"What are we going to do with the Baby?" Feira asked, peering over at it.
Trowa shook his head and shrugged.
"I don't know." He mumbled.
"Jim? What are we going to do with it?" she asked Fitzpatrick. Professor
McGonagll glared at the young girl.
"Ms. Fitzpatrick, you do understand that your brother is a Professor now."
Professor McGonagll stated. Feira sighed.
"Yes." Feira replied, trying to trip Professor Fitzpatrick, who wasn't
paying
much attention to the conversation and more so to the game of "don't trip".
"Stop it both of you. Ms. Fitzpatrick stop trying to trip him and stop
calling him Jim." Professor McGonagll scoffed, storming off. Professor Jim
bowed his head and then glared at Feira.
"What? All I did was ask a question." She replied to his glare. Professor
Jim
just shook his head.
"Hey, Fei? Could you hold the baby for a minute?" Trowa asked, handing
Feira
the Baby.
"NO!" she said, pushing it back to Trowa. He raised his brow.
"Still not over that?" Professor asked.
"Shut up." She snapped. Trowa was getting a little peeved.
"Take the kid Feira." He mumbled. She glared at him as he pushed the bundle
into her arms. Feira peek in at the kid, Jim was still quite asleep which relieved Feira. "He can't cry." She said, sticking her tongue at Jim, who almost returned it, but caught him self. Feira sneered. "Why did you say that?" Jim asked. "He's sleeping really hard." She replied. "Hey He's cute! Aww, that so cute." Both men raised a few eyebrows on that one. "Fei, I'll take him now." Jim said, lifting the child out of her arms. Feira glared. "Eli said to take him to Afton and that is what we are doing." Feira snapped. "NO, I think the sleeping spell should come off first." Jim replied, taking
hold of the baby in one hand and patting his baby sister on the head. "How would you know he's under a spell?" she asked. "It's the same one we used on you all the time." He mumbled. Feira kicked him. "Child abuser." She muttered, he chuckled. Putting both arms under the child Professor Jim walked off to the indication of his office. Trowa shrugged and dragged Feira back into the great hall. The Great Hall was bursting with laughter, noise, light, but most of allâE¦ "MAIL!" Someone yelled. Feira ran to her table and literally jumped between
Ginny and Hiro. "Top of the morning to ya." She said. Quatre pushed a plate of food towards
her. "Eat it." Hiro mumbled. "Why?" she asked back. "You want a lecture on eating habits, nutrition, and grade affecting decisions?" he asked, Feira shook her head. "Eat it." "Fuck you." She mouthed to Quatre; he just smiled and waved his hand. "Be nice." Quatre replied. Niles on the other side took it as a time to cause trouble. "Be careful Quatre, she just promised something." Niles said, nudging Quatre with his elbow. "SMACK" That wonderfully filled plate with food was slammed
into Niles face. "Dumbass." Feira muttered. "Bitch." He returned. "Life's a bitch and so am I. So screwâE¦" She was cut off by Niles. "Let me guessâE¦KAT?" he asked. Feira turned bright red and punched him square in the jaw. Holding his now bleeding lip, Niles nearly smacked her back, but then heard a little reminder. "If your sister hit's you first, don't hit her back, they always catch the other person." Feira reminded him, waving her finger back and forth. This started a yelling contest between the two.
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Professor Jim was having not such an easy time waking little Jim up. After
noticing it was one of the old spells and it would take time, even though it doesn't take as much time to cast, he would have to be at it for about an hour or so. Conjuring up a crib and a baby monitor, the Professor started on his task. "NO wonder what ever happened that this kid stayed asleep." He mumbled. Suddenly a song pierced his mind. He sighed as he mumbled the words to it:
We were out on a date in my daddy's car We hadn't driven very far, There in the road straight ahead A car was stalled the engine was dead I couldn't stop so I swerved to the right I'll never forget the sound that night The screaming tyres, the busting glass The painful scream that I heard last Oh where oh where can my baby be The lord took her away from me She's gone to heaven so I got to be good So I can see my baby when I leave this world When I woke up the rain was falling down There were people standing all around Something warm flowing through my eyes But some how I found my baby that night I lifted her head she looked at me and said Hold me darling just a little while I held her close, I kissed her our last kiss I found the love that I knew I would miss Oh now she's gone even though I hold her tight I lost my love, my life that night Oh where oh where can my baby be The lord took her away from me She's gone to heaven so I got to be good So I can see my baby when I leave this world.
