Sorry it took so long, I just got a scanner, and have been drawing all day instead of typing, but this is a long chapter about (scrolls down) 34 pages long 12 font, so that is a lot. Ok, this chapter, I got a bit emotional. Well I guess you can expect that from me because.. I GOT A HUNDRERD ON MY EMOTIONS TEST THINGY AND YOU ONLY GOT A TEN! ISN'T THAT RIGHT LISA! Hehe, ok I'm over it, but Gemini gets really, really mad at certain person and kills a tree! Ahhh, ok I'm shutting up now, oh yea, and I almost forgot, if your wondering why it looks like she pronounces things in proper English, she doesn't, she has an Italian accent, but I'm to lazy to actually type out the way it is pronounced. So rent the godfather, casino or Mickey blue eyes and take note on the voices ok? Ok…
Spaccare delle stelle
The splitting of the stars
"Oh My God! Lily is that, oh my god it is!" Gemini said as she opened to the door to their usual compartment on the hogwarts express.
"Gemini, it is! It's really her!" Lily replied, trying hard not to break down laughing
"ARABELLA FIGG! OH MY GOSH CAN WE HAVE YOUR AUTOGRAPH!" the girls screamed, scaring their friend half to death.
"What was that for!" Bella asked, after she caught her breath, looking at her two best friends, like they grew extra heads.
"I Dunno" The girls said shrugging.
Just then the door mysteriously opened up and closed back again. Gemini felt that weird feeling again. She knew they were in here, and she would make them come out.
"SO," Gemini said with emphasis "Did I tell you guys what Sirius told me?"
"Nope" Lily said catching on
"Will you tell us!" Bella begged not aware of the other people in the room
'She wouldn't tell them would she' Sirius thought frantically
"So when I wink just start laughing ok?" Gemini whispered, her smile growing bigger as the time passed.
They girls broke out of their huddle and Gemini gave them a wink. They all burst out laughing but were rolling around on the floor when a frazzled Sirius appeared out of thin air.
"What did you tell them!" he asked frantically
"Oh nothing" Gemini said playfully walking behind him. She wrapped her arms around his neck and whispered quietly in to his ear "don't worry, I didn't tell them about your little black dog that you've slept with since you were two"
Sirius let out a sigh of relief as he sat down on one of the seats. Gemini took a comfortable seat right in Sirius's lap, had James's invisibility cloak fly in to her hands and with a smile, and wrapped it around the two of them.
* * *
"How long have they under there for!" Peter whined
"About half an hour" Remus said, grinning
"I think I should see what going on under there" James began, moving towards the 'vacant' seat in the compartment, but stopped when he saw the look he has receiving from Lily, "It's my cloak after all! I think I have every right to take my it back" he felt for them and grabbed the cloak off them and had to put his hand over his mouth to stop him self from laughing
Gemini was curled up in a ball on Sirius lap, her head resting on his shoulder. Sirius arms were wrapped around her, he too was asleep. Just then the train jolted and Gemini ended up on the floor. She jumped up her hands guarding her face. Her eyes were darting all over the room and her breathing suddenly became heavy.
"Whoa, Whoa Gem, what's wrong?" Lily said, grabbing Gemini's hands, trying to calm her down.
"I had another dream" Gemini whispered, looking in the worried eyes of her best friend." It was worse than last time" she said as she sat down "I saw a girl, sitting in the dark, crying her eyes out, and I heard that laughing, oh god, the laughing, it was louder this time"
"Gem, you have to speak to Dumbledore about it" Bella said, taking her other hand "these dreams are getting out of control"
"Alright, I'll go" Gemini sighed as she sat back in her chair
"No, promise us you'll go, I know you Gemini, you going to say that you're going to go then forget about it, aren't you?" Remus asked
Gemini smiled then looked up at her friend "yup"
* * *
"Did you notice that when Dumbledore told us to stay out of the forbidden forest, that he was looking strait at me?" Sirius asked as they walked in to the Gryffindor common room after the sorting ceremony.
"Sirius, he had every right to stare at you when he mentioned the forbidden forest, Hagrid has spent a good deal of time, chasing you out of it"" Gemini said as she softly smacked him upside the head.
"It's nice to se that somebody loves me" Sirius teased as he sat down in a chair near the fire.
