I'm sorry it's been so long for this fanfiction. During summer I was engrossed in writing my other fanfiction and then school starts and so does inspiration for this when I have no time to write it.
Anyway I'm getting ready to bring in another main character next chapter so enjoy this one.
Founder's Phoenix
Possible Normality
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By six o'clock the next morning, Harry was the first into the fitness suite at the hotel and was warming up by doing lunges, push ups and more before he started his weight training then going into some endurance and stamina exercises.
He was wearing his new low hung tank top, that he'd taken a liking to for his work outs and some loose shorts.
Once he's finished by eight, he was sweating and tired out and just wanted to get a shower in his room and meet Naomi for breakfast but as he was walking through the lobby he saw Jessica actually working for once on her desk. Harry walked over to the desk without her noticing and looked down at her.
"Good morning miss. I'm Harry Potter and I would like to take you out this evening to a place of your choice and I promise I will look better than I do right now." He said in a confident voice, leaning on the side of her desk seductively.
"Hmmm..." she coughed, clearly surprised to see him in his post-workout hotness," It's nice to see you sir. You're lucky it's my night off tonight. I'll meet you here at nine and we'll catch an Uber to Raffles, my Dad can easily get us in. I wonder who's going to be there tonight, there is always some celebrity and I hope its Brooklyn Beckham. Harry I'm so looking forward to tonight already. Dress nice it's a very high end nightclub in Chelsea."
She didn't stop for a breath at all during her excitement and Harry could think of only one thing to say.
"Isn't that Beckham kid, my age and doesn't he live in Los Angeles?" he asked.
"If you're sixteen, then yes and wow you look good for your age, I'm seventeen. The Beckham's live in L.A most of the year except summer and Brooklyn's not seen for most of the year. It's accepted he goes to Boarding School, but when he's in London he goes to clubs and stuff. Raffles is his most used place."
"Good to know, but does he have any older sisters that I can flirt with while your flirting with him?" Asked Harry, smirking.
"Hey I'm going with you, I wouldn't ditch you like that even if it was Brooklyn Beckham and anyway his sister not even at school yet so unless you want to spend your evening watching Peppa Pig, I'm all you've got. Here's my phone number." Laughed Jessica, handing it over.
"Harry Potter! What are you doing with this young lady? Are you already using your hot new look to get girls? That's my boy!" Naomi shouted across the echoing foyer as she entered the hotel, pinching his cheek at the end while he glared at her and she smiled at the both of them.
"Jessica, this is my future roommate and nothing else to it, Naomi and Naomi this is Jessica. The girl I'm taking on a date tonight." Introduced Harry.
"Nice to meet you, Naomi" Jessica said, politely.
"You too but we really need to have breakfast and go. We've got a busy day." Said Naomi dragging Harry behind her going in a random direction.
"I need to go to the room and get changed before we go eat, Naomi." Said Harry, complain about being dragged along by his arm.
"Fine, I'll talk to you in the lift. What floor?" She asked, clearly pissed off as well.
"What's wrong with you?" Said Harry, forcefully, walking into the lift and pressing the button for the top floor.
"From what you've told me about Hermione, that Jessica is not your type and with it she seems like a total bimbo and not a brain cell to add to it. Your into smart girls that know what their doing not...Jessica." Ranted Naomi.
"Do you really think I want a serious relationship with that girl. I don't even think she's capable of it. What happened to anyone wanting to just have some fun for a night and then forget about it." He said as they stepped out of the lift.
"As long as that's all it is and I don't see her coming out of this room in the morning I don't care." She said pointing to the door to the suite they had just reached, "Have fun tonight anyway and by the way you could have gone out with me clubbing instead of asking her."
"I know and I will have fun but we still have our day of shopping to complete and that involves a lot of different jobs. We need to get going or we'll be spending weeks doing this."
"True. Should we make a list while we eat breakfast then get going?" Naomi suggested.
"Okay." They reached the only door on the landing and Harry opened it to reveal the massive room with the bed in, a few sofas and desk, "go on through there's another room through there that you can go into while I change.
He turned around and went to get a new shirt and shorts. His shirt was off before he noticed that Naomi hadn't left.
"Naomi! What are you doing?" He asked, while she stared at the room.
"Harry, you know this is probably the most expensive hotel room in London."
