Head in the Clouds chapter 3
By
Givetherabbitthefreakintrix
And
SeamusIsAfterMeLuckyCharms
Jaspers POV
I ran back to the house reeling. Little Bella Swan was a witch. Her real name was Vulpecula. She had seen war, she had her own demons. She could fly on a broom stick, she wasn't afraid of anything. She had to prove herself to everyone just like I had to. We are a lot alike if you think about it. I ran into the house and up to my room where Alice was packing. She turned around, and if she could have cried she would have been doing that just now.
"It's your fault you know, that we have to leave," she whispered at me. I took a step back. Did she really just say that?
"Alice why-" she cut me off, handing me a suite case. She threw me her ring.
"I can't love someone who nearly killed my almost sister, it's over, get out of my room." She turned around and continued packing. I stumbled out of our-her room, and down the stairs. I went into the dining room and sat down, my head in my hands. Did that really just happen? I was single... For the first time in eighty years. I weighed the pros and cons in my head. Lists always help me sort things out.
Cons
1) Alice basically just said she hated me.
I paused, unable to think of anything else. I decided to move on to pros.
Pros
1) No more being told what to wear.
2) I can wear my cowboy boots.
3) I don't have to hide my accent.
4) I can decide what to do and where to go.
5) I don't have to stay with the Cullens.
So far the pros outweighed the cons. I decided to stop making my lists. I heard Carlisle call a family meeting. Everyone sat at the table. Without looking up I felt the emotions. Once again I made a chart in my head.
Carlisle: excited and unsure
Esme: happy
Rosalie: furious
Emmett: angry
Alice: love
Edward: love
I looked up. Esme was beaming at Edward and Alice who were holding hands. I stopped my habitual breathing. They were-
"Yes we are Jasper, Alice and I have been in love for quite some time," he smirked.
"I'm so happy for you to!" Esme squealed. Rosalie stood up, her chair smacking the ground.
"So it's totally ok with you, that he's making us leave because he doesn't love Bella, and that his excuse is that we're too dangerous? Yah, Jazz is going to attack if Edward throws all his blood lust at him! And Alice, what are you thinking? Do you realize how much Jasper works for you? You changed his clothes, the way he speaks, his mannerisms, his hair, you molded him into what you wanted and now you're going to throw the ring at him and go make out with Edward not five minutes later? And Esme, your happy that your favorite children are happy! You couldn't care less about the rest of us! What is wrong with you people? Oh come on we're all thinking it!" she yelled. Emmet was glaring at Alice with so much rage that I could barely stand it.
"How dare you talk to her that way! What do you think you're trying to prove here?" Edward was now standing with his chair on the ground behind him, and Alice was whispering to him that he 'should just let it go' and 'can we leave? I don't want to fight.'
"Everyone settle down! We are a family! Now I have some very important news! An old friend of mine named Minerva McGonagall had mailed me offering all of us a job, she knows what we are. She is a witch, Yes they do exist. Recently others were a war of magic." I was listening intently. Vulpecula/Bella had mentioned a Professor McGonagall, and Carlisle was talking about magic. Could it be the same person?
"And the good side won, the final war took place at their school of magic, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. However, some of the death eaters, who were the opposing army, escaped. She was wondering if we would guard the school against them, I called you here to ask you what you thought." I kept my thoughts guarded. No need to tell Edward that particular piece of information.
"So, what do you think? Are you all up to it?" Everyone nodded, and Rosalie stormed off, followed by Emmet.
"When do we leave?" I asked.
"Twenty minutes, they are going to send someone called Vicky Lestrange to side along apperate us. Whatever that means," Carlisle answered. I kept my thoughts guarded. But I was quite happy, they were sending Bella or I guess she was really Vicky or... Ow... Brain pain. Twenty minutes later a loud bang resonated from the living room. We all ran in to see a tall thin girl, with curves in all the right places. She had wild black hair that spiraled down her back in tight curls. Her eyes were pitch black, she had pouty rose colored lips, and thick eyelashes. She was stunning. And then I realized. She was Bella.
"Hi, sorry to barge in like this, I guess I was off by a little. I'm Vulpecula Lestrange. Vicky for short, I'm here to take you to Hogwarts." She spoke with a strong British accent. Esme stepped forward and shook her hand.
"Hello I'm Esme Cullen, and this is my husband Carlisle, and my children For all intents and purposes Rosalie and Emmett, Edward and Alice, and Jasper," Vicky nodded to all of us, her eyes narrowing slightly as she saw Alice and Edward holding hands.
"Pleasure to meet you Mrs. Cullen, lovely home you have here, and nice to meet all of you," she smiled.
"Oh please call me Esme dear, would you like anything to eat?"
"No thank you, we had best be-" she was cut off by a loud shrill scream coming from her pocket. She scrambled around and I noticed how strangely she was dressed. An ankle length black dress with skin tight sleeves that were see through and covered in spider web patterns, pointy black high heeled boots, and a black cloak. She pulled out a silver pocket watch that was steaming and screeching. She pressed a button on the side and it stopped. All of us relaxed.
