Cole felt his jaw as he came into his apartment. The apartment that reminded him of Phoebe. He cherished the moments that Phoebe had spent with him while she had lived here. He remembered how far gone he was at that time. He hadn't cared about what would happen to Phoebe while she was pregnant with his child. He slowly walked over, thinking of that girl's face he had just met.
"Dakota, Dakota, where have I heard that name before?" He looked down at his bandaged hand, realizing he had more than enough to worry about. It still hadn't healed. He waved his other hand, a pile of files appearing at the table. He picked up the first one, with the words Baker, Dakota written on it. He flipped through the first few pages, and smiled. "That's where I know her from." He flamed down, looking at the underworld again. Cole looked at the ugly creature before him. "Mordent, I believe you can help me." Mordent looked up, his red eyes glistening.
"What are you doing here?" It came out as a hiss. Mordent's green skin glistened as he walked over. "I thought you had made your claim above ground.
"I have, but I know where something is that you want." Cole took the picture that was in Dakota's file and handed it to Mordent. "I know where she is, and will lead you to her if you can do me a favor."
"Well, I can find her myself."
"Not with the protection she has behind her, but I can help you with it. But only if you get rid of one person while you are kidnapping her. He will be an easy target; he isn't used to our magic." Mordent looked at Cole, and Cole just stared strait back.
"Who is this person?"
"Just a person I want to be gone, if I'm gonna be with Phoebe, this person has to be out of the picture."
"And you will lead me to her?"
"Yes, I will help you in any way." Mordent looked Cole up and down.
"It's a deal. Explain to me what you want."
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Phoebe smiled as Sirius bent his head down. He did that every time the waiter came. "You know, I doubt anyone in San Francisco knows who you are."
"Can't be too careful, can you?" Phoebe smiled. Sirius was very kind. He was always sweet, in the past three days she had met him, and he was different than any man she had ever met. Now they were at the lunch she had asked him to, and it was really comfortable. "So, have you written your column that's due?"
"Yes, I had Paige take it for me." She smiled and took a bite of her meal. "So, what do you do for fun?" He laughed.
"I'm a person on the run, I fly a hippogriff for fun and to get away."
"Oh," She laughed a little, "sorry."
"It's alright, in fact, I like us talking." He looked up and his eyes got very round. "You are going to have to excuse me." Suddenly he was shrinking, and Phoebe looked around. Something hit her leg under the table and she looked down to see a dog.
"Sirius?" The dog did a nod, or what looked like a nod. She quickly dropped the table cloth and looked up to see a man.
"Phoebe Halliwell?" The man held a copy of the Bay Mirror, with her picture next to her column. Phoebe looked at him, his long silver hair and his pale blue eyes looking at her.
"Can I help you?" She had more than one uncomfortable experiences with her job, so she was ready to handle it, Sirius as a dog under the table or not.
"My name is Lucius Malfoy, and I have been looking for you and your sister for two days."
"Why?" She smiled, trying to be as polite as possible.
"Well, to discuss how your sister is Harry Potter's mother, and to ask you what you plan to do with him."
"Oh, well, is that any of your business?"
"Well, my son goes to school with Harry, and I wanted to know. Because he does go to school overseas."
"Yes, and my sister has an owl for that." Phoebe said, trying to get him to leave.
"Long trip for an owl."
"Yes, we can fix that too. But you still haven't really explained why you're so interest in Harry."
"Well, he is the famous Harry Potter. I'm surprised reporters aren't bursting your door down."
"Well, we'll worry about when the time comes. I'm sure you have plenty to do Mr. Malfoy…"
"Lucius."
"Lucius, but I have things to do, too. So if you wouldn't mind,"
"You know, a pretty woman such as yourself, where is your lunch date?" She looked over at the other plate of food.
"My sister had to leave, it was an emergency."
"I'm sure it was." And with that, he turned and walked out of the building. When he was gone for a full twenty seconds, Sirius came out as a person.
"How did you do that?"