"I said I was spoiling myself yesterday and spoiling myself is spending a lot of money." Harry came up behind her and pushed her gently to the other room with its own television and turned it on for her, "Stay here."
He had gotten changed into his mustard yellow chinos, light blue button-up and navy jumper and they went back down to the foyer to get breakfast. Naomi was wearing a white cami top with a denim jacket and burgundy hat, also black jeggings, boots and bag.
As they ate breakfast they discussed where they were going to start with the massive list of furniture and essentials.
"Starting with electronics and such would be a good idea so that we could search online and order everything then go and get it in store. Much quicker and more efficient." Smiled Naomi, taking a bite out of her crepes.
"How about an Apple store? I've heard there top notch." He asked.
"We should be able to get everything there but it's a bit more expensive than other places."
"That's fine, once were finished here, we can go and make a start."
"Don't you think you should be taking more care with your money, Harry? You seem to be spending a lot of it in a small amount of time." Asked Naomi, seeming genuinely concerned.
"That's is what I'm intending to do. I have got two and a half million to spend in a year before I get the full extent of what my parents had. I only got about zero point zero zero...something percent of it so I think I'm allowed to splurge for a while." Said Harry tucking into his Full English.
"If that's your aim, I'll leave you to it and ride the wave."
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"Welcome to the Covent Garden Apple store. How can I help you?" An assistant came up to Harry and Naomi as they entered the shop.
"Yes please, we're looking for the latest phones, laptops, tablets, MP3 players and more. Everything we need."Harry said smiling at the intelligent looking man.
"We have a wide range of things available for you to have a look at. I would recommend buying the new iPhone six plus for you with a high data storage so you can use it as a MP3 as well. That will make it slightly cheaper but you would probably want an Apple Mac for proper work and a MacBook to take to school. Our iPads are used mainly for travelling and playing games which I assume would be perfect for you two." He said this while walking around the store showing them exactly what he meant as he said it.
"Can we start with the phones then please?" Harry asked.
"Of course."
Within half an hour they were done and had all their purchases in bags ready to take back to the hotel. Harry had gotten an iPhone six plus in space grey, an iMac and a MacBookPro and an iPad Air and had gotten Naomi the same without the Mac and a gold iPhone six instead of the plus. Naomi got another Ubër to pick them up and drive them back to Harry's hotel seeming as she loved it so much.
As they entered, Harry looked towards Jessica, smiling and waving, watching her blush. Although he did get Naomi's elbow in his side when she saw this.
They had set up their phones in the shop so they dumped the rest of the bags and went to get a coffee from Starbucks.
"I can't believe you have never had a coffee before, especially a Starbucks. You are in for a treat with this. We'll have to stock up so one cold and one hot drink that will last us the morning and then we will get room service." Said Naomi talking non-stop in the queue to get their drinks.
"I think I'll just get a normal coffee and an iced tea then." Said Harry not really interested, getting into his phone.
"Ahhh! Your so boring! Be more adventurous. Im going with the white hot chocolate and venti iced caramel macchiato. We could get some lunch while were here as well." She looked back at him and saw him staring at his phone. "You're so straight, white boy, Harry, it is unbelievable. Your already staring at your phone doing who knows what and you've only had it an hour!"
"Just to point out, I am a straight white boy. Also as you've just said I've only had it an hour and it's new, I'm learning." He put his phone away as they were about to get to the counter, "see it's gone."
"What can I get you?" Said the girl behind the counter, smiling at Naomi.
"I'll have the white hot chocolate and the Venti iced caramel macchiato, please and Harry?" She said turning around to see what he was doing. He was looking at the room filled with people and not concentrating again. "Harry!" He jumped and turned around.
"I'm not on my phone." He said looking around.
"I know but we need to order."
"Oh sorry, just a regular coffee and iced tea for me then please." He smiled at the girl behind the desk and she blushed profusely.
"Would you like anything else? Lunch perhaps."
"We could grab a sandwich or something as well I suppose. I'll have a chicken and bacon panini and a chocolate brownie ."
"Just a Guacamole salad, please."
"Is your aim to make me look bad?"
"How do you think I look this good?" He said lifting up his shirt so she and the rest of the café could see his abs, particularly, but not on purpose, to a group of girls.
