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Chapter Four: True Inheritance

"What the hell is going on?" Remus' question echoed round the silent office and the Order milled closer without appearing too but they wanted to know all the same.

Kelley knew that they were going to get the shock of her lives. She wouldn't have believed it if in that moment Hogwarts had not showed her. And there were still parts she did not understand. There were parts she could simply not understand. It wasn't possible…

…But she was here. And Dumbledore did not lie. Hogwarts did not lie. She needed to understand. She felt something bigger than herself begin to shift around her and a sense of purpose filled her.

She felt more at home in this small office than she ever had done in the world she had once called home despite her being here less than a few hours. It seemed insane but her instincts were telling her this was so and above all Kelley was learning to trust her instincts.

They told her things, things she shouldn't know but where no less true. Now she was stood in a place she never thought she could and trusted it more than she had ever trusted anything.

Dumbledore smiled his eyes twinkling, "That is something I must discuss with Kelley before it goes any further. It will be a topic of discussion at tonight's Order meeting which Kelley will be in attendance."

Remus gasped and the Order members in the office didn't seem to know what to do with themselves. "This girl comes before Harry?" Remus asked his eyes flashing, "After all Harry has been through you put this girl before Harry?"

Kelley felt like squirming under the intense gazes of some of the most powerful in the Order. But Kelley realised a split second before the Order had that Remus for the first time in his career had said the wrong thing. Dumbledore's eyes flashed and he said in a cool voice that left no room for argument, "Remus, everything I have ever done for Harry has been with his safety in mind. The Dursley's may have treated him less than I would have liked but it was the safest place I could offer him."

Remus gaped and Dumbledore continued, "Harry will soon be joining the Order but first Kelley must be informed of her role here. Kelley is more important than anyone when it comes to Harry's safety and training." Kinglesy looked like he was going to say something but Dumbledore was having none of it.

"I shall explain at tonight's meeting right now I must talk to Kelley." He returned to sitting behind his desk and the flames in the fireplace roared to life. Dumbledore said no more and simply sat quietly.

The Order took this as a hint to leave. One by one they filtered out and Remus was the last to go. "I am sorry if I offend you Albus but Harry is my sole concern now." Dumbledore nodded "it is perfectly understandable Remus and I promise everything will become clear at tonight's meeting."

Remus nodded and then disappeared into the green flames. Dumbledore watched the flames change back to their normal colour before turning to Kelley.

"You must be confused right now Kelley." He said gently. Despite everything that had just happened she laughed. "Yes." Kelley said with feeling.

"Sir you have no idea! I was brought here by Fawkes, I met with characters I had no idea even existed and then I interacted with Hogwarts and its wards of course I'm confused!"

Then realising what she had done she clapped her hand over her mouth. She could not believe she had done that to Albus Dumbledore!

But Dumbledore didn't seem to think there was anything wrong with what she had said and simply smiled, "Yes. Quite a different situation you find yourself in even for the wizarding world." He smiled again.

The twinkle in his eye told Kelley he knew something she didn't. "I'm missing something here aren't I?"

"Quite." Dumbledore said nodding "But that is something I aim to correct and rather quickly. Hogwarts has made this rather difficult though it is pleased to see you back." Dumbledore eyes twinkled and Kelley felt herself getting excited all over again.

Could this really be real?

"Are you ready to find out the truth Kelley?" Dumbledore asked quietly. Kelley nodded enthusiastically. She was more than ready.

"I am sir." She said breathlessly.

"Very well then." Dumbledore said getting up from his desk. He walked round and went to a cabinet and unlatched it.

Kelley waited squirming slightly in her seat and then looked up as Dumbledore came back with his Pensive. He smiled at her questioning look.

"I never knew it would look like that." She breathed. It was a rather impressive sight, a stone basin with ancient runes carved round the outside and the misty sliver mass of memories swirling inside.

"It's amazing."

