Ok! Here it is. The next chapter. Sorry it took me so long, I've been away a lot. It isn't all of what I promised but I still think it is good…
Due lati della moneta
Two Sides of the Coin
"Hello Gemini" the man said as he stepped out of the shadows. He was tall and, with jet-black hair and piercing ice blue eyes, brimmed with red. "It is a honor finally meeting you"
"Who are you?" she asked, still staring at him
"My name is Tom Riddle, and you are probably asking your self why am I here" he began, motioning her to follow her as he walked down the street. "I am a wizard, as you most likely guessed. The reason I am here is because I need you. You are very powerful Gemini. I want you to be in my elite group of wizards. Only the best are selected, from the purest, oldest wizard families."
"Wait, hold on, I'm not from a wizard family"
"Yes, I know." He said sounding slightly disgusted "But you have a connection to one of the most powerful witches in the world. You, my dear, are a direct descendant of Diana. She is the mother of magic, queen of the witches in Italian mythology." Tom said, guiding her in to the woods "she would occasionally come down to earth, disguised as a mortal. The prophecies say that the descendant of Diana will be just as powerful as she. That's why I want you Gemini. That's why I need you"
"But wh-" she began, but tom put a single finger to her lips.
"Shh. Think about it. You can be the most powerful, most respected witch in the world. And with you at my side, nobody would be able stop us." He leaned over and whispered in to her ear "only the pure are worthy"
He was gone. Tom apparated from the spot, leaving Gemini there in a trance.
'Whoa, he's hot. Gemini your not supposed to thinking like that! Why does he want you? I don't care; he's just really hot. Why must I share a mind with you! Because I'm the cuter half. Oh shut up'
Gemini turned on her heel and sprinted back to her house, glided though the window and collapsed don the floor. 'Why does every thing have to happen to me!'
* * *
"Sirius Black! Put me down right now!" Gemini yelled playfully as Remus carried her though the crowded streets of Diagon Alley.
"Not until you tell me where you put my money!" Sirius replied.
"I can't tell you that!" Gemini laughed
"Ok then" Sirius put her down and began to tickle her like the was no tomorrow
" Hey – tha – that's not – fair!" Gemini whined, trying to get away from his grip "ok – ok – I'll – tell you!"
"That's better" Sirius grinned, "now, where's my money?"
Gemini rolled her eyes and stuck her hand down her shirt and pulled out a bag of galleons "happy now?"
"Actually, I would be even more happy if I could have been the one who go it" Sirius said with a stupid grin on him face advancing on her.
"Don't even think about it pervert" Gemini warned, putting a finger to his chest "remember, I'm not going out with you any more, and I have a very powerful punch, we wouldn't want to mess up you perfect nose, now would we?"
"You got a point there" Sirius sighed "I do have a perfect nose"
"Oh shut up"
"Will you two stop flirting!" Lily laughed "we still have to go to the potions place, I'm fresh out of beetle eyes"
"Yea, I have to pick up a book while I'm there " Gemini said thoughtfully, linking her arm with Lilys and walking off to the potion place.
The girls walked into the store and Lily went straight to the counter while Gemini headed over to the book section.
"Here we go" Gemini whispered as she picked up 'Anigami and you: A Potions Masters Guide To the Animal Inside'
"Hmmm, anigami huh?" A silky voice said form over her shoulder.
Gemini whipped around and found herself looking into the eyes of Snape. "That topic is highly advanced, even for me." Snape said eyeing her suspiciously
"Snape I'm a big girl now, I tie my own shoes and everything. I don't think an anigami potion would be that difficult." Gemini boasted, knowing that this would get him mad because she was his only competition in school.
Snape just look at her, his black eyes boring in to her brown ones "what are you up to Cielo?"
"Nothing that concerns you" Sirius said, appearing behind Snape, his eyes narrowed.
"Oh hello Black" Snape said with much disgust "come to rescue your little girl friend?"
"She isn't my girl friend" Sirius said, his voice dropping down to a dangerous growl.
"Oh yes, I forgot, she broke up with you, how sad" Snape said casually "then I guess you wouldn't mind if I did this" He whipped around and pulled Gemini in to a deep kiss. A kiss unlike any kiss she has received before.
"You little son of a bitch" Sirius hissed and with that he dragged Snape outside to beat the crap out of him, leaving Gemini speechless.
Gemini paid for her book, still in her trance. She walked out side to see Sirius and Snape trying to kill each other. Absent-mindedly she sent Snape and Sirius flying backwards.
