Chapter 10 somehow! Quite a short chapter but I thought I should not leave everyone is suspense for too much longer.
Sorry this is so late, but a warning that updates are going to be sporadic as I have a huge piece of research due in a month or so. I have tried to answer as many private messages as possible when I got back from my trip but if I missed some, I apologise, please message me again and I will answer questions etc.
Disclaimer- I own neither Harry Potter nor Twilight.
"I think we are making a big mistake here…Can I at least warn them first, they are a sort of kill first and ask questions later people…? Is anyone listening to me?" Harriet said as she trailed in the wake of a determined group of wizards (and a single other witch).
"No Harriet, no-one is listening to you." Ron said as he marched onward, fists clenched.
"Well that is mean, the one time I actually have good advice and am the expert on something and no-one listens… Hermione…come on, tell them!"
"Nope Harriet. Sorry, we have someone to speak to" came the reply from the bushy haired woman.
"There is no bloody need to defend my damn honour" Harriet moaned, "I haven't even slept with the bloke and…"
"Well that is good then" Remus said, "We can write up a formal marriage contract now." Could vampires even sign a magically binding contract Remus mused, it would be helpful if he could, if he broke it then he would die. Remus smiled malevolently, that would be nice, put in a clause where they couldn't sleep with each other for a year or something...or ever.
"Kingsley!" Harriet meanwhile was trying again, "Come on, please…. Pretty please with a cherry on top and marshmallow decorations. Can we speak about this first, there is no need for marriage contacts nor any other contracts…"
"Sorry Harriet, you are the Woman-Who-Won and we need to ensure you will be treated right, we are your family." The Minister answered.
By this point Harriet had decided everyone had lost their minds, at any rate her feet were sore in the heels so she slowed down a moment to slip them off. By the time she had them off and in her hand, the group of wizards and the single witch were more than fifty metres ahead of her and Harriet resorted to running them down in nothing but her stockings.
"Please...Remus can't go in there at least."
"Oh, and why is that Harriet?" the man in question asked without looking at his adoptive goddaughter
"You are a werewolf...they are vampires...that is basically asking for a fight."
"A fight I would be perfectly happy in involve myself..." Remus muttered to no-one in particular.
"Please..."
"No"
"Please..."
"NO"
By this point, the group had reached the door into the castle which was locked by a code.
"Tell us the code now Harriet." Kingsley said as he palmed his wand, desperately wanting to blast the door open but knowing that that would only draw attention and whilst he could use a spell to unlock the door, it may short circuit the electricity for the whole of the building and again, that wasn't a good idea.
"No..."
Hermione sighed, "It is 639204, she told us in a letter three months ago..."
"Damn" Harriet muttered as she watched the Minister manage to open the door, cursing her own dedication to her reports, if only they hadn't been so professional then they wouldn't have managed to get in.
"Everyone in and on alert, Remus you are to keep an eye on Harriet, Fred and George on the flanks, Severus and I will go point, Hermione and Ron on back up. Make sure everyone has their portkeys in case of an evacuation needed." Kingsley started to walk in the door before he turned and looked back at the group, "Actually, Remus tether Harriet to you, we don't need her wandering off."
Harriet sulked as the Tethering Charm was attached between Remus and herself, the charm was usually needed to prevent young children from wandering away from their parents but for the wizards it now had a useful secondary use, particularly as it could only be removed by the person who spelled it, unless they died, so Harriet couldn't escape nor cause trouble, well any more trouble.
"Can I get something first?" Harriet asked, using one of The Faces aimed at Remus who sighed slightly.
"What do you need Harriet?"
"Treacle Tart. You ran off before I could finish the tarte tatain. Please?"
"Hmmm, let me think about that... No. Now where is this damn leech?"
"Won't tell." Harriet said as she folded her arm.
Hermione though, as ever, had all the answers, "The throne room is down that corridor, down the steps on the left and the double doors on the right."
"How do you know that Hermione?"
"You drew us plans five months ago..."
Wrinkling her nose, Harriet thought back, oh yeah, she did, that was the letter when she also drew sketches of all the vampires, they weren't very appreciated though, she had drawn them caricature style, apparently that wasn't professional. (She drew Heidi in the nude, Afton and Chelsea recreating the Titanic pose, Caius as Nelson, Marcus as Lincoln, Aro as a burlesque dancer, anyway, they weren't appreciated.)
Caius was sitting in the throne room sulking slightly, surrounded by the guard members and his brothers. His dear mate was off shopping (and it wasn't sexy lingerie anyway) and had once again left him rather horny. Fucking hell, Caius mused, he was acting like a teenager in a brothel for the first time or something instead of a two thousand year vampire. Either Harriet was as oblivious and innocent as anything or she enjoyed seeing him in acute pain... He rather doubted his mate was oblivious, innocent or whatever but really? He had literally had to consider whether he should change his trousers as he wasn't sure the stitching around his crotch would hold he was that damn hard. The worst thing was that his dear brother had read his thoughts when they brushed hands and promptly started laughing hysterically. It was a pity that if Aro did disappear someone would notice, Caius mused.