The song ended just in time for the Professor to start his little magical wake up for the younger Jim. Concentrating hard on the little boy in front of him, Fitzpatrick put his hands together and went into deep meditation. His hand slowly reached for the child. Holding him and sitting quietly back into place he held the child in his lap. Placing his hands over little Jim's head, he started focusing his thoughts, power and hope on the little boy. He did that for about 30 minutes before the child stirred. Then, little Jim rubbed
his eyes and then slowly cracked them open. Staring up at the Professor, the boy tilted his head and looked at the stranger in front of him. "Hello, from what I gather you are Elinwy's little brother. Correct?" Fitzpatrick asked. Blink. "Do you speak?" he asked. Blink, Blink. "Ok, one blink no, two blink yes. Got it?" Fitzpatrick asked. BlinkâE¦Blink. "Are you Elinwy's little brother?" he asked. Blink, Blink. "OK, that's good enough for me. Well I have to take you to Afton." He said,
smiling at the little boy in front of him, the boy just nodded back. Picking him up, Fitzpatrick kind of threw him up in the air and caught him again. Little Jim giggled. "You like that huh?" he asked, more to himself than to little Jim. Jim just
giggled more. "So did Fei. Ok, one more time." The little boy laughed and giggled as he was thrown into the sky and then started falling back to earth. Smiling on the inside Fitzpatrick carried the boy into the great hall. Silence followed him as he past students with a child in his arms. Coming out by the Gryffindor table he noticed his younger siblings trying to kill each
other. Sighing to himself he sifted the boys weighed and freed one of his hands. Looking at the child in his arm he mumbled. "God I hope you don't grow up like them." He said, little Jim just smiled. Fitzpatrick sighed and grabbed on to the back of Niles robes and dragged his younger brother over to the Ravenclaw table. Pacing all the faces of his student he rested upon Afton's. "Ms. Wilderriver, I believe you have a guest." He said setting Jim in her lap. "Aww! He's so cute!" she said, cuddling Jim. "He's mute." Whispered Fitzpatrick then once again walked off dragging Niles behind him. Niles glared and started to complain but it didn't prevail. Trowa looked at the child. The child looked at Trowa and giggled. Every body was looking at the kid. It took a few awkward moments for Afton to realize that
every one was staring at the baby. "What? Haven't you ever seen a baby before?" she snapped, after that everyone went back to eating. "I wonder what his name is?" "It's Jim!" Duo replied, walking down the hallway. Feira turned her head around to see if "Jim" was still around. "No, he's not here." She said. Duo chuckled. Afton laughed. "No, Fei, the kids name is Jim." Afton replied. Feira snickered. "What's so funny." Hiro asked. "My plan." She replied. "Oh dear." Ginny sighed. Feira just sat there, plotting.
"So what are we going to do this time of the year?" Afton asked Jim. Jim just snuggled closer. Carefully Afton picked up Jim and headed off towards her friends. Feira looked at the little boy and then back down at the new plate
of food Quatre had dished up for her. Afton sat between Fred and George. Ron Peered over his brother's shoulder and Quatre peered over George's. "Well I'll be. Whose kid?" Fred asked. "Its Eli's little brother." Duo said, sitting in between Hiro and Feira. "He adorable! Can I see him?" Quatre asked. Feira raised her brow, but stayed silent as she read her mail. Quatre still noticed it. "Do you object?" he asked, trying not to be sarcastic. Feira looked up and tilted her head. "I'm sorry, what where we talking about again? Seeing it takes information five seconds to get to my brain and I only have the attention span of three
seconds I wasn't quite in on this." She replied, looking into his eyes. Hiro sighed and Afton kicked Feira under the table and gave her a warning look. "We where talking about the baby." Ginny said, smiling at Jim, who was looking at everyone accusingly. "He's very wary of people." Quatre noted. Trowa walked up behind them all. Feira looked up once more and lean forward. "Yes Jim, everything is conspiring against you, us, and this whole God fore
sanken planet." She said in a low tone, scaring him. Duo hit Feira on the back of her head. "Don't scare him! He's been through enough as it is ok!" Duo snapped. Feira
leaned closer to Jim. "Sad isn't it. They can't handle the truth that we understand." She sighed and sat straight up. Jim looked at her and blinked twice. Feira grinned at Duo. "That would be considered a burn on your been-told-O-meter." She sneered. "Let's move this somewhere else." Trowa commented, before anymore damage or dissing could be done "To the library." Ginny suggested. Everyone nodded and got up to leave. Hiro grabbed Feira who was still reading her letter. Walking there they got quite a few stares from people. Quatre asked if he could once more hold the child. Afton sighing heavily gave into him and handed Jim over to him. Quatre held
the boy with gentle and loving care. Jim on the other hand noticed the boy had blond hair, bluish eyes and creamy tan skin. Squirming as if trying to run away, Jim struggled. Feira stood right in the target zone of Jim's kicks. As it so happened Feira's glasses where kicked off. "Quatre Raberba Winner! Control that child or else!" she yelled. Both Jim and Quatre froze. Feira dropped to her knees to search for her glasses. Finding
them she stood up and put them on. "Quatre hand me him." She said. Quatre not wanting to get yelled at handed her the child. Feira took him and looked in the eyes. "Little one, that wasn't cool. You see those people?" she asked him, turning him to face everyone in front of him. Jim blinked and then blinked again. "They are all your friends, and for right now will be your family." "And we are here to help you and your sister." Afton replied, smiling and waving at Jim. Feira turned him towards her. "Eistigi liom. Tá mé go dona. I have tons of things to do. Be good and have fun, just don't cause trouble." She said, handing him back to Quatre. Everyone tilted her head and Quatre looked at her in disbelief. Then remembering that someone else knew Gaelic she smacked her self. "Idiot!" she mumbled to her self. Quatre's eye grew wide. "FEIRA! YOU NEED TO GO TO THEâE¦" he was cut of when she put her hand over his mouth. "Shut it Angel before I do it for you." She warned. "I'd like to see that." Duo whispered to Afton, who giggled at the comment.
