C O Potter

Year Five

Chapter 51

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Ced was in the middle, holding both Cici and Vics' hands as they fell towards the white house sitting on the beach. After a graceful landing, he wrapped his arm's around their waists and pulled them in against him. Together they fell into step as they walked towards the front doors of their home.

While Vic had been tied down taking care of necessary paperwork in her office. Ced and Cici had done another sweep of the building to make sure that there were no more unauthorized wards in or on the building. They had added a couple of newer wards to help keep the security of the building as high as they possible could. Once they had finished with that they caught another taxi and had him take them to several different donut shops so they could get enough donuts for all of the employees. They knew that it was simple things like this that would help keep moral high, and after yesterday, they wanted to not let employee moral slip in the slightest.

As they approached the front doors, Cici and Vic, who had always been amazed that they would open automatically for them, had begun to get used to that happening now. Inside they were greeted by their three elves.

"Welcome home Lord and Ladies Potter." The elves greeted them with a bow.

The three teens thanked the elves and then Vic "Thank you again for all of your hard work today at my company." She told them.

"It is a pleasure to serve." They said with another bow.

After the elves had disappeared, it was almost a race, to see which wife could lose her clothes the fastest. And as if the elves could read their minds, the girls' preferred bikini bottoms were laying on the bed along with three vials of sunblock.

With their clothes changed and their water socks on, Ced found the bag that had all of the snorkeling gear in it, the three of them walked hand in hand down the beech to their favorite spot to go swimming. The temperature here was much warmer than it had been back in Great Britain and the time difference only gave them about two hours of swimming. This time they were lucky enough to see a couple of sea turtles swimming with them, they were amazed at the fact that the turtles breathed air like they did, and they could hold their breath for as long as they could. The three very excited teenagers walked out of the water carrying their fins and masks. Holding each other tightly, they walked back home talking about the sea turtles they had gotten to watch. The group of lovers stopped to watch the sunset across the Mediterranean Sea and then they walked up the stairs to rinse off in the outdoor shower before getting changed for dinner.

After dinner, the trio walked to the library and found a book to read. They lay down and snuggled on a magically enlarged couch as Cici read the book and the others listened to her. As they lay there, contentment over took them and a golden red glow engulfed them. Eventually the three of them fell asleep on the couch, the elves turned the lights down in the home and let them sleep. They knew from experience, that the threesome would eventually move to their bed for the remainder of the night.

"Mi amor, mon amour," Ced said in the morning. "I need to get up."

The two women grumbled at him and rolled away so he could get out of bed. Then after he left their bed, they scooted close together and continued to snuggle, drawing warmth and comfort from each other, as they waited for the time to pass. Eventually their own internal clocks told them that they needed to get out of bed. First one rolled to the edge of the bed and then the other followed her lead. Both of them summoned their morning workout clothes to them, and this time of year it wasn't much, just the black sports bra and the black skin-tight running shorts. Vic slipped her clothes on as Cici moved to stand next to the door for the loo. As Cici waited, Vic walked to the restroom to start brushing her teeth, then she could hear Ced and Cici wish each other a good morning, and Vic would rinse her mouth out to exchange a kiss with her husband. After that, she would walk to the loo and she and Cici would exchange their good morning kiss. By this time, Cici was already dressed, and ready to brush her teeth. As Cici brushed her teeth Ced would get dressed in his morning workout clothes, then the three of them would put on their trainers for the morning run.

Today, for whatever reason they chose to run for an hour instead of their normal thirty minutes. They ran farther down the beach than they ever had. One of the problems of running in a straight line, instead of a circle or a loop, is, that you have just as far to run back, but for this morning, they were rewarded with a discovery. They came across a shipwreck of a large boat. This was both exciting and worrisome to the trio. It was exciting because it was something new for them to examine. The worrisome part was; was there someone else on the island with them? And if so, who? And how many? They walked around the large boat as best as they could, part of it was still in the water. How long has it been there? As they looked at it, they noticed that it was laying over on one side partially, so the deck of the boat was tilted at a steep angle. From what they could see, there weren't any holes in the bottom of the boat. With the tide out at this time of day, they could make out the large propeller sitting just below the surface of the water. They walked around the bow of the boat holding hands as they went. On this side of the boat, the deck was much closer to the beach than from the other side because the boat was tilted in this direction. Looking at the deck, they could see that it was too steep to stand on. The boat was covered in rust, and parts of the boat had rusted through, weakening other parts to the point that they had collapsed. With what they were seeing, they could tell that the boat had been here for many, many, years and they had nothing to worry about.

Vic looked at the boat and then she ejected her wand and enchanted the boat with a notice me not enchantment, so the wreck wouldn't attract any unwanted visitors to their island paradise. The trio looked around for close to an hour and they didn't see any signs of human remains.

Knowing what Ced was thinking, Cici and Vic took one of his hands each and then Ced apparated them to the apparition point of their house. As they walked to the front doors of the house, Ced opened and closed the gate magically. And the front doors of their home opened for them, Leo was standing there and greeted them with a bow.

"Good morning, Leo." The three of them said.