"Oh will you two stop complaining!" Bella sighed as she too sat down
"I know, you guys sound like a married couple" Lily agreed, sitting down on the floor
"Me, and Sirius, married?" Gemini asked, dumbfounded "Could you imagine that? I mean really, could you really imagine the two of us living in the same house together?"
"I know, I would probably blow it up" Sirius said thoughtfully pulling Gemini in to a hug
"No, I would, you would probably do something stupid, as usual, and when I was trying to fix it, that's when I would blow the house up" Gemini said grinning
"But only after we get into a whipped cream fight" Sirius said
"And you clean up the kitchen" Gemini said with her hand on her hips
"And" Sirius began
"Sirius, shut up" Gemini said kissing him softly on the lips
"Aye, Aye captain" Sirius smirked
"Oi! Sirius, did you know that chaser is THE Best position" James taunted, he knew this would get Sirius riled up
"NO! Beater is, by far the absolute best position ever" Sirius retaliated
And this went on for hours. Lily and Bella already called it quits and headed up to bed, but Gemini was enjoying this argument and decided to stick around, but she to fell asleep on the common room floor
* * *
Gemini's eyes shot open as she inhaled a sharp breath, she sat straight up to see Remus and Sirius staring at her. Remus came over and sat down next to her. He put his arm around her and began to try to calm her down
"Gem, what's wrong?"
"It's the god damned dreams Remus!" She said throwing her hands in the air; she looked in to his pale blue eyes "They just seem so real!"
Sirius just sat there speechless. On the floor was his best friend and his girlfriend, hugging 'this shouldn't be affecting me. Just because she goes to Remus with her problems and not me is no reason to get jealous! Wait I'm not jealous! I'm far from it… ok I'm jealous! But this is Gemini, my Gemini! She wouldn't cheat on me would she?'
Gemini looked up to see Sirius confused face, he looked like he was arguing with himself, again. She got up, her brow furrowed in worry, and sat down next to him.
"Siri, baby, what wrong?" she asked taking his hand
"Huh? Oh nothing, you ok?" Sirius asked, a bit distracted
"Yea, a bit tired though, I'm going to bed now, alright?" she asked, kissing him softly on the forehead
"Yea, goodnight"
* * *
"Gemini, Gemini wake up!" Bella said, trying to wake up her sleeping friend "Lily! Help me here!" she whined.
Lily tiptoed up to Gemini's bed, a wicked smile spreading across her face
"Gemini! GET YOUR BUTT OUT OF THIS BED RIGHT NOW!" Lily yelled in to her ear.
"AHH!" Gemini screamed as she tried to get up, but couldn't because her sheets were tangled around her legs, she tripped over herself and landed with a thud on the floor
"Thanks for the wake up call Lily, I'm sure the rest are the Gryffindors are as happy as I am." Gemini muttered as she attempted to untangle herself from the bed sheets, she stood up but then "Oomph!" she fell again "you know you could have just asked me to get up, I would have had no objections to that!"
"Well Bella here has been calling your name for the past five minutes" Lily said her hands on her hips
"Yea, yea, whatever, I'm starving" she said, pulling on her school robes "has any one seen my, oh never mind" she said as she grabbed her running sneakers from underneath her bed. "Now mischief, be a good boy and stay out of trouble." her little cat just looked at her and meowed as if saying 'me get in trouble, you know me all two well'
"Can we go now princess?" Lily teased standing by the door with their bags
"Yes we can" Gemini said grinning while she grabbed her bag from Lily
"Come on, lets go meet the boys for breakfast" Bella said as she dragged the two girls out of the dorm with her.
The three girls bounded down the stairs and jumped in to chairs in the common room where the boys were sitting.
"Morning" Sirius yawned, taking Gemini on to his lap
"How did you girls sleep last night?" James asked, stretching himself out on the couch
"Pretty good" Lily said
"Great" added in
"It sucked, until I woke up that is," Gemini said, slumping down on a chair "oh and I wanted to thank you Remus, I slept much better after you talked to me"
"No problem Gemini, anytime"
That feeling Sirius got last night was back 'is she falling for Remus' he definitely didn't see sparks flying between them but still…
"Sirius? Are you ok?" Gemini asked, looking in to his gray, confused eyes, she put a hand to his head to check if he was running a fever.
Just then Cleo strode past them "So when's the wedding?" she asked sneering at them.
