Chapter 4
"DEVVY!!!" Devlynn winced. Only his sister would call him that which meant that in exactly five seconds he was going to be pounced upon and forced to give her a piggyback. Sometimes she could be so predictable, at least in Dev's mind she could be. He laughed at the idea of Keara being predictable and assumed that it was just him who thought she was. After all she was his sister and he knew her well.
"4. 3." Devlynn began counting the seconds before impact off on his fingers. "2." Wham! "Ugh, you're early, Tryst," muttered a rather choked Dev.
"Huh? What are you talking about?" Keara wore a confused look not quite understanding what her brother meant. Harry simply laughed understanding perfectly what had happened.
"Nevermind. Why must you always do that?"
"What? Did you not miss me around here?" Keara teased leaning over his shoulder to look at his face. "Something's either wrong or you promised not to tell," She knew how to read him like a book, but thankfully for him, she was the only one. She was the only one that he felt he could trust with anything. "I'll worm it out of you later," she whispered in his ear knowing that the other two guys Devlynn was with wouldn't overhear her. "Oh, 'eya Harry! Sorry that I didn't notice you sooner. I haven't seen my Devvy in a while," she grinned and gave Devlynn a rather loud kiss on his cheek. And he muttered something about it having been three weeks.
"Hey Keara," Harry smiled at her and shook his head knowing what was in store for his friend. "And I never realized that three weeks was such a long time."
"Oh hush. So, then, why has no one introduced me to your new friend? Eh, Devvy? I know I haven't met him before, but I'm assuming he's related to Harry," she was too damn perceptive for Dev's liking sometimes. He hated lying to her knowing that it would only hurt her, but he didn't know how Harry would feel if he told her. Dev knew that he'd end up telling her later, but Harry would never have to know that he had. She'd never once let anything slip unless she did so on purpose. Like that time she let it slip that Dev got stuck in the tree and couldn't get back down because she had removed the tree branches below him and it was too high to jump from. He had been younger at the time and hadn't known the magic that would have helped him get back down.
"It's alright, you're just going to tell her anyway later, so it might as well be now. We can trust her."
Devlynn smiled, thankful that he didn't have to piss off his sister because he had lied to her. She could hold a mean grudge when she wanted to.
"Thank you, Harry. It's good to know people trust me. Unlike trusting someone like Professor I Must Be a God Snape who decided to tell the entire Slytherin house that Remus was a werewolf a few years back and therefore Remus resigned from teaching. He was a damn good teacher too! The bloody ugly git." Dev laughed. She hated Snape with a passion and could probably go on for days about all the things that she hated about him. "You're supposed to be able to trust teachers. I'd still like to know what on earth Dumbledore was thinking when he hired that slimy, greasy, disgusting, nauseating." She was abruptly cut off when a hand was placed over her mouth.
"That eejit told about Remus?! I'll kill him! And he's a teacher? How the hell did he ever become a teacher?!" Devlynn snorted at James' outburst. Keara was going to become fast friends with this Potter he was sure.
"I'm still trying to figure that one out myself. I like you," She grinned taking the offending hand away from her face.
"I'm taken," James said warily remembering Devlynn's comment from earlier and Keara laughed. The other two laughed as well. Keara hadn't intended it the way it sounded, or maybe she did but if so then she was only teasing. She had a tendency to like to flirt.
"When did you tell Dev that you were coming?" Harry asked her in the middle of her renewed tirade about why Snape was so evil and deserved to be humiliated before she could let slip something that Harry didn't want James to find out yet. Harry hoped that his dad never found out about Snape trying to send Sirius back to Azkaban. Because of the fact that he had been spying on Voldemort, she didn't think he deserved to die, just treated to a bit of his own medicine. Dev mentally thanked Harry for cutting her off. When she was hyper which apparently she was, she could talk for hours about nothing important. Or at least it seemed that way.
"Oh, I told him a while ago."
"HA! She damn well didn't tell me a while ago unless a while suddenly turned into meaning three hours ago," Dev muttered under his breath which caused Keara to kick him in the leg making him grunt.
"Which means, knowing you, he found out most likely this morning," Harry grinned.
"Not even. I wish it had been this morning. Then I would have been able to find a hiding place," He really wouldn't have, though, and he was sure that Harry knew this, too. Actually if he had known sooner he would have planned fireworks for her, or something like that. Keara knew he would have gone all out for her, but she didn't like it when he made a big fuss over her. That was the reason why she never gave him much warning when she visited.
