Honestly, you people have NO IDEA how difficult it is to cope up with updating and school. HIGH SCHOOL IS TORTURE SOMETIMES. [-( Be glad I've updated this week! It's been so hard. Okay, so I found this chappie a bit boring. :| But please bear with me-- meeting new people can be dragging. Like in this chapter, England meets Forks. ;)

34. FLOO POWDER

Time seemed to pass by considerably. James and Jolie were growing closer than ever. In fact, they would spend countless hours alone with each other. Both Lily and Remus strived to understand, but somehow, there was a part in them that felt like they were being neglected. James and Jolie easily accepted the fact that they were half siblings though the aftershock at first was almost unbelievable.

Soon afterwards, the day of their visit to Forks came. Everyone was going, except Peter.

"James, listen to me!" Jolie said, half irritated, half amused. James was eyeing Lily again while she was packing up a few more things.

"Okay," Jolie continued, "so, basically, we're going to the Muggle World. So behave yourselves—especially you, Sirius," she shot him a look. "We'll be using Floo Powder, so before you throw in the dust, just say 'Black's residence, Quileute Reservation, Forks, Washington'. Got it?"

"What?" Sirius said, frowning.

"Black's residence, Quileute Reservation, Forks, Washington," repeated Jolie. Sirius muttered the address to himself, trying to remember.

"Oh, c'mon, Sirius," Jolie rolled her eyes. "It's not THAT hard to remember, considering that you and Jacob already have the same last name. Okay, I'll go first."

Jolie stepped into Professor McGonagall's large fireplace and grabbed a fistful of Floo Powder. She stated the address clearly, threw in the dust and disappeared with a flash of blue light.

She felt like she was being sucked out through a giant straw. Everything was turning, spinning and she could see all the various fireplaces along the way. There were flashes of all the colors of the rainbow—it was hard to clearly see because of how fast everything was going.

And then suddenly, she felt herself land on solid hard bricks.

"Jolie!" a voice called out as she rubbed her eyes free of Floo Powder.

She looked up. "Jacob, I've missed you!" and she ran to him, and they gave each other a bone-crushing hug.

There was another flash of blue light and from nowhere, Remus was stumbling in the fireplace. Jolie turned to look around. "Remus, thank God you got here alright. I thought you would get lost or something," said Jolie as she walked towards Remus to brush all the ash off of him.

"Ah, so you're him," Jacob said.

Jolie shot Jacob a 'be-nice!' look and he grimaced. "Jacob, this is Remus. Remus, Jacob."

The two boys walked towards each other, smiling, and shook hands. Another flash of blue light—

"Ah, James, you're here," Jolie said, rushing to him to clean up all the ash as well. "Jacob, this is James, my brother."

"Hi," Jacob said in an uncertain voice. "He's—he's your brother, huh?"

Jolie simply handed him the letter from Cassandra. "It explains everything," she said in a matter-of-fact voice, "Just read it later."

There was another flash of light. "Ow! This fireplace is tiny!" said Sirius as he hit his head on the roof of bricks.

Jacob laughed, "You must be Sirius."

Sirius eyed the boy in front of him. "You must be Jacob," he said in the same tone.

"Yes," Jolie said, putting her arms on both of Sirius and Jacob's shoulders. "And your names both end in 'Black'."

Suddenly, Lily appeared, coughing, with a flash of blue light.

"Lily!" Jolie and James exclaimed.

Jacob gave Lily a genuine smile, which Lily returned.

"Ah, you've arrived!" a new voice said from across the room.

"Uncle Billy!" Jolie squealed. She rushed to him and kissed him on the cheek.

Billy Black looked up and down at her. "Wow, Jo… You've grown a lot. Jacob, come on, show them their rooms."

"Over here," Jacob said, leading them to the second floor.

They all climbed up the stairs, clutching their bags. "You guys'll be alright sharing rooms, right?" Jacob asked.

"Yeah, we'll be fine," Jolie answered while the others smiled and nodded at him.

"Uh, okay. So to the right, that's Lily and Jo's… and then the one to the left further down the corridor will be for Remus, James and Sirius."

"Thanks," they all said in chorus.

"No prob," Jacob grinned at them and went back downstairs.

Remus, Jolie, James, Lily and Sirius fell silent, looked at each other and started to laugh.

"He's—he's got a funny accent," James said in between laughter.

"A cute accent," Lily retorted.

"You guys really sound weird," Jolie said, laughing. "Yeah, yeah, you sounded normal when we were back in England, but now you're in Forks, so your accents are all funny, even to Jacob, I can tell."

"How?" Remus asked.

Jolie shrugged as if it was obvious. "I've been with him my entire life. Since I was born," she snapped. "Anyway, I'll be going to the room. You guys'd better do the same."

They all went to their rooms and fixed their things. "So," Jolie said when she and Lily were finally alone, "I saw how you smiled at Jacob." She waggled her eyebrows at her.

"He's cute," Lily admitted.

"LILY! That sounds so twisted! Bit rich, coming from you," Jolie teased her best friend.

"Whatever! James is cuter," Lily said.

"EW! That sound worse—"

"You would've admitted the same if you and him weren't related," Lily cut across her.

"Well, we are. So I won't… anymore," Jolie laughed.

There was a knock on the door.

"Come in," Jolie and Lily said together.

The door opened and Remus, James and Sirius entered the room.

"Honestly, I can't believe this is happening," Remus shook his head.

"It's so hard NOT to use magic—we had to fix all our bags and things by ourselves! I'm EXHAUSTED," Sirius said as he collapsed on a bed.

They all laughed and rolled their eyes at how exaggerated Sirius was.

Again, there was another knock on the door. "You guys in here?" Jacob's voice sounded muffled through the closed door.

"Yup, come on in, Jake," Jolie answered.

Jacob entered the room and sat next to Sirius on the bed. "Hey, we'll be having a bonfire tonight at the beach. It's La Push, Baby—" he nodded to Jolie.

"YES!" Jolie jumped.

"—and Bella said she'd be there. No Edward, though," Jacob finished, relieved.

"Uncle Charlie?" Jolie asked.

"Nah. He said he'd be in the Diner. Again. So… I've read the letter."

James and Jolie looked at each other.

"It's really true?" Jacob asked curiously.

"Yeah," James and Jolie answered together.

"So, Jo… You're not 'Jolie Daniels' anymore? Jolie Potter?"

"I know, I know. It sounds a bit new, but you'll get used to it," Jolie assured him.

Then, he turned to Remus. "And you're Jo's boyfriend?"

"Jacob," Jolie said in a warning voice.

Remus grinned and nodded modestly. "Uh-huh," Jacob said. "You better be taking good care of my baby, Romulus."

"It's Remus," Jolie and Remus corrected Jacob.

"Uh—that's what I said."

"Whatever, Jake," Jolie rolled her eyes. "Anyway, I want to see Justin. Is he here?"

"Yeah, he's downstairs with your Uncle Billy."

Jolie squealed and ran out of the room.

"Hey, I'll just go get a glass of water," Sirius muttered, not meeting anybody's eyes, and he was out of the room. He rushed downstairs, trying to catch up with Jolie. Of course, he wasn't really going to get a glass of water. He intended something else.

"Jo," he placed his hand on her shoulder.

"Yeah?" Jolie turned to him, smiling.

"I need to tell you something. It's… It's important."