Casa Di Cielo

House of Heaven

Gemini and Tony landed with a thud in a new place entirely. Gemini shook the dizziness from her eyes as she looked at her new surroundings and they lit up as she recognized where she was. She grinned as she looked down the old street both ways, small two story houses lining the road. Gemini laughed as she ran down to the end on the pathway they were standing on and came to a skidding stop when she reached the end. She crouched down on the ground and picked up a fairly large stone that lye there. On the bottom, carved out with a knife where the words. "La Stella di Cielo." Her old stage name.

She grinned even more as she bolted towards Tony and leapt in to the air hugging him around his neck! "This can't be can it?"

"Welcome Home Gemini." Tony laughed as he looked down at the ecstatic girl next to him.

"Oh my Goddess." She whispered. "Can we go inside?" she asked excitedly, her eyes wide in happiness.

Tony just smiled. "It's your house, of course we can go in." he reached one hand in to the inside of his coat and pulled out one golden key and took Gemini's hand. He opened in and placed the key in, closing his fingers around the key once more. "Well what are you waiting for? Open it up."

Gemini made a dash for the front doors and eagerly put the key in to the lock, turned and threw the door open. Gemini smiled as she slowly stepped in to the house, her eyes adjusting to the darkness. She looked around, memories flooding back from her early childhood. She looked over her shoulder and watched Tony come in to the house.

"To-" she stopped herself "Papa, h-how?"

Tony smiled and replied, "Do you not remember? We never sold the house, it was never put on the market, for it is yours. Your parents never sold it for they were hoping on coming back so in their will they left it to their eldest daughter, which is now you."

Gemini usual dark emotion was lifted as her dark eyes sparkled with mirth. Her black cloak discarded on the floor, exposing her Gryffindor uniform, which consisted of a gray skirt and vest, and her red and gold striped tie, she stepped lightly through the small house. She peered in to each empty room, imagining it the way it used to be. She walked in to the kitchen and he smiled as she thought back on her early child hood.

She laughed to her self as she though of what her mother use to say. 'An Italian is never faithful for they all live a romance with food.' Sunday was the big day of the week at the Cielo's home. That was the one-day she'd wake up to the smell of garlic and onions frying in olive oil. As she laid in bed, she could hear the hiss as tomatoes were dropped into a pan. On Sunday the Cielo family always had pasta and gravy, and Sunday would not be Sunday without going to mass. But the good part was she knew when they got home, they'd find hot meatballs
frying, and nothing tastes better than newly fried meatballs and crisp
bread dipped into a pot of sauce.

She looked up the familiar narrow steps and carefully place on foot upon the first step. With a heave, she hoisted her self up and she soon carried herself to the top. Wide chocolate eyes peered cautiously around before Gemini took the final step in to the hallway, which had two bare doors on either side. She sighed and her eye closed slightly. She had loved this house; she had loved the memories. And that's all she had left, memories. Memories of this house, memories of her past, memories of her family, nothing but memories. She held out a slender hand and grasped a gold knob firmly and attempted to open the door. Failing to do so she grinned and remember that this was her door. She took a step back, one hand still holding on to the doorknob; she balled one hand in to a fist and banged it in to the door, popping it open.

She grinned to herself as stepped in to the small room. Her eyes widened as they adjusted to the dark room, only a few shards of light had found their way through the closed window. She walked to the center of the room and sat down, placing her face in her hands. She looked around, a small smile lingering on her lips. The bare room was once filled with boxing equipment, gloves, wrap, and her small bag. Gemini then realized something about her past. She can't remember not boxing. Even as a young child, her parents could tell she was different. Unlike her older sister, she was very tomboyish for her age, always out in the yard, whether it was helping her father cover the fig tree's in the fall, or tend to the garden in the springtime. In school the other girls didn't like her much, for she was one of the boys. They where afraid of her to, for once in the first grade, Gaby Humblio called her a piece of cheese. Unfortunately for Gaby, Gemini's bad temper started from young age.

Gemini's slender hand found it's way up to her throat, where the moon pendant hung around her neck, fully illuminated, indicating tonight was the full moon. She sighed as she lied down on the dusty floor, not caring whether it would stick to her or not. She was still a bit upset about Remus, but she knew, deep down inside, that it was never going to work, for it was who and what they are tore them apart. She the Heiress, he the slave, both to the moon, one royalty one the peasant.

"What's wrong Dea?" Tony asked form his spot at the door.

"I was thinking." Gemini replied, looking up at him with wide orbs of umber.

"About Remus?" he asked a small smile on his lips as he crossed the room.

At this Gemini nodded, "He broke up with me after the incident." Gemini looked back at the closed window and continued, "He said it was his fault that I was kidnapped, his fault every thing happen, so he broke up with me to protect me."

