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Time for the second chapter a little more background info and then on to Hogwarts

Bold = thoughts

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All was well at Honeydukes, Ambrosius had adjusted well to having a family and now he couldn't imagine what his life would have been without Charlotte, there had been a few hiccups along the way, they had forgotten to give Charlotte a blood flavoured lollipop at the age of 3 as it was a weekend the Hogwarts students were in Hogsmede, this was the day they discovered that she had inherited the strength of a vampire. The rage she went into when she had missed eating a blood flavoured lollipop was a sight which Ambrosius never wished to see again, but what he never wanted to happen again was the time that she fell into a coma all because she had missed eating one.

Ambrosius smiled at Charlotte as he watched her bringing up a box of acid pops from storage, she was 6 years old now and he could tell she was definitely going to be magical, he just worried whether the school which over looked his little shop would take someone like her. He had never hid from her that his sister was her mother and that he and his wife had adopted her, nor had he hid the fact she was half vampire.

"Uncle, it's time to open the shop," a small voice said, Ambrosius looked down and smiled at Charlotte nodding his head in agreement.

There was a steady flow of customers throughout the morning, it was summer so there was no mad rush of Hogwarts students coming into the shop not that Ambrosius disliked the students coming, but sometimes he just likes a steady stream of customers rather than his shop being packed to the rafters.

The bell above the door jingled signalling a customer had entered the shop; Charlotte looked towards the shop entrance and went to greet them. "Hi welcome to Honeydukes," she said smiling politely at the women and her son.

The women gave her a faint smile in return before walking over to the chocolate shelves, the boy stared at Charlotte and smiled, "Hi, I'm Blaise Zabini, and you are?" he said his tone of voice indicating that he had be raised well.

Charlotte looked at him and smiled, "I'm Charlotte Flume," she replied.

The women walked back over to her son and Charlotte, "Flume you say? Well could you go and inform Ambrosius that Bellina Zabini is here?" she said her voice was soft and flowing, a hint of an Italian accent was noticeable when she spoke.

Charlotte looked at her an nodded, "Of course, I'll get him now," she replied, before running upstairs to inform Ambrosius soon she was coming back downstairs her uncle in tow. Blaise and his mother had moved now over to the savoury items that Ambrosius had to sell.

"Bellina, how are you?" Ambosius said in greeting, Bellina looked up and smiled at Ambrosius before pulling him into a hug and chatting to him as old friends would. Blaise shuffled his way over to Charlotte and tugged on her arm gently to get her attention.

"Shall we leave them to it? You can show me around the shop, mother informed me that you live here," Blaise mumbled to her.

Charlotte looked at Blaise and smiled, "Sure lets go," she said happily before grabbing his hand and pulling him towards the shops entrance. "We keep lots of bright stuff in the windows, my uncle said this helps the shop to get noticed by people walking past," she told Blaise, who nodded in return to indicate he was listening.

Charlotte continued showing Blaise around, grabbing a blood flavoured lollipop as she went past them, causing Blaise to look at her confused. "You like those?" he asked her.

Charlotte looked at him and then towards her uncle who was still chatting to Bellina, "Can you keep a secret Blaise? You have to promise never to tell anyone ever though!" Charlotte whispered to Blaise.

Blaise looked at Charlotte for a few minutes almost as if he was trying to work out in his head whether he could keep a secret forever before finally nodding affirmatively at Charlotte, "I can do that, we're friends now, so I can keep your secret," he stated.

Charlotte looked at Blaise and smiled shyly, she had never had anyone her age call her their friend before, "Ok, well I kind of have to eat the lollipops, I like them, but I have to have them every 2 hours because I'm half vampire,2 she whispered to Blaise nervously.

Blaise looked at Charlotte again and was silent for a moment with no facial expression, before breaking out into a wide grin, "That's cool, my friend is half vampire," he said before dragging Charlotte over to the cockroach clusters.

Charlotte smiled at Blaise allowing herself to be dragged around the rest of the shop by her hand, they were in the back room of the shop when they heard Bellina speak, "Goodness I have been standing here talking for nearly 2 hours, I'm glad I came on such a quiet day or you would have a lot of angry customers right now," she said giggling.

Ambrosius smiled at her and nodded, "Well, I suppose you want your normal order anyway, I'll ask Charlotte to go and get it," he said to her, Bellina nodded in confirming his thoughts.

Ambrosius looked around and realised that Charlotte and Blaise were nowhere in sight, Bellina had noticed that her son wasn't in the main shop also. "Blaise where are you come on now, we are going soon," she said loudly.

Blaise and Charlotte walked out of the back room still holding hands, "Sorry mother, I was just getting Charlotte to show me around the shop." He said to her.

Bellina and Ambrosius smiled at the children, "Mother I wanted to know whether Charlotte could come over to our house?" he added.

Ambrosius and Bellina looked at each other and nodded, "She can come over next week, and rather than having to travel back the same day she can stay the night if she is allowed," Bellina said.

Blaise broke out into a wide grin, and looked at Charlotte, "I told you they would say yes," he said to her.

Charlotte nodded at him enthusiastically before looking over to her uncle, "I suppose it couldn't hurt," he said, "Bellina you do know of Charlottes heritage yes?" he added.

Bellina looked at Ambrosius and smiled, "Of course Ambrosius, Dolce was my best friend after all," she said.

This started a tradition for Blaise and Charlotte every other year they would stay at Blaise's' house for the Summer, and at Honeydukes the years they were not at the Zabini's, they grew close only really having each other as friends, they had met other children at dinners usually held by the Malfoys, but tended to prefer talking to each other than getting to know others.

"Mum!" Blaise screamed, Bellina came running downstairs in a panic thinking something was wrong.

"What is it Blaise are you and Charlotte ok?" she said frantically, her eyes running over the both of them searching for injuries.

Blaise shook his head at his mother, "No look mother, we have just got Hogwarts letters," Blaise said to her.

Bellina's face relaxed and she smiled brightly, "I will floo Ambrosius and tell him the good news, then we are going to have to take a trip to Diagon Alley." She said before hurrying back upstairs.

Blaise and Charlotte looked at each other and smiled, before hugging and bouncing up at down on the spot happily, they were excited to go to Diagon Alley, as it meant they really were soon to become Hogwarts students.

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Chapter 2 = done

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