Darkness Fell Upon Me Chapter 13

Even after over of about two years of living in Concord no one really knew about her past and she wanted to keep it that way. Even Arubey asked whenever they sat together drinking; she would always shrug and say she grew up with a bad father and a sick mother. She only talk about her love life when the other person went first which was never. Hardy was interested most out of all of them, probably because he was turned just before her. Fala ran the bar she lived at, she called herself the Upir Queen; translate 'Upir' and you get the word 'Vampire from a different language. Jackie just them 'killers' and that made her hated by most of them, she didn't want to be a vampire. In less then three years she could have gone back to her family and her brother and Lily, Severus, Remus, and Peter.

In early October of 1991, James Charlus Potter came to see her. "Jacks." He called, she looked over and smiled.

"James!" she said and went over to him. He hugged her; she didn't to want to let him go.

"Ha, I found you," she walked him back to where she had been. She smiled as she sat down.

She laughed, "Yes, you did big brother." She muttered, "Why?" she asked him.

He frowned too, "How could you ask me that, you're my sister. Practically my twin, only three months apart you know." She nodded but kept looking at him for a better answer, he sighed finally. "We're in trouble and I think you should know-."

"James I'll do what I can, but I-."

"No, don't get involve; everyone is still looking for you, even now. They won't leave us alone, here." He handed her the most recent picture of her kids and husband, "What do you think, do they look good enough? Healthy, safe, happy?"

"All of the above."

"Good enough to eat?" Fala asked, Durza laughed.

"No, Fala. Stay away from them," she threatened. Arubey looked up amused; these humans had to be important for her to actually threaten someone directly.

James chose to ignore that, "You keep this, okay Jacks?" she only nodded. "You changed your hair, you did used to be blonde didn't you?" she nodded.

She looked up at him, "It changed after I was turned into a killer- vampire, I never say vampire." She explained; he nodded. "Remember my eyes were violet not black? I miss those days-."

"I remember very well, Lily misses you; also I have this for you." He reached into his robes and pulled out a picture of his son. She laughed and it sounded like she couldn't breathe, "That's our son, Lily had him 31 of July of last year, just over a year old-."

"Wait, slow down. Did you say the 31st of July?" he nodded, "Oh," she muttered and averted her eyes back to the picture of her nephew. "What's his name James?"

"Harry James Potter, it was Lily's idea to name him after me. We're starting a new tradition in our family Jackie," he smiled. She smiled as she looked up at him.

"Oh yeah, what's that Mr. Potter?"

"Naming the first son after the father. Jackson's middle name is Sirius isn't it?" she nodded, "See it works out. That boy is like his dad, by the way," Jackie laughed.

"Oh how so?" she asked raising a brow.

"Pranks and always mean to Lizzie, just the other day he-. Never mind," she smiled a little now.

She touched his arm, "Don't worry about it, I'm sure you're wonderful to the kids. A wonderful dad; Jack is doing what big brothers do best." She added.

James frowned, "I was never mean to you Jacks."

"Not after you found out I was your sister," she reminded. "When we first met we didn't get along exactly well," she chuckled. He laughed too; she put the two pictures down on the table in front of her. "School was rough at first but it got better, we were competing before you even knew; I won our first game." She bragged.

He smirked, "I let you win." She laughed at him.

"Sure you did, although I let you win the Final Game that season."

"No you didn't," he said although he knew she did.

"Yes I did. Remember when Dumbledore asked who touched the golden ball first and we were supposed to say we had together. But I went back on the promise and said you had, you won the game; oh! Remember when I attacked Travis Gage in class in our fourth year right after the holidays, that's a memory worth remembering!" she laughed, no one had ever seen her so happy, let alone talk this much in ten minutes.

"He was arrested you know, a few days ago. The Ministry caught him red-handed trying to kill a woman in an ally near his house," she bit her lip, she knew that ally, all too well. "He was sentenced I think to five decades or something similar."

