Chapter 13

I cannot explain how sorry I am. Life is so busy at the moment. And I just have a lot going on... Sorry it's been, like, over a month. I really want to finish this story, but quickly, lol. I've got no inspiration. If it feels rushed, sorry... I'm aiming for about four more chapters after this one.

PLEASE read the Author's Note at the end. Enjoy this chapter.

Disclaimer - I do not own Wizards of Waverly Place.

Justin eyes widened in shock and confusion. He looked at his sister's face, and saw her eyes to be filled with merely regret and humiliation.

"Wait…" he said. Alex had spied on him and Juliet? Looking through a mirror? Using the eye of the spy spell?

Alex was surrounded by the silence, and anxiously waited for the yells that would surely arise from his brother. He was going to be so angry. Maybe her whole 'looking' idea hadn't been such a great plan after all.

Alex grew more and more nervous as the room stayed silent, until after a few long moments, Justin finally spoke, his voice in a hurried flow.

"Alex, can you teach me that?"

She was slightly taken aback. She lifted her head to look at her brother properly. This wasn't what she had expecting at all.

"What?" she asked, confused.

"The eye of the spy spell. Can you… Show me how you did it?"

Alex felt her chest untighten, and sighed a breath she hadn't even realised she had been holding.

So Justin wasn't mad at her? Even a little? Of course, she didn't want her brother being mad at her, but… She'd spied on her brother and his girlfriend – ex-girlfriend – whatever, when they were out on a date? She'd just told him that, and he didn't even seem surprised by it?

"Is that… All you want to say?" she asked nervously.

Justin raised his eyebrows, questioningly, but in agreement.

But Alex was still uncertain. "Nothing about… Me? Or you? Or Juliet? Or me spying on you and Juliet?"

Justin walked closer to her sister before gently taking one of her hands in his own.

"Alex," he started, rubbing his thumb against her finger knuckles. "No. I don't have anything to say. What you did, whenever it was, is old now. It doesn't matter anymore."

"Really?"

Justin nodded his head. "Yeah. I'll admit, if it were this time a few weeks ago you were telling me, my reaction would probably be a little bit different but…"

Alex giggled, before smiling and looking up at her brother.

"Seriously. It was in the past. Before… Us." He gestured, still with her hand in his own, towards her Alex and himself. "I'm wiling to let it go if you are?"

Alex's heart melted at the truth and sincerity in Justin's voice voice. She gripped Justin's index finger and began swinging his hand side to side.

"I still owe you an apology though, Justin." She said truthfully, sighing. "I'm sorry."

"And, even though I needn't be saying this, thou hast forgiven thee."

Justin gently pulled his hand away, before turning around and walking in the direction towards the lair.

"Why are you going to the lair?"

"I already said." he replied, almost automatically. "I need you to show me the eye of the spy spell."

Alex stared at her brother in confusion, and could have sworn that she saw his cheeks redden a little.

"Just to make sure that you did it correctly. And that you weren't doing anything wrong, or putting yourself in danger… Or something."

Alex still stared intently at his brother, before she came to a realisation, and felt a smile tug at her lips.

Ha, like she was going to buy this.

Justin would never just offer to help Alex with magic. Ever since she, and her younger brother Max had started Wizard training, he had never helped any of them. In fact, the only time that Alex had ever remembered Justin helping her, was when she had got stuck inside a doll's house which had been about to be sold. And even then, he was very reluctant in doing so.

He was always so focused on doing well himself – passing wizard classes, not falling behind on his wizard studies… In fact, the only reason Justin would ever even be remotely interested in his sister's wizard studies would be because…

"You don't know the eye of the spy spell, do you, Justin?"

Justin faced reddened even more than it obviously had done before. "I do, I need to-"

"I know - make sure that I did it correctly, and that I wasn't doing anything wrong," Alex quoted, attempting to mock her brothers voice.

He frowned slightly. "I don't talk like that."

Alex smiled smugly. "You're right; you don't. I was lying." She walked forward, even closer to Justin, tilting her head up slightly to stare right into his eyes. "Just like how you're lying about knowing the spell."

Justin, being so close to Alex, and acting purely on impulse, despite the unrealistic and offensive mock she'd just demonstrated, leaned in to kiss Alex. But just before he'd reached her lips, she responded by seductively biting her bottom lip, and cheekily stepping backwards. While turning to go the lair, she stroked her hand across his neck and down his chest.

Before a still in shock Justin even had a chance to respond, he heard the familiar creak in the stairs leading to the lair.

"Well, come on!" Alex shouted, walking into the room. "Do you want to know the spell or not?" She smirked, even though she knew Justin couldn't see her, and heard Justin begin walking down the stairs after her.

