Several days later the group was still staying at the shop, Harry was teaching them some basic wandless magic, some potions with the little supplies the shop held. He tried teaching them how to aparate but with little success, they've been isolated from magic to long; it was like trying to teach a muggle. But he was getting some decent potions made, Dan was not happy at all with the fact that in order for these potions to work they would have to be thrown in glass flasks and they could work on contact. He was not happy that he would be losing Merlin knows how many flasks for this; in his words he would 'tab Harry'.
Over those few days the three friends had gotten to know everyone a little better. Remus was defiantly a marauder just as much as he was in their world; this must have been what it was like to know him during school. He was still a bit of a book worm, and he was still brilliant, except he just had no proper education to back himself up. They learned about his past a little more, about what it was like in Azkaban, how he escaped apparently here there were no dementors guarding the prisoners. According to him, it had been a fairly easy escape, with only minimal scars. They also learned he was little bit more careless and didn't think before he acted here.
Alice seemed like a kind woman, she was very Molly Weasley like. She was always hovering over them cleaning up, doing the dishes and making the meals. But she proved that she did not take any crap from anyone, on several occasions she proved that. And it defiantly was not a Molly Weasley temper it was an Andromeda Volk temper. And that was a temper that you did not want to mess with.
Dan was very responsible, like the Remus they knew back home. But then again he wasn't, for one he was younger and he seemed a bit more lose. Apparently the little shop he created was all he had; he had no home and no family he knew of. He lived there, and therefore he was protective over it, which was the reason when Harry said they had to throw the potions and they would work on contact when the flasks broke he was horrified. He would lose money, and that was something he could not afford.
Lucius was... well like anybody. He acted like your normal father, not only to Draco but to everyone. He helped them hide things from Alice and he laughed at crude jokes. He scolded them all with language but only to contradict what he said by saying the exact some word five seconds later. The only thing that was similar to the pure blood Slytherin they knew in him was the fact he seemed to have a natural hand for potion making.
Draco was almost the complete opposite of the Draco Malfoy in their world. Here he would be in Gryffindor without a doubt. Harry could actually see himself being good friends with the person who was his sworn enemy. They actually got to learn quite a lot about this boy, his mother home schooled him for one and like his father was a natural at potions. He showed obvious signs he was a werewolf, the scars that covered his body for one, most of them bite marks or the slashes were in threes. He told them it wasn't that bad being one but since he was one his whole life he really didn't have anything to compare too.
And Heather... well Heather was still Heather. Maybe she was a little bit more of a con-artist and cheat and a little bit more impatient. Also here she seemed to be the source of information about everything for the three teenagers. But all in all she was just still Heather...
Harry walked down the wooden creaky steps ad to the first floor. In was late the next morning the fourth day in this shop. When he reached the bottom floor he spotted Hermione with Draco, she was trying to teach him some simple spells that they were taught during their first year at Hogwarts.
"Okay, try again, now remember swish and flick." Hermione said.
"What's the point? I can't do it." Draco moaned as he lowered the wand.
"Nonsense, you can do this, your father said he's seen you do accidental magic before so you're not a squib. You have it in you, just try it again." She encouraged.
He heard Draco sigh. "Wingardium Leviosa." Then he said after a pause. "Hey! I did it! It moved!" he cried and he gave Hermione a hug, she seemed a little shocked by the hug but gave him one back.
"See? I told you, you could do it!" She said just as happy as he was.
Harry remembered his first year when he was so happy about having a wand and doing magic. Now he supposed Draco was feeling the same way.
"Oh Harry!" Hermione said noticing him in the doorway. "Good morning, I was just teaching Draco some simple charms incase he ever got a hold of a wand."
"Always useful." Harry said walking in.
"I can't believe you guys actually do this all the time, this is unreal." Draco said still smiling, proud of himself for levitating the feather on the shelf.
"Come on, let's go show your father," Hermione said and Draco nodded. The two left the room to go find the adults.
Harry was left looking at all the various items on the shelf. There were many magical items but Harry had a feeling they weren't used for spells and potions. Probably just show. There were many muggle things and it basically sort of looked like a small town convenience store aside from the magical items.
As he surveyed the shelves and objects on them the door opening behind him started Harry making him turn around sharply. His hand immediately moved to his wand in his robes but he let out a sigh when it was only Dan walking in.
"Hello, Harry," he said walking over to the front door and flipping a sign on it so it said 'open'. "How are you?"
"I'm fine, and you?"
"Just dandy." He said as he walked over to the cash register opening it for the day. "I saw Draco lift the feather, got to tell you Hermione is a good teacher."
"She is she's taught me a lot over the years." Harry laughed. "So um, how's everybody doing with the whole breaking into Laura's house thing?"