"Stop it, you shit head. Your making those teenagers over there drool."
"What's your names?"asked the server.
"Harry and Naomi."
They went and sat down for a while, waiting for their order to be prepared. They were discussing their new apartment when Harry's phone started ringing.
"Harry, your phones going off."
"Oh!" He rushed to get it out and answered it quickly.
"Hello?...oh hello...what's wrong?...well thank you for telling me...really? Is there a chance we could see it today?...how about two?...how much?...oh that's fine...see you later." He put the phone down and looked at Naomi.
"What is it?" She asked.
"Good or bad news first?"
"Bad..."
"We may have lost the flat..."
"What!"
"But they have found us an even better property..."
"Oh good."
"That's around three thousand more a month..."
"Harry!"
"But it has five bedrooms and a garden and is already fully furnished."
She just glared at him.
"We'll consider it when we see it but do we really need something that big to live in?"
"No but we don't actually have a clue what it looks like yet. It could be a hovel and we can't live there because that was the promise I made your mother."
"Harry and Naomi." Shouted the server, signalling their food and drinks were ready.
"I'll get it."said Naomi.
Harry watched her and it looked like she was having a good laugh with the girl behind the counter. She finally came back over, one hand hold a tray of drinks and the other a brown bag full of food.
"It seems you have Starbucks approval." She said, smirking handing Harry his drinks, showing where they put his name which had a heart next to it and a phone number, "there's also a muffin inside from the group of teenagers who you flashed your abs at."
Harry was speechless for awhile, "let's get out of here."
They walked in silence with Naomi desperately trying to stop herself laughing.
"That group of teenagers are following us."
"Let them. They'll back off when we get to the hotel."
"Why?"
"It's a five star hotel and there is security at the doors. Do you think they would even try to get in?"
"True."
They went into the hotel and no one was following the by that point like Naomi had said. Harry once again smiled at Jessica who called him over.
"I was thinking we could go out to eat first before going to that club, so if you met me here at six instead and we'll go to the Medlar together."
"Okay, I'll see you later then, Jessica."
"See you later, Harry." She said, smiling at him, reminding him of the way Ginny Weasley looked at him.
They got into a lift and entered the penthouse suite.
"You don't have to go out with her you know. You can still cancel." She had jumped on the bed and spread out all the food they had gotten, taking sips of her hot chocolate as she went. Harry sat on the end and answered her.
"I'm not backing out now it would be rude."
"Who cares about being rude, just dump her already."
"No!"
"Oh fine, if your gonna be like that." And she took a bite out of her panini.
"We have over one hour until we have to get an Ubër to that house so I'm going to set up my MacBook in that time."
They sat for a while on the bed each working out their new electronics. After a while Harry decided to look at the house and showed Naomi.
"It looks amazing, perfect for us. I mean that bedroom on the bottom floor can be converted to a study for me and the two bedrooms on the top floor can be converted to one big guest bedroom. That is if the landlord will let us, but I think he will if I give him a generous offer." Said Harry to Naomi.
"Harry you don't have enough money yet to actually buy the house it will be over two million and that is all you have."
"I'll have to negotiate with my accountant."
"How long do we have until we need to ring up an Ubër?"
"We should probably leave now, I'll ring them up."
They jumped into the car and were transported to the house on Addison Road, Kensington where they met Ryan, the estate agent who had found the house for them.
"Mr Potter, it's good to finally meet you." They shook hands.
"And you to. I'm guessing this is the house?"
"Yes it is. We just brought it from a family who were desperate to sell quickly and are looking to rent it out. They left all their furniture but we have made sure everything is up to standard."
"Are conversions at all possible."
"Only if we approved what you wanted to do and you got planning permission."
"What if I bought the house?"
"You wouldn't have to get our permission but planning permission from the government is mandatory."
"How much?"
"Three point eight mil including furniture."
"Right okay. Is it possible to rent until possible to buy?"
"Yes, you can move in tomorrow if you like and everything would be settled in a few weeks."
"Perfect."
This all went rather quickly and Naomi thought she was watching tennis.
"Shouldn't we have a look inside first?" Harry looked puzzled then had the realisation that that would be a good idea.
"Yes, good idea. Let's do that."
