{OH MY GOD! I am so sorry for not updating sooner! I have been busy with final projects and exams, plus I graduate high school in less than a week, so I found less time to write this chapter! I am so sorry it took so long but I hope you enjoy my long overdue chapter, and I'll be writing more frequently now that summer vacation is around the corner. Hope you like it!—CM}
"Okay, what is up with you and Sirius?" Alice asked in shock. James and Sirius looked at each other and their respective future wives.
"Well, James and I said about a year ago that the only blokes we could find ourselves loving was each other." Sirius said. "But we agreed to break it off when I started to like Shizu." She blushed a faint scarlet.
"Yeah, when she moved over here a few months ago, Sirius was star struck." James said with a chuckle. "And you're over the moon now that Lana's here." Sirius retorted with a pink dusting on his cheeks.
James gave a sappy grin that made Liliana turn red and smile.
"Sorry, but I'm confused over your love life." Dorea said. "I thought you mentioned a couple books back about dating Miss Evans here." Lily pulled a small pout.
"Oh! No, there was this other girl I dated once named Lily Rose Wolsey. She's a year older and in Hufflepuff. That was a prank of sorts so I could get back at a stuffy Ravenclaw that got Sirius and Remus in trouble when they didn't do anything." James clarified. "And Lily Rose is just a friend now."
"But you did have the biggest crush on Evans for years." Remus inputted. James nodded. Lily went pink and said nothing.
"So, who wants to read next?" Sirius asked. Narcissa took the book.
Chapter 9. Worries
Some people frowned.
Like Leo had worried, Draco, Parkinson or Zabini managed to spread the word that Harry was a Parselmouth.
The Potters cursed quietly.
Harry said he didn't care what other people thought, but Leo noticed how he kept looking sadder every time someone avoided him or whispered about him when they thought Harry was out of listening range.
Liliana frowned sadly and James looked like he wanted to kick something.
Leo would have gone to clear things up with his blonde relative if he wasn't stuck having to smack some sense into people's heads for the better part of two weeks.
Sirius and Shizuka looked proud at their son's actions. Lucius and Narcissa seemed a bit surprised that Leo wanted to solve things peacefully with their future son.
Aries wasn't as physical as Leo was, but he made it known that if the rumors kept going he'd draw fist blood.
"Da would." Danny and Kie intoned. "So would Regulus." Barty said.
And as much Leo enjoyed knowing fully well that his cousin would keep his word to maim some unfortunate moron,
Several people snickered.
he could see that Aries was stressed.
Sirius looked concerned, as did Narcissa, Barty and Arcturus.
He's got dark rings under his eyes, he's gotten paler, and he reacts slower than Aries normally would.
"Is he sick?" Alice asked worriedly. "I think he's fatigued." Augusta said with a slightly pinched expression.
He asked Luna about it one morning.
Lorcan and Lucas gave airy smiles.
"I think he spends all his nights trying to figure out who keeps sending him those little letters." Luna said airily before skipping off barefooted to talk to Flitwick.
"Urgh." Sirius groaned. "My godson got creepy letters last book, why my nephew?" He asked.
"Maybe Leo's next for creepy letters?" Remus asked. Sirius gave him a stern look. "Don't you go jinxing my son, Moony." He said.
One afternoon it was time for the Gryffindor Quidditch team to practice.
James could feel his best friends giving him looks, but he ignored them.
"Mind if I tag along Harry?" Leo asked.
"Really?" Barty asked incredulously.
"Sure," Harry said "Just don't get Wood paranoid."
"Potter would probably be in a hissy fit if Regulus just watched one of his practices." Lucius drawled with a smirk. James huffed, but didn't deny it.
Leo felt he was the one being paranoid, constantly worrying about the rumors.
The good nature in the room wilted a sliver.
"You lot want to come along?" Leo asked. "Detention with Snape." Neville and Ron intoned.
Many students groaned.
"Nuff said." Leo grunted.
Sirius nodded.
"How about you two?" Leo asked the girls.
"They don't strike me as quidditch fans." Frank said, scratching his cheek.
"Me and Velvela are going to be having some girl time." Luna said, picking at the butterbeer caps on her necklace.
The girls nodded, and the boys rolled their eyes.
Leo looked at Velvela in shock. "What?" Velvela retorted, "I AM a girl."
