February 7, 1974

Lily came before breakfast, waking me up at the insane hour of eight o' clock in the morning, bringing me paints, a few more books, some pens, paper, and a stack of well hidden cookies, several notes from various people in the Gryffindor Tower and candy. Sirius, James, Lina, Emma, Peter, and Remus came half an hour until 9, when classes started, bringing some toast and their bags to visit me before classes.

We all chatted until Pomfrey shooed everyone out of the room, giving Lily a note to give to all of Sirius's teachers explaining where he was and why he needed to be there.

Madam Pomfrey then took away the candy, saying that I could have it back when I told her why I thought I was blacking out, what was wrong with me and why I wasn't sleeping. To which Sirius looked alarmed and then proceeded to ask, "Why the hell am I here?"

"Language Black," replied Poppy. "And you're here because otherwise I will go mad from overexposure to that girl!"

"Then why is she still here?"

"Because she still isn't better!"

"THEN I'M GOING TO SPEND THE REST OF MY LIFE IN THE HOSPITAL WING AREN'T I?" I yelled, jerking both of the attentions back to me. I then added, quite wittily if I must say, "Anyway, aren't you the person who's supposed to be able to whip out their wand and tell me these things?"

She then said, "I can't do that, I don't know what tests to run. I've never seen a case like yours. I need to observe you. And all I've observed so far is that you're quite mad and just want to get out of here."

"You've got that right," was my only reply and she left that green stuff and went away to tend to an already hurt first year, who somehow got hurt in History of Magic.

Love,

Jen

Later:

Sirius was forced to leave for lunch, and so far, today, I haven't caused much of a ruckus. Madam Pomfrey actually let me off my bed for a good two hours midmorning, when she had so many patients from the first year class of Defense Against the Dark Arts. When asked what they were studying they all replied quite happily, "Pixies that hit you if you try and get them in their cages!" I could tell Madam Pomfrey was going to go mad as she worked her way down the line, so I called out to her, "I can entertain them."

She didn't even really blink as she shot the unbinding spell on me and I sat down on the end of my bed and gathered the first years around, so she could get to them all easily and still keep an eye on me. Sirius sat on the bed next to me, his silver eyes never leaving my face and hair.

Before I had even started one of them asked, he was a little thing with unruly black hair and a very bloody nose as well as a few scratches that decorated his cheeks, "Why were you spelled to the bed?"

I laughed, answering, "Because I am secretly a vampire, and I was holding she was holding me back from biting my friend here, Sirius."

"Is he very serious?" asked one of the girls, a pretty one with brown hair.

"Oh heavens no," I answered, smiling.

"Are you two friends?" shouted a young red haired boy.

"Yes," cut in Sirius, joining me on my bed and throwing an arm around me. "We're really good friends, that's why she suffers from problems concerning her fangs and my lovely neck." He made a gesture, showing off his tanish neck.

"Aren't you two the beaters on the Quidditch team?" asked one of the taller first years, a boy with golden hair and eyes. "And you play during the day. I thought vampires weren't supposed to be able to go out in day light." Madam Pomfrey was smiling as she fixed up one of the many students. I could tell she was taking her time, knowing that I could probably, by this time, after reading the Defense Against the Dark Arts books three times already, within the time of me being in the Hospital Wing, could probably deliver a safer lesson than what they had all come from.

"See, that's where the stories are true, except, I'm special," I said, grabbing my wand and pointing it at the flower pot next to my bed. "Vampires don't use magic, but I can." The pot turned into a pelican and started gawking at the first years. The boy who had come in yesterday with his friend smiled and poked at his friend and pointed at the pelican.

"I thought they weren't able to go in the sun," repeated the blonde boy, his eyebrows furrowing.

"Oh that's where she gets really clever," said Sirius, his face becoming animated. "She puts this spell on herself, and she knows this stuff because she's like a bajillion years old."

The first years eyes were wide. I frowned, overacting.

"I'm not a bajillion years old. You don't give away a lady's age."