She just loved teasing him.

Justin rolled his eyes. She was right; he actually, for once, didn't know the spell. He'd suspected that Alex would know it, what with her constant cunning and mischievous ways. But for some reason, he'd obviously missed it out during wizard training.

He didn't want Alex knowing a spell he didn't know. They may have been a… Couple, but they were still the same old people they had been since they were born - Alex Margarita Russo, and Justin Vincenzo Pepe Better-Than-Alex Russo.

…

"So you want the spell," Alex said once his brother was downstairs in the lair with her. " You, the great Justin Russo, need to learn a spell from me?"

"Shut it, Alex," he replied, his voice tuned with mock annoyance. "Just teach me the spell."

Alex laughed, before holding up a small mirror that usually sat on a cabinet, and Justin walked over to her. She reached for her wand, which was sticking out from her boot slightly, and he slid his arm around her waist. She giggled and leaned into his body.

"The spell – it's easy, really," she began. "First of all… Well, what do you even want to see?"

"Well, it's just a test, so how about…" he thought for a moment, deciding. "Just do mom and dad. And Max, obviously. Let's see what they're up to, since they haven't even called us to since they left."

Alex chucked, before explaining the spell; how Justin had to concentrate on the location, then recite the words, and wait for the magic to commence.

A slightly blurred picture of their parents soon displayed through the glass. They saw the room they were in, with a hard looking concrete wall and ceiling, with dark coloured chandeliers hanging above, with a generally sad and depressing atmosphere.

And despite the small viewing difficulty, both Justin and Alex could see that Max wasn't there. Maybe he was in a different room.

But wait, why were their mom and dad there themselves? In fact, Justin and Alex couldn't at all remember that room in Aunt Julia's. They many not have been there for a couple of years, but their memories weren't that bad. It couldn't have been Aunt Julia's. It wasn't.

Justin noticed that his parents were reading from a thick, leather covered book, and his dad was scrawling things on a page inside, crinkled and yellow with age. Whatever was on it wasn't too pleasing, judging by the look on his parents' faces. They looked worried, sad, even.

"What are they looking at?" he murmured absent-mindedly.

"I don't know," Alex muttered. "Wait, why don't we…" She placed her thumb and forefinger on the glass, before sliding them outwards, waya from each other, to enlarge the image. However, it then became even more blurred, and pixelated.

"We can't see a thing now," Justin sighed. He moved his face closer to the mirror. "Wait, I think I can make this out." He squinted his eyes, and concentrated in the bold red writing at the top of the paper. "Maxwell Alanzo Ernesto Russo." He turned his head to face his sister. "The paper's about Max." He squinted harder, at the slightly smaller black print underneath. Powersculus ce la Wizardus. Powersculus ce la Wizardus… Power… Wizard! It's got something to do with… His wizard powers?" Justin stood up right again, and sighed, in utter confusion.

Alex was just as puzzled as her brother. What would their parents be doing with a file with something to do with powers? She'd been to Aunt Julia's before; she was her maternal aunt, so she'd have nothing to do with magic. Nothing to do with a sheet of paper, written in… Wiz Latin, perhaps?, relating to wizard powers. And Max? Why was he on the paper?

"Justin? I'm confused. And a little freaked out. " Alex gripped his hand, and he gently squeezed it back.

"So am I…" He lead Alex to the long desk at the back of the room, where an old wizard textbook lay, gathering dust. Justin blew the dust off, causing both him and Alex to cough, before opening the thick, leather-covered book.

There was a piece of white paper sticking out at the top of a page, and Justin thought it looked like some sort of bookmark. He flicked to the page; number eight hundred and forty six. The white piece of paper did indeed seem to be in place of a bookmark. However, the only difference was bookmarks were usually there because you wanted to open to that page.

"Doesn't look like this page was meant to be opened," Alex said, examining the huge, black cross sign on the 'bookmark', much like how a no entry sign would be displayed on the road. It had obviously been put there to remind someone… Not to read it?

Well… This was Alex. A piece of paper was nothing on her. She began to slide it off from the page of the book.

"What are you doing?" Justin exclaimed in shock.

"I'm seeing what's so bad about this page, duh."

"But what if we're not supposed to see it?" Justin furrowed his brow, and was about to launch into a full, 'Alexised' speech. But she stopped a few seconds later, noticing Alex staring at him. "What?"

Alex smiled, and reached her hand out, using her index finger to trace around Justin's face. "You look cute when you're mad," she whispered, smiling.

