Chelsea: ::tear:: ::tear::
Chibi Chel: what the hell is she crying about now? I thought you already had your psycho killer rampage already! And whaddya know! You didn't even hurt yourself that time!
Chelsea: Shut up you baka!
Gemini: Stupid mortals, I'll do it! ::grumbles:: This is the last chapter… and Chelsea's upset because she doesn't like it and she feels that she'd just leaving you with something because it just… ends… like that but I told her that it doesn't matter because she already has another story she can torture me in called "Love is a Battlefield", with the first chapter already written and many on the way. ::sighs:: She wanted me to tell you that the "Strange Little Girl" redo of this fic… has changed, much to my dismay.
Neko Sea: You see, Chelsea has been doing her research instead of her summer reading, so she now has new details and the such that would help this story make sense. For example…
Gemini: My family is entirely magical and I never went to Hogwarts until my third year after I was expelled from my old school… because I was a threat to the well being of the other students…
Chibi Chel: Chels will be coming out with it soon, she just has a lot to write so yeah… umm… click that link www.boomspeed.com/discordia/GLA.jpg... and on a side note, Erica, Chelsea would like to glomp you ^.^
Neko Sea: There is a whole list of people Chelsea would like to glomp at the bottom, so read on! And review!
Un momento di ricordarsi di
Un momento di dimenticarsi
Cronometrare di mantenere le memorie e di non tenere rammarico
"A time to remember
A time to forget
Time to keep memories and hold no regret"
Gemini was led in to Dumbledore's office, where her headmaster was already sitting behind his desk, hands folded over on another in front of him, an unusually dark expression on his face.
He motioned for Gemini to sit down in the red chair across from him at his desk. Gemini nodded, doing so while Moody positioned himself next his desk, a look of determination set on is rugged face.
"This Gemini," Moody growled as he took a velvet sack out of his robes, "Is a gift from the ministry."
"A gift?" Gemini asked dubiously, looking to Dumbledore for assistance with a raised eyebrow, "Why would I be receiving a gift from the ministry who only wishes for me to kill?"
Moody snarled, handing the sack to Dumbledore, who welcomed the job of giving Gemini her 'gift' with open hands, "Please Gemini," he spoke softy, "what you are about to receive is very dangerous, and I question putting it into your hands."
"What is it? An atom bomb?" Gemini asked sarcastically, an elegant eyebrow raised in question, "it can't be that bad."
Dumbledore sighed and replied, "It is an Orb Demon."
Gemini sat straight up, her eyes widening, "An Orb Demon. Why on earth would the Ministry put an orb demon in my hands!"
"They believe it will help you with your," he inhaled deeply before continuing, "your line of work. You see," he brought an clear orb with white smoke billowing inside out of the dark blue satchel, "Xander was used my his old master to conquer kingdoms of old, but Xander's master grew greedy and was destroyed by his nemesis, leaving the demon floating around the world. Our officials found it about two hundred years ago in Atlantis and brought it back here to keep in the Stonehenge Museum where it remained inactive until 1928."
Gemini eyebrows furrowed in thought, "Dumbledore, who was his previous master?"
Dumbledore removed him glasses, rubbing his eyes momentarily before replying, "Salazar Slytherin, when Godric killed him he failed to find it. The Demon remained inactive until 1928, the year Voldemort was born. They want you to use this Orb Demon against him, in hopes to destroy him. The ministry believe that with your combined powers, you should be able to achieve victory of Voldemort."
"I do not need an orb demon to demolish The Lord," Gemini spat, "I am powerful within myself. Why are we using something that belong to Slytherin, wouldn't it want to return to The Lord, who is just as great?"
"If Voldemort or the Deatheater's get their hands on this," he held out the orb to Gemini, "we've already lost."
Gemini took the orb out of Dumbledore's hands, the white smoke continuously swirling. The orb was about the size on an orange, yet it was perfectly round and clear. Gemini brought it up to her eye level, when suddenly she recoiled. Past the reflection of her eyes where two orbs of red, like rubies they shone brightly past the smoke surroundings.
"Hello Mistress."
. . .
"Peter!" Leigh called out in the Gryffindor common room, hours before the dance was to begin. All the other girls where already up in their dorm, getting ready for the ball, something Leigh didn't have the patients to do. She had to put on a dress, a pair of shoes and her bangle bracelets. Estimated time; five minutes, not five hours. She sighed, sitting down on one of the over stuffed arm chairs she threw her brown hair (streaked with light blue to match her dress robes) and yelled, "PETEY!"
As on cue Peter bounded in to the common room with James right behind him, their laughing ringing off the cavernous walls of the tower. Peter looked over to where his name was called and smiled widely. "Baby,"
"Petey," Leigh said, her wild eyes unnaturally calm, "We have to talk."
Peter nodded as he waved James away who gave Leigh a nod of understanding, before turning around and ushering the male population out of the common room, giving the two time to them selves.
Peter kneeled down in front of his girl friend, a concerned look on his face, "What's wrong baby?"
Leigh sighed and replied, "You can't call me baby anymore," Leigh said watching Peter's face fall, "because I can't go to the ball with you."
