Just after sunrise, Harry woke up and spotted Jade by the entrance of the tent. She was keeping watch. He went to sit next to her, he was still overwhelmed about all the information and barely slept.

"So, there are two Prophecies about my possible death? Cheerful, right?" Jade chuckled.

"Right."

"So... Leo, huh?" Harry said and Jade looked down. "I actually like it. Simple but meaningful. I think I'm good at choosing names. Jade... why didn't you tell me? I think I had the right to know way sooner."

"Dumbledore said you weren't ready yet. I wanted to tell you."

Harry couldn't understand why Dumbledore told him so many things and even took him to see Tom Riddle's memories, but wasn't okay with Harry knowing he had a son while still being in school in another reality. It wasn't his reality, but it sort of involved him, so why couldn't he know? He got upset every time he thought that information was kept from him. He wished he could ask Dumbledore.

"You didn't answer me earlier. Did you avoid me because you liked me too?"

Jade took a deep breath and looked down at her legs, her short hair blocking Harry's view. He ventured to tuck it behind her ear. Jade looked a bit embarrassed and unsure. It wasn't often when Jade looked like that.

"I think I did," Jade finally admitted, knowing Harry wasn't going to give up. "I was feeling so many things at the same time that it was confusing, it's still confusing. I was scared of actually liking you... and when you kissed me at the wedding… I felt it... this connection. It felt right. Like I finally found you. It's hard to explain. But at that moment I knew Dumbledore was right. About being soulmates no matter the reality, the time, or anything else."

"So, do you like me, Jade?"

"Why do you ask? Don't you see? We shouldn't be together." Harry sighed in frustration. He wanted a simple yes or no answer.

"But Jade..."

"I tried not to like you, I knew it shouldn't happen."

"Why?" Harry asked loudly, losing his patience. "Because Dumbledore told you? We could make it work somehow! We know things, we can work with the information we have now!"

"It's not only that! You also got to understand that my life was completely changed from what it should have been. My last name would change, I'd be adopted, I'd be in another house at Hogwarts... I was supposed to fall in love with another person. The life I have now, it shouldn't have been," Jade said, meeting Harry's gaze for a couple of seconds before looking in front of her, at the trees. Finally, Jade was saying what she had buried and hid from everyone. "I have been living another life. I love someone and it's terribly confusing to love him knowing that I belong with you and that if I gave us a chance, I'd probably love you more than him as that is how our lives should have been... us together. I feel confused, guilty, trapped... I don't even know who I am at times."

Jade, for months, had been feeling a certain way, she couldn't quite understand what it was. She just felt odd. She had so many things to worry about that she pushed away those feelings. But now that things were coming out and she was sharing all the information she was given, she was finally understanding those odd feelings and words just came out of her without being able to stop. As she said the words out loud, she realised her unconscious mind did know what those feelings were. She was basically explaining not only to Harry, but to herself, how she had been feeling and what those feelings were.

Confusion. That was the biggest one. The odd feeling that had hunted her for months. She knew that whoever she was, all the things she had achieved and done, were only a result of the manipulation of the main reality. This was her reality, but it shouldn't even exist. She felt like she wasn't real sometimes.

She often compared different events in both 'realities' or compared her life to what Jade Lias should have lived and she couldn't really come to terms. She felt like a phantom, even felt like a mistake sometimes. But most of all she felt conflicted and confused about it all.

"Well, I do like you and I can feel what you said, this connection we have. Maybe we could try once we defeat You-Know-Who," Harry said with a shy smile.

"I can't," Jade said quickly. She was feeling a bit irritated by Harry's constant attempts and feeling a bit ignored and hurt after what she shared to him. She wanted some validation but she got none. But Harry just didn't know what to say to make her feel better as everything was really confusing and complicated. "I love someone else and it wouldn't be fair on him."

"Stop thinking about others and think about you," Harry told her.

"If I had done that, I'd have kissed you that night when I was drunk and screwed the whole world. The prophecy would have come true and nothing would matter..." Jade said. "Sometimes you do need to think about others before you."

"So, is that a definite no?"

"Didn't you listen to anything I just said? I'm confused! I don't know who I am! Who I am supposed to be!" Jade exclaimed loudly, standing up, being fed up with Harry. "How can I make such a decision when I'm this conflicted with myself?"

It was a hard pill to swallow for Harry, he had been acting awkward around Jade and she had been trying to avoid Harry whenever she could, and Ron could tell. Granger had been speaking little and spending lots of time on her own doing research, she was still angry at Ron, so the atmosphere was very tense.