Quatre heard it and went red. Feira actually ignored it. Removing her hand she walked away over to the open library. Duo sighed heavily and followed, as did everyone else. Jim giggled all the way there, thinking these people are
interesting and not so bad. Feira had sat down in the corner and pulled out
her letter and was reading it. Everyone sat around the table, and started talking about what they where going to do the rest of the winter vacation. "Man, wouldn't it be cool if we snuck outside tonight and had a snowball fight?" Duo asked, leaning closer as if this was a secret. Hiro nodded his response. "But what about Jim? We don't have winter cloths for him!" Afton pointed out. Then a cold voice drawled out. "Why don't you give the kid Feira's cloths and then it's fixed." Everyone turned and saw Draco MalfoyâE¦standing alone. Feira set her letter down for the umpteenth time that day and turned and crossed her legs and put her hands on her kneecap. "Not cool, not cool at all." She mumbled. "Is that all the great Feira can say? Not cool." He sneered. Feira sighed and put her hand to he temples a rubbed them. "Malfoy. I'm not going to loose my temper here or now. There is a child in my presence and I wish to be a good roll model. Not like you could understand that." She replied coolly. Jim decided it was safer to be under Quatre's robes, snuggling closer to him, he found he was right. Quatre, noticing the
child wanted to be hidden, obliged by covering him with his robe. "If there is a child in your presence, then why do you loose your temper when you are in your own presence, because to most people you are nothing but a child. Any ways, I came here to deliver a private message." He said, handing a letter to Quatre, who took it. Everyone stared at the letter and then back to where Draco was supposedly seen last, but he wasn't there. Quatre just looked at it. "WellâE¦open it!" Duo urged the younger boy. Quatre sighed and open the letter. To him self he read:
Dear Quatre Raberba Winner:
This letter is to inform you, that you and anything you hold dear is under the name of Lucuis Adolph Malfoy. You are now under his legal possession. As your uncle and now legal guardian, he has all parental rights over you and your sisters. In four days you and young Master Draco shall be escorted to
Malfoy manor, where you shall stay over the winter break.
Have a nice Christmas, Cornelius Fudge Minister of Magic.
Quatre sighed inwardly to himself. He was going to spend the rest of Christmas with people he didn't know. Holding the piece of paper he put it
back into his coat pocket. "Well, what did it say." Trowa asked. Quatre quickly hid his disappointment. "It was a letter from an old friend." He lied. "Liar, Malfoy isn't delivering you a normal message with M.O.M's seal on it." Feira said, Quatre sighed and some how his blood was roused. "So? What's your letter about? It's taken you at least thirty minute to read." He snapped back. Feira handed it to him. "Well if you kept getting interrupted a million times, I think it would take you awhile too." She replied. "Besides, I had to read details." Quatre skimmed over the letter. One paragraph made him stop. "I'm sorryâE¦Fei, I didn't knowâE¦" he stated handing it back. She looked up. "Ná bac leis it." She replied, shoving the note in her pocket. "English please?" Duo asked. Feira looked at him. "Would you like them rare, medium, or extra crispy?" she asked. Jim laughed. "Be nice Fei." Afton replied, shaking her head. Feira rolled her eyes. "So back to the Jim Problem. What will we use?" Hiro interrupted before anything else could happen. "Well, Quatre is the shortest male figure hereâE¦" Duo pointed out. "Why would that matter?" Quatre asked. "Feira may be small, but she has girl cloths." Duo replied. Feira glared up
at him. "I wear my brothers old cloth dip stick." She snapped. Trowa raised his eyebrow. "What? "They're broken in, comfy, and baggy." She replied. "And you need to
stop raising your brow every time I say something." She added, shaking her finger at Trowa. Trowa just shrugged. "ANY WAYS!" Afton interjected, everyone looked at her. "Thanks you all, Quatre we shall be giving Jim some of your old close. Problem solved." "When I need something summarized, I'm going to you." Feira said, pointing at Afton who just shook her head. "But some snow balls could carry rocks." Quatre interjected. Feira rolled her eyes. "Fine Quatre why don't you just ice-skate around the lake." Feira replied, leaning back in her chair. "But to be safe you need two people." He said. "Then don't be safe for once, or sit on the side linesâE¦waitâE¦innocent bystanders are normally the ones that get hit." She retorted. Afton kicked her under the table. Quatre sighed and gave Jim back to Afton, who happily took him back, and got up and left without a word. "Good job Feira." Trowa snapped. "Why did you go and do that?" Afton asked, watching Quatre's retreating back. "What? All I said was that innocent bystanders normally get hit and that he