She braced for impact as Peter shot her a confused look before standing up quickly. He hung his head and turned on his heel, walking quickly but stopping abruptly in his track. Slowly and deadly he turned around, his blue eyes narrowed in hate, "There's some one else, isn't there?" he stalked towards her, grabbing her arms and pulling her to her feet, "Isn't there?" he hissed.
Leigh narrowed her eyes as she tried to pull her self from her grip with no avail, "You're holding me down Peter, I can't live that that, Re-" she immediately froze as she realized what she said, her hands shooting up to cover her gaping mouth.
"Remus!" Peter yelled in surprise, "You've been having your way with Remus all along haven't you!" he shook her violently, "Haven't you!"
"Let go of her!" Jeanette yelled, storming towards the two and slapping Peter hard on the face, Jeanette then turned towards her best friend and asked, "Are you ok, did he do-" she froze when she saw the scared look in her friends wild eyes, "what's wrong?"
That was the last thing they heard before being surrounded by a brilliant white light, then disappearing from the spot, not a trace left behind.
Peter put his wand away as James rushed in to the common room, "Wormtail, what's wrong, I thought I heard some one fighting!"
Peter just shook his head mournfully, "Leigh broke up with me."
James put on a sentimental look and slung his arm around the smaller boys shoulder, "she was never meant to go out with any one, she was a real freak anyway." He looked around the empty common room, "where'd she go?"
Peter just waved his hand in the air, "Jeanette showed up and they ran up to their dorm, Prongs," Peter answered.
"Ah well, you win some you loose some," James said philosophically, "come on, I heard Zonko's got a new order of Dung Bombs in, I need to refresh my supplies."
. . .
Leigh woke up in the forbidden forest, her head was throbbing and her vision was blurry. She groaned as she looked next to her and sprang to her feet in surprise to see a girl coming out of unconsciousness. The girl moaned and rubbed her eyes before looking up at Leigh.
"Hey," Leigh said, helping the girl to her feet, "You alright?"
"I don't know…" Jeanette replied, "I like your hair though."
"Really?" Leigh asked with a smile on her face, "What does it look like?"
. . .
Gemini walked alone in the halls, the orb held out about a foot away from her face by her telekinesis, red eyes staring at her as she stared in to them.
"I don't need you, you know." Gemini said casually, "I have as much power as you do."
"Yes," the orb replied, "but can you take over entire countries?"
"If I wanted to," Gemini replied, but stopped abruptly in her tracks, "do you hear that?"
"Hear wh-" but he was cut off after Gemini grabbed him and placed him in the pocket of her robes.
"Gemini!" Sirius yelled, his hands on his knees and he panted for air.
Gemini immediately sprinted to his side, taking his arms and holding them above his head so he could breathe, "What wrong Sirius? Deatheaters?"
"No," Sirius panted, "don't be ridiculous. It's Jeanette and Leigh."
"What about them?"
"They're missing."
"What do you mean they're missing?"
"Their not on the grounds, their not in the school," he lowered his frantic voice, "their not even on the bloody map!"
"Sirius calm down, I will find them," Gemini said before squeezing his shoulder, "I know how much she means to you."
Sirius showed visible pain, wondering if she knew how much she meant to him. He looked up to see Gemini retreated back, then nothingness as she teleported out of sight.
. . .
Gemini landed gracefully on the front steps of the school, she took Xander out of her robes and held him out in front of her.
"Time to show me how good you are Xander." Gemini mumbled as the orb demon obediently released himself in a cloud of white smoke, standing before her, Gemini's mouth slightly hanging open in surprise.
She could have sworn that it was Sirius standing in front of her, except although the demon held that same basic appearance as her sex driven brother, he looked like the complete opposite of him.
Xander wore robes of a brilliant white which came down to his feet, covering his hands and hanging loosely around his neck. His complexion was pale yet flawless, not a mark or a scar on his perfect figure, unlike Gemini's where entire stories could be told by the battle wounds on her body. His hair was void of all color, white, yet beautifully so, it hung over his eyes in loose wisps of ashen silk, falling perfectly to the base of his neck, hooking slightly under his ears. His eyes were an awe inspiring red, they held no pupils so they looked like two rubies embedded in snow.
He was painstakingly beautiful.
"Xander?" Gemini asked when she regained her speech, silently reprimanding herself for her lose of control.
"Yes mistress?" Xander asked, bowing his head.
"I want you to help me find someone."
"As you wish."
. . .
"So do you have any idea where we are?" Leigh asked, her hands in her pockets as she and Jeanette wandered down a trail in the Forbidden Forest.
"The Forbidden Forest obviously you twit," Jeanette sighed as she looked around her, the trees looming over them as if they were listening in on their conversation.
"Well how did we get here?" Leigh asked, her head tilted to the side as she looked around slowly, trying to remember something that came to her like an echo of a dream.
"Do you honestly think I know?" Jeanette asked, slightly hysterical, "We just wake up out side, no wands no nothing, with no recollection of what happen in the past twenty four hours and you expect me to know how we ended up dumped in the middle of the Forbidden Bloody Forest!"