"Hmm, lets see, when you realize that cheerleaders suck, you have absolutely no life, and when you stop wishing for things that you don't have" Gemini said, her eyes narrowing
"I wouldn't speak in that tone with me, Gemini dear. You have no clue what I could do to you, or your squeaky clean reputation" she said as she slipped out of the portrait hole.
"How much you think she gave the sorting hat to sort her into this house" Lily said, still staring at the portrait hole.
"I don't know but there must be something stuck FAR us her ass" Gemini commented as she got up "come on guys, I'm starving"
* * *
"What's going on?" Gemini whispered as they walked in to the great hall, a month later.
"I don't know" Lily whispered back.
Gemini knew something was up. Since school started people have been whispering whenever she walked passed them. At hogwarts rumors spread around like wildfire, and somebody definitely lit a match. But today it was different; they weren't trying to cover it up. Sirius has also been very distant lately. The only people who didn't talk about it were most of the Gryffindors. All of Cleo friends talked about her, loudly in the hallways, making sure every body heard.
She tightened her grip on Sirius's hand as they sat down; the hall burst in to whispers but soon regained its normal volume. Groups of girls would walk by every so often and would cough, or say rude comments under their breath.
"Come on guys, we have potions first and Giovani is going to have my head if I am late… again." Gemini began, standing up, but then added as an after though "besides, I have a feeling that people are talking about me"
"Oh, why would you think some body would be talking about you Gemini?" Cleo asked as she walked pasted them "unless of course, somebody let some thing slip" she walked away, smiling, leaving them completely confused.
On the way to potions, they ran in to Snape.
"Gemini, how could you do that to Sirius?" he said "even I wouldn't consider doing that to somebody!"
"What the hell are you talking about Snape!" Lily snapped, in her best friends' defense
"Why haven't you heard?" Malfoy said, appearing from the shadows "Gemini here has been seen, quite a few times, having a bit to much fun with a good friend of yours"
"Yea right Malfoy" James said, his eyes narrowing
"Believe what you want to believe, but I don't think the rest of the school would agree with you" Snape said over his shoulder, as he headed in to the potions room.
Gemini was truly shocked at this. She decided that she would keep her mouth shut the rest of class, trying to figure out who might of started the rumors, and how much she would have to hurt them when she find out who it was. Sirius, on the other hand, had other things on his mind.
Each class was full of whispering and pointing that Gemini wanted to go and curl up in a ball on her bad. She was really scared, but Sirius didn't seem phased at all by this. He knew it was true, no matter how much didn't want to admit it, he was right, Gemini was cheating on him with his best friend.
* * *
"Hey Gemini, you want to go for a walk?" Sirius asked as they got back to the tower after classes.
"Sure, Lily, bring my stuff up?" she asked, with her pleading eyes.
"Sure" Lily said as she grabbed their bags and pushed them out of the portrait hole "Be back no latter than midnight, and if your not back by then, I'm sending a search party!" Lily teased
When she was sure they were gone Lily turned to Bella and yelled "Bella, to the dorm!" as she dropped Sirius bag at James's feet grabbed Bella hand and sprinted up to their dorm room.
They busted though the door, dropped their stuff on their beds, and took a seat near the window.
"Do you see them yet?" Bella asked after five minutes of waiting
"No, Bella I don't – wait! There they are!" Lily said excitedly as they watched with smiles on their faces. But their smiles quickly faded when they saw the scene below them.
"Oh shit" Bella muttered
They were arguing, no they were past arguing, they were screaming at each other. They saw Gemini's hands flying all over the place, Sirius with his hands crossed over his chest. Then they saw the thing they least expected. She ripped off something from around her neck, threw it at Sirius, and took off towards the castle, Sirius following in suit but at a slower pace.
" Oh my god" Lily whispered, she saw the moon reflecting off her face in to the darkness "She crying"
"That must be bad, to make Gemini cry, she never cries" Bella whispered in to the darkness on the room.
"Come on, let's go back down stairs, I don't think she would appreciate it if we were watching her," Lily said, stepping down from the window. The two friends walked mutely down stairs just in time to see Gemini burst in to the common room.
