Ginny,

I want you to know I didn't expect to leave for so long without being able to write you. I want you to know that, while I love you, it will be best for the both of us if our relationship creases. I won't be returning home, I have another place now and I don't expect that you will find me.

Tell Ron and Hermione I love them, and I hope them the best with the baby. I know they will be great parents…

But I wanted to write you, because you want so much and you have such big hopes for us...I didn't want those things, and you would have never been happy staying with me. Move into a comfortable house, have someone who will give you all the things I couldn't, and I hope someday, if our paths cross again you can forgive me for leaving like I have.

Love,

Harry

P.S. You are more than welcome to stay at Grimmuald Place as long as you want to.

Without folding the letter, Harry handed it over to Josh to let the younger boy read before it was sent off. Biting the corner of his mouth, Josh didn't even look at the letter when it was handed to him, he kept his eyes on Harry. "You do understand where I'm at least coming from right? Where I can't let you hurt them."

Narrowing his eyes, Harry wasn't really sure how to answer the question, "I don't think it matters if I understand or not."

Simple words, set the boy off again. "You're right. It doesn't." Josh snapped, looking to the paper, reading it over. Shaking his head, Josh got up from the bed over to his desk, folding and putting inside an envelope, he took out the wax sealing it without a crest. "I really hope I don't regret this."

Harry could see Josh rethinking the letter, so he jumped in to try to persuade him. "I do appreciate it. You helping me, I'll keep my promise to you like I said before."

"Ginny, is your girlfriend. You mean everything you said to her?" Josh asked, and with the change of topic, Harry couldn't tell if it was curiosity or more than so. "I couldn't picture my life without Aeron in it anymore. It just wouldn't make much sense."

Snorting with a smile, "You're only what? 14? 15? You don't really know what else is out there yet is why."

"Merlin, you wizards are stupid." Josh rolled his eyes, flipping the letter in his fingers, staring at Harry, "You just don't get it...It's fate. There's nothing we can do about it. We're meant to be together. Just like you fated to kill the dark lord. It's fate, there was nothing you can do about yours."

Oh Merlin, this kid actually believes he's meant for this boy. Harry didn't really know what to say to Josh, as it was obvious that he believed what he was saying. How does someone explain this to a teenager? "Fate is a bit of a stretch."

Staring at each other, Josh pinched the bridge of his nose, "You don't believe in fate?"

"No, I don't believe in being fated to someone at 15." Don't talk to me about fate.

Shaking his head, Josh looked to the open window, looking down to all the people outside, the younger boy got an idea. "Come here, look." Nodding to the outside, he opened the window. "Everyone out there has some kind of creature blood in them. They are veelas. They are werewolves. There are giants. They are elves. And everyone of them believes in the same thing I do. Most of them are unmated, but they are all waiting on their mate to come. Aeron choose me as his mate. I didn't get that option. You...if you turn, you will get the choice. It's the gift and curse of being a vampire."

"I don't see this as a gift." Harry mumbled to himself, looking at all the moving people outside. There must have been a couple hundred moving around, different kinds. Tents covered the grounds, "Why don't they live in here like you?"

"Do you think we could fit everyone here in?" Josh came back with easily.

"You don't seem to care to try. I stayed in a house that was made for only a family of maybe 5 and it housed almost an army."

Looking to Harry, away from the window, "The Alpha does what he can. Every week he adds more rooms. He tries to house as many as he can, but when he can't house them, he feeds them. Everyone hunts, everyone helps. There's only so much that can be done. But it won't be forever..You said you don't see being a vampire as a gift." As he spoke he moved around the room, not making eye contact with the Harry until his last statement.

"I'd ask how it would be, but something tells me I really don't care about your answer." Harry didn't want to talk anymore, he wanted his wand and he wanted to leave. If there was a way to speed up the symptoms, he would do it..No, he wouldn't. Things were difficult, but he's been in hard situations before. He could get out of this one, it'd be just a little more tricky with the vow between him and The Alpha.