"Bastard deserves it; remember what he said about Chelsea?" James nodded and frowned a little. "He insulted her just after I buried my mum; I should have done a lot more to him James. I probably would have been thrown from school, but it would have been worth it-."

"Jackie why were in prison?" that got everyone attention. Fala and Jager knew she was there, they found her there, they just never found out why.

"Does it matter James?"

"C'mon Jacks, you could barely hurt Travis that day. I saw the hesitations," he said.

She took a deep breathe, "Remember when we found out that our dad was dead?" he nodded, "I was there-."

He growled, "They set you up, those bastards think you were involved-."

She touched his arm and he was silent, "That's because I was involved. I killed him James; I killed Jimmy with the Killing Curse-."

"At fifteen!" he exclaimed, she nodded. "Why?"

"Do you have to ask me that James? You know why," she stated with purpose. He sighed and nodded.

"I would have too, if I was in your position. He killed Chelsea," she nodded. "He did put you in the hospital and everything…." He went in how Jackie had died for nine minutes at twelve, the abuse and how Jimmy and Chelsea had fake names when they came to the school for the day. He added how he made her fake that she was the family babysitter, "We should have noticed Jacks, sorry."

"Don't be, if he hadn't been a complete ass, I never would have meet the people I had."

He nodded, and then remembered something, "Lucius and Narcissa had a son, they named him Draco Malfoy." She laughed.

"Poor kid, I feel bad for him and I hate him already; did I tell you that I'm his Godmother?" he shook his head, she nodded. "Cissy asked me just after I stole Jimmy's wand from his back pocket the day he came to the school. Actually it was same day, just a few minute later; Sev and I snapped it together and threw it in the fireplace." She said calmed now, James smiled at her and moved so he was sitting against the wall of their booth.

"Can I ask you something about Jimmy?" she nodded, "Okay, truthfully, do you think he loved me and you?"

"No, he isn't the kind of dad to love. Charlus, Orion, Remus's dad…. They loved their sons; Charlus loved you like his son, James. He didn't know how James," she told him. He frowned, "The gifts he gave you that year were to make you think he loved you; the flying brooms were a trick…" he looked at her. She sighed, "Dorea wanted full custody of you and Jimmy knew you'd fight to live with him or her; he figured if he got you those things you'd choose him. I- James I made sure he didn't get that chance."

"What!" he looked at her.

Jackie hesitated and he noticed it. "I asked Narcissa for help the summer he beat me so bad I was in the hospital and I had to use a cane to walk for three months. Lucius's dad put it all together; I was just the one who made sure it happened. I over used the power I had that year, I admit but I did it to protect you-."

"Jackie!"

"James, I couldn't risk your life because I was too lazy to help. He used you and me to get what he wanted: satisfaction from his son and daughter. If I hadn't killed him when I had I'd be dead… sooner." She added when Fala looked at her. He asked if she ever had any guilt after murdering him, she shook her head.

"I wouldn't have either, thanks for looking out for me Jacks." She reached over and took his hand.

"Why else do you think I didn't leave school when I should have?" she muttered. He laughed and talked about Jack and Liz, no one knew he was talking about her kids….

That was the last time she saw her brother.

Jackie spent the next few years wondering how James and Lily were getting, how Jamie and Jodie's first year of school was going. If Sirius forgave her, let alone still loved her. Jackson and his sister were still young and Sirius had to be with them, she wanted to go back to London but if they were still looking for her- she couldn't risk getting caught. She stayed in Concord but also traveled… while avoiding England. She and Jager became a father-daughter duo and Fala was jealous of it. Three years after James came and left, Fala got Jackie alone and fought her, both left the ring with bruises and a broken bone of at least two. Jackie learned also that she was terrible at fighting so she went to Los Angeles where she heard that Angel lived. Angel taught her everything he knew and she learned quickly as most vampires would have; he watched her as she fought her own kind and he helped her with moves she couldn't figure out. She told him about her husband and two children; she never wanted to open up to him, but she had and he knew her secrets. He promised he'd never repeat them and she liked him for that. She asked questions about his personal life as well and he was glad to talk about it; like most vampire males, Angel loved talking about him. Angel asked about he werewolf friend of hers and she asked about Spike and what happened to him after they left London. The two friends talked about everything and yet… everything.