Every Gryffindor was staring at her, and they all had a reason to too. Her eyes were puffy, her breathing, heavy, and her hands clenching in to fists by her side. She took a deep breathe, held her head high, and walked up to her room. She appeared moments later, in an old tank top, a pair of sweat pants, and her boxing gloves thrown over her shoulder. She rushed down the stairs, swept passed her friends and was about to leave the common room when Sirius walked in. She shot him the worst look humanly possible. If looks could kill Sirius would of been shot in the heart, stabbed in the face, got hit by lightening, electrocuted, drowned, then get cut up in to itty bitty pieces, and lit on fire, because one death wasn't bad enough. Then she stalked out of the common room, in to the darkness of the halls.
Sirius just ignored this and proceeded to his dorm room. But was cut of by a really pissed off Lily.
"What the hell did you do to her!" Lily yelled, drawing attention to the situation.
"I broke up with her" Sirius said, nonchalantly "She was cheating on me with Remus"
"W – What!" Lily shrieked her face turning red "It was those STUPID rumors wasn't it, I can't believe you!" She shrieked as she lost her self-control. She slapped him, hard. "Sirius black, you are an insensitive bastard and I hope that she rips you to pieces!" She turned on her heel, grabbed Bella's hand as they stormed over to where to boys were sitting.
Sirius put a hand up to his now tender cheek. His eyes were cold, not knowing what to do. He just turned around again, and headed back out of the portrait hole to go to dinner. Peter quickly following him.
"Guys, this is not good," Remus said, running his hands though his hair "god only knows what she could do in her condition."
"Come on guys, we have to find her, before she hurts someone, or herself" Bella said, looking very worried
"Hold on let me get my cloak" James whispered, and he ran to his dorm room and got his infamous invisibility cloak.
The four friends rushed down to dinner, to see if anybody saw where she went. Cleo grinned when she saw this; her plan was working perfectly. Now she had to get rid of the problem. She excused herself and headed towards Sirius, twirling her wand in her fingers.
"Sirius, could I talk to you?" She said, seductively
Sirius looked up and nodded. He stood up and left with Cleo to go outside.
* * *
"HOW – COULD – HE – DO – THIS – TO – ME!" Gemini said though gritted teeth, as she punched a tree near the outskirts of the forbidden Forrest, planning to turn it in to splinters by the time night was over.
" What the hell did I ever do to him!" She yelled, throwing her hands up in the air. "I hate boys, they all suck" she sighed as she looked around for something new to do, she failed to notice he two people walking out side.
" I heard what Gemini did to you Sirius" Cleo said as they sat down on the stairs "and I'm really sorry"
Sirius looked at her, he saw something he never saw in her before, the way her blue eye sparkled in the moonlight, and the way she golden blonde hair cascaded down her back in soft curls "I guess I didn't know her the way I though it did" he whispered
"You know Sirius, I would like to get to know you better" she said sweetly, moving closer to him
'Ah what the hell' "You know what Cleo, I think I'd like that" she said, pulling her in to a sweet kiss.
Gemini now had her enhancement cloak on, shadow boxing with the whomping willow, she could easily maneuver in and out of the swinging branches.
"Jab – Reverse - Hook – Block" Gemini said as she executed each moved.
Boxing had always help her calm down. When she was boxing, she felt as if all of the emotions that was building up inside were being released. She, unbelievably enough, found it relaxing. Nothing could phase her when she was boxing, well almost nothing.
* * *
"Guys, look at her, she looks so… so... l oh cant think of a word for it" Lily said.
"Godly?" James suggested
"Exactly" Lily said quietly "I mean really, she's so angry, yet flowing all at the same time"
"You know what is strange" Bella said, "I have never once seen her look like she was about to cry, let alone cry"
"She told me once that she would never let anybody see her cry, I don't know why though, I guess Sirius was the first to witness it"
"Shh! Somebody's coming!" Remus whispered, as they huddled underneath James's invisibility cloak. They all watched in silence when a dark figure skip merrily towards an extremely upset, and equally dangerous Gemini
* * *
"Well, well, well, what do we have here?" Cleo said and she passed a furious Gemini
"What the hell do you want Cleo, I'm not in the mood to put up with your bull shit right now ok?" Gemini snapped, following her with her eyes.
"Oh I just came by to tell you that, Sirius, he's mine now, so I would stay away if I were you" Cleo said, her words like venom to Gemini.
"What are you talking about?" Gemini snapped, the girls now circling each other.
"Who do you think started the rumors? Huh? It was me, nobody in their right mind would think of spreading rumors about you Gemini. Little miss perfect, little miss 'I-always-get-the-boy'. Well I'm standing up to you. I've gotten what I want, now it's time to get what you deserve" Cleo ended, pulling out her wand, but suddenly she froze.
