How to live life
Chapter 10
A/N: Hello everyone! I'm not going to rant on about nothing this week, but I am going to say read my one-shot based on this story called, Almost Love At First Sight, you can find it in my stories in my profile.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything, I'm obviously not JK Rowling.
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"Where the hell are we now!" Rose yelled as she threw her arms up in frustration.
"We're at Hogwarts!" Lily yelled in delight.
"Bloody Hell! We are," Albus said.
"Now what we really need to know is when," Hermione said, as she looked around trying to figure it out.
"Yeah, let's go in," Sirius said, as he started to march towards Hogwarts.
"Sirius we can't just go in! We need a plan and cover names," past Lily said to him.
"Good idea grandmummy, I say whoever's last name is Potter, that their cover last name is Parker," young James said, with his usual cheeky grin.
"Why Parker?" young Lily asked her brother.
"Because I said so, Lils," young James told her as he patted the top of her head as if she was a dog.
"Okay, if your hair is red, well minus my cousin Lily, then you're a Newton," Fred told everyone as he joined James.
"And if you're blonde then you're a Robinson," Louis added, while joining James.
"What about us?" asked Remus, Sirius, and Hermione in unison.
"Sirius, you're a Parker. Hermione and Remus you guys are the Hylands," Rose told them, they seemed satisfied with it and nodded.
"Okay and my cousin James, you are Jamie and Other James you're just James, and my cousin Fred you're Freddie, and other Fred is just Fred, and young Lily, you're Lillian." Rose said, so there wouldn't be any confusion.
The four nodded then turned to enter Hogwarts, but were quickly stopped by four people that seemed very familiar, but none of them could put a name on them.
"Where do you think you're going?" the man with black hair in green and black asked them.
"Into Hogwarts," Jamie told them, as if it was the most obvious thing.
"Well, that was obvious, we meant why?" a lady in yellow asked.
"We are late?" Lily said unsurely.
"Yay, new students let's sort them," the man in red said cheerfully.
"Okay, come on everyone," the other lady in blue said, as she motioned for them to follow her.
"If you don't already know, I'm Godric Gryffindor, one of the founders of the school, the other three are Rowena Ravenclaw, Helga Hufflepuff, and Salazar Slytherin," Godric Gryffindor told them.
This caused all the time travelers eyes to widen. They went all the way back to the Hogwarts founders time. Bloody hell!
"Okay, who's pure blood?" Salazar Slytherin asked them as he paced around them.
All their eyes widened in shock at such a question.
"Merlin's beard! We're just sorting you lot! Now, purebloods over here behind me," Salazar Slytherin said as he pointed behind him.
Victoire, Louis, Dom, James, Sirius, Scorpius, Lyra, Fred, George, Ginny, Ron, Chloe, and Ella grouped around him.
"You are not getting all of them Salazar! Pick seven," Godric Gryffindor said in outrage.
"Okay, I'll have the five blondes, and the two boys with black hair," said Salazar, meaning he picked Victoire, Louis, Scorpius, Lyra, Chloe, James, and Sirius.
"What? I don't want to be in Slytherin!" James and Sirius yelled in unison.
"Ungrateful you are, okay then give me the twins," Salazar said, as he pointed to Fred and George.
"What? Did we say we were purebloods? Silly us," Fred said with a laugh.
"The real purebloods are those two over there, the Hylands," George said.
"Yeah, those two with the brown hair," Sirius said, as he pointed at Remus and Hermione.
"Okay then, you two, come with me, you five too," Salazar said before the seven left, Remus shooting Sirius and past James a middle finger as he left.
"Okay then, who's left, okay, well we don't care about blood status so let me see, I want you," Helga said, as she pointed at James.
"Me? Oh, you don't want me..." James blurted out nervously, because he didn't want to be in Hufflepuff.
"Yes, I want you and anyone who's related to you, what's your last name?" Helga asked him.
"Parker," past James said.
"Okay, all Parkers come with me," said Helga, as Sirius, both James, Harry, Lillian, and Albus walked over to her.
"Now come on you lot, we're going to my common room," Helga said as she led them out.
"My, My, a lot of you look like the Potter's, it's freaky really," Helga told them, before getting out of the rest of their sight.
"Okay, now how many do we have left, Rowena?" Godric asked.