"Why can I hear heartbeats down the hall?" Felix asked suddenly, "There isn't a tour today, in fact there hasn't been a tour for months..."
The door suddenly exploded inwards and all the vampires fell into defensive crouches as the dust cleared, revealing four people.
"WHICH OF YOU IS CAIUS?" a man in some sort of purple robe yelled, clutching a stick in his hand.
"That would be me human." Caius said with disdain, "Why are you here...other than to die of course?"
"You are mated to Harriet and as such we feel the need to threaten you..."
"Where is she?" Caius roared, about to jump at the men.
At that point another man strode in accompanied by a woman with Harriet skipping close behind, "Oh hello Caius...sorry about my friends they are rather overprotective, I told them not to come but it didn't work...Anyway, this is Kingsley, my boss' boss; Remus, my adoptive godfather; Gred, Forge and Ron, my adoptive brothers; Hermione, my BFF (best friend forever for those of you over forty years of age) and Severus, my frenemy (person I love to hate), is somewhere, I am not sure really where though..." Harriet said as she looked around for the man dressed in black.
"Explain my mate" Caius growled, unhappy seeing his mate surrounded by men he didn't know and talking about things he didn't understand.
"Oh sorry!" Harriet said, "See I am a witch and I was sent to spy on you by our government (i.e. Kinglsey). Sevvy was my teacher, Ron and Mione are my bezzies, Gred and Forge my adopted brothers, Remy is my godfather. And I think that is everyone and everything..."
Everyone looked at Harriet who smiled benignly around.
"I think..." Kingsley stated, "More of an explanation is needed. Magic exists and we are evidence of an ancient and secretive society of people who evolved or were blessed with magic. We are rather like you; we have our own government and laws, our own battles and lives. When we discovered your existence we had Harriet come to ensure you were not going to reveal yourselves as well as how your society worked."
"Magic doesn't exist..." Aro frowned.
"Says the vampire..." One of the red headed twins muttered.
"Oh really, proof is needed then...bombarda" Ron said, aiming just above Caius head at the wall which promptly exploded.
Fred and George for some reason took this to be permission to prove that magic existed by throwing as many prank spells as they could at as many vampires as they could. Felix now had an elephant's trunk for a nose, Jane had devil horns and a tail, Alec was hanging upside down from the ceiling and Afton's right leg and swapped with his left.
There were screams, "I have a TAIL"
"GET ME DOWN..." Alec yelled from above them all.
"I can't walk, why have my legs swapped?"
"Mmmirngmeigne" (That was Felix)
"Magic..." Marcus murmured "It exists, we heard whispers a millennia ago but when we found no proof, we dismissed the stories."
One of the twins snorted, "It exists alright and we can kill you all with one spell each."
"But back on track..."
"...You are mated to our sister..."
"...and it is our prerogative as brothers...
"...to ensure she is taken care off..."
"...so we came to check!"
Harriet smirked, it seemed even vampires struggled with the twin talk, she turned back to her mate, "I really am sorry, I didn't think you would be my mate, so you would never find out."
Caius looked at his mate, "Why didn't you tell us?"
"I was going to but I couldn't break our laws... Plus, I wasn't sure how best to tell you that I was a rather recognisable witch..."
There were snorts from many of the wizards, "'Rather recognisable'" Ron guffawed. "Harriet... You speak to low of yourself. Caius mate, Harriet is the most famous witch in Britain and probably Europe. She has defeated a Dark Lord multiple times, killed a basilisk, ended a war in our society twice... You get the idea. I mean her monikers are 'The Girl-Who-Lived' and the 'Woman-Who-Won'..."
Harriet frowned, "Sure, why don't I go spilling all your life secrets to Hermione and see how that goes well. I am sure she would love to know about that time I took you to Hooters... Wait...I think I may have promised to never bring that up again... Hermione, please forget I just said anything about your husband. I am not above using memory charms if necessary... God knows I wish someone had done that for my memories of that day. I mean really..."
"Harriet" Remus singsonged as he saw the bushy haired woman glare at her husband, "We have more important things to consider."
"Oh yeah..." Harriet turned back to her mate, "Anyway, I will explain the whole life story (or just give you the biographies) later. But, most important thing is, we know your secret, you know ours. We can't reveal each other as that reveals ourselves. I think this is going to be the start of a wonderful partnership. Maybe we should start a UN or something for the supernatural communities of the world... Shotgun being President!"
Kingsley groaned, "Right, that is going on the list of things that Harriet is never to be allowed to do or suggest again..." He turned to the three kings, "As a gesture of goodwill we would be willing to have someone show you introduce to our world and community" (Kingsley ignored Harriet's cry of 'Shotgun') "Whilst we understand that you may not trust us (after all we choose Harriet to go undercover) we hope this is the start of a profitable relationship for us all."