Gemini didn't hate people, she disliked them, but she hated this girl with a passion. She didn't know how, but she was going to get her revenge. With out thinking, she outstretched her hand, and focused with all of her might. Cleo slowly rose of the ground, higher and higher she went, but it didn't stop there. She was now floating about 20 feet above the lake, screaming. Gemini just smiled, and with a flick of her wrist, she began to spin, still screaming. Gemini was about to let her back down, when Sirius bounded out of the castle. He didn't have to look twice to see who was doing it. He sprinted towards Gemini and collided into her, sending her flying in to the tree. This knocked off Gemini's concentration and sent Cleo falling in to the lake. Sirius wasted no time in diving in and saving her. Remus couldn't stand seeing Gemini like this. She was a startled heap on the ground, shacking horribly. He tore off the cloak and ran to her side, followed by Lily, Bella, and James. He pulled her into a hug, and attempted to calm her down. Gemini was completely inconsolable; she seemed like she couldn't form words. She watched Sirius carry Cleo out of the lake and in to the school. Gemini took a deep breath. She bravely stood up, looked at her friends, and was pulled in by a huge group hug.
"You know what's funny?" Gemini said, wearily as they walked in to the school "Sirius was the first to see me cry"
* * *
"You sure you want to go though with this?" Lily asked before they entered the great hall "we can always wait for dinner to be over to see Dumbledore"
"No, that will only make me feel weak, and that's the last I thing I want to feel right now." Gemini said confidently
Gemini held her head high and marched in to the great hall. All eyes were on her. Maybe it was her clothing, maybe it was the black eye she got when she hit the tree, or maybe it was because, they believed the rumors were true, but this didn't not matter to her. She walked strait up to Dumbledore, who acknowledged her presence, and stood up. He led the 5 friends to his office, where Sirius and Cleo were already waiting.
"Now, would anybody like to tell me what happened tonight?" Dumbledore asked calmly
Seven people all started talking at once
"One at time please, Sirius will you explain your story?"
"Well, I heard Cleo scream, so I came running out and saw her above the lake. She had her hand stretched out so I taped her to stop her and dove in to the lake to save Cleo" Sirius said, giving Gemini death glares
"That's not true!" Bella exclaimed, "Gemini was provoked. Cleo pulled her wand out on her, we saw the whole thing"
"Gemini would you like to explain this to me?"
"Well, and you probably heard that Sirius broke up with me tonight. I admit, I was upset, but I didn't want to hurt anyone. So I went boxing, I think I may have um 'injured' one of you trees out there, sorry, but I was almost back to normal when Cleo came over. She was talking of all of this things, lies. And I guess I just snapped. It felt as of I was another person, it was scary" Gemini said softly "but I didn't mean to hurt her, I wanted to but you know I would never do that intentionally"
"THAT IS THE STUPIDEST EXCUSE I HAVE HEARD! EVEN WORSE THAN MINE! SHE"S JUST GETTING BACK AT ME THROUGH Cleo!" Sirius boomed, jumping up out of his seat
"Mr. Black, I do not believe that you fully understand this situation. Now Miss Bronwell, I believe that Gemini has giving you punishment enough, so I will not give you any detentions, but, if you tell anybody about Gemini's secret, I wont be there to stop her"
"Yes sir" Cleo mumbled
"Now I think it is time for all of you to go to your common rooms and get some sleep. It has been a long day for all of you" When they got up to leave, Dumbledore added "Gemini, will you stay for a moment, I would like to discus something with you"
Gemini nodded, and waited until everybody as gone
"Now Gemini, this may seem personal, but do think you could tell me what the sorting hat told you?"
Gemini took a deep breath " It told me that I was hard to see. That I had two sides, that Slytherin would do me good, but Gryffindor would do me best" Gemini said, looking down
Dumbledore nodded and stood up, he walked to a shelf and took down the battered and old sorting hat "well, lets see what it has to tell you know" Dumbledore said softly placing it on her head.
"Well, hello Gemini, I was wondering when I would be seeing this mind again. My, my, my, how it has grown, so complex. Well let's take a look around shall we? Lets see, yes you still have your stubbornness, and your Two sidedness, but your mind still veers toward Gryffindor, when your hearts guide you, not your mind, still a true GRYFFENDOR!"
