Harry Potter: Vampire Mate
Firstly: I am so sorry that I have not updated in a while! Thankfully it's summer! This means I'll be able to update more, but I do have a job and babysit on top of that as well. So when I update, it's more likely to be towards the end of the day for me: Central Time for those in a different time zone (if any of you are that is).
Secondly: Reviews! Lots of reviews! Thank you guys so much for letting me know what you think. I hope to have this completed, at least on paper, by the end of the summer so that I'm able to update without much hassle. However, I'm not entirely sure how that's going to happen. For the moment let me answer the reviews with questions or that I had questions about myself!
Nosy John: Thanks, I believe. I wasn't sure what to make of this and I'm still not to be honest. Glad I could make you smile though.
Bluestorm28: My thoughts are a bit jumbled as I type this so bare with me please: In a previous chapter, Fred asked for him as soon as he woke up, showing that he remembered him, at least for a moment. I plan on playing with how I write the next chapters so that we see his memories slowly returning. On the flip side of this coin, I am going to make it so that we can see how the Order is going to become more involved in the story, including what happened to Fred to make him forget Harry. I don't want to give everything away, but it should show up in the next chapter or two.
Touhara Naoya: Um... I know this is a review for a previous chapter, but I would like to talk about this for a moment. While an interesting concept, it's not something I, myself, can see Jasper watching or having on replay in his mind to block Edward out. While it definitely would work, I believe that the Confederate Handbook is more his style. It's something that ties to his history and, personally I don't think Edward has the patience to read it, let alone listen to it. I feel it necessary to point out that while a lot of what Edward does, such as compose music and play piano, take patience, Edward is someone who has little control over his gift. This means that he's taken little time to figure out how it works and try to control it better, leaving Jasper with little choice but to block him out. With this in mind, Jasper recites the only thing he's ever known by heart using the knowledge that Edward, who is curious as to what is being blocked, doesn't have the patience to wait it out and hope that at the end of the recitation Jasper has a lapse as he restarts, which would then give Edward the chance to possibly see what Jasper is really thinking about. Does that make sense? I hope so, I rewrote this five times to make sure I worded my thoughts correctly.
Now: ON WITH THE STORY!
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Previously:
"I can take care of myself," Harry muttered. Jasper gave no sign of having heard him besides a small smirk as he started the car. Harry started his motorcycle and put his helmet on. He couldn't believe that his family thought he needed to be protected. Granted they didn't know who, if anyone, Fred would have with him. However, seeing Moody walking behind him, Harry had barely been able to control the urge to run from the airport at seeing him. Of all the people in the Order, Moody was the one who he had gotten along with the best, and at hearing he was in with the Weasley's and others, Harry hadn't believed it. Moody had been his mentor, yet Harry couldn't shake the feeling that Moody had been using him just as everyone else had.
Sighing, Harry took a quick glance at the airport and shook his head. He had already been hurt by the loss of Fred once, and didn't want to feel that pain again. Fred was better left in the past.
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George couldn't believe that his twin was still alive. That his parents had kept something like this from him because he was close to Harry. He didn't know what he was supposed to do with this knowledge that his twin was alive. Was he supposed to be happy about it and go running to Fred, making sure that he was truly alright, opening himself up for the loss of a twin once more? Or, perhaps, would it be better to ignore Fred and only go through the pain once? And looking at Charlie, he was having the same thoughts. Were they going to allow him back into their lives, or pretend he wasn't in Forks?
The sound of Harry's bike rumbling into the driveway and turning off had them all looking over at the door to see how Harry looked after seeing Fred. To see if Fred was with Harry when he entered the house. When Harry walked in, closing the door behind him, the tension in the room dissipated as everyone realized he was alone. That Harry had decided that it was best for him to not be hurt again by losing Fred again. Luna stood up and hesitated before walking over to Harry and wrapping him in a hug. Neville leaned in the doorway to the kitchen as he waited to hear what had happened, George and Charlie not moving from their spots in the living room. With how quiet the five of them were being, each of them were able to hear as Harry said, "Moody was with him."
Neville cringed, knowing how close Harry had been to Moody, looking up to him as though he was a grandfather. It had been the final nail in the coffin for Harry to fall apart when it came out the Moody had been in on everything with the other Weasleys. "Did either of them see you?" he asked softly.
Pushing away from Luna, Harry shook his head 'no', as he went to sit down on the sofa next to Charlie. "I was sitting there waiting for Fred to exit the plane and all I could think about was how he had promised to be there for me. And all I could hope was that he was alright and that he wanted to still be with me," Harry told them weakly. "Then Moody followed him, a few people back to make it less obvious they were together, more than likely hoping I would make a mistake of approaching Fred. That any of us would. I don't want to believe what my own eyes showed me, but it happened. Moody is with Fred, and if anyone of us, especially me tries to approach him..."