There was silence for a moment as the three kings had a whispered conversation at vampire speed.
Aro cleared his throat, "We will consider it, obviously with Harriet as Caius mate we will have a relationship and treaty of sorts, but we would prefer to see how your society is managed, runs, protects and hides itself before we agree to anything..."
"Hate to break up this touching scene that I am sure will be referred to for centuries to come," Alec called out, "But can someone get me down?" Everyone looked up to see the dark haired vampire still stuck to the ceiling.
Kingsley looked at the twins with a single eyebrow raised. Within a few seconds they caved.
"Fine" they said together as with a few flicks of the wand Felix, Afton and Alec were back to normal.
Seeing this Jane yelled out "What about me?"
"No..."
"We are leaving..."
"You like that..."
"It suits you..."
"Truthfully, I can't see a difference..." George finished with a smirk.
Aro was interrupted from whatever he was going to say by Severus Snape, who stalked into the room.
"So have you persuaded these vampires that we are not mad, nor incompetent?" He said enunciating clearly as was his want.
Suddenly a rather familiar phrase resounded through the room, "MINE"
"What is this tomfoolery?" Severus Snape asked as he suddenly found himself pinned by the gaze of a vampire.
"MINE"
"Potter what is happening?"
"Ooohhh" Harriet exclaimed, bouncing on the soles of her feet, "I know, I know"
"MINE"
"POTTER, tell me now."
"Say 'please'"
"MINE"
"POTTER"
"Say 'Please Harriet' and then I will…"
"MINE"
"…please…Harriet" Snape grounded out as though it was physically painful
"See Ron, he actually said my name…"
"MINE"
"Potter"
"Fine…don't get your robes in a twist… anyway… welcome to the family!"
"MINE"
Snape didn't respond for a moment and looked rather ill, "I find my mate, my life mate…and Harriet fucking Potter is part of the coven… Fate, I know I am your bloody chew toy but really this is a step too far…"
"MINE"
"Err…Sev… You need to say that you are his, otherwise they get a bit pissy…"
"MINE"
"Oh, fine…yours then."
"Mine"
"Yours..." Snape repeated then muttered at the end "Are vampires always this stupid when they are territorial? They are worse than Gryffindor's… ugh…" Severus' mumblings were ended as he was pulled to a purring Marcus' chest.
Perhaps now we should examine the responses of the other people in the room, Aro and Caius were grinning as they watched another member of their coven find their mate; Harriet was still bouncing; the vampire Guard all had the eyebrows raised and the other wizards and witches in the room all had their mouths open in shock. There was not any other possible reaction really, this was Severus Snape, the Dungeon Bat.
"Yayyy...an eternity to annoy Sevvy!" Harriet mused out-loud as she bounced on the balls of her feet.
The man in question stiffened before struggling, "NOPE, sorry whatever-your-name-is!" Severus said, "This isn't going to work..." trying to pull away from the embrace of the vampire who wasn't having any of it.
"My name, darling one, is Marcus"
Severus paused his struggles, thinking back to what he knew about the Volturi, "Wait...You are a vampire king? Harriet Potter is my sister-in-law?"
The slight squeak in the Potion Master's last phrase was followed by a certain pair of red headed twins falling to the ground in hysterics. Severus would forever deny (although vampire memory would disagree) that he blushed when Ron, Kingsley and Harriet followed the twins into fits of laughter, only Hermione and Remus remained upright but even they were struggling to contain their mirth.
Dear Miss Potter,
Whilst I am aware that we have not met, I felt that I needed to thank you for sending that incredible video. We really enjoyed watching it (Carlisle and Esme weren't quite so enthused but the rest of us loved it). Anyway. I felt I needed to contact you as I really wanted to speak to you, I thought we could become pen pals of a sort?
Yours sincerely,
Rosalie Hale, Cullen coven
P.S. The Wonder Trio are already complaining and whining... Why couldn't you just kill them?
P.P.S. This is Emmett, I am Rosie's mate. Just wanted to add my sincere appreciation of the insults you employed, please please please come visit, I would love to see Eddie-boy and Alice's face if you did. On a side note your accent is awesome, can you teach me to speak like that? Apparently the English accent is the fifth sexiest accent in the world...I think Rosie may like it in the bedroom. (Don't tell her I said that).
Later that evening when Harriet was lying snuggled up in Caius chest, playing with his hair (she was definitely not putting plaits and beads in it) she shifted slightly to look up into her mate's face.
"Caius?"
"Yes little one?"
"Can we go on holiday?"
"Holiday?" Caius inquired as he looked down at his mate
"Mmmm."
"Where to?"
"America, I have never been..." Harriet said
"Any particular place in America?"
"Well...I heard Washington was lovely at this time of year."
And we end chapter 10, tell me what you think of the meeting between the wizards and the vampires!
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