Carpe Diem: Second Year Revision
by Alec6427/NecessaryEvil
Disclaimer: If they belonged to me I'd be rolling in cash and since I'm just rolling over a few quarters and dimes I guess I don't own them.
A/N: Someone actually gave me a good idea, what do you guys think of a story about the ppl from Pearl Academy before they transferred to Hogwarts?
Now for you Reviewers:
Cho-Chang: No, Hermione is still in a drawer, Hermes is a guy in Draconis not a girl in Gryfindor.
Cho-Chang(again)Yea it was a bit short wasn't it.
0: Like to see you do better at 2:00am while sick, mate.
Star of the Sea:Well once you read the next chapter you probably realized that they didn't do anything.
Unicor's brother: Thanks for the compliment, but its not that good.
Jen:U:wen: Hail to the H/C shippers.
Star of the Sea(again): Kinda both, I'm using the second year mostly to introduce the characters and the change to the world and the sequels will have a little bit of character development, but not as much, since their already mostly introduced.
Jen:U:wen(again):Yea probably. and Mary Sue and Martin Sam(i think its Martin Sam) is a phrase meaning the author of the fan-fic put themselves in the story.
Monkeymouse:Uh huh.
monkeymouse(again): This will all come together at the end of the 2nd year, but for this particular story I'm dealing mostly with who the characters are and how the world is different. The alternative universe is the one they are in now, it was created by the 30 sumthin year old Will Finn going back into his 13 year old self and heading off to Hogwarts to give Harry a helping hand. It will come up again.
Shinju-chan:Well I'm finally updating. I agree about there not being enough H/C stories, I mean only 4 pages worth vs. even Harry/Ginny with what is it 30 pages or even Harry/Draco with more. Ewww.
Well then we should push on shouldn't we. On with the show mates.
Chapter Seventeen:
Of Wolves and Ravens
"There was this tunnel and this light and I started walking towards the light and I could see my granny and smell her home cooking, then something grabbed me and said, "Not yet stupid," and then I was here," David finished his narrative of how he had nearly died of shock when he heard that Jen was staying at Connors Mansion with him and Will, "So you're kidding right?"
"No David, she really is staying here,"
David Xie looked on the verge of going through another near death experiences, but he came out of it and grinned, "Does this mean you two are finallllly together?"
"We're just friends David,"
"Uh huh,"
"We are,"
"I believe you,"
"We are just friends,"
"Are you sure?"
"YES!!!"
Jen looked onto this exchange with annoyed amusement while Ben looked onto it and tried to hold in his laughter.
David was about to continue when Nick came in and all of the laughter stopped. Ben's twin brother may have looked practically the same except the blonde to black ratio of his hair, but he was a completely different person. Where Ben was playful Nick was sinister, where Ben was accepting Nick was a bigot. Nick had always been his grandparent's grandson. As far as they were concerned he was their only grandchild, they had practically raised him themselves to hate anything that was mixed or not pure wizard blood.
You didn't need to know Nick to feel the hate coming off of him, he had the feeling about him that Harry had said Draco had used to have. He expertly sneered at Jen and Will (Will's mother being a muggle and Jen's father being a Vampire) and left, unwittingly returning the ease of mind to the room.
David decided to break the silence in his usual manner, "Who's up to helping Mrs. Connors with the tree? I brought Play Wizard ornaments,"
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The next day the most unusual thing that anyone could ever come up with, the most amazingly weird, the most impossible thing happened.....it started snowing in the Bay Area. It was everywhere covering everything, white, pure....chilly.
It was still three days until Christmas (what kind of Pagans celebrate a Christian holiday?), but the extended Connors family was having fun anyway. The day before Emily Connors the youngest and only female Connors sibling had come home from spending most of the year sitting in on classes at Pearl Academy.
They all decided to have a friendly Quidditch match with two teams of six, Mrs. Connors decided just to watch so that the teams could be even. The teams were as follows: Ben, Will, and David as Chasers, Jen as Seeker, Jess as Keeper, and Professor Connors as Beater vs. Logan, Liam, and Emily as Chasers, Nick as Seeker, Elison as Keeper, and Brad as Beater.
They took to the air Emily, who had the usual(except in the case of Nick) blonde on black Connors' hair with Asian shaped blue eyes, immediately taking the Quaffle, she passed it off to Liam, who had let his hair grow down to his shoulders and tied it in a pony tail, and he in turn passed it towards his extremely small even for his age little brother, Logan, but the pass was intercepted by David, who flew head on towards the goal and shot, the shot was deflected by the hulking Elison who passed it back to Emily, she immediately lost it to Will who drove it towards the goal only to be stopped by a bludger sent his way by the extremely powerfully built Brad, Ben swooped and saved the fumble, the game went on and on like this for hours until Nick caught the Snitch and his team won 150-0.