"You have a lot of kids already, Godric, I'll take seven, you get six," Rowena told him sternly.
"Okay, now who wants to go jump into the lake arse naked with me," Godric said excitedly.
"Me!" yelled Freddie, as he George, Fred, Hugo, Roxanne, and Molly ran over to him.
"Sorry, we're not, but congratulations, you're in my house," Godric told them, as he led them up to Gryffindor Tower.
"Now the rest of you are in my house," Rowena said to, Lily, Ella, Ron, Ginny, Dom, Lucy, Rose.
She then lead them out of the entrance, then up to their common room.
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"Okay, you girls can have your own room, and you, Ron right?" Rowena said, as Ron nodded, "you can go up to the boy dorms, first door on the right, and girls, yours is at the end of the hall," Rowena finished saying, before heading out, leaving the seven alone.
"We need out of here," whispered Ron.
"We know, Ron, calm your knickers, we just need a way to contact the people from our time, or their times," Ginny told him.
"Any ideas?" Lily asked the others.
"Well there is something," Ella said shyly.
"What?" asked everyone in shock.
"I don't know if it will work, seeing we're so far in the past, but I have this locket my parents sent me as an early Christmas gift, and if I use it, it will contact them and I can talk to them," Ella explained to them.
"Well then try it," Lily told her, with a reassuring smile.
"Slight problem though," Ella told them.
"What?" Rose asked fearfully.
"Well, you see, I'm from America, and my parents live in America, far away from where all this is happening," Ella explained.
"Well can't they just portkey over to Britain?" Ginny asked curiously.
"My parents are in hiding, they can't, if she knows that they're in britain she'll follow and make an even bigger mess," Ella said, starting to get nervous.
"What are you talking about?" Dom asked.
"I can't talk about it okay, I'll just talk to Chloe and Vic about it tomorrow," said Ella before rushing upstairs in tears.
"What the hell," Lucy said as she watched Ella leave her sight.
"She's hiding something, her and Chloe, we've all been suspicious for a long time," Rose said.
"I'm going to talk to her, not about all of this, but something else I think I can help her with, it may calm her," Lily said as she went up to the dormitories.
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"Ella, can we talk?" Lily asked Ella, as she patted Ella's back as she cried on her bed.
"I told you guys I'm not talking about it," Ella told her, while still crying.
"Not about that little scene downstairs, Ella, but something else I think I can help you with," Lily told her.
"What?" Ella asked as she sat up.
"Well, I may be wrong, but to me it seems that James really likes you, and asks you out constantly, even though you say no a thousand times," Lily said.
Ella nodded and said, "you're right, but what do you know about that?"
"Well, I'll have you know, I had the same problem as you," Lily told her with a grin.
"Had? How'd you fix it?" Ella asked, who suddenly became more interested in the conversation.
"I didn't fix the problem," Lily told her.
Ella just looked at Lily confusingly, then Lily continued, "I always thought the way you did about James, you see my James is the same as your James, but then once seventh year came, he changed, he wasn't the arrogant toe-rag he was in previous years, he was different, he stopped hexing kids for no reason, stopped walking around as if he owned the place, definitely deflated that big head of his, but most importantly, he stopped asking me out everyday and decided to just be friends with me. I liked this James, the real James Potter. Of course I would never admit it though, I didn't give in to my feelings which I wish I did. I could see the way he looked at me, he wanted me to show some sign that I liked him how he likes me, but I was stubborn as hell, I didn't give in like I previously said. Then he asked me out for the first Hogsmeade weekend, and oh, how I wish I could go back in time and change that day," Lily said as she looked at the ceiling.
"What happened?" Ella asked curiously.
"I blew up on him, I yelled at him, and said he never changed and it was all an act. I didn't even realize how bad I hurt him, he even blew up on me, he yelled at me saying I was the self centered one and other stuff I don't want to think about. I thought he was being a git then, but when I look back he was completely right about me, all that stuff was true, but the stuff I said about him wasn't. Also when I look back I see that I didn't want to blow up on him, I just didn't want to admit I had feelings for him, I was scared and didn't want to give in," Lily said, who now had tears in her eyes.