"Then we'll be stunned and taken back to England where the Britain Ministry of Magic will try us with treason," Neville picked up where Harry had trailed away. Nodding mutely, Harry played with his hands.
"I can't be hurt because I lost Fred again. I can't go through that a second time," he whispered. Continuing, it was clear to see that he was speaking to Charlie and George as he talked. "I thought I could, but when I saw him, I froze. I couldn't even take a step towards Fred. If you want to be with him, have him in your lives, I can't and won't stop you. But all I ask is that you don't bring him here. Don't let me get close to him again... I can't take the pain of losing him twice."
Charlie gathered Harry into his arms, and started speaking to Harry while looking solely at George. "I will not lose you Harry. You are far too precious to me, and I know that having Fred in my life would put strains on that. I can't lose him twice either, and I refuse to lose you once." Looking at Harry, he pressed a kiss to his head and whispered to him, "You are my little brother, and so is Fred. But I've already lost Fred, even if he is in town. I'm not losing you as well."
George hurried over to the duo, unable to say anything besides, "I'm with Charlie. I love my twin, but right now you need me more and that if that means that Fred doesn't re-enter my life, then so be it," as he joined them, allowing Charlie to pull him into the hug.
Neville was the first to speak back up after ten minutes of the trio hugging one another, whispering words of encouragement and love. "Then it's settled," he began. "We do our best to ignore Fred and Moody, and if anything happens, we tell the others."
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Fred Weasley was confused. Why, of all the people in the Order, was he the one that they chose to bring Harry Potter back to Britain? He had asked himself this question each night since being told what he was to do; each night for the past month he wondered what was so important now that Voldemort was gone, or so he had been told, that Harry Potter was needed once again? He continued to ask himself the question each time Moody drilled him on what he was supposed to do when he saw Potter. Stun first, questions later. However, there was only thing that didn't add up to the protocol that was being drummed into him every minute of the day: not even Aurors stunned first and questioned it later. They always had probable cause or a reason to stun the other wizard, so why was Moody, a seasoned Auror, telling him to stun first?
And everytime he looked at the photograph of Potter he was given so that he knew what Harry looked like, his magic reached towards the picture as though it knew Harry Potter. As though it was tied to him somehow. But with all of the potions that he was taking to recover from the blast that had almost killed him, he was unable to look inside his magic. Take it apart and see why it acted as though he was bound to Harry Potter. Or partially bound to him, that is. If anything, Moody was always very observant when Fred took his daily potions.
However, as Fred laid in the bed of the hotel room, Moody one bed over snoring, he was able to try and pick his way through his potion muddled mind to where his magical core began. And as he neared it in his mind, one thing became very obvious: why they chose Fred, out of everyone, to come after Harry Potter...mixing through his magical core in a brilliant silver thread was an engagement bond. One that linked itself to an image of Harry Potter, grinning at him as he accepted the rind right before Bill and Fleur's wedding.
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Those in the Order were all very calm about everything that was happening. Fred was on his way, if not already there, to Forks in order to retrieve Harry Potter and bring him home. Ron and Hermione were planning their wedding, wanting to be bonded as quickly as possible so that once the money from Potter was divided between everyone, their shares would just enter a joint account. Molly Weasley couldn't be prouder of her children.
Bill, an accomplished Curse Breaker and married to a part veela. Charlie, a dragon tamer. Percy, the scribe to the Wizamonget, as well as to the Minister of Magic himself. Fred was off returning Potter to where he belonged, and proving to everyone that he was no longer corrupted by Potter's freakishness, unfortunatelly taking potions to ensure that Potter didn't trick him once more. George was off who knows where, more than likely pulling pranks and such. Ronald was engaged to such a lovely girl and had helped to save the Wizarding World from the Dark Lord. And little Ginevra was to marry Harry Potter once he returned, to ensure that the little brat's inheritance, estates and such would be able to be split between the Order, with of course the Headmaster getting the biggest portion of it. After all, he had done most of the planning, and had even molded to young boys to be exactly what he needed to start and end a war, coming out the hero.
The only problem would be insuring that the little brat hadn't made a will, and if he had: making sure it was sealed before it was able to be read after he died. Ginny would marry Potter by the end of the month, and slowly poison him with drinks infused with white snakeroot, hopefully killing him by the end of the year, if not within the week of the marriage.
Humming to herself, Molly Weasley went about her day with the thought that everyting was finally going in her favor, in the favor of her family. If only she could conviince the Headmaster to claim Ginny as his daughter now that the war was over. What she didn't notice was Arthur, her husband, standing slightly behind her as she said this aloud.