The two teams landed and went in to congratulate Nick on a good catch, but he was nowhere to be seen, looking towards the woods on the edge of the grounds, Will tapped Ben on the shoulder and pointed out a black wolf dashing off into the depths of the woods, just seconds later Ben and Will also disappeared and a gray wolf and a silver wolf followed the black one into the wood.
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Ben and Will had returned with no news of Nick, so it came as great relief on Christmas Eve day when Nick returned with a dead rabbit in tow, even if he was an evil ass hole he was still a human being....or at least family.
After stashing the rabbit in a cold trunk he went up to his room to do his homework and write to his friends(if he had any), leaving everyone not only relieved at his safety, but at the lack of his presence in the room.
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At 11pm on Christmas Eve, Jen found herself waking up in a daze smelling the coppery smell of her father's kind. She felt her canines elongate and her night vision increase as she tracked down the source and found a dead rabbit at the foot of her bed. *This won't do* she thought lazily*this blood has been still for too long* she began sniffing around and came to Jess looking down at the girl's throat hungrily, but her human mind took control long enough for her to disappear and for a raven to fly silently out the open window.
***
Will had been searching around in the fridge looking for a near midnight snack, when he got the sudden urge to check on the dead rabbit. He looked in the trunk and found it gone. His thoughts raced and then everything clicked into place, "No," he mouthed before a gray wolf bounded out the door and towards the woods.
***
Will dashed through the woods, his wolf senses on high searching for any sign of Jennifer. He came to a clearing 20 meters away from the entrance of the woods. He paused for a breath and changed back into his human form.
He leaned back against a rock and began breathing slowly. He spotted a shadow dashing between trees just outside the clearing, but he continue to just sit breathing calmly. Suddenly Jennifer leapt out of the shadows at him, elongated teeth bared and brown eyes much paler than usual. Will didn't even flinch.
She tackled him to the ground straddling him. He looked up into her eyes and calmly said, "Always knew you'd end up on top,"
The half vampire cocked her head at him quizzically and then a smile came to her lips as her fangs shrank back down and her eyes darkened back to their usual brown. She pulled him up and he smiled at her.
"It was really stupid to follow me out here alone you know,"
"Oh really?"
Each second they were moving closer together, closing the gap Jennifer looked into his eyes, her own eyes becoming sad then she began turning away, but he grabbed her chin and pulled her up into a kiss.
Jen felt the fangs emerging again and her senses heightening and she pulled away disgusted at her own nature, she turned watery eyes towards him and asked through a sob, "How can you kiss something like me? How do you know I won't hurt you?"
"I trust you," and with that Will Finn pulled Jen Liu into a fierce kiss, her fangs and all. He could feel the inside of his mouth getting scraped and bloody, but he didn't care, he was kissing the girl he loved, his little Raven.
***
When everyone woke up on Christmas day to find Will and Jen asleep next to each other on the living room floor to say they were surprised would be an understatement. Most of the house just walked away, but their good friends stayed. When they woke up Ben and Jess gave them a thumbs up and David applauded and gave a catcall. All of the attention made the couple blush and disentangle from each other, then they surprised everyone once again, by kissing full on, Jen's half-vampire visage once again leaking out a little.
***
It was still snowing out and the housemates decided that the best time for a snowball fight was when the ammo was constantly replenishing. They got into a full on war of snow, throwing the cold balls back and forth.
Jess and Ben teamed up and held off most comers, Professor Connors and Mrs. Connors faced off throwing snowballs the size of Logan at each other, David and Emily teamed up on Nick who was completely outnumbered and out gunned as he was pelted with snowball after snowball. Brad and Elison contented themselves by dumping huge mounds of icy snow on top of the two smallest Connors boys, while Jen caught Will in the back of the head with a ball, making him stumble a bit, he immediately recovered, running up to her and picking her up while she kicked out for him to let her down, he eventually lost his balance sending her falling to the snow followed shortly by him, he landed face to face with her leaning into the ground on either side of her, his gaze met hers and then moved down to her lips and he kissed her deeply, before picking up a bunch of snow he had been gathering in his hand and dumping it on her head and bolting up and running laughingly away from the Asian girl's wrath.
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A/N: Sorry it took so long to get this out, I've been sick and distracted, plus I was a little on the edge about whether to do the whole kissing her while she was fangy thing now or later or even earlier in a flashback. Hopefully I'll get Chapter 18 up sooner. Thanks for the reviews, but keepem coming.