Location: Midgard, United Kingdom, Great Britain, England, Surrey, Little Whinging, #4 Privet Drive;
Date: Saturday, October 30th, 2000
Time: 7:00 am
POV: Narrator
Mrs. Petunia Pearl Dursley, née Addams is content living in her perfectly normal world. She lives in a perfectly normal house at #4 Privet Drive. She lives in a perfectly normal neighborhood, in the suburbs of Little Whinging in Surrey England. Mrs. Petunia lives with her perfectly normal husband and their perfectly normal son. Mrs. Petunia Dursley, is the vice-president of her neighborhood's sewing club, the four-time winner of the best garden in Surrey and is quite proud to bear the title of Little Whinging's gossip Queen. Her husband, Mr. Vernon Dursley, is the Director of Grunnings Drill company. Her son, Dudley Dursley, is a one year and a five-month-old little angel. He may be a bit fussy about certain things, but that's simply because he knows he deserves the very best.
Yes, Mrs. Petunia Dursley is quite proud of the life she has built for herself. Mrs. Petunia Dursley is quite content living in her perfectly normal world. Mrs. Petunia Dursley has everything she's ever wanted, but she also has terrible secrets. It's her greatest fear that somebody will discover them. She just knows her perfectly normal world will be completely shattered then. It's her worst fear, someone finding out about… her siblings. Or, heaven forbid, her maiden family the Addamses! Mrs. Dursley is technically their sister, but they haven't seen one another for several years. Honest! She calls and writes of course. She is a good upstanding citizen. Nothing like her sisters Lady Lillian Peverell and Miss Rosemary Addams or their brothers Lord Gomez Addams and Mr. Fester Addams. Mrs. Petunia Dursley likes to pretend she doesn't have siblings. Her siblings and their families are as abnormal as one can be.
Mrs. Petunia Dursley wakes up at night in fright of what will happen to her perfectly normal life should any of her family come for a visit. Mrs. Dursley has contingency plans in place should such a disaster occur to her family. What will the neighbors say? What will she tell them? She's decided that her best hope is one of the Peverell's arriving at the door. At least Lily was smart enough to marry a police officer of that world and settle down in a nice normal cottage. Nothing as extravagant as the lives of Gomez and his wife live or as dangerous as the lives Rose and Fester choose. Petunia Dursley is an Aunt thrice over from Lillian and Gomez. However, she has never seen her niece and nephews in person. She doesn't want her darling Dudley mixing with the wrong sort after all.
There are a few hiccups in Mrs. Petunia Dursley's perfect world outside of her maiden family. Marge Dursley, Vernon's younger sister, and her horrid pets enjoy coming to visit. Each time she visits both her and her pets always leave half drunk. Marge Dursley is extremely loud and quite crude. Not even her abnormal family is ever so undignified. However, the woman only comes once a week every few years and Petunia did promise to be as understanding of her Vernon's family as he is of hers. While Petunia likes to pretend that her unusual family and their supernatural worlds don't exist outside of their letters and phone calls, her husband does not see his family the same light.
It is quite a nice Saturday in July when the letter from the Goddess of Magic arrives. Petunia had been busy pruning her white and yellow roses when the mail arrived and decided to take herself a short break and make herself some lemon sherbet tea. She was absentmindedly sorting the mail when she came upon the letter from her little sister. It had been a peaceful day for Petunia up until this point. Everyone woke up late even little Dudley. Everyone was well-rested. Vernon even offered to take little Dudley to his afternoon playdate for her. In fact, that's where they are right now, having just called to say they arrived at Surrey's library safely.
So yes it has been a fine Saturday up until this point. After all, Petunia likes to pretend she doesn't have siblings. Blood-related or not, they are still a stain on her idealistic normal life. As they rarely call or write to one another pretending she doesn't have two sisters and two brothers is generally a very easy thing for Petunia to do. But yet, here on her perfectly normal white lace-covered table sits evidence of her little sister and her worlds. Between the madness that is magic and the insanity that is the various Godly pantheons, Lillian's world is perhaps as extravagant as the life Gomez and Morticia lead. With the magical war going on here in the UK and the dangers of other intelligent races living here on Midgard Lillian's life is certainly just as dangerous as the lives Fester and Rosemary choose.
