Is it real? Did I really update this story? Yes, I did. Though They'll still be sporadic...
"Young Lady, I have had the Minister of Magic request that Umbridge be told about us. Now why would he want that?" Arthur was giving Aleksandra a stern look.
"Maybe your insane minister thinks Zhaba should know for some odd reason?" Aleksandra suggested, trying to play ignorant
"Those kids also seem to have caught on Alaska." Alfred said, leaning against a tree.
"I…may…have gone off in History of Magic during Arthur's absence about…the…Bolsheviks and then mentioned them when we did Thestrals in Care of Magical Creatures…" Aleksandra wasn't looking at them, but a seemingly intriguing branch on the fallen tree next to her.
"And those kids had been listening to both." Matthew stated with a sigh, "I've told you to be careful about things like that, especially when you shouldn't have been there."
"I-I know…" Aleksandra stuttered, "B-but…I"
"Intently let it slip your mind, yes?" Arthur glared at her, "I am really disappointed in you."
"And I'm disappointed in your minister for sending a teacher who doesn't know how to teach." Aleksandra's voice flat lined.
"That's not the issue here, Alaska." Alfred glared at the girl.
"No it's not, and I don't want you mentioning a single thing a fifteen year old shouldn't know." Arthur glared at the girl.
Aleksandra just looked towards Kolov, who was sitting and watching this.
"Kolov can't talk about anything outstanding either." Alfred stated.
"Now, me, you can punish. But Kolov?" Aleksandra asked, "I don't control what that mutt says."
"I'm not a mutt, Aleksandra and you know it." Kolov sighed
"Da, I do, but even if you were a mutt, you'd be my mutt." Aleksandra tried to lighten the mood.
"Alaska, we're serious." Alfred said
"I know you are, and I'll keep my mouth shut." Aleksandra sighed. America smirked, but it fell as she tacked on, "but I don't have to go back to you for summer."
"Fine." England said before America could comment, "But one word that you shouldn't know, and I'll make sure you spend summer in Texas."
Aleksandra winced, thinking of how well she got along with that particular cousin.
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"You can't apparate in and out of the school Harry, we might have just not noticed them." Hermione was whispering in the entrance hall.
"Hermione, we would have heard something unless they had apperated." Harry said firmly.
Virginia heard them and walked over.
"Who are you talking about?" She asked
"Professor Kirkland and three others." Harry stated.
"It wasn't apperating, so the school didn't protect against it." Was all she said before walking away, "Stop digging." She called over her shoulder.
Not to long after that, Professor Kirkland came in, Aleksandra trailing behind him, avoiding eye contact with everyone. She sighed and started singing under her breath. Professor Kirkland started twitching.
"Stop it." He muttered, turning around "fifty points from Slytherin for knowingly entering the forest and seventy-five points from Slytherin for threatening a teacher."
"Da, okay." Aleksandra said, "I'll be a good girl, so that I can have fun in Europa this summer. Think of what fun it will be." Aleksandra stated in a low voice, mostly to herself.
Kolov chuckled, "Yes, you'll just have a ball."
"Why would I have a ball? No, no dancing, just mayhem." Aleksandra laughed darkly
"What are you two talking about?" Hermione asked
"Just I deal I made with Am-Alfred, Professor Kirkland, and my parents." Aleksandra waved it off, "And balls. I don't go to many, but there have been a few. Like the one Penn tried to hold for her birthday that ended up as a concert more than a ball. According to A-Rodrich. Why he was there…I do not know…"
"He was studying the…younger Prussian. Making sure he won't have to many more issues from her." Kolov said, "Or that's what Gilbird and Gillbird said."
"Prussian?" Harry asked
"Da, Prussia, The militaristic state that brought the German states together. Have you really not heard of Prussia?" Aleksandra asked. When he replied in the negative she laughed and said she found the Internet helpful, for when he went back to the muggle world. Then she left to go to the Slytherin common room.
