How to live life

Chapter 11

A/N: Hello everyone, thanks for returning to my story! Again, if you haven't read my one shot, ALMOST LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT, I suggest you do so you have a better understanding of Ella and James' past. Anywho, heres the next chapter, we'll finally find out the full secret! I've been off of school due to snow since the 21st, but had to go back today, the 29th, so I had a lot of time to write this over 7,800 word chapter. Hope you enjoy it :)

Disclaimer: I don't own anything!

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"Harry," Ginny said to her husband as she tried to wake him, since he just fainted.

"James did the same thing," Ella commented, while she laughed..

"Yeah, haha," James said sarcastically as he made his way over to his father.

Harry then started to get up, with the help of Ginny and James, but he looked confused while doing so, "what happened?" he asked.

"They just said that Vlasta was Voldemort's daughter and were about to go on, but then you fainted," Ginny told her husband.

"Shit! I thought that was a nightmare, not reality," Harry said as he sat down on his chair.

Ella then asked, "May I continue?"

They all nodded, then Ella took in a deep breath, "She only is contacting purebloods because she wants her army first, a strong, trained army of purebloods, and she wants to make sure they are loyal to her. She won't start attacking the public until she has this, she doesn't want to fail like her father."

"Wait? How did Voldemort have a daughter?" asked Ron.

James then laughed a little then explained, "Well you see, there's this thing called making love or se-"

"James, shut up," Ella told him.

"I meant because he can't love," Ron muttered to himself.

"Merlin's beard! You called me James," James told her dreamily.

"Yeah, yeah, get over it. To answer your question we don't really know ourselves who her mother is, but she makes it very clear Voldemort is her father," Ella told him.

"Yeah, she always says, and I quote, 'I will finish what my father started, but not just in England this time, but the whole world,' then does an evil creepy laugh," Chloe explained to them, then made a face in disgust.

"How many people has she recruited?" Hermione asked curiously.

"A lot, actually, many, not because they want to, but they were tired of fighting her for so long," Rachel explained, a frown forming as she said it.

"How long has this been going on?" Molly asked.

"About twenty years, basically a few months after her fathers death," Jack said.

This caused Harry's mouth to form into an o shape, then asked, "Are there many people left?"

"Not really, either she killed them for rebelling too long, or they joined her either out of fear, or just couldn't fight her any longer," Ella told him.

"So you lot are the few left?" Arthur asked for clarification.

"Yeah, and when we say few people left we mean the rest of our family, and a few fellow pureblood aurors," Rachel told him.

"My gosh! How could you guys last this long?" Ron asked in amazement.

"Auror training I guess. We have good reflexes and access to a lot of things in the MACUSA," Rachel told him.

"When does she plan on going to other countries?" Hermione asked.

"Well, her plan was once she got the rest of us, she would have all of her recruits spread out to other countries to recruit more people, her last stop was England, but she wasn't going to go there until everyone in the world knew about her, but she may have already started, it seems she knows she's going to have to let us go or kill us," Jack told the large family.

"Damn," Harry spit out.

"You must promise us you won't tell anyone, especially you Harry, I don't care if you're Head Auror and feel you should say something, but trust me, getting involved will only make matters worse, especially for us. Once she comes out about herself, do whatever the hell you want, but till then, please, don't do anything," Rachel begged Harry.

"Okay, It'll be hard seeing she just caused a lot of trouble up in London, but I'll do it. But sadly, I think she may be coming out soon, having people supporting her world wide or not, because that explosion had to mean something more than you guys just escaping again," Harry told them.

"Wait, so let me get this straight, all she wants to do is finish what her father started?" Bill asked the small family.

"Yeah, basically, just the whole world this time," Ella said with a shrug.

Harry sat back down in his chair trying to process all the information just given to him, then said, "why can't I just have a normal, peaceful life?"

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"Miss, we got more recruits from India," One of Vlasta's followers told Vlasta.

"How many?" Vlasta asked.

"About a quarter of the pureblood population, they're harder to get than we expected," the same follower told her.

"Good job, you may have the rest of the day off," Vlasta told him as he bowed then walked away.

It was the day after Vlasta's big explosion, it was Christmas. Christmas didn't mean take the day off for her, she only had her followers work harder when recruiting do to the events last night.

Vlasta had to work around her plans to get every single pureblood in America, she realized she was going to have to do something really big to get them on her side, so she decided to move on in the meantime. She had her current followers all around the world recruiting even more purebloods.