After about three more years in Los Angeles she left again, she told Angel that if he needed her for any reason all he had to do was say her name loud enough so she could hear it. He laughed and tried it a few days later; he honestly didn't think it would work. Nevertheless, it had and he trusted her. She often practiced and got better when she was alone at a cemetery in Concord, she fought her own kind and killed them. Fala heard about it and watched her one night and they fought again and this time Jackie left with barely a scratch on her. When the Upir Queen demanded to know how she got better she said that an angel taught her; Jackie was amused on how upset Fala was when Jacks left her on the ground.

In 1996 when her kids would have been about 8-9, and being gone for over six years she got into a fight with Arubey this time, not long after the fracas with Fala; it started out, as a talk then became a brawl:

Arubey and Jackie were actually sitting and talking together like a good boy and girl in his booth (every Dark Line has their own booth or table and chairs). Jackie was sitting with her back against the wall of the bar and he was sitting hunched over, practically drooling into the human blood drink in front of him. A few days before Jager made a bet with him: if he could go one week without drinking human blood then Jager would give him more power. Right then Arubey was trying to bring in the smell of it, as if he could drink it by smelling it.

"That bet you made is stupid Arubey, call it off."

"Fuck you, Jacks; I like power." He snapped, she chuckled.

"Only my brother and my friends can call me that; you can call me by my name got it?" he growled something but she didn't hear it. "I haven't heard from James in years, Remus, Peter, Sirius-." She could barely say her husband's name, Arubey looked up.

"What kind of name is Remus and Sirius?" he asked her, she shrugged. She always wondered that too, she even wanted to ask Sirius if he wanted to change it to Steven or possibly Scott; she never did because she realized she loved his name the way it was. "Freaks," he muttered, Jackie took the glass and poured it over his head. She laughed, then frowned when he jumped over the table and started to attack her, most people laughed, but Fala was cheering him on and Jager was trying to stop it (that father-daughter thing was kicking in). Finally after another blow to the head Jackie got her feet under him and kicked him off of her. Dozens of bottles of booze and blood shattered all over the floor; Fala screamed for them to stop but Risika knocked her out, Risika and Arubey have a envious past….

She hit him in the jaw and he jumped her from the front and tackled her to the ground, people, vampire and human got up to watch. But before Arubey could actually kill her, which he would have- they were both frozen- not with fear but with a spell.

Their facial expressions relaxed but couldn't even look up to see who cast the spell, Arubey fangs were long and hers were shorter then hers but it was clear they were moroi ('vampire' in Romania).

"Get off of me," she snapped.

"Believe me- if I could I would," he snapped back. She tried to move but couldn't, Arubey couldn't either.

The person who cast the spell chuckled; Jackie knew she knew that laugh…. "Well look at what we have here." He sighed; he was human that was for sure. "Fighting. Again. Cross you little twit, good thing I stopped you now. Vampire?" this was directing for Arubey, "She has a temper, be careful."

"Yeah, thanks for the heads up."

The cross that Arubey wore around his neck slipped out of his shirt and rested on her neck, she ignored it. The human stalked over to her, as if he knew he was un-killable; she recognized his face right away. "Hello luv," he muttered and touched her cheek.

She growled, "Get away from me Travis." Arubey eyes tried to see him but couldn't. He used his power to look threw the eyes of one of the humans. His knee was in her gut and he looked pissed, she was ready for anything and on her back; he had been getting ready to hit her with a closed fist. Arubey felt the human lower his fist to the ground and then use his foot to kick him back. "Gage," she warned. He smirked.

