The Twins

The months passed since Raven had found out he was a wizard and Jay had convinced him to go to the boarding school. Raven preferred not to think of it too much it gave him a strange gnawing, twisting sensation in his gut. As the weather went from thundery in June then a cold, wet start to July which had all the street kids shivering and trying to keep undercover and earn food at the same time. Raven found he had to ferry mysterious packages for Laiken (nobody knew his first name) who had taken over from Morpheus. Laiken was originally from Glasgow but after angering someone worse than even him he'd left for London. Then as it warmed up and became hot and dry with a day of storms towards the end of the month. Then there was a wonderful warm and dry month in August allowing the street kids to take off their near permanent coats in the day. This warm morning Raven who had his coat in his bag was wearing old scruffy black t-shirt and was looking around for some food when Jay came bouncing up to him looking like someone had wound a spring and let it go. Raven just looked at the hyper sixteen year old for a second before the older boy calmed down smiling sheepishly. Raven presumed this meant he was ready to tell Raven what ever had him so excited. He was certainly a weird street kid. Raven didn't think he'd fully accepted the fact that he was a home kid.

'You know you're not much of a street kid,' Raven said amused.

'Do you know what day it is?' demanded the older boy.

'A warm summer day,' Raven rolled his eyes.

'September the first,' grinned Jay, 'your starting school.'

Raven groaned, 'oh no.'

'Come on I'll walk you to the station,' Jay took dragged the younger boy before he could chicken out.

At Raven's response Jay wondered if the kid would be in Gryffindor the House of the Brave. He was a Potter after all and all Potters since well ever. Actually Godric Gryffindor's only daughter, Galina Gryffindor, had married into the Potter family via Emery Potter. But Raven's life had caused some very Slytherin, Jay scowled, traits to come out. And it wasn't like was unheard of for a family of one house to have a child of a completely different house. But he kept his thoughts to himself he didn't know how to tell Raven just yet the truth about his past which was so many years ago now, technically. Raven seemed very tense and when they were attacked around the corner he snarled and threw himself on the teenager with a knife. The two circled each other snarling feral again. Jay shivered as Raven plunged a knife into the teen's stomach and walked off. Jay couldn't help but stare at the body as Raven just wiped the blood off on his shirt. After that Raven seemed a lot calmer; it seemed he'd taken the stress out on the teenager.

'Yeh'll git used tae it. Yeh'll have tae i' yeh wanna suviv' out here,' Raven said suddenly.

'It's just,' he hesitated. 'Doesn't it bother you?'

Raven shrugged, 'I bin on da streets since I wiz fir I don' noe any diffren',' Raven shrugged.

Jay nodded and the two boys were soon in King's Cross it had changed since the last time he'd been here. But then again that wasn't exactly yesterday. Jay was worried that Raven wouldn't know where the Platform was and that would be awkaward explaining how he seemingly a Muggle knew where a wizard platform was. But apparently he wasn't the only one with secrets because the last Potter evidently knew exactly where it was because he was walking purposefully to platforms nine and ten. Jay decided he wouldn't go through with the boy. It wouldn't do to have anybody recognize him. They fell in behind a red haired family that Jay was sure was the Weasleys, or maybe the Prewetts until he recognized the mother. She'd changed a lot since the last time he'd saw her but she was definitely Molly Weasley. He pulled Raven aside before he could run into the Weasley matriarch that would be complicated in a half. He knew Raven wouldn't appreciate a hug so he just smiled happily at the preteen hoping he'd fall in with the Weasleys. They'd look after him.

'Good luck,' grinned Jay.

'I'm gonna need it,' Raven muttered mutinously.

Jay just rolled his eyes and left the younger boy to it. Raven entered after the familiar red haired family that he remembered from when he'd last been here at the tender age of five. He'd only been on the streets for less than three months. And now he had been on the streets more than six years and now he was leaving it. Raven shuddered. He wasn't ashamed to admit he was afraid of the unknown that would be waiting for him at the other side of the platform – well not in the sanctuary of his own head at least. The red haired family passed through. He wondered where the father and older two boys were since they weren't with the majority of the family. After he was through he found an empty carriage and looked around whilst everyone else had trunks of things Raven had nought but a rucksack, a jacket and whatever else was in his pockets. He swung his bag up just as a couple of the red heads came up to see him; the twins. Their older glasses wearing brother was glaring at them warningly.

'Hey travelling light I see,' one started.

'Wish mum and dad,' another continued.

'Would let us,' the other continued.

'Do that,' the first continued and then they both grinned a very Jay like grin.

'How'd yeh fucking talk like that?' grumbled Raven quietly impressed with them.

'Don't let mum,' began the first.

'Hear you talking,' the second added.

'Like that,' the other continued.

'She'll wash your mouth out,' added the second.

'With soap,' added the first.

'Though looking at you,' the second one inspected the boy's grubby face.

'You could certainly,' the first one continued.

'Do with,' the second one added.

'A bit of,' added the first.

'Soap,' completed the second.

'Gee thanks,' grumbled Raven trying not to show that he found them funny, 'if your finished insulting me,' he turned to leave.

'What's your name?' asked Fred suddenly.

'Raven,' shrugged Raven.

'Cool,' they said together. 'We're,' one the first one indicated to himself, 'Fred,' and said his name, 'and George,' the other one said.

'Do you fucking have to fucking talk like that your making my fucking head hurt,' grumbled Raven.

