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Amore e vita.
Love and Life
Gemini and Lily were released from the hospital wing a week after the incident, both very shaken, and very different. Gemini surprisingly regained her magic, although it was weak and she had to wait a period of time before she could perform magic again, for it drained her of her energy. Her moon crescent on her forehead grew brighter each day, indicating her magic was slowly drained back. Gemini was lucky about the silver that was hardened on to her flesh, her 'god like' powers had helped in the healing process. They had to perform a cooling charm to it when they melted the silver so that it could be removed; a scar in the form of a cross was removed upon Gemini demands. Remus never came to see her when she was in the hospital wing, while she was awake that is. He would creep in, in the middle of the night and just sit and watch her sleep, but fled when she showed any sign of waking up. James never left Lily side, day and night Gemini could here the two talking. She knew they would get back together again it was only a matter of time. She never saw peter, Sirius was always out with his new girlfriend, Fiona Jeanette DeViliani from Raven Claw, and Remus never showed his face, leaving Gemini alone. But Gemini was always alone, or at least that's what she told herself, over and over again. It hurt her when she thought about it, it made her feel that no one care for her, but then she reminded her self who she was. Gemini Cielo. Gryffindor Beater, though as nails, ruthless, cut throat order of phoenix member. She was going to be alone for her work, so she didn't let this bother her. But if it didn't bother her than why did it hurt so much?
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Gemini sat in the common room, rolled up in a ball on one of the over stuffed arm chairs, rocking slowly back and forth, the flames of the fire reflecting in her cold, emotionless eyes, an empty bottle of fire whiskey on the floor in a bag. Why was she so damn emotional was all that she was thinking. Her emotions controlled her. Love, hate, fear, betrayal, happiness, sorrow, loneliness; emotions had he held on a tight leash. She though not with her mind, but what her heart told her to and one of these days it was going to get her killed. And it was her emotions that where ripping her hear out, the source of all off her pain. She tucked her knees under her chin as her dark hair fell over her face, softly curling at the bottom. She ran one hand tenderly through her hair, cringing when her fingertips touched her scalp. It was still sore from the injuries, the cuts and hex burns, which once tinted her hair red. Gemini heard the portrait hole open then close and the sound of a single pair of feet hurry across the common room floor but then stop abruptly right where she was. Gemini didn't even bother to look up, her dead eyes staring blankly at the fire.
"G?" Sirius asked, her voice full of concern, dropping the invisibility cloak to his side, sitting down on the arm of the chair, "What's wrong, what you still up? It's 2 in the morning."
Gemini finally removed her eyes from the fire and stared in to Sirius's orbs of silver. Sirius's jaw dropped in shock at the condition of the girl in the chair. Gemini let out the unmistakable sound of a sob, and shook harder. Her eyes were dry, but red. She was sobbing, crying, but there were no tears.
"G what's wrong?" Sirius asked frantically. He knew Gemini, and he knew that Gemini never cried. Never. In all the six years that he's known her, from the time the met in the robe shop in Diagon alley to that very moment in the common room this was the first time he had ever since Gemini come close to crying over anything. "Where are your tears? Come on G tell me!"
Gemini just sniffed and shook even harder. "I...I can't. Never for myself." she let out a hiccuping sob, "I cried my tears years ago. I'm not aloud to cry for myself anymore. I have no right. I'm alive. Lily's alive. I can't cry over this. It changes nothing. I'm just too weak not to try. I can't help trying. Crying is supposed to make it feel better. But if I don't remember how, can I ever feel better?" Gemini shook her head, looking down but her shaking had calmed. "If I hadn't shown my emotions this might not have happened. But I had to. Because I'm weak. I should have put on a mask, blocked every emotion out."
"Gemini." Sirius said firmly. "You are the strongest girl I know. Not just physically, but willfully and you possess a quality that no other girl does. You don't give a shit what people think about you, you won't change for anybody and you live on your own terms and people respect you for that. It wasn't your fault thing happened the way they did." He stated. "Think about it, sooner or later something bad is going to happen to us all and-"
"All you have to do is think of happy thoughts and it will all be better, right Sirius? That's what you were going to say, weren't you? Well some people can't be that happy all of the time!" Gemini snapped, her eyes darkening.
"Huh?" Sirius asked, wondering what caused her sudden change in mood.
"All you have to do is smile and the world falls at your feet!" Gemini exclaimed softly, not wanting to make anybody up. "Sirius Black. Happy Go Lucky Padfoot. Well they conveniently forget what a sneak you are!"