Vlasta then heard a knock on the door, she responded saying come in, and was pleasantly surprised to see who it was.

"You have all the reports for me, Celeste?" Vlasta asked the young girl who just entered, she was probably only thirteen or fourteen, who we now know is named Celeste.

"Yes I do," Celeste said as she approached Vlasta.

"So... How are things coming?" Vlasta asked her, who was anxious to here the news on the current actions taking place.

"Well, we have mostly every pureblood in the continents North and South America. Same for Europe, minus England, you know why. As for Asia we haven't gotten around to every country yet, that's tomorrow's plans, same goes for Africa. As for Australia we have everyone on the list, they weren't expecting us so the ones who didn't agree we could capture and bring down to the jail cells in the basement," Celeste said as she read from her clipboard, not taking her eyes off it once.

"Good, good," Vlasta muttered to herself, an evil smile plastered across her face.

"How much longer are we staying in England?" Celeste asked, while she wrote something down on her clipboard.

"Not sure yet. I will probably stay as long as the Smith's, but we'll be back to the main headquarters soon, why do you ask?" Vlasta asked her with a raised eyebrow.

"Well, we're running out of room in the jail cells, and only more people are coming," Celeste told her, eyes still on her clip board.

"Can't you just expand them?" Vlasta asked in a sassy way.

Celeste, finally looking up from her clipboard said, "don't you think we tried? We did, they're buildings next to us that must have magical protection on them because we can't work around them. I mean, come on, have some faith."

Vlasta made a face then said, "you're lucky you're who you are Celeste. Other wise you would have been dead a long time ago, with that attitude towards me."

Celeste rolled her ocean blue eyes, flipped her long black hair back, then exited the room, she's a sassy one.

Vlasta rolled her eyes at the door Celeste just exited, then muttered, "she'll be grateful for being who she is one day, one day soon."

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"Be careful, she's probably as mad as ever right now," Chloe told her parents, as she gave them a goodbye hug.

"Yeah, I suggest you go up to our vacation house in Hawaii, wouldn't expect her to look there," Ella added, as she too, gave her parents a good bye hug.

"Okay, we love you girls. Sorry we can't stay long, but work calls, even on Christmas," Rachel told her daughters, as she gave them one final hug.

Jack said the same to his daughters and then the couple was on their way, leaving Ella and Chloe with a terrible feeling in their stomachs.

Ella then walked over to an empty room no one was in, she just wanted to be alone. She walked over to look out the window and to look upon an empty street. While doing so, she could only wonder what Vlasta was doing right now. Was she still here in England or did she go back? If she's back would she be waiting for her parents there? Did she move on and start recruiting from more countries?

All those thoughts were suddenly put to an end when a certain someone tapped her shoulder. She didn't even realize he entered the small room, nor did she realize she was crying until he asked why, "why are you crying, Ella?" the one and only James Potter asked her, concern clearly in his voice.

"Didn't even realize I was crying, but it's probably because of all this stuff," Ella said as more tears escaped her eyes.

James knew she was talking about her parents going back into a world where Vlasta wanted them dead, so he did what anyone who cared for her would do, put a comforting arm around her shoulders.

To James, and Ella's own surprise, Ella didn't push him away or say anything to get him to leave. What she did was cry into his shoulder while James held her steady.

James and Ella have been getting along better ever since arriving back to the time 2017. Probably due to the inspiring words of the one and only James and Lily Potter. Neither knew their advice would help, but boy did it help. A week ago neither of them would guess that James would be holding Ella when she needed someone most.

After a few minutes, Ella's eyes widened in shock at what she was doing, she quickly removed herself from James embrace and said very loudly, "no, no this is wrong, I'm supposed to hate you."

James, who was in shock at Ella's quick change in attitude towards him, looked a little taken aback at this, but quickly recovered saying, "It doesn't have to be wrong Ella, you don't have to hate me."

"Yes I do," Ella said as she started to exit the room, until James grabbed her shoulder.

He looked into her beautiful ocean blue eyes and asked, "why?"

Ella didn't know what to say, so she quickly started to say, "because..."

"Because nothing, you don't have a reason, do you?" James asked her, still looking into her eyes.

Ella shifted uncomfortably and said softly, "no."

"Then why run away from me? I've been nothing but nice and respectful to you have since we got back to our time, and for Godric's sake, I haven't even asked you out! That's a new record! I'm trying here Ella, why can't you try too?" James asked her, anger clearly rising in his voice as he continued talking.

