Italics are what everyone is thinking. Also if you see www somewhere in this chapter it stands for Weasley Wizard Wheeze, I thought I fixed all of them but I'm sure I missed a few.. This is a long chapter and it hasn't been edited yet If anyone out there is a beta reader and wants to help me out Please PM me if not your just going to have to deal with the errors until my bestest get back in Florida at the end of the month..
Chapter 3: Diagon Alley
Edward pov
I watched in amazement as Arthur loaded all our bags into the trunk of his car. The car couldn't fit more than four people tops but he and his wife insisted we wouldn't need a taxi to get the rest of us to their home.
You know maybe he is expecting us to run behind them. I glared at Emmett of course they weren't expecting us to run.
What has my wife got us into? I had been listening to my families thought a lot since we arrived in London. The latest thought had been from my brother Jasper. However everyone seemed to be thinking along the same lines. How on earth are we all going to fit in that car?
"Well everything is ready to go hop on in. We'll be at the Burrow in no time." Arthur smiled and opened the passenger door for his wife and walked around to the driver seat.
I noticed both Carlisle and Esme were already seated comfortable in the back seat. They were both grinning as if the rest of us were missing something important. Carlisle nodded his head toward the seat. Everything will be fine Edward get in. I took a step forward when Alice got a vision of all of us sitting in the car with room to spare. That was all both Alice and myself needed to see, we both climbed in and watch as Emmett Rose and Jasper looked at all of like we were crazy.
"Come on we'll all fit trust me I know." Alice pointed to her head. Once everyone was settled in Arthur started the car and drove away from the airport.
"So Mr. Weasley," Alice started and I could tell this was going to be a long ride by all the question buzzing in her mind. I blocked her out watching the scenery as we drove.
Flashback
I watched from the Window as Bella tossed and turned in her sleep mumbling about her mother and how Forks was too Green. How I wished I could read her mind to see what she was dreaming. Then it happened, "Edward." Had I heard her wrong, was she dreaming of me. "Edward." No that time it was more clean she was definitely dreaming about me now I really wished I could read her mind.
End of Flashback
"Edward man, are you listening?" Emmett's voice was booming into my mind.
"Yeah sorry I was just thinking. What were you saying?"
"We're here and look at this place." He was last one in the car with me the others were getting their stuff from the trunk. He got out and grabbed Rosalie bags from her following Molly into her home. Looking at the house I could tell it was very old. The top few floors looked like they were held up by string. This was going to be a very interesting summer. I shrugged my shoulders and followed everyone else.
We walked in and to mine and everyone else's surprise the home was extremely large and well put together nothing like the exterior. That's when my family heard it, someone was running down the hall and before anyone had time to react a young girl with strawberry blonde hair tripped and fell to the floor. "Ow" She muttered.
Just like Bella Emmett thought laughing while the rest of us were trying not to laugh. She looked over at us and seemed surprised to have such a large audience watching her. She quickly recovered I really hate that rug Nan, I think whoever sold it to you put a magic carpet spell on it." She laughed and started walking over to us. "I'm Victoire, Arthur and Molly's oldest Granddaughter." That was when Carlisle stepped forward introducing us all to her. She shook each of our hands smiling. Then without warning blurted out "Oh, you're all vampires!" She covered her mouth looking extremely guilty. I could tell she hadn't meant it to come out like ‑
That so I smiled at her hoping she would realize we didn't mind. She relaxed a little but quickly said "If you'll excuse me, my breakfast is getting cold." As she turned to walk away Emmett was the one to make her relax completely and she even laughed when he yelled after her to watch out for the rug.
Alice was bouncing on her feet once Victoire was gone. That when I saw the Vision floating around in her head. We were all shopping in a strange village and Victoire was our tour guide. I groaned as the vision ended and Alice quickly went after Victoire to ask her to take us shopping.
"Where is she going in a hurry?" Rosalie asked.
"She saw us all shopping and now she wants to see if Victoire will take us." I looked over at my brothers and watched as their smiles vanished. We all knew shopping with Alice, and let's just say being attacked by 100 angry newborns was less painful.
"Ohhh shopping!!" Rosalie quickly followed Alice into the kitchen. While Carlisle and Esme followed Molly and Arthur to the garden outside.
"We are in so much trouble." Jasper groaned and took a seat in the living room, Emmett nodded and followed but before I could join them I heard Victoire agree and mention something about Flooing over. What on Earth did that mean?
Twenty minutes later
I can't believe I let Alice talk me into this. I hate shopping with her and Rosalie. They just don't know when to quit. Even worse is this Victoire Weasley seems to know how to block minds, so I still can't figure out what she meant by Floo over. I was going to go up and ask her but Alice had a vision of me walking in on her half dressed and I didn't think she or her grandparents would be very happy. So now I'm sitting here with my siblings waiting for Victoire to come down stairs and floo us to this wizard shopping mall place.
"She's coming." Alice said jump up and running towards the stairs to greet Victoire.
"Give her some air." Jasper laughed.
"Hi again." Victoire said smiling as she and Alice enter the family room. "Are you all ready to go?"
Everyone nodded and she walked us towards the fireplace. She laughed when she noticed the questioning looks on all our faces and I have to say my brothers looked a little scared. Until now I hadn't been reading any of their minds instead I had been trying to read Victoire's. I kept get small images from her mind but I couldn't hear her thoughts. It was almost like she knew a way to block me. I shook that thought away and waited for her to explain.
She smiled at each of us and held up some ash, or what I assumed to be ash. "This is Floo Powder. What you do is step into the fireplace and say where you want to go as you throw the powder into the fire." She tilted her head to the side which made me smile thinking of the way Bella use to do that when she would try to hear a conversation between one of my family members and myself. She continued when she knew we were all on the same page. "Now be sure to state the name of the place correctly, because you don't want to end up in some strange place in the wizard world without a guide." She laughed as if remembering this happening before. "Who wants to go first?" She added stepping toward us with a bag full of Floo Powder.