"Shh, I think I hear something!" Leigh said, grabbing her friends arm, as they both listened in closely as the sounds of people where faintly heard to their young ears. "People! That means that Hogsmeade is nearby!"
"Yeah or a cannibalistic tribe of savage carnies with pitchforks with excruciatingly severe body odor," Nette said with fake enthusiasm as she looked at her friend, "You can't just go running… what an idiot." She sighed as her friend bolted down the trial, nearly tripping over a tree branch in the process.
. . .
"You think they will be here Xander?" Gemini asked as she and the Demon walked casually down the busy streets of Hogsmeade, snow beginning to fall softly, swirling around them, blending in with Xander's white attire.
"Yes Mistress," Xander replied, "This is the logical place the two girls would go, seeing how this is the only civil establishment in miles. What do these adolescents look like mistress Gemini?"
"Their about my height," Gemini began, "One has black hair and green eyes, the other has brown hair streaked a color not found in nature and brown eyes." Gemini described as her sharp eyes scanned the busy streets, "we need to find them and get back to the castle, I am out of area and can face expulsion if I am caught and I being in my uniform will not make things better."
"I can assist you Mistress, if you allow," Xander said as he waved his arm and her attire changed completely before her very eyes
She wore a brilliant white dress to challenge Xanders, which hung loosely off her hips, but hung tight around her upper torso, hanging off her shoulders. A black sash was tied around her waist standing out against the luminous background. A white hooded cloak protected her from the elements, which hung over her eyes and trailed a few inches behind her.
"I do hope that you find your new attire satisfactory?" Xander asked her with a small smile.
"I thought Demon's were supposed to be evil?" Gemini asked, "Why are you so kind to me?"
"I am a demon, but you are my mistress, anyone who displeases you shall fell the wrath of my demonic powers." Xander replied.
"I am perfectly capable of handling my- oomph" Gemini was cut off by some one slamming in to her, knocking both her and the runner down to the ground. Gemini looked up to find a sudden flash of blue surrounded by brown then let out a relieved smirk. "Leigh, where in Diana's name have you been?"
Gemini rose to her feet, helping the fifth year up in the process. "Leigh, Where's Jean- oh no you don't" she said sternly as Leigh tried to run, "Xander, calm her please?"
Xander rose a pale hand, placing it on Leigh shoulder where she immediately clamed, lifelessly standing next to the demon in white, a dazed look covering her face.
"Leigh!" Gemini heard Jeanette yell, "You are so…" she froze as she saw her best friend in the hands of two complete strangers, "Um, yeah, I'll be taking the insane one with me now…"
Gemini grabbed her hand pulling her towards the alley next to Zonko's, her hand over the struggling girls' mouth as Xander followed with Leigh. Gemini relentlessly pulled Jeanette, who was now biting Gemini's hand, in to the not so forbidden part of the forest behind Zonko's.
"Where the hell have you two been?" Gemini hissed as she kept a death grip on Jeanette, who was trying desperately to get away.
"Listen Lady, I don't know what you're talking about, but please don't kill us!" Jeanette pleaded, trying to pry her arms free.
"I'm not going to kill you Jeanette," Gemini sighed, "Sirius has been going crazy looking for you. We need to get back to the school before some one recognizes us."
"What the hell are you talking about Lady?" Jeanette asked in a harsh voice, "How do you know about Sirius?"
Gemini used her telekinesis to remove her hood, exposing her face to the out of bounds fifth years, "Believe me now?" she asked, an eyebrow raised, "Do you two mind telling me what you are doing out here?"
Jeanette scoffed, "Neither of us remember."
Gemini's eyes narrowed as she grabbed the two girls by the arm, "we are going back to school, and you two are going to explain everything to me, whether you want to or not." She turned towards Xander, "Xander, you may return to your orb now, I can get them back to Hogwarts unassisted."
Xander nodded and evaporated in to a wisp of smoke, tucking himself safely in the orb that lay in Gemini robe pocket.
And they were gone.
. . .
The three girls landed in the Gryffindor seventh year's girls dorm, Gemini landing with the elegance of a panther; Leigh and Jeanette falling to the ground with the grace of a obese construction worker who had one to many beers and was trying to walk through a China shop on a tight rope.
"Ugh," Jeanette moaned, clutching her stomach, "Does that happen every bloody time you do that?"
"Your body is not capable of handling the psychic movement," Gemini commented flatly, removing her white robe and placing it on her bed, "Now I want to know exactly why you two were wondering around the village on the night of the Yule Ball?"
Leigh shook her head, "I have no idea, the last thing I remember was copying Jeanette transfiguration homework while she copied my star charts for divination, then waking up on the floor of the forbidden forest just before sunset."
Gemini stared at her blankly, "Well you were obviously hit with some strong magic, a memory charm and a transportation spell are extremely hard to perform together, and on two people at that," Gemini thought aloud, pacing slowly in front of the two girls, "But who would do such a thing?" she asked, turning towards them, "You don't remember anything from today. Nothing at all?"
"Well," Jeanette said uncertainly, "I don't really remember it, it's like trying to remember a dream, I know its stuck in my mind somewhere, but I need something to trigger it," she shook her head, "This is so bloody confusing."
