Title: Blind Love

Disclaimer: I don't own Wizards of Waverly place. This is just a fanfiction. No infringement intended. If similar to something or someone, it is a coincidence.

Summary: What if Justin and Alex weren't related by blood and the only people that knew about it were Alex and her parents, Jerry and Teresa?
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-Chapter 2- Three Years Later (Wizard Competition)

Alex sat in her room meditating. Today was the day of the Family Wizard Competition that would decide which Russo kid would keep all their powers. Ever since she found out about it's existence three years ago, she had an uneasy feeling in her, and everyday it grew. Right now, she felt guilty. Guilty that she was even allowed to take part in it. Yes, she was a Russo, she carried the Russo name, but she didn't have Russo blood running through her veins. Nobody knew this, not even the Wizard council. Only she and her parents knew. It didn't feel right, but could she tell the truth? What would happen to the family if the truth came out? What if because if this secret, the whole family would be punished by nobody even having a chance of keeping their powers? No, she had to stay quiet. She would do this fairly. Well, as fair as it was possible in this situation.

"Alright! Russo's you're up!" the Wizard Council judge called out. The three siblings gulped. They just watched two families go through with the competition, and watched how some won, and others lost, and how some were okay with the outcomes, and how others forever left the families. Was this what was going to happen to them? Would they still stick together? Or would this break them apart? Yes, they all had their differences, and they had their fair share of fights and sometimes wished they weren't related, but they still cared. Silently wishing each other luck, they stepped onto the open arena and prepared for what was ahead.

It was half way through the battle, so far all three were still strong on their feet and not giving up. Max looked like he was having fun and wasn't even paying attention that if he lost he would lose his powers forever. It was mainly Alex and Justin battling each other now. Their challenge now was to use all their knowledge and create a force field that would protect the other against the attack of the other siblings wand strike. This was the final challenge and the one that made Alex stop. As she watched Justin pull all his powers together to create the force field, she realized how much this meant to him. It meant to her too, but definitely not as much as him. She remembered the perfect spell for the perfect force field, and the order of which all the elements were supposed to go, but she felt she shouldn't go through with it. She felt she should lose to him. She couldn't see the one she loved, hurt. Her heart ached as she pictured his face over the past three years of knowing him.

"I have to lose. I must. I don't have the right to carry the Russo family magic. I can't bare to see him lose." Alex thought to herself. She started to build the force field in reverse order making it weak. From the corner of her eye, she saw her father's eyes grow in shock. Her mother, looking confused as she saw her husband's eyes almost bulging out of their sockets. Max who was having fun, making the force field and popping it like a bubble, and Justin. Yes Justin. The love of her life.

Oh I didn't tell you. Yes, Alex loved Justin as more than a brother. And remember, it's not gross, because they aren't related, and they didn't live long enough together to be considered brother and sister.

"Now, prepare your wands!" the loud voice of the judge interrupted Alex's gaze. "Send out your highest level of magic you can possibly send through your force field and break your opponents field.
"ALEX!" her dad called. She ignored him. She knew that he knew she did it wrong. But she was determined.
"Begin!"

It didn't take long, Justin's powers crashed right through her force field and absorbed all her powers. Weak, from not being used to being powerless, Alex collapsed on the ground.
"The winner of the Russo family competition is Justin Russo!" There were cheers from the crowd around. Alex watched weakly, as Justin did a happy dance, which of course he would forever deny.

And this was how Alex Russo lost her powers.