Dumbledore smiled. "Much is able to be accomplished with the help of one's one magic my dear. And my magic will help this tale but first…"

Dumbledore stopped seemingly to decide where he was going to start and then said, "Perhaps if I start at the beginning. For the beginning is always a good place to start even if part of the story is already understood and it always helps our understanding of the present."

Kelley nodded.

"Our story begins in the 1850's," Dumbledore said looking at Kelley over his half moon spectacles.

"1856 to be precise. The ministry of magic was in its very beginnings then. The magic community like our muggle counterparts had once had a royal family. 1852 had marked the end of their reign and the beginnings of the modern day ministry."

"But why did the Royal family's reign end?"

Kelley asked perplexed. This definitely made no sense. The Muggles still had their royal family. Even if their cabinet of ministers were now in control the Royal family remained a figurehead for the country.

"That, my dear is a story for another day. One that is just as important as today in some ways but not as pressing."

Kelley wanted to press the subject. Something told her this was important but knowing Dumbledore it was simply a case of waiting until he felt ready to talk about it. So she nodded pushing it to the back of her mind for the time being.

"So as I was saying the ministry was in its beginning. Almost its experimental stages it needed support. The Denvers family were the most prominent family in the stages of the New Ministry and as part of an agreement Arthur Denvers the first Minister of magic allowed his sixteen year old daughter Maria Denvers to marry into the elves."

Kelley couldn't quite see where this was going. The confusion must have shown on her face for Dumbledore merely said, "All in good time." Kelley nodded but then something occurred to her.

"Why would Maria even have to marry into the elves in the first place? What was so important about the agreement anyway?"

Dumbledore nodded his head. "A very good question." He said as though he was pleased she had even thought it through. "Well to answer that question you must know first about the elves."

Kelley nodded and thought about it. "I once read a book back home that said elves were a race of warriors born for fighting wars of Light and that they were rarely seen by humans but they were as close to immortal as any creature beside a vampire could get."

Kelley stopped and frowned trying to think where she had read about elves. Back home Kelley had been an avid reader and devoured any kind of text she could find though she enjoyed reading fantasy the most.

"I think my friend Beck once leant me a book after I came across something after reading a fiction book." She said almost to herself.

Then she nodded. "Yeah that's right. He gave me the book saying I'd like it. He was right I didn't give him it back for weeks it was one of the best books I'd ever read."

"And why did you enjoy it so much?" Dumbledore asked leaning forward slightly. Kelley frowned thinking carefully before answering the question. She wasn't sure why if she was honest.

Then she said unable to keep the blush from her cheeks, "Because I felt like I could almost identify with them." Dumbledore however said nothing all he did was nod.

"And another piece of the puzzle to fit together. Very well Kelley we shall continue the story."

Kelley if anything else was more confused than when she started but she knew that if Dumbledore was telling her it was important than it had to be.

"Your book was correct when it spoke of elves. They are a race that fight for the light often unseen by most of the other races but Maria's father Arthur as the first minister of magic was looking for alliances to secure the safety of the wizarding community since we were under threat."

Kelley nodded she understood this much though she couldn't begin to understand why the community would be under threat. The witch-hunts were behind them weren't they?

"Maria and her father ventured, quite by accident into the realm of the elves. The elves by nature are accommodating and welcomed the two lost wizards into their fold. Now, this is the important thing. There is a fact that is not widely known about the elven race or any of the immortals for that matter. They all have a mate."

"A mate?" Kelley asked. Something in her heart peaked up at this. It seemed familiar….

"One person that is meant to be for another. Actually everyone has one but wizards and muggles are able to ignore the call immortals aren't."

Kelley was shocked as Dumbledore explained this because he seemed so sad. He seemed to be talking from experience though Kelley couldn't figure why he would be speaking this way. So she just allowed Dumbledore to continue the story.

"While Maria and Arthur were in the elves company Maria fell in love with an elf named Alder Greenleaf Dumbledore."