They chose to skip the rest of their morning workout and headed for their shower. After a long, hot, loving shower, the trio headed down the stairs to the dining room and a filling breakfast.

As they sat there at the table, having eaten their fill, "My Lord, my Ladies." Maco said as she bowed. "Mistress Bones and Mistress Weasley are here." She informed them.

"Please show them in here." Cici told her elf.

"Yes, my Lady." She said as she disappeared.

A moment later, Rose and Angel followed Maco into the dining room.

"Thank you, Maco." the two new witches told the elf.

"Yes, thank you, Maco." Cici told her elf.

"It is a pleasure to serve." She said with a huge smile, just before she disappeared.

Ced added some more chairs and enlarged the table for their guests.

"We, came over just after our workout!" Angel told them.

"You did take a shower, right?" Vic scrunched her nose at her.

"Yes! Silly!" Angel told her with a smile.

"We skipped breakfast to eat here with you." Rose told her friends.

"Please, have a seat!" Ced told them.

"Lucy?" Vic said to the air.

"Yes, my Lady?"

"Could you please get Rose and Angel a place setting? They would like to join us for breakfast." She told her elf.

"Yes, my Lady." Lucy told her with a smile. A snap of her fingers, and two place settings appeared in front of their guests.

"Thank you, Lucy!" the two young women said to the elf.

"It is a pleasure to serve." She told them as she disappeared.

Rose and Angel ordered what they wanted for breakfast and a few minutes later their food showed on their plates. Their drink cups filled, and so did their drinking glasses.

The conversation was light and easy as the two new arrivals finished their breakfast. Once they were finished eating, the group of friends started to talk more animatedly. As they talked about the two guys in America, Angel told them that George was having a real hard time with the idea that Angel could start to see someone. Both of their parents were coming to grips with the idea of their daughters having boyfriends.

"Ced's parents didn't have much say in what happened with us." Cici told them.

"Neither did your parents!" Angel told her.

"And then there's what happened with you two and Vic." Rose said.

"Yeah, I think that took everyone by surprise!" Vic chuckled.

"You should have seen the look on Mask's face when Kitten asked her why she bonded Vic to us!" Ced laughed at the memory.

"Oh, that first night was rough!" Vic told them.

"Why is that?" Rose asked.

"I was separated from Ced and Cici for too long and too early! It got really painful for a while." She told them seriously.

"She was in a lot of pain." Cici recalled.

"So, what did the two American's say?" Ced asked bringing the topic back to the letters and away from themselves.

"Not, much. Just that they missed us and wanted to know if they could come and visit during the summer holidays. I wrote back and told Marc that I would need to talk with my parents about it." Rose told their friends.

"I pretty much did the same thing. I still need to talk to my mum." Angel said.

"Scared?" Cici asked.

"Not all of our parents are as understanding as Uncle Harry and Aunt Hermione." Angel chastised her.

"My dad was having a really hard time with it, he started to become belligerent with Harry." Cici started to tell her. "He went out and got so drunk, that I left him in the bathtub, so when he woke up to throw up, my mom wouldn't have to clean the house again. I miss him, but I am so glad that he's not in my life anymore."

"Uncle Charlie is so happy being married to your mum! Everybody had given up on him ever getting married!" Angel told her.

"I know that my mum and dad had talked about why he had never gotten married." Rose said.

"Do you want to go lay in the sun? or go swimming?" Vic changed the subject.

"Both!" their friends yelled.

The group of friends got up and headed up the stairs to get changed for the rest of their day. Ced made sure to pack all of the snorkeling gear in the bag, before he and his two bare breasted wives headed down the stairs to get more sunblock potion.

Cici looked at their supply of sunblock potion and told Rose and Angel that they would need to brew more of it tonight.

"Okay!" the two of them said. It was always good to learn something new.

"Everything that you will need is here in the potions lab." Cici told them.

"How long does it take?" Angel asked.

"Once you get everything added to the potion, it needs to simmer about four hours." She said.

The two witches did some quick mental calculations, "Okay, that's not too bad. If we get it started just before supper, then it should be finished before we go to bed." Rose told her.

"That's the way Cici and I do it too." Vic told them.

Once they were out in the sun, Rose and Angel shed their bikini tops also, they dropped them near where they would come back to, to lay out in the sun for a while. As they walked to the cove, they talked some more about the two boys that might come to visit them. The girls didn't even know if they had their parent's permission to come and visit them. One of the things the girls liked, is that they maybe cousins somehow, but they weren't close cousins, like Draco and Sirius were either second or third cousins!

"The guys at school are so, so, so, thick! Or immature! Or something!" Angel said in exasperation.

"Oh, my Merlin! Almost half of the guys in our year are scared that they're going to fail their O.W.L.s!" she paused. "And they grew up in pureblood families!" she paused again. "The magic runs through their veins; and they still can't cast a patronus!" Rose lamented.

"And the other half is scared of us!" Angel added.

"Well, just don't get your hopes up to high with these two guys. I don't want to see you get hurt." Ced told them sincerely.

