London's Broken Hearts Chapter 14
In the years when Jackson and Elizabeth had begun school, their adoptive 'parents' were Mr. and Mrs. Lupin, Remus Lupin's mum and dad. They spoiled them and treated them like grandkids, they bought them presents on birthdays and made Jackson come home for Christmas in his first year and made them both come home the following year when Elizabeth started as a first year and her brother a second year. Elizabeth had inherited her mother's blond hair and violet eyes while Jackson grew out of his father's teasing and pranks; he just got the dark hair and male charm-also Sirius's beautiful dark eyes. Jamie and Jodie grew up with some relatives of their mother's, she and her own two kids were the greatest ever but once Jamie and Jodie were finished with school they sought out and found their nephew and niece. Jamie and Jodie often came over to the Lupin's and spent time with them and celebrated the dates in history like birthdays and everything. Jodie and her older sister had joined the Ministry in a department for the Magical Creatures like vampires, dragons, and werewolves, Skrewets, Etc; basically they traveled everywhere around the world and taught other wizards about them and usually brought home a decomposed skull or something or other of a dragon. When Jackson was in his fifth year and Elizabeth in her fourth with Harry, Ron, and Hermione in their third Sirius Black escaped and no one felt comfortable around the brother-sister pair. Only the Lupin's did and even kind Mrs. Weasley tried her best to be kind to them. Harry met them for the first time actually in his third year; Jackson had been sorted into Gryffindor and his sister, Liz into Slytherin.
In Concord Jackie had given up when she heard a rumour that her husband was out of prison; the part that he escaped wasn't in the letterhead. Not even knowing he had been in prison worried her: how long had he been in there? What about their two kids? Did he expect her to come back to London to find him, Jack, and Lizzie? She shook her head her last question and hit her head on the wall of the bar in her booth; she looked over when a man called her by her animal name.
"Cygnus?"
"Moony? what are you doing here?"
"Did you hear about Sirius?" she nodded.
"I'm so happy he's out-."
"He didn't just get out, he got out- Jackie- he escaped." She shook her head and tried to ignore him, hoping he was just a vision that her eyes were playing a trick on her or something. He offered his hand and she took it, he pulled her up and started walking to the door. "We need to find him before he gets caught first or killed."
"Why isn't James or Lily with you, did Harry start school yet?" he turned to her, she stopped and stepped back. "I'm only asking because James hasn't written in over ten years and I'm kind of worried about him," she mumbled. He moved closer to her, his gray hair was scary at his age.
He sighed when she asked how he was, "He died Jackie. Twelve years ago, the last time you saw him was when he came to tell you about his son being born. He died not three weeks after coming here," she shook her head and called him crazy. "James and Lily were killed, Harry barley survived and the Dark Lord was defeated…." He went into how Harry defeated Lord Voldemort at one when the Ministry couldn't. How he grew up without knowing them at all, with Lily's muggle sister. When he said, "Your husband was placed under arrest for James and Lily's murder." Most turned to see who he was talking about. "Jackie you're kids have been with my parents since he was taken but now they'll have a hard year at Hogwarts. I'm teaching there this year-."
"I want to go back with you, I need to find him. Jack and Liz need me there-."
"That Barrier is still up Jacks, you can't. If you get even too close to it, you'll get caught and probably killed-."
"I'll take that risk Remus, Sirius is my husband and our kids are in danger. My nephew is caught in the middle and my sisters- what happened to Jamie and Jodie if James was never there?"
He explained what happened to them and what they do now, "They changed their names from 'Cross' to 'Black' to match yours when you and Sirius married. They've been in contact with their brother-In-Law as well, Sirius is dangerous now Jackie-."
She shook her head and turned to go to her room, but Jager stood up. "Why didn't you tell me you had an actual human life? This Sirius, Jack, and Liz?"
"It was personal and I didn't need you using it against me." she said bitterly. She turned from her Line and back to the human who was giving her worst news a mother and wife could ever hear. "I need to see my kids Remus, Sirius is out there in danger, hurt or possibly even dying. He's your friend, aren't you worried-?"