"We were no longer friends after that, we avoided each other, which was pretty hard to do seeing we were Head Boy and Girl and shared the Head Dormitories, but somehow we managed to. Then Hogsmeade Weekend came," Lily said, before taking in a big breath before she continued.
"I went alone, I made up excuses to my friends why I couldn't hang with them, I just wanted to be alone, to grieve on my mistake. So I went to The Three Broomsticks to get myself drunk, something I never did before and hopefully never do again. I probably had like seven firewhiskys that day, I just sat in the back of the shop next to where they store all the alcohol, that far back. I just sat there and grieved thinking about how I wished I said yes to James that day, I wouldn't have been sitting there getting drunk, I would've been with James having the time of my life. Everything was going normal in the three broomsticks, but then something happened," Lily told her, as she looked like she wanted to just cry like Ella previously was.
"What happened?" Ella asked, curiosity getting the better of her.
"Death eater attack, they blew the whole bloody place up, and I was in the worst place possible, next to the alcohol, one of the most flammable things. So when it happened I was thrown though the window and bleeding like crazy, well that's what people told me because I was completely unconscious," Lily said while looking at the floor with a neutral expression on her face.
"Merlins beard! What happened after that?" Ella asked, seeing she was now was very intrigued by the story.
"Well this is what people told me happened next, because I was completely unconscious and I had no idea what exactly happened, but I could hear what was going on," said Lily.
Ella nodded then Lily continued, "So I was outside the Three Broomsticks, which was on fire and full of death eaters. I was bleeding to death and had cuts and broken bones, and apparently I looked dead. Then I certain someone who was curious to what happened came up to the Three Broomsticks to see it on fire, he was about to run away, but saw me there. This person was James," Lily explained to her.
"He stopped in his tracks and picked me up and carried me back to Hogwarts, even though we were fighting, and he gave up on me. He got hit with many hexes and curses on his way back, and was unable to dodge them or shield them because he had me in his arms, yet he kept carrying me, he could have gotten someone to help, but he didn't, despite the pain, he carried me all the way back to Hogwarts, and all the way up to the Hospital Wing. His injuries weren't that bad luckily, but mine, mine were bad," Lily said as she shook her head.
"How bad?" Ella asked curiously.
"Many broken bones and limbs, some really bad cuts from the glass of the window and alcohol bottles, and some really, really bad burns, see look at all my scars, they were so bad magic couldn't even cover it," said Lily, as she showed Ella the many scars across her arms.
"Like I said, James wasn't that hard to heal once the used counterspells were done. And I could hear what was going on even though unconscious, I knew James saved my life, and it only made me feel worse about what I said to him. Once James was healed he stayed with me everyday, and that's saying a lot because I was unconscious for two weeks! The only time he left was to use the bathroom, he didn't even go to class, and the only time he ate was when someone brought food to him. According to Sirius, James was an absolute mess, hardly slept because he was so worried. Supposedly that's why the Professors let him skip class, because he was such a mess," said Lily.
Ella's eyes were wide in shock, then Lily continued, "then one day I woke up, I was in pain, but not as much pain as I thought I would be. James was so happy when I woke and I told him everything that I've been feeling all year. When I told him this he looked like a kid on Christmas morning, but I couldn't blame him, I was saying what he always wanted to hear since first year. We then shared a kiss and became boyfriend and girlfriend, and he asked me to go out with him on the next Hogsmeade trip, and unlike previous times, I finally said yes."
"About a week or two later I was completely healed. Ever sense then it's been like a dream, being with James. My parents died later in November when attacked by death eaters, it was devastating and only made my sister Petunia hate me more, but James was there to comfort me. We were just inseparable, still are actually. Then right before water break a couple days ago, James Proposed, and I said yes," said Lily dreamily.
"But you two have only been together for barely six months, don't you think you're rushing?" Ella asked Lily in shock.
"No, not at all, because we've already waited long enough and when you find the person you know is right for you, why the need to wait. Also we're in the middle of a war, and I hate to say it, but neither of us have much time left before we die," said Lily.
Ella knew their fate, that they would die in only about four years, she couldn't blame them, then she said, "but why are you telling me this?"