Sirius just starred at Gemini in disbelief.
She was messed up and dangerous right now and he didn't want to provoke her, in fear for his head. "Let's stop this conversation right now."
"Why are you so bloody popular Sirius!" Gemini asked him, "You are annoying! And that isn't even a prerequisite!"
"Hey!" Sirius scoffed, defending his much prided popularity.
"They call me a bitch… I am a bitch. Not every body can be as charming as you can. Every body hates me."
"Gemini." Sirius said calmly, cupping her heart shaped face in his large hands. "Nobody hates you. And if the He Who Must Not Be Named run in is breaking you like this, you didn't know that there were people on the inside. Nobody did. You couldn't have stopped it G, even if you wanted to."
"No Sirius." Gemini cut off, removing her face from his hands; "Our abduction isn't the only thing that made me this way."
"G." Sirius said, getting down on his kneels in front of her, taking her hands in his. "Tell me. Was it somebody? Because if it was I'll go get you drunk and we can plot revenge on the bastard who made you this way." Sirius said, hoping to make her smile.
"Sirius, even if you did manage to get me drunk, you wouldn't want to plot against him."
Sirius's eyes widened. "G…"
"Remus broke up with me." Gemini said in a monotone voice as she collapsed in Sirius strong arms, letting go of her pride. "I mean what was a expecting? I was the DAMN REBOUND!" she cried, pounding her fist on the floor.
"Huh" Sirius asked, confused.
"Don't you remember? Spain, that girl, Carmen? The one he was head over heels with, shared his first kiss with. Well he asked me out, oh 1WEEK AFTER WE GOT BACK! I WAS THE BLOODY REBOUND! Gemini Cielo will not be the rebound any more!" she finished off hysterically, her face in her hands. "Never again." She placed her head on Sirius chest and allowed her self to drift of to sleep in the comforting arms of the boy she called her brother
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Gemini stood on the steps of Hogwarts, waiting with an emotionless expression on her face; her eyes set on the sky. It was a cold day and she had on her long black cloak that whipped in the brisk wind that sent locks of her waist length brown hair flying with the wind. Dumbledore stood behind her, also waiting, one hand on the girl's shoulder. There was a slight popping sound and Gemini's face lit up as she ran forward and jumped in to the open arms of the man who just apparated in front of them.
"Tony!" Gemini laughed, for the first time in little over a week, as the man held in his arms, spinning her around.
"Gemini, princess." Tony said softly as he placed the girl back down on her feet. "How are you feeling?"
"As of this very moment about a hundred percent better." Gemini said, smiling.
"Antonio Balboa." Dumbledore said with a smile, "How long has it been since our last meeting?"
"Ages." Tony laughed as he and Gemini walked towards the front steps, to Dumbledore. "The last time I saw you, you still had traces of red hair."
"The last I saw you, I recall, you were the same age as Miss Cielo here." Dumbledore mused as he beckoned the two Italians inside.
"You knew Tony for that long?" Gemini asked curiously, the feelings of last nights confessions slowly dripping away.
"Yes Miss Cielo." Dumbledore laughed softly as they made there way to the great hall for breakfast. "In matter of fact, his father and I were once great friends."
"Your father?" Gemini asked in awe.
"Yes, My father."
"Quite a pair were we." Dumbledore laughed, "Albus and Maximiliano. We met at the Triwizard Tournament. He was his school's champion. I believe your son goes there now, am I right?" he asked, but didn't wait for an answer as he continued, "Maximiliano was a brave and courageous wizard, and although he did not win the tournament, he still won, for he said he went the distance. That was why I asked him to join me and help defeat Grindelwald. With his brute strength, and my strategic know how we managed to help defeat him as a team. Unfortunately that was the last time I saw him." Dumbledore said, with is head hung as they reached the grand doors that lead in to the great hall.
Tony looked down at a confused Gemini and finished for Dumbledore, "After the downfall of Grindelwald, his followers attempted to kill the men who brought him to his death. Albus was safe in Hogwarts, but my father wasn't so lucky. I was sixteen when he was tortured to death. That when I left the magic world and started to fend for myself. My mother disowned me for what I was so I became an apprentice to an old boxer who told me that I had the spirit of a fighter. Then when I got old enough I opened the gym and found out that Damiano was magical around the age of two, powerfully magical. Well this scared off my wife and she left us. But then I met you." Tony stopped walking and smiled placing a hand on her shoulder, "and my life just seem to fit back together again, you were like the daughter I have never had. Then when I found out that you were magical, I was slowly introduced back to the magical world." The two began walking again as to not attraction even more attention to them and they caught up with Dumbledore.
