Chappie Two
The Burrow was silent. The Weasley family were all terrified. Fred and George sat beside each other, cuddling up in a small coach. Ginny and Ron sat between Harry and Hermione who gave both youngest Weasleys assuring pats and rubs. Molly was in Arthur's arms pouring her eyes out as Charlie and Bill sat silently. Every now and then Fleur would rub both elder brothers across the shoulder assuring them every thing would be fine.
Tonks and Remus sat outside. Remus was still growling from the vampire's sudden departure. He couldn't believe she had just left like that.
"How could she just do that?" Remus sighed.
"I don't know Remus," Tonks said leaning on his shoulder. "She'll have her-"
"What on earth?" Remus interrupted. A dark figure was making their way over towards them. "Get your wand out."
"Should we go inside," Tonks said. Remus shock his head as the figure drew nearer. Like Serenity they were wearing a large cloak and a hood which covered their face.
"Reveal your self!" Remus ordered. The cloaked intruder was only metres away from them and was still walking closer. "Who are you?"
"It is I," A female voice answered. Feminine hands pulled the hood over her face showing a young witch, with light-brown hair, which shone against the sun light .Her eyes were covered with sunglasses.
"Livia!" Remus said sounding surprised. She pulled of her sunglasses revealing her blue eyes. "What are you doing here?"
"I've come to see Serenity," she said. Remus growled. "I'm taking from your growl something has happened?"
Remus told her the incident with Percy Weasley. Once he hand finished, Livia smiled softly.
"I believe she may have gone after him," Livia said. "She will find him if he is still alive, expect to see him here tomorrow."
"Shall we go inside," Livia sighed. Remus nodded. He stood up and offered his hand to Tonks. She took it and stood up with him
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"Livia!" Arthur said when he saw the girl walk into his house.
"Good day," she said. Molly smiled at her weakly. "I have heard what has happened to your son. I believe Serenity has gone out to find him."
"Is that why she left!" Charlie said sounding hopeful. Molly perked up as well.
"Most probably," Livia said. "If he is still alive Serenity will find him, she won't come back until she does."
"How are you handling your father's death?" Arthur asked softly. Livia frowned.
"Better then I expected," She answered, Harry looked up.
"Dumbledore was your father?" He asked. She nodded. "He was a great man."
"I know," Livia smiled softly again.
"Livia," Remus started, "Have you given any thought about the school?"
"Yes, and I am not changing my mind," Livia sighed. Remus looked at Harry expectantly.
"But if the school closes down Voldemort will win," Harry said, "Dumbledore wouldn't want that."
"No, he wins if we re-open and he and those death-eaters find an easier way into he school." Livia sighed, "If my father couldn't keep them out, how will I?"
"With my help!" Remus said, "And Serenity can get her kind behind us as well, you know the influence she has over all vampires! They hate Greyback! So they will hate Voldemort! And what's more they hate dementors!"
"If Serenity was here, she'd say 'of course we hate dementors!'" Livia said, smiling "'Humans taste like crap when they have no souls'."
Remus smiled. "Your father would not have left it in his will for you to run the school if he didn't believe you could do it."
Livia, nodded, "I'll think about it but first-"
She pulled out a small black metal object from her pocket. Hermione gasped.
"Is that a cell phone?" Hermione asked. Livia nodded and she held it against her ear.
"Hello…Serenity…it's me Livia…no I don't want a porn magazine…(Hermione and Harry sniggered) where are you….you found him…with muggles? What on earth is he doing there?...okay so how long do you think it will take…alright….okay I will tell her….I'm here at the Weasley's now…I'm think about it…so how will you go about getting him to return with out scaring him…or seducing him!... okay…then I'll see you soon….bye."
"Livia?" Molly asked hopefully. Livia smiled genuinely showing her teeth which were almost like Serenity's white and sharp only smaller.
"She found him," Livia said, "He is living in a muggle city, she will try to convince him to return, but if she cant she will leave him be…but knowing that vampires persistence he will be back within a week."
Molly's hand landed on her heart as she sighed in relief. The other Weasley's also smiled and were happy on the news.
"I thought I had lost him," Molly whispered to Arthur.