Later that day, Jade joined Harry but wouldn't look him in the eye, she told him about her Phoenix egg that ended up not being a Phoenix egg, and promised to take him to see stuff if he wanted as he had all the right just like she did, but they needed to rest well as those trips would usually take lots of energy from the users.

Harry accepted right away but he was nervous, was it good to see his son? Would it be a good idea?

"Could you go back and hear the prophecy?" Granger asked, she overheard the conversation Harry and Jade had.

"No. I only know the year, not the exact date and time and I don't know where it was made," Jade admitted. "She lived in Greece... so I don't know if she was there and Dumbledore was there or she was somewhere in the United Kingdom when it happened or some other place in the world."

As Jade and Harry rested for two days to use the object that Dumbledore left her, Jade kept looking at the ring in her left hand. She couldn't help but think of Draco, the guy who had risked it all for her, always.

They used spells to confuse the wedding guests but they might remember Draco was the one who 'kidnapped' her, if they wanted to see it like that. What if they took him? What if they would do something to him? What if he was in danger?

Jade didn't remember that day, it was all foggy as she was under the Imperius Curse. She wasn't sure what happened. What if someone saw him, recognised him and remembered he was there and took her? Her family were all really close to the Malfoys, and that could be bad in that situation. Jade could only hope he and his family were okay and that no one remembered what really happened.

Granger had noticed the ring and ventured to ask about it, Jade wasn't the type to wear jewellery and Granger could tell it was fancy and expensive, so Granger was curious. Jade simply said the gemstones were Jades and that's why it was given to her but didn't really mention who had given it to her.

"Are you ready?" Jade asked Harry one really cold afternoon. Jade was wearing a purple sweater on top of some other layers and black sweatpants. Her head was covered in a black beanie, only the tips of her hair were seen. Her eyes were a mix of green and brown at that moment.

Harry still found it extremely breathtaking and fascinating seeing different colours and shades in her eyes and sometimes even seeing how they changed colours, depending on her mood or the environment or the lighting or a mix of all three. He took a while to reply as he was looking at those eyes but eventually nodded.

Jade took his hand and with her free hand pressed the right buttons and travelled to their very first time in Hogwarts. This time they took Harry's Invisibility Cloak so they wouldn't have to be hiding or constantly using spells. Harry looked surprised to see his other self so young, so little, so mesmerised by Hogwarts. It seemed like that had been several decades ago.

"Where do you want to go now?" Jade asked after they saw both their sorting.

Harry decided to see more of their time at Hogwarts. Jade focused on them both and not just her as some stuff were personal, as the treatment she got for Christmas. She didn't want Harry to see that.

But together they saw that they helped to stop Professor Quirrel from getting the Philosopher's stone and how they slowly started to become friends, and how Jade made a joke about a basilisk and eventually realised it could be more than just a joke, and found out that was what it really was hiding in the pipes.

It was probably just the end of March when some older students were in a circle sitting on the floor close to the fireplace in the Gryffindor common room. Harry, Jade and Ron walked in with some books.

"Ronnie, come!" Fred invited him to play. He then started taunting him for not wanting to play, so the three of them joined them. Jade was next to George, Harry next to Angelina and Ron next to Lizzie Olsen, a fourth-year-old student, who was next to Oliver Wood. They were playing spin the bottle.

"What happens if I don't want to kiss the girl?" Ron asked after he saw Jordan Lee kissing Alicia Spinnet. "Can I refuse?"

"See these?" George asked, showing him a vial with at least thirty pills of all kind of different colours. "Depending on what you get, you might experience vomiting, exploding diarrhoea, even bleeding. One of these might make you feel like your bones are breaking. You pick what you want to do. If you refuse, you take one pill and that's it. If you are lucky enough you can get the only placebo that is in here."

"It's one chance in thirty or forty," Fred added. "Knowing your luck, I wouldn't really risk it."

Eventually, almost twenty minutes in, Ron went pale as he realised he had to kiss someone but the colour came back as he saw it was his friend Jade.

Jade stood up and Ron approached her. Her hair was in a ponytail and at that moment Harry realised that this version of Jade wasn't as good at hiding her emotions. It was evident she was nervous and a bit embarrassed. She blushed, when did Jade ever blush? It seemed like he was looking at a different girl, not Jade, but in all fairness, that wasn't the Jade he knew.

Ron whispered something to Jade. Then they both closed their eyes, Ron had barely touched her lips when he pulled away.

"That doesn't count!" Fred exclaimed. "That's not even a kiss. Tell you what... we'll count to five, okay?"

Ron got redder, if that was even possible. He was thirteen at the time, and had never kissed anyone and it was nerve-wracking having his two older brothers with other older students watching his very first kiss. Percy was eyeing them from a corner but of course, he would never join such an activity like that.