"I'm and animagus, it means I can turn into an animal, mine happens to be a dog."
"That is amazing."
"Thank you. Well, I see you've met Lucius Malfoy, he's a bad egg. Don't trust anything he says."
"Don't worry, I wasn't going to."
"Good, so, how do you think Leo is doing at Quidditch so far?"
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"Don't worry, Dad, you'll get it sooner or later." Harry said, trying as best he could not to laugh. Leo was now trying to throw the Quaffle, but wasn't doing very well on a borrowed CleanSweep borrowed from the Weasley's. Harry flew easily on his Firebolt, easing every now and then to make sure Leo wasn't going to get hurt. Leo finally attempted to throw it, but it fell short of the Hogwarts hoops. Not only had Leo gotten Ron's parents to like him as Harry's dad, but he had also introduced himself to Dumbledore and gotten Dumbledore to agree to let them practice some Quidditch in the field. So far all Leo had gotten out of it was two bruises and a very bruised pride.
"What made me think I can do this?" Harry and Ron laughed.
"I don't know, but if it makes you feel better I will work on orbing when we get home so we can both look bad?"
"That makes me feel better." Harry laughed. He saw Dakota flying back from Hagrid's hut on the back of Buckbeak. She had jumped at the chance to ride him to see Hagrid, and Hagrid was also very excited to see him, Harry was positive of that fact. He quickly zoomed down to meet her, wanting to see if Hagrid had asked for him. He got off the broom, and Dakota raised her hands to do a large wave.
The problem with this, though, was the fact that Buckbeak decided to do a flip. Buckbeak was excited with the fact that he was outside, so he was taking full advantage of it. Dakota had lasted the other flips, but now she didn't have anything to hold, and she started falling. Harry raised his hands, and saw out of the corner of his eyes that Buckbeak and Leo had frozen. Ron was trying to fly to Dakota, who was still falling. However, he couldn't, so Harry remembered Paige's power, and her saying that any white-lighter witch might be able to do it, even Piper's new baby. He raised his arms, and thought hard. Suddenly, he felt heaviness and fell over. He opened his eyes, and looked at Dakota, lying on top of him.
"Sorry," She said, taking a deep breath to calm herself. "I really am starting to fall for you." Harry laughed at the pun. "Are you okay?"
"Well, I would be better, if I could stand up." Dakota realized where she was, and quickly stood up, blushing. Ron landed and hopped off his broom and Harry started dusting himself off.
"Harry, you froze everyone but us. Why does that always happen?"
Dakota explained, "You can't freeze good witches…er…wizards."
"Oh, that's rubbish, what good is it if I can't freeze wizards or witches?"
"Well, you can freeze bad ones I think." Harry nodded, then raised his hands and concentrated, and the scene unfroze. Leo sped down, and barely pulled the broom up to make a landing at all. He dismounted and Buckbeak landed as well.
"Is everything alright?" Dakota nodded, and he smiled.
"Both hands on the hippogriff next time, okay?"
"Yeah, I'll keep both hands on the ride sir." Leo laughed.
"Okay, why don't we get back to the game?" Harry nodded and Leo got back on the broom. Ron also got on his broom and sped away. Dakota smiled as Harry stood next to her.
"Are you sure you're okay? You can have my broom if you want to play." She shook her head, and smiled.
"I'll stick with Buckbeak, I'll just be more careful." She stood on her tiptoes and gave him a kiss on the cheek. "Thank you for, you know, making sure I didn't die." She walked over to Buckbeak and flew off on him. Harry just sat and felt where she had kissed him. He slowly smiled, then hopped on his own broom and flew off as well.
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Piper felt nauseated. She had felt like that all day. It had started with the baby making her burp orbs, and she wasn't overly thrilled. Now she was sick and had a band coming soon. She ate another saltine, and took a deep breath, trying to make sure she didn't burp. Her new bouncer was stacking all the liquor, and she took another deep breath.
