A/N: Here is the next chapter. I know a lot of you were really looking forward to this one so here it is.

Warnings: Mentions of Child abuse, torture.

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or Twilight.

CHAPTER 9:::EDIT

Creative writing, Harry decided, was a useless class. He knew he might be a bit biased due to the three vampires in the room, but he thought he was being fairly objective in his criticisms. He'd gotten lost trying to find the class, only to arrive late and get yelled at by the teacher. The teacher had then excused herself and had yet to show back up twenty minutes later.

The other students didn't seem overly surprised by her absence and were talking amongst themselves, but Harry was still seething over the hypocrisy of the situation.

"She did that to me too." Bella murmured quietly. He turned to look at her and smiled a little, just a small quirking of the lip. She was sitting at the desk next to him, though there actually wasn't that much space between them. The classroom was small, so the desks were close together. Harry had made sure to get one on the edge, so that he could leave as soon as the bell rang and not worry about climbing over other people.

As the silence dragged on Harry started to feel the hairs on the back of his neck rise, and he knew someone was staring at him. Abruptly, he turned to look behind him and caught the eyes of Jasper and Alice Cullen. He felt himself beginning to get angry, but restrained himself by pointedly turning his attention away from them and back to the doorway.

However, as the teacher didn't seem to be coming back anytime soon, he let his attention wander to Bella. She was doodling now, an arm guarding the drawing she seemed so focused on. Her long, dark hair hiding most of her face, though the tip of her pale nose was still visible. Harry felt his lips quirk; he really did like her, though he wasn't sure why. Maybe it was because she never pushed him for details and seemed completely content to just sit there with him in silence.

"Sorry for the delay. I needed to speak with someone." The teacher said as she entered the room, not stopping even to close the door behind her. She immediately moved to put her things on her desk before turning back to the class. Harry examined her for more detail than what he had gathered during their first encounter. He noticed that she was a lot frailer than he had originally thought, with boney shoulders sticking out of a gaudy yellow dress. She seemed almost skeletal, really, with her stringy blonde hair and murky brown eyes that seemed to sink into her skull. The image was helped by the pale skin that seemed stretched over the bones and musculature of her narrow face. "We have a new student, I see. Would you care to introduce yourself?"

"Do I have a choice?" He muttered louder than he meant to, earning a few laughs from people around the room.

"You always have a choice, Mr. Potter." The teacher said, squishing her thin lips together. Harry very nearly rolled his eyes, but knew the consequences if he did so would not be worth it.

"Hadrian Potter." He said flatly, tapping the fingers of his left hand on the desk as he fiddled with a pen in his right.

"Right then. Today class, you will be picking a quote and for homework you are to write about how it is structured. Is it a statement? Is symbolism involved?"

"Harry sighed and wrote the assignment down in his planner. The teacher rattled on about possible sources for their quotes, but he figured he just look something up on the internet and wing it.

Harry had waited for Bella outside of Creative Writing, but as soon as the bell rang he had been out of the door. In the last few minutes of class the teacher had lectured him on all that the class had covered that year, and while he appreciated the sentiment, her breath smelled like smoke and rancid meat.

"So, Biology is this way," Bella said, grabbing Harry's attention. He nodded, and followed Bella to the classroom where they slipped inside without so much as a glance towards the teacher.

Bella had immediately taken her seat next to Mike, and he was chagrinned to see that the only available seat was next to Edward Cullen.

He scowled, but walked over to the desk and took a seat anyway, studiously ignoring the vampire while he was at it.

"All right! Pay attention, class. Today we are going to be going over the instructions for the dissection lab you will be completing next class." Harry blanched when he realized that he would have to dissect a cat or a frog or some other creature.

He heard a snort from beside him and turned to glare at the smug looking vampire. He almost lashed out, but quickly restrained himself and turned his attention back to the teacher who started droning on about the dissection process and requirements.

He already knew most of this from his tutoring, but he took notes on it anyway. However, his mind was elsewhere, thinking about more pressing issues. Like how he was going to have to talk to the Cullen's about what he'd learned, or about how he needed to figure out who XJ was, or even how he was going to have to lie to Bella when she asked why he was talking to the Cullens.

He groaned, and didn't even bother glaring when a few people turned to stare.