They were lead to a big black front door first that looked small compared to the white exterior of the house. On the ground floor was a large lounge and dining room that was the length of the house decorated with cream sofas and pink, purple and red cushions and accessories. The dining room table was a dark wood circular table attached to the lounge. They ventured into the basement where the kitchen, breakfast room and family room were which were all very modern but homely. It also had the fifth bedroom that Harry thought suitable for his study earlier and agreed with himself when he saw it.
They then went to the first floor with their two bedrooms on it and stood outside.
"The four bedrooms on the upper floors are quite similar but different as well."
He opened the door to the first room and they saw a dark driftwood platform above the bed with a ladder going up to it but it still had plenty of room to walk easily on both levels. The bed was in the same wood with a range of dull blue coloured linens and pillows that looked like it could be in a beach house. There was a T.V. remote on the side but he couldn't see a T.V. any where.
"These upper two floors seem impossible and a trained architect can't work out how you can fit a forty foot house into something that measures thirty-two feet on the outside. That's why I came to you Mr Potter I knew it wouldn't bother you." Harry got a poignant look from the elastase agent giving away his true identity.
"No it doesn't thank you for telling us though." He looked over at Naomi who seemed to just be taking in what was around her and not listening. It seemed like witches and wizards were more spread out than he thought.
"The family left quite quickly in July, telling us we'd all die."
"We don't need to hear about it Mr..."
"Broome."
There was a bathroom off of the bedroom that was simple and modern. On the upper deck it looked like a cosy place where friends could hang out or you could study. Next door had the same deck but with coral and white bed linens on the double bed that was placed on the deck instead of the floor. The bottom part had a wall of wardrobes with a couple of sofas. Generally everything looked more finished than the other rooms
On the top floor was two smaller bedrooms with simple decor, one grey and the other cream.
"Can we have a moment to discuss, please?" Asked Harry when they got back to the living room.
"This is amazing, we have to have it!" Said Naomi as soon as he had left the room.
"Agreed. It's like it was made just for us. Buying it would take sometime though." He thought out loud.
"Harry, you don't have to buy it. No offence but I don't really want to live with you for the rest of my life."
"You don't have to live here forever but I could see this being my family home when I'm older with a wife and kids and I'm not letting it go now I've seen it."
"Alright go get him in here and negotiate."
Mr Broome came back into the room and knew that he had sold the house to them.
"We would like to live here and buy it later on. We'll pay weekly until buying it is possible for you. Is there anything we need to sign before we can move in?"
"Well there is only one thing you need to sign and then I can hand you the keys. We have a pair at the office but that will also be yours once you've bought the house. Here's the contract for weekly payments. If you don't pay it you can expect a visit from the bailiffs."
Harry was handed the contract and he signed it.
"Here are the keys and the house is yours. I'll get out of your way so you can settle in."
They closed the door behind him and stood staring into the hallway of a house.
"I have moved in with a man I met yesterday, into a house that costs millions and I haven't told my family anything yet." She was just staring when she said this.
"If it's any help I'm not a serial killer so it is unlikely your going to die if you move in with me. We can go see your parents now if you want to?" suggested Harry.
"Yeah, let's do that."
Harry rang up an Ubër and locked the door behind them, also helping Naomi into the car while she was in a daze.
"Your mum already knows your moving out and so does your brother, there's nothing to worry about." Harry said trying to comfort her.
"I know but I haven't seen my dad since the weekend because he leaves so early in the morning and arrived home late. I really only see him on Sundays so my mum would have told him and I have no idea how he feels about it."
"I'm sure he'll be fine with it."
"I hope so."
When they arrived Harry helped Naomi out of the Lux Ubër and she unlocked the door to the house.
"Mum, I'm home, I brought Harry with me." She shouted putting her keys on the side near the door.
"And who's Harry?" Said a blonde haired boy coming into the hallway.
"Ben! I didn't know you were here. You should have rung me." Naomi went forward to kiss her boyfriend but he turned his head so she got his cheek. Naomi frowned.
"I'll repeat my question. Who's this?" He said with a straight face.
"I'm Harry Potter. It's nice to meet you, I've heard a lot about you." Smiled Harry putting his hand out.
"That's interesting because I've never heard about you." Benedict said ignoring Harry's hand, putting him on Harry's bad side straight away, "Naomi. Care to explain."