Ella looked around the room like she was looking for an answer on a test, then finally said in defeat, "well there isn't any reason why we can't try to be civil to one another. I am reasonable, so I will give you a chance to be friends, but James Potter I warn you, you have three strikes then I'm done trying with you."

James was staring at her with wide eyes, he didn't expect her to agree, he knew her well enough to know she's as stubborn as hell. He didn't know what to say, so he hugged her, a giant smile splattered across his face while he did so.

"James, James, I can't breath," Ella struggled to say, as she also struggled for air.

James let go of her and said a brief apology before the two made their way downstairs to join the others.

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Meanwhile In the room next door a bit earlier...

Snogging.

Tons of snogging was going on, between Victoire and Teddy. Couldn't blame them though, haven't had any real time together since before school, so they were just enjoying the time they had together while they had it.

They eventually had to take a break for air, and had a conversation.

"So Vic, how's school been?" Teddy asked Victoire, as he wrapped a loving arm around his girlfriend.

"It's been alright, a bit hectic with Chloe crying and panicking over this stuff, but otherwise it's been good," Victoire told him as she played with the ends of her long blonde hair.

"How's Quidditch?" Teddy then asked excitedly, he always did love Quidditch.

"Good, good, we won against Slytherin back in November. We play Hufflepuff next, hopefully Ravenclaw loses against Slytherin, and we beat Hufflepuff, then we'll be in the lead," Victoire explained to Teddy.

"Nice," Teddy said before he got back to snogging his girlfriend.

This time they were quickly interrupted, not by the need for air, but they loud voice of Ella, "no, no, this is wrong. I'm supposed to hate you!"

Teddy and Victoire separated at the sound of this and gave each other a knowing look. Vic couldn't help but say, "they are so meant to be."

Teddy laughed and said, "from what I've seen from the one year I spent with them and now, I come to the same conclusion."

"Merlin's beard!" Victoire examined in amazement.

"What?" Teddy asked in confusion.

"Do you hear that?" She asked him.

Teddy was confused, he didn't hear anything, so that's what he told her, "Vic, I don't hear anything."

"Exactly, that means Ella just screamed at James and James didn't scream back. They're getting better," Victoire exclaimed excitedly.

"Vic, hon, you're a little too into this," Teddy told her.

"Only because everybody at Hogwarts has bets on when they will get together, or that they won't at all," Victoire told Teddy.

"Oh, and let me guess you placed a bet that they will get together pretty soon?" Teddy asked his girlfriend with a raised eyebrow.

"That obvious?" Victoire asked her boyfriend with a laugh.

"Yes, very," Teddy responded as they heard the two next door leave the room.

"We should go down too, don't want my dad thinking things," Victoire told her boyfriend.

Teddy nodded, grabbed her hand, then the pair made their way downstairs.

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"Finally, everyone's here, we can eat," Ron exclaimed as he ran to the kitchen to get his dinner

Victoire quickly followed him, she did get her appetite and love for food from her uncle. Teddy and Hermione followed them, making sure those two left some for everyone else.

All the children quickly followed them, then the adults after them.

Soon enough everyone was seated around the large table. Everyone was enjoying themselves, having conversations with family they haven't seen nor talked to in awhile, and most importantly, temporarily forgetting the war going on.

James and Ella were sitting next to one another, and talking, civilly, to everyone's surprise. It was a happy surprise though, they all could agree James and Ella fighting all the time was getting quite annoying, so they wouldn't question it and risk it going back to the way it was before.

"Well James, if we're going to be friends, I really do need to know more about you, because, honestly, I don't know anything about you other than you like pranks," Ella told James, before she stuffed a piece of ham in her mouth.

James smirked at her, then said, "sure thing, but not today, some time soon, okay?"

Ella couldn't respond right away due to the fact that she had a bunch of food in her mouth, but when she finished she still couldn't respond because her locket was vibrating, and that meant only one thing.

"I'll be right back," Ella said as she got up from the table and found a room far away from the dining room.

No one knew why she did so, so they just brushed it off. Everyone but Chloe, that is, who quickly rushed after her sister without excusing herself. This caused suspicion to rise for the others, they knew things weren't quite alright after all.

Chloe checked many rooms and found her sister in a small room, farthest from the dining room, on the floor crying.

This broke Chloe's heart, and not just seeing her sister in this state, but also because she knew the news she was about to hear will slap her in the face.