"Not when he helped to kill James, you're brother, and then Lily-."
"He wouldn't do that and you know that, he'd die for him and Lily-."
"No, he'd die for you, there's a difference there." She shook her head, she knew he'd die for her, but she never actually had someone else say it to her face before just then. "He still loves you and you know that but he's changed, that prison changes people Jackie; he's probably withering away in a dark corner somewhere praying he's dreaming. Before you know it, the Ministry will have found him dead from starvation or he would have been eaten alive by rats-."
"Stop it! I refuse to listen to your ranting on how bad he's got it right now because I know he has it bad in London the hum- muggles are looking for him and everyone will want him dead. I need to get into my city to save him Remus, I'll do it with or without your help," she finished and walked past him to leave but he grabbed her arm she stopped in her tracks. "What?" she asked glancing at him with murder in her eyes. He let her go slowly.
He sighed and took a deep breath, he told her this. "Sirius will try anything to get what he wants, he proved that with you. By everything he ever did for you and your sisters, taking you into his parent's home. If he can break out of an unbreakable prison he'll find a way into our school and when he does, Harry will die- James's son will die- your nephew will be killed by your husband and his own uncle and Godfather. If you find him you have to kill him to save your brother's son's life."
"You're asking me to choose between the only man I've ever loved and my brother's kid?" he nodded, "If I could I would, but I can't. To save a life here, means I have to take one; I won't kill another human unless if I have too Remus. Get back to London and stay away from me." She muttered and left the bar finally.
Jackson and Elizabeth woke up in the first week of August, they shared the couch that night; it was just after nine and they got up and fought over who got the shower first and Liz when Mrs. Lupin said she was there first although the old woman had no idea. Jackson respected her so much he didn't argue; Liz went in and came out an hour later all washed and ready to go and meet the Weasley's at the Leaky Cauldron. Jackson showered with cold water and teased Liz about taking a three-hour shower; she scowled and insisted he took longer ones than her. Mr. Lupin only laughed at the breakfast table as his wife set the breakfast foods down in front of the two teens. At fifteen Jackson grew two inches over the summer and Liz only half a inch, her hair got lighter a little from being inside so much and her brother's got darker from being outside so much. Liz spent a lot of her time in her room writing novel-diaries about her days at the Lupin's for her mother and father when they returned. There wasn't an hour when she didn't write something; except at night when she was asleep, although she sometimes wrote down dreams she's had over the years.
Jackson kept journals too but stopped when he found out he got Carpal Tunnel Syndrome from writing so much. At the moment he piled his plate full of food and ate all of it, Liz grabbed a few pieces of fruit and then two waffles and ate slowly as she wrote describing about her and Jack's fight already that morning about the shower. He laughed at her and she threw a berry at him, which also stained his shirt, Mrs. Lupin and Liz both laughed as Mr. Lupin rolled his eyes and called them all children.
"We are children Mr. Lupin," his wife teased. He chuckled finally and turned back to his newspaper, he frowned when he saw an article about Jackie Black.
"Er, Jack-Lizzie go and get ready okay," they nodded but asked if they could finish eating. "Oh, right, go ahead finish eating and then go and get ready okay?" they nodded again and Lizzie turned back to her 200 page notebook. All in all Liz had written and filled over thirty 200 pagers.
About ten minutes later Jackson and Elizabeth left silently and went upstairs and Mr. Lupin got up and showed his wife the article after he turned back to it.
It was how there was a sighting the night before of the vampire, it had appeared-the article said- that she was trying to find a way back inside the city where vampires haven't stepped foot in, in over a decade. There was a picture but you couldn't see her face.
Jackie and Arubey had gotten into the city when he insisted he wanted to help her and she wouldn't believe him but accepted his help either way. They had used their own magic and broke the spell together. They had taken hands and placed the other one up to the barrier and used their power, energy, and strength to break it and it worked.