"Well Ella, I know you and your James aren't clones of us, and that the same things may or may not happen to you, and you may not end up together. What I'm trying to say is, that if you do end of having feelings for James, don't hold them in, don't question them, go with it and see where it takes you two. Don't have a devastating event pull you to together. I'm not saying you will have feelings for him, but if you ever do, remember this, and don't end up doing what I did, don't tear yourself apart over something that you can easily fix," Lily said as she placed a hand on Ella's leg.
Ella nodded and laid down on the bed staring at the ceiling with wide eyes.
"Ella, if he ever does change, give him a chance, I'm serious. I'm not saying he'll change in seventh year, like my James, he could change earlier, later, or not ever, but please, I beg you, don't make my mistake, I don't want anyone to suffer like I did. Wait, what year are you guys from," asked Lily.
"2017," Ella told her.
"Wow, that's far on, is Voldemort gone?" asked Lily.
"Yeah he is," Ella told her.
"So there's no war going on, that's good, maybe you won't have to suffer like James and I if you decide not to listen to me," said Lily.
Ella made a face telling Lily not everything was okay.
"What? Is there someone else now?" asked Lily.
"N-Not in Britain, b-but back at home in America," Ella stuttered.
"That's why you don't want to contact your parents, thats why they can't go to England," Lily said, still in shock about Ella's confession. Lily then continued, "then why didn't the people from your time know about it?"
"Because it very under the wraps, only American purebloods know about it, and we can't really tell anyone because if she finds out she'll kill them," Ella said with a quiet sob.
"Is this 'she' the new Voldemort?" asked Lily.
Ella then nodded, and Lily asked," why doesn't she want anyone to know though? And why do only purebloods know?" asked Lily.
"I don't really want to talk about it, but thank you for telling me about your James situation," said Ella.
"You're very welcome, but seriously Ella, don't you ever forget what I said, you're a nice girl, you shouldn't have to go through that," Lily told her.
Ella smiled and said, "I won't."
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"Now James, do you understand?" James said to his grandson, as he just finished telling him the same story Lily told Ella, but in his point of view.
"I understand your story, but I don't see the point," young James said.
Past James sighed and then continued, "you need to grow up, your thirteen!"
"Fourteen," James chimed in.
"Fourteen, whatever, point is, I didn't make any signs of growing up until I was seventeen! I was an adult by the time I matured in the slightest way! I was so rude to Lily and I didn't realize that until the summer before seventh year! We could of had so much more time together if I just stopped being such an arrogant toe-rag sooner rather than later," past James told his grandson.
"So you're saying Ella won't like me unless I change to something I'm not?" asked young James.
Past James pinched the bridge of his nose then said, "no, I'm saying change into your true self, you know, the person you are when you are just with yourself, or your immediate family, the real you. Not the way you act in public, which comes off as arrogant and self centered."
"So I have to be real, caring, nice, James?" young James asked his grandfather.
"Yes, because I know how it feels to be constantly rejected, it hurts. People think you're just playing around because she's the only girl that ever said no to you, but truth is, you loved her before she even rejected you. I don't want you to wait as long as I did, don't suffer any longer. James, I wish for you to do this," past James pleaded.
"Okay, okay," young James said as he started to leave.
"Wait, James?" Past James asked.
"Yes?"
"Even after you change, give her time to accept it, don't rush, even if you feel like you're dying on the inside waiting for her, look what happened to me and Lily when I didn't wait," past James said.
Young James nodded his head and walked out saying, "will do."
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"Chloe, Vic, can I talk to you two?" asked Ella, as she approached the Slytherin table in the Great hall.
"Sure," Chloe told her as she and Vic got up, and Ella then lead the two of them out of the Great Hall and into an empty corridor.
"So what's up Ella?" Chloe asked her sister.
"Well, I think I may have an idea to contact the people back in our time," said Ella.
"That's great Ella how?" Victoire asked.
"Well before I tell you, I must warn you there's a slight problem," said Ella.
"Just tell us Ella," Chloe said with a laugh.
"Well, for an early Christmas present, Mom and Dad gave me this locket, I can use to contact them, and I was thinking this may work to contact someone from our time, but the problem I was talking about is that Mom and Dad are on the run! And if Vlasta finds out that they're there, one, in England, or two, in contact with the Potter's and Weasley's, they're dead, we're all dead," said Ella.
"I say do it," said Chloe.
"Are you sure?" asked Ella and Vic in unison.