Chloe approached her sister slowly and cautiously, then asked, "Ella, what happened? What did mom and dad tell you?"

This only made Ella sob harder, and don't forget louder, which caught the attention of the Potter-Weasley's. It may be the farthest room from the dinning room, but the walls in this house seemed to be paper thin. Chloe could hear them looking in different rooms in the hallways, trying to see what the hell was going on.

They eventually found them though, it was James, Fred, and Louis who did. They always had a knack for finding things. Chloe put her hand up to stop them from coming over, she didn't want Ella's state to get worse.

James tried to come over regardless, but Chloe's death stare got him to stop, James didn't want to face Chloe's wrath. Chloe knew some nasty hexes and just knew how to make you feel stupid with one look.

When Ella's sobs started to slow down, Chloe tried asking her again, "Ella, what did mom and dad tell you?"

Ella looked like she wanted to cry like she was doing before but managed to say, "M-m-mom a-and d-dad, d-d-didn't say an-anyth-thing," it ended in a loud sob.

Chloe now was worried, then what the hell happened? She thought to herself as she stroked Ella's long red hair and held her as she cried.

More of the family arrived outside the open door due to this. They didn't try to interfere, they just stood in the doorway, with a look of concern on all their faces.

"Ella, I know you're upset, but could you please go into further detail, you're starting to scare me," Chloe said as she continued to stroke her hair.

Ella wiped her tears, sat up and looked her sister in the eye and started to say, "when I opened the locket, it wasn't Mom and Dad talking, Chloe. I'm not really sure who it was, but she sounded very familiar. Anyway, point is, she told me they had mom and dad."

Chloe wasn't expecting this, her face lost all color and her eyes started to water, but she couldn't cry. Not because she didn't want to, but she wanted to stay strong for Ella, she saw the pain in her younger sisters eyes, she knew she needed to stay strong for her. So instead of crying she just wrapped her sister in her arms and let her cry.

"Th-there's m-m-more," Ella croaked out over Chloe's shoulder a few minutes later, causing Chloe's heart to drop even more. What else could be wrong, she thought to herself.

Chloe pulled Ella away from her so she could a continue, Ella then said in a pained voice, but no longer stuttering, "Apparently she already spread to other countries, she has mostly every pureblood in the world either on her side or in her Prisons. She is gaining fast too, she still has two continents left to get, she didn't tell me which. She even has all of Europe, except England, apparently that's her last stop. Oh Chloe, I just can't handle this anymore, I'm just so done with everything!"

Now this did it for a Chloe's heart, it was completely shattered now. She just couldn't stay strong for Ella anymore, she had to let it all out or she would explode. So along with Ella she started to cry along with her sister, they just held each other steady as they cried over how screwed up their lives were.

Don't forget that the whole Potter-Weasley family was standing just outside of the doorway, they heard everything, and they had no idea what to do. They felt terrible about this, but no one felt worse than James.

He felt that this was all his fault, if he didn't break that stupid time turner then their parents would have never came out of hiding, and Vlasta would have never made her way to England.

Which meant their parents would have been safe, well safe by being in hiding.

James couldn't look at Ella cry like this, it broke his heart even more, especially when he felt responsible for Ella's sorrow.

James couldn't take it, so he left the big crowed group, that was his family, and exited the room.

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Four hours earlier...

"Hey, Vlasty," Celeste called as she entered Vlasta's office.

Vlasta rolled her eyes and spit out in an angry, annoyed sort of way, "how many times do I have to tell you to stop calling me that! How would you like it if I called you Celey, huh?"

Celeste only laughed in response as she conjured a roller chair to sit down on, then said as she sat down, "but you will never do that because I'm too valuable to you, and if you called me that I would leave you."

Vlasta just sat down and asked her, "just get to the point, Celeste, what did you come in here for?"

"Oh, yeah, forgot about that. Anywho, we found the whereabouts of the Smith's," Celeste told her, as she rolled around in her rolling chair laughing.

"That is great news, where are they?" Vlasta asked, an evil smile planted upon her face.

"Grimmauld Place, it was quite obvious, if they wanted to hide don't go to the Order's former head quarters," Celeste said, still rolling around.

"Yeah, that's true, how naïve they are. Celeste! Stop acting so childish," Vlasta said as she froze Celeste's chair.

"Hey! What was that for? Don't forget I'm only thirteen, nearly fourteen, I can be childish if I want to. Now unfreeze my chair, or I will go and find El-" Celeste complained, until interrupted.