can bend the rules once in awhile." She replied. "You did say that, but it was the way you said it that does the harm." Hiro
interjected. Everyone silently agreed. "So basically I'm too mean in the way I say things? Alright, since everyone
think I should just stay quiet I will, have a nice day." With that she too walked off. Afton got up as if to go and talk to her but Trowa shook his head. "She'll just walk away and in the end snap your head off." He commented. "I think if I've known her longer than you I know what my friend will do." Afton replied. "Guys, can we not fight? I know this may sound Quatre-ish but Jim is in our
presence and we shouldn't fight." He said. They all 'hmmm'ed and there was silence. Duo stretched, "I'm going to see Elinwy." He stood up and started to walk out of the library, but ended up having to fight for the hallway with the others, who all wanted to see Elinwy also. "You could've just said!" Duo swrimed a little and left them all on the floor, but save for Trowa, Hiro and Afton, who were smart enough to not get in on the rucus. "Hey Duo, what's that?" Afton pointed to his neck, where once his braid flipped forward, exposed his neck. On his neck was a triangle with a circle around it, touching all points. "Just something I picked up on the trip." Duo stood and started walking for the dormitories. "How? And where, I looks awesome." Feira stared at Duo, who frowned at her. "It's nothing big." He then turned and walked down the hall. "That doesn't seem like Duo." Afton frowned as she put little Jim down, and held his hand. "Something big must have happened to both of them. Something really big, it changed them both, lots." Hiro nodded at Trowa, "Man you guys have some serious problems." Ron said, shaking his head, "I wouldn't be talk, Mr. You-know-who." Afton snapped right back at him. Turning, she left dragging Jim right behind Duo. The others just followed in her wake. "HEY DUO!" Feira yelled as she caught up with him, "Hmmm?" "What did Dumbledore talk to you about?" Duo was silent for a minute, looked to be thinking, then answered, "He talked to me about a lot of things. One is my new responsablity to Eli. Another is something very very wierd." Feira razed an eyebrow, "What would that be?" Duo pulled out a letter from his shirt pocket and handed it to Feira, who read it out loud to the group,
Dear Ms. Elinwy Crystal Maria Whitebrook:
This letter is to inform you, that you are under the name of Lucuis Adolph Malfoy. You are now under his legal possession. As your legal guardian, he has all parental rights over you and your brothers. In four days you and young Master Draco
shall be escorted to Malfoy manor, where you shall stay over the winter break.
Have a nice Christmas, Cornelius Fudge Minister of Magic.
"This is almost the same letter as Quatre got! I don't think Eli will be trilled with this." Feira said, passing the note to Quatre, who read it over carefully, "Does this make us brother and sister?" They all looked weirdly at Quatre, "I don't think Eli will be too trilled with that also." Afton said.
"Man? Are you gonna let him take her away?" Trowa asked Duo, surprising everyone. Duo just shrugged, pocketing the note and headed for the Elinwy's room again. The rest of the walk was in silence, as they passed random groups of children and ghosts. As soon as the group got the Ravenclaw common room, they all knew something very important was up. Duo was about to walk up the stairs to the girls room, when Ginny stepped out from the dark hall way, almost running into Duo. Duo looked down at Ginny sadly, then looked back up the stairs, "She's doing fine... HEY WAIT!" Duo had moved past Ginny and up the stairs, ignoring her protests about no boys alound.
"What is wrong with that boy?!" Ginny humphed and then sank into one of the large chairs. "Something very serious, but something we can never help with." Feira said, sinking to the floor in front of the fire, "That's the sweetest thing I think I've ever heard you say." Quatre said sinking down by her, surprisingly Feira was silent to the comment.
