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Is it Real?

!The Burrow!

Nicole and Shony both fell flat on their butts in the middle of the Weasley's kitchen, the Weasley's full of people kitchen. "Um, hello." Nicole said weakly as she got to her feet and helped Shona up.

"Um, hello." Molly Weasley said with an awkward smile. "Can I help you?"

Shony looked around still holding her bar. Niki placed her hand on Shony's shoulder. "You can lower that, these are the good guys." Niki said before she addressed Molly. "Madam my name is Nicole Murchison and this is my friend Tashona Jones, we are very sorry for-um-falling into your kitchen like this. We were trying to run from some Death Eaters." All in the room gasped, Nicole saw Harry Potter sitting in the corner with Ron and Hermione. "It's them, it is actually them!" She thought excitedly to herself.

"What's a Dea-" Shony began before Niki quickly stood on her foot to shut her up. "Ow." She whispered.

"You poor things! Why were they after you?" Molly said summoning up chairs for them to sit on.

"We don't know, they think we have some all amazing power." Shony said in a rush as she sat down and dropped her bar on the table, a bit harder then she meant to, causing a loud CLANG sound. "Sorry." She winced as she stopped the bar from rolling around. She almost caught Ron snickering but he hid it quickly.

"Yeah, and we just barely got away from them. Would it be okay if we hid here for an hour or two?" Nicole asked looking around at them all.

This time it wasn't Molly who spoke up but Arthur. "Of course you can, it wont be any trouble at all." He had spotted Shona's Palm Pilot hanging out of her pocket.

"Oh, shit, I forgot to tell Shona to hide that or something." Niki moaned to herself as Mr. Weasley began to hound Shona about the many uses of the amazing muggle device. Thankfully Hermione came in to save Shona from embarrassing herself. "Thank you, we wont trouble you long." Nicole said as she took a seat that was between Harry and Fred. "Hello, I forgot to ask your names." Niki said not really looking at anyone, just staring down at the table.

"Well I'm Fred Weasley, this is Harry Potter, that there is Ron my brother, that girl talkin' to your friend is Hermione Granger, and the other people over there is my brother Charlie, George, Bill, and Bill's wife Fleur." Fred said this in almost one breath. "Oh, and that is my mom and dad and my sister Ginny." He grinned pointing them out.

Nicole nodded at them all still feeling a little sick to her stomach due to her little trip. "Nice to meet you." She finally looked up and was looking around the room when she turned her head and was face to face with Harry. "Oh!" She yelped and jumped back a bit, her fist raised automatically. "Sorry." She said quickly lowering her hand. "I'm a bit jumpy." She said sheepishly.

"Sorry, didn't mean to startle you." Harry said as he leaned forward again to his comfortable place, he had jumped back when Nicole had drawn her fist. "Where are you two from, you don't sound like you are from around here."

Niki looked at Shona but she was busy telling Hermione and Mr. Weasley about all kinds of stuff. "We are from the United States." She rubbed her neck nervously.

"What are you doin' here then?" Ron asked so very bluntly, getting a scowl from Ginny.

Nicole smiled despite herself. "Because here is so much better then there, and we really didn't mean to end up here it was kind of a woopsy you know?" She giggled a bit but tried to cover it with a cough.

Fred nodded. "I understand what you mean, I did a woopsy the other day, almost blew up half the shop. That is what my brother George and I do; we run a shop Weasley's-" He started.

"Wizarding Wheezes." Niki finished before she could catch herself. "Um, you guys are becoming popular over there." She covered quickly.

"Wow, you hear that George we are getting popular in the U.S.!" Fred hollered over to his twin who was in a deep conversation with Charlie. He just nodded and waved.

"Wow, astute that one." Nicole muttered. She heard Harry snort. "Do you need a glass of water?" She whispered to him with a grin.

"No, fine thanks." He said rubbing his throat. He looked towards Tashona then back at Niki. "So, what is the deal with your friend over there?"

Niki laughed a bit. "Her? Nothing she is just a talker, always has something to say. She's harmless, well unless you upset her anyway." Niki grinned looking at her best friend's profile.

Shony was animatedly talking to George about something, it seemed he had saved her from hours and hours of his father's incessant questioning. "No, I haven't seen your joke shop, I bet it is awesome." She was saying with a smile and her hands moving around as she talked.

"Well you can always come down and see it, hey, I'll even give you a discount!" George was saying talking just as fast and animatedly. Then he began to regale her with all the new jokes he and Fred were coming up with.

"Well, did you ever think of making stuff for the normals? You know like harmless stuff, well sort of harmless." Shony grinned brightly with a mischievous twinkle in her eye. "You know, like a book that every time you opened it, it said something different and sort of insulting." Shony smiled.

"Sounds familiar, sounds like something Moony, Padfoot, Prongs, and Wormtail would do." Niki smiled to herself when she over heard Ron and Harry saying the same thing. She looked at them with a smile and they silenced. "So, are you lot still in school?" She asked innocently, of course she knew the answer.