Walking down the streets of the city of London for the first time in over thirteen years she wished she had more then two eyes, she wanted to see everything. She turned a complete 360 degrees more then three times. Arubey watched the cars go by and then direct his attention towards her every few seconds; she amused him by how she was acting towards the city she was born in, grew up in, and kill in.
"Right over I used to meet Severus, a friend of mine from school, during the summer. He lives- well lived- that way; I'm not sure if he lives there now though. Arubey look they put up new signs!" looking at everything was her goal apparently, since she was talking about street signs now. He laughed and grabbed her arm as a truck went by, she jumped and frowned slightly. He still had grip on her upper arm when he spoke to her, she turned to him.
"Be careful," he growled. She only nodded and suddenly grabbed his hand and directed him towards an ally, she told him about the human she killed when he tried to kill her in that ally. "You want to remember that kind of memory?" he asked her.
She shrugged, but was still grinning. She turned to him, he pulled his hand out of hers, she didn't even notice. Probably wasn't even aware she had taken his hand in the first place. "Well, it's just been so long. I'm finally home and- thank you for coming with me." she said finally, he could tell she didn't even force herself to say it. Fala or Risika would have. They walked around for almost all day when they finally turned and headed towards her old house, the place was empty and dark, the house next to it was happy and full of life.
Arubey couldn't' help but say it, "Did you really expect them to keep the place." then he added, "It's huge, big enough for Fala even!" he said going around trying to estimate the square footage. She only nodded.
"He wanted bigger, five kids is what he wanted. Could you just imagine me with five mini-me's and mini-Sirius Blacks? I don't think so, of course I did tell him I'd think about it." he frowned and nodded, she hadn't seen him frown, but saw him nod from the corner of her eye. He took her arm loosely and comfortably and walked up to the house; he offered her to go first but she was suddenly afraid. "What's wrong?" he asked her concerned suddenly but then the concern disappeared realizing he was just there for the vault, she was going to go and see, once he convinced her too.
Jacks glanced at him, "What if there's a trap waiting for us, my dead kids or husband, or both! And I hate spiders," she added sheepishly. He laughed amused again; he took her hand and held it in front of her face.
"I have you, I won't let you get hurt."
"Promise?" he shook his head, "Good, I hate promises." She muttered. He wondered if she said that to make him feel better or if that was true. He lowered their hands and opened the door and let himself in. The furniture was gone, those beautiful hard wood floors had been replaced with carpeting that made the house look like a crazy woman lived there alone. Arubey felt her moved closer to him slowly, he looked down at her: her face was sad and like she regretted even wanting to come back to London. He walked in further realizing this was the house where she and her husband lived together… alone… at night. Eighteen and hormonal crazed. Jackie asked if she could go off by herself and he nodded and let her hand go and disappeared to check upstairs. Up there he found the old child's room, there was something on the floor and he swooped down and picked it up. It was a calendar with the dates of birthdays they needed to know, for them, the other family members, the two kids they had together. Arubey recognized her handwriting; it hadn't changed in the last decade. Jackie came past the room and backed up seeing he was in there. He had his back to her but he sensed her, he rolled up the calendar and as he turned her kept it behind him and stuck it in his back pocket of his jeans; he'll have to make sure he's behind her so she won't be able to see the papers.
"Find anything?" she asked hoping he had the answer she was searching for. She sighed and leaned against the doorframe when he shook his head quickly. "I was hoping Sirius left me a note or a letter or at least something."
Arubey knew his time had come to bring it up finally. "Maybe it's in that vault," she looked at him.
"Do you really think so?" she asked going over to him.
He only nodded. Jackie frowned when she saw the wallpaper starting to peel off the carpeting stained with something (they put carpeting in when Jackson was born). The paint was chipped and looked dingy and gross, old crib pieces were in the closet as she went over and looked inside; he turned so she would see the calendar- he didn't even know why he was hiding it from her, he just felt like he needed too.
