Angela Weber and The Half Vampire of Hogwarts
Chapter 10: Interweb
"Angela! Theo!" Mira called to us from the front yard of a small townhouse in the middle of London.
"Mira!" Theo yelled, sticking his head out of the passenger window.
While he and Mira's brother (a guy about a couple years older than me) helped to get our luggage to a guest room I chatted with Mira about Nathan.
"He attacked you? You are okay right?" Mira jumped up before I could finish the entire story.
"I'm fine, Theo saved me. He's fine," I added before Mira could worry too much, "The real problem is that Nathan is too close too Hogwarts."
"You're right." Mira agreed, "We need to do something. This is getting way too out of hand... I mean with Sirius..." she muttered.
"Sirius?" I asked abruptly. Mira looked up startled and I realized she'd been talking to herself.
"As members of the Black family we tend to have a lot more information on him than the public. He seems to be closing in on his target..." Mira trailed off.
"Harry?" My voice was a monotone.
"Who knows? It seems a little unlikely to me... but it seems more likely than Ron Weasley." she shrugged.
That night I was checking my email and found a rather frantic one from Bella:
"Angela? Are you all right?"
"Yes, I'm fine. My magic did its job, there's hardly a scratch on me." There was a *ping * as the gmail chat window popped up in the corner of my screen.
"Well then you are in a lot of trouble! You hear me? A lot of trouble! Now you are going to explain exactly what's going on! I don't care how long it takes. Tell me everything!" she seemed to be really worried. I felt so guilty about it. I should have contacted her, though I couldn't have called her considering I needed a new phone (something Theo very generously insisted on getting for me).
"I am a witch. After you wedding I was offered the position of Magical Creature Relations at Hogwarts. I really love it there. Right now I am with two of my favorite students/close friends."
"Go on."
"There is a bit of trouble. Sirius Black – an escaped convict – has infiltrated the school and caused a bit of trouble. But the real problem is Theo's father."
"Who's father?"
"Theo's father is..." I considered my reply for a while until finally deciding truth was the best at this point, "a vampire. The same vampire who had been chasing me."
"Theo's father?" Bella asked. Had she caught the fact that normal vampires couldn't be born.
"Theo is a half-vampire... I know its sounds crazy, but its true, and his mom was a witch, but she couldn't be saved when he was born. Theo's had it pretty rough, and his dad is so mean. He works for the Volturi."
"Volturi! If they are involved you should have mentioned that from the beginning!" was Bella's reply. Maybe the Cullen's had heard stories of half-vampires before.
"They don't know about Theo, they don't know about Hogwarts. Nathan is more free-lance."
"Oh... Good! Wait Nathan?"
"Theo's dad"
"Oh"
I explained with further detail everything from what I knew about Nathan to the Black family.
"So Jacob could be a relative of your friends and that convict?" Bella asked, I could just imagine her laughing at that.
"Actually we uncovered something about that. It turns out he is part of the Black family from Europe, but the pureblood Black's had a thing about disinheriting people. When they heard that their relatives had married into the Native American clan they were disinherited."
"Oh, poor Jake. But I guess he hangs out with us so much it doesn't matter."
"I see he's still your friend. I'm so glad, Bella." and I was, for truly. She loved Jacob and it would hurt her to lose him. I had to admit I was impressed that Jacob could over look the whole vampire thing.
"Yeah. I'm really happy about that. Angela?"
"Yeah?"
"Please don't hesitate when you need help. One call, one email, and all the Cullen's will be here for you. Even Jacob. He'd be glad to help out his family I'm sure." I could tell she meant there to be sarcasm in that last comment. I smiled. Bella was still Bella even if she was a vampire now.
"I promise. Whenever I need help." But when I turned off my computer I suddenly felt guilty about saying so. I didn't want to put any of them in any danger. I told myself that I'd deal with it myself before I could ever put any Cullen or Black in danger. I didn't want Theo in danger, but it was years too late to prevent that.
For the rest of the days Theo and I were with Mira and her family I spent a lot of time getting to know Mira. Most of the time she talked about things like "Amuto" and "Zutara" these things confused me so she showed me what she was talking about on Youtube. Apparently they were couplings from animes. And she kept saying she "ships" them which was a phrase she finally had to spell out for me. It means to support or prefer, (in Mira's case) obsess about.
I had fun watching anime with Mira. It made me appreciate those bad action films Ben liked so much just a bit more. I became an anime fanatic after those few days. Too bad Hogwarts doesn't have the Internet. I'd have to make constant trips to Hogsmeade (which did have the "Interweb", as Mira tended to call it).
Author's note: Zutara = Zuko and Katara, YES I SHIP IT!!! Amuto = Amu and Ikuto (Shugo Chara), I SHIP THAT TOO!!! MY friends and I all call the internet the interweb. Please comment, and yes you may comment about Zutara or Amuto, as long as you're in favor of them.