waited to floo to the isle.

"Sisters first" Reagan opened the jar of floo powder and offered it to Billy, Katana and Evie. They each took a handful and one after another shouted 'AVALON' and vanished in a swirl of green flames. Next went Loki, Castor and Tom and after a small disagreement Reagan went next. James grabbed her handful of floo powder and place the jar on the fireplace mantle, she took a look around the library with a sad frown, one day she would return the cottage to its former glory. James stepped into the large fireplace dropped her powder and with a shout of 'AVALON' she too vanished in a swirl of green flames.

When she landed she cleaned the soot out of her clothing and walked out of the entry room and into the foyer where Castor was waiting for her. Her sisters and Reagan where already out on the beach, while Loki was giving Tom a tour of the castle. Her siblings loved coming to the island, no parents and no tilly to spy on what they where doing. Here they kept their more adventurous inventions and experiments, the type that could potentially either blow up or could be dangerous if they where let out near muggles.

"The beach or the Lab?" James raised an eyebrow and tilted her head. "The lab it is!"

While their siblings where off enjoying the sand and water James was beginning to create her newest and what would later become her most treasured invention. During the last year the thought of either her parents or Tom dying haunted her, there was no way to always be near each other and she knew the older Tom got, the more freedom he would want, they couldn't keep him locked up in the castle forever. After many sleepless nights she began planning a way to alert her if any of her siblings where in trouble and after some more thought she decided to make one for all her siblings.

Many designs and plans where tossed throughout the last few months nothing seemed to fit. Finally, one afternoon while having tea she noticed the necklace her mother always wore, a gift from Grandfather Sal, inside it held a small moving portrait of her and Grandfather Sal that was made when she was seven. It was her mothers most treasure possession. A month ago she had Tilly take an order for eight gold lockets to the local muggle blacksmith and had received them a few days before.

The preservation charms she had put on the castle's ward stone had always held no matter how long they had been away. Going through the potions stores she found all the ingredients she needed and slowly started chopping and prepping the ingredients. Castor stood to the side watching as she worked.

"Can you go and collect seven hairs and bit of blood from everyone else?" Castor nodded and took the twelve vials James handed him. "Put the hair and the blood in separate vials and label them please"

Castor left and James placed a pewter cauldron on a fire and added water, once it boiled she added shrivelfig and powdered moonstone. Adding more ingredients, she watched as the potion changed color, by the time Castor came back it was at the point in which the potion was ready to add the finished lockets. She wrapped a hair from each of her siblings and her own into a separate tiny emeralds and dipped them in the blood of the corresponding Flamel child and then duplicated them seven times. She placed them strategically around the front of the lockets surrounding the 'F' she had the blacksmith carve into each of them and cast a permanent sticking charm on them.

Once she finished she placed all eight lockets into the cauldron and let them sit in the potion. She vanished the rubbish and waited hoping it would work. She went through her notes and calculations again and again. Once she knew the potion was successfully absorbed into the lockets she levitated them out and laid them on the table. She layered several enchantments on each of them carefully making sure to lay one enchantment right on top of the other then adding wards preventing theft, and protecting the lockets from getting burned, dirty or lost. She placed one on Castor and put one on herself, then gathered the rest of the lockets in her arm and went to find where he siblings where.

"These are amazing Jamie" Castor admired the front of his locket.

"If they work, they'll be amazing" They found that Tom and Loki had joined the others on the beach and where just finishing an intricate sand sculptor competition.

"Who do you think is the winner?" Evie was putting the finishing touch on her sand mermaid and looked up to see her sister carrying six golden lockets with emeralds on her arm. "What are those for?"

Everyone looked up from their sculptors in curiosity, James smiled and placed a locket on Evie and then made her way to her other siblings placing lockets on them adding silent protection charms on her sibling's bodies themselves as she went. She ended with a worried Tom who like everyone else had watched his sister slowly and silently place enchanted lockets on them, the magic practically rolled off them.

"James?" She smiled slightly at the confused look Tom had.

"I made these lockets to alert us when one of is in need, they will either feel really warm or cold" She lifted her locket to show them the front. "Each Emerald signifies one of us, when it feels warm it means one of us is hurt or in danger, when that happens the corresponding emerald will glow telling us which one of us it is, we'll also be able to apparate to them"

"And when it goes cold?" James looked at Evie, sweet, naive, goofy Evie. Her sister was at times too innocent. The rest of her siblings had already caught on.

"When it goes cold it means one of us is dead, when that happens the corresponding emerald will fall off" Startled Evie looked back down at her locket before looking back up at James. "We wont always be living together Evie, their will be a point where we all will want to venture off and do different things, these lockets will give us all peace of mind knowing the others are safe and alive"

"What about mom and dad?"

"Mum and dad hardly ever leave the castle they are the safest out of all of us" Evie nodded, her parents preferred staying at home then going out anymore, they've lived many centuries and although new things and places have come about, nothing made them as happy then they where when they where home.

"Do they actually work?" James shrugged and turned to Billy.

"I'm not sure I haven't actually tested them out yet"

"Well there is no time like the present!" Katana turned and cast a bone breaker curse at Reagan.

"Merlin!" All the lockets but Reagans glowed and warmed up against their hands. An alert to check on Reagan popped up in their minds like an alarm.

"I guess they do work!" James threw an unamused glare at Katana and sent a numbing charm at Reagans arms while Loki mended it.

"Come on we've been here three hours already, mum and dad are bound to be looking for us." Once everyone had sanded themselves off and changed back to the muggle garments they where wearing before flooing back to Slytherin Cottage and flashing back to Rome.

They found their parents walking a street over from the restaurant and after a quick gelato they went home. Late at night Tom laid in his bed admiring the locket his sister had given him, she always thought of everything he thought, though she had gone through what was on the front of the locket she never said what was on the inside. Opening the locket he saw something he didn't understand, a young girl woman a few years older than him with dark black hair and emerald green eyes.