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Serenity stood above an old greying house. She was in a very quiet street where most of the other houses where in the same old state. She watched as Percy attempted to pull out a never ending pile of weeds with his bare hands. She wondered why he didn't just use magic; another question running through her head was how was she going to get him to return home with out scaring or seducing him? They where after all the best things she could do, she had seduced three death eaters once into freeing a group of muggles they were torturing. Of course she didn't do any thing with them after the muggles where free but kill them.
She rubbed her head as he held his hand in pain, he must have gotten a thorn in it. He stood up and stretched his back. Suddenly out of no where a small hand size shovel flew into the back of his head. He almost fell over as it collided into him. He grasped his head and Serenity growled reminding herself of her mate. A short plump man walked out of the house and towards Percy who tried to make him self smaller behind a few shrubs.
"Do I pay you to stretch that pretty behind of yours!" the man snarled grabbed Percy by his hair which was as long as the twins and Ron's hair only it was curlier then his younger brothers.
"I'm sorry!" He cried as he was dragged away from the shrubs. Serenity thought quickly and jumped down the roof of the house and landed on the pavement. She marched up to the pair and punched the older man square on the jaw. He fell over with a thud, releasing Percy's hair in the process. He stood up slowly and turned to face the furious vampire.
"Who the hell are you?" the man snarled. Serenity smiled at him evilly which was enough to get the man to move back, but not to shut up. "Well who are you? How do you know this little bitch, eh?"
"Doesn't matter right now," Serenity hissed, "You better get your fat ass inside before I kill you."
"Do you think I'm scared of a little girl like you," he barked. Serenity smiled again.
"Actually I'm one thousand, two hundred and five years," Serenity smirked. The man sniggered as Percy raised a brow from the ground. "So I should look a little more like this."
She clicked her fingers, as slowly her skin begin to wrinkly, rot and turned yellow. Her ear fell off. The man's eyes bulged and within seconds he was tearing down the street screaming: "Zombie!"
"Brains," Serenity moaned, Percy who was still sitting on the ground crawled away from her. She looked down and smiled showing rotting teeth. Realising her mistake she clicked her finger again and changed back to the young beautiful woman she was, "Its okay, Percy I won't hurt you," Serenity said honestly. He was now hiding once more behind the shrubs squeezing against the brick fence. "I'm a vampire, not an infiri. Your brothers Bill and Charlie sent me, to find you. Your mother, father, brothers, sister and even your family's friends are worried sick about you."
"Stay away from me," Percy whispered. Serenity ignored him and sat beside him.
"I know you don't trust me," Serenity whispered back. "But I won't throw shovels at your head."
"No one in my family is worried about me," Percy muttered, not listening to the vampire. She held onto his hand.
"No?" Serenity asked. "Then why would your mother pass out. Or your second oldest brother almost going into shock? Even the twins were worried, and they're morons."
Percy laughed softly as she rubbed his shoulder.
"Please don't make me go home," Percy whispered. Serenity sighed and then nodded.
"You can stay at my house," Serenity said. "It's in Ireland."
"You're Irish?" Percy asked.
"No," Serenity said, annoyed at the question. He has a shovel thrown at his head and his asking if I'm Irish. "I've just made my home there. So will you stay at my house?"
"How much will it cost?" Percy asked softly looking away. Serenity made a face.
"Why would I make you pay?" Serenity laughed.
"I don't know," Percy mumbled.
"Don't worry about the cost," Serenity said, "I'll get Bill to pay me."
"No! Don't bother him about me," Percy said quickly.
"Don't worry about it! He will only be too happy to pay, as long as you are safe," Serenity laughed, "Come on lets go, before that muggle comes back with the rest of the community wielding pitchforks and torches."
Percy smiled as Serenity pulled him up. "Do you have any thing inside that belongs to you?"
Percy nodded, so they entered the house. It was dark and dusty inside, cobwebs hung from the ceilings as did their spiders. Serenity screamed. Percy turned and stared at her. Sheepishly she said, "I hate spiders."
"So does my youngest brother," Percy smiled.
"So where is all your crap," Serenity said. Percy pointed towards a room. "Okay you go and pack your crap up, I'm gonna look around."
