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Ché modo concludersi un anno
What a way to end a year
Gemini and Sirius were, as you could say, awkward around each other for a while. It lasted about month but it felt like forever. Neither could look each other in the eye any more with out blushing madly and looking away. The rest of their friends however, were having a field day.
"Gemini, why don't you work with Sirius " Lily would say. Or "Sirius, Gemini needs help with her potions home work" James would comment, when every body knew that potions was easily her best subject.
But by the time December rolled around, they were complexly over the whole 'I'm-going-to-act-all-shy-and-pretend-you-don't-exist-because-I-actually-do-like-you' routine. They were closer than best friends, I mean close. Although they didn't admit it, or didn't want to admit it, the entire school knew something was up. They did everything together; you didn't see Sirius with out Gemini, or Gemini with out Sirius. But they still held on to fact that they were only friends.
"So guys, who is going home for the holidays?" Gemini asked one day during dinner
"I am" peter said
"Me to" Remus added in
"We are" James said, talking about himself and Sirius
"I am to" Bella commented
"Were going home to right Lily?" Gemini asked
"Yea" Lily said
"Guys I have an idea," James said, "why don't we comeback the day after Christmas and exchange gifts"
"Good idea, you guys for it?" Lily asked
"Definitely" peter, Sirius, Remus, Gemini and Bella said
* * *
"Shh, I'll wake him up…" Gemini whispered as she crept up on a sleeping Sirius.
"Oh Sirius" Gemini said softly in a sing song voice. She looked at her friends who were trying hard to muffle back their laughs and shrugged
"SIRIUS ZANDER BLACK, GET OFF YOU FAT LAZY BUTT AND GET UP! WERE ALMOST AT THE STATION" Gemini yelled in his ear
He nearly jumped a foot off his chair and landed on the floor with a thud. The compartment burst in to laughter as Sirius jumped up.
"Oh your gunna get it Gemini Cielo!" Sirius said playfully and he jumped on top of her
The two friends wrestled each other to the floor, laughing. Sirius managed to get on top of her and was tickling her with no intent of stopping. Gemini tried at first to get him off, but had no luck to she decided to take this in to her own hands. She had to concentrate while laughing, which is really hard to do, but she managed to lift Sirius up a bit. She then flipped him over with one of her legs and sat on his cheat. She went nose to nose with him and whispered. " To bad Siri baby, looks like I beat you this time" and she kissed the tip of his nose.
She got up and sat down in her seat, where Mischief soon took his usual spot on her lap. Sirius was still on the floor with a goofy smile on his face 'she kissed me! YES YES YES'. He was mentally doing a victory dance, sort of a touch down super bowl thing.
* * *
"So we'll see you guys in about three days?" Bella asked as they got off the train
"Yea, Gemini, there's your mom, we gotta go guys, see you later!" Lily said as they all hugged each other good bye.
Lily and Gemini walked over to meet rose and climbed in to the Evans car. The two girls immediately began to fill her in with the details of their first months at hogwarts. They left out Gemini's telekinesis and how she achieved it, but they told her all about their friends, teachers, the Halloween ball, their favorite classes, on how Lily was excellent in charms, but Gemini kicked everybody's butt in potions.
"I'll see you in a bit Lily, we have to go shopping for Christmas gifts!" Gemini said as she began to cross the street to her house
"Sure, I'll call you ok?"
"Alright, oh and thank you for picking me up Rose!"
"Any time dear, tell your mother I said hi"
"Sure, bye!"
Gemini walked though her front door and was immediately swallowed by her mother hugs and kisses. When she finally let go her father picked her up and began to swing her around in circles
"So Gemini dear, how was you first few months and your school?" Stella asked as she lead her youngest daughter in to the kitchen where she was cooking a huge dinner.
"Oh mama it was great! I have so many things to tell you! It was unbelievable!"
So all though out dinner she explained her classes, teachers, friends and enemies. On how potions was easily her best subject and how she already had people hating her the first day. Gemini knew she had to tell her parents about her powers, because sooner or later it would slip out some how.