Gemini took the hat off of her head, and looked up into the eyes of Dumbledore.
"See, you are what you were named, Gemini. Split personality is just one of the traits of a Gemini. Unfortunately, since you are magic, they play a more literal role in your life. You are a constant battleground, Gemini. Your two sides, fighting to be seen. Tonight, you said you felt as if you were a different person? Well that was your, how should I put this, dark side, which is your weaker side. When you have those emotions running though you, your weaker side, grows stronger, and is able to fight off your light side."
"I understand" Gemini said, softly.
"Now, I know your nerves are a quite, rattled from tonight's events, so if you would like to get something to eat to settle your stomach, I will tell you how to get in to the kitchens, the house elves will be all to happy to help you." Dumbledore said as he proceeded to tell Gemini how to get to the kitchens "Now, you won't go and tell anybody on how to get to the kitchens right?" Dumbledore asked his eyes twinkling, after he dismissed her.
"Oh, of course not professor" Gemini said, smiling her innocent smile.
"Good night" Dumbledore said, ushering her out of his office
"Good night sir" Gemini said.
* * *
"Who… who would send this to me?" Gemini asked as she held the red envelope with trembling fingers.
"Gemini, trust me, you're a lot better off opening it now, it will only get worse if you wait" James said looking at her.
"Ok…" She said warily, opening the envelope
" How could you do that to Sirius! I'm glad he broke up with you, you pathetic excuse for a witch! You don't deserve him. Cleo is such a better girl. She wouldn't go and cheat on him with his friend! I'd watch your back if I were you! Because you can guarantee when I'm done with you ohh girl you wont be walking for weeks! And I will send you a curse when I can find an envelope big enough!"
"Oh – my - god" Gemini whispered, she felt like crap but now she felt even worse. Anger was replacing the sorrow in her soul, she bent her head down, and it appeared that she was crying. But she was doing the complete opposite; she was laughing to herself. She stood up and looked at all of the snickering girls in the room, her eyes, a dark and dangerous black.
"Ha, ha, ha. You guys think this is funny. Don't you? Well let me tell you something. Let me tell you all something. It is going to take a lot more than a lousy howler to effect me. I am a Cielo, and no girly-girl push over is going to get me down. But for those who are brave enough to even try, here are a few tips, and I will be sure to use small words and speak slowly so that you would be able to understand. 1. You can attempt to hurt me; key word here is attempt. I grew up in a boxing ring, where the toughest of the tough are from. Wanna try to fight me, go right ahead, I'm right here. 2. You can try to hurt my friends. Big mistake, because if you do that, I will have to kill you, and if you miraculously survive, you will be in so much pain, that even magic wouldn't been able to help you. You will be so ugly, so horrifying, so demented that you will never be able to look at your self again. But I will leave your ears alone, yes your ears, so that every man woman and child who shrieks 'dear god what is that thing' will echo in your perfect ears, and be yours to cherish forever 3. You can kill me of course, but if you do, I will haunt you until your dying day, until your mind explodes in St. Mungo's from all of the pain and suffering I have put you though. Now, if anybody would like to try to hurt me, physically or emotionally, go right ahead, I'm not stopping you. But when my fist collides with your nose, and it implodes on contact, you'll know you were messing with the wrong girl. As we say in Italy, Ridicule è un' arma debole una volta indicato ad una mente forte; ma la gente comune è vigliacchi e teme una risata vuota." She snapped at everyone in the room. She turned on her heel, and left the great hall, leaving the students and the teachers speechless.
Gemini broke out in to a run when she got out of the great hall. She ran towards the entrance door, which burst open on it's own. She hated them. She hated Cleo, she hated Sirius, and she hated that bitch that sent her the howler. But she meant every single word she had said, even if they didn't understand the last part, which was the truth. She soon found herself out side, panting for breathe, she wasn't looking where she was running and it seemed that she ran all the way around the lake. She saw people running towards her, red and blonde hair flying around. Gemini just collapsed, exhausted, waiting for her friends to come.
"Oh my god!" Lily cried as she fell to the ground next to her friend "Are you ok!"
"I'm am just really, really mad. I can't believe that just happened, did I really say all of those things?" Gemini asked, looking at her best friends
"Yea, you should of seen the looks on their faces, they looked like they were going to drop dead." Bella laughed, brightening up Gemini's face, "and Giovani, oh god, he looked like he was about to kill you! Dumbledore though, he seem quite impressed."