"I mean, how else are we going to get back? They don't know, firstly, that we took a time turner, and secondly, if they found out we did somehow they'll still not know when we are," said Chloe.
"I guess you're right," said Vic.
"But if Vlasta finds out, I'm literally going to kill James Sirius Potter," said Ella.
"Do you have the locket with you?" Chloe asked.
"Yeah, come with me, let's do it in the Room of Requirements, I doubt anyone knows about that room yet," said Ella, and they made their way up to the room of requirements.
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"Ready?" Ella asked.
"Yeah, do it," said Chloe, as Ella opened up the locket to reveal the voices of Jack and Rachel Smith.
"Ella? Is that you? Is everything alright?" asked Rachel.
"Well things aren't alright, but not in the way you think," Ella told them.
"What's wrong, sweetheart?" Jack asked his daughter.
"Well you see, how can I shorten this long story?" said Ella.
"Here I'll do it," said Victoire.
"Vic? Is that you?" asked Rachel.
"Hey Mr. and Mrs. Smith, let me explain what happened, so we were at my Uncle Harry's house with the rest of the Potter-Weasley family like we always do on Christmas Eve, and my idiot of a cousin, James, broke a time turner. First we got sent back to 1995, then to 1977, now we are back to when Hogwarts was founded. We're contacting you because my family doesn't know what happened to us and you are the only people from 2017 we can get in contact with," said Victoire.
"Oh my Merlin! Victoire dear, you know about what's happening over here, right?" asked Rachel.
"I do, Mrs. Smith," said Victoire.
"Mom, before you say anything else, let me tell you this, you're literally our only hope, if you don't go to Britain or contact Vic's family, we are stuck here," said Chloe.
"We know, we know, we're just scared that Vlasta will find out. But don't worry we'll go to England and find your family, Vic. We actually know how to fix this problem so we can help, but we must be going if we want to get you guys out soon," said Jack.
"Wait! Mum, Dad?" said Ella.
"Yes?" said Rachel.
"Like Vic said before, we also went to 1995 and 1997. When we went there we brought some people from those times with us too," said Chloe.
"It's not a problem, we know how to fix it, but thanks for the heads up," said Rachel, then the conversation ended with the locket closing.
"Well that's good news," said Chloe.
"Except that Vlasta might find out," said Ella.
"Wait? Why do your parents have experience with this situation?" asked Victoire.
"Well over there in America, time turners weren't that hard to get, that was until Vlasta came around, then everyone who knew about her got them banned, people who don't know about her were really confused and outraged, but quickly got over it. But when they were legal, aurors had to go and get people back to the right time, since my parents are aurors they have experience with this," said Ella.
The three then went into the Great Hall to tell the others the good news.
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"You do realize how precarious this is?" Jack asked his wife.
"But Jack, we have to, no one else knows where they are," said Rachel.
"I know, I'm just scared about what will happen if she finds out," said Jack.
"I am too, but we need to get our daughters and their friends back to 2017," Rachel told him.
"Do you have a portkey that leads to England? Because once we're in the country we can just take the Knight Bus or apparate," said Jack.
"Yeah, I always have it incase something happens to the girls over there," said Rachel.
"Okay, let's go then," said Jack, as they portkeyed to Kings Cross Station.
"Just apparate from here?" asked Jack.
Rachel nodded and they then apparated to Potter Manor. Once arriving they knocked on the door.
"Hello?" Harry asked as he opened the door.
"Hey, sorry to interrupt, but I'm Rachel Smith, and this is my Husband Jack Smith, we're Chloe and Ella's parents," said Rachel.
Harry's eyes widened in shock, and horror. Shock because they came all the way to England out of the blue. And horror because their kids were missing when they were supposed to be watching them.
Harry took a deep breath then said, "Well I must tell you.."
"That they're missing? We know, that's why we came, we know where they are, we actually have contact with them, well with Ella, but she's with everyone else and some others," said Jack.
Harry's eyes widened, then he said, "Come in, come in, tell us what you know."
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"Hey Freddie, tell all the us in Gryffindor to come to the Room of Requirements at four-thirty, and Potter you tell the Hufflepuffs," said Ella.
"Okay," said Fred as he and James went to go get the others.