Justin immediately felt himself blush slightly, before holding onto Alex's hand on his face and pulling it to his lips to kiss her finger tips.

"Thank… You..?"

She giggled, and that instant feeling of love and passion filled the both of them. Justin loved her; he just loved Alex. She was beautiful, inside and out. He loved how she would be kind and sweet to him like this, while still maintaining their usual brother-sister relationship, filled with a little bickering and teasing, though which was now, however, in a much more friendly, loving manner.

Sighing, Alex pulled her hand away before quickly pecking Justin on the lips. She smirked slightly, knowing she had paid her "debt' from earlier on outside the lair, and had done it at just the right time, too. "I'm still gonna look at this page, though."

Justin rolled his, before gesturing to the piece of paper for Alex to move it. She did so, and at the top of the page, in a sprawl of inky, black writing, read 'Powerculus ce la Wizardus'. The exact same thing that had been on the page in the book their parents had been holding. Alex began to scan what was on the page.

Have no heart.

Have no heart whom?

Have no heart, you.

Have no heart for whom?

Have no heart for two.

Removious Emotioness.

"Is this a spell?" Alex asked.

"Yeah, it must be. But I've never seen it before."

"Well let's face it, you're not as good a wizard as you thought you were. You learnt how to do Oculus Spyveria, like, ten minutes ago."

Justin was about to reply, before being distracted by a subtle glow that appeared for no longer than a second at the tip one of the previous pages. He stared at the book again, and saw the glow on the next page as well. And the one after that. And the one after that, too.

"Wait…" Justin walked back to the other end of the room, and diverted his attention back to image of his parents on the mirror again. He watched his parents flick through the pages of their book, before quickly flipping his head back again to look at the book him and Alex had just found. Alex just watched him, as she noticed him realise some sort of correspondence.

And then finally he realised it.

"That book," he said, pointing to the mirror, "is that book." He gestured to the one that Alex was still standing next to. "Well no, it's not that book, but-"

Alex finished his sentence. "It's a copy. Edgebono Utoosis."

"Everything that they're doing with that book… Happens to this book." Justin walked back towards Alex again.

"Okay, Justin, you know I'm not one to care about unanswerable questions, or want to pursue something, or even be bothered to pursue something, but what the hell is going on and how can we can find out more about it?"

Justin simply smiled at his sister, still confused, but shocked and quite pleasantly surprised about the interest Alex seemed to have in the books. Not only were Justin and Alex now a… 'Couple', who could still tease each other like brother and sister, but now they had similar interests also.

"Let's go see mom and dad," Justin answered, picking the book up from the table, closing it after placing the bookmark on the page, one hundred and forty six.

"Well, they're obviously not at Aunt Julia's," Alex pointed out. "How are we gonna get there?"

"Alex," Justin smirked, "we're wizards. How can we not get there?" He grabbed Alex's hand with his free one, waiting for her to catch on.

She soon did, bending down to get her wand from inside her right boot. She'd done this spell hundreds of times, literally, but usually only to places she was familiar with, like the art museum, or school, or upstairs to grab her jacket.

But not to the 'unknown'.

She stared at Justin, nervously, before closing her eyes and focusing on 'where mom and dad were', which she knew Justin was doing also. After a moment, she turned her wand in the air.

"Are you sure this is safe?" she asked nervously, shocking even herself with her uncertain, or even, somewhat, scared tone.

Justin smirked. "Too late to turn back now!"

"Well actually, I could just easily put down my wand, like-"

But before she even had time to finish her sentence, let alone finish demonstrating how to stop the transportation mid spell, Alex felt Justin's hand grip firmly around hers on her wand, bringing it up into the air again.

She tried to pull it back downwards again. "What are you-"

But he quickly tightened his grip and brought the wand high into the air. "Transport," he shouted, much to Alex's dismay, but before she knew it, the two of them vanished from the lair, and into the magical 'in between' of the starting point and their unknown destination.

Author's Note:

I promised myself I wouldn't until I'd finished this story, but I couldn't help it... I wrote chapter one of my Victorious fanfiction. I find it much more interesting to write than Unexpected. I will upload it soon, and it'll most likely be called "Is It Your Fault, Or Mine?". Check my profile in a couple days maybe, it should be up there by then. Hopefully you'll like it.

Please REVIEW this chapter. If you want. I don't really mind. Ooh I know, tell me what you think will happen at the end of this story! The person who's guess is the closest... I don't know, you can decide a prize. :) But NOT like, getting my Fanfiction account or anything stupid like that, lol, sorry. And can you tell me whether or not you like Victorious, so I can know if I'll be seeing any of you guys on my new story?

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