"Will you to please stop fighting!" she sighed as she help Sirius up by hand and Snape by Tk.
Snape stalked away, nursing his bleeding lip and Sirius just stared at her with disbelief in his eyes.
"Are you ok! Do you need like physiological care or something?! Do you have fever? Open your mouth and say ah" Sirius said quickly, rushing around her.
"Sirius" she said, grabbing his shoulders "I'm fine, I am not going to die because he kissed me"
"Who kissed you?" James asked, as he walked over with Lily on his back
"Snape" Sirius muttered "Kissed her. I mean, what did she ever do to him! Besides breaking his nose, I mean really, nobody deserves that kind of punishment"
"Oh my god!" Lily said jumping off James's back "he likes you!"
"WHAT!" James and Sirius both yelled at the same time
"Come on Gemini" Lily said excitedly, grabbing her hand "we need to get you away from them as soon as possible and make you very, very unlikable"
So Gemini let Lily guide her though the crowds in search for Bella, still stunned about the whole thing.
* * *
"I still can't believe he did that!" Sirius muttered while the seven friends sat on the hogwarts express.
"Sirius!" Peter yelled "it was 2 weeks ago, give it a rest!"
"I can't!" Sirius sighed at he got up and headed for the door "I need to punch him, then I will calm down"
"Sirius you will sit down right now" Bella yelled
Of course, Sirius didn't listen until he was thrown back to his chair.
"You know, that's what sucks about having you as a friend" Sirius muttered to a grinning Gemini "I can't hurt anybody"
"Hey, if anybody wants to beat anybody up, it's me" Gemini said, crossing her arms over her chest "and I'm trying to be good this year."
"Whoa, wait, did you just say that you're trying to be good this year?" Remus asked suddenly, dropping his book "excuse me while I have a heart attack"
"I can to be good!"
"Sirius, I bet you 10 galleons that Gemini can't be good this year" James asked his best friend
"I know Gemini… so you're on!"
James and Sirius shook hands and James said, "this is going to be the easiest 10 galleons I ever made"
* * *
Gemini couldn't concentrate. All during the sorting her eyes kept wandering to the Slytherin table. She couldn't understand it. She should feel disgusted by the fact that Severus Snape lips actually touched hers.
'Well, he does have deep, dark eyes, you can just get lost in, and. NO stop it! Why did I get stuck with you! Cause you love me. No I don't. I mean look at him, if we didn't go and break his nose, and maybe if he cut his hair, he would be really good looking. What do you mean we? It was your fault you lost your patience and had to go and right hook him in the nose not mine. Yea but you let me so ha!'
"Gemini are you ok?" Lily asked her friend after seeing the look on her face.
"Huh" she said, snapping out of her trance "oh, yea, I'm fine, just got a bit of a head ache that's all" she said, uneasily, turning back to the sorting, a blush covering her face.
"What's wrong with her?" Bella whispered to Lily
"I think it involves a certain Slytherin." Lily whispered back, pointing to the Slytherin table.
"Aw…Poor thing"
* * *
The next morning when the owl post came in the same black owl soared in a drop a roll of parchment on her lap and flew away. Gemini spirits lifted as she excused herself and ran back to the dorm room. She quickly opened up the rolls and greedily read the letter.
I think it is time for us to meet again. Tonight at midnight when the moon is high, in the forest where the light touches the forest floor. I will be waiting for you Gemini. Now you will see the full extent of you powers. I await your arrival.
TMR
Gemini grinned when she finished reading the short note. She would be seeing him again tonight. She quickly pocketed the note and ran back to breakfast.
* * *
"Where the hell is that classroom?" Sirius muttered, stomping up the steps.
"Somebody's PMSing today" Gemini grinned running up to her friend, "Does it hurt, do you have cramps, would you like me to bring you to the hospital wing to get you some PMS relief?"
"Oh, shut up" Sirius mutter under his breath "I'll bet you anything the Ravenclaw are already there"
"Of course they are," James sighed. "I sometimes think they all have magnets implanted into their skulls that draws them to their classes."
Peter paused on the steps, and James nearly crashed into him. "Do you really think so?" he mused.
"Yea Peter, all of them have little magnets in their heads." Sirius answered sarcastically. "We're going to be late for Divination if you stop to think about it..."
It was their first day of Divination, but they didn't appear concerned at all about their first impression on this new teacher.
"Where do you guys think you are going?" A picture of an old wizard drawled, sounding a lot like professor Binns
"I think we're going to divination" Gemini mocked in the same voice "Or so the stars have told me"
"You know in my day…" the old wizard trailed off as the friends ran down the hall.