"Let's meet them there," said Chloe as she and Chloe went to the Room of Requirements.
"Do you think Vlasta will find out Mom and Dad are at Potter Manor?" asked Ella.
"I don't know, Ella, I hope not," said Chloe.
"Will she come here to the UK if she does find out?" asked Ella.
"Maybe," said Chloe unsurely.
"So they're going to come here and get us any second now, right?" asked Chloe.
"Yeah, that's what Mom said," said Ella as she and Chloe entered the Room of Requirements.
Everyone quickly arrived and all they could to was wait for them to come and hope the Founders didn't find them in the room.
"Hey, Potter?" Ella asked.
"Yes?" asked James, confused that Ella was talking to him civilly, and not yelling.
"What did you do with the time turner?" Ella asked.
"I hid it in this room earlier,, why?" James asked.
"Just wondering, don't want it falling into the wrong hands, you know?" Ella said with a shrug.
"Yeah, I know what you mean, but I'm surprised that you're actually talking to me civilly," James said , while he shook his head in disbelief.
"Well you haven't asked me out or done anything else to annoy me, so why would I be screaming? And trust me, I'm just as surprised at your actions towards me, as you are to mine," said Ella with a laugh.
"Well I'm a changed man," said James, as he joined her in laughing, while everyone else started at them in disbelief.
"You're not even a man!" said Ella, still laughing.
"Whatever, point is, I've changed," James told her honestly.
"We'll see about that, Potter," Ella said with a smirk, as a portal appeared in front of everyone, tearing their attention away from James and Ella's civil interaction.
Harry, Rachel, and Jack came through the portal, and everyone in the room ran to them.
"Everyone, this is Mr. and Mrs. Smith, if it weren't for them, you would still be stuck here, they're also Ella and Chloe's parents, so let's follow their directions so we can get out of here safely," said Harry, as young Harry stared at his older self in amazement.
Then older Harry spotted his younger self, his parents, Sirius, and Remus. Making him very uncomfortable and confused.
"Guys, why do you have them with you?" asked Harry.
"My parents didn't tell you?" asked Ella confusingly, she would have thought her parents would have told him this.
"We may have forgot," said Jack sheepishly, as he rubbed his forehead.
"Well next time warn a guy! I almost had a heart attack when I saw them, especially my parents," whispered Harry.
"James, over here," said Harry, as he tapped his son on the back, and pulled him into an empty corner.
"What?" asked James.
"Do the people who died know they died?" whispered Harry.
"No, we luckily avoided that topic, and your younger self seems to be keeping his distance from them, think he might just be scared, but your parents seem to be really interested in meeting you. They've been trying to corner younger you, but he's really avoiding them," said James confusingly.
"Don't blame him, during that time I may have wanted to meet my parents more than everything, but I honestly wouldn't know how to approach them or what to say to them, especially if they think that I see them all the time," said Harry.
"You're going to obliviate them though, right?" asked James.
"Of course, can't go changing time," said Harry as he and James exited the corner.
"Where have you two been?" asked Teddy.
"Just having a quick chat, is everyone ready?" asked Harry.
"Yeah, we were just waiting on you two."
"Sorry about that," said Harry.
"It's no big deal, Harry," Teddy told him.
"So everyone, when you pass through this portal it will bring you back to your time, so we have to obliviate some of you now, so who's first?" Rachel asked everyone.
"I'll go," said young Harry.
"Okay," said Jack, as he obliviated him then pushed him through the portal.
Eventually everyone who needed to be obliviated went through and it was time for the others to go. All they had to do was walk through, so it didn't take long.
"Wait, Mom?" Chloe said nervously once everyone arrived back to 2017.
"You might want to go back to 1995 and obliviate everyone else in the order, they don't know our identities, except for Teddy's, but they know we're from the future so, yeah, could you go obliviate them?" Chloe asked.
"I'm glad you remembered, that could have changed a lot," said Jack as he and Rachel went back in the portal.
"You guys are in major trouble," yelled Ginny as soon as the they left through the portal.
"Mom, don't yell at all of them, it was my fault," James said, as he put his hand on his mothers shoulder to get him to stop.
"Okay then, James Sirius Potter you are in big trouble," Ginny yelled.