Ron nodded, Harry didn't. "Yeah, Ginny, Hermione, and me are." Ron said as Harry looked away staring off into nothing. "Harry isn't though." Ron said before Harry had a chance to shut him up.

Nicole nodded. "Ah, well don't worry Harry I wont ask why. That is your business not mine." She then again turned her gaze to the room at large.

A few hours later- The Burrow

Molly had insisted on feeding both the girls, Shony was still talking to George-just outside instead of in the kitchen-; Niki was wandering around outside as well taking in everything and trying to figure out how to get back home and most important how they got here in the first place. The others were in their on places; Bill and Fleur had gone home, Arthur was at work, Charlie was still there talking to Fred, Harry, and Ron about Quidditch, and Hermione and Ginny were sitting in the living room with Molly talking about girl stuff.

"Okay, the book brought us in here and can take us out. I just need to figure out how to jump from one place to the other, and is it really like Fushigi Yugi where if the book is closed we can't get out." Nicole mumbled to herself as she walked around, staring at her feet. Not seeing in front of her she bumped into someone's rather sturdy form. "Ow, sorry." She said as she looked up into Charlie's face, looking to his left she saw Fred. "Oh, hello." She said smiling.

"Hi, so how are your feet?" Fred teased. He had his hands folded behind his head as he walked, his playful grin in place.

"They're boats like they have always been." Niki replied looking from one redhead to the other. "What can I do for you two gentlemen?" She noticed the two were still looking at her.

"We were wondering something." Charlie began as Fred dropped his hands and took on a mock serious look. "What is that thing in your mouth?" He finished with Fred nodding behind him.

"Oh, this?" She asked sticking out her tongue showing off her barbell tongue ring. "Just a tongue ring, it's a muggle thing. I know it looks kind of weird but I like it." She grinned letting the barbell stick out between her teeth.

"Is that really in your tongue?" Fred asked leaning in really close eyeing her mouth.

"Wow, he is cute. Smells nice too." Niki thought, as she felt almost weird with him so close. She quickly collected herself and smiled. "Yep, right thru it. Before you ask, no it didn't hurt. I mean it swelled up a bit for awhile but that didn't last long."

"Whoa, show me!" Fred exclaimed as he leaned in even closer. Charlie grabbed his shoulder and pulled him back.

"Fred, you are taking up her personal space, let the girl breathe." Charlie grinned not doing to well to hide the fact he wanted to see too.

Niki laughed at them both. "Thanks Charlie. I'll show you Fred, but you have to promise not to try and take it out while I'm not looking. Don't give me a look like you don't know what I mean. Don't try and use magic on me to get it out." She playfully scolded as she began to take the ring out. As she pulled it out and showed the hole, Fred and Charlie's eyes got as big around as dinner plates. She grinned then put it back in. "See told you it went all the way thru."

"Bloody hell, do that again." Fred almost commanded with an evil look in his eye. Ideas of good jokes for the shop were flying quickly into his brain.

Niki shook her head no with a grin. "Nope, it stays in. I've lost to many barbells that way. Besides I'm sure what ever you are thinking you can do it with out me having to take my ring out again." She winked at the shocked look on Fred's face.

"You saw the look too huh?" Charlie asked some time later. Nicole had asked him about his job and they had been spending the time discussing dragons and the different myths about them.

"Oh yeah, he didn't do to well to hide it." She chuckled moving a piece of hair from out of her face. "I saw the look in George's face to, when he was talking to Tashona about muggle based jokes."

"Your friend has a lot of good ideas, even if I can hardly understand her. She talks so fast." Charlie laughed.

"That she does, and you think she is bad this time you should see her when she is hyper on candy." Niki snickered to herself. "That would really scare these people."

"She can't be any worse then the twins can she?" Came Harry's voice from beside Niki. "Something is very strange about these two girls. That Shona girl seems so amazed by all the little tricks Fred and George can do and Nicole seems to know a lot about the Burrow, and says she has never been here before." Harry was very suspicious about them, Nicole knew too much and it seemed Tashona knew too little.

Niki snorted. "Ha, you have no idea! She is bad; she gets hyper off of cranberry juice. I have to admit I would love to see those three hyper together. I mean if they are this fun when they are not, I am assuming the twins are not hyper, they should be a blast to watch." Niki grinned leaning up against a fence post.

"That is a scary thought." Harry mumbled. He had started to watch Shona and the twins; they were frighteningly alike in their since of humor.

"You've no idea Harry, no idea." Niki whispered into his ear. "Oh, and we are not bad people, we are not evil people we are just some what lost people. So could you please keep your bad thoughts and negative vibe to yourself?" Nicole continued to whisper, catching an odd look from Harry. "Don't ask me how I know what you were thinking or even feeling, I don't know I just can. I can see into everyone's thoughts, it is starting to freak me out." She looked into his green eyes hoping he would believe her.