"Do you know who wrote it?" Gemini asked hopefully
"Cassandra Patil, you know the Hufflepuff 4th year, she has an older brother to, who is quite good looking now that I think about it…" Lily said, thoughtfully.
"Come on, I'm just overreacting again, I really shouldn't of said those things, but hey, it was fun, and they deserved it" Gemini joked, standing up, brushing off her robes. "Besides, I have quidditch trials today, I can't be spazzing out on every little thing can I?'
"Come on Gem, let's go get some breakfast." Lily said, linking her arm with Gemini and Bella and they walked back into the castle, laughing the entire way.
* * *
Gemini slumped down on the couch, a wide grin playing her face. She was exhausted and loved it. Quidditch trials were harder than she thought. She also had some though competition. There were four other people trying out. A third year, a fourth year, Sirius, and herself. She was the only girl who tried out for the beater position, not just this time, but for as long as the Captain of the Gryffindor team, Michael Lewis, could remember.
"So, how was it?" Bella asked excitedly
"It's was fun, but I couldn't stand being near Sirius" Gemini said, looking down at her hands "it was to hard, ya know?"
"Don't worry Gemini, Sirius is just being a guy, a really pathetic stupid one, they're all like that, he'll get the sense knocked into him sooner or later" Lily said, comforting her friend "even if I have to do it myself!"
The three girls sat around the fire, playing wizard chess. Gemini was terrible at it, she just really didn't have the patients to sit around the chess bored and stare at the little pieces yelling at each other. It also might be the fact that nobody would play with her, because it was rare that she didn't lose her temper, and send the pieces flying in to the fire or into the wall. Bella and Lily on the other hand, could play it for hours. Bella because she actually had the patients for it and Lily because she though it was funny that she could beat James and Sirius hands down. Gemini immediately lost the first round and sat out the rest while Bella and Lily battled it out.
"Hey Gemini, can I talk to you for a minute?" James whispered, suddenly appearing behind her
"Yea, sure" Gemini said getting up,
James grabbed her hand and pulled her up the stairs and quickly brought her into the boy's 2nd year dorm.
She looked around the dorm and it was genuinely a boys dorm. Peter's bed had to be the first bed; it was the neatest bed there. Then came Remus', which was only slightly messy. Next had to be Sirius's because it was the messiest of them all. The bed wasn't made; clothes thrown all over the place, books, papers, and quills thrown about. Wow, looks a lot like my bed. Then there was James's bed. Not too messy, not too neat, average.
"James what's wrong?"
James looked uneasy as he sat down on his bed. He looked up at her, his eyes wide as dinner plates "Me, Sirius, Peter and Remus have to tell you something" he said quickly
"I don't want to talk to Sirius" Gemini said, crossing her arms over her chest, plopping herself down on the foot of James's bed "I don't like to associate myself with superficiali spessi bastardi." She said throwing her hands up.
"Aw, come on Gem, can't you talk to him just this once, please!" James sighed "And no more Italian, I don't know if you're talking about me"
"approvazione, prometto che non comunicherò in italiano intorno voi, in modo da voi non so che sto chiamandoli sig. perfetti." Gemini said, grinning
"Come on, I have to show you something" James said, taking her hand. He guided her down the stairs, and out the portrait hole, hoping they weren't attracting too much attention to themselves. As soon as they got out side, he slipped his invisibility over them and they proceeded to walk down the halls. James obviously knew where they were going because Gemini had never seen this part of the school before; they were in an isolated corridor, with majestic tapestries hanging from the walls. Their were no paintings, only the tapestries, which were equally beautiful and ornate. One tapestry caught her eye though. It was a picture of a woman, dressed in pure white robes. In her hand she held a sword, With a black handle, and a blade as silver as the moon, shining proudly. Behind her was the moon, contrasting with the dark sky behind it. But that was not what made her stop in her tracks. She stopped to stare at the tapestry for the simple reason of what the woman looked like. She had dark brown hair that cascaded down her back, curling softly at the ends. She had soft honey brown eyes, which held a certain superiority that demanded respect. She had a glowing tan complexion, which seem to radiate light. She looks just like me.
"Gem, are you ok?" James asked her, just realizing that she was no longer under the invisibility cloak with him.
"Huh?" She said, snapping out of her daze, "yea, yea I'm fine"
"Come on" James said, guiding her in front of him "what are you staring at?"