Percy nodded and walked into his room. Serenity looked up at the spider and smirked. Suddenly she jumped at it, and shoved it into her mouth. "Yum."
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"Where the hell is she?" Bill snapped. It had been two days since she left. The Weasleys were all running impatient.
"She'll be here as soon as she can, William," Livia said. Bill cringed at hearing his first name. Some one began to bang hard on the door, Molly ran over at opened it. Serenity rushed in and slammed the door, locking it. A huge snake was lying dead across her shoulder.
"What's wrong?" Molly asked staring at the snake.
"Oh you know," Serenity said. Harry, Ron and Hermione ran in. "I killed Voldy's-"
"Nagini!" Harry said happily. "You destroyed on of his horcruxes."
"One of his horses?" Serenity asked, staring at Harry like he was crazy, "It's a snake, sweetie. I understand you have left school but, come on!
"No! I said horcruxes," Harry said, "It's part of Voldemort's soul."
"Well, why'd you run in like that?" Hermione asked as Livia walked in.
"Cause he had a temper tantrum and sent five death eaters after me," Serenity said sitting down breathing deeply. Arthur, Charlie and Bill towards them. "Don't worry I've placed a spell on the house so all they can see is grass."
"That's good," Livia said, "What's happening with Percival?"
"His name is Percy!" Serenity snapped. Livia shook her head.
"Well what's going on?" Molly urged. The twins and Ginny also made their way. Serenity smiled. "Well?"
"He's fine," Serenity said, "He didn't want to come home so he is staying in my house in Ireland."
"Did you put up any wards?" Livia asked before the Weasleys erupted.
"No that's why I came back," Serenity said, "I need some help, I'm hopeless at them."
"Okay," Livia said, "We can go now."
"I'm coming with you!" Ron said quickly. Seconds later all the Weasleys said the same thing.
"No," Serenity snapped. "He needs time alone."
"He's been alone for two years!" Arthur snapped. Serenity stared at Livia and smiled.
"See you there," Serenity said, clicking. She disappeared with a puff of smoke.
"My apologies," Livia said, smiling, not sounding sorry at all. She to clicked and disappeared with a puff of smoke also.
"Bloody vampires!" Molly barked.
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Percy stood near the door exactly were Serenity had left him. He was still holding his bag over his shoulder. He looked up at the clock she had hanging on the wall. It was a normal muggle watch. Fortunately his father had taught all of his siblings how to read muggle time. Serenity had been gone for almost an hour. He remembered she said first she wants to visit some one very dear to her and annoy the crap out of him. He wondered if she was still there. She reminded him of his twin brothers
He sniffed and wiped his tears just in case she returned. He still didn't believe any of his family would care if he died or not. Why would they, he was the black sheep of the family. Bill was the oldest of the family, so he did every thing first. His parents loved him. Percy heard his oldest brother was engaged to Fleur the Veela, and he had also been mauled by a werewolf on a night without the moon. Percy wondered if Bill was a werewolf or not.
Then there was Charlie the next oldest the captain of the Quidditch team when he attended school. Charlie and Bill were the best of friends. They shared every thing with each other. Both knew they had some one to run to if they had a problem; each other. Charlie, of all of Percy's brothers was probably the only one who ever hugged or showed any emotion of care towards him. But Charlie was like that with all of his siblings. It wasn't special treatment Percy was receiving.
Then there were the twins, after him. The two had each other and their jokes. While Percy disapproved of what they were doing during there school years, he had to admit he was quite surprised at the things they had made. Secretly he was amused at the pranks that his two brothers would play with everyone. Though he realised most of the time the pranks were played on him. Like the 'pinhead' prank.
The there was Ron. Percy had tried so hard to befriend his youngest brother, to have a best friend like his other brothers. Once Ginny was born, Ron never even bothered with him. Ron not only had Ginny when growing up he also had Harry Potter and Hermione Granger. Percy wondered if Ron had asked her out yet. He knew Ron had a crush on her. Ginny was lucky also, she was after all the only girl so in general she was treated like a princess by everyone in her family.
Then there was him. The black sheep of his family. The idiot who left his family for his stupid career. He sometimes wondered if he could cast the Avada Kedavra on himself.
Ding Dong.