" Mama, Papa, Pisces, I have to tell you all something." Gemini said, while the began to eat their desert
"What is it Principessa? {a/n for all the people who don't speak the Italian language, it means princess, ok, I'm shutting up now!}" Her father asked, looking worried
"Something happened at school…"Gemini said looking at her parents
She began to explain what happened with Reily and how he 'attempted' to beat her up. Virgo looked outraged, Stella, on the verge of tears, and Pisces was happy to see someone else shared her life long passion for beating down on her sister. Virgo was about to say some thing when Gemini cut him off
"No, papa, let me finish. Something happened to me, I did something that made him stop, he was pushed, well thrown, back in to a tree, I didn't know at the time what I did, but soon after headmaster told me what happened…" she took a deep breathe and continued "I have telekinesis"
She looked that the shocked expressions on their faces "Tele – Tele what?" Pisces asked, hoping it was a fatal disease.
"Telekinesis"
"What is it, what can we do to help you, do we need to call a doctor?" Stella said, frantically rushing around the kitchen
"No mama, calm down, telekinesis isn't a disease, I was born with it!" Gemini exclaimed trying to get her mother to calm down
"What do you mean born with it" Virgo asked "when you were born, they told us you were as healthy as could be"
"Papa, every one is born with the ability, they just don know how to use it!" Gemini said "but I do"
"Show me"
"Ok…" Gemini said looking around the room. She saw mischief sniffing around near the oven. She focused her eyes and stretched out her arm, she felt the energy flow from her hand, like an extension of her body and slowly the kitten began to float though the air until he landed on her lap.
The entire family was speechless; they just stared at her like she had three heads or something.
"You have a powerful gift my dear, please don't abuse it" Stella said as she regained her speech.
" I know mama"
"HOW, HOW COULD YOU LET HER LIVE WITH US!" Pisces outburst, shocking her family "SHE COULD LIKE KILL US IF SHE WANTED!"
"But I don't, so I wont, I'm quite harm less, if not provoked" Gemini said, smiling because she scared her sister.
"BUT SHE WILL, DO YOU NOT REMEMBER WHAT SHE DID TO ME!" Pisces screamed, talking about when Gemini knocked her out the day before they moved here.
"WELL IF YOU DIDN'T START WITH ME THEN I WOULDN'T HAVE HAD TO HURT NOW WOULD I!" Gemini yelled back
Both girls stood up to face each other. Pisces was a good 7 inches taller than she, being 5'5, was. Although Gemini was always small for her age, she made up for in spirit and strength, and Pisces knew it.
"Girls please!" Stella pleaded with her daughters
"Sorry mama" Gemini said siting back down
"Yea sorry" Pisces muttered
"Now, Gemini, know that everything is said and done we had a visit from an owl this morning. I dare say it was for you?"
Gemini's eyes lit up, Stella seeing this let her daughter leave early from the table and see what was waiting for her in her bedroom.
Gemini sprinted up the stairs and rushed in to her room where she saw a parcel and a letter. She flopped down on the bed and eagerly opened the letter
Gemini:
Come è la Mia Stella? il Dumbledore ha scritto me. Sì conosco il dumbledore. mi ha detto che cosa è accaduto su Halloween. Avete dato non soltanto che il bastardo un occhio nero ma egualmente ora voi ha potenzi molto speciali. li vorrei venire lo visito. Potete portare un amico se gradiste. nel sacchetto, ci è un sacchetto della polvere di floo. Il tiro giusto alcuni dentro a voi inforna il posto, fa un passo dentro alle fiamme ed all'urlo " la GINNASTICA di TONYS!" l'cOh e li mantiene gomiti rimboccati dentro! Ci è egualmente un regalo per voi dentro là, io lo spiegherà quando arrivate qui.
Arrivederci per ora
~Tony.
Gemini was happy. No she wasn't happy she was ecstatic. She stared at the letter as her mother called up to her
"Gemini, lily's here!"
Lily walked in to Gemini's room to see her jumping up and down on her bed.
"Ok… who let you have sugar?" Lily asked as she sat down on the floor and began to play with Mischief.
A smile spread across Gemini' face as she jumped, well fell of her bed. She sprang up and gave the letter to Lily.
