Notes and Disclaimers: I don't own GW or HP, but Gaëlle, Lie, and Ivy are mine.
Chapter 2
A week went by and while Gaëlle was in her Divination class, Professor Trelawney had an interesting vision. She was talking to Gaëlle when it hit her.
"Gaëlle Summers, there will be additions to your small life very soon."
Gaëlle stared at her teacher wide-eyed and when Trelawney was back to normal, the 4th Year hurried to her desk by Lie. She told her friend what had happened and they were puzzled by it.
"I wonder what she meant." Gaëlle whispered thoughtfully.
"Well whatever it was, let's just hope it turns out good." Lie replied.
Gaëlle nodded and turned her attention back to their lessons.
Later that same afternoon while the Gryffindor and Slytherin 5th Years were in their Divination class, Trelawney had another vision.
Duo was working near the professor's chair when all of a sudden she said, "Duo Maxwell, soon your questions will finally be answered and new but old people will come into your life."
Duo was confused by her words but quickly wrote them down in his notebook to study later.
After the last class of the day he and Heero found Ivy, Lie and Gaëlle in the Gryffindor Common room. They were finishing their homework as the two boys took two of the remaining chairs at their table.
"Hey girls. What subject is your homework?" Duo asked. He looked over Gaëlle's shoulder but couldn't exactly read her paper.
"History of Magic." Lie and Gaëlle said in unison.
"I have Potions." Ivy said. The she pushed her work aside, "But I'll finish it later. What's up?"
"Nothing really, but I think Trelawney has a screw loose." Duo said.
"How so?" Lie asked looking up from her papers. She set her quill down as Gaëlle did the same.
"Oh, she was pretty weirder than usual." Duo shrugged.
"Huh. Same thing happened to Gaëlle," Lie started. Gaëlle discreetly elbowed her and Lie closed her mouth. "Never mind." She said. The others looked at her but shrugged.
A few minutes later Gaëlle turned her attention back to her work but she became stuck on a few of the questions she was answering.
"Hee-chan I need help with this. I don't understand exactly what this passage is talking about." Gaëlle said frowning at the book.
Heero moved to sit next to the girl and proceeded to help her. In no time flat Heero was explaining the piece of history to where Gaëlle understood it, plus some. Whenever she had trouble with history she always went to Heero no matter what. He always put action into the boring old stories and made her think she was there; he was that good with words. Lie also paid attention to the older boy, for she too was having problems with her work, but she mainly listened to hear the sound of his voice.
Thirty minutes after dinner Professor McGonagall, the Head of Gryffindor House, walked into the Common Room to find the group of five friends sitting around one of the tables.
"Professor!" Lie exclaimed, "What's wrong!" The Gryffindor Head hardly came into the actual dormitory unless something was wrong or urgent.
"Miss Summers, Mr. Maxwell please come with me." McGonagall said.
"What'd I do this time!" Duo exclaimed.
"You did something that we don't know about!" Gaëlle asked suspiciously.
"NO!" Duo half exclaimed, then flushed slightly.
"Come along you two." McGonagall said with impatience.
The two young Gryffindors followed their teacher to her office and were shocked at what…no who was inside…
"MAMA!" Gaëlle exclaimed.
"DAD!" Duo exclaimed.
"I think I'll leave this to you, Mr. Maxwell, Ms. Summers. But please hurry, the children still need their sleep for class tomorrow." McGonagall said.
"Don't worry Professor McGonagall. As soon as we're through we'll send them straight to bed." Ms. Summers said in a gentle French accent.
"Very well." McGonagall replied as she left.
When the door closed Ms. Summers and Mr. Maxwell said in unison, "Hello children."
On instinct Duo retorted, "I'm not a child anymore."
"But you'll always be my child." Ms. Summers replied with a deliberate intent.
"Whoa…Back up! WHAT!" Duo exclaimed. Gaëlle's mouth hung open, speechless.
"Shush and we'll tell you." Duo's father said.
Gaëlle and Duo shut their mouths as they stared at their parents.
"Well, soon after Gaëlle was born the thing with Voldemort and Harry Potter had just then entered Hogwarts. Duo, you were about a year old at the time." Gaëlle's mother started.
"But I was needed to help fight against Voldemort." Mr. Maxwell said, "See I was, still am, a very powerful wizard. But then I was not spending time at home with your mother or you kids. Then at one point when I returned home we got into fights and decided to file for divorce. I took Duo and Anne, your mother took Gaëlle."
"Why did you lie about Mom being dead?" Duo demanded.
The two parents looked at each other.
"Craig, you tell." Anne said.
"Well after we separated, we lost communication with each other. I moved to America for awhile while your mother remained in France. Then I moved back here, to England when Duo was nine." Craig said.
"And I also moved to London so Gaëlle could be accepted into Hogwarts." Anne added.
"But how did you obviously find each other?" Gaëlle asked timidly.
"When I was putting some things in you room Gaëlle, I found some pictures of your friends. One of Duo was among them…" Anne looked at her ex-husband. "It was the first time I had ever seen pictures that you have brought home…"
"And I found one of Gaëlle in some that had been tossed on the table, also the first time I've seen pictures that Duo has taken." Craig admitted.
"But how did you know…I was your…daughter?" Gaëlle asked.
"For one, your name was written on the picture, and nobody I have ever met except your mother has the color of your eyes." Mr. Maxwell said.