"I sometimes forget that with my sisters." Jamie said. Al nodded.
"Tomboy." Leo reiterated. She huffed at him.
Dia rolled her eyes.
Leo rolled his eyes to a drowsy Aries. "You" Leo said pointing at him "need sleep."
"Insomnia is definitely a concern." Lily said.
"I'm fine." Aries yawned, his head propped on five books.
Every listener didn't believe Aries' words.
"A nap wouldn't hurt would it?" Harry asked.
"Nope!" Many students said.
Aries furrowed his brows in a slow turning of his mental gears. "Guess not." He mumbled before heading off towards Ravenclaw Tower.
"He should have brought the matter of the letters up to a professor." McGonagall said, frowning. Remus frowned a bit too.
"I think the boys are used to having to rely on each other more than being able to trust adults." Moody said.
Leo was heading down to the pitch. He was about to turn around a corner when "—I told you that Harry Potter's a dark wizard." A boy whispered harshly.
Several people went into an even fouler mood than before.
"I don't think so." Another boy, Theodore Nott, said. "He's a goody two shoes, through and through."
"A Slytherin of all people to defend Harry?" Lily asked, but no one seemed to have heard her. I've been friends with Sev for years and he never defended me she thought darkly.
Leo smiled.
So did his parents, and Harry's family.
"As if." The other boy sneered. "No good ever comes from a Parselmouth. 'Sides he's got the Black Cousins stuck to him."
"Why I ought-!" Sirius shouted, rising out of his seat. Shizuka grabbed his hand gently. They looked at each other before he sat back down, grumbling under his breathe.
"The son and nephew of Sirius Black?" Nott asked skeptically.
"Thank you." Sirius growled.
"Everyone else in that entire family is dark as they come." The other boy said.
"Is not! Everyone else got disowned!" Sirius shouted. "It's okay Sirius. I know how you really are, as do your friends and the Potters." Shizuka said. Sirius smiled at the corners of his lips.
"You're delirious." Nott said before the sound of stepping feet was heard.
"He's a bigot." Sirisha snarled.
"No good can come from the Black family. 'Especially if they're hanging near a serpent tongue." The other boy growled before Leo heard him walking.
Liliana went red in the face and started off on a rant in rapid Italian, but based on her grandchildren's faces, what she said was not meant for the ears of polite company.
The boy eventually turned the corner where Leo was. He wore a Hufflepuff crest.
"WHERE IS YOUR LOYATLY!?" Many shouted at the revelation. The Marauders all had thoughts of a supposed best friend of theirs.
He saw Leo and paled in three seconds flat. Leo gave a slow and cold glare. The boy ran off.
"Coward." Sirius growled menacingly.
Leo slammed his fist into a wall. He slumped against it and tugged hard at his hair.
"Wow he must be pissed." Liliavati said in shock.
He felt a hand on his head. He jerked and saw Cedric.
Those from the future were looking thoughtful at the name.
"What happened Leo?" He asked. "Nothin'." Leo growled.
"It most certainly is not 'nothin'." Arcturus said.
"Doesn't look like nothing to me." The older boy said.
"At least this Puff has brains." Alice said with a firm nod.
"Look, it's not your problem." Leo said. "Doesn't mean I won't try to help." He said just as stubbornly.
"I officially like Cedric." Liliana said.
"Just… I had a bad day, and I was going to the pitch to take my mind off of it." Leo mumbled, feeling bad about lying to Cedric.
"Then don't lie." Many said in exasperation.
"Well I'm sure things can only get better." Cedric reassured with a sweet smile.
"His father is a right prat. I'm glad he turned out okay." Remus said.
"Thanks Cedric." Leo said with a grin before heading towards the quidditch pitch.
"Too bad he can't play." James said.
Leo managed to get there after the actual practice started. He slipped up the stands and clambered onto a seat. He was the only one watching the practice.
"I'd have thought Colin would be getting more pictures of Harry." Charlus said. James and the future Potters shuddered.
He was glad for the lack of crowd as he watched the twins whack a bludger between them, and the three chasers racing each other with the quaffle.
"The space helps when you're trying to think." Teddy mumbled.
He could hear Wood barking orders from the rings, and he spotted Harry zipping and zagging this way and that. He smiled and just waited for the practice to end.
"Is…is Leo hanging around just to keep an eye on Harry?" Auggie asked. "I think so." Moody growled.