Jackie led the way into another bedroom, larger, hers. She saw the place where her bed had indented the hard wood when it had been taken out, probably dropped or something; she went over to her closet and found an old sweater and held it against her face. She whispered his name and took it with her, Arubey wished she had never found that sweater and he suddenly realized why he was hiding the calendar: Jackie would go into depression if she found things and found she didn't remember or that those plans were never going to come true. Jackie would realize her human life was gone and her vampric one had taken over at that moment. Jacks brought the sweater with her and held it loosely on her grip so he took it; she turned to him when he reached down and took it.
"Let me hang onto this for now Jackie," he whispered. She nodded and leaned against him as he stood there hoping the sweater, he draped over his shoulder, hid the calendar.
"This is all wrong," she muttered. "I thought Remus would come here and stay here with his parents as they raised Jackson and Elizabeth. I've never even met his mum and dad, I don't know if they're killers or saints…." She went on how she didn't know her best friends very well apparently. The guiltiness swept over him, she needed to see the calendar-
Another thought came to Arubey's head: what if the message was in the calendar? But what if it wasn't and he hurt Jackie Black even more? He shook his hand and lured her from the room and to the stairs. On the walls you could see that there used to be pictures hanging on the wall, he held onto the railing as she walked between him and the old wall. Jackie was silent again and growing depressed with sadness and confusion.
They looked the rest of the house in a swift motion and left as quickly as she wanted too. Outside they met the neighbor in the good-looking house; he was in knee torn jeans, a baggy shirt and his hair was a dark pale red. He wore glasses and had rings on his fingers.
"Hello young," he called happily. Arubey nodded, he frowned. "Guess you didn't like the house did you?" Jackie turned to him. Arubey wanted to pull her away from him, this wouldn't end well; he knew that.
"What do you mean?" Jackie asked him.
"Well for a nice couple like you, you two deserve a better place then that-."
"Jackie maybe we should go-."
"No, we're not together. We're barely friends, he." The old man laughed and put his hand on her shoulder; she pulled away from and bumped into Arubey. She looked back at him then turned to the man, his name was Jared.
He laughed again, "Not together eh?" he mocked kindly, Jackie turned to leave but he grabbed her hand gently and she wanted nothing more then to push him away from her but her old memories kept her from doing so.
"This is the best house I've ever lived in old man," she snapped, he let her go and frowned. He worked for the Ministry; she knew that from his head.
"Jackie, the Ministry has been expecting you." He muttered as a muggle walked by.
"The Ministry of Magic?" she asked loud enough for the muggle to turn around. Jared asked her what her problem was with keeping secrets. "I don't know, what's your problem, with putting my husband in prison for something he didn't do?" she almost yelled. Arubey grabbed her shoulders and just as they disappeared he erased Jared's memory.
He pushed her into the same ally where Travis Gage attacked her years ago, he chose this ally on purpose to pose unto as a new threat. She stared at him; the calendar was hidden well enough where she didn't suspect a thing yet.
He growled, "I know it's hard for you but keep quiet long enough so we can get into the vault to see if there's a message." His had calmed as he spoke, at the end he was speaking with a certain kind of care that a father would use against his misbehaving child. She couldn't help but smile at him, "What?" he was angry again thinking she thought he was playing with her.
Jackie Black née Cross shook her head and took his arm gently as he stepped back. "It's nothing it's just you remind me of my father, I mean of course I killed him, but you still do. My mum never really loved after I was born but she had before I was; you and Jimmy react the same way when threatened. You retreated to this ally because you knew what my past was like in said ally; he went to my room while I was in there because I knew what that usually meant…" he frowned and stepped away he turned and the calendar fell. He froze and waited for her to start screaming. "Oh look, you did find something." She said happily.