"Harry's just a friend I met yesterday, Benny. You don't need to be jealous. Anyway he's going on a date tonight." Laughed Naomi trying to ignore the tension.
"I'm not jealous of him and I did try and ring you today, it got cut off straight away." He snorted this, clearly not impressed with Naomi's excuse.
"Benedict you have no excuse to be rude. Harry got me a new phone today so it was probably just transferring the number to my new phone." Naomi now looked like she was getting angry. Cue Nathan running down the stairs towards them.
"I thought I heard you Harry, I need you to teach me how you blew up all those ship on Star Wars." He seemed to be in a rush and dragged Harry by his arm up the stairs again.
"I'll leave you two to talk. If you need me I'll be playing video games in Nathan's room."he called, hurriedly.
"I haven't from you since yesterday morning, Naomi. Where have you been?" He asked seeming worried once Harry had left.
"I was working until noon yesterday and Harry was my last client. He was in a state. His hair was a mess, his glasses had been snapped in half and his clothes were way too big for him. He may be tall but you couldn't tell under all of it. So I did his hair to make it look good and..."
"What has this got to do with anything." He interrupted, sitting down at the kitchen table across from Naomi.
"It has to do with everything if you will just listen. Anyway, I agreed to help him get some new clothes because Natalie works at a clothing shop."
"You took him to Dolce and Gabbana to get new clothes." He said surprised.
"You would have been more surprised if you saw him before now. He brought himself a whole new wardrobe as well.
"Where are his parents?"
"Dead."
"Grandparents?"
"Dead."
"Relatives..."
"Hate him."
"Why didn't you tell me any of this yesterday at our evening phone call, you didn't even ring." He asked.
"He had tea with us yesterday and stayed for a while. I guess I just forgot..." She said knowing it was pointless.
"You've never forgotten for the year we've been dating what so important you couldn't take two minutes to call me?"
"Harry asked me to be his roommate and I said yes, if you must know." Naomi said confidently but dying inside.
"Naomi, you only met him yesterday..."
"And he's learnt more about me in twenty four hours than you have in the five years we've known each other, Benedict. You have no right to be jealous of him so shut up. He's been through more than you ever have. His parents died when he was a year old and he has no other relatives that love him as much as they would have." She shouted this until it got a bit more serious, "his Uncle hurts him, you haven't seen the scars on his back; he's covered in them. No one should be treated like that Ben. He should be the most evil person I know with his background but he's not. He's so kind and loving and just wants someone to accept him for who he is. He's buying the house we picked because he thinks it will make a good family home when he's older. That's not someone who's selfish or arrogant. I know more about him than you, just from him trusting me with one secret that he kept to himself for a long time."
Benedict was in stunned silence for a few minutes until Harry came in announcing his departure.
"I have to go and get ready for my night out. I'll ring you in the morning to sort out getting your stuff to the house."
"Harry! Wait!" She ran after him so he didn't leave.
"What?" He questioned.
"Do you think Jessica would let me and Ben tag along to the club. We're having a few troubles." She whispered to him.
"I'll ring her and ask, meet us outside Raffles at nine and we'll go in together, if it's okay with her. I'll text you in a bit to confirm" he left soon after having rang up an Ubër which picked him up to take him to the hotel.
He rang Jessica in the car.
"Hello?"
"Hey Jessica, it's Harry."
"Hey Harry, please say your not bailing I'm just picking out my dress."
"No, no that's not what I was ringing to say, the opposite actually. Can Naomi and her boyfriend come along to the club afterwards?"
"I'm not sure Harry, it's supposed to be a date, just us."
"Their having troubles, I'm just trying to help a friend."
"Alright, as long as they're not tagging along with us the whole night."
"I'm sure they won't be. Thanks Jessica, I'll see you later."
"Bye!"
He had reached the hotel by the time he had finished and went up to his room to choose something to where. He picked out a monochrome outfit, with black skinny jeans, a white shirt with black cuffs, collar and buttons, a black leather jacket and black and white brogues. This was with the help of Naomi to inform her on what Jessica had said.
He checked the time and realised he needed to leave so picked up his phone, wallet, house keys and room keys, locking his room behind him.
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I wanted to put more into this chapter but it would have made it extremely long so this is what you get.
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Founder's Phoenix