They continued to walk to the cove and they brought the conversation around to lighter subjects. Ced handed everyone a mask, snorkel, and a set of flippers. Together they waded into the water, the water was still kind of cool, so all of them got goosebumps all over until they started swimming. All of them swam out farther than they had before, they could feel the currents pushing them and pulling them. They would dive down and swim as far as the could underwater, then they would have to swim for the surface when they couldn't hold their breath any longer. They went snorkeling for close to an hour before the sea turtles came swimming by. Rose and Angel got a real treat when they were able to hitch a ride on one of the huge sea turtles' back. Vic, Cici, and Ced kept a close watch in case they were needed to help their friends get back to shore. When the turtles dove deeper the two girls let go and swam for the surface to get a breath of fresh air. The group of friends started to swim for the shore. The huge smiles on Rose's and Angel's faces let the others know that they had really enjoyed the treat from the turtles. They started to talk about their experience with the turtles as Ced put the equipment away so they could start walking back to the beach by the house.

For the next three days, the five of them would do their morning workout routines, they would go swimming and venture farther away from the cove in search of different things to see, and they would lay out in the sun all afternoon. Cici and Angel became so dark compared to the other three. Rose was finally taking on a light honey colour, similar to Vic or Ced. But for Angel and Cici? They were easily getting close to dark brown sugar.

"Well, at least I'm not as white as a ghost anymore!" Rose exclaimed.

"You know, if someone had told me that I would be laying out on a beach topless two years ago, I would have called them a liar to their face." Angel said.

"They've corrupted us!" Rose said scandalously.

"If you want to have tan lines, that's on you." Cici told the two of them. "I still remember your faces when I showed you that I didn't have any tan lines the first time."

"We thought that you were so brave!" Rose told her.

Saturday afternoon, with all of them fully clothed, the five of them touched the portkey and they were sucked in and then they were falling to the apparition point for the Potter Mansion. The five of them landed gracefully and started walking to the front doors of the Mansion.

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As they sat in their train compartment, Rose said, "I wonder if you could create a ward to block a dyke?"

The four girls got thoughtful for a moment and then they all turned to look at Julia.

"What are you looking at me for?" she said. "How would I know?"

"I think that you could make a ward for a specific person." Amber said thoughtfully.

The five girls all looked at her, now.

Julia got a thoughtful face for a bit, "But wouldn't you need some of their blood to key it to them specifically?" she said.

"I'll bust her nose for you, if you want!" Fred sat up straighter.

"I know, baby. Lean back against the corner again for me." She patted his chest tenderly.

"Most likely." Vic said. "But to make a ward to block someone based on their sexual orientation?" she paused for a moment of thought, "I don't think that you could do that. At least not easily."

"But to block Coldstone specifically, you would need some of her blood." Cici said.

"True, but at that point, you're working with blood wards, and getting into some dark magic there." Vic warned them.

The six girls looked at each other thoughtfully for a while.

Ced moved some, "I need to go check up on Neville." He told them. The two wives disentangled themselves from him so he could get up to go check on their younger brother.

Ced walked a couple of train cars back before he found the compartment with Neville in it. He looked in the window for a moment before he slid the door open to talk with the older witch with the blue hair sitting in the compartment.

"Hi!" he said to her.

"Hi, yourself." She replied.

"What are you doing here?" he asked.

"I was asked by Draco to keep an eye on things." Delphi said.

"She means that my dad asked her to babysit us on the train ride." Venus clarified things.

"Well, considering what happened at the start of the year, I think that may have been a good idea!" Ced told her teasingly.

"Those girls were creepy! They made me feel uncomfortable!" Venus exclaimed to him.

"Yes, she and her friends are not good people." Ced told her. "They're out to hurt people for their own pleasure."

"I like Delphi anyway!" Neville chimed in.

"Well, thank you!" she told him.

"You're welcome." He said politely.

"Have you seen Coldstone?" Ced asked Delphi.

"I don't even know who she is." She told him.

"Well, if I see her, I'll point her out to you. Maybe I'll walk the whole train and see if she's even here." Ced told her. "She might not be here, she's a seventh-year, and a lot of students chose not to go their seventh-year." He told her.

"She's come this far; do you think that she's dropped out?" Delphi asked.

Ced shrugged, "I don't know. I'll be back." He told her before sliding the door shut.

Ced continued on down the train looking briefly into each compartment, he saw Daphne and her friends, as he worked his way to the last compartment. Then he turned around and worked his way all the way to the first compartment. He had seen some of Coldstone's friends, but her and her older friends, he hadn't seen. He made it back to the compartment that had Neville and his friends in it.

He slid the door open again, "Well, I've walked the whole train twice, and I didn't see Coldstone, I did see some of her younger friends, but I didn't see her and her older friends. Does that mean that it's safe for you to leave your younger cousin? I'm not going to say that, she could be using a disillusionment charm on herself, or she may not be here at all, if she passed her apparition test and got her license. Me personally? I trust her, I trust her to be making somebody's life miserable." He told Delphi with a combination of mirth and seriousness.

She thought about it for a moment, she had given her word, "I'll stay here and keep them occupied." She told him.

"Okay, if you need us, just come and get one of us." he told her, then he slid the door closed again and left.