He turned; "Oh!" he said realizing he could easily trick her into believing most anything. "Oh," he sighed again when he realized as well that she was going to be easily taken advantage of… by him. He knew she'd care for him as she still loves her children's father, he saw the ring on her finger already. She had found a box in the cellar and found the rings tied together by string, Jackie cried as she undid them and put hers back on her finger remember her wedding day when she became Mrs. Sirius Black. She took out her husband's ring and showed it to him, "He sent me the message already, we don't have to go the vault." He sighed, depressed. "They were tied together, that means he still loves me and I'll find him and we'll be happy again after I've turned him and we'll be together forever as we were meant to be. I can't live knowing he'll grow old and I won't," she whispered, she leaned against the wall and fell down to the ground. She held the man's ring in her closed fist with it to her mouth as if she was sucking the life out of it. Her eyes were closed as she tried to remember what he looked like, his scent after he took a shower; how his face lit up then when he fainted when he was told their baby was going to be born that August. How he cried when she told him about the future Elizabeth. Her mind was open to all of it, Arubey saw how Sirius passed out, how he cried, he celebrated with her by talking to her flat stomach with the tiny them inside of her, how they held their son for the first time and then their daughter. She didn't even know how open she was to him and he hated seeing her happy human memories; it made him even more depressed that he could never find 'happy'.
She stood up finally with her last memory of when she opened her door to be taken away, when she went upstairs to kiss her children good bye for the last time, then go and see her husband for the last time. She was still human and still just as beautiful…. He turned away from her refusing the thoughts he was being forced to think by his head. He refused them.
She came over and touched his shoulder, "Thanks for finding the calendar Arubey." She said, "Come on we should find the Cauldron, maybe this isn't the only message." He turned to her amused that she was still going to the vault; he asked if that was where she was going next. She nodded, "Yes, your right, maybe he put something else there as well, the only place where I can get too-."
"More personal." He whispered. She flipped through the pages of the calendar and remembered the dates she read; she realized something for the first time in years…
…She looked up at him as she they started to leave the ally; he asked her what was wrong. "Nothing," she paused, he was unconvinced. "It's just even after knowing Sirius for more than half my life, I still don't know when he birthday was- or is." He grinned at her.
"Mine would be August 11th 3053 if that helps you." She laughed at his remark.
"I do appreciate you trying to help but I doubt he was born in 3053 with you," she laughed still as they left the ally together.
They walked to the center of London, she held the calendar tightly in her grasp afraid if she let it go, and the large papers would fly away from her forever. He liked how she protected things that didn't need protecting. He felt he could find love with her.
He watched her carefully as she began looking everywhere again, at night the city was beautiful, she said that often even if she was in the middle of saying something.
Jackson and Elizabeth thought it best if they stayed together the first night without the Lupins; honestly they were afraid the Ministry would arrest them and take them to Azkaban. They hoped that they would be rescued or that Albus Dumbledore would save them in time. Jack looked behind at his sister as she lay trying to fall asleep with the light on.
"Are you worried Jacky?" she asked him, she only called him that when she was worried or scared.
"Harry swears he saw a bear-dog the night he left. I talked to him when he asked me questions about dad and mum. I answered the best I could."
She sat up on her elbow; her hair fell in a waterfall to her left. "You told him the truth-?"
He turned around so sharply she had to stop, "Of course Lizzie, he deserves it as much as us; probably more. He hasn't any parents, we still do." He whispered, "James was an great Uncle from what I remember of him." he whispered.
"You were two, Jacky," she sighed and lies back down and fell asleep as soon as she shut off the light. He wondered why she was still worried as he fell asleep; she knew something he didn't, he could tell from the way she slept: she snored a little.
Jackie and Arubey spent the night back in Concord and found that the barrier had not been put back up during the night. She refused to accept he wanted to come back; it took him an hour to convince her that he did. She sighed and gave and up said they'd be late if they held if off any longer; he agreed and left with her, Jager shook his head and Fala scowled.
Back in London the early afternoon was warm and still cloudy; the wizards and witches knew dark magic had to be behind it. Vampires were close and prowling.
A block away from the Leaky Cauldron, Jackie stopped as she recognized the door the led into her world, she whispered they just had to get to that door go through and open the other door into Diagon Ally. He nodded and pushed her gently, she glanced at him.