"Gem, I don't speak Italian!" Lily said
"Oh yea, oh I know that!" Gemini said pacing around the room " Oh, Oh I know! I speak Italian! I'll translate it for you!" a super hyper Gemini said, snatching the letter away from lily
Gemini cleared her throat and began to translate
"Heaven:
How is my star? Dumbledore wrote to me. Yes I know Dumbledore. He told me what happened on Halloween. Not only did you give that bastard a black eye but also now you have very special powers. I would like you to come visit me. You may bring a friend if you would like. In the bag, there is a bag of floo powder. Just throw some in to you fire place, step in to the flames and yell "TONYS GYM!" oh and keep you elbows tucked in! There is also a gift for you in there; I will explain it when you arrive here.
Bye for now
~Tony
"Wow, I wonder what's in the parcel" Lily wondered aloud.
"Yea, what would he send me" Gemini headed towards the bed and began to unwrap the parcel. Out fell a little bag.
"That must be the Floo powder" Lily said
"Oh my" Gemini whispered as she pulled out a metallic black cloak. It looked like it was made of ice, but it wasn't. She couldn't figure out what it was made off, it a smooth as silk, but it wasn't thin, it was warm but lightweight all at the same time.
"What is it?" lily asked, staring at the cloak
" I don't know…" Gemini began "but it's beautiful,"
"Yea"
"Oh lily," Gemini said, a smiling covering her face "you want to go to Italy?"
* * *
After much persuasion the girls convinced their parents to let them go to Italy, by ways of wizarding travel. Gemini wrote back to Tony, telling him about the arrangements. Lily arrived at Gemini's at about 9 o'clock that morning. Gemini took the bag of floo powder opened it and each girl took a handful. Gemini went first, she threw it in to the fire and marveled over the beautiful emerald green color. She cautiously stepped in to the flames and yelled " LA GINNASTICA DI TONYS!" He whole body started spinning, faster and faster until she fell out. She looked around the strange new room; she's never been in. she really started to panic when Lily came out of the fire. She was about to say something when she heard a familiar voice.
" È che la Mia Stella che vedo " Tony said as he walked in to see a very panic stricken Gemini.
" Tony! come abbiali stati! li ho mancati così tanto!" Gemini said as she ran up and hugged him
" me a, attesa dell'c. Oh questo potrei aiutare 'Lenguasi' " Tony said, pointing his wand at Lily "ah that's better!" Tony said in plain English, but with a thick Italian accent " you must be Lily, I'm Tony"
"Hello, what was that charm you used on me?" lily asked
"Oh, it was a language charm, it makes it so that I can understand what you're saying in English, and vise versa!"
"Oh, I get it now!" lily said perking up
"So Gemini, how about a little match, for old times sakes?" Tony asked, with a twinkle in his eye
"Ok Tony, who is it?" Gemini asked with her hands on her hips
" I have no clue what you are talking about" Tony said with a grin
"Ok, you have another pair of gloves, I left mine back in England" Gemini asked him, seeming to get more excited
"For you, of course, now lets see what we can do about your clothes" Tony said looking at what she was wearing
Gemini couldn't help but laugh, she knew he was going to say something about her clothes. Just because she still wore tank tops, in the middle of winter doesn't mean she was dress inappropriate. She was wearing an old boxing tank top and a pair of sweats. Gemini just grinned.
"What ever you say Tony" Gemini sad as she lead lily in the locker room, where a pair of gloves, and boxing shorts were laid out for her.
* * *
"Everybody quiet down, quiet down" Tony pleaded with the boxers in the main gym "HEY EVERYBODY SHUT UP! thank you. Now that I have your attention, I would like you all to welcome out guest here today Gemini Cielo." He waited until the murmurs of the crowd stopped "for those of you that know her, this is a special treat, for those that don't, be prepared for a fight not to miss. In one corner we have our returning champion Santos "Bashy" Colegrande" many people began to cheer as a boy, about the age of 13 walked in to the ring.
"He looks just like Sirius" Gemini whispered to Lily, when Lily gave her a quizzical look, because they didn't look at all alike, Gemini added on "way to cocky"
"And in the other corner is one of our veterans, if you've been around a bit, you all know who I am talking about, people, I give you Gemini "The Fallen Angel" Cielo!" Gemini trotted out in to the ring, the ring she once dominated. There were many cheers for her, but also many whispers.
"Newbies" she though to herself She shot Tony a look about the nickname he suddenly gave her. Tony just winked and continued talking "now I want to see a good clean fight, lets go!"