Ella was surprised, pleasantly surprised, James was owning up to his mistake. Something he would never do, maybe to get his brother and sister out of trouble, but the rest of his cousins and their friends, never, well until now that is. But Ella's thoughts were quickly interrupted by Chloe calling her over, "Ella! Over here now!"
"What?" Ella whispered to her sister.
"Look out the window, is that who I think it is, or have I gone crazy?" Chloe asked, while shaking nervously.
Ella looked out the window and saw the person she hoped to never see again. There was no way someone could mistake her as someone else. She was as pale as a ghost, had beating red eyes, and pitch black hair that was tied into a perfect bun on top of her large head. She also wore a puffy fur robe made entirely out of wolf hair. There was no doubt who it was. Vlasta has arrived. Luckily she was trying to figure out how to get around the security wards, so they had some time.
Ella couldn't help but curse, "shit, shit, shit! That little bitch!"
Chloe looked a little taken a back at her sisters language, but quickly recovered and told her, "watch the language."
"There is no fucking time to watch my language! We need to get the hell out of here, or she'll kill us, kill us all!" Ella yelled as she started to cry, unfortunately everyone else in the house heard her say this.
"Ella, what's wrong?" James asked, as he rushed over to Ella and Chloe.
Ella didn't answer she just collapsed against the wall in tears, as everyone else stared in horror.
"Chloe, what's wrong with her?" James asked urgently.
"Look out the window. Guess who, there's only one person who could do this to Ella," Chloe said as she started to cry, not as hard as Ella though, as she comforted her sister and tried to get her up.
James looked out the window and saw the women, he took what Chloe just told him, and figured out who it was. When he did, his face turned as white as a ghost, and he felt like he could faint, his legs already went weak? But he asked Chloe if his suspicions were correct, "Vlasta?"
Chloe nodded, then whispered something to Ella causing Ella to finally get up, but when she did she left the room.
"Where is she going?" James asked.
"Contacting our parents, she'll be back in a second, meanwhile we need to get the hell out of here ASAP," Chloe said as Ella reentered the room.
"What the hell is going on?" Harry yelled, he was evidently becoming worried.
"No time to explain, but we need to get the hell out of here unless any of you want to die, we promise to explain as soon as we get somewhere safe," Ella said as she wiped her tears off her face.
Harry didn't look convinced, and was about to protest before Vic yelled, "they're dead serious, if you don't want to die let's get out of here now, especially if your last name is Potter."
"Everyone who can apparate grab someone who can't and side along the hell out of here to Grimmauld Place, now, further instructions will be given when I arrive," Ella said, as people started apparating out of Potter Manor.
Only few people were left and James noticed it looked like Ella wasn't going anywhere anytime soon, "Ella, aren't you coming?" James asked her.
"Not right now," Ella responded while she started to look around the room nervously, everyone was gone but Ella and James.
"Are you mental! You have to get out of here!" James yelled, he was outraged.
"James, my parents aren't back yet, and by the time they get back anti-apparation wards will be up, I have to give them this portkey so they can get to Grimmauld Place," said Ella.
"Won't she be able to track it?" James asked.
"That's why we'll take this portkey and to London and take a bunch of taxi's to Grimmauld Place, where it will be unlikely for her to find us," Ella told him as she heard the anti-apparation wards go up and held up a second portkey.
"Looks like I'm stuck here with you," James said sheepishly.
"You should've left with the others," Ella said angrily.
"No, I had to make sure you had some way of getting back, and I don't regret staying behind to make sure you were alright," James said with a straight face.
Ella didn't know how to respond to this, all she did was stare at him in amazement. Then a big pop knocked them out of it, this pop meant that Vlasta broke the wards, she could now get in.
"Shit, follow me," cursed Ella as she grabbed James hand and pulled him off somewhere far away from the door.
They both felt something like an electric shock go through them when their hands touched, causing Ella to pause, but quickly continue when she heard Vlasta blast open the front door. As they were running they luckily bumped into Ella's parents portal as Rachel and Jack arrived back.
"Thank Merlin," whispered Ella as she hugged her parents.
"Good, you're safe, why is he here with you, Ella, you shouldn't have had put him in danger by letting him stay with you," Rachel told her daughter.
Ella was about to start to say something but James did first, "it's not Ella's fault, I was just concerned that she was the only one left here so I stayed to make sure she was okay, by the time I found out she was coming with you, the anti-apparation wards went up, so here I am."