"Come on, Jackie, no one special is in there. Let's go," she nodded and smiled up at him but still didn't move, he stopped and went back to her. "What is it?"
"You." She whispered, he was taken aback. "Why are you helping me?" she asked kindly with a smile that could make ice melt.
He frowned, "Because I have nothing better to do." Because I think I want to be with you, he thought. She smiled and nodded.
"Well, either way, thank you for coming with me. If I were alone I would be too afraid to go in there alone," she muttered ashamed. He chuckled and went right to her, he kissed her lips gently. He stepped back suddenly, he turned on his heel and she hurried to catch up. "Why did you-?"
"Drop it," he rejoined and she didn't say anything else pertaining to his kissing her like that. She said nothing and he stopped realizing he forgot where to go, "You go first, this is your world, not mine." He mouthed, he couldn't find his voice. She only nodded and went into the pub just three doors down from where he had stopped; he grabbed onto her shirt from behind worried he'd get lost or something but saw it was half full with a older man behind a bar. It was pub and an Inn.
They both saw a large family with three daughters and almost twice as many sons, most was red headed and one daughter had curly blond hair with light eyes. She sat to her older brother with darker hair. A boy with green eyes and a scar on his head looked up but didn't say anything about them as they looked around. To him, they looked like seventh years, Jackie figured. There was bushy dark brown haired girl with a bossy voice and the remaining daughter of the family only listened to them talking.
"Harry, when do you think we'll be leaving on the first?" she asked him, he shrugged and looked down an Arthur Weasley. Jackie Black knew him and Molly, his wife; she felt jealous, they had an amazing family, large, happy and all behaving better then she would have with all those siblings. But as she turned away from them, Tom the Innkeeper pointed at her suddenly then looked at Arubey.
"You and your kind aren't welcome here, get out!" he almost yelled, "I'll get the Ministry over here before you can walk out!" he threatened making the entire place go numb because they all knew what he was talking about. Arthur and Molly looked down the large over sized table with their children at it.
"We don't want trouble human we just want to get through to- what is it called again?" he whispered she told him. "Yeah, into the Diagon Ally." He finished, the girl with blond hair smiled and tried to keep from laughing. Jackie looked at her and the boy with the scar who was next to her; she turned back to Tom.
"Tom, we're here only to find out what's changed; I swear we're not here to hurt or kill anybody-."
"That's what they always say, before you know… there'll be three dozen dead wizards in my pub!" he snapped, he glanced at Arthur Weasley for help.
"Vampires, if you leave we won't call for the Ministry." He promised.
"Arthur I know you're good at keeping your word, but I just want to know what's changed."
"Jackie." The blond and the boy on her other side opposite the boy with scar, said this together. She frowned as she looked at them again then turned back to Arthur; she didn't dare step closer.
Molly stepped in front of her kids, "Molly I swear I'm not here to hurt anyone just to see the changes. It's been so long-."
"It was meant to last forever, get out before someone gets hurt."
Jackie turned to Arubey; he shook his head when he guessed what she was thinking. "No, we've come too far, what about the second message."
"What message?"
"I went home, I found-."
"It's none of their concern." Arubey interrupted, Jackie sighed and said nothing else. He grabbed her and turned to leave, he admitted to himself that there were too many magics around.
"Jackie!" the blond girl stood up, Arubey and Jackie stopped at the sound her small fragile voice.
"Laney," Arthur was trying to hide who she really was from the vampress and vampire. Elizabeth Black glanced back at him and hurried over to her mother, she just stared at the girl with bamboozlement as she approached them.
"What did you find at your old home?" she asked her curiously.
She looked at Arubey for permission to tell her, he nodded. "A calendar with my children's birthdays, other birthdays and anniversaries and things. In my basement I found my ring that Sirius gave me the day we got married when we eighteen, they were tied together…" Arubey grabbed her arm and started to pull her out the door. "Wait, who are you?" she called he dragged her out Lizzie turned back to Jackson; he got up and hurried over as she started to cry a little. He held her tightly in his arms for a moment then walked her back to her seat.