When it finally did end Leo came down to the pitch. "Have fun?" Leo asked instead of 'How are you holding up?'
"Does Leo always worry this much?" Arcturus asked his future descendants. They looked thoughtful.
"He does have his moments, and he hides it most of the time." Kie eventually said.
"Just be glad that if you make Hufflepuff's team, you won't have to deal with constant training." Harry panted. "Pfft. I'm sure I could fly okay." Leo huffed.
"I would like to see them play." Dorea said.
"You can try out next week with my broom." Harry said holding out his nimbus.
The Potters and Liliana smiled happily.
Leo looked surprised. "You sure?" Leo asked.
"If he makes the team, I'm buying him his own broom." Sirius said with a nod.
"Just don't breathe a word of what you saw to Diggory." Wood shouted with a grimace.
"He always wants a fair fight." Those from the future said.
The three chasers sighed.
"Seriously?" Barty asked.
"What?" Leo asked. "Diggory is the tall and quiet one right?" One girl, Katie Leo thought, sighed.
"Quite a few people I know fit that description." Rose said.
George mimed gagging.
As did all the pranksters.
"Cedric's alright. Plus he wouldn't listen if I wanted to try and tell him. He'd think it's not fair to you guys." Leo said, scratching his cheek.
"That's why he got into Hufflepuff." McGonagall said.
"Need more Slytherins like Diggory." Wood grumbled.
"We might need more like Diggory in the world." Moody said harshly.
"Oi, Harry, mind if we borrow Leo?" Fred asked.
"Oh dear…" McGonagall groaned.
"Bring him back in one piece." Harry said with a wave before heading to the locker rooms. Leo huffed a bit.
"The sign of true friendship." The Marauders snickered.
"So what do you two have planned?" Leo asked.
"Mayhem." The Black twins intoned.
"Well we would like to unite our forces." George said as he wiped sweat from his freckled forehead. "And our targets?" Leo asked. The twins smirked in unison.
"Will Hogwarts still be standing?" Augusta asked. "Who knows?" McGonagall bemoaned.
Dinner came and went with only loud buzzing of excited conversations and not the hushed whispers that Leo had worried.
"Paranoia, paranoia, everybody's coming to get me!" Danny sang badly.
As many students went to sleep Leo was hiding in a corridor near Gryffindor Tower conscious of every small noise in case it was Filch and Mrs. Norris.
"Or Snape, the oversized dungeon bat." James drawled. Lily gave him a withering look that held no effect.
He blinked slowly and his Other Vision took over.
"Living night vision!" Leo's daughters said happily.
There wasn't anything of importance. Just some gray shapes. Suddenly there was a bright red, but small shape scurrying across the floor.
"Wait what?" Many asked.
Leo jumped a bit and stepped away from the red lump. He stepped and stepped and stepped until he walked into someone.
"Please don't be Snape." Sirius prayed.
"Please don't be Filch." James prayed.
"Please don't be Dumbledore." Remus prayed.
What Remus hoped scared everybody.
His vision returned to normal and he spun around. It was George.
Everyone let out a sigh of relief.
Fred was gesturing from the open gap behind the Pink Lady's portrait for them to get in. Leo followed George inside to the common room.
"Sneaky little badger." Lucas said airily.
"We'll go get our stuff." Fred said. The twins snuck up a staircase, leaving Leo alone in the dim common room.
"Must be pretty late." Many hum.
Leo stepped towards the dying fire, and heard the crunch of paper under his trainer. He picked it up and held it to the fire. It was a page from the Daily Prophet.
"Bad news?" Shizuka asked.
ATTACKS & DISSAPPEARANCES CONTINUE
"Definitely bad news." Liliana said in a grave voice.
Another string of attacks take place last reported at Middlesbrough.
Many were injured and in need of extensive care, and
five witches and wizards were killed.
More witches and wizards are being reported as missing.
Many can't help but wonder what is going on, and what on earth the
Aurors are doing to protect us.
Leo turned the page over, feeling dread starting to creep in.
Some silently hoped for good news, like a wedding or a birth.
AZKABAN PRISONER STILL AT LARGE
It has been months and yet there is still no progress
made in the attempt to recapture the crazed
former Death Eater Bartemius Crouch Jr.
Everyone was shocked that his father,
Bartemius Crouch Sr. claimed to have snuck him out of Azkaban.
