Sorry guys this one a short one, and I'm going to lose my laptop. I've been using the one the school gave to me, and I have to give it back on the 13th of November so after then I won't be able to add any more chapters untill a get my own laptop, this is just a heads up, I'll still be working on it, (I hand write the chapters before I type them). Sorry guys.
-Doublesims
Chapter Fourteen: Being a Brother
Aster walked out of his Transfiguration class. He had this feeling that something was wrong. He was just talking to Professor McGonagall about how different being 'home-schooled' and being at a school; like how he doesn't have classes with his 'brothers'.
Aster was walking down the corridors exploring the school for his free period, when he felt it. His hair was being played with by the wind. It was like the wind was telling someone where he was. He stopped and looked around.
'If the wind is here then Jack must …' Aster didn't get to finish his thoughts before he was almost balled over by someone hugging him tight. He looked down to see a head of white hair.
"Jack?" He asks not quite shore what's going on.
"I'm sorry" Jack mumbled in to his chest. "I didn't mean for it to happen"
"Wooh what are ya talking about?" Aster looked around to see if anyone was around. The others were in their classes so it was just them and the paintings.
"Please I didn't mean… don't send me away"
"Jack?"
"Please don't send me away, I can't be alone again."
Aster straightened up and looked at Jack with surprise. Three hundred years alone of course it would affect anyone and an immortal child is not an exception.
"Jack. Jack look at me" Jack looked up at the Easter spirit and Aster had another thing thrown in his face. Jack was close to tears. "What happen?"
"Defense Against the Dark Arts…. practical lessen" Jack hiccuped a little trying to get his breathing back in order. "Boggarts."
"Oh shi… come on I want to show you something" Aster gasped Jack's hand and dragged him down the corridors towards the kitchen.
They made it to a stack of barrels. Aster reached for the barrel; two from the bottom, middle of the second row, and taped it in the rhythm of 'Helga Hufflepuff', Jack watched with his head on the side. The lid swung open, exposing a passageway.
Jack sucked in a quick breath of air and looked at his 'brother'. Aster watched him with a small smile, and went to clime though the passageway.
"Come on we can talk in here."
Jack followed Aster though the tunnel to the Hufflepuff Basement.
"Wow"
"Almost like The Warren hey?"
Jack nodded looking down at his feet, as bad memories resurfaced. Aster dragged him over to one of the couches sitting him down.
"Okay ya want to tell me what happened?"
Jack took a deep breath and told Aster what happened in class.
"… we all laughed it was quite clever. After Ron's riddikulus; Professor Lupin called me up then. The Boggart it tuned in to … you"
"Me?"
Jack nodded hugging his legs. "Yer, you said… it said as you; that you shouldn't have trusted me" Jack stopped and hugged his legs closer. "I never meant to … he tricked me, I never meant for you to lose Easter or your believers."
Aster looked at Jack. "He?"
"Pitch… he tricked me, he kept tormenting me with my baby teeth, my memories. I didn't realize what he was doing until it was too late. I'm sorry I didn't…"
"If ya say; didn't mean to, one more time I swear I'll prank ya so hard ya wont know what hit ya."
Jack smiled a little.
"Jack I forgave ya for that Easter and Easter of '68. I forgave you for '68 when ya made me remember why I'm a guardian in the first place. Remember when Sophie got into The Warren the first time. And I forgave ya of that Easter, when Jamie said ya got him to keep believing in me!"
Jack looked at Aster, looking of signs of him lying to him. He couldn't find any.
"And I do trust ya, Frostbite."
Jack lunged forward hugging him with all is might. "You don't know what that means to me."
"That's not all that happen was it?" Aster asked hugging Jack back.
Jack leaned back and shook his head. "My riddikulus back fired. It made the Boggart you turn in to your disbelieved state. That was the last straw for me." He sat back down next to Aster on the couch. "I ran out of the room, to find you trying to convince myself it wasn't real."
Aster smiled at Jack "Aw...ya do care!"
"Hey, that's my line!"
They sheared a laugh together, before a few Hufflepuffs including Sandy and Cedric Diggory came into the Basement.
"What's going on?" Aster asked as most went to the dormitories, Jack watched.
"Quidditch tryouts. You two what to hav –" Cedric started to say before he got a better look at Jack. "Wait aren't you a Gryffindor?"
Jack nodded.
"How did you get in here?"
"Jack…" Aster sighed thinking this though without giving too much away. "Jack's Defense Against the Dark Arts lesion was on Boggarts, practical lessen. Jack's fear involved me; he was making sure it wasn't true. This place is like my place back home, best place to calm him down." he stopped and added in a quieter voice "and to show I trust him."
Sandy had just came back from his dormitory with a broom in hand, and heard what Aster had said and looked at Jack sand signs above his head asking questions.
"I'm fine now thanks to Bunny, and I don't want to be alone… again." Jack answered. Sandy came up and hugged him tight before letting go. It was short but Jack appreciated it
"Well since Sandy is trying out, do you want to watch?" offered Cedric.
"Really?" asked Jack.
Cedric nodded with a smile happy to help the three brothers support each other.