"I'm James, James Potter."
'Oops, guess we sorta forgot to tell her before she started on about Snape. Oh well better late than never I guess,' Harry thought to himself.
"Harry's dad," Dev supplied knowing that it was the information she really wanted to hear. "Sirius, Remus and Lily came with him."
"Nice to meet you." She gave him one of those smiles that could muddle your brains if she chose to use it on you. It made Dev extremely glad to be her brother. It made him immune to all of what she liked to call her 'feminine charms.' Devlynn was at the moment very happy that he wasn't Potter or anyone else for that matter. "Time-Turner?" she asked.
"No, we found a spell in one of the books in my family's library over the summer."
"Ah," she gave a slight nod indicating her understanding.
"So where did Dumbledore decide to put you? I know you gave him more than a three hour notice," Harry smirked.
"I told him last week and he said he'd set up a Suite for me and that for the duration of the time I'm here anyone I wish can stay in there with me. As usual. Of course you'll keep me company. Won't you, Devvy?" He could deny her nothing. Well, almost nothing. He sometimes thought that they should have just been twins. They already had the same connection that twins tend to have and the same birthday, albeit separated by three years.
"Of course I will. I wouldn't want you to get lonely now would I?" Dev teased and grinned.
"Harry, you can stay if you'd like to, as well. So can your parents and their friends. And of course Ron, Zeta, Psi, Ginny and Hermione are also welcome, but I think we should keep it to that."
Dev cleared his throat. She was doing this on purpose. Dev just knew it. "Aren't you forgetting someone?"
"No, I don't think so," She smiled innocently back at him.
"Oh, y'know, he's got black hair, normally in a ponytail, can kick your arse whenever he chooses to. Ring any bell?" Of course Dev would never actually let him kick her arse, but Dev was sure that Diablo would be more than willing to if given the chance.
"Ohhhhhh, you mean Sirius. Well I suppose, but I'm sure Dumbledore has already made other arrangements for him."
"No, I don't mean Sirius."
"Well, I can't think of anyone else you could possibly mean. Unless you mean Snape but he doesn't wear his hair in a ponytail and you should know by now that I'd never let that git near my sleeping quarters."
"No I didn't mean Snape. Try Diablo."
"Who? I don't think I know who that is."
"Y'know, my best friend?" she really could be exasperating at times.
"I'm hurt. I thought I was your best friend," she pouted.
"Tryst, you are my best friend," Dev pleaded wanting this torture and embarrassment to end.
"But you just said."
"You're both my best friends."
"Not good enough," she sniffed as if she were about to cry.
"Fine, Tryst, he's my second best friend."
"You're lying," she looked miffed, but it was obvious that she was faking. James and Harry seemed to get a kick outta this, though. They were leaning into each other trying to hold each other up as they laughed.
"Okay fine. I'm lying. He's just a different type of best friend. Happy now?"
"So you admit it!"
"You're a real brat you know that?"
"Of course I do. I have you to remind me," she kissed his cheek again loudly. "Of course Diablo can stay with us, too."
"Good."
"Oh dear god, not again. Can't you ever stay away? Wasn't being here for seven full years enough for you to torture poor souls? You should have just repeated a damn year! You're here enough for it," Diablo's voiced called out as he walked down the hallway with Zeta and Zeta's little brother, Psi.
"Somehow I find it wrong for you to be calling god dear when your name means devil. And no as long as Dev's here I'll be here as much as I damn well please. So there!" she stuck her tongue out at Diablo and then grinned. "'Eya, Zeta. "Eya Psi, cutie. I still can't believe you two hang around with that annoying twit over there," Keara pointed over at Diablo. "It's harder to believe that Dev puts up with him, though."
"Eh, I annoy him, too, so all's good," Zeta grinned, braid swinging back and forth as he jogged over to the group.
"Sod off, Bubbles," Diablo glared at her.
"Watch it McKintiere. She's still my sister." Calling her Bubbles was the easiest and quickest way to piss her off and Dev didn't want to have to deal with an enraged sister wanting to murder his best friend and lover. Dev rolled his eyes as she stuck her tongue out again looking smug. Diablo gave her a dirty look. He was like the annoying little brother that she wished she never had and had never wanted to begin with.