"Listen," Gemini sighed, "I need you two to go to the Yule ball, Sirius is freaking out and I don't want things to become suspicious," she said sharply, "Go," she shooed them away, "And don't tell a soul about any of this."
The two younger girls nodded reverently, before rushing out of the dorm room leaving Gemini alone with her thoughts.
And an ageless old demon who looked just like her brother that it startled her beyond wits ends.
But Gemini Cielo never lost her wits.
Her temper yes, she lost her temper so much she should put a tracking charm on it so the next time it runs away from her she will be able to find it before blood is drawn.
"Is everything alright?" Xander asked from the confinements of her robes pocket, which lay across her bed neatly, "May I come out Mistress."
"Yes, you need not to ask for permission," Gemini said offhandedly, still in a placid state of mind, thinking what or who could have gotten those two girls in so much trouble so quickly with out their knowledge.
. . .
"Gemini!" Lily exclaimed as she pulled James off of the dance floor and towards her unfathomable friend who was standing off to the side of the dance floor, leaning against the wall, her arms crossed over her chest.
"Lily," Gemini replied, pushing her self off the wall and meeting her friend half way, "Jeanette and Leigh here?"
Lily nodded her head and pointed out towards the other far wall where Jeanette was trying to pull Sirius out on to the dance floor and Leigh was currently yelling at an out raged Peter a blank face on the poor boys face as Leigh's eyes burned with a furious passion that matched Gemini's.
Gemini sighed a bit in relief to find the girls have gotten back ok as she nodded in Lily direction, "I'll be right back," she said over her shoulder as she stalked towards Leigh, "I hate dances."
"I can bloody believe you Peter! You think I am goddamn cheating on you with Remus!" she jerked her hands through her hair in frustration, "How bloody dense can you get! Me and Remus are friends! Can you not accept the fact that your freak of a ex-girlfriend may have friends of the opposite sex?"
"Leigh," Gemini said calmly from behind the ranting Irishman, "We need to talk, dance with me?"
Leigh spun around and nodded, but stopped and yelled over her shoulder, "I am going to dance with Gemini because she is my friend. And don't give me that look Pettigrew I am not a damn lesbian so take your sick fantasies are get them the hell out of my life you slimy wanker!"
Leigh grinned as she turned to Gemini, who had a satisfying smirk on her face, "Come on before he develops an ulcer."
Leigh laughed and followed the older girl out on to the dance floor, weaving in and out of the pairs and groups of people.
"Hey, there's Jeanette and Sirius!" Leigh said excitedly as she grabbed Gemini wrist and dragged her towards the group.
Any other person would have a dislocated shoulder right now, but Gemini needed answers, and Gemini couldn't get answers if her source of information is screaming in pain.
Sirius saw Gemini over Jeanette's shoulder and immediately softened his unusually hard expression. It seemed that Jeanette was cutting off Sirius's blood flow to the brain and he was in need of some assistance.
"We'll talk later," Gemini mouth to Leigh as she pried her brother from the grips of the obsessed teenager.
"Sirius, I need you to help me with something," She said over the noise of the ball.
Sirius nodded furiously, running in to her and dragging her out of the great hall, and continuing even further until he stopped out side the Great Doors, regardless that it was snowing out and their breath lingers in the air.
"Thanks," Sirius mumbled in Gemini's direction as she stood with her arms crossed over her crest, "what was it you wanted to talk about?
Gemini shook her head, dark locks of brown hair falling about her face in a sudden gust of wind.
She didn't even look cold.
"Jeanette looked like she was never going to let go,"
Sirius grinned and replied, "That's what she said right after I broke it off with her."
Gemini rose her eye brows in surprise, "About damn time."
"Bitch," Sirius said playfully as he threw a small snow ball at her, he let out a yelp however as a giant mound of snow came flying over Gemini's head and landed on top of him, leaving him stuttering and freezing in the snow drift.
"What was that for?" He stammered and he stared at her with wide eyes, the snow quickly melting away with the aid of Gemini's TK.
"No one calls me a bitch and gets away with it."
"But you are. You are a sick, sadistic bitch who can kick my ass at everything but Quidditch."
Gemini narrowed her eyes as a smirk spread to her lips, "I bet you ten galleons that I can knock you off your broom before you can knock me off."
"Bull shit," Sirius challenged, "You're on Cielo."
"No magic allowed."
"Bitch," he ducked as more snow was flung at him, "Ok, ok I'm sorry! No magic no magic!"
"Prepare to die Black."
"So original Gemini, you sounded like you just walked out of a bloody muggle movie – AAHH! Ok! Enough with the bloody snow!"
. . .
The year was a blur to Gemini.
It seemed to go by with a blink of an eye to mock those who wished it would never end, to those who wished they could come back to Hogwarts each year, to those who secretly dreamed that the day the graduated Hogwarts they would wake up form a dream and they would be eleven again, eagerly awaiting the arrival of their letter.