"Sorry about that, but we're running a bit short on time, could everyone grab my arms? Hold your things tightly now, there we go. Now don't squeeze to hard I'd like to keep those attached. Alright here we go!" she twisted a little and I felt a sharp tug behind my belly button, and then the feeling of being stuffed through a small tube. Then it stopped and we were facing an enormous castle. It was up a hill behind tall iron gates. There was an inky black lake to the left.
"Welcome, to Hogwarts!" Vicky said pushing open the gates.
"Why didn't you take us all the way?" Emmett asked.
"You can't apperate onto school property, there are wards against it," she replied. She lead us to a carriage pulled by a skeleton like horse with leathery black wings.
"What are those?" Carlisle asked.
"Thesterals, you can only see them if you've seen death," she replied.
"Can you see them?" Alice asked. She laughed humorlessly.
"I fought in the war, I can see them," she replied. We were sitting in the carriage.
"But your only seventeen! You couldn't have fought! Your only human!" Edward protested. In a move so fast I didn't think q human could move, she was standing in front of him, holding a thin stick, a wand I suppose, at his neck. Her hair was turning red.
"I fought, I killed, I defended my family, I watched my friends fall, I may only be seventeen, but I've done things you can only imagine! Felt things, lived through things! Have you ever watched you mother kill your cousin? Watched someone lose their free will? Been completely helpless as you watched people die? Let me show you!" she hissed. She muttered a word under her breath and suddenly I wasn't in the carriage any more. I was in a room, watching an eleven year old Vicky and some black haired kid with glasses. They were smudged with dirt, bleeding from several cuts. They had their wands out and were facing a man who was slowly unwrapping a turban. Underneath was a snake like face. It glared at them and began to speak.
"See what I have become? See what you have done to me?" suddenly a fire broke out around them, and Vicky was thrown against the wall. The memory went black and the scene changed. Vicky and the same black haired kid were fighting a giant snake, with long fangs and bloody holes where it's eyes should have been. Then there was a where wolf, then her and the black haired kid were both. Tide to a grave stone. There was a rat faced man.
"Blood from his enemy, blood of a loyal follower bone of father," he said. Then she was watching a white haired man fall from a tower. Then she was flying dodging beams of light. Next she was at a mansion, withering in pain on the floor, being tortured by a nearly identical woman. Then- I lost count of how many horrifying things she had seen at the battle, how she had killed, how she watched people die. Suddenly we were back in the carriage.
"Yes, I can see them," she sat back down. Everyone looked at her.
"Oh I'm so sorry! That was-" Esme shuttered. Vicky nodded.
"But you want to know another secret?" she asked. We all nodded. And gasped as she changed into Bella. Well I pretended to, having already known this.
"Bella!" Edward pulled her into a hug. Then jumped back like he had been stung.
"Don't touch me," she hissed. She had her wand out.
"But you love me!" he yelled.
"Stupify!" she yelled, a beam of red light shot out of the tip of her wand and Edward slumped to the floor unconscious. Vicky changed back to what she originally looked like. She calmly sat back down.
"Bella Swan doesn't exist," she looked out the window.
"Why were you there?" Alice asked.
"I wanted a break, here I'm known as the friend of the boy. Who lived, one of the people who helped the chosen one defeat voldemort. The death eater's daughter. I wanted to know what it was like to be normal, so I created Bella," she shrugged.
"Would you let us get to know the real you?" Alice asked. Vicky pondered, then nodded.
"What do you want to know?" she asked.
"Everything, I may not have known Bella but I would be honored to know Vicky," Rosalie replied. Vicky nodded.
"My name is Vulpecula Lestrange. My parents are the two most famous death eaters, Bellatrix and Rodolfus. I have an Aunt named Andromeda, and one named Narssissa, I have a cousin named Draco, and I used to have a cousin named Tonks, but she was killed during the war. She had a son named Teddy, who is my god child. He's a metamorphous like me, which means he can change his appearance at will, Tonks as one to. I am seventeen, and am going into my seventh year at Hogwarts because I skipped last year helping Harry find Horcruxes, which are very dark magic. My best friends are Harry Potter, the black haired kid from my memories, Ron Weasley, his sister Ginny, two of his brothers, Fred and George, Neville Longbottom, and Luna Lovegood. I played chaser on the Gryffindor Quditch team. Quiditch is a sport played on brooms, there are seven players on each team. I want to be an Auror when I'm done with school, and Auror is basically a wizard cop. My wand is Ash, eleven and a half inches, mermaid hair, that's about it," she shrugged. Everyone looked at her.
"You can fly... on a broom?" Emmett asked.
"Yup, and I can catch and throw a ball while moving a hundred plus miles an hour, two hundred feet in the air," she replied smugly.
"That sounds dangerous," Carlisle commented.
"Nah, nobody's died for a while, although Jane did go missing... oh no they found her in a toilet, and Harry lost all the bones in his arm, and then I was attacked by dementors... Maybe it a little dangerous, but it's the best thing in the world," she shrugged. We had reached the giant oak doors.
"McGonagol should be waiting for you inside, I need to get home, make sure nobody's killed my cousin. Bye!" she turned around and began skipping back down the hill. She was a fighter, she was strong and unsubmissive, she was an amazing person. And beautiful. I think I'm in love. To my right I heard Alice giggle. That can't be good.