"Other than Aeron, have you ever met one?" Josh ignored the attitude that Harry had this time, which wasn't something Harry thought the younger boy to be capable of. The younger boy whistled out the window, and waited until an owl appeared, with slight hesitation, Josh handed the owl the letter. The owl flew off, and Harry breathed with relief that at least Ginny would know instead of wonder. "Well? Have you?"

"No."

"No. No, you haven't. So therefore, one vampire makes a mistake and there are all awful. I should base all wizards off Voldermort then right? Every wizard is crazy, evil, murderous, and vindictive. Right?" Josh questioned as he has worked through a thousand times before, he's the one who taught Aeron how there was no dark or light side. But Aeron was a blood traitor of a dark side, he was easy to show. This was the idol boy of the order, of course he would need time.

"You're a wizard. That's a pretty poor comparison."

"True, I am. And you're about to be a vampire. Are you everything you think Aeron is?"

Silence. Harry licked his lips, but shook his head. "I think we're done here right? I wrote you the letter, you get me my wand. Am I good to go now?"

Snorting, Josh shrugged, "Because you have so many more important things to do. If you wait a few hours, Aeron will be awake. He'll get you some clothes, I think mine will be too small. His will be too big, because you're really short, but I think he knows more about your reason for being here. I wouldn't make him come look for you if I were you."

Nodding to the warning, Harry left Josh's room in search for the Alpha so he could get an update on what he was going to do and if he could get a shower. He hadn't had a shower in almost a week, he left like shit, and he would put money on the fact he smelled like shit too. The only place he really knew was the kitchens and the dining room, and that was the last place he saw Casey, the Alpha's mate.

HPHPHPHPHPHPHP

Casey was sitting with Tempest at the dining room table, when Harry showed up. The older man watched as Harry hesitated to come to the table, he tapped the chair next to him. "Want to join us?"

"No. I wanted to ask if you could point in the direct to your Alpha."

Laughing, "My Alpha huh?" Casey looked to Tempest, trying to hush her from jumping from her seat to talk to Harry. Finally, he told his daughter to go clean up and go along outside. He looked at Harry, "Did you eat yet? You took off during dinner last you left with Josh during breakfast."

Harry's patience was wearing thin, this entire place was full of insane weird people. He was hungry, but eating with these people made him feel insane. "Why don't you sit down and eat, and I'll personally take you up to the Alpha?"

"I'd rather not." Harry said simply.

Letting out a sigh, Casey just stared at Harry for a moment, "Okay, gimme a second."

It wasn't long before Casey and Harry were heading down a few sets of hallways, walking to the Alpha's office. Harry ignored Casey's attempts to conversation, uninterested in entertaining whatever ideas that were created of why Harry was still here or still a wizard. Casey opened the door to the office, knocking as he opened it, "Alex, you got a responsibility looking for you."

Looking up from his desk, The Alpha moved his eyes from Harry to Casey, he looked over Harry taking in the fact the boy was still in the same clothes. "Okay, why don't you go with Casey to a spare room? Shower, sleep, become human, and I'll come find you afterwards. Aeron should be awake by then too, so we can all talk about how things are going to be."

"He hasn't eaten either, since you pissed him off last night." Casey cut in, with an irritated look to Alex, unamused with his mate's temper.

Looking fully scolded, Alex looked down to his papers again, then back to Casey. "Bring something to his rooms then. I didn't, you know, think about it-"

"No you didn't. You jumped and let everyone else handle it while you played business man. He's here with whatever deal you made, no food, same clothes, and no room. This is not the man I got with."

"Case-"

"Alex."

Harry looked at the two as there was a staring contest between them, then he looked at anything else. The Gryffindor wasn't sure if it was appropriate that he was amused with the fact that this was the same man who threaten the vampire who bit him and was intimidated by his mate who concerned over normal things.

"I'm sorry, I didn't think about it. I guess I-"

"You figured someone else would take of him. Get up, you show him his room and you can figure out his clothes. Because while I don't know the whole story...I know you are the main character."

Sighing, Alex put down his things and stood up. "Yeah, I got it. Thanks Case." He watched his mate leave, shutting the door behind him. With a loud sigh, Alex looked at Harry, "Food, shower, sleep. We can talk when you wake up with Aeron."

Harry didn't argue. Food and sleep in a real bed sounded good to him.