"Okay, okay. Now listen, your task today is to go to Grimmauld Place and do whatever you have to do, to get me the Smith's," Vlasta told her as she unfroze Celeste's rolling chair.

"I'm only going to get Rachel and Jack," Celeste told Vlasta.

"What? No you're getting all of them!" Vlasta ordered.

Celeste started to exit the room by rolling out on her chair as she said, "don't nag me big V, I have a plan."

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"Yeah, I suggest you go up to our vacation house in Hawaii, wouldn't expect her to look there," said a familiar voice that Celeste recognized as Ella Smith.

"Great, just my luck, they're on their way to Hawaii," Celeste muttered to herself, ignoring what else was said.

Currently Celeste was hiding behind a bush wishing for them to leave, but now she could wait for them there.

So Celeste portkeyed back to America, then apparated over to the Smith's vacation home in Hawaii. She unlocked the door with her wand, and entered the house.

Celeste's mind swarmed with many memories when she looked in the house. Looked the same as Celeste remembered it.

It looked like nothing changed, the same as she remembered it back when she spent every summer here with-.

All thoughts were interrupted when she heard a pop meaning the Smith's just arrived, so she rushed over to the door to catch them when they came in.

"I hope the girls will be alright," said the voice of Rachel Smith.

"Don't worry, honey, the Potter-Weasley's are great people and don't forget war heroes, they know how it is," the reassuring voice of Jack Smith said, as he opened the door.

"Expelliarmus!" Celeste yelled at Jack as she caught his wand.

"Expelliarmus!" Celeste again yelled, put now at Rachel, as she did the same to Rachel.

"J-Jack… is that?" Rachel asked unsurely, with wide eyes.

"Celeste?" Jack asked confusingly, to a girl he thought was dead.

"Yeah, it's me, long time to see," Celeste said, as she looked at the floor, she couldn't get herself to look them in the eyes.

"We thought you died back in the summer before you started school?" Rachel said, confusion clearly in her voice.

"Well, that clearly never happened," Celeste said guiltily, these people were the only ones who could make her feel guilty about her actions.

"If you didn't die? Then what the hell happened," Jack asked, as he stepped closer towards the young girl he once knew.

Celeste didn't know if she should tell them, she knew Vlasta wouldn't do anything if she did, because of who she is, but still, it could ruin everything. But she felt she owed it to them, she had to tell them the truth, "my death was obviously fake. I had to go somewhere, or more specifically to someone. I made some bad choices and didn't have anyone to guide me. I do believe I'm on the right side, but I really don't like going against you," Celeste confessed.

Celeste finally looked up, but what she saw broke her, and nothing has ever broke her before. What she saw was a look of betrayal on both Jack and Rachel's faces. This got her to do what she came here to do, not because she wanted to, but because she couldn't see them looking at her like that anymore.

"Stupefy!" Celeste yelled at Jack, then to Rachel.

Celeste looked down at their unconscious bodies, and she filled with guilt. The only thought that filled her mind was how could she?

But she had a task to complete, so she grabbed their hands, portkeyed to England, then apparated to Vlasta's new headquarters in England.

"Mobilicorpus," she whispered, as she pointed her wand at the pair and levitated them as she made her way down to the dungeons.

She ignored all the screams of the disobeying purebloods as she passed their cells as she made her way to the very last one, the one reserved for the Smith's.

She put them down, locked the cell then whispered, "Rennervate," to each of them, curing their unconsciousness.

Celeste walked away quickly, but she still heard the screams of Rachel and Jack Smith, "how could you! We trusted you! What? Did all those years of good times mean nothing to you?"

Celeste then closed the jail/dungeon doors and made her way to Vlasta's office. Head down, in self disappointment the whole way there.

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"Has anyone seen James lately?" Ella asked everyone.

They all shook their heads, even Fred and Louis! Where could that boy be, Ella thought to herself.

"Come to think of it, I haven't seen him sense... Umm you know what," Ginny told everyone, she was clearly starting to become nervous, I mean how could she not when her son, who is always the center of attention, hasn't been seen for almost four hours.

"I'll go ask Harry," Ginny said as she got up to find her husband.

He left the family for a bit because he phoned the Minister, Kingsley Shacklebot, on a muggle phone talking about the mess Vlasta made, but without mentioning Vlasta, or her plans. He couldn't come into work, so he had no choice but to use it.