*Ding ding*
Immediately the two started to fight, "Bashy" wasted no time in starting this fight. He quickly moved in and just began lashing out with anything off the top of his head. She saw it in his eyes; he had no clue what he was doing. She heard the cheer from the crowd. If they though he was as high as the sky, she would bring them as high as the heavens. She got much lighter on her feet and began to dance around him. She darted every which way, confusing the heck out of him; he would trip over himself, or keep barreling in one direction, blindly punching. This is where she would get her chances. She threw a few powerful punches when there were openings. She bided her time, letting him tired himself out. Then she saw it, he couldn't handle it any more, she charged in for the attack. She let all of the energy flow though her punches, her moves as fluent as the air itself; she would sway back and forth, like the branches of a wheeping willow in a calm summer breeze. Gemini lost count of the round bells, she knew it would be over soon. She began to mirror his steps, frustrating him to wits end. Then finished him off. He fell to the ground with a thud
"ONE" Gemini saw him look up
"TWO" they caught each other's eyes and Santos smiled
"THREE" his head fell to the ground
"AND THE WINNER IS Gemini "" Cielo!" Tony yelled as the crowd looked on with disbelief. The people who were there when Gemini grew up in the ring all cheered her on. But something wasn't right there. "Bashy" got up way to easily.
"HEY THATS NOT FAIR!" a man yelled from the crowd
"Oh, why do you say that?" Gemini asked nicely, this seemed to get the man even madder
"OH COME OFF IT! EVERY BODYS KNOWS YOUR ARE TONY'S FAVORITE, YOU CHEATED!" the man boomed
Gemini just smiled, looked at Tony, who nodded, and she walked to the edge of the ring where the man was standing. She leaned on the ropes and said in a calm, very professional manner " I can tell you one thing. I've done this my way. You don't have anybody to blame for this win but me and I love it. Also besides the fact that I haven't been in a boxing ring in lets see " she stops to think " about seven months! And also it was plain to see to any experienced boxer, that he had no clue what he was doing. He had no grace, no strategy; he only had his brutality. Now excuse me for saying this, but when you put all of that together, that doesn't equal a good boxer, it equals someone who has was to much aggression and has nothing to do with it so he decided to go to a gym and show off his strength. That's not what boxing is about, boxing is not only a sport, it's a way of life. When you come to understand that, you can start seriously training but until then, you only just a wanna be." Gemini said. She started off talking to the man, but ended up giving a speech to the entire gym. She earned a standing ovation from all of the occupants, except for "Bashy" and the man, who Gemini thought was his father.
"Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a day to spend with my best friends" Gemini trotted off the locker rooms, where Lily was waiting for her. But she was stopped before she entered the door.
"I let you win that match," Santos said, smiling
"And why is that?"
"Because you wouldn't have lasted five minutes with me in that ring."
"Oh really?" Gemini asked. She threw a very well executed uppercut strait to his solar plexus. {a/n for those of you who don't know where the solar plexus is, its where your ribs meet. In other words it where you get the wind knocked out of you}
"What the hell was that for!" Santos said, gasping for air as he fell to his knees
Gemini kneeled down beside him and whispered in to his ear "well, you said you let me win, I wanted to let you know that deep down inside, you know you just made the biggest mistake of your life"
* * *
"Bella!" They two hyper girls yelled in a singsong voice as the entered their usual compartment on the hogwarts express.
"Lily! Gemini!" Bella replied hugging the two friends.
"So how was your Christmas" Gemini asked, doing a Joan Rivers imitation
"Oh it was saw simplify spiffing darling!" Bella answered, pulling off an equally good impression.
"Now, where are those boy?" Lily thought aloud as the train pulled away from the station and started its journey back to hogwarts.
"Ladies and gentleman…" a voice said loudly from out side. The door burst open and the owner of the voice jumped in "Sirius, has enter the building!" Sirius said in the worst Elvis impression humanly possible. "Thank you very much, thank you very much, uh huh, uh huh"
"Will you stop showing off!" James yelled as he pushed his best friend into the compartment followed by Remus and peter.
" I know, you can stop showing off! She right- oops" peter said, just realizing what he just said and hiding behind Remus, who had a large smile across his face.
"What are you guys talking about?" Bella began, seeming very interested.
"Nothing!" Sirius blurted out
"Oh, It didn't sound like nothing, you've only been talking about it for the PAST THREE DAYS!" James said, with an evil smile playing across his face.