~*~*~
Duo slowly dragged his feet up the stairs. He really wanted to see Elinwy but didn't want to see the state that she was in, it scared him to no end. When ever he closed his eyes to think or to blink, he saw what Elinwy was dreaming, it was part of the link they now shared as Dumbledore had put it. She was dreaming of her family, all of them. She was reclaiming her childhood. 'I wish I could do the same.' Duo stopped short of the door that lead into her room. He stood there for a about a minute more, then removed his hand from his pocket and reached for the knob, turning it and entering the room.
He looked to the bed he knew she was in and saw her sleeping body, pale with flickering energy and early morning light. Sitting next to the bed in a hump of black robed was Professor Snape, the last person Duo expect to see.
into her arms. Feira peek in at the kid, Jim was still quite asleep which relieved Feira. "He can't cry." She said, sticking her tongue at Jim, who almost returned it, but caught him self. Feira sneered. "Why did you say that?" Jim asked. "He's sleeping really hard." She replied. "Hey He's cute! Aww, that so cute." Both men raised a few eyebrows on that one. "Fei, I'll take him now." Jim said, lifting the child out of her arms. Feira glared. "Eli said to take him to Afton and that is what we are doing." Feira snapped. "NO, I think the sleeping spell should come off first." Jim replied, taking
hold of the baby in one hand and patting his baby sister on the head. "How would you know he's under a spell?" she asked. "It's the same one we used on you all the time." He mumbled. Feira kicked him. "Child abuser." She muttered, he chuckled. Putting both arms under the child Professor Jim walked off to the indication of his office. Trowa shrugged and dragged Feira back into the great hall. The Great Hall was bursting with laughter, noise, light, but most of allâE¦ "MAIL!" Someone yelled. Feira ran to her table and literally jumped between
Ginny and Hiro. "Top of the morning to ya." She said. Quatre pushed a plate of food towards
her. "Eat it." Hiro mumbled. "Why?" she asked back. "You want a lecture on eating habits, nutrition, and grade affecting decisions?" he asked, Feira shook her head. "Eat it." "Fuck you." She mouthed to Quatre; he just smiled and waved his hand. "Be nice." Quatre replied. Niles on the other side took it as a time to cause trouble. "Be careful Quatre, she just promised something." Niles said, nudging Quatre with his elbow. "SMACK" That wonderfully filled plate with food was slammed
into Niles face. "Dumbass." Feira muttered. "Bitch." He returned. "Life's a bitch and so am I. So screwâE¦" She was cut off by Niles. "Let me guessâE¦KAT?" he asked. Feira turned bright red and punched him square in the jaw. Holding his now bleeding lip, Niles nearly smacked her back, but then heard a little reminder. "If your sister hit's you first, don't hit her back, they always catch the other person." Feira reminded him, waving her finger back and forth. This started a yelling contest between the two.
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Professor Jim was having not such an easy time waking little Jim up. After
noticing it was one of the old spells and it would take time, even though it doesn't take as much time to cast, he would have to be at it for about an hour or so. Conjuring up a crib and a baby monitor, the Professor started on his task. "NO wonder what ever happened that this kid stayed asleep." He mumbled. Suddenly a song pierced his mind. He sighed as he mumbled the words to it:
We were out on a date in my daddy's car We hadn't driven very far, There in the road straight ahead A car was stalled the engine was dead I couldn't stop so I swerved to the right I'll never forget the sound that night The screaming tyres, the busting glass The painful scream that I heard last Oh where oh where can my baby be The lord took her away from me She's gone to heaven so I got to be good So I can see my baby when I leave this world When I woke up the rain was falling down There were people standing all around Something warm flowing through my eyes But some how I found my baby that night I lifted her head she looked at me and said Hold me darling just a little while I held her close, I kissed her our last kiss I found the love that I knew I would miss Oh now she's gone even though I hold her tight I lost my love, my life that night Oh where oh where can my baby be The lord took her away from me She's gone to heaven so I got to be good So I can see my baby when I leave this world.