Winter went by uneventful unless you count Sirius almost blowing up the dungeons when he 'accidentally' mixed his and Gemini's potions together to see what would happen. Gemini's training as gone from gorilla warfare to weaponry and she was now perfecting her weapons of choice, non projectile artillery. She was now heavily trained in the Crossbow, Traditional bow and arrow, and the javelin.
Sirius was a bit weird around Gemini all of a sudden; he was either chatting to her relentlessly or avoiding her at all cost. Not that Gemini didn't mind the golden silent that was being alone with out Sirius, he was always the one who would chat to keep her awake when she had to finish a late night assignment, or he would go with her outside where she would make her star charts for Astronomy.
The NEWTS where, as Peter so eloquently put them, 'So bloody hard I thought I was going to have a seizer just thinking that much'. Not that it made any sense, but most things that Peter says don't make sense.
The end of the year was rapidly approaching as the Gryffindor 7th years got ready to venture out in to the world and out of the safe confinements of Hogwarts.
The last Quidditch match of the season Gemini was kicked out of the match, but not after taking Malfoy down, giving Gryffindor an immense lead, which lead them to victory, winning the Quidditch cup, but the not house cup. They knew would slip through their fingers after the massive explosion of fireworks the marauders had set off as the end of the term and end of Hogwarts celebration.
Dumbledore didn't have the heart to give them detention, much to Sirius's dismay.
Jeanette became the president Sirius Black's official fan club and resident stalker. She followed him around endlessly, a camera in hand taking pictures of everything that he did and savoring them for her self. Some even say that she could be heard screaming "SIIIIIIIRIUS!" out of the dorm room window every night before she sent to sleep.
Leigh got over Peter 'pretty damn quickly' and was now romantically involved with a Hufflepuff sixth year, Jason Finn-Flinchy who had hair and the personality to rival hers.
It was the night before graduation and Gemini and Sirius were found laying on their back in the grass of the Quidditch field, everyone else was flying above them. Once or twice Gemini had to stop the quaffle they were throwing around from hitting them head on, and telekinetically sent it back in to the game.
"I think Jeanette finally got the idea that I didn't like her anymore." Sirius said, breaking the silence between the two.
Gemini rose her eyes brows and replied, "What brought this around?"
"I told her that there is someone else," he admitted, creating the perfect snowball in his hands as he spoke.
"Some one else?" she scoffed, "Come on Sirius, you have dated almost every damn girl in the school, who else can there be?"
Sirius smiled, a bit shyly and replied, "Gemini, have you ever loved someone?"
She shook her head, "No, I'm not allowed to love. Love is a foolish emotion that will limit my capabilities and endanger my mission."
Sirius rolled his eyes "Well, you see," Sirius began a bit unsure of himself, "there is this girl right. And everyone thinks she is a total bitch and a complete waste of my time because she doesn't have an interest in anyone."
"So just let her be, you can go a day with out a girl right?"
"No you don't understand!" Sirius sighed, "I don't want any other girl when she is around. She is the most beautiful person in the world, inside and out and I know I can make her see, but it will take some work and time that neither of us had."
"So give it up,"
"It's not that easy Gemini. I am in love with the damn girl! It's like when ever she is around her can completely control me with her every move. She can take her thoughts and make them mine, she makes my life a living hell," he pounded his fist on the ground next to him as he sat up, he looked down at her and saw that she looked at him with surprise, "And every waking moment I am away from her, its like hell because she is so close to me, but so far away at the same time."
Gemini had no experience whatsoever in the field of love, but she offered her brother her naïve advice, "Well, just tell her how you feel, what's the worse that could happen?" she asked in the most caring voice she could muster, "Who is she anyway?"
Sirius sighed and straightened his shoulders before turning to look at her, "Before I tell you I want you to promise me you won't hit, maim, decapitate, hex, curse, kill or use your inhuman powers on me."
Gemini frowned slightly wondering why he was giving her such a hard time as she propped herself up on one elbow, "Just tell me Sirius."
Sirius looked up at her, a hand woven in his hair as he sighed, his silver eyes as serious as Gemini has ever seen them.
"It's you."
Gemini's eyes widened as she looked at the blushing boy, "S-Sirius, I am a damn killer!" she hissed, still in shock, "Are you as insane as I am!"
Sirius sighed, running his hands through his hair, "I don't know, it has always been there, the attraction, it just kept getting strong after my dreams."
"Dreams?"
"Of you encased in glass and metal and every bloody painful thing imaginable. Last night I had it again and the only piece of shit I couldn't get off of you was the piece of metal covering your heart."
Gemini laid back down again sighing, "Sirius, I'm really sorry, but I don't think I would be able to do that to you. I am a dangerous person to be around Sirius. I don't even know what I am capable of," Sirius was about to protest when she cut in sharply, "I don't even know if I remember how to love."
Sirius narrowed his eyes and said coldly, "Fine," she looked over at her with his piercing silver orbs, "If you wont bloody admit to it that you feel something too then I'll leave you alone," he spat but not before he swooped down, firmly grabbing her shoulders and kissing her lightly on the lips before storming off to join the other playing Quidditch with the others, who were all oblivious to what just happened.
Gemini put her hand up to her lips, an unclear look on her face.
What the hell just happened?
/bastard/
. . .