"Dumbledore?" Kelley asked despite her promise to remain quiet.

Dumbledore smiled and his smile went all the way to his eyes and all the way through to his being. "Quite."

Kelley cocked her head and smiled, "But then…" Dumbledore smiled again. "Dumbledore is a prominent elven family yes. But perhaps if we carry on…"

Kelley nodded feeling excited to be able to know this about the most mysterious character in her books.

"Maria and Alder became inseparable and Alder announced that he had found his mate. It is uncommon but not unknown to find mates outside your race. They were married and Arthur used it as an excuse to get a treaty from the elves. Alder's family were so pleased that he had finally found his mate that they agreed."

Dumbledore sighed. "The treaty stated that the elves would come to the aid of the wizarding community should they ever need the help. It was a treaty that stood firm until recently."

At that moment the door burst open. "It stood until the wizard ministry decided to ignore one of our own." Said a voice.

Kelley spun round. She recognised that voice…

A tall slim man with an angular face, long blond hair that was tired at the base of his neck with a leather throng and blue eyes was stood in the doorway.

"BECK!" She yelled getting up and throwing herself into his arms. She didn't have time to realise that he was also displaced she was just so pleased to see a familiar face.

Beck laughed and swung her round. "Hey there babes. Good to know you got here ok." "You knew about this too?" Kelley demanded hitting him in the arm.

"Of course." Beck said "Who do you think has been giving Dumbledore weekly reviews for the past I don't know sixteen years?" Kelley stared at him and when she realised what he had said she hit him again.

"You prat!" She screamed. But as always she couldn't stay mad at Beck it was just to hard.

"You're an elf aren't you?" Kelley asked when she came out her sulk some five minutes later.

They were all seated back round Dumbledore's desk and Dumbledore was smiling at the banter between the two friends. "Yes I am." Beck said proudly. "I am also one you're assigned protector and one of the elven horde that proudly serves Dumbledore in the Order." He nodded to Dumbledore who nodded respectfully back.

Seeing Kelley's confused look Beck smiled.

"The elves pulled out the treaty made between Arthur Denvers and the Dumbledore family last year when the ministry was trying to discredit Dumbledore here. We do not take kindly to wizards calling our kin liars. Many of the elves then joined the Order. We knew Voldemort had returned we have been lighting the Death Eaters ever since."

Kelley processed this and then something snagged. Our kin. "Your part elf professor!" She said startled. "That I am Kelley that I am." Dumbledore said smiling. "That is why, though I have given up my eternal youth I have lived so long and retained youth like abilities."

Beck looked between them and then said something clicked in his head and he said, "Oh goddess! She doesn't know yet does she?" Dumbledore smiled. "She has a vague idea Hogwarts beat me too it. I am telling the whole story."

Beck nodded. "Then I will help."

Dumbledore smiled and said, "Where were we up to Kelley?" Kelley looked between Beck and Dumbledore and said, "Maria and Alder had just been married. The treaty was a negotiation through the marriage."

"Yes this is correct. This was, as I have said, in the year 1856. Six years later Maria gave birth to a baby boy. Me."

Kelley started. "You were born in 1862?" "I was." Dumbledore nodded. August 1862 to be precise."

Kelley looked between Beck and Dumbledore and said, "Why do I need to know you're ancestry Professor?" She asked though she was beginning to see where this was going. She just couldn't quite believe it.

"Why do you think my dear?" Dumbledore said gently.

Beck however took the more direct approach. "Oh for God's sake Kelley you're his granddaughter!"

(A/N And I was going to end it here but I decided I'd be nice and carry on…)

Kelley went very still.

She sat ramrod straight and said nothing. She stared between Beck and Dumbledore and then past them. She was Dumbledore's granddaughter?

"That was possibly the most tactless thing you have ever done." Dumbledore said to Beck. "I didn't realise you meant to hurt her." "I didn't." Beck's voice betrayed how hurt he was that Dumbledore thought that.