Tony sat down next to her and placed a fatherly hand on her shoulder, "Did you love him."

Gemini looked up at him and thought for a moment's time, "I don't know."

"Well, do you miss him, do you feel hurt, abandoned, empty?"

Gemini's drew her eyes brows together as she replied, "No, no I don't feel like that at all."

"Well maybe Pertunda [1] wished it not." Tony laughed, an eyebrow raised.

Gemini promptly turned 17 shades of red, "We were not like that Papa. I can assure you, nothing that intimate ever happened."

Tony smiled and hugged her lightly, "I Know, than maybe Faunus [2] is doing what he sees fit."

At this Gemini smiled a bit, "I suppose." Her hand felt the pendant around her neck once more before she asked, "Papa, do you believe in true love, that there is one person out there to match with some one else?"

Tony just smiled a bit, "I do, and when you find that one person, trust me, you will know. For it will be in you heart when you will know, not your mind. You will now when you are with them when you love them, for when you are not with that one person, you feel empty, incomplete. You know you are in love when," he paused for a moments time before continuing, "When you look past the outer shell of a person, their mask and you see their fault, and you love them all the same."

Gemini looked up to see Tony's eyes begin to water as he hastily blinked them away.

"Papa," Gemini asked him, standing up and brushing her self off, "I do not think that will ever happen to me."

Tony looked up at her, a questioning look in his eyes, "Why do you say that Gemini?"

Gemini bit her lip slightly and she debated in her mind whether she should tell him or not, her gut instinct to tell him kicked in as she began. "Papa, there is something I need to tell you. For the past two years I have been involved in the Order Of Phoenix. It is an organization formed for the soul purpose to bring Voldemort to his downfall." She began to pace slightly, knotting her shirt in a ball, "I have been training under the eyes of Alastor 'Mad Eye' Moody. I have been taught in the ways of dueling, manipulation, and espionage." She took a gulp before continuing, " Papa, I am a soldier in the war against Voldemort." She blurted out quickly, then seeing the look of shock and fear come over the mans face, she added in quickly. " Moody says that I am to be one of the greatest aurors in the service, that I have great potential and a gift that should be used to help us all."

Tony stood up slowly and placed a hand on her shoulder, "It is your choice, I am not one to stop you, but I feel as a parent that I should stop you"

"Papa." Gemini laughed softly, "You do not have to worry about me dying. I already got that one covered."

Tony just smiled as he gave Gemini a small kiss on her forehead, "As you wish."

Gemini watched Tony walk out of the room and down the small stairs and out of earshot. Gemini turned around to look at the dusty old mirror that was drill on to the wall. For someone so young, it occurred to her that she had certainly beaten and bruised herself. But the one mark she was especially fond of was the crescent mark on her forehead.

Wide pools of chocolate stared back at her and she frowned slightly, causing a wrinkle to form on her forehead, between her eyebrows. What she saw was different that what she thought she was. Gemini saw a girl with the look of confusion in two burning coals that stood out in the darkness. She also saw something else, for only a moment, but she saw it in those eyes. She saw pride, honor, power, and success, but also suffering, hate, fear and anger. She shook these thoughts from her head as she took one last glimpse in to the mirror before stepping lightly out of the room, stopping only to swoop down and grab her cloak with one graceful movement.

She steadily trotted down the stairs, patches of dust flying around her feet. She stopped at the foot of the stairs as she saw Tony looking at her from the open door. "Papa, why have you brought me here?"

Tony just smiled a small smile before replying, "They say home is where your heart is, I brought you home to help you figure out what your heart is telling you to do, and what your mind is trying to deny it of."

Gemini cocked her head slightly to the side, Tony's words running through her mind, "Papa, what do yo-"

"Never mind what it means, for I can not tell you, you will now when the time comes Gemini, and that is all I can say about that." Tony interrupted, walking across the room and taking Gemini hand, "It's time for you to go back to school now Gemini."

Gemini just nodded and took one last look at her home before she and Tony where whisked away, leaving the Old Cielo home, and it's memories behind.

OK guys I know it is like… REALLY short, but I'm going away for the wee end and I wanted to make this longer… but I can't, so this will have to do… Oh yes I almost forgot… can anyone here draw? ::crickets chirping:: because I have attempted to draw Gemini but I just can't quite get the visual picture on paper, so if any body can draw, and would like to draw one of Gemini or any other character… scan it and email it to me… xdevilindaskyzx@aol.com . I am making a 'It written in the stars' web site so I will post in on there… also, I added a new story… well not a new story just some scenes that I forgot to add in, or that have been deleted, or alternate scenes, so check it out! Much love to you! Happy Holiday! And thanks for the card Nettey; I'm sending your out… soon! Lol . Mad Love, Chelsea.