Ok, I was going to upload this yesterday but my computer wasn't willing to cooperate with me... :/

Anyway, I own nothing! Stephanie Meyer and J.K. Rowling do!

Chapter Ten: Guess who's coming for Dinner?

Al didn't speak to Nessie the whole rest of the week.

Whenever his family would ask him what's wrong, he would say 'nothing' and walk off. Nessie felt really bad about what she said to him but she was at a loss at words of how to do apologize.

The only high point of the week was when Jake magically appeared in DADA.

Everyone got out their books in the regular routine. "Close your books guys. Today's lesson is more practical. I want to show you the differences between a shape-shifter who turns into a wolf and a true werewolf." Cho said. There was a sigh of relief when she said that. Everyone looked up at her in anticipation while she went into her office.

Then Jake came out behind her and all the girls noticed. Nessie wasn't bothered by it. She was used to it by now.

"This is my friend Jacob Black, and he agreed to come in and help me with today's lesson." Cho explained. "He is apart of an American Indian tribe named the Quileutes. Their history is unique, and a long story that I won't go into now. If Jacob is willing," She looked at him with a smile on her face. "I think he can be convinced to tell you his story, after the lesson, of course. Jacob is what we would call a 'shape-shifter'. His ancestors chose the form of a wolf the first time they changed. Jake, if you please." She motioned for him to demonstrate for the students. He muttered something into Cho's ear which made her face turn pink. She said something to him and he went behind her desk so that only his top half was showing. Nessie had to cough to keep from busting out laughing.

There were several ooh's and ah's as the students watched Jake turn into the russet brown wolf that Nessie had seen so many times.

"Now this is where confusion happens. Jake is a wolf that stands on all fours. Most werewolves stand on two legs. Werewolves bite humans to create new werewolves, with the Quileute wolves have something called 'imprinting' which is how they select their 'soul mate', as it were, or the best possible match to keep the species alive. Werewolves usually travel alone, whereas Jake has a pack of about 16 in number."

Cho kept going on but Nessie zoned out again. This was something that had been drilled into her head since birth.

She thought about what Cho had said about imprinting. Jake had never told her about this 'soul mate' thing. He told her that he just cared about her and wanted her to be happy. Nessie loved Jake like a brother or a best friend, but like a boyfriend, or husband? She couldn't see that, but living in the world that she did (Vampires for a family, werewolf for a best friend, and now going to a wizard school), she didn't believe in the word 'impossible' anymore. Nessie sighed as she wished that Seth was there. He could explain it to her, make it make more sense.

Seth was one of the members of Jake's pack. Next to Jake, he was the only one of his species that felt totally comfortable around vampires. He was with the Cullen's when they visited Nahuel last summer. Seth was more fun to hang out with than his sister Leah. The difference between them was like night and day.

Leah was a werewolf too. She had moved out of her mother's house right after her cousin, Emily Young, married Leah's ex, Sam (Also the alpha of the pack [Another long story….]). Last the Cullen's heard about her was that she was going to school somewhere on the east coast and came in for visits as often as possible.

The other wolf pack members were ok with the Cullen's, but they weren't wild about working together with them. Nessie couldn't hold a grudge against them. It was their natural instinct to kill vampires. Since Nessie came along, it was easier to co-exist with the wolves.

Jake had imprinted on Nessie and the wolf pack code states that a brother cannot harm the object of another brothers imprinting. This smoothed things over with the pack. But some of the wolves, like Quil and Embry, were ok with Nessie, once they got to know her. They were always cool with Bella when she was human, so it wasn't much of a change when she became a vampire, except the smell.

Then there were the other wolves in Jake's pack. Paul being their center. Paul mellowed out a bit when he imprinted on Jake's sister Rachel (Another long story….), but he still lived up to his reputation as the most volatile wolf in existence. These wolves still disliked the Cullen's because it was natural for them to hold a grudge.

"Well, that's the lesson for today. If you have any question's for Mr. Black, you can come and talk to him."

Nessie headed for the door, she would no doubt see him later, what bugged her was that he was hanging around Cho so much. Lily caught up with her.