The song ended just in time for the Professor to start his little magical wake up for the younger Jim. Concentrating hard on the little boy in front of him, Fitzpatrick put his hands together and went into deep meditation. His hand slowly reached for the child. Holding him and sitting quietly back into place he held the child in his lap. Placing his hands over little Jim's head, he started focusing his thoughts, power and hope on the little boy. He did that for about 30 minutes before the child stirred. Then, little Jim rubbed
his eyes and then slowly cracked them open. Staring up at the Professor, the boy tilted his head and looked at the stranger in front of him. "Hello, from what I gather you are Elinwy's little brother. Correct?" Fitzpatrick asked. Blink. "Do you speak?" he asked. Blink, Blink. "Ok, one blink no, two blink yes. Got it?" Fitzpatrick asked. BlinkâE¦Blink. "Are you Elinwy's little brother?" he asked. Blink, Blink. "OK, that's good enough for me. Well I have to take you to Afton." He said,
smiling at the little boy in front of him, the boy just nodded back. Picking him up, Fitzpatrick kind of threw him up in the air and caught him again. Little Jim giggled. "You like that huh?" he asked, more to himself than to little Jim. Jim just
giggled more. "So did Fei. Ok, one more time." The little boy laughed and giggled as he was thrown into the sky and then started falling back to earth. Smiling on the inside Fitzpatrick carried the boy into the great hall. Silence followed him as he past students with a child in his arms. Coming out by the Gryffindor table he noticed his younger siblings trying to kill each
other. Sighing to himself he sifted the boys weighed and freed one of his hands. Looking at the child in his arm he mumbled. "God I hope you don't grow up like them." He said, little Jim just smiled. Fitzpatrick sighed and grabbed on to the back of Niles robes and dragged his younger brother over to the Ravenclaw table. Pacing all the faces of his student he rested upon Afton's. "Ms. Wilderriver, I believe you have a guest." He said setting Jim in her lap. "Aww! He's so cute!" she said, cuddling Jim. "He's mute." Whispered Fitzpatrick then once again walked off dragging Niles behind him. Niles glared and started to complain but it didn't prevail. Trowa looked at the child. The child looked at Trowa and giggled. Every body was looking at the kid. It took a few awkward moments for Afton to realize that
every one was staring at the baby. "What? Haven't you ever seen a baby before?" she snapped, after that everyone went back to eating. "I wonder what his name is?" "It's Jim!" Duo replied, walking down the hallway. Feira turned her head around to see if "Jim" was still around. "No, he's not here." She said. Duo chuckled. Afton laughed. "No, Fei, the kids name is Jim." Afton replied. Feira snickered. "What's so funny." Hiro asked. "My plan." She replied. "Oh dear." Ginny sighed. Feira just sat there, plotting.
"So what are we going to do this time of the year?" Afton asked Jim. Jim just snuggled closer. Carefully Afton picked up Jim and headed off towards her friends. Feira looked at the little boy and then back down at the new plate
of food Quatre had dished up for her. Afton sat between Fred and George. Ron Peered over his brother's shoulder and Quatre peered over George's. "Well I'll be. Whose kid?" Fred asked. "Its Eli's little brother." Duo said, sitting in between Hiro and Feira. "He adorable! Can I see him?" Quatre asked. Feira raised her brow, but stayed silent as she read her mail. Quatre still noticed it. "Do you object?" he asked, trying not to be sarcastic. Feira looked up and tilted her head. "I'm sorry, what where we talking about again? Seeing it takes information five seconds to get to my brain and I only have the attention span of three
seconds I wasn't quite in on this." She replied, looking into his eyes. Hiro sighed and Afton kicked Feira under the table and gave her a warning look. "We where talking about the baby." Ginny said, smiling at Jim, who was looking at everyone accusingly. "He's very wary of people." Quatre noted. Trowa walked up behind them all. Feira looked up once more and lean forward. "Yes Jim, everything is conspiring against you, us, and this whole God fore
sanken planet." She said in a low tone, scaring him. Duo hit Feira on the back of her head. "Don't scare him! He's been through enough as it is ok!" Duo snapped. Feira
leaned closer to Jim. "Sad isn't it. They can't handle the truth that we understand." She sighed and sat straight up. Jim looked at her and blinked twice. Feira grinned at Duo. "That would be considered a burn on your been-told-O-meter." She sneered. "Let's move this somewhere else." Trowa commented, before anymore damage or dissing could be done "To the library." Ginny suggested. Everyone nodded and got up to leave. Hiro grabbed Feira who was still reading her letter. Walking there they got quite a few stares from people. Quatre asked if he could once more hold the child. Afton sighing heavily gave into him and handed Jim over to him. Quatre held
the boy with gentle and loving care. Jim on the other hand noticed the boy had blond hair, bluish eyes and creamy tan skin. Squirming as if trying to run away, Jim struggled. Feira stood right in the target zone of Jim's kicks. As it so happened Feira's glasses where kicked off. "Quatre Raberba Winner! Control that child or else!" she yelled. Both Jim and Quatre froze. Feira dropped to her knees to search for her glasses. Finding
them she stood up and put them on. "Quatre hand me him." She said. Quatre not wanting to get yelled at handed her the child. Feira took him and looked in the eyes. "Little one, that wasn't cool. You see those people?" she asked him, turning him to face everyone in front of him. Jim blinked and then blinked again. "They are all your friends, and for right now will be your family." "And we are here to help you and your sister." Afton replied, smiling and waving at Jim. Feira turned him towards her. "Eistigi liom. Tá mé go dona. I have tons of things to do. Be good and have fun, just don't cause trouble." She said, handing him back to Quatre. Everyone tilted her head and Quatre looked at her in disbelief. Then remembering that someone else knew Gaelic she smacked her self. "Idiot!" she mumbled to her self. Quatre's eye grew wide. "FEIRA! YOU NEED TO GO TO THEâE¦" he was cut of when she put her hand over his mouth. "Shut it Angel before I do it for you." She warned. "I'd like to see that." Duo whispered to Afton, who giggled at the comment.
