Disclaimer: None of these characters belong to me – they belong to Stephenie Meyer – except Anastasia and Scorpius

My apologies for writing that the last chapter was in Anastasia's point of view when clearly it was in Bella's, this chapter is in Anastasia's point of view.

Apov

I jumped out Bella's truck my mind set on where I was going.

I'm not going said Zarbien again stubbornly

'Suit yourself' I said sick of this argument

Zarbien growled

We'd been arguing all morning. When we got home all I'd wanted to do was sleep but Zarbien had kept me up furious that I had gone back for Scorpius and the others back on the rooftops. I wasn't entirely sure why I had done it either, it had been a spur of the moment, Zarbien sensed my confusion so eventually laid off me after making me solemnly swear never to do such a thing again.

I was completely healed up again and then I had a plan. Zarbien had been furious the minute I thought of it and decided. He was thoroughly against it. We didn't usually argue, he was my other half after all and my magic wasn't nearly as good when he was away from me.

By now I was tired and had decided I was going with or without him.

I did a quick magical scan and found Scorpius. Technically I found a magical source my power wasn't strong enough to acknowledge the individual powers of the whole school. But at Forks Scorpius and me were the only really magical beings, I wasn't counting the Cullen's who couldn't do any proper magic.

I walked around the school with Zarbien sulkily following my lead. Soon I found Scorpius in conversation with that boy I had seen him with the first time we met, what was his name Ryan? Brian? Who knows, who cares, it was Scorpius I was here to see.

As I approached the human boy whatever his name was gave a smirk in Scorpius's direction and walked off with one eyebrow raised. Scorpius rolled his eyes at him as he left. His long hair was tied up and thankfully no longer orange but it's original paper white.

"Hey" I said looking after him "What's that about?"

Like you care said Zarbien who was eyeing Scorpius's scorpion familiar which was half under a bush in miniature form.

"Nothing" replied Scorpius "He's an idiot, all the other guys here are"

"Well I ain't arguing with that" I said "I have a question for you"

"Shoot"

I took a breath "Yesterday, at the party..."

"Yeah?"

"What the hell was that, with those vampires?" I blurted out

"What do you mean? We provoked them, they attacked us. Were you surprised?" he asked

"No I mean you with that fire how did you do that?" I said

Scorpius frowned at me "It was a fire spell, any warlock can do it, any witch, can't you?"

"Sure I can do fire it doesn't mean I can simultaneously set twenty vampires several meters away from me alight. What kind of fire was that anyway, it wasn't normal? I mean, that was advanced magic, how did you learn to do that, you're only sixteen?" I said finally

"I am nearly seventeen, less than three months now" he corrected

"Don't change the subject I want an answer" I demanded

"Fine I have a weakness for fire spells, my brother had an obsession with them and I sort of did too, you should have seen the havoc me and Will caused back home, by now I'm really good at them because I focus on them so much" he said a small smile coming to his face as he reminisced

I shook my head "That wouldn't increase your powers to that level, I've measured at your power you're not that good"

"Gee thanks" he said

"And what was that with the lake, it...glowed and then became holy water to burn the vampires. Did you enchant it?" I asked baffled

He gave me a look "You think I changed an entire lake into holy water?"

"Well it was holy water?" I said back

"It must have been blessed by someone else previously, it certainly wasn't me, I'm a warlock not a druid" he said

"But I saw it glow" I retorted

"I was running along with you I was looking at the water, there was no glow" he said firmly

"No I saw it"

"Well you must have been hallucinating, probably from that fall" he shrugged

"Zarbien saw it too" I protested

No I didn't Zarbien said and I glared at him

"Anastasia, I am good at fire spells and you flatter me but I cannot enchant huge lakes to make them completely holy water in but a few seconds, maybe one day I'll be able to but not right now" he said giving me an almost sympathetic look

I scowled feeling like a child

"Show me that fire thing" I demanded

He looked surprised "Here?"

"No, not here, let's go somewhere else and you can show me how you do it, tell me the spell" I said

"You know it's not something you just learn overnight, it takes practise, a lot of practise, you'll learn it when you go to Darkhalls academy" he said

"Well I don't want to wait that long, that's more than half a year for me" I said "I want to see how it's done now"

He gave a half laugh "Why for God's sakes?"

"You're my friend and I don't like to think that you're in a higher field than me, I don't like to have the lower hand" I said simply

He raised an eyebrow "Wow, the upper hand, I feel so privileged"

"Exactly you shouldn't that why I want you to show me how you did it"

"Maybe I enjoy having a bit of the upper hand" he said smugly

"The only warlock I will allow to have the upper hand above me is my father" I said through gritted teeth "Even Zeke was not granted that, now show me how you did it now or you will be on your own in this school" I said making it clear in my tone I was serious

He looked at me weighing up my threat then sighed "Do I have to" he moaned

"Yes, come on" I said clearly "Teach me how to do it"

He gave me an annoyed look.

I smiled "Teach me how to play with fire Scorpius"