"I'm going to be eating with Dumbledore if you don't mind," Tony asked Gemini who nodded and began to turn but was stopped by a hand on her shoulder, "After breakfast you and I are going somewhere, so eat up."
"OK Tony."
Gemini walked the way to the Gryffindor table, placing her mask back on again, becoming the angry, vengeful teenager she wanted everybody to see her that day, the way she wanted Remus to see her. Gemini just grinned maliciously, the evilness not meeting her black eyes though as she sat down next to Lily.
"Morning Lily, James, Sirius, Peter, Bella, Shit Face." Gemini said with a smile as she address each of her friends around the table.
Remus just looked at her with pleading pale blue eyes, but was met with black eyes of steel. Remus didn't want to break up with her, but he had to. He put her life in danger. It was his fault Gemini was kidnapped, beaten and hexed, and had silver poured upon her tender flesh. But he thought sadly of how he was never their when she reached out for him, how she would mumble his name in her sleep and it would break his heart even more. He couldn't do that to her. So he did the one thing he could have done. Detached her from the threat he was.
"You alright G?" Sirius asked, his sparkling gray eyes full of concern from the night before.
Gemini just smiled a small smile and nodded, "Thanks for listening to me bitch last night. And your aren't that annoying."
"What's Tony doing here?" Lily asked, just noticing Gemini guardian sitting next to Dumbledore.
"He's bringing me some where today." Gemini replied giving a wave and a small smile to Tony. "After breakfast. Dumbledore and his father were good friends. That's how they know each other." Gemini said as her mind poured herself a goblet of pumpkin juice. After that Gemini sat in her depressed state of silence. Slowly sipping from her goblet, her dark eyes looked over to the Ravenclaw table to Sirius's girlfriend.
Gemini didn't know how she felt about Fiona. She was pretty, with her shoulder length sleek black hair, which was usually pulled up in a ponytail, held up with a scarlet clip. Her sharp eyes where a bit darker than Lily's bright emerald orbs, but they were alive with the same passion for life. She had ruby red lips that matched her red fingernails that shined like diamonds. She was everything Sirius could ask for. She was smart, funny, good looking, and lovable. Gemini smirked when she though of how he was probably going to dump her next week for that pretty Hufflepuff 5th year, Chloe. But whatever the case, the two seemed perfect for each other. Fiona was able to keep up with Sirius and she always kept him on his feet.
"You ready?" Tony asked softly in Gemini's ear, placing both hands on her shoulders, snapping her out of her trance.
Gemini merely nodded and stood up. "I will see you all later?"
"Absolutely." Lily smiled, the bruise under her eye, now faded, returning her to her innocent beauty.
Gemini just nodded again and followed Tony out of the great hall, her black cloak billowing out behind her.
The two Italians walked out side the castle and stopped on the steps.
"Tony where are we going?" Gemini asked curiously, one eyebrow cocked in confusion.
"Do you trust me?" Tony asked, taking one of Gemini's hands in his.
"Of course why?" Gemini asked, but there was no time to reply as the two were whisked away from the spot.
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The two landed with a thud, on their feet in a heartbreaking place far from their origin. It was gloomy day where they were, dark clouds rolling towards them, like dark angels returning to a place of mourning. Gemini looked around with solemn dark eyes and she swallowed slightly. She knew exactly where she was. The same atmosphere, the rickety old gate that surrounded the area, the old deteriorating stone slabs that protruded from the ground. The three relatively new stones that she stood in front of. Their names etched in stone, their lives taken away by force and misunderstanding. She stood in the same spot she stood in three years prior. She shut her eyes tightly as she remembered exactly what has been said then, 'Su tiempo puede tener más allá, pero sus almas viven por siempre.' 'Their time may have past, but their souls live forever.' Gemini stood in silent mourning in Sin fin Vida Cemetery, in front of the graves of the late Cielo family; Virgo, Stella, and Pisces Cielo.
"Your parents were good people." Tony began as he placed a hand on her shoulder for comfort. "I have only known them for as long as I have know you, but your family was like mine as well. I know that you and your sister did not get along very well, and I can understand, but I know what you have been through and I want you to do something for me."
Gemini looked up at him with wide eyes, "What is that Tony?"