"My eyes?" Gaëlle asked puzzled.
"They are a very specific shade of dark blue; the color of my eyes." Anne said.
"Okay. So y'all found our pictures. Then obviously got together…why!" Duo demanded.
The two adults exchanged glances, smiled warmly and then looked back at their children.
"We've been talking and realized that we missed each other and that we still love one another. We also agreed that you children needed both of us…" Anne said.
"We've decided to get back together." Craig finished.
"What? Get married again?" Duo and Gaëlle both exclaimed.
"Well, yes," Anne and Craig blinked. "You aren't mad at us are you?" Anne asked timidly.
"No. Will it be okay to say that I'd be happy to have a complete family now?" Gaëlle said.
Anne had tears of happiness in her eyes as she moved to hug her daughter. Then she held out her arm to Duo. Duo hesitated for just an instant and walked to his mother…and sister. Soon their father joined in.
When they all released each other. Duo looked at his little sister and grinned.
"I can't wait till the others hear about this." He said.
"Oh, just one thing." Craig said solemnly, "You can't tell your friends. At least not until school's over." Anne continued.
"Why!" the children half exclaimed.
"One, I still have enemies that will look for ways to get to me," Craig started.
"Two, we haven't finished planning anything. And three, we agreed to not let this out in the open yet. Right now it's very hush-hush." Anne continued.
"But…Mom…when can we tell?" Duo asked, a little whine in his voice.
"When we tell you, you can." Craig said firmly.
Gaëlle and Duo looked crestfallen but when their parents hugged them again they grinned.
"Okay, off to bed you two. We'll send letters to you with Gaëlle's owl, Morwenda, telling you of our progress. Okay with that?" Anne asked.
Her two children nodded their heads before scampering out to the hall. They walked side by side silently until Duo broke the silence, "Well little sister, how does it feel?"
"What feel?" she asked puzzled.
"To have ME as a big brother?" he asked.
"Wonderful." She replied sarcastically, "But I don't like lying to the others. Between Wufei saying it's an injustice not to tell and Hee-chan being as intimidating as he can be, I don't know how long I'd be able to last." Gaëlle admitted.
"Oh, but you'll have me." Duo pointed out.
"I know, but you are a loud mouth. Out of both of us, you'll probably be the one to blow our secret if either of us tells." Gaëlle pointed out.
"Aww…Cut me some slack." Duo protested, lightly punching her arm.
Gaëlle snorted and shoved him back, then quickened her pace. Duo ran to catch up with her and then raced ahead, causing her to tear after him. She chased her new found brother all the way to the picture containing the Fat Lady; the door to the Gryffindor dormitory.
"Pigglewiggle." Duo said breathless giving the password. Then he pulled Gaëlle through the opening and shut the picture behind them. As they entered the Common room they both stopped dead in their tracks. Lie and Heero were still up and patiently waiting for their friends' return.
"So, what did McGonagall want?" Lie asked. She and Heero rose from their chairs and walked to stand in front of the other two.
"To talk to us. She wanted to know if we've found anyone for our open Chaser position." Duo quickly made up.
"Well? Do you have any one in mind?" Lie asked suspiciously. She knew he lied, for Heero was team captain of the Gryffindor team.
"Well sort of but I got to ask him." Duo replied.
"We will get the truth from you two. Eventually we will." Heero said.
"Yeah, if I was telling a lie you would eventually get the truth." Duo said while grinning. "Goodnight Heero, Nathalie." Then he ran like mad up to his bed before Lie could hurt him.
"I'll get you tomorrow Maxwell!" Lie called after him.
"Goodnight you two." Heero said with a very small smirk.
"'Night." Lie replied.
"'Night Hee-chan," Gaëlle echoed as she followed the dark haired girl up to their beds. Heero also went up to his bed.
As soon as the two girls were comfortably under their covers, Lie quietly asked, "So what really happened with McGonagall?"
"Just what we told you." Gaëlle said right before she fell asleep.
Lie snorted in disbelief, knowing her friend would not lie to her if she had a choice. She pulled the blankets more securely around her and promptly fell asleep; dreaming of a certain dark-blue eyed 5th Year.
Two weeks went by and the truth still did not come from Gaëlle or Duo's mouth. But it looked suspicious one morning when Morwenda delivered a letter and Gaëlle did not open it and read it. Instead she stuffed it into the pocket of her robes. She gave her owl a bit of toast before the bird took off again.
"Who was the letter from?" Lie asked casually.
"Oh nothing important. It's just that my aunt writes in French and I don't feel like translating right now." Gaëlle said. Then she rose and left the Great Hall.
Lie looked at Ivy, Heero, and Duo and said, "But her native language is French. She shouldn't have to think about translating it."
By now Ivy was already informed that something was up. She was told about Duo and Gaëlle's odd behavior.
Indeed Duo had talked to one person to be the new Chaser and they agreed, but Heero and Lie knew something was up with their two best friends. And all of them were planning to find out.
Duo rose from his seat saying, "I'll go see if anything's wrong…" Then raced off before anyone could stop him.
"Something is really going on with them." Ivy remarked.
"Hey guys. Where did Duo and Gaëlle run off to?" Quatre said sitting down in Gaëlle's empty seat. Lie and Ivy shrugged as Heero just stared blankly.
TBC