He jumped, the door bell was ringing. He placed his hand on the door knob and was about to open it, but changed his mind.
"Who- Who is it?" He stammered.
"Is me! Voldi-morty!" Serenity grinned as she unlocked the door and entered. Livia followed her in and smiled at Percy. He smiled back but quickly looked away. Livia gave Serenity a questioning look. Serenity shrugged. "This is Livia Dumbledore, or if you want her full name"- Livia sighed deeply -"Livia Josephine Rogue Ororo Renee Madlin Nina Gabrielle Sophia Mary Joanne Kiara Cassiel Jordan Shayera Louise Alberta Dumbledore. As you can tell Albus had a liking for long names."
Percy stared at the two vampires with a raised eyebrow. Serenity and Livia both gave him award winning smiles. "Are you a vampire too?"
Livia nodded. "So shall we start on the wards?"
"Okay," Serenity said, "Percy if are you thirsty or hungry, go and make your self something to eat, the kitchens over there. Just don't drink any thing that's red."
Percy winced as he headed towards the kitchen. Serenity stared at Livia and grinned.
"What?" Livia said.
"He is hot ain't he," Serenity sniggered.
"Oh, get your mind out of the gutter, woman!" Livia snapped. She then added quite proudly as she held up her left hand. A large silver ring sat on her ring finger, "I'm already married."
"And I have a mate," Serenity smirked, "But we're vampires, we don't do the one mate for like thing, remember only dogs do that."
"You mean wolfs,"
"Same thing," Serenity said, "They both stink."
Livia couldn't help her self. She laughed.
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Narcissa and Draco Malfoy sat silently inside a dark cave they had found. Cissa stared at her son. He was staring at ground with hollow grey eyes. He appeared to be in another world.
"Draco?" Narcissa sighed, placing a gentle hand on her son's back. He turned and faced his mother. "What's wrong? Please tell me, my little Dragon."
He turned away and whispered, "I got him killed, mum."
"You did what you had to do," Narcissa said softly, she growled, "That bastard should go to hell! How dare he threaten you with our lives just to kill an old fart?"
Draco gasped surprised his mother would ever insult the dark lord like that. "Mother!"
"Don't you mother me!" Narcissa snapped. Draco smiled softly. She used to say the same to his father, 'Don't you Cissa me!'
"Mum, what will we do about father?" Draco asked as he leaned into his mother's warm embrace. Narcissa sighed, looking distracted.
"I don't know," she whispered, "I just don't know."
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"So what happened?" Bill asked as Serenity and Livia walked into the burrow. Serenity glared at him. "What?"
"Shut up!" Serenity snapped. Livia smirked.
"What's wrong with you?" Remus asked. Livia began to giggle softly, only to have Serenity back hand her arm.
"Her stupid husband scared Percy," Serenity snapped. "The idiot almost killed the poor kid."
"What?" Molly growled.
"Its okay, I stopped him," Livia said, "Octavian thought Percy was trespassing-"
"He tried to do his head in," Serenity added.
"But we stopped him," Livia said, "Thanks to Serenity's quick wit."
"What did you do?" Charlie asked, sounding somewhat scared.
"I put the Imperius on Percy and had him low blow the idiot!" Serenity snapped.
"What's a low blow?" Fred and George asked together.
"A shot between the legs," Livia said. All the boys winced as the girls laughed.
"Is Percy alright now?"
"He is fine Molly," Livia said. "Octavian is watching him."
"Can he be trusted?" Arthur said.
"He is my husband," Livia said, "I trust him with my life."
Fleur smiled and looked over at Bill, who smiled back.
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Percy sat by the fire on a large sofa staring at the male vampire sitting opposite of him looking through a photo album. Octavian had ear length golden hair flowing down his face, and from what Percy could see he had a pair of bright green eyes.
"I'm not looking at you," the vampire said startling Percy, "so stop looking at me."
"Sorry," Percy said looking into the fire.
"Don't look into the fire either!" the vampire snapped, "You could damage your eyes!"
"I think you mean the sun," Percy said softly.
"Don't tell me what I mean!" he snapped again, "I'm a vampire. Why do you think we are so pale?"
"Why is the fire on in the middle of summer anyway," Percy asked.