"That was our mother Jack! She's alive!" she cried happily, Molly and Arthur glanced at each other as they sat back down. Harry looked around the pub, a few other men were grinning at each other as they had watched the vampires leave the room. He just saw his parent's killer, well the woman who married him. He just had no idea that he just saw his Aunt. Harry Potter tried not to listen to Liz and Jack as they planned on going and trying to find their mother.
Arthur stopped them from discussing it, "You two are staying here."
"Why did you call me 'Laney'? That isn't a nickname." Lizzie asked him, he said nothing.
"But Mr. Weasley," Jackson stated. "That was our mum, she wasn't here to kill anyone, and she wouldn't have anyway. She still… can love-."
"She's a vampire, those things don't love." Mrs. Weasley said without the control to stop. She sat back in her chair and tried to breathe again as went through the last ten minutes in her head over and over again.
"She loves us." Harry looked across the table at his best friend, Ron. He glanced at Jack as he hung his head. Hermione looked up at Lizzie.
"I know, I believe you Elizabeth." Everyone stared at her, Lizzie got up and went over and hugged her and went upstairs.
"Liz!" her brother yelled after her as he tipped the chair over as he jumped up, "Please don't be doing something stupid." He begged as he climbed the stairs, Harry and Ron got up and went to see what Lizzie was doing. They came back down because Lizzie was just writing in her journal. An hour later she'll complain that her wrist hurt.
At dinner Jackie and Arubey re-entered the pub invisible but Nickolas and Christopher were able to sense them to know they're precise location. They sat near by to the brothers and watched the wizard family as they climbed down the stairs for dinner.
"There's too many, I can't read all their minds." Chris complained.
"Then don't, nosey git." Jackie muttered, Arubey smiled inside and frowned when Christopher turned right to him. "Don't look directly at us Christopher, they'll figure it out," Jackie hissed. He hurried and turned back to the way he was before he turned and muttered.
"So, Arubey. I heard you kissed Jackie." The other three froze. Nickolas asked where he heard that from, "I saw it in Jackie's head, it was open and I went in." Jackie sighed and growled, "Something you wanna tell us?" he mocked. Arubey hit the back of his head hard enough to make a human black-out for several hours.
Harry and Lizzie looked up a man with black hair and dark eye began rubbing the back of his head, Lizzie read his lips and quoted that someone named Arubey hit him.
Jackson turned to his sister, "Stop reading lips, it's rude." He told her. Elizabeth has spent most of her life to become something different, she found that she had a gift for reading lips without even trying real hard. Jackson has a gift as well and it's to bring books to life; once when he was five he was reading a children book about a swan and a swan appeared before him when he said the last word. He remembers yelling and screaming there was a monster in his room; the swan had also freaked out and attacked him, he suffered from fear of swans, a broken left arm, and a few scars were left behind on his neck. Mr. Lupin captured the bird and released it back into the wild at a reserve in the London Zoo; that's somewhat the wild he figured…. Lizzie cried herself to sleep while she slept in Jackson's room with at the hospital. Jackson kept that memory to himself; he never loved his sister more then that day when she refused to go home. Course he knew that she was trying to be a hero by staying with him, but failed when she screamed at a nurse who tried to take him away for examination.
Jackson smiled at himself as he remembered that and Lizzie looked at him, "What are you smirking at?"
"Nothing, just a particular swan story." Elizabeth smiled; he put her arm around his neck and kissed his cheek. "That bird better not come near us again, we'll cook the damned thing-."
"Language," Arthur warned.
Jackie looked back at the little blond girl, she was small for her age; she ate healthy enough to be tried as an adult. She saw her try to get two red-headed twin boys to take corn. They finally gave up and took some from her; she gloated for a moment. They look so happy, she thought. Why does she look so familiar? And him? She asked herself in her head, the older boy, maybe a fifth or sixth year, looked just like someone she knew.