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Their time back from spring break, found Cici and her spouses, giving their friends pop quizzes on O.W.L. and N.E.W.T. questions. The time in the Chamber of Secrets was spent going over the practical side of the tests, they just wanted to make sure they wouldn't have any problems taking twenty tests. The Potions practical's and the Astronomy practical's would be the two longest tests, they really didn't have a way to make time go faster for brewing the potions, but they all stayed up late to do the Astronomy practical's.

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The morning of the first day of testing the group scanned the hall as the entered to eat breakfast. As they walked down the table, they could see the sunken eyes of their classmates from the lack of sleep. There were those that were trying to reread several years' worth of class material in the matter of minutes, and hardly any of them had eaten their breakfast. Pieces of toast had one, maybe two bites out of them and lay on their plates ignored. Some of the students looked like they were going to be sick.

"Well, we have classes!" Vic said as she moved to get up.

Ced was on his feet to get her chair for her, then after her kiss, he turned to help Cici with her chair, and claim his reward of a kiss from her.

"All of you will do just fine!" Cici told them.

"All of you …" Ced started to say.

"Mr. Potter, Miss Potter, Miss Ramos! If you and your friends could join me please?" the Headmistress's shrill voice rang out across the Great Hall.

It was too much for one student about five students down the table from them, at the sound of her voice, he let go all over the table. At the sound of his regurgitation, two other students couldn't hold it anymore and they too became sick.

Fred and George quickly got the chairs for their significant others and everyone headed away from the table. The two girls kissed their men as they entered the anteroom.

The students formed a group in front of the professor. "Now, I want to make sure that all of you are ready for what you are about to try." She looked over the lot of them.

There were nods of yes, she saw determination in the set of jaw lines on others. She looked to Ced, Cici, and Vic who gave her nods of affirmation, their friends could do it, in fact, they had done it!

"Professor, like we've told them many times, these tests haven't changed in 400 hundred years or more! Over the last couple of weeks, we have administered all of the tests to them and they have all passed the tests, written and practical." Ced worked to encourage them. He knew they could do this.

Minerva looked over the group with admiration, "Okay, follow me." She told them.

"We're not going to take the test with the others?" Fred's voice almost cracked.

"No, Mr. Bones, you and your friends will be taking the tests privately. It seems that the Head of Student Testing wished to administer the tests himself." She told him as she led them out of the side door and down a hallway.

Ced caught up to him quickly, "Hey!" He said softly, "It's just like jumping out of a plane at 13,500m!"

Fred grinned at that, he had actually liked doing that, to him it had been fun.

"When we were learning to do that, did they take us up there and shove us out the back of the plane?"

He shook his head no.

"Right! They built us up to that point. Just like we did with this test. You have all of the knowledge that you need. Use your occlumency skills and you will see that you have already answered all of the questions, they're in your head."

Fred's head snapped around to look at Ced, in fact he quit walking so fast that it jerked Julia to a stop.

Ced stopped with them, he gave Fred a small smile and nodded his head at the unasked question. Yes Fred, you have already taken the tests and passed all of them.

Julia had already figured that out, she thought that her fiancée had figured it out too. Cici and the others had been having them practice the tests for months! Even during their down time in America!

Ced tapped his head, "It's all in here, mate!" he said again with a smile.

Julia noticed that the others hadn't stopped for them, she leaned over and up on to her tippy toes to kiss Fred on the cheek, he was still taller than her, even in her four-inch heels, "Come on babe, we need to catch up." Then she looked at Ced, "I'll take care of him." She promised as she took him by the hand.

The group ran the short distance down the hallway to where Professor McGonagall was waiting at the door to the classroom. The three of them rounded the corner into the classroom. Fred and Julia found a table where they could sit together while Vic, Cici, and Ced stood at the back of the room.

"Don't be late to your classes!" Minerva told them softly. Then she turned to leave.

The proctor looked up at the sound of Minerva's voice. "Ah! Miss Potter! How have you been?" he asked her, a smile beaming from his face.

"Fine, thank you. And yourself?"

"I still feel amazing!" he said as he looked out over the group of students he was testing this time.

"Well, we need to get to our classes before the students tear down the walls!" she told him.

The three of them waved at the proctor as they made their way out of the door.

Ced checked on Fred one last time and he saw that Julia and Fred had locked eyes on each other. "Somebody's performing legilimency on someone." He thought.

Vic and Cici casually looked over their friends again before leaving.

"Fred's always had a bit of a confidence problem." Cici thought.

"She's probably helping him with some of his insecurities." Vic thought. "He knows the material but he gets nervous."

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The trio found Fred grinning from ear to ear when they took their seats at the house table.

"You told me that all of the information was in my head!" Fred started to tell Ced. "But before the start of the testing, Julia showed me where it was, in my head!" he said quietly.

After listening to Fred for a second, Ced turned and kissed both wives on the lips. He was glad that Julia had helped one of his oldest mates with this breakthrough.

With all of the privacy charms in place, the others started talking about how their testing had gone. They were shocked when the proctor hadn't turned the giant hourglass over but instead, let them work at their own pace. When they finished with one test, they would just get up, turn in that test, and take the next test in the stack. All of them had completed four written tests that morning; O.W.L. Charms, N.E.W.T. Charms, O.W.L. Transfiguration and N.E.W.T. Transfiguration.