They wandered aimlessly, well aware that they were late already. They reached a plaque on the wall. The plaque read simply "Divination".
"Oh, look a plaque, there's a big help" Sirius muttered, sitting down on the floor "at this rate were going to be late for our next class to!"
"Umm... Sirius, look up." Peter announced.
The four Gryffindors turned their heads upwards.
There was a circular trapdoor in the ceiling.
The boy blinked. "Well, how are we supposed to get in there?"
A silver ladder manifested from the trapdoor, pouring down like liquid starlight and solidifying before James. "This is so cheesy," he muttered. "I bet you anything that I can work that spell with a minimum of effort--"
"Here Gemini, you can go up first!" Sirius said, picking up his small friend and placing her on the ladder "you know just in case there's something deadly up there"
"Oh thank you Sirius, I feel so reassured now" Gemini said sarcastically, climbing up the later "why didn't I take that numbers class thingy with Lily, Remus and Bella"
"It's either because you love us," James shouted up at her "or you're just plain stupid"
She emerged into a hazy classroom filled with vivid violet incense that made them both cough. Throw pillows littered the ground, surrounding mirrors that were built into the floor. A considerable number of students sat on the pillows; they were all either Ravenclaw or Gryffindors.
"It's all right guys, come on up," Gemini shouted to her friends below.
"Welcome to Divination," purred the teacher at the head of the classroom. She was draped in silks and gems.
"I knew that we would have latecomers, and I have been awaiting your presence before beginning today's lesson," she continued, her voice almost as mesmerizing as the incense.
Gemini refused to be mesmerized. She said dubiously, "I hope that wasn't a prediction, because what with the maze-like structures on the way to this class I bet you've got latecomers every year for the first class."
For just a moment, her lips twitched downwards.
"Oh, I see you DID make that prediction. My bad, then. Looks like you were right, unsurprisingly enough." James said looked around the classroom.
"My name is Professor Trelawney," she tried again. "Take a seat anywhere there's a spare--"
"If we're sitting on them cushions, there's a whole lot of spares--" Peter piped up.
"Your 'group' of friends will be separated" Trelawney finished, peering up at them from under heavily painted eyelids.
James ignored that. "Hey guys look! A whole bunch of pillow on the floor! It's just like a slumber party!" He squealed, imitating a little girl and he grabbed Sirius's hand and dragged him over the group of pillows. "We're going to paint our nails and play true or dare and stay up all night long and have oh so much fun!" James added in, getting into the part as he bounced around on the floor.
Gemini and Peter were laughing so hard they fell on to the floor, causing a scene.
"Two students to a table," Trelawney
"Is that so? Do the stars talk to you a lot, Professor?" James returned absently, peering around for a different seat. "I mean, I imagine the other PROFESSORS would have warned you about us two... ah, four, actually, but Remus isn't here. That still makes THREE, though."
"Excuse me, but are we forgetting somebody here?" Gemini mocked
"Oh, how could I forget?" Sirius said in pretend shock, "Ladies and gentleman may I introduce-"
"THAT IS ENOUGH!" Trelawney snapped, loosing her composure "Who are you, miss?"
"You must be new... I'm Gemini, Gemini Cielo. I recommend that you don't do anything that would upset me. I have a tendency to make things… happen with out the slightest bit of guilt" She boasted proudly.
"My class was quite fine until you showed up," she pointed out. "Now I have lost control of them, thanks to your antics"
"There's a surprise. Most guys pay attention when people don't wear enough clothes." Gemini added in
Trelawney
Probably on purpose. I knew this class would be a joke. I must have the Sight! Gemini smirked to herself.
"Sit down."
The four of them took a seat at the new table.
"TWO to a table," Trelawney
Finally after much confusion Gemini and Peter ended up and a table with James and Sirius right next to them.
Trelawney
"Really?" Sirius called out. "We can drop History of Magic this year? That'd certainly change my perspective on sleeping in class."
Laughter exploded in the room. Professor Trelawney
"Or maybe you just can't see through the ink you seem to have spilled on your eyelashes," Gemini tried helpfully. "If you'd just clean it up, I'm sure you'd see--"
Trelawney
Gemini sighed and rested her head on her hands. She winked at Peter.
"Some of us will gain a new focus," she said slowly, "like... YOU, Michael Boone!" Michael stiffened, looking around him, as if thinking she might have mistaken him for one of his neighbors. "Others will learn that power isn't everything... Peter Pettigrew!" Gemini watched Peter, look at her with fearful eyes
"And some of us will die..." she added in a whisper. No one could miss the fact that her eyes turned to Gemini, then James.
