A/N: Yet another wonderful chapter for all you wonderful people! Things are going to be a bit lighter in this chapter and probably from now on. There will still be some drama (come on there's a girl and a guy sharing a body! How can you NOT put some drama in THAT), just not as much.
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Having Harry's Destiny- Fun and Games
It came out the next day in the newspapers:
American teen tourist, Megan Thompson, committed suicide while traveling with family in London. She reportedly overdosed on pain medication after retiring to her room one night complaining of a headache. This comes to a shock to friends and family who say she never showed any signs of depression. Her body will be cremated and returned to the United States to be buried.
Helena read the short article without showing any emotion. When she was done she put the newspaper down and left the room. All that day they could hear her cries coming from the room upstairs. When dinnertime rolled around she appeared with red eyes and a drawn face and joined them at the table. She said very little during the meal and ate even less. It was horrible to see her like this, to see anyone going through pain like this.
"Let's play a game!" Helena exclaimed as Mrs. Weasley began clearing off the table.
"What?" Ginny asked surprised by the sudden out burst.
"Well I've spent the last month or so crying and being all depressed," Helena said. "Now I'm ready for some fun."
"Okay…"Ginny said looking around the table for ideas.
"What about wizard chess?" Ron asked
"Hey, you're forgetting I've played with you before mate," Helena said with a smile. "And I said I wanted to have fun not get my butt kicked a thousand times in a row without hope of victory." Everyone laughed at this remembering all the times Ron had beaten Harry at chess throughout the years. It was good to look at Helena and remember the happy times they'd had with Harry. It was heeling for all of them.
"Something wacky like…Twister or MadGab." Helena said.
"Twister? As in swirling fast wind, Twister?" Ron asked with wide eyes.
"NOOOO! The game Twister." Hermione explained. "It's a muggle thing." Ron let out a sigh of relief.
"Well I don't think there are any games in this house," Ginny said. "I haven't seen any at least."
"OH! I have a deck of cards in my bag!" Helena exclaimed. "We could play crae(sp?)"
"Woohoo!" George shouted as Helena went to get the cards. "Me and Fred are partners!" They twins gave each other a high-five and began doing warm up exercises.
"Do you want to do it in here at the table or in the living room on the floor?" Helena asked when she came back down.
"Living room." The others said. Since Fred and George were already partners, Hermione and Helena decided to be partners and Ron and Ginny were partners.
"That's it!" Ron exclaimed after Fred and George won the fifth round in a row. "New partners!"
"Yeah!" Helena agreed. "You guys have the whole physic twin connection and that's not fair."
"We are good," Fred said puffing out his chest.
"But we'll give the rest of you a chance." George said. Helena paired up with Fred, Ginny with George, and Hermione with Ron. For the first time in a while the house was filled laughter, not strained laughter, or laughter that was covering pain but the pure laughter of friendship.
"Uhhhh! Helena!" Ginny exclaimed. "I can't believe you agreed to use picking your nose as a sign for crae!"
"Isn't she wonderful?" Fred asked. "I swear if Harry weren't in there, I'd kiss you right here and now!" Ron shot him a look, but Helena didn't seem to mind, in fact she seemed to think it was hilarious.
"If Harry weren't in here I'd kiss ya back!" she said jokingly.
"You're like the triplet we never had," George said giving her a sappy look, making everybody laugh.
"You guys are like the brothers I SHOULD have had." Helena said. "You would have fit into my family perfectly."
"How so?" Ron asked.
"Well, I guess I should start with my mom and grandpa," Helena settled in to tell a story. "Ever since my mom was little her and my grandpa were always pulling practical jokes on one another. She would pull one on him and he would pull one on her to get back and she would pull one on him to get back and on and on. When my sisters and me were little, my mom was always helping us come up with ideas of pranks to pull on gramps. Of course it didn't take us long to start coming up with our own, and we even pulled some on mom! They loved it of course and were always trying to get us back.. Gran says that us picking on him is better then any medicine he could ever take." She smiled at the happy memories replaying in her mind. "So you see I grew up on practical jokes and since you two are the wizarding world's greatest jokesters you would have fit in perfectly."
"Wow, your family sounds great," Fred said dreamily.
"To bad our mum isn't more like yours," George said. "Think of all the great things we could have done over the years."
"Do you miss her?" Ginny asked quietly. Helena nodded, tears in her eyes.
"She was my best friend. She understood me better then I did most of the time." She stared off into space thinking of the family she would probably never see again. A lone tear ran down her cheek. She shook her head. "Ok, no more sad stuff. This is supposed to be a fun night!"
"Back to the topic of jokes!" George said thrusting his fist into the air.
"Yes!" Fred said mimicking his brother's pose. "Now that you're here Helena…"
"…we have somebody to pick up where we left off at Hogwarts!" George finished his sentence.