"You were right! Taking the N.E.W.T. test right after the O.W.L. test made it so much easier!" Rose said.

"He told us that he would have our test scores for us after lunch!" Angel said excitedly.

"Good!" Cici told her friends.

"As good as all of you are, your practical tests will be so easy!" Vic encouraged them.

"You know, I'm looking forward to Ancient Runes." Julia confessed quietly.

"Me too!" Angel said excitedly.

"Well, think about it! All of you helped take down some very complex wards last month!" Vic told them.

"Look at the other students! They're all stressed out about their tests. And then, they have to wait all summer to get their results. Just when they forget about their test scores, BOOM! The results show up just before their school letters! All of that fear again!" Ced told them. "At least this guy is grading your tests on the same day."

"Yeah, and uh, thanks for that!" Amber said.

"Don't thank us! Thank Kitten, it's all her doing." Vic told them.

"Kitten? What'd she do? Threaten to freeze somebody to death?" George asked with mirth filling his voice.

"No, not exactly." Ced started.

"She removed a curse from the man, that had been there since childhood. He was about to die and didn't know it." Cici told the group.

"Wow! Really?" Julia asked.

"Yeah, she's good at what she does." Ced told her.

"She really is." Amber agreed.

Vic nodded her head.

The rest of the week went by smoothly. The Potions and Astronomy practical tests were both done on Thursday night. While the potions were simmering, they went up to the Astronomy Tower and did their practical there. Friday afternoon came quickly and as they sat there at the Gryffindor table, they realized that they had done the impossible, they had taken twenty tests in five days. Ten O.W.L.s and ten N.E.W.T.s in the same week.

"What do you want to take for your Masters tests?" Ced asked the group.

"I don't know, I've never thought that far ahead!" Angel said.

"Mum and dad have always stressed on the O.W.L.s." George said.

"Ours too." Fred told them.

"So, what do you want to be when you grow up?" Ced asked them with a smile.

"I don't know." Julia said. "If you would have asked me that two years ago, I would have said free. But now, I have over a million U.S. dollars in my vault. Can Fred and I get married on this next mission and not tell anybody?" she blurted out suddenly.

Rose almost fell out of her seat when Julia said that. "Mum would be so mad!" she told her.

"I know, but we could do a wedding ceremony after we graduate. I just want to get married!" Julia told her. "That's the part about keeping it a secret." She said.

"Also, remember what we talked about, not rushing something that doesn't need to be rushed?" Cici told her.

"You would have to keep it a secret. Hogwarts has some very archaic rules about students getting married. Remember what happened to Grandma and Grandpa Weasley?" Angel said. "They got kicked out of school for getting married before they graduated."

"Really? They jumped over the broom?" Julia said.

"Yeah! She was betrothed to some other boy that she didn't like, so she and Grandpa Arthur eloped!"

"Your grandma broke a Betrothal Contract?" Ced said wide eyed.

"What's wrong with that?" Cici and Vic both asked.

Amber was curious too, she had heard of being betrothed but nothing else. These people over here, lived in the dark ages!

"A Betrothal Contract is signed between two Heads of Houses. Remember, here in Great Britain, the Magical World is still living in a Feudal Society." He was laying the ground work for his explanation. "So, when Arthur eloped with Molly that broke the contract and Molly's parents would be on the hook for all of the damages in the contract. They could have lost all of the family lands and properties. As it was, the Prewets' were disgraced and they had to buy their way out of the contract. The two families blame Arthur for what happened. That's why Arthur is stuck in a dead-end job, he has risen as far as he's going to rise in the Ministry. Don't get me wrong, Arthur is a great guy and he is great at his job, but that is why he has not risen any higher in the Ministry of Magic." Ced told the group.

"I've never thought of it that way." Fred said.

"Don't worry about it, the three of us have talked about going to the Middle East and getting married there, because it's legal for a man to have more than one wife. We would just have to find the right muggle priest to perform the marriage." Ced told him.

"Really?" Rose asked.

"Yes." Cici said. "We're planning on doing this after we graduate and before we go to university."

"You're going to go to university?" George said in dismay. The thought of going to school more than he had to was, was, was crazy talk!

"Sure! Why not?" Ced told his old mate.

"Cici wants to study muggle medicine to be a doctor like her mum. I'm thinking about studying Criminal Justice and Crime Scene Investigation, myself." Vic told the group. "It will help me move up in the aurors."

"And I'm going to study business management." Ced told them. "That way I will be ready to take over the family businesses from my dad when he's ready to let go."

"Another thing is, we're all just sixteen." Angel told them.

"What are we going to do next week?" Amber asked.

"Next week?" Rose said.

"Yeah, all of our classes are canceled because of testing." George told her.

"Do you want to work on first aid and healing?" Cici asked.

They all perked up at that thought. It was something that they all needed to know, and the little bit that Julia knew had helped Rose just last month.

As they were sitting there talking, the testing proctor came walking up to the group. Amber canceled the privacy charms as he approached.

"Well, I just wanted to stop by and let all of you know how you did." He told them excitedly.