"This is some kind of trick right?" Emmet asked.
"No," she smirked "Would you all prefer I go first to show you?"
Everyone looked around as if she were calling us chickens. Emmet glared at her and said "No I want to go first I was only checking." With that said Emmet step up and Victoire quickly added "It's pronounced DI-A-GON AL-LEY, make sure you say it right I would hate to have to search all over the country for you." We all laughed but she turned on all of us, "I don't want to have to look for any of you. So say it right!" With that Emmet threw the powder into the fire and said "DI-A-GON AL-LEY!" Victoire smiled as she watched the green flames consume Emmet and him disappear. "Who's next?" She asked as Rosalie step up and again we watched as the green flames appeared. We all went one by one till only Victoire and I remained. "Edward right" She questioned. I nodded and she smiled at me. I stepped up to the fire this time and did just as she ‑
Had explained for us to do and before I knew it I felt myself land in another fireplace of a strange store. I looked around before someone fell on top of me.
"Ow." Victoire groaned. She looked down and realized she had landed on top of me. "Oh Edward I'm so sorry. I should have told you to step out quickly."
I stood up and offered her my hand "It's my fault I was too busy looking at this shop. Where are we?" I asked looking at all my siblings who seemed to be messing with different items.
"This" She grinned "Is Weasley Wizard Wheezes my Uncle George owns it. It's a joke shop and the best around, it put Zonko's out of business years ago and no other shop can compete with it."
She started walking away when I noticed I was still holding her hand "Sorry." I mumbled but she didn't seem to hear me because she continued to drag me toward Emmet and Rosalie who were holding some hat.
"Edward." Alice yelled as we approached and Victoire released me hand. "Check this out." Alice put the hat on and her entire head disappeared. Victoire just laughed at my shocked face and Alice removed the hat "How awesome is this place?" She said as I heard Emmett yell my name. I turned and walked over to where he and Jasper stood with boxes in their hands. "These things can make your nose start bleeding and then stop. All you have to do is swallow this pill." Both Jasper and Emmett held up a purple pill. I gave them both a questioning look before adding "We're Vampires." Jasper seemed to realize his mistake and put his boxes away. Emmett looked from me to Jasper and back before I felt the need to explain more. "We don't bleed Emmett." His face quickly fell and I noticed the girls join us.
"My Uncle said you could all have something from the shop." Victoire noticed all the boxes in Emmett's hands and added. "One thing." Before shaking her head and turning toward the red haired man behind the counter. She hugged the guy and jump up on top of the counter to sit and wait on us.
I decided I didn't need anything from a joke shop and told Emmett he could pick something out for himself. I walked over and joined Victiore at the counter; she was listening to the same red haired man tell her a joke about trolls. She started laughing and I felt myself smiling again. What is it with this girl I thought to myself I shouldn't be smiling my Bella left me for that mutt. I then looked up and noticed Victoire staring at me.
"Is there something wrong Edward?" She looked concerned.
"No…I.. Uh was just coming to wait for everyone else to finish." She smiled and slid over on the counter.
"Would you like to sit and wait?" She glanced over at Emmett, "From the looks of it we might be waiting for a while." We both laughed.
"Who's your friend Vic?" The red haired man asked as walked towards us.
"I'm so sorry Uncle George this is Edward Cullen. He is staying with Granddad and Nan. Edward this is my Uncle George the owner of this shop."
"Well it's nice to meet you Edward." I shook his hand and he turned back to Victoire. "I'll be in the back storage room if you need me." He grinned and walked away. Victoire nodded at him and when he was gone she turn back to talk to me.
"So you're not much of a prankster?"
"Well what makes you think that? Is it the fact that I'm not getting anything?" I joked.
"Kind of but it was mostly that you haven't even looked around and you've been frowning the entire time we've been here. So either you're not a prankster or you're not very friendly, which seeing as you sitting here with a sort of stranger having a conversation I'd say the ladder isn't correct."
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"You're right I'm not much for pranking people, but I haven't smiled much lately. So it's nothing to do with being here." She just watched me for a moment and I wanted to know what she was thinking so I again tried to read her mind and again heard nothing. It wasn't the same as with Bella Victoire was blocking my thought, and it wasn't the way my family blocks their thought. I had to know how she was doing it. "Victoire can I ask you something?" She nodded and I continued "You see I can read minds and well when I try to read yours it's like you're putting a brick wall up so I can't read yours. I was wondering how you were doing it, if you knew you were doing it at all."
She just smiled and nodded. "My Uncle Harry insisted that all the Potter/Weasley kids learn to use occlumency which is the power to block the mind from outside intruders. Of course only Ted-"I noticed her look down and frown at the mention of this name. She sighed and continued "Only Teddy and I have learned how to do it properly. Now can I ask you something?"
"Well I guess it's only fair." I looked over at her and waited.
"Why haven't you smiled?" she looked over and met my eyes.
Thankfully at that moment, Alice came over and told us everyone was ready to go. Victoire smiled at me and hopped down grabbing 4 bags from behind the counter and handing them to Alice. She then turned to me and said "I'm going to have you smiling before the days over." She laughed and walked over to the curtain her Uncle went behind earlier and yelled, "We're leaving and thanks Uncle George." I heard he mumble something about having fun but I was too busy thinking about what Victoire had just said to me. I wonder how she plans to make me smile. Alice was laughing at Emmett as Victoire joined my family.
"Do any of you like to read?" Jasper smiled "Well then Flourish and blots here we come." Victoire laughed as she turned and headed out the door.