"Talk to them." He said "You parents. They say that, although they are not with you in body, their spirit lives on, and you may speak to them, for they will always listen. But if you try hard enough, and you listen with your heart, mind and soul, you will hear them to." He ended in a soft murmur as he gave Gemini a soft push towards their head stones.
Gemini stumbled forward uncertainly. Yes, she spoke to her parents once or twice when she needed to get things off of her chest, but she has never spoken to them here. Slowly she knelt before the grave and held a finger to her lips, kissing them, then touching the names of each of her family members. Gemini slowly reached in to one of the pockets of her bag and pulled out and old wrinkled pieces of parchment. She wrote this letter to her family in the hospital wing the day after she woke up fully magical again and left it in her bag for safe keeping. She thanked who ever was up there for her luck at she flattened in the parchment and began to read its contents.
"Hello Mamma, Papa, Pisces. It has been a long while since I have spoken to you, or seen you at the most, but we have that fateful night to blame for all of our pain. People have gotten over it; Tony has heeled almost fully. Me? Let's just say that I'm waiting for a full night of sleep.
My life is completely different from when we had last seen each other. My heart has been broken more than once, but I do as you told me Papa, Keep my chin held high and always look past the bad and on to the future.
Life and love. They both are horrid. If I had my choice, we'd all be great seer's and would be able to see the paths we can chose from and where they may lead. Know when to say what and how everybody else feels and thinks and what they dream about. And Love? Why, she'd get her ass kicked for all the hell that I've been put through.
Is there a god up there? A heaven? Hell? I've been forced in to my destiny from a fate that most people do not believe in. I am the heiress to a goddess. But does that mean that the catholic religion, the one which I was born in to, nearly neglected the goddess all together, or do I have a different fate that meets me? I do not have the answers, and I doubt you can answer them for me. But I believe there is someone up there, or down there that is, laughing at me every time I mess up or destroying me after I have worked so hard. But I guess in the end it doesn't even matter. Does it?
School is fine; I have kept up with my studies just as you have wished. I am still on the quidditch team, and I am in league with the group of people that will avenge your death, as well as many others. I swear to you three, I will try my hardest to bring this… soulless bastard down, even if it means taking my life to avenge yours.
I think you probably knew where this was going from the start. Yes, I miss you three. More than anything I have ever felt before. I wake up with this dull ache in my chest, and for the first few moments I have no idea why. It's more painful than anything I have ever felt in my life, more painful than the silver melted on to my flesh, burning me from the outside in. I pray each night that I can have a restful sleep, but that will never happen.
And the thing is, I know exactly why I am like this now. It kills me to know it, but I do. I'm stuck, forever alone in the big bad world, and there's nothing I can do about it. For the rest of my life I will be alone. Some things relieve my pain, but it is only a cover up. That's what I am. I am mask, which I wear to hide the broken and beaten girl I hold within. And the harder I fight it, the worse it gets. I'm finding it more and more difficult to have a normal life and just want to crawl into bed and never come out. Sometimes I wonder why I even bother worrying about it. I mean, some people would kill to have what I have. Well the people who believe me that is. I have been close to death for what I am and I don't think I can handle it any more. It's true, my family, you may not think so, but at the rate I'm going at... There is a price on my head, and don't be surprised if I join you someday soon, wherever you are.
Before I go I want to say that I love you. With all the love my heart can muster. I am sorry for everything and I wish things were different. That Papa never got his promotion. I still like to think that we can still be back at home, in Italy. Where Mamma would be cooking a delicious dinner, Papa would be in his study and I would be outside, arguing with Pisces.
I'm sorry. I love you mamma. I love you Papa. And I love you Pisces and I miss you. Move than you can ever imagine.
Love always, with my deepest most emotional love.
Gemini."
Gemini picked up a small stone and placed the parchment underneath. A breeze picked up and blew past Gemini, blowing though the trees and the graves. Gemini looked up and smiled slightly, The wind whispering her name and at the last gust, murmuring 'We love You'
Gemini gave each gave on final kiss before raising again. She looked up at the rolling clouds, the sun shining down in shards, trying to break through. 'Ti amo' she whispered before turning around walking slowly back to Tony, who left his condolences.
"Tony?" Gemini asked as they began to turn away. She sniffed slightly before finished. "May I call you father?"
Tony just smiled and replied, "You may call me what ever you wish, for in my heart, you will always be my daughter"
The two turned slowly and began to walk away, soon being whisked from the scene, and from the painful memories. And Gemini, for the first time in many years, slept well.
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