But when Ginny entered the Library to find Harry filling out tons of papers, she was glad, because now she knew she wasn't interrupting anything big.

"Harry?" Ginny asked Harry, as Harry looked up to see her, just recognizing her presence.

"Hey Gin, sorry I'll be down in a minute just had to fill out some paper work about you know what," Harry said as he rushed to finish the paper work.

"Oh, I wasn't going to tell you to hurry up Harry, but now that you mention it, it's Christmas! Work can wait," Ginny told him as she walked up next to him.

"Oh, so what do you want to ask me?" Harry asked his wife, still filling out paperwork.

"Have you seen James? No ones seen him since you know what, not even Fred and Louis," Ginny said, Harry could sense the worry in her voice.

"No, I haven't, but did you ask Ella, her and James seem to be getting along now, don't know what the hell happened there, but I'm glad it did, I like not having them at one another's throats, it was getting quite annoying," Harry told his wife, thinking he solved the problem.

"Yeah, yeah, it's great, but she's the one who brought up the fact that no ones seen him," Ginny said, causing Harry to finally stop working on his work.

"Oh," Harry said realizing the seriousness of this problem.

"Yeah. So either he left this house, or is in a room by himself upset about something, and when he's upset he does stupid things, Harry," Ginny said while she started to pace.

"Okay, first just check anywhere he could be in this house," Harry told his wife as they exited the library to search.

And the two of them searched everywhere, they knew James hiding places, Ginny herself did find a lot of them during the times of the order when she was the only one not allowed to do things.

They searched everywhere multiple times, but no sight of James. So a conclusion was made, James left the house.

Ginny was angry with James, he knew he wasn't supposed to leave the house! Good thing Vlasta probably left England after her outburst, Ginny thought to herself. Oh, but what little she knew.

Harry and Ginny then went down to tell the rest of family, so they could go out and look.

"So did you find him?" Ella asked, expecting the answer to be yes.

"Um. About that, no we didn't," Ginny said nervously.

This caused everyone who was able to hear Ginny to pause what they were doing and look at her, this meant one thing.

"Are you sure? You checked everywhere, right? Even the secret places?" Louis asked, worried about his friend.

"Yeah, and Ginny should know," Harry told his family and friends, while pushing his hair back nervously.

Ella was staring with wide eyes, due to thinking the worse and knowing a little bit of information no one else knew. Her actions didn't go unnoticed though.

"Ella? What's wrong?" Ginny asked the young girl.

Ella just stared at her in confusion. Didn't they know, Ella thought to herself. Then the realization dawned upon her.

"I didn't tell you, did I?" Ella said nervously.

"Tell us what?" Harry asked the young girl.

"So I did tell you that she really wants the Potter's, but what I didn't tell you is that Vlasta's new headquarters are in England. London, England," Ella said as she looked at the floor.

Ginny felt like she could faint, Harry could tell that she was, so he held his wife steady, even though he felt the same.

"We need to go get him, Vlasta could have him for all I know!" Ginny said as she started to hyperventilate.

"Gin, calm down, you need to sit down, and have some hot cocoa," Harry said as he sat his wife down on an empty chair.

"No! I can't, my baby boy is in danger! I can't and won't until he back here safe and sound," Ginny said as she started to cry into her husband.

"I'm going to go look for him," Ella said as she got up to leave.

"No you don't," Fred and Louis said in unison as they pulled her back to her seat.

"Guys, you don't understand, I need to," Ella told them.

"Why, do you love him now?" Fred said while laughing.

"No, but I did agree to be his friend, and I think I know why he left," Ella told him.

Harry noticed something going on between the three so he interfered, "woah, woah, woah, what's going on here?"

"Ella wants to go look for James," Louis blurted out.

"Wow, tattle much," Ella said to him, while he just stuck his tongue out in response.

"No, from what I've heard she really wants you as much as she wants James, no way will you be going out there," Harry told her.

"But I have to, I think I know why he left, and where he is," Ella argued.

"If you know where he is can you tell someone not on her kill list, so they can go get him," Harry told her.

"No, no, he'll just leave again if someone gets him," Ella told him.

"What do you mean?" Harry asked in confusion.

"Well I think he left because he feels my parents getting captured is all his fault, because, well, he left directly after finding out," Ella told him, while Fred and Louis seemed to start to understand, but Harry was still confused.

"Why would it be his fault?" Harry asked in confusion.