Her parents sighed then they heard a crash of Vlasta coming up. Vlasta just caught sight of their faces before they portkeyed out.
They arrived at London to find all the Potter-Weasley's looking very confused.
"What the hell is happening?" Bill asked as they followed Ella and James through the busy streets of London.
"We're just trying to find a bunch of taxi's to bring us to Grimmauld place," Ella said as she fought her way through the crowd.
"So what's a better place to find a bunch of taxis than outside Kings Cross, so yeah, we're going there," Chloe told the group.
"We have a bunch of muggle money we can use, we split it up already," Ella added as they arrived upon Kings Cross Station.
"Hurry up everyone, she could find us any minute," Rachel urged, as everyone entered the taxi's.
They then saw a fire emerge across the street as they drove away, and there was no doubt in their minds that Vlasta did that, she was in London.
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"Explain, now," Harry said sternly as they sat down in the dinning room in Grimmauld place.
After the war, Harry lived there for quite some time along with Ginny until they found out they were pregnant with James. Harry put a lot of time into the house and it was no longer dark and ugly, it was bright and cheery. Once the Potter's moved out it became mostly a meeting place on the first floor, and an extra library on the second. As you probably guessed Hermione spends a lot of time up there.
Chloe took in a deep breath then said, "Okay, so a couple of you know the first part about it, but none of you know all, or most of it."
Ella then jumped in and said, "that lady you saw outside Potter manor was Vlasta, she's like our Voldemort."
This caused everyone who didn't already know to gasp in horror. They knew what it was like when Voldemort was around, it was horrid, to think people are going through stuff like this again, made them all sick.
"All we told the people who know was, things aren't so great back at home due to Vlasta, and that's why we go to Hogwarts even though we live in America. Also that my parents are on the run, and that our lives are at risk every second of everyday," Ella told them.
"Now any questions before I move on?" asked Ella.
Harry then asked, "doesn't the MACUSA know? Surely if things were this bad others countries would have heard about it, you know?" Harry asked curiously.
"No, you see, only select people know about her. And the people that do can't tell anyone outside the people that know or she'll go out and kill people who don't even know about her, and the people that told about her," Chloe responded.
"Wait, so is she contacting muggleborns or half bloods about this or something?" Ron asked them.
"No, quite the opposite actually, only purebloods know," Rachel said.
"Why?" Hermione asked out of curiosity.
"I'll tell you why in a second, but first anymore questions on the previous information given?" Ella asked the group.
Then Chloe whispered something into Ella's ear causing her to look worried, but then she said, "I should let you know now who Vlasta is related to, so you don't find out in a bad way. Let me just get to the point, Vlasta is Voldemort's daughter."
Harry then fainted, butt hey, father like son.
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A/N: So what did you guys think of it? I would love to know your thoughts. This time travel thing is something I wanted to do ever since I started writing this story, this Vlasta stuff probably wouldn't have even happened if it wasn't for this, and that means this story would be very boring. I wanted Ella to be there in the time travel mishap, that's why I came up with the Vlasta problem, to get Ella there, because I wanted this situation to bring James and Ella closer together. Now that I'm talking about James what did you guys think of James and Ella's interactions in this chapter, I'd like to know seeing I've been planning this since I started the story. I would also like to know your thoughts on the whole time travel thing. If you have any questions, or were confused about anything ask me in a review and I'll respond when I post the next chapter.
As for my awkward updating, I'll try to post on either Friday, Saturday, or Sunday each week. I'm targeting for either Friday mornings or evenings, but hey things are always changing. But seeing there is a huge snow storm coming Tomorrow and Saturday, I might, just might update earlier this week because I'll have all of tomorrow and I'll be home bound all weekend due to the amount of snow so, we'll see :)
NEXT CHAPTER: we'll find out everything that's happening over in America, what Vlasta is doing over in England, and more that I haven't decided about yet!
Thank you to KAYLA DELANA my only reviewer from last chapter.
Kayla DeLana: I'm glad you liked it, hope you thought this chapter is alright!
Thank you to everyone who either followed, favored, and reviewed my story! And especially those who read the story for even reading it in the fist place. Anyway till next time...