"Um, I'm gonna make a phone call, I'll be gone for two minutes." He nodded, then turned back to his work. She walked outside and flipped open her cell phone, dialing the manor.
"Hello."
"Hey Paige, can I please talk to Harry?"
"Sorry babe, but he is off killing Leo."
"WHAT?"
"Cool it, I meant that Harry took Leo to a Quidditch field, Leo is learning the game."
"Oh god, is he stupid?"
"Harry?"
"No, Leo."
"No, he isn't stupid, he can't die."
"Oh, right, I forgot my life isn't normal." Paige laughed in the background.
"So there is no Harry."
"Fine, I just wanted to see if he wanted to work on freezing when I came home."
"Honey, you're forgetting we have Mordent to vanquish."
Piper hit the top of her head. "Right, okay, then I guess that's out, do you have the vanquishing potion yet?"
"I'm makin it right now. And Phoebe promised to work on a summoning spell when she got home."
"Well where the hell is she?"
"She's out to lunch with Sirius."
"Oh…ew. Well this is great."
"What's great?" Paige sounded confused.
"The fact that we have two teenage boys in the house, plus a girl who needs a very had demon vanquished, and a baby on the way who heals her mommy, and now I have my sister getting down with my half-brother's best friend."
"And these are the days…of our lives."
"This is not funny." Piper hissed, pointing her finger and shaking it as she said these words. The fence blocking the alley suddenly exploded. "Oh crap, I just blew something up. I gotta go." She clicked the end sign on the phone and looked at the gaping hole. "Woops, guess that is gonna be a problem." She turned and walked inside.
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Sirius opened the door for Phoebe and pushed her through. He shut the door.
"So, we should do that again."
"Yeah, I had a lot of fun." She smiled, turning to look at him. "LOOK OUT!" She saw a horrible creature come into the room and grab Sirius from behind the arm. Paige ran into the room
"Mordent!" She screamed, raising a vial at him. It blasted in midair, but Phoebe knew Mordent couldn't do that. Mordent shimmered out, with Sirius in toe.
"What just happened?" Phoebe yelled.
"I think we just lost Harry's favorite person." Phoebe squeezed her eyes shut. "And we lost your favorite person, too." Paige added carefully. Phoebe looked at Paige for a moment, and then looked away.
"Yeah, we did…"
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"How many times do we have to say it? You have no jurisdiction on American soil." The Federal Bureaucracy of Magic (FBM) said to the Ministry of Magic's Natasha Park as she sat across the desk with crossed arms.
"Well, you can't tell me that. Harry Potter is an extremely important case."
"We understand that, and yes, he will still be going to Hogwarts because of his special case, but you cannot expect us to let you go into that house. We will send someone in if needed, but they aren't. We know of the Charmed One's, what magic doesn't, and we think that Piper Halliwell and Leo Wyatt are perfectly capable parents. You are no longer needed. Please leave."
Natasha was ready to stomp her foot in anger, but there was really nothing she could do. She stood up, and turned to leave. "Mark my words, they will give him some sort of trouble."
"Oh, we count on that. Don't worry, everything will be under control. If the second degree magic has problems, we will intervene, but until then, I see no problem in Harry staying with his real family." She left, slamming the door.
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Preview:
"Got it…oh no."
"What?"
"You guys are gonna wanna see this."…
"I found you." A piercing scream filled the air…
They both slowly leaned forward and their lips met…
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Okay, my new chapter. Did you like it? I was hoping you would, because I have been kinda broing with the story for a while, but I hope this fixes that. Don't worry about the end of this story, if it ever comes, because I do plan on having a number two story, with a big cliff hanger at the end of book one. I am telling you this now because…well…I don't really have a good reason, but I am. Probably because at this moment, I am watching Scooby-Doo the Movie and I am bored, but maybe not. I don't know, but please review on if you like it or not, I love opening my email and seeing I have a ton of reviews. But anyways, I hope you like it. And please tell me what you would like to see happen because I do try to add things, and people waiting for lighting, wait a little longer…you know what I mean.