"She needed to know." He defended himself.

"I agree Dumbledore nodded

"But she also has been in this world less than three hours. She does not understand why she was not kept here in the first place." Dumbledore said. His voice sounded steady but Kelley knew he was upset.

"Why didn't I stay here didn't you want me?" Kelley asked the question before she could stop the words falling from her mouth.

Beck and Dumbledore were stunned into silence. "Kelley you were sent there for your own protection." Dumbledore said his voice not so steady any more. "I couldn't face losing you too."

Kelley looked up then. Beck had his hand on Dumbledore's shoulder. "I'll take it from here."

He looked at Kelley. "I'm sorry you feel betrayed but we did what we thought was best at the time. Perhaps if we carry on from where your grandfather left off."

Beck thought and then said, "Your grandfather was born and showed great promise in his magical signature. It was one of the strongest at that time. I suppose it still is. With only Harry and Lord Voldemort to challenge it."

Dumbledore…Her grandfather…Kelley thought with a start looked like he was going to challenge this statement but couldn't find the energy to do so.

"Your grandfather remained at the elven court with Maria and Alder until the age of eleven when he returned to the wizarding world to attend Hogwarts. As you have witnessed Dumbledore became quite a wizard and soon became a teacher teaching his favoured subject transfiguration."

Dumbledore smiled. "You are forgetting that I did return home frequently especially after Rosie was born."

Beck nodded. "Who is Rosie?" Kelley asked. "Rosie is your mother." Beck said smiling.

Dumbledore smiled "I married my mate Tigerlily Tamour when I was fifty after retuning home for my mother and father's funeral."

"Funeral?" Kelley asked "but I thought you said that Elves were immortal. Beck shook his head, "We are as close to immortal as we can be but there is two ways we can die. Most "immortals" are killed this way. An arrow through the heart or a death of a mate. You can survive the death of your mate even if you are blood bonded but most do not have that strength and most do not wish to live without them."

"Blood bond?" Kelley asked, "Blood bond is the ceremony that most mates choose to do once their mate has been found." Dumbledore said, "It means that the mates are connected physically mentally and magically you are connected to your mate in every way."

"Are you blood bonded to grandmother?" Kelley asked the words falling from her mouth as if they were natural. "I was Kelley yes."

"Was?" She asked carefully. Dumbledore winced. "Tigerlily died in a Death Eater attack in the last war. She gave her life to protect a group of muggles that got caught in the crossfire. I knew right away and I will not pretend I wanted to die with her. But she told me in no uncertain terms that she would push me back to life if I died. By then my daughter was born and she was pregnant with you."

"I had a reason to live and I pulled myself back from death just as she wanted me too. I don't regret it and I know I will see her again. But not yet." He smiled and Beck smiled.

"We were all proud of you many mates choose to die. Can't help but die. Can't resist the pull of death." Kelley felt the pull and knew. "My mother couldn't resist the pull could she?"

Dumbledore looked up and saw how painful this must be for his beloved granddaughter who he had had to watch from afar. "No Kelley she couldn't." Kelley bowed her head.

"I knew my mother and father back home were not my mum and dad. I know it seems stupid but they always seemed closer to my brother. Oh, I knew they loved me." She added when she saw Dumbledore's face. "But they also seemed to be a closer family. I often felt so different I was almost an outsider. Now I guess I know why."

"Why didn't you ever say anything?" Beck asked astounded. "You always seemed so happy around your family." "I was." Kelley said feeling the need to explain. "But then I'd get nightmares, visions, know things you're not meant to and arguments would rock the house. They would expect me to just switch it off and I couldn't no matter how hard I tired."

Dumbledore looked like he was going to explode but then he seemed to come out of it and said, "You're powers in your world are just shades of what really belongs to you." He looked at her and said, "I promise you Kelley I will help you control them." Kelley believed him.