For the first time since she left Italy Gemini slept peacefully with a subconscious that wasn't savaged by nightmares. That night she dreamed.
Of times before Hogwarts, times of bad dreams and nightmares, nights of running into her parents room only to climb into the bed and finding her mothers open arms, hugging her close, and her fathers reprimanding words that 'fighters never fear'.
She dreamt of Hogwarts, meeting Lily for the very first time and finding an unusual attraction to her. Of Voldemort and her time as his apprentice, then making the one single decision that killed parents and her sister, ripping her life apart then placing it back in to a more clearer order, secretes of her life being unveiled as the time passed by.
She dreamt of her first training session with Moody, the day she was told that she would be an assassin, the day that it didn't phase her that she would be a killer. She dreamt of many times of death and despair, but all the while the faces and smiles of the people she called her friends where entwined between the memories, branding themselves in to Gemini's young yet disturbed mind.
She remembered the first day she ever killed a man, she struck him through the heart with one of her silver arrows, and for that brief point in time she realized who she was and that this was not how it was supposed to be. She was, in spirit, the goddess Diana; the same divine blood ran through their veins, the same ideals in their similar minds. They were the same, yet they were so different, but it didn't underlie the fact that she was to give birth to the messiah of the Strega.
There were times in which Gemini forgot who she really was, who she would have been if not exposed to magic. She dreamt she woke up to the smell of a slowly simmering pot of tomato sauce and the sounds of her mother bustling around the kitchen all the while scolding her sister for tasting the sauce prematurely. She could hear her father's deep chuckles and see his comforting smile as she and him sat outside where he would tell Gemini about the stars and their stories behind them. She heard Tony cheering her on as she focused on her opponent, the sheer determination of not failing pushing her on until she achieved her victory.
And not an evil dark lord in sight.
Unconsciously Gemini mumbled in her sleep, rolling over on to her side, curling up in to her self and for once in a long time smiling a genuine smile that took away the cold façade she was put in to.
Her subconscious didn't want her to kill. Her destiny wanted her to return home.
Soon enough she would be returning home to that little house in a small town in Italy.
Where her story started, many years ago.
::epilogue::
Lily was absolutely beautiful on her graduation day.
Beautiful wasn't even the word to start describe her.
She wore her graduation robe, just as everyone else, but as she stood before the entire school to give her speech as Head Girl, the sun hit her in such a way, reflecting off of her golden red hair and her peaches and cream skin making her look absolutely angelic.
She was an Angel.
She cleared her throat and smiled out on to the crowd, tears already falling down her face. Once she clamed her breathing she began.
"I want to start out saying that this has been the best seven years of my life, regardless of the tragedies that we all had to face. I, just as all of you have, made it through many deaths and losses, but we did it together. We have also been through many happy times and many celebrations that will always remain in our hearts and our soul until the day we die." She wiped another tears for her eyes and looked down at the speech her and Bella had put together before setting them to the side, looking back up at the graduates with a radiant smile.
"This speech and anything that I may say to you if from my heart as of this moment on. Instead of talking about the times we have had or the times that have not yet come to pass like everyone else has, I have a few people I would like to thank.
"Professor Dumbledore!" she almost shouted, emotion surging through her voice, "With out you we would be with out guidance, we would be with out a mentor and we would not be as safe or as lucky as we were in Hogwarts. For that I thank you."
"To Professor McGonagall, for keeping a stern out look on how education should be, keeping us together and always being there for us. Despite your strict ways I could not have asked for a better transfiguration teacher! Thank You!"
The tears now rolled down her cheek, left unattended as they splashed down on to the podium and her note cards. Her eyes were alight with a passionate fire as she spoke from her heart, not caring if people thought she was now officially stark raving mad.
She went on, "To Remus, Peter and Sirius, with out you I don't know how I would have been able to survive through everything. You brought a smile to all of our faces, and Sirius, even though you proudly hold the title for most detentions served in the course of a Hogwarts career, I don't think anyone would have you any other way. Remus, you were always so kind and caring to me, you would always help me figure out runes when I didn't understand, or just listen to me when I needed it. And not to forget Peter, our sweet little boy who always has his pockets full of sweets and a smile on his face. I knew I could go to you if I needed anything, from a quill to a chocolate frog, you were always willing to give it up with a smile and for that I think you!"
A pause to sniffle as she got back on track, naming people off the top of her head, "To Severus Snape, with out you my boys would have no inspiration of revenge, no passion of going to potions, and even though it was for the sole purpose you were there to verbally degrade it was the same none the less! With out you Sirius wouldn't have as many individual detentions as he had, and for him I thank you!"
She could heard a faint whoop from the Gryffindor section as a she continued with a new determination.
"James Potter was not only head boy, not only the quidditch captain or the heart throb of almost every girl in Hogwarts he was my other half. My loving and caring boyfriend for the past two years and I love him with all of my heart and soul. He helped me get through everything, my parents death, my kidnapping and my transfiguration homework. With out him I don't know where I would be," she blew a kiss in the air; "I love you darling.