"You know Kolov…I think I'm starting to miss Penn…she's much less demanding the Virginia." Aleksandra muttered
"Virginia doesn't ask you to do any thing…" Kolov stated
"Da, she also make me direct our conversations, and is much less willing to bend the rules." Aleksandra stated
"Aleksandra, you don't bend the rules, you don't even break them, you shatter them then ignore they were ever there until it is to your benefit." Kolov said
Aleksandra thought for a moment before stopping in the middle of the corridor and started to rummage through her bag. She then turned around and started in the other direction.
"What are we doing now?" Kolov asked
"I'm going to send a letter." Aleksandra stated, "To Penn. I have something I need her to do."
"Besides all your paperwork." Kolov stated.
"Shush you."
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Breakfast was normal. Aleksandra had gotten used to her restrictions. It had been a week since her Maman and Papa had Stepped into the forest with America and England, and proceeded to scold her. It had also been a week since she sent that letter, and Rasputin, to Pennsylvania. Now she was waiting for the girl's reply.
"You damn limey douche bag!" Rang into the hall from the entrance way, "You favoritist bastard!"
"That…is one way to reply to my letter…" Aleksandra said, clearly as surprised as everyone else in the room. Sure she'd sent Penn the letter, but she'd sent Penn the letter in hopes of someone to vent to through ink and parchment, not for Penn to come crashing into the Great hall during breakfast with Rasputin on her shoulder and Gillbird on her head.
"Gillian Maria Bellschmidt-Jones, what are you doing here?" Arthur called from the teacher's table.
"I'm fixing what you obviously messed up! You do not disappear with the awesomeness's best friend and little miss 'lady' and expect me to be okay with it!" Penn shouted, storming up to the proffessor's table and stopping right in front of England, "I may not have Vati's 'five meters' but I'm not going to take this lying down."
"Your father does not have five meters, Gillian, and you have no right to be here." Arthur sighed.
"Think again Eyeborws. On both counts." Another, similar if deeper voice sounded from the entrance hall. The man who entered was obviously the girl's father, they were nearly identical, besides the birds perched on their heads, "Well Hundin, the awesome me has arived!" He walked over to where Aleksandra was sitting and placed a hand on her head, "Hundchen, Vogelchen has been worried."
"I don't understand how Maman's a bird, and I'm a dog…" Aleksandra muttered, but he ignored her infavor of walking up behind Gillian.
"Well eyebrows, you have successfully gotten the mad frying pan woman pissed at me for leaving, so you better fix this up quick." He said to Arthur.
"Gilbert, there is nothing to fix other than you two leaving., but not before explaining how you found this place." Arthur said.
"Die Vogal." Was their synchronized reply.
"I don't speak bloody German." England growled, so the two pointed to Rasputin, who flew back towards Aleksandra.
"I'm sure," Dumbledor spoke up, "that we can settle this in a calm manner." The Prussians turned to him with shocked looks, "Why don't you join us for breakfast?" the two glanced at the tables and shrugged.
"We aren't dropping this." Gillian said with determination, "Hundchen shouldn't have to suffer through school with out my awesomeness." And with that, Gillian turned and walked towards Aleksandra, who greeted her with a smile, now over her shock and directed her friends attention to the pancakes on the table and opening the package she had recived before her friend's appearance.
"Vogelchen has to send you maple?" Gillian asked, "A school this fancy can't even get real maple?"
"No, I personally think they don't find it important." Aleksandra shrugged, not caring since she could get some.
"Because it's not." Draco sneered.
"Was?" Gillian yelled, "Not important? Is he stupid?" Gillian had directed her last question, which she had stated in German, to Aleksandra.
"Da, Or he doesn't have his priorities set right." Aleksandra replied
"Can't you ingrates speak English?" Draco sighed
"We choose not to, inbred child." Aleksandra and Gillian replied in Russian and German respectively.
Aleksandra then turned and hugged Gillian.
"I've missed you." Aleksandra sighed, "I've had nothing but little miss Lady Pirate, and she's no fun at all."
"Well now you have me." Gillian smiled, hugging back.