"Thank you." She said

"Perhaps we should continue the story." Dumbledore said though the look he had got in his eye hearing of Kelley's stories from home had not quite disappeared. "I returned home to bury my mother and father. Mother was only a witch and died of an aliment the elves could not save her from. Father could not resist the pull either Kelley and they died together. I know they are happy there was never a happier couple than my mother and father."

"Although Rosie and Marcus could have gave them a run for their money." Beck said grinning. "Yes they could." Dumbledore smiled.

I met Tigerlily at one of the parties my family had held for me. She was elven and one of the family close friends. I'd been friends with her for years. I don't know how I missed that we were mates. Moving backwards and forwards from both worlds had caused me to miss what was right in front of me."

Beck smiled. "Tiger had told her family long ago that you were her mate she was just waiting for you to work it out." "It's true." Dumbledore smiled. "She had had worked it out when were seventeen and I had returned home after leaving Hogwarts. She had to wait 33 years for me to catch on. Not one of my most clever moments."

Kelley smiled. "So what when you returned it was like a lightening flash, what?" "Well you could say that." Dumbledore's eyes glazing over at the thought. "She had decided that she had had enough and informed me. Everything else made sense after that."

"Three years later I had a daughter. We named her Rosie Taraya Dumbledore Your mother."

Kelley smiled and then started. "But if you are half elf and grandmother was full elf that means…"

"Yes Rosie was full elf. She did not inherit any wand magic from me through my magical signature did show in her magic." Dumbledore smiled. "She may have not attended Hogwarts but she was powerful in her own right. Besides it was better this way. I had made many enemies by the time she was sixteen and I thought it best to remain hidden. Her and Lily both though Lily didn't like it. Being apart from each other as we were made us stronger. I think that's another reason I survived her death."

Kelley's respect for Dumbledore, her grandfather went further than she had ever dreamed possible.

"Your mother was twenty one when I heard whispers of Voldemort's rise to power as soon as he left school. His rise was not quick but it was marked with disappearances and slowly Tom Riddle disappeared and Lord Voldemort surfaced."

Beck smiled. "Me and your mother were friends. There was forty-four years difference between us. In elven terms that might as well have been a year. Forty-Four years is nothing in the scheme of time of the time we cam spend on earth."

"I was 65 when your grandfather took Rosie with him. I didn't see her for another 14 years after that. That was when I met your father. He was a great man Kelley and they both loved you very much."

Kelley blanched. "But you look no older than 19!" Beck smiled. "Its part of my appeal!" Kelley raised her eyebrow. "No really. An elf, or any immortal for that matter can take blows that would be the death of others. The first we get stops our aging process. I was a dragon slayer. What can I say I lived dangerously."

Beck stopped and then added, "Then again I still do." He grinned.

Kelley smiled and shook her head looking at Beck she noticed the necklace he always wore round his neck.

"That's what that is! A dragon's tooth!" Beck looked down and grinned. "Good girl! Yeah the first one I ever killed. Made me rich that girl did. Also got me into a fight with Hagrid but whatever I do what I want when I want."

Dumbledore smiled, "Beck you only kill those that are a danger to the living population."

Beck looked at Dumbledore and said, "Albus! I was trying to show her how macho I am!" "Like you didn't try back home!" Kelley retorted.

"Touché." Beck said

Kelley smiled and shook her head. Now she wanted to know something more important.

"Who was my father? He was not an elf? Was he a wizard?" Dumbledore and Beck looked at each other and then said, "No. He was neither." Dumbledore answered at last.

"I took Rosie with me as I have said when Voldemort began to climb in power and I went looking for alliances that the Ministry would not consider…"

"In their infinite wisdom of course." Beck interrupted.

"The Order needed some help." Dumbledore continued as if Beck hadn't spoken. "So I went into the courts of the Fey. Magical creatures that keep themselves separate from both muggle and wizariding communities. It was there Rosie finally met her mate."