"Well Remus is more ready to go then any of us, but then again he's always exited about this stuff. He's such a child."
"He's just a few years younger then you." Harry argued defending Remus with a smirk on his face.
"He is. I suppose I may just be seeing him as the baby, we always did. Since he was always the youngest in our group I suppose he'll always seem like a child to us." He smiled at Harry.
"What about you? Are you ready?"
"I guess I'm as ready as I'm going to get. I haven't really done anything illegal like this since I was hanging out with Alice, Remus and Lucius. But I guess since then I haven't really had the time to do anything really other then watch the shop." He said moving a few boxes from underneath the counter and shocking some of the materials in them.
Just then a thought crossed Harry's mind and he furrowed his brow.
"What's wrong?" Dan asked noticing the look on his face.
"Do you... do you know anyone by the name of James Potter?" Harry asked.
"James Potter?" Dan asked and thought about it for a minute. "Potter... Potter... it sounds familiar. Best ask Lucius that, he's a bit more out in public then I am."
"Thanks," Harry said and started to leave the room. "Bye, Dan."
"See you later, Harry." Dan said as he carried the box around to another shelf.
Harry walked into the back room where Lucius and Alice were reading. "Hey, where is everyone?" he asked.
"Remus and Heather are with Hermione, Ron and Draco out back. Don't know what they're doing." Lucius said not looking up from the book.
"Okay, um, can I ask you two a question?"
"Sure." Alice said looking up and placing the book down along with Lucius.
"Do you know anyone by the name of Potter? James Potter?" Harry asked praying.
Alice bit her bottom lip in thought for a moment but then shrugged and shook her head. She turned to Lucius questioning him.
"I did," he said sadly. "Him and his wife died many years ago, when Draco was just a boy. They were our neighbors, when we were actually home that is."
Harry felt a sharp pain in his heart, so his parents were dead even here. Harry sighed but forced a smile on his face. "Thanks, that's all I wanted."
"No problem," Lucius said and then went back to his book but after a second looked back up at Harry. "Oh and if you see my son tell him to get in here and clean up the mess he made in other room. I am so happy for him that he's learning magic but the boy is a messy little prick." He said and looked down at the book.
"Sure I'll tell him." Harry said grinning as he walked out to the back. He quickly spotted the group, Hermione and Ron were doing some spells against one another. They were saying if they did have wands at Laura's estate these were some of the spells they would probably see.
"Hey, Draco, your dad wants you to –" A yelled from the front room interrupted Harry, it was Dan.
They all sharply turned their heads and ran without another word to the front door. Harry spotted Alice and Lucius running as well to the front room it was where Dan was. They all ran and flew open the door, first they saw Dan growling at the door, he was a feral, Harry realized and then looked back at Remus, Lucius, Alice and Draco and they all were. All of them were ferals, it was so far from the full moon and yet they could do this? Their eyes were turning yellowish and their teeth grew, the growls that emitted from their throats was more animalistic then anything Harry had heard from Remus back home.
Harry saw Ron and Hermione with their wands raised and Heather holding a wooden stake. She always kept one on her. Oh no, it's not... but it was. When he looked to the door he saw Andromeda and Sirius standing there with the door closed behind them still slightly smoking from the sun light outside, apparently they were trying to cover themselves from the sunlight when they ran in with their leather coats over their heads.
By now Harry wand had been out for some time, the silence drew on except for the sound of the werewolves growling and the occasional growl from the two vampires.
"What do you want?" Harry was first to speak up.
"You to get those damned wands out of our faces." Sirius glared at them, his eyes flooded with yellow and his teeth long and sharp.
"Not until you tell us what you're doing here." Harry responded.
"We heard ya were goin' after the bitch, Laura Avalon." Andy said; she seemed more clam to the fact that they were being threatened with wands, werewolves and a stake then Sirius seemed to be.
"What's it to you?" Dan said.
"We can help." Andy said.
"And why would be accept your help?" Lucius spat.
"Because you know you stand no chance." Sirius said with a smirk on his face, "With us, two of the most feared vampires in Europe, on your side you stand a chance."
"Why should we trust you? Hermione said turning her head slightly.
The vampires then tightened their faces to try and not show their signs of embarrassment but it was still there. "We can't feed." Andy finally said. "We can't drink human blood even when it's not directly from a person or a dead person." She explained.
"So, you can't bite people?" Ron asked slowly.
"We got our bloody wings clipped!" Sirius yelled.
How can we possibly know we're telling the truth?" Hermione asked with an eyebrow raised.
"Look at us, darlin'," Andromeda said putting her hands on her hips. "Does it look like we've fed recently?"