"You hardly count as a Lady," he answered, turning fully towards me and grinning that lopsided grin of his.

"I think I do. You must know that I am in fact, the Lady Helga who helped the founders establish the school," I retorted, crossing my arms, knowing fully well that Lady Helga had lived in the 7th century, not the 6th, when Hogwarts was roughly built. But no one pays attention in History of Magic, and Binns only mentions it once in second year when he covers the beginning of Hogwarts.

"I did know that," he retorted, still smirking. "But if anyone has seen how well you prank, they would know that that is only a title."

I narrowed my eyes, "Do you know how much I want to bite you?" I asked, twitching my wand and enlarging my canines, and turning my eyes red. (As I said, I've had too many nights without sleep and too long in the Hospital Wing, doing nothing, and summer is great time to get caught up on spells. I also admit to slightly muttering spells under my breath, but I'm getting to nonverbal, just you wait.)

For a second he looked actually freaked out and his eyes seemed to say, 'I didn't know you were a real vampire, and oh Merlin I hope you're just really good at magic.'

The first years didn't seem to be breathing as Madam Pomfrey made her way through them, having gotten about halfway through the twenty that were there.

Sirius looked into my eyes for a second before I blinked, willing myself to go closer to him and, so he was in front of me and the small class of first years could see perfectly well, I latched my mouth onto his neck, my eyes wide open, so I could watch the reaction of the first years.

I heard Sirius moan softly, and knew somehow that his eyes were closed. When just at that moment, the bell rung, marking the end of the last class before lunch.

Madam Pomfrey straightened, having finished and walked briskly over to the two of us and pulled me off of Sirius, staring at the two of us with as much wonder as the first years.

"You can leave now, all of you. Sirius, stay here, I need to look at those bite marks…" she trailed off, keeping one hand on my shoulder and using the other to shoo the first years out of the Hospital Wing. I made a 'vampire' face at them as they left, and it helped to get them out of the Hospital Wing.

When they were gone she released me, scowling. "What were you thinking Jenica? Now there will be a rumor that we have a vampire in the school."

"But I'm a nice vampire," I said.

"That just bit her friend," she pointed out, pointing at Sirius who was absent-mindedly rubbing his neck, where there were two indents and a bit of blood oozing out of them. He was staring into space, slightly smiling. (I hadn't actually drunk the blood, just in case you forgot. That would be gross and totally stupid.)

"I didn't mind," Sirius said dreamily.

"Did you jinx him too?" she asked in wonder, pointing her wand at Sirius's neck, healing the wounds and shooing him off the bed and putting me back. "Merlin Jenica…"

Sirius seemed to have been knocked back into reality since he said, "I told you, she's a killer pranker." Before Poppy made him go down to the Great Hall to eat lunch.

She muttered to me before giving me more of that green stuff, "And you said he wasn't your boyfriend."

I have no idea what she's talking about. But in all honesty I don't care. He was just helping me with entertaining the first years.

Jen

Later:

Sirius came back after lunch and we decided to read some of the cards that Lily had brought that morning. I've included them in here.

Jen-

I hope you get well soon, the team is really suffering. Please don't stay in there too long,

Love,

Olivia Patil

Jenica Potter-

You're really funny. You should get well soon.

-Peter Van Godson

Who the heck is he?

Jen-

I REALLY WANT YOU TO GET BETTER SOON, OKAY? YOU MUST OBEY MY ORDERS.

-Alice F

Jenica,

My dear friend, even though you may be on the threshold of death, you are not permitted to pass through that doorway.

-Emma

P.S. I might have accidentally told Sirius that you were going to die. It was funny to watch, come on.

Jen-

Get better soon for the match. We're still going to win, but I can't feel good about beating Gryffindor without their best beater ever! Get better soon! You've only got until Saturday!

Love your buddy from History of Magic and the captain of the Ravenclaw Quidditch Team,

Genève Wang

Jenny-

You know you want to get better quickly, so I'm just not going to say anything, got it?