Kelley smiled. The pride in Dumbledore's voice was unmistakable as he said this. "His name was Marcus Rowans and he was a veela."

Kelley's eyes went wide and her mouth dropped to the floor. "He was a WHAT?" She screamed.

"A veela and a very gentle but powerful one at that." Dumbledore said smiling. "Rosie and Marcus were instant friends and then through whatever means, they never said, they found out they were mates. Veela do not often have mates outside their own kind but Marcus' family had almost given up hope that he would find his."

"They married with only Marcus' family and I in attendance.

"It was not a treaty of marriage but the Veela were so pleased Marcus had finally found his mate and was so happy they gave me their allegiance and despite Marcus' death they still honour me that vow today."

"How did mum and dad die?" Kelley asked knowing it would be painful to find out but she needed to know all the same.

Beck looked at Dumbledore and said, "I'll take it here." "Just before James and Lily were killed there was a massive Death Eater attack and your mum dad the elves and the veela went to meet it. I was there. We were fighting because we knew that if they won this there was nothing they wouldn't be able to do."

He stopped and his eyes glazed over. "We were over run. The air was filled with screams and red and green beams of light we were fighting with our own brand of magic. I saw the arrow soar through the air, straight for your mum. Your mum and dad were some of the best fighters I have ever seen but that arrow was too fast for your mum. Your dad dived in the way. I heard your mum scream from across the other side of the field and I knew."

He looked at Kelley then. "I was there when they died. Your dad died first and he tired to pull through he tried but an arrow through the heart is fatal for us and I saw your mum trying to fight the death bond but your mum and dad had been together for so long. They couldn't live without each other. But don't ever doubt that they loved you. They loved you very much."

Beck looked down and then back at Kelley, "There are few that can survive the Death of a bond mate. Even the strongest of warriors have been known to succumb when their mate dies. It is hard to live without the one you are meant for, for all eternity."

"You speak as if you know." Kelley said quietly. Beck nodded sadly. "Maybe." Kelley knew that this was not a topic of discussion right then and so left the story untold.

Dumbledore looked at Kelley then,

"The week after Lily, James and Harry were attacked by Voldemort. I knew then that you were in as much danger as Harry Rosie and Marcus had been killed and I knew you were in danger without them so I opened the portal between this world and the next and sent you through the portal with four of the Order."

Kelley cocked her head, "Four?" She asked she mentally thought about it and then she clicked. "Mum, dad, Marc and Beck." She said.

Dumbledore nodded. "The four top agents in the Order and ones I could afford to lose to protect my granddaughter."

"Wow."

Kelley said falling back in her seat. "I mean wow."

Ok guys lets get this clear because it might have been a bit confusing there was a lot to get in that chapter and I want to know everyone knows what the hell I was talking about.

Kelley's family tree is as follows:

Maria Denvers M Alder Greenleaf Dumbledore

(witch) (elf)

Albus Wulric Brian Dumbledore M Tigerlily Tamour

(half elf/half wizard) (elf)

Rosie Taraya Dumbledore M Marcus Rowans

(elf) (Veela)

Kelley Anderson

Whose full name is (even though she doesn't know yet) is Kristen Tigerlily Dumbledore her mother's name was kept for safety.

She is half elf half veela

Other notes that might be useful

In this story elves and veela are immortal, they have different powers and these do not stem from wand magic as wizard and witch magic does.

As Beck said there are two ways an immortal can die. The death of a BONDED mate, meaning those that have gone the blood bond ceremony and a spelled sliver arrow through the heart.

What Beck neglected to mention is this…

Now this is harder than it seems because not many people are aware that they have to be spelled and sliver. The arrow that killed Marcus was spelled with evil because Marcus had chosen the light. An arrow spelled with good would kill an immortal who had chosen the Dark.

These are some things that may come in useful later.

If you have anymore questions or are confused tell me in a review or email.

Cya all next time

Blue fire xxxx