Ron's lips met Jade's and Fred started counting. "One...two...three...four...four and a half...five."

Jade looked down at the floor, her face completely red, she didn't dare to face anyone, not even after the game ended five minutes later. And she couldn't see Ron in the eye for a whole week and Ron would blush every time he looked at her.

Harry actually got a girlfriend at the end of that year, another Gryffindor in Ginny's year. The real Harry laughed when he saw the faces Jade did of disgust and disapproval even in the girl's face.

"You are so damn annoying, you don't even like him! You are with him only because he is Harry Potter," Jade had told her once or twice, which caused conflict between Harry and her. The girl even told Harry to choose between the two of them, which he didn't, but after two days everything was alright.

Then they even heard a conversation between Dumbledore and Sirius that Jade hadn't seen or heard before. Dumbledore had asked Sirius if Jade could stay at Grimmauld Place for the summer holidays as she didn't have any place to go.

"Absolutely," Sirius had said with a smile. "I'll prepare her a room."

"I appreciate it, Sirius."

"She can stay all the time she needs, as long as Grimmauld Place is safe," Sirius said.

Their fourth year started and Ron and Harry were anxious to hear how her summer had been. She explained it was extremely funny and enjoyable as Sirius acted more like an older brother than an adult but it was bad that they couldn't go out together in the open, not even to a park that was close to the house.

"Lestrange?" Ron had asked during their first class as he tried to copy her notes. "Jade Lestrange?"

"Oh yeah," Jade said awkwardly. "I'm officially not a Lias anymore. My father...he... well, he doesn't consider me a daughter anymore. I'm stuck with my mother's last name."

That year, Jade and Draco actually got on very bad terms as Jade was the only person who didn't believe Harry had cheated. She stood up for him. And that drove Draco very very mad. They hadn't really spent much time together during the last few years but they were civil towards each other. Draco, at times, defended her from other Slytherins. But now it was Jade defending Harry, and Draco didn't like that at all.

"Why are you so happy?" Ron asked one day.

"But sort of concerned at the same time?" Harry said, eyeing her. They had just returned to Hogwarts after the Christmas Holidays.

"Sirius..." Jade said softly, Harry even got concerned as she stayed quiet for a long time. "He... he..."

"He what?" Ron exclaimed.

"Is he… alright?" Harry asked.

"He is adopting me," Jade said, she couldn't believe it. "I don't know but he said Dumbledore will do something so I can be legally adopted by him. He is a fugitive so he basically can't but it will be sorted. Can you believe that? I'm being adopted!"

Some weeks later, the two of them watched the second task and Harry realised one big change in that reality. He rescued her from the lake, he didn't rescue Ron. Probably because she stuck with him despite what everyone was saying, unlike Ron.

"We get together afterwards," Jade told him. "Do you want to see that or should we just skip it?"

"Nah, I want to see it."

That night after the task, Harry and Jade followed their younger selves to the common room. They had been celebrating a bit with other gryffindors, they were all ecstatic about today's results.

"Jade, before you go I want to tell you something," Harry said quickly as Jade started to go up the stairs. "Earlier today, when I had to rescue you..."

"Don't worry about it," Jade said quickly with a smile. Oblivious to what Harry was trying to say. "I didn't feel a thing."

"No, wait. I mean, it was you down there and not Ron because I really like you and well, I wanted to know if you'd like to go out with me?" Harry stuttered at the end, blushing slightly.

"Oh my God," the real Jade whispered, feeling a bit embarrassed at what she was seeing. Real Harry just gave her a look.

"What about Annie or whatever her name is?" Jade asked, biting her lip. It seemed like she would always have that habit.

"We broke up two months ago..."

"Yes, but you said you still had feelings for her."

"I broke up with her because I liked you, I always have, and she was too clingy to be honest. So... Jade, what do you say?"

Jade looked at Harry for a few seconds not knowing what to do. "I don't want to ruin our friendship. I like you but if things don't work out..."

Harry approached her, looked down at her brownish eyes, the fire in the corner was reflecting on them. Harry smiled and kissed her softly, it wasn't as long as the kiss Ron and Jade shared months ago but that one meant too much more.

"Well, it seems you'd always have a tendency to kiss people without warning," Jade joked and Harry glared at her.

Jade smiled and nodded at him before they shared another kiss. Jade hadn't said the words but Harry knew she had said yes.

It was weird for both Harry and Jade to see themselves, three years younger, being a couple. They tried to keep it a secret but they could tell their younger selves were a bit too reckless. They would hold hands at times, Harry would wrap an arm around her shoulders and eventually the way he looked at her just became too obvious. Anyone, absolutely anyone could tell that Harry had a thing for Jade by the look in his eyes.