With everybody's attention focused on him, the group didn't see Professor McGonagall and Professor Vector approaching the group from the other direction.

"Minerva!" the old proctor said excitedly.

All of the teens spun around to face her.

"Lenard, how are they doing?" she asked.

Then the group spun around to face him.

Vic cast all of the privacy charms again to include the testing proctor and the two professors. Professor McGonagall and Professor Vector both looked at her briefly.

"They're finished! I was just about to give them their scores. They all did excellent!" he exclaimed.

"Really?" Professor Vector said.

All of their heads turned to face her.

"Really! Miss Berkshire, here's your O.W.L.s, Miss Bones, here's your O.W.L.s, Mr. Bones, here are yours." And on down the line he went.

Then they all looked at him excitedly. He had been very encouraging throughout all of their testing.

"Well? How did you do?" Cici asked expectantly.

"Well, on their practical tests, all of them received a grade of Outstanding on all of their tests." Lenard said.

"Wow! Really? That's great!" Vic said enthusiastically.

"How did all of you do on your written tests?" Professor Vector asked.

They started at one end of the group and worked their way around the group as a whole. All of them had gotten some combination of Outstanding and Exceeds Expectations. Julia and Amber had scored nine Outstandings and just one Exceeds Expectations.

"Okay, now here are your N.E.W.T. scores." Lenard said to them. "First, let me say that all of you got Outstanding on all of your practical tests. Now Miss Berkshire here's your N.E.W.T. scores." And on down the line he went again, handing out their written test scores.

"Well? How did all of you do?" the Headmistress asked them.

Again, the group of students went around and told the Headmistress how they had done. It was a combination of Outstanding scores and Exceeds Expectations. The four girls had out done the two guys. And again, Julia and Amber had gotten nine Outstandings and just one Exceeds.

"Well, I must really be going, I am running late. I would like to wish all of you, success in all of your future endeavors." Lenard told them before he walked through the privacy charms.

"Excellent work! All of you, Excellent work." The Headmistress told them with a rare smile on her face. It had been a big gamble to let the six of them try and take all of their tests at once. Normally, they would take their O.W.L.s at the end of their fifth-year and their N.E.W.T.s at the end of their seventh-year. The six of them had just done it all in one week!

Her life was so blessed, she had seen the rise and fall of the dark lord. She got to teach the first soul-bonded couple in close to a thousand years, and she was a pseudo part of their family. She got to see how the students that chose to be apart of their extended family had started to excel at school and then in life. As if that weren't enough, she got to be apart of a second soul-bonded couple, from the same family! One of the most generous families in the Wizarding World. A family that demanded unwavering loyalty from it's friends, and in return they gave unwavering loyalty to their friends. A loyalty and a love that had created the first soul-bonded threesome in the history of the world! She watched as that threesome had set some very high goals for themselves, and had exceeded them, not once, not twice, but a third time as well. They in turn had set high standards of their friends and now, their friends had exceeded those goals that had been set for them, not goals that maybe their parents had set for them, not goals that their professors had set for them, but exceedingly high goals that had been set by their friends, and their friends had helped them meet and exceed all of those goals. This group of friends had the highest ethical standards, they didn't go out and act like a bully because of their skills, no, they stood up for the victims when no one else would, and they would use their skills to fight for the side of light every single time.

"If I may ask," she started when she found her voice again, "what are you going to do with your week off?"

"Well, the three of us, are going to teach our classes, and in our free time; we thought that we would help them learn some more of the healing arts." Cici told her.

"That is very admirable of you." She told the group. Poppy had told her more than once about how good the three of them were with the healing arts, and how exceptional Cici was with them. Maybe they should start offering classes to the sixth and seventh years in the healing arts, she would have to talk to Poppy about that.

"How is it that the three of you have learned so much?" Professor Vector broke down and asked. The 'you're still so young' part was implied.

"As you know," Ced started to tell her, "we're bonded. You've been there for both of our weddings, and being bonded has allowed us to learn magic at an accelerated pace. As far as these six go, well, we just expect more out of them! We expect great things from them and they have exceeded our expectations of them. High goals have been set for them and they have always reached, and exceeded those goals."

"Look at the other students that are struggling with their O.W.L.s," Vic started to tell her, "the O.W.L.s have always been something to be scared of, not a challenge to be met. When I came to this school, I couldn't read or write. I could barely identify my primary colours, and I could hardly count past two; because my natural mum didn't take the time to teach me, and I'm in Ravenclaw! With the brainiacs! But it wasn't until fate brought me to Ced and Cici that I've strived to reach my full potential, we just expect more from each other." Vic shared with Professor Vector.

She was right, the professors both knew, the O.W.L.s represented doom and gloom, the end of life as the students knew it. The students had been taught that the tests weren't something to be afraid of, no, they weren't something to be scared of, no, the tests were something to be terrified of, if you didn't pass a certain number of O.W.L.s, your life was over, it was finished when you were only fifteen years old! Sorry! End of the line! Your life is over! There's nothing else for you. Go away!