"Because it just is," Octavian muttered turning the page. Percy looked up staring at the ceiling and tried not to laugh. Just above his head were five large photos of Serenity, Livia, Octavian, and a girl and boy he had never seen before. The photos were obviously taken with a muggle camera as the people did not move.
In one photo the five people had their sharp vampire teeth showing, in the second Serenity had the other male, a young black man by the head holding him tightly. Livia was jumping on the woman who from Asian decent. Octavian had his middle finger sticking up. The next photo the five vampires all acted like they were sick, with their tongues hanging out and their eyes rolled. The one after that the five were blowing raspberries and puffing out their cheeks.
The final picture had the vampires dress up as Hogwarts students, all except Serenity who was dress as a teacher. Livia was wearing the Ravenclaw robes. Octavian the Slytherin, the other man the Gryffindor robes and the woman was in the Hufflepuff.
Percy looked back down to find Octavian staring at him. He quickly averted his eyes to the fire but remember what the vampire said and looked away.
"So how old are you?" Octavian asked.
"Twenty one, sir," Percy said.
"No need to call me sir," Octavian said coldly, "Even if I'm a thousand years older then you."
"Sorry," Percy said quickly, not wanting to be attacked by the vampire again. "So how do you know Ms Eden?"
"By our mothers, they were sisters"
"You're related?" Percy asked. Octavian nodded. "What about Ms Dumbledore and the two people up there?"
"'Miss Dumbledore' is my wife," Octavian said, "Gabriella, and Samuel are just friends of ours."
"Are you all vampires?" Percy said, he was becoming more and more interested in the vampires history. Octavian just nodded. Percy smiled at the vampire who merely stared back, when something occurred to him; "If you're over a thousand years does that mean you knew the founders of Hogwarts?"
For the first time that night Octavian smiled softly staring into the fire. Percy tilted his head in confusion wondering what the vampire was thinking.
"Serenity and I where place in third and second years respectively," Octavian said, "We were both in Gryffindor. Godric really favoured her, then again most people did."
"Did Slytherin and Gryffindor really hate each other?" Percy asked.
"No," Octavian said flatly. "It was true the two had different opinions but they were like brothers. After all the two grew up together."
"So why do the books say otherwise,"
"Well eventually Salazar let his views get in the way of teaching so he left the school," Octavian muttered.
"So what is it like being," Percy stopped wondering if he should ask the vampire the question, but Octavian asked the question for him.
"A vampire?" said Octavian. Percy nodded. "I enjoy it, and I am use to it, but I can admit I hate not being able to soak up the sun as long as I like, or not being able to eat too much garlic."
"Can wood kill you or…" he trailed off.
"No," Octavian said, "But it hurts like all hell."
"I –eh- read once that once a vampire drinks blood," Percy said, "They can't enter heaven. Is it true?"
"Yes," Octavian said, "But we can't go to hell either."
"So it works both ways?" Percy said. The old vampire nodded.
"Now the questions are mine to ask," Octavian said quickly before Percy asked another question. The red-haired looked uncomfortable but nodded. "What is your name?"
"Percival Weasley," Percy said.
"Why are you here and how long will you be here?"
"Um," Percy started softly, "I've, well, I ran away from home."
"So you may be here a while," Octavian said. Percy nodded. "so what happened that made you run away?"
"I screwed everything up with one stupid mistake," Percy muttered staring into the fire. "They won't want me back any more."
The vampire said, "So you are from the Weasley family?"
"Yes?"
"How many siblings?"
"Seven of us, Bill, Charlie, me, the twins; Fred and George, Ron and Ginny," Percy said, "And there mum and dad."
"That's a lot of children," Octavian said. "If I were you I'd go back to them, sort the problem out. It will be hard but there is nothing stronger then parents love for their children. If you need proof ask Serenity what she has done just to protect her children."
With that the vampire stood up and heading out of the room.
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End of Chappie 2
This was an amusing chappie to write…I was laughing the whole time!
I just like to tell everyone that Serenity's attitude to werewolves is important and a great part in the plot.
Next Chappie: Serenity tells Percy her little story. Charlie decides he is gonna visit Percy no matter what, and gets himself in crap. Greyback enters the story as do many of the death eaters.