'Oh someone got up on the wrong side of the bed,' laughed George.

Raven winced not wanting to say wrong side of the pavement as he didn't particularly want the teenagers to know he was homeless. They may not have had the best clothes compared to some of the other families but they dressed decently. And the twins looked like they could afford to wash unlike homeless Raven. That was when their mother came to see what the twins were up to. She inspected the preteen taking out a handkerchief and furiously scrubbing at the stubborn dirt. Raven didn't like this. And he knew that she'd never be able to scrub a lifetime of dirt off him. Because even before he had lived on the streets when he lived with the Dursleys he would only ever got cleaned when Aunt Petunia was sick of him stinking the house up as she liked to put it. And then she took him out the back garden and hosed him down like a dog in the dead of night first checking none of the neighbours were awake. She was so paranoid about letting people know she housed what a freak. Suddenly she stopped and gasped so did the other red heads all gaping at his forehead. Okay he knew that he had a pretty manky scar but still no one on the streets cared. Mainly because everyone on the streets had scars from gang fights, abuse of one kind of the other and usual wear and tear you got from living on the streets. But these people were gazing up at his scare in absolute awe.

'Harry Potter,' squeaked the little girl in surprise.

'What's it tae yeh,' snapped Raven.

'You told us,' Fred began.

'That you were called,' George continued.

'Raven,' the two finished together.

'That's what people call me,' retorted Raven.

'It's just his nickname,' the oldest red head boy spoke up, 'hello my name is Percy Weasley it's very nice to meet you.'

Raven stared at the boy. Was he for real? Did people really talk like that? What a fucking ponce. To further this impression on the street kid he held out his hand; without spitting on it. Raven stared at it and unlike the time he first met Goldie he knew exactly what to do with it. Raven just rolled his eyes and shook his hand. When some of the dirt and grime and blood and whatever else Raven had managed to pick up over the year rubbed off on Percy's hand. Percy grimaced and tried to indiscreetly wipe his hand on a white hanky. But it seemed that Percy Weasley didn't know the meaning of indiscrete. Raven smirked at the glasses wearing ponce and the red haired boy blushed as the twins laughed and the little red haired girl giggled whilst the youngest red headed boy who seemed almost as tall as Fred and George smirked without malice unlike Raven. The mother began to once again dust Raven down again.

'What have you been doing to get into such a mess, honestly boys? Ron's the same just look at his nose,' the woman shook her head.

As he knew the first three red headed boys' names as Percy, Fred and George, Ron evidently was the youngest one and glared at his mother for what he perceived as an insult. Raven didn't find anything insulting about being called mucky after all he was a street kid he'd always been grubby. The twins once again smirked obviously finding their brother's discomfort hilarious. Raven thought that he had a similar sense of humour to the twins and liked them. Ron he wasn't too sure about seemed too sensitive and Percy was a ponce. Ginny he had no idea about. Ginny giggled too; well she couldn't be too bad she had a sense of humour at least. Raven let the matter drop not feeling like explaining his home situation or lack thereof to this group of well cared for children and over protective woman. Evidently the woman didn't expect any answer as she just continued to attempt to dust Raven down with the hanky much to Raven's growing annoyance. He could feel the temper that had been born due to his life on the streets growing. Well that's where he presumed he'd got it because everyone on the streets had pretty foul tempers. Well except from Jay but that was just Jay. Raven had no idea how he'd survived as long as he had. Raven knew it was only a matter of seconds before he lashed out at something or someone namely the interfering woman. And did something incredibly stupid, for example, stab the annoying woman in full view of everyone. Couldn't she tell that he didn't like this? She wasn't his mother! She had no right to do this! He hadn't let another adult this near since his abusive relatives abandoned him. And he certainly didn't want another maternal figure after his mother had been an abandoning bitch who hadn't bothered to check she was okay at his aunt and uncles! Or even if he was still there! Finally having enough he wrenched himself out of the woman's ministrations feeling cleaner than he'd ever felt and that wasn't a sensation he particularly liked. Muck acted as a good sun scream.

'For fuck's sake woman can' yeh see I'm hippy da way I am,' he snarled and flung himself into his carriage.

He saw Percy's reproving look and knew that was someone to watch out for. He saw Ron's look of shock and disbelief. He saw the twins look of adoration and knew he had earned himself some allies. He refused to call them friends. He wouldn't let himself trust people that could get hurt only too easily. Caring about people put too much power in someone else hands. He knew deep down he did care about people like Jay and Lex but he refused to acknowledge it. Ginny had a soppy expression on his face that he'd seen some of the older girls wear for some of the older boys. Please don't tell Raven that a girl had a crush on him! He couldn't help but watch as Percy rushed off to get changed. The twins rushed off to meet their dreadlocked friend with a white box. Percy, Fred, George, their friend and Ron entered the train as it was leaving. Ginny and her mother waved them off with Ginny sobbing. Raven rolled his eyes what a whiney wimp honestly she'd see them again. It's not like they were dying or anything!

Okay that's Raven's introduction to the twins. I like Ron but his self confidence issues and Raven's brashness were always going to clash in this fic so I don't think they'd be friends. And Mrs Weasley is too overbearing whilst Harry's very independent. Plus I just love Fred and George. Next up: Raven's going to learn the truth about his past, the heritage of the scar and meet Malfoy and Hermione. Please review.