"Well, my parents coming out here was a huge risk, and they only came out here because of the time turner mishap, and who broke the time turner? James, and he won't feel better until I tell him it's not his fault," Ella told him, Harry finally understood, but not one thing.

"Well, couldn't we just bring James back then make him face you as soon as he gets here," Harry asked.

Ella laughed and said, "clearly you're not thinking about what your son does. I may hardly know him, but I know two things. He likes to go to look at some sort of body of water when he's upset, and that he will avoid his problems as much as he can. So if I popped in unexpectedly, he can't avoid me," Ella told him.

Harry laughed and said, "yeah, that sounds like my James. Okay, go, but be careful, never let your guard down."

Ella laughed and before she exited the house she said, "don't worry, I've lived like that my whole life."

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Ella just portkeyed to Shell Cottage and she finally found him, sitting on a rock on top of the hill. She checked multiple places before this, one being the burrow and Potter Manor. And was she happy to see him here, because Potter Manor was totally infested with Vlasta's followers, and she was beginning to think they took him, but gratefully they didn't.

She approached him slowly and quietly, not wanting to give him any excuse to leave, or run away, "James," she said.

James turned to look at her and his face lost all color, then said, "How'd you find me?"

Ella sighed while she sat down next to him and said, "I may not know much about you James, but I know you like to look at some sort of body of water when you're upset."

"How'd you know I was upset?" James asked, as he threw a rock in the water.

"James you left right after I cried like a baby and you would never leave unless you felt guilty, what else could you feel guilty about?" Ella told him as she too, started to throw rocks in the water.

"For someone who doesn't know much about me you sure know a lot," James laughed.

"James, I just want you to know, my parents being captured wasn't your fault, my parents put themselves in this situation. Also, it was coming at one point, we all knew they couldn't hide forever," Ella told him as she leaned back on the rock.

"I still feel guilty," James moaned as he laid down next to Ella on the large rock.

"Well don't," Ella told him as she took his hand and turned her head to look him in the eyes.

Ella knew what would happen if she stayed like this any longer, and she just wasn't ready for that yet, if ever. So she said, "well everyone is extremely worried about you, and we're both on Vlasta's kill list, and guess what she and her most faithful followers are here in England. Their new headquarters are in England, so if we don't wish to die, I suggest we head back," Ella told him as he got up.

James was disappointed, he thought tonight was the night for a bit, but he should of known better. Then he thought why is he thinking about this when someone was out to kill him, and likely could because of where they were.. He then nodded in response.

"Okay, we have to portkey back, there's no other way, wait how'd you get here?" Ella asked James.

"I just flooed to the house," he said.

"Wait, did you leave the doors unlocked?" Ella asked him.

"Yeah, why?" He then asked her.

"Flooing back will be safer, we won't have to pass the outside," Ella told him as she started to drag him to Shell Cottage.

But he stopped her, "Ella, how about we portkey so we can make sure nobody was snooping outside the house."

Ella looked shocked, that was actually an intelligent thing to do, "wow that's actually a good idea," she told him as she reached for her Grimmauld Place portkey.

"You sound shocked," James said in mock hurt.

"That's because I am, now come on, let's go," Ella said as they both touched the portkey and arrived upon Grimmauld Place.

"I don't see anyone, do you?" James asked her as they both looked around.

"No, but I'm going to look for clues that will tell me if anyone has been here that shouldn't have been," Ella told him as she started to look around, as did James.

When James was looking behind a bush he saw something that he couldn't believe, "Hey, Ella, come here," James said.

"What?" Ella asked in a loud whisper.

James then handed her a package, and on top of it read "Dear Ella," Ella was very curious, so she did what anybody would do, open it.

There was a letter attached that said...

Dear Ella,

Wow, you're much smarter and observant than before if you actually found this, you'll know who I am once you see what is attached.

From,

You'll find out soon enough

Then she saw what was attached, a picture and a bracelet, but not just any photo and bracelet, these were important parts of Ella's past. When Ella flipped over the picture she saw written in blood

Yeah, that's right, I'm not dead

Now this freaked the shit out of James, he had no clue what the hell was happening, Ella looked like she could burst into tears again, dang life's been hard on her, he thought to himself. Next thing he knew she's rushing in the house.

"Is everyone okay? Is everyone here?" Ella yelled as she rushed in the house, package still in her hand.

"Yeah, but did you find James," Ginny asked as she rushed over to the girl.

"Yeah, here he, wait, where did he go, JAMES!" Ella yelled.