"Well, yes, Professor," she said loudly. "I'm planning on dying. How did you ever guess?" She turned to James. "What about you, James? Gonna die someday?"
James nodded, straight-faced, but his eyes were laughing. "Oh, sure. I think one day in the distant future I may decide it's time for me to die. You could even say I predict it will be so."
"I know I've been seriously considering this matter," Peter volunteered thoughtfully. "I've decided that I, too, will die someday."
"There, see?" James exclaimed. "I'll bet you that we'll all die in here, someday!"
"I meant this year, Potter," she responded coolly. "This year."
"Oh look at me, I'm shaking in my little school robes" Gemini added in sarcastically "give me a break"
"Yea, the day I die, the most evil thing will be gone in a puff of smoke." James said, rolling his eyes.
"Today" Trelawney continued "we will be do something more
Advanced, seeing how this is my first class. To day we will be studying the stars"
Gemini's hand immediately shot up "Can I be excused from this lesson?" She asked
"Absolutely not. Why do you think I should let you go, but nobody else?"
"Because the fact that since I could talk, I have been reading star charts with my father, he is an astrologer you know. He can read the stars like a book. So can I" The last part wasn't true. She didn't know the stars like her father did, but she knew enough to make stuff up a she went along.
"Well Miss Cielo. Prove it. What zodiac sign are we in today?"
"That's easy" Gemini boasted " it is September 2. We are in the sky Virgo, the virgin. Virgo is the only zodiacal sign represented by a female. It is sometimes thought of as a potentially creative girl, delicately lovely; sometimes as a somewhat older woman, intelligent but rather pedantic and spinsterish. The Virgoan preciseness, refinement, and fastidious love of cleanliness, hygiene and good order, conventionality and aristocratic attitude of reserve sometimes confirm the latter impression. They are usually observant, shrewd, critically inclined, judicious, patient, practical supporters of the status quo, and tend toward conservatism in all departments of life. On the surface they are emotionally cold, and sometimes this goes deeper, for their habit of suppressing their natural kindness may in the end cause it to atrophy, with the result that they shrink from committing themselves to friendship, make few relationships, and those they do make they are careful to keep superficial." {A/n ok. If you saw my cousin Vinny, this is supposed to be long. It's like when Lisa is giving her car speech at the end}
Sirius, Peter, and James all stood up and gave her a loud round of applause.
Gemini looked at her shocked professor and smiled. "Never doubt me. You can only doubt me if I say something like 'I came back from the dead'. Would you like a deeper description or is this good enough for you liking?"
"Tha- That's is good enough" Trelawney mutter "but you are not excused from my lesson."
Gemini sat down and shot a smile at Peter.
"You know you really shouldn't show off like that" Peter warned "it could get you in trouble one of these days."
"Petey, I just made that up as I went along" Gemini whispered and winked.
She was going to like this class. And she could tell that James and Sirius we going to be enjoying it to.
* * *
Midnight arrived very quickly that day as Gemini snuck out of the Gryffindor common room. She quietly ran down the halls under her enhancement cloak and was out side in a matter of 15 seconds. She walked to the forest and looked at the note again.
…
'Where the light touches the ground… a clearing you moron. Oh yea… HEY I am not a moron!'
Gemini quickly headed for the only clearing she knew of. The clearing near the middle of the forest. She had to go there to get plant root for the anigami potion, which could only be picked when the full moon's light touches it. At a running pace she reached her destination in no time at all. There in the shadows he was waiting for her.
"Gemini my dear," Tom said, stepping out of the shadows "It is time"
Gemini looked at him. He certainty changed since she last saw him. His eyes were now red with an ice blue ring inside. He was considerably paler, but beautiful all the same.
"Time for what?" She asked, taking off her enhancement cloak.
"Time for you to know your purpose. This meeting will be short, but most pleasurable," Tom said, looking in to her eyes.
"Oh, really" Gemini said slyly
"Tom grabbed her shoulders and looked her in the eye. He pulled her in for a deer, penetrating kiss. "Yes, really"
Gemini felt as a rush of pure venom was surging though her body. She opened her eye to reveal that they were no long brown, but black. Her usual smile was replaced with a smirk, and she had a new out look on life.
"Thank you" The new Gemini said, " I was wondering when I would take over"
"I had a potion created for me. It makes your week side, much stronger. And I like this you much better" Tom said looking at his newest weapon "Now you will come to me every night, the same time, the same place, where we can… enhance your powers. Now get back to sleep, your going to need it because you will be exhausted every night by the time I'm done with you."