"Spoiled brat."
"I know," she gloated and hugged Dev's neck. They didn't really hate each other as it looked. Actually, Dev thought she would have even liked Diablo had he been older and straight. Well, and maybe if she hadn't known him since he was five. Oh, and the small fact that he was her brother's boyfriend.
"We should probably find the others, find your room, and get our stuff settled in. We should see Dumbledore before dinner about James and them. If they don't mind that is," Dev looked at James in question.
"Actually, we wanted to see Dumbledore while we were here. We thought he might enjoy our latest prank. Well we haven't actually done it yet, but being here is a start."
"Potter! We're in trouble! Someone found out about us! We know you're down here somewhere!" The six watched as five kids came running around the corner of the hall. Two were Hermione and Ron. The other three were assumed to be the three that James had come with. The redhead had to be Lily and the other two were most likely Sirius and Remus.
"Oh, he found you," they pulled up short and out of breath.
"That reminds me of why I came looking for you," Diablo suddenly remembered. "I don't think that guy at practice was Harry."
"Great job Sherlock as if it wasn't already obvious," Keara rolled her eyes and grinned immediately understanding what had happened before she had gotten there. Harry and James once again burst out laughing and had to hold onto each other in order to remain standing up. Diablo glanced at them as if he were just noticing them there for the first time, his jaw dropping.
"Well, of course it wasn't Harry. It was whoever that guy is with Harry," Zeta gestured towards James.
"We'll explain about that after we get to Keara's room and settle in," Dev replied as Keara hopped off his back.
"All y'all are invited and unfortunately even you Diablo. Dev insisted. Go figure. I'll take James, Lily, Remus and Sirius to my rooms. You guys go get your stuff. You can use the map to figure out where we are," and with that she turned on her heel and walked off not waiting to see if she was being followed. She knew she was. They watched the five go and then headed off to Gryffindor Tower to get their stuff. Devlynn explained to Ron, Hermione, Zeta, Psi and Diablo about the situation with switching rooms for a while to Keara's Suite of rooms, not that it surprised them much. This wasn't the first time that they had done this, but this time it was looking as if it would be a little bit more interesting than usual.
"DEVVY!!!" Devlynn winced. Only his sister would call him that which meant that in exactly five seconds he was going to be pounced upon and forced to give her a piggyback. Sometimes she could be so predictable, at least in Dev's mind she could be. He laughed at the idea of Keara being predictable and assumed that it was just him who thought she was. After all she was his sister and he knew her well.
"4. 3." Devlynn began counting the seconds before impact off on his fingers. "2." Wham! "Ugh, you're early, Tryst," muttered a rather choked Dev.
"Huh? What are you talking about?" Keara wore a confused look not quite understanding what her brother meant. Harry simply laughed understanding perfectly what had happened.
"Nevermind. Why must you always do that?"
"What? Did you not miss me around here?" Keara teased leaning over his shoulder to look at his face. "Something's either wrong or you promised not to tell," She knew how to read him like a book, but thankfully for him, she was the only one. She was the only one that he felt he could trust with anything. "I'll worm it out of you later," she whispered in his ear knowing that the other two guys Devlynn was with wouldn't overhear her. "Oh, 'eya Harry! Sorry that I didn't notice you sooner. I haven't seen my Devvy in a while," she grinned and gave Devlynn a rather loud kiss on his cheek. And he muttered something about it having been three weeks.
"Hey Keara," Harry smiled at her and shook his head knowing what was in store for his friend. "And I never realized that three weeks was such a long time."
"Oh hush. So, then, why has no one introduced me to your new friend? Eh, Devvy? I know I haven't met him before, but I'm assuming he's related to Harry," she was too damn perceptive for Dev's liking sometimes. He hated lying to her knowing that it would only hurt her, but he didn't know how Harry would feel if he told her. Dev knew that he'd end up telling her later, but Harry would never have to know that he had. She'd never once let anything slip unless she did so on purpose. Like that time she let it slip that Dev got stuck in the tree and couldn't get back down because she had removed the tree branches below him and it was too high to jump from. He had been younger at the time and hadn't known the magic that would have helped him get back down.
"It's alright, you're just going to tell her anyway later, so it might as well be now. We can trust her."
Devlynn smiled, thankful that he didn't have to piss off his sister because he had lied to her. She could hold a mean grudge when she wanted to.