Oh yes, Petunia is well aware that her species is not alone in the universe. She is also quite aware that her world is not near as normal as she likes to make it seem. It is with those thoughts in mind that she takes a deep calming breath and remembers to take a calming sip of her doctored tea. Once that is done she opens the envelope made of fine parchment and sealed with red wax. Upon reading the first portion of the letter, Mrs. Petunia Dursley nearly faints from both shock and anger. Apparently, her sister and that husband of hers are preparing themselves to be murdered! To make matters worse their son will likely be fostered off to her by the barmy headmaster of that horrible magic school she went to. Thankfully Lillian or whatever her real name is does not expect her to raise their offspring. The letter contains two addresses and directions to two safe havens for children of Olympian Gods and Goddess who are temporarily unable to care for their children.
Petunia sits the letter down and downs the rest of her tea before preparing herself another cuppa. She's certain wherever these so-called camps are they will be out of her way and ridiculously hard to find. Reading further just proves her suspicions. The first camp, a camp half-blood, is hidden along Long Island in America and is completely invisible to mortals such as herself. This is just like that outrageously outdated-school all over again! Petunia's heart broke at the news that her baby sister is preparing her for death. Lily and James are even being targeted by the sounds of the letters. Her poor little sister! And her nephew, soon to be an orphan! But, the boy just can not stay here! She will not allow him to ruin their perfectly constructed life! She and Vernon left that world behind! What right do they have in forcing them back into it?! None!
With further reading, she finds the seemingly endless series of letters interspersed with maps of the locations and pamphlets of popular tourist attractions in New York and California. By now she has been soothed by the written apologies and the fact that Lily will ensure someone is sent to meet her in both locations. In addition, Lily and her husband have apparently gone out of their way to ensure Petunia and her family will be protected from both crazy worlds no matter where they go. After taking a good ten minutes to gather her wits and to remind herself that no she does not want to raise her nephew herself Petunia picks the letter back up and begins making plans.
Finding enough American and British pounds for both the plane tickets included deep within the envelope as well as a nice bit extra for the trouble she sighs to herself. Thankfully it seems come November they'll still be taking their vacation to America as planned. She burns the envelope and its contents minus the maps and the normal and the American pounds, just as Rosemary taught them. Just to be on the safe side she flushes all of the ashes from her fireplace down the toilet upstairs and slips the seemingly normal maps into her purse. Once she has made copies of the maps on her own itinerary she won't be keeping them either. One can never be too careful after all.
Location: Midgard, United States of America, California, Misty Point, Cemetery Lane, #1
Date: Saturday, October 30th, 2000
Time: 7:00 am
POV: Narrator
Lord Gomez Addams, Lady Morticia Addams, and Mr. Itt Addams read the latest letter from Lily once, twice and then another before laying them all together in order for confirmation. Properly horrified they quickly they work together to pen the family and make copies of all the letters Lily has sent over the years.
Attention all Peverell's, Addamses, and Drake's we are at war.
Albus Dumbledore thinks he's clever, perhaps he once was but no longer. He will soon take young Lady Lillian Peverell's mortal life and the mortal life of her soulmate Lord James Peverell. Attached are their letters of warnings. We ask that you read them in the order they are presented and not in the order they are said to have been sent. We must do all we can prevent their deaths. If it is as they fear, unavoidable, we will destroy the British wizards with two less in our family among us.
With warning,
Lord Gomez Hemlock Addams and Lady Morticia Lilith Addams
"What are we going to do if this doesn't work out? What if Lily still dies?" Cousin Itt desperately asks once the letters have been sent off with blood magic.
"We will raise Hadrian to the best of our ability and make sure he knows how much he is loved." Gomez says beginning to pace "We will raise him as Lily wished. We will improve the wards around our homes. Whatever it takes!"
"Yes." Morticia agrees as she begins to pace as well "In addition, we will ensure he has training from both of these demigod camps. This Albus Dumbledore will regret ever assuming he has such control over our family."
"We need to learn all we can about the man. Who is he? He's a school headmaster but there must be more we're not seeing. Why is he doing this?" Gomez asked turning to face Morticia in his confusion.
"I will look through the letters my love, you search the family library. Tonight we will all divine for answers." Morticia orders.
"What about me and Cousin Itt?" Mama Frump asks
"Mamma you and cousin Itt are to go to the goblins. No. That needs to wait until we have Hadrian in our custody." Morticia states folding his hands together in front of his face and thinking. "Mama, Cousin Itt you two are to help Gomez search the family libraries for any mention of this Albus Dumbledore. Any information we have on him is information we can use."