-TB

(Taylor Bell)

It proved quiet interesting, and we managed to eat some of the cookies without Madam Pomfrey noticing, but she kept glancing over at us as if she expected us to start snogging in the middle of the whole place.

Around break time for the class after lunch, a few second years came in, carrying in some frozen friends from Herbology.

"What happened to them?" asked Poppy, throwing her hands up. "Don't tell me, Professor Burnheart!"

The tallest one, a girl with brown hair shook her head. "No, Herbology. They didn't put their earmuffs on right."

Sirius leaned over the Muggle chess board that Lily had gotten me last Christmas and said, "Mandrakes," smirking.

"You fainted too, you know," I retorted, going red at the fact that I had fainted in that class.

So when the conscious ones had put the unconscious ones onto some beds on the opposite side of the Hospital Wing they came over to where Sirius and I were playing chess. The brown haired girl who had spoken before said, "Is it true what the first years are saying? That you're a vampire?"

I looked over at Sirius, who was grinning, before the girl turned to him, "And that she bit you?"

He grinned even broader. "Yup," he leaned back, moving his knight to kill a pawn of mine.

The girl turned to me. I nodded, picking up my wand from my bedside and pointing it at Sirius, muttering a word and making him burst out in hives, because he had just ruined my master plan at winning.

He swore loudly before fumbling around in his bag for his wand.

That made the second years laugh.

"Are you really a vampire?" asked one of the other second years. I flicked my wand again, making my eyes red and my canines grow. I smiled up at them.

"Hello, and welcome to Transylvania!" I then laughed evilly. None of them laughed. I guess they hadn't read Dracula. (Which I have, thanks to Lily bringing that book down to me two days ago)

They all just took a step back.

"Are you going to bite us?" another asked, her voice shaking.

I shook my head, about to reply, but Sirius answered before I could, "No, she only feeds off me. She dislikes everyone else's blood."

Madam Pomfrey, upon hearing this marched over, putting herself between us and the second years.

"That's enough, you two," she said sternly. "You lot, I'm sorry to say, you'll just have to wait for them to wake up, you can go back to class." The group of second years left without a glance at their friends, but several backward glances at us.

Sirius is reading this over my shoulder, for some reason and he is a complete git. (HEY)

If you don't like what you're reading then don't read it.

Later,

Jen

Later:

Poppy made Sirius leave for dinner and when he had left, I asked her when I was going to be let out.

"I don't know, when I've figured it out," she answered, sounding tired. "But tell me, is the Zyde working?"

"What's that?"

"The green stuff I've been giving you. Is it helping?"

"Yes," I answered. It's true, it really has been helping, but the problem is, is that now there is a constant part of my brain that wants me to fall asleep and dream about the future. I didn't tell her that though, maybe she would let me out sooner then. "Is Sirius coming back tomorrow?" I asked, merely interested.

"Definitely," she answered. "You were manageable today."

I smiled slightly, before falling back on my pillows and giving into the darkness without eating.

This is what I dreamed:

"JEN! JEN WHERE ARE YOU?" the shouts filled the air, as if a group of people were looking for me. "JENICA!"

I was cowering under a tree, clutching my clothes to my body, which were soaked as if I had taken a swim. There was a burst of light as a figure came into the clearing near me. It was Sirius, of course.

"JEN!" he cried, relieved. I didn't make a sound, I just stared at him.

"What happened?" he asked. A second later, Olivia came into the clearing too, closely followed by Thomas, her twin, and Alice Spinnet. The three of them stayed back, as if afraid of me. Sirius kept advancing.

I looked up at him before whispering. "Are you an illusion too? A Death Eater in disguise?" He shook his head, putting a hand on my shoulder, as if trying to spark a memory.

"Jenica, what happened?" he asked again. I just stared at him before hugging him fiercely. "What's the date?" I asked all of the sudden.

Alice was the one who answered, "June 20th 1979."