Quatre heard it and went red. Feira actually ignored it. Removing her hand she walked away over to the open library. Duo sighed heavily and followed, as did everyone else. Jim giggled all the way there, thinking these people are
interesting and not so bad. Feira had sat down in the corner and pulled out
her letter and was reading it. Everyone sat around the table, and started talking about what they where going to do the rest of the winter vacation. "Man, wouldn't it be cool if we snuck outside tonight and had a snowball fight?" Duo asked, leaning closer as if this was a secret. Hiro nodded his response. "But what about Jim? We don't have winter cloths for him!" Afton pointed out. Then a cold voice drawled out. "Why don't you give the kid Feira's cloths and then it's fixed." Everyone turned and saw Draco MalfoyâE¦standing alone. Feira set her letter down for the umpteenth time that day and turned and crossed her legs and put her hands on her kneecap. "Not cool, not cool at all." She mumbled. "Is that all the great Feira can say? Not cool." He sneered. Feira sighed and put her hand to he temples a rubbed them. "Malfoy. I'm not going to loose my temper here or now. There is a child in my presence and I wish to be a good roll model. Not like you could understand that." She replied coolly. Jim decided it was safer to be under Quatre's robes, snuggling closer to him, he found he was right. Quatre, noticing the
child wanted to be hidden, obliged by covering him with his robe. "If there is a child in your presence, then why do you loose your temper when you are in your own presence, because to most people you are nothing but a child. Any ways, I came here to deliver a private message." He said, handing a letter to Quatre, who took it. Everyone stared at the letter and then back to where Draco was supposedly seen last, but he wasn't there. Quatre just looked at it. "WellâE¦open it!" Duo urged the younger boy. Quatre sighed and open the letter. To him self he read:
Dear Quatre Raberba Winner:
This letter is to inform you, that you and anything you hold dear is under the name of Lucuis Adolph Malfoy. You are now under his legal possession. As your uncle and now legal guardian, he has all parental rights over you and your sisters. In four days you and young Master Draco shall be escorted to
Malfoy manor, where you shall stay over the winter break.
Have a nice Christmas, Cornelius Fudge Minister of Magic.
Quatre sighed inwardly to himself. He was going to spend the rest of Christmas with people he didn't know. Holding the piece of paper he put it
back into his coat pocket. "Well, what did it say." Trowa asked. Quatre quickly hid his disappointment. "It was a letter from an old friend." He lied. "Liar, Malfoy isn't delivering you a normal message with M.O.M's seal on it." Feira said, Quatre sighed and some how his blood was roused. "So? What's your letter about? It's taken you at least thirty minute to read." He snapped back. Feira handed it to him. "Well if you kept getting interrupted a million times, I think it would take you awhile too." She replied. "Besides, I had to read details." Quatre skimmed over the letter. One paragraph made him stop. "I'm sorryâE¦Fei, I didn't knowâE¦" he stated handing it back. She looked up. "Ná bac leis it." She replied, shoving the note in her pocket. "English please?" Duo asked. Feira looked at him. "Would you like them rare, medium, or extra crispy?" she asked. Jim laughed. "Be nice Fei." Afton replied, shaking her head. Feira rolled her eyes. "So back to the Jim Problem. What will we use?" Hiro interrupted before anything else could happen. "Well, Quatre is the shortest male figure hereâE¦" Duo pointed out. "Why would that matter?" Quatre asked. "Feira may be small, but she has girl cloths." Duo replied. Feira glared up
at him. "I wear my brothers old cloth dip stick." She snapped. Trowa raised his eyebrow. "What? "They're broken in, comfy, and baggy." She replied. "And you need to
stop raising your brow every time I say something." She added, shaking her finger at Trowa. Trowa just shrugged. "ANY WAYS!" Afton interjected, everyone looked at her. "Thanks you all, Quatre we shall be giving Jim some of your old close. Problem solved." "When I need something summarized, I'm going to you." Feira said, pointing at Afton who just shook her head. "But some snow balls could carry rocks." Quatre interjected. Feira rolled her eyes. "Fine Quatre why don't you just ice-skate around the lake." Feira replied, leaning back in her chair. "But to be safe you need two people." He said. "Then don't be safe for once, or sit on the side linesâE¦waitâE¦innocent bystanders are normally the ones that get hit." She retorted. Afton kicked her under the table. Quatre sighed and gave Jim back to Afton, who happily took him back, and got up and left without a word. "Good job Feira." Trowa snapped. "Why did you go and do that?" Afton asked, watching Quatre's retreating back. "What? All I said was that innocent bystanders normally get hit and that he