"I'm coming, I'm coming," James said as he arrived in the doorway, his mother immediately pouncing on him.

"What took you so long?" Ella asked.

"I only came in a few seconds after you, and you kind of caught be off guard, one second you look like you're going to cry, next you're rushing into the house screaming," James explained.

"Yeah, yeah, anyway where the hell is Chloe? CHLOE," Ella yelled as she looked for her sister, but getting the attention of everyone while doing so.

"Ella, what's wrong?" Chloe asked while rushing over to her sister.

"Well, James decided we should take the longer way back, so we could look around and see if anyone was here yet, and I'm so happy he did, because look what James found in the bush," Ella said as she handed Chloe the package, as everyone else stared in horror.

Chloe's facial expressions changed a lot while reading and examining everything, then she picked up a light Ella must have passed.

"Is that what I think it is?" Ella asked, while shaking.

"If you think it's an invisible ink light, like the one only one person we knew had, then, yes, it is," Chloe said as she stared at the picture.

"Do you think..." Ella trailed off.

"Yep, do the honors?" Chloe asked as she handed Ella the light.

Ella took it and shined it on the picture, what she saw shocked her, she had no doubt in her mind that this was from who she thought it was. It read...

Wow! You have to remember me now! Who else has all of this? Guess what? I took your parents and brought them to Vlasta! What great news.

Ella wanted to cry, but she cried so much already today, she didn't want everyone to think of her as a cry baby.

"Celeste," Ella said, only letting a few stray tears escape.

Chloe nodded and hugged her sister.

"Is everything alright in here?" Arthur Weasley asked, as he approached the two girls.

"No," they both said.

"What happened now?" Arthur asked the two girls, he really felt for them.

"Celeste happened," Ella spit out in anger.

Then James walked over, curiosity killing him, and asked, "Who's Celeste?"

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A/N: Cliffhanger! Sorry, but I felt that was a good time to leave it. Tell me in the comments what you think of this chapter and I have some questions for you. What do you think of Celeste and who do you think she is? What do you think about James and Ella? How about that short Vic/Teddy moment I put in for those of you who love them?

PLEASE READ EVERYONE!

EVEN YOU DON'T USALLY REVIEW THINGS I HOPE YOU PARTICIPATE, YOUR VOTE COULD CHANGE THE STORY! SO READ BELOW

Okay so I was thinking I could do a little contest, basically I want my readers opinion on who Vlasta's mother is. I do have some rules on who you can vote for, it can be anyone who meets the following requirements.

• Is HP Canon, I'm not accepting OC, not even OC from my story

• Can't be anyone in the Potter Weasley Clan, I'm sorry if that's what you wanted, but I really don't want to go that direction.

And that's it, if you think the character in your mind fits then tell me! If you're not sure put it in anyway! I'll tell you next week if it doesn't or does, or maybe just PM you sooner so you can change it before the semi finals. Next week the top two or three will compete for the spot, then the week after that I will tally up and announce the winner! Please keep in mind that if you want the character you chose to win, make sure it's a character someone else may vote for.

I HOPE YOU PARTICIPATE! I WANT MY AMAZING READERS TO HAVE A SAY IN SOMETHING :)

Now I would like to thank my reviewers from the last week...

Kayla DeLana, ChristiangirlKCU, and Toraach

Toraach: ummm... What do you mean?

ChristiangirlKCU: OMG, that's so embarrassing! I don't know how I passed that over, must have been one of my rushed chapters, but thank you so much for pointing that out! I went back and fixed it as soon as I read your review almost a week ago! I'm also glad you like the story too, I hope this chapter didn't disappoint :)

Kayla DeLana: Glad you thought so :) I'm glad you enjoyed them meeting the founders, I was kind of unsure about that, but your comment made me feel better about it :) I'm also glad you thought James and Ella are adorable, since you think so, what did you think of them in this chapter?

NEXT CHAPTER: Since I haven't started writing it yet I'm not exactly sure of what will happen but I do know one thing. We are finding out Celeste's full identity and her relationship with the Smith's.

NEXT UPDATE: I'll aim for Friday like I've been doing, but the quarter ends this week so I may have more work, which may lead to pushing the next chapter back to Saturday or Sunday, sorry :( But hey, maybe it will happen Friday, we'll see :/

So finally please answer my questions when you review and please tell me who you want Vlasta's mother to be, I would really like your input on it. Till next week

~~~SoccerDiva (aka Lanie)~~~~