I sighed, before blacking out.

Then another dream

I woke up in a bed that was red and far too comfortable. "Jen!" cried Sirius, his hand finding mine. "What happened."

"Sirius, don't rush her," scolded Olivia, who was in the room too by the sound of it.

"I was in France, and then they burned down Victoria's house…I swam across the English Channel…I think."

"The Death Eaters?" asked Olivia, her face white. I knew why, somehow. It was because of Ramona McKinney, her girlfriend.

I nodded, my fingers clutching Sirius's, before I fell back into a darkness.

Then yet another dream

This time around I was sitting at a low table, watching the Order meeting that was in session. The people were older. Sirius and Remus looked about thirty, and McGonagall looked so much older, even though her hair was still pulled sleekly back.

"What I don't get," continued Mundungus. "Is why we can't just tell the boy that Mrs. Figg is Jen, his aunt."

"We can't do that," I retorted, drawing all the faces towards me. "Voldemort can't know I'm alive. No one can."

"So you're pretendin' to be a Muggle and planin' on bein' in the Ministry of Magic?" asked Mundungus. "Won't that raise some eye brow sweets?"

Sirius slammed a fist onto the table. "Shut up Dung!" he shouted. Remus put a hand on his forearm, telling him to calm down and muttering something along the lines of, "She's grown up."

"The Ministry is stupid, no offense Kingsley. If they knew half of what they think they know, they'd know twice as much," I answered, getting some frowns and confused faces, Dung's one of those.

"Potter's got a point," said Moody. "She's right about younger Potter knowing about her and how that's dangerous. Voldemort's only feared Dumbledore and her, and her because she's different from everyone else. If we have her on our side…"

"I still don't get how you managed to make everyone forget about you," muttered Molly. "I always liked you whenever I went over to the Potters. And then I forgot they even had a daughter."

"She made every bloody person on the planet forget about her somehow," muttered Moody. "Except Sirius and Remus." All eyes turned towards me. And Emma, Alice, and Lina, I added in my mind.

"Come on, I can't explain it now, it's almost dinner and those kids of yours Molly, are listening at the door, I had Crookshanks eat those Extendable Ears of the twins, which are quiet ingenious, if you ask me." Molly hadn't. "And anyway, I've got to be going, the Muggles will wonder where I've gone."

"Can't you stay?" asked Sirius, standing up as I did, his eyes alert.

"DO YOU NEED TO DO THAT AT THE TABLE?" asked a young girl who was near Remus. "GET A ROOM."

Molly shot her a look before bustling away towards the stove. "Who all are staying?" she called.

"I would," I muttered before turning away from the commotion as they cleaned up.

Sirius caught my arm as I went by him to put an invisibility charm on myself. "Stay, please, for me. Just this once. We can tell Molly's children not to tell Harry about you." I was suddenly very aware of the fact that I wasn't in Mrs. Figg's clothes for once, so I looked like myself. I looked over at Molly who was watching us before she turned away, putting another few pieces of chicken on the platter for me.

I nodded once, sitting down beside him. Remus smiled at me quietly. "It's almost like the old times eh? You, me, and Sirius eating dinner."

"Except we've got a lot of company and you don't have to suffer through my cooking," I answered, smiling. Sirius grinned at me, holding my hand under the table. I was about to lean in to kiss him on the cheek when the same girl from earlier cried, "NO PDA!"

I was then jolted awake, and I've been awake ever since. It's probably closing in on five in the morning now. I should really try to sleep.

Yours,

Jen

X

Lily forced James to put down the book saying, "It's really late, James. We need to sleep."

He groaned, but followed his wife up to their bedroom, where they fell asleep almost instantly.

X

End of Part II

A/N: It's still technically Saturday where I am. And sorry for updating so late, I was rather busy today. Please Review? About anything really. I don't care. Any little word is appreciated so much! If you have time of course. And as usual anything you recognize, I don't own, and it all belongs to someone out there, I dunno who.