"You got together and you didn't tell me!" Ron exclaimed loudly one day, one month after they got together. "I'm your bloody best friend!"

"To be honest, it's obvious they were together," Ginny said as she passed by. She had a thing for Harry and was one of the first people who found out they were together.

"Still, these are the things that friends should tell each other! Best friends!"

"I'm sorry, we didn't know how to bring it up," Jade said with a shrug. "And Harry told me he wanted to be the one to tell you, so complain to him!"

Nothing too exciting happened afterwards. Harry spent the summer holidays with the Dursleys but visited Sirius and Jade quite often. They would kiss whenever Sirius wasn't around. They weren't ready to tell him.

Their fifth year started and their nightmare began. In this reality Jade had lots of detention with Umbridge, even more than Harry did, and she wasn't too good at healing spells. Jade shuddered at how that other Jade actually winced and complained a bit about the punishment.

"Weak," Jade whispered. She couldn't help it. She looked disapprovingly at her other self.

Harry knew it wasn't weakness, it just meant she wasn't treated as badly in that other universe and she wasn't used to pain and mistreatment. He didn't say anything though. But his heart broke thinking about Jade's life, filled with unfairness and pain and even cruelty. He didn't know the extent of them but he knew it had to be big and it happened mostly when she was just a little girl, as she was cold and mean and tough from the very first day he saw her, she was just ten years old.

Jade made faces as she saw herself in the D.A. meeting. She was good, better than lots of the people there but that Jade wasn't nearly as good as the normal Jade. But she was capable of making a patronus on her second try, something Jade wasn't capable of doing for a long time and still struggled with. Again, an indication of the differences in both Jades' lives.

People finally knew Harry and Jade were dating and the Lias family found out through some Slytherin students. Jade received a letter from her mother saying that the Perseus family had broken off the engagement and they didn't want her anymore. Jade was confused, as she had imagined it broke when she ran away from home, she wouldn't marry Cassius anyway.

She also finally joined the Quidditch team that year, she turned out to be a great chaser and made Gryffindor win lots of matches, especially when Harry, Fred and George were banned from the team. Jade and Angelina made the team survive through that loss.

They fast-forwarded to the Ministry of Magic. They were fighting, Harry and Jade next to Sirius. Lexion was there and this time he did attack Jade. This made Sirius not fight Bellatrix and protect Jade against Lexion instead, and that resulted in him not dying. That was the only significant change.

Jade spent some gloomy holidays then, Sirius was acting more like a caring father than a rebellious teenager for once. He actually grounded Jade for being so reckless and going to the Ministry of Magic.

Something that Jade hated when she was back home was that she couldn't use magic. Sirius was hiding and she had the trace, they didn't know there was an adult there. If she needed something, she had to do it the muggle way or ask Kreacher, who was only nice to her because she was a Pure-Blood. From time to time, Kreacher would mumble the word "Blood-Traitor" to both Sirius and Jade but had no choice but to serve them and be kind and helpful.

During their sixth year, Draco and Jade's friendship was completely broken when she found out that he had joined Voldemort. It was Pansy who had told Jade about it and she later confronted Draco, who denied it, but she knew him too well to know he was lying. She cared about him, they were best friends for ten years and she was incredibly worried about him. Draco just pushed her away even more.

Their friendship sort of recovered just a tiny bit when she stayed with him in the hospital after the Sectumsempra attack. And he felt good when he heard about the fight Jade and Harry had when she faced him about what he had done. He appreciated Jade hadn't left his side since the moment he was attacked.

Going backwards a few months, that school year, Harry and Jade had gone with Sirius for Christmas. Sirius offered them a few drinks just a couple of days before New Year. Sirius was wasted, Remus and Tonks were there, celebrating with him.

Jade and Harry escaped to what used to be Regulus' room but now was Harry's whenever he visited. They were two unsupervised teenagers that had had a few too many drinks.

"Can we skip this part?" Jade asked awkwardly as the other Harry took off his shirt.

"Please," Harry said quickly.

It was a few days after New Year. From what they could tell, after that night Harry and Jade were doing it almost daily whenever Sirius was busy or not around. They were almost caught once.

They went back to Hogwarts where Harry kept learning about Tom Riddle's past. In this reality Jade knew there was a Prophecy about her as she saw it back at the Ministry but Dumbledore never bothered to tell her or even Harry.

Jade had asked about it but gotten no answer and Harry was too busy with the puzzles about Tom Riddle's life that his curiosity was soon forgotten.

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Sorry guys that I took so long to update, to make it up to you, I'm planning to update Saturday or Sunday.
What do you think about the changes in the other reality? What do you think will happen when they see Leo? What do you think he looks like?