"Her" Gemini simply said, pointing towards the tapestry.
" What, it's a picture of the moon" James said, cocking his head to one side
"No, it's a picture of a woman, a really pretty one at that." Gemini commented, looking at James as if he just grew a horn from his head.
"What ever you say Gemini, come on let's go before Filch finds us." James said, taking her hand and dragging her away from the tapestry
"Yea, I guess your right" Gemini said, letting James lead her, she knew she was going to come back and see that tapestry more than once.
" I know I'm right, I'm James potter, I'm always right" James mocked as they came to another tapestry "here we are" He said pointing to the lion that was embroidered on the hangings. He took out his wand and tapped the mouth two times and said something that Gemini quite didn't catch. The lion's mouth opened up slowly and James gave her a leg up. After she pulled James though the mouth, it closed up again and they found themselves in a corridor. James again took the lead and they soon found them selves at a door. James, who was obviously the head of this adventure, opened it and led her inside.
"Oh my" Gemini gasped as they stepped in to the room. The room looked as it went on forever, each wall was painted a deep scarlet red, the ceiling, was black, yes a black ceiling, which looked like it wasn't actually there, just a void in space.
Gemini then turned her attention to the center of the room, where a table with four chairs surrounding it, had a cauldron stationed on it. She then noticed the couch located on the wall where the door was, and jumped when she saw the three boys sitting there. Remus was on one side, refusing to look at Sirius, peter was in the middle, and Sirius was on the other side of peter, glaring at Gemini.
Gemini took one look at him, and turned to walk out of the room. James saw this and grabbed her around the waist, and stopped her from leaving
"Gem, you promised!" James whined
"James, I am sorry but I also said that I do not talk to Superficial, thick, bastards" Gemini said, with a half grin
"Please! It's really important, and you need to be here," he said, trying to hold on to her, while she tried to squirm from his grip "Gem, it's for Remus" He said in an undertone.
Gemini immediately stopped and looked into his eyes. James knew that she would do anything for her friends, absolutely anything, even if it meant killing herself, so that they would be happy.
"Alright… what do I have to do?" Gemini asked, sitting down on the floor.
"Now, Gemini, this isn't any light thing to consider, you have to be sure that you want to do this, ok?" James asked, sitting down next to her
"Tell me, what do I have to do?" Her eyes determined.
"Me, peter, and Sirius…"James began before taking a deep breath "are becoming anigami"
The information immediately shot though Gemini's brain, it look her a moment before she regained her speech. "You guys are aware how dangerous this is right?" Gemini said, slightly stunned
"That's what I said" Remus said "but no, they said that they're willing to take the risk"
"This would help your transformations right?" Gemini asked him, slowly pulling the pieces of the puzzle together.
"It might keep my mind, but I'm not sure, It might not do anything at all"
"But why do you guys need me for this?"
"That's what I said," Sirius snapped "but Remus wouldn't have it any other way"
"Well Remus has a point, none of us have the talent or the ability." James said to Sirius, then turning to Gemini "Gemini, we need you to make the potion, you are better than everybody in our year. Probably better than the fourth years to, you know you are good, so don't give me that humble I-don't-know-what-your-talking-about look" James added in, looking at her, trying to be serious, but he was still laughing in his eyes.
Gemini knew that being an anigami was dangerous, and was a very complicated potion to create, but if it made Remus happy…
"I'll do it" Gemini said, determined "when do we start?"
"ASAP" Peter said, talking for the first time that night "But we sorta have no clue where to start"
"Well, I guess we have go to the library then" Gemini said.
"Gemini, you do realize that you are involved with this right?" Remus asked, looking into her eyes "and that you can become one to"
"Remus, I would love to but… I can't." Gemini said, looking slightly upset. "I would if I could, but my emotions are hard enough to control now, animals emotions are like a bazillion times more hard to control, I would like bite people's heads off, if they even got me an itty bitty bit mad. Yea Remus I'm sure. And don't give me that look Sirius 'cause you know I can wipe it right off your face with a measly right hook, yea that's what I thought"
"Come on" James said, standing up and stifling a yawn, lets go to bed, we can get at least like four hours of sleep now"
They five left the red room, and silently walked back to the Gryffindor tower. When they passed the mysterious tapestry Gemini looked up and looked strait in to her eyes. Who are you?
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