"Thank you, Harry. It's good to know people trust me. Unlike trusting someone like Professor I Must Be a God Snape who decided to tell the entire Slytherin house that Remus was a werewolf a few years back and therefore Remus resigned from teaching. He was a damn good teacher too! The bloody ugly git." Dev laughed. She hated Snape with a passion and could probably go on for days about all the things that she hated about him. "You're supposed to be able to trust teachers. I'd still like to know what on earth Dumbledore was thinking when he hired that slimy, greasy, disgusting, nauseating." She was abruptly cut off when a hand was placed over her mouth.
"That eejit told about Remus?! I'll kill him! And he's a teacher? How the hell did he ever become a teacher?!" Devlynn snorted at James' outburst. Keara was going to become fast friends with this Potter he was sure.
"I'm still trying to figure that one out myself. I like you," She grinned taking the offending hand away from her face.
"I'm taken," James said warily remembering Devlynn's comment from earlier and Keara laughed. The other two laughed as well. Keara hadn't intended it the way it sounded, or maybe she did but if so then she was only teasing. She had a tendency to like to flirt.
"When did you tell Dev that you were coming?" Harry asked her in the middle of her renewed tirade about why Snape was so evil and deserved to be humiliated before she could let slip something that Harry didn't want James to find out yet. Harry hoped that his dad never found out about Snape trying to send Sirius back to Azkaban. Because of the fact that he had been spying on Voldemort, she didn't think he deserved to die, just treated to a bit of his own medicine. Dev mentally thanked Harry for cutting her off. When she was hyper which apparently she was, she could talk for hours about nothing important. Or at least it seemed that way.
"Oh, I told him a while ago."
"HA! She damn well didn't tell me a while ago unless a while suddenly turned into meaning three hours ago," Dev muttered under his breath which caused Keara to kick him in the leg making him grunt.
"Which means, knowing you, he found out most likely this morning," Harry grinned.
"Not even. I wish it had been this morning. Then I would have been able to find a hiding place," He really wouldn't have, though, and he was sure that Harry knew this, too. Actually if he had known sooner he would have planned fireworks for her, or something like that. Keara knew he would have gone all out for her, but she didn't like it when he made a big fuss over her. That was the reason why she never gave him much warning when she visited.
"I'm James, James Potter."
'Oops, guess we sorta forgot to tell her before she started on about Snape. Oh well better late than never I guess,' Harry thought to himself.
"Harry's dad," Dev supplied knowing that it was the information she really wanted to hear. "Sirius, Remus and Lily came with him."
"Nice to meet you." She gave him one of those smiles that could muddle your brains if she chose to use it on you. It made Dev extremely glad to be her brother. It made him immune to all of what she liked to call her 'feminine charms.' Devlynn was at the moment very happy that he wasn't Potter or anyone else for that matter. "Time-Turner?" she asked.
"No, we found a spell in one of the books in my family's library over the summer."
"Ah," she gave a slight nod indicating her understanding.
"So where did Dumbledore decide to put you? I know you gave him more than a three hour notice," Harry smirked.
"I told him last week and he said he'd set up a Suite for me and that for the duration of the time I'm here anyone I wish can stay in there with me. As usual. Of course you'll keep me company. Won't you, Devvy?" He could deny her nothing. Well, almost nothing. He sometimes thought that they should have just been twins. They already had the same connection that twins tend to have and the same birthday, albeit separated by three years.
"Of course I will. I wouldn't want you to get lonely now would I?" Dev teased and grinned.
"Harry, you can stay if you'd like to, as well. So can your parents and their friends. And of course Ron, Zeta, Psi, Ginny and Hermione are also welcome, but I think we should keep it to that."
Dev cleared his throat. She was doing this on purpose. Dev just knew it. "Aren't you forgetting someone?"
"No, I don't think so," She smiled innocently back at him.
"Oh, y'know, he's got black hair, normally in a ponytail, can kick your arse whenever he chooses to. Ring any bell?" Of course Dev would never actually let him kick her arse, but Dev was sure that Diablo would be more than willing to if given the chance.
"Ohhhhhh, you mean Sirius. Well I suppose, but I'm sure Dumbledore has already made other arrangements for him."
"No, I don't mean Sirius."