"Especially since our younger siblings have been doing a terrible job of living up to our name." They gave Ron and Ginny disapproving looks.
"Well I'll try but all the tricks I know aren't magical." Helena said
"Then we'll just have to teach you everything we know, won't we brother?"
"Quite right."
"But who to prank first?" Helena sat thinking. "MALFOY!"
"Are you kidding?" Ron asked. "As great as that would be there's no way you could do anything to him without getting caught by him or his posse."
"You're forget I have your brother's magic tricks and my muggle pranks to pull from and combine." Helena said. "Besides…there's something about me that you guys seem to have forgotten."
"What?" Hermione asked.
"I have a soul that's been split in two." She said. "And one half of it is NOT INSIDE my body." They looked at her blankly. "I hear everything it hears, see everything it sees and it can go anywhere I want it too." Their eyes grew big as they realized what she was saying.
"Anywhere?" Ron asked dumbstruck.
"So far, yes." She answered
"Can you like see what everybody else in the house is doing?" Ginny asked
"Sure." Helena took a deep breath and closed her eyes. After a few seconds she spoke. "Everyone is in the dinning room discussing me it seems. They're trying to decide what to do about my room; where it should be and such. They think it should be next to whichever house I get sorted into. Most of them are pretty sure I'll be put in Gryffindor again. Dumbledore says he'll go back early and have everything fixed up before school starts." She opened her eyes. "Well?"
"That's amazing!" Hermione exclaimed and everyone agreed.
"Can you move things around?" George asked. "I know some ghost can."
"Well, I've never really tried to before." Helena said.
"Try moving a card to start with." Ron said. Helena closed her eyes and concentrated.
"Eeep!" Ginny squealed and bolted away from the place she was setting.
"Sorry," Helena muttered. "Touched you instead of the cards." Ginny shivered then settled back down on the floor. They all watched the cards closely and at first nothing happened. Then there was a slight distortion around one of the cards and it began to float. Helena opened her eyes.
"I did it!" She squealed. She turned and looked around the room. "That, I'll pick that up next." She pointed to a book. This time she didn't have to close her eyes, the book simply lifted into the air and floated over to her.
"This is amazing!" She shouted.
"Try picking up something bigger." Ron suggested.
"Can't," Helena said shaking her head. "I only have one arm, remember?"
"But anything that can fit into one hand is free game!" Fred exclaimed.
"This is…..mind boggling." Hermione said with wide eyes.
"This is so the best thing ever." George said giving Helena a high five.
"Can you bring something in from another room?" Hermione asked.
"I don't see why not." Helena said. Everyone got real quiet so she could concentrate. A minute later there was a tap at the door. Ginny opened it and quickly jumped aside as a brush floated into the room.
"Hey!" Ron shouted "That's mine!"
"Here you go then." Helena said as the brush floated over to Ron.
"Oh my gosh!" Ginny squealed "Think of all the things you could do!"
"To Malfoy," Fred reminded her.
"And Snape!" George added with a mischievous look.
"But Snape knows about Helena," Hermione reminded him.
"But he doesn't know about THIS," George said pointing to a hovering card.
"It would be nice to see Malfoy pay for all the trouble he's given us," Ron said.
"YES!" Ginny screamed a little to loudly.
"Shush!" Fred warned but it was too late. Mrs. Weasley poked her head through the door. Ron immediately stepped in front of the floating card and it drifted down into his open palm.
"What's all the commotion?" Mrs. Weasley asked with a worried expression.
"Ginny just got a little bit to excited about winning," George covered. "She's not that good at this game." Ginny glared at him but Mrs. Weasley seemed convinced.
"Well it's good that you're having fun," Mrs. Weasley said. "Don't stay up too late dears." She added as she shut the door behind her.
"That was close," Ron said putting the card back onto the deck.
"Maybe we should go to bed," Helena said with a big yawn. "I'm really tired."
"It is getting late," Hermione said looking at the clock.
"Well, all right," Fred said. "But tomorrow we plot revenge!"
"Joy," Ron mumbled under his breath as he headed to his room. The room he used to share with Harry. Pain filled his heart and made his feet seem heavy. He turned and looked back at Helena. She looked exhausted. Interacting a lot with other people seemed to drain her quickly though she seemed to be getting better. She had only talked to herself a couple of times that night and never referred to herself as we that he could remember. She looked up and caught his eye. She smiled. There was Harry in that smile, Harry in her eyes. He smiled back. The burden of pain in his heart lifted. He hadn't completely lost Harry, no he still had his best friend and he was going to make sure he never lost him, well her now, again.
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A/N: I think this chappie was bit longer then the last! I hope that makes everyone happy!
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