Despite a trial going underway, Crouch Sr.
has given no indications to his son's whereabouts or intentions.
The trial could still be delayed even longer given Crouch Sr.'s bouts
of what seems to be madness. Whether this is an actual mental collapse,
an attack by his son, or feigning to save face, no one is sure as of now.
If you or anyone you know has seen this wizard do not attempt
to subdue him with magic, he is dangerous and mad, contact the Aurors.
Everyone winced or was stock still in shock. Some dared to sideways glance at Barty. His face betrayed no emotions, but his eyes were sad and hurt.
There was a picture of Crouch Jr. He was young couldn't have been out of Hogwarts for long He had straw colored hair and freckles. Leo figured this was taken when he first entered Azkaban since he kept screaming in the picture.
The room was mournfully quiet and tense. Moody kept an eye on the young Slytherin.
His mind eventually went to Uncle Regulus.
Sirius squeezed his eyes shut.
How many young witches and wizards followed Voldemort? Leo wondered.
"Too many…" Scorpius said lowly.
He was pulled out of his morose thoughts by the twins whispering giggles. Fred hands him a small box, and they lead him out the door.
The corners of Septimus' mouth twitched slightly.
As they snuck down the corridor Leo feels an arm nudge against his. He looked up at George, who gave him a reassuring, albeit trouble making smile. And Leo felt his own smile form as Fred led them to the first part of their big prank.
More people began to smile.
"Uncle George is a big softie." Rose said. Her brothers nodded.
The Marauders were looking at the book in anticipation, wondering what mayhem the Weasley Twins plus Leo can create, and if they need to step up their game.
The next morning Leo went to breakfast and sat next to Neville and Ron. Leo noticed the twins a bit farther down the table and smiled into his goblet of pumpkin juice.
The Maraders were a bit put out with the lack of pranking process information, but smiled nonetheless.
A clattering sound was heard from the High Table, making all eyes swivel up.
All pranksters looked eager to hear what came next.
Snape had dropped his goblet. Leo couldn't help but smirk as something moved around Snape's greasy head, and soon a very large pair of bat ears rested on his head.
The Marauders laughed the hardest; Sirius and James mentioning something about greasy dungeon bats.
The entire Hall erupted in laughter.
The Room of Requirement had just recovered.
Soon Leo felt his body go tingly. His ears itched and when he went to scratch them they were triangular dog ears. He also felt something else, and when he turned to look at his backside, there was a black dog tail over the hem of his pants.
"He takes after you a bit too much." Shizuka jibbed playfully. Sirius just smiled.
"Who else is going to change?" Teddy wondered aloud. Those from the future just shrugged.
Ron yelped a bit as he sported large floppy dog ears and a thin dog tail compared to Leo's fluffier one.
Septimus looked happy nonetheless.
Neville now had the small tail and ears of a bear and his nails were replaced by massive claws.
"I just hope he doesn't hurt himself with those claws." Augusta mumbled. Alice was just imagining how cute her son must look.
Velvela sprouted a fluffy wolf tail and ears to match.
Two Marauders shifted their eyes to a certain werewolf. "Don't even think about it." He said, making the two pout.
Leo wasn't much surprised, and he could feel his tail wagging to and fro.
"Remember when you botched your first attempt of trying to be an animagi and you had a tail for a week?" James asked.
"Shut up." Sirius grumbled with a blush. "You had hooves." James stopped smirking and glowered a bit.
The now better rested Aries had a pair of cat ears, plus the fluffiest tail out of all of them.
Sirius' eye twitched. "He had to be a cat." He grumbled. "Yes, Mr. Black?" Professor McGonagall asked with a stern voice. "Nothing." He mumbled.
"Regulus is more like a cat, personality wise." Narcissa said. Barty nodded. Sirius agreed begrudgingly.
Harry had a small deer tail, deer ears, and…antlers. Leo snorted. Harry was trying to balance his head with the new weight of his three pronged antlers.
"Only three points?" James asked in a pout. "He's thirteen." Liliana said. "He's young and small unlike you mister eight prongs and proud of it." Remus said.
"Am I the only one hoping Dad pokes someone in the eye with those things?" Jamie asked. The pranksters, plus Kie agreed with him.
Dumbledore, who began to sprout bright red feathers, waved his wand in an attempt to stop a vast majority of the student body from turning into animals, but whatever he tried didn't work. If anything it made it worse.