"I would like to thank Arabella Figg who is one of the most beautiful people I know, inside and out. She was ripped apart, but she just replaced her pain with that amazing smile of her and kept her chin help high and told us 'tomorrow is another day' with her creative ideas and selflessness she helped each of us to find the light in any dark situations," Lily smiled, tears now flowing freely, her voice getting stronger with each word, "We'll always be here for each other! You, me and Gemini!
And that leaves Gemini Cielo, the neurotic, cutthroat girl who can take out every single one of you with her eyes closed. Easily the most feared girl in school because none of you really know her!" Lily shouted in her emotional state,
"You all see her as the insane beater who has had more 'flesh wounds' and caused more injuries than anyone one in history but in reality Gemini is the most amazing girl I have ever met. When faced with a challenged she refused to give up until she had succeeded, regardless if her life was on the line or not. She stuck her neck our there to help me, to help Bella to help her friends, which were few in numbers but close to her heart." She paused for a moment to catch her breath, not bothering with the tears that spilled down her cheeks any longer, "You all have you opinions on her, but I don't think she really cares. All I know is my Hogwarts life wouldn't have been nearly as amazing with out her. You can hate her, you can adore her or you can fear her, but never underestimate her. I love you Gemini and I will always be there for you!"
Lily paused, catching her breath, the entire student body, parents and teachers looking at her in a silent amazement.
Lily Evans just lost her self.
"Where ever you go in life," Lily continued, at a more calm state even though her body racked with silent sobs, "Don't forget who you are, what you have done and what you have learned in this school with these people. For twenty years from now, when you all have lives and families and careers and what ever is planned for you, you can look back and remember the face, eyes and smile of every person that made a difference to you. If it weren't for those people you would have never gotten through Hogwarts alive, and if you never got through Hogwarts than you wouldn't be where you were.
"Just take the time to thank them," she trailed of, swallowing a sob, "Because you never know if this is the last time you will see them."
Lily broke down crying, but was still smiling all the same as she walked off the stage, James meeting her half way and enveloping the sobbing heap in to his arms.
Umber meet with emerald as Gemini realized that this maybe the last time she would see her friend. Her best friend, the girl that befriended her all those many years ago.
This would be the last day she would be living a 'normal' life.
This was the last day of her life.
. . .
"Miss Cielo?" Moody said to the newly graduated girl, "It is time."
Gemini merely nodded and took one last look at her friends before turning her back on them and solemnly following the man back in to the castle.
. . .
Gemini was pushed blindfolded in to a dimly lit room, with only one door and cold concrete floors, a room that hasn't been used in quite some time. She was adorned in nothing but her training pants and a tight black tank top, her muscles quivering in anticipation as she awaited her challenge.
Her final challenge.
Then she heard him
She stood completely still in rigid defensive state as her sharp senses detected a life form in the room a few feet in front of her.
Even blindfolded she could feel it staring at her hungrily.
Gemini waited and listened, the person shuffled their feet when they walked, more pressure on his heels telling Gemini that is was a man that was slowly made his way towards her. The dull and distant thud informed that the man had once held a lot of weigh, but was now thinner, his heavy raspy breath screamed out lust and excitement.
Gemini was about to whip around and perform a simple body bind spell when she head Moody's voice in her ear, 'this is not a test of your skills but of your endurance. Only attack when you feel that he has almost won, regardless of what he does to you; do not retaliate until the breaking point.'
Gemini nodded as she let her body relax, the man now standing directly in front of her, his hot ragged breath pouring on her neck as bony, calloused fingers pulled her hair to the side. His strong hands gripped her shoulders as he slowly pulled her back, his breath getting heavier as his hands ran down her chest.
"Pretty little one," he hissed in the gloom, "What a prize for me,"
Gemini held her stance as she felt his eyes on her, his finger under her clothes, touching her skin. Gemini felt suddenly cold as she realized she was no longer wearing her robes, her undergarments where being ripped from her body and even though her blood boiled she did not retaliate.
She just closed her eyes and put up her mental wall, waiting for her chance to strike.
She didn't even flinch when she felt his rugged hands on her skin.
//you dirty little whore, you let him get you, he's going to break you//
'Leave me alone'
She tensed her body up as she was pushed roughly to the ground, it taking all of her will power to not attack.
//now your going to get it, you let this happen, if you would have been a good girl than none of this would have happened//
'Oh Diana, please, make him stop'
For the fist time in her life, Gemini gasped in pain.
Ripping.
Blood.
Back scraping on the cold concrete floor
//why did you succumb to him.//
'Moody's orders'
//you stupid whore, you are a goddess, you do not take orders from mortals!//
A blood curdling scream filled the air as Gemini released all of her pent up and pain and agony, trying to reinforce the mental block that had shattered in to pieces as the man invaded her.
Scream of lust
Unfeeling silence
Heartbeat rising
//you're his now! Don't you see! He beat you! He owns you now! He is inside of you! You are his! You weak bitch!//
'No no no no no no no NO'
//don't you see? He is no god, he is a human, a mere mortal!//
'I'm sorry…'
//KILL HIM//
The man gasped for air and held pinned Gemini down, panting as he pulled himself from her body.
He smiled down at her and laughed.