Class let out, and for the first time that day Hadrian didn't bolt from the room. Instead, with no small amount of hesitation, he tapped Edward on the shoulder and calmly walked out of the building, knowing the vampire would follow.

He exited the building through the side-door closest to the classroom and continued on to one of the pavilion's lining the school grounds. Once there, he sat himself down on a picnic table and waited for the vampire to catch up.

"Hadrian, about earlier, I-"

"I really don't care," Harry snapped, not ready to listen to the creatures apologies, especially when there was something much more important going on. "I got a letter today and I need you to tell your family what is says."

He was happy to see that those words seemed to grab the vampires attention.

"Whoever wrote it is named XJ, and because the name doesn't mean anything to me, I assume it doesn't mean anything to you?" It wasn't really a question, but he got an affirmative nod from the vampire anyway. "Right, so I'm not quite sure why he thought I would agree, but he seems to want my help in killing your family." He knew that was a shortened version of it, but he couldn't reveal much else without giving away hints as to who he actually was. He watched as the vampire seemed to come to terms with the information, and wasn't overly surprised to see the blatantly confused expression on the other boy's face.

"Why are you telling me this?" Edward asked.

"Well, I didn't think you'd fancy being slaughtered, but I could be wrong." He retorted dryly, slipping into sarcasm to hide his anxiety.

"But you hate us."

"No, I don't," Harry said in a decidedly condescending voice. "In fact, I didn't have a real problem with you until you invited yourself into my head." His voice remained steady, but he could tell the anger in his words was noticed from the slight widening of the vampire's eyes.

"I was just doing what I th-" Edward started, but cut himself off when he saw that the shorter male was hardly listening. "I just wanted to make sure my family was safe."

Harry snorted, but didn't move to object to the vampire's claims. Instead, he turned on his heel and walked towards the parking lot on their left.

Edward made the decision not to tell his family what Hadrian had revealed to him until after they returned to their home. He figured it was the least he could do for the human because he was sure, if he had told his siblings at school, they would have had Hadrian cornered and spitting up every detail before the human could leave the grounds.

When he found his siblings they immediately questioned where he'd been, but he brushed them off. They knew enough about him to not bother pestering him for answers, and instead turned their attention to getting in their respective cars. Edward rode with Jasper and Alice, deciding he wasn't really in the mood to deal with Rosalie's temper.

The only down side to this was that Jasper could feel he was distracted, nervous. He sent a quick half-smile to his brother, but didn't offer up any more information. Alice, luckily, didn't seem to notice and continue to talk about something he didn't even bother trying to understand.

"He was glad when they got home, and wasted little time in getting out of the car and entering the house. He immediately headed for the kitchen where he heard Esme listening to one of those human cooking shows.

He nodded at her as he entered the room, and quietly sat himself down in one of the chairs as he waited for his siblings to arrive. There was no use waiting on Carlisle, since he wouldn't be home until much later.

"I talked to Hadrian today," He announced as soon as he was sure his siblings were close enough to hear.

"And?" Esme asked, curiosity burning in her eyes as she turned her attention from the television and towards the bronze haired vampire. He barely paid attention to the rest of his siblings as they filed into the room.

"He got a letter sometime today from a person called XJ." He paused to see if any of his siblings or Esme knew of him, but receiving blank stares he continued. "He said XJ wanted to recruit him so they could hunt us down together."

The room was completely silent for a long time until Emmett spoke. "Will he do it?"

"I don't think so." Alice said. "It wouldn't make sense to tell Edward if he was"

"Unless he wanted a challenge." Rosalie retorted. Her words almost echoed in the silence of the room.

"We need to find out more about him and where he stands with us." Esme murmured, trying to not only shake Rosalie's words away, but the bad memories they triggered.

"We need to talk to him about this. He put himself in danger to help us. I don't think he's a threat." Edward said, uncomfortable with how easily his family was turning the human into something that couldn't be trusted. He wasn't sure why the thought upset him, but it left a sick feeling in his gut.

"Tomorrow at school then; we'll invite him over." Alice said.

A/N: So there's the chapter. The Cullen's know and now they're making plans to get Hadrian to talk to them. As always, review with any mistakes, spelling errors, etc. You can review for other reasons too, of course.