McGonagall looked shocked. "What on earth did they do?" She asked. Everyone was clueless.
Leo felt his nose grow cold and moist and his teeth felt longer and sharper. Several students were gaining more animal features. "Leo, your nose got darker." Luna said, happy with her hare ears and a twitch of her nose.
Xenophilius smiled happily. Humming a small, but merry tune.
"She's a bunny, and some of her best friends are wolves, dogs and bears." Lucius said slowly as if trying to process it.
"Wow, was not expecting this." Leo heard the twins say. Leo turned and saw that they had the tails, and ears of foxes. "Sneaky buggers." Leo mumbled with a smirk.
They snorted and thought 'Of course.'
Aries fluffy tail twitched in annoyance. "What did you three do?" He asked.
"I can only imaging the mobs of girls wanting to pet them." Charlus said in a deadpan.
"What makes you think it was us?" Fred asked. "Yeah, we got fluffier too." George reiterated. "Because I know you three." Aries said. The twins held up their now black hands. Leo snickered.
"Living lie detector." Kie and Danny groaned.
"I am sorry to say, but until this spell can be solved we must all continue our day in our current states." Dumbledore announced softly.
"Oh dear…" Lily muttered.
Several people protested to that.
"I'll bet." Abarax drawled.
Leo heard Draco mutter "Wait 'till my father hears about this." Though he can't blame his cousin for being upset over the ferret bits he now has.
Lucius spluttered and Narcissa looked thoughtful. I do like ferrets… She thought.
Scorpius snickered behind his hand, hoping and failing to disguise it as a cough.
The twins planted themselves by them and chaos began to ensue.
McGonagall groaned into her hands.
Harry got toast stuck on one of his antlers, curtesy of Fred.
James made the 'I'm watching you' movement to his two smirking friends.
George thought it would be funny to put a saucer of milk in front of Aries, and the cat-boy did drink it before playing with a yarn ball Fred threw.
Arcturus raised an eyebrow.
Neville was trying to lick honey off of his face.
Danny was badly humming the theme from Winnie the Pooh.
Luna and Velvela were safe,
"How gentlemanly." Liliana said sarcastically.
but Ron got stuck chasing his tail for a good five minutes (a mysterious chattering teeth toy got attached to Ron's tail).
Sirius winced in sympathy for Ron.
An unchanged Percy came in and helped Ron. "You two shouldn't be so immature."
"Lucky bugger." Auggie said.
Leo thought it was all fun and games until George teased him with the last piece of bacon.
"Boys and their food." Shizuka said with a small shake of her head.
He was still upset that he was still small for his age, and George used his shortness against him. So Leo decided to go to drastic measures.
Sirius had a good feeling of where this was going.
His ears went back, his tail stopped wagging and he looked at George with large, sad eyes.
"Shield your eyes!" Jamie said dramatically. "He's going into cute mode!"
Many of the nearby girls gave heartfelt 'awws.'
"He's only so cute cos he has a beautiful mother." Sirius said unabashedly. Shizuka went bright red.
George stopped waving the bacon around.
Several people looked hopeful.
Fred noticed his twin. "C'mon Georgie, you can do it." He cheered.
"Five Galleons he breaks." Sirius threw out. "You're on." James said, causing the bet to start.
Those who bet George would crack: Sirius, Shizuka, Liliana, Remus, Lucius, and Narcissa.
Those who bet he wouldn't: James, Septimus, Charlus, Barty, Lucas, Lorcan, Scorpius and Danny.
"Nah, only Aries and Harry can withstand the look." Ron retorted as he got some sausage on his plate.
Those who bet were wearing eager faces.
Leo looked up pitifully at George.
"C'mon George!"
"Just give him the bloody food already George!" Percy said loudly.
"Shut up Percy."
His ears picked up George swallowing, and Harry snorting.
"Harry is immune." Liliavati said in a low voice.
Leo didn't pay attention to Aries rolling his eyes or Harry's nonchalance, he was getting that bacon, and self-respect be damned.
Jamie casted his eyes to Sirisha. "What?" She asked. "Nothing. Nothing." He said before looking away.
His lips quivered and he gave a small, miserable whine.
"I can see some Slytherin peeking through him." Arcturus said.