"We had to help them get over the fear." Cici started to tell her two favorite professors, well two of her favorite professors, she really like Professor Lively. "We worked with them on taking the tests several times. We encouraged them to take the N.E.W.T. tests at the same time as the O.W.L.s! First you would take the O.W.L. Charms test, then you would take the N.E.W.T. Charms test. The N.E.W.T.s just build upon the O.W.L.s. It's easier that way!" Cici told them.

The two professors looked at the six students that had just taken both sets of tests in five days and had scored a majority of 'O's on all of those tests. All six of them were nodding their heads in agreement with what Cici was telling them.

"That's very enlightening, Lady Potter." Minerva told her.

"So, the nine of you just study all of the time?" Professor Vector asked them.

All of them said 'No!'

"No! We do study a lot, but we also have a lot of down time to learn other things that we're interested in. All of us love to dance, and if somebody doesn't like the colour of their dress or shoes, then, we're witches! Just change it to a colour that you do like!" Cici told them.

"If something doesn't fit right, transfigure it to fit right! You are a wizard after all." Ced added in.

"If you don't have the right jewelry for an outfit, conjure up the right jewelry!" Angel said.

"Yeah!" Amber agreed.

"If you want to go lay out in the sun and try to get as dark as Angel or Cici, you had best learn to brew some sunblock potion!" Rose told them. Everyone had a good laugh at that.

"If you want to workout for two to two and a half hours every morning, you had best learn to brew some vitamix potion as well." Fred told them.

That explained why this group of students, was considered to be the best-looking kids in the school, Professor Vector realized. All nine of them were on one of the two top ten lists.

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"We've already done some basic first aid training in the past." Cici started to teach their friends, "And that training paid off when Julia saved Rose's life after she got ambushed and hit with a cutting curse."

For this week, they would be working in the Room of Requirement so they would have access to all of the different training dummies they would be needing. Her goal was to get them to a combat medic level of training on some things. She knew that they would need to learn some of the major muscle groups, the names of the major internal organs. She also understood, that by using magic, there were things that they could skip for now, unless they wanted to become a healer, then they could go back and learn those parts. If everything worked out just right, then she would start to teach them about physical wounds from magical creatures and those specialized healing techniques.

"Let's start with learning the most basic of the diagnostic spells. What this spell will show you, are the patient's vital signs. What are the patient's vitals?" she asked, and waited for a response.

"Heart beat!" Amber said enthusiastically.

"Temperature." Rose said with a little less enthusiasm.

"How fast they're breathing?" George asked.

"Yes, that's one of them." Cici told him.

"Something to do with their blood." Fred said as he thought really hard.

"Blood pressure?" Julia asked.

"Yes!" Cici told them. "Now you can add to that things like oxygen saturation, how much oxygen is in their blood."

Cici turned around and there were six training dummies lying on examination tables.

"Okay, all of you go and pick a training dummy." She told the group.

After they had selected their dummy. "This is the spell, and this is the wand motion that goes with the spell."

The six students began looking at the vitals of their training dummies.

"For now, if you notice, all of your dummy's vitals are in the green." She waved her hand and all of the dummies had one of the four vitals drop into the red and another drop into the yellow. "Several years ago, a healer modified this spell to have the colour coding added into the spell. If you notice, there are also numbers associated with those colours. He added the colours, so when emergency personal responded to a crisis situation, they could just look at the colours instead of trying to read and decipher what the numbers were trying to tell them. The numbers will tell you more than the colours ever could.

"So, all of you have at least one vital in the red. What vital is that and what is it telling you?" she asked them.

"Mine's saying that their body temperature is too low." Julia said with a confused look on her face.

As they discussed this, the other vitals moved into the yellow or the red zones. Then the group of students began to cast warming charms on their patients to warm them back up. They had decided that their dummies were suffering from hypothermia, and they discussed other cold related illnesses, including frostbite.

The next cases that they worked on were heat related health issues, from just getting over heated, to heat exhaustion, all the way to heat stroke, and how to treat their patient, and what the preventative measures are for heat related illnesses.

Cici moved on to teaching them the midlevel diagnostic spell and let them practice that for a few minutes before they needed to head down for dinner.

"I'm hungry!" Angel said suddenly.

The others blinked for a second, then they all agreed with her.

"The healing spells take a lot of magic out of you." Cici told them. "That's why my mom and Hermione are so strong magically. That and they workout everyday just like we do."

While the trio were teaching classes, the other six of them went down to the library and found some books on the healing arts and started to read up on it. It turns out that it was an interesting subject and something good to know. Especially with the type of work they had fallen into. Being a private contractor for the parts of government that they worked with, was not the safest job on the planet. They had learned that in Cameroon and Nigeria when there were bullets flying past their heads!

The next afternoon, Cici reviewed the two different diagnostic spells they had learned the day before.

"Alright! I want you to use both of the diagnostic spells and tell me what you find out about you dummy." Cici told the group of friends.

She watched as some of them went straight to the midlevel diagnostic spell and found a broken leg. The others used the basic diagnostic spell and saw how the vitals were skewed indicating that something was wrong, then they ran the midlevel diagnostic spell and found the broken leg. Then she watched as Rose kept looking for what would make the dummy's blood pressure so low and found the broken artery.

"Very good, Rose!" Cici said loudly. "How many of you found the second problem with your training dummy?"