"Anything for you" Gemini said as she turned on her heel and threw her cloak on. "'Till tomorrow" she said as she sped from site.
Tom stayed there until she was well out of sight. "Snape, you can come out now"
The boy ran out from a bush and bowed "Yes master"
"You will see to it that nothing happens to that girl. She is my ultimate weapon. There is something about her, that I cannot place, but she is powerful, and dangerous"
"Yes my lord" Snape said before he hurried back to the school
"Oh, and Snape, please do try not to get emotionally attached"
* * *
"Professor Giovani!" Gemini whined in potions the next day "you cannot be serious"
"Oh, I am very serious Cielo" Giovani said, with a grin on his face. "Seeing how Mr. Snape is my best student,"
"No he's not, I am" Gemini interrupted, her temper uncontrollable
"As I was saying" Giovani boomed " Mr. Snape is my best student and seeing how cannot accept this, you will be paired with him for the rest of the year, or however long it takes for you to accept that fact, do I make myself clear?"
"Sì signore capisco che siete un scemo completo che non può vedere che sono migliore dello Snape" Gemini snapped as she picked up her cauldron and carried it to Snape's desk, smiling to herself
"What was that Cielo!" Giovani demanded
"Oh I only said that you must be right, Snape must be the best" she said sarcastically with a forced smile, then under her breath she added; "now if you excuse I have to unscrew my smile"
She slumped down in the chair next to a nervous looking Severus Snape.
"Now, that we all have a our groups, we will be staring this year with a simple eye color changing potion." Giovani began.
Gemini just rolled her eyes; she already knew how to do this "Are we already?" Giovani snapped.
A few people murmured yes and they began their potion. Gemini sat there, with her hands across her chest, while her mind sliced, and chopped the ingredients. She threw the ingredients in and the spoon began to stir.
"No, no, no, Cielo. That's cheating. No mind use in my class room."
Gemini had enough. She pounded her hand down on the table and stared at her professor. "If you think this is easy, it isn't professor" Gemini snapped, letting her other side get the better of her "I have to work just as hard. Just because my mind is a lot stronger and more capable than that empty space in between your ears does not mean that you can stop me from doing what I do best!" Gemini said, not really understanding what she was saying.
The entire class was speechless. Most of them have seen Gemini get mad at people, but never at a professor. Snape leaned over and whispered in to her ear "You really shouldn't have done that"
When Giovani regained his speech he grabbed Gemini's arm and dragged her out of her room. "GET YOUR BLOODY HANDS OFF ME! 'Oh my god I said bloody, what wrong with me' I SAID GET YOUR HANDS OFF OF ME!" Gemini yelled as she fought to get out of Giovanis grip.
Gemini lost it right then and there. Her eyes narrowed and her teeth were gritted. Now this would have scared the crap out of Giovani if he still weren't in shook that she wouldn't stop fighting. Since they were only out side of the room, everybody was watching what was happening. And when Lily, Bella, Peter, James and Sirius saw this, they ran for cover. Which was a very good idea because right then Giovani came soaring in to the room and landed on his desk. Gemini slowly walked into the room and raised her hand. Giovani floated into the air where he stayed.
"I told you to get your hands off me" Gemini said, in voice that scared even Malfoy "but did you listen to me? No, you had to go and threaten me. Big mistake."
Giovani fell to the floor with a loud thud.
"You shouldn't upset me like this, professor." Gemini mocked, as Giovani rose to her eye level "I am very dangerous when agitated" Giovani flew threw the air and slammed in to the wall.
Just then McGonagal picked the perfect time to stroll in to the dungeons to see Gemini doing a very good Carrie imitation. She knew something was wrong. Gemini was known to get into to fights but never with a teacher, even Giovani. She whipped out her wand and performed the body bind spell. Soon Gemini was hovering in the air, moved by her own powers and was being guided to Dumbledores office. McGonagal was silent, she knew something was wrong. She knew about star children. People who had the gift, who knew whom to control their mind like Gemini could. But she's never seen one out of control before. Something wasn't right and she only knew one person to go to. A fellow star child. Dumbledore.
Ok, I know this is short and a bit extreme but I know you guys want to see what happens. Gemini is VERY special, and you will soon see why Riddle wants her. And that he is going to get a lot more that he bargained for.
ThE tHaNkZ sEcTiOn…
LiSa~ Yes you can be my beta reader and no I am not retarded. We share the same brain remember? So if I'm messed up, so are you.