"No worries luv," he told her and picked her up. The spell wore off and Arubey got up and stood straight and ready to finish what he started with Jackie. "Us Followers have been gathering trying to bring Him back you know, I've been looking for you for the last few years."

"You've been in Azkaban for the last few years, James told me."

"He's dead," she didn't take it literally, just as a threat to wards her brother. "The rain falls and the dust is thrown everywhere, by morning your friends will be dead you know-."

"They aren't my friends, except for J-. No one is my friend here," by keeping Jager out of it; she was hoping she could save his life instead of end.

"Except who sweetie?" he whispered, he looked at the other vampires around the bar. She said nothing but looked away from him, finally getting fed up with his hand actually touching her she rammed her heel into his toes and used her elbow to connect with his face. He cast a spell but it missed her by a foot and hit the wall, the wall started on fire and she put it out with her own magic spells. "You'll die for that for betraying your Master," he snapped.

"He is not my master, I-."

"He'll have a death warrant on your life once we bring him back and he'll kill you himself Jackie. I promise you, you'll die by his hand and our world will be rid of you."

"You won't kill me, he won't either. He'll be too afraid and you know it."

She shook her head, "You have his mark on your skin, he'll call you to him and he'll kill you and your kin." She shook her head again, all he could say was with his own fear and yet amusement. "Yes he will Black," he said her name with spite. "Traitor to him, me, Severus, Lucius, all of us."

"I, unlike you, had people to take care of Travis."

"And yet you're here."

She said nothing but bite her lower lip, she went to leave to the bar. She glanced after her without turning around. From behind him, Jackie turned back around and as he finally turned to her she snapped his neck; shock was on his face as was on the face of every other person in the room. His body fell to the floor with a loud thump; his eyes were open and looking forward. "Try and kill me now," she called the elf her husband was left when Walburga and Orion died.

"Mistress Black, have you heard of your-."

"Tippet, do you know who this is." She asked, he looked down at Gage's body and back to her.

"Yes, Tippet knows Travis Gage of the Gage Family of London. The Wealthiest, besides you of course Mistress Black." Arubey looked up at her, he didn't her family had money. He was a vampire but he thought of being a rich vampire; he liked that, so did half the other vamps in the room. Dracula had power because of his fame, being famous and rich could do a lot for a vampire: blood all around for the rest of their lives. Arubey or even Durza could buy a factory, house humans and drain them of every drop.

She nodded, "Good you know then. Take him to Ministry, and then go home. Stay there and don't answer His questions about it."

"Is this an order that Mistress Black is giving old Tippet?"

She hesitated, "Yes, it is."

"Very well then," he touched Travis Gage's body with one finger and disappeared. His wand lay beside him, she picked it up and snapped it in half and let it burn into ash as she dropped both pieces to the floor. She went to her room and didn't come from it for the rest of the day and into the next night.

When she came from her room finally, she on her own cloak and left and didn't come back for a week. No one knew where she went, but they figured it was back to London to see if that creature did what she ordered it too; they talked of nothing for a day but of the fact that Jackie killed a human. When she came back, she looked pale enough to make a vampire seem human. She was shaky and didn't leave her room for anything or anybody; Jager went into talk to her a few times but said she was usually too tired to say anything. Arubey went in finally and sat down next to her on her bed, she turned over and sat up when she saw who it was.

"I don't want to be in here, Fala made me." He lied; she shrugged and lay back down. "Where were you?"

"Places," she whispered. "Look I don't want to talk about it alright?" she told him, he shrugged and bent over her, he moved her hair out of his way. She looked back at him and turned her head.

"Well I do, I'm interested and you're young yet-."

"If Fala hadn't murdered me Arubey, I'd be well over twenty-five. Jager was at least that when he died," he put his finger to her lips and lowered his hand almost right away. She stared at him, he had his plans. He got up and grabbed her coat and threw it at her.