Harry's moth was hanging half open, how had she known what he was thinking. She said she didn't and by the look in her eyes he believed her. "I can see how it would. It seems Shona isn't too bothered with such a gift." Harry whispered back.

Niki looked over to her friend and nodded to Harry to fallow her. They walked to a quite patch of ground and sat. "Well my family has always a sort of gift for this kind of thing. Empathy; being able to feel people's feelings or pain. I just never knew I could have the gift this strongly, I mean I never used to be able to read thoughts. This is weird." She sat with her head on her knees; she wasn't sure why she was able to tell Harry these things. Maybe it was because she felt so close to him, she had read the books so many times she knew him well enough.

Harry nodded looking her in the eye with a sort of stern semi-understanding. "What wizarding family do you come from?" He blurted out.

It caught her off guard; she hadn't expected him to ask that. She should of known he would though. "Um, well, that is sort of hard to explain, and I am sure you wouldn't believe me if I told you." Niki scratched the back of her head nervously.

"You would be surprised what I would believe." Harry answered in a monotone voice.

"Right, of course you are Harry Potter after all." Niki sighed saying it more to herself then him. "You want to know the truth or a sort of half truth?"

"The truth, all of it." Harry's face was stern and not understanding. He was waiting for this he knew there was something up.

"Well, um, me and Shona aren't from any wizarding families and we aren't muggle born. We are not even from this, I guess you would call it a dimension." Nicole was starting to sweat now.

"What do you mean?" Harry was getting curious despite himself.

"Well, where we are from all of this; you, your friends, family, the entire world as you know it, muggle or magical. It is just a story, a book, well a number of books. Written by a woman by the name of J. K. Rowling. I mean they have made movies based on the books, there are toys and cloths, posters, you name it. Yet, there is no wizarding world, not where we are from." She could not believe she was saying all of this.

"You can not be serious?" Harry couldn't believe what he was hearing.

"No, I'm not, I can prove it. Ask me anything, something about you or something you think no other person would really know." Nicole was serious now.

"I'll humor her." Harry thought, still not buying it. "Okay, what is my middle name?"

Nicole sighed. "You could of picked a harder question then that. Oh, well. Your name is Harry James Potter, named after your father. Your mom was a muggle born named Lily Evans, who had a sister named Petunia. You lived with them since you were a year old, they told you your parents died in a car crash. Your uncle Vernon has a sister that they force you to call Aunt Marge, you blew her up, inflated her, when you were 13 because she called your father a lazy lay about drunk and was referring to your mom in a bad way, saying she was just like a dog. You are not going back to Hogwarts for your seventh year because, one you don't have to and two you feel you have no more reason too. All those you cared about are dead, Sirius Black-your god-father, both your parents, and Albus Dumbeldore-a man you considered something of a protector." Nicole took a deep breath watching the color drain from his face.

"How do you know all this?" He felt sort of ill.

"I told you it is all in the books. I mean I couldn't even tell you Hermione's middle name or her parent's names for that matter, they were never mentioned. I only know a few things about the Weasleys or Remus Lupin and the other members of the order because of the books. I mean they are all called Harry Potter and the whatever. I mean it is seen thru your eyes." Nicole was whispering now, she was feeling uneasy.

"What about that Death Eater story you told? Was that just a lie to cover up all this?" Harry was still uneasy but he couldn't help but buy it, she knew too much. "What about Tashona?"

"Oh, she never really cared to want to read the books, that is why she is so in awe about all of this, I think she will want to read them if we ever get home." Niki half smiled and saw that Harry almost grinned. "Anyway the Death Eater story isn't a lie, I was somehow pulled into your world and wound up in a dark room with Snape standing over me."

"Snape!" Harry yelled but quitted his voice from the look he got from Nicole.

"Yeah, don't worry I broke his nose. He fixed it though, but if I see him again I'll break it again this time for you." Nicole half smiled thinking of all the ways she wanted to hurt Snape.

"Not if I get to him first you wont." Harry said clenching his fists.

Niki took hold of his hands in hers with a sorrowful smile. "Yeah I know, there is more to this tale though, Voldemort was there, he knows about me and Shona. He even knows how we got here and how to get back. I don't know how he knows these things, but they are true. Here, at least, Shona and me have gifts. Powers we can use, that is how we wound up here. It was the only safe place that I could think of right off hand, I didn't know what they were going to try and do to us, so I made Shona think about this place and we ended up in the kitchen."

Harry had listened to all of this but his gaze was at his hands, she was real she was warm to the touch and everything. When he looked up he saw that saddened pleading look and he simply nodded.

Niki smiled and hugged Harry around the neck. "I'm so glad you believe me! Please don't tell anyone though, not yet. I mean you can tell Ron and Hermione and even Ginny, but no one else. You'd tell them anyway." She grinned a sheepish grin.

Harry gave a sheepish grin as well. "You do know me."

AN: Sorry these chapters are so short; maybe they will get longer soon! Scratch that, this one was kind long, wasn't it?