She had five more heads look at her.

"Run your basic diagnostic spells and tell me what you see." She told them. She wasn't a dictator, she was there to help them learn.

"The blood pressure is too low." Angel said.

"Good. Now run your midlevel spell and tell me why the blood pressure is to low." She instructed her students.

Using the midlevel spell, Fred said, "Oh! There's a broken artery in the leg!"

"So, what are you going to fix first? The broken bone, or the broken artery?" she asked them.

Ced moved forward, "These are questions that you will have to answer. When Cici was beaten so badly a year ago? I had to make these choices. I could have chosen to put her eye back into it's socket, but that wouldn't have saved her life. She had so many broken ribs, and some of those ribs were pressing against her heart, keeping it from working properly. Eventually, my mum and her mum arrived, that the four of us, working together were able to heal her and save her life.

"Here, you have a choice, heal the broken leg first, or heal the broken artery first. Which one is going to cause them to die?"

All of their friends knew which injury was the life-threatening injury. But the temptation was there to heal the broken bone first, but if something came up that caused them to have to leave their patient for a few minutes, their patient may not be alive when they returned.

On Wednesday, they kept working with the two diagnostic spells that they had learned. Their practice scenarios kept getting more and more complex. Cici kept teaching them new spells for the different challenges they faced.

Thursday, Cici taught them a high level diagnostic spell. She explained what it was used for and gave them scenarios to practice with; things like heart problems, kidney problems, and liver problems. For the last scenario for the day, Cici gave them multiple life-threatening problems with their dummies.

"Your patient had been out walking in the heat of a summer day without enough water, they had passed out and fallen down a small cliff. The bystanders have everything that you need to save your patient's life. Go." Cici told them.

The trio watched as their friends took different paths to success. Some of them just felt the skin of their training dummy to get an idea of their body temperature, others used the basic diagnostic spell, but all of them cast a cooling charm on their patient. And on they went healing their patient and getting some water into them to start rehydrating the patient. In the end, they had followed the proper steps in the proper order and saved their patient's lives.

"And if we don't hurry, we're going to miss dinner!" Ced told the lot of them.

Over dinner they all talked enthusiastically about the challenges they had overcome.

Friday afternoon, as the group got together again after lunch in the Room of Requirement, Cici had them practice again. She wasn't trying to make Healers out of them, just competent field medics, somebody that could save your life in the heat of a battle. After they had done a couple of scenarios, she gathered them around another training dummy, to just show them one last diagnostic spell.

"This is a diagnostic spell that Hermione used to help save Julia's life after she had been beaten." And standing at the head of the training dummy she cast the spell. "When you use this spell, you're looking to see if your patient is suffering from some sort of brain injury. It generally takes two people to do this, one person to cast the spell, and the other to heal the patient. So, I cast the spell, while Hermione repaired the damages done to Julia's head." She told them humbly.

The others went back to their dummies and tried the spell, they could feel the power that the spell was taking from them, to just hold the spell over their dummies heads.

Cici started to lecture them on the last subject, "Okay! We're going to touch on one last subject. And that is, a physical wound caused by a magical creature. For this scenario, we're going to deal with a wound caused by a Manticore's dart, and we're also going to deal with a wound caused by its claws. As we have learned in school, a Manticore's darts are poisonous, but they also pierce the skin of its victim. So, you're going to need two things to save your patients life. Antidote and a way to stop the bleeding. If you run across this scenario, get them to a hospital before they bleed out or die from the poison. For the other scenario, where the patient has been clawed by the Manticore, you will need an old fashion needle and thread. You're going to have to sew the wound closed because it won't heal on its own. When you go to sew your patient closed, you need to make sure that the wound is clean, your hands are clean, and the needle and thread are sterile. Otherwise, the patient could become infected with something and die from the infection."

The Room of Requirement changed the dummies to have a gash on their thigh that was bleeding and it provided a curved needle and some surgical thread for the students to learn to sew a wound shut.

Cici walked around watching each of them start trying to work with the needle and thread. Most of them had never even seen a needle and thread.

"Okay, let me teach you how to do it first." She told them. she picked up a needle and a piece of thread. "If you notice, on one end of the needle there's a hole. The thread goes through the hole and you pull it out the other side, about this far. Then when you go to sew the wound closed you don't want to make it too tight, but then again, you don't want it to be too loose either. Remember, your patient is going to be moving around after you're finished, the muscle and the skin is going to get tighter and looser. So, you have to make it look something like this, she showed them. Then you tie it off and cut the thread. Then you do another one, and another one, until you're finished. There have actually been cases where medics and doctors have run out of surgical thread when trying to save a patient's life. Okay, go ahead and try it again." She told them encouragingly.

This time the group had an idea of what needed to be done to save their patients life.

The last days of school went by quietly. As much as they wanted to fly home, the group of friends rode the train. With Coldstone and her older friends gone, the younger dykes didn't cause any problems, they just kept to themselves. Neville, Venus, and their friends had a lot of fun riding the train. Daphne and her friends had added Centauri to their group this year. They too were enjoying the train ride. All in all, it was a quiet peaceful ride into London this year.

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