"Put it on, I hate this room. It's too small," she did what she was told and got up and left with him to his own place a half mile away. She didn't even wear or bring the coat he threw at her. He opened the door and let her in first. She made sure she had her eye on him the entire time. He closed it after himself and stepped to wards her, he took her hand and the sat on the couch together.

She asked him when he brought her there, "Because- I already gave you my reason." He corrected himself realizing he had. She shook her head and sat with her body facing him, he turned so he was in the corner of the couch facing her somewhat. His left arm on the back of the couch, "I'll be back," he muttered and got up and went down the narrow hall to his room. He came back shirtless but with a new one in his hand. Arubey felt the need to explain it to her, "I was actually away for a day and hadn't been here yet," she look up just as he pulled it over his head, she shrugged.

"I have to go to the bar, it is my home. I hate it there, here, everywhere; how can you stand be here so damn long? Aren't you bored with this place?" she asked him.

"Not when you're here," she was taken aback and he took her forearms as he sat down and pulled her to wards him. She rested on him in a way that a guy and girl friend would. She felt comforted for the first time in a long time. She sat up onto her legs with them bent at the knee and looked at the vampire she was fought with a half a month ago. "What?" he chuckled.

She got and moved to leave, "I have to go. Things have to get done and only I can do them," she muttered. He moved quicker then she and beat her to the door.

"Like what?"

"Things that people in my position have to do." She whispered, "It's hard to explain, but I just need to get home."

"You mean back to Fala's place?" she shook her head. He took her by the shoulder and walked her over in front of the fireplace and sat down in front of it. "What happened Jacks- sorry, Jackie?" he corrected himself quickly although the apology was a fake.

She sighed and looked into the flames, they flickered nonstop and they made her think and remember of when Jimmy used to burn iron in the flames and then use red hots to threaten her. She cringed and she knew he noticed and Jackie looked away from the flame, he moved so he was between her and the fire. He tried to catch her eye but she wouldn't look at him. "The Ministry of Magic of the world I used to be in, put up a barrier around London when they found out I had been there." She whispered, he stared at her. "They put it up to keep just me out but in doing so the vampires that had been in the city at the time were killed by the magic used to create it; now vampires can't enter the city." She paused and continued almost right away, "My friends and family think I'm dead Arubey, I went there and I found no one; James and Lily were gone with my nephew. Remus, Peter, Sirius-." It was still hard to say his name but she pulled through well enough where he didn't notice the difficulty in saying it. "They all left the city, they had too. I grew up with my brother and now I can't even find him; I never felt so lost in my life than then." He sighed and placed his hand over hers and held it tight in his grip and didn't even let go for a moment.

"I'll help you to find your brother," he said quickly, he frowned. He didn't mean it.

But thankfully she stood up and shook her head, "If he went into hiding then he had a reason; I'll stay away and hopefully they take down the wall." She muttered and turned to leave, this time he went after her and this time he let go.

After the darkness had gone by without a motion of it being there at all, Jackie began to go back to London to try to find a way into it. She told Jager she was strong in strength since after being turned, but she was weak in magic. He confessed he knew nothing of magic and she began visiting her unknown friend- to Jager and Arubey he was unknown. Of course I'm talking about Angel. Angel began helping her figure it out as well, at night they'd go into the cemeteries and she'd fight as he offered suggestions. Usually she said she tried them, so by three they gave up and he'd let her sleep in his room and he got the bed. She refused saying it was his place he should get it, but being a changed vamp- he wouldn't hear of it. Finally on the third night, she said they could both be in his room at the same time; she never had a sleepover before and wondered if that was what it would have felt like. They slept in the same bed, but used different pillows and blankets.

After she got back to Concord Jackie realized she missed sharing her room with her husband and vowed to find a way into the city.

NOTE: Read up on the Vampire history of Arubey, Jager, and Fala in the Minographies in my profile. the pasts will be modified slightly so the plot is secure with this story but otherwise everything is correct.