George shielded his eyes with his empty hand and held out the crispy meat strip. "I can't! It's too cute and sad!" The boy yelled.
There was much rumbling and an exchange of coins.
Leo bit the bacon and chewed it with a wag of his tail.
"Did the spell make him more animal like as well?" Moody asked. "Maybe." McGonagall said. "After recent animagi shifting some tendencies stick around for some time.
"Like how Sirius would howl if he was left alone for too long." James snarked. "Or like how James would start to head but things when he got mad." Sirus snarked back. "Idiots." Remus mumbled.
Fred leaned over and flicked Leo on the nose. "Bad ickle thirdie." He said.
"D'you think the twins are more immune since this sounds like one of their products?" Lucas asked in a whisper. "What? You mean Insta-Animal juice?" Lorcan whispered back. Lucas nodded.
Leo dropped the bacon on the plate and gave him the same miserable look and whine.
No one was willing to bet a second time.
Fred let a tense breathe loose but didn't break like George.
"Dammit." Scorpius said, thinking that he missed his chance to win back his five galleons.
Leo looked down at his lap and whimpered.
"Uh oh." Sirisha said.
"OW!" Two voices yelped. Leo looked up and saw Percy grabbing each twin by one of their fox ears.
Several people guffawed.
"Perce!" George whined. "Gerroff!" Fred shouted.
"Got to love having brothers." Liliana said. Several people nodded, but those that were only children were a bit confused.
"Apologize to the 'ickle thirdie'." Percy said in a strict voice. "Sorry, ickle thirdie." The twins intoned.
Some people snickered.
Percy let their ears go. Leo cheered right back up.
"Conniving little bugger." Sirius said playfully.
"Thanks Percy!" He said happily going back to his victory bacon.
"Cheeky." Shizuka muttered with a smile.
"No problem." Percy said, puffing his chest so Leo saw his Head Boy badge.
Septimus looked proud of his grandson.
"Feel free to get back at them." Percy joked before walking away.
"He shouldn't have said that." The twin girls intoned.
"Right on it." Leo said. The twins stopped rubbing their respective ears and looked at Leo. Leo sprang into action. He chased after the twins with loud barks. He eventually got them running out of the Great Hall.
"Fox hunting at Hogwarts." Kie joked with a smirk.
When he swaggered back in, he had George's robe sleeve between his smirking fangs, and Fred's right shoe. When he sat back down he made a chew toy out of the stolen shoe.
"Don't you touch my stuff Pads." Remus and James warned in unison.
"You're a menace." Harry deadpanned.
Almost everyone shifted their eye to Sirius.
Aries just gave him a thumbs up as he shredded the sleeve.
"He's not much better." Batry muttered with a slight frown.
By the time the twins came back each had a sufficient amount of holes in them and the mail came in.
"This'll be an interesting letter to send home." Frank joked.
Leo got a letter from Papa that he decided to read later.
Sirius huffed slightly.
Aries got a letter from Mordred.
"Most likely from Saorise." Arcturus said.
He was about to open it when a random owl dropped a dirty envelope in front of Aries.
Several people looked confused.
Aries quickly opened the grimy envelope and paled when he read the letter. "Aries?" Harry asked. Leo snatched the letter, and read it.
Narcissa looked surprised to say the least.
Dear Aries,
Sorry that I wasn't there when you needed me.
"When did Aries need you, whoever you are?" Shizuka asked.
I wanted to, but I had no idea where you were then.
"Why did you want to know where he was?" Moody growled.
I heard about you in some old newspapers.
"Well this can't be good…" Teddy said, his hair growing three hades darker.
Are you okay? Do you need anything?
"Your name and address would be nice." Barty mumbled with a scowl.
You can tell me anything.
Many people were anxious.
Aries, no matter what you hear, I didn't do it.
But I know who did.
There was no name.
"I DON'T LIKE THIS!" Danny said extremely loudly.
"Are all the boys going to wind up with some freaky stalker!?" James asked. Liliana smacked James in case he just jinxed them. Sirius groaned and rubbed his temples. "I am going to go grey if this keeps up."
Aries was still and unmoving, but even Leo could tell his cousin was terrified.
"Can I just send them to different schools already?" Sirius asked the book. As expected it didn't reply back.
Leo looked down at the smudged paper and had only one thought: Who keeps writing to Aries?
"A fecking creeper." James answered.