"You're a broken girl," he hissed in her ear as he suddenly felt her body tense up, "you lost."
Her eyes snapped open behind her blind cloth.
Muscles tightening
Snapping out
Hands held tight
'NO! What are you doing! I-'
//I am killing him//
Gemini's hand shot out and blindly, but accurately grasped around the mans neck, never faltering as the man cried out in pain.
The man struggled endlessly until a sickening snap was heard.
He collapsed on top of the girl.
//good girl Gemini, good girl//
Gemini stood up from her spot, releasing the death hold on the dead mans throat, his lifeless body falling to the ground with a dull thud. Her underclothes flew in to her hands as she quickly, yet numbly pulled them on, her robes following.
There was blood, so much blood that mixed with other bodily fluids leaked out of Gemini, but she seemed not to care.
She was desensitized.
Gemini stepped over the dead mans body, a soft white light emitting from her fingers as the door slowly opened then she steadily walked out of the room. She turned to look at Dumbledore and Moody, who looked at her with pale blank faces.
"You told me to complete my mission. You will find his remnants in the chamber," Gemini said in the same, monotonous, even voice that was void of all emotion, "I am the perfect weapon." She said flatly, her eyes dull and no longer holding the ever present spark of anger, as she turned as teleported out of sight, leaving Moody and Dumbledore in a complete state of shock.
"May the God's have mercy on our souls," Dumbledore muttered, "Well done Moody," he said rather dryly, "you have created the perfect weapon with a 17 year old psychopath, and I do hope you are proud of your self," He said as he began to leave the chamber, he paused at the door though, to turn around and give Moody one last final word, "A weapon is only as good as the cause it's protects. Let's pray that it doesn't fall over into the wrong end of the spectrum like once before. You forget who Gemini was first trained by, some of that black magic still remains, let us hope that it doesn't resurface."
Moody growled and spat, "Find her, Fudge wished to see her,"
"What for," Dumbledore asked sharply, "What else can he do to ruing that poor girl's life?"
At this Moody's face softened as he brought one hand up to his eyes, rubbing them softly as to ease the pain hidden behind them. He looked up at Dumbledore, his icy glare fixed on him; sighing he replied, "He's going to make the biggest mistake of his life."
Moody stormed from the chamber leaving Dumbledore with his thoughts as his only source of company.
Gemini Diana Cielo was the single most intriguing and terrifying individual he had ever met. Completely void of a normal life, she had to fend for herself from a young age. Although Dumbledore didn't know everything about the enigmatic girl, he knew enough to say that she was the most unstable person he knew.
Now she was a hope for all people who were against Voldemort, she was the one thing that might be able to stop him, she was the perfect weapon.
Which was a frightening idea within itself.
. . .
"Are you comfortable Gemini?" Fudge asked the girl lightly as she sat in an overstuffed arm chair in Dumbledore's office.
"Yes," Gemini replied, her eyes hard and focused, her voice even.
"What I am going to give you," he said calmly, taking a needle off of Dumbledore's desk, a green liquid held inside the syringe. "is a potion to help you with your missions." He said quietly as she injected the potion in to her arm.
The potion took immediate effect, her head lolled on her neck, eyes barely opened and her body was slack, nearly falling off the chair.
Dumbledore gasped inwardly as he recognized these signs. It was an alteration potion.
He didn't even have time to stop Fudge before he started talking.
"You're Special Forces Assassin Agent Diana Sky and you work for England's Ministry of Magic. You are eighteen years old, but your birthday is unknown.
"You were found when you were a young child and brought up to be an assassin by our best trainers and held a professional assassin's status by the time you where eleven. You are recently involved with a group of people called death eaters, run by a dark lord, Lord Voldemort. You're mission is to go undercover and gain information from these deatheaters with out being detected. If they do realize your true identify it is your job to guarantee that they are silenced, forever.
"You don't believe in god and you are asexual so that emotional bonds will not be formed and inhibit your natural talents. You have never been to Italy, there is not Goddess Diana and your soul purpose in life is to eliminate the faction of deatheaters in our society.
"You have just woken up from being in a comatose state for a little over a year, and you have lost your memory, which is why I am explaining things to you like this. If you can't remember something, ask me and I will supply you an answer. Don't ask any other people other than me about your past. Don't question it.
"You never went to Hogwarts. You do not know people out side your informants. You are the Perfect Weapon, a master in non projectile weapons and hand to hand combat. You can perform wand less magic and you are perfectly sane."
Fudge snapped his fingers as Gemini looked wildly around the room before she sat straight up in her seat, an odd gleam in her eyes.
She stood up, her voice void of emotion as she looked at a smug Fudge in the eye.
"Special Forces Assassin Agent Diana Sky, ready and waiting her orders sir."
Dumbledore rose a hand to his gaping mouth, looking at the girl in front of him who had no idea who she was or who she was meant to be.
This has been a very grave mistake
Fudge looked at Dumbledore with a confidently victorious gleam in his beady eyes. He handed the assassin a folder, which she obediently flipped open and scanned briefly.
Gemini Cielo is dead
She looked up, her dark eyes dead as she replied, "Mission Accepted."
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