"Hey, Rose told me what happened." Lily said as they walked out the door. Lily was sound asleap when Nessie and Al had their 'episode'. She would still be sound asleap even if there was a freight train zooming past her head.

"I didn't mean to yell at him, but he is just so obnoxious!" Nessie confessed. "I want to make up with him, but I don't know how to do it."

"He wants to patch things up with you too, but he still thinks there's something going on with you and Scorpius." Lily rolled her eyes as if that was something that couldn't ever happen.

Nessie didn't respond.

"There isn't something going on is there?" Lily asked skeptically eyeing the 's' pendent hanging from its chain around Nessie's neck.

Nessie looked at her sheepishly. "Maybe?"

"You have got to be kidding me!" Lily exclaimed. "Scorpius? Scorpius Malfoy? My family's sworn enemy?"

"But that's your family's opinion. Not mine" Nessie stated. "Besides, what has Scorpius ever done to you?"

"Nothing." It looked like Lily wanted to say something else but couldn't think of anything he had done. "But still, his dad tried to kill mine. That has to count for something!"

"So the sins of the father are the sins of the son?" Nessie countered.

"That's different…." Lily trailed off.

"If that were the case then shouldn't Scorpius hold a grudge against you?"

"He doesn't?" Lily sounded surprised.

"No he doesn't." Nessie was relieved that Lily was starting to see sense. Lily was probably the best one of her family to have this conversation with, Lily was the reasonable one. "But promise me that this is just between you and me. His father wouldn't like it if Scorpius had told someone else his story."

"He's still just as proud as ever." Lily sighed. "Teddy's a lot like him. Forget I said that."

"What does Teddy have to do with the Malfoy's?" Nessie asked anyway.

"Teddy's grandmother and Scorpius's grandmother are sisters." Lily explained.

"Oh." Nessie said. She wondered why Scorpius hadn't said that before, "Can I ask you something about Teddy?" she asked nervously.

"Sure." Lily answered.

"Why does his hair change colors?" Nessie responded. "I would ask him but I'm afraid he might be offended."

Lily snorted. "He wouldn't be offended by it, he thinks it's the grandest thing ever. He's a metamorphmagus, like his mother, but his father was a werewolf."

"A real one?" Nessie asked.

"Yea, not like Professor Chang's friend." Lily blushed. "Teddy's parents were unique. It was hard on Dad when they died."

"They died?"

"Yea, back during the war with Voldemort. Teddy's dad had made my dad his godson. So it really hit him hard when Teddy was abandoned the same way he was. Dad couldn't bear to see him live in an orphanage. But when he met Victoire, Teddy stayed with uncle Bill and aunt Fleur a lot more."

"So that's why he was talking about the magical creatures thing." Nessie guessed.

"Yea, there was an uproar about him coming to school, but with our aunt Hermione being who she is…." Lily laughed.

Nessie laughed with her. At least Teddy would be on her side if they found out her secret, and that would include Victorie too, possibly her sister Dominique, who shadowed her older sisters every footstep.

Al was sitting in the common room when Lily and Nessie walked through the portrait hole.

"Nessie, I'm so sorry!" Al said as he jumped out of the chair and ran over to met them. "I was being stupid, and I shouldn't have asked you about your personal life. Will you forgive me?"

"Smooth big brother, smooth." Lily patted him on the back and walked up to the girls dormitories.

"No, I'm sorry Al." Nessie replied to his question. "Even though you annoy me to death, I shouldn't have said those things."

"So are we cool?"

"Sure." Nessie shook his hand, he commented on how much warmer her hand was than his.

She met Scorpius at their regular spot.

"I should be mad at you but I'm not." Nessie said as he commented on her necklace.

"It was a hand-me-down." Scorpius explained. "Are they not acceptable?"

"Its very beautiful." Nessie allowed. "But Lily knows about us."

"I know." He said untroubled.

"How do you know?" She asked.

"I have my ways." He smirked.

"She told me something about you too."

"Really?"

"She told me that you and Teddy are related."

"Oh yea." Scorpius remembered.

"Why didn't you say that earlier?"

"It never came up." Scorpius answered simply.

. . .

"I'll miss you so much Nessie!!!" Lily said as she hugged Nessie.