"Hem, hem." The girlish voice sounded behind them. Aleksandra groaned
"Wer?" Gillian asked.
"Zhaba." Was her short reply.
Gillian turned to meet Umbridge face to face before saying, "Gott in Himmell…"
"Da." Aleksandra stated.
"I thought Po-Feliks liked pink…" Gillian muttered
"What was that?" Umbirdge asked.
"Well…Frau Zhaba, that was called a hug. Or…it is in America." Gillian turned to Draco, "Is there some special British word for hugging?"
"I don't think so." Draco stated
Gillian turned back to Umbridge, "Then yes, you would call it a hug."
"Miss Belschmidt-Jones I believe, yes?" Umbridge asked
"Or you can call me Frau Awesome." Gillian stated.
"Well Miss Belschmidt-Jones, Miss Braginsky-Williams may have led you astray. I am Professor Umbridge and I teach-"
"Pretend to teach." Aleksandra spoke up.
"Defense Against the Dark Arts." Umbridge ignored Aleksandra's comment.
"Oh, but Frau, you must not have heard." Gillian stated, "Usually people we know end up with nicknames, like Hundchen's and Vogelchen's. The names tend to fit the person, therefore, mein Freundin calls you Zhaba as a nickname, as we do with her, Vogelchen, and Eyebrows and Frenchie."
"Oh, they don't seem to respectful." Umbridge said with a smile.
"Well what's the fun in a respectful nickname?" Aleksandra sighed, "At least it's not what Lovino would call you."
"And what would Lovino call me?" Umbridge asked.
"Before I answer, you know what…never mind…he'd call you a toad bitch." Aleksandra stated, "Or some other word, and then bitch, or if your lucky, it's bastard."
"Bastard borders term of endearment with Lov, huh?" Gillian asked
"Just look at what he calls Antonio and how close they are." Aleksandra sighed, "I've gotten the title maple-vodka bastard."
"Potato bastard spawn." Gillian stated
"Does bastard spawn trump just straight bastard?" Aleksandra asked, ignoring Umbridge.
"I don't know…" Gillian thought for a moment, "We'll have to ask."
"Hem hem." Umbridge coughed again.
"Seriously Zhaba, you need to see Madame Pomfrey for that cough, It's only going to get worse if you don't get it checked." Aleksandra paused for a moment, thinking, "It's winter so you might have bronchitis, but don't worry, that sounds worse than it is."
"Of course you'd think that." Gillian scoffed, "Any winter ailment isn't 'as bad as it sounds' to you."
"No, frostbite is just as bad as everyone thinks it is." Aleksandra stated, deciding to ignore everyone else after stating one last thing, "Your pancakes are getting cold Penn."
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It was after breakfast, and Aleksandra was standing in the headmaster's office next to Gillian and Virginia on her right and left respectively. They were standing behind Gilbert and Arthur who were in front of the headmaster's desk.
"If Gillian has magic, she hasn't shown it." England explained.
"Aleksandra hadn't shown much either." Gilbert stated, "Yet you brought her here, and she's not even your child."
"No, but she's Russia's kid, so-" England tried to explain
"So you assumed that she had the same kind of magic as Ivan, which would lead to the question of, why is she in Hogwarts and not Durmstrang or Zimnyaya, which are more able to hone her supposed specialties." Gilbert stated
"How do you know this?" England asked, "Only Norway and I are active in our magical communities."
"You think I'd stay East Germany when Germany is a single entity?" Gilbert scoffed, "After the fall of the Soviet Union, I became Magical Germany, West is Muggle Germany and is unaware that I'm no longer just East. So yes, I'm aware of the magical schools."
"And why, may I ask, do you assume Gillian has magic?" Arthur asked
"The magic isn't new, dummkopf." Gilbert scoffed, "I know I had magic when Gillian was born, therefore, she'd have magic."
"Then why don't you put her in Durmstrang?" Arthur scoffed.
"Because she wants to be with Hundchen." Gilbert stated.
Arthur glared at Gilbert for a moment longer before turning away from him muttering "I need a bloody fag".