can bend the rules once in awhile." She replied. "You did say that, but it was the way you said it that does the harm." Hiro
interjected. Everyone silently agreed. "So basically I'm too mean in the way I say things? Alright, since everyone
think I should just stay quiet I will, have a nice day." With that she too walked off. Afton got up as if to go and talk to her but Trowa shook his head. "She'll just walk away and in the end snap your head off." He commented. "I think if I've known her longer than you I know what my friend will do." Afton replied. "Guys, can we not fight? I know this may sound Quatre-ish but Jim is in our
presence and we shouldn't fight." He said. They all 'hmmm'ed and there was silence. Duo stretched, "I'm going to see Elinwy." He stood up and started to walk out of the library, but ended up having to fight for the hallway with the others, who all wanted to see Elinwy also. "You could've just said!" Duo swrimed a little and left them all on the floor, but save for Trowa, Hiro and Afton, who were smart enough to not get in on the rucus. "Hey Duo, what's that?" Afton pointed to his neck, where once his braid flipped forward, exposed his neck. On his neck was a triangle with a circle around it, touching all points. "Just something I picked up on the trip." Duo stood and started walking for the dormitories. "How? And where, I looks awesome." Feira stared at Duo, who frowned at her. "It's nothing big." He then turned and walked down the hall. "That doesn't seem like Duo." Afton frowned as she put little Jim down, and held his hand. "Something big must have happened to both of them. Something really big, it changed them both, lots." Hiro nodded at Trowa, "Man you guys have some serious problems." Ron said, shaking his head, "I wouldn't be talk, Mr. You-know-who." Afton snapped right back at him. Turning, she left dragging Jim right behind Duo. The others just followed in her wake. "HEY DUO!" Feira yelled as she caught up with him, "Hmmm?" "What did Dumbledore talk to you about?" Duo was silent for a minute, looked to be thinking, then answered, "He talked to me about a lot of things. One is my new responsablity to Eli. Another is something very very wierd." Feira razed an eyebrow, "What would that be?" Duo pulled out a letter from his shirt pocket and handed it to Feira, who read it out loud to the group,
Dear Ms. Elinwy Crystal Maria Whitebrook:
This letter is to inform you, that you are under the name of Lucuis Adolph Malfoy. You are now under his legal possession. As your legal guardian, he has all parental rights over you and your brothers. In four days you and young Master Draco
shall be escorted to Malfoy manor, where you shall stay over the winter break.
Have a nice Christmas, Cornelius Fudge Minister of Magic.
"This is almost the same letter as Quatre got! I don't think Eli will be trilled with this." Feira said, passing the note to Quatre, who read it over carefully, "Does this make us brother and sister?" They all looked weirdly at Quatre, "I don't think Eli will be too trilled with that also." Afton said.
"Man? Are you gonna let him take her away?" Trowa asked Duo, surprising everyone. Duo just shrugged, pocketing the note and headed for the Elinwy's room again. The rest of the walk was in silence, as they passed random groups of children and ghosts. As soon as the group got the Ravenclaw common room, they all knew something very important was up. Duo was about to walk up the stairs to the girls room, when Ginny stepped out from the dark hall way, almost running into Duo. Duo looked down at Ginny sadly, then looked back up the stairs, "She's doing fine... HEY WAIT!" Duo had moved past Ginny and up the stairs, ignoring her protests about no boys alound.
"What is wrong with that boy?!" Ginny humphed and then sank into one of the large chairs. "Something very serious, but something we can never help with." Feira said, sinking to the floor in front of the fire, "That's the sweetest thing I think I've ever heard you say." Quatre said sinking down by her, surprisingly Feira was silent to the comment.
~*~*~
Duo slowly dragged his feet up the stairs. He really wanted to see Elinwy but didn't want to see the state that she was in, it scared him to no end. When ever he closed his eyes to think or to blink, he saw what Elinwy was dreaming, it was part of the link they now shared as Dumbledore had put it. She was dreaming of her family, all of them. She was reclaiming her childhood. 'I wish I could do the same.' Duo stopped short of the door that lead into her room. He stood there for a about a minute more, then removed his hand from his pocket and reached for the knob, turning it and entering the room.
He looked to the bed he knew she was in and saw her sleeping body, pale with flickering energy and early morning light. Sitting next to the bed in a hump of black robed was Professor Snape, the last person Duo expect to see.