It was true both of them were pale, well paler then any normal vampire, they were thinner, their bones were sticking out and the both looked tired. Harry had read up on what happens if a vampires does not feed for some time, it's like a person starving, they go through the same thing.
"Prove it," Harry said. "Prove it you can't drink human blood."
"Okay." Sirius said shrugging. He opened his mouth and let out a growl and advanced on Hermione.
"Without biting us!" Harry said blocking Sirius with his wand.
"Fine, no need to be rude about it." Sirius said sounding offended. He right away turned on Andy and sunk his teeth into her neck.
"Now, Sirius," Andy said rolling her eyes. "Couldn't you have just bitten yourself? Or at least my arm if it must be me."
"Aaahhh!" Sirius cried moving his hand up to his mouth as if he had just swallowed acid. "Mother fu –"
"Sweetheart, there's no need for that." Andy said putting her hand over his mouth as he continued to groan and moan about the blood he had just tasted. Andy removed her hand and looked at him. "He'll be like that for some time." She explained to the group.
"But that wasn't human blood... was it...?" Ron said confused.
"Oh it was." Heather said filling in once again. "You see vampire blood and human blood are no different, the blood was once their own human blood or it was once someone's human blood so unless they bit something that's not human that blood will be human."
"Yeah, what she said." Andy said pointing to Heather.
"So you can't harm us?" Ron said.
"No, we still can and trust me I want to, but I don't see why we would." Andy said stopping forward and over Sirius who was still on the ground in agony from the blood. "You see Laura Avalon did this to us. You remember that day the sun was blocked out? Well she did something to those people and any vampire who fed on them and got away alive has this done to them. It's her fault we can't feed; it's her fault we are forced to come to you because you are the only ones with the guts to attack her."
"Actually we're not attacking just stealing some stuff." Hermione said.
"Well you may not be attacking, but I assure ya, darlin', we are." She said grinning, by now the fangs were shortened and her eyes were back to their normal color. "Now if you could be so kind as to lower your weapons I would appreciate it." No one moved. "Oh come on, we won't attack you. We have nothing to gain if we do."
"They're right; they don't have anything to gain by attack us." Hermione said lowering her wand slightly.
"Don't trust them!" Lucius yelled. "This might be a trap!"
"Now why the hell would we trap you?" Sirius said breathing heavily (although since he didn't breath it did him no good), the affects of the blood not entirely gone. "Half of you are werewolves; do you know how bloody awful you taste?"
Almost everyone had lowered their weapons slightly except for heather who still held the wood stake firmly in her hand. Andromeda noticed and walked over to her. "Now what are you going to do with that?"
"I think you know exactly what." Heather spat at her.
"You won't even be able to make a move before I snap your neck."
"Think of it more as a security blanky." Heather glared. "That's really sharp and pointy."
"Heather, put the stake down, we don't need them snapping your neck." Remus said rocking on his heals obviously getting bored with this.
The three Gryffindors winced at the acid looks the two women exchanged; they were supposed to be best friends. They were inseparable, marauderetts down to the core. But here, they would not be friend they could see that now, they would most likely be dead enemies.
"So, how exactly do you think you can help? Aside from the obvious." Dan said.
"We have a few tricks up our sleeves." Andy grinned again her abnormally sharp canines slipping over her lip. She reached in her coat and pulled out a hand gun. "PT-945 Caliber .45 ACP, Action Semi-Automatic Hand Gun," Andy explained looking the gun over. "I may be a vampire but that does not mean I don't appreciate some lovely muggle modern technology."
"And trust us, there is plenty more where that come from." Sirius said now completely over the affects of the blood. "Can always count on my beautiful Andromeda to get some decent weapons," he leaned around and began kissing her neck.
"Now that's not something we want to see." Ron said scrunching his face up.
"Yes, agreed, stop." Remus said rubbing his head.
The two vampires parted and grinned up at the group in front of them. "What's the matter, darlin's, don't like watching two immortals share their love and affection." Andy said running her tongue over her sharp teeth.
"Not really." Remus drawled.
"So, if you really want to help us, prove it and get us some more guns. For those of us who can't use magic that might be our only chance." Alice said.
"Will do, but could we wait until the sun sets? I don't really fancy combusting at the moment." Sirius said.
"Same here, I'm still young, I don't want to die... again..." Andy added.
AN: Oh my gosh! Are they really on their side or are they just planning to kill them later? What kind of guns does Andy have access to? Will Draco ever learn more then one charm? Is Harry going to sleep in that late in every chapter? So many questions so little time... well actually we have plenty of time it just depends on how I feel like using it. Thank you for the amazing... review... come on people review! You know you wanna and if ya do you'll get hooked on it and want to do it more often. Trust me, its fun!