"Alright, we have a plan now it is time to act!" Gomez declares. From the look on his face, everyone knows that the Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry school will come to wish that he never met the Addams family. After this, he'll be lucky to only lose one of his official positions in the magical world. If it were up to them, he'd be ruined completely as of today.
Location: Midgard, Russia, Moscow,
Date: Saturday, October 30th, 2000
Time: 7:00 am
POV: Narrator
Rosemary Amethyst Addams is better known by her working aliases The Black Widow knows she doesn't live the average life or a life anyone would consider sane and safe. At the tender age of 3 years old, Rosemary or Rose for short was kidnapped by a worldwide muggle organization known as The Red Room. She immediately began her training as a muggle assassin and spy. Within the first week, she was ahead of all the peers in her group. She had finally found her calling. Her family, of course, would not stand by and allow their little girl to be taken from them.
It took just a week for them to track her down with blood magic. They then killed all the muggles and thoroughly erased all of their records of her. Next, they safely moved the family from their villa in France to their manor in Russia. In return, she demanded that she be allowed to return and learn to be a spy. Shocked but unwilling to lose their daughter should she choose to run away on her own, her parents agreed on the condition that she at least taught her siblings everything she learned. Still, they made her wait until she was seven and had memorized the family Gilmore's so she could accurately wield her magic.
Rosemary known as The Black Widow or Natasha Alianovna Romanoff by her fellow spy's and work colleges quickly found she excelled at spycraft. She happily slipped away every weekend to teach her siblings everything she had learned. Because they each had something to teach one another, their parents created a time-frozen room for them. She, of course, kept in touch with her family during the weekdays through magic mirrors. Over the years she's had several close calls with the muggles discovering magic but obviously, no one has caught on thus far.
Despite her muggle profession, she takes pride in practicing her magic and has masteries in Transfiguration, Charms, and Spellcrafting. She's still working on furthering her magic to honor her parents. After all, her parents and tutors worked hard to make sure made she mastered her magic. By the time she was 19, she could wield her grey core just as well as any Sorceress several times her senior. Despite being from a highly influential family of Sorcerer's and having been raised as such, it's all too easy to play the 'I am muggle raised and thus ignorant to my magic' card. Her ruthless effectiveness in taking down their enemies the muggle way always shakes her partners to their core when they work together magical or not. No one expects the pretty girl and she makes sure to use that to her full advantage.
As a master spy and one of the human world's greatest assassins, it wasn't long before the magical governments caught on to her talent. Originally they meant to kill her. Now she works for them on occasion. Each time she has a partner, magical or not, she takes care to train under them. In addition, she subtly trains under her various clients and assignments. Thus far, her only regret in life is allowing the muggles to sterilize her. She's always envied her siblings for their ability to have children. Since her siblings moved out of the nest, she's taken turns visiting Gomez and his wife Morticia as well as Lily and her husband James at least once every other month. Even with Fester still missing she carves out space in her schedule for searching for him and joining in on the annual seance. However she rarely ever speaks to Petunia. Neither are overly impressed with the other's lifestyle.
Petunia is firm in her belief that she should find herself a nice husband and quit 'This silly job business' as she has always so eloquently put it. Petunia is one of those people who steadfast believes that women should be satisfied with a house, a husband, and kids. Petunia honestly can't understand her and Lily's desire to be more than just housewives. In turn, Rose and Lily can't understand why Petunia wants to hide the fact that she has a brilliant brain, powerful magic and a breathtaking body hidden under her plain human housewife demeanor. In their minds, she's settled with far less than what she could have been and still could be.
Their parents ensured they each completed at least a mastery in both the human and magical worlds before they were cruelly murdered. Petunia was the only one to not go further with her talent. In fact, after completing her Tecno-mage and Computer Science masteries she dropped out of all her healing courses to marry that walrus of a man. To Rose and the rest of their siblings, Petunia has disgraced their family name and disrespected their parent's sacrifices to give them the best futures they possibly could. They have not spoken outside of holidays and birthdays since.
Rose is admiring her red manicured nails, having just finished cleaning them of dried blood, when she gets the letter. She smiles when she feels a letter appear in her bra. It sings of Lily's magic. The smile falls off her face as she reads the letter. Once finished reading and absorbing the information, Rosemary crushes the letter in her grip turning the paper to ash. She wills herself not to cry. She nearly succeeds only to hear the sound of a heart-wrenching sob come from her own mouth. She may be an assassin by trade but she is not heartless. Without preamble, she pulls out her magic mirror. It seems she has a few calls to make and an abrupt trip to America to schedule.