She could never know why it bothered her so much, they seemed like she knew them all their lives and yet she hasn't. She shook her head and looked at Arubey, "You wanna kiss him back Jackie?" this time Jackie took the back of his chair and flipped it over making his feet go over his head and tumbling into the wall right behind him.
"Now why'd you do that?" Nickolas yelled looking at Jackie, she smiled. The entire room thought him crazy for talking to himself. He growled and left, Christopher stayed.
"I think Arubey did that," Elizabeth said. She remember him from a few hours ago, he was handsome, dark hair and eyes, not her father. She knew he was a vampire but didn't know how he could become invisible. Arubey had looked over when he heard his name being said by the blond daughter, he read her head and realized who she was. He didn't tell Jackie and wouldn't.
"You really that pissed off that I kissed you?" he mumbled moving his chair towards her, she watched him with disapproving eyes and he knew that she does but also didn't care.
"No, I was just concerned if you were under a spell or something. We don't really like each other, now do we?" she asked, he grumbled something to himself and turned away.
He turned back to her just as the door opened and the Minister of Magic came into the pub, it took a moment for everyone to go completely quiet. Fudge went over to Arthur and Molly Weasley and handed them something. "I have been given permission to take them-."
"They're just children, Minister Fudge."
"They're dangerous Molly," he commented. Jackie stood up but Arubey grabbed her arm and pulled back down, she had stumbled and fell into his lap; he put his arm around her lower back…. She didn't even hear the rest of his speech…Arubey forced his mouth on hers again.
They pulled away finally when three former Death Eaters entered the pub; Jackie sensed their hatred and darkness in their hearts and turned away from Arubey. He didn't want her to go but they stood up still invisible.
"We've been hearing fantastic things about you," they said looking at the fifth year boy the one on the blonde's left. "Come with us now, you'll be safe-."
"Yeah right," Jackie whispered his in his ear. He whipped around, everyone stared. "They are children, go home and stay away from here for the rest of your life." She whispered her orders in his ear. He turned to leave but his friend stopped him. Jackie saw he had his wand already in his hand, so where the other two. DE1 and DE2 and DE3 were all grinning for nothing suddenly. Jackie didn't recognize any of them which meant they joined Voldemort after she left the city, not long after though; they still seemed young.
Jackson stood up, "You've been mistaken, the Minister is right there," he said with confused eyes. Why would they do this right in front of him? They all turned to look at the leader of their world and turned back but raised their wand hands.
Jackie intervened and pushed on so he fell into the two, "What was that?" everyone seemed to be asking. Christopher got up and went to leave, he hated fighting and he knew he'd have to help. DE2 turned to him and pointed his wand at him but Arubey appeared and grabbed his neck and pulled him out of the way of the spell.
"I told you it was Arubey," Jackie heard the girl Arthur called Laney, she said that. Laney stood up and went to stand behind the boy with the scar on his forehead. "Don't worry, underage wizards can use magic if it's an emergency, life or death situations." She told him, he looked up at her and she was smiling.
"Get out," Arubey told him and his colleagues, they laughed and pointed their wands at him. Jackie kicked their feet out from under them and they fell on their faces.
"I'd listen to him," she whispered enough for him to hear.
"Christopher go back and get Durza, he's hungry I think anyway." Arubey told him, he disappeared and the Minister asked why he didn't make a 'pop' noise. Dark Lines disappear in a cloud of cloudy misty-smoke, kind of like what Dracula does when he disappears.
"You vampire!" the Minister yelled, "I will not have blood spilled on magic soil." Jackie appeared right beside him, he jumped and yelled. He hadn't seen her in person, in years.
"We're not on soil; it's called hard wood floors." Jackie told him.
Authors Note: I know this chapter is kind of long and the title sucks, but I couldn't think of anything else to call it so I guess we'll have to deal with it. Thanks you everyone for reading!