"What's going on?" Lily asked, who was getting very interested
"Like I said… nothing is wrong everything is just peachy!" Sirius said, who looked extremely nervous
" I know! Let's give out gifts now!" Remus said, maybe a little to bit excited
"Oh, cant we wait until we get back to the castle" Sirius whined, looking uneasy
"No, we cant" James said aloud "besides, you've talked about this WAY to much to give it up now!"
"Fine!" Sirius sighed as he gave in and sat down.
"Why are you so jumpy today?" Gemini asked as she sat down next to him and put her hand to his head checking for a temperature. Sirius shuttered at her touch.
"Fine, just fine" Sirius muttered as he tried to calm himself down.
"Now, me and Gemini went to Italy over the break to visit her old gym. Not only did she beat A way to cocky guys butt, we bought you all presents!" Lily said, as she looked thought her bag for the gifts.
"Yea, And I got this" Gemini said as she pulled her cloak out of her bag. " I don't know what it is, I got it as a present"
"Hey, I know what this is!" Remus exclaimed as he ran his fingers of ver fabric "it's an enhancement cloak, it make your strong side stand out, it will probably make your telekinesis stronger and also your natural abilities will sky rocket."
"Wow" Gemini whispered, as she listened to Remus
"So! Who wants to open gifts now!" peter asked
"Bella this is for you, from us" Gemini said as she handed Bella a small box.
"And this is for you guys" Lily said as she handed each boy a bag "from us"
"Here Gemini, Lily" Bella said as she handed each of them a small box. They opened them up and pulled out a necklace. Gemini's said, "Best" and Lily's said "forever". They looked at Bella and saw that her necklace said "Friends"
"Lily, Bella, Gemini! Catch!" James yelled as he threw each girl a box, "from us." The girls opened their presents. Each girl got a mirror, when you look into it, I told you how you were feeling that day.
"Gemini," Sirius said walking over to her and sitting on the seat next to her. He took a deep breath and took out a small box, and opened it. Gemini gasped when she saw what was inside. It was a necklace, with a small ball about the size of a marble on it. He lifted it up to her eye level and let her get a good look at it. Inside of the ball, to her amazement, were hundreds of tiny little stars, moving in a circular motion. {A/n think about the galaxy on Orion's collar from 'men in black'} With trembling fingers he moved her hair over to one side and put the necklace on from behind. He leaned in toward her ear and whispered very lightly.
"Will you go out with me?"
Gemini turned around to look him in the eyes. What beautiful eyes, she thought. She looked at him smiled and whispered "yes"
Sirius was stunned, he sat back, a huge smile spreading across his face "I – I – I'll be right back" he said as he stood up and left the room
Everyone gave Gemini quizzical but burst out laughing when they heard Sirius yell "YYYYEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS"
James got up and looked out the door, followed by his friends. They broke down laughing when they saw Sirius dancing down the hallway, actually doing an I'm-going-to-Disney-world-because-I-just-won-the-super-bowl dance.
The month flew and so far Snape earned himself a black eye and Malfoy wanted James dead. Gemini and Sirius were having the times of their life. They weren't actually going out, they were just together. And they made sure EVERYBODY knew that. Gemini would think of the worlds greatest pranks, and Sirius would pull them off.
It was February and it just so happens to be Valentines Day. When everyone was at breakfast the owls soared in and began to drop valentines around the great hall. The seven friends were surprised to see that about thirty owls began swooping down dropping cards, gifts, teddy bears and candy on to the three girls' laps. The boys just stared at their pile, then two the girls, all they got were a few cards. Then Sirius shot daggers at every guy in the room. Gemini noticed this. She got up and walked to his seat. She sat down on his lap, put her arms around his neck and pulled him in to a valentine's day kiss. When they were done, Gemini looked in to the stunned eyes of Sirius, and giggled. Sirius looked at all of the envious faces in the hall and smiled.
Potter girl – sorry about making Pisces so mean! I was going to name her Aries, but then I saw hit with an idea, so I couldn't use it! SORRY TO ALL THE Pisces OUT THERE!
Thank you all for reading, but I would love you all if you would review to!
Disclaimer: I own Gemini and the plot…. JK owns all things harry potter, but I wouldn't mind owning Sirius though:: HE HE HE::