"Well, I can't think of anyone else you could possibly mean. Unless you mean Snape but he doesn't wear his hair in a ponytail and you should know by now that I'd never let that git near my sleeping quarters."
"No I didn't mean Snape. Try Diablo."
"Who? I don't think I know who that is."
"Y'know, my best friend?" she really could be exasperating at times.
"I'm hurt. I thought I was your best friend," she pouted.
"Tryst, you are my best friend," Dev pleaded wanting this torture and embarrassment to end.
"But you just said."
"You're both my best friends."
"Not good enough," she sniffed as if she were about to cry.
"Fine, Tryst, he's my second best friend."
"You're lying," she looked miffed, but it was obvious that she was faking. James and Harry seemed to get a kick outta this, though. They were leaning into each other trying to hold each other up as they laughed.
"Okay fine. I'm lying. He's just a different type of best friend. Happy now?"
"So you admit it!"
"You're a real brat you know that?"
"Of course I do. I have you to remind me," she kissed his cheek again loudly. "Of course Diablo can stay with us, too."
"Good."
"Oh dear god, not again. Can't you ever stay away? Wasn't being here for seven full years enough for you to torture poor souls? You should have just repeated a damn year! You're here enough for it," Diablo's voiced called out as he walked down the hallway with Zeta and Zeta's little brother, Psi.
"Somehow I find it wrong for you to be calling god dear when your name means devil. And no as long as Dev's here I'll be here as much as I damn well please. So there!" she stuck her tongue out at Diablo and then grinned. "'Eya, Zeta. "Eya Psi, cutie. I still can't believe you two hang around with that annoying twit over there," Keara pointed over at Diablo. "It's harder to believe that Dev puts up with him, though."
"Eh, I annoy him, too, so all's good," Zeta grinned, braid swinging back and forth as he jogged over to the group.
"Sod off, Bubbles," Diablo glared at her.
"Watch it McKintiere. She's still my sister." Calling her Bubbles was the easiest and quickest way to piss her off and Dev didn't want to have to deal with an enraged sister wanting to murder his best friend and lover. Dev rolled his eyes as she stuck her tongue out again looking smug. Diablo gave her a dirty look. He was like the annoying little brother that she wished she never had and had never wanted to begin with.
"Spoiled brat."
"I know," she gloated and hugged Dev's neck. They didn't really hate each other as it looked. Actually, Dev thought she would have even liked Diablo had he been older and straight. Well, and maybe if she hadn't known him since he was five. Oh, and the small fact that he was her brother's boyfriend.
"We should probably find the others, find your room, and get our stuff settled in. We should see Dumbledore before dinner about James and them. If they don't mind that is," Dev looked at James in question.
"Actually, we wanted to see Dumbledore while we were here. We thought he might enjoy our latest prank. Well we haven't actually done it yet, but being here is a start."
"Potter! We're in trouble! Someone found out about us! We know you're down here somewhere!" The six watched as five kids came running around the corner of the hall. Two were Hermione and Ron. The other three were assumed to be the three that James had come with. The redhead had to be Lily and the other two were most likely Sirius and Remus.
"Oh, he found you," they pulled up short and out of breath.
"That reminds me of why I came looking for you," Diablo suddenly remembered. "I don't think that guy at practice was Harry."
"Great job Sherlock as if it wasn't already obvious," Keara rolled her eyes and grinned immediately understanding what had happened before she had gotten there. Harry and James once again burst out laughing and had to hold onto each other in order to remain standing up. Diablo glanced at them as if he were just noticing them there for the first time, his jaw dropping.
"Well, of course it wasn't Harry. It was whoever that guy is with Harry," Zeta gestured towards James.
"We'll explain about that after we get to Keara's room and settle in," Dev replied as Keara hopped off his back.
"All y'all are invited and unfortunately even you Diablo. Dev insisted. Go figure. I'll take James, Lily, Remus and Sirius to my rooms. You guys go get your stuff. You can use the map to figure out where we are," and with that she turned on her heel and walked off not waiting to see if she was being followed. She knew she was. They watched the five go and then headed off to Gryffindor Tower to get their stuff. Devlynn explained to Ron, Hermione, Zeta, Psi and Diablo about the situation with switching rooms for a while to Keara's Suite of rooms, not that it surprised them much. This wasn't the first time that they had done this, but this time it was looking as if it would be a little bit more interesting than usual.