Sadly the girls had caught what he'd say.
More specifically, Gillian and Aleksandra heard what he'd said.
"Doesn't he have Alfred?" Aleksandra whispered to Gillian.
"I thought so…but if he did…why did he just say he needed a fag?" Gillian replied
"And a bloody one at that…" Aleksandra thought, "Is he…"
"For the love of-" Virginia sighed, "It's English slang for a cigarette."
The other two stared at her then at Arthur. Aleksandra shrugged and pulled a bottle of vodka out of her handbag, which for all intents and proposes, shouldn't be able to carry a bottle that size.
"How?" Gillian asked
"I found a spell to make it dimensionally transcendent." Aleksandra smiled, pulling out one of her 'for fun' books and starting to read. Everyone in the room stared at Aleksandra with confused looks, except Arthur and Virginia, who showed exasperation.
"What?' Gillian asked in confusion.
"It's bigger on the inside." Aleksandra smiled.
Virginia sighed, "Just because we're in the UK."
"Da." Aleksandra nodded, "Your fault. You showed it to me."
"I didn't think it'd be one of the few shows you watch." Virginia sighed, "All I can say is at least you didn't try it on a police box."
"Are they still around?" Aleksandra quirked her eyebrow.
"No." Both Arthur and Virginia stated firmly.
~0!0!0~
Aleksandra smiled. Dumbledor had agreed that Gillian could come to Hogwarts to learn, and she had been sorted into Slytherin. Thus Aleksandra was, for once, in the common room, smiling. Or she was. Until the common room suddenly got cold, and Aleksandra looked behind herself.
"G-Gil…" Aleksandra started.
"Was ist los, Lek?" Gillian asked, still absent-mindedly letting colored sparks fly from her wand.
"You didn't…er…visit Papa's house, did you?" Aleksandra asked.
"Well, yeah, stopped by just to see if you'd ran over their, why?" Gillian seemed to brush off the chill, probably passing it off as normal for the dungeon common room.
"I-I'm going out for a walk." Aleksandra said before bolting out of the common room.
"You left." Aleksandra heard behind her as she left the castle.
"I-I didn't think I'd be missed…" She replied
"I like to know where my children are." The apparition behind Aleksandra stated
"I'm not your daughter General." Aleksandra said, some semblance of confidence coming back into her voice.
"No, but you are my Vanya's child." Winter reminded her.
"Papa is not yours." Aleksandra growled, feeling Kolov's presence come closer, out of the forest.
"General Winter." Kolov's voice sounded, "Why are you here?"
"My soldier's left their posts with out informing me." Winter responded, "Why would that be?"
"You never taught me properly," Aleksandra grumbled, "You helped Papa learn but never taught me."
"Were you ready to learn?" Winter asked
"Why else would I come here?" Really it wasn't a question.
"By the lake, after sunset." Winter stated simply, "I will have to leave before we finish."
"I know." Aleksandra nodded.
~0!0!0~
An hour ago, the sun had set and Aleksandra was still sitting by the lake, alone. She was starting to think this was a trick and that the General was really as mean as Papa had told her when she finally felt his presence.
"So you are willing to wait." He stated, "Good"
"I've waited, will you teach me now?" Aleksandra asked
"We have one more step before you can reach your potential." Winter explained "We must make a pact."
"What do you mean?" Aleksandra looked worried
"Stand" Winter ordered, and she did. General Winter set his hand over her heart, and she shivered as the cold seeped through her clothes. It felt like his fingers were wrapping around her heart, trying to dislodge the muscle. What could have been minutes or hours later, Winter drew back his hand and with a notable s queltch, Aleksandra's heart fell into the snow. Winter picked up the organ and Aleksandra nearly screamed as she felt burning cold on her heart. She did however, collapse back to the ground. Winter bent down to replace the heart, and told Aleksandra that she should go back to her room, and sleep.
"It is dangerous to test the pact right now." He explained. He took Aleksandra's hand and pulled her to her feet before guiding her back to the Slytherin dorms.
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