"I'll miss you guys too." Nessie replied. "I hope you guys have fun at the Weasley reunion."

"Oh we will." James said as he boarded the Hogwarts express.

"Why are you telling us goodbye now?" Al asked. "Aren't you riding with us?"

"She cant make new friends?" Lily asked her brother.

"I guess so." Al answered. "Well I guess I'll see you after the holidays." He gave Nessie an awkward hug. Lily winked as she borded the train behind her brothers.

Nessie waited for Scorpius and Cathy out by the last car. Cathy came up first, she was a bit nervous that she was going to be meeting Scorpius.

"I mean, we have class almost every day together, but it still freaks me out that I'm going to be sitting across from him for the whole train trip home!" Cathy squeeled in excitement. "Wait till my sister hears about this!"

Scorpius arrived just before the train left.

The train ride home seemed shorter in some ways and longer in others. After the introductions were over, the trio found that they had a lot in common. Cathy and Scorpius were both artistically inclined and loved playing Exploding Snap. Nessie and Cathy excelled at Charms. Scorpius and Nessie were both early risers (That's how they met, but for Cathy's sake, they said it.)

Scorpius told them about his family, then Cathy, then Nessie gave a sketchy half-truth, half-lie version of her own story. Her story, even in the wizarding world, was bound to be strange.

Scorpius's father, Draco Malfoy, was waiting for him at the train station along with his wife, a very pretty woman with long, golden blond hair. She smiled warmly at her son while Draco looked at him with a severe amount of disappointment at his company. With a mumbled goodbye, Scorpius left with his family.

Cathy's Mom showed up a couple of minutes later. She waved goodbye and walked out of the train station hand-in-hand with her mother.

Once they were gone, Nessie headed for the teacher's trolley on the train. The trolley was hardly ever used, most teachers had rooms at Hogwarts and prefered to stay there over the Christmas Holiday to catch up on their work. Cho and Carlisle were the only ones who went home this year.

Nessie caught them in the middle of a discussion of vampire rights.

"If Hermione wasn't so terrified of vampires, you two would make a great team." Cho was saying as Nessie opened the door. "Oh hey Ness!" She smiled.

"Hey, you guys ready to go?" Nessie asked.

"Almost. It appears that I have a few fans at Hogwarts." Carlisle chuckled as he opened up his trunk and saw a blast-ended skewart sleeping on top of his stack of ungraded essays.

"Oh Carlisle!" Cho exclaimed. "Here, let me fix that." With a flick of her wand, the skewart was gone and all of his possessions were slime free.

"Thank you Cho." Carlisle smiled brightly. "Your skills with a wand are remarkable."

"You're welcome sir." Cho replied, she blushed a little at the complement.

It was a rare sunny day in London. So Carlisle had to stay behind and wait for nightfall while Nessie and Cho walked outside to get a cab. Nessie pulled the collar of her jacket around her and pulled her sleeves down just in case.

Cho told the cab driver an address near Hector and Lydia's house. It felt good to Nessie to be back in the some what normal world. She felt herself moving back into a more relaxed atmosphere, she was going back among the company of people that she didn't have to pretend for. She could be her own half-human, half-vampire self, she felt more at ease with every step she took.

"Welcome home!" The Cullen's and Jacob shouted as Nessie and Cho opened the door. There was a sense of unease about the vampires in the room, something they tried to hide. It worked with Cho but not Nessie. She had been around enough to know that something was up, but she kept her mouth shut as to not disrupt the homecoming. Jake, usually calm and carefree, seemed tense. He was looking from Cho and Nessie, to Alice, to the door. Carlisle showed up almost right after nightfall. He was perfectly at ease and went to embrace Esme.

The tense atmosphere was still around the next morning. Something now shared with Carlisle and Cho. Nessie hated being the only one out out the loop.

"Are you guys keeping something from me?" Nessie asked over breakfast.

"Of course not Renesmee." Bella said automatically, a reflex reaction for any bad liar. Bella flashed an unsure look at Edward before she rearranged her features into a forced smile.

Alice gasped at the same time as someone knocked on the door. Lydia excused herself to open it.

Ooh! Dont you